A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.
Chapter 10
"Is this day over yet?" Mark groaned as he leaned on the counter of the nurses' station doing charts.
"This day just started and there is absolutely no end in sight. The good thing is at least I feel human again." Derek answered him.
"I've got something for you to look forward to, Shep, Addie's got a surgery that's going to keep her here until like eight tonight. And I've got a big screen TV with our names and the Knicks game on it." Mark tempted him.
"Sounds good, what's the catch?" Derek asked him.
"The catch is Addie has to work late, so I'll have Carson, but he's good for the most part." Mark replied.
"As far as I'm concerned that kid's an angel after he let us all sleep it off last night without waking us up." Derek informed him.
"I know I owe that kid big for that one, like in sixteen years I'm gonna tell his mom those are my magazines big." Mark chuckled at the thought.
"The sad part is that Addison would believe that those are your magazines." Derek laughed heartily.
"Speaking of that I have to get rid of those magazines before Addison finds them." Mark said as the thought dawned on him.
"Mark, after last night I'm pretty sure that there is nothing you can do wrong for a month that she won't forgive." Derek pointed out to him.
"I rather not tempt fate." Mark retorted with a snort.
"And I rather that you didn't at least not today I'm not in the mood to deal with any of your antics." Addison said as she joined the pair having just caught Mark's last comment.
"You are in no position to talk about anyone's antics after the way you behaved last night." Mark reminded her.
"I wasn't that bad, you know that I'm just a really friendly drunk." Addison countered.
"The only thing I know is this you make one hell of an uncomfortable pillow." Derek told her in mock seriousness.
"Don't feel like the lone ranger on that one Mark isn't a very comfortable pillow either and on top of that he snores. Besides that I was in the middle of a Mark and Derek sandwich." Addison replied.
"You're the smallest, Red, you have to be in the middle." Mark grinned at her.
"The only thing I remember about falling asleep last night is fixing Carson so that he wouldn't roll off the couch on us." Derek admitted.
Callie walked up to the trio with a highly amused look on her face at that moment. "It's funny that you should mention the way you three slept last night." She said. She pulled out her phone and showed them a picture she had taken of them sleeping with Carson. The baby lay on top of Mark with Addison's arm around him and Derek's hand supporting his head. "How any of you slept comfortably like that I will never know."
"It's one of the perks of being as drunk as we were last night we didn't give a shit where we passed out." Addison informed her in mock seriousness.
"You only say that because you weren't the one who had three people sleeping on top of you." Mark scoffed rolling his eyes.
"Sloan, I sincerely doubt that Carson sleeping on your stomach put that much strain on you the kid only weighs like eight pounds." Derek pointed out to him.
"Is that your way of calling me fat?" Addison asked in mock seriousness.
"Oh, please, Addie, you weigh next to nothing I could sling you over my shoulder and go caveman on you in an on call room right now and you would be powerless to stop me." Mark replied making his eyebrows dance.
"I might be able to be persuaded if I have time later." Addison was clearly trying to seduce him not that it took much work since he was ready to jump her any time.
"Red, we can make the time." Mark retorted jumping all over her offer.
"I say this again you two are so damn cute it makes me sick." Derek muttered shaking his head.
"I know they are always all over each other. They act like a couple of horny teenagers." Callie agreed with him. "They are at least a little more tame when they have Casey with them."
"Where is Casey?" Derek asked. It was odd that he wasn't with either of his parents at the moment.
"He's with Karev at the moment, but they should be making an appearance at any minute if Alex knows what's good for him." Addison answered checking her watch. "And I can't believe that Mark has you both calling him that."
Sure enough Alex came lumbering over to them with Carson strapped to his chest in his carrier with a brown paper sack in his hand. "Here is the food that you requested." He announced grandly handing the bag to Addison.
"I have to say I'm impressed, Karev, you got there and back pretty quick." Addison told him.
"I have to deal with you all day and I don't want you to be cranky when I'm the one you'll take it out on." Alex pointed out to her.
"Was Carson good for you?" Addison asked pulling a sandwich out of the bag. "Here the other two are for you morons fight amongst yourselves for them." She said handing the bag to Mark.
"Yeah he was I think he's starting to get used to me. Let me tell you something else he's pretty handy to have around I've got chicks falling over themselves to talk to me when I'm on baby duty." Alex retorted with a smirk.
"Seriously, Karev? You've been using your boss's kid to pick up women?" Callie asked him with an arched eyebrow.
"My boss is using me as a babysitter and errand boy when I'm in fact a surgeon. If I use the kid to get me laid every so often it's only fair." Alex replied smartly and the grin on his face said that he was damn proud of himself.
