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A/N: All info follows in Part 1.
Also, for the purpose of this story Derek is a jerk, well I think Derek is a jerk anyway but
that's another story. Well, that's actually 5 other stories, I've already written so I won't go
there!
Epilogue
6 Months Later
Callie pulled the backpack tighter over her shoulder as she was thinking of curling up in bed with her boyfriend and enjoying a night of making love and eating. She checked her watch and hoped that Mark had beaten her home because otherwise she was liable to be upset that she was home alone.
She started out the door when she heard her name being called, “Torres.”
Callie shook her head as she headed out, she was leaving. This was the last night that they were going to have together and alone before they left on their mutual vacation, a cruise that Mark had surprised her with on her birthday. She was leaving, “Torres, I know you hear me calling you woman.”
Callie stopped in her tracks and turned around at the sound of her friend’s voice calling her. She smiled as she saw Miranda sprinting to catch up with her, “Miranda, what’s going on? I’m leaving; I’m going to meet my boyfriend at our apartment….”
Miranda shook her head as she grabbed her arm and started pulling her back inside the hospital, “You aren’t leaving, you can’t leave, because your boyfriend is still inside.”
Callie sighed in disgust and said, “He’s still inside? Well, I guess….wait why do I have to wait if Mark is still inside? I can wait for him at the apartment.”
Miranda tugged her in the doors as they headed for the elevators as Miranda spoke, “Because Sloan and Shepherd are in the middle of a fight, well its more like Shepherd yelling at Sloan and Sloan not reacting.”
Callie scowled at the thought of her friend Addison’s ex-husband who was currently messing with the man she loved. Who knew that after Addison left, Derek’s relationship with his slutty intern would fall apart as well as Addison being his stronghold who was no longer in his reach, he finally felt what his life like without her and now was making himself and everyone around the hospital miserable and he seemed to be particularly taken with her boyfriend of late.
Callie looked at Miranda as she walked inside with Callie ready to take her Derek Shepherd once and for all and said, “What’s that ass of Shepherd done now?”
Miranda pressed the elevator for the surgery floor and said, “Sloan won’t operate on a kid with a cleft lip and it’s pissing Shepherd off, he doesn’t understand why. Not to mention it’s none of his business but ever since Richard announced he was staying on at Seattle Grace indefinitely he’s been more unbearable than normal. I’m thinking about sending Addison a plane ticket so she can come here and set that jerk straight.”
Callie laughed and said, “No one deserves to have to put up with Shepherd. Look, I’ll deal with Shepherd and Sloan; you just hold my stuff and promise me that if you see bodies start flying you’ll say that I was innocent.”
Miranda nodded and said, “Go save your man and make sure he does that surgery. I don’t know what’s going on with him but he seriously seems terrified of doing that surgery.”
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Mark was unsuccessfully trying to drown out the screams of his former best friend who was yelling at him to do a surgery that at this moment he was physically incapable of handling.
“Why the hell do you choose now to act like you aren’t god? My god during our entire friendship and my marriage to Addison, you always looked for ways to best me in front of her, so why won’t you take this chance to go save that little boy’s life. What is your problem?”
Mark looked up at Derek and knew that even if he wanted to share the painful memory with his friend he was in no place emotionally to deal with him. He was still too caught up in his own personal pain at the realization that he had let the one woman who loved him unconditionally walk away from him.
The door flung open and Mark felt his heart start to pound in his chest, as the woman he loved entered the room. He loved Callie Torres with every breath of his heart but he was too coward to admit it for fear that she didn’t feel the same for him yet. So he held his tongue and made love to her in away that he hoped show that he was in love with her and he was with her for the long run.
“Why the hell are you yelling at the man I love?”
Mark felt his heart rise to his throat at the words that fell so easily from her lips as he stared at her in disbelief, “What is your problem Shepherd? Is the fact that Grey is once again whoring around Seattle too much for you to handle or maybe it’s the fact that Addison is finally moving on and you realize what you lost? Whatever it is it doesn’t give you the right to yell at Mark for no reason.”
