A/N so here is the second part to my story. I have decided to only make it two chapters long. I wanted to write a proposal and a wedding, and maybe some kids, but I think that I am going to save that for my other story. Plus I probably will need to have something to pick me up after the season finale on Thursday, especially if Lexie gets killed.
Anyways read, enjoy and review!
Mark stood there looking at Lexie. Ever since she first said "I love you," he had noticed the depth of that love shining from her eyes. And he assumed that that love had been there for a while, Mark had just been not seeing it, for whatever reason. But Mark thought it was because he hadn't been looking for it, and that he had been guarding his heart from her. The previous two times that Lexie had left him, it had nearly destroyed him. But yet, he couldn't stop loving her. It was exactly like she said. He couldn't eat breath or sleep, without her. He had tried with Julia, but his heart really wasn't free to love her like she deserved. It was because his heart belonged to the woman currently standing in front of him.
Lexie couldn't believe that Mark was there. She hadn't expected to see him until tomorrow, and even then, she probably was going to try and avoid him. The fact that he was there was something though. She had thought that he would have just gone home with Julia. Julia was the safe choice for him, she knew. Lexie had really hurt him in the past, and she didn't know if Mark wanted to be with her, to take a chance on them, yet again. But here he was, on the porch of Meredith and Derek's place, looking like he was willing to take that chance.
"Yeah for sure," Lexie said in answer to his question "Can I come in?"
He followed her into the house and into the living room, where Lexie sat on one side of the couch, so Mark sat on the other side. They faced each other.
Lexie just sat there waiting for Mark to say something. After all it was him that had come to see her. And she had already poured out her soul to him outside the hospital. So she thought that it was his time to say something.
"I have to say, firstly, thank-you for making that speech. I know that it took courage. I don't know if I would have had the courage to say what I feel to you, without knowing that you returned the feelings."
When Mark said this, hope started to spark deep within her soul. Maybe she had a chance.
"And now that you have, all I can say is that I love you, so much. There are things that we need to discuss, because this is it. I am not letting you out of my life again."
"Same here" Lexie spoke for the first time since they sat down. "This is it; I want to make this work, even if crap happens."
"I know that we both have hurt each other in the past, and probably will in the future. That's just human nature. But there will be no running when that does happen. And I have to know that you accept Sophia as an important part of my life, and in turn that makes Callie and Arizona important as well. "
"I know she is. I have to tell you why I ran when you said that Callie was pregnant with your child. It wasn't that you had sex with her, although that did hurt, it was that, yet again, you were going to have a child with someone other than me. I know that you didn't know about Sloan until recently, but she is still your daughter. Then here comes Sophia. I was deeply hurt by that, and I had to go"
Mark was stunned by what she said. He had always thought that it was because he had slept with Callie that she had left. It hadn't even occurred to him that she was hurt because he was having a child with someone other than her.
"You had said that you wanted to wait to get married, to have children; you wanted to get to a better spot in your career. So I assumed that you were upset that I had slept, yet again, with someone else."
"I know that's what I said. And it was how I felt. But then things shifted for me. I realized that if I put things on hold, that I could be missing out on the best thing that would ever happen to me."
Mark's eyes became a deeper blue when she said that. Lexie realized how much it had hurt him when she had told him that she wanted to wait to get married and have kids.
"And if you are wondering, yes you are the most important thing that I could miss out on, but I choose not to."
"I want those things with you, I really do, but I also want to take some time, not rush into anything"
"I agree. But so that you know, when you do ask me to marry you, I will say yes. I am in this. Now please kiss me."
"I would love to kiss you"
And Mark did exactly that. He kissed her, and poured all of his love into that kiss. The rest of his life was going to start right now, with this kiss and this woman.