"My son is a woman magnet when Mark and I take him to the grocery store with us and I walk away for a minute I have to come back and mark my territory because he's got women all over him." Addison admitted with a shrug it was easier to just go with the flow sometimes.
"Sloan, I warn you now I will kill you for that other sandwich if you don't hand it over soon." Derek informed Mark jokingly.
"Shep, I get first pick because my sugar momma bought us these and I'm out of arguments after that." Mark teased him.
"Mark, this is one of those times that words fail me when it comes to you. Besides that I got you both your usual sandwich orders." Addison pointed out him.
"You still remember that?" Derek asked her obviously impressed.
"Derek, we were married for eleven years there are just some things that I'm never going to forget." Addison reminded him like he should have thought of that.
"Is there anything else that I can do for you right now, Dr. Montgomery?" Alex asked her cheerfully. He was still employing his plan of trying to annoy the hell out of her to get her to let him off her service.
"Not a thing I can think of, Karev. You have your research project for right now and you're on Carson watch. If I have anything else for you later I'll page you." Addison told him plastering a fake smile on her face.
"Red, you do know that your residents are up to something don't you?" Mark asked her.
"I'm well aware that they're up to something, but whatever it is isn't going to work." Addison assured him. If they wanted to play hardball she would show them how it was done.
"Oh, and while I'm thinking about it Derek's coming over to watch the game with me after work. Thanks for the sandwich, Red, I gotta run I have a surgery in half an hour that I need to prep for." Mark said pecking her lips sweetly.
"Have a good surgery, I love you, babe." Addison pecked his lips again.
"Love you too, Red." Mark replied before walking off.
"We've gotta stop meeting like this, Red, or people are gonna start to talk." Mark joked later that day when he ushered Addison into an on call room with him.
"Let them talk I'm trying to make a baby with my super sexy boyfriend and that means we have to have a lot of hot sex." Addison said slowly drawing out each syllable seductively.
Mark grinned that cocky grin of his causing his slate blue eyes to dance. "What has gotten into you today?" he asked not that he at all minded.
"That super sexy boyfriend of mine that we were just talking about a minute ago did something really sweet last night that has me totally hot for him. So I would really like for him to take me now and I have a huge surprise for him later on tonight." Addison replied rubbing his chest through his scrub top.
Mark wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her close to him. "Well, do I know this boyfriend you keep talking about?"
"I think you might know him very well." Addison wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Oh is that so?" Mark asked in a taunting tone.
"It is so, my super sexy boyfriend just so happens to be Dr. Mark Charles Sloan head of plastics." Addison informed him keeping their little charade going.
"It's funny that you should mention your boyfriend, because my smokin' hot girlfriend happens to look a lot like you." Mark said getting into the game she was playing with him.
"Do I know her?" Addison asked mirroring the question he had asked her before.
"I'm sure you do she is this drop dead gorgeous redhead. The residents refer to her as Satan but she's Dr. Addison Adriane Forbes Montgomery head of obstetrics and the best neonatal surgeon in the country." Mark answered her moving his face closer to hers as he spoke. He acted like he was going to kiss her lips, but instead he dipped his head lower and started nibbling her neck.
"Oh, Mark," Addison panted out every place his lips touched on her was on fire.
Mark looked at her with a sly grin on his face. "I'll tell you what, Red, let me take care of you now and we'll leave the baby making for later." he suggested.
"What did you have in mind, Dr. Sloan?" Addison asked biting her lip her pale skin was flushed with arousal.
"Allow me to demonstrate." Mark untied the drawstring on her scrub pants and slipped his hand into her panties. He could feel that she was already wet with anticipation and that made his erection throb inside his pants.
Addison inhaled sharply and bucked against his questing fingers. "Mark, please don't tease me. We didn't have sex last night and I really need to feel you inside me, baby." She begged him. She hated how much power she had given to him with that statement, but she couldn't help it.
Mark kept his fingers busy with their task and he curled one of them in a way he knew would drive her wild. "I don't have time to do what I really wanna do to you right now, so you'll have to settle for second best at the moment. Now take down your panties and lay on the bed, babe." He ordered her a predatory gleam in his eyes.
Addison did as he said, but only because she knew that magic happened when she and Mark got naked together. "Mark, you better make me want to scream." She ordered him.
Mark shot her a saucy grin and licked his lips. "You've got no worries on that front, Red, I'll take good care of you." he winked at her.
