AN: Ta-daaa... Here's a fic about Arizona and Eliza that's not a one-shot. This is slightly AU, but still it takes place around and outside the hospital. This multi-chapter fic will develop both by my imaginary but also by yours. If you've got something you'd like to see happening, I'll see what I can come up with. I've a few things lined out for this story, but you're welcome to type me your thoughts. And now... on with the show :)

It's ranked M for future chapters, by the way.

I've borrowed Shonda's characters, and I'm not sure I'm ever gonna return those babies!

The sky had opened, and now it was raining cats and dogs. I watched as a frustrated woman shoot up from the place she was vacating on the blanket.

"This wasn't supposed to happen," she exclaimed, throwing her arms up in the air. Her dark hair became even more dark as the rain soaked it along with her clothes and the picnic blanket we were sitting on. "This was not my plan!"

Eliza tried her best to save all the food from drowning, but it was battle she was going to lose. I felt how the rain soaked through my entire clothes, my hair matting to my face, and somehow it actually made me feel more alive than I've felt in a long time. I couldn't help but chuckle at the sight before me, though. This secure, bossy woman desperately trying to save what was left of our late picnic. It was clear to everyone that she hadn't been living in Seattle long, because then she wouldn't have reacted that strongly towards a bit of rain. The smile plastered onto my face almost stopped me from saying anything.

"What did you expect, Eliza, it's Seattle?" I raise my voice to try and get through to the brunette in between the noise from the pouring rain. She'd almost got everything inside the basket, her face scrunched up in annoyance and frustration.

"I kinda crossed my fingers, you know, hoping we'd have a bit of luck," she shouted, finally looking at me. For one second I lost my breath, the look she was wearing went straight to my heart. She was absolutely stunning, even though the rain poured down every centimetre of her face. Even in heavy rain, she managed to blow my mind by her beauty and realness. I couldn't stop looking at her, smirking when I saw how I frustrated her even more.

"Why don't you more?" she asks while pulling at the corner of the blanket, the blanket I'm still very comfortably sitting on. Her face once again scrunches in confusion.

"Because you do it so well," I tease as I give in and rise.

"You shut up and help me," Eliza scolds me, but the look in her eyes says that I've got nothing to be afraid of. Her eyes tell me that my charm's working all too well… even though I'm soaked, too. Maybe rain isn't such a bad thing?

We throw the remaining of the picnic inside the back of her car, and then quickly climb inside. Eliza's behind the steering wheel and I'm by her side. The rain is all around us. The smell's in our hair, on our skin. The sound is poetically playing on every pane of the car. Eliza stares out the window, not giving me the time of day right now. I watch her in silence, admired by her beauty and how she just crumbled a little bit but still tried to keep it together. A smile plays on my lips, I can't hold it back anymore, and so I giggle. It immediately gets the brunette's attention, her mesmerizing eyes on me as soon as I let out my giggle. She sighs, but I can see she's right on the verge to give in to this comical situation. I shrug and shoot her one of my best smiles, as I feel a drop of rain run down my nose. She catches it with her finger and then goes to caress my cheek. The warmth of her hand shoots through every vein, and I've never felt so good before. And then, then she breaks… and I join her in a heartbeat. The laughter erupts the silence of the car, filling the air and my heart with hope for whatever is coming.

When our laughter subsides, I take one of her hands in between both of mine, resting our joined hands in my lap. The silence is unbelievable and so comfortable. Eliza sighs contently, I squeeze her hand to show my own content at this very moment.

"You know… I've been looking forward to this all week," she finally speaks, her voice covered in defeat.

"What?" I look at her sincerely.

"This… us… our date… and then… then it started raining holes in the grown."

I can't believe how adorable she is. She's the perfect mix of hot and sexy, of sweet and kind, of bossy and adorable. It's like I get each and every good thing whenever I'm around her, and I'm starting to get addicted. Eliza sighs again.

"You know what? This was perfect," I smile at her, her eyes still watching as the rain washes over the big pane in front of us. I can see how she's happy and confused at the same time, then she lets out a sigh of what I'm guessing is relief. And finally she gives in and turns her head only to find me watching her, she blushes.

"How come?" she asks confused to my mentioning of this rainy day as a perfect date.

"Well…" I close my eyes for just a second. When I'm opening them again Eliza locks her eyes with mine… like she's reading my unspoken words. It's like a power I haven't experienced on me before. Her eyes tell me that she on some level already knows, but she's still unsure of how it could possibly be true. I decide to not let her beautiful face scrunch up and reveal what's having me grinning like a fool whenever I as much as think about her let alone see or touch her. "I've not been on a date with someone I'm so… infatuated by…in a very, very long time."

I feel her hand tense, and for a moment I'm afraid I might have said too much. But as I watch the happiness shine from her eyes, I know the hand tensed because of surprise and maybe even a bit of relief again. Her smile makes her even more beautiful.

Eliza leans in and seal the reveal with a kiss sending my entire system in overdrive, making my pulse throb hard and my heart skip a beat. Placing her other hand at the base of my neck, she gently keeps me in place, even though I've got no intention of pulling back. When her tongue asks for entrance I happily give it to her, feeling how it teases my lower lip by slowly running the tip from one corner of my mouth to the other. I moan in response, making the brunette chuckle.

"I take that you're pretty happy with my revelation?" I ask her with a wink when she pulls back to look me in the eyes again.

"More than happy," she smiles, giving me another kiss, this time a soft peck on my swollen lips. Before she gets to lean back into her driver's seat, I catch her wet coat and pull her back by the collar. Giving her another lingering kiss, I smirk when she tries to catch up with the present.

