Let it change us

Chapter 21- So damn sexy and so damn jealous

"I hope that you didn't request me today, just to make me do nothing." Meredith titled her head over shoulder towards Mark, who was walking right behind her.

"Dr. Grey, you are here to learn and work not to sleep." Mark replied with a coldly voice, though his eyes were smiling at her.

"I am glad that you are aware of this too." Meredith replied in the same manner as Mark and turned her back on him as she kept walking ahead with a straight position of her body.

They walked together towards nurses' station and they stopped as they got there. Mark picked up a chart while his eyes were searching the surroundings. When he was sure that Bailey was no where to be seen, his cocky smile reappeared on his face and leaning on his elbow on counter, Mark lowered his head to Meredith. "Am I professional enough?"

His tone and attitude were anything else but professional and serious.

At first, Meredith threw him a glare, but when her eyes caught his, the glare became a flirtatious smile. She soon realized what Mark was trying to do and what she was doing, so she straightened her lab coat clearing her throat and grabbed the chart from Mark's hands.

"Abdominal liposuction" She read inside as she opened the chart.

"Wanna scrub in?" Mark asked her with a smirk on his face.

At his knew dirty hint, Meredith shot him a deadly glare.

"I am just trying to satisfy your cravings. You suggested me you want a surgery." Mark put up a totally innocent look on his face and stuck out his lower lip to show her how she had hurt his feelings.

Meredith stared at him inexpressive and after a while, she drew her eyes away from him back down in that chart. "What do I have to do? Or are you going to let me scrub in as favor?"

"I am not going to let you scrub in just like that. Of course you have something to show to me!" Mark jumped immediately as if that was such a dare for Meredith to ask a favor from him.

Despite his reaction, Meredith knew he was just fooling with her, because she could see the smile he was holding behind his fake serious face.

"You are... Ahh" Meredith winced annoyed by his attitude. "You have no shame."

"Dr. Grey." Mark laugh at Meredith's burst. "You have to show me that you know something about the abdominal liposuction. Now what is that horny brain of your baking in there?"

Meredith let out a gasp at Mark's comment and with a frowned look she was about to reply, when they heard the Chief.

"Dr. Sloan"

Meredith held back the reproach for Mark and they both looked aside to see the Chief walking towards them with a young doctor.

"Chief" Mark greeted him smiling. "What can I do for you?"

"This is Dr. Martin; he is an intern transferred from New York. I want you to have him today." The Chief pointed to the new intern as he introduced him.

"It's an honor to meet you Dr. Sloan. I heard so..." The intern held out his hand to Mark, with a bright and sincere smile on his face. In exchange, he received Mark's glare who looked away at Dr. Weber. "But I already have an intern." Mark stated obviously not thrilled at all to have on more person shadowing him all day.

"Now you have two." The Chief cut him sharply and without giving him any opportunity to reply, he turned around and walked away.

In all this time, Meredith smiled friendly at her new fellow. He was tall with a nice sculptured body; it wasn't too big, but slim either. Each part of his body was at a perfect and normal proportion. Meredith found herself staring at him with a dreaming look. His hair looked like a blond version of Derek's, just that this new doctor's curls were shorter, and together with those intense blue eyes were making perfect for a picture in story book with princes.

"Hi, I am Calvin Martin!" Calvin held out his hand at Meredith.

Meredith giggled as if she was teenager in loved and shook his hand. "I am Meredith Grey... also an intern."

"It's nice to meet you Meredith!"

"It's nice to meet you too, Calvin."

"We are going to be tortured together today, so you can call me Cal." Calvin chuckled as he let her hand go, without breaking the eye contact he had made with her.

"If you are planning to flirt all day, just let me know, because I might not need you today." Mark snapped at him a few feet away from them. "Are you coming, Dr. Grey?" He asked her without even looking back at her and kept walking. Their little greeting didn't pass unnoticed by Mark.

Meredith and Calvin smiled at each other and then they sped up their walk after Mark.

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"Grey, I want you to run Mrs. Kerrey's blood test after you examine her." After they walked out from patient's room, Mark started to tell Meredith and Calvin what are their duties for the day. "Don't expect to scrub in this surgery, if you two will keep chatting and knowing each other better during the shift." He continued in the same harsh and cold tone, with a persistent glare over Calvin.

At Mark's threat, Meredith rolled her eyes in annoyance.

