A/N: Seventeen reviews! I don't even have the words to describe the way I feel… Thank you! That really got me motivated!
A/N: As for the 'proposition,' there were quite a few people who got it right, so I had to choose the FIRST person who had gotten it right, and that was… MclovinMcDreamy! You wanted a small McStizzie scene at the very end, so that's what you're getting. Sorry for the others who had gotten it right, but I had to choose one person, and it was only fair to give it to the person who had gotten it right first. If it makes you feel better, I might be doing more of those in the future. Please R & R.. (it's a given to say each chapter)
Summary:Completely AU. One lawyer, one baker, one science professor, one real estate agent, one architect, and now one upcoming fashion designer. Drama is bound to catch up to them. (not all of the characters will be in it) Pairings decided, you'll find out what they are throughout.
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The next morning Meredith and Derek awoke to a vibrating sound coming from somewhere in the room.
Derek rubbed his eyes and got up from his bed, he looked over at the clock, it was around ten. He was wondering why he hadn't gotten up earlier. Derek walked over where the drawer was and picked up his phone off it. He flipped it open and put it to his ear, not even bothering to look at the caller ID. "Hello?"
"Dude, where are you?! You and Meredith were suppose to be down here twenty minutes ago!"
It was Alex. Derek rubbed his other hand over his face, he forgot, he and Meredith were suppose to meet the others where they serve breakfast, in the hotel, for breakfast. "Sorry, I forgot. We'll be there soon."
"Yeah, yeah."
Derek sighed and snapped his phone shut and put it back on top of the dresser. He looked over at Meredith, he remembered the night before, she was going to have a hangover. Derek walked over to Meredith's hotel bed where she was sleeping and kneeled down beside it. He took his hand and shook her shoulder lightly. "Meredith." He said softly. "Meredith." When she still didn't wake up, he sighed and said a little louder. "Meredith!"
"Hmm." Meredith rubbed her eyes with the back of her hands.
"We have to get going, we were suppose to meet the others twenty minutes ago." Derek told her.
Meredith kept her hands over her eyes, blocking out the sun. "Damn."
Derek stood up. "I'll get you some water."
A half an hour later, they were walking to the table the others were already sitting at.
Mark looked over at the two from where he was talking to Izzie. "Hey, what happened to you guys?" They had already eaten, and were waiting for them.
"Meredith's hangover." Derek said lying.
Meredith looked over at Derek. "Hey!" Then she let out a small groan in pain.
Addison looked amused at Meredith. "By the way, how is the hangover Meredith?"
"Fine." Meredith mumbled as she took a seat next to Izzie.
"So, what are we doing today?" Derek asked as he took a seat next to Alex.
Izzie smiled widely. "I really wanted to go to the beach!"
Addison nodded. "So do I. I want a tan…" She smirked. "And maybe a Hawaiian guy to go with it."
Alex had this feeling in him, was it jealousy? No, it couldn't be.
Izzie and Meredith gave her a look. Addison looked at them confused. "What?" As if on cue, Izzie and Meredith rolled their eyes with an equal smile.
Mark looked at Izzie and Meredith curiously, but decided from his better judgment not to ask. "So… The beach?"
Around an hour later, the group had off their sandals and were walking along the beach. There weren't that people at the beach. Maybe it was that time of the day. After they found right spot, they began setting their towels up and laying their things down.
Izzie took off her shirt and shorts that was over her sky blue bikini. She reached into her purse and took out her sunscreen. Izzie looked over at Mark who had just taken off his shirt, so now all he had on was his black swimsuit. She tried to not look at his abs, his biceps, everything, but it was a definite challenge. "Hey Mark! Can you put the sunscreen on my back?"
Mark looked over at Izzie. She definitely looked good in a bikini, not that she didn't look good in anything else, because she looked good in everything else. "Sure." He said. Mark walked over to where she was standing.
Addison smirked from where she was sitting on her towel, and looked up at Alex who was smirking at them.
When Alex looked over at her in that dark red bikini, his fantasy raced through his mind. He frowned and quickly looked away.
Confusion etched on Addison's face. What the hell?
Derek was sitting on Meredith's towel, his legs out in front of him. Meredith was on his lap and kissed him every few seconds with a small giggle.
Mark took the sunscreen out of Izzie's hands and squirted some on his hand. "Do you want to sit down while I do this?"
Izzie shrugged. "Sure." She moved to sit cross legged on her towel. She reached over to her purse again to retrieve her black scrunchie and pull her hair back into a bun.
Mark moved to kneel down in back of her. He took a deep breath as he put down the sunscreen bottle and the sand and rubbed his hands together. Mark moved his hands to her back slowly rubbing the sunscreen on her back. His hands made there way to her shoulders, gently massaging them for a moment before moving his hands to her back. Mark's hands traveling to her lower back, and back up.
