Hello everyone! I am very very excited to present Edge of Desire! This is the story of Mark and Lexie mostly from Lexie's point of few. Some things will be changed, but it mostly follows from 5x10 on. Its filling in the blanks of the crazy timeline that is Grey's Anatomy. I hope you all enjoy it!
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Lexie didn't know how or why she ended up here. Well, she did, but many things had led up to this moment, the subtle flirting, her not being afraid to speak her mind around him. But the key thing was today when she worked under him to replace the larynx. That was incredible. But this moment, laying in the bed and arms of Mark Sloan made it difficult for her mind to wrap around. She had no regrets.
She lay in bed wide awake, not sure what to do about this situation. She hadn't thought this far. Lexie assumed that he would make her leave not long after they had sex. That had yet to happen. One thing she knew for sure, she did not want to move from his arms. The feeling of being in them were nothing like she had felt before, they were strong and she felt safe. Sure, she had cuddled after sex but nothing was like this. Lexie sucked in a quiet breath before grabbing his muscular arm and removing it from around her waist. Once that was done, she paused, making sure he was still asleep when she moved from the bed and walked into the bathroom. As she walked, she couldn't help but feel sore in all the right places.
As she exited the bathroom and shut off the lights, she heard his laced with sleep voice call, "Lex?" A small smile appeared on her lips as she walked in light back to the brown hotel bed.
"I'm here." She spoke with a whisper as she laid down on the bed next to him.
"I thought you left." He spoke. Those words hit her like bricks. There were two ways this could go, he either wanted her to leave, or didn't. Her brain was racing to catch up with her words, before she could speak to him, he continued his sentence. "I shouldn't have said that." He sighed before running a hand down his face.
"Its alright, I can leave if you'd-" She spoke before he cut her off.
"No, stay." He spoke, "I didn't mean," He took a deep breath before letting out a curse. "I'm not good at this."
"I'm assuming you're not referring to sex because you were really fr-" Lexie started but Mark cut her off.
"Lexie,"
"Right," She spoke with a deep breath.
"I want you to stay, but I'm not going to stop you from leaving if you want." He spoke to her. Mark remained silent. Lexie sucked in a breath and didn't dare move.
"I'm not leaving now, but I will be leaving before my shift. I need new clothing and a shower." Lexie informed him. While she wanted to stay here, she knew it might not be the wisest thing to do. Showing up in the hospital in the same clothing as the day before was practically begging people to talk about what happened the previous night. Rumors always seemed to move at the speed of light around the hospital.
"Well, we can shower together here." At his words Lexie turned to look at him, a boyish smirk was on his lips.
"That is very, very tempting." Lexie spoke before closing the gap between their lips. His arms wrapped around her and he pulled her on top of him. They remained like that for a few moments.
"I promised Derek." Mark spoke against her lips with a sigh, his head falling back to the pillow. He said a variation of those words earlier in the evening, when she had seduced him.
"You mentioned that, care to fill me in?" Lexie questioned raising a brow. This was something she hadn't expected. While her sister was dating Derek, she didn't expect him to have a say in anything that Mark did, apparently she was wrong.
"He wanted me to keep Little Sloan out of Little Grey,"
"Well, Little Sloan is anatomically incorrect." Lexie spoke more to herself than out loud, but he still smirked at her words.
"Lex," He gave her a sigh, shaking his head slightly.
"Sorry." Lexie spoke allowing herself to lay next to him, rather than on top of him, he turned to face her before letting out a sigh his fingers lightly trailing her upper arm.
"He wanted me to stay away from you, and sure I had looked at you for a few time, but once he mentioned you -"
"Ah, so you're one of those men who goes after forbidden fruit?" Lexie asked raising a brow
"Maybe," She could almost hear his smirk.
"How about we make a deal, just for tonight, I'm not an intern, and you're not my attending"
"I can do that." He nodded, agreeing to her temporary conditions.
"Lexie Grey," She smiled introducing herself.
"Mark Sloan,"
"Tell me about yourself, Mr Sloan"
"Dr. Sloan, I actually work at Seattle Grace Hospital"
"Really? I work there too," Lexie spoke with a smile.
"You're not helping," He spoke running his hand down his face.
"Sorry. Let's do something else entirely then,"
"Wonderful," Mark smirked before placing his arms around her and closing the gap between their lips. Her body reacted to his touch, arching into him.
