Chapter 8

SCENE: MARK AND LEXIE'S APARTMENT A COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER

(Lexie is looking at a calendar and drinking coffee at the dining room table with Sofia sitting in her high chair when Mark comes up behind her and kisses her cheek.)

Mark: Good morning.

Lexie: (Smiling) Good morning.

(They kiss.)

Lexie: There's coffee in the pot.

Mark: Thank you.

(He walks over to the coffee maker and pours some coffee into the pot.)

Lexie: What do you think of December 4th?

Mark: A little cold, but in general it's a good day.

Lexie: (Laughing) No, what do you think about getting married on that day?

Mark: (Teasing) Why? What's so special about December 4th?

Lexie: You better be kidding or I will hurt you.

Mark: (Laughing) Of course I'm kidding. (He walks over to her and puts his arms around her.) Next to the night Sofia was born it was the greatest night of my life.

Lexie: Mm, mine too. (She kisses him.) Even though we've broken up a couple of times since then to me that will always be our anniversary. So I thought, what better day to get married?

Mark: I love it. (He kisses her again.) I'm actually relieved, I was worried you were going to want to wait a year.

Lexie: I think we've waited long enough.

Mark: Definitely.

(He kisses her again)

LATER AT THE HOSPITAL

(Meredith and Lexie are on the elevator.)

Meredith: December 4th?

Lexie: Yep, I get to be Mrs. Dr. Mark Sloan in less than 3 months.

Meredith: Wow, I can't believe this is really happening.

Lexie: I know.

Meredith: So, December 4th is a Tuesday this year, just out of curiosity why that day?

Lexie: Well, December 4th 4 years ago was the night we first, you know.

Meredith: I'm so sorry I asked.

(Just then the elevator opens and Cristina walks in.)

Cristina: Asked what?

Meredith: Lexie and Mark set a date, December 4th, which is the anniversary of the first time they had sex.

Cristina: Why would you tell your sister that?

Lexie: She asked, I didn't know what else to say.

Cristina: How did it happen anyway, did McSteamy lure you to his bed with his McSteamy ways?

Meredith: Hi, I'm still her sister.

(Just then the elevator door opens again and Derek and Mark walk in.)

Mark: (Smiling at Lexie) Hello, future wife.

Lexie: (Smiling back.) Hello future husband.

(He kisses her, they kiss for a few seconds before Cristina stops them.)

Cristina: The honeymoon hasn't started yet, and Little Grey was just about to tell us about the night she and McSteamy first did it.

Lexie: I was not.

Derek: How did that conversation start?

Mark: December 4th was the night we first- you know?

Meredith: (To Derek) Bet you're as sorry as I was when I asked.

Derek: More.

Cristina: So how did it happen?

Meredith: Cristina!

Cristina: What, haven't you always been curious?

Meredith: About my sister's sex life? No!

Cristina: No, just, Mark was the manwhore of this hospital and suddenly he lures Little Grey into his bed and he's a one woman man?

Lexie: Cristina, would you stop saying that? Mark did not lure me into his bed.

Meredith: Can we change the subject please?

(Just then the door opens again and Callie walks on.)

Callie: Hey guys, what's up?

Lexie: Well, Mark and I set a date for December 4th.

Callie: That's great.

Cristina: It's the first time they had sex.

Callie: Oh, is this the "teach me" story?

Lexie: (To Mark) You told her?!

Mark: We were each trying to fight off hot interns.

Meredith: The "teach me" story, what does that mean? (To herself) Meredith, stop asking questions you know you're going to regret later.

Callie: Oh come on, when you think about it it's actually a cute story.

Mark: I don't think anybody else will see it that way.

(They arrive at their desired floor.)

Lexie: Thank god.

(They all get off.)

Cristina: Callie, wait up!

(She follows her.)

Lexie: I can't believe you told Callie.

Mark: It was after we first slept together, I was confused and Callie was attracted to that crazy Sadie girl who let you take out her appendix.

Derek: Wait, does this mean you cheated on Lexie?

Mark and Lexie: What?

Derek: Well, Sadie was the one who broke your- you know and that was after the whole appendix thing.

Lexie: You still think that was Sadie?

Derek: Yeah, who else would- (Mark and Lexie give him a look.) Oh god. I have to go surgically remove my ears.

(Derek walks away and Mark and Lexie laugh.)

Mark: Listen, I'm sorry I told Callie.

Lexie: It was before we were a couple, I understand. I just hope I was the hot intern you were trying to fight off.

Mark: Of course you were. (He kisses her.) There's never been a hotter intern or a hotter resident and in a couple of years there will be no hotter attending.

Lexie: Oh really? (She wraps her hands around his neck.) I thought I was marrying the hottest attending ever.

Mark: Well, you'll be the hottest female attending.

(Lexie laughs and kisses him.)

A/N: There we go. I got the date when I looked up the day "All by Myself" premiered, December 4, 2008. Plus I thought it would be fun to revisit some of the hijinks that went on in Season 5. Hope you liked it.