CHAPTER 7

Meredith's room

Midnight

Meredith is fast asleep on her bed but was disturbed by fast throbbing footsteps.

Cristina is pacing. I'm not going to see Burke again. Where is he going? Why would he leave me? First, he wants to break up with me and now his going away to forget me. What should I do? What should I do?

Cristina is in the verge of crying but she's doing her best not to. She was so tired that she ends up sitting at the end of Meredith's feet. Meredith reached out to Cristina. She held her close and rested her chin on her shoulder.

"Cristina, would you like to see Burke tomorrow?"

"Of course not, what are you talking about? I'm free. I'm fine perfectly alright!" Cristina tried to pull away from her.

"Great, so you would be your old self again and get a good night sleep because you're too strung on him. You don't mind if you wake up tomorrow morning had your coffee, which is would make you remember of your first time together, and don't see him? You know? You don't have to answer that. I don't want to confuse you with your feelings. I just want you to be sure." Meredith came back to sleep again.

"Mer, what should I do?" Cristina turned to her.

"Cris, you know what to do. Come on lets get some sleep."

"No, no…I'm going to Burke. What if he's gone? What if I miss him?" Cristina hurried to the door but Meredith stopped her.

"Burke's flight is 8 in the morning. Relax. I'll save your ass from Bailey. Do what you need to do." Meredith assured her.

"How did you know?"

"Well during our date, I got Derek to talk. He wasn't supposed to tell the details just the fact that Burke is leaving."

"Okay, thanks,"

"Can we get some sleep?" They chuckled in unison.

SGH Hospital, In front of the OR Board

Midnight

The OR board has become a meeting place to Burke and Derek since Cristina and Burke broke up. To Derek it is very public, fortunately they always meet up at night or when there are no nurses, doctors, who could listen on the latest hospital gossip of their lives. If you run a contest on who's the most controversial hospital, Seattle Grace would rank first for sure with all the affairs not to mention the people who's involved with it.

"Still here Preston? You aren't leaving anymore, right?" Derek had approached Burke, thinking everything is now fine with him and Cristina.

"What makes you say that? Did you talk to Cristina? What did you tell her? What did she tell you?" Burke became excited, wishing and hoping Cristina would reconsider for them to make their relationship work.

"Cristina overheard me mentioning to Meredith about you leaving. She came out of nowhere and she freaked out asking me if you're leaving."

"What did you tell her?"

"I told her you are, without even let me finishing my sentence she stormed out the bar. I thought she's going to talk to you."

"Preston, she still loves you," Derek pressed.

"How did you know that? Did she tell you or Meredith? No. I think that settles it." Burke turned to leave.

"No she didn't tell me but she freaked out. If she doesn't care, she wouldn't even flinch." Derek blocked his way.

Burke put his right hand on Derek's right shoulder, "Cristina might still love me, but she's Cristina, I know her. She knows what she wants. If she wants me in her life, she would have talked to me to stop me but she didn't and she would have never broke up with me in the first place. Derek, I know that we're friends that's why you're doing this, so thank you but I'm okay, I'll be fine."

Burke stride along to go then turned again to the frozen Derek, "I don't know Meredith that much but you should take care of her, love her, listen to her, be there for her, and understand her no matter what. You don't know how lucky you are."

Derek felt Burke's pain after he said those words. He knows that Burke really loves Cristina so much but he never thought it would be this intense and deep. Her existence didn't just make Burke a greater surgeon than he is before but a better person. Cristina and Burke don't just love each other, they learn from each other. He used to be all work, bumping everything in his way to become the Chief of Surgery and he isn't even making friends with him but after Meredith and Cristina happened to their lives, they became close friends, even bestfriends. Cristina is good for Preston. He needs to do something, but what?