Meanwhile :
Mark Sloan was busy walking around in his flat, in downtown Seattle, near the hospital.
After the shooting everything changed. For him. And for everyone else. But he made his desicion. He knew what he wanted and he knew that even before the shooting.
The only thing he wanted, was Lexie. She was the only one he would ever want to be with.
He made many mistakes in his lifes. Everyone did that.
Most of the time his mistakes didn't matter to him. He never cared about anyone beside himself. Maybe about Derek and Addison, and his family but that was all.
But then he met Lexie. She striped like a bright shining shooting star over his own always dark sky.
When he first lost her he thought it wasn't a problem. He had Sloan and he was about to be a grandfather. But he lost Sloan & the Baby too. Then he started to sleep around again, just to not to think about Lexie. Then there was Teddy. The sex with her was good. Not comparable with what he and Lexie had, but still good. But he didn't feel anything towards her. He didn't care if she was here or not. She didn't make him feel. Anything. She didn't even make him smile.
When he finally let his feelings out and he realized he wanted Lexie back, and only Lexie, it was too late, he thought. She seemed to move on with Karev. Even though Lexie and Karev broke up now, she wasn't ready for something new. Maybe she will never be ready. Or maybe she'll just never be ready for him.
Mark knew what he had to do. He wouldn't urge her into something she didn't want.
When he first got to Seattle it was because of Derek. He wanted his best friend back. And he wanted a change, he was sick of New York.
The few years he spent in Seattle so much things happend.
He and Derek were best friends again, after all. He didn't get to job as chief. He found a new friends in Callie. He met Lexie, who changed everything. He met his daugther. There was a shooting.
He really lived here. He lived his life in Seattle.
But maybe, just maybe his time in Seattle just ran out.
Maybe he should go back to New York.
He was pretty sure that Lexie would never take him back. And he just wanted her to be happy.
He was well aware of the knowing that Lexie was his 'other part'. She was the love of his life.
He knew that.
But he might just had to let her go.
There would be a great, carying, normal guy for Lexie.
She was pretty, clever, smart and normal ( as normal can be ).
She would be happy. She would be without him, but she would be happy.
And he, he would just live his life, till it ends.
But it didn't matter what will happen to him.
If only Lexie would be happy.