Chapter 2

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(Lexie cups Mark's cheek.)

Lexie: I really do love you. I never stopped loving you, but I'm scared we won't be able to make this work. I'm scared our age difference and our wants will get in the way again. I'm scared-

Mark: Lex, what can I do to prove to you that I'm not going to let anything stand in our way again?

Lexie: You can tell me that you know I'm not perfect. You can tell me that even though I make mistakes I'm still the same Lexie you fell in love with knowing that I'm flawed. I need to know that if we try this again you won't judge me.

Mark: You're talking about the night you told me what you did with Alex right?

(Lexie nods.)

Mark: I'm sorry I handled that so badly, just, the thought of another man touching you like that drove me crazy.

Lexie: Do you honestly think I wasn't hurt when you told me you slept with Addison, because it tore into me that while I had sex with Alex once when I was drunk you slept with Addison several times while you were sober. But it hurt even more when you looked down on me for what I did when you did basically the same thing. I felt like a dirty tramp, I felt like nothing, that's something I never thought you would do to me.

Mark: I'm so sorry, I'm a hypocritical ass, but Lex you have to know that I've never thought of you as a dirty tramp, ever. I was hurting and when I'm hurting the ass part of me comes out. But you have to know that I still think you're the most amazing woman I've ever met in my life. I held you to a standard, I thought you were inhuman or something and couldn't possibly make mistakes and it was wrong of me to put you on such a high pedestal when you do make mistakes, and you should. It doesn't matter what mistakes you make though, because you're still perfect to me.

Lexie: Even with my uncharacteristically badass blonde hair?

Mark: (Winces) Another ass moment of mine.

Lexie: Especially since at the time you thought I was someone else and were hitting on me.

Mark: Sorry. Like I said I didn't know how to handle our break-up.

Lexie: I noticed. Believe me, I noticed. (Sighs) Were you happy being committed to me?

Mark: What? How can you ask me that?

Lexie: Well, the way you dealt with our break-up, how easily you went back to your old ways. It made me wonder if you felt held down being with just little old me.

Mark: Lexie, that wasn't it at all, it was the other way around. I was so happy being with just you, never in my life had I wanted to be with just one person, completely committed to them. You made me want things that I never knew I actually wanted. But when you went away that part of me went away too. I only ever wanted to share my home and my life with you, no one else. So I thought if I went back to my old ways that feeling would go away. It never did, I always wanted you Lex, just you, no one else.

Lexie: I did too, I hated that I slept with Alex. I hated myself for it. I handled our break-up badly and if I could take it back I would, especially now. I thought if I gave a relationship with Alex a chance I would get over you, but I never did.

Mark: Then why did you tell Alex you loved him during the shooting?

Lexie: You heard me?

Mark: Yeah.

Lexie: He was delirious, he didn't know it was me, he thought I was Izzie. He said that he loved her and was sorry. I didn't want to correct him, I didn't want him to lose hope and give up, so I told him I loved him too, but that was me playing Izzie, not me playing me.

Mark: So you never loved him?

Lexie: Not for a minute. Another reason it was bad for us to be in a relationship was because we were both in love with other people.

Mark: So you do love me?

Lexie: Of course, I told you I never stopped.

Mark: Then back to my original question. Do you still believe in our 3%?

Lexie: (Nodding) Yeah I do. But I need us to take it slow this time. I want to make this work and right now I'm still trying to recover from the shooting and everything so can we just take this slow for a little while?

Mark: I'll go as slow as you want. I don't want to screw this up again.

Lexie: (Smiling) Good.

Mark: Just one question, would it be going too fast if I kissed you right now?

Lexie: I'd have to kill you if you didn't.

(Mark cups her face and kisses her. They kiss for a few minutes before they break apart.)

Lexie: (Checking her watch) It's getting late, I should head home.

Mark: If you want you can stay.

Lexie: Mark, we said slow.

Mark: I'm not talking about that, sex is not always on my mind you know.

(Lexie gives him a look.)

Mark: Okay, I'll admit it's on my mind more often than it's not, but I just thought we could sit down, relax, finish our drinks, maybe pop in a movie, just like the old days.

Lexie: (Smiling) Well in that case, I would love to stay.

(They continue talking and laughing)

A/N: Well there we go, chapter 2 and the reconciliation. Hope you all like it and I'll try to update soon!