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Cristina walked out of Heathrow airport to see a row of black cabs waiting for her. She still couldn't believe she was in London of all places. She had always wanted to visit England.
She walked to the front of the line.
"Where to Miss?" said the driver in a strong cockney accent.
"Erm... I actually don't know" she replied.
"Why don't you know? Didn't you plan this?"
"Well no actually I didn't just kind of went to the airport and got on a plane...didn't plan to be here so where do you suggest?"
"Oh right well then Miss I assume you want somewhere in the city?"
"Yes definitely I want to be right in the city; I want to be near all the attractions and near the subway."
"Right then I know just the place a hotel in Trafalgar Square, it is close to places like Covent Garden and near the theatre shows and you can even walk to Buckingham Palace if you feel like it"
"Oh perfect, thank you that will do fine"
Forty minutes later Cristina paid the driver, thanked the driver for his help and arrived at her new home for the next few weeks. Already spotting it was stood next to an Irish bar called O'Neil's. She knew as soon as she had unpacked she needed a shot of tequila!
Cristina had booked herself into a single room, but it sure didn't look that way. A huge white bed dominated the cream bedroom topped off with a white headboard. She had a gorgeous view of Trafalgar Square, the big fountain in the middle with people of all ages admiring the view and red open top buses everywhere; she knew she was going to like it here.
Cristina sat down on the bed and realised she hadn't looked at her phone since she turned it off after sending Meredith the text message, so she better let Meredith know that everything was ok. She quickly typed out a message telling her where she was, and the hotels number in case Meredith needed to get in touch with her. She was about to put her phone down when the messages came though from Burke demanding to know where she was. Cristina wasn't ready to deal with this yet she just turned off the phone and got up to have a quick shower before going to the bar next door.
O'Neil's was a nice and quiet on this sunny afternoon Cristina was relieved, she didn't think she was ready for crowds just yet, she just wanted a quiet drink.
"Hey there what can I get you?" Asked the lady behind the bar in an American accent.
"Tequila please and make it a large one" Cristina replied.
"Is that an American accent, where are you from?"
"Seattle"
"Oh cool I'm from California, came here on vacation and never left what about you"
"Having some vacation time, just arrived here this afternoon."
"Awesome, I'm Callie by the way"
"I'm Cristina"
"You got anything planned whilst you are here?"
"Erm.. no not really I didn't have much time to plan anything, I only decided to come here approximately 12 hours ago. If you had told me 24 hours ago I would be sat in a bar in London right now I would have thought you were insane"
"What so you only decided to come here 24 hours ago?"
"It was less than that actually, I just went to the airport and picked which plane I wanted to get on"
"No way, that's badass; I wish I was that brave."
"Believe me I am not brave I think I just ran away and left me problems behind"
"What sort of problems"
"Oh just the usual, found my fiancé making out with somebody else whilst attending my best friend's wedding and then packed my bags and headed for the airport."
"Oh what a bastard…..hey I think that drink is on the house and here's another too"
"Thank you" Cristina looked at Callie and smiled, she was seriously grateful for the small talk.
"Look I don't know what your plans are but my girlfriend and I and a few of our friends are heading out for a few drinks tonight, not here, our favourite bar a five minute walk away, would you like to come?" Callie asked.
Cristina thought about this for a moment, she has never been the sort of person who would go out drinking with people that she didn't even know, however she has never been the sort of person to take vacation time.
"Sure that would be cool." Cristina replied.
"Awesome are you staying at the hotel next door?"
"Yeah I am"
"Right well I can meet you in the hotel lobby at 7 if you want and we can head over to Joe's. My girlfriend and her friends won't get to the pub until around 8 so we can have a drink together if you want before they get there if that ok?"
"Yeah that's no problem I'm looking forward to it."
"Yeah it will be good, my girlfriend is awesome and so are our friends so you will have a good time"
"Right in that case I think I need to go get some sleep otherwise tonight will be ruined. I can't remember when I last slept"
"Ok no problem, see you at 7"
"Bye Callie"
Cristina took the stairs up to her hotel room; she couldn't quite face an elevator just yet. She set her alarm for 6pm and got into bed.
She fell asleep instantly.
Cristina woke suddenly from her sleep; it took her a moment for her to remember where she was and what had happened. She couldn't help but feel relieved when she remembered Burke was not a part of her life any more. She rolled over it was nearly 6pm so she dragged herself out of bed and jumped in the shower.
Cristina didn't have any fancy clothes with her but she assumed Callie wasn't the girl who went out in fancy dresses so she was sure she was ok wearing her skinny jeans, black shirt and leather jacket.
As Cristina walked into the lobby Callie was already sat waiting for her.
"Hey, I guess you managed to get some sleep"
"Yes I did finally; god jet lag is such a bitch"
"Yeah totally, do you wanna go"
"Yeah sure it's only 5 minutes away"
They walked 5 minutes down the road into a cosy bar on the corner; it was full of big cosy couches. Callie and Cristina grabbed a table close to the bar and near to the door so Callie's girlfriend could spot them when she eventually got there.
Callie grabbed them some beers and took a seat ready for when her girlfriend and friends arrived.
"So, was your girlfriend working late?" Cristina asked.
"Well, she actually finished at 7 as well but she was waiting for Owen and Teddy and then they were going to make their way over here from the other side of London, so that could take them a while."
"Do they all work near each other?"
"They actually all work in the same hospital, that's how they met."
"Oh what do they do?"
"Oh they are doctors. Arizona is a paediatric surgeon, Owen is a doctor in the Emergency Room, or should I say Accident and Emergency as they say here and Teddy is a cardio surgeon."
"That's so awesome I'm a cardiac surgeon"
"Holy shit no way, and here I was thinking I won't be the odd one out for a change and then you go drop that bombshell!"
"Haha sorry, you won't be the odd one out, how did you meet Arizona anyway?"
"Well my sister came over from the States for a visit with my niece and we had a car crash"
"Oh god were you guys ok"
"Oh yeah we were fine but my niece hit her head and had to stay in overnight for observation and I so I ended up being there in time for the doctors round in the morning and Arizona just happened to be the doctor doing the rounds and the rest they say is history"
"Aww that's cute, a story like that would have made me feel sick in the past, whereas now I could really do with some good old fashioned romance."
"Haha how can you need some romance after a break up shouldn't you just want some hot animal sex?"
"Well, I would settle for that to, if the right guy came along!"
At that moment a man walking through the door caught Cristina's eye. He was definitely over six feet tall; he had flaming red hair and the bluest eyes she had ever seen. She could feel hear heart thumping so loud in her chest she felt as though it was about to break free. She tried to avert her gaze away from this man, but she couldn't she just wanted him to look at her. She then noticed the perky blonde walking in behind him and her heart sank, obviously he was taken.
"Damnnn…."She whispered to herself.
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