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"If we are going to keep doing this I think we need to set up some rules." Lexie announced as she felt Mark's lips on her neck, the feeling of his scruffy beard was only adding to her lack of concentration.

"Is that so?" He asked, his words a whisper against her neck.

"Rule number one, we don't tell anyone." She spoked, he hummed against her skin in agreement. "Mark, are you even paying attention?" She asked.

"Don't tell anyone, got it." His voice was muffled.

"Mark, i'm trying to be serious."

"I know you are, but right now I want a repeat of last night."

"You've already gotten that twice."

"We did it five times last night, we have three more to go."

"Okay fine, but then were setting out some rules." Lexie spoke with a laugh before Mark smiled and placed his lips on hers.

"So these rules," Lexie spoke not bothering to move her head from his chest. His thumb was stroking her bare back.

"Callie knows." Mark spoke in a low voice.

"And so does Sadie"

"The crazy intern?" Lexie gave him a look before taking a deep breath.

"Yes, the crazy intern." Mark let out a slight sigh at her words. "What? You told Callie."

"And she's my best friend." He argued before she rolled her eyes. "And Sadie is your sisters friend. That's not your best friend."

"Yeah, but she helped me realize my feelings for you so that counts as something, right?" She asked. He didn't respond other than kissing her lips. Once their lips parted she spoke again, "Any other ones you can think of?" He shook his head.

"But I'll let you know if I think of any, and if you do let me know." He spoke and she gave him a nod.

"Do you have any food? I'm starving." She spoke sitting up in his bed. Mark looked at the clock next to his bed and shook his head. It was three in the morning.

"I don't have anything that wasn't here last night." He told her. "I thought you ate at Joe's?"

"No, I got there and just ordered a drink when you asked me to come home with you." She smiled, he gave her one in return. "How about we go to 7/11? They have some food there." Lexie looked over at Mark who looked offended. "What do you have any other grand ideas?"

"I'm not letting our first date be at 7/11. I can cook." Mark began looking for his boxers. Once he found them, he placed them on and tossed his shirt to her which she put on.

"You can cook?"

"I can cook." He assured her, as he got up from his bed. Lexie followed behind him.

"So what are you going to cook us?" She asked. "Last night you didn't have much. I believe I ate peanut butter cups and pizza."

"Well I have some apples left, if you want to snack on those." Lexie turned up her nose

"Eww, gross, no." She spoke.

"Alright then, I have some pasta I can boil. Are you opposed to a butter and garlic sauce?" Mark asked raising a brow. Lexie shook her head. "Great, I'll try and get to the store tomorrow. If we're going to keep this up."

"You know, we can come over to my place."

"Aren't you in a crap-partment?" He asked beginning to make their dinner. Lexie got onto the bar stool to watch him.

"No. I've moved into Meredith's attic."

"That's much better." He spoke sarcastically.

"We will make it work." Lexie assured him. She knew that they had to. "Do you need any help?" He shook his head.

"Nah, I've got it. It's not that complicated." Her head nodded.

"How about you come over to my place tomorrow night?" She suggested watching for his facial expressions. If there was something she learned in the past few days was that his face was very expressive.

"What about Meredith?"

"I think they are all going to Joe's late tomorrow or something." She vaguely remembered Meredith saying something along those lines.

"Alright then, well head over to your place after work tomorrow,"

"Okay." Lexie gave him a shy smile.

"Good morning Dr. Shepherd." Lexie said with a smile before looking at her sister who was trying her best to fake a smile. She had left Mark's early that morning and managed to get a few more hours of sleep before getting up for work.

"Morning Lexie, I'll see you at work." He spoke before finishing gathering his things for work and leaving the sisters alone in the kitchen. She waited until she heard the front door close.

"Whats wrong with you?"

"Derek's mother is coming tomorrow." She spoke absolutely petrified. Lexie's eyes widened at her sister's words. She knew that she would have to be strong for her sister.

"Oh, wow, okay." Lexie spoke, those were not the supportive words she thought of but it was what came out. Meredith gave her a look. "What? You're panicking, what else do you want me to say?" She asked.

