I'm here for you, always

Part 10

Teddy and Cristina had spent the last couple of days of their time off at Cristina's apartment. All day they would just snuggle, and spend time together. Cristina was always trying her hardest to get Teddy to actually eat real food, and to eat more than just a couple bites at a time. Teddy's weight wasn't doing her any good. Besides their arguments about a couple more bites of food, everything was going great, except they had both now realized that Teddy always needs Cristina or someone to help her sleep.

Their first day back was going good, Cristina and Teddy had, had a pretty slow day. At the end of their shift Cristina was waiting in the parking lot for Teddy, not knowing that she had been pulled into an emergency surgery. 

"She should be here right now. Where is she?" Cristina kept looking at her watch sitting on her wrist.

So, Cristina went inside to look for her, she looked at the OR board to see if Teddy had any last minute surgeries, she didn't. She then headed to the nurses station,

"Can you page Dr.Altman, please?" Cristina said trying to sound calm

Cristina had gotten the nurses to page her 20 times, everytime, nothing. Teddy wasn't answering her phone either, Cristina could feel a pit in the bottom of her stomach.

In the OR...

"Dr.Altman, your pager is going off like crazy, it's Dr.Yang. What do you want me to do?" One of the nurses questioned.

"Just leave it, it's fine. I need more bags of O-neg, this guy is losing a lot of blood, fast."

Cristina was searching everywhere in the hospital, she was worried that Teddy had slipped into her 'little space' while at work, and was looking for Cristina or hiding from everyone. She didn't know why she wasn't answering her pages, nor her calls. 

When the surgery had ended, Teddy texted Cristina to meet her in the on-call room. When she got to the room Cristina was sitting on the bed, Teddy could tell that she looked furious. Actually that wouldn't even begin to describe what Cristina was feeling.

"Where the f**k were you?! I was scared out of my mind Teddy! I didn't know where the hell you were! Why weren't you answering my pages or my calls?!" Cristina was now standing in front of Teddy, yelling at her.

"I was called into an emergency surgery!" Teddy was getting angry herself, having Cristina scream in her face

"So?!! Did your pager die?!" Cristina was a whole other level of angry, she was so worried that, that made her jump to anger.

"No, it was on. I was getting all your pages."

"Then why weren't you answering them?!?" Cristina was livid to know what Teddy knew that she was paging her and still had no desire to page her back

"Like I said I was rushed into surgery." They were both yelling at each other now

"You could have had a nurse call me and inform me what you were doing!"

"Fine! Fine! Cristina, I'm sorry, I should have had one of them call you. I'm sorry" Teddy was yelling this, she didn't sound the most sincere

"Whatever! You know I was running around this goddamn hospital like a f**king headless chicken, so I could find you and make sure you were ok! I don't care anymore, hope you saved your patient Teddy! I'm leaving!" And like that Cristina had gathered all her bags and was out the door, slamming it after her.

"No...he didn't live" Teddy sat down on the bed looking defeated, she was on the verge of tears, she was now feeling awful about how she treated Cristina, she didn't even try to inform her when she knew Cristina was looking for her.