A/N: So you weren't the only one who was pissed by Mark's actions! Well, if Mark is going to
grow up, as in grow up, he needs to know what he could lose...So this chapter he finds out his
actions have consequences. God, I love Callie/Mark together but my first love is Addek!

So since, I can't watch any of my shows because of either crappy writing/unbelievable storylines/bad acting,
I've chosen to drift off into fanfiction land and have started to write like crazy so you may be getting more
frequent updates as a result.

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WIP Chapter 14

Callie leaned against the counter as she was making notations in the chart of the knee surgery that had gone off without a scratch. Miranda smiled as she sidled up besides her, "You know that the smile you are sporting is actually getting quite annoying. Why don't you drop it?"

Callie smiled back at her, "I had fun last night, and I wanted to thank you for it. It was partly because of you, its nice being able to hang out with women your own age who treat you like an equal and not a spot on their sleeve that they want to brush off." She said this in reference to the women who were walking by, Cristina and Meredith.

Miranda smiled knowingly, "So what do you say to lunch?"

Callie started to say that she wanted to leave her options open in case Mark called when she heard Meredith and Cristina speaking and Mark's name mentioned.

"What do you mean? You have a date with McSteamy? When did this happen? You certainly move fast girl, I thought you were still grieving McDreamy but what better way to get over McDreamy than a night with McSteamy?"

Callie felt her heart drop to her knees as she realized that her fears were coming true, it was completely one-sided the feelings that she had for Mark. He was already move on to his next quest and damn it if it wasn't Meredith Grey.

Miranda put a consoling arm around her shoulder and barked out to her interns, "What the hell are you two doing standing around? There are lives out there to be saved, now go find them."

After they scurried away to obey her order, Callie felt the tears rise in her eyelids but refused to let them fall. She instead turned to Miranda and smiled in gratitude, "Thank you for that, it would've been horrible if I started crying in front of them."

Miranda nodded, "Do you want me to go beat up the little idiot?"

Callie shook her head, "Not unless you want to beat me up while you're at it. I was the one who stupidly believed that I was starting to signify more to him than an easy lay." She sighed dejectedly and turned down the hall as George was coming down the hall.

George felt a smile bloom on his face as he saw her, "Callie, I was looking for you earlier. Listen, my plate is free tonight, what do you say we go out to eat and talk things over?"

Callie nodded as she saw Mark come down the hall and the smile that lit his face, "Sure George, I would love to have dinner with you. Pick me up around 8."

George grinned excitedly and then leaned over and brushed his lips over hers. Callie jumped in shock, she hadn't been prepared to receive his kiss but she smiled anyway as she started down the hall walking past a distraught Mark without speaking.

Miranda looked at the two of them and sighed in disgust, "Idiots, the whole lot of them, idiots." She walked over to the phone and called her husband, she needed to speak with someone who loved her without games or pretenses.

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"I specifically recall telling you to take it easy." Derek walked into the bedroom of the trailer as he noticed his wife glasses perched on her nose, engrossed on her laptop and walked over to the bed to remove the computer from her makeshift portable workstation when she slapped his hands away.

"I can't shut down now, I'm about to find the perfect place for Callie. Its rent controlled and it has a waterfront view. I'm about to argue the price down and as soon as he agrees, I'm going to get him to send over a lease with those terms so Callie can look over it and make her decision."

Derek slid on the bed next to her and pulled off her glasses and said, "You are supposed to be sleeping Addison, besides Callie can look for her own apartment."

Addison swiped her glasses out of his hand and put them back on with a smile, "Callie and I are friends now. We've eaten out of the same pint of ice cream, there's nothing I won't do for her besides I'm in the bed, my feet are up I'm resting so all of your and Dr. Revelle's orders are being met. I even started taking my medication again."

Derek laughed and said, "I need to go to the hospital and finish some paperwork I left pending and check on a couple of things, can I trust you to stay here and not cause any kinds of problems?"

Addison rolled her eyes, "What kind of problems could I cause? Besides, I need to call Callie anyway and see if she wants to meet for lunch."

Derek shook his head fiercely, "Absolutely not. You are not leaving this bed, doctor's orders, husband's orders whatever if she wants to have lunch she'll have to come here. Just call me on my cell and tell me what you want and I'll bring it home."

Addison pouted at the tone in his voice and started whining, "The trailer is too small for us to all eat here besides I don't feel like cooking…I promise I won't go to far from home and you have my cell phone number and get in touch with me at anytime."

Derek closed his eyes as he lay down next to her and said, "Fine, you win. But don't overexert yourself. You still need to be resting."

Addison nodded, "We need to discuss living arrangements when you return. I can't continue to live in this trailer besides all my stuff is still at Miranda's. I need to know where I'm going to move into when I leave her house."

Derek nodded, "I was going to setup a meeting with a real estate agent while I was out. We can start looking for houses."

Addison exhaled a soft breath, "You believe we are ready to start looking at houses together? I mean all of our problems are nowhere near being solved and our future is still up in the air. I just don't want to precipitate our reconciliation and end up being stuck in a house with a guy who doesn't want me or my child."

Derek stood up and walked to his dresser silently and started shoving drawers loudly as he took out clothes.

Addison leaned her head back on the headboard and closed her eyes, "This is exactly what I want to avoid. Each time you and I have a fight we can go to separate places to lick our wounds. If we are in each other's faces…"

Derek interrupted her reasoning, "If we are in each other's faces we can discuss it like adults and work through our issues together. What you want is to ensure you always have an out."

