Mark's POV

"You're Jenna Sloan?" I put an emphasis on my- our last name. Could this really be Tara's daughter, the one that she told me that she didn't want me in Jenna's life? She told me that we hadn't been anything more than a one night stand, and even that's true, but I didn't think I would be meeting her at all.

"Jenna! There you are." A brunette woman comes over to where we are. "And you must be Dr. Mark Sloan." She looks at the two of us. "I am assuming you two already have had introductions." We both nod. "Well then this is a little bit different than I thought it would be. I'm Kathy Williams, Jenna's case worker."

"What happened to Tara?" I asked, wondering how Jenna ended up with a case worker.

"Tara-"

"Mom passed away two weeks ago after fighting breast cancer for over a year." Jenna said, talking more to her black Converse tennis shoes then to me.

"Since Jenna doesn't have any living relatives apart from you, I was assigned to bring Jenna to you." Kathy adds trying to help me understand what I was hearing. I actually have the chance to be Jenna's dad and she doesn't even know me? "But of course if you don't feel like you can provide the life that would be the best for Jenna, there are other options."

"No, I'll take care of her." Jenna looks up at me confused.

"You would really be willing to take care of me, even though you don't know me?" She asks.

"You're my daughter; I'm not going to desert you." I state before Kathy goes on to explain some of the rules to me about taking Jenna to live with me, but to be honest I was more looking at the third daughter that was entering my life. She was wearing little makeup, which is understandable seeing what has happened, and she is more looking at the floor then trying to make eye contact. Kathy did have paper work for me to fill out and she also talked Owen so that I could have the day to fill out the forms that would let me be Jenna's dad full time. I knew that I needed to talk to three people really soon, since this would change their lives. Well it would change two of their lives for sure and the other I don't want her to be hurt by finding out from someone else so I have to tell her in person. I see Callie walking by the conference room and I know that I can check one person off my list right now. "Hey Jenna, I'll be right back ok?" She nods and continues to look at her iPhone. I walk out the door, "Callie!" She turns around and sees me.

"What's up Mark?" She looks a little confused, but happy to see me since I am one of her best friends and Sofia's dad.

"You're still good with picking up Sofia today right?" She nods.

"Why?"

"Because I just found out I have to be Jenna's father as of today." The moment I say her name, Callie's eyes are wide and confused.

"Tara's daughter?" She asks since she had been the person I went to when I got Tara's letter four years ago.

"Well Tara and my daughter, but yeah. Tara passed away two weeks ago of breast cancer and since she has no other relatives besides me, I am her legal guardian since I am her dad."

"This will change a lot of things. Does she know about Sofia yet?" She asks since Sofia is Jenna's half sister. "Or Sloan?" She asks and I almost dread the thought of telling Jenna about her two half sisters.

"No, we haven't really talked much. Jenna is pretty quiet; I mean she did just lose her mom and all."

"Well you should go talk to her."

"Her and Arizona and Lexie."

"You're going to tell Lexie about Jenna?"

"I want Lexie to hear it from me and not everyone else in the hospital."

"Well I'll tell Arizona for you so you just talk to Lexie and get to know Jenna better."

"I will." I see Lexie rounding the corner. "I'm going to go tell her. I'll see you later Callie."

"Bye Mark." We go different directions and I start to walk towards Lexie.

"Hey Lexie, can we talk?" I ask her and I almost think that she will say no, since she is with Jackson Avery after all.

"Yeah, I was actually coming to find you." She says looking at me and I stare into her eyes for a second longer than I probably should have.

"I have something I need to tell you." We both say at the same time and then look at the other for a moment, not knowing what to say.

"You first," I say knowing that if she was going to tell me that she and Avery are engaged then I want her to pass on her news first.

"Ok, well Jackson and I broke up. It just wasn't going to work out between us and I wanted you to hear it from me and not from the rest of the hospital."

"Oh, really?" I ask and am glad that my voice didn't betray me by sounding happy but instead sounded like a concerned friend.

"Yeah, but it's ok." She smiles at me. "What was it that you needed to tell me?" This really was going to be bad timing, since she was now single and the last time that we were together, Sloan appeared.

"I am telling you this, but you are going to think that this is terrible timing to hear this." Her face looks confused now. "Four years ago I received a letter from a woman named Tara. She and I had had a onetime thing together back when I still lived in New York, and she was writing me to tell me I had a ten year old daughter." She looked surprised and I didn't want her to get angry with me, so I continued with my story so she would understand why she didn't know about the letter. "I didn't share the letter with anyone basically once I got it because Tara told me that she and Jenna were having a fine life without me and had been for the past ten years so she didn't want me to contact Jenna, but I found out today that I have to be Jenna's father now since Tara passed away from breast cancer." She looked at me and then, surprisingly, smiled at me.

"Congratulations then. I know that you love being Sofia's dad and you will love being Jenna's dad." She gives me a friendly hug. "The timing isn't great, you're right, but I'm glad that you decided to tell me."

"I wish that this had been different timing, so that we could try again." I say and she looks at me and I almost expected her to flat out say no. "But I understand if you don't want to. I mean with Sofia and Jenna, now in the picture and how you and Avery just broke up."

"Maybe there will be time for us one day." She smiles. "Right now, you need time to know your daughter and for Sofia to get to know her big sister. So maybe in a while, we can try again." I smile at her and know now that I might be able to have a chance with her one day. "I'll let you get back to Jenna. Bye Mark."

"Bye Lex." I say, slipping into old habits on accident, before walking back to where my daughter was waiting for me.