Derek scowled as he turned to the woman who had dared to interrupt his tirade and said, “Stay out of this Torres, it’s between me and Sloan. You have no place in this conversation.”
Mark shook his head as he stood up and said, “Actually you can go now. I need to talk to Dr. Torres anyway.”
Derek looked at Callie with a smirk, “So what he’s going to screw you in the gallery?”
Callie gasped in shock as she leaned forward ready to slap the smirk off his face but Mark was quicker and within seconds Mark had Derek pinned against the wall as he growled into his face, “You can insult me as the day is long but the second, the instant that you open your mouth and spout something filthy about the woman that I love, is the day that you no longer walk this earth. Get out of here Derek, go get laid, go get drunk, go do something but leave me and Callie the hell alone.”
Callie stepped back as she listened to the tone in Mark’s voice that she knew meant business and Derek must’ve picked up on it as well because he stepped back and walked away slamming the door behind him.
Callie looked at the man who had just confessed his love for her while standing up for her in front of his ex-best friend shut down emotionally in front of her as he slumped forward in the chair.
Mark was in no position to answer any questions but he knew that they would be forthcoming from Callie and especially after she just heard him declare his love for her in front of his friend. He waited for the inevitable, why didn’t you tell me line but when it didn’t happen he glanced over at her and was shocked that she was just sitting there waiting, she was waiting on him.
Callie met his glance with a short smile as she took his hand into her own and squeezed it to her, not saying a word but hoping to offer comfort by her sheer presence.
The moments passed quietly with no sound from either one until Mark started speaking and it was with a haunting voice as he let the memory that was stopping him from doing the surgery fall from his lips effortlessly, “When I was fresh out of medical school I was a cocky son of a bitch. I believed that the only type of surgeries that I would ever perform were the ones were I was making some model’s boobs bigger or some older lady who was worried that she was looking her looks younger by doing face lifts, I didn’t realize that I would also have to deal with children. Young children, children who when I was in school were taunted because they were different, children like Samantha.”
He stopped as his voice cracked as the memories came rushing through his head, “I had gotten through three plastic breast enhancement surgeries and two face lifts when the plastic surgeon on call asked me to handle this case. He was my hero; I wanted to be like him so much because he was distant but brilliant everything I embodied I needed to be to succeed. And I think that I’ve perfected his personality unfortunately but he told me to go in and handle this one case. Samantha Wells was this gorgeous four-year old with the exception of her cleft lip, which her parents brought her in to have fixed. They were wealthy and important and couldn’t stand the fact that they had made a less than perfect child.”
Callie realized where Mark was going with this conversation as she squeezed his hand tightly offering comfort from her presence but knowing that Mark still needed to get these memories off his chest she remained silent, “She was adorable and she looked at me like I hung the moon and I didn’t understand why. I bonded with her, I started to care about her, I found myself not having lunch with my mentor to go to her room and play with her for an hour, and she became the center of my world until the day of her surgery. She told me, she told me that she was happy I was doing her surgery and I asked her why.”
Callie laid her head on Mark’s shoulder as the tears started falling from her cheeks as she heard the pain that was still resident in his voice even after all this time, she knew that something must’ve happened to the little girl that had Mark tied up emotionally, “She told me that because once she was pretty her parents would love her. I thought she was kidding but she said my Mommy and Daddy don’t love me because I’m not perfect. I hugged her and told I her that I loved her and that she was perfect but I could tell from the look in her eyes that she didn’t believe me. I walked out of her room with my whole body shaking; I knew I was in no condition to do the surgery because I was too seething with rage at her parents and at life for allowing a beautiful child like that to believe that she was anything other than perfect. My mentor realized that I was in no condition to operate so he sighed long-suffering and said he would do it.”
