Love opened a mortal wound.
In agony, I worked the blade
to make it deeper. Please, I begged,
let death come quick.

━━ Love Opened a Mortal Wound, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

 For Pippa, fear is the appendix of the mind. 

It is to be cut out at the first sign of irritation, to be removed the moment it begins to hold you back from truly experiencing life to its' fullest extent. As a young girl, she took a scalpel to the part of her that quivered and flinched at the possibility of monsters hiding in her closet when she realized her parents with their busy, busy lives were never going to be there to scare them off for her. Split her skin open and ripped out the part of her that cried on towering slides and monkey bars at the park, didn't make a sound when she scrapped her knee down to the bone and bled all over that very same playground. 

Philippa Franklin, at such a tender age, forced herself to be the opposite of a whimpering child stereotype and with a billionaire for a daddy and a doctor for a mommy, what did she really have to be scared of anyway? Her palace for a home in an Arizona suburb and the imaginary ghosts that haunt its halls? The parents who provide her with anything and everything she could ever need, want, desire but raise their voices at her sometimes and stare at her with eyes of disapproval no matter what she does? With the fear clipped out of her, Pippa is a fledgling bird learning to fly for the first time but she is free. 

 She is thirteen years old when the castle comes crumbling down and she plummets to the earth on shriveled wings.

The worst day of her life begins with the sound of shattering glass. Philippa remembers the sound in crystal clarity, remembers that she was in the study with her younger brother Quentin reluctantly playing hide and seek, remembers that her parents and older brother weren't in the country when the men covered head-to-toe in black stormed into their home, tied up and threatened the house help with guns pointed at their temporals, and absconded from the castle with jewelry, riches, and two children in their grasp. She remembers the bone-chilling, blood-curdling fear that enveloped her mind, body, and soul for the next ten days she and Quinn spent in a cobblestone, metal-encased cell. Fear her parents wouldn't pay the ransom money their kidnappers wanted, fear her fingers would fall off due to the rapidly-encroaching hypothermia, fear that despite her best efforts, Quentin would die from the torture inflicted upon his small frame. 

When she's found five days after the scariest day of her life, Pippa Franklin is forced to mourn a sibling she believed would bury her instead and is forced to take another scalpel to the emotion within her that brings nightmares and holds her back from living up to her endless potential. She moves on fast without that pesky fear, uses the brain that causes everyone to praise her intelligence to graduate way before she's meant to (the same brain that malfunctions and makes her see peoples' insides on their outsides). She accelerates through a bachelor's degree and a PhD, even joins the circus and signs up for med school just to prove that nothing can scare her anymore. Philippa crawled her way out of hell and still manages to place a saccharine smile on her face everyday, what could the universe possibly throw her way that could be worse?

 As it turns out, fear will return to make a new home in Pippa's battered and bleeding heart, dressed in leather and a downright dangerous smirk with a nametag that reads: MARK SLOAN.

EMMA STONE ✶ PHILIPPA FRANKLIN-CARTWRIGHT

MCTWISTY / TWENTY-SIX

"For once, can I be the unstable one in the dark and twisty sisterhood?"

ERIC DANE ✶ MARK SLOAN

MCSTEAMY / THIRTY-EIGHT

"I can't even look at you, dollface, without thinking about rocking your world."

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE. . .

james pickens jr., RICHARD WEBBER
JESSICA LANGE, dolores cartwright
harrison ford, ULYSSES CARTWRIGHT
CHANDRA WILSON, miranda bailey

lauren german, MEREDITH GREY
SANDRA OH, cristina yang
justin chambers, ALEX KAREV
T.R. KNIGHT, george o'malley
katherine heigl, IZZIE STEVENS

PATRICK DEMPSEY, derek shepherd
kate walsh, ADDISON MONTGOMERY
IDRIS ELBA, preston burke
kyle chandler, DYLAN YOUNG
SARA RAMIREZ, callie torres

chyler leigh, LEXIE GREY
KEVIN MCKIDD, owen hunt
jessica capshaw, ARIZONA ROBBINS
KIM RAVER, teddy altman
sarah drew, APRIL KEPNER
JESSE WILLIAMS, jackson avery

GREETINGS . . . So I may have started Grey's a couple months ago despite spending the majority of my life saying I would never watch this show ( me = 🤡🤡) I screamed, I cried, I sobbed, and now I am writing this fic because my bby Mark needs love and deserved a huge family <33 There will be some angst in this fic but for the most part it should be sunshine and rainbows !!! Hope you enjoy. Sorry about the constant reposting of this story part, I've changed a few things since I first posted and I had to literally remake this chapter from scratch (stupid wattpad formatting issues, makin me lose all of your wonderful comments!) but it should be perfect now!

CONTENT WARNINGS . . . This story will contain mature themes and some topics discussed in this book may not be for everyone; your mental health takes priority so if any of the following subjects are triggering to you, perhaps reconsider reading this book. Blood Over Bone will contain descriptions of blood, gore, traumatic hospital scenes, mass shootings, plane crashes, alcohol consumption, mentions and descriptions of past sexual assault and kidnapping, emotional and verbal child abuse, as well as sexual tension and mature scenes. 

DISCLAIMER . . . This is a fanfiction for Grey's Anatomy, taking place during the events of canon. Not all events in this story are true to the canon of the show. 1) I do not own any of the original Grey's Anatomy characters or plotlines that are mentioned in this story, those belong to Shonda Rhimes. 2) I only own my original characters and any plot points that deviate from canon. This story layout is inspired by katsukist !! The coloring on the moodboards is by fadedresources on deviantart. 

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