Sorry this took so long to upload. I got busy and then the finale happened, which sent me slightly crazy. Was going to do it on Monday as well, but my laptop got a virus and I only got it sorted yesterday. Then my sister persuaded me to go swimming so I've only managed to do it today, with aching limbs.

Thanks to all who reviewed and are still interested in this. At the start of this fic I called Shonda an evil genius. My thoughts have changed but they're too rude for reading. So I'll just keep quiet, you all know how I'm feeling. This is finale free!

Chapter 4

"Hey Torres" Mark said, making his presence known as he stepped into the patients room. "You paged?"

"Yeah I need you to take a look at Mr Harris. He fell down the stairs this morning and broke an arm, leg and got himself a dislocated shoulder. He said he'd felt dizzy so I figured I'd get an ENT to take a look."

"Okay sure" he looked down at the patient, not recognising him from the elevator earlier, after all, his eyes had been fixed elsewhere.

Just then Mark's phone started ringing, he was checking his pockets for it when Callie passed it over the bed to him. He took it off her, saw the caller ID and rejected the call. He really couldn't talk to his girlfriend right now, not with everything that had happened so far today. He then looked up at Callie with a furrowed brow.

"Why do you have my phone?" He asked confused.

"Err…because you were trying to call Julia last night when you were drunk, and I dreaded to think what you were going to say so I confiscated it." She explained.

"You were at Joe's?

"You don't remember? Wow you really were wasted. Yeah I was there, I helped Derek carry you out of the bar. Apparently Jackson said-"

"I KNOW" Mark interrupted slightly louder than was necessary "exactly what Jackson said thank you.

Callie unsurprised that that topic was out of bounds sighed. "So why you hanging up on Julia anyway?"

As if on cue, Lexie walked into the room. "Sorry I took so long Dr. Torres, I had to-" she stopped short as she looked up from the papers she was holding and noticed Mark. She quickly passed the information to Callie and then made her excuses "You know, I…I…forgot to get the…thingies, so I…I need to go get…them…from…over there" she pointed and quickly retreated.

"because that wasn't weird" Callie stated, barely able to hide the smile forming on her lips. If she had her suspicions before, she was certain now. She turned back to Mark. "okay, spill!"

Mark cleared his throat trying to keep any emotion off his face. "You know you paged me so I could do my job don't you?"

"I'm aware of that but if I have to work with the both of you today then you are going to have to fill me in on the situation, plus I'm your best friend so you have to tell me everything" She smiled innocently at him.

Mark made an obvious gesture with his head at his patient "Not now Torres"

"Oh don't worry about me, I know everything anyway" Liam grinned at the two, he was beginning to feel extremely invisible in this hospital, did these doctor ever get round to any work with the dramatic lives that they led?

Mark gave him a skeptical look.

"I was in the elevator with you and doctor Grey earlier" He explained. "and with doctor Grey and her sister before that."

Callie actually snorted at her patients confession. "Busted!" she cried.

Mark rested his head in his hand and sighed. He really did want to talk to his best friend about this but not quite like this.

"FINE! I kind of bumped into her this morning in the bathroom, I was topless, she was wrapped in a towel and I half thought I was dreaming and I might have kissed her..." he mumbled embarrassed by his actions.

He looked up when he heard laughter. "Seriously Mark, that's what you're going with?" Callie asked before imitating his voice "I'm really sorry Julia but I slept with my ex-girlfriend (who I'm still in love with but won't admit to) but it's okay because I thought it was a dream, so it doesn't really count."

"I never said I slept with her, I said kissed."

"Yeah…you kiss her she has sex with you, neither of you know how to quit"

Liam laughed at Callie's statement. "That's what Dr. Grey's sister told her"

"Point proven. So that's it? you had sex with her, you didn't talk or anything?" Callie pressed.

Mark tried to keep a smile off his face as he told her the next part. "Well she might have accidentally told me she was still in love with me."

"Wow…wow… this is massive Mark. Well what are you going to do about it?" She asked excitedly, it looked like Derek's plan might be actually working.

"Nothing" Mark answered confused. "I'm with Julia, she wants everything I do, we're good for each other."

"Except you're in love with Lexie, and she loves you, you have to give it another shot Mark."

"No, I loved Lexie and then she left" Mark corrected.

"Because she didn't want to become a 26 year old grandmother! She was really trying with Sloane and you got ahead of yourself and tried to force her into doing all this stuff when she was barely ready to move in with you in the first place." Callie argued.

"So you're taking her side?" Mark accused.

"No, I'm just saying I see where she was coming from…"

"Well what about after that then, when we got back together, she walked again." He reminded her.

"You can't blame her for that, you dropped a bombshell on her and you knew before you told her that she wouldn't stay. She was hurt, you slept with me, your ex-sex friend and I know you were broken up but it doesn't hurt any less and then you told her you were going to be a dad and she had to just accept it." She reasoned with him.

"That doesn't matter. The fact is, she runs at the first sign of trouble, every time. And I can't have that in Sofia's life, she is part of me. Julia gets that, Julia wants to move in with me and have kids…"

"But you don't love Julia, not the way she deserves, and you never will because you are in love with Lexie"

"Will you stop saying that!" Mark replied angrily. "I'm not in love with Lexie!"