Callie looked up from her position on his shoulder to press a kiss to his shoulder that was still in scrubs as she waited for him to complete the story, “She died on the table Callie. She died on the table and I never forgave myself because if I had been in there with her, I would’ve fought for her I would’ve made her live. I always believed that her parents were relieved that she died, it was like the mark that had been on their perfect family had been erased.”
Callie wiped away the tears that were rolling down her cheeks as she listened to the emotion in his voice, “What does that have to do with your patient?”
Mark opened his eyes for the first time since telling her the story as he looked in her eyes and said, “His name is Matthew and he’s gorgeous except for his cleft lip. He’s seven and he’s anxious to get it fixed so his parents will love him and the kids at school will stop making fun of him. After he said that, I just shut down and I haven’t been able to do anything but sit here since.”
Callie stood up as she put out her hand and waited for him to take it as she pulled him to his feet and wrapped her arm around his waist and said, “First things first, we are going to schedule the surgery for three hours from now, then I’m going to take you to your office and get you to relax and then we will discuss why you are the best at what you do.”
Two Hours Later
Callie was stroking Mark’s hair as he laid his head on her legs while she listened to him speak about anything and everything. In about forty-five minutes, they were going to come and tell him that it was time to operate on Matthew and she knew that he was trying to do everything but discuss what was lying ahead of him.
“When we go on the cruise, I’m thinking we should elope.”
Callie murmured an accepting tone than stopped when she realized what she had just been asked. She dropped her hands as Mark sat up and looked at her and asked in confirmation, “So you want to elope on the cruise ship?”
Callie looked at Mark and said, “You just asked me to marry you in your office?”
Mark shrugged and said, “We said our ‘I love yous’ in the gallery and I thought everything we needed to say had already been said.”
Callie rolled her eyes, there were times when the arrogant Mark Sloan still tried her patience even though he tried to change his arrogance for her sake and for those around him, “Mark, I know we didn’t exactly have a normal relationship but a girl does want to get asked in a normal sorta way.”
Mark picked her up and deposited her in his lap as he reached for her scrub bottoms and started pulling them off her legs and said, “I love you Callie, I love you more than I can say even in words. You support me, you help me and you embrace the mess that I am without question. I used to think fidelity was a horrible idea but I don’t know how I could ever fathom cheating on you partly because I know you would kill me and partly because I don’t from where I would get the energy.”
Callie laughed as she was suddenly on top of Mark in his locked office straddling his legs as she reached for his scrub bottoms, he tried to still her hand but she batted his hand away as she pressed a kiss to his lips while reaching for him under his pants, “I love you Mark, I will always love you and I want to marry you preferably sooner rather than later.”
Mark reached for her hands again and said, “Callie, we don’t have any protection and we are in the middle of my office and….”
Callie put a finger on his lips as she took him into her hands and said, “Do you want to make a baby with me Sloan or not?”
Mark groaned as his head fell back against his couch and said, “I want more than a baby with you, I want a family with you and I want to grow old with you.”
Callie smiled as she joined the bodies together as they started to move together in sync. Mark eyes rolled back in his head as he felt the motion starting to sweep over his body, he reached for the bottom of her scrub top and took it up and off and was working on her bra and within seconds she was naked on top of him and he was in heaven. He knew that there was nowhere else that he could ever be that would feel this good.
Callie leaned in and brushed a kiss over his lips and said, “So what do you say Sloan? Do you want to make a baby?”
Mark sighed as he wrapped his arms around her waist trying to control the rhythm even while Callie started tightening around him, “Callie, I don’t have much of a choice do I?”
Callie stopped her rocking as she pulled out of him and said, “I could stop if you want.”
Mark eyes flew open in shock as he reached for her body and joined them once again and said, “Don’t ever do that to me again.”
Callie thrust down as she tightened her inner muscles around him and watched as his face tightened in ecstasy, “Callie, sweetheart……” His voice trailed off as his orgasm rocked his body and then she tightened down on him once more as her climax ripped threw her off and her orgasm almost sent her sprawling off of the couch.
