Chapter 4

On-Call Room SGH

Relieved to have escaped from Sheppard's ramblings, Burke comes out of the elevator and rounds the corner, passing the on-call room he'd seen Cristina go into a little while earlier. As he walks by, he wonders if she's still in there and stops as he gets a little further down the hall. He hesitates before turning around. They had agreed to avoid meeting in on-call rooms during the day in an attempt to minimize distractions and eliminate temptation. At work, he was her attending not her boyfriend. Burke generally had no trouble sticking to this agreement but today was different. It was unusually slow in the hospital this morning and his first procedure wasn't until this afternoon. He really did just want to spend some time alone with her and the on-call room was the one place in the hospital where he was guaranteed to have her all to himself. Taking a quick look around he sees that the floor is empty by hospital standards.

Burke walks back towards the on-call room and quickly opens the door. Poking his head inside the room, he can't help but smile when he sees Cristina is still occupying the bed. Her back is to him and she's still as he slips in and closes the door.

Realizing that someone has come into the room, Cristina yells without turning around "There's only one bed in this room and I'm in it!"

Burke responds to her in a soft, low voice "Still cranky I see."

Hearing his voice, Cristina feels her heart begin to beat faster. What is he doing here? We have an agreement? Cristina rolls over to see Burke leaning against the wall with his arms folded flashing a sexy smile her way "I am not cranky."

"Right"

She refused to admit to anyone else today that she was cranky, tired or sick "I'm not"

"Are you feeling any better?"

"I'm fine." Burke gives her a look that says he does not believe her. This look annoyed her and what annoyed her even more than the look was that he had the nerve to look so good giving it. He was just leaning against the wall in his scrubs and coat with that grin on his face, tempting her "It was nothing."

"Bailey almost sent you home one day so I think it's safe to say it was something."

"Well I didn't get sent home and I am fine."

Burke just stares at her. She did look better today than she had all week but he still suspected that she was not telling him something. This time, though, he's prepared to wait her out.

Cristina stares at her boyfriend for another minute or so "Fine, I had a headache this morning but I took aspirin and it went away. Now can we drop it?"

"Yes" he laughs happy with his small victory and she throws her pillow at him upset that she's lost for the second time this morning. "What are you doing in here anyway? You weren't sleeping."

Without her pillow, Cristina is laying flat on her back staring up at the ceiling "Can't sleep. I was laying here thinking how I could get out of doing Alex's post-op notes next week. Still can't believe I lost that bet."

Burke is silent. Cristina props herself up on her elbow to look at him and immediately recognizes the grin on Burke's face. Moving away from the wall, he begins to take his coat off.

"What are you doing?" Cristina is still leaning on her elbows on the bed.

"Getting comfortable" He neatly folds his coat and lays it on the chair next to him not once taking his eyes off of her as he moved.

"Getting comfortable? It's the morning and you're working." Cristina knew what Burke was thinking and was trying not to show that she was surprised. Morning sex at the hospital was not Burke's thing. Morning sex at home he liked but at the hospital not too interested. Burke was all about cutting in the morning and Cristina knew that.

As Burke looked at her, Cristina could see the intensity in his eyes. He was intense about everything. She could feel it fill the room as he spoke "Technically, it's lunch time and I can be comfortable at work"

Burke slowly takes his scrub top off, locks the door and starts untying his pants keeping his eyes fixed on Cristina.

"Well, somebody thinks he's getting some?" Cristina's halfheartedly playing hard to get. Years ago, she'd decided that she loved sex too much to be good at the game of hard to get and she never played games she was not good at for very long. "You know, this could be considered harassment."

Burke's grinning "I thought I could help relieve some of that crankiness."

Cristina laughs "That is such a bad line. You'd be one lonely man if you were still single."

Still grinning and keeping his eyes locked on her "You'd be surprised."

"You're right. If that line worked I'd be shocked." Her head is leaning so that it is almost off of the bed as she admires the view of a partially clad Burke. "Exactly how much time do you have?"

