Open Your Eyes

I'm Proving It To Myself

10 years before the crash

It had been 8 weeks since we started our internship, 8 weeks since we moved in, 8 weeks since, George and Izzie moved in, 8 weeks since that weird feeling past and we started our future with each other. Our friends had been pissed about our relationship but once Derek and I sat down and talked to them then everyone was fine.

I lay there watching Derek sleeping. We had gotten this far and I was loving every moment of it because we were grownups.

"I met Derek 15 years ago, my father won custody of me and brought me here to Seattle. I met Derek and said hello to him before I went inside and met my future family. The family that I fell in love with. That night I was upset and I felt I didn't belong. I went outside and Derek was there. I found out that his dad had died and we sat with other and we kissed. I think from that day on we had this feeling but we didn't act on it until 6 years later when we finally kissed and made up. Literally." I told Izzie.

"But didn't you end in different states for med school." Izzie asked us.

"Yeah we did. We dated for 4 years. Broke up after college spent 4 years apart then 8 weeks ago we got drunk and ended up in bed with each other again and it's been like this from then on." Derek had told them.

"You guys are perfect." Izzie said. Derek and I shared a look and smiled at each other.

My phone rang and I answered it.

"Yeah I will see if I can make it. Okay bye." I said into the phone.

Derek stirred beside me and he woke up.

"Morning." I said kissing him.

"What was that all about?"

"Nothing, just Cristina."

"Yeah I should have known." He said sitting up in bed and pinning me beneath him. "I have an idea that will wake us up."

"Oh you don't have to finish that sentence." I said.

He swooped me into his arms and carried me to the bathroom.

That whole day I was getting various phone calls from the nursing home I answered them but always left the conversation short when I saw Derek come towards me.

"A lot of secret phone calls today. Who are they?"

I bit my lip. "I need to tell you something, so could we go down to the tunnels?"

He nodded his head and we walked down to the tunnels. I sat in one of the beds and he sat beside me.

"Okay when I was in Boston, I met up with my mother again. It was nice and we got to know each other again. She said that I grew up the way she never expected but she thought that I still grew up well. Well halfway through med school she started getting sick, so in my spare time I took her to doctors after doctors and they finally found a diagnosis. Early onset Alzheimer's." I tell him. "I moved her here to Seattle and she is in a home so I try to visit her as often as possible."

He just looks at me and then kisses my forehead.

"I'm glad that I got two alright years with her rather than none."

"After your surgery tonight I have something that I want to show you."

"It's not an illegitimate child or an ex-wife?"

"Better than that."

"An ex-husband?"

"No its future related."