Okay, so this chapter is quite boring and for that I am truly sorry. But you know what they say…"There is always calm before the storm".

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CHAPTER 4

"So, I'm not going to see you until tomorrow night?"

"I'm sorry", Arizona said apologetically. "But I have a lot of charts that needs to be dictated and I've been postponing them enough. And do I need to remind you that you are the main reason regarding that?"

The blonde delivered that last sentence with a playful wink in her baby blue eyes.

"If you not had try to psych me out about my meeting with the chief I could have devoted these charts my attention then. Instead you made me worrying sick that I'd be humiliate myself in tears during my presentation for my try to win that million dollar for my tiny humans," she continued. "And then, instead of these boring charts, you and I could have been doing a lot of other….things. Amazing and awesome things. Super sexy things."

"Who's trying to psych out who here?" Callie replied sounding very displeased.

Arizona quickly changed in to her navy blue scrub shirt before she answered her girlfriend.

"Two can play that game you know," she said with a playful smirk. "Would it make you feel better if I told you that I'm not exactly thrilled about this either?"

"No", Callie sighed. "You know what would make me feel better though? A kiss."

The blonde raised her eyebrows in a very expectantly look.

"What kind of kiss?

"A kiss that will make me think about you all day, all night and all day tomorrow until I see you again properly. The kind of kiss that 's gonna make me miss you with everything I am and make me wish that we were at home, alone in our bed."

"Oooh, you mean like this?" Arizona whispered and leaned in close to Callie and looked with intensity in to the brunette's eyes before her lips reached its destination.

The blonde let out a sigh of relish when her lips melded with her girlfriends. Callie moaned softly in to the kiss, which started off painfully slow but soon intensified. Arizona's mind was reeling in to the kiss and she completely forgot where they were. She placed both of her hands on Callie's cheeks and popped herself down in the brunette's lap. They both lost themselves in the kiss but quickly flew apart when the door opened and Teddy stepped in.

"Oh, I'm sorry", the cardio surgeon said. "I thought that this was a public place but I'm not the one who is willing to not change my mind if someone were to tell me I was wrong."

Arizona and Callie blushed furiously and both had the expression in their faces like they had been caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

"Sorry", the blonde pediatrician surgeon muttered. "We were just…saying goodbye."

Teddy let out a small laugh.

"You two are hopeless. But who am I to judge such sweet love? But enough, I was actually looking for you. I need your help. I have a sixteen-year-old with a heart condition."

Callie stood up and fixed her scrubs free from the wrinkles caused by that little make out session.

"I'll leave you to it. I'll see you when I see you."

She placed a quick kiss on her girlfriend's cheek before she left and stepped out of the locker room.

"It looks like you two are really happy", Teddy said.

"I'm not going to argue with you on that one", Arizona said with a smile. "Everything is just so easy you know. I have never felt so relaxed, comfortable and happy with anyone in my whole life. And we're actually communicating with each other now. We didn't do that before. I feel like there is nothing that I couldn't tell her."

"I'm so glad for you Arizona. You two deserve it."

"Thank you. It means a lot coming from you and you know it. By the way, have you heard from Andrew?"

The taller woman sighed.

"No, I haven't. Not since he left last week. But I'm choosing to believe that it is for the best.

Arizona looked at her friend with concern in her eyes.

"Are you okay? You know if you want to talk about it, I'm here."

Teddy looked at the blonde attending with appreciation in her face.

"I know. Thank you back. So, about my patient…"

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"Hey Torres! We need you here."

Callie turned around to where the voice came from. Owen Hunt and Meredith Grey came running down the hall with a hospital bed with a patient that seemed to be in a lot of pain from what Callie could see.

"Right away Dr Hunt", she replied and started to walk quickly beside them. "What do we got? Dr Grey?"

"Thirty year old male, probably several fractures, mainly in his legs from what the paramedics told us. He fell from a bridge that collapsed over a small canyon" the resident answered.

"I believe we're heading straight to x-ray then", Callie pointed out. "No use in spilling unnecessary time."

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Callie's day passed very quickly and since she was on-call until 11 am the next day she was thankful that the time seemed to fly by. It tended to slow off a bit later in the evening so she decided to go and grab a cup off coffee in the cafeteria before she took her evening rounds.

Suddenly her iPhone buzzed in her pocket and she smiled knowingly at the picture that showed on the display with the incoming text message that read: Hey baby, I have half an hour to spare before evening rounds begin. Would you like to spare it with me or are you busy? I can't stop thinking about you…

Callie quickly replied the message with: What a coincidence ;) I'm free for the moment. Quite tired though because you have been running around in my head all day to…meet you on the stairs at second floor in two minutes?

She spotted the blonde directly where she stood leaning against the wall.

"Aah, there you are! What took you so long", Arizona teased. "It is like one and a half minute since I've pushed the send button for my last text message."

"Ha…ha…ha", Callie let out. "You should just be lucky that I in fact DID have some time to spare."

Arizona giggled softly and looked around to make sure that they were alone before she leaned in for a quick kiss.

"So, I don't know about you but I could kill for a cup off coffee right now. Shall we?"

