INT.HOSPITAL ? PATIENT?S ROOM
Katalinalays alone in the room, watching TV and twisting the hospital blanket around her fingers. Derek walks in.
������������������������ DEREK
��������� Hey there Katalina. How are you doing?
������������������������ KATALINA
��������� Just a slight headache.
������������������������ DEREK
��������� I should say.
Ripley enters the room.
������������������������ RIPLEY
��������� Afternoon, Kat.Afternoon, Dr. Sheppard.
������������������������ DEREK
��������� Good afternoon, Dr. Buffet.
������������������������ RIPLEY
��������� So how are things looking for my girl?
������������������������ DEREK
Pretty good.We?re going to take you into surgery tonight, then keep you for observations. You should only be here for a few days.
�������������� KATALINA
And this isn?t going to cost my parents anything? And I?m not a charity case?
�������������� DEREK
Absolutely not. The hospital gets to write you off as a tax reduction.
Olivia walks into the room.
������������������������ DEREK
Olivia, can you page Dr. Grey? I?d like her to scrub in.
Derek makes a few notes on the chart.
�������������� OLIVIA
Actually, she?s already scrubbed in.
�������������� DEREK
With who?
�������������� OLIVIA
Dr. Sloan.
Derek looks up, surprised.
�������������� DEREK
Plastics shouldn?t take that long. Page her anyway.
INT.HOSPITAL ? OR
Mark works on Melinda?s nose while Meredith looks on, fascinated.
������������������������ MEREDITH
I can?t imagine wanting to change my outward appearance just for some guy.
�������������� MARK
That some guy is one of the richest men around. She felt threatened. When you feel threatened, its fight or flight. She decided to fight the only way she knew how. Surgery.
�������������� MEREDITH
There?s got to be another way.
�������������� MARK
Probably, but she didn?t seem to think so.
�������������� MEREDITH
Is that why you?re back? To fight for Addison?
�������������� MARK
What we had? It wasn?t a fling. She didn?t even think about going back to Derek until she heard about you.
�������������� MEREDITH
So she stayed with you after Derek left?
�������������� MARK
Til the day she flew into Seattle.
�������������� MEREDITH
Interesting.
�������������� MARK
Are you planning on relaying the message?
�������������� MEREDITH
No. I?m with a guy now.
�������������� MARK
And how did Derek take it?
�������������� MEREDITH
Not well.
Meredith?s pager goes off.
������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� I need to get this.
Mark continues fixing the woman?s nose while Meredith walks over to the phone and calls the nurse?s station. Meredith listens for a moment before hanging the phone up and walking back over to the table.
������������������������ MARK
��������� Problems?
������������������������ MEREDITH
Just Derek wanting me to scrub in for his surgery.It?s a brain aneurysm.
�������������� MARK
Not as much fun as plastics.
�������������� MEREDITH
Anything with the brain fascinates me.
�������������� MARK
Especially if Derek is the one that is teaching it?
�������������� MEREDITH
No.
INT. BURKETINA?S APARTMENT
Christina sits on the couch, flipping through channels with her feet up on the coffee table. Preston chops up an apple at the kitchen counter.
������������������������ PRESTON
��������� Can you get me a bowl?
Christina gets up and walks over to the cupboard, reaches up and pulls a bowl from the cupboard and slams it down in front of him. The doorbell rings.
������������������������ CHRISTINA
��������� Who could that be?
Christina walks to the door and opens it to reveal a large black woman, Melaina, dressed impeccably in a suit.
������������������������ MELAINA
��������� Where is my baby? Is he okay?
������������������������ CHRISTINA
Your baby? I think you?ve got the wrong address.
�������������� MELAINA
Preston Burke?Isn?t this where he lives?
Preston wheels into view.
������������������������ PRESTON
��������� Mom. What are you doing here?
������������������������ MELAINA
Oh, Preston. That nice Dr. Sheppard called me to let me know what happened to you.
Melaina rushes over to give Preston a big hug and checks his arms and legs.
������������������������ PRESTON
��������� Mom, I?m fine. Really.
