𝙲𝙷𝚁𝙸𝚂𝚃𝙼𝙰𝚂
𝙳𝙴𝙲𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁 𝟸𝟻, 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟿

"YOU'RE KIDDING ME" MAEVE exclaims at sloan as lexie pushes maeve behind her

"you're not serious. you got him a snow globe of seattle?" lexie questioned sloan

"what? he likes seattle" sloan replied

"no he doesn't" maeve snaps

"i gave you 50 bucks. where's my change?" lexie questioned

from across the room derek could hear the three girls arguing "um" he clears his throat as he walks over to mark "mark... your kids are bickering" derek said as he refers to lexie, sloan, and maeve "have you talked to her yet?"

"i'm workin' on it" mark replied as he glances over to derek

"mm" derek nods before leaving

♥︎

once meredith had invited everyone to come to the dinner table, maeve practically ran up to her father, gripping his hand

"hey honey" mark smiled down to his daughter

"when is she leaving?" maeve questioned

"maeve" mark scold his daughter before taking his seat, maeve was about to sit next to him but he stopped her "let sloan sit here"

maeve was a bit taken back "why? i want to sit next to you" maeve said

"you always get to sit by me, let sloan sit here" he said as sloan came to stand behind maeve

"beat it kid" sloan whispered

lexie on the other hand, seen the interaction and her face sadden at the look on maeve's face "maeve, come sit next to me" she offered

maeve shook her head "no it's okay. i'm not that hungry, i-ill just be in the living room" she said

she was about to turn around to leave, but mark's voice stopped her "maeve go sit next to lexie"

"i'm not h—

"go sit to lexie!" he said sternly as everyone around them glanced at the two. maeve sighs before taking her seat in between lexie and richard webber

♥︎

𝙽𝙴𝚆 𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚂 𝙴𝚅𝙴
𝙳𝙴𝙲𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁 𝟹𝟷, 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟿

"IT'S NEW YEARS EVE" MAEVE whispered to her father and lexie as the three watched sloan reading a book on the couch

"i know" mark said in a lowered voice

"she shows no signs of leaving— no suitcase packed, nothing" lexie adds before glancing towards maeve "mae cover your ears" she said. maeve furrowed her brows, but did as told. lexie takes a few steps towards mark and leaned closer to him "talk to her right now, or no more sex for you" she says before grabbing maeve's hand and dragging her into her and mark's room

mark slowly walked up to sloan, as he took a seat on the coffee table next to the couch "so... what you reading?" he asks

sloan gave him a small smile before sitting up from the couch to be eye to eye with him "i can tell you don't really like me, and, um maeve doesn't either, your girlfriend's like, totally freaked out by me, 'cause i'm kinda, like, hotter than her. but i'm pregnant. yeah. i'm having a baby, and um, that's why i dropped out of school and that's why my mom kicked me out. look...i know you don't owe me anything... but i can tell you guys are about to kick me out and i...i... i don't have anywhere else to go" sloan says as her voice begins to shake and tears well up in her eyes

"shh. shh" mark whispers as he goes to take a seat next to her, wrapping his hands around her as she begins to cry "it's okay. you're gonna be okay" he said as he stroked her hair

♥︎

𝙹𝙰𝙽𝚄𝙰𝚁𝚈 𝟷𝟿, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟶

"I NEED SOMETHING FROM YOU" mark says to lexie as she wake up with a smile

"mm" lexie mumbles before leaning over to attach her lips to his

"well... that, too" mark says in between their kiss as he places his hand on her waist "i need you to give sloan an ultrasound today. it's been almost three week"

lexie sighs "can't someone from o.b. do it?" she asks as she pushed herself forward and straddled him

"well yeah" he mumbles in between their kiss as he wraps his hands around her waist "but, she likes you." he says as she pulls away and pushes her hair back "all the sloans do"

from outside the room, maeve noticed sloan walking towards her father's room "i wouldn't go in there if i were you" she warns sloan

"i didn't ask for your opinion" sloan calls out as she open the door "hey, do we have any more— oh! ew!" she yells as she witnesses lexie straddling mark as the two were kissing

