AN/Disclaimer: hey all who suffer through reading this TYVM. First time trying to "publish" anything so be harsh but not to harsh. I own no rights to the show or its stars though there are a few I wouldn't mind owning. At least for awhile.
"So…have you and Lexie talked at all in the last week. I know that she hasn't been on your service at all?" Derek asked as he and Mark walked into the Starbucks two blocks away from the hospital.
"……"
"Mark you proposed way to soon, you know that right? Not that you don't love her, I really believe that you do but you two have been together for less than a year. She's young and you did kind of blindside her with it. What I can tell for a 200% percent certainty is that she loves you...just as much as I love Meredith." Derek said hoping that it would draw Mark out of his 4 day verbal catatonic state.
"Thanks." Mark mumbled. Sure she loves me thats why she froze like a deer just about to get plowed down.
For the last 2-3 months Mark had been thinking over the idea to ask Lexie to marry him. Trying to weigh what she might say, how he would ask her and ultimately how badly he would eventually screw it up. In spite of all of the wonderful things emotionally and physically Lexie had done for him screwing it up with her still scared the shit out of him. After her first solo surgery Mark had it all planned, the cliché picnic under the stars up by the cliffs on Derek's land. Alex and Izzie having bailed for the evening. Mark had tikis lit in a semi circle around them larger enough to keep the bears and the very big deer away. He'd even flat out asked Izzie, she was one of the best cook he knew in Seattle to make them some food for the evening. Last thing he needed was for her to have to end up back in the hospital with food poisoning. Dinner included He even did the subtle avoidance and odd messages telling her to meet him up at the trailer after her surgery was over.
When Lexie finally arrived, a little annoyed that he was being so secretive, she gasped there leaning against the trailer was her super sexy boyfriend holding 2 dozen mixed colored roses.
"Damn now I can't be annoyed with you." Lexie said smiling as she walked to him. All Mark could do, from the instant he saw the headlights on her P.O.S VW was try to keep his heart from exploding from ever different kind of emotion. After kissing hello Lexie turned to finally see the tikis in the distance.
"Mark Sloan what did you do." Lexie smiled while she pretended to half ass scold him, for some reason.
"Ah nothing much. Just thought I'd invite the amazingly beautiful women up here, maybe have my way with her right over there." Mark said while pointing to the blanket wear Lexie finally noticed the basket and the dozen different pillows.
"Wow"
Mark smirked... "And we haven't even got started"
They walked over to the picnic hand in hand while Lexie clutched the roses in the other inhaling all of the beautiful smells. They never really had to many of the awkward silences in their relationship so far, both having admitted that they were more comfortable with one another than they had ever been with anyone else.
Finally making it to the blanket is when Marks nervousness set in.
"So I don't even have to ask about the surgery already knowing that you did phenomenally." Mark smiled.
"Actually he died because my hand slipped three different times." Lexie said.
"….Wh...Oh wow Lexie I am so sorry."
As Mark leaned in to console her Lexie couldn't contain it anymore as she burst out laughing.
"OOO I am sorry. That's what you get though for being all fabulously romantic. Slipped HA I'm prodigy in the making with the most hardcore attending backing me." Lexie said while still giggling a little.
"Oh your just plain mean. See if I do anything like this again, but I am pretty amazing at least you realize that much. "Mark said as he pouted.
"Oh you will to do this again and I wasn't talking about you I was talking about Derek." Lexie laughed out while she was simultaneously being pushed back onto the pillows.
"Yeah right, I'll show you who's hardcore." Mark said as he attacked her mouth in the most forceful but most sensuous way Lexie had ever felt. The next half hour was spent in their usual cloud 9 pleasure state, never doing more than just kissing and talking through her surgery.
"So which do you want first? Some food, a glass of wine or a helping of Mark?" he said smirking.
"Hmm actually a glass of wine would be awesome right now." Pretending to ignore the side of Mark that was offered. As the lay together watching the night sky the courage finally came to Mark.
"Hey Lex…I love you and I am really happy that your first solo went so well."
"Aww thanks babe I love you too."
"…You like living in the apartment right?"
"Ya, sure"
"What would you think of a house with a yard just about the size of Derek's property here?"
"Umm...that'd be awesome. You looking into the housing market again?" Lexie asked not really sure where he was going with this.
"Well ya, I am definitely staying in Seattle and while Callie is the exception I hate having neighbors as close as you do in an apartment buildings."
