The Sloan Family (the remake)

Chapter 3

Disclaimer: remember to always use protection when you're having sex, the "this won't happen to me" is way more current than you think and getting pregnant isn't the worst of your worries, you could get STDs and be stuck with them for the rest of you life.

Nothing can keep love apart

Lexie had a tough week. She lost three patients out of five. To start the week, her son had gotten into a fight at school and she had to quit work early to meet the teacher and the parents of the other kid. At the moment she thought that nothing could be worst but she was wrong, the other kid Brian had had a fight with was Sofia. And if course, all her parents had to be there and the teacher had to ask if Mark was Brian's dad, since there was only four chair Mark had to sit on the same side as Lexie, which created the confusion. Which then leaded to awkwardness between the two ex-lovers. She was embarrassed. How couldn't she be after lying again and again to the father of her kids, who didn't even knew he was their father. Everyone was asking about her husband or boyfriend and everyone was surprised when she told them she didn't have anyone. She was tired and wanted to forget everything for a night. So she asked her sister to babysit, telling her she'll own her one.

She went to the only bar she knew and appreciate in Seattle: Joe's. The same bar where she had her second first kiss with Mark.

Joe was bartending that night and since she knew he knew all the gossip of Seattle Grace Mercy West, she asked him about Mark. She was curious. Since she came back she hadn't heard him mention any woman and she wanted to know how his love life was. Not that she wanted to be in it again.

After a couple of hours, Joe had to take Lexie's car keys to be to sure she wouldn't injure herself or anyone by taking the wheels. But he kept her table open, judging she wasn't drunk enough to be intoxicated.

Mark came in later that night. It was Friday night and it was the couple night everywhere in town and that made him sad. Before, with Julia, it was their favorite night, their moment. But about two years ago she left him, unhappy because he didn't want to marry her and have kids with her. It wasn't because he didn't love her, he always did in a way, but he didn't want to invest himself in an other relationship after Lexie.

"A scotch Joe." Mar asked the bartender

"And a tequila for me." Lexie asked after him.

"Nope, I'm not giving any of you two an other drink. You are both drunk enough. You should go home and have a good night of sleep. I'll call you a cab."

The man and woman waited for their cab outside in the cold Seattle fall. When the first cab finally came, they were both almost frost to death. They decided to take the same cab and gave the address to Mark's place.

Little did they know that this night was going to be more steamy than expected.

It took three tries for Mark to be able to unlock his door. When they walked inside the condo, Lexie was submerge with memories, good ones and bad ones. The second first time they made love, when he told her Callie was pregnant and she broke up with him. All of this seemed like a lifetime away now.

In her drunk state of mind, Lexie was exactly where she always wanted to be all those lasts years. Home. She hadn't felt like this in such a long time.

She was so taken by her thoughts that she didn't realize Mark had his arms around her waist. She smiled to herself. Nothing was keeping her from being happy anymore. No secret, only the two of them. She turned around and put her arms around his neck. In a whisper, she said what she'd wanted to say to him for so long and what he had waiting to hear.

"I love you."

Mark lift her from the ground and took her to his bedroom. Even in this drunk state, he wanted to make it right. He had waited for this moment for five years. All those night where he had dreamed of them together and it was finally here and he was going to appreciate every second of it.

Lexie pressed her lips against his, never wanting to let go. Gently, he took her shirt off her, kissing her arms at the same time. Giggling, Lexie unzipped his jeans and slowly took them off from his legs. There was no regrets. Nothing felt more right at that moment. Their body, naked against each other's. Sharing kisses and making love.

~< the next morning >~
Lexie smiled at herself. She was smelling the sweet fragrance of croissant. One of her favorite food. She opened her eyes, expecting her kids jumping around in her bed with some fresh croissant they made earlier. But instead, she was laying, naked, in a bed she was sure wasn't hers. She looked around and remembered some of the things that happened last night.

She remembered being at Joe's drinking. A lot of drinking. And Mark. Then she remembered kissing someone and taking her close off.

The door suddenly open, letting her see the man behind it. Mark.

"Hey" he said awkwardly. "I--"

"I don't want to talk about it." She cut him. "Last night was a mistake, it shouldn't have happened. And I'm sorry if I gave you hope about us but it--it was a mistake." She said.

She didn't want him to know that she was wishing they would be able to do it again and never stop, that she was so deeply in love with him.

"Okay. I made breakfast so... it's going to cool down, you should eat it now. It's better when it's hot."

Lexie wanted to stay but she was sure that if she stayed, she would never be able to leave.

"I can't. I have work and my kids... shit! my kids." She just realized that she totally forgot about them. "I gotta go. I totally forgot my kids. Ugh, I'm such a bad mother."

"Come on Lex, it's not like they're gonna remember it when they're gonna be older."

Lexie was about to leave when she heard him say Lex. When he said it, her heart melted. But she had to be strong.

"Do not call me Lex. And you'd be surprise the things they can remember." She said, closing the door behind her.

She closed the door and she collapsed on the wall. How could she make him suffer like that. Why can't she just tell him the truth. But was it really worth getting her heart crushed again? No, she decided.
She wasn't gonna be that girl again, the one he left behind. She was never going to let that happen to her kids. Never.

Flashback
Lexie had just given birth and her sister was next to her. Her two kids were sleeping in her arms. She was so tired and so happy at the same time. She had been in labor for 36 hours (yes, it's totally normal to be in labor for that long when it's your first child) and she couldn't be more happy that it was over. The universe had just given her two angels.

"Are you gonna tell Mark?" Her sister asked.

Lexie looked down at her two kids, so pure and innocent. How could she let them suffer what she had been through with Mark. Condo she really let them always be second for him? No. It was her role of mother to protect her children from something like this and she wasn't going to let them be something less that they deserved to be.

"No." She answered her sister. "He doesn't need to know. And they don't need to feel unwanted, ever."

Present time

Lexie went to work, she was expecting a sermon from her sister but Meredith didn't give her one. She knew her sister was old enough to take care of herself.

Later, when Lexie ran into Mark at the hospital, she acted like nothing had happen.