Mark walked out of Meredith's room, trying to be quiet as he walked over to the bathroom. He quickly checked over his shoulder to see if Meredith was still asleep. He opened the bathroom door, hopefully that no one was inside.

After his trip to the bathroom, he opened the door to and what he saw made him smile inside. He closed the door quietly and turned back to see Meredith sprawled out across the bed, bedsheets across her torso. Her front was bare, one of her breast out to the world, however what really caught his attention was her snoring. She was loud at snoring…very loud. He crawled to the bed and tried to get back on his side and watched her as her chest went up and down.

It was weird, he never really did this. He never stayed long enough to actually memorise anything about the girl. But with Meredith, Meredith was definitely something else. All throughout his thoughts Meredith still snored.

Mark was brought out of his snoring when Meredith woke herself up, probably due to her loud snoring. He smiled at her as she looked around her room like a child. "Your boob is out."

Meredith looked up to her right and smiled when she saw Mark's stupid smirk. "Thanks for noticing." Meredith began to move the blanket so her breast was covered.

Mark stopped Meredith's hand, "Don't I like it,"

"Of course you do, you're a pervert."

Mark moved so he was level with Meredith's chest."Oh really?" He placed a kiss on her collarbone, he heard her laugh and loved how he felt Meredith's chuckle vibrate throughout her body, "If I was really a perv, you wouldn't let me do this." Mark moved his mouth down Meredith's chest, until he came in contact with her breast. He opened his mouth and moved to place Meredith's nipple in his mouth, he was welcomed by a moan and a hand travelling down his spine. Mark moved the ripped the blanket off the bed and moved towards Meredith's other breast. "If you did let a perv do this, then there is something wrong with you," he gently bit her nipple until she moaned again. After paying attention to her other breast Mark began to move downwards.

"Mark…"

Meredith woke up with a sudden start and moved her head from her pillow, she groaned slightly realising that she had a headache from last night. She looked over to her companion's side and saw that it was vacant. She felt her stomach drop a bit and mentally scolded herself. She shouldn't be disappointed.

After realising that she would be late for work if she didn't dress herself, she got up and put on the cleanest clothes that she could see. Opening her door and walking out she came face to face with Alex trying to put his trousers on and Izzie sipping her coffee.

Izzie must have seen the questioning look on Meredith's face as she spoke to her, "What? So I slept with him again. So I'm a big whore. Big horny whore who can't get enough. Can we get over the shocked silence already?" Izzie turned and moved Alex.

The three moved downstairs and realise that someone was cooking breakfast, "is George cooking? George never cooks." Meredith said as she walked to the kitchen.

When she opened the door she realised that it wasn't George as he was sitting on the table, however it was her missing companion. He saw her standing at the door and moved at her with a pair of spatula.

She gave him a smile and walked over to him after saying hello to George. "What are you doing?"

"Cooking breakfast, I thought it was obvious." He flipped over the pancake and watched it sizzle.

"I mean, I thought-,"

Mark turned and gave her a cheeky smirk, "What?"

"It's just. I thought you left."

Mark moved his arm so it was on Meredith's lower back, a gesture unnoticed by the other people in the room. "As you can see I didn't."

Meredith found herself moving closer to Mark, "You cook?"

"Also, I clean."

Meredith barked out a laugh, "What a man."

Izzie sat at the table with Alex and George, "So what do you think happened between those two?"

"McSteamy obviously got McSome."

Izzie laughed, "Did you just refer to Mark Sloan as McSteamy?"

Alex blushed and George joined in with the laughter. "You so did man!"

"At least she's happy," Izzie gestured with her mug.

They all saw how happy and giggly Meredith was, Meredith was always the opposite. Even George had to agree that Meredith looked a million times happier with Sloan than with Derek. "Yeah, she is."

"Hey," Mark greeted Meredith as he walked up next to her.

"Hey,"

"Did you hear?"

"Hear what?" Cristina asked as she came up to them, followed by Izzie and George.

The eagerness on Mark's face slowly disappeared as he leaned back, "Nothing. It's just that I'm going to stay here for a few more weeks to he;p out with the consults and such."

Cristina, Izzie and George walked away, leaving Meredith and Mark standing in the middle of the floor. "You're staying for a few more weeks then?" She smiled as he placed his hand on her arm.

"I am. The chief asked me to stay for some consults and you know, just be there just in case." Mark shrugged and held her hand.

"Mark, what are you doing?"

"Just come with me for a second, please?" He gave her his best puppy smile and she just laughed in return.

"Where are we going?" She asked as she allowed him to pull her along. "The on-call room, really?" She gave him a mocking glare. "So classy."

"Will you just shush?" He pulled her in. "The reason I pulled you in here is because of this," he smiled and began to lean in. Meredith wrapped her arms around his neck and allowed herself to be embraced by him. He broke their kiss and placed his forehead against hers. "I can't believe I went three hours without kissing you."

"Are you turning into a sap?" He arched a brow at her and pulled her to the bed. "Come with me my dirty mistress."

Meredith laughed as she fell on top of Mark on the bed. "I don't have much time,"

The next thing they both knew the door to the room was open and there stood Burke. Mark and Meredith's head popped up and saw Burke standing there with an open mouth, staring shocked at them. He shook his head and laughed disbelievingly. "Uh….I'm sorry." Burke left, quietly closing the door.