As their body temperature cooled, Mark laid them out on his couch and reached for the blanket that he kept in his office when they ended up working late together. He cradled her in his arms as his heart started returning to a normal rhythm.
Callie smiled from her position in his arms and said, “So we made a baby in your office.”
Mark leaned down and pressed a kiss to her sweat, soaked hair and then her neck and said, “What will we tell our kids? That one day their parents created them in the middle of Daddy’s office before a surgery?”
Callie reached for his hand as she moved them down to her belly and said, “We will tell our children that they were created in love. We can massage reality and tell them it was on a cruise ship after we eloped but they will always know that they were created in love, because I love you Mark.”
Mark squeezed her to him and said, “I love you too Callie and not because you fought for me in front of Derek and not because you told me that you loved me first because I’ve loved you since that first night in the bar when you broke down my defenses and found the real me that I had been hiding, but because I never thought happiness like this could exist until I met you. I didn’t know you could bare your soul to another person and not be completely afraid about how vulnerable you are. I need you in my life.”
Callie leaned back as she pressed a kiss to his lips and said, “I love you too, but its time for you go to save another little child’s life and make everyone love him. Go save Matthew’s life.”
Mark exhaled in agreement as he squeezed the woman in his arms to his side once more grateful that she existed and that she loved him before pulling on his scrubs and going to handle the surgery.
Mark stood outside the surgery bay and held himself back after he had scrubbed in. There was something preventing him from going in and completing the surgery on this kid, Matthew Stevens made it had something to do with the fact that his hands were still shaking. He stared in the room as the anesthesiologist and the attending nurses were waiting on him for the start of the surgery. He stepped back and looked at the people who were waiting on him to perform a miracle and found that he was frozen in his spot.
The door opened and he didn’t react to the entrance of anyone or the closing of the door until he smelled her. She wore the scent of him and it was the most intoxicating and calming scent at the same time and one he would never get tired of inhaling. He looked over at her as she was dressed in scrubs and asked, “What are you doing here?”
Callie shrugged as she washed her hands and then stepped in front of him while waiting for Mark to tie the strings of her surgical mask and said, “Someone told me that my fiancée might need a friendly face in there and I decided to come and be here for support, emotional or otherwise.”
Mark’s hands dropped to her shoulders as he wrapped his arms around her from behind and laid his chin on her shoulder, “Thank you for loving me,” He pressed a kiss to her scrub top and lifted his head to say, “Thank you for supporting me,” He squeezed his arms around her again and said, “Thank you for marrying me.”
Callie smiled as his arms fell from her waist as he walked into the surgical room, every inch the cocky Mark Sloan but as he looked back at her and his eyes crinkled with laughter and love she knew that they would never really know the Mark Sloan, the man behind the face that he put on to the world and as she walked into the OR she was glad. She was glad that only she was privy to Mark’s real personality because she had a feeling that if women really knew what he was like that he would give Derek a run for his money for the name ‘Mc Dreamy.’
Mark smiled at the people who were wondering why she was in the room; he looked at all of their questioning glances and simply stated, “I’ve asked my wife, Dr. Callie Torres-Sloan to assist me on this surgery.”
Callie felt a tear threatening to fall but she held herself back as she walked by Miranda’s side as she tapped her on the shoulder and said, “He’s worthy, you’ve made him into someone worthy of love, be proud of that. I’m happy for both of you; let’s make this little boy’s life easier.”
And with that simple statement, Mark Sloan in accompany with his fiancée and her good friend went on to change the life of one Matthew Stevens for the better.
Two Years Later
Mark groaned at the sound of his youngest son, rolling out of his bed and started to run straight for the bedroom of his parents. He looked over his shoulder to see his wife, who was now six months pregnant with their second child still sleeping soundly and knew that he couldn’t let his rambunctious young son disturb her sleep as well.
He slipped out of bed as his son, of exactly two years of age came rushing into the room ready to jump on the bed and awaken his parents from their gentle slumber. He caught him up in his arms as he pressed a finger to his lips indicating quiet as he closed the door behind him and put his son, Jason Matthew Sloan down on the ground and held out his hand. Jason took it happily and said, “Mommy sleeping?”