"I don't know! You're the one who's probably liked by mothers."

"Oh stop overreacting, we need to get to work." Lexie pointed out to her sister, the late one.

"I'm not sure I can work. I think that I just need to drink tequila all day." Meredith spoke before Lexie walked behind her and gave her a gentle push.

"Drink later, be a doctor now, okay?"

Mark and Lexie woke up to voices.

"What the hell?" He asked before sitting up in bed. "I thought you said they were going to Joe's?"

"They must have come home early?" Lexie shrugged looking over at the clock that read 3:30. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes. "I can go grab us some food, do some investigating?" She suggested before he groaned.

"Then that would mean you'd have to get up." His head was on her chest, and her hands were stroking his bare back.

"Well, yeah."

"But you're warm."

"I'm not exactly thrilled about getting up either, but I'm hungry and my stomach is calling." Lexie informed him.

"Fine." Mark sighed before rolling over onto his back. Lexie placed on a pair of black leggings and a purple shirt. She slipped downstairs and to the kitchen where she found Izzy cleaning, and talking to herself. Her face frowned.

"Hi." Lexie spoke to the woman who jumped when she realized she was not alone in the room.

"Oh, god. Don't do that!" She spoke placing her hand over her heart.

"What are you doing cleaning?" Lexie questioned as she walked to the pantry and began grabbing snacks for her and Mark.

"I thought you heard, Mrs. Shepherd is coming over tomorrow."

"Thats right." Lexie spoke, she had completely forgotten that.

"Are you going to eat all those snacks by yourself?" Izzy asked, Lexie looked down at the amount of snacks that were in her arm. It wasn't a lot but it raised a flag for Izzy.

"Yeah of course, I forgot to eat dinner. Now I'm paying the price." She lied before closing the cabinet. "See you later." She rushed off back up the stairs and to her room. She closed the door behind her and placed the snacks on the bed.

"Jesus Lex, how many snacks did you get?" Mark asked looking at the small pile on the bed. Lexie shrugged.

"I don't know. Izzy was down there and I got distracted and I kept grabbing snacks I guess." She shrugged before sitting down on the bed and beginning her snacks. Mark joined her and began eating some with her. Once he was finished, he placed on a pair of jeans and walked to the door.

"Why do you have to live in Meredith's attic, how am I supposed to sneak out of here with that frat party going on downstairs. Don't you kids ever sleep?"

"They're cleaning the house for Dr. Shepherds mother." Mark closed the door and glanced over at Lexie.

"Mrs. Shepherds coming, to Seattle?"

"So?" Lexie asked, becoming entirely amused in this conversation.

"So that woman practically raised me, taught me right from wrong, and if she found out that I was-, with you-, that we were-." Lexie raised a brow in curiosity with what he was going to say. "You're Meredith Grey's little sister. You are forbidden fruit. You're 25. You're a fetus." Lexie rose her brows knowing that he wasn't going to entirely like what she was going to say next.

"24. I skipped third grade."

"I feel dirty." She gave him a smile and a little laugh.

"You are not dirty, calm down. You will get out of this house, like I said, I didn't think they would all be coming over here tonight. They are usually at the bar at this time."

"That fact is not helping me tonight, at all.

"You know, you could stay until the morning." She gave him a smirk.

"I think that you're trying to seduce me into staying longer."

"And what if I am?"

"Lexie,"

"Alright fine." She sighed as he came over and kissed her lips.

"I'll see you later." With that, he placed on his black shirt and leather jacket before slipping out of the attic. Lexie fell back to the bed with a sigh, she closed her eyes and tried to head back to sleep.

"What are you working on today?" Lexie asked Mark as soon as they were alone.

"A guy who went to Hong Kong to get a leg extension, his legs look awful, you?"

"General, nothing too eventful, a lot of paperwork, but the day is young. Have you seen Mrs. Shepherd yet?"

"Yeah, I'm trying to avoid her." Mark told her honestly

"Mark," She sighed before his pager went off.

"Crap, I gotta go." He spoke to her before turning to walk away.