"sloan! whoa." mark quickly pushes lexie off as he gets up from them bed and grabs hims sweats that lay on the floor

"i told you" maeve chuckles as she glances at her father coming out of his room, lifting his sweats up and ties the string in front of his sweats

"sloan. sorry about that" mark mutters as he walks past the room she's sleeping in, which just happens to be maeve's

"whatever. there's no more cereal" sloan says

"i wonder why" maeve says as she rolls her eyes as mark gives her a look before kissing her forehead

"why are you sorry?" lexie asks as she comes out of the room and walks up to the kitchen where mark and maeve were "she's the one who didn't knock before she came in"

"i even warned her" maeve adds

"i'll get some cereal this afternoon" mark says as he ignores the two "how about some juice?" mark asks as he walks towards sloan and hands her a glass of juice

"where's my glass?" maeve asks

"uh, lexie's gonna give you an ultrasound today. why don't you pick up some breakfast at the hospital?" he said before he hands her a $20 bill from his wallet

"it's gonna be more" sloan says as she looks up from the money

"you need some for lunch, too?" he questions

sloan nods "yeah. yeah" mark hands her another $20 bill

"you need $80 for a sandwich?" maeve questions curiously as lexie nods in agreement

mark glanced over and shot her a look as sloan just rolled her eyes "don't you have school?" sloan argues

mark points to maeve "she's right, go get changed before the bus leaves you" he said

"but you always take me to school?" maeve questions

"you can take the bus" mark replies as lexie shoots him a 'what the hell' look as mark just ignores her look

she sighs "i'm gonna shower" lexie says as she makes her way to the restroom but is stopped when sloan speaks up

"oh, can you hold on a minutes?" sloan questions as she holds up her orange juice "i'm probably gonna have to hurl this"

lexie angerily walked across the apartment and entered cristina shared apartment with callie. she closed the door, her clothes in hand "sloan sloan monopolizing your bathroom again?" cristina asks as she looks up from the book she was reading as she ate her breakfast

"yeah. yours?" lexie questions

"owen's in mine" cristina responds as she goes back to eating her cereal and reading her book

lexie sighs before heading into callie's shower, she opened her bathroom door and her eyes widen, almost popping out of her eye sockets at the view of callie and arizona making out in the shower "oh, god" she spoke out in pure shock, quickly shutting the door and heading out of her room "they're in there" she tells cristina

"yeah, you should knock first" cristina said bluntly

"i'm late. okay? my hair is dirty" she sighs as she leans on the counter "and he just gave her 80 bucks for a muffin and a sandwich. and he sent maeve on the bus which he never does because he hates the thought of creepy old guys staring at a twelve year old school girl" she said tiredly

cristina's head peeking up "he sent maeve on a bus?" she immediately questions as lexie nods. a part of cristina started worrying about the girl by herself in a public bus "that's quite a sandwich"

"she's just gonna end up spending it on a pair of jeans that show off her butt crack, and then she's gonna ask me for half of my pasta salad. she's a bad influence on maeve" lexie rambles with a sigh

"you sound like my mother" cristina responds

a yawn interrupts the two "um, knock much?" callie comes out of her room as she fixes the towel around her body, arizona trailing behind her

"i'm sorry. i'm sorry" lexie sighs in embarrassment as she slowly walks into her room

"oh, there's no more hot water" callie calls out

♥︎

hours later, lexie was giving sloan a ultrasound "hey, um, do you have any cash? i lost the headset to my phone" sloan asks lexie

"how about you hold the phone up to your ear?" lexie suggests as she glanced to sloan before putting her focus back on the monitor

"you were the one that was bitching at me last night for being on the phone so late. maybe if i had a headset, i wouldn't have to talk so loud" sloan argued

"maybe if you had your own apartment, you could talk whenever you want, but we're all making compromises" lexie replied "plus maeve had school, she couldn't sleep with you yapping away"

sloan furrows her brows "you really care about maeve, even if she isn't your daughter" she says

lexie smiled softly "of course i care about her. she's the sweetest girl i've ever met. it's hard not to love her" she glanced to sloan "i know i'm not her mom, but i would've been honored to" lexie gave her a soft smile before glancing back at the ultrasound "okay, here's the head"

sloan chuckled softly "it looks like an alien"

