Hello everyone!
This is my second attempt as far as writing fan fiction goes. Anyways, I am a huge Slexie shipper and right now, I can't think of a better way to vent my shipper heart's feelings than writing a story about them :)
BTW, I don't own anything although I wish I did!
So, here goes. Note that the story starts from the last episode where Mark and Jackson were in the elevator and had a conversation about the latter's love life.
Mark stood there, watching the elevator close right in front of his face. He cannot believe he asked Jackson that question. Did he really ask him if he still loves Lexie? Seriously? Mark had no idea how much Jackson's silence could hurt him.
The moment Mark got to know that Lexie and Jackson broke up, he was on cloud nine. Although he was and still is with Julia, some part of his soul felt warm and cozy. He guessed it's probably the feeling of knowing that what Lexie told him about a year ago, was and always will be true. "I love you and I will always do...". That's what she said and true enough, she never loved Jackson and the relationship couldn't last.
But, some things have changed. Mark is now a mentor and a very good friend to Jackson. If Jackson truly loves Lexie, Mark wouldn't know what to do. Truth is Mark has always wanted to be with Lexie ever since her breakup with Jackson. Unfortunately, he doesn't want to be the same old whore. Addison, Teddy and the list can go on. He has already managed to wreck so many women's heart simply because he needed a distraction, a temporary distraction from Lexie. And he has decided not to go that path heart yearns for his Little Grey but his new found conscience is not letting him repeat his past.
Lexie was going crazy. It's been almost a week since she knocked Mark's door that Valentine's night only to find that Jackson was also in. What a bummer!
"I really need to this. I mean, I want to be happy. I want to be with him, Zola! Zola! You gotta focus with me here girl. We have to do this, for your aunt Lex, right?" Lexie was talking to the little girl as if she could understand even a single word. Zola was busy playing with her teddy bears and all the toys everyone has been buying her.
But, this time Lexie is determined. She really wants to let Mark know how she feels about him and them,together. She knows very well that Mark is in a relationship,with Julia; someone she tried to hate but failed to miserably! But life is short and Mark is her soul mate.Lexie doesn't know is there is only one soul mate for everyone or more than one, all she knows and cares about is the fact that Mark has and will always be her soul mate. Her man. Her companion.
Kepner has been getting a hang of being the chief resident. She's organised, creepily cheery and to everyone's surprise, pretty strong in her own ways.
", I need you to shuffle all the senior residents' schedule. Put them all in different specialties." Dr Webber said.
"But, Chief, we are all trying to specialise here. We are all pretty happy where we are." Kepner protested.
"That's exactly my point,. All of you have been taking this hospital and your mentors for granted! Shuffle the schedule for the whole week. I don't want to see anyone in a familiar territory. And that means, NO heart surgeries for Yang; NO little humans for Karev and NO more Plastic Posse or whatever Sloan calls his partnership with Avery . You get me?" he stormed out of the meeting room.
"Great! Ya,why don't I just spend the rest of my life scheduling all your time sheets " April thought to herself.
Lexie entered the meeting room looking for April. "Lexie, I am sorry but you are in Plastics today, actually for the rest of the week. I know you were enjoying helping tiny people with Alex but this is the Chief's order and I just have to put you and your sister with . I don't have a choice." April immediately explained.
"Well, no worries April. It would be good working with Mer. And by the way, it's tiny humans April. Tiny humans..." Lexie answered calmly and left the room with her wish granted without her even asking for it.
Lexie went to the canteen to grab a sandwich before meeting Mark to discuss about their case for the day and bumped into Meredith on her way. "Mer, where are you going? We need to meet Mark...I mean in 15 mins. You can't be lurking around the nurses station now!" Lexie growled at her big sister.
"Hey Lexie. I forgot to tell you. Zola is not feeling well. The babysitter at the day care center just called. I think I might need to take the day off. Just, tell Sloan that I have to take care of Zola. He will understand." Meredith explained and left immediately.
So, the universe is really testing her determination being in plastics with her and Mark meant that Mer could be Lexie's support, like how Zola was. Meredith might have pushed Lexie to express her feelings to Mark by telling her the great love story of her and Derek. But no, the universe wants to see Lexie do it by herself and Lexie's not so sure if she can right now.
"Hey Lex!" Mark greeted Lexie as she entered the patient's room. "Oh, hi" Lexie answered,quietly. She's meeting him for the first time after the Valentine's debacle and Lexie can't be more embarrassed of herself. "So, this is Ms. Jennifer. Ms Jennifer this is " Mark introduced both of them to each other.
The three of them continued to discuss about the patient's surgery and Mark let the patient know that her surgery will be tomorrow morning. "If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or . She will be prepping you for the surgery tomorrow morning. " Mark informed the patient.
Just when Mark and Lexie were about to leave the room, "The surgery will go smoothly, right?" Jennifer asked,softly. "Yes, it will. and I will make sure of it." Lexi replied with her sweet smile. And Mark just nodded.
Mark and Lexie started walking on the hallway and both of them just kept quiet. Lexie wanted to ask Mark if they could talk for a bit and as she opened her mouth to say... "Lex, can I ask you something?" Mark asked. Lexie was taken aback. She was supposed to ask him something. This is not how it's supposed to go, she thought to herself.
"Ya. Sure" she mentioned, casually."You know, the other day when you came over to my place. On Valentine's?" he said. "Ya. Yes. " Lexie murmured.
"I think Sofia loved Zola's company and I am thinking of having a play date kind of thing for Sofia once every week. 's twins will be there too. I was just wondering..." before Mark could finish his sentence, Lexie interrupted him.
"Yes, sure. I would love to join...I mean, bring Zo over. She would love that too" she said,excitedly.
"Oh,wow. Thanks. I spoke about this to Derek and he's pretty busy with his clinical trial and you know Big Grey. She's busy with her residency and they asked me to check if you would be willing to bring Zola, seeing that you spend quite a lotta time with her." Mark said.
"Yup. Zola's a bucket full of sunshine! I would love to bring her over to your place. It's a deal! " Lexie replied.
"Well, it's a date then. Tomorrow night at 6.00 p.m. You can join us for dinner as well. It's gonna be just you,me and the kids." said Mark.
Date! The mere mention of the word reminded Lexie that Mark is still dating Julia.
"Oh, don't trouble yourself. I can...take care of the kids. I am sure you would have some plans with Julia" Lexie said, trying to fish for some sort of information.
"Please. Julia's been pretty busy lately. She won't be joining us. Well, see you tomorrow morning." Mark left.
It's the perfect opportunity for Lexie. No Julia. No Jackson. Just Mark and her, with some cute,beautiful kids.
So, here it is. My first chapter. I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I did writing it.
I tried my best to keep their characters in place as possible. Please review and let me know of any suggestions. Any sort of constructive criticisms are welcome.
Thanks! Will be updating asap.