AN: Hi all! Sorry this isn't on my usual schedule - I've been moving and starting a new job so it's been wildly hectic!
Lexie and Mark decide to waste the day. If someone asked them what they'd done during their day off, neither one could give a solid answer but they just spent it together. As the sunsets, Mark and Lexie have decided to ride the ferry boat back and forth across the sound for a little bit. Wrapping his arm around Lexie, Mark pulls him into her.
Despite the fact they had spent the whole day avoiding talking about the reason they took off work, Lexie can't help but think about their future. "Would you -" She pauses to figure out if this is really the right question to ask right now but she wants to get it off her mind. "Would you ever want to try and have a baby again? Not right now obviously, but in the future?" Lexie asks her voice quieter than she means for it to come out as.
The question surprises Mark. Offhandedly they'd discussed it during therapy, but never for real. He wanted kids, even though his childhood had been less than ideal with Lexie he wanted the chance to have kids, and he thought Lexie should be a mom. Without a doubt Lexie would be the best mom, and he knew that, she should get that chance. "I want to." Unlike Lexie, he's never rambled, always quick and blunt with his point.
Her entire face lights up as she turns in his arms to look at him. "Really? Even after everything?" Lexie asks optimistically.
"Yes. God, Lexie you should be a mom. You're going to be an amazing mom. I wouldn't want anyone else to be the mother of my children. I don't think we should rush in and have kids right now that we're just starting to get settled, but at some point, I want to have kids with you." Mark makes sure to emphasize the kids factor. He wanted more than one, growing up around the Shepherds he saw the big family and Mark wanted one of his own.
Mark's admission makes Lexie ecstatic. She worried after losing the baby and everything that happened after that he wouldn't want to take that risk again. Everything he said makes sense though, she knew with how terribleness of the part of his childhood before he met Derek had been that he had worked hard to get to a place where he felt like he could create his own family. "Lexie Sloan, I want to have a family with you." Mark says leaning in and kissing her.
Smiling as he kisses her, Lexie leans back. "I was also thinking about changing my name at work." She admits as they pull away.
This catches Mark off guard, legally she had made Grey a secondary middle name and taken Mark's last name. When coming to Seattle, she wanted to run and had decided to go with her original last name. "What?" He asks in surprise. Of course he wanted her to use her actual name at work.
"I'm thinking of hyphenating it at work, because my last name is Sloan, but I don't want to spend my whole day getting paged for plastics cases. I'm married to you, and I want the world to know." Lexie explains.
"I think I'd like that a lot." Mark admits, he'd never pushed her to change her name but the day she'd decided to he'd been ecstatic.
Smiling she leans into him. "I thought you would. Come on let's go get some dinner." Lexie says as the ferry boat pulls back into the harbor. Pulling his hand she moves them back towards the car they'd driven in.
Even though today should have been one of Lexie's worse days in her life something about it magically feels okay. Parts of her knew she would never fully recover but something about having Mark by her side through all of this and never doubting that he loved her and would be there made it all a little bit easier. Today she should have become a mom. She didn't, but with Mark by her side something that should have been absolutely crippling felt just a little bit easier. As Mark drives them to pick up dinner and head back to the Frat House, she can't help but to look at him admiringly.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" He asks pulling off the ferry and noticing her gaze.
Chuckling, Lexie feels almost like a teenager laughing at this. "No, I just love you and I'm so grateful that I have you today." She speaks earnestly. Mark takes his free hand and wraps it tightly around hers.
There's an unspoken moment between them and Lexie's glad she doesn't have to speak to explain how she loves him and how grateful she is in this moment. Mark's hand tightening around hers gives them both all she needs to know.
AN: I know this is short but it's been crazy! Drop a review and let me know what you thought!