LATER THAT NIGHT
Skye and Roxie walked into the bar in a huge bundle of giggles. People turned to see who had entered including an excited Sloan and Tatum. Skye excused herself to go to the rest room. Roxie looked over at the bar where Mark was once again sat alone. She had noticed that the two times she'd been in there he was sat alone at the bar not the typical actions of a 'dog' as he'd been deemed by Skye. She approached the bar and his smile got wider as she did.
"Can I get two beers and single malt please?" she asked Joe
"Couldn't resist the offer hah?" asked a cocky Mark
"No I couldn't" the drinks then arrived and Roxie laid down the money and walked away from the bar.
A bewildered Mark watched as she made her way over to Derek who was sat with Meredith.
"Hi"
"Hello" replied Derek
"I just wanted to buy you a drink as a thank you for Chuck"
"Oh thank you that wasn't necessary though"
"If you knew how much he was loved by everyone in his life you'd know it's not nearly enough. Thanks again" she said turning to walk away
"Would you like to join us?" asked Derek
Roxie turned around and saw the disgruntled glares from the residents. Roxie smiled to herself.
"Thanks but I'm going to stay near the source of the alcohol"
"Propped up at the bar then?"
"I'll need to be in one more drink"
Roxie walked away much to the residents delight and she walked back over to the bar where Mark was sat looking into his drink. She pulled up a stool and sat beside him.
"Derek? You came to see Derek?"
"I came to thank Derek"
"So what does a guy have to do to get you to agree to a drink?" asked Mark
"Ask me for just a drink" Mark looked baffled "When you ask me for a drink I can see the whole dirty night in your eyes"
"What's wrong with that?" he asked with a mischievous grin
Roxie wanted to answer him but at that moment in time she couldn't think of a reason why that dirty night was such a bad idea.
ACROSS THE ROOM
Skye reappeared from the rest room and saw Roxie with Mark and shook her head she knew she couldn't hold out and that Mark would eventually get what he wanted. Skye was just about to go and break up the duo when Channing reached out and grabbed Skye's arm. Skye turned and smiled as she saw him.
"Dr Tatum"
"Call me Chan please"
"Ok Chan"
"Can I buy you a drink?" he asked
Skye looked over at her friend who was occupied and smiled to Chan.
"Yeah that would be nice"
LATER THAT NIGHT
Roxie and Mark were walking down a corridor and they reached a door. Roxie turned around to Mark who was gleefully smiling in hopes that he would get through the door. Roxie smiled back.
"It's never going to happen" she stated
"What?" he asked innocently
"You're not coming in Dr Sloan"
"I wasn't trying to"
"You've been trying since I arrived"
"It's all in your head I'm afraid. I have this effect on women they imagine a relationship that's not there. They get an infatuation it's a curse being me"
Roxie laughed to herself
"Good job I'm strong willed then. Goodnight Mark"
"No kiss?" he asked with a smile on his face
"No, no kiss" she said turning and unlocking the door. "Goodnight" she said walking inside and closing the door behind her.
Mark stood for a moment on the other side and shook his head in disbelief as he'd been sure he was going to get an invite. He then walked away as Roxie watched on through the spy hole. She then smiled and turned walking into the main part of the room.
THE NEXT DAY
Roxie was walking into the hospital when she heard a call from behind.
"Roxie!" shouted Skye running after her.
She finally approached her "What happened to you last night?" asked Roxie
"Me?" she asked confused "You were the one that sloped off with Sloan. So how does it feel being a notch?"
"I'm not a notch. Nothing happened"
"Yeah of course not"
"Nothing happened trust me. He walked me to my room and then left. Not by his choice but he still left" she smiled "And you and Dr Tatum?"
"We just had a few drinks. I didn't think I was allowed in the Mark Sloan sleaze club"
"Free membership" she laughed "You know I don't know why you have this negative opinion of him. Ok he's been flirtatious but he's not been sleazy with it"
"Give him time"
"Have you had a Sloan experience?" asked Roxie
"Every woman has had a Sloan experience"
The two women approached the elevator and waited. It finally arrived and they walked inside and before the doors had chance to close they were joined by Derek and Mark.
"Morning ladies" said Derek
"Morning" they both replied
Mark stared at Roxie "Did you sleep well?" he asked
"Like a baby thanks for asking" she replied
The doors opened and Skye exited "I'll see you later Roxie"
"Bye"
"So is it a habit you have?" he continued
"What?"
"Leading guys on and then leaving them on the wrong side of the door"
"I didn't lead you on"
"Oh you lead me on"
"How?"
"Being a woman usually does it" interrupted Derek
Roxie laughed "Oh then I'm guilty"
"Keep out of this Derek this is between me and the tease"
The elevator doors opened and Derek departed.