"I wasn't talking about that, are you hungry? I'm hungry"
"I don't have much and room service is closed,"
"Well then, lets check our our options." Lexie spoke with a smirk before rolling off of him. She leaned down and grabbed her red bra and underwear before placing them on. Mark put on a pair of his boxers and walked out of the room. She followed his lead to the kitchen, and got up onto the bar stool as he walked around the back and opened the refrigerator doors. He closed them before shuffling around in drawers and cabinets. Mark came up with a bag of peanut butter cups.
"We have very few options," He spoke placing them in front of her. "Peanut butter cups, apples or leftover pizza." Her face soured at the mention of apples.
"You can have the apples, I think that I'm gonna have the peanut butter cups and we can share the pizza?." She spoke before reaching across the counter and grabbing the bag of peanut better cups.
"Hey!" He spoke, but it was too late, she had placed them near her and began unwrapping them. Lexie handed him one. "Better," He smirked before removing the covering from the leftover pizza and placing it onto the counter.
"So when you said I was in your space," Lexie trailed off placing a peanut butter cup in her mouth.
"I was trying not to jump your bones in front of Dr. Bailey." Mark confessed to her. A small smile played on her lips. The two were quite, he picked up a piece of pizza and began to eat.
"So why did you do it?"
"I don't know. I was told to find sex and we'll," She trailed off teasingly, as she grabbed another peanut butter cup.
"Lex,"
"I don't know okay? What you did was amazing today and I've had a crush on you for a while and Sadie told me you've been staring at my ass and-"
"The crazy intern with no appendix told you that?" He asked, his blue eyes were sparkling.
"Is she wrong?"
"No."
"Okay then, a-and one thing led to another and I thought, the worst he could do is push you away."
"And I should have." He spoke taking another bite of pizza.
"But you didn't."
"I watched you talk to that man, who cheated on his wife, telling him about second chances, a couple months ago."
"What about that?" Lexie grabbed a piece of pizza and took a bite.
"That was when I noticed you have something different about you, that and when you recited the periodic table."
"I knew it!"
Lexie didn't know how to feel the following morning as she left Mark's place. She didn't expect anything to happen from this, but she wouldn't be opposed if anything happened again. If anything, the ball was in his court. Sure, they had stayed up all night talking, finishing the rest off the bag of peanut butter cups and the pizza he had left, and of course more sex. She couldn't believe how easy it was to talk to him, as soon as he was free from his scrubs, and clothing.
It didn't take her long to arrive back at Meredith's, the lights were off. She was silently hoping that she could make an easy entrance and get into the shower before anyone noticed. Lexie knew she didn't have much time until her next shift started, but last night was worth it to her.
She parked her car and headed into the home. Lexie was as silent as a mouse as she snuck up the stairs immediately into the bathroom. Thankfully, it was open. Lexie showered and placed on a blue shirt, a pair of blue jeans and a brown leather jacket before getting back in her car and heading towards the hospital.
Upon her arrival, she went directly to the locker room and changed into her scrubs before waiting to see which resident she would be assigned too that day. She placed on her white coat and left the locker room. On the way, Lexie found Mark staring at a couple of x-rays. While part of her wanted to go up to him and say 'hi', another part of her wanted to ignore him and see if anything came from that. She didn't think anything would, but that wouldn't stop her from considering the previous nights was one of the best of her life.
"Hi there" Lexie spoke making her decision and coming from behind Mark. A smile played on her lips. This moment had her worried about what he would say. Her feet seemed to walk on their own towards him standing there looking at x-rays.
"What are you doing?" He asked in a low voice.
"Im saying hello," She pointed out her simple fact.
"Listen, my best friend made one simple request - that I not get anywhere near you - and I slipped. It was fantastic, you're fantastic, but it's not gonna happen again, ever." His face was full of guilt.
"Okay," Lexie spoke before walking past him, her shoulder brushing against his chest. She needed to not think about it, after all, this was Mark Sloan.
It didn't take Lexie much longer to find Christina near the nurses desk. "What do we have today?" She asked placing a smile on her face. Dr. Yang gave no emotion to her words.
"Today-" She started before pausing and looking down at her pager that had just beeped.
"Actually, I am leaving you to find yourself something to do, I have a trauma." She spoke
"Can I-" Lexie started but she was cut off.
"Nope, I've got a trauma!" She spoke before disappearing down the hall.
"Alright then," Lexie spoke to herself before walking down the hallway and towards finding something interesting to do today. While she knew she could always do paperwork, there was something not as thrilling about that. She took the long way to doing paperwork and came across Dr. Torres and Dr. Sloan.
"I think we have a parathyroid tumor for you to remove." Lexie overheard Dr. Torres speaking to Dr. Sloan. At that, her ears perked up and she stopped walking down the side hallway.
