I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you
I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you
I've been sleeping so long in a twenty year dark night
And now I see daylight, I only see daylight
It was a brand new day. Cristina's eyes were puffy and swollen from the last night's crying. And her head had that pumping you get after a crying session. Her throat also felt sore. Summing up: she was feeling like crap.
However, it didn't matter that she wasn't feeling like it, she had to go to work. She had patients, meetings and calls to make. Shane helped her as he could, but some things, only she could do. So, despite her spirits, she got off of bed and walked into her closet to choose what to wear.
The woman picked a black pantacourt suit and heels, making a beeline to the bathroom.
After all set, and after looking like a Cardio-Goddess again, she left out her room just to be engulfed by the sound of baby noises coming from the kitchen.
Just great.
As she entered the room, the scene in front of her made her stupid uterus cramp.
It was Owen, feeding Leo. The little one was sitting on the counter, since they still didn't have a high chair for him. They? What the FUCK Cristina?
The last night's conversation with Owen had led them nowhere, to be honest. They just poured their sentiments on each other and that was it.
She had changed. She could tolerate kids now. Didn't mean she wanted them. And after all the drama, she just wanted space. To think, to considerate, to search in the depts of her soul the answer to the actual situation. One that Owen put them through.
Cristina didn't really know if she would accept Owen, let alone daddy Owen and baby Leo.
She was so screwed.
She was like missing a prolene stich screwed.
"Morning!" greeted Owen when he noticed her entering the kitchen.
He couldn't help but notice her outfit as well. He always liked her style, but now? Now she looked like out of a fashion magazine or something. And he loved it. He loved her. He was proud of her.
She smiled and replied with a 'good morning' muffed by the coffee she was drinking.
She could be confused, and have many things to consider, but waking up with coffee already brewed? Maybe she should keep the boys…
Leo made his greeting as well with a "Gah!" loud and gleeful, moving away his father's hands from feeding him mashed bananas.
"Yes, Leo that's Cristina." She heard Owen replying to the baby, as he cleaned the corner of Leo's mouth with a napkin.
"He talks?" she wanted to know, coffee cup in hand.
The redhead smirked at her, blue eyes shining in the sunlight bathing the kitchen walls.
"He babbles, yes. We're working on it, right Leo?" he faced his son with a little smile.
Ugh! The love and care he directed to the baby, was just too much, she was feeling like being shot at with cuteness. Meredith would so mock her if she knew.
"The fact that he said Cristina, or tried, means he's very smart." She stated and approached the men. "Aren't you?" questioned the Asian staring deep in Leo's eyes.
He gave her a gummy smile. She could see some teeth in there.
Owen faced her with pure adoration. He was so happy with their interaction. All he asked for all his life was happening right in front of him.
He didn't know for sure where they stood right now, but he understood it as progress nonetheless.
Leo tried to grab Cristina's hair, that was molding her face, but she took his chubby hands in hers and said "Like father, like son, I guess." And with a longing smile, she directed herself to Owen, as Leo averted his attention back to the bananas in front of him.
"I've got to work. Are you gonna be okay here alone?"
Owen looked from her eyes to Leo.
"Not alone, alone. You get it!"
"I have a full plate with this little guy here." He explained as he lifted Leo from the countertop and started to get out of the room.
"Good." She followed him. "Usually I don't have a precise time to get home, so you can come by the Institute for lunch, if you want to."
She was nuts. Of course, she was.
Inviting Owen and the package to lunch at her hospital. She was going crazy and their proximity was not letting her think clear.
Honestly, Cristina didn't know what to do. Never in her life, despite her dreams, had she thought about this scenario.
His silence made her speak again. "You can call an uber or a taxi, and meet me there." She was saying and collecting her belongs to go out. "You can call the lobby and ask Arthur for it as well, he's a nice old man." Instructed.
"Are you sure we can swing by?"
Cristina wasn't sure he was talking about lunch anymore. She nodded anyway.
"I gotta go." She said looking at her wrist watch. "text me, if you need anything." She said as she opened the door, heels clicking all the way. "Bye!" was the last thing she said and Leo replied with a animated "Bo!"
"You keep up with that and either we're going to be thrown away or she's going to love you." Owen said to Leo as he went to the guest room change his diaper.
GAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGA
"It's a beautiful day to save lives, everyone." Ross announced as he entered the OR, Cristina on toe.
"Shepard used to say that before surgeries." Clarified the youngest doctor as his mentor looked him sideways with a funny expression.
"I know…"
Shane let out a chuckle.
"Means that you're afraid you're gonna screw it up?" Yang mocked him.
"No!"
She rolled her eyes and waited for Ross to get to the lead surgeon' side of the table.
"Means I'm optimistic." Shane stated as the rest of the staff arrived at the OR.
"Means you're kissing his dead ass."
"That's just mean, and you know it."
"I'm a mean person."
"Not anymore, but something is making you…" he had that suspicious tone. Ross had become the next best Meredith she had in Zurich. "Ten-blade, please." He asked as he started the procedure. "besides, you wanted to scrub in on this surgery with me, why?"
"Because I like the basics."
"No, you don't."
"Oh Shane, shut up!"
"Is Meredith okay?" he asked after some time in silence.
"Why do you ask?"
"Because, you're only insufferable when there' something going on with her…" he deflected his eyes from the open chest above them to face her. "or with…"
"Don't!"
"Okay…"
Another hour passed only with instrument-asking and a commentary here and there on the procedure.
"He's here." Yang stated.
"He… like?"
"Owen Hunt."
"Your ex-husband is here?" Shane asked very surprised. "Is he okay?"
"Not here at the hospital Ross!" she bickered. "Here in Zurich. In my apartment."
Shane kept operating.
"With a baby."
The shocked look Ross directed her had her smiling widely behind her surgical mask.
"I'm not going to express my opinion because you're gonna kill me."
"You know me so well."
He chuckled, as the scrub nurse passed him another instrument.
After the surgery, Cristina went straight to her office to make some phone calls and reschedule some meetings. She was not in the mood to pretend and be interested in budget today. Was she ever? Thank Lord she had Shane and a very capable secretary.
"Dr. Yang?" Anna, her assistant called as Cristina was putting the phone back on its base.
"Yes, Anna?"
"Your husband is here?" the blonde girl said with a puzzled face. As far as she knew, Dr. Yang was single, and a ginger guy just arrived, asking for her boss, addressing himself as her husband. Odd.
"Oh…" Cristina massaged her temples. Gossip would spread like infection and, in no time, people would assume she got married. Again. Not that anybody knew she had been in the first place.
"Let him in."
Anna excused herself and next Owen was entering her office, baby Leo on a car seat hanging in his arm.
"My husband? Seriously?" Cristina asked with a raised eyebrow.
Owen showed her his trademark smile. That same pre-Iraq smile that captivated her a lifetime ago. The same smile he wore when pulling off her icicle.
She smiled back despite her annoyance.
"What should've I said?" he asked of her as he set the car seat on the floor and unbuckled Leo from it. He knew better than let the baby there when he was awake. And at that moment, he was very awake with all the new places and Cristina's voice.
The boy was still very young, but already had the iocent perception he wasn't in his old house anymore, and he had some sympathy towards Yang going on, despite her feelings about him. Owen could tell his son liked her. A lot. Within only two days. How funny, for his dad, couple hours were enough.
"Isn't lunch time yet."
"You promised me a tour some time ago." He quoted the message she had sent him a few years back.
She was still in her scrubs, so the woman put on her lab-coat and guided the boys out of here.
"Tour it is then." She said before closing the door behind them.
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