On Friday everyone in school was getting excited for the next lacrosse game, everyone except Mark. He looked at the clock during eighth period and wanted to die; with every second that past Addison was a second closer to leaving. Once the bell rang all the boys on the lacrosse team ran down the halls screaming and yelling. Mark shook his head and walked to his locker before running to Addison's locker. The redhead stood against her locker while Meredith, Cristina, Callie, Arizona and Teddy stood around her.
"We're not leaving until eleven. I'll be able to catch the game."
"It's our last game together." Meredith whispered.
"Ladies, can I take my lady?" Mark asked with his signature smile.
"Of course. See you at the game, Addie." Arizona grabbed Callie's hand and walked down the hall. Meredith, Cristina and Teddy followed behind the couple.
"Are you ready to win tonight, Mark?"
"I guess."
"Hey, look at me." Addison grabbed Mark's chin and forced him to look at her.
"This isn't the end of the world. You and I are going to be fine." Addison grabbed Mark's face and kissed him sweetly.
"Come on, let's go home."
Mark walked Addison out to her car. After a short drive to Addison's house the couple walked into the mansion. The house was filled with movers taking all the possessions the Forbes-Montgomery's owned. "Let's get something to eat." Addison walked into the kitchen and Mark followed closely behind, he had only been to Addison's house a handful of times in the three years of dating.
"Do you want like actual food or just a salad or a sandwich?"
"A sandwich sounds pretty good." Addison opened the fridge to see if they had anything. All that remained was a bottle of beer, a package of turkey and a few slices of cheese. She made Mark's sandwich and placed it in front of him.
"I'm going to miss your home made cooking."
"Shut up, you're lucky I even know how to make a sandwich."
"Addie, are you home?" Bizzy, Addison's mother, yelled.
"Yes, mother. I'm in the kitchen." Moments later an older woman who was an exact replica of Addison walked into the kitchen.
"Matthew, I didn't know you were here."
"Mark."
"What, Addison?"
"His name is Mark, not Matthew."
"My mistake. All you boys look alike." Bizzy patted Mark's shoulder before walking over to the wine chiller and opened a bottle.
"Mother, do you really think you should be drinking?"
"Of course! This is the only way to make it through a flight."
"Oh Mark, I didn't know you were here."
Once "The Captain", Addison's father, walked in the redhead wanted to die. "Yeah, I'm here. Trying to spend some time with Addison before the game and before you guys leave." Mark finished his sandwich and looked at Addison. "Sorry to take her away but there's a new hospital in LA and my boy is graduating this year from Stanford." The Captain patted Mark on the back. Mark shook his head, he suddenly felt like punching Addison's father in the face.
"Addison, why are you wearing that horrendous jersey?" Bizzy asked taking another sip of wine.
"It's Marks. Girls are supposed to wear their boyfriend's jersey on game day."
"Go put on something-."
"Mark, let's go."
Addison grabbed Mark's hand and lead him back out to her car. Before Mark even got the chance to put his seatbelt on Addison was already on the road. "I can't- I just-they're so annoying!" The redhead slammed her hands against the steering wheel. Mark placed his hand on the inside of Addison's thigh and rubbed back and forth.
"It's okay, Addie. They're just-."
"They're making me move just so my dad can be closer to his newest mistress."
"What?"
"Her name is Maria. She's a 22 year old talent agent."
"Addison, how do you know this?"
"I did my research."
"You stalked this lady?"
"She's having an affair with my father, how could I not stalk her?"
"This is some heavy shit. I'm so sorry, Addison." Mark continued to rub his hand on the inside of Addison's thigh, relaxing the redhead.
"It's fine. I need to get you back to the school for the game."
"I'll play my heart out tonight."
"I promise this won't be the last time I watch you play."
"Addison, don't make a promise like that."
"I have a mother who is drunk pretty much twenty-for seven, my dad is gone all the time and I have access to their credit cards. They won't notice a few plan tickets on the credit card bill."
"I love you, Addie."
"I love you too, Mark."
"Samuel, please stop crying." Richard begged while rocking his son in his arms. Meredith smiled at the two while Cristina cringed. "Give him here." Meredith took her brother from Richard's arms and rocked him. Samuel almost immediately stopped crying.
"Meredith, how did you do that?"
"I don't know. He just likes me." Meredith handed Samuel back over.
"Oh Cristina and I are going to the game tonight." The blonde yelled and she and Cristina walked up to her bedroom.
Cristina took a running start and jumped on Meredith's bed. Meredith rolled her eyes and collapsed next to her bestfreind. "Do you really think Mark and Addison will last?" Cristina asked as she flipped to lie on her back. "I want to think they will but I have no idea. You know how Mark was before Addison came along." Meredith said she turned her head to look at Cristina.