"Good luck Roxie" said Derek walking away the doors then closed again leaving Mark and Roxie alone.
Before another word could be said Mark pushed her against the wall of the elevator. Roxie smiled as she knew Mark wouldn't go through with it. The duo stared each other out until the doors opened on the elevator and Roxie pushed her way out followed by Mark.
"Tease" exclaimed Mark walking one way
"Man whore" exclaimed Roxie walking the other way
"Roxie!!" shouted Richard
Roxie stopped and turned to see Richard approaching "Richard hi"
"You haven't given me an answer yet about what we discussed the other day"
FLASHBACK
Roxie walked into Richard's office and sat down as directed by the chief.
"I think you know why I've asked you here"
"Yeah I have a suspicion I just hope I'm wrong"
"We need a surgeon of your calibre here at Seattle Grace"
"I wasn't wrong" she said to herself
"Roxie I know that you don't want this but I think you're just being selfish"
"Selfish?"
"You have a skill, an amazing skill and you're not sharing it with the world. You could be saving lives on a daily basis instead you're running a bar"
"By choice Richard"
"I know and I can understand your reasons but you were given those talents to use them for good. They're not being used in a bar"
"I don't want to work in a hospital. I've been here a few days and already nearly lost my friend"
"But you saved him. You gave him and his family the greatest gift and you could be doing this on a regular basis with hundreds of families so why are you depriving those families?"
"Guilt trips won't work with me"
"You can't honestly sit there and tell me that you're satisfied at the bar. That you get the same thrill behind that bar as you do in the OR or out on duty with the army?"
Roxie looked at Richard he was right she couldn't tell him that she got the same thrill. There was nothing that could compare to what she did in an OR.
"Its not that I don't enjoy doing this it's just that…I saw all that destruction out there and I fought and worked because I felt I was doing it for the right reasons. Fighting for my country then I get back here and get myself a job at a hospital because its all I know how to do. My first day this kid rolled out in front of me she looked like she'd been hit by a truck…she hadn't she'd been hit by her father. Hours later her mother was found unconscious in the hallway because her dad had given her a beating too. I had been out there putting soldiers back together and sending them off to fight for their country and the citizens of their country are beating the crap out of each other. I didn't leave because I didn't love the job I left because I couldn't deal with seeing all that self destruction, what they were doing to themselves and knowing what I'd left out there and what all those guys and girls were going through to defend these jackasses"
"I understand this but that is a small minority. There are a lot of good people getting ill and getting hurt just like your friend who need a good doctor to look after them. Roxanne you're one of the best and I want you here at Seattle Grace as the head of General Surgery"
"You're going to take orders off of me?" she asked
"I take orders off of nobody. At least promise me you'll think about it"
"I promise I'll think about it but don't hold your breath"
END OF FLASHBACK
"So Roxie what is your answer?" asked Richard
Roxie looked at Richard and rolled her eyes and sighed.
LATER
Roxie was sat on the floor in the middle of the corridor staring into space as people walked by her. The door opened from the stairwell and Derek appeared. He looked at Roxie with confusion and sat down beside her. Roxie snapped out of her daze and looked at Derek who smiled at her.
"Hi" he said
"How do you deal with the people who don't deserve the treatment?"
"Excuse me?" he asked even more confused
"The bad guys who get hurt and rolled in here and they need your help how do you treat them and not leave them to die?"
"I feel dying is the easy way out for them and that they should pay for their crimes so I fight and fight to bring them back to good health not because I'm a doctor and I took an oath but because I'm a human being who believes in subsequent punishment"
"That's a good way of looking at"
"Why do you ask?"
"Richard offered me a job. I haven't worked in a hospital in four years"
"Why so long?"
"Just couldn't do it I was in a bad place personally and I just couldn't bring myself to give treatment to those people. I love being a surgeon I love cutting people open and holding their lives in my hands. It is the most amazing rush but I have a habit of getting too involved and if a case were to come to me where I was treating I don't know…a rapist…I don't know how I'd deal with it. Richard wants an answer by the end of the day and I don't have one"
"I have an idea" said Derek which intrigued Roxie
A LITTLE WHILE LATER
Derek opened the door Roxie walked inside to meet Dr Karev and his interns.
"Dr Leoni this is Edward Neilson or as his friends call him Eddie Nails because he has a disturbing habit of hammering nails into his victims heads"
"What?"
"Eddie is a referral from the penitentiary. Want to hear the irony of this case Dr Leoni?"
"Sure"
"Eddie Nails who hammers nails into his victims heads for pleasure is here today with a tumour"
"You're kidding? Karma is a bitch after all"
"You know pretty you're getting a little smug over there" said Eddie
"How many victims?"