Mark and Meredith both looked at each other and laughed, Mark's head falling on Meredith's shoulder. "Could that be more awkward?"

"Derek could walk in," Mark suggested.

Meredith shrugged and agreed with Mark.

Burke walked up to Cristina and placed his surgical cap in front of her, "Did you know that Meredith and Sloan are dating?"

Cristina looked at him from her clipboard, "Meredith doesn't do relationships."

"I just saw them,"

Cristina sighed and placed her clipboard down, she turned and faced him, "What you saw was the beginning of a beautiful relationship called 'friends with benefits," she gave him a sarcastic smile and Burke frowned at her.

"We'll see," Burke said as he began walking away.

"See what?" Cristina called out, "See what?!"

Burke didn't reply anything, however he did give her a smile over the shoulder.

"Meredith! Hey," Derek called as the elevator began to close.

Meredith pushed the button, holding it and watching Derek slip by. "How are you?" Mark asked as he pushed the button for the lobby.

Meredith turned and looked at Derek, she couldn't help but compare the Mark and him. She gave him a look, "I'm hanging in there."

"That's good, that's very good." Derek nodded and smiled at her. "I've been thinking and would it be weird if we just became friends,"

"Friends?"

"We could ah…hangout. Yes, hangout, and I could walk Doc every other morning, and we could meet. Have coffee. Watch Doc play and…obviously discuss the complex nature of our existence." Derek gave her his infamous McDreamy smile.

"Right."

"We could. Might be fun. I could be your friend Meredith."

Before she could answer the elevator door dinged and opened, she walked and then turned to him, "I have enough friends at the moment."

The doors closed again and Derek looked at the ground gloomily.

"So how was everybody's day?" Izzie asked as she walked in into the locker room.

"My guy's fiancee left him because she thought he was going to die," George replied pulling on his shoelaces harder than it should be, "he didn't die by the way, but I think he feels like it would have been better if he did." George slammed his locker and everybody jumped, startled,

"If it makes you feel better Burke caught Meredith and McSteamy getting it on in the on-call room," Cristina said as she pulled down her shirt. She was greeted by a yell and a glare from Meredith.

George and Izzie looked at Meredith, "What? We thought the door was locked, it's not my fault." Meredith spoke as she grabbed her things from her locker, "it really wasn't."

Their conversation was interrupted with a knock on the door, "Are you ready to go?" Meredith didn't have to turn around to know it was Mark.

"Give me a second." Meredith responded as she finished putting her clothes in her bag. "Okay, I'm ready."

"Where are you guys going?" Izzie questioned.

"Back home," Meredith answered, "see you guys later."

Meredith and Mark passed by Burke and he watched with a keen interest in his eyes. He knocked on the locker room door and gestured for Cristina to come. "Hey,"

"Hi," Cristina handed him a chocolate bar, "you want this?"

"Sure," Burke entwined his hand with hers, "I just passed by Meredith and Mark, I don't think that they're friendship with benefits."

Cristina looked at him with a smile on her face, "Aw, look at you thinking that you know Mer better than me, that's so cute."

"-tell them to go away!" Mark yelled as Meredith laughed and walked over to the front door.

"Derek," Meredith said as she opened the door.

"Hey Mer,"

"What are you doing here?"

"It's just-,"

"You weren't satisfied with the answer I gave you back at the elevator right?" Meredith finished his sentence. "I don't need you in my life Derek, not as a friend nor as a partner. Do you want to know why? I thought you were the one that was going to fix me, you gave me life and you made me fall in love, make me have fantasies about the future. You don't expect it to be gone in the blink of an eye. I thought I found the person, the one person I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I was done with all the boys and the bars and the one night stands, as well as the all obvious daddy issues, all those were irrelevant when I met you because I was done with all of those things. But you left me and broke me," Meredith replied coldly.

"You broke me when you didn't sign those divorce papers and you broke everything in me when you chose Addison over me. I get it, you want to live your life and you want to start over with your wife, but you don't get me and her, that's asking for too much.

"My friends are the things that are keeping me sane right now, they're the ones that are gluing me back, you don't get to ask to be my friend when friends are supposed to glue each other back when they're broken. They are not the reasons why you can't fall asleep because you're crying too much, or can't stand in a room for too long because you may cry. That is not what friends do. If I let you back in my Derek, sooner or later you're going to hurt me and I'm tired. I'm so, so, tired." Meredith replied as she felt her voice break towards the end of the sentence. "Goodbye Derek," she didn't give him time to answer as she closed the door on him and began walking back to the kitchen.

She saw Mark standing by the door and he gave her a questioning smile. "Are you okay?" He threw an arm over her shoulders and began walking with her back to the table.

"Did you hear?"

Mark nodded. "Sorry, it was hard not to listen."

Meredith smiled and shook her head, "It's fine. I guess having someone else hear it means that I actually said it out loud and not just in my head." Mark laughed and Meredith couldn't help but smile.

Mark kissed the top of her head, "Do you want some food, with wine?" Mark asked.

Meredith nodded. Mark got up and began putting food on their plates. Meredith smiled as she watched Mark. She didn't need Derek now, she didn't need Derek anymore. Even if Mark was just there for having sex, his emotional support was a thousand times better than Derek.