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"How are you feeling" Burke asked as the elevator doors closed. They were alone and he had about a minute to actually see how she was. She was back to her usual self, avoiding him and only talking to him when she had too.

"Okay" she said and went back to her coffee. The awkward silence was too much for her and she needed the elevator doors to open and set her free.

She was surprised that he hadn't pushed for more. Usually Burke would want to talk things out but he'd been giving her space lately. She had a feeling that things were about to change. Preston Burke was about to come back into her life again with full force.

"How's the baby?" he wanted to ask her a million other questions but he knew if he did, it would only annoy her and she'd push him away.

When they were together he didn't mind pushing her, the only leverage she had against him was sex and he knew no matter how mad she was it wouldn't be long before she would be ripping off his clothes. Now she had the baby, he wanted be to apart of the experience of pregnancy and if he pushed her too hard she could actually take that away from him.

"The baby is fine." She mumbled getting ready to step off the elevator as the doors open.

Preston needed a way to unnerve her and get her talking and he had to do it fast before he lost his chance today. "My mother excited about the news." Seeing her tense up and turn to look at him with a face of disbelief just as the elevator doors were closing brought a smug smile to his face.

She was going to be talking to him. Ok so it was going to be more like yelling. But right now he'd settle for anything besides fake pleasantries.

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His mother. He told his mother. This was so not good.

She hadn't even told her mother. Well she planned on never telling her mother. But how could he do this. She should have prepared herself for this. Burke was a mama's boy and it was bound to happen.

It was the smug grin he had that made it worse. He knew that she wasn't ready to deal with his mother.

Jane Burke had mentioned wanting grandchildren once during her visit but Cristina choose to ignore the comments considering them irrelevant. Children were the last thing on her mind then.

When Burke had packed his things and left the apartment, Meredith had decided that Cristina needed to remember all the things she wouldn't miss about him instead of focusing on the things she would. Cristina thought it was a stupid idea. But after a while it did make her feel better well that and the bottle of vodka that they had consumed.

One of them was in-laws. She wasn't going to miss in-laws. But with the baby on the way Burkes parents were going to be back in her life.

They were never supposed to be apart of her life again. He walked away and set her free. She was supposed to be free and yet somehow here she was trying to figure out how to deal with Preston Burke and his parents.

Maybe having this baby wasn't such a good idea after all.