"Yes you are! And until you admit it to yourself this is your life Mark, drinking and ending up at mine or Derek's so we can keep an eye on you, avoiding Lexie and trying to convince yourself you're in love with your girlfriend."

"I'm not in love with Lexie" Mark repeated through gritted teeth "End of conversation! Now can I get back to work which is presumably why you paged me in the first place."

Callie sighed in frustration and flung her arms in the air. "Fine, I'm going, I'll leave you to it" As she left she couldn't help adding "but you know I'm right"

Mark was sat in a booth in Joe's with Callie and Arizona, listening to a live band that was playing. They were actually quite good but he wasn't really listening. He was wondering if there was any truth in what Callie had told him earlier. He had to admit that every time he saw Lexie he noticed how beautiful she was, he could always tell how she was feeling just by her face and when she was tired or sad, which she was a lot these days, he had to fight the urge to go comfort her. He also had to admit how hyper aware of her he was and he always knew when she was in the room, like right now, before he even turned his head, he knew she had just entered the bar.

He watched her make her way to the bar and quickly down three shots before Callie stopped him from torturing himself. "So you enjoying the band Mark?"

He regretfully pulled his eyes back to the table and looked at her and Arizona. "Yeah sure, they're pretty good" he answered as if he was interested in the conversation.

Just as the band began to play a new song, the singer stopped them and they muttered between themselves. As everyone began to wonder what was going on the singer stepped back up to the microphone.

"So I want you to think back to 2001. I was in high school and it was coming up to prom. Now there was this popular girl, she was amazingly beautiful and extremely smart. Everyone knew she was going to be prom queen you know? So of course she had hundreds of offers from guys for her to go with them. I was a dork who played music in his garage with three friends, these guys actually" he pointed to the rest of his band. "I worked up the courage and asked her anyway. She said I was the only one who realised that there was more to her than her looks so she agreed to go with me. I wasn't sure if it was a trick or not to be honest" he laughed "but she was there waiting for me when I got to her house. That night was one of the best nights of my life, for so many reasons. And I've just seen that girl for the first time in 11 years, so for old times sake, this song is for you Sexy Lexie."

He proceeded to play 'I'm a believer' while Callie almost choked on her vodka and tonic and Mark's head snapped up to look over at Lexie, who by now had a massive grin on her face and one more empty shot glass next to her on the bar. She downed another before making her way into the crowd and towards the front.

When the band finished the song Mark watched as Lexie ran up to the singer and flung her arms round his neck as he picked her up and swung her round. Mark felt something in his chest, something he couldn't place and tried to fix it by getting another scotch. Callie and Arizona left quickly after that, but not before texting Derek to be on standby. He carried on watching her throughout the night as the band finished up and joined her at the bar. They were all talking and laughing and drinking, Lexie and the singers arms wrapped round each others waists the whole time as the feeling in Mark's chest hurt more and more, all he could do was add more alcohol. The more he drank, the more it made sense. He worked it out, he was jealous, the kind of jealous that makes you want to knock someone out.

As he watched Lexie nearly fall over he couldn't stop himself anymore. He got up and walked over to the group. "Don't you think you've had enough to drink tonight?" He asked her.

They all looked at him and laughed. "Who are you dude, like her dad or something"

Mark didn't like the obvious dig at his age. "No I'm her…boss. Yeah I'm her boss and she has work in the morning." He thought that was a good reason for him to be concerned and it seemed to work on the guys "Who the hell are you?"

"I'm an old…friend" he replied, squaring up to Mark.

"Tom, leave him, he is so not worth it." Lexie put in, rather drunkenly. "And you're not my boss Mark, you're one of the many bosses that I have and I rarely work with you because you like Jackson, although you wouldn't if you knew what he did to you and your peanut butter cups. So what I do is no longer your business is the point i'm making"

"Well you're on my service for the next 4 days so I think you'll find it is my business"

Derek, who had walked into the bar and seen the tension building in the group decided it was time to move in. "Is everything okay over here?"

"Derek, thank God. Can I swap with Steve and be on your service tomorrow?" She slurred.

He looked over at Mark who was practically steaming at the ears by now. "Erm, yeah I guess so, you'll have to ask Steve though. Don't you think it's time you went home Little Grey?"

"Thanks, you're like the best brother ever." She told him as she hugged him, before turning back to Tom "you want to get out of here? We've got so much to catch up on…" she told him suggest fully.

He gave her a strange look and then saw the expression on Mark's face. Suddenly it all made sense. "Yeah sure, babe" and gave her a cheeky grin.

As they began to leave, Mark's green eyed monster took hold. "You're going to sleep with this guy? Seriously? Well I guess why not…You've slept with everyone else."

Lexie whipped her head round and he saw the hurt in her eyes. "FUCK YOU"

"If I recall correctly, you already did, this morning ." He shouted at her retreating back before grabbing another scotch.

Definitely didn't mean to go this way but I lost my story plan so it went the way my fingers typed so I'm going to have to work out where to go from here. I'll be updating 'Fateful Day' next. So check that out too, and my one-shots, they're all slexified.

Reviews to help me keep going are always nice.