"Meredith how is my favorite resident and fellow dirty mistress?" said Mark cornering her in an on call room.
"I'm fine," lied Meredith. It had been six hours since Derek had spoken to her in the tunnels, now the last thing she wanted was to talk about it with Mark.
"Good," said Mark blocking the door and just looking at Meredith impatiently.
"What?" snapped Meredith.
"Don't you care how I am?"
"Not really," said Meredith.
"I'm hurt," said Mark. "Here I was just enquiring how you were feeling after…"
"What do you want Sloan?" said Meredith impatiently.
"I have a problem, I really need your help," said Mark quietly.
"Ugh why don't you ask Derek?" she sighed. "You two are friends again now, right?"
"It's something I really need a dirty mistress to help with," said Mark his face flushing a little.
"What is it?" asked Meredith intrigued, anything that could make Mark Sloan blush had to be interesting.
"I uh have a little problem…it's a little delicate…I really need you to be discreet…"
"Spit it out Sloan!"
"I have syphilis."
"Is that it?" said Meredith disappointed. "I thought that would be a weekly occurrence for you," she said dryly.
"No," said Mark through gritted teeth. "But I need someone to…"
"Give you shots of penicillin," Meredith finished.
"Yes," said Mark. "Will you?"
"Well that depends what's in it for me?" said Meredith her lips twitching as she fought to hold back a smile.
"Drinks on me all night," said Mark.
"Okay," said Meredith. "Well my shift is over, I'm going to change, you get the stuff and I'll meet you in exam room B in ten minutes."
"Okay," said Mark. "I knew you wouldn't let me down."
"I'm doing it for the drinks," said Meredith. "And I feel I should warn you, I'm not a lightweight by any standards."
"Hey if you stop the little major from falling off you can drink the bar dry for all I care," said Mark.
"I might just do that," said Meredith. "Ten minutes."
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"Hey are you alright?" Rose asked rubbing small circle on Derek's shoulder blade. He had just finished his shift and was updating a patient chart.
"Yeah I'm fine," said Derek wearily.
He was still replaying his conversation with Meredith over and over in his head. He had a lot to make up for and Meredith clearly wasn't going to make it easy, not that it should be easy after what he did. But he had to do it, he couldn't imagine never having her in his life. He hated himself for what he had done, and how stupid he was that he only realised it now.
"I have to talk to you, can you meet me over at Joe's when you finish?"
"Sure, I'm almost done," said Rose. "Did you hear about Dr. Sloan and Dr. Grey?"
"Meredith and Mark?" said Derek. "What about them?"
"They're…um in Exam room B, with the door closed looking pretty…Derek where are you going?" Rose called after Derek who was storming towards the Exam room.
"Pants down and bend over," Derek heard Mark say. He was too busy bursting the door open to hear the rest. "You make it seem so dirty Grey."
"HEY DO YOU MIND?" shouted Mark as Derek stood in the open doorway gasping for breath.
"What the hell is this?" he demanded.
"Shut the door," shouted Mark, who was bent over the bed with his pants at his ankles. Derek slammed the door shut.
"Well…" he said impatiently.
"It's not what you think," said Mark.
"It looks like you and Meredith in an exam room, you with your pants at your ankles," said Derek barely containing his rage.
"Give the doctor a prize," said Meredith standing up. "That is exactly what this is."
"Grey let me handle this," said Mark.
"You are in no position to order me around, Dr. Sloan," said Meredith sweetly as she injected his ass with the penicillin not bothering to be gentle.
"OWWWW."
"Sorry," said Meredith not sounding sorry at all.
"Sure you are," said Mark pulling his pants up. "I have…"
Mark was interrupted by Rose coming into the room and wordlessly slipping her hand into Derek's.
"Are you ready to go?" she asked, she now had her jacket on over her scrubs.
"You have what?" said Derek momentarily forgetting his anger.
"Syphilis," said Meredith. "He has syphilis."
"Grey," said Mark. "Dirty mistress code of silence."
"Well I could just lie and tell him that he just interrupted foreplay," she snapped.
"Fine, I have syphilis," sighed Mark. "I slept with Nurse…her name doesn't really matter, but I caught syphilis!"
"What is going on in here?" asked Cristina, who had been passing by.
"Oh Sloan couldn't resist sticking his penis in the nurses syph pool," said Meredith. "You'll need another shot next week," she said to Mark taking off her latex gloves.
"Thanks," said Mark looking at Derek warily.
"You might want to get tested," Meredith said quietly to Derek as she brushed past him.