A/N:

So here it again - another chapter. I forgot to mention that I'm having my midterms now and my updating may decrease as I move into the week, but will increase hopefully as spring break starts! - Again, thank you all for the reviews and I really hope to see more of those! I don't own Grey's Anatomy nor do I own the characters, I wish. And here's yet another chapter, I hope you enjoy it, and give me more reviews so I can boost up my muse!

Physical Therapy: Day One

Mark carefully sat Lexie on the cot and she managed to use her one hand to pull herself back to rest her back against the backrest. Mark glanced around and smiled at her, "Now, remember. It's the first session so you won't be doing much so –

"Don't push yourself too hard. I got it, Mark." Lexie smiled at him and shrugged briefly. "I know what I am up against. I can do it." Lexie muttered and blinked once. Mark took her hand and took a deep breath, which only made Lexie let out a small giggle before she cleared her throat. Mark narrowed his eyes at her and she shrugged again, "I'm the patient, remember? You're more nervous than I am. You're gonna be a basket case at the alter, gee." Lexie shook her head slowly, and flashed him a foolish grin.

Mark rolled his eyes momentarily. They'd agreed that as soon as Lexie started walking again, they wouldn't waste a minute not being married to each other. Mark had wanted to married to her, but she wanted a church and a dress and her father walking her down the aisle, and Mark was going to give her anything and everything she wanted.

"Good morning…Lexie. I'm Doctor Howe. I'm going to your physician until you're back on your feet again." The man in the green scrubs smiled at her as he reached out to shake her hand, flashing her a dazzling smile. "You can call me Jared."

"And I am Mark, her fiance. I'm a doctor too, head of Plastics here actually." Mark let the corners of his mouth turn up in a huge forced grin as he literally snatched Jared's hand out of Lexie's. Lexie pursed her lips and looked down to keep herself from bursting into laughter. Jared appeared to be somewhat threatened by Mark, but eventually shrugged and looked down at Lexie's chart, "So it says here you had five tibia repairs, one humerus repair, and three ulna/radius repairs. You had brief nerve damage in areas mentioned, so we're going to be working on getting those back to full function." Jared looked back up at Lexie and smiled at her encouragingly, and when she nodded, "There we go. The basic essential to all of this is the motive. You have to want to do it."

"Oh, trust me." Lexie glanced up at Mark once as his hand tightened around hers, "I want to." Lexie answered curtly, confidently.

"That's good. That's very good. Um, Mark. Are you going to be joining us in all sessions? We're going to need the extra hand." Jared offered, as if placing out a peace offering. Mark narrowed his eyes at the youngster before he nodded, "I'll be here."

"Okay then. Let's take a look then." Jared moved to the side of the table. Lexie was advised to wear shorts so she wore exactly that. Jared tenderly held her left foot and pressed her toes carefully. "Does that hurt?" He asked as he glanced up at her. Lexie stared at her foot with narrowed her eyes, feeling a slight sting as he bent each toe. "A little." She mumbled and looked up at him again. Jacob moved hold her ankle and twist her foot sideways gently, immediately removing his hands when Lexie sat up straight, gasping as she winced. "That's probably because it has been time since you moved them. They're…rusty. So for starters, Mark and I," Jared glanced up at Mark, who stood straight up at the mention of his name, "Will apply a massage technique using this," Jared then walked back to the medicine cupboard and extracted a tube of ointment, "This should be absorbed directly through the tissue to provide a muscle and tendon reliever. And I'll prescribe you some pills for your cartilage; you're going to need your vitamin supply to get absorbed into those to get them back to their original state and tone down the swelling so we could start with the real action." Jared stepped back towards the table and squirted the transparent gel into his hand.

Mark offered up his palm to get his share of the gel too, and Lexie found that almost too hilarious as well. But she leaned back and rested against the backrest and watched as Jared's hands touched her ankle and his fingers moved deftly over her skin. Despite the initial sting, she relaxed and felt goose bumps rise on her skin as she blinked slowly. In no time, Mark joined into the pattern. Lexie sighed softly and when Mark looked up at her he winked once. Lexie's eyes widened momentarily as her face reddened and Mark shook his head. Lexie will never understand Mark's ability of making everything seem dirty just by a simple look and a loop-sided grin.

So they started moving their hands along her leg, it really was hours. Hours of pure…heaven, to be honest. Lexie relaxed and almost fell asleep, watching Mark as he focused intently on trying to get his fingers to move right over her skin, pressing gently over the tender spots that were painful until he eased the painful knots out.

