I re-watched the episode and edited the details a bit to match the episode.
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Ch. 2
i"Why, you got anything that's waiting at home? Boyfriend?"
"Nope."
"A girlfriend?"
"Nope."
"A pet? Family?
Hands loosely crossed across his chest, Burke was grinning from the entrance.
"A bed."
"We've got plenty of beds here." /i
Cristina recalled how embarrassed she was when her attending walked in with a puzzled grin to her ridiculous response. Poor bedside manner. She knew it.
But that was yesterday. How things have changed this afternoon. Liz Fallon's eyes were shut, but her mouth was twitching. Cristina knew her patient was in a lot of pain. She knew she was going to die. Cristina was mad at Burke and everyone at the hospital. Why am I the only one who wants to do something?
i"And you sound like the only reason she's in this hospital is because she's here to die."/i
The scene outside the on-call room kept replaying in her head. Cristina still couldn't believe Burke actually raised his brows and nodded subtly instead of dispelling the idea that disgusted her.
iPeople must be thinking all I want is the whoppler and I probably did, but it's more than that. It's not only about me, it's about medicine, my belief in medicine/i Cristina held the scrub nurse's hand firmly as the groan grew louder.
"They were never gonna operate on me."
"You could have told me that."
"I'm fine with it. Think of it as a hazing ritual."
"Please don't talk, don't talk." Liz Fallon looked up with half-closed eyes. Cristina touched Liz's shoulder lightly, trying to preserve the rare moments of silence.
Then the line went flat. "Liz? Liz? Liz, stay with me…" Before she knew what she was doing, Cristina was engulfed by a pool of bystanders who kept repeating those three words—Do Not Resuscitate.
Of all the voices in the room, there was one that finally silenced her and put her into a state of near trance. "Let her go. Let her go." Liz Fallon had died. And here Cristina was tightly gripped by the man who did nothing to save the nurse's life.
i"Let her go down."/i Burke said firmly. His gaze was burning like the California sunshine she used to loathe as a child but secretly missed since she started her internship in rainy Seattle. Cristina tried to fight back, verbally and physically. They fight was charged with so much power that at one point Burke was pointing his finger at her nose to stop her. Before she could decipher the meaning behind, the Chief made her call the time of death.
iWell Liz, I was actually going to give you to Meredith Grey."/i
Cristina could not shake off that humiliating remark of Webber as she fled the scene and ran for the stairs. She wished she had a chance to prove to Liz Fallon that someone by the last name of Yang was as competent as a Grey. She wanted someone to tell her she was right. She needed someone.
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