Izzie bit her bottom lip. The way his hands moved on her, it sent sensations all over her body.
Mark watched as her body seemed to relax under his touch more and more. He didn't want to stop the feeling he was getting from just having this physical connection that had not seemed to develop fully, more, but he knew he couldn't. He knew they had a mental connection, an emotional connection, but nothing of physical, but that obvious since they are 'just friends.'
Izzie closed her eyes in disappoint when his hands left her body. She shivered as he whispered into her ear. "I'm done." Izzie nodded, her breath caught in her throat.
"Okay." Izzie said softly, her eyes still not opening.
Addison and Alex watched Mark and Izzie, both shaking their heads at the same time, and same speed.
"I'm going in the water." Alex said with one last shake of his head at the two. He looked at the ocean and jogged into the water before completely diving in.
Addison looked over at Meredith and Derek and scrunched up her face in disgust. She reached over and slapped Derek over the head. "We're at the beach! Stop making out!"
Derek and Meredith pulled apart and Derek started to rub the spot on his head where Addison had hit.
Mark wanted to make the tension between him and Izzie disappear, so he got an idea.
Izzie was about to get the bottle of sunscreen when she saw Mark's hand in front of her. A look of confusion crossed over her face, and she looked up at him.
"Stand up." Mark told her.
Izzie furrowed her eyebrows. "What?"
"Stand up." Mark said again.
Izzie took his hand still confused and stood up.
Mark let go of her hand. He reached for her waist, picked her up, and put her over his shoulder.
"Mark! What the…" She stopped what she was saying when he started to walk towards the direction of the ocean. "No! No! Put me down!"
Mark continued to walk. "Oh, I will!" He heard her call his name one last time before he gently tossed her in on her back.
After a second, she came above the water. "I can not believe you did that." She saw Alex laughing in the water from the corner of her eye, but chose to ignore it, Addison would take care of him later.
Mark folded his arms across his chest. "Well, believe it, cause I did." He said with a small smirk.
Izzie noticed the fact that she was wet, yet Mark wasn't. He was standing in the sand. She smiled to herself before she swam a little, then walked when she came to the shallow part to him. Once she was standing right in front of him, she brought her hands to his shoulders and slowly moved them down his arms, uncrossing his arms, when she reached his hands, she held them tightly. "Alex is wet, I'm wetter, and you're about to be wettest." She smirked as she backed until they were in the water, quickly turned him around and pushed him into the water.
Mark could of protested, but even with his strength, it wasn't enough against her.
Meredith smiled and got up from Derek's lap. "I'm going in." She grabbed Derek's hand and pulled him up.
Derek rolled his eyes, but followed Meredith into the water.
"Me too!" Addison stood up and jogged into the water with the others.
For the next five hours, they swam in the water, played around, got out and just laid on their towels talking.
"I'm hungry." Addison complained as she laid on her towel. Alex rolled his eyes.
"Do you all want to go get dinner or something now?" Mark asked as he gently stroked Izzie's hair. Izzie was sitting in between his legs, her head against his chest.
He heard a series of 'okays' and 'sures.'
Two hours later the group was in Alex and Addison's hotel room.
They were laughing at the story Addison was telling them about one of her client's who wanted a special 'chamber' for many explicit sexual reasons.
"That'sso wrong!" Izzie said while laughing.
Addison continued to laugh. "I know, and she also asked me to get her a few whips! I was like 'what the hell'?!"
Alex's laugh faded as he started to smirk. "I'd pay to see that room."
Addison through a pillow from her hotel bed at him. "Of course you would!"
Three hours later, it was around nine there, and just like the night before, they made their way back to their rooms.
Mark was sitting on his hotel room bed, facing Izzie's. "Today was a fun day."
Izzie nodded as she dimmed the lights a little so it wasn't so bright. "Yeah, it was." She walked over to him. "And surprisingly, I'm not all that tired." She shrugged to herself, and she sat on his lap and put her arms around his neck.
"Really? Yesterday we didn't do all that much and you were tired around this time." Mark said as his arms made it around her waist.
Izzie looked into his eyes. "I know, it just makes this time all the more confusing doesn't it?" She asked a little softer voice, a little bit joking.
Mark nodded as his right hand made it to her cheek, his thumb gently stroking it. "Yeah." He said softly.
It only took a few seconds of their eyes to connect with each others before their lips crashed onto each others. It wasn't rushed, they were taking their time, their hearts soaring as their lips collided. Izzie opened her mouth as she granted access.
