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3 Days Later...
Derek and Meredith have been taking their morning walks. They were friends. They laughed and talked and shared problems. Derek however held back the questions he was dying to ask her about Dr. Dandridge. Were they dating, had they slept together, was he worrying for nothing and was nothing going on? He needed to know, but he couldn't bring it up, for fear of ruining the good thing that they had going on.
Meredith noticed that Derek got fidgety sometimes and she wondered why. She however decided to forget about it because it never really stuck around, he always stopped and continued on with a different topic. As Derek was talking about a patient he had, Meredith's mind wandered over to Finn. He had called her to ask her out, how weird was that? She had told him no because she was still trying to get over someone, but that she was flattered. He had understood and left it at that. But a part of Meredith wanted to go out with him. She needed someone like Finn, she just couldn't see herself going out with someone that isn't Derek. That's when she remembered that they could never happen. She should move on and who better to move on with than a handsome vet who is very interested in her? God was she confused. She needed to talk to someone. She knew she couldn't tell Derek, because, well, the obvious reasons, but she really wanted to. He had always given great advice, and that's what she needed right, advice? But, she just couldn't do it. So, like Derek, she took her thoughts and feelings and shoved them further away in her head and continued on with their walk. They both talked and laughed for the next thirty minutes of the walk, neither of them thinking about their respective problems and questions they had for each other.
Meredith and Derek finally found their way back to the trailor. She had to get to work so she was heading off towards her car when she heard Derek call out her name behind her. She turned. "Yeah?"
"I was, uh, just wondering if, mmm," he was going to ask her, but then he just chickened out. "If you could check up on Mrs. Kramer in room 3412, she was short of breath last night and I wont be in for another 3 hours, so I thought it would be a good idea for you to look in on her." He was mentally kicking himself.
She just looked at him, waiting to see if that's all he wanted to say. "Uh, sure, ok, I can do that."
"Thanks." He spun on his heel and marched into the trailor. He heard the car pull away. He couldn't believe he had just acted like that. What was he thinking? He sat down and just began to think again, which at this point in time, was never good.
Alex was sitting on the gurney in the basement where the interns always hung out. He was thinking about Izzie. He knew that he loved her, he just could not tell her. He didn't understand what stopped him, he just couldn't. He was deep in thought when he felt someone sit down beside him. He turned his head and was looking into the eyes of none other than Izzie Stevens. He was about to say something when she started talking.
"Why do you act like that? Huh? I know you are so much more than that, but you wont let anyone see that. I like you, I really do, but I don't think I can handle much more of this. God...Alex, you just, you don't get it! To see you act like yourself and be a nice human being, that makes me happy. But then when you are around everyone else, you act like such a jackass that even I need to fight the sudden urge to beat the livin crap out of you. You have to understand that if you really do care about me like you say you do, then you need to do something to prove that, be a good guy ALL the time, show me that you are a good person. Because right now, Alex, I'm not sure which personality is actually you, and before I can be with you again, I need to know. I think I might love you, but if you don't stop this I don't know how I will feel. So, just decide which person you wanna be! Decide if i mean enough to you that you will drop this act that you have going on, which ever it is, and tell the freakin truth for once." She starts to get up but is pulled back down by a strong arm and into a kiss full of passion. It was then that Alex knew who he wanted to be.
Burke and Cristina's apartment...
Cristina was sitting at the kitchen table, listening to her ipod, drinking coffee and reading the newspaper. Burke was running around the room cleaning. Cristina felt it was pointless to clean seeing as how the place was like a freakin O.R. already. So she sat and read, occasionally looking up to see Burke dusting, sweeping, moving things around. When she couldn't stand watching him clean something that was already spotless, she threw her paper on the table and took the earphones out.
"Burke, what the hell are you so worked up over?" He just continues, ignoring Cristina's comment. "Burke, STOP! STOP! Focus here...it's clean, it's too clean," she stops and swivels her head around, observing everything, "I can see myself in basically just about everything in the room. I think you're good! Anyways, it's just your mom, why are so worried about how the place looks?"
"I'm not concerned. I'm not, it's just that she has never been here before and I want to make it look...good. I guess I am going a little over the top, but...it's my mom you know." he pauses, "alright, you don't know, but come on, cant you at least try to understand, and lend a hand, just for a minute?"
"Ok, um Burke...do you not remember the little conversation we had in my old apartment? I thought I made it perfectly clear that I, Cristina Yang, do not clean. And besides this place couldn't get any cleaner without it becoming some type of hazard, I mean do you really want your mother to end up with poisoning due to cleaning product stenches? No? Ok, didn't think so, so, just…... cool it."
"Fine, I'll keep working by myself," indignantly he spun around on his heel and walked into the bedroom. Cristina looked incredulously after him, wondering what she ever saw in this freak. She shrugged and went back to reading. Just then there was a knock at the door. She slowly made her way to the door and opened it. There stood George. "What are you doing here? You seriously don't want to be here now, Burkes kind of going through something right now and "male bonding" time with you isn't on top of his list of priorities."
"Burke asked me to come. He said he needed some help and then after we can get a beer or something." After hearing this, Cristina left the door open and walked into the bedroom, George wandering after her.
"Burke, I thought you had completed the phase where you and George have the frat bros thing going on. I mean come on! Don't tell me we're back to him livin here and stealin my coffee because, if necessary, I will hurt him. I mean HURT him." She turns to George. "No offense really, I mean, you know how I get."
George innocently shrugs, "None taken. And if it makes you feel any better, I am most definitely not staying here and as for your coffee, it wasn't that good anyways." Cristina was about to say something back when Burke spoke up.
"Thanks O'Malley, Cristina was just leaving weren't you Cristina?"
"Uh….nope hadn't planned on it."
"Cristina if you are going to be nothing but negative, I do not need you here. George is here to help and I can accomplish things faster with him here so, please, if you aren't going to help then…..go. I still have a lot of work to do."
Cristina looked around indignantly. "NO YOU DON'T! You have no work left to do. Look around! It freakin spotless. You know if it gets any cleaner, I will be forced to move out. I can't live like this, this isn't normal! And….you know what…..I need a little mess. A little mess is gooooood. Ok…you know….you're right, I cant stay here, I gotta go. Enjoy yourselves, you two FREAKSHOWS!" With that she walks to the door, walks out and for pure effect, slams it after her.
George and Burke stand there for a minute. "Cristina" they both say before setting to work.
Ok, won't be updating for a couple days so it gives you guys a while to review. So please enjoy and let me know what you think!
