Chapter. 1

"Dr. Ross."

"Oh! Dr. Burke! What a surprise seeing you here! Are you here to check in on Dr. Yang again?" The resident followed his previous boss to the elevator and asked.

"I can assure you, Dr. Yang did a great job in running this hospital. Our revenue increased steadily, children from all around the world come to Zurich hoping to get on her phase four conduit trial. We had just finished printing a heart and is ready to test it on animals…"

"Dr. Ross." Burke raised his hand to stop the nervous resident's rambling.

"Yes sir?"

"Shut up." He left the resident standing in the hall and walked into the elevator. He pressed the button and stick his hands into his pocket.

3 years ago, he invited Cristina to give a lecture on her conduit trial in Zurich, and offered her the hospital afterwards. He then moved to Milan with his wife, Edra and their kids. However, he still goes back to the hospital occasionally. Everyone, including Edra, just thought he is a complete control freak who can't let go of his institute, while only him and Cristina knows the real reason.

Just before Burke move to Milan, he scrubbed in on a surgery with her. The memories that are hidden deep in his heart for years flowed back, their memories in Seattle Grace feels like yesterday. Everything had seemed to be changed, but something always remained the same.

After the surgery, Burke turned down the invitation for a farewell party, and headed to her office – which once was his. He knocked on the door and quietly push the door open.

"Hey. I am not disturbing you right?"

"Not at all. Erm, I thought you were supposed to be at that stupid farewell party now?"

"I was, but as you say it is stupid. And I hate those occasions."

"Um, so, uh, how about I order us some dinner, as my personal, small farewell or whatever for you?"

Burke raised his eyebrows in surprise. He never see that coming. Although Cristina took his offer to run his institute, he believes that Cristina still hold a grudge against him. He often thinks that she only accept that offer because of those 3D printers. Half a year ago, he would never imagine them being able to sit together at the same room, let alone sharing dinner.

Their food came quickly, the two of them sat on the couch in the corner, having their dinner while discussing about the surgery just now. Suddenly, Cristina let out a little chuckle.

"Something funny Dr Yang?" Burke asked in curiosity.

"Nah, just… remember how we used to order Chinese food and talk about surgeries in our apartment?"

"We only do that because you hated me cooking. Do you remember one time we had dinner with Grey and Shepherd and you refuse to eat the food I made? It's such a disaster."

"You are the one who refused to feed me! And you know what a real disaster is? You and Izzie Stevens cooking a turkey TOGETHER on Thanksgiving."

"I though you enjoyed that turkey! Right?"

"Actually, I only remember myself enjoying the booze. Hey, remember heart in the elevator?"

"That one is impossible to forget. O'Malley is my guy! I even let him crashed on my couch for a few weeks. Before you made me kicked him out by walking around naked."

"Now that was embarrassing. Why would I do that back then?"

"By the way, how's George now? I heard that Grey and Shepherd married now? And how's Stevens, Karev and Bailey? Oh and Sloan! Is that man still a whore?"

Hearing those familiar names, Cristina felt a dull ache in her chest. Her laughter paused for a second, she took a sip of wine before recalling all those hurtful memories.

"Mer and McDreamy are married now and have two kids. Zola, an African orphan who they adopted four years ago, and Bailey, he is two years old, super adorable. Evil Spawn became a Peds surgeon – yeah I know, it's kinda unbelievable. We all thought he would eat those kids alive, but turns out he is really good with children. He is with an intern now, classic Seattle Grace relationship right? And Bailey remarried to a former-anesthesiologist-now-surgical-resident."

"Well seems like everyone's been quite…"

"Izzie got skin cancer a few years ago, stage 4 when we found out. She married Alex, and divorced after she recovered. Then she got fired when Seattle Grace merge with Mercy West, Derek said she is working in Tacoma now. George… he died. In a car crash, trying to save a woman. Callie is a bisexual now. And guess what, her first lesbian lover is Erica Hahn. The Erica Hahn. I could never understand what Callie sees in that woman. Anyway so Callie had a baby with Sloan, but she and Sloan is more like friends with benefits, because Callie married the chief of Peds. And Sloan, he was less of a man whore after hooking up with Lexie, aka Meredith's half-sister. But Sloan and Lexie both died in a plane crash a year ago, which explains why Seattle Grace is called Grey-Sloan Memorial now. "

"Wow, that's… a lot… to…" Burke cannot believe his ears, it had been seven years only, and nearly everyone he knew from Seattle Grace was dead or gone.

"A lot to digest? Yeah, it took me a few years to get used to not having Bambi and Izzie in the locker rooms."

Waves of silence hit them. They stared at their own wine glass, each figuring what to say.

"I'm sor…" His words were cut off by her.

"You know… things changed a lot after you have gone. I always wonder what it would be like if you stayed. And I always wanted to know… have you… have you ever regret leaving Seattle? Leaving… me… on our wedding day?" She swallowed her saliva difficultly, considering the right word to use when asking him a question that had been in her head for seven years.

She stared right into his eyes, being slightly drunk seems giving her courage to ask this question that could tear her never-properly-healed-wound open again. Burke looked the woman he loved – probably still loves- quietly, trying to give her a suitable answer.

He wasn't going to lie. He knows once he tell her his answer, everything is going to change.

"Always."

She stared him right into his eyes. He slowly approached her, using his fingers to outline her jaw. Feeling drops of tears started to roll down her cheek, he gently swipe them away with his thumb. She closed her eyes, and her eyelashes keep on flickering like the wings of a butterfly. His lips landed on hers softly, and turned into a passionate kiss quickly. A kiss that had not experienced by either of them in years. When their lips touched, it's like a key finding their lock, like they were designed for each other.

His white shirt dropped on the floor. She closed her eyes, her fingers reached his left shoulder. She found that subtle gunshot scar there and swept her lips across the flesh.

"Good, cause I wish you do."