Mark moved his right hand to her hair and took out the scrunchie that was in her hair and let it fall to the floor. His hand moved to her back and he gently moved it downwards.
Izzie slowly moved her hands down his chest to the hem of his shirt, she pulled it up a little.
Realizing what she was doing, Mark broke away from the kiss, and took off his shirt, revealing his bare chest. It wasn't long until his lips were back on hers.
Izzie moved her hands to his chest. Her hands moving their way down his chest and back up to his neck. She moaned into his mouth as he continued to kiss her with bent up passion that he didn't know he had.
Mark brought his hand to her waist, he gently pulled the hem of her tank top. Breaking from the kiss, Izzie let him take the top off of her. Noticing that she was still sitting on his lap. He stared into her eyes, putting his hands behind her back, he leaned forward, gently lowering her to the bed. Mark continued to look into her eyes as his hands were on both sides of her, on the mattress, to hold himself up. He needed to tell her that this wouldn't just mean nothing, it would mean something, something that he wouldn't regret. "I don't want to have sex with you, I don't want to screw you, I want to love you, and I'll only do that if you'll let me."
Izzie looked into his eyes. She wanted this, she wanted him. She gave a barely visible nod before she leaned up to give him a gentle kiss on his lips. Izzie looked back into his eyes and softly put her head back on the pillow.
Mark leaned down a nuzzled her nose. He kissed her lips softly, then moved his head so he could nuzzle the side of her neck and leave sweet kisses there. He kissed down slowly to her collarbone. Mark skipped over her breasts where her bra held them in place. He kissed sweet kisses down her stomach, and gave her belly button a kiss before bringing himself back up to her face. He gave her a deep kiss which she quickly returned.
Izzie put her arms around his shoulders and moved them down his arms.
Mark placed both of his hands in hers and put their hands over her head, on to the pillow and interlaced their fingers.
At that moment, Izzie knew he wasn't lying, this wasn't sex, this was making love…
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Meredith and Derek were standing in front of their hotel room window, looking out into the ocean.
Derek looked at Meredith, he couldn't take the whole 'friends with benefits' idea anymore. "Meredith?"
"Hmm?" Meredith said as she turned.
Derek took her hands in his. "Meredith." He took a deep breath. "I want more than what this is." He said gesturing between the two.
"What do you mean?" Meredith asked a little worried of what he did mean. She had a pretty good idea.
Derek looked into her eyes. "I don't want to be friends with benefits, I want to be more."
"Why can't we keep things the way they are?" Meredith asked, the conversation she had with Addison and Izzie before they came here ringing through her head, but she pushed those thoughts away.
Derek sighed. "Because I want more."
Meredith closed her eyes and shook her head. "I'm sorry Derek."
Derek looked at her a little shocked, and a little hurt. He dropped her hands that were in his.
Meredith opened her eyes, and quickly avoided Derek's, she looked down. "Goodnight Derek." She said softly before walking over to retrieve her pajamas from her bag and jogged to the bathroom.
Derek stood there and just watched her. Why didn't she want more like he did?
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"Woo!" Addison said with her hands up happily.
She and Alex were playing a game of Go Fish, and she had just won, and she was very happy about that!
"No way, you cheated somehow!" Alex said as he looked down at the pairs of cards on each side. He just couldn't take losing on any circumstance.
Addison put her hands down. She knew he was competitive, but seriously, it was Go Fish! "What? How did I cheat?!"
Alex shrugged. "I don't know, but you probably did!"
"Seriously, Alex. It's Go Fish!" Addison said trying to get through in his head, that maybe it is okay to lose once and awhile.
Alex nodded getting annoyed. "Yes Addison, I get that."
Addison raised in an eyebrow. Was he joking, or being just plain stupid? Apparently, just plain stupid.
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Two hours later, Izzie was laying her head on Mark's bare chest. Mark had an arm around her, holding her close to him, the other was stroking her hair down to her bare shoulder, just so he can feel how soft her skin is, and that it did happen. The covers covering up their nude bodies from their last activity.
Izzie made small circles on his chest with her hand. They had made love, it was soft, it was slow, it was something she had never experienced. She knew she didn't regret what had happened to them, and she knows she never will.
Mark didn't want this night to end. Holding her like he was right then and there, it was something he just wanted to hold on to. He knew they were going to have to talk about this, but not tonight, the silence was comfortable, no words could be spoken. Mark was going to tell her how he felt, tomorrow, he was going to tell her tomorrow, because right now, he was content, and little did he know, so was he.
Izzie nuzzled her nose lightly on his chest, her fingers stilled as she let her hand rest there. She closed her eyes, sighing in content. There bodies fit together, like pieces to a puzzle. She just wondered how she never figured that out before.