She's only happy when she's dancing
Chapter 7

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Author's note:
Okay, a few harsh words in this chapter. Nothing too serious, but I figured a warning could never hurt.

GA

Derek's ears were ringing. He couldn't believe the words that had just come out of Meredith's mouth. He felt like his whole world had crashed around him after Meredith's statement. The life, the perfect life he had planned out for him and Meredith now felt as empty as it could possibly be. She broke down every inch of joy and every drop of pride he had in just one night. He couldn't believe that she would cheat on him. Well, of course he could believe it. After all, it was the one thing that Meredith was used to, the one thing she had mastered like it was a form of art. But he just never truly thought that she was capable of hurting him so much. His face turned red with anger, his heart beat faster and faster and he was having trouble breathing.

"Just breath, Derek", Addison told him as she put a hand on his arm, before glaring at the rest. Mark and both Meredith and Ashley hadn't said a word. There was a uncomfortable silence hanging between them.

Mark glared at the two girls as well. A look of pure horror on his face, while at the same time his eyes showed them the genuine confusion. His friendship with Derek was finally on the level it used to be, before the whole Addison-affaire had played itself out. And now, with one remark, all the hard work he had put in reinstating the friendship seemed a waste of time. He knew that Ashley would never do anything to jeopardize his friendship with Derek, even if she didn't get along with him. Ashley knew that a renewed friendship with Derek was something that Mark had wanted for a very long time. But the hardest thing to understand was that Meredith had made the threesome remark. He figured that if someone would have said something like that, it would have been Ashley. Mark just couldn't understand why Meredith would say something like that. Why she was almost willing to jeopardize her relationship with Derek.

Ashley and Meredith however seemed quite pleased with themselves. They just stood there, a tiny smile on both their lips as they were quietly discussing something. Every once in a while they would glance at Derek, who was now being comforted by Addison, and Mark, who couldn't seem to take his eyes of the two women.

Mark was harshly pulled out of his reverie when Derek's arm swung at him, hitting his jaw with quite an amount of force. He carefully touched the skin and it burned under his fingertips. When he withdrew his hand from his face he noticed that he was bleeding.

Right after Derek had hit Mark, Ashley had moved in and stepped protectively in front of Mark, while Meredith tried to pull Derek away from them.

"Derek, please", Meredith tried.

Derek turned around to face Meredith, his eyes blazing with anger as he grabbed her arm forcefully.

"Do not talk to me right now", Derek told her, before letting go of her arm as he saw her face twitch in pain.

"Look, I have no freaking idea what is going on here, but I think that we need to talk about this", Addison said. "No, let me rephrase that. You need to talk about it."

"Talk about what?", Derek yelled suddenly. "There's nothing to talk about. Mark fucked both Meredith and Ashley. He has outdone himself once again."

Mark was about to speak, when Meredith held up her hand to silence him. She turned her attention towards Derek.

"Look at me, Derek", she said.

Derek however turned away from her with as much disdain as he could possibly muster.

"Look at me!", Meredith yelled.

A little shocked by her outburst, Derek turned around slowly.

"Good boy", Meredith told him. "Now read my lips. Nothing. Has. Happened."

Derek looked at her, feeling genuinely confused.

"She is right you know", Ashley told him.

Derek turned his attention towards Ashley and just glared at her.

He couldn't do this. Not now, not like this. Right now he felt like he was the subject of some cruel joke. He needed time to think about it all.

"I can't do this right now", he told nobody in general. "I just can't do this."

"Derek, please don't leave like this. We have to talk about it", Meredith told him, carefully walking towards him.

Derek shook his head. "Not now, Meredith", he told her, before walking through the entrance of the hospital and out of their reach.

Addison cleared her throat before speaking up. "I'm going in as well."

A few seconds later only Mark, Meredith and Ashley were standing outside.

"Well, that went well", Ashley stated.

The other two both nodded absentmindedly.

"You think he'll ever talk to me to again?", Meredith asked Ashley.

Ashley nodded. "Of course he will! He's just angry right now. He'll get over himself", she said.

"Okay. I'll just talk to him later today. When he gets over himself", Meredith told them, a small smile on her lips and more on ease with her resent actions.

"Okay ladies, enough smalltalk. The Chief is waiting and he ain't gonna be pleased if we keep standing out here", Mark told them, before putting an arm around Ashley and steered both of them inside the hospital's walls.

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A few hours later Ashley was paged to Mark's office with a 911. Out of breath and in quite a panic Ashley arrived at his office, only to find Mark sitting in his desk chair smugly.

"I just love it when you come running", Mark told her while he winked at her.

"You fuck! I thought something was seriously wrong!", she scolded at him.

Mark simply smiled at her.

"Why would there be something wrong?", he asked innocently.

"Maybe because you never paged me a 911 before!", Ashley scolded some more. She was genuinely pissed that he pulled something like this.

Mark nodded his head seriously this time. She was right. It wasn't a very nice prank.

"I'm sorry Ash. I should have thought before I acted".

"Well, you never do. Why start now?", she muttered softly, before looking up at him.

"Was there something you needed, Dr Sloan?", she asked him, shocked that her voice had sounded so seductively.

Mark stood up from his chair and crossed the room until he was standing directly in front of her. Her last comment had hit base and had positively slammed every inch of self-control out of him. He had paged her to his office with just one reason in his mind.

Without further thought, he wrapped his arms around Ashley, pulled her close to him, before crushing his mouth to his, kissing her with all the passion that had building within him for weeks.

GA

TBC!

Sorry to leave you all hanging like that. But this chapter was getting way too long. I think I could have written a couple of more pages if I hadn't stopped it here.

So, Mark kissed her again. Cleary, McSteamy really doesn't think before he acts.

Next chapter will explain why Mark kissed Ashley, how it continues and Meredith will have her long overdue chat with Derek. Are they going to end well?