������������������������ MELAINA
��������� Then why are you still in a wheel chair?
������������������������ PRESTON
��������� I?m still pretty week, mom.
Christina is still standing at the door with what looks like is a big question mark on her face. She finally closes the door and it seems to remind Preston that Christina is still in the room.
������������������������ PRESTON
��������� Mom. This is Christina. She?s my girlfriend.
������������������������ MELAINA
Well, so you?re the Christina that Preston can?t seem to stop talking about.
�������������� CHRISTINA
That would be me.
Christina reaches her hand out to shake Melaina?s hand. Melaina pulls Christina in for a hug.
������������������������ MELAINA
Now, now.You?re my baby?s girlfriend. None of that businesslike greeting stuff.
Christina looks miserable as Melaina still hugs her, finally letting her go.
INT.HOSPITAL ? KATALINA?S ROOM
Ripley sits on the bed and plays chess with Katalina when Meredith and Derek walk in.
������������������������ RIPLEY
��������� Hey Mer.
������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� Hey Ripley. What are you doing here?
������������������������ RIPLEY
Dr. Sheppard has agreed to do me a favor and take car of Kat for me.
�������������� DEREK
Where are your parents?
�������������� KATALINA
Working.They?re always working.
�������������� DEREK
We need to talk to them about Katalina?s recovery.
�������������� RIPLEY
Just brief me. She?s going to be staying at the children?s hospital for a few days after she?s let out of here.
Ripley turns away from the chess game to look at Meredith and Derek.
�������������� DEREK
She doesn?t need to go to the children?s center.
�������������� KATALINA
My parents work a lot, so it?s easier for me to stay at the children?s center where people can watch me.
�������������� DEREK
But you got your parents permission?
�������������� RIPLEY
Here?s the paper that they had to sign.
Ripley pulls a paper out of her handbag and hands it to Derek.
������������������������ DEREK
Well, what?s going to happen is we?re going to open up a section of your skull and then we?re going to remove the aneurysm. Pretty cut and dried.
�������������� KATALINA
Literally.
�������������� MEREDITH
You?re young, so you should bounce back pretty quickly.
�������������� RIPLEY
These guys are the best kiddo. I wouldn?t take you anywhere else.
Ripley pats her knee.
������������������������ DEREK
Dr. Grey is going to prep an OR, then we?re going to get started.
Derek smiles and then leaves the room. Ripley jumps up to follow him.
������������������������ RIPLEY
��������� Dr. Sheppard.
������������������������ DEREK
��������� Yes Dr. Buffet?
������������������������ RIPLEY
��������� Call me Ripley.
������������������������ DEREK
��������� Yes, Ripley?
Derek smiles.
������������������������ RIPLEY
Thank you. For Katalina. It means a lot to me. And to her.
�������������� DEREK
Anything that I can do to help.And call me Derek.
Derek turns to walk down the hallway.
������������������������ RIPLEY
��������� Derek.
Derek turns to face Ripley again.
������������������������ RIPLEY
I can understand why Mer calls you McDreamy, now.
Derek smiles and turns and walks down the hallway.
INT. MEREDITH?S HOUSE
The radio is turned up really loud, then Izzy slides by with a pair of sunglasses and a wooden spoon, using it as a microphone, stopping her slide in front of the stove. She then uses the wooden spoon to stir something in a pan. She lifts the spoon out to reveal chocolate dripping off of it.
She takes a lick before considering, then rinses the spoon off.
She mouths the words to the song that is playing on the radio. She then spins around and picks up a whisk, then whisking a bowl full of egg whites and yolks, swinging her hips this way and that to the music.
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM ? GEORGE?S PATIENT
George enters the man?s room, who no longer looks puffy all over. George looks over the chart.
������������������������ GEORGE
Now, Mr. O?riley, we have to keep you here for observations because you cannot eat anymore shellfish. So, you?ll need to stay for a few days.
�������������� TOM
But, I?ve never had this reaction before.
�������������� GEORGE
I know Mr. O?riley, but allergic reactions can develop on their own. Dr. Keyes says that we have to keep you here for twenty four hours to make sure you don?t eat anymore.
