Disclaimer: If I owned Mark and Lexi then I'd give them so much more than just two scenes together per episode. Obviously, Shonda Rhimes owns them everything else related to Grey's Anatomy.

Chapter 1

Lexi opened her eyes. For a minute she didn't realize where she was and she looked around. Then she remembered that she was in his hotel room.

Mark. Derek. The fight.

She knew it was an inappropriate reaction but she couldn't help smiling. He had fought for her. Literally, physically, fought for her. Nobody had ever done that or anything near it for her ever before. It made her feel special and an unbelievable surge of happiness took over.

She turned to look at him. He looked like the cutest thing on the planet when he was asleep. The scars from the fight only made him look better. Even if his whole face burnt up and he gained 300 pounds, he would be the prettiest sight in the world to her. He wasn't just the insanely hot *[see A/N] Dr. Sloan anymore, he was the man she was insanely in love with. Lexi couldn't remember ever feeling this way about someone.

Guilt took over the happiness. She was in love with him and he was fighting with his best friend for her. It shouldn't be like that. She knew how much he cared about Derek. She had to make this right between them. She had to make Mark understand that the fight wasn't just about her. In fact, as far as she could tell from Derek's point of view, it wasn't about her at all.

Mark slowly opened his eyes as she was watching him.

"Good Morning" he mumbled his irresistible voice.

"Hi!" She said and kissed him. "How're you feeling?" She asked stroking the scar on his forehead.

He smiled and made Lexi's heart stop for a second. "I am great. Right now with you, I'd say I'm perfect." And he kissed her. The moment started to get heated when Lexi broke off the kiss.

"We have to get to work." She said giggling as he stared to nibble on her neck. "Seriously, Mark!"

That did it and he looked up "Huh?"

"I meant Dr. Sloan" She had never said his name before.

"Lexi, I swear to god, my first name has never sounded better my whole life."

She carried on giggling "Stop flirting with me in your hotel room. We get to do dirty public flirting starting today, remember?"

"Hmm" he said and kissed her more.

She got up. "Okay, I have to go home – I mean to Mer's attic – to get my clothes. Come with me. I wanna go to the hospital together with you, holding your hands even outside the elevator."

He looked at her with puppy dog eyes "While I appreciate your appreciation of our relationship, I cannot go into that house ever again."

Lexi understood and that's why she wanted to take him there. They could go there together and Mark and Derek could make things right with each other. She herself hadn't seen Meredith since the fight (she'd been living in Mark's hotel room for three days) and was afraid of her reaction. She needed his support to deal with her and he needed hers. This was something they needed to do together.

"Please, for me?" she asked beseechingly

"Don't make that face. I can't say no to that face!" Lexi kept her expression firm "Fine. I'll drive you there, you get changed and come back as I wait in the car."

"Thanks" she said and kissed him again but broke off immediately. If this carried on, they would never make it to the hospital.

That was good enough for now. As long as she could take him there, she could take him inside.

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They reached Mer's house and Mark stopped the car.

"Go ahead." He said.

Lexi shook her head. "Not like this, not alone."

"Lexi! I told you there was no way I can go in there!"

"That's what I wanna change. I am just as scared to see Meredith as you are to see Derek."

"I'm not scared, I'm just angry."

"Well I'm scared and I can't do this without you. I need my boyfriend."

He smiled at the mention of that word and was distracted by the fact that for the first time in his life he didn't mind a girl calling him her boyfriend.

"I'm sorry, I can't. I'd do anything for you but don't make me do this."

Lexi sighed. Was there any way she could take care of this situation on her own?

"Okay then you should get going. I'll come with my sister." She said and leaned in to kiss him goodbye.

"What happened to publicly holding hands?"

"There will be other days." She kissed him on the cheek. "I'll see you in the hospital."

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A/N

* Lexi said to Ava/Rebecca in 4.09 that she thought Mark was "kind of insanely hot". This was way before there was even a prospect of them but I was re watching this episode and noticed and felt so freakin happy. I know, I'm a bit too obsessed with ML for my own good haha.

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