"Nice attitude, Grey! Keep it and I will make you miss the ORs." Mark answered to her gesture with glare. "You... whatever your name is... guy from New York, I need you to do an xRay to the man with burns who came earlier in pit."

Calvin nodded in agreement and then he looked down at Meredith. "Where is the Radiology?"

"I will show you." Meredith smiled friendly and caused more fires in Mark's glares. "You are not a tourist guide so let him find it by himself. You have other things to do."

Meredith gasped irritated by Mark's cruel attitude towards her new co-worker. "Do you have any idea how hard it is to find it from the first day?!? Well, I know and I am going to help him. Besides, the Radiology is not far from laboratory."

"You are blonde so I am not surprised, but now you don't have to offend your other co-workers." Mark joked purposely to offend her.

Meredith opened the mouth to reply, but she was angry, that she could not even find the right words to his offense. She grabbed Calvin's hand "Let's go, Calvin!" and dragged him after her back into the patient's room shooting a deadly glare to Mark before stepping inside.

Now it was Mark's turn to want to answer to her attitude, but got speechless.

Calvin followed Meredith inside very surprised by the way she stood up in front of her boss. "Are you trying to get us in trouble?" He asked her as he closed the door. Surprisingly, he was almost laughing at her gesture.

Meredith giggled and shook her head. "Don't worry about him! I have immunity." She smiled knowingly before she turned to their patient. "Alright Mrs. Kelley, I am going to give you an exam and then I will draw you some blood."

The woman, who seemed to be in her early 40s, started laughing. "You are immune at Dr. Sloan. How is this possible?" Meredith looked at her confused and then at Calvin, who had started to laugh also. "Are you immune to life or you don't like men?" The woman asked her, just that as she said that, she stopped from laughing and pulled her arm away from Meredith. "If you have other tastes, then I don't think I would like you to assist at this procedure. Let this... fine doctor" The woman giggled as she analyzed Calvin from toes to his head. "or bring another female doctor."

"I like men." Meredith mumbled dryly and almost with regret. "Unfortunately."

"Oh dear" The woman giggled. "You are such a pretty girl. Why would you want to waste yourself for another female? It's not far to leave men like him..." She pointed to Calvin "... without a woman like you."

"It would be a waste indeed." Calvin stated laughing. Though he looked like a flirtatious guy, nothing from his voice or gestured was suggesting something horny and dirty.

"Shut up or I will let you find the Radiology by yourself." At first Meredith tried to show him a serious look, but as she looked at him and saw him laughing, Meredith burst into laugh with them.

With a new good looking guy after her all day and an angry Mark, Meredith knew she would have 8 very long and interesting hours.

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"So... uh" Meredith leaned against the wall as they were waiting for the elevator. "Do you mind if I ask you what brings you from New York to Seattle?"

Calvin smile kindly and nodded. He propped both hands into his lab's pockets as he held a chart under the left arm. "My mother." He answered simply looking towards the gray metal doors.

Meredith kind of understood from his answer and his gestures that he didn't come just because he missed his mother too much. "Same here." She breathed out the words silently.

"Your mother is town too?" Calvin asked her. Since Ellis Grey was a world renowned surgeon, almost every doctor or medical staff was asking Meredith about her mother. Calvin was not an exception. "It must be great to have her around. Does she comes by this hospital? I heard she retired." His curiosity stopped as soon as he notice Meredith's panicked look and the hesitation. "What's her diagnosis?" He asked her tenderly.

Meredith was preparing her well-known speech about her mother traveling, when Calvin's question got her off guard. She stared at him unable to understand how could he guessed something like this.

"I am good reader." Calvin chuckled as he elbowed her arm slowly. He took his hands out of pockets, took the chart and ran a hand through his short curls. As he did that, he let out a heavy sigh before looking back at Meredith. "My dead passed away two years ago and my mom is now all alone here and sick... 3 stage of metastatic breast cancer." He chocked back almost each word from his last statement.

Meredith smiled sympathetic at him and then her vision line fell over her sneakers. "Advanced Alzheimer"

Calvin leaned his back against the wall right next to her. He looked down at her as his look was calling for her to look back at him. She answered to his call and as she looked up they smiled at each other and almost burst into laugh. None of them continued to talk about that, clearly not wishing to do it.

"I might like this place." At his statement, Meredith saw how his bright look was searching the surrounding area of that hallway. "I am sure you will." She assured him.

Calvin smiled at her and leaned his head to hers, resting it against it. Meredith found cute his gesture so she also put her head down on his shoulder and rubbed his arm as comfort.