Fifteen minutes later Addison was standing at the nurses' station working on her charts. Or at least she was attempting to work on her charts her thoughts kept wandering back to Mark and the magic his tongue had worked on her a few minutes earlier. It hadn't been exactly what she wanted, but it had been enough to get her through the rest of the day without going insane. Every time she looked up from her charting she noticed that the nurses were staring at her.
"I'm surprised to see you charting instead of being in the OR." Callie said as she walked up to her friend.
"I have four c-sections this afternoon this is me taking a break before things get crazy." Addison replied setting aside the chart she had just finished updating.
"There's the badass surgeon we all know and love. For real your residents can't stop talking about that surgery you pulled off yesterday. It's like you went from leader of the vagina squad to obstetrics/neonatal goddess overnight. Even the Mercy West transfers are talking about you with reverence." Callie observed.
"My residents are up to something I'm not sure what they're up to, but I'm pretty sure it involves trying to get off my service. And not only that I'm pretty sure that the nurses are up to something too they keep staring at me." Addison retorted.
"Not only are you a surgery goddess you're now like the goddess of love or some shit. You are the woman who successfully tamed Mark the Manwhore Sloan, you are a little bit of a legend to the nurses. You know that your boyfriend has bedded at least one of them from every floor. At one point they all organized against him, he's a hell of a lot easier to work with, with you around to keep him in line." Callie reasoned with her.
"My God, gossip spreads through this hospital faster than the plague." Addison shook her head she was glad that she hadn't done anything stupid at Joe's last night.
"Someone got a video of Mark making his little declaration and put it on YouTube, it kinda spread like wildfire." Callie informed her.
Addison chuckled at that. "You know it's funny because it's Mark, but honestly who does that?"
"It's hilarious because it's Mark, and I have my suspicions about who does that." Callie replied.
"So do I, Karev does things like that." Addison gave a derisive snort.
Callie laughed knowing that she was probably right. "What is your deal with Karev anyway?" she asked. For as long as she had known her Addison had been on Karev's ass.
"I don't have a deal with Karev. He has the potential to be a really great surgeon, but he has a horrible attitude." Addison replied with a shrug.
"That's right, Karev is actually your golden boy and you don't want to admit it. Every time you came up here to consult on a case you made sure to put him on your service. The truth of the matter is you see something in him that no one else does and you're only pretend torturing him right now, because that's the only way to get him on your service every day." Callie called her on her bullshit.
Addison rolled her eyes and sighed. "Maybe you're partially right, Karev has a real gift with my specialty and all he needs is someone to polish him around the edges. And I'm not pretend torturing him to get him on my service I really am punishing him right now."
"You do know you're gonna have to fight Arizona for him right?" Callie asked her an amused look on her face.
"We'll see about that." Addison retorted with a smirk. She hated to admit it, but she was fonder of Karev than what she liked to let on.
"Oh, come on, Casey, daddy knows that you miss mommy, but she will be home soon." Mark cooed at his son as he patted his little upturned butt. He was sitting on his living room couch with Derek watching the basketball game.
"You've got a momma's boy on your hands don't you?" Derek asked throwing back his head and laughing.
Mark scowled at his best friend. "It's looking like he just might love his momma a little bit more than he loves me." he answered and then he grinned. "But, that's ok because I'm his mommy's big boy." He quipped making his eyebrows dance.
"Sloan, it's not even right for you to say things like that in front of your son." Derek scolded him playfully.
"Well, it's true, Addie likes getting lovin' from me." Mark smirked.
"Again, you and Addie are making me ill." Derek joked. "But, it is good to see you both happy. I know for a fact that I broke her and it's just nice to see that someone was able to put the pieces back together."
"Derek, don't get pissed at me for what I'm about to say, but I love Addison and I've loved her since she was married to you. Hell the two of us practically dated the last three years of your marriage." Mark replied.
"I know and that was my fault I'll freely admit to that. I knew that things weren't working with Addison and I anymore, but I didn't have the balls to either just leave her or work it out. And then when she did come out here to work on things I didn't give her the try that she deserved." Derek acknowledged.
"Think of it this way, Shep, none of us have anything to feel guilty about anymore because we all got our happy endings." Mark spoke wisely.
"I never thought I would say this to you, but you're right we did. And the upside to all of this is you're the one who has to deal with Addison now." Derek chuckled.
"I don't mind that one little bit, like I said I love Red with all of my heart. Being with her and Casey makes me happier than I've ever been in my life." Mark retorted seriously.
"Mark, you have to admit that she's stubborn and high maintenance, she has everything so you're gonna be hard pressed to keep her happy." Derek joked with him.
Mark grinned, "I happen to find those all to be endearing qualities."
