Hidden Truths

Summary: A woman from Mark's past shows up at Seattle Grace. She isn't happy to see Mark, but, why exactly is that?

Disclaimer: I still don't own Grey's…but if I did! Well, let's just say things would be WAYYYY different, haha!

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Guest: What do you mean 'suite'? O.O
Guest: I've been playing with the idea of MerDer. I haven't decided if I'll go with that or have Derek get back together with Addie. Or something, I haven't decided lol
h: You are totally right. :) Lexie SHOULD learn to respect her superiors! Surely, Nina will teach that girl a lesson soon ;) And Nina won't be so easily wooed by Mark. He slept with her little sister. And not just Carly, but many other women! I hope you enjoy chapter 4 :D
sadi385: I update on Mondays and Fridays though I might change it just to Fridays… Not sure yet. Anyway, I'm glad you're enjoying the drama! I hope this chapter appeases you!

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Chapter 4: Wish You Were Here

Ethan was excited. His mother had said that she would be having lunch with him and would be playing with him after, as long as she wasn't pulled into surgery. For being only six years old, Ethan was very smart and knew his mommy helped a lot of people. He however, couldn't help but smile brightly when he said goodbye to his mommy.

His mother left and Ethan turned to look for something to do. His blue eyes zeroed in on the coloring table. One of his friends, one Tucker Bailey, was already there and coloring. Ethan walked over and greeted Tuck. "Hi Tuck!" he said excitedly, sitting down on a chair beside his friend.

Tucker looked up and smiled. "Hi Ethan,"

The boys got back to coloring and drawing. Ethan decided that he would draw a picture for his mother. He started off by drawing his mother in the dead center of the page. He picked up a brown crayon and colored her hair in, making sure to do it slightly wavy. He always thought his mother's hair was so beautiful. Next, he picked up a dark green and drew her eyes.

Ethan wished that he had her eyes. Instead his were a dull blue.

He decided his mother would look amazing in navy scrubs which he saw her always wearing for work. Next, Ethan drew himself. He was smaller than his mother, but holding onto her hand in the drawing. One he finished himself, Ethan picked up a pink crayon and drew a heart the best he could around his family.

"Where's your daddy?"

Ethan looked up and saw Tucker looking at his drawing. Feeling embarrassed, because Ethan was the only kid without a daddy, he played with his shirt. "I…I don't know…I don't have a daddy…"

"My mommy says everyone has a daddy. And then we have Our Father, God." Tucker said.

The blue eyed boy didn't like the sound of that. Was he wrong because he didn't have a daddy? But if Tuck was right, then where was his daddy? Ethan looked down at his drawing. He wanted his daddy.

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He didn't mean for this to happen.

He didn't mean to cause trouble.

He didn't mean to cause himself to bleed.

Ethan had been cutting out some shapes for another art project he was doing- this time it was a card asking his daddy to be his and to love him. And for his daddy to join his family… Then, he had dropped the scissors and had gone to pick them up. Only, one of the meaner kids ran by and pushed Ethan.

He hit his head off the table (which had a sharp edge to it) and cut his head. His hand was also cut from the open scissors on the floor. He began to cry right away when he saw the blood. One of the caretakers (her name was May) rushed over and realized that he was hurt.

While she tried to calm Ethan down, another caretaker, (her name was Dianna) called up the kids doctor, Doctor Robbins. When Doctor Robbins appeared, Ethan was now wailing. Not only did his head and hand hurt, but he realized that he had caused trouble for everyone involved.

His mommy would not be happy.

Doctor Robbins walked over. "Hey, are you Ethan?"

He looked up, tears rolling down his chubby cheeks and he looked ready to keep wailing. However, the friendly blonde just smiled at him and calmed him down. He slowly nodded.

"My name is Doctor Robbins, I was wondering if you'd let me look at your cuts?" She asked sweetly. He looked nervous. "I'm not a stranger, I'm a doctor. Just like your mommy, but I work on kids instead of hearts."

She knew his mommy? Then she must not be a stranger, Ethan thought.

He allowed her to take him to a room to look over his wounds. She cleaned him up but called another doctor (she said his name was Doctor Sloan) to sew his head up. What Ethan didn't realize, was that everyone was terrified of what Nina would do if they didn't take the best care of her only child.

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Ethan was sitting on a bed, waiting for this Doctor Sloan to come help him. Doctor Robbins had been really sweet and even given him a cookie. So he was content, though still sad. Finally, an older man entered and looked surprised to see Ethan sitting there.