"well, it's gonna be a very cute alien" lexie nods to the girl

"a boy alien or girl?" sloan questions as lexie focuses on the ultrasound, seeing something she quite didn't like "dude, does it have a thing or not?" sloan questions

"no, i'm not looking at the sex. um, i don't...you... i-i'm not new at this. i'm—i'm not very good. so, um, why don't we go upstairs to— there's a better machine upstairs. uh, maybe we'll have someone else take a look"

♥︎

lexie was standing outside of the exam room, sloan was currently in as she got checked by another nurse. mark stormed over to her as soon as he caught a glance of her "did you tell sloan to move out?" he questioned her

"no. not that it's a bad idea, but—

mark cut her off "you're making her feel like crap. she said you wouldn't even be alone in a room with her. that you only care to be with maeve" mark sternly told her

"no, that—that's not—

he cut her off once again "then why do i have to chaperone the ultrasound?" he questioned

"because there's something wrong with the baby" she told him before mark went straight to the room

lexie sighs before following in and walked towards the nurse. the two went over the ultrasound, as mark was right beside sloan "see right there on the left thigh"

"yeah. on his other ankle, too" the nurse agreed with lexie as she pointed it out on the ultrasound

"wait. it's a boy?" sloan questioned with a smile tugging on her lips

"i hadn't gotten that far" lexie told the nurse as she exhaled

"oh! oh, sorry. congratulations" the nurse tells sloan before turning her attention back to lexie "uh, there's a lot of swelling on the right foot. it's—it's very constricted"

sloan listened to the two very confused "what the hell are you talking about?" she questions

"well, the baby's got strands of amniotic tissue wrapped around his legs. they're called amniotic bands" mark explains to her daughter, trying to calm her nervousness

"there's a danger of them compromising one of his limbs" the nurses explains

"so what? one of his legs is gonna, like, fall off?" sloan questions as the nurse cleans off the jelly around her stomach

"well, that's the worst case scenario" she assures

sloan begins to worry "he's gonna have stumps?" she immediately questions

"we don't know what we're dealing with yet. whatever it it, we're gonna take care of it" mark tries to assure her, wanting her to calm down

sloan begins to shake her head "i can't have a stumpy baby. can't you fix it?"

"um, i don't know" the nurse tells sloan

at her response mark gets aggravated "you know, i have an idea. how about we don't answer any patient questions with the phrase 'um, i don't know?' we're gonna fix it. uh, let's, uh, get a fetal m.r.i" mark tells lexie as she nods in understanding

the nurse on the other hand doesn't agree "you know, i'm not sure that i would recommend—

he cut her off "i wasn't talking to you. you're done" he sternly tells her before he places a hand on sloan's shoulder "i'll be right back" as sloan nodded, mark walked right out and dialed the one person who could fix this. as the other end picked up he immediately spoke up "get me addison montgomery"

♥︎

about two hours later, addison montgomery was faced to face with mark sloan as she got off the elevator "i adore you" mark smiled

"i was in the middle of breakfast" addison replied as the two walked down the hall

"uh, she had an m.r.i. right's worse than the left" mark explained

addison extended her hand to his chest "i just need to say it once"

"go ahead" mark nodded

"grandpa" she laughs before repeating it "grandpa, grandpa, grandpa"

"oh, okay. that was four times" mark sighs before a small smile tugged on his lips "is it out of your system?"