Addison laughed, "You don't think I deserve to have an out? Good god, Derek after everything we've been through, me having an out is the least that I deserve. You told me you wanted to work on our marriage and you worked Meredith right out of her clothes, the night of the prom, the night that I found out I was pregnant."

Derek slammed the drawers closed and turned to her, "So am I going to always have this hanging over my head? I made a mistake."

Addison snorted, "A mistake that you didn't think that you had to come back to me to apologize for, you almost expect us to make us even. I sleep with Mark; you sleep with Meredith and we're done talking about the whole thing and everything is okay."

Derek winced, "I never said that and if you believe that it's like that then I ask that you forgive me because I never wanted you to feel that you were obligated to forgive me simply because I forgave you for Mark. I don't even feel like I have anything to forgive you for. I just want us to work together to the place where we can have a fight but still go to bed and sleep in the same bed even if it's angry but it's together."

Addison nodded, "I see what you're saying. I'll think about it and I can't promise you anything but I'll try to think about it."

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Callie smiled as she closed the door to her latest patient. All of his tests showed that he was doing well after the surgery and that the only thing he would have to worry about now was rehab for his hip.

Callie walked out and ran into Mark who was leaning against the counter with a scowl on his face. She started to walk right past him when he grabbed her arm. She turned on him and jerked it out of his hand and said, "Dr. Sloan how can I help you?"

Mark looked at her and said, "Don't you think you me an explanation?"

Callie rolled her eyes and said, "An explanation? Why do you feel that you deserve an explanation? If you're upset because I'm going out to dinner with George, there's nothing strange about that."

Mark crossed his arms, "What made you decide to go out on a date with him when I thought we were having such a good time together?"

Callie laughed, "Tell me then why are you going out on a date with Meredith Gray if we are having such a good time as you put it?"

Mark swore under his breath and then reached for her arm but she jerked it away, "Can we at least talk about this? Look, I didn't process what I was doing at the time, let's just cancel both of our dates and go out somewhere and then go back to the hotel together."

Callie shook her head, "Tell me why you felt the need to make the date in the first place. We had agreed on a no-strings sexual relationship and bit by bit, slowly we were starting to connect on more than a sexual level. I was starting to actually care and then I get here and found out you made a date with the woman who is responsible for the unhappiness of the woman you claim to still love and now who is also a good friend of mine."

Mark pulled her by the arm into the locker room for the doctors and said, "Callie it wasn't like that. Look, I'm sorry just forgive me please."

Callie laughed to her herself, "Mark, what am I forgiving you for? We have a no-strings relationship; I'm the one who should be apologizing to you. You were the one that requested that we don't get emotionally attached and that's what I'm doing, I'm pulling back just like I told you at the hotel. Only problem was I didn't stick to my guns and pulled back from you, I started to care and made myself believe you did to. Why don't we just call this even and you can forget that you ever saw me here."

She walked towards the door and Mark held her against the door and locked it behind him and leaned towards her ear, "You," kiss, "Will", kiss, "Not", kiss, "Leave", kiss, "Me". After placing all of these soft kisses on her cheek he reached for her lips and devoured her mouth with his own.

Callie felt like she was caught up in a windstorm of passion as she was thrust against the door and Mark started reaching for the bottom of her scrub top, "Mark, we can't do this here."

Mark kissed her on the mouth again, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry I let my fear of being with you blind me to how amazing you are and it scared me for a moment put don't let me lose this, please."

Callie closed her eyes as the tears started to seep out of her eyelids. "Mark?" She held him as he was working magic on her with his mouth and his hands.

Callie pushed back and said, "Mark, I can't do this with you here and now, please just let me go."

Mark pulled away breathing heavily, "What are you going to do about your date?"

Callie shot back, "What are you going to do about yours? Look, I made a promise to George, one I intend to keep. Feel free to go out with Meredith if you like."

Callie turned around to unlock the door when Mark put his hand on the door stopping her from leaving and said from behind her, "Can we at least meet tonight at the hotel afterwards?"

Callie turned around shocked, "You want to leave Meredith's bed and crawl into mine?"

Mark swore and pulled her body flush against his, "You feel that. That's how much I want you and nobody not Addison, not Meredith is going to be able to make this go away because only you elicit this in me. I'll drop off Dr. Grey at her house at a good time and meet you at the hotel. Don't make me wait."

Dropping a kiss on her lips, he unlocked the door and walked out while Callie leaned against the door breathing heavily.

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Addison reached for her cell phone and dialed Callie's number.

Callie waited a moment before answering the phone and when she did she was still breathing heavily, "Yes?"

Addison pulled the phone away from her ear and stared at it in confusion, "Callie? My phone sounds like there's a lot of static. Anyway I was wondering if you wanted to come over to the trailer for lunch. You may have plans already…"

Callie jumped on a chance to talk about the emotions turning in her and said, "I love too. What time do you want me over?"

Addison smiled happily, "I, at first had decided to see if I could meet you and Miranda for lunch but I changed my mind and decided to take it easy. I called Derek and he's bringing home food for lunch and then he's leaving so it'll just be us girls. I need to talk to you about some things and I didn't want to do it over the phone."

Callie exhaled deeply, "I'm glad you said that because I'm in the middle of a crisis here and I need a listening ear."

Addison leaned back, "So tell me what happened that has you so worried?"

Callie laughed, "Didn't we just say that over the phone is not really convenient?"

Addison laughed in unison with Callie and said, "Hey while your there see if Miranda feels up to joining us. We could always use a clear opinion at this table."

See how, I'm making them all friends?