Jared stepped back and clapped his hands together once, "Hopefully, tomorrow your muscles will be more relaxed." He said loudly as he turned towards the desk at the far corner of the large gym-like room. Lexie now glanced around to assess the atmosphere around her. Mirrors were line up along one wall, a bar like the one in a ballet studio on another. A basket was filled with balls of all sizes and colors, and a small shelf was lined up with dumbbells of minimal weight. Then there was the railed runway that was facing the mirror wall. Lexie knew it would a long shot before she even got to that, but she would work hard for it.

Lexie looked up at Jared when he called her name, "Pardon?" She said quickly and Jared handed her the prescription. "These are pills you should be starting with. One before breakfast every day. And I also prescribed the gel we used today because Mark seemed to be such a good follow-lead, I think you could do extra work with her at home. You could even start with her arm. It will need the same treatment." Jared explained briefly as he nodded once towards Mark who still eyed him through narrowed, icy blue eyes before nodding slowly. "Uh…that…should be it then. I'll see you guys tomorrow." Jared patted Lexie shoulder and shook Mark's hand before he literally scurried out of the room.

"You scared the living crap out of him." Lexie laughed as Mark moved to pick her up and gently place her back into the wheel chair. "He gets to put his hands on you; I barely did anything, Lex." Mark shrugged once as he started to wheel her out of the room. As the elevator door opened, they saw Meredith standing her navy scrubs and her hair pulled up and tucked beneath a purple scrub cap. "Mer!" Lexie exclaimed joyously and Meredith shushed her. Lexie lifted both brows before the elevator doors closed and she smiled down at Lexie, her eyes almost wicked. "I'm trying to keep up the evil attending reputation I established."

"Evil attending?" Lexie laughed and shook her head, scoffing briefly, "But…everyone in this hospital loves you."

"The interns call her Medusa." Mark snickered as he swayed his hips into Meredith's and she grinned.

"Medusa? Like, the monster with the serpent hair that could turn you to stone if she looks at you?" Lexie looked up at Meredith and rolled her eyes, "My god, what have you done to those poor interns?" Lexie shook her head slowly. Meredith shrugged once, seeming almost too innocent before her face softened into an expression of concern. "How was physical therapy?" Meredith asked and Lexie pursed her lips in thought for a moment. "Mark almost stared down the physician into his demise."

Meredith glanced sideways at Mark and shook her head, "Really? You're playing the jealous game?"

"I'm not jealous. I'm just marking my property." Mark flashed his devilish grin at Meredith and Lexie looked up at him, exasperated. "I'm property now?"

"Well, you're going to be my wife." Mark explained and Lexie smiled to herself foolishly, looking ahead again as she felt her insides melt at the simple mention of the word wife. When Meredith saw the look on her sister's face, she rolled her eyes and smiled. "I'm going to come by this evening and check on you before I head home, okay?" Meredith asked as she leaned down and placed a small kiss on Lexie's cheek, "Are you bringing Zola?" Lexie chirped quickly and Meredith nodded once as she ran out of the elevator, "I'll be around at nine!"

Mark wheeled Lexie to the pharmacy and cashed in the prescription before they went home. Lexie spent the rest of the day watching TV, flipping through channels, but every channel she flipped through, she'd fine movies like United 93, Flight, Cast Away, and Alive. "You've gotta be kidding me." Lexie scowled, turning for a comedy channel only to find The Terminal playing. Lexie laughed, but she sounded more like a maniac doing it before she turned off the TV and tossed the controller aside, running her fingers through her hair, "The movies suck." She growled at the TV and put her head down against the armrest.

Mark peeked around from the kitchen and sighed. "We don't have to watch any movies. We can have dinner and just…go to bed." Mark suggested as he dried his hands into the kitchen towel and stepped around her. "Meredith's coming in fifteen, right?" Lexie looked up at the clock and then pursed her lips as she tilted her head back when she looked up at Mark. "Then call her. We're ordering take out. See to it if she and Derek want to eat something specific." Mark smiled and pecked her lips before he got up and wrapped the blanket around Lexie's legs then he sat down and propped her feet on his lap.

Lexie dialed Meredith's number and waited as she listened to the dial tone, only when Meredith picked up, she seemed to be running, "Sorry Lex. I don't think I can make it tonight. My patient's getting septic and I'm kind of running around here."

"No, no! It's okay, go, save lives. Be great." Lexie mumbled with a small smile as she glanced sideways at Mark who seemed almost disappointed.