"i don't know" she teased "where's maeve?" she asks

"in school"

♥︎

"as the legs continue to grow, the bands will cut off his circulation. if we wait, we risk severe damage to the left leg, possible loss of the right entirely. but if we operate— 22 weeks, it's—it's still risky" addison explain to mark and sloan

"but if you don't operate, you're not gonna kill the baby. we can rehabilitate the remaining part of his leg. after he's born, and we can fit him with a prosthesis. it's entirely possible that he'll walk" arizona who joined the three in the room explained to sloan

"oh, my god" sloan breaths out

"honey, we've got options here. if we operate, dr. montgomery can remove the bands, he'll be just fine. or we can wait a few weeks till he's bigger and stronger, and we know the surgery is less risky" mark said to his daughter. but sloan was looking between arizona and addison

"well, which one of you did he sleep with?" sloan questioned as addison immediately looks to mark with a disbelief look

"oh, not me" arizona replies calmly

"you told her?" addison questions mark

"she's my kid. we were bonding" mark simply replies

"that is not how you bond with children, i thought you'd learn by now with maeve" addison says in disbelief

"i'm still getting the hang of it" mark replies

"so you're sure that he didn't, like, knock you up and leave you with a child to raise on your own or did you leave a baby outside someone's doorstep or something?" sloan asks addison

"wh—

sloan cut her off "you're not just, like, really pissed and you're trying to get revenge?"

"no" addison chuckles nervously "no. it— it was a long time ago, okay?" she chuckles once more "the fact is, mark— your father— is—is a good guy, a good father, and i think you're a good kid, and i'm gonna do everything i can to help you with your baby"

"okay, we'll, let's just get these things off his legs right now" sloan mutters

"i'll book an o.r" addison nods as she walks out of the room, leavjng mark to console his daughter

♥︎

mark sloan had stopped the surgery mid way, not liking the odds his daughter could bleed out on the table "i made a judgement call. you didn't like it. i'm sorry" mark said to addison as she was scrubbing her hands

"you threw me on a plane in the middle of my morning coffee because you wanted my judgment" addison argued

mark inhaled before exhaling a breath "it was risky"

"that is not your call to make in my o.r. you acted like a father. why do you think we don't let parents in the room during an operation?" she questions him

"i'm not her father, addison" he glanced at her "biologically, yes, but... i just let the kid. i'm helping out"

"you reacted like a parent. now i don't know when, i don't know how, but at some point, you became a dad to that little urchin, because you just lost it in my o.r., and mark sloan never loses it in the o.r. not ever. yes, it was risky, and, yes, most surgeons would've jumped ship at the sight of the engorged arteries but i'm not most surgeons, and neither are you" she said as she kept her eyes on mark "look, we can try this again...with you in the waiting room"

mark shook his head "it's too risky. she's just a kid"

"well, uh, have morrison monitor the bands as the baby grows it might be okay. i gotta go. patients at home" she walks out before coming back in "congratulations, you're a parent... once again"

♥︎

it was 4:10 and maeve was outside her school, she glanced down at her phone to check the time. it's been ten minutes since she's been let out and mark still wasn't here to pick her up. she sighs softly, feeling tears prickle her eyes. she shook her head, and started making her way to the bus station, hoping she could still catch the bus that made its way to the hospital

thirty minutes later she was standing outside of seattle grace mercy west hospital. as she pressed the elevator button it pushed open, revealing a stressed mark

"maeve. i-i was just about to pick you up" he sighs before stepping out of the elevator as she just shakes her head in disappointment. mark knew it's been about forty minutes since she was let out "i-i'm sorry baby" he says, rubbing his hands on his face stressfully

maeve pushed back her tears, she turned right around and walked towards the hallway in search of the one person who can make her laugh whenever she needed it... george

♥︎

night came around, maeve was seated in the seat across of sloan's hospital bed. lexie was filling out a few things in sloan's chart as mark walked over to take a seat on sloan's bed "if dr. montgomery had hit it during the procedure... it's dangerous"

"well, what about that band that's squeezing his thigh?" sloan questioned "he's not even gonna have a knee?"

