Nothing Else Matters: Chapter 7
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When he looked up, all he could see were the hospital’s hallway lights spilling into the on call room, framing her silhouette. He could vaguely see her face and noticed that her hair was messy, coming loose from the ponytail at the back of her head. It was disconcerting how much he wanted to hold her face in his hands and brush the hair away.
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Lexie Grey like to think of herself as a smart girl. It wasn’t that she was conceited, she just appreciated the level of intellect she possessed that not many others had. But even with her Harvard diploma and her med school degree, not to mention a photographic memory; she could still not figure out what the opposite sex was thinking. Or maybe it was just the male population of Seattle Grace that was so perplexing.
First there was Alex Karev, who embarrassingly forgot he had sex with her; George O’Malley, who was too blind or too stupid to notice her feelings for him; and last, but definitely not least, there was Mark Sloan. Now, Lexie wouldn’t presume to think that a man like him would ever have any interest in a girl like her but he was nice enough to her. He treated her like an actual person, which is more than anyone else around here treated her. Her resident didn’t know her name and her own sister didn’t even want to talk to her without Dr. Shepherd’s insistence. Lexie wasn’t blind. She saw more than most people realized. She knew that Dr. Shepherd forced Meredith to talk to her and as much as she appreciated his good intentions, she would rather Meredith come to talk to her because she wanted to and not because she was forced. This wasn’t how she wanted her relationship with Meredith to go.
Lexie nonchalantly looked around while trying to convince herself that she wasn't looking for a certain plastic surgeon. She had the strangest feeling that he had been avoiding her ever since she had woken him up in the on call room, which was impressive considering they were both taking care of the same patient, Mr. Carson. It was one of the rare times when Dr. Yang and Dr. Sloan would be working together and she was the intern in the middle. Whenever she would walk into a patient's room, the nurses would mention that Lexie had just missed him and that he left instructions for her to follow.
Lexie rubbed her eyes. She was still confused as to what had exactly happened in the on call room. When she had woken him up, he had looked at her so strangely. There was confusion, definitely anger, and something else she couldn’t quite put her finger on. She wanted to say longing, but that couldn’t be right. Dr. Sloan couldn’t possibly long for a boring and inconsequential intern like her.
'He was probably having a dream about someone else' Lexie thought to herself. 'Someone much prettier and definitely sexier than me.'
Lexie continued to make excuses for the look in his eyes as she went back into Mr. Carson's room for her forgotten pen. When she reached the room, Lexie looked up and unexpectedly caught the eye of the elusive Dr. Sloan through the room's window. Her mind went completely blank when their eyes met.
No amount of excuses could explain the shivers she felt travel down her spine at the look in his eyes.
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“Why doesn’t Meredith like it when you call me Little Grey?”
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“So you’ve been spending a lot of time with Dr. Sloan lately.” Lexie looked up and saw Meredith standing next to her.
Lexie actually had to fight the urge of checking to see if Dr. Shepherd was around. It wasn't like Meredith to start up a conversation with her.
“Not really” Lexie said while pushing a strand of hair behind her ear. She felt strangely nervous as Meredith’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“He’s your boss.”
Lexie’s eyebrows knit in confusion “I know. He’s your boss too.”
“Yeah, but he treats you different.”
Lexie swallowed loudly “He treats me like any other intern.”
“No he doesn’t.”
“What are you talking about Meredith?”
“He calls you Little Grey.”
“So?”
“I don’t like it.”
“Why not?”
Meredith opened her mouth to answer when her pager suddenly went off. Meredith rushed off without so much as a goodbye to her.
“Nice talking to you too” Lexie muttered and rubbed her forehead.
She was starting to get a headache from trying to understand the people around her. First Dr. Sloan and now Meredith. Since when did Meredith care what Dr. Sloan decided to call her? It wasn’t mean or degrading, at least it didn’t feel that way to her. Lexie thought for a few minutes before walking towards the elevators. She was going to find Dr. Sloan and get some kind of answers out of him. Little did she know what kind of answers she was going to get.
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“Shut up” Mark snatches his papers and walks away but not before he calls over his shoulder “See if I let you scrub in on my surgeries.”
“You will cause you like me!” she calls out laughing.
Lexie laughs louder as she watches him come to a standstill before continuing down the hall.
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Lexie laughed as she watched Dr. Sloan walk away.
'Stomp was actually more like it' she thought with another laugh.
She couldn’t believe that he had admitted to liking her. Now she didn’t know whether he meant as a friend or as something else but it didn’t really matter that much to her. All she could focus on was that he actually liked having around; that at least someone could stand her.
The pager at her hip began to vibrate and Lexie was soon running to the elevators. She didn’t want Dr. Yang to have any more reasons to be angry with her.
A small frown came to her face as she waited for the elevator. She just realized that the downside to finding out Dr. Sloan had some kind of interest in her was that now all she could think about was how she felt about him.