"I remember that giant party you threw and we woke up the next morning to find Mark and the cashier from the grocery store naked on your couch."
"That scared me emotionally. I still get squeamish sitting on that couch."
"It was two years ago, Mer."
"Yeah, it was too years ago."
"It was too years ago, Mer. We're so old."
"We're seventeen, we're not that old."
"Do you realize that we're going to be seniors next year?"
"Yeah I do."
"Are you still thinking about Dartmouth?"
"Yeah, are you still thinking about Stanford?"
"Stanford and Harvard."
"Overachiever."
"Fight me, Grey."
"Let's go right now."
Meredith grabbed a pillow from behind her head and hit Cristina in the stomach with it. Cristina ripped the pillow away from Meredith and hit the blonde with it. After hitting each other with the pillow repeatedly Meredith somehow ended on the floor with Cristina on top of her. While the two lied on the floor laughing hysterically Meredith's bedroom door opened. Teddy looked down at the two and grinned.
"Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt your…whatever this is."
"We were fighting." Meredith said while giggling.
"Seattle girls fight weird."
"Can you fight any better, New York?"
"I'm from New York. I came out of the womb knowing how to fight."
"As much as I would love for you two to fight, we gotta get to the game." Meredith stood up and started to change into warmer clothes.
"Here Cristina, these are for you." Teddy held out one of Owen's sweatshirts and his letterman jacket.
"Thank you! I know it's going to be freezing tonight."
"Here Teddy, put this on." Meredith tossed the taller blonde a white sweatshirt.
"Thanks, Mer." Teddy put the sweatshirt on over her short sleeve t-shirt.
After Meredith changed into jeans with less holes in them and a one of Derek's sweatshirts she had stolen they trio left. As they left Samuel started to sob which made Meredith feel bad for Richard. "Shotgun!" Cristina yelled as she sprinted to the car, Teddy rolled her eyes at her friend. Once everyone was buckled in Meredith pulled out of the driveway and headed to the school.
"One, two, three, Eagles!" The team yelled as they threw their hands back. As team Captain Mark lean the team in their run onto the field. Everyone in the stands cheered as the team ran on the field, casing Mark to grin. "He's smiling! Look he's smiling!" Addison said as she slapped Meredith's arm to get her attention. "I see." Meredith said even though she really couldn't see Mark's smile. Cristina took note of Addison's focus of the pregame warm up and grabbed Teddy's sleeve to pull her close.
"Have you heard anything from Callie and Arizona?"
"Yeah Callie just texted me. She said they just put the bags of ice in the freezer and Alex is grabbing the kegs."
"Great! Addison deserves a good going away party."
"Yeah she does. I'll miss her like crazy."
"I will too. It just seems like yesterday we whisked her into our group of friends."
"Yeah, it's so weird that we've been friends since we were five."
"It's been a long twelve years. But it's been awesome."
"What are you guys talking about down there?" Addison asked. Cristina and Teddy both stiffened at the question.
"Just advanced Chem class at the college." Teddy quickly said with a smile. Addison raised an eyebrow before shaking her head and smiling. Teddy and Cristina gave their 'damn that was close' look.
Once the game started Mark did his usual clamp and then threw it to Owen resulting in a goal. By the end of the first quarter the score was six to two. Coach Mathers pulled Mark and Owen off to the side. "Listen boys keep doing what you're doing. If you keep it up this game will be over in no time. Got it?" Both boys repeated "Got it." Before running out on the field with a new string of teammates. Owen and Mark repeated the process until the scoreboard read: Home 11 Away 5. Mark called time and the boys gathered around him in a huddle.
"We're one point away from Mercy Ruling them. But they know I always throw the ball to Owen so David I'm going to break, throw the ball to you and then you throw the ball to Owen and we call it a game. Are we cool with that?" Everyone nodded. "Alight Eagles on three. One, two, three, Eagles!"
Moments later Mark prepared for the final face-off of the night. As usual he scooped the ball and prepared to throw it to David. As Mark brought his stick back he felt a shoulder dig into his ribs. Seconds later Mark was on the ground and so was his stick. He tried to prop himself up on his elbows but immediately felt pain in his shoulder. "Hey time!" Coach Mathers screamed at the ref before running over to Mark.
"Sloan, you alright?"
"I-my shoulder. I can't-."
"Get me the trainer now!" Seconds later the sports trainer, Josh, was there.
"Alright Mark. Give me your hand, the one that isn't-." Mark stuck his left hand out and Josh helped Mark to his feet.
