mcpedia:
❛ i love you. i do. i just – i love you. and i have been trying not to say it, i have been trying so hard to just mash it down and ignore it and not say it and… jackson is a great guy. he is, he’s smart, and he’s younger than you, and he doesn’t have any grandchildren or kids with his lesbian bffs, and he’s an avery, and he liked me, you know ? he really liked me. but it was never gonna work out, because i love you. i am so in love with you. you - you … you’re in me. you’re like—it’s like . . you’re a disease, it’s like i am infected by m a r k s l o a n and i just can’t think about anything or anybody and i can’t… sleep, i can’t breathe. i can’t eat. and i love you, i - i - i love you all the time ! every minute of every day, i love you.
his breath is chilled , staring into her eyes as she unloads on him with the biggest shock ever . he stares with confusion , sure that she was in love with someone else . had she not been the one to tell him to stay away? the way she unravels before him . . . he wants to embrace her and let her know that he feels the same way . it had obliterated him to see lexie kissing his student , knowing that ( or assuming , at this point ) she hadn’t loved him anymore when it was so clear that he loved her .
this was so sudden . it ALWAYS was with her , wasn’t it? one second he’s teaching her and the next she’s at his hotel room stripping before his eyes . ‘ lex . . . ‘ his brain had to PROCESS every word she’d just said . her lust for him had cured any chance of hunger , prevented her lungs from taking a FRESH breath of air that didn’t contain him , and substituted her dreams for thoughts of him .
‘ why didn’t you say it? you were the one that told me to LET GO . . . ‘












