These kids will be the death of me

Chapter 13 ( Stunt pt 1)

That afternoon after lunch while the twins took their nap Cristina went to visit Meredith after she heard of the shunt from a nurse. At that time of the day, the hospital daycare was closed for cleaning so Cristina reluctantly got pulled of a valve replacement and went to pick her kid up. Thanks to her missing desire to get anywhere near a mall; and April combined with Owen's mother almost all of the clothes Karen had where either pink or way to girly. Her salvation were some old baby clothes from Ruby and Gracie that Meredith had given to her friend since they had duplicates of everything. But like Owen was the only one in that house that even knew what a washing machine was the clean non-girly baby clothes were always running out so that day she had... well not her but Owen had to dress her in a pink flower-in-every-freaking-corner dress courtesy from Cristina's mother who decided to sent it from Beverly Hills (of course she had to piss her daughter of with that one). This is a bizarre statement for a case like this but that stupid dress was burning Cristina's eyes and slowly taking all the life and sarcasm out of her. Thankfully there were towels, sheets and cloths in the dresser so that was a pro.

"Can I take this bed sheet please? My kid's dress is killing me softly."

"I want you to be there; in the O.R." said Meredith to Cristina.

"What?"She asked cradling Karen in her arms.

"You're not related to me so technically you're allowed in there. I need you to make sure she'll be okay."

"How do you want me to get in there? They don't need me to insert a shunt."

"But you can say you want to see if there's anything wrong with her heart. You're the head of cardio now."

"And I'm back from maternity leave b-i-t-c-h!"

"It was a great entrance to makes us all aware of that." Meredith giggled going back to a couple of weeks before. Cristina came through the emergency entrance in slow motion with "We are the Champions" playing in her phone. And her friend made sure to walk like that in every floor and up and down the staircase near the nurses' station five times one of them sliding through the handrail.

"Just be inside the room, she needs somebody there with her. Please make sure she's not scared."

"Okay Mer."
Now it was real, that moment they shared that afternoon went by and now it was around eight in the night. When Meredith went back to her room the girls would probably be already asleep, or the machines and nurses would wake them.

Cristina was next to shadow Shepred watching him wok to make sure he wouldn't screw up her best friend's kid. Every ten minutes she went up to the gallery to update Derek who was patiently waiting for his wife and baby.

Then when nobody was expecting the monitors started to bip a lot more than the usual heart beats.

"She's got a bleeding!" a nurse shouted.

"Which one?" Cristina kept looking at the monitors hoping they would come stable.

"Two of AB+ and suction please!"

When they looked up Derek had his hands covering his face but you could tell he was crying.

Crying for his wife, for his children, for his unborn daughter.

They were only flat lining for around five seconds but it was enough to scare the hell out of everybody in that room.

When they proceeded with the surgery, Cristina moved closer to the baby's premature body and noticed Ellen slowly moving her arm like if she was waving at them. What would you do in that situation? That's up to you; but the Cristina Yang we all knew: hardcore, robot, anti-feelings and kind of a bitch definitely disappeared a little bit with motherhood.

Before Karen, the most she would have done was stare at the baby's arm while it move and feel bad about the kid; but now instead of it she borrowed her non-related niece her finger and she felt the baby grabbing it with her little hands around the latex glove.

She was strong, strong like her mother, strong like her grandmother but hopefully not that frigid or distant.

"She has to make, for my sake and Mer's sake and Derek's sake and the twins sake, she so needs to pull it off." she kept repeating silently, her mouth hidden behind the surgical mask keeping anyone else to understand to recurring words. To anyone on the "outside world" those simple words where taken as gibberish.

"Doctor, Elson?"

"It's "Nelson"!" he replied annoyed.

"Wherever shadow Shepred; I'm gonna go update the father, he's a mess. I don't think I'll need to come back once you'll be out of here within half an hour and most off that time will be for you to close up. I didn't found any heart problems I'm going upstairs to..." Nelson cut her off.

"Just go! The next time remember my name!" the Doctor Elson really did hurt him. On the other hand Mark had called him Elmo a month before that so I guess Elson was one for the best.