𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗘, greys anatomy

don't stop me now.

chapter 5.
don't stop me now.

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Charlotte enters grey sloan memorial through the emergency room behind a rushing jo. "okay, i have a full day, so i'll see you at lunch—" the surgeons voice fades away the further she rushes from charlotte. the young girl is about to follow after when she lets her eyes wander around the pit.

charlotte sees april finishing up with a patient and begins making her way over to say hi when the patient suddenly sits up and proceeds to vomit directly onto dr kepner. charlottes mouth drops open and she slaps a hand over it, stifling a laugh as april looks over with a glare.

dr kepner looks back to dr edward's, who was helping her with the patient. "dr edward's, can you please admit mary and page dr webber?" the resident nods, prompting april to scurry off.

charlotte jogs to catch up with the redhead. "okay, that was awesome."

"thanks, charlie." april rolls her eyes, shoving open the door to the restroom and groaning when charlotte follows her inside. "i don't need a bathroom buddy, you know."

"oh, i know. i just gotta soak up all the entertainment i can get before alex locks me in the attendings lounge all day." charlotte hoists herself up onto one of the sinks. "i mean, seriously. i'm almost twelve. ive taken care of myself practically since i came out of the womb and now all of a sudden im being treated like an actual five year old."

"charlie, i'm pretty sure you're just being treated like an eleven year old." april begins washing the puke from her hair. "which, you know, you are."

charlotte suddenly notices something peculiar in the doctors hair. "uh, april?"

"yeah?" dr kepner replies, head still in the sink.

"there's something moving around in your hair."

"what?" April jerks upright, hands immediately reaching towards the top of her head. grasping the foreign object, the doctor slowly retreats her hand away from her hair.

realizing the object was, in fact, a live worm, charlotte shrieks and leaps off of the sink. "holy shit!"

aprils mouth drops open and she flings the worm onto the bathroom floor. astonished, the doctor turns to look at the equally-stunned child. without another word, they race out of the restroom.

April is out of breath by the time she reaches the room of the patient whose vomit contained a worm. curious, charlotte also tries to enter, but is quickly shooed away by richard webber.

"worms!" kepner announces upon entering. "i just found a worm from marys stomach in my hair."

"nasty." charlotte whispers, still hiding outside the doorway. april shoots her a look; the young girl gets the memo and leaves.

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Charlotte stands mesmerized in the front of the o.r gallery watching as webber, deluca, kepner, and edwards de-worm the infested patient.

"kid? are you supposed to be up here?" asks ben warren, husband of the chief of surgery, as he enters the gallery.

charlotte shrugs, not looking away. "probably not. woah, look at that sucker!" she gasps as edwards extracts a particularly long worm. intrigued, ben joins her at the front of the gallery.

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Charlotte is quick to find webber in the halls after the surgery. "okay, how awesome was that! that one worm had to have been, what, ten inches? how many were in there? had to have been at least—"

"wait a minute. how'd you get into the gallery? where are you supposed to be?" the older man interrupts.

too excited, charlotte ignores his inquiries. "don't worry about it. do you have those pictures that nurse took yet? i gotta see them."

"uh, sure. here," richard fishes a handful of polaroid photos from his pocket and hands them over to the girl.

"awesome!" charlotte exclaims, shuffling through the images.