Author's Note: So this chapter is basically filler. Maybe some MerDer if you're lucky. Also, sorry if Burke is a little OOC. I'm still working on him.
And to clear something up: for the "contest," I will give you something in the story (a MerDer or Addisex scene perhaps, cough Tori cough)
Disclaimer: I don't own McDreamy. If I did, I'd be in bed with him!
"The
weight of the world
Feels like nothing, no, nothing"
-Ryan Cabrera
Chapter 4: Here is Gone
Cristina walked back to her table in the restaurant, silently freaking out the entire way there. When she finally got back to the table, their food had arrived. "Burke," she said. "We need to go home. I have to talk to you."
"Oh my God. Cristina, what happened?"
"I-" she was clearly having some trouble forming her words. "I need to get out. Take me home."
Burke quickly flagged over the waitress, and paid her. He started to walk out, holding Cristina's hand the whole way there. Brushing past the hostess, he apologized for leaving early. Cristina fell silent, and didn't talk for the entire ride home. She felt like she was going to throw up.
After a car ride that seemed to last forever, Burke got out of the car. He fumbled for the lock to their apartment, and let Cristina in.
"Cristina, what's wrong? Will you talk to me?"
"Burke. I'm so scared. I'm so scared. We need to call the oncologist tomorrow. I'm almost positive I have leukemia."
"Cristina. I don't care what you think. Legally and medically, I need to know what's happened. Not to mention that I'm your boyfriend and I care about you immensely."
"I will tell you. The details though, I'm not sure you'd want to hear."
"I don't care what the details are. I'm a heart surgeon. I see blood every day."
"Here goes nothing. I started my period a few days ago. Before I saw the doctor. It was going normally. Nothing was off. At the restaurant, I went to go change my tampon. On the way to the bathroom, I hit my leg on the edge of the table. Not hard, it didn't even hurt. I barely felt the contact. Anyway, I got to the bathroom and took out my tampon. I was light this morning, I thought I was ending. But the tampon was full. And as I went to pull up my pants, I saw a bruise on my leg. From the table. And then I knew. Still, don't tell anyone though."
"Cristina, I'm so sorry."
Meredith sat next to Derek in bed. Izzie was on call, and George was at the hotel with Callie.
"Derek, I'm worried about Cristina. I think something's wrong. She was off today."
"Nothing is wrong with Cristina, Mer. She might have had an off day. Sometimes that happens to people when they go to the doctor and spend half the day naked under a paper gown. You should know that, being a surgeon."
"Derek Shepherd, you have a way of seducing me at the most inappropriate times." She pressed his mouth to his.
"I love you Meredith Grey." He slipped his hands underneath her shirt.
Meredith relaxed and enjoyed herself all night. Completely unbeknownst to her, her best friend's world was crashing down a few miles away.
