#some soft slexie i guess

[babyjapril]

[sundance201]

Hii 😊😊 I actually really miss your slexie stories so maybe 22 and slexie? I love all of your fics btw 💜

Aw, thank you! I love Slexie and have definitely missed writing for them. I still have a few fics that I pick at every now and then, so they're never far from my mind. Hope you enjoy!

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"Two miserable people meeting at a wedding"

“Double scotch, please,” Mark placed his order at the bar, throwing some cash in the tip jar. Even though it was tradition to have the bride’s family pay for the wedding, this event had Avery money written all over it. The bar was open and they weren’t just pouring the cheap stuff either. This was the real deal. It’s the sort of party that Addison would have loved…

Mark growled and glanced over at the bartender, wondering how long it could possibly take to pour some scotch.

“Can I get a gin and tonic, please? Thank you!” A soft voice came from his side and Mark’s head swung over, taking in the woman next to him. One of the bridesmaids…Lulu…Leslie…Lexie! Lexie was the bridesmaid’s name. She was the only one standing up with April who wasn’t related to her – a friend from residency, if Mark remembered what Avery had told him.

Avery knew that Mark was taking the breakup with Addison pretty hard and had forbidden him to sleep with any of April’s sisters. But Lexie was definitely not one of April’s sisters. And judging from the familiar, desperate look she was giving the bartender, she wasn’t here with anyone and was maybe even trying to forget her own single state.

“Lexie, right?” he asked, stepping closer to her. The bartender finally came back with his drink and he tilted his head in thanks.

Lexie turned to him, slightly flushed as she looked up at him. “Yep, that’s me. You’re uh…you’re Mark Sloan, right? Jackson’s mentor?”

“You got it. Mark Sloan – head of plastics at Seattle Grace.” He held out his hand to her and Lexie quickly shook it, her blush only increasing.

“Gin and tonic,” the bartender called out and Lexie turned to the bar and immediately took a rather large swig of her drink.

Mark’s eyes widened. “Whoa! “

Lexie looked back at him, taking a much smaller sip of her drink this time. “Sorry. Sorry, I just…think is the first social thing that I’ve had to go to since my fiancé broke up with me and I forgot how much these things suck without a plus one.”

Mark grimaced and nodded. “Tell me about it. My girlfriend dumped me a few weeks ago. Said it just wasn’t working. After three years and it’s just not working anymore? Whatever.”

“Exactly! Like you spend all this time loving someone else, changing around your whole life plan for them and then suddenly you’re just not doing it for them anymore? Because you’re not a slutty nurse who’s slept with like…five guys in your residency class?” She took another swig of her drink and sighed. She looked over at him, a glimmer of humor in her eyes. “I’m guessing that maybe your girlfriend didn’t leave you for a slutty nurse.”

Mark laughed. “I wouldn’t have minded if it had been a slutty nurse. But no, she just left. Just up and broke it off. It’s a little easier though…we were long distance. She’s in L.A. and I’m here in Seattle.”

Lexie made a face. “That is lucky. I’m crashing in my sister’s attic because I moved out of his apartment and now I have no where to go.”

“An attic? Your sister hate you or something?”

She shrugged. “No. Not anymore. She used to, but she doesn’t now. It’s a long story. We weren’t raised together and she’s my half-sister…” She took another (smaller) sip of her drink. “It’s actually fine. It can be cozy.”

He smirked, amused at her response. She seemed to be a glass half full girl, for sure. “Do you want to sit down, Lexie? Instead of taking up space at the bar?” he asked, sipping at his drink.

She made a face and looked around. “I mean, I guess. I’d rather be dancing, but again…lonely, single girl on the dance floor clutching her gin and tonic is just sad.” She muttered something under her breath that might have been “fucking Alex,” but Mark wasn’t completely sure.

Instead, he grabbed her drink out of her hand and set both his and her drink down at a nearby table. “Come dance, then.”

She grinned wildly at him and shook her head. “Your drink is still like almost full.”

“It’s an open bar. I’ll just come back and get another one. And if you want to dance, you should dance. We don’t have to be miserable single people if we don’t want to.”

Nodding, Lexie let Mark lead her out onto the dance floor.

Later that night, as April and Jackson were slow dancing, April chuckled and nodded across the dance floor. “I never would have put the two of them together.”

Jackson glanced over to where she’d gestured and saw Lexie and Mark slowly swaying back and forth as they talked to each other, soft smiles on both of their faces. “I thought Mark was going to be unbearable tonight, but Lexie really perked him right up.”

“Same – I thought I was going to have to save Lexie from drowning her sorrows. But…they seem so happy. So…not miserable.” April’s eyes gleamed. “Can’t wait til the next wedding.”

“Aren’t you rushing things maybe a little bit, April? They just met!”

She grinned. “I have a good feeling about them.”