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Note: A murse is a male nurse for those who don't know.
After Izzie left, Mark Sloane couldn't help but remember how it felt to wake up and have her lying in his arms. To say he was surprised to find Isobel Stevens in his bed would be an understatement. She felt so right in his arms, a perfect fit, as she snuggled closer to him to escape the cold air radiating from the air conditioner. However, Mark knew that Izzie would be beyond furious when she woke up, even if it appeared that they did in fact only sleep next to each other in bed.
As he went in the bathroom to take a shower, Mark was glad that all they did was sleep. "I want to remember everything—her smile, her face, the sounds she makes…" thought Mark, "Wait, what the hell am I thinking? I am Mark Sloane, I don't imagine sex. I have sex." He quickly brushed off his thoughts as he made his way to the shampoo bottle.
Izzie was indeed livid as Mark had correctly guessed when she woke up and found herself in his hotel room. Similar to many of their conversations, the two of them exchanged a few verbal jabs with Mark laying on the sexual remarks as Izzie proceeded to call him an arrogant jackass.
Once she left his room, Mark felt a rush of sadness until he remembered that he'd see her at the hospital later in the afternoon.
"I never did agree to forget this morning, did I?" Mark said aloud as he began to think of ways in which he could get Stevens to go out on a date with him.
"Wait a second…Did I just say date? I don't date…" uttered an increasingly confused Mark as he wondered where all these feelings and emotions were coming from.
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"What has gotten into you?" asked Meredith as the interns were changing in the locker room for their next shift.
"I have no idea what you are talking about?" replied Izzie as she continued to change into her scrubs.
"Nothing. It's just one moment you seem excited and anxious, and then you get a look of dread like you did something embarrassing," responded Meredith.
"Did you feed the beast last night?" asked Christina, "You did. Didn't you? You have the look."
A thoroughly uncomfortable Izzie responded to their verbal inquest before she had a chance to think, "We didn't have sex. All we did was sleep, so he better not say anything else to the people in this hospital. Everyone already thinks I'm crazy!"
"Wait, he works here? Who was he?" inquired Meredith as everyone stood up to leave the locker room.
"I can't believe you pulled a Meredith! A drunken one night stand with a doctor," smirked Christina who seemed far too interested in the discussion, "It was a doctor right? Please tell me you didn't sleep with a murse! That's worse than a vet!"
"Hey!" shouted Meredith at the same time Izzie replied, "We didn't have sex!"
"Couldn't seal the deal, Stevens?" asked a smiling Mark Sloane who appeared behind the interns in the hallway.
"Shut up, Sloane!" huffed Izzie as she made her way towards Bailey ignoring the quizzical looks from her friends and the heated stare from Mark that Izzie could feel behind her.
"Okay, listen up. Here are your assignments: Grey-Burke, Yang-Torres, O'Malley-Sloane, Karev-Shepard, and Stevens-Montgomery," Bailey listed off her clipboard.
"Don't give me those sad, pathetic looks. This is a hospital. We are here to save lives not make them. Since none of you but Stevens can keep it in your pants, you will not be working with your wife, boyfriend, or whatever it is that you call it nowadays," huffed Bailey who left her interns with guilty looks of shame as they went off to find their respective attendings for their shift.
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"So O'Malley, what's it like living with Stevens?" asked Sloane as the two were washing their hands after performing a breast augmentation.
"Excuse me?" stammered a visibly uncomfortable George, "I actually don't live with her anymore. Why do you ask?"
"I was just wondering, you know, things like her favorite restaurant, what type of movie she liked…." replied Sloane, "I figured that of all people, her best friend would know that kinda stuff about her."
"Well, I do, but why do you want to know those things about Izzie?" questioned George praying that Dr. Sloane wouldn't send him to the pit or run meaningless errands if George didn't tell him anything about Izzie.
"Do you always answer a question with another question?" asked an increasingly irritated Sloane, "I want to know because I want to know, and since I am your superior you are suppose to answer my questions without hesitation!"
"Izzie is my best friend, and even though we aren't exactly seeing eye to eye these days, I still care for her and I don't want to see her hurt. She has been through enough these past few months, and she doesn't need someone with your reputation to come and break her even more," sputtered George who decided it was best to leave the room before a shell-shocked Dr. Sloane decided to response to George's outburst.
To say that Mark was surprised by George's outburst would be a lie. Mark knew that Izzie had been through a rough couple of months with the death of her heart patient/fiancée, being on probation, etc. Hell, Mark knew how she had been feeling for he lost his best friend, then up and moved to win back Addison who effectively ended their relationship when she broke their sex-free pact two weeks ago. However, Mark was surprised that George had the balls to speak like that in front of him. Mark had always thought of George as Torres's little love puppet, yet it was nice to know that Izzie had such caring and protective friends.
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Izzie was walking in the hallway reading the lab results of a patient when she ran into someone, effectively knocking both people to the floor.
"Geez, Stevens, you don't need to stalk my whereabouts, then casually bump into me in the hallway," said Mark as they both stood up and rubbed their heads, "All you needed to say was 'Meet me in the on-call room for some steamy sex,' and I'd be more than willing to give it to you."
"Why are you always such a prick?" answered Izzie who became very flustered all of the sudden.
"Go out with me tomorrow night," said Mark who silently wished that by some miracle she would say yes.
"I didn't think you went out with women," said a shocked Izzie, "Didn't you say and I'm pretty sure I am quoting this right 'Why spend all that time doing something trivial when we both know that at the end of the night we'll end up in bed?' So why the change of heart?"
"Sometimes it's nice to try something different. So is that a yes?" persisted Sloane with a slight hint of urgency and want in his voice.
"Umm…." muttered Izzie who was unable to get out a response before Mark said, "Great, I'll pick you up at seven."
"And dress to impress me, Stevens," grinned Mark as he made his way down the hall to his next destination.
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