Mark nodded as he looked back to their bedroom door to where his wife was still sleeping and was grateful that his wife was a heavy sleeper. There were still times that he couldn’t believe that he had been married for two years to the same woman and he was happy, he was fulfilled and he was a father. Something he at one time, thought he would never be worthy of was something that Callie praised him for daily.
Flashback
“You are a great father, Jason adores and when Samantha gets here she’s going to adore you too.” Callie wrapped her arms around her husband in happiness. They had just found out that the baby she was carrying was going to be a girl. She had told her husband only to have him confront her with a mini-meltdown at the thought.
Mark pulled back as he looked in her eyes, “You want to name her Samantha? Are you sure Callie?”
Callie squeezed her arms around his waist and said, “I’m sure, Samantha and Jason Matthew were important people in your life which makes them important people in my life. I know that you are terrified that you won’t be a wonderful father but Jason idolizes you and you have never let him down not once. You are going to be a wonderful father to your daughter to, I already know just like you are a wonderful husband to me.”
Mark smiled at the assured tone in her voice before he pressed a gentle kiss to her lips and then let his hand travel down to where their second child, their daughter lay and said, “How did I get to be so lucky?”
Callie wrapped her arms around his neck before pulling his face down to hers and said, “It helps that you’re McSteamy.”
End of Flashback
Jason ran into the kitchen and waited patiently for Mark to arrive at a slower pace and said, “Okay guy, what do you want for breakfast?”
Jason jumped up and down as was his morning ritual as his father went through this same question and answer routine every morning since he had been able to form words and said, “Cereal.”
Mark walked over to the cabinets and pulled out his son’s favorite and Callie’s compromise, Frosted flakes. Their son had argued them both down in the cereal aisle that he wanted his favorite cereal, only problem was that it was chocked full of sugar and had no nutritional value. Mark had wanted to waver and allow his son the whim of choosing his own cereal but Callie had simply shook her head and said, that he was too soft and that she would end up being the disciplinarian parent which in other terms meant he was a wuss.
Well, fine he was a wuss then because whatever his son wanted he couldn’t deny him with his jet black hair, easy smile and infectious laugh he was the apple of his eye and the envy of many including some of his workmates. Preston had obviously been pressing Christina for children but she was digging her heels in that she wanted to finish her internship before she became a mother.
He picked Jason up and settled him on his waist as he reached for the box of cereal before walking to the refrigerator and pulling out the milk. Jason was chatting happily about what he wanted to do today and who he was planning on seeing and what he wanted to do. “Daddy, I want to go to the park again. Mommy and Samantha need to ride on the swings; it’s good for the baby.”
Callie entered the kitchen at that moment with a grin after hearing the justification that her son was offering his father as a reason that they all should trek out into the park on this windy, Seattle day. She flashed them both a smile that was reserved for her two men as she walked forward and pressed a kiss to both of their lips before saying, “So you were saying what about the park Jason?”
Jason slid off his chair and ran over to where his mother was standing with her hand massaging her lower back that was aching daily as she became heavier with pregnancy. He reached for his mother but Mark was quicker and while shaking his head he pulled his son back and looked at his wife while saying, “No Jason, Mom can’t pick you up like she used to because she has your sister Samantha in her tummy.”
Jason pouted but once Callie gave him a hug he was better. Mark worked alongside Callie efficiently as he got Jason his breakfast and Callie started on the coffee and their breakfast which she refused to allow him to assist with, and since she missed having coffee because of the pregnancy and the doctor told her to lay off the caffeine she was working out her frustration by taking over the cooking for both of them which had fortunately worked out for the better seeing as how the only thing he knew how to make was a phone call for room service or pizza. Mark sat down after he put a bib on Jason as Callie set his breakfast down in front of him before sliding into her own seat and eating.
