The After

Chapter 27

Notes: Sorry this took so long, I hope it's worth the wait...let me know what you think :)

The nursery was finally finished, it had been painted a baby blue colour and fully stocked with baby supplies. The process had taken the better part of 3 weeks, with Owen been busy at work and Cristina being on her 5th week of bed rest (not that she wanted to help, but it infuriated her that she wasn't allowed to).

Having the nursery ready to go settled Cristina's mind and helped her to feel more prepared for the arrival of her daughter, although they still had 5 more weeks to wait.

As per her new normal, Cristina was in bed and on this particular day she was particularly grouchy about it. This was because Dr Burke had a very interesting case which she had been following for the last week and he was operating on it this afternoon. The ipad wasn't enough for her anymore, she needed to have her hands emerged in a chest cavity again, she needed to do what she does best.

And so instead she had been biting Owen's head off for the past hour as he got ready for work, because that lucky bastard gets to have a baby and still operate to his heart's content.

She was full on screaming at him now and he was just standing there and taking it like a champ, he had learned that it was best to keep his mouth shut because anything he said can and would be used against him.

He tried to reason with himself that it was just the hormones and she didn't mean the things she was saying, and so he crossed the room and leaned forward to give her a kiss goodbye on the forehead while she was still ranting with rage.

She turned away from him and dodged the kiss.

"sod off" she whispered.

Owen sighed losing his patience, "You know what fine, I will" he muttered and promptly left the bedroom slamming the door behind him.

She flopped deeper into the pillows with a sigh and reached for her ipad.

After listening to Dr Burke explaining the procedure to the patient and watching one of his incompetent interns attempt to prep for the surgery, Cristina turned the ipad off in anger and threw it across the bed.

Who was Owen to tell her what to do, the old Cristina Yang wouldn't take any of this 'bed rest' nonsense.

And with that thought she climbed out of bed and got dressed, she walked through to the garage and contemplated taking her bike just to spite Owen but decided against it, she wasn't a completely horrible wife. So instead she called a taxi.

It felt weird being out of the house, it was liberating to feel the wind in her hair again for the first time in what felt like forever.

She relaxed in her seat enjoying the ride until her phone buzzed with a text from Owen,

'I'm sorry, call me if you need anything. I'll make you spaghetti for dinner to make you feel better, take care of our girl xxx'

It was typical of Owen to apologise when he really hadn't done anything wrong, she loved him for that. She suddenly began to feel a little bit guilty as she read the text over. But that thought was pushed out of her head as the car pulled up at the hospital.

She paid for her taxi and made her way inside.

Stealthily she navigated the hospital corridors peaking around each corner to ensure Owen wasn't nearby. She walked against the wall like she had seen in many of the action films Owen had made her sit through.

"Chief can you take a look at this" she heard an intern say from down the hallway.

She didn't think anything of it until she heard Owen reply, "Yes, what've you got for me Dr Davis"