In Repair

[nursebadass]

Rating: R for language/implied violence
Summary: Cristina's people are there for her when she needs them the most. Burke/Cristina with a very healthy helping of Meredith, Alex and Izzie.
Disclaimer: These characters are property of Shonda Rhimes/ABC and Grey's Anatomy. They do not belong to me. Reimbursement is not received for fictitious works.

Comments

[nearlyinfinite]

This is going to be long (blame it on the Easter eggs!) but really I loved every single word :)

Couple of bits I liked the most:

She’d just watch him, make deep wounds with her words every few minutes but never really raise her voice. -- you seriously have Cristina down to an absolute T.

After she gets her straightened out, she reaches out for the chapstick that she bought in the gift shop and mumbles an apology for the bubble gum flavor and puts it on her lips. -- I always love the small details and I really like the way that Meredith is taking care of Cristina - that is what your "person" does.

There’s no big bleeds, no huge active processes. It’s all of these little things, taking her apart bit by bit, all of these little meaningless injuries that compile into one big problem. -- This is what scares me about what I see on screen.

Maybe him and Yang weren’t the best of friends but she’s one of his people and dammit, he’s running low on them these days with Izzie gone and O’Malley dead and Meredith all shoved up Shepherd’s ass. -- So very Alex to try and brush off why he cares!

He just can’t wait for her to glare at him the first time she opens her eyes and really gets what’s going on. -- ♥

“She feels guilty,” Cristina says quietly, “For what happened. She’s my person and she didn’t protect me. Or she thinks she didn’t. So she’s doing this. Whatever. Let her do it.” -- I like this change in Cristina, can't think of the word right now but I know there is a word...

“That’s not my intention.” “I don’t care what you’re intention is. I’m telling you don’t do it. and “You’re an idiot for leaving her the first time so I’m not holding my breath.” -- Again so Alex - no bullshit just the way I like it :D

Whole of penultimate paragraph -- awesome sense of normalcy despite everything

“I’m here forever” -- Absolute ♥

I honestly think this is incredible and although it is a horrible situation, I think you approached it really well and with a realistic insight. Your Cristina and Alex voices I thought were particularly perfect and the return of Burke was obviously a bonus for me :)

I would write more but I’m seriously still in awe of this. I’ll probably have more to add when I’m not drugged up on Easter eggs! Anyway this was fantastic - idea, writing, everything!

[nursebadass]

I already told you thank you for saying this but I'll do it publicly as well. :) I'm really glad that you liked it. I loved writing it.