"Aww is this cozy." Mark stated in Meredith's ear. His voice sounded unpleasantly again. "On the hospital's hallways... nice." He passed by them and pressed the button to call the elevator.

Meredith and Calvin pulled apart and smiled at each other.

"I hope you are not expecting me to do your job." Mark glanced just at Meredith as he sharply said that.

"I am on my way to there and I will also show Calvin where the Radiology is." Meredith replied calm.

"Calvin?!?" Mark raised his eyebrow at her, unpleasantly surprised to see that she was already calling the new guy by his first name.

"Dr. Sloan, I want you to look over these!" The Chief walked to them together with Derek. He handed Mark some films right in the moment that the doors open.

Meredith made a gesture to walk inside, but Calvin stopped her as he caught her wrist. "Stay" He smiled at her. It was a strange smile; not like a scary one... mostly like a dirty one. Meredith looked questioning at him, but she decided to do as he asked. "What's going on?" She asked him.

Calvin smiled as he lowered his head to her and whispered to her ear. "He is so damn sexy and so damn jealous. I must say I envy you." He chuckled as he looked back at Mark.

Mark talked with Weber and Derek about a patient, but from time to time his eyes were glancing back at Meredith. He started to do it more often, especially after he saw how close the New York guy was standing to Meredith.

Calvin smiled when he saw how shocked Meredith was staring at him. "I didn't mention you that I am gay, did I?"

"Ohh" Meredith started to laugh. "I knew you couldn't be that real... not for me anyway."

"Not for you... apparently someone else is for you." He stated grinning towards Mark.

"You don't know anything about this so drop it." Meredith turned her back on Mark and the other doctors. She could not help by smile at Calvin's statement about Mark.

"Why are you two still here?" Mark almost shouted at them and made them startle at his sudden burst.

"It was too crowded." Calvin answered non-nonchalant, not very scared by his boss's attitude.

Mark sniffed but didn't comment more. They all three waited for the elevator to return to their floor, keeping a silence between them.

This time, the elevator came sooner so the three of them stepped inside. They let Meredith in first and then the men followed her. Meredith and Calvin went into a corner together, while Mark stayed in front of it with his back turned to them.

"Since I am new in town and you are the first person I met at my new work place... would like to go out and have a drink with me tonight?" Calvin asked Meredith soon after the elevator took off and like that he broke the hard silence from that small moving box.

Meredith looked at him curious. He made it sound like a proposal for a date, but he had just confessed that he likes men.

Calvin read her again and winked at her as his eyebrows suggestively smirked to Mark.

"Uh... I'd love to." Meredith found it cute and decided to join his play. "I am off at 3, so ... we could go at Joe's."

"The bar across the hospital?"

"That one." Meredith giggled. It was an amused giggle at the game they were playing... checking Mark's jealousy.

"You can't go out tonight, Meredith!" Mark turned around to them and glared Meredith.

"Dr. Grey" Meredith corrected him.

"Dr. Grey." Mark's voice was trembling with anger again as he corrected himself. "You already worked 24 hours. You need rest."

"Dr. Sloan" Meredith had the intention to continue with that game, but something unexpected and shocking interrupted her.

"And you keep saying how immature I am." Mark stated sharply and in a such cold tone that Meredith had never seen at him. "You know what? I don't care anymore!" It took two seconds for the elevator to open its doors at Mark's floor.

Mark walked out without any other word leaving in there a completely shocked Meredith. That hurt more than she would have ever thought. What was that thing that he didn't care anymore? Her? The baby? Suddenly, Meredith felt her eyes watering. Whatever he stopped caring about, she was feeling sorry.

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I am not very happy with the way that this chapter came out. I had a hard and bad day, so I guess this is the reason.

You might not have liked this one, but I had to write it because now Mark realized he can be jealous if another man gets closer to Meredith and Meredith realized that she needs Mark to care: not just for the baby, but also for her.

I will start the new chapter right away and I hope I will finish it by tomorrow. A new week will start and I don't know how crazy this one will be.

Just to make it clear: Meredith and Mark are not over. You will see that none of them wants to give up that easily at each other. This guy Calvin showed up in my fic to help these two found each other and he managed to do it from the first day. Please don't hate him!

Thank you so much for your reviews. I love reading them and they sure bright my day. I also love how you leave me suggestions about what do you want to read in this fic. It helps me a lot and gives more ideas.

I am not even at the middle of this story and I already have a whole sequel for this in my head. LOL