Meredith rushed, almost late once more into the locker room. It cought the attention of all the interns, but mostly Cristina.

"Better watch out Meredith, Bailey might ride you for being late again," Izzie explained as the three left the room, leaving Cristina and Meredith alone.

"You have GOT to be kidding me!"

"What?" She was still very mad at Cristina, but couldn't wait to brag that they had sex the previous night, and that morning.

"You slept with McCreepy on your anniversary?"

"Excuse me?" She said, closing her locke and heading outside, following the rest of the interns, "First of all, my would-be anniversary, secondly, I told you, I'm over him! If he didn't want me screwing another guy, then he wouldn't have screwed Addison!" She nodded, both of them stopping as they met Bailey.

"Why the Hell are you two late?"

"Oh I wasn't late, I was just talking to Meredith," Cristina spurted out, "Meredith was late, not me."

Bailey looked at her angrily, "Karev, OB/GYN again, they love you there," she began, tearing her attention away from the two, "O'Malley, your with me today. Stevens, Schaffer. Yang, Grey, pit and rectal exams." She smiled at them. Before she couls shout at them as her usual dailey routine, she heard a phone go off.

"Oh, oh I am so sorry Dr. Bailey, I need to take this really quick." Izzie said, taking out her phone. She stopped, as she looked at Bailey, "Or, just maybe not. . .They can leave a message."

"Yang, your with Schaffer, Steven with Grey."

"Oh! But Dr. Bailey, I would much rather have rectal exams than. . ." she trailed off as Dr. Bailey glared at her.

"What is wrong with you people today?! Stevens, Grey pit! Yang, Schaffer: tell me what is so wrong with working in the OR with Dr. Schaffer?"

"Oh, nothing, nothing Dr. Bailey. I just. . .I'll go now," she said, running off.

"Yeah, you better! All of you! Get out of my sight, I don't want to see you for the rest of the day!"

"Does-- does that include me, Dr. Bailey?" George questioned, innocently.

"Why are you asking stupid questions, O'malley??"

"Oh. . .right, sorry."

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Cristina entered a patients room, finding Aiden with a teenage boy with his parents. "Dr. Yang, your late." He said, filling out the chart as he proceeded towards the door.

"Yeah, sorry. Bailey had me assigned to pit first and then she--"

"Don't blame this on her," he looked down on her, "This is your fault, not hers. Take responsibility for your actions, Yang."

Her mouth dropped open, unable to even comprehend what was comming out of his mouth; he was usually so conserved and quiet, "What crawled up your ass and died?" She said, laughing to herself as Aiden reached the nurse's station, putting away his chart.

He turned, smiling at her, "Dr. Yang, I'm only going to tell you this once, so pay close attention," figuring that it was going to be some corny threat or saying, she crossed her arm, leaning against the wall next to the patients room, "I have many, many, many patients today."

She smiled at him, "So?"

"I need post-ops for patients in room 2211, 2214, 2231, 2261, 2201, 2234, 2240, 2270," As he began, she quickly pulled out a notepad to write it all down, "2210, 2213, 2235, and 2300," he said, placing them out of order on purpose, "My patient Margaret likes to be called Maggie, so thats what you will call her, if I hear otherwise, I will make your life a living Hell, Jim needs his IV changed, Suzy and Micheal are twins who need rectal and oral exams, Ms. Green, and I repeat, Ms. Green, do not call her Mrs. Jones needs a small amount of food in her system every hour on the hour for the next three hours, no make that four. That in there," He said, pointing to the door that he just left, "That is Corey, call him Corey, thats what he likes, he needs an MRI as well as a CT before noon, which is when we will operate with him."

Cristina smiled, this was the only thing that mad her happy, she would get into a suregery later that day. It was 8 30 right now, and this surgery would save her from the rest of her work. "Unless, of course, you don't finish the work I gave you." He said as he examined another patients chart, "Have a nice day Dr. Yang." He said walking away.

So, I made Aiden stick up for himself against Cristina! Yay for him!