A/N: Hi guys! Sorry for the late update(again), but the wifi here in Cambodia SUCKS,it took me ages to send an email! Thank you for waiting and please be prepared for the upcoming dramasss!
Chapter 10
2017 3/F On-Call Room, Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, Seattle
Burke was waked by the sound of his pager. He quickly pressed on the button on it to mute the beeping sound and check if the sound woke Cristina as well, luckily she was still asleep. He gently moved Cristina's head away from his arm and stood up from the bed. The page from Bailey, asking him to go to her office. He knows that Bailey is gonna have to talk to him about the surgery sometime, after all he is the lead surgeon and the chief needs to know everything in her ORs.
He covered Cristina's naked body with a blanket and scribbled a quick note on a post-it. He looked around the room, and decided to stick the note on her forehead so she must be able to read it. Then he gently tiptoed his way out the room.
2017 Chief's Office, SGMWH
"Come in!" Bailey yelled as she heard the knock on her office's door. She quickly practised her sincere smile in front of a tiny mirror before Burke walks in.
"Have a seat, Dr Burke. And I bought you a mocha latte." She grinned a bit too enthusiastically, which made Burke frowned suspiciously.
"Ahm. So, Bailey. About the surgery I did on Grey, I…"
"Ah! Stop. I am not going to talk about that with you."
"You aren't?"
"No! Um, do you like Seattle Pres?"
"What? Uh, yeah, of course. The people there are nice, but as they are not a level one trauma centre, the cases there are a bit too… routine for me. And I don't think they have a lot of gifted residents."
"So, Dr Burke, would you like to resume your place as the chief of cardiothoracic surgery at SGMW?"
"You are offering me a job? What about Cristina? I thought you are naming her chief."
"Well, that was the plan… Do you know Jackson Avery from Plastics? His family is the Harper Avery foundation, and because of Jackson they donated a huge amount of money for us to build a new wing for Cardio, with one condition. That is to bring you, a three times Harper Avery award winner, back to our Cardio department."
"I see."
"So, given that you have some, um, personal issues here, will you still be glad to come working with us?" Bailey looked at her old mentor hopefully.
"I… I am gonna need a few days to think about it. But thank you, for your offer."
"Sure! Just give me a call when you made up your mind."
"Of course."
"Um, another thing is… are you going to stay here until Grey can be discharged?"
"No, I still have patients at Seattle Pres waiting for me to operate on them. But I will come check on Meredith from time to time."
"All right. I hope you will make a wise decision."
2017 3/F On-Call Room, SGMWH
It was already 10 when Cristina wake up, the post-it note on her forehead is itching her and startled her from her sleep. She pulled the note away from her forehead and read the words on it.
"C,
Now that Grey's surgery is done, I have to return to Seattle Pres. Check on her regularly and call me if anything's wrong.
B."
Cristina crumpled the post-it into a ball and throw it into the bin. What the hell? They had sex the last night and the only thing he wanted to tell her is "check on Grey"? Seriously?
She her hair in frustration, and she kneel down and quickly stuffed the post-it ball into her pocket before heading to the attending's lounge for a bath.
"Yang!" Arizona waved to her once she stepped into the attending's lounge. She approached her curiously and saw Mark, Callie and Lexie next to Arizona.
"What's going on?"
"Mark and Callie suggested that we should hold a baby shower for Meredith. We couldn't have one for Zola, obviously, and no one had the time to care about a baby shower for little Bailey because of the Big Bailey investigation and the whole Owen-Teddy drama… Oops." Callie rambled with a huge grin on her face that she completely forgot that Cristina was involved in the drama as well. By the time Arizona stamped on her foot to stop her, it was too late. But the Latina obviously didn't care much, as she continued her rambling almost immediately.
"Blah blah blah, so we decided to throw one for their little girl. Just that we couldn't agree on the theme. Mark said Derek loves playing princess games with Zola, so they would definitely like a princess theme. Arizona and Lexie wanted the shower to be full of flowers and white dresses. While I think we should go for fantasy. You know, rainbows and fairies and unicorns… I can't imagine how adorable it would be…"
"Her main point is, we want you to decide which theme to use. Since you are Meredith's person, you should know what she will like and what she won't like." Lexie ignored Callie's imagination and said to Cristina. The four people all looked at her and waited eagerly for her answer.
"Honestly? I don't give a crap. And so does Mer. If I were her, I wouldn't even wanted to attend this thing." To their disappointment, Cristina just shrugged and leaned back on the couch. "And last time I check, they are the lesbians, not you Sloan. Stop acting like a woman."
"And start acting like one Yang. Aren't women supposed to be freakishly excited for these things? Babies, parties, cute little dresses, weddings…"
"Ahah. That's called gender stereotype." She shook her head and went to grab a cup of coffee for herself. Then when she turned around, the four of them are all glaring are Cristina with disagreement on their face. "Fine. I give up. Just go with that stupid fantasy theme. Rainbow marshmallows and stuffed unicorns sounds… normal. Sort of."
