Chapter 2

Callie was incredulous, "Uh excuse me. What did those hmm's mean?!"

No one was talking. Callie was internally debating which one she should come after first. Hmm… Maybe Shepherd? I could still do that stare-him-down thing that Bailey taught me.

Perhaps fortunately for Derek, Meredith spoke up first. "Derek? Was Mark in love with Callie? Did he say something to you?"

Derek cleared his throat before responding, "Mark didn't say anything directly. It was more of the… little things that I noticed about him."

"Little things?" Callie asked.

"We all know that Mark was… quite generous with his affections to the ladies," Derek started.

A smidgen of snickers could be heard around the room.

Derek continued, "He was in love with Addie and Lexie, but he still slept with other people while with them. Okay, there are some technicalities in Lexie's case. But still, Mark slept with someone else during those serious and official relationships."

Derek looked at Callie directly this time, "But when he was with you, Callie, he was only ever with you."

Callie became obviously confused at this. Before she can even open her mouth to react, Derek continued, "I mean… When you two were sleeping together, you were the only one. He wasn't interested in anybody else."

"Really?" Miranda exclaimed, obviously surprised at this revelation.

"Really," answered Derek. "Knowing Mark's propensity, that was quite a feat."

Callie interjected, "That doesn't mean he was in love with me. I'm just really good in bed!" Her cheeks burned red, immediately regretting blurting that out.

That she is, Arizona thought.

"Yeah, that explains the sex tape," Addie quipped to the shock and horror of the people in the room.

"What?!" Callie sputtered out, her previous reddened face now turning white.

Addie was blushing, quick to respond, "Sorry, sorry! Well, I meant – Mark mentioned in passing that he set it up and..."

Cristina could not pass this opportunity up to tease Callie, "Wow, Callie. You must be really good in the sack for even THE manwhore to want to videotape your bedroom activities."

"Bedroom, on-call room, maybe some more other rooms," Miranda muttered under her breath.

Arizona was becoming really uncomfortable with this. She did not know if she wanted to walk out of the room to spare herself the details or just giving in to her macabre curiosity.

"There's NO sex tape!" Callie insisted.

Addie smirked, "Sure, Cal. But you were the only one he wanted to make one with."

"I was actually almost hopeful that Mark would wake up from his coma when you told him you'd take your shirt off and show him your... umm... goods," Derek said, his eyes very briefly glancing to Callie's chest, which has not gone unnoticed by Meredith and earned him another smack on his arm.

Now everyone was looking at Callie. Nobody would admit, even to themselves, where their eyes briefly went to after Derek's remark.

"Stop looking at my boobs!"

"Stop looking at her boobs!" Callie and Arizona blurted out at the same time.

Richard interrupted before the discussion goes out of hand, "Let's dial back to the original topic, shall we?" he said in his most chief-ly manner. He noticed that it was not just Callie that was flustered with this topic - Arizona was looking particularly squeamish.

"Okay, I noticed that Mark was particularly faithful to whatever he and Callie had. Aside from that, he was really sweet and doting to you. He respected you and your thoughts. He listened to you. You could have asked him to jump, and he'd ask how high. You say something and his full attention was on you," Derek said.

Callie rebutted, "We were best friends. And I carried his child." She still did not see how these little things could mean Mark was in love with her.

In love with me - 0

NOT in love with me - 1