A/N so here goes nothing or everything or I don't even know anymore!

Best Made Plans

I actually did not think it would be this difficult to write these two again, but I said I would update so I hope you enjoy. I've written and rewritten this chapter so many times, and I don't know if it's too long or too short or if I've totally missed the plot loll but please let me know what you think of this xxx

Being disliked and ignored was something Lexie Grey had not grown accustomed to in her twenty four years on earth. She always tried to be polite to everyone, always assisted where needed. She considered herself a good person. She was chosen as homecoming queen and prom queen in high school; she never really had any enemies and never had a problem with fitting in. Well that was until she moved back to Seattle.

She lived with Meredith and Derek, Izzy, George and Alex. They all seemed rather okay, but they all seemed to be wrapped up in their own drama.

Meredith was really the only one trying to make Lexie feel welcome, she wanted to sit with her during lunch at the hospital, she always came to her room checking if Lexie needed anything, always prying about this secret love affair that she had found out about when she visited Lexie in Boston, and they had both tried to go shopping to make Lexie's room more homey but considering their schedules at the hospital it seemed that it would only happen once they both were board certified surgeons.

Izzy and George would greet her at breakfast sometimes but Alex was more of the grunt and passes the milk kind of guy. She almost never saw Derek apart from the hospital but she had desperately asked him to treat her as an intern and not as his girlfriend's little sister when they were at SGH.

The hospital in itself was a war zone. Lexie had learned that it was every man or woman for themselves. Which is why Lexie had thanked God for her photographic memory, it meant that she had a certain edge over her fellow interns.

Her resident Christina Yang who happened to be Meredith's best friend really didn't bother with her or any of the other interns assigned to her so Lexie took matters into her own hands. She was the first person at the hospital in the morning and the last person to leave. She would research new surgical techniques and be read patients charts over and over until she knew exactly which patient in which room needed which specific medication or were undergoing which specific treatment. She had worked herself to the bone until Christina decided that Lexie and her photographic memory made her look good. She would use Lexie as her personal computer, she realised having Lexie around came in handy.

And when some of the other medical staff found out about Lexie's amazing ability to recall any information she had once read in a flash, they requested her to work with them. First Dr Hunt, and then Derek and so it went, which now meant that all her fellow first year interns started disliking her. Claiming that Lexie was being favoured since she was Meredith's sister and she lived with the Derek Shepard, the neuro God.

She had often heard all of them making plans to have drinks at Joe's after work, never extending her an invite. They all sat together in the lunchroom, whilst Lexie would avoid even going there not wanting to be seen sitting with Mer.

So Lexie would spend her lunch breaks in an on call room reading, catching up on sleep or most of the time… she would let Mark Sloan do things to her that made her blush even thinking of it.

Mark…Dr Mark Sloan. Head of the plastics department and a world class ENT specialist. Blue eyes, built like a God with all the confidence to match. He had woman and some men falling over each other just to get his attention. She had never seen him making small talk with colleagues though or helping interns learn new skills. In the hospital he was stoic. There to do his job, no time for making friends or attempting to be liked. He was somewhat cold.

Not to her though, never to Lexie.

They were still pretending like they didn't know each other. Walking past each other in hallways and stealing little glances. Even when Derrick tried to introduce the two when they were working on a case together Mark has just said "Shep don't bother, knowing the names of interns just doesn't concern me". Lexie didn't feel offended by that at all, she knew if anyone were to find out about her and Mark, they would just use it as another excuse as to why they weren't getting to scrub in on surgeries or why they weren't being requested to work on certain cases.

It made their sex even more intense and exciting, being in the same space and not being able to look at each other or touch, Lexie walking past him and him not turning around to look at her ass that he completely worshipped. God it drove them both over the edge when they would finally see each other in their secret on call room visits or when Lexie would go over to his place after a long day and they would spend hours just worshipping each other's bodies.

Damn did they have the best sex.

It had now been five months, five months since she met him for the first time back in Boston.

