I don't own anything.
Lexie walked towards a patient's room. Yesterday had been the lectures. Mark wasn't there. She kept looking for him, but she couldn't find him. When Bailey had said that if you answered a question right, you got chocolate. She had smiled. Not just because of the chocolate, but because she hadn't dyed her hair back yet. She was scared that if she dyed it back she would become forgettable again and the pain of feeling forgotten by Mark was something that she never wanted to feel again.
She walked into the room and saw the one person she had wanted to avoid. Mark.
The patient was currently asleep and she could already tell that it was going to be a long case. From just a once over it looked like ear drum reconstruction, windpipe reconstruction, and who knew what else.
"Dr. Sloan," She said as she approached him.
"Dr. Grey," he said sharply without turning around.
She leaned over his shoulder to look at the patient.
"Back up! Back the hell up!" He yelled. She jumped back.
"Leave now!" He yelled turning around. He saw anger blazing in his eyes, but she saw something else. Pain. Hurt.
"Did you ever think that you're the reason I did this? Did you ever think about why I left you? You made me feel invisible! Easily forgotten. I thought you loved me and then you made me feel like I didn't matter. Blondes are bad ass and fun and unforgettable. I want to be unforgettable!" She yelled before jerking the door open and slamming it behind her.
"Seriously Derek? Seriously?" Lexie yelled as she angrily walked into his office.
"Lexie-" He started to say before she interrupted him.
"Look I know that Mark is your best friend, but we're family. I'm Meredith's sister. You're not supposed to put family on cases with their ex-boyfriends who they thought loved them, but easily forgot about them. Why? Why did you put me on the case?"
"Lexie, that patient. That is a board member's daughter. He wanted the best plastics resident on the case. That's it. Nothing about you and Mark, just you and Dr. Sloan as doctors."
"I don't have to do this." Lexie stated firmly.
"Lexie, I know that this may seem hard, but you will get through this. For all we know, you and Mark could be back together by next Christmas. You're a surgeon. Surgery is sometimes the only thing you have and you need to take every opportunity to become a good surgeon."
"Okay." She said softly before turning back around. But she hadn't been thinking about medicine, she had been thinking about the other part of what Derek said. The possibility that she and Mark could get back together. She had always known that it was what she wanted, but having it out in the open just made it seem possible.