Chapter Twenty-one

Peggy and Mark laid in a bed in the on-call room as he read the magazine with Derek's face on the cover annoyed. As he was resting Callie comes rushing into the room, "God, I've been looking everywhere for you two."

The man sighs, "Well, I had an early morning palatoplasty and decided to drag Peggy along. You see this? "The Shepherd method"?"

She waves him off, "Yeah, yeah, very impressive. Listen, last night, Erica..."

Mark interrupts her not listening, "You think they airbrushed his picture? I mean, the man does not have one damn pore."

Callie reaches over and snatches the magazine from his hand, "Could you focus? I need you right now."

He sighs wrapping his arm around Peggy and pulling the blanket off, "All right, well, I'm a little exhausted, but if you want to hop on and do all the work.I'm sure Pegs will help out..."

She shakes her head throwing the blanket at him while Peggy hit his side, "No, I need to talk." The woman takes a deep breath, "Last night, Erica and I ... we ... we did it. Sort of."

Marks nods at her, "Congratulations."

Callie shakes her head confusing Peggy, "No. No, no. It was not good at all. I choked. I couldn't go down there. I-I tried, but it just felt so weird and clinical, like gynie rotation." Mark immediately starts to get up from the bed, "I left this morning before she got up. I couldn't even face her. What if ... what if me and Erica are ... what if ... what if we were a mistake?" The two women look at him confused, "Where are you going?"

He just shakes his head leaning down to kiss Peggy, "I can't talk about this."

"Oh, come on. You love talking about this stuff. Girl on girl. It's hot." Callie tells him.

He puts his coat on, "Two girls getting nasty and loving it? That's hot. One girl talking about how much it sucked? Depressing and wrong. Just wrong." He shakes his head walking out of the room, "I'll see you later Pegs."

The woman looks at the girl still in the bed, "Do you think me and Erica were a mistake?"

Peggy shakes her head, "I can't tell you that." Seeing the defeat on her face the brunette sighs, "Did you have fun when we were having sex?"

Callie laughs, "Yeah. A lot of fun, but that could have been because of Mark."

She scoffs, "Oh please, with all of the moans you had when my mouth was on you there's no way that was because of Mark." The two stand there in silence for a second, "He told my mother he was my boyfriend."

"What?" Callie looks at her confused.

Peggy sighs, "Mark came over when my mother was here. She asked him if he was my boyfriend and he said he was. We haven't even talked about what we were, I mean sure he's said some things that sounded like we were together. But we've never talked about it."

Callie smiles at her, "What has he said to make it sound like you're together?"

"Things like how he knows that I'm the only woman he wants in his bed, he asked to know about my siblings, and he went on a rant about how he cares about me." She informs Callie who begins to smile, "But there are other things that aren't so great."

The resident raises an eyebrow at her, "What things aren't that great?"

Peggy sighs, "I think Lexie has a crush on him." Callie goes to respond but Peggy stops her, "She's always laughing and smiling around him, and he lets her tell him to shut up in the O.R. He jokes around with her all the time but he still swears he hates when interns talk to him. I also saw them laughing together at Joe's."

Callie sighs, "Look Peggy, the entire time I've known Mark he had never acted the way he acts with you with another woman. He screwed all of those nurses and just forgot about them the second he was done, but you, he cuddled you afterwards, makes you come into work at 5 a.m. just so he can spend time with you, goes over to your place and doesn't even try to have sex. That man is falling in love with you and is doing everything he can to show you that."

Peggy looks at her in shock, Mark was falling in love with her?

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Peggy stumbled her way into the resident's lounge gaining eyes on her, she promised Lexie she would help her set up George's locker. It was obvious from the way it looked she was too late, Christina smirks at her from her spot. "Speaking of screwing interns, where have you been Peggy?"

Lexie sighs at her, "Yeah you said you would help me set up his locker. I stopped by your place this morning but you weren't there."

"I was paged early this morning," Peggy says making the residents snicker at her.

Christina leans towards her, "What's your opinion on residents and attending's screwing interns? I'm sure you have an opinion on the topic."

"Don't catch feelings," Peggy shrugs. "Otherwise you end up like Meredith." The woman gasps hitting her with her shirt as the girl moves to stand beside Alex resting her arm around his shoulder. "What it's true! You don't see me running around batting my eyelashes for Alex like you do for Shepherd,"

They all laugh except for Izzie who sends the girl a small glare at her arm.

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The group were all walking down the staircase with Bailey as she instructed them to follow her. As they reached the bottom Christina looked annoyed, "Where are we going?"