Only Meredith&Derek in this chpt, sorry to all the Burke/Christina lovers!


"Hey you" Meredith greeted from her seat on top of Derek's car. "I've been waiting for you." She says as he approaches.

"Hey." He responds distractedly.

"What's the matter?"

"Um nothing." He says stopping in front of her and giving her a kiss hello. "Was Christina acting strangely to you today?" he asks.

"Strange is not the word." She responded. "You yourself said it was as if Izzie had taken over her emotions on that one case."

"Yea but besides that. There's just something off about her." He says still deep in thought.

"Well you heard about the new intern right?"

"Yeah…I don't like him." Derek says curtly. Meredith smiles and moves to kiss him on the cheek.

"I knew there was a reason I kept you around." She says. Derek returns her smile.

"So what's the story?" he asks interested.

"No one really knows. Devon said they dated for 3 ½ years in med school and that it ended badly. He didn't elaborate further and your better off trying to get Tony Soprano to turn states evidence than you are trying to get any information out of Christina." Meredith explains.

"So you guys didn't talk to her?"

"We tried, but then Izzie made a stupid comment about Savage being hot, and Christina flipped and took off."

"She got angry?" Derek asks.

"Hmm not angry, that's what threw us. She made Izzie promise not to go near him. But she seemed almost, I don't know…scared." Meredith shook her head at the thought of Christina being scared of anything.

"Hmm" Derek contemplates what she has told him.

"What?"

"Well I was just in the locker room looking for you and as I was going in, Savage was leaving. I walked around to where your locker is and I saw Christina slumped down in front of her locker. I asked her is she was ok and she quickly stood up and said she was fine. But then she turned around and I saw blood streaked down her neck." Meredith gasps.

"Oh My God! Do you think he hurt her?"

"Well I began to ask her that and she got all defensive and said she just hit her head. Then she rushed out."

"Do you think Burke knows anything about this?" Meredith asks.

"I don't know. I saw him follow her into an on-call room earlier today but I didn't know about any of this at the time. I just assumed you know, they were getting their usual 'quick fix' ". Meredith smirked quickly; those two had been known to disappear into on-call rooms at all hours of the day. "But then as Christina was leaving, she asked me to not say anything to him." Derek finished.

"Are you going to tell him?" Meredith asks.

"Preston? Absolutely, he's has a right to know. And you know that Christina's not going to tell him anything, she thinks she can handle everything on her own."

"Yeah you're right." Meredith agrees.

"Ok I'm calling him right now. Come on lets get out of here." He says taking out his cell phone as he opens the car door for her.