"And how exactly is princess tea party abnormal?"
"I just happened to hate Mickey and Minnie."
"They are not even a princess!"
2017 Conference Room 1, SGMWH
"I am so wrong about fantasy theme being normal." Cristina whined to Meredith, who is sitting in a wheelchair and eating a basket of cookies, while she adjust the unicorn bonnet on her head.
"You look good with that." Meredith handed her friend a cookie, but Cristina refused to take it so she stuffed it into her mouth as well.
"Shut up. If it wasn't for… um… fetus, I won't even allow these ridiculous fairy-tale things appear in this hospital."
"You seriously don't want to have one of these? They are good, not as good as Izzie's apparently, but still good."
"Izzie? Why would you suddenly think about her?"
"Because… I am having a girl! If Izzie's still around, she must be so thrilled. She would be burying us in pink dresses and adorable onesies, baking all sorts of desserts, knitting those tiny little sweaters…" Meredith laughed as she imagine Izzie's excitement. But her smile faded quickly, " I have been having a lot of alone time lately, and I keep on thinking what would our lives be like if George and Izzie didn't die."
"The past is the past. And there's nothing we could have done. Life must go on, it's meaningless to relive the past. You are a surgeon, you know that. Plus they died in an attack when volunteering at Africa. I think that makes their death means something."
"I know, I just couldn't stop thinking about it sometimes. Maybe it's the stupid hormones again. Speaking of hormone," Meredith suddenly lowered her voice and whispered, "Is that why you slept with Burke again? Last week the night after my surgery?"
"What? How did… Who told you?"
"Alex. You didn't show up the morning after my surgery. So I asked Alex where have you been and he said you are off screwing Burke."
"Come on! That's Evil Spawn! Why the hell would you believe him?"
"Because I think it's true? Lexie said you have some sort of telepathy with Burke during the surgery, then you disappeared for the whole night. And for the whole week you were alerted whenever someone says his name…"
"Okay enough!" Cristina hissed at her friend's "I told you so" smile. "Alright I slept with him, once. Big deal!"
"Of course it is a big deal! What happened? And what are you two now? Lovers again?" Meredith tried her best to ask for details without revealing it's Derek who wanted the gossip. But obviously Cristina's mind is so stirred up that she didn't pay attention to her friend.
"How would I know! The only thing he said to me after the sex is 'check on Meredith regularly'. Seriously!"
"Would it be wrong if I feel relieved that my surgeon cares about my healing so much?"
"Bitch!"
"What are you two talking about?" Derek kissed Meredith on her cheek gently and flashes his McDreamy smile.
"Nothing."
"Yeah, nothing." Meredith blinked at her husband quickly, promised to tell him more at home.
"Well if you are not saying something important, Meredith and I would like to make an announcement." Derek raised his voice to attract everyone's attention.
"Thank you everyone for this wonderful baby shower. Meredith and I really appreciate it. Thank you. We have something big we would like to share with you all today. We had already thought of a name for our daughter." He gestured for Meredith to say it.
"Her name will be Ellis Carolyn Shepherd. As many of you may already know, Ellis is my mother's name and Carolyn is Derek's mother's name." Meredith smiled warmly as she explain her daughter's name. The guests all seem very excited to hear the new baby's name, and no one saw the chief walked into the room.
"Derek, can I have a moment please?" Bailey whispered to Derek, who nodded and handed her the mic. "Okay everyone, sorry to interrupt at this moment, but I have something very important to tell all of you too."
"Maybe she want to tell us she is pregnant again." Meredith mumbled to her friend. Cristina giggled a bit and replied, "Of course not. I think she is announcing me as the Chief of Cardio officially."
"You do realize that sound egotistical even for you right? Derek said there are numerous applications submitted to compete for the job, you are not our only choice."
"Shut up. Don't be so full of yourself just because you are chief of general surgery now." The little argument ended instantly after Bailey shot the two of them the infamous Nazi's death glare.
"I am here to announce that the funding for our Cardio research centre is officially approved by the Harper Avery Foundation. The centre will be available in October. We are looking forward for our state of the art research centre to be the leading cardiovascular research institute on the west coast, and hopefully bring in gifted residents." Bailey stopped briefly to let her audience applause. "And I am excited to introduce all of you to our next head of the cardiothoracic surgery, Dr Preston Burke."
Cristina's jaw dropped as she didn't heard her name as she expected. Meredith looked at her person worriedly. She knows Cristina worked her ass off the last two years trying to be the chief of cardio, everyone thought she would get the job, she can only imagine how disappointed Cristina may be. Plus the person who took her job away is none other than Burke… She looked at Derek and noticed him grinning for be able to work with his friend again.
'Man.' She rolled her eyes and sighed.
