30th October Bulletin Board
Meet in the attendings lounge 6pm. staff briefing; team exercise – chief Hunt.
After the undisputed failure of their last attempt at team bonding playing baseball it was safe to say the attendings and residents were not too enthusiastic about Owen's latest plan.
"ugh what is he playing at. How much punishment does one guy need before he gets the message" Cristina asked angrily on seeing the print out on the bulletin board.
"He's your husband" Meredith said amused at Cristina's exasperation.
"I know I apologise on behalf of him" Cristina responded.
The attendings were equally enamoured with the idea.
"Tonight? We had plans for tonight, the kind of plans you don't cancel" Callie said with a groan nestling behind Arizona's ear to kiss her leaving the other attendings with no doubt, if there had been any, what those plans involved.
"Well I'm sorry to see it's got in the way of your very important plans Torres. Some of us were going to be using the time for important things like saving lives" Bailey said
"Oh don't be such miseries" Arizona admonished. "He's a new chief he's feels he's got something to prove give him a break."
"You'll be there" she says firmly to the two women. Seeing them about to protest she says again "you'll be there" and both women back down, despite looking like butter wouldn't melt they know not to mess with Arizona Robbins.
Turning just to Callie now she whispers playfully in her ear "and besides I've always found sport helps to work up an appetite".
As Arizona walks away Bailey tuts in mock despair "can you two ever remember we are in a hospital instead of acting like a couple of school kids".
"Oh relax" Callie replies, "I'm sure Ben will wait up too" and with that she quickly retreats leaving Bailey spluttering in embarrassment.
"Thanks for coming today. As you know the Seattle Pres Mercy West baseball team was an unmitigated disaster. You are all horrible baseball players. So, I thought we would try something different instead".
Seeing the stony faces of his audience Hunt nevertheless persisted.
"You guys are the best team around, what you do here everyday is incredible and I know you'd walk into fire for each other. So we don't need to work on being a team we're the best damn team in Seattle in everything except baseball".
There's a small laugh from the group.
"Then what are we doing here" Cristina asks sulkily.
"Thanks for asking Yang. As much as I know you love each other I know the thing you love more- beating each other. So tonight, for one night only we're going to determine who is really the best in this hospital".
The group is suddenly interested.
Owen continues. "Tonight, is the Halloween heist. There will be five teams and each team will have two sashes at the start, one for each member in the team. The objective is to have the most golden sashes by the end of the night".
The premise goes down well with the group. Although eminent surgeons it seems the rules of the playground still prevail. After doing the maths and realising the room of ten will transform into five teams of two the surgeons start pairing themselves off. Cristina looks at her person Meredith with steely determination and receives a knowing nod in return. Alex reaches up for a high five with Jackson and Callie and Arizona smile at each other seemingly sorting the first few teams.
"Ok some rules. The heist lasts from now until the beginning of the night shift at 8. The OR's are out of bounds, we are still a hospital after all. And one last thing, each team is to consist of one attending and one resident" Owen clarifies seeing the earlier decided teams look up in disappointment.
Owen picks up a cardboard sick bowl from behind him and holds it in front of him with a flourish.
"Residents pick your attendings. Grey if you want to be the first".
Meredith heads up to Owen and puts her hand into the bowl picking out a folded bit of paper.
"Robbins" she reads out and goes to join Arizona.
"Yang ".
Cristina heads to the front and closes her eyes in concentration as if it would give her any advantage with this lucky dip.
"I'm Torres" she said heading to stand next to Callie who gives her a high five.
Jackson is next picking out Bailey who looks mildly disappointed at her draw.
Alex is the penultimate pick and is assigned to Shepherd who greets him with a friendly nod.
"So that leaves Kepner and Altman as our last team" Hunt concludes "any final questions?"
April timidly raises her hand. "If this is the Halloween heist why are we having it on October 30th?
"Because Kepner tomorrow we will have to deal with the stellar choices the rest of Seattle has made for Halloween, so our Halloween fun happens tonight".
With that Owen looked at the readied teams "ok meet back here at 8.30. The inaugural Halloween heist starts now!".