"Twenty nine at last count I'm looking to make it an even thirty though"
"Yeah well I'm still looking for my first victim and I'm not a neurosurgeon but Dr Shepherd here is going to let me loose anyway so it's your choice whether my hands slip or not"
"I don't want no little woman in my surgery"
"That embarrassment because I'll be looking at the second smallest thing you got?"
"Women should do as they're told and look pretty while doing it" replied Eddie
"Well Eddie even if I do say so myself I'm hot and I have no problem taking orders from the neuro guy when I'm in there with your brain under the microscope"
Dr Shepherd smiled and looked over at his resident "Dr Karev and his interns will be looking after you today Eddie and prepping you for surgery" Derek then opened the door. "Dr Leoni shall we leave?"
"See you later Eddie" she said turning and leaving the room
"I don't think you will have any problems dealing with the bad guys. You really showed him what you'd got. I don't know whether that was a smart thing to do but you didn't take any of his crap so well done"
"Thanks"
"You'll scrub in later?"
"Oh I wouldn't miss this for anything in world"
Derek then walked away and Roxie turned straight into Mark.
"You're scrubbing in on another one of Derek's surgeries? If I weren't so certain that you were in love with me I might be jealous"
"You think a lot of yourself Dr Sloan"
"I've noticed the way you look at me with that look of lust and longing"
Roxie laughed "Ok Sloan…"
"Leoni"
"…The flirting it's interesting and I'm sure the dirty night would be just that. What's the thrill for you?"
"Thrill?"
"Is it the chase, the conquest, the fact you can be super brass because you know I'm going home…what is it?"
Mark stalled for a moment looking all around him as if checking that no ones looking "You…you're the thrill"
"Is that an honest answer?"
"Yes"
"Now why am I the thrill? Because I'm incredibly hot, because I'm incredibly skilled or because I don't want you?"
"A little of all three"
"What if I weren't to leave how long would this go on for until you lost interest?"
"I wouldn't lose interest"
"Would I be one of a million or one in a million?"
"You mean would I sleep around whilst pursuing you?"
"Yeah that's exactly what I mean"
"I guess you'd have to be sticking around to find that out"
"I guess so"
"So what about it? Me, you an official date tonight?"
"Let me think about it"
"See you're infatuated yesterday that would have been a clear 'no'" he said with a smile
Roxie walked away as Mark smiled to himself knowing that he was getting to her and was finally breaking her.
ROOM 2317
Skye was checking on her patient Mrs Marlow after the surgery on her wrist. She was checking the cast when the door opened and Dr Tatum arrived.
"Hello Dr McKenzie"
"Dr Tatum" she said continuing with her checks
"Last night was interesting"
"No last night was a mistake that won't be happening again"
"Ok. Can I take you to dinner?"
Skye looked at Chan "Were you not listening?"
"Yeah I was but I thought that was just for the benefit of Mrs Marlow's subconscious"
"No Dr Tatum…" she said standing "It wasn't. It was fact, it won't be happening again" she said heading for the door
"Shame a night like that should really be repeated"
Without looking back Skye opened the door and walked out leaving Dr Tatum behind closed doors. She sighed knowing her actions were wrong even though they felt so right. She shook her head as if trying to dislodge the memories of the previous night. She walked away and Chan smiled as he watched her walked away through the blinds.
IN THE SCRUB ROOM
Derek, Alex and Roxie were scrubbing out after Eddie Nails surgery.
"You both did an excellent job in there" said Derek "How did that feel Roxie?" he asked referring to their conversation earlier the day
"Easier than I thought"
"So it helped?"
"Yeah it did"
"Good" he said wiping his hands and leaving the room.
Alex and Roxie continued to scrub out. Alex looked over at Roxie and exhaled. Roxie looked at Alex and finally sick of the sneers, jeers and looks from the residents she confronted him.
"What is your problem?"
"You walk in here and you alienate people, the people you don't alienate you persuade into letting you scrub in to surgeries that aren't yours and that you do no works towards. You're walking around here like you're Gods gift to medicine taking your slice of all the different specialties. Flirting you way into them"
"Flirting my way in?"
"Yeah some of us have busted our asses to get where we are and you just walk in and immediately you're getting the good surgeries"
"Dr Karev I think that before opening your pretty little mouth you should get your facts straight. It saves you making an ass of yourself"
"I'm just standing up to you unlike the rest of the residents"
"Is that what this is? You're afraid I'm the favourite resident getting all the good surgeries. Karev I'm not getting the good surgeries and I'm not the favourite resident. For one thing I'm an attending and for another I am the new head of general surgery so I will be making a change so I do get some good surgeries. So maybe you want to run back to your little friends and tell them this then they can prepare themselves to kiss my ass as residents do. Now who's alienating people Dr Karev?"
Roxie smiled and walked out of the room leaving Karev regretting his actions after finding out he'd just yelled at one of the attendings.
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