𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 [𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐲'𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐲]

haunt you every day

haunt you every day

"I've never carved a pumpkin before. Well, I did once, but I tried to cut a circle and the carving thingamajig cut the middle of the palm of my hand. I didn't even get to cut an eye out." Cassie pouted as Izzie and Alex looked at her confused before ignoring her statement. "Can I have one?" Cassie asked reaching for one of Izzie's homemade Rice Krispie Treats, not before getting her hand slapped away.

"Don't touch them yet. At least wait until I finish." Izzie told her. Cassie huffed as she stood up to throw away the pumpkin scraps that Alex had placed to the side.

The three sat in silence until Meredith walked in, "What are you guys doing up?"

They all in unison replied, "Couldn't sleep." Cassie yawning for good measure. Her eyes followed Meredith as she placed a Ziploc bag around the top of an urn before flipping it over. "What is that?" Izzie asked.

"Oh, my god! Is that your mom?" Cassie exclaimed as Meredith closed the bag, confirming her assumption. They all stared at Meredith dumbfounded and speechless.

Alex said, "Happy freakin' Halloween."

—

The staring continued as Meredith moved her mother around in her locker. "What are we looking at?" Cristina asked after she walked in.

"Meredith put her mom in a baggie and brought her to work," Izzie explained, still questioning the whole thing like everybody else there.

Meredith then tried to normalize her behavior by saying, "I had to get her out of my closet she was haunting me."

"And now she's haunting us all." Alex voiced.

"Guys, I think we might have to commit Meredith to the psych ward for her current erratic behavior." Cassie tried to joke, but in all seriousness, a visit wouldn't hurt her.

Alex then turned to her, "Only a matter of time." Both nodded as their eyes returned to Meredith

Sydney then stood up, talking in her bright, sunny, happy, but solemn voice, "Meredith is cleansing. In tribal culture, when one wants to cleanse the past one cuts off all of one's hair and buries it in the earth. You might try that, too."

"Then we will definitely commit you to the psych ward, Britney." Cassie joked, standing up and fixing her white coat as Torres and Bailey entered the room to give them the rundown of today, including drunk stupidity and pumpkin chainsaw contests. 

Izzie then tried to ask a question to Callie, in which the chief resident replied, "You should direct your questions to Dr. Bailey, Stevens."

"Oh, we're directing our questions to Dr. Bailey?" Cristina questioned Callie.

Callie then answered, "Oh, not you. Just Stevens."

"Why is Stevens directing her questions to Dr. Bailey?" Bailey asked. Cassie looked back and forth between Izzie and Callie. Looking at Izzie's panicked look and Callie's, well, pissed off look.

Callie (as bluntly as you can) responded with, "Because she's been sleeping with my husband." The whole group now staring at Izzie instead of Meredith as Alex and Cassie snickered at the public embarrassment.

—

Cassie was making her way to the pit as she walked behind Meredith watching as she ran straight into none other than McDreamy. Spilling some of her mother's ashes once the bag hit the ground. "Oops. There goes one of her toes." 

—

Cassie took a seat across from Meredith's mother's ashes, George sitting next to her soon followed by Izzie causing all conversation to stall and become very, very awkward. "Just ask." Izzie gave into the crippling silence.

"So you two are together?" Meredith asked as Cassie sipped on her sweet, cold iced tea and George affirmed the question. "Like together, together, in love together? Sexy love, not sibling love?" Izzie confirming the "sexy love" query.

"Incest," Cassie said in a sing-song kind of way.

George turned to her, though turn to look serious, still showing the smidge of a smile, "Shut up, Cas."  

Meredith's questioning continued, "And you two have been...I mean, without any of us knowing. Doing this the whole time?"

"Just once," Izzie told Meredith, causing a slight quarrel between the two.

Cassie finally placed down her cup after drinking practically all her iced tea in one go. "Well, I know, but that's just because I'm smart."

Cristina scoffing and leaving when Izzie and George told the group they were waiting to be together out of "respect" for Callie's feelings. Meredith defending her before exiting to join an earless boy getting ears. Leaving Cassie to sit in embarrassing silence. "Okay, well I'm just going to eat while we all sit in silence because I missed out on that damn chainsaw pumpkin contest. I'm definitely doing it next year. I just need to get more practice in."

"Wait," George stopped her, "you want to be in the contest or you want to treat the idiots in the contest."

"Oh, I want to be in the contest, except I won't be one of the idiots. I'm going to win." Cassie stated what she simply knew as fact.

George thought before saying, "Cassie, the chainsaw is pretty much as big as you."

"I'll grow a few inches."

—

Cassie exited the ER, spotting George and Bailey sitting on a bench. George standing up, walking over to her. "Going home to work on her chainsaw skills."

A light giggle escaping Cassie, "I'll save that for tomorrow. How are you with, you know, everything going on? We haven't really talked about that."

"I feel awful. I don't know. I just want to talk about something else. Try and get my mind off of it, though I don't know if that's possible." George explained with a sorrow-filled look.

"We could talk about my love of Halloween. Good old All Hallows' Eve. I went trick or treating until I was 22. I'm eager to have children so I can go again and not look like a pedophile." Cassie explained her love for Halloween.

George smiled, softly laughing, "I always went as a dinosaur." Cassie giggled, hoping this was cheering her up. "My mom made it."

"My mom doesn't even know how to sew or cook or bake. That's why I enjoy Izzie's pastries so much because I only had store-bought cakes for Wegmans." Cassie reminisced.

"Wegmans?" George questioned.

"Oh, my god, right! It's only on the east coast I think. That's so weird to me since there's like 100 in New York. That's where we got groceries from." Cassie continued to distract George with Wegmans and her love of the grocery store.

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a/n: there's only 101 wegmans and i love all of them. i resisted having cassie quote the vine "it's freakin' bats, i love halloween" because this takes place in 2008 and vine didn't exist yet. BLACK LIVES MATTER. please sign petitions they make such a difference, donate, educate yourself. make change.