Two since they've been hiding their affair in Seattle. Affair, is that what they were having? Lexie had always been a relationship girl, she didn't know the rules of what this thing was between them. There was the sex part of course, the breath taking sex part and then there was the lying in bed until in the early hours of the morning, both fighting back sleep but wanting to talk to one another part. Some nights when both of them were too tired to even talk, they would just lie in bed facing each other, bodies completely intertwined looking into each other eyes as they fell asleep. Some mornings he would wake up before her and she wold find him already awake, propped up on his side looking at her, and she would open her eyes and smile never knowing what he was thinking.

She had grown to care for this man so much.

Their time together being the only time she would be able to truly be herself, to be vulnerable and the only time that she actually felt wanted.

He, Mark Sloan wanted her. He wanted Lexie Grey, the girl being ignored and made fun of by her peers, the one who seems like a nuisance to her room mates, the Lexie Grey who was cheated on by her long-time boyfriend.

Sometimes her mind could not properly comprehend as to why. Why her? Why not any of the successful, beautiful and well liked woman who was throwing themselves at him in the hospital? She was clearly not enough for Tony, how could she possibly be enough for Mark Sloan?

She swore that after Tony, she would not easily trust another man or let them too close to hurt her and God know she wasn't sure if she could trust Mark but the way that he had slowly opened her heart again…

She was starting to think that she could possibly love this man.

Truthfully speaking she did love Mark Sloan. She was completely addicted to him. She lived for feeling his touch or seeing him smile at her when they were alone.

This thing, the thing that they shared, that nobody else knew about, this secret of her and Mark's it had become the most important thing in her life.

And sometimes when he rolled over towards her in the middle of the night pressing her body tighter to his, or when he would kiss her temple when they would say good bye not wanting to let go of her hand or even when he would listen to her ramble on about how mean people were to her and he would say "Screw everyone Lex, you have me" and especially when he would call her Lex, she would let her mind wander and make her heart believe that somewhere deep down, maybe he loved her too.

She wanted to say it to him. Tell him exactly how much she did love him. But how could she?

How could she be so vulnerable with her heart again? Her break up with Tony hurt her yes, but is she was to lose Mark, she doubted that she would recover from that.

So secret meetings and a second long stolen gaze is what she would have to settle for. Mark Sloan did not seem like the relationship type, and she would not force it on him. No. she would rather have this secret life with him than not have anything at all.

Best Made Plans

Mark kicked off his shoes as he entered his hotel room. It had been a long day. He had a seven hour surgery and all he wanted was to get home, have a shower and go to bed. Looking at the enormous empty bed now he wondered if he should have taken Derrick up on his offer to grab a drink at Joe's, the bar across the street from the hospital.

But lately Mark found himself spending less and less time with his childhood best friend. Ever since Lexie had moved to Seattle he only wanted to spend time with her. It had now been two months and God only knew when he would get tired of spending time with her.

He had willed himself into thinking that once they were living in the same area code that he would get bored with her, move on to the next. He was waiting for it to happen, waiting to stop thinking about her, craving her, and needing her but it never did.

This feeling her had towards her, this never ending desire to be around her was something that Mark Sloan had never experienced before.

He would see her at the hospital every day, amazed at how brilliant and smart she was. Never afraid to go for what she wanted. She was truly fearless.

She told him about how the other interns had started to dislike her, which honestly he had the hardest time understanding. How could someone not like Lexie? How could someone knowingly be mean to her? When he thought about it he just wanted to punch those fucking little interns. But he couldn't, he could be the biggest jack ass they had ever met though.

He wanted to look out for her; he wanted everyone to know that she was his, and that if anyone was to dare mess with her, they would have him to deal with. But then that would be a lie, because he didn't even know if she really was his. If she wanted to be or if she even thought about it.

He had never had a real relationship; this was the closest he was to one. Mark Sloan didn't scare easily but this terrified him. He lived in fear all the time just waiting for the hospital rumour mill to find its way to Lexie. Her finding out exactly who and what he was. She immediately deciding that she wanted nothing to do with the man whore of thanked God every day when she would show up at his hotel room, because it meant one more time, one more night with her.

And damn did he make those nights count. He worshipped her body. Kissing every part of it, memorizing every inch of her because he knew that one day it would end, she would stop showing up.

