Chapter 26: Let the Games Begin

Derek's Point-of-View

"You look grumpy. No action last night?" Mark said, smiling victoriously.

"I got cockblocked." I grumbled.

Mark sucked in a teasing breath.

"Damn, that's…great for me…bad for you, but great for me." He finally said, doing a fist pump into the air.

I rolled my eyes.

"Can you, for one minute, act like a mature adult?" I asked, leaning against the desk, my arms wrapped around my patient's chart.

Mark pretended to think.

"No." He said, shaking his head. "So, who cockblocked you?"

"Bailey."

Mark stood up straight and tensed up at Lexie's voice. He suddenly moved behind me and I was now the buffer between them. I looked back over my shoulder and was stopped from speaking with his pleading and panicked look.

Interesting.

I chanced a glance at Lexie, who wore an innocent expression, but I caught sight of a smirk before she completely schooled her features.

"She told you, huh?" I asked her.

"Who? Mer?" She asked.

I nodded.

"No, actually I am on Bailey's service and she said something about 'Tell your sister to get tested for venereal diseases as soon as possible, damn girl could do better than to get arrested for public indecency in the front seat of a car across the street from the hospital and her own personal parking spot and to warn her that that, and I quote, 'McDreamy's McDick has been in a lot of McNurses and McSluts'. Yeah that's it." She said, her eyes showing the hilarity she was feeling.

"I knew she wouldn't be happy to just bust my balls last night." I complained.

"Ha! Bailey is on to you." Mark singsong.

"Yeah, and what does she say about you?" I asked him with a glare.

"Oh she says that McSteamy is much worse and anyone who is stupid enough to sleep with him should triple wrap that little sucker." Lexie quoted.

"See I always knew she liked me more." I gloated with a grin.

"That is just wrong. And inaccurate. It's Big sucker. Big." Mark then proceeded to actually demonstrate with his hands how 'big' he was.

Oh, this was going to be good.

Lexie snorted. And then pushed me out of the way, got very close to Mark and said very seductively, "I don't care how big you think you are and I am never going to find out whether you are right or not, because I am never sleeping with you. Oh, and Bailey needs a consult."

She was gone before Mark could pick his jaw up.

"Oh…yeah? Well, you are…lucky I don't want you...to...do that." He called out after her.

"Oh that was a brilliant comeback and she is long gone. What was it you said? Oh…great for me, bad for you, but great for me." I quoted him, clapping him on his shoulder.

"Oh I will get her where I want her, you just wait. She is just playing hard to get. No one turns down Mark Sloan…no one." He vowed and then with one last glance in the direction Lexie went, he stormed off in the opposite direction.

I smirked. Oh, he had it bad.

"What is that look for?"

I turned and grinned.

"Hey you! Did you dream about me?"

Meredith snorted indelicately.

"I would call them nightmares, but yeah, I did." She admitted.

God, I love her snark.

"What's with the turtleneck? That just looks…"

"Stupid? Completely ignorant?" She supplied for me.

"Hot?" I asked hesitantly.

"Yes, it is that too." She said impatiently.

"Then why are you wearing it?" I asked.

"I am wearing it because someone bit the fuck out of my neck last night and I have hickeys all over it." She hissed.

Oh…

I grinned.

October 10, 2009...I gave Meredith Grey a hickey. Several hickeys. Sigh. I marked her as mine.

"That is not a good thing, you moron." She spat.

"Oh what is the big deal?" I asked.

Her eyes bugged out of her head.

"The big deal is that you are my boss. I am your fellow. I just moved here and that lumps me in with your Chastity Challenged Cooter Club." She fumed.

"You are nothing like the C4." I said seriously, but I was barely keeping a straight face.

"UGH! You are impossible!" She yelled.

I looked around at our audience, several of them belonging to the aforementioned club. I smiled and nodded to them all.

Meredith's eyes narrowed.

"You know what, you are right it is not a big deal." She said calming down.

I breathed an inward sigh of relief at her understanding.

"We just can't do that anymore." She said, smiling brightly.

"Okay…wait, what? Do what?" I said, not understanding.

"Make out. I mean if you can't control yourself, then I just can't be that girl, you know? I can't wear turtlenecks under my scrubs, and I can't try to cover them up which actually just puts a red blinking sign up to everyone saying 'look at me, this is what my boss did to me in the front seat of his crappy car'. Yeah, so no more." She finished her ramble and then walked off.

I stood there stunned. What the hell just happened?

Meredith's Point-of-View

I snickered once I was out of ear range. That was just classic. The look on his face…

"So, how did it go?"

I turned around to face my sister.

"Like clockwork. You?"

Lexie grinned.

"Like clockwork. They have no idea what's coming. It is almost sad really."

"What is?" I asked.

"These men are two of the most respected doctors in the world and we are about to bring them to their knees." She told me.

"They brought it upon themselves. I mean, I was so surprised last night during our date. It was…nice, but to come here today and find out they are betting on getting us in bed…they deserve everything they are going to get." I hissed.

"Come on, don't be too mad at him." Lexie said.

"Why not?"

"He really really likes you Mer, a lot and he is misguided, and he is acting like a douche but that is who he is." Lexie surmised.

"That is supposed to make me feel sorry for him? Because he is an ass who just can't help but make a high dollar bet on getting into my pants? Why are you not more pissed?"

"Because I know Mark likes me. He doesn't want to, but he does, and I can train him." She informed me.

I giggled.

"Like a puppy. We can enroll them in obedience class."

"Yep, The School for Reformed ManWhores." She quipped.

"So now what?" I asked once we sobered up.

"Now, we resist them. Make them both lose the money." She said.

I groaned.

"So no sex for twenty-eight days?" I asked.

"Nope. Look at the bright side, it was thirty."

I sighed.

"That really sucks."

Lexie sighed.

"Yep."

Let the games begin.