Callie nodded her response and they started a slow walk towards the cafeteria.

"You look tired. Have you had a rough day with your tiny humans?"

"You have no idea! The blonde sighed out. "I did two small routine surgeries before lunch and then I've been in the OR with Teddy for nine hours with a sixteen-year-old that suffers from a really complicated heart condition. Now I just have evening rounds with Karev and then I can get to my charts. Hopefully I will be done with that before morning rounds starts. How about you? I saw on the board that you had surgery for the most of the day to."

"Yeah, thirty-year-old male with several fractures. But we did well I think. I let Meredith scrub in with me on that one. She is good when it comes to keep patients calm through pain. I also have evening rounds and then I'm on-call for the rest of the night before mornings rounds starts followed by a whole day at the ER with Little Grey and that Kepner girl."

Arizona nodded knowingly.

"Okay, enough work-talk. Let's get coffee and go somewhere and make out for…" the blonde looked down at her watch. "For exactly twenty minutes."

"I love when you go all attending – resident on me", Callie said with a laugh.

"Why, are you complaining?" Arizona flirted back. "Come on, don't just stand there. Valuable time is passing. Chop-chop!"

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The coffee/make out break did it for Arizona. That energy was all she needed and the night passed off quite quickly and before she knew it morning rounds was next on her schedule. Although she had manage to cache a few hours of sleep in the PED's on-call room she couldn't wait for this day the end so she could get some decent sleep in her own bed.

"Dr Robbins!"

She turned around and saw Chief Webber coming towards her.

"After your rounds, do you have some time to come and see me in my office?" he asked.

"Uum yeah, sure", she said. "Is there something wrong?"

"No, absolutely not. I have some good news for you. Really good. But we'll talk about it after your rounds." Chief Webber said and laid his hand on the PED surgeon's shoulder. "Don't worry, you're going to like this one. I'll see you soon."

Arizona felt the butterflies started to fly around in her stomach. What could this be about? She tried to press it out of her system and focus on her upcoming rounds. She was soon going to know anyway.

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Once Arizona Robbins was done with her rounds that morning she left the after work to Alex Karev and went straight to Chief Webber's office on the third floor. She felt a little anxiety about what was going to be revealed. The feeling in her stomach said that even though it was suppose be good news it was like she knew that it was something that would change her life in a not so good way in the end. She had always trusted her own instincts and she could tell that after this meeting she could have to make some serious thinking about her life. She couldn't even tell why she had these suspicions, she just…felt it.

She sighed heavily when she knocked on the door to Chief Webber's office.

"Come in", she heard Chief Webber call behind the door.

She took a deep breath, opened the door and stepped inside.

"Dr Robbins!" Chief Webber exclaimed. "So glad you could join us. Come in and sit down."

It was then Arizona noticed that there was a third person in the room. She smiled carefully and nodded a simple "Hi" to the gentlemen who both looked quite thrilled at her presence. She took a seat at the couch in the corner right in front of Chief Webber's desk and eyed apprehensive at the men in the room.

"This is Carter Madison", Chief Webber explained. "I'm guessing that you know who he is already. He got some news for you."

Arizona almost choked at Chief Webber's exposure. Carter Madison? She must be dreaming or heard wrong.

"So this is the famous Arizona Robbins?" Carter Madison said and smiled wide at the blonde doctor.

"H-h-hi Sir", she managed to get out. "It's an honor to meet you."

"I could say the same thing to you. I've been following your studies and work for two years now. It's a quite impressive list of qualifications you got here."

"Thank you sir."

"And it's therefore an honor for me to inform you that you are the Carter Madison boards first choice for our grant this year. In Africa."

"I-I-I am? Arizona stuttered. "Are you kidding me? I mean, is this some kind of joke?"

"No, no, Dr Robbins I assure you that this is as true as it's going to get and I couldn't be more proud of you", Chief Webber said solemnly. "I didn't even know you had been applying to this."

"I did that a couple of years ago", Arizona mumbled. "That was before I started here."

She was chocked. She didn't know what to feel. A big part of her wanted to scream out in joy while the other part wasn't at all sure of how to react to this kind of news. She had been dreaming about something like this ever since she had started her education in medicine about ten years ago. This was what all doctors dreamt about. And only a few were lucky to reach that dream. You couldn't say no to a chance like this. She couldn't turn this down. Cause if she did, then she would be turning her back to her dream. Right?

"I don't know what to say", she said softly and looked Carter Madison straight in the eyes. "I'm very honored. And happy of course. This is a dream come true."

"You're already a name out in the big world of medicine I can say", Carter Madison said. "And I am sure that when these three years in Africa have passed, you'll be famous. You are going to be a huge role model for many young residents, attendings and specialists out there."

Arizona didn't hear the words after the three-years-in-Africa thing had slipped from Carter Madison's mouth. Three years? Three whole and long years away from her life, her love, her friends and her home? This was overwhelming.

It was there, in that exact moment everything changed. Arizona Robbins had some huge decisions to make. Little did she know that this was the start of a long, heartbreaking and painful journey in her life…