Chapter 13
The next morning, both Cristina and Henry were sleep deprived from last night's 'date'. Cristina yawned immensly, trying to stay awake and taking large mouthfulls of coffee. As they entered the elevator alone, Cristina got this opportunity to talk to Henry about last night.
"Ok Henry, whatever you do, don't you ever mention about what we did to anyone."
"What did we do?" Henry yawned.
"You know..." Cristina made a motion with her eyes, gritting her teeth at a thought of Henry forgetting about what they did.
"Ooohhh!" Henry slowly smiled knowingly. His eyes sparkled with cheek. "Why? So Burke wouldn't know?"
"Shut up!" Cristina hit him hard on the arm. "Especially Burke."
"Aw come on, what's wrong with getting your ex a little jealous?" he playfully said. "We were both a little typsy and we decided to have a little fun."
"Hen-"
"Besides," He raised his arm and leaned closely against the wall behind Cristina, trapping her in front of him.
"What if I do tell him about what we did?" he seductivly replied, his face close towards her's.
"Then I'll ram lots of very sharp scalpels into your ass when you're not looking. Now get off of me!"
"Gosh I love it when you talk rough. Which goes with what you did to me last night..."
"Henry, if you don't stop talking, I will seriously not hesitate and kick the little things that you hold dear most and make sure that you will never use them again."
"Why? Cause you like them?"
"Ok Henry, you are seriously getting onto my nerves-!"
The doors to the elevator opened and when Burke entered, he halted to see Henry leaning very close against Cristina, both looking very surprised to see him enter.
"Dr Burke, you're early this morning!" Henry released her and smiled cheerfully up at Burke.
"I had to cover some of the shifts for Hahn." Burke steadly replied, looking at Henry and then at Cristina, who avoided his glance.
"So how was your date with Willows?" Henry asked.
"It went really nicely." He paused before asking him back. "And yours?"
"It was a enjoyable evening, thank you. Wasn't it Dr Yang?"
Cristina bit her lips hard for trying not to swear at Henry, only managing a grunt.
"Well I hope to inform you Dr Kim, that this is a hospital and a working environment, so try to keep all your personal matters and..actions to yourselves." Burke's hint of annoyance was obvious.
"Dully noted, Dr Burke."
"Like that never happened before with you." Cristina muttered.
"Excuse me, Dr Yang?" Burke raised his voice.
"I said does that also include doctors and nurses sleeping in empty labs and on-call rooms?" Cristina turned and for the first time since he came here, looked up at him with a challenging and mocking expression.
When the doors opened again, Burke was the first to leave before the other two.
"That was wonderful." Henry announced, playfully applauding her. "You made him jealous."
"You were leaning against me!" Cristina hissed back.
"And don't you like it when I do that?"
Letting out a sigh of frustration, Cristina stormed out of the elevator.
"So did you guys do it?" Was the first question from Izzie when the trio met up at lunch.
"What?" Cristina asked as if she couldn't hear what Izzie had just said.
"She means did you and Kim have sex last night." Meredith answered for her.
"Yes, I know what she meant." Cristina snapped. "And it's none of your business."
Buth both Meredith and Izzie gave each other knowing looks.
"Stop looking like that."
"Cristina, there's no shame in telling us if you had it with Kim or not. You should be proud, cause we're not getting any here." Izzie morbidly indicated to Meredith and herself.
"And there's nothing wrong with going out with Dr Kim." Meredith assured.
"Hey, heard you and Kim are the new famous couple." George suddenly came up by their table.
"New coupl-Does the whole hospital know about this?!" Cristina angrily hissed.
As on cue, Alex came up behind her. "Well we know that you slipped and gracefully fell into his arms. Nice one Yang." he smirked.
Cristina suddenly burst up from her chair, arms steady against the table.
"I...am going to check on my patient." And she walked away, leaving the rest laughing at her angry and sudden response.
Henry was hurrying to his valve transplant when Cristina suddenly burst out beside him and dragged him aside.
"Ow, ow, I'm late for my transplant-!"
"How many people know that we're a couple?" Cristina hissed.
"Is that a problem?"
"Well everyone knows about the restaurant incident,"
"What about the sex?"
Cristina smacked him hard on the arm.
"Shut up about the sex, you've already made a good impression about it in front of my boss. Our boss!"
"You mean Burke."
"Whatever. Just stop talking about us being a couple."
"Why? Isn't that what you wanted?"
This made Cristina paused for a moment, remembering what she'd said at her apartment last night.
"If you excuse me, Dr Yang, I will like to go and complete my valve tranplant." With a quick smile, Henry turned and left her. But after a few seconds, he turned and called back to Cristina.
"I'm playing at Joe's bar tonight! And I expect to see you there."
The statement sounded familiar to Cristina, and she realised what he meant was that he'll be playing with his band. From what she remembered, and Henry never let her forget, he used to be famous for playing as electric in a band that won a great deal of local fans. Perhaps if she did have time, she could drop by at Joe's and see if his skills were still in shape. Whilst at the same time, she could explain and brood over with Meredith about her present, messed up relationship that's not really going anywhere.
When Cristina and Meredith arrived at the bar, it was surprisingly more packed than usual, mainly because almost half of the bar was taken up by the stage. On stage, five people were setting up their instruments and Cristina sorted out Henry in the group.
"Wow, so many people." Meredith said in awe as they tried to make their way to the bar table where Izzie and George were.
"Check it out, it's the first time Joe's bar had a band." Izzie marvelled. "And I never knew Dr Kim's band was so popular."