Just thinking of it made his insides churn.

How had he ended up in this mess?

How had her, Mark Sloan player of note become attached to someone? How did he's happiness now depend on another?

Lexie was too good for him this he knew. She needed to be with someone like Derek. A good guy.

Maybe he should just end it now. Leave her. Leave Seattle.

But how could he go a day without seeing her? Without hearing her voice or touching her. She had become a part of him.

Mark grabbed a beer from the mini fridge, threw himself on the sofa and switched on the TV. Ever since Lexie moved to Seattle he had grown accustomed to sleeping with her, holding her and feeling her breath on his neck as they fell asleep. She was working tonight and he knew he would never be able to sleep in that big bed all by himself so the couch it was.

He turned on his cell, listening to his messages, he quickly deleted two from Callie, and damn that woman did not know the meaning of not interested. He found himself smiling when he heard Lexie's voice…

"Hey, it's me. Lexie" she said as if he wouldn't recognise her voice.

"So I'm just thinking that it sucks that I'm at work and you're in that big comfy bed, but I have dues to be paid I guess" then she went silent, he could imagine her biting her lip like she did when she was nervous.

"And I was thinking that maybe if you didn't have any plans tomorrow, maybe I could come over after my shift ends in the morning and… but only if you're not busy I mean I don't want to impose. I could just go home to Mer's and we'll see each other when you're free… or I don't know… I have to go now. Bye. Have a good night, and I'll see you when I see you I guess." She trailed off.

Mark laughed because only Lexie Grey would ramble on like that even in a voice mail.

He sent her a quick text and took a big gulp of his beer, feeling relieved because another day had past, another day that she didn't find out who he was, or used to be. He had another opportunity to hold her.

Lexie felt her heart skip a beat when her phone vibrated notifying her of a new text.

I'll stay up so that we could sleep in together when you get off- Mark.

She smiled from ear to ear reading and re reading the text.

Best Made Plans

Best Made Plans

Meredith smiled as Derek kissed her neck, she knew what he wanted and she wanted it too but she just couldn't stop thinking about Lexie

"So I've been thinking we really haven't done anything for Lexie since she moved back" Meredith stated as she pushed Derek away so that she could look at him.

"I mean she hardly has any friends here, the interns are all being mega bitches to her and I just feel bad you know."

Derek sat up right on the bed; he wanted to make sure that he was hearing her properly. Her Meredith Grey was considering doing something for someone that wouldn't directly result in her landing in an operating room scrubbing in. He figured her asking Lexie to live with them was a big step, and that she only did it because she knew how being alone in the world felt. But she kept on surprising him, showing real effort in wanting to get to know her sister. Going to her graduation and doing little things like attempting to cook her breakfast some mornings. He didn't know this side of Meredith, he didn't even know that it existed but he loved it. He enjoyed watching her care for someone; it just showed him that she wasn't as cold towards family as she once told him when they met.

"So what were you thinking?" he asked.

"Well most of us are off from work tomorrow and maybe we could have a small get together? You could get Mark to come over and the two of you could get the grill some steaks outside?"

Derek laughed a little "I never thought I'd ever hear you say let's have a little get together" he joked.

Meredith playfully punched him in the stomach "well I blame it on you, you are the one making me go all soft. And I asked Lexie to live here I don't want her to be miserable. She needs to make friends and I know once everyone sees her unwind they'll just love her"

Like you love her?" Derek teased.

"Yes Derek, like I love her. It's weird I have all these sisterly feelings. I never knew such a thing even existed" Mer said truly looking confused.

That statement really took Derek by surprise.

Not wanting to make her feel embarrassed. He just shook his head "I'll take care of the food, and I'll ask Mark, I doubt he'll come he has been acting really strange lately."

A/N Okay… I'm nervous like really nervous about this…

The next chapter will have a whole more interaction between Lexie and Mark and Mer and Der and some of the other SG doctors. Well that's if anyone wants to read it?

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Also thank you for the encouragement. I really want to move over to LiveJournal the lurkers on here kills vibes ;/