This originally started out as a one-shot of what happens between Eliza/Arizona after she gets fired, but due to positive reviews I decided to keep going with it. Everything starts off where season 13 ended!

This should be a given, but if you've hate Mibbins then this fic won't be your thing! I personally love Callie, but I adore Eliza just as much and wanted to continue where the finale left off. :) Happy reading everyone and don't forget to review! xo

"I just got fired," Eliza blurted out as she turned to face Arizona before quickly walking up the stairs.

Arizona's mouth dropped as she stood at the bottom of the stairs. For a second, she felt as if all of the air had been stolen from her lungs as she watched the woman she was falling for walk away. Her heart sank. It had been such a long night with the fire and Arizona had no idea what possibly could have happened for Eliza to be fired. Once she finally felt like she could move again, she darted up the stairs to find Eliza, who had already turned the corner and disappeared. Arizona knew exactly where to find her.

The blonde darted through the hallways, heading the opposite direction of everyone else as people continued to leave the hospital. She got a few confused stares but she couldn't have cared less. She was not letting Eliza go without a fight.

"Eliza," Arizona managed to say as she stood in the doorway to Eliza's office. "What... what happened?"

"It doesn't matter," Eliza replied. "Dr. Bailey said that I no longer have a place at this hospital. Her hospital," she scoffed as she cleaned out her desk.

Arizona walked slowly into Eliza's office, closing the door behind her. She stood by Eliza's desk, watching the woman pack up her belongings. "Eliza..." she trailed off, her voice breaking although she had tried her best to hold back her emotions.

Eliza looked up from her desk and allowed their eyes to meet. "Yes, Arizona?" she sighed, clearly exhausted and overwhelmed.

"I don't..." Arizona bit her lip, trying to find the right words to say. "I don't want you to leave," she told the brunette, a single tear falling from her eye though she quickly wiped it away.

"Hey," Eliza said softly as she rolled her chair closer to Arizona and looked up at her, tugging the sides of her white coat to bring her closer. "I'm sorry for snapping. This doesn't change you and me," she shook her head as she gazed up into Arizona's eyes.

Arizona looked away, fighting back tears. She knew that Eliza was probably just going to say what she wanted to hear in that moment for fear of hurting her. Realistically, she knew that traveling around from hospital to hospital to rebuild residency programs was the foundation of Eliza's career. If Eliza didn't have a job here, Arizona was terrified that she would lose her before she ever really had her.

Eliza stood up and gently took Arizona's face in her hands, forcing the blonde to make eye contact with her. "Hey," she repeated. "I mean it. I want this," she said softly.

Arizona had finally let all of her walls down for this woman, and she hadn't even thought about the possibility that one day, she might be disappear without a trace. She had been here before. She felt her heart threatening to shut back down as the terrifying possibility of losing Eliza and getting hurt again threatened to become her reality. As she stood there in Eliza's office, she realized for the first time that she's didn't want to think about a future without Eliza Minnick in it, and that terrified her more than she cared to admit.

"I know how this goes, Eliza," Arizona said guardedly, pulling away from the other woman as she took a few steps back. "I've done it once before, and it's happened to me before. You have nowhere else to go, Bailey just took away your job!" Her voice increased in volume as she felt tears fill her eyes. "This is what you do - you travel from hospital to hospital, it's what you love. It's what you're passionate about. And you don't have that here anymore, and you're going to leave, and now my heart is breaking because I could never ask you to give up or change your own career goals because of me," she held back a sob as she did her best to stop herself from rambling any further. "I can't ask you to do that for me. I want to. I wa-

Eliza filled the empty space between them, silencing Arizona with her lips as she wrapped her arms around Arizona's waist to pull her closer, kissing her hungrily. For the second time that day, Arizona felt as if the wind had been knocked out of her, but this time, in the best way. She kissed the brunette back with just as much urgency. Eliza backed Arizona against the wall and toward the window looking out into the hallway, yanking the blinds closed, though they both knew that by now, chances were that the hospital was mostly empty. In that moment, Arizona felt everything. She felt all too vividly the world spinning on it's axis beneath her and the weightlessness of letting go of everything around her. Nothing mattered in that moment - fires, plane crashes, shootings - all of the heartbreak and all of the ugly from the past several years disappeared, if only for a moment. She clung back onto Eliza as if her life depended on it - as if that if she didn't, her feet might come up off the ground.

When both women ran out of air and finally parted, Eliza kept Arizona pinned against the wall as they looked into one another's eyes, catching their breath.

"Do you remember what I said when we first met?" Eliza asked, running her fingers through Arizona's hair as she rested their foreheads together.

"'I like girls?'" Arizona said playfully, feigning confusion as she pretended for the second time to have forgotten their first conversation in the elevator.

Eliza chuckled and shook her head. "You're still gonna pretend you don't remember, huh?" She pulled Arizona back from against the wall, keeping their bodies close. "I said that you're not someone I could forget. And I thought I was just talking about your name. When you see someone as beautiful as you, you don't just forget their name," she told her. "But it turned out to be so much more than that. You turned out to be so much more than a name or a pretty face," she said softly, admiring the woman in front of her.

Arizona could feel her heart slowly start to calm down as she stood inside the other woman's embrace. This was a vulnerability that she never seen in Eliza up until now.

"Arizona, I don't know what the future holds for me," she started, tightening her grip on Arizona's hips as she kept her close. "I'm usually not good with these things. I'm so used to everything being temporary. I'm used to disappearing as quickly as I appeared. And up until now, that was okay. But now it's different, because I don't know what the future holds, but I know that I want you in it," she admitted.

Arizona's eyes instantly lit up as she looked into Eliza's eyes. "You do?"

"I do," she repeated, gently pulling Arizona close enough so that their lips were almost brushing together. Eliza's breath hitched for a moment until finally she was able to spit out the words she had been wanting to say. "I love you, Arizona Robbins. I'm in love with you."

Before she even thought to respond, Arizona tangled her hands in Eliza's hair and pulled her in to kiss her again - this time becoming quickly consumed by other woman and needing to stop for fear that they would end up doing more than just kissing in Eliza's office. A smile spread across Arizona's face for the first time that day. "I'm so in love with you. I love you, Eliza Minnick."