"Well, I rounded up some friends and supporters so it can fit the atmosphere." Joe popped up from behind the bar. "My first rock band guys. I should get more, shouldn't I?"
"What's next? A couple of nurses trying to become the next Spice Girls?" Cristina sniggered and chucked a few peanuts into her mouth.
She caught Meredith looking through the crowd, and when she followed her stare, she saw Dr Shepherd and Rose sitting together on a table.
"Hey, McDreamy is here too." Cristina said amusingly.
"Almost all the hospital staff is here." George said almost hysterically, looking back and forth at the stage to see if they've started playing yet. "I've heard that they're realy good."
"Oh come on George, they're not famous rock stars. Stop acting all shrilly and fangirly." Cristina grumpily replied.
"I'm not shrilly!"
"That's your boyfriend up there, have some support for him." Meredith smiled fondly back after tearing her eyes away from Derek.
"He's not my boyfriend Meredith, and that's what I wanted to talk to you about-"
Before she could finish, the door to the bar opened and Burke and Willows came in. For a moment Cristina and Burke caught each other's eyes and held, then quickly darted away before anyone would notice. Rose caught Willows' attention and waved for her and Burke to join their table.
"Why is it always us?" Cristina muttered to Meredith as she looked to where Burke had sat down. "We both slept with our bosses, we both brooded over them after our break up, and now we see them going out with nurses."
"We're both unlucky." Meredith agreed as she followed her gaze depressingly.
"Ok people, we're about to start." Somone on stage suddenly bellowed out onto the microphone and received a huge applause.
"Thank you all for coming." he continued. "We haven't played for ages since high school in Los Angeles, and I guess it was luck that brought us boys back together in Seattle. I believe most of you are doctors and nurses from the hospital across the street, thanks to our man Henry here," he turned to Henry who shyly smiled back. "And can we have an applause for Henry here!"
The whole bar errupted in applause and whistles, and Cristina was astounded to see how popular Henry has become after working at Seattle for less than a month.
"So before we keep you waiting, we'll start off the night with one of our best classics."
Without hesitation, the drums, guiters and the electric piano started off into a loud, fast rhythm, and the man on the microphone after a few beats belted out words in a voice that sounded nothing like how he spoke. It was clear that he, along with the band, had not aged in their music. Cristina was sure of that. She recognised this song , since it was one of her favorites. She also remembered hearing Henry singing the tune all the time back at school. She watched as Henry skillfuly played his electric, his finger movements hard to keep up. His eyes were fixed in concentration, but as they began to reach the chorus, the fun was about to begin. Cristina amused herself as she watched Henry's eyes and expression exploded to a sense of wildness, which hasn't changed at all. His voice still provided a great back-up, and the band never missed a beat or note. The atmosphere almost took Cristina back to high school, when she was looking admirably at the band like the rest of the neighbouring kids. At times, Henry would sing and look back at Cristina, smiling as he sang his words and struck his chords. Meredith and Izzie nudged her everytime he did that. Once when the band reached an interlude and it was where the guiters went solo, Henry took centre stage and showed off his skills as he mastered the fast and high chords whilst keeping a cool, steady posture. His fringe swayed swiftly in front of his eyes as his hand moved rapidly across the strings, almost as if he was at breaking point. But when the last beat was struck, he finished with a definite note and everyone screamed and whistled like people at a mosh pit. The lead singer patted him on the back as he returned to the chorus. When the first song finished, everyone erupted in applause, especially Joe who clapped his massive hands repetitivly until they went red.
"Was...that..hot, or what?" George gasped.
"Man, I now see Dr Kim as a different man. No offence or anything Cristina." Izzie quickly reinstated.
Before she could say anything to back that comment, Cristina spotted the blue towel Henry was using and recognised it as hers that she kept in her bathroom.
"Oh that bastard!" she exclaimed. "He's using my face towel!"
As if he heard, Henry looked up and smiled gleefuly at her. He chucked the towel in the air and Cristina caught it in surprise, holding it out away from herself the moment she thought of his sweat on her towel.
"Oh he is dead.."
"So has he moved in into your apartment?" Meredith asked.
"No! He is not moving in, and he is definitely not using my bathroom. And stop looking at me like that, that night was not what you think it was-"
As she argued with her friends, she didn't notice that Burke was staring at her from the distance. Throughout the performance he was looking to see how she reacted, and not surprisingly, she was smiling the whole way through at the band. Especially when Henry did his solo performance. Burke couldn't help but feel a sense of jealously rising up whenever he thought back to how Cristina looked at Henry at that time. He didn't recall her looking at him like that whenever he played his trumpet whilst he was still living with her in his apartment. The thought of his apartment almost brought him to anger and frustration because he knew that Henry went back with Cristina that night, and did...things that he didn't want to imagine in his apartment. On his bed, or couch. Or both. He almost wanted to punch Henry that morning when he saw him leaning close against Cristina, but he soon felt a sense of guilt and regret since Henry was also his friend and student. And besides, it was over between him and Cristina. He shouldn't feel jealous about Cristina going out with another person. It wasn't his business anymore. He should move on like her.
"Wasn't Dr Kim awesome on the guiter?" Willows commented that broke Burke's trail of thought.
"Didn't know he had it in him." Derek laughed, looking fondly at Burke for an answer.
"Yes, surprised me too." Burke smiled back, then looking up at Henry to give him a pleasing nod. It was hard to think of Henry as his enemy, which he wasn't in a way. Cristina was not part of his life anymore, and he should finally give her up for the third time.