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Dr. Sheppard spoke first, "She's stable, but her skull sustained a lot of trauma and the CT showed she had small aneurysms, which bleed a little, and we had to give her a transfusion, but she didn't reject the blood and should recover nicely"
Torres jumped in, "her ribs are fine, she had 3 broken though, which will take a while to heal, and the internal bleeding was her liver which had a tear, but we were able to repair that without too much bleeding , she should be awake in a couple of hours, you can see her then."
Owen's pager went off and he checked it, and then gave Cristina a quick kiss on the cheek, "Thanks for listening, I've got another patient that needs surgery, can you check on Peyton when she wakes up?"
His eyes were so bright and Cristina was so happy to see him happy that she nodded in agreement without thinking, and Owen rushed away to scrub in.
A few hours later
Cristina paced outside Peyton's room, not sure if she should go in and check on her like she promised Owen…this wasn't like her, normally she would have been able to barge in there, look at the chart and leave, no strings no emotions, but this was Owen…this was Owen's…whatever Peyton was to him, she knew he was something to him, and she couldn't screw whatever they had up.
She opened the door slowly, and was surprised when Peyton turned toward the sound and said "hey"
"Hi um" Cristina started, "I'm um Cristina, Owen sent me to check on you"
"Riiiiight" Peyton smiled.
She really was a beautiful girl, Cristina noted.
Her skin was tan, the color of coffee that has been loaded up with cream and had golden flecks in it, probably from her time in California, her long dark curls cascaded down her back and she had eyes the color of cinnamon that were surrounded by the darkest, longest eyelashes Cristina had ever seen.
The girls pink lips curled in to a smile
"I'm Peyton, by the way, I don't believe we've had the pleasure of meeting", she offered her hand and Cristina noticed the old cuts and burns going down the length of her arms.
They shook and then Cristina blurted out "What happened to you?"
Peyton smiled, sadly this time, then looked into Cristina eyes and held the gaze, "I fell up some stairs"
Cristina smiled faintly then nodded and took a seat by the bed
" So uh, Owen got called in to surgery, and he should be here soon; I just wanted to make sure that you were doing okay"
"Yea..Sure I'm fine"
After a moment of uncomfortable silence, Peyton broke the ice
"So you're the girlfriend right?"
Cristina was shocked, "Owen told you?"
Peyton shook her head, "no haha, I picked up on it, Owen hasn't looked this happy in… well he was happy, until I showed up."
"I knew I should have just walked to Mercy West, but my stomach was killing me," she winked at Cristina
Cristina snorted, "Yea that's what internal bleeding will do to you"
Peyton shook her head, "I think…I think that we are going to be friends Cristina, we're a lot alike you and me, I can tell already."
Cristina smiled, pleased to be liked so much by Owen's friend.
They settled into silence again
Cristina broke it this time "so Owen told me how you guys met, quite the story huh?"
"Yea, if he hadn't come to the park that night, I don't know where I would be, Owen is a great guy" Peyton said
"Yeah he's amazing, but weren't your parents worried about where you were?" "You were only eleven right?"
Cristina hoped she hadn't crossed the line, but her curiosity had gotten the best of her and she had to ask.
"She must have been concerned", she finished, looking at Peyton to read her reaction
"My mother?" Peyton laughed, "My mother doesn't produce enough concern for herself, to have any left over for me"
She sat up suddenly changing the subject
"Hey I asked Owen earlier, but do you know if he called James and Nate and the guys? They're the guys he went over with , and I haven't seen them in like forever, maybe he talks about them… and you know where they live?" she asked hopefully.
"I'd really like to see them; maybe, could you get the numbers from Owen and call them?"
Cristina stared at her for a long time," Didn't Owen tell you?"
She continued, "Everyone in Owen's platoon was killed…except for him"
"What?" Peyton said.
"I'm so sorry, but they're gone, Owen didn't tell you?"
Peyton blinked back tears and whispered something that she didn't think Cristina could hear, but she did
"People always leave"