"Come on let's get a look in the locker room."
As they walked back to the locker room everyone clapped for Mark getting back up. "Alright sit on the table and take your helmet, pads and jersey off." Josh said as he grabbed a flashlight from his bag. Mark did as he was told and took everything above his waist off. "Alright even though it's just your shoulder that's injured I have to do a neuro check." Josh turned the flashlight on and examined Mark's eyes. "Alright your brain is working just fine. Now let's look at the shoulder. Can you lift it for me?" Mark attempted to lift his right arm above his head but couldn't. "It hurts like a bitch!" Josh nodded. "Alright Sloan, looks like you have an anterior dislocation. Do you want me to pop it back in or-." Josh was stopped by footsteps entering the locker room.
"Addison?"
"Mark are you okay?"
"I have an anterior dislocated shoulder."
"I'm going to be the one to fix it. Addison do you really want to be here?"
"Yes of course."
"Okay then. Mark, buddy, this is going to hurt like hell."
With one quick push from the front of the shoulder Mark no longer had a dislocation but he did scream due to the pain. "Alright now you're all set. Let me put the sling on you and we'll be good to go." Mark put his jersey back on before Josh put his arm in a sling and gave him the instructions. "Wear it for a week straight and it'll be fine." Mark thanked Josh before he and Addison walked back onto the field. They were greeted by the team holding Owen in the air as they cheered for him. "That's my boy. I taught him everything he knows." Mark whispered while he wrapped his good arm around Addison. The redhead leaned into Mark and wrapped an arm around him. The team ran back into the locker room, each of them slapping Mark's good shoulder as they walked by. "Addison, the girls are looking for you." Owen said as he approached Mark. "Okay, I'll go find them and then come back to you." Addison kissed Mark's cheek before running to find the girls.
"Cristina said everything at the house is all set. Everyone's heading over there now."
"Great, Addison is going to love this."
"What time does her flight leave?"
"Eleven."
"Alright its eight thirty now so we'll hurry up and get the party started."
"Okay, I'll get Addison to Cristina's."
"Hunt, come on!" One of their teammates yelled, Owen groaned and ran into the locker room.
"Alright I think we have everything." Callie said with confidence as she looked around Cristina's house. They had close to twenty bags of chips, forty pounds of ice and three kegs. "You did so good baby!" Arizona squealed she was proud of Callie for getting all their party supplies within a short amount of time. "I couldn't have done it without my lovely assistant." Callie kissed Arizona's head which caused the blonde to giggle. "Get a room you two!" Cristina yelled as she, Meredith and Teddy walked in. "Are you offering us one?" Arizona smirked at the trio. "Try to refrain from having sex until after Addison leaves." Meredith walked over and sat down on the couch.
"Guys, like twenty cars just pulled up." Teddy said looking out the window. Seconds later a group of people walked through the door. Minutes later everyone that was in the junior class were standing in Cristina's house. "Mark just pulled up!" A girl's voice rang out. "Everyone get ready to yell 'surprise'!" Meredith yelled. Teddy, Cristina, Meredith, Callie and Arizona all stood in front of the crowed. As Addison stepped through the door everyone screamed 'surprise!' at the redhead. "Oh my god! Guys!" Addison ran over and hugged her friends.
"Guys, what is this for?" Addison tried to wipe away the happy tears.
"We couldn't let you go to California without having one last Seattle party." Teddy said.
"I love you guys." Addison wrapped all the girls in a group hug.
"Mark, Derek, Owen get over here." Addison commanded; the boys walked over and wrapped their arms around the girls.
"Okay now that I'm done sobbing let's get this party started!"
Someone turned the music on which caused everyone to dance. As the night went on Addison made her rounds of telling people goodbye and thank them for coming. At ten thirty the group of friends walked out onto the deck Cristina's step-father had just built. Owen started the fire and everyone sat around it.
"I'll defiantly be spending the summer here." Addison took another drink of her beer while looking at her friends.
"You can get a summer house." Meredith suggested.
"Yeah, that way we can trash another house besides Callie's." Owen grinned and laughed.
"Yeah my bank account would really be thankful for another house to trash." Everyone laughed; they all felt slightly guilty about trashing Callie's house every time there was a party. The laughter was cut short by Addison's phone ringing. The redhead hesitantly answered her phone.
"Okay. Bye." Addison sighed and started to cry.
"It's time?" Meredith whispered.
"Yeah…it's time." Addison choked back tears.
