2 ½ hours went by and even though Lexie and Mark had shared an awkward moment earlier in the night about how their past relationship ended they still managed to get past that and actually caught up with each other and had a very enjoyable conversation with one another.

Lexie had just finished saying goodbye to Ava and her parents when she walked back into the doctor's longue and seen Mark picking up a very sleepy Bryson.

" You don't have to carry him. You can just place him in his wheel chair and I can wheel him up to his room." Lexie told Mark as she walked over towards him and Bryson.

"No, its fine. I'll walk you up to his room. Placing him into the wheel chair might wake him up." Mark whispered to Lexie.

"Thank You, " Lexie mouthed back to Mark as she grabbed a hold of Bryson's wheel chair and began to wheel it out of the Doctor's longue.

Mark followed behind as a sleepy Bryson hung his head over Mark's broad shoulder.

"I had a nice time tonight. It felt like old times." Mark spoke up as he and Lexie walked towards the elevators.

"Yeah… it did," Lexie said as they reached the first floor elevators.

Lexie pushed the arrow pointing up as her and Mark stood in silence and waited for the elevator to arrive.

Once the elevator doors opened Mark stepped on first with Bryson who was still sound asleep. Mark pressed the number seven when Lexie and the wheel chair were finally in on the elevator.

" You sure he's not too heavy?" Lexie asked as the elevator doors began to close.

"I'm sure," Mark reassured Lexie in a whisper.

" If you want when we get to the Peds floor you can just hand him off to me. I can bring him to his bed. "

"Lex stop. I'm walking you to his room. There is no way you can carry him and push the wheel chair."

"Okay," Lexie said as the elevator doors opened up.

Lexie pushed the wheel chair out of the elevator as Mark followed behind her.

"He means a lot to you Bryson doesn't he?" Mark questioned Lexie as he followed her down the hall to Bryson's room.

" Yeah. I guess he's up there as one of my most memorable patients. He's a very easy kid to work with. As much as I can't wait for him to fully recover I know I'll miss him when he's gone. " Lexie told Mark as she turned to walk into Bryson's room.

"You are great with him and I know you may freak out by the next thing I'm going to say but you are going to make a great mom one day Lex. I watched you tonight and you just have this way about you. Bryson is lucky to have you and Robbins is even more lucky to have you on her team in Peds." Mark said as he slowly placed Bryson down in his bed.

Mark didn't see it but a small smile came across Lexie's face as she placed Bryson's wheel chair in the corner of his room. "Thanks Mark. That's sweet of you."

Lexie began to walk over towards Bryson's bed to help Mark tuck him in.

" So what is in store next for Bryson? What other fun events do you have planned for him?" Mark asked as he lightly fluffed Bryson's pillows.

" I guess I 'm going to get him ready for Christmas but I really like to keep him focused on what fun things he is going to do once he is out of the hospital." Lexie said as she pulled Bryson's blanket up to cover him fully.

" I'm sure the first place you are going to tell him to go to is The Seattle Zoo to see Zoey," Mark said as he placed his hands in his pockets and looked on at Lexie as she froze in the middle of tucking in Bryson

"Chuck! Chuck!" coughed out a sleeping Bryson.

Mark turned his attention towards Bryson " Did ughh… he just say Chuck in his sleep?" Mark asked in a confused manner pointing down at Bryson.

Lexie who was still frozen staring down at Bryson's blanket finally looked up to see that Bryson was still asleep then moved her eyes to look over at Mark " Yeah…he ughh has a really bad sleep talking habit." Lexie said praying inside that Bryson would continue fake sleeping and stay quite.

"Well who's Chuck?" Mark asked curiously still looking down at Bryson.

" Some imaginary friend of his. He's always talking about Chuck this and Chuck that." Lexie said as her nervous laugh began to surface.

Mark shrugged his shoulders "I guess Chuck is one special imaginary friend."

"Yeah really special." Lexie barley whispered as she kept her eyes locked on Mark.

Mark who didn't quite hear what Lexie said still locked eyes with her and asked "Do you need a ride home?"

" Oh no….no…That's fine. I have Nurse Leighton driving me home. She lives two street blocks away from Meredith." Lexie said as she broke her gaze from Mark.

"Alright," Mark said as he began to walk towards the door in Bryson's room. " I'll see you around then?"

" Yeah around." Lexie said as she watched Mark slowly walk out of Bryson's room.

The second Mark stepped out of Bryson's room she turned around to face an eight year old boy who played possum very well but before she could let him know that she caught on to his fake sleeping she heard someone whisper her name.

"Lexie…." Lexie turned around to see Mark peaking his head back into Bryson's room.

"Yeah Mark?"

"You're coming to my house with Meredith, Derek and Zola for Christmas Right?" Mark asked as he slowly pleaded with God in his head for her to say yes.

Lexie nodded her head and whispered to him " I'll be there."

" Okay Great. Good night Lex." Mark said he popped his head back out of Bryson's room and walked down the hall to the elevators.

As he stood waiting for elevator Mark pulled out his phone from his pocket and seen that he had numerous missed phone calls from Jackson, Derek & Owen. He even took note that he had 6 unanswered text messages from Julia but before he answered all those missed calls & unanswered texts he had to call his best friend and just let her know that she was right about something she said a few weeks back.

He clicked open a new text message and began to type to Callie Torres. "You're right about Little Grey. She still fills up space in my head. Actually she never left the space in my head. " He clicked send as the elevator doors opened up and he stepped on.

Lexie waited a couple moments to make sure Mark was definitely gone before she bent down and whispered in Bryson's ear " I know you're awake right now Brys and to answer your question. Yes Dr. Sloan is Chuck."

A smile formed on Bryson's face as he slowly rose his right hand and gave Lexie the thumbs up.

"Thanks for the approval." Lexie said as she stood back up and rubbed Bryson's hair in a playful manner. "Now get some sleep. I'll see you tomorrow afternoon." Lexie told Bryson as she exited out of his room.

"Lilly, I'll meet you down at the hospital lobby ," Lexie told Nurse Leighton who was standing at the nurse's station outside of Bryson's room.

"I should be down there in 5 minutes," Nurse Leighton told Lexie as Lexie began to make her way towards the elevators.

When the elevator finally came to a stop and the doors opened up to the hospital lobby Lexie almost choked when she seen who was standing and waiting for the elevator.

"Oh Hi Lexie! ,"

Lexie could feel the butterflies that were in her stomach earlier that night turn cold and wrap tightly around her vocal cords. Forming any type of word at that moment seemed impossible for Lexie.

"Are you okay?"

Lexie lost count but she was pretty sure that she shook her head a total of 10 times to tell the person standing in front of her that she was okay.

"Umm Okay. Well did you see My Mark at all tonight? He was suppose to be over Joe's for Guy's night and I was suppose to meet him over there after my shift ended but the guys said he never showed."

Just like Magicians have used the word abracadabra to make things disappear the word "My Mark" suddenly made the butterflies that were holding onto Lexie's vocal cords vanish.

"Sorry Julia. No I haven't seen your Mark." Lexie told her as she stepped off the elevator and Julia stepped on.

"Well I'm going to go check and see if he is in his office." Julia said as she pushed the close door button on the elevator.

When the doors finally came to a close Lexie mumbled to herself " No I didn't see your Mark but I did see My Mark tonight."