The wall supporting her weight, Addison leaned back as she took in a deep breath of fresh air, looking up to the clear blue sigh with the weakest smile. The surgery was a success. It was long and bloody for both Lauren and the baby, still unnamed.

For Lauren, as Addison got the baby out, others were pulling glass from the windshield out of her face and arms. The way she jolted forward must have put a lot of pressure on the baby though because the baby's head was filled with fluids. Quickly, Addison drained the fluids and ran a couple tests and once getting through a couple complications, she was able to announce that the baby girl was stable and would make it through the night.

"Trying to get away from me?"

Addison looked in the direction of the voice to find Mark just a couple feet away from her, arms crossed as a smirk pulled from his lips. "You should know from the past that that doesn't work. I can't exactly explain it, but I've always had some sort of radar when it came to you. You run and it goes off. I can always find you Red."

It was so true that she actually didn't know how to respond, so she just watched him silently.

He took a step closer, leaning his back against the building and looking over at her. "You know it's not going to be that easy to cancel on me tonight Addie."

"I wasn't trying to," she told him in a calm, quiet tone.

Looking her in the eyes a couple seconds, Mark tried to see if she was lying. He was able to read her in ways that no one else really could. Seeing she was telling the truth, he raised a brow in shock. "Damn," his tone matched hers. "So you actually want to see me? That's umm… new."

Turning so that she was leaning her side against the building, she faced Mark. "I can't really say it's a new feeling," she started. Those words got his full attention. He turned to lean his side against the wall so that he was facing her now, waiting for her to continue. "Did you ever think to consider that I've always wanted to be around you but I just couldn't?"

He thought about it for a couple seconds before shaking his head with a sigh. "You lost me Addie. Please, keep explaining," he told her, mostly because he wanted to hear what she had to say. This wasn't like any of their past conversations that would end up in him getting rejected or one of those emotionless conversations. This was the truth coming out and he's been waiting for such a long time.

"I think you always knew that I wanted to be around you," she told him slowly, trying to think of the right way to word things. A small part of her wanted to turn around and run, but she knew he wouldn't let her now that she was actually opening up to him and he's been waiting a long time, she knew that. Even if she didn't care enough to know what he wanted, that bigger part of her just couldn't come to run away like the old Addison would. This Addison needed to stand her ground and speak her mind to get what the old Addison always wanted but was too scared to take, even though it was always available and waiting for her.

Mark softened his gaze, trying to not give such an intense stare as before because the slightest things could have Addison running in a hot second, or so that's how things worked when it came to him. "I don't think I knew it," he admitted, still keeping his voice very mellow as she was. "How was I supposed to know? You always ran."

"I know, I'm sorry," she looked down, unable to keep eye contact with him. How could she when she felt so guilty?

"Hey," he reached out and placed a finger under her chin, gently tilting her face so they were looking each other in the eyes. "I don't want any apologies. I'm here aren't I? I do want an explanation though so I could maybe stop telling myself that I simply repel you."

"You don't repel me," The redhead told him with a grin as she looked him back in the eyes.

"Or do I?" he grinned back.

"I'm here aren't I?" she asked, for once finding herself unable to break eye contact with him. It almost felt like life depending on keeping her eyes on his.

He offered a nod. "You are."

"Then what more do you want?" she asked him.

"I want to know why you're here Addison. Why are you still standing here talking to me? Better yet, why did you ask to see me later? Best of all, why did you text me?"

There was too much to say to all those questions, but that last one was the one she really held onto. "Because I thought you'd never text me."

Hearing her tell him that she thought he'd never text her obviously took him off guard. Swallowing hard, she stared into her eyes and opened his mouth a couple times until finally, he was successful enough to actually make words. "And you're telling me that you were waiting for me to?" he asked.

Instead of actually saying something, she nodded his head. Moving his finger from her chin, he cupped her cheek with his entire hand, watching as she leaned into it rather than swatting it away. "You know I wanted to. I was dying to talk to you but I watched you move across the country once before to get away from me. I was scared that if I texted you that whether you answered or not I'd get on the first flight to L.A. just like I did today."

"I wouldn't have run if you came before," she told him with an honest smile. "The weather here is too nice to leave," she teased with a grin.

"Oh so say we were in another state where it wasn't so nice; would you run?" he asked half teasingly, half seriously.

Bringing her hand up to her face, she removed his hand and laced her fingers through his. "No, I'm done running," she told him as she shook her head. "I don't want to be stupid anymore. I'm tired of running just to keep myself from giving in."

"That's why you ran?" he asked, shocked to say the least.

Nodding her head, she squeezed his hand lightly. "I didn't want anyone to see me being so weak and when I'm around you I have no strength. You're my weakness Sloan."

"You couldn't tell me this earlier?" Mark asked with a laugh. "I don't have any weaknesses. None at all apart from you and I actually let you see that. Come on Red, you didn't need to keep me waiting like this."

She shook her head with a chuckle. "No more waiting."

"Okay," he told her with a sigh of relief. "Positive?" he asked after a couple seconds, laughing at how he almost expected her to slap him across the face and walk away.

Not knowing what to say, Addison leaned in and kissed him softly. Breaking from it, she reached out with her free arm, taking his other hand. "So back to my house?"

"Didn't the walk on the beach come first?" he asked her curiously, his famous toothy grin showing.

"Well yeah," she told him with a nod. "But I changed my mind. The beach comes after."

Leaning in, Mark placed a quick peck on her lips. "I think I can live with that."

"Are you sure? Because if you're not, we'll totally go back to the original plan," she teased him, knowing now that he was dying to go back to her house at that very instant.

He laughed at how she teased him. "I'm positive. Don't do this to me Red!" he told her with a laugh.

"Okay, okay," she took a couple steps back, pulling him with her. "My house first. This is my first house that is really my own so it's all Addison Originale. So I'll show you each and every room. Some more carefully than others," she winked up at him as she continued to lead him toward her car.