Meredith was frantically searching for Owen and/or Callie, the hospital rumor mill was on over drive and she needed to get answers, the whole surgical floor was filled with hushed whispers and chaos as the news of Cristina's visit had reached the whole staff. Meredith needed to know if the rumors were true or if people were seeing a ghost and not Cristina Yang in the flesh.

She spotted Emma coming out of an exam room and quickly made her way toward her.

"Hey, Dr. Marling." She yelled to try to get her attention while she strutted towards Emma, Meredith started walking in her direction and was certain that Emma heard her call out her name but she didn't stop to answer or wait for her, she made herself look busy reading a chart and walking down the hall.

"Emma!" Meredith yelled a little louder as she tried to catch up with Emma who was bluntly ignoring her calls and not stopping to acknowledge her presence.

Meredith finally caught up with her and started walking right beside her.

"I'm busy right now Dr. Grey, I have to check up on my post ops before I scrub in for surgery in an hour." Emma stated while she continued to glance at her chart in between paying attention to the direction she was walking in.

"Have you seen Owen, I really need to talk to him." Meredith was a little out of breath, she felt like she was chasing Dr. Marling through the halls of the hospital.

"Haven't seen him for an hour or so, my guess is that he is somewhere re-aqainting himself with the likes of his ex-wife." She tried to keep her voice indifferent but Meredith could definitely detect a little bitterness in her voice. "Maybe their in an on-call room knocking boots and professing their undying love for one another."

Meredith let out a gasp and stopped at a halt, "Are you serious? So its true then?" She asked in astonishment.

"Serious as a heart attack," Emma stated as she turned to face Meredith. "Which ironically is Dr. Yangs area of expertise." She exclaimed in a sarcastic tone, "Oh, and guess what? I just received the latest copy of the New England Journal of Medicine, guess whose just won her second Harper Avery Award?"

"No way?" Meredith exclaimed, her second one in three years?" All those inadequate and jealousy feelings seeped to the forefront as she was reminded once again that Cristina became what both she and her had set out to be in their intern year, and Meredith became something else completely, a mother and wife and a surgeon second. Cristina dedicated everything she had to being a surgeon, she gave up dreams of white picket fences, big colonial houses and a husband with a baby. She gave up a life outside the hospital in turn for a life dedicated to her craft, her sacrifices were a lot bigger then the ones Meredith made but for some reason Meredith was still insanely jealous of Cristina for sticking to her convictions and turning out to be what they both once worshipped, and just like Cristina had once said to her, Meredith turned out to be the thing they once laughed at. That was a hard pill to swallow when you were the daughter of Ellis Grey and best-friend to a Harper Avery Award winner and a pioneer in Cardiothoratic surgery, how ironic was it that Meredith once mocked Cristina stating that she had an advantage being born with natural talent and others had to practice and work harder for it. But who was laughing now?

Meredith tried to take in the news of Cristina's arrival, she had promised herself that she would never let Cristina get close to her again and had done everything to forget her existence and the importance that she had once served in her life. But the realization that she was somewhere in the near vicinity of where Meredith stood right now made her want to seek her out, if not to reconcile then to give her a piece of her mind and let her know what she had missed out on the past year and how much damage her departure had caused.

"I can't believe she has the nerve to show up at MY hospital after she left without even saying goodbye, I have to find her and give her a piece of my mind." Meredith stated determinately and walked away from Emma clearly irritated and on a mission.

Meredith finally ran into both Owen and Callie who were frantically trying to save a patients life, she walked in just in time for Owen to call time of death. Both Callie and him looked visibly distressed over the loss of the trauma patient.

"Hey." Meredith said as she walked into the pit and into the trauma room, she wanted to seem sympathetic to her friends after not being able to save the patient but she was too wound up for consoling.

"Owen, is it true?" She asked while furrowing her eye-brows. He looked up from updating the patients chart and looked Meredith directly in the eyes, he didn't answer her verbally but his silence and the long sigh he let out while rubbing the back of his neck let her know that it was 100% true.

"What's true?" Callie asked obliviously.

Owen tried to interject but Meredith beat him to the punch.

"Oh, you didn't hear?" Meredith asked "Cristina's the doctor called in for the VIP patient."

"Cristina?", She exclaimed with raised eye-brows, "Yang?, Cristina Yang?" She shrieked in disbelief. She turned to face Owen in search of questions.

"You both knew she was here and neither of you told me?" She asked, the hurt evident in her voice.

"I just found out." Meredith clarified.

"And I would of told you Callie but we were trying to save this patients life, it was so hectic in here, I was gonna let both of you know as soon as a found a free minute." Owen added as he set the patients chart down and started making his way out the room.

"Hold on Owen." Meredith grabbed him by the forearm. He turned around and gave her a quizzical look, only to be turned into confusion as she tried to speak but was having a hard time articulating her words.

