A/N - Hey guys! This is my first fanfiction and I hope you all enjoy it! I'm not really sure about it though so I'd love if you'd leave me comments and suggestions and things like that. Especially if you have ideas for me! This is set mid season 5 and I will use some quotes from the show and major scenes but most of this is my own ideas. Anyways, I'm trying to keep all the characters... well... in character but it's kind of hard so like I said, let me know if you have any criticism, suggestions, ideas, questions, or compliments! Thanks for reading!

"Nice work in there, Grey," Mark says with a slight smile as both him and Lexie untie their scrub masks and wash off their hands. Lexie gives him a confused look. Is the Mark Sloan actually complimenting her? Realizing what he'd done, Mark adds "for an intern."

"Um, thank you Dr. Sloan. It feels good to finally be back in the O.R." Lexie replied with a smile on her face.

Mark laughed, remembering the crazy cabal of secret cutter interns. "This is between us, but I would have done the exact same thing." Mark keeps chuckling and with a wink he says, "Nice sutures by the way." They both continue to laugh for a few seconds but they're interrupted by the whoosh of the sliding doors as Derek leaves the O.R. and enters the washroom.

"Nice work in there, guys. Mark, can I talk to you outside?" Derek asks as he finishes scrubbing. Derek grabs Mark by the arm and pulls him out into the hallway.

"Ow ow ow, what?" Mark says as he rips his arm away from Derek's grip.

"Little Grey is off limits."

"What?" Mark asks as he rubs his now tingling arm.

"Little Sloan does not enter Little Grey."

Derek had a stern look on his face. He was serious. Mark chuckled a little at the thought of him and an intern and he replied "Come on Derek, I was just complimenting her sutures."

"Alright, okay. Don't do anything."

"I won't!"

"Don't!" Derek replied without looking back at Mark.

"Big Sloan." Mark mumbled to himself as he left to find Callie.

"Hey, how was your surgery?" Meredith asked as Lexie shut her locker after a long day of work.

"Oh, um, it was amazing actually!" Lexie answered with a chuckle and a smile that reached her eyes. "It was my first time back since, well, you know, and Dr. Sloan was amazing and he let me do sutures and I-I wasn't on cappuccino duty a-and he complimented me a-and and I-"

Lexie was cut off by Meredith "I'm sorry, what? Dr. Sloan?"

Lexie snapped into focus and realized what she was saying. "Oh well I mean it's my first day back and-and um…" Her voice trailed off, she had no idea what to say.

"Lexie?" Meredith asked, "You don't like Dr. Sloan, do you?"

Lexie scoffed at her words. "Pff what?" She said with a laugh and continued. "God no… heh… no, no." Her voice suddenly became serious and slow "No, Mark is my attending, and he is a man-whore a-and no, ew, no."

Meredith raised her eyebrow, "Ok," and walked away. Lexie was left alone in the intern locker room to her racing thoughts. Did she really like him? She had never thought about him in that way because he was always yelling at her, but had she finally seen past his walls? Had he let her through to see the vulnerable, caring side of him? Suddenly, Lexie jumped as the other interns charged in, filling the locker room with laughter. Why was she thinking about Mark Sloan? Lexie got up quickly and went to the elevators so she could finally head home.

"Oh no. I've seen that face before… what's wrong?" Callie said as mark sat down beside her in one of the on-call rooms.

"What?" Mark said as he snapped out of his thoughts. "Oh um, yeah, n-no nothing's wrong." Callie gave him one stern look and that's all it took for him do break "Damn it."

"What happened?"

"An intern.. an intern happened." Mark replied. Callie could here the annoyance in his voice.

"Oh my god, Mark! You slept with an intern?"

"No no no," Mark paused because he knew what he was about to say would shock Callie. It surprised himself too. "I think I like one."

Callie's eyes widened as Marks words came out

"Lexie Grey," he continued, "damn it, Lexie Grey." He let out a soft chuckle.

"Mark, no!" Callie stood up and grabbed his face to make sure he was paying attention "Lexie is your intern and you are her attending. You can't just go around and screw all the interns!"

"Callie," Mark replied loudly, "this is different, she's different. I don't know… I've never felt like this."

"Mark you need to stay away from her until this feeling passes," Callie says as she lets go of his face and sits back down. "Lexie Grey is off limits for so many reasons. Not only is she your intern, she's your best friend's girlfriend's sister and she's like 10 years younger than you."

"Yeah I know, I know," Mark replied with a sigh. "I'll figure it out." He stood up and walked out of the room before Callie could say anything else. Mark walked through the hallway and decided to go home because the rest of his surgeries for the night had been canceled. Sighing, he headed to the 6th floor elevators and waited for the metal doors to open. He entered and tapped the button for the 1st floor. It seemed as if the elevator was barely moving as it went down slowly. Ding. The elevator came to a stop on the 3rd floor.

"Oh…um. Hi, Dr. Sloan." Lexie said as she tentatively entered the elevator.

Mark looked up and gave her a slight nod and a fake smile. They stood awkwardly in the slow-moving elevator until Lexie broke the silence.

"Um, h-how was your day?" She asked him without making eye contact.

"Fine." He replied in a deep grumbling voice as he took a quick glance at her, "how was yours?" He looked closely, studying her facial features he had never noticed before like the hung of green in her eyes and the small amount of freckles around her nose.

"It was actually really great. Thanks for asking." She replied with a slight chuckle and a smile that flashed her white teeth. She could feel Mark staring at her and it made her uncomfortable so she slightly bit her lip. Mark took a few steps closer to her.

"Lex," he said. Lexie was surprised by this because he usually calls her little Grey or Dr. Grey, he never used her first name.

Lexie turned and looked up at him, she grabbed his jacket pockets and slowly pulled him closer to her as he put one hand around her waist. He ran his other hand through her hair and then cupped her small face. Slowly they got closer and closer, their lips almost touching. She could feel his warm breath on her face and it made her tingle. Was it really going to happen? Were they about to kiss? Ding. The two jumped apart as the elevator came to a stop and the doors opened. Pausing for a second, Mark tried to find something to say but he was at a loss for words. Lexie saw him open his mouth to say something but he quickly closed it, cleared his throat, and walked out without looking back. Lexie waited a second, confused about what just happened, and then left to go home.

A/N - Let me know what you think! Also, tell me if you want the chapters to be shorter, longer, or just like this... Thanks!