TWELVE
Motion Of The Ocean
SATURDAY
Preston Burke was stood at the OR board. He looked down at the chart in his hands before nodding and turning away. He walked down the corridor, bumping into Bailey, and agreeing for her to scrub in on his afternoon surgery. He looked at his watched and decided there was enough time for him to make a visit to the cafeteria before checking on his pre-op patient.
He stepped into a crowded lift and spent the ride down through the hospital making notes on the patients chart. When the lift stopped he looked up to see they had arrived on his floor. He waited for the people in front of him to move out before starting to leave himself. A hand shooting out from the back of the lift stopped him. He turned and saw Derek.
Derek Shepherd, Head of Neurology, looked at him, smiling apologetically before moving to the from of the lift and pressing another button for a different floor.
"Hey, I was going for Lunch!" Preston said before the doors closed. The lift moved of a seconds later Derek slammed on the emergency stop button. By now Burkes mood was changing from bemused to annoyed.
"What's going on Derek?" he asked his friend.
"I had to talk to you here. Without people. Meredith ordered me not to let the nurses know so, as the girls always say. This is Fight Club."
Burke stared at his friend until he realised that Derek was absolutely not saying anything until he agreed. "Fine. Fight Club." shaking his head at his friend who was speaking like his own girlfriend. "What do you want?"
"Ok. On Friday, don't you love Fridays, anyway, on Friday, Me and Mer are getting married. We've become friends haven't we?"
"Erm.. yes." Perplexed by Dereks' rambling.
"Good. So. Since we are friends. Burke. Will you be my best man?" Derek blurted out.
Burke looked at him. "Sure."
"Great! Good."
"Preston."
"What?" said Derek.
"I think, now as your best man, I should let you call me Preston. Remember when you moaned cause I let Meredith call me Preston and you had to call me Burke and I'd call you Shep and annoy you." Derek nodded. "Well now, you can call me Preston." And with that explain he put his hand out.
Derek shook it before turning and releasing the emergency stop. He pressed the button for the food hall floor. As the doors opened a group of concerned people were gathered round the lift entrance.
"What happened?" asked a scrub nurse Derek vaguely recognised. Derek shrugged.
"It stopped for 5 minutes." she continued.
"Who knows. Gotta run." and with that the two attendings headed towards the cafeteria leaving behind a group of confused hospital workers.
A/N: This is the frist of a few short chapters leading upto the wedding. They will be updated in quick succession so I will not be leaving you hanging. Anyway. Enjoy the lead up.
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