"Talk to her!" Lexie called after him as he walked away. She sighed and shook her head before continuing the tasks that was ahead of her that day. It was safe to say that Lexie was going to be swimming in paperwork. Once she had enough, and her stomach was grumbling loudly, she made her way up to the cafeteria for lunch.

Lexie saw Mark sitting alone at a lunch table. She hesitated about sitting with him but she sat down next to him anyways. "Grey, what are you doing?" He spoke in a low voice. His voice was full of caution not only because Lexie was sitting with him, but because Derek and his posse were in the opposite corner.

"If you sleep with me, you lunch with me. New rule." Lexie announced. She just barely sat down before other interns began surrounding her.

"You let interns sit with you at lunch, Dr. Sloan?" A fellow intern spoke. Okay. This was not how Lexie planned on this going. "That is so cool." The intern placed his lunch tray down and was followed by a red head. Lexie began eating a carrot, watching Mark out of the corner of her eye.

"Oh you want to go halfsies on me with that cookie?" She asked the male.

"Uh, what are you going to trade me for it, huh?" He responded.

"You guys, they have tater tots!" Another intern, Steve exclaimed coming out of nowhere. Lexie continued to watch as Mark's patience wore very thin. He twisted the cap to his water bottle to the point where it was about to crush.

"I have to go." He lowly whispered to her. Lexie was about to protest but she knew it wouldn't do any good. She didn't blame him for wanting to leave. Steve returned to the table with a pile of tater tots covering his plate. She shook her head and continued to eat her lunch, laughing with her fellow interns.

Once her lunch was finished, she headed back up to general and began filling out the paperwork that she had put off until after lunch. She was focused on her paperwork until she felt someone watching her. She looked up to find Mrs. Shepherd staring at her. "Can I help you with something? Were you looking for Dr. Shep-" She spoke until Mrs. Shepherd placed her hands on her face causing her to remain entirely still and not move an inch. Lexie didn't know what was going on but she wanted to respect the woman.

"Are you a good girl?" She asked

"I- What?"

"A good girl. I don't mean perfect, I mean relatively speaking." When Lexie didn't respond, she asked again. "Are you?"

"Yes." Lexie finally spoke.

"How many sexual partners have you had, I won't judge."

"Umm six, no seven." Mark made it seven. "K-kinda six, but kinda seven."

"Criminal record."

"Speeding ticket." Lexie responded simply

"How fast?"

"12 miles over."

"Thats fast." Mrs. Shepherd spoke removing her hands from Lexie's face.

"Well, it wasn't too- it wa- it was way too fast. But it was downhill and I was - I was coasting, ma'am" Lexie remained entirely still.

"Now I don't suppose you can tell me where the gift shop is."

"First floor, east wing." Lexie felt absolutely panicked and unsure of what happened, but she knew it came down to Mark. She was able to breath again now that Mrs. Shepherd was gone, she now knew how Meredith was feeling the other morning when she found out that the woman would be coming for a visit. Lexie pulled out her pager and paged Mark for whenever he was available.

A few hours later, she found him in an on call room. "So, Mrs. Shepherd found me and interrogated me." She told him. Mark sat up and looked at her.

"She what?"

"She took my face between her hands and asked if I was a good girl."

"And?"

"And what? I told her I was, she asked me about my sexual partners and criminal record. That is one intimidating woman!"

"Of course she is! Why do you think I was trying to avoid her for most of the day. She found me at lunch and I told her that I was with you."

"Oh," Lexie breathed watching as the puzzle pieces began to fall into place. Mark got up and walked over to where she was standing. He placed his arms around her. "She won't tell anyone, and she believes in us." She gave him a small smile.

"Thats good."

"Why don't we go on a real date after work."

"I didn't bring nice clothes."

"We don't have to go anywhere nice, just a date, you and me. Far away from this hospital and wandering eyes." He spoke before Lexie gave him an okay. "Meet me at the south elevators after work, okay?"

"Okay." Lexie gave him a smile. He kissed her lips before walking out of the room.

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In the next chapter: their date, and the injury. ;)