SURGEONS PARADISE ➼ Mark Sloan

𝟯𝟰. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱 (𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗡𝗼 '𝗜' 𝗜𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺)

Mia smiled as she saw Esmè and Meredith sitting in the kitchen. They were reading one of Ellis' journal. "Hey. How come you're not asleep?" She asked.

"I'm getting reacquainted with my mother. Her journals. Derek is asleep though," Meredith told her. She smiled. "You?"

Mia shook her head. "No reason. Just thinking. There's so much more to do at the house. Mark and I are working crazy hours too. So it's hard for us to get it sorted," she told her.

Esmè frowned. "I thought it was done?"

Mia scoffed. "I wish. It's so stressful. But I just have to think of outcome. Mark and I get our own home. Grace gets the happy ever after. So I have to think of it like that," she said as she looked to her.

Esmè smiled. She nodded. "Think of how happy you'll be. You'll be able to have hot sex without worrying if anyone will walk in," she told her.

"That's true. I don't know. I just want it to work. I love Mark. I know I do. And I want to make things be okay. For Lia's sake too. I know she isn't here. But she's still my baby," Mia said.

****

Derek walked into the kitchen. He looked to Meredith. "You know, one of the joys of cohabitation is having breakfast together," he said. He saw Mia walking in and smiled.

Meredith shook her head. "Well I can't today. Cause Bailey paged us in early," she told him.

"Well I guess you don't have time to look at our work in a major medical journal," Derek said as he handed Meredith the journal.

Her eyes widened. "They published our trial?"

Derek nodded. He smiled. "It's on the cover. 'A New Method In Treating Inoperable Malignant Gilomas. The Shepherd Method. What do you think?" He asked.

Meredith shrugged. "It's a picture. A big picture of you."

"You're making a face," Derek said, looking at his girlfriend. He turned to Mia. "She's making a face," he said as Mia shrugged.

"I'm not making a face. I love that picture. I have to go," Meredith said as she took Mia's hand and dragged her off.

****

Mia found Mark and smiled. "Hello handsome," she said as she kissed his lips. She saw how Lexie was looking over. "I missed you."

"Missed you too. You okay?"

Mia nodded and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Want to slip off to an on call room? I'm horny," she said as she kissed him again.

Mark smirked and took her hand. He lead her to an on call room. "I've been thinking about you," she said as she pushed him onto the bed.

****

After they had finished having sex, they were lying in bed together. Mark was reading the medical journal. The door opened and Callie walked in.

She sat on the bed "God, I've been looking everywhere for you. I interrupted your sex didn't I?"

Mark shrugged. "You're lucky. We just finished. Plus I had an early morning palatoplasty. You see this? "The Shepherd method?" He asked as Bella slipped her shirt on.

"Yeah, yeah, very impressive. Listen, last night, Erica ..."

Mark turned to Mia. "You think they airbrushed his picture? I mean, the man does not have one damn pore," he said.

Callie rolled her eyes. She sighed. "Could you focus? I need you right now," she told them.

Mark shrugged. "All right, well, I'm a little exhausted, but if you want to watch Mia hop on and do all the work..."