DENIAL, Mark Sloan

𝟬𝟮𝟳, 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀

Chloe left her bedroom to see Mark standing in the kitchen. She frowned. "Wait. We didn't?" She asked as she saw him topless.

Mark shook his head. "No. I stayed over because you were crying at titanic. And then the notebook. You told me that you wanted someone to love you the way Jack loved Rose," he said.

Chloe looked to him for a moment and nodded. She smiled. "Well you don't need to make me breakfast. I'm a big girl," she told him as she sat down.

Mark rolled his eyes. "Sit down and shut up. Let me make my kid pancakes. Pancakes are the things I'm good at doing. I'm bad at love. So I wanna be a good dad."

Chloe smiled. "Fine. Pancakes will do me and bubba. Are you and Lexie still not talking?" She asked.

"Nope. I'm moving on. I have the baby to focus on. And you and me coparenting together. If Lexie can't accept that, then I don't need her in my life," Mark said.

Chloe looked to him. "My sofa is yours as long as you want. Even though you have your own place."

"Yeah. About that. I hate that you're across town from me. So if anything happens, I can't get to you early enough. Why don't you and the baby move in with me?" Mark asked.

Chloe blinked a couple of times. Unable to comprehend what she was hearing. "Erm. Wow. I don't think that will help with Lexie. She hates me. And she's still obsessed with you," she said.

"Yeah well she can't accept that you and I are having this baby. So I don't need anyone that won't accept that," Mark told her.

Knowing he was going to do all he could to make it work with Chloe. For the sake of their baby.

****

Chloe smiled as she saw Ellie who looked to her. "Hey. How's you doing? How's my future godchild?" Ellie asked.

"They're okay I guess. Where's Ivy?"

"Daycare. Mamma needs to work. And mamma is working until the end of the day. I need to not want to go and take my baby home," Ellie joked. She smiled. "Are things with you and Mark okay?"

Chloe nodded. "Yeah. It's fine. We're having a baby together. That's all we can do," she said.

Ellie watched as Chloe walked off. Knowing that she was in complete denial about how she really felt for Mark. And Ellie knew it was obvious to everyone around them.

****

Chloe walked into the patients with room with Teddy and Jackson. "Ricky... big day," Teddy said.

"Bring it on."

"Is this your sister?" Teddy asked referring to the young woman in the room.

Ricky smiled. "This is my girlfriend ... Julia."

Teddy looked over at her. "You're kidding. He's been talking about you for months," she told her.

"I figured, if there was ever a day to take off work, it's when your boyfriend's getting new lungs," Julia said as she smiled.

"Smart. She waited for the real fun," Teddy said as she shared a look with Chloe.

"All right. Let's do this."

Jackson looked to Ricky. "Well, your new lungs should leave Portland in about two hours. You haven't taken any of your cystic fibrosis meds since last night, right?" He asked.

Ricky shook his head. "No food, no water, no drսg," he told them.

Teddy nodded and smiled. "Great. So we'll just do one last workup, and then we'll get you to the O.R. Oh, and, uh, Julia, write down your number, please, and give it to Dr. Robbins."