"sloan, you coulda died" mark replied

"well, i can't have a gimpy kid" she responds

as mark became irritated "honey, i know i haven't been your father for long, but if you say 'gimp' one more time, i'm gonna smack you" maeve raised her brows

"you don't get it. he needs legs, okay?" her voice breaking towards the end "he doesn't have a dad, and he's got a stupid, slutty mom. don't you see? i've already hurt him enough by giving him me as a mother. he needs feet"

"sloan—

she cut him off "look, i don't know how to take care of any baby, okay? i can't have one that's hurt. i just can't handle it. my mom doesn't even talk to me. i'm doing this alone. please"

the only thing maeve felt bad for, was for the small human sloan was carrying in her womb for. no baby should ever have to go through that she thought. mark sighs "listen...you're not stupid and you're not slutty. the sloans... are a... passionate please" mark said as maeve's head perks his way, she let out a scoff "you dragged yourself across the country so that you could get help taking care of this baby. that's not being stupid. that's being a mom. i'm not gonna let anything happen to you or the baby" mark assured his eldest daughter

"go to l.a."lexie spoke out as maeve's eyes wide "addison
said 95%. thats not that bad. let her do the surgery"

mark turned back to sloan "looks like we're going to l.a." sloan smiled as she extends her hands taking in mark embrace. he cleared his throat "you're not gonna do this alone" maeve would be lying if she said her heart didn't break a bit. "hey" mark said as he pulls away "stay. after the baby's born, live with me, maeve, and lexie. raise the baby with us. i know a few things about being a dad, i raised maeve and mrs. shepherd taught me what i know. you don't know anything about being a mom. may i could show you"

"really?" sloan questions as mark nods "okay" she chuckles softly. maeve felt tears brim in her eyes. she lets out a breath before walking out of the room, catching mark and lexie's attention

mark sighed before glancing at sloan "i'll be back" he got up from the bed and went to the spot where maeve always tends to go. he stepped into richard's office, seeing maeve brush away the tears that had rolled down her cheeks

"honey—

"go away" maeve says, her voice breaking softly

"maeve—

"go be with your new daughter" maeve sighs as she pulls her legs closer to her body. mark took a seat next to her on the couch, he tried to touch her arm but she pulled away

"maeve stop being childish" mark calls out, he had little patience to deal with her acting out

"oh i'm sorry. i'm sorry that my feelings are such an inconvenience for you. you don't get it" she shook her head, standing up from the couch "she's taking away the one person who i have in my life. you decided to leave without even consulting with me. you were just going to leave me" she said as a tear comes rolling down her cheek

"ma—

"i wasn't enough for mom. she left me outside your door, like, i was some piece of trash. she didn't want me. i wasn't enough for her. and now i'm not enough for you" several tears were rolling down her cheek, she harshly wiped them away, mark stood up to walk towards her but maeve shook her head "i'm sorry for being selfish...and i'm sorry for not being enough for you" she whispered before running out of the room, ignoring mark's shouts

♥︎

as soon as mark was home he went into his room to find maeve sound asleep in his bed. he sighs softly before turning around to face lexie "i should've asked you first, but i was so excited. and i was so sure it was the right thing. and you know why? 'cause of you. since you, i know, for the first time in my life, what the right thing is"

at the sound of his voice, maeve woke up. she walked towards the door, pressed her ear towards it, she heard lexie speak up "i am happy for you. i really am. something happened today. you became a dad, once again. and sloan, against all odds, became a mom. a part of me felt like a mom with maeve, but more as a older sister and i truly loved every bit of it. but with sloan... i-i'm not ready to be a grandmother. i—i just... i don't want this"

"you wanted to give your liver to your dad. this is what you do for family, right?" mark exclaims

"i understand why you're doing it. i just don't understand why i'm doing it" lexie confessed

"well, i think you're doing it for me...and maeve" mark replied

"don't make me out to be the selfish one. you don't get to unilaterally decided to let a teenager and her infant move into our house" lexie argues

"well, we'll get a bigger place. she needs us. lexie... i thought i still had more time to witness this with maeve, but it came earlier. this is a chance for me. don't make me choose between you and her" mark replied

"why because you'll chose her?" lexie asked, her heart beating at the thought of his response

"yeah i'll chose her" mark replied in all honesty

"i think our relationship just ended" she mutters in sadness. she took a few steps towards him, placing her hand on either side of his cheek, bring their lips together. as she was about to leave she turned back "i'm still going to be in maeve's life...i'm not gonna leave her"

♥︎

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