Disclaimer: The show Grey's Anatomy is not mine, and neither are the characters, I am not receiving any profit from this work. Everyone in this story belongs to Shondaland. I'm just going to play with the characters for a bit. I'll return them in tact... mostly. T for language and content. Rating may change, eventually. All mistakes are mine.

a/n. Thankyou so much for the reviews guys. You are a really wonderful and supportive group. It makes me smile because I haven't written stories since childhood, I was a bit worried. So xox.

AzsGirl, thankyou for all your comments. Love your ideas. I'm listening. This ones Christina's pov.

To the guest reviewer/s who keeps asking where I'm going in this story: its all in the title. I don't want to give too much away but google 'phoenix' in Egyptian and Greek mythology and read about the mythological bird.

a/n2 Christina is really hard to write, because she gives nothing away. Sandra Oh is such a wonderful actress. I'd love and appreciate any suggestions of how to write her.

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Cristina was having a frustrating day. A young patient she was taking care of was proving impossible. Riley, aged 7 was born with Down's Syndrome. His condition meant that he had an associated congenital heart condition which needed to be operated on. The only problem was she could never examine him. He always gave her the slip! Christina was not good with children. Some children she could relate to, like Zola or Sophia, however Riley frustrated her beyond belief. He never sat still long enough to be examined. He was also a prankster. The first time Cristina had examined him he had disappeared, reappearing a second later with a large grin. He had been hungry and decided to steal an egg samdwitch from the cafeteria. That was a week ago. Alex had had no more luck in his attempted exam then she had. Riley on that occasion had wrote "fuck f Ax" on the wall in green permanent marker pen. Just fantastic for a room in which parents, children and hospital staff liaised with each other. Riley had spelt 'fuck' correctly and was really pleased with himself, so pleased he had decided to show his parents just what a good speller he was. Alex had been fuming, when she came back. He'd refused all further contact with Riley, muttering something about 'rounds' as he sped off. The nurses had one by one fallen away, and now refused to deal with his behaviour. Riley was a master!

This morning Cristina patiently tried once again to get him to sit on the exams table.
"Fuck off! 'Tina you 'noy me, stupid lady!" He stomped his foot.
"You're a bitch, stupid bitch, 'Tina, Fuck off, Tina you noy me!" he said merrily.
He grinned pleased with himself for telling Cristina to 'fuck off'. Then he promptly ran away. She found him a minute later in the geriatrics section of the hospital hogging the inhabitants Wii and playing 'Guitar Hero'. She brought him back. He waited two minutes before slipping under the curtain, and scurring off God knows where?

He shouldn't run it was bad for his heart.

As Cristina paced the halls she reflected this was exactly why she didn't want children, he had once again done a runner. This time she found him outside the hospital giggling at the traffic. Oh my god!

She managed to talk him to come back into the hospital by offering him a coke. He loved drinking coke. It was bribery but it worked.

Cristina had finally persuaded him to go to the exam room. She turned around briefly to locate his case file only to find that he had once again disappered. He was under the bed, laughing his head off while he played with the controls of the bed. She would have to ask his parents for assistance in controlling him.

His parents had turned out to have no more luck then her. They just sat there and talked at the boy, pleading with him to do what the doctor asked. Normally she would ask Meredith for help but she and Meredith had not been communicating lately. Bailey was off visiting her husband currently so she couldn't help.
Oh god, she needed Arizona! As much as she hated asking the women anything she had to admit that Arizona had a natural grace with children that she lacked. Where was the women? She had not been in for a week. April and her had been hanging out together lately, maybe she would know.

She found Kepner and Murphy in the ER, administrating and dealing with patients. Callie was in the corner of the room examining a tiler who had fallen from the roof and had sustained multiple fractures, because the company he worked for had lapsed in their health and safety standards. Murphy was inserting a catheata into,a patient with a prostate cancer.

Approaching April, Cristina stood there until she was acknowledged by the redhead.
"April, when's Arizona coming back to work." She asked.
"She said she'd be in later today to do rounds before the board meeting this afternoon, why?"
"I need her for a consult on my patient, Riley."
"Well, I think she'll be in around, er... one o'clock, she's flat hunting today, looking for a place with good accessibility."
"Yeah whatever I don't need her life story" Cristina really didn't, she had her own problems. However she was fascinated by people and wanted to know more. Stopping for a second Cristina turned and asked "How's she been?"
"Not so good Cristina. She's going through a really rough patch. She seems to be getting better. I think flat hunting is going to help though." Cristina hadn't realized that they had gathered an audience. In the background both Callie and Leah had put down their instruments and were eavesdropping, subtly.

There was a crash, Leah had turned white and was trembling.
"She's flat hunting, but I asked her to move in with me" Leah said.
"Why, on earth would she want to move in with you Leah, you're a resident?"

Across the room a voice boomed, "...because shes sleeping with my wife!" The door slammed. Callie had exited.

Ooh. This was going to be so good...it was a pity she couldn't share it with Meredith.

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She found Callie later, starring into space while pretending to look at the surgery blackboard.

"Hey there. You okay?"

"Yes, no...I don't know. Cristina I told her. "I went and poured my heart out to her, again and then she goes and does a shit move like this." Callie looked broken.

"Hang on.. didn't you break up with her and then kick her out?" Cristina queried.

"Kinda ..but then I went and said some things. And now...why me?" Callie moaned.

"I dont know, Callie, I mean maybe you should try talking too her and not in your usual style where you shout at each other publicly and then just leave... Sorry, was that rude of me? Maybe. Anyway I need to see her before the board meeting. Ask her to page me...oh and Callie?..."

"Yeah?"

"You guys really need to talk. She loves you, you know... Its like SO obvious, talk too her." Cristina said. "...but if you kill her just make sure its after she sees Riley. His heart really needs a checkup, and he keeps running away."

"Yeah... Callie sighed, "Okay."

Lesbians were so complicated. Sheesh. Wait a sec, were they going to be dramatic in the board meeting? That would be awkward. Grinning, Christina walked off again to do her rounds.