Keeping up with McFamily

Spider

Derek Shepherd woke up to the loudest scream he ever had the misfortune to hear. He quickly put on a shirt and practically flew down the stairs, towards the source of the scream.

He searched for anything (anything, really; murderer, robber, nuclear bomb...) in the living room, kitchen, the kids' room, his sister's room; no luck. He finally made it to the bathroom, and was met by the most hilarious scene ever.

His wife, the fearless, amazing Meredith Grey, was crouched down on the sink, looking at the ground like it was lit by fire. She had pure terror in her eyes, as if she had seen a ghost.

He carefully approached her and put hand on her shoulder

"Meredith... Are you okay, my love?"

"S-s-s..." He waited for her patiently to form a coherent sentence. It took her about five minutes but she finally did it.

"T-There is a s-spider-r... On the f-floor... A-A big one..."

He looked at the floor, expecting to see a tiny spider just standing there.

But there was nothing on the ground.

"The demon escaped! Derek, we have to kill that beast! IT'S HUGE!" She screamed the last part, shaking him by the shoulders.

Okay, he already knew she had a thing against spiders. But he never suspected it went that far...

"Meredith... I'm sure this spider is smaller than you think." But then he saw the damned creature. Its eight hairy legs were pitch black, as was the rest of its body. It had a weird red symbol on its abdomen.

"Poisonous!" He screamed suddenly, and in no time, he was crouched down beside Meredith.

"What are you doing? KILL IT!"

"I CAN'T KILL THAT THING! IT'S GIGANTIC!"

"WELL DO SOMETHING!"

While they were arguing like that, the spider managed to slip away into the living room. Luckily, Meredith managed to catch a glance at it leaving the bathroom.

"IT'S ESCAPING! GET IT!" She suddenly yelled, and the two of them, armed each by a boot found in the bathroom (Meredith thanked god that very second that Derek had this bad habit of leaving his shoes in the bathroom), ran into the living room, immediately jumping on the couch to get a better view (and stay as far as possible from the wretched monster).

They were back-to-back, shoe in their hands, scanning the room for any hairy monsters.

And that's when Derek felt something crawl on his leg.

Everything happened in blur. One second he was looking at the creature crawling on his leg, terrorized, and the other, he was running around the room, swatting his own leg with the shoe, while screaming:

"GET IT OFF ME! GET IT OFF ME!" Repeatedly, for what felt like hours.

Meredith, however, was too busy laughing to do anything.

Thank goodness, the children's room is sound proof.

Amelia Shepherd was coming back from her morning run when she heard screaming and loud noise coming for her brother's dream house. She grabbed a dead branch she found on the ground, and ran to the house full speed, barging in, while holding the branch menacingly.

When she saw the scene, all she could do was sigh, get in calmly, and simply spray the spider with some insecticide. The beast dropped dead in less than two seconds. She then proceeded to throw the branch out off the window and stood there, arms crossed across her chest, glaring at her brother and wife.

Derek was leaning on the wall, his hand of his heart, his breathing still hard from all the screaming, while Meredith was drying her tears (from laughter) with some tissue.

"Mind explaining why the two of you were screaming over a spider? You scared the hell out of me! I thought there was a robbery or something!" She scolded them, glaring even harder.

"Did you even see the monster?! IT WAS ENORMOUS!"

"Yes, I saw it, and I killed it, in fact. So stop acting like a baby, Derek."

"But-But-"

"I said stop."

"But-"

"Stop."

"Okay..." He pouted, crossing his arms over his chest in a childish manner.

"Who would have thought the hot shot neurosurgeon Derek Shepherd, would pout at his little sister's scolding?" Meredith said, laughing even more.

"Oh, he isn't the only one at fault here, Mere-"

"Mommy?" They heard a small voice coming from the stairs. Zola had woken up, and heard the scream apparently, so she decided to go check if everything was okay.

The bad thing is, Zola was even worse than Meredith with her fear of spiders.

When she saw the thing's cadaver on the floor, you could all the guess her reaction. She fainted almost immediately.

Derek and Meredith both rushed to her, and squashed the spider in the process. They carried her to her room, basically ignoring Amelia, which meant that they silently assigned her to the hardest task of the day.

"Great... Now I have to clean up spider guts from the carpet..."
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