Meredith walked over and wrapped Addison in a hug. "I love you, Addie. Anytime you want to come back and you need a place to stay, my bed is open." Cristina hugged her next and didn't say anything; they just hugged which said a lot to Addison. Teddy hugged her and fought back tears. "Of course you move before we get the chance to go on our 'Two A.M. shitty breakfast' adventure." Addison laughed as she pulled away from the blonde. "When you come back we're doing another morning run." Arizona pulled away and gave the redhead a sad smile. When Callie hugged the redhead Addison pulled her extremely close. "Please take care of Mark while I'm gone." Callie pulled away and nodded. Owen hugged Addison and promised her he would pull Mark away from any fights, Derek promised the same thing.
"Bye Addie! We love you!" Everyone yelled as Addison and Mark walked back to the car. Cristina looked around to see almost everyone crying, she shook her head.
"Come on guys, Addison wouldn't want us to sit around and cry while an awesome party is happening."
"She's right, let's get back in there." Teddy whispered. Everyone managed to pull themselves together before joining the party.
Addison and Mark walked hand and hand as he escorted her to the gate. Usually people who didn't have a ticket couldn't make it that far but since Addison was taking the private jet Mark was allowed to walk back. Once they saw Bizzy and The Captain Addison let go of Mark's hand and turned to him. Mark immediately wrapped the redhead in a bear hug.
"I love you so much, Addison Adrianne Forbes Montgomery."
"I love you too, Mark Everett Sloan. I want you to remember that when Jessica Hopson wears those low cut tops and leans over your desk to ask you a question."
"I will, Addie."
Mark hesitantly let go but as soon as he did Addison grabbed his face. "I will text you as soon as we land. I want you to behave." Addison leaned in and kissed Mark hard. The kiss lasted a solid minute before Bizzy called for Addison. The redhead pulled away with tears in her eyes.
"I love you, Mark." She whimpered before walking away. Mark swallowed the lump in his throat.
"I love you, Addison."
Addison turned around and smiled with tear filled eyes before walking to her parents. Bizzy and The Captain waved as they walked to the gate, Mark waved as he watched Addison walk away. He watched as the small plane took off down the runway; Mark wiped a few tears away before walking out to his car. On the depressed drive back to Cristina's Mark thought about the white lacrosse jersey in his passenger seat and how Addison wouldn't be wearing it on game day anymore.
Meredith and Cristina stood in the kitchen eating the pizza Owen had graciously paid for. After Meredith finished her second slice her phone rang; Cristina could tell from the look on her face that it was Richard or Ellis. Meredith sighed before pressing the phone to her ear.
"Hello?"
"Hi Mer, um what time are you coming home?"
"I was planning on staying over at Cristina's."
"Oh…do you think you could come home?"
"I-uh….I can't. Addison left today and it's been hard on all of us. I'll be home in the morning though."
"Okay well your mother and I are going to bed. Goodnight."
"Goodnight Rich."
Meredith slid her phone back into her pocket and rolled her eyes. "I'm pretty sure Richard wanted me home so I could babysit Sam." Meredith grabbed another slice of pizza. "It's probably not the best-." Cristina was cut off by the front door slamming shut and Mark walking in.
"She's gone." Mark whimpered with a few tears rolling down his face. Meredith and Cristina looked at each other before returning their attention to Mark.
"Where's Callie? I need to talk to her."
"She and Arizona are in the guest room but I think their-."
Mark didn't wait for Cristina to finish the sentence, instead he ran upstairs to find his bestfriend, his person. "He'll get a nice view when he walks in." Meredith giggled as she continued to eat her pizza. Mark walked into Cristina's guest room and was greeted by Callie and Arizona moving underneath the sheets. Callie quickly popped up from under the sheets to see Mark silently crying.
"She's gone, Callie. She's gone. You and Derek are all I have."
Without warning Mark climbed into bed and rested his head on Callie's bra clad chest. Arizona pulled the sheets back and started to collect her clothes. "I'll give you two some alone time." The blonde said as she got dressed. "I-I'm sorry, Arizona." Mark whimpered; Callie looked at her girlfriend with apologetic eyes. Arizona walked downstairs and into the kitchen; she joined Meredith on the counter.
"Aren't you and Callie supposed to be having sex?" Cristina questioned as she handed Arizona a beer.
"Yeah but Mark walked in and now he's cuddling with my almost naked girlfriend."
"It's okay. If it makes you feel better our boyfriends got so drunk Teddy had to take them home."
"That makes me feel a little better."
"Cheers to a sexless night!" Meredith held her bottle out; Cristina and Arizona clanked their bottles together. The girls all drank their beer and continued to eat pizza until Teddy came back.