"Listen, I know that you love Cristina, I love Cristina, even after our huge falling out, I will continue to love her, she's a part of me, and she will always hold a place in my heart that nobody else can fill," Meredith started with a conviction in her voice that showed no resemblance to the tears falling down her face.

"But I love you too Owen, and I can't sit back and watch the two of you do the sing along dance that you both have become so accustomed to doing, I know it sucks and I know this world is so cruel and injust, I wish both of you wanted the same things out of life, but the truth is you two might belong together, you are each others soul mates and I know she loves you but she doesn't love you to the extent that you love her, sometimes two people who belong together don't get to actually be together, its a horrible realization and fate, but whats meant to be sometimes cannot be, not without compromise and I don't want you to compromise your dreams for her because she would never put you first, not above her career." The tears were falling from her face more rapidly and she struggled to wipe them away and keep her sniffles and running nose in control.

"Meredith, you don't know whats going on between them, or what might happen in the future, Owen is probably over her by now, i mean its been a year." Callie turned from facing Meredith to get some assurance from Owen. Again, he said nothing.

She ran her hands through her hair as the realization hit her. "Your never gonna be over her are you?" Callie asked sheepishly because she already knew the answer.

Finally Owen let out a breath and began to speak. "I could find somebody, get married and have a family," He shook his head and laughed sarcastically at the irony of the situation. "but how unfair would that be to that woman or those kids, because at the back of my mind I would always be imagining that it was Cristina who was my wife and that it was Cristina's kids that I fathered, how can I move on when I feel like she took everything I have, and now theres nothing left of me to give to someone else?" He asked in a defeated voice, his eyes pleading for some understanding from both women.

"Owen, she cannot give you what you want or need, you are a traditional man, you can try to deny it but its worthless because I know what you want, I see the longing in your eyes when you interact with Zola and bailey and Sofia, you want a baby, you want a conventional family where work is something you come home from not go home to, you want a wife and a baby, you want to come home to a home cooked meal and go to soccer practice and piano recitals. Cristina can never give that to you, do you understand? She hates babies! She will always be what you want but she will never be what you need, and you need to realize that before you both hurt each other again and waste each others time. She is a shark, she is ruthless and she is a genius, and believe it or not I love the both of you but I won't let you compromise you hopes and dreams for someone who will always treat you as second best and put a career over human relations."

"Whoa, whoa, okay Meredith." Callie put her hands up as to stop her from continuing on her tirade. Though everything Meredith said was logical, Callie knew more then anyone else that sometimes you need to defy whats rational and listen to what your heart wants. "We need to be supportive, we love them both but they are grown ass people who can make their own choices and lead with their own convictions, its not our place to tell them how to live their lives Mer."

"Meredith, thank you for caring and having my best interest at heart and expressing your concerns but you need to let me make my own decisions." Owen was replaying the words Meredith had spoken only moments before in his mind as his stomach started to tighten and doubt began to enter his mind again. Damn Meredith for bringing up their previous problems and what caused the rift between him and Cristina.

Meredith let out a huff, if Owen wasn't going to listen to her then she would find Cristina and let her know that she could not waltz back into this hospital and turn it upside down again, she needed to reason with her and make her realize that she needed to leave Owen alone, that him and her couldn't be together. Owen deserved someone who wanted the same things out of life that he wanted, and someone who would put him first above anything and everything, and Cristina was not the person for him. Cristina chose to be alone, and now she had to lie in the bed she made, she would never give Owen the family he so badly desired, she was gonna be alone for the rest of her life, just life she always wanted, and Meredith was going to make sure of that.

She wiped the last few stray tears and blew her nose before making her way out the trauma room to leave Callie and Owen in the room to contemplate what she had said but not before she turned and warned Owen once again, "I won't be here to console you when she breaks you again, and its unfair to her for you to keep pretending that you can change in order to be with her, you will resent her one day, and that will break Cristina." She declared and turned on her heels and walked out the door in search of Dr. Yang herself.

Cristina had only been in Seattle for three hours but somehow it felt like she had never left, it was an odd sense of contentment that she had not felt for the past year, the familiarity with the city and the hospital and of course the people who she left behind gave her a sense of solace that she had not felt since she decided to resign and leave this chapter of her life behind.

Being here, even for a mere couple hours was making it hard for her to come to terms with the fact that she had to go back to Boston and resume work at Mass Gen. instead, this was the place that had once offered her so much and given her the opportunity to train to be the best doctor that she could, her heart was heavy and revisiting the hospital only made matters worse.

She had been texting Minka back and forth to make sure that Teagan was safe and comfortable, she was gonna go and check on both of them right after she found Alex, she had no time to visit him as of yet and she hadn't even been to his house to drop off her luggage. She had let him know that she was in the hospital but he texted her back that he was in an emergency peds surgery and would be out shortly, he was so excited to see Teagan again, the little girl had become fascinated by the only male presence she had in her life and Alex treated her life she was his own.

Cristina was standing by the nurses station when she noticed Meredith Grey looking around frantically, she was obviously in search of someone.