Burke impatiently pressed the elevator buttons. He had searched three separate floors, and still no sign of Christina. He knew she was hiding somewhere and he wasn't going to stop looking until he found her. The doors finally opened to the hospital lobby and he spotted her immediately by the coffee stand tossing back a triple espresso. By the looks of it, it wasn't her first as there were three other empty espresso cups next to her on the stand. He walked up behind her and placed his hand on the small of her back and watched as she visibly flinched from the contact.

"Dr. Yang, may I speak to you for a moment." He said in a low no-nonsense voice. She looked up at him, mind racing.

"Um, not now, I have to get back to work before Bailey places me in the pit indefinitely." She said racing off towards the elevators. Burke ran to catch up to her, as the elevator doors closed.

"Christina!" he yelled after her frustrated, but is met with only the cold steel elevator doors. "Damn It" he mumbles under his breath.


Nurse's Station

Christina stood leaning against the main desk as she flipped through the newest admissions chart. 24-year old girl beaten into a coma. Christina sighs, not believing her luck. "This is just perfect."

"Problem Dr. Yang?" Bailey comments as she passes causing Christina jump in surprise.

"Problem? No! No problem! Why would you think there's a problem? There's no problem." She repeats.

"Awfully jumpy today aren't we?" Bailey says raising an eyebrow. "Listen, I know about Savage and if it's going to be a problem with the two of you working together then you need to tell me so I can have him reassigned."

"You know about Savage?" Christina says surprised. "What do you mean you know about Savage? What do you know?" She says, worry creeping into her voice.

"He told us that you guys use to date." Bailey explained, confused by her interns reaction. "Is it going to be a problem?" she asks again.

"Oh." Christina says relieved. "No it won't be a problem." She continues as she pretends to be occupied with reading the chart she's holding. "I was just going over the chart on the new admission…." Christina says changing the topic.

"Yeah, Kristen Brooks. Found this morning, apparently beaten by her boyfriend." Christina pales as they approach the patients' room. "We need to run a few tests to determine whether she's operable or just a lost cause." Christina flinches at Bailey's words. Usually Bailey's callous comment wouldn't bother her; in fact usually she was the one making the callous comments. But today, today everything was different. She stood there staring at the young women and quickly jotted down the list of test she wanted done and handed it to the nurse as she hurried out the door. As she turned down the hallway, eyes focused on the floor in front of her, she ran right into Devon, literally. He grabbed her arms to steady her, much like Burke had that morning during their first encounter. Once Christina looked up to see who was touching her she immediately shook him off.

"Let go of me!" she hissed.

"Chrissy, we need to talk." Devon responded curtly as he dropped his hand to his sides. They stood there looking at each other, neither noticing Burke standing near the stairway exit a few feet behind them nor the looks they had attracted from the few people in the hallway.

"I don't have anything to say to you." She said as began to walk past him.

"Chrissy" He said more forcefully as his hand quickly shot out grabbing her wrist and turning her around to face him once again. She quickly pulled away from him.

"Don't call me that! And don't touch me!"

"Listen, I'm sorry…" He began.

"You're sorry?" she scoffed. "I don't really think sorry covers what you did to me." At this point everyone in the hallway was blatantly staring at the two. Christina turned to walk away and found herself staring at Burke's chest.

"Christina." He says softly as he stares over her head at Devon. "Is everything ok?" he asks.

"Yeah everything's freakin' peachy." She mumbles as she pushes past him and disappears into the stairwell.

"Everyone get back to work!" Burke orders without taking his steely stare off the new intern in front of him.

"Is there a problem Dr. Savage?" Burke asks in a dangerously low voice.

"No sir, no problem." He responds quickly.

"There better not be." Burke says before he turns to walk away.