"Mmmm…"

We sit and watch the rain in silence, none of us wanting this date… this perfect date… to end just yet.

"You almost threw a tantrum out there, right?" I break the silence, playing with her fingers between my hands. Her hand is strong, her fingers even more so. They're slim but still not too boney. They're just the right size for almost… everything… she could be doing with them.

"Maybe..." Eliza shrugs as she watches me. It makes me chuckle. "How did you spot that?"

"You kinda looked like my 6-year-old," I flatly state only to tease her a little, waiting for Eliza to respond.

"Gee, thanks," she laughs.

"You're welcome. She's adorable, too, you know."

"Of course she is," she smiles, releasing her hand from my fumbling and tucking a stray of wet her behind her ear.

"You know, one would pick you out to be an only child but I'm actually siding more on the fact that you're the youngest sibling, am I right?" I ask when she rests her head at the headboard, stretching her right arm to rest behind my neck, playing with the damp hair she finds.

"Mmmmaybe. How so?"

"Because you walk around like you own the place, constantly charming your way in and out of things, every time you want something. And you always get it, right?"

"Wow, look at you analysing me," she laughs, raising her eyebrow at me. Her laughter runs through my veins like a train, and I can't help feeling even more alive whenever she does that… laugh.

"Well, it's not that hard. You're an open book, Eliza Minnick. So tell me, how many siblings?"

"Okay then… I've got three. Louie, Oskar and Vera. And then there's me."

"I knew it!" I exclaim in victory. It's my own victory though… wanting to get to know Eliza more and more gets me all crazy, trying to figure out who this woman is besides her looks, her voice, her body. It's a game I could play all night, actually.

"Since you think you know so much about me, then how do I like me coffee?"

Humouring the brunette, I pretend to be thinking, though I already know the answer. "You don't drink coffee."

"Wha-"

"Don't ask…" I smirk and blow her a kiss.

"My turn!" she deadpans, scraping her nails at the base of my neck. It's electrifying and it feels soooo good. I lean a little more into her touch, wanting to be closer to whatever contact I can get.

"Go ahead," I hum in content.

"How come you're single?"

This gets my attention… I don't know how I'm supposed to answer that question, but I know how I want to answer it. I just don't know if Eliza is on the same page as me. "I'm not, though," I chance, once again feeling her movement tense… this time at the back of my neck.

"Huh?" Eliza pulls her arm back, adjusting her body in the seat. I immediately feel sad by the withdraw of her touch.

"At least I'd like to think I'm not…" I nod, trying to get her on board on my way of thoughts.

"But... but what're we doing here then? I made you my famous perogies... again!"

"Eliza..."

"Arizona..."

"Eliza..."

"Yeah, we've established my name," she says confused. "But not what we're doing here… with each other… if you're in fact not single? We've been seeing each other for what... a couple of months now, and you haven't said anything? I… just... wow…"

"Are you done?" I can see all her thoughts churn inside that beautiful head of hers. But she's not following me, she doesn't get it. I try turning so that I'm face to face with her. The look I receive is confused and devastated.

"What?" she snaps.

"Are you done?"

"What do you mean… I'm not following you...?"

I can't reach her; I need to break it to her. I need to tell her that she's the reason, she's the reason why I haven't been wanting to meet anyone new. That she's the reason I can't sleep at night, the reason why my heart skips a beat and my palms sweat. She needs to know so that I can kiss that adorable, sexy pout off of her luscious lips. "It's you, you moron. It's you."

"Me, me what?" Eliza exclaims, her eyes almost popping out of her head caused by the frustration I'm adding to our conversation.

"I'd like to think that I'm not single because of you," I tell her with one of my best smiles. "That is… if you don't mind?"

"Sooo, you're saying what exactly?" she tries to follow my trail of thoughts, but still not completely getting where I want us to go from here.

"You need me to spell it out for you?"

"By all means, please..." she nods, her cheeks a little red from the heath in the car and possibly also the confusion.

"We've been seeing each other for months now, you said so yourself. And I haven't been seeing anybody else because, well... I don't want to. I want to be with you. Like in a relationship kinda way." Eliza doesn't give me anything, she just stares at me. I can't quite figure out if she's freaked out, wants to run away or pulls me in for a kiss… But she stares, she stares with those incredible eyes and I'm once again lost. I want nothing more than to have her as my girlfriend, I want nothing more than to be her girlfriend, so I need to say that word… I need for her to agree, so here goes all I've got. "…as in girlfriends…"

"I got that," she finally speaks as a big smirk adorns her face. "But thank you for explaining it so very well." Eliza had been following me all along, she just wanted me to say it… out loud. She wanted me to ask as if we were some kind of 14-year-olds. She's so full of herself. I raise my eyebrow, watching her internally celebrating her own victory. I can't help but laugh at her antics.

"You're a smart ass, you know that?"

Eliza just shrugs. "I'm the youngest, I always get what I want."

"And what was that?"

"You," she throws me a smile I haven't seen before, a smile that tells me that I'm some kind of prize she's been chasing and finally won. One of those smiles that reveals how much affection one person can actually hold within them.

I pull her face towards me, both of my hands caressing her cheeks and then close the distance within seconds. She responds right away, her hands coming to rest at my sides. When we break for air, Eliza tries her best to keep a straight face but fails terribly. She turns her head in a matter of a nanosecond as a loud, shrieking sound echoes through the car.

"Bless you," I chuckle as I stroke her hair. "You okay?

"I'm so gonna get sick tomorrow," she sighs as she presses two fingers on the back of her nose. "Damn you, Seattle weather."

"Don't be such a drama queen," I laugh before I squeeze her thigh. "Let's get you home."