I'm giving you another chapter today just so we can move on to more important stuffs than angst and broken hearts ;)

So, it's here my own mind is going to start working. Because what's coming next is my vision of how true love is going to survive something like this…

And I also want to say that I'm sorry about the chapter I posted earlier today. It was a lot of small spelling mistakes and grammar. But I can defend myself by saying that I wrote that late at night with tired eyes and also, you have to remember that English is not my native language…

CHAPTER 7

Callie couldn't think of one thing more beautiful than a sleeping Arizona Robbins. Curled up close to Callie's side of the bed, facing the brunette, she looked more stunningly gorgeous then Callie could remember. The blonde face had a peaceful expression and once in a while she sighed, almost like she felt pleasure. Callie eased herself away from the sleeping blonde of beauty and got out of bed in silence careful not to wake Arizona up.

Although the brunette was tired she couldn't sleep. Her mind was reeling. She went out in the dark kitchen and poured herself a glass of water. She sighed and turned her head to look out the window. Seattle almost looked as peaceful as Arizona at nighttime, Callie thought. The city was in complete silence and the street lamps outside gave the room a mystical appearance. Callie just stood there and let her thoughts wander back in time a few hours.

"Come with me", Arizona breathed out. "Come with me to Africa."

Callie's inside had frozen for a split second. Wait? Had she really heard her girlfriend correctly? This wasn't what Callie has had in mind when they both had been apologizing to each other a moment earlier. Callie didn't want to go to Africa for Christ's sake. And certainly didn't want Arizona to go either. What was happening here? But then, oh my God, then Callie had lifted her eyes to Arizona and was met by a pair of baby blue hopeful eyes, shining with love. Callie opened her mouth and was completely sure of that the word "NO" was supposed to come out but instead there was a "YES" that sneaked it's way out of her mouth. And suddenly there was no way back. The blonde had threw herself into Callie's arms, crying of happiness and whispered, "I love you, I love you, I love you" repeatedly in to her ear. Callie's mind were working overtime and for a moment she wanted to take it all back but when she saw the shining and happy expression on her girlfriend's face her heart broke. And then she knew for real, there was no way out of this…

Standing in the kitchen at 4.30 in the morning Callie Torres only was sure of two things.One: She loved Arizona like she'd never had loved anyone before. And two: She really, REALLY did not want to go to Africa.

"What are you doing out here?"

Callie flinched at the sleepy, sounding voice and looked over towards their bedroom and saw a dozy Arizona rubbing her tired eyes in an attempt to wake up.

"Sorry", she said softly. "Did I wake you?"

"No", Arizona smiled. "Not by making noise anyway. But when I'm greeted by an empty and cold bed where there're suppose a warm and comfortable you, that's when I wake up.

Callie couldn't help but laugh at the girlfriend's confession.

"Then I guess I'd better come back to bed", she said and walked up to Arizona and put her hand up to the blonde's face and stroked one cheek gently. "Come on, let's get back to bed."

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Callie managed to get through the following weeks without exposing her true feelings about this 'We're-moving-to-Africa-thing. Her friends and colleagues just saw a happy couple that just hade made their first step to making their dreams come true. And that was what Callie were trying to convince herself when she had stood in their apartment, together with a very chatty and more perky than ever Arizona, packing their lives in boxes earlier. Mark had been over for a while and Callie had made all her efforts to keep her feelings intact. She hadn't been doing a good work regarding the hiding of the feelings-thing cause later at the hospital Mark had discovered everything when he had pushed her to talk. But with only a few hours left until their plane was about to take off she was more determined than ever to make this work, for Arizona's sake.

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Arizona Robbins was worried and carried a very troubled mind in to Seattle Airport later that evening. Her