Chapter 10:

Kissing him was like heaven, words could only describe partly her feelings when their tongues danced a fiery flamenco. She forgot everything around her, there were only the two of them and to say that she was full of joy was definitely an understatement. Although she knew she couldn't stay there kissing for the remainer of time, she wished she wouldn't have to separate her lips from his. Then the moment, when the need for air got the better of them came and they had to separate.

No one said a word they just stood there, their faces only inches apart, trying to read each other. Both of them had completely forgotten about Alyssa, who was watching them fascinated with a huge smile on her face. She'd never felt so happy for someone else. She wasn't even sure if it was possible to feel so estatic for two people whom she's just barely met. Of course, Addison was her sister but it wasn't like there was any sibling bonding, after all she'd just met her. But on the other hand she couldn't deny that there was something between her and Addison, the way they'd talked had been like they've known each other for years. But anyway now wasn't the right time to think about that, now she shouldn't think about anything, now she should just feel happy.

The girl was deliberating about whether she should say something or not. Wouldn't it kind of ruin the moment between the two of them? But it was so hard to not even say something like 'awww', so she desperately bit her tongue.

"Wow." Addison aspirated, her eyes still on Mark.

By now the typical Mark Sloan grin had appeared on his face and he didn't even try to hide it. For him a dream had come true, he'd finally gotten the woman of his dreams. The woman he'd fought so long for, the woman who was so out of his league, that the fact that she loved him seemed incredible surreal. Who would have thought that although he'd screwed it up in so many ways the most gorgeous woman on earth would forgive him all his mistakes? So he had definitely every reason to grin like an idiot.

"Wow." Addison aspirated again, starring on his lips. She really couldn't think straight, his lips were just too distracting. What this man did to her was insane. How was it possible for him to make her feel like a love-sick teenager? All it took to make her blush was a simple glance. And she couldn't help but imagine herself in bed with him. Mark was on the person capable of having that effect on her.

"Awww... you two are so cute together..." Alyssa couldn't resist anymore, she just had to say it.

Immediately the two lovers became aware of the fact that they weren't alone and snapped back into reality. Both their eyes were now focused on her, Addison who immediately blushed again and Mark whose expression wasn't readable.

"I mean... well I didn't want to interrupt the two of you, didn't want to ruin the moment but... yeah you're just too cute, I couldn't stay silent anymore..." Alyssa tried to explain herself when no one else said a word.

"I'm sorry, we should... we shouldn't have done that... well I mean it was good, Mark, it was excellent, but... we shouldn't have done that here... ehhr... we should have done that when we're alone, not here... not in front of you Alyssa..." Addison stammered still red like a tomato. Mark averted his eyes from the girl and was now looking at Addison, trying to hide a huge grin. It was kind of amusing to see how embarrassed Addison was only because she'd been overwhelmed by her feelings right in front of her sister. Soon Mark couldn't hide it anymore and started laughing.

"What?" Addison asked irritated.

"You're as red as a tomato, kissing in front of your sister isn't that embarrassing."

"Yes, it's okay, I totally understand it. Why shouldn't you kiss your... ehhr... Mark." Alyssa didn't know what the title of their relationship was. She didn't want to risk called Mark her sister's 'boyfriend.'

"Well, I guess I'll leave you alone now, there certainly are more things you want to talk about." Mark said, turning around to leave.

"Yeah...but Mark..." Addison started just when he wanted to leave.

"Yes?" he faced her.

"... I love you." she said.

"I love you, too." a smile appeared on his face when he heard her say the three magic words.

"I'm happy for you... that you finally know that he loves you is really great." Alyssa said when Addison sat down on the chair next to the bed.

"You know in some way it's funny, he loves me, I love him but to finally get together we need you... I think I owe you something... without you I would probably be in LA right now with some guy who I don't really love but who I try to make myself believe I love..." Addison smiled, she was so grateful to meet her sister and when she'd flown out to Seattle she'd thought about how she could avoid Mark and now she didn't want to avoid him anymore because she knows that he loves her, now she would love to spend every minute with him. She really felt like she owes Alyssa something.

"You don't owe me anything , you got the guy, I got my sister, that's enough." Alyssa didn't want her to feel like that, she wanted that Addison just felt happy for getting Mark.

"I got also my sister, so I got m

ore that you, I definitely owe you something." Addison thought she definitely owe her sister something.

"Well, I also got Mark as a friend, see? You don't owe me anything." the girl tried to convince her.

"Okay, if you say so... But now, tell me something about you, why are you even here in Seattle?" Addison didn't want to argue so she let it go.

"Well... when I turned 18, just a few weeks ago, I left New York with Jake, my boyfriend and Julie, my best friend... Bizzy and the Captain never really liked them, well of course they didn't like them, after all they are not rich... but anyway, I came here with them and we had this accident." her sister explained.

"Oh... but they are okay are they?" she hoped that nothing had happened to them.

"Yes, I guess... Julie as some broken bones, she visited me yesterday, and Jake had surgery but Mark said he'll be fine..." Alyssa smiled, it was nice of Addison to ask how her friends were.

"Have you already visit him?"

"No... I asked Mark if he could take me to his room but he wasn't sure if Jake's ready for visitors... he wanted to ask someone but always forgot it..." actually he thought that a person couldn't be that oblivious but if something was wrong he would have told her right?

"Well I could ask, at least I can do that..." Addison offered.

"Yes, please that would be nice... I want to see him so badly..."

"Okay, I'll go and ask, maybe you can already see him today." Addison stood up and walked out of the room to find Mark or Derek or someone else.

Finding Mark wasn't exactly hard. He was standing right outside with Derek and from what she could tell they were going through someone's file together. She stopped for a moment to examine him, trying to understand how she could have ever felt an attraction for Kevin or Noah while she had Mark in her heart the whole time. She loved him more than word could express and she knew this time it would last, it just had to.

She began moving towards the two men, wondering if Mark had already managed to tell Derek about what had happened between them earlier. Not that she didn't want anyone to know about her and Mark, actually she wanted to scream it out into the world, that's how happy she was. But to enjoy the fact, that he loves her, in silence wasn't wrong. The way he stood there in his lab coat, good looking and incredibly sexy, it was just too distracting. She didn't even feel her legs move until she stood right next to him, still just looking at him in affection.

"Ehr... Addison?" she heard Derek's voice.

"Wha...?" Addison snapped back into reality.

"You just stood there looking like... like you've seen some kind of epiphany..." Derek seemed to have no clue what had happened between her and his best friend.

"Oh.. yeah, I talked to Alyssa and she told me about her boyfriend, Jake or something like that, and I promised to ask when she can visit him. She wants to see him so badly, she seems to really love him and... I guess you two understand this feeling..." Addison explained.

"Yeah... Jake... well I don't know... how can I tell you this now..." Mark stammered and looked over to Derek for help.

"What? Is there anything I should know?" the feeling that something wasn't alright rose in her.

"She can't see him." Derek said simply because Mark clearly couldn't.

"And why?"

"Mark lied to her..." her ex-husband continued.

"Well I wouldn't say I lied to her..." Mark defended himself.

"Oh you definitely lied to her." Derek asserted.

"I just sugarcoated the truth a little bit..."

"You did what?" Addison exclaimed.

"Telling her that her boyfriend had surgery but soon will be fine although he's actually dead isn't sugarcoating." no one responded to her.

"He's dead?" did they even hear her?

"Well, he's not dead... his heart is still beating..." Mark tried.

"Yeah but he'll never wake up. Face the truth, he's brain dead." Derek said.
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