"Long enough. What about you?" Now it's Cristina who is having a hard time taking her eyes off of Burke as he takes a couple of steps closer to the bed and begin to take off his underwear. So confident he was. Not self conscious at all.

"Sorry. Hot lunch date."

She giggles as his underwear lands in her lap. She rarely took the opportunity to just look at him naked. When they were first together, she had been self-conscious. There had been a moment early in their relationship when they were in the shower. He'd been behind her and she felt him move away leaving his hands still holding her arms. She was immediately uncomfortable because she didn't understand what he was doing. She didn't trust him the way she did now. After a moment, he released her arms. She couldn't wait to turn around and did so quickly only to find that he was just staring at her with these loving eyes. He looked so calm, so confident and she was so unsure of herself. To break the silence, she had started to speak but he stopped her with his words "I just want to look at you. To memorize you" She watched his face in the moment as he scanned her body. It was only a minute that passed but it felt like forever before he spoke again "You're beautiful." She didn't know what to say. She'd never had a moment like this before. Not knowing what to do or say she had quickly kissed him. Now she was anything but uncomfortable. She too had memorized every part of his body. Every mark, every scratch.

He knows she is surprised at his boldness today. She's trying to hide it but he knows because today she is not doing a very good job at it "So are you going to let me stand naked over here all by myself?

"Maybe. I'm pretty comfortable myself, enjoying the view." Cristina's voice gets a little sweeter "You're cute naked. Izzie and Meredith would definitely keep looking."

Burke just smiles as the memory of their conversation ran through his mind. It was the night that he'd kicked George out. The night that Cristina strutted her naked self in front of O'Malley. Feeling she had crossed a line, he tried to prove a point by asking her how she would feel if he stripped in front of Izzie and Meredith. He wasn't prepared when she answered that she wouldn't mind and she doubted that either of her friends would cover their eyes or look away. That night she had managed to surprise him twice.

Cristina gets up off the bed and moves closer to Burke. She really wasn't feeling very tired anymore. "Mmmm. Could you help a surgeon out of her scrubs?"

She raises her arms above her head and without saying a word Burke puts his hands on her waist and slowly pulls up her shirts brushing his hands lightly against her body as he raises the shirts. He removes her hair clip releasing her crazy curls so that they fell on her bare skin. He always loved how great her dark hair looked against her milky skin when she was naked. There was not much he didn't love about her when she was naked. Not able to go another second without kissing her, Burke softly grabbed her face with both hands and pressed his lips against hers. She loved those hands. He moved them down her back unhooking her bra, pulling his lips away from hers to make a trail of tickling kisses on her shoulders and arms as he took off her bra. He quickly pulls the string on her pants causing them to fall to the ground. She stepped out of them as his lips brushed up against her shoulder once again.

When he touched her she could not think straight. He was intoxicating to her. They were intoxicating to each other. Their naked skin was electric. With other guys she'd faked it, gone through the motions. But him, he touched her soul. They were that good together.

He bent down kissing her stomach as he guided her panties down her legs. He stands back up holding a very tiny piece of pink material "You actually get changed in front of O'Malley and Karev wearing these?"

Cristina wraps her arms around his neck "We're naked. You really want to talk about them right now?"

He smiles and his lips touch hers again. As her hands travel up his chest and down his shoulders, she rubs him just lightly enough with her nails to give him a chill. She rubs his right ear as she kisses his chest softly and her hair tickles his body. He wraps his arms tightly around her small waist lifting her slightly off of her feet. Her hands travel across the small of his back and down to his firm butt giving it a light squeeze. Burke laughs. He loved making love to her.

She turns around, leading him the short distance to the bed. He does not break contact with her, keeping his arms around her waist and brushing her neck with his nose "You're going to be embarrassed the day someone catches us in here naked."

Burke takes his lips off of her neck for a moment "I can live with that."

"That's what you say now until everyone's talking about..."

He quickly turns her so she's facing him and speaks to her in a serious tone "Enough talking." Holding her head with both hands, he kisses her passionately as they fall onto the bed. Today temptation is a winner.