DENIAL, Mark Sloan

019, "𝗜'𝗺 𝗢𝗸𝗮𝘆"

Chloe was sitting in therapy with Dr Perkins. She had been through a lot lately. Mostly down to the shooting. "Did you hear that Dr Yang and Dr Hunt are getting married?" She asked the therapist.

"I did."

Chloe nodded. "It's pretty great huh? It's almost like silver lining. You know, I read some stuff. About trauma. And how sometimes people just up and change their lives. They say trauma was the best thing that could've happened to them. You know, like Dr Shepherd this morning. Did you hear that he's not chief anymore?" She said.

Dr Perkins looked to her. "And how have you been Dr Robbins? You've been through a lot since I last saw you."

Chloe rolled her eyes. She sighed and nodded. "I'm fine. I got shot. I dealt with it. A surprise baby was born. So I'm okay."

"How often do you tell yourself you're okay? You went through a traumatic event."

Chloe shrugged. "People get shot everyday. What do you expect me to do?" She said.

"Open up."

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Andrew looked to the group of people in the room. "Does, uh, anyone have anything to say? I know that a lot of you are only here because this has been mandated. So let's talk. Anything at all?" He asked.

Cristina looked up and spoke. "I ate a really good taco from one of those food trucks. By the side of the road," she told them.

Meredith turned to her. "When?"

"Last night. You were asleep."

"Which truck? The one on 7th?" Jackson asked.

Alex looked up and spoke. "I want to try those. I like tacos."

"Me too."

Chloe sighed. "I read a book. About the history of mass murders in the US. That's...that's the actual name of what happened to us. It was a mass murder. You can't call it a terror attack, because the murders weren't political in Nature. And we weren't the victims of a serial killer. Because Mr Clark would've had to murder several people over a period of 30 days in order to qualify him as a serial killer. We could define it as a spree killing. Which is defined as killings at two or more locations. With no break or pause in between, because Mr Clark shot that guy in his car before he got here. But I'm not sure that counts as a true second location because it was so close to the hospital. Which means that we were a mass murder. Because it happened at one place, by one person. And more than four people were killed," she said.

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Ellie had been paged while she was with the therapist. And she was pissed. It was Derek who had been arrested again.

She walked down the hallways of the jail. She wasn't happy.

"Opening two."

Derek was checking over a prisoner. "It doesn't look too bad. You just gotta keep an eye on it. Make sure it doesn't get any bigger. But if it changes color, you should see a doctor," he said.

"Dr. Shepherd."

"Mm."

"Your lady looks pissed," the prisoner said as he looked up to the blonde on the other side of the bars.

Ellie just looked at him. "Again, Derek? Are you an actual idiot? Cause you're acting it," she said.

"Where's Ivy?" Derek asked.

Ellie scoffed. "Do you really think I'm going to bring her here? She's in the daycare. I was in the middle of therapy."

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