"Yeah I guess I get that. Privacy is always nice. Plus not having to worry as much about them calling the cops cause someone can't keep his moaning in check." Lexie said smiling while kissing him deeply.
"Yeah well the things you do to me I can't help it..." Mark said smiling.
"Soo. This house with the gigantic yard, something you're searching for or have already found?"
"Already found."
"Really? Where?"
"The one a quarter mile from here."
"Oh my god, really that place is gorgeous." Lexie exclaimed, having seen the house a few times before.
"Yeah, well we drive pass it every time we come up here and I have noticed that you remark on how nice you think it is every time." Mark said, hoping she might fall in with where he was going with this.
"Have you checked it out...Everything that you can't see from the road?"
"Yeah earlier today actually, part of the reason why I had to leave so quickly after my last surgery this afternoon. Open House ended at 4 today." Mark replied.
"So what did you think?"
"It was nice. 5 bed 3 bath covered deck in the back. Fireplace in the Living Room and in the Master bedroom. It actually had a really Lexie feel to it."
"A Lexie feel?"
Mark smirked." I don't know just something I could see you loving to live in."
"Does it have a Mark feel to it?"
"Yeah a gigantic Bar-B-Que pit that I can make Derek cook on."
Lexie smiled. "Well that's great. So were do you go from here. Are you competing with someone for a final price or what?"
"Actually no, the real estate agent is meeting me at the hospital tomorrow to finalize the last bit of paperwork. You know the doting of I's crossing of T's. I was actually hoping that you could meet me in the lobby tomorrow to cosign on the deed with me."
"Hmm, you want your girlfriend to cosign the deed to your house with you?" Lexie asked. Hoping that her attempt at playing dumb was working.
"Ya I wouldn't have a problem with that, but I thought maybe my beautiful, smart, neurotic, amazing fiancée would be the one signing it."
"Umm your ah...your fiancee?"
"Yeah I was hoping that if a managed to sit up and get on one knee and ask that if you Alexandra Grey would marry this poor pitiful Manwhore that you have reformed. That loves you more than anyone could possibly love another living sole. That wants to have all of the Grey, moody, perky happy neurotic genes jumbled up into a couple beautiful kids. That wants to be the one doing anything that he can for the next 50 years to keep you happy that you might say yes?"
"Umm……"
Mark started to get really nervous at the he didn't now a many umm that he'd already heard that evening but he was starting to despise it.
"Hmm that your new favorite word?"
"No"
"Now which question was that to?" Mark asked getting more and more scared.
"The second."
"Okay and to the first?"
"Ahh…..well I love you SOOOOO much you know that right? But can I sleep on it maybe?" she choked out.
Mark didn't know whether or not to be pissed because she thought she needed to sleep on it, figuring that they were on the same page. Always assuming that she was 5 steps ahead of him in everything that had to deal with their relationship. Or to break down and cry, which he hadn't done in 30 years in typical male form he chose C.
"YA sure, I'll talk to you later." Mark exclaimed as he got up and walked to the picnic basket grabbing something out of it. While attempting to storm off to his Porsche Lexie grabbed his arm.
"Mark, please! I just...with everything that has happen tonight and how awesome it is for me career wise being the youngest and earliest in my year and in hospital records to perform solo. I just want to think about all of it for a night." Lexie said, trying to explain it to both of them.
"YA like I said we can talk about it later," he said while half ass pecking her on the cheek and walking off. When she heard his car come to life Lexie felt like she had just done the most idiotic thing anyone had ever done in history. All that she had left to do was cry.
They danced around one another the next week somehow managing to avoid one another. Working while the other was off and sleeping through any time that the other might be around. Lexie found out from Derek that Mark's real estate agent had to reschedule on him all week and was finally meeting him today at noon in the lobby. So that's where Lexie found herself, waiting and hoping that she hadn't missed him during one of the few times she desperately wanted to find him this week. From behind her she heard someone call out "Dr. Sloan." Turning around she found a gorgeous model like women walking towards Mark. Praying that it was the agent and she hadn't missed Mark going back to his whore ways. She was relieved when the women shook his hand also wanting to kick her own ass for thinking that about Mark. Knowing that even if they didn't work out her didn't have the old life of sleeping around him anymore. Evident by the fact that he had proposed to her and stupid her wanted to sleep on it. As she started to walk towards them a man walk in the lobby dressed in normal everyday clothes pulled out a gun shot straight up and yelled.
"Someone better get me a cardiologist NOW"
