A knock came at the door causing him to jump from the half sleep he had fallen into. Meredith had left not long before to check on her mother.
"What?" He groaned rubbing his eyes.
"We haven't been by in a while. We wanted to check on you." Kathleen explained as they stood in the door.
"I'm fine." He yawned.
"So what was Addison doing in here with an ultrasound earlier?" Carol asked.
"Are you pregnant, Mark?" Nancy joked.
"No, bur my fiancé is." Mark rolled his eyes.
"Is Meredith all we're ever going to hear about?" Stephanie asked obviously annoyed.
"So what if it is?" Mark shot back. "I happen to like talking about her."
"Well, we can't participate in the conversation seeing as we know nothing about this girl other than you got her pregnant and never told us." Donna said in a stern annoyed voice.
"Here we go again." Mark mumbled. "You know if you just want to give me grief then just go."
"We just want to know why, Mark." Madison almost yelled.
"Because it's my damn business." Mark yelled back.
"From what I hear, this is the first time you've kept something major from your family." Marissa said.
Mark glared at her. "Let's get one thing straight. You know nothing about me or Meredith, so why don't you take you're little physiologist act and leave me alone."
"I'm a psychiatrist." Marissa said plainly.
"I don't care."
"I'm just trying to help."
"I don't need any help." Mark almost yelled. "If you can't stand my life, then leave."
A quick knock came before the door opened. Richard appeared with a wide smile.
"Richard. Good to see you finally had time to drop by my room." Mark joked.
Chuckling, he shook his head. "I just heard the big news. Congratulations." He gave Mark a firm handshake.
Mark smiled. "I'm so excited."
"I'm sure you are. Names are already going around the hospital. I doubt you will be allowed to pick one."
Mark chuckled. "The nurses are already buzzing. Can't trust this hospital with anything."
"No, you certainly can't." Richard laughed. "How's Mer doing with everything?"
"She's… dealing I guess. If you let me out of here early…"
"Not a chance, Sloan."
"Worth a try I guess."
"I better get going. Let me know if you guys need anything."
"Will do. See you later, Chief."
"Hey, Richard." Derek smiled.
"Derek." He nodded at him. Though he wouldn't admit it, he never looked at Derek in the same way after he hurt Meredith. With that, he walked away.
"What's the big news?" Nancy asked.
"What?" Mark looked at them.
"The big news. What is it?" Donna asked.
He had forgotten all about telling them. Just as he was about to say something the door opened without a knock for warning and Christina and Alex walked in.
"Sloan!" Christina almost yelled.
"Yes Yang?" Mark gave her a charming smile.
"You are so dead, dude." Alex chuckled.
"What did I do? I haven't left my bed." Mark quickly protested.
"You know you can get your ass in trouble from here." Christina said.
"What did I do, Yang?"
"You named the baby and didn't tell us."
Mark laughed. "We did not."
"You didn't?" Alex asked with a little amusement in his voice. Mark shook his head with an amused smile.
"We should probably stop Izz then." Christina whispered.
"Probably a good idea." Alex nodded.
"She better not hurt my fiancé." Mark laughed.
"Yeah, we better go stop her." Alex whispered. "See you later, Sloan."
"Hurry up, Evil Spawn." Christina said pushing him out the door.
Mark laughed shaking his head. "Stupid nurses."
"Now you're naming my grandson?" Donna asked.
"Grandson?" Mark asked looking at her like she was crazy.
"There hasn't been a girl Sloan born in four generations, Mark." She reminded him.
"Well, there's a first time for everything."
"Are you saying it's a girl?" Derek asked.
"Yep. We just found out." Mark smiled with pride.
"And you didn't tell us?" Carol asked.
"We just found out like two hours ago." Mark protested annoyed that they couldn't seem to be happy.
"And those people knew before us?" Nancy asked.
"'Those 'people' are Meredith's family." Mark said as anger flashed through her eyes. The protectiveness he had for Meredith took over. "Why the hell can't you just be happy for us?"
"We have no clue what to be happy for seeing as you don't tell us anything!" Donna yelled.
"I shouldn't have to!" He yelled back. "If you've paid attention to anything since you've got here then you would know."