Ch. 2
Most people who knew my parents assumed it all started on the day Nurse Fallon died. None of them, not even her best friend Mer, realized that Liz Fallon's case was the thing that finally brought together the two who were meant to be one.
To understand their love story, one really had to know what sort of people my parents were— ambitious, arrogant, and alone. The thrill of challenge never wore them down.
How then, did they come to notice each other before Nurse Fallon? Was it coffee? No, that came later. Remember the first day of their internship? Dad picked George over Mom to scrub in. He said Mom caught his attention because he had never seen an intern who was so bad at hiding her feeling of disgust in front of her superior. To him, that was a challenge, one that stirred in him an eerie sensation.
What about Mom? Surely she wasn't too pleased with Dad? Well, not really. Cristina Yang had done her homework. She knew Preston Burke was trouble and she loved that instinctively. After all, she chose to be a surgeon because she wanted to fix things. If there's no trouble in this world, there'd be nothing to fix. Besides, there was something unmistakably familiar about this man—cocky yet self-conscious.
What it really boils down to is that as human beings, we all want company, but that's not easy when you're so smart that people find you unapproachable. Mom entered Dad's life at the right moment, when Dr. Webber brought Dr. Sheppard into the race. Dad was reluctant to admit it but he was a little insecure then. Plus, he had no friend. He knew the confidence behind Mom's fiery eyes was exactly what he could use.