"I'll make it up to you next time, I promise. Gotta go now!" And then Meredith hung up.

Lexie stared down at the phone before she sighed and set it on the coffee table, resting her arm against the armrest and resting her head down as she tucked her arm in the sling down a little. Lexie sighed and looked down. She missed being a doctor. She missed shocking people back to life. She hadn't been inside an OR in such a long time – and even when she was as a patient, she wasn't even awake. The thought of her fifth residency year passing by her like this depressed her.

Mark ran his hand over her leg slowly, "Well, we're alone." Mark muttered suggestively and Lexie slowly turned her gaze to his, lifting her brows. "What?" Mark shrugged once before he gently set Lexie's feet on the couch and then stood up to slid his arms beneath her, hoisting her up and holding close to him, bridal style. "It's massage time." Mark whispered into her ear, and Lexie could feel the wild blush spread on her cheeks as he trudged towards the bedroom.

Mark placed Lexie down on the bed gently and climbed over her. Lexie blinked once as he hovered over her, and took a deep breath as his fingers hooked beneath the waistline of her sweatpants and slowly pulled them over her legs. For a moment, Lexie was grateful she shaved her legs before the physical therapy session. She shivered a little as the tips of his fingers trailed over her skin, leaving her skin in a hot mess of goose bumps before he moved up her body. His lips hovered inches away from hers and he smiled momentarily, a loop-sided smile as his blue orbs glinted devilishly. Lexie knew that look. It made her heart skip a beat and her lungs refuse to take in any air.

"I'm going to make you feel good, okay?" Mark hummed against her lips and Lexie nodded quickly, breathlessly. Mark pecked her lips once before he reached to the nightstand and grabbed the tube, squeezing some of the cold gel onto his palm before he retreated back. His hands gently wrapped around her foot, and his fingers worked their magic over her skin. Lexie sighed, her lashes fluttering against her cheek briefly before she closed her eyes.

Mark's hands moved past her knee, along her thigh, his fingers moving in circles over her skin, sliding around her thigh. Lexie could feel the anticipation build up within her when his fingers moved up the inside of her thigh, and she let out a soft hum. Mark laughed, "Oh, don't get so worked up yet. I haven't even started yet."

His fingers retreated so he could spread more of the gel over his hand and work on her other leg. Slowly, the minutes passed by torturously. Lexie already felt like squirming beneath him. He just needed to touch her in the right place right now. Mark's hands moved again along the insides of her thighs, before they trailed up beneath her shirt and circled her breasts. Lexie moaned breathlessly, and curled her toes.

And then it hit her. She curled her toes. "Oh my god!"

Mark immediately sat up, eyes wide, holding his hands over his head in surrender, "What? What is it? Did I step over your leg? Are you hurt?" Mark blurted out as Lexie pushed herself up into sitting position. "No! No..Mark, I moved my toes. And they didn't hurt." Lexie gushed out and looked up at Mark, whose eyes too lit with size of the news. He looked down at her feet expectantly and Lexie pursed her lips before she closed her and tried to move them again.

"There you go!" Mark bellowed happily and leaned over to grab her face and press his lips to hers. Lexie laughed and let herself fall back onto the bed so Mark could continue lathering her body, but when he shrugged out of his shirt and lay down beside her, Lexie narrowed her eyes. "What are you doing?"

"I'm sleeping. Your session is early on tomorrow morning." Mark answered and lifted his brows innocuously. Lexie stared at him, agape, before she blinked furiously, "But…you…"

Mark grinned deviously, "Think of it, Lex. If this is what's going to get motivated, then I'd rather not spill my magic tricks on the first time. Plus, I don't want to push you too hard. So we'll sleep, and see what we can do tomorrow." He explained as he pulled the duvet around them.

"You are unbelievable!" Lexie complained and pouted, but Mark shrugged. "Baby steps, Lexie. Remember what you said that other day when we removed your cast? You said it was a road of a thousand miles ahead of you. Well, this is you beginning it. With a single step. Let's not push it, okay?" Mark stared her down into submission and she scowled before she buried her face into his shoulder.

"On the other hand, you look adorable when you're all hot and bothered for me." Mark whispered into her ear before he tucked her head beneath his chin and snickered to himself.

"You're mean, Mark Sloan." Lexie huffed under her breath as she rolled her eyes beneath her lids. Mark rubbed her back softly and closed his eyes, "That's why you love me."