Actually, he was stunned.

"Hi, are you Doctor Sloan?" Ethan said, trying to be cheerful. "Did Doctor Robbins send you?"

Mark nodded and sat down, wondering why he was paged for a little cut. "Yes I am. And you are?"

"Ethan!" Ethan said happily, now letting the new doctor look at his cut. "Doctor Robbins said you know my mommy? Is she in surgery?"

Mark was stunned because he was pretty sure the only surgeon at Seattle Grace with a kid was Bailey. And Ethan didn't look anything like Bailey. "I may know her. What's her name?"

"Doctor Knight!" Ethan said smiling brightly. There was pride in his smile. "Doctor Robbins says mommy works on hearts and she's amazing. The best in her field!"

The man froze.

Nina had a son?

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"WHY WASN'T I PAGED SOONER?!"

The rage of a mother, especially a protective mother, was not something you wanted to face when you were between her and her child. Nina, who had just gotten out of surgery, had just been informed that Ethan had cut his head open.

Her green eyes were blazing with rage, pure rage, and she was out for blood.

The nurse was stunned into silence, out of fear and nerves. "D-Doctor Kn-"

"WHERE IS MY SON?!"

"He's with Doctor Sloan,"

Nina turned to face this new person. Her green eyes met blue ones and Nina realized it was the Peds doctor, Doctor Robbins. She frowned deeply. "Why is he with Sloan?" She demanded.

"His caretakers didn't want to risk any scarring and asked him to close him up." Robbins explained.

Nina did not like that. Mark was with her son. Her baby was with Mark. Robbins tried to stop Nina but she was already pushing past the small woman when she heard the nurse finally tell her where Ethan was.

She pushed open the door and found Mark suturing Ethan's face. Ethan's whole face lit up in excitement. "Mommy!" he shouted happily.

Nina didn't care what Mark thought. She moved forward and checked him over. His hand wound was closed and now wrapped. His forehead was almost all the way closed, "Sweetie, oh my gosh! Are you okay?" She asked him worriedly.

Ethan nodded. "Doctor Sloan fixed me up! And Doctor Robbins gave me a cookie!"

She let out a sigh of relief. Ethan was okay. She couldn't help but check his head wound herself, her whole body going tense. "What happened? How did this happen?" she asked her son with worry. She hadn't realized that Mark had questions. She just needed to know her boy was okay.

"One of the other kids…pushed me. I hit my head off the table and the scissors I was using fell to the floor and I ended up cutting my hand on them." Ethan explained. "Doctor Sloan says I'll be okay mommy. He says they're clean cuts. I'll be fine!"

Of course you'll be fine. Because if you aren't…there'll be hell to pay. Nina thought to herself. She kissed her son's cheek, making sure not to get in Mark's way. "Honey, what kid pushed you?" She asked. Ethan didn't answer. "Ethan?"

"They didn't mean to!" Ethan defeated his bullies.

She sighed, knowing that her son was painfully loyal….even when the people didn't deserve that loyalty. "Are you almost finished, Doctor Sloan?" She asked, frowning at the doctor.

Mark looked up from his work. "I should be finished in just a minute…I'm making sure he doesn't scar. That is why I was paged, was it not? The staff are afraid of scaring the famous Nina Knight's kid."

She raised an eyebrow. "Are you saying something, Doctor Sloan?"

"I didn't even know you had a kid," Mark added under his breath.

Nina rolled her eyes. "You never asked."

Ethan noticed the tension between his mom and Doctor Sloan. He had no idea why, but he could tell that it was there. After Doctor Sloan finished closing his head wound, Ethan asked his mother if he could go back to the daycare to get his things. A caretaker was there to bring him back.

Nina nodded her head and watched her son go with the caretaker to get something. He wanted to surprise her.

"Who's his father?"

She turned and found Mark standing there, looking very annoyed. She raised an eyebrow as in saying 'are you challenging me?' "Wouldn't you like to know?" She crossed her arms over her chest.

Mark stared at her with a glare. "How old is he?"

"He just turned six," Nina replied scowling at him.

"Is he mine?" Mark asked. Nina stayed silent. She didn't want to talk about. "Nina! Is he mine?"

She looked at him. "What do you want me to say? Yes? No? I DON'T KNOW? It doesn't matter what I say, because you Mark Sloan, will never want kids. You only want sex! And you aren't worthy of being Ethan's father!"

