"You did this? This was all your fault?" Cristina hissed, her finger pointing towards the door of the on call room, towards some other part of the hospital where her fate was being decided.

Reflexively, Meredith took a step back from Cristina, shocked at how angry her best friend was with her. "I thought you would be happy about it. I thought you would want Teddy to leave. If she leaves, she won't be around Owen."

Cristina turned away from Meredith and took a deep breath to calm herself. She put her hand to her forehead and closed her eyes, thinking through what she wanted to say so she wouldn't regret her words later. After a moment, she turned back to Mer and spoke quietly.

"We have dealt with the Teddy issue. She is not a problem. And besides, she's started seeing Sloan."

"I saw Owen talking to Mark about Teddy. I think he is jealous."

Cristina laughed bitterly. "And why would you think that?"

"He was telling Mark that she's a nice girl. Not like the usual woman he sees. Owen was warning him off," Mer answered. She had never expected this kind of reaction from Cristina, and was still surprised at how angry Cristina felt.

"Why wouldn't he do that? She isn't like the average woman Sloan goes out with, is she? She's intelligent, age appropriate, can actually form words into a sentence…And the last time Owen heard anything about Mark's love life, it was that he had sex with three different women in one day. Three women he didn't know. In one day. That's just gross. So yes, he was talking to Mark, because Teddy is his friend, not to mention the fact that he probably doesn't want her to catch an STD. Did I like it? Not especially. Did I mind? Not as much as I mind Teddy staring at him with desperate puppy dog eyes all the time. But as for jealous--well, no. Owen isn't jealous. And if you had taken the time to talk to me about it first, you would know that we have worked out where Teddy fits into our lives, and that she is not an issue. Owen loves me. I know this, and so does Teddy. So everything was all taken care of until you butted in. And now she may lose her job and I'll be back to where I started—with no cardio god, no career, and no surgeries." Cristina took another deep breath and sighed, trying to slow her thoughts. She hadn't been this upset with Mer since their fight over a year ago when they had stopped talking. She was so angry right now that she feared that might happen again.

Unlike Cristina, Mer still didn't have complete confidence in Owen. She wondered how, after everything that happened, Cristina could be so trusting.

"But what about this new cardio guy?" Mer asked. "He's won the Avery, he's done amazing research—don't you want to give him a chance? I suggested to Derek he look outside the hospital for someone to do to this big experimental procedure he's so excited about with you in mind, because I knew you would impress whoever he chose for the surgery. And Derek's been talking about hiring more well-known attendings. He thinks that will help get our national ratings up."

"Is that what he thinks? What does he think it will look like when he fires Teddy and the hospital will have gone through four Heads of Cardio in three years? How does he think that will look?" Cristina started pacing in front of the bed, fuming. "Derek's an idiot."

"He is not an idiot," Meredith answered, weakly defending her post-it groom. "And it's not as bad as that. Dixon doesn't count. She was only here a few weeks."

"She counts," Cristina sputtered furiously. "But you don't get it. You've got the Chief mentoring you, you're fake married to the Head of Surgery. You have nothing to worry about. But me, I seem to drive away Cardio Gods. They keep leaving, and I'm stuck here spending all my time fighting to get any surgery, much less to get my hands on a heart. Teddy is the first person who stayed because she wants to teach me. She believes in me, and wants to help me be great."

"How do you know it won't be the same with Dr. Evans?"

"Yesterday, there was a routine bypass, and he chose Jackson to assist. You want to know why? Because he looked at the charts and saw that I had done most of the cardio surgeries with Teddy in the past two weeks. He was all, 'I don't play favorites, we have to spread the learning around, everyone gets a spot on the rotation' and whatever. Most people would have looked at that and thought, hmmm, she's done all these surgeries, she must be the best. But no, that's not how he thinks. He thinks, let's be fair and give someone else a turn. I don't want to be fair. I am the best and I want to be picked every time because I'm the best. It's obvious I'm not going to get the kind of surgeries and teaching from him that I've been getting from Teddy. So if it takes me putting up with her looking at Owen all googly-eyed and unringing bells, that's fine, because she's great and I am learning and the surgeries are fantastic. If she wants to stick around and date the manwhore, more power to her, because I have everything I need. Or I did, until you interfered."

Meredith sat on the bed. "So you're okay with Teddy looking at Owen all googly eyed? What if Owen is looking at her the same way?"

Cristina stopped mid-pace, turned and stared at Meredith, her eyes narrowing. "Are you kidding me?" She asked. "Did you hear anything I just said?"

Meredith opened her mouth to speak, but Cristina put her hand up to stop her.

"Don't. Don't say anything. Just…" Cristina waved her hand in the air as if to clear away all the nonsense Mer had created. She turned and opened the door to leave. "I can't talk to you right now," she said, and left, slamming the door behind her.

Meredith sat there for a moment, stunned at how wrong her grand plan had gone. She still didn't see how getting rid of Teddy could be a bad thing, but maybe Cristina was right, and Owen wasn't acting jealously like she thought. There was really only one way to find out. She left the on call room and headed down towards the Pit.