An hour or so later, Sofia had fallen asleep still in Eliza's arms, leaving the two women to finally have the discussion that Eliza knew was coming. She was nervously holding Arizona's daughter whilst the blonde had her arm around her girlfriend's shoulders over the back of the sofa. Arizona was tense, Eliza could sense it, having sobered up dramatically since leaving her house.

"Babe, just say what's on your mind. Whatever it is, I'll be fine." Eliza tried to reassure her girlfriend that although she was fragile, she wasn't going to break from a conversation.

"I just, I am so in love with you, and you're hurting so much. I don't know how to help." The blonde said, her eyes welling up again. Shifting gently, so as to not wake Sofia, Eliza reached over to Arizona and placed her hand on her knee, giving it a soft squeeze.

"This is helping me, being here with you, you and your perfect daughter, this is helping. I'm not going to get better overnight but you deserve better than this. I'm going to do better." Eliza stuttered a bit, it hurt her to see that she was upsetting her girlfriend. She wanted to be better, she was going to be better. Deciding in that moment that she was going to stop drinking and be the person Arizona deserves.

"Eliza, you're the one who deserves better. You're clearly had an extremely shitty year, what with this, your mom and then the staff of Grey Sloan making your life hell, for which I am also responsible. You don't deserve that; you deserve to be made happy, cared about and looked after. You have to try and let the past go." Arizona said leaning over to kiss her girlfriend softly on the forehead, then repeating the motion to her daughter.

"I'm going to try. I want to be happy." Eliza smiled gently at her girlfriend. Shifting even more uncomfortably, Arizona had something else on her mind, something that was making her very nervous. "Babe, what else is bothering you?" Eliza asked caringly. Her whole demeanour had changed since she had got to the blondes house.

"I want to ask you something." Arizona said anxiously.

"So ask me? I told you, I'm not going to break Arizona." Eliza responded, holding the blondes hand to try and ground her nerves.

"How would you feel if we had Sofia come live with us permanently?" Arizona blurted out.

"Us?" Eliza asked, confused as to what exactly her girlfriend was asking her.

"Yeah, us, as in with me and you?" Arizona was smirking now; her girlfriend wasn't getting it. She was backhandedly asking Eliza to move in with her, whilst also taking on her child, which maybe wasn't the best idea in her current frame of mind, however, Sofia being there seemed to help ground her girlfriend, and it sure as hell made Arizona happy.

"As in what?" Eliza asked, still unsure of what exactly Arizona was getting at.

"As in, move in with me? I want my two favourite girls with me all the time. I tried to let Sofia go to New York so Callie could be happy, but it makes me miserable. I want her here with me and I want you here too." Arizona said quickly, the breathed a huge sigh of relief that she had finally managed to say what was on her mind. Eliza just sat there wearing a stunned expression. "Callie isn't going to like it, but I did get full custody. I tried to make this work to keep her happy but it isn't working for me. I want my daughter back." Arizona was rambling now, Eliza hadn't answered her and she was working herself up, worry over whether it would actually work.

Eliza didn't say anything, instead she stood with Sofia in her arms, taking the little girl up to her bedroom and putting her down for the night. Once Sofia was settled she returned to the living room to find Arizona crying.

"Hey, what are you crying?" Eliza asked, placing her hand on Arizona's shoulder as she returned to sit on the sofa.

"You don't want this, do you?" Arizona asked between sobs.

"What makes you think that?" Eliza couldn't work out why Arizona would assume she didn't want this with her.

"You said nothing and walked away." Arizona stated bluntly.

"Arizona, I want this. I only walked away to put Sofia down so that I could hug you and kiss you when I told you I would love to move in with you and I'd be more than happy, ecstatic even, to have Sofia here too. I'm in love with you too Arizona. I have been since I first saw you through that meeting room window. And it's scary but I can't seem to make it stop." It was Eliza's turn to ramble until Arizona crashed her mouth into hers, initiating a passionate kiss.

"You're sure?" Arizona checked after they broke for air.

"I'm a hundred percent sure babe. I want this, if you want me here." Eliza said with a smile.

"I'm sure, but only if you go brush your teeth! You taste and smell like a drunk." Arizona quipped.

"I hate to tell you this babe, but I kind of am." Eliza teased back before leaving the living room to brush her teeth, just live her girlfriend had asked.

So, guys, I'm honestly getting a bit bored of writing this story now and running out of ideas as to where it's going to go. I don't want to make it a they get married and live happily ever after thing, but after the drama that's just happened, I don't want to write much more of that either! So, for now, I'm leaving it like this. Unless enough people review, asking me to continue!