Derek laughed. "What can you possibly give her that she doesn't already have?"
"Well, right now I'm pretty sure she would be absolutely thrilled with me if I got her pregnant." Mark let slip before he realized what he was saying.
Derek raised an eyebrow and shot him a questioning look. "Oh really now?" he asked.
"Derek, you can't tell anyone, because she'll be pissed if she knows I told you. But, yeah, Addie and I are trying to get pregnant. She told me the other night that she wants to give Casey a sibling and we're not getting any younger and I wouldn't mind another kid. Plus I wanna make her happy." Mark answered him.
"I think it's great, Mark. You two obviously belong together for the mere fact that you've never before made a public declaration of love like the one you made to her last night." Derek teased him.
"Dude, I'm getting so laid tonight." Mark gloated. Or more accurately he was getting laid whether he wanted to or not after how hot he had gotten Addison earlier.
Derek shook his head at him. "Some things will never change with you."
"What can I say? My favorite color is red." Mark commented with a saucy grin.
At that moment the apartment door swung open to reveal Addison and Meredith. "It's nice to see that you two didn't make a mess out of the apartment in the two hours you've been here alone." Addison commented dryly.
"It's nice to see that between the two of them they managed to keep your kid in one piece." Meredith pointed out to her.
"Very true, Grey. I well know how these two can be when they get together and it's scary." Addison agreed with the younger woman.
Mark and Derek shot each other a worried look. "Shep, you are aware that there is no way that those two getting along can be good for us right?" Mark asked.
"I know full well that this spells trouble for us, my friend." Derek answered him.
"Meredith was scrubbed in with me on that last surgery and she asked me if I knew where Derek was, so I told her to just come home with me since he was here." Addison explained to both of them rolling her eyes.
"I don't think Addison and I are that bad together. Actually, there is no way that anyone can be as bad as you three are together." Meredith leveled with them.
"She actually has a point as much as I hate to admit it. We do behave like a bunch of children when we get together." Addison agreed with her.
"We do not behave like children. We just know how to have a good time. So what if that means we pass out drunk from time to time?" Mark asked indignantly.
"There's nothin' at all wrong with that, Mark. My wife can't say anything about us she has a best friend named tequila." Derek sided with Mark.
"Meredith, welcome to my world they think it's funny to gang up on us, but all you have to do is put them in their place and they'll behave." Addison advised the younger woman.
"I don't think you need any help from me you seem to control the two of them just fine." Meredith replied.
"Addie, while you're busy dispensing with advice, come get your son he's missed you." Mark said holding Carson up for her to take him.
Addison placed a chaste kiss to Mark's lips and cradled Carson in the crook of her arm. "Were daddy and Uncle Derek mean to my boy? It's ok you can tell mommy all about it." She cooed at him and he let out a tiny whimper in response. "Carson says that you two have been abusing him all night."
"Uncle Derek hasn't been mean to him at all that was his daddy. He took his bottle away from him after he had had half so he could burp him and he was not happy about that at all." Derek defended himself playfully.
"I would have gotten my ass kicked if I hadn't done that. If I let that boy get a stomachache my life wouldn't be worth living. Addison would murder me in my sleep and make it look like I died of natural causes." Mark retorted.
"I wouldn't make the effort for that I would just make you stay up with him all night while he screamed at the top of his lungs like I did the last time you forgot to burp him." Addison corrected him with a smirk.
"I'll say it again you two are so damn cute together that it makes me want to hurl." Derek joked.
"Derek, the idea is to make nice with Addison, so I can get off her service. When you and Mark piss her off she takes it out on us." Meredith pointed out to her husband.
"So, that's what you, Yang, and Karev are up to. Really, I'm disappointed it's a weak attempt at best." Addison informed her.
"We aren't up to anything." Meredith denied.
"You three are totally up to something and you're hiding it pretty poorly." Addison replied in tone that dared her to tell her she was wrong.
"Ok, fine, you caught us, but it was worth a try." Meredith shrugged.
"Grey, as of this moment you are officially off my service just don't tell Yang and Karev that I plan on torturing them for a little while longer. And for what it's worth I think you're going to miss me when you're back to competing with the Mercy West transfers for surgeries." Addison released her.
"I think I'll manage just fine." Meredith replied trying to hide the grin she felt forming.
Derek shot his ex-wife a grateful look he knew that she had done that as a peace offering. "It's a good thing that you two showed up when you did. Sloan and I are starving and now we have you women to cook for us." he joked knowing how well that would go over.
"In your dreams, Derek, you know that I don't cook." Meredith shot back at her husband.