"Teddy! Welcome to our sexless night!" Meredith yelled.
"Thanks?"
"She's drunk." Cristina reached over and tried to take Meredith's beer away but was stopped by the blonde yanking it away.
"Can I have one of those?" Teddy sat down beside Arizona on the counter top. Cristina slid a bottle over to the blonde.
"Wait, Arizona when I left you and Callie were upstairs-."
"Mark is really sad about Addison leaving so he came in and cuddled up with Callie."
"He vagina blocked you!" Meredith screamed causing Arizona, Teddy and Cristina to burst into laughter.
"Yes Meredith, he vagina blocked me."
"If I was gay I would totally have sex with you, Arizona."
"Okay Meredith I think it's time for bed."
"But Cristina I have to confess my undying love for Arizona."
"You can do it tomorrow when you're sober."
"Okay. Goodnight Arizona, goodnight Teddy. Teddy, I would have sex with you too if I was gay!" Meredith yelled as Cristina dragged her upstairs.
"I'm not gay either, Mer!"
"We could change that!"
"Meredith go upstairs now." Cristina said as she pushed Meredith up the stairs.
"I think we just found you a friend with benefits."
"Hey she said she would sleep with you too."
"Yeah but I'm happily taken so that leaves you the primary user."
"I won't be using Meredith for any sexual activity."
"Why are we talking about Meredith and sexual activity?" Callie asked. Arizona's head shot over to the stairs as her girlfriend and Mark walked down them.
"Because she wants to have sex with me."
"Oh really? Well she'll have to get in line."
Callie walked over and stood in between Arizona's legs. "Come on, let's go to bed." Arizona jumped off the counter and lead Callie towards the stairs. "Goodnight guys!" They called as they walked upstairs leaving Teddy and Mark alone. Mark grabbed a beer and sat down on a barstool across from Teddy.
"It's just you and me, Ted."
"Yeah it is."
"Cheers to being single." Mark clanked his bottle against Teddy's.
"Did you and Addison break up at the airport?"
"No but she's so beautiful that guy's will be lined up outside her door. She'll forget about me."
"No she won't. You're impossible to forget, Sloan."
"I'm not impossible to forget."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because, if I was impossible to forget my parents would be here. They would live in a big house on the end of the street. They would go to my lacrosse games and cheer for me. Every time we win my dad would stand up and yell 'That's my boy!' But they're not here." Mark wiped another tear away.
"I'm such a pussy today. Sorry Teddy."
"It's okay. You've been through a lot."
As the night changed into the early morning Mark and Teddy immensely bonded. Mark poured his heart about his parents moving to Italy and restarting their lives while leaving him behind. Teddy talked about her dad being deployed somewhere overseas and doubting he would ever come back because of his hatred for his wife, Sadie. Talking about her father struck a nerve inside Teddy and caused her to break down in tears. The last thing she remembered before falling asleep was burying her face in Mark's chest.
When Cristina woke up Meredith was nowhere to be found. When they passed out the previous night Meredith's head was resting on her shoulder. Cristina forced herself out of bed and out into the hall. She walked into the bathroom to find Meredith with one arm resting on the toilet and the other covering her face.
"How's the hangover."
"I'm dying. I-." Meredith was cut off by the urge to vomit. Meredith placed her head in the toilet; Cristina crouched down and held Meredith's hair while the blonde continued to vomit. After a few minutes Meredith lifted her head back up.
"Are you good?"
"Yeah I'm good. I think all the beer and pizza is gone."
"Okay, no rush or anything but you have to be out of here by one."
"Okay. I'll be down in a minute."
Cristina walked down the hall and stopped outside the Torres-Robbins love nest. Before Cristina got the chance to knock a muffled moan crept out. "Hey I thought you were-." Meredith was stopped by Cristina's hand in front of her face. "I think they're fucking." Cristina pressed her ear against the door. Meredith shrugged and pressed her ear against the door too.
"Calliope…right there….harder!"
Meredith and Cristina broke away from the door trying to refrain themselves from laughing. "Callie, Arizona, I'm sorry but we have to be out of here by one so if you could wrap up the sex that would be great." Meredith said before bursting into laughter. "Okay…we'll be down…" Arizona's struggling voice said of the other side of the door. The pair stumbled down the stairs. When they reached the bottom they were shocked to find Teddy lying on top of Mark.
"Oh my god." Meredith and Cristina said in sync.
"Oh my god." Callie and Arizona said also in sync.
"No one says anything about this to Addison." Meredith growled.
Hey guys! This is the longest chapter I've ever written and I hope you like it!
P.S. It's 2 in the morning as I upload this