�������������� TOM
But I love shellfish.
�������������� GEORGE
If you continue down this path, you?re reactions are just going to get worse and worse.
George makes a few notes on the chart.
������������������� ���� GEORGE
Now, Dr. Keyes is the on call resident tonight. She?ll be checking on you.
INT. BURKETINA?S APARTMENT ? BATHROOM
Christina sits on the toilet seat with her feet pulled up to her chest and her cell phone against her ear.
The screen splits to show Meredith at her locker, pulling her clothes out and another picture falls to the floor as her phone starts ringing. Meredith grabs her phone and opens it.
������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� Hello?
Meredith bends down and picks up the picture, looking at it to see a hand holding her underwear.
������������������������ CHRISTINA
��������� Burke?s mother is here.
������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� Oh?
������������������������ CHRISTINA
She keeps hugging me and saying how glad she is that Burke found someone like me.
�������������� MEREDITH
That?s good. That means she likes you.
Meredith shoves the picture into her big shoulder bag.
�������������� CHRISTINA
Obviously he didn?t tell her about after he got shot.
�������������� MEREDITH
So you froze. You?re making up for it now.
Meredith pulls her scrub pants off and balances on one leg, trying to pull her jeans on and not drop the phone.
�������������� CHRISTINA
I need to get out of here.
�������������� MERDITH
Wouldn?t it be bad if you left Burke his first night home?
Meredith slips her leg into the other pant leg and pulls her jeans up, zipping them and buttoning them, then fixes her belt.
�������������� CHRISTINA
But his mom is here.
�������������� MEREDITH
You need to stay there. Make nice with mom and such.
Quickly, Meredith pulls her scrub top off revealing a white tank top.
�������������� CHRISTINA
I don?t deal well with my mom. What makes you think I?ll deal well with his mom?
�������������� MEREDITH
Because she could be an in-law someday.
Meredith pulls a long sleeved shirt over top, then takes the clip out of her hair, fluffing it.
�������������� CHRISTINA (shocked)
Seriously?I?m not the marrying type.
�������������� MEREDITH
Maybe you are.
�������������� CHRISTINA (panicking)
No. I?m not the marrying, settling down type. Seriously. I need to get out of here.
Christina stands up and snaps her phone shut, the screen moving to just her. She then opens the door to find Melaina standing there, arms crossed.
������������������������ CHRISTINA
��������� Mrs. Burke. Do you need something?
������������������������ MELAINA
Call me Melaina, dear. Actually, can you go to the grocery store? I?ve made up a list of Preston?s favorite dishes that I?m going to make while I?m here.
�������������� CHRISTINA
And how long will that be?
Melaina hands a small piece of paper with a list of things on it to Christina.
�������������� MELAINA
As long as my baby needs me.
�������������� CHRISTINA
Fabulous.
�������������� MELAINA
Now, if you could just go to the store and pick these things up, you can go on home. I?ve got it covered from here.
�������������� CHRISTINA
Actually, I live here.
�������������� MELAINA
With Preston?
�������������� CHRISTINA
With Preston.
�������������� MELAINA
Oh, that will not do with me under this roof. While I?m here, you can have the spare bedroom and I?ll sleep with my baby.
�������������� CHRISTINA
But-
�������������� MELAINA
No buts. While I?m here, there will be no funny business.
�������������� CHRISTINA
But really-
�������������� MELAINA
I mean it. Now go run along to the grocery store.
Christina throws up her hands, grumbling something rather unpleasant as she walks over to where she tossed her jacket on the couch, grabs it and fiddles around in the pockets for her keys.
Preston wheels over.
������������������������ PRESTON
��������� Where are you going?
������������������������ CHRISTINA
Your mother is sending me to the grocery store. Then, I get to sleep in the spare bedroom.
�������������� PRESTON
Where does she plan on sleeping?
�������������� CHRISTINA
With you.
�������������� PRESTON
I?ll talk to her
�������������� CHRISTINA
Good luck.
Christina grabs her purse and leaves the apartment.
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