'Crap.'
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Lexie rubbed her eyes with the tips of her fingers, “I’m sorry. I’m taking all my anger out on you.”
Mark smiled, slightly relieved that he hadn't actually done anything wrong, “I’ve had worse Little Grey. I think I can take what you dish out.”
Lexie gave him a sideways glance and smiled before frowning, “It's just, everyone in the hospital is talking about us.”
“Well, you were the one yelling in front of the entire hospital” Mark shut his mouth when she glared his way.
“Then George came to warn me about you.” She looked at him nervously, "He said that you were using me.”
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“Hey Lexie!” Lexie groaned as she heard George’s voice.
She knew what he was going to want to talk about and she really didn’t want to hear it. All day long, people she didn’t even know had been offering her advice about Dr. Sloan, or as he was named by the nurses, McSlutty.
“I can’t talk right now George. Dr Yang has me swamped with work.”
“What I have to say will only take a minute.”
Lexie sighed heavily. There was no way of getting out of this conversation. “I’m listening.”
“You need to stay away from Sloan. He is bad news Lexie. I’ve seen him destroy many lives and he’ll only do the same to you.”
“I know.”
George frowned, he was obviously expecting a fight. “You do?”
Lexie nodded “Yeah, every single person in this hospital has already told me what you just told me and you know what?”
She then leaned forward like she was about to divulge a big secret, “I don’t care.”
“It doesn’t bother you that he’s going to just use you?”
Lexie rolled her eyes. “What bothers me is that everyone around here doesn’t know how to mind their own business.”
George began to open his mouth but Lexie cut him off.
“I heard what you did to Dr. Torres with Dr. Stevens." Lexie felt a little satisfaction at the way George suddenly became very silent.
"As much as I don't like what you did, I never held that against you. People make mistakes and Dr. Sloan deserves the same chance to show he's not what everyone else thinks he is.”
"But it's Sloan, Lexie."
"He's still human. He has feelings just like everybody else." Lexie started to gather all her files, “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some work to do Dr. O’Malley.”
George frowned “Lexie, we’re friends. You don’t have to call me that.”
Lexie glared at him “A real friend would trust my judgement. I am a grown woman. I think I can decide who my friends are,” she paused before finished her thought, “and right now, I don’t know if you’re one of them."
With that, Lexie turned and walked away before he could respond.
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A couple of minutes later, Mark felt another pat on his shoulder.
He figured Callie forgot something and felt his stomach drop when he gazed down at a pair of dark brown eyes.
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“What are you doing three?” Cristina asked Lexie as soon as Lexie reached her.
“N-nothing Dr. Yang.”
“And why is that?”
“Well, I finished rewriting all the charts already.”
Cristina looked at Lexie before looking back down at the chart in her hands. “I don’t have time to think up punishments for you right now. Go to plastics.”
Lexie couldn’t believe what she was hearing. “What?”
“Go far away to plastics where you can’t bug me.”
Cristina took a fleeting glance at Lexie before walking away “And take that ridiculous smile of your face. I don’t want you happy.”
“Y-yes Dr. Yang. Sorry Dr. Yang.” Lexie power walked to the elevators.
She couldn’t believe her luck. Ever since she had left Dr. Sloan in the supply closet, she had wanted nothing more than to turn right back around to him. Something about being around him made her feel alive. More alive than she's felt since her mother had died.
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As he neared, he noticed that she kept blowing her hair out of her face.
It kept falling into her eyes and had been bothering her all day, like it had been for the past couple days.
So when that same strand of hair fell again, Mark instinctively reached out and pushed the strand behind her ear.
Both of them froze as they realized what he had just done.
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Lexie placed her pen down and started massaging her wrist with her other hand. If she had known that the road to becoming a doctor was more paperwork than actual medicine, she might have chosen a different profession. She couldn’t wait for the day she was a real surgeon and in charge of her own patients.
Lexie brushed back a piece of hair and glanced at the room Dr. Sloan was currently in. His patient had just come out of surgery and he was making sure everything was in order before his shift ended. His thoroughness with his patients was one quality that she greatly admired in him. All of his cases were given the same amount of care, no matter how big or small the case was. Lexie hoped that she would be as great a surgeon as he was.
When she saw him begin to approach her, Lexie quickly looked away. The last thing she wanted to do was give him the idea that she was some love sick intern lusting after him.
'Not that he wasn’t lustworthy,' Lexie mused and proceded to imagine what she would do to him if she ever got the chance.
Lexie tried pushing the dirty thoughts she was currently having to the farthest corner of her mind as Dr. Sloan neared. If she wanted to get any kind of work done around him, she would need to concentrate on the medicine itself and not the gorgeous man behind the medicine. Lexie thought she was doing a good job of not thinking of him out of his scrubs until he actually reached her. When he tenderly brushed her hair back, sending tingles rushing through her body, Lexie couldn't help but wonder what else his fingers could do to her body.
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