"Did I just hear tumor removal? My resident abandoned me, do you need any help?"
"Sure" Dr. Torres said with a smile.
"No," Mark said at the same time, looking her the same face of guilt he wore earlier, "or fine, but you'll watch you're not touching anything no touching." Hey eyes widened at him stumbling over his words, but the look on her face quickly faded when she realized that Dr. Torres was in their presence as well.
"She's up in ultrasound call and see if they took her yet," Dr. Torres told her.
"Alright." Lexie nodded and she walked over to the desk and picked up the phone before dialing the number letting the phone ring. She was only on the phone for a few moments before Sadie walked over to her, placing her hand on her back and standing next to her.
"I just heard from ultrasound and they said they are backed up and they should have results in a half hour." Sadie informed her fellow intern. Lexie nodded.
"Okay, I can go up there and get it then."
"Are you sure? You're on this case with Dr. Sloan, I thought that you would want to spend time ogling him." Lexie scoffed and rolled her eyes.
"And so is Dr. Torres." Sadie gave her friend a smile.
"I just picked a piece of lint out of her hair and caused her to fumble over her own words, I think thats enough fun for one day." She spoke.
"I went to his hotel room last night, took off all of my clothes and said 'teach me'." Lexie told her before Sadie's jaw dropped.
"And?" Sadie asked in a questioning tone.
"And we had sex and talked. It was amazing, he said it was fantastic, and he doesn't want anything more. But he is Mark Sloan."
"Thats a lie, just look at him." Both Lexie and Sadie glanced over to Dr. Torres and Dr. Sloan. Dr. Torres was standing behind Dr. Sloan who had that guilty look on his face. The two interns looked away.
"He's been like that since this morning." Lexie said.
"He's probably guilty he told you it couldn't happen again. What happens if he changes his mind?"
"Then i'd do it again, but he said it wouldn't happen again."
"Men lie all the time." Sadie pointed out.
"He's slept with nurses and they all hate him for this very reason."
"And you?"
"I knew what I was getting into." Lexie spoke tapping her pen against the desk. "I did, I mean I seduced him. Not the other way around."
"So he never saw you coming."
"Dr. Grey, head up to the lab and get the results of the ultra sound and the lab tests, we are going to prepare her for surgery. Meet us in her room once you get those, room 1101." Dr Torres instructed her. Lexie nodded before giving Sadie a smile and heading off to the lab.
A little while later, Lexie received the results and made her way down to room 1101. In the room, Sadie, Georgie, Dr. Sloan and Dr. Torres stood around the patient's bed. "Sorry, from the lab Dr. Sloan." She spoke handing him the lab results, Lexie stood there for a few seconds before whispering, "Did you need something else?" When he didn't respond she took a step back. He whispered something to Dr. Torres before sucking in a breath.
"Dr. Grey, please prep Margaret for surgery, Dr. Harris, please call the OR and tell them that were coming." He spoke before leaving, his eyes were doing everything but looking at Lexie's. Lexie began prepping Margaret for surgery.
Once Margaret was all prepped for surgery Lexie brought her down to the operating room and began to finishing getting herself and Margaret ready for the surgery that was about to happen. She saw Dr. Torres and Dr. Sloan scrubbing in for surgery. They walked into the OR together and began the surgery. As soon as the tumor was removed, Dr. Sloan spoke, "Get this up to pathology and get the post op work done." He made no eye contact with either intern. Both Sadie and Lexie left the OR and took the tumor to pathology. After they had dropped it off, they were sitting at a desk working on the report.
"Do you want to go to Joe's tonight with the other interns and I?" Sadie asked.
"I don't know-" Lexie started before she was cut off.
"Oh come on. Dr. Sloan might be there." She teased.
"I already told you what happened."
"So what? You've had a hard day and you deserve a drink, you cant hide from him."
"I'm not hiding from him." Lexie defended herself.
"Then come to Joe's." Sadie coaxed.
"Fine. I'll come."
An hour later, the two finished up the post op reports and gotten dressed into normal clothing. They walked across the street and to the table where the other interns were sitting. She placed her bag down and took off her jacket.
"Long day Grey?" A fellow intern ask.
"Yeah." Lexie spoke with a smile.
"Want to go grab a - incoming." Sadie spoke to Lexie who gave her a confused look that didn't last long.
"Lex, Come home with me," His voice rang in her ears in a low whisper before heading towards the door. She watched him only for a few seconds before grabbing her things, giving Sadie a smirk and leaving the bar.
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