Mark rolled his eyes. "If he's mine, I want to know, Nina! He should have a dad!"

"And why? So that he can be disappointed when his dad doesn't make it home or pick him up because he's too busy picking up whores?" Nina scowled at him. "Yeah right, he's happy with me!"

He couldn't begin to understand this woman and just shook his head. "Well maybe he wants to know his father!"

"YOU AREN'T HIS DAD MARK!" Nina however, stopped shouting at Mark when Ethan re-entered room. "Come on Ethan," She said collecting her son and walking away.

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After getting lunch with his mother, Nina left Ethan with Cristina Yang. Ethan didn't like Cristina. She scared him.

He wished his mom could take him to watch her work. He had done that a few times, he liked seeing her work. Especially because he knew how amazing she was at her job; Ethan wanted to be just like his mom when he was older. He was forced to follow behind Cristina like a little duck.

"Doctor Yang?" Ethan asked, causing the woman to pause and look at him. He felt like she was glaring at him. "Can…can we go talk to Doctor Sloan?"

Her eyes brightened, "Great idea kid!" She pulled him along. They found Doctor Sloan in the burn unit. "Sloan!" Cristina yelled.

The surgeon looked up and scowled at her. "What can I do for you Yang?"

"Watch this kid," She said gently nudging Ethan forward. "I'm gonna go watch a surgery."

Before Mark could say no, she had left. Mark looked awkwardly at Ethan but Ethan was staring at his patient. Ethan walked over and shifted. "You have a big ow-y….Is Doctor Sloan taking care of you?" The patient nodded, though looked confused. "I cut my head this morning and he stitched me up. I'm Ethan!"

"Danny." The patient, Danny, said, "Nice to meet you."

After Mark finished with Danny, he pulled Ethan aside to give him an odd look. "So what do you um, what to do?" He asked, confused since he didn't usually deal with kids.

Ethan smiled brightly, before pulling out a folded piece of paper. "You sounded like you knew who my daddy could be! So I was wondering, will you give this to him?"

Mark was stunned. "You don't know who your father is?"

"Mommy says that he can't be here for us because he isn't ready to know us. She also says that he doesn't know who I am." Ethan explained simply. "So will you give him this?"

Mark nodded and took the piece of paper. "Sure…"

"Thank you!" Ethan said excitedly. "Can we go watch mommy work now?"

"I don't know…"

"I'll be super good!" Ethan promised.

Mark agreed and then Ethan happily led him to the Cardio OR. He couldn't stop the smile that spread across his face. However, they didn't get to make it because Callie appeared. She didn't even notice Ethan, who was standing off to the side while Mark talked to his friend. "I really, really, want to have sex with this girl, Mark!" Callie pouted.

Mark let out a sigh. "Callie you've gotta-"

"Be strong?" she asked, "Like you? You slept with Lexie!"

Now Ethan, he was confused on what sex meant. He tilted his head sideways, listening as the pair argued about the two interns. He didn't understand what this all could mean, but he figured that this was bad. He however, heard a loud gasp and then turned to find his mother walking over. She looked fresh out of surgery with her rosy cheeks and those glossy eyes she got.

"Mark Everett Sloan!" She hissed, standing in front of her child. Ethan ran to hold onto her. Mark winced. "Why exactly are you talking about S-E-X in front of my child?"

Callie's eyes nearly popped out of her head. "THAT'S your child?!"

Nina scowled. "Is that a problem, Doctor Torres?"

"N-no ma'am….won't happen again!" Callie excused herself and rushed off.

Nina turned her eyes onto Mark. "And WHY do you have my kid?" She demanded.

Mark winced. "Doctor Yang left him with me."

She took hold of Ethan's hand. "Don't let it happen again," She turned and led Ethan away. Ethan couldn't help but look back at Mark, wondering why exactly his mommy hated Mark so much.

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Up Next: Sympathy for the Devil; Derek's mother shows up at Seattle Grace. Things are thrown into the fire when Mrs. Shepherd finds out that Mark was married and never told her. Nina remembers the wedding.

Yes, this chapter is based on Ethan's point of view. I felt like we needed one and I liked it! I actually can't wait for the next chapter, because I know that the big reveal is coming up! Which happen to be how Ethan was made and that Mark figures it out. I'm sure it'll be fun to write! :D ANYWAY, please review! I'd really enjoy reading your thoughts and feelings!

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