CHAPTER
10 Restaurant beside the Airport
7:00AM
Burke is talking to Derek over the phone.
"Call me if anything happens to her. Update me about anything you'll find out. Don't tell Meredith anything about this and please look out for her."
"Hey, I'm only doing this because you're my friend but you do know that we are not a fan of each other." Derek is sounding skeptical.
Burke tried to suppress a laugh, "Relax Derek. I'll be gone just for two weeks. I'm sure you'll be fine just don't irritate her and don't even stalk her."
"What do you want me to do hire a detective?"
"No, but I'm sure you can improvise."
"Anyway, goodluck on your flight. I have to go Addie and Bailey needs my consult."
"Thanks. I owe you one when I come back."
OOOO
Burke seated on the waiting area and decided to ready his passport and plane ticket to Alabama. His sure his mom and dad would be glad to have him around for two weeks. He didn't inform them his coming because he wants to surprise them.
Panic struck Burke when he can't find the ticket and his passport from the pocket of his luggage bag. He placed the bag on an empty seat on his left and search for it erratically. A woman on his left, notice his distress and recognize him right away.
The woman is very excited then took a deep breath, "Excuse me sir," Burke turned his head to the woman. The woman is Chinese, a bit younger from him about 36 to 37 years of age, has a fair complexion, a bit pretty, has a wavy hair colored of mahogany, wearing a simple cream yellow long dress below the knee. She seems pretty and fine to Burke but still nothing compares to his Cristina, "Yes, ma'am?"
"Are you Preston Burke?" She stared at Burke sheepishly.
"Yes, may I help you?"
"Oh my God! I can't believe I am looking at you. I am an admirer. I've been reading journal that includes you. I am Dr. Leslie Tan, a Cardiologist in New York- Presbyterian/ Columbia," Offering a handshake to Burke. Burke politely shook her hands, "Nice to meet you ma'am."
"Leslie, call me Leslie." She is very interested in getting to know him and now that she has met him, she'll never take this opportunity for granted. Dr. Preston Burke is the man of her dreams.
Leslie is trying to make a conversation with him who made Burke a little irritated but kept to himself and just continued in finding his ticket and passport and entertain the woman as nice as he can.
"So Preston, where are you going?"
Burke was about to answer but he is distracted with the thing that caught his hand inside his bag. He pulled it out and saw that the verdict is Cristina's hairbrush. It was messy but not dirty and have a lot of curly hairs stuck in it. When Burke saw it, his face lightens up and his lips created a big grin. He can almost smell Cristina as if she is just beside him.
"Is that hairbrush belongs to your sister?" She is wondering why did that hairbrush made him happy that much.
"No, it belongs to the love of my life," He answered her with full of pride and his eyes never leaving the brush. Wondering how did it get here in his bag.
The smile on the woman's face had disappeared, "What is her name? What is she to you?" Who ever she is I'm sure she is nothing compared to me and why did I even ask those questions? I don't really care.
"She is the best thing that had happened in my life. There's nothing I could wish for other than to spend the rest of my life with her. Her name is Cristina Yang. She's doctor too in where I work," Burke explained it to the woman merrily.
"Leslie it was nice meeting you and talking to you but I have to go." Burke fixed his stuff then left her.
Cristina Yang? "Wait…" Burke is already gone. Cristina? The girl she despises the most. Leslie's sister was Cristina's classmate in Stanford. Her sister told her everything about her. Cristina was her sister's number one rival in school.
In front of the OR board
7:15 AM
Derek is reading the OR board. Meredith saw him then approached him.
"You know what, you should somehow have done something to stop Burke from leaving," Meredith whispered.
"Good morning too Dr. Grey," Derek smiled at her.
"Good morning, can we talk?" Meredith gestured him to follow.
They went to an empty lab.
"Did you know that Cristina is going to the Airport to stop Burke?"
"She did? That's great! Thanks for telling." Derek is about to leave.
"Wait, Burke still loves Cristina, right?" Meredith is afraid of the answer.
"Of course, very much."
"Then why did you let him leave?"
"Because it's his life. And what makes you think I did nothing?"
"So you did something?" Meredith doesn't believe him.
"I stole Cristina's hairbrush and put it inside his bag under the pile of his clothes yesterday."
"Her hairbrush? Would it speak to stop him? That's what you did to help them get back together." Meredith is laughing so hard. She can't believe her boyfriend is so silly.
"Well, I figured out that it would make him remember Cristina."
"Of course it will. But are you sure it's going to stop him from leaving. I don't mean to be negative but I don't think so and do you think he'll find it?" Meredith is very sure that Derek's ultimate hairbrush plan would work.
"He will find it," Derek sounding very confident, "because I also placed his passport and his plane ticket under the hairbrush. So as he search for his ticket and passport, he is going to find the hairbrush first then the ticket and passport."
"How did you get Cristina's hairbrush?" Meredith thinks it's lame but doesn't want to offend him.
"Oh, I told Izzie to stole it from Cristina's," Derek simply answered.
After Burke told Derek that he is
leaving for two weeks, Derek saw Izzie and approached her."Dr.
Stevens, can I have a moment with you please?""Yes,
Dr. Shepherd."They
went to a corner to avoid the others from hearing."Can
you steal Cristina's
hairbrush for me?" Derek
asked her seriously. Izzie found it surprisingly ridiculous so
she laughed,