Chapter 7
SCENE: MARK AND LEXIE'S APARTMENT THE NEXT MORNING
(Mark stirs in bed and reaches over to Lexie's side of the bed. When he feels cool sheets his eyes snap open. He looks around the room just as Lexie walks back into the room dressed in her scrubs.)
Lexie: Good morning.
(She walks over to his side of the bed and kisses him. The kiss deepens and Mark puts his arms around her and pulls her into the bed with him.)
Lexie: (Squeals) Mark! I have to get to the hospital.
Mark: No you don't, didn't I tell you? The hospital's computer has been acting weird, it jumbles up the whole schedule, it's terrible.
Lexie: Nice try.
(She tries to get back up but Mark holds her down.)
Lexie: (Laughing) Mark!
(He kisses her. He starts to kiss her neck and Lexie closes her eyes.)
Lexie: You're playing dirty.
Mark: That's the only way I know how.
(He continues to kiss her neck.)
Lexie: Come on, if it were my choice I'd stay in bed with you all day, especially since we got engaged last night, but unfortunately the hospital doesn't care.
Mark: Damn hospital, do you think it's too late for us to change careers?
Lexie: Mm, probably.
(She goes to get out of bed but Mark stops her again.)
Lexie: Mark-
Mark: Just stay here for a minute.
(Mark just stares at her for a minute.)
Lexie: What?
Mark: (Smiling) Do you have any idea how happy you make me?
Lexie: Well, I do feel some evidence of that against my thigh.
Mark: Smartass. I mean, do you know how happy I am that you saw something in me, that even after everything we've been through you still want me. The real shocker is that last night you agreed to be my wife.
Lexie: Did you honestly think I would say no?
Mark: Well...
Lexie: Are you kidding? I had to say yes so all of the other women knew you were off the market.
(Mark laughs.)
Lexie: (Giggling) I love you, so much, when we got back together I realized how ridiculous it was that I was ever scared of having a future with you. I want everything with you, the sooner the better. I was actually thinking about bringing up the whole marriage thing but I didn't want to scare you off.
Mark: That never scared me, I've been thinking about marrying you for years but I didn't want to scare you off.
Lexie: Really?
Mark: You've always been the one Lex, you always will be the one.
Lexie: (Smiling) I'm glad we're on the same page.
(She kisses him again.)
A LITTLE WHILE LATER AT THE HOSPITAL
(Mark is doing paperwork at the nurse's station when Callie and Derek walk up.)
Callie: We have a problem.
Mark: Uh, okay.
Derek: How could you not tell us, your best friends, that you're engaged?
Mark: (Smiling) Well, it just happened last night and Lexie and I got distracted.
Callie: I can't believe you didn't even tell us you were going to propose.
Mark: Well, I just didn't want it to be like when Derek proposed to Meredith, everyone knowing and giving their opinions about how I should do it.
Derek: Uh Mark, may I remind you that the only reason that happened is because you kept telling people, including my ex-wife?
Mark: Either way, I just wanted to do it my own way, otherwise I would have just gotten more nervous than I already was.
Derek: All I can say is thank god. You two are meant for each other and I was getting sick of this whole charade you two had going on.
Mark: Thank you. Did you ever think we would marry into the same family?
Derek: No, for two reasons, one I didn't think I would ever get a divorce and two I never thought you would get married period. It was never your thing.
Mark: You're right it wasn't, but Lexie changed all of that.
(He smiles)
MEANWHILE IN THE CAFETERIA
(Lexie, Meredith, Cristina and April are at the same table eating lunch and talking.)
April: So, do you know what kind of wedding you want?
Meredith: She just got engaged last night.
April: But every little girl dreams of their wedding day.
Cristina: No they don't, when I was a little girl I was dreaming about scalpels.
Meredith: Me too.
Lexie: For me it was a toss up between scalpels and weddings. My sister Molly and I would talk about our weddings when we were little, but we always disagreed. She always wanted the big white wedding with a dress with a cupcake skirt. Big church with hundreds of people. I just want it small, simple. Close family and friends in a garden somewhere, simple dress. Molly got her dream and now I'm going to get mine.
Cristina: What the hell is a cupcake skirt?
Lexie: Well it's not actually called that but it's a ball gown that's so full it starts to look like frosting on a cupcake.
Cristina: I'm glad you don't want that, the image of that makes me want to vomit.
Lexie: (Laughs) Even worse Molly wanted her bridesmaids dresses to give off the same image. I looked like a big purple taffeta cupcake.
Meredith: Yuck, I'm suddenly very glad I didn't grow up with you two.
Lexie: Shut up. Anyway I just want Mark and I to be married in the end, that's all that matters.
Cristina: I just can't believe we're sitting here talking about McSteamy's wedding.
April: Mcwho?
Lexie: She's talking about Mark, when Meredith and Cristina were interns they gave the guys little nicknames.
Meredith: Derek was McDreamy, Mark was McSteamy and Alex was Demon Spawn.
April: (Laughing) That sounds about right. But why can't you believe Mark's getting married.
Cristina: (Bluntly) He used to be a manwhore.
April: Excuse me?
Lexie: Let's just say Mark used to not be one to settle down.
Meredith: Until he met Lexie.
(Lexie smiles)
A/N: Well there you go! Some Mark and Lexie fluff and some good old banter between other members of Seattle Grace-Mercy West. Hope you all like it!
