Chapter 10

During lunch, Cristina and Meredith met up again.

"So what are you planning to say to Burke?" Meredith asked, seeing if there was any indication of sadness or grief in her friend's expression.

But she didn't give her any.

"Nothing."

"Nothing?"

"Absolutely nothing."

"Well you've got to say something some time."

"Why don't you say something to him?" Cristina annoyingly snapped back.

"Because this has nothing to do with me."

"And there's nothing to talk about."

The conversation landed to a halt as Henry and Burke walked passed.

"Hey Yang! Grey." Henry greeted, winking at them both as he walked passed. Burke tried to avert his glance elsewhere.

Cristina looked curiously back at Meredith.

"What?"

"You know Henry?"

"Yes. He's a surgeon on one of my cases. Friendly guy. I say he's kinda cute."

"You have no idea how many times I've heard that from girls like you talking about that freak" Cristina moaned and slumped down onto her chair, tearing at her bread roll.

"Maybe your taste is just weird." Meredith rebuked.

"It is." Cristina glowered, staring off at where Burke and Henry walked off to. Meredith suddenly realised what she'd said and wished she'd taken it back.

"Oh Cristina, it's obvious you want to say something to Burke."

"No I don't! I will never speak to that man ever again as long as he's still alive and walking. Until he's either permenantly paralyzed or lying flat on that surgical table, I will then say what I have to say whilst madly wielding a chainsaw in my hands."

Ok, all I have to say to him is that it's over. Cristina thought over and over in her mind whilst fundling over her patient's folders. Lexie recognized the strange uneasiness coming from her resident.

"Are you alright Dr Yang?"

"I'm fine." she firmly replied. "Have you got the results of Mrs Flemming for me?"

Lexie gave her a sheet of paper and Cristina studied over it quickly.

"Good. Go to Dr Shepherd and tell him to start surgery on her, or else she'll go vegie if we don't act fast."

Nodding, Lexie took the results and the patient's folder and hurried away. Cristina went the other direction, heading for the cardio department. At times she would stop and plan to turn around. But after a while she would turn back and continue ownwards, muttering incomprehensible words under her breath. This caused some strange glances from the nurses and doctors who were passing her. Eventually, Cristina reached the floor of cardio and she could feel her heart beating loudly against her chest. Wishing that Burke wasn't around, she glanced from corner to corner and sighed in relief that he wasn't there. Good, I don't have to talk to him. Now I can tell Meredith that I tried to look for him, but he wasn't around-

"Are you looking for something Dr Yang?" a voice interrupted from behind and Cristina jumped around, surprisingly facing Burke.

"Um, I was just-er- looking for this..thing.." Cristina fumbled for words as Burke looked down at her with suspicion, eyebrow raised. As much as he knew her, she was up to something.

As Cristina tried to string sentences together, she realised they were next to an on-call room and thought that this might be the only chance that she could approriately talk to him. Breathing in to build up her courage, she suddenly grabbed him hard by the arm like she did to Henry and dragged him into the empty room.

"Ow, ow, what the hell are you-"

"We need to talk." she said as she closed the door and locked it.

"Ok..." Burke replied nervously.

"Look, I'm not going to forgive you for what you did and I still hate you for it. Actually, you're the first person on my list that I really want to kill. But you're also my colleague and my boss, so killing you means that I'll get fired by the Chief and I"ll lose my job."

"No kidding..."

"So here it is. Our relationship," she points frantically back and forth at the space between them. "Is over. I'm over it. You're over it. You're just my boss, and I'm you're resident. There will be nothing going on between us, since there is no us."

"Can I at least say-"

"No. I want you to forget the times that we've spent together and move on with our lives. Move on." she emphasized the last two words strongly. Without another word or indication that she wants to hear his side of the story, she turned around, unlocked the door and quickly walked out.

"I'm glad we had this talk!" Burke called out, wondering if he was starting to regret his return.

By the end of the day, Cristina was yearning to go back to her apartment and just sleep. It was a long day, and she wants to forget about her encounter with Burke. Which is hard since she's actually living in his apartment. Which comes to a curious question, where is he going to stay? Is he going to come back to take his belongings?

As the elevator doors opened, she walked in and halted as she spoted only two people inside. Two people she dreaded to see.

"Hello Cristina." Henry smiled, eyes sparkling.

Cristina glanced from Henry to Burke at the back, who looked away immediately. It was hard to decide where she should stand, because one way or another, she couldn't avoid being next to either one of them. Cursing under her breath, she stood next to Henry as the doors closed.

"So, how was your day?" Henry asked her.

"Alright." Cristina muttered, keeping her eyes forward and trying not to look at the reflection of Burke on the doors.

"Heard you had a successful surgery today with Dr Shepherd. Well done."

"Thanks." the answer was almost unaudible.

"Are you busy tonight?"

"Why?"

"When I came to Seattle, I found a restaurant that I really like. You want to have dinner with me tonight?"

The impact struck both Cristina and Burke enormously. They both looked at Henry, wide-eyed in disbelief. Henry continued to look at her with warmth in his face.

"I um...I'm tired. I need to rest." Cristina blurted out.

"Ok. Next time then."

The doors of the elevator opened and Cristina hurried out to get away from them as fast as possible. Henry merely smiled after her in amusement.

"It's so easy to throw her off track. Very amusing." Henry said, looking up at Burke. Burke managed a smile, averting his eyes from him in case they betrayed him.

"Your apartment is not far away I believe?" Burke strayed off the topic.

"Nope. You'll like it." Henry replied cheerfully as they walked out of the hospital.