"Mom are you ready? We gotta go or we'll miss the plane! Come on!"
"Be right there sweetie! You definitely didn't get the punctual thingy from me." She smiled. Her daughter looked so much like her, but even though she never met her father, her character was a lot like his. She wasn't messy or late. Ever. She was very ambitious and loved the OR more than any other place in the world. But every now and then, she liked to snuggle up next to her mother and just cuddle a little.
"Oh mom we are late. Again. Why are we always late?"
"We are not late."
"Yeah we are."
"Okay maybe like 5 minutes." She looked at her watch.
"More like 10."
"Okay but that's acceptable right? I mean there were worse times."
They laughed. The little girl curled up next to her mother in the backseat of their cab.
"That is true. You know what? I love you anyway."
"Well I'm glad you love me anyway."
"Ha-ha yeah. You're a great mother. Most of the time."
"Wow you're being extra sassy today huh? You want me to leave you at home?"
"It's not like you haven't tried. There's just no one to babysit me."
"True."
"Yeah… But I'm glad there's none you know? I've always wanted to go to the US. I mean that's where you come from. I always wondered why you never took me. Or why you never went?!"
"Well um… It's complicated. When I left I just wanted to start over. New job, new people, new city… Just a new life." She couldn't tell her daughter more even though she knew there was a chance that she'd find out more about her past during the coming weekend. She just couldn't. It broke her heart everytime she thought of the little girl's father.
"So that's why you had me?"
"Yeah. Right. You know what can we not talk about this now? I mean we're in the back of a cab."
"Sure. Can you tell me the plan for the weekend again though? I'd like to know it by heart."
"Of course. Even though I think you can say it in your sleep."
"Tell me again anyway."
"Okay, so we have a direct flight from Zurich to Seattle which is where Aunt Meredith will pick you up. She'll take you to her place where you'll stay until Monday."
"And you'll go from Seattle to Boston right?"
"Right. My flight leaves at noon so I'll have time to walk you out the gate to Meredith. We'll grab a quick coffee together and I'll go back catch the flight to Boston, go to the stupid ceremony thing on Saturday night and hopefully take home my well – earned award and be back in Seattle by Sunday afternoon. I'll go to Meredith's and we'll fly back home Monday night."
"Am I going to meet any of your old friends while we're there?"
"Um… Maybe. We'll see."
"I'd really like to meet the guy on the picture."
"Derek? I'm pretty sure he'll be there he's Mer's husband."
"No. The one on the picture you keep in your office desk."
Cristina felt her heart stop beating for a second.
"H – how did you find this picture?"
"You left it open and I just… I saw it. Is he, I mean was he, your boyfriend?"
"Uh no. He, he was… He was my husband."
"What happened?"
"Could we, uhm, could we not discuss this right now? Maybe later? On the plane or something?!"
"Okay."
Cristina knew that as her daughter was getting older, it was harder to answer her questions satisfyingly. But still, she hoped that she could keep her questions down to a level she could handle. And that was definitely not something she could handle. At least not right now. Not today. Not this weekend.
A/N: Thank you for the kind reviews I really appreciate them! And yes the prologue wasn't divided up into paragraphs but only because I wanted to show the flow of the girl's thoughts… So anyway this is the second chapter which I typed in a hurry so I'm sorry if there are any mistakes.
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