CODING ━ grey's anatomy

CHAPTER SIXTY SIX
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season six, episode ten.

THANKSGIVING DAY

          CASSIE STOOD OUTSIDE OF HER PATIENT'S ROOM, WAITING FOR DEREK AS SHE MUNCHED ON A BOX OF COOKIES. Just after she took a bite, he appeared by her side holding the lab results they'd been waiting on. "Wan' a cookie?" Cassie offered in the midst of chewing, making him cringe. Derek glanced down at the box, seeing about a dozen sugar cookies, each of them frosted to look like a turkey.

Derek shook his head. "Where did you get those?"

"Mama Shepherd sent them to me," she shrugged, once again holding out the box for him to take one. "Seriously, they're really good, you should try one."

"Wait, mom sent you cookies?"

Cassie nodded, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "Yeah, she does every holiday. Why?" Glancing up to see the upset and slightly distraught frown on his face, Cassie paused, a small smile growing on her features. She let out a snort of amusement, teasingly waving the cookie in his face. "You didn't get any, did you?"

"No, I—" Derek stuttered, tripping over his words. Sending a resentful look at the half eaten turkey cookie in her hand, he narrowed his eyes at her. "Yes, I-I did, it's just—"

"Your mom loves me more than you," Cassie sing-songed, a wide grin taking residence on her face. "It's a bit ironic, if you consider the fact that we're not even related."

"You're not funny."

"Who said I was joking?"

With a roll of his eyes, Derek elbowed her in the ribs, making her let out a hearty chuckle as he handed her the lab results for their patient, Nicholas. "When you're done bullying me, feel free to take a look."

"So sensitive," she mumbled with a smile, which soon vanished as she read over the paper in her hands. "He has an arteriovenous malformation?" Derek nodded, taking the paper from her hands once she read through it all. "Poor kid."

"We've gotta get him into surgery right away," he sighed, motioning towards Nicholas' room where he was being checked over by Lexie. "Page Caldwell, have him meet us up in the OR."

"Page Robbins?" Cassie replied with faux obliviousness, reaching down to her pager and quickly typing in the blonde attending's number before he could do anything about it. "Yeah, you got it."

"No, I said—"

"Say no more, it's already done."

"I said Caldwell, not—"