"Auntie Cris!" Zola screamed when she saw her godmother walk into the daycare of GreySloan Memorial Hospital next to her mother. Bailey and Ellis raised their heads when they heard their older sister scream their favorite aunts name and started to run towards Cristina while screaming her name too.
Cristina opened her arms widely to embrace 3 of her 4 godchildren in a hug. "You are all so big. You really grew since the last time I saw you. Zozo, I heard you want to become a Neurosurgeon." "Yes, just like my Daddy. I'm gonna be Dr. Zola Grey-Shepherd." Zola answered with a big smile in her face.
"Why are you here and not in Switzerland, Auntie Cristina?", Bailey asked curiously while looking at Cristina in a way that reminded her of Derek when he was thinking about something... "I missed you and I wanted to be here with the three of you and your mommy and I missed home so I decided to come back to Seattle."
"Auntie Cris, I really missed you." "I missed you too, Ellie-Bellie. Tell me, how old are you now?" "I am four years old, like this." Ellis said, as she held up four fingers to show her Aunt Cristina, how old she was. "You are a really big girl, Miss Ellis."
"Kids, Mommy and Auntie Cristina have to go now, but I promise that we will see her very, very often. So say good bye to Auntie Cris for now." Meredith said. "Bye Auntie Cristina." All three Grey-Shepherd Kids said as they left the doorway of the daycare to go back to what they were doing before their favorite Aunt walked into the room.
"Owen, What's going on?" Teddy Altman said, after Levi Schmitt left the scrub room, what left only her and Owen Hunt in the small room. "What's wrong, why are you not saying anything. I know you, I know there's something wrong."
Owen looked at Teddy with a hurt look and asked: "Do you think you're protecting me, Teddy? What are you not saying? What are you not telling me?" Teddy's eyes started to tear up but she acted as if everything was right as Owen kept on talking, acting as if he didn't know anything. "I am right here, I am right here Teddy. And I love you. And I- huh- I trust you and you're my best friend. So if there something... You need to tell me, now... Is the time." "No..." Teddy said, acting innocent, lying right into his face as he look at her, waiting for an answer. "... No, there - there's nothing..."
Owen looked at her, not believing that she could cheat on him and then lie about it so easily. He leaned against the sink in the scrub room and took out his phone. He started to play her voicemail and she looks at him with a disbelieving look." Schmitt... Schmitt played this for me in the OR on what was supposed to be our Wedding day. So much for love. So much for friendship. So much for truszo
P. So much for us." Owen wipes away his tears, as he pushes Teddy aside to leave the scrub room. "Wait... Owen... Please wait... Owen... Oh my God... Oh my God" Teddy sobbed while breaking down in tears in the scrub room, realizing, that she destroyed her family.
Cristina and Meredith walk along the OR floor catching up, if you can call it that after talking on the phone almost every day, as they see Owen walk past them in tears. "Do you know, what is wrong?" Cristina asked Meredith, watching Owen walk into on-call room 3. "They were going to get married about 2 weeks ago, Owen and Teddy, but he cancelled the wedding on the wedding day. Maggie told me she sent him a Voicemail with Sex sounds that day, I think she cheated on him, but I'm not sure." "Yeah you told me that it was cancelled, shall I go and look if he's OK? I mean we used to be married..." Cristina asked Meredith while keeping her gaze on the on-call room door. "Go, I think it will help him." Meredith said.
He heard a knock on the locked door of the on-call room. "Occupied!" he yelled, but the person who was on the other side didn't stop knocking. "Teddy leave me alone, we have nothing to talk about." "I'm not Teddy." He heard his ex-wife Cristina Yang say. "Please let me come in." He walked to the door and unlocked it. "Cristina, I am so sorry. I am so, so sorry." Owen looked really bad, red eyes, tears streaming down his face and a sad look on his face. "Why are you sorry, Owen? And why are you crying?" "Cristina, I am so sorry, that I cheated on you. I know how you felt, now I know how you felt. But you were wrong." he apologized again. She watched him with a strange gaze, as she asked: "Why was I wrong?" "It's not better to know that the person you love fell in love with someone else and cheats than knowing it was just sex. It's harder to watch. Both is horrible and I want you to know, that I deeply regret to ever have cheated on you. And I am so sorry." Owen started to sob again. Cristina Locked the door again, as she sat down on a bed and embraced him in her arms, as he just kept crying.
When his crying stopped Cristina looked at him." Why are you crying? Hast it anything to do with the reason why you cancelled your wedding?", she asked. "Yes she-she..." "What did she do?" "She had an affair with Tom Koracick, he wanted to leave with her before the wedding. And do you know how I found out that she was sleeping with him?" "How Owen, did she tell you?" "No, she accidently called me on what was supposed to be our wedding day and left me a Voicemail of her screwing Koracick and him talking about her leaving before the wedding starts. And do you know what's worse?" "What Owen, tell me, I'm here for you." "A resident, Dr. Schmitt, played the Voicemail in the OR while I was operating. And then I just confronted her and she acted as if she didn't do a thing, as if she didn't know anything. She lied to my face when I asked her, if she wanted to tell me something. She said no. She lied to my face. How could she do that and lie about it. When I cheated, at least I told you." Cristina stayed silent and let him talk. She did feel bad for him, but not really because now he knew how she felt when he told her, he had cheated on her. She wanted to laugh a little bit, but she had forgiven him. Somewhere in her 7 years in Switzerland she had forgiven him for cheating on her. She tightened her hug with him as he leaned on to her.
Sitting in each other's arms they both dozed off and fell asleep in the on-call room.