Jason was finished first as was usually the custom as he ran off to turn on television, with Mark following but he stopped as he felt Callie watching them both. Callie looked up as Mark caught her eye and she spoke, “I love you.”
Mark looked at her in confusion, they were always saying their I love you’s at different times during the day but it still never ceased to amaze him that the wonderful woman sitting in front of him had no problem as he let the words fall easily from her lips. He smiled as she leaned over and pressed a hard kiss to her lips and said, “I love you too Dr. Callie Torres Sloan.”
Callie sighed as she cupped his chin in her hand and said, “Mark I never thought that losing George would win me the family that I have with you and Jason. I feel blessed that I walked into the bar at Jake’s. I shudder to think where I would be without you two.”
Mark smiled as he said, “And I hate to imagine where I would be. Probably pissing everyone off and losing respect for myself day by day. You saved me, you kept me honest and you completed all of the parts that I was lacking. We are together and I couldn’t be happier.”
Callie smiled as she turned her attention back to her breakfast as Mark ran after his son who was now in the living room requesting assistance with the television.
Samantha Melissa Sloan made her debut on time and added to the joy of the already happy family. Mark had never been more frightened when the doctor came out and told him that there was a possibility that he could lose both Samantha and Callie if the emergency c-section that they had to perform didn’t go as planned. He had never been more terrified and when the doctor came out and said that both pulled through surgery with no complications he had gone into his office and wept because he knew that he would be forever grateful to God for allowing him the chance to be with the family that completed him and that he could’ve lost in a split instance.
Mark entered the room holding Jason’s hand in one hand and in the other a dozen roses for the new girls in his life. Callie was still asleep but Miranda came in shortly and said, “Samantha is awake and is demanding to see her family. She gets that from you, I know.”
Mark smiled at her indulgingly not even allowing Miranda’s barbs to mess with the happiness that was in his heart now as the crib carrying his newborn daughter was rolled into the room and said, “Thank you Miranda for everything. It meant a lot to both me and Callie that you were in there during her surgery.”
Miranda put a hand on his shoulder and said, “Thank you for growing up and deciding to be someone deserving of every blessing that you are given. You love Callie and the family that you created together, anyone who can look into your eyes can see that, and I’m just glad that you seem to be on the right path and the family that you created more than your own life.”
Jason yawned, tired of hearing the big people talk as he tugged on his father’s leg and said, “Daddy, pick me up I want to see Sam.”
Mark picked his son up as he kissed Miranda goodbye on the cheek and after she left the room he turned to his son in confusion and said, “I told you her name is Samantha. Samantha, don’t you like that name for your little sister?”
Jason shrugged as he peered over his father’s shoulder into the crib by his mother’s bed and said, “I told all the kids at daycare that I was getting a little brother so if I tell them her name is Samantha then they’ll know I lied, if I say Sam then I got my little brother.”
Mark opened his mouth to respond when Callie spoke up from the bed with humor lacing her tone, “Fine Jason that’s okay.” Callie looked at her husband’s eyes over her son’s head and saw the fear that still resided in them and instantly felt responsible even though she knew she had no control over what happened.
Mark sighed a breath of relief as he put his son down quickly and walked over to his wife’s side and pressed a kiss to her forehead, “Don’t scare me like that ever again, I thought I was going to lose you and Samantha there for a second. When Miranda told me that you would have to have a c-section…”
Callie smiled as she looked into his eyes, “We aren’t going anywhere Mark I told you that. You are stuck with me for the long run.”
Mark kissed her on the lips and said, “I hope so because there isn’t anyone else that I’d rather be with. You and my family are my world, don’t forget that.”
Callie kissed him back before she started fidgeting to see the newest addition to her family. As Samantha was placed in her arms she met Mark’s eyes and whispered I love you to him.
Mark smiled as Jason tugged on his pants leg begging to be picked up. Mark sat on the edge of the bed with Jason in his arms as Callie surveyed Samantha and the family was together again and they were happy. They were complete together and that was enough for them for the rest of their days.
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