"Something you would like to say, Mark?" Addison asked her boyfriend when she saw the amused look on his face.
"Just the thought of you attempting to cook amuses the hell out of me, Red. Let's face it you are a brilliant surgeon, but you could burn water." Mark laughed.
"You are so lucky that I'm holding our son right now or I would beat your ass on principle." Addison glared at him. She went to the kitchen and opened the junk drawer before pulling out a stack of take out menus and handing them to Meredith. "Here, Meredith, you pick one of these and the boys can fight amongst themselves over who pays since they think they are so damn funny."
"I like the sound of that idea." Meredith replied shooting a smug grin in Mark and Derek's direction.
"I'll flip you for it." Mark challenged Derek.
"No way, your girlfriend has a twenty-five million dollar trust fund that you guys can fall back on you pay." Derek argued.
"I have a kid and diapers are expensive I need to keep my money you pay." Mark countered.
"I live in a frat house I have to buy groceries twice a week or I starve you pay." Derek came back with.
"I eat take out three or four nights a week like I said my girlfriend is the best neonatal surgeon in the country, but she could burn water, you pay." Mark disputed.
"You slept with my wife you pay." Derek pulled out the big guns.
"First of all you're the one who basically had me dating your wife and second of all that was a dick move so you pay." Mark shot back.
"You two are really going to bring that up right now?" Addison asked glaring at both of them.
"In the spirit of friendship and turning over a new leaf that's the absolute last time I bring that up. I'll pay since I acknowledge that that was a dick move and because I know Mark never keeps any cash handy." Derek said cursing himself when he flinched under Addison's intense gaze.
"Sorry, Red," Mark mumbled knowing that he better apologize since it was not wise to piss her off. He wanted the surprise that she had promised him earlier in the on call room.
"Now, that was a lot simpler than you boys made out to be." Addison smirked at them evilly.
Meredith peered at the older woman with an impressed look on her face. "I'm torn between wanting to run for the hills and asking you to teach me your ways. I've never seen these two back down so quickly before."
"It's all in the way I talk to them. Plus I have seriously embarrassing stories that I could tell you about your husband and I control Mark's sex life neither of them wants to mess with me." Addison informed her.
"Let me remind you that I have embarrassing stories about you too. Also I'm begging you not to cut Mark off he is not a pleasant person to be around when he isn't getting any and you know that." Derek reasoned with her.
"Then I think it would be wise if you two gentlemen didn't decide to test me after the day that I've had." Addison advised them.
Mark stood and sat her down on the couch. "Then in that case sit down and relax I'll get you a glass of wine and I'll heat Casey another bottle it's about that time again."
Addison pulled Mark down and pecked him on his lips. "Thank you, babe, you're so good to me." she told him as her blue green eyes glinted mischievously.
"You're my girl and the mother of my child, Red, of course I'm good to you." Mark replied kissing her forehead before going into the kitchen.
Addison let out a peel of laughter when she saw Meredith standing there with her mouth hanging open and the shocked expression on Derek's face. "Grey, feel free to take notes, because that is how it is done. And don't look so shocked, Derek, we were married for eleven years you know how I operate." She told the pair in a serious manner. "Carson, if you ever find a woman who treats you the way mommy treats daddy you have mommy's blessing to marry her because she is a keeper." She kissed the soft skin behind his ear and laid him over her shoulder when he started fussing and he calmed instantly.
"Addie, that kid cried on and off the whole time he was alone with Mark and me, but you come in and take him and he's calm." Derek observed.
"That's because he's a momma's boy whether Mark wants to admit it or not." Addison replied.
"Oh, I can admit it, Addie, I just don't have to like it that means I have to share you." Mark joked walking back in the room.
"Here, I'll feed him while you unwind." Mark held his arms out for his son.
"Feeding him does relax me I can't tell you the number of times he and I have fallen asleep together in that rocking chair in his room in the middle of the night." Addison said taking his bottle from him.
"Addie, you mind if I try my hand at feeding him?" Derek asked her.
"Not at all, Derek, be my guest just remember to keep him elevated a little bit." Addison reminded him passing Carson to him.
"I've got it under control I got the crash course from Meredith and Karev." Derek chuckled.
"Alright then, Meredith and I will work on getting some food while you two boys watch him." Addison announced taking the resident in the kitchen with her. She had never thought that she would see the day that she welcomed Meredith Grey of all people into her home with open arms, but then again she never thought that she would ever be with Mark again. She was living the life she wasn't supposed to have and loving every second of it.
A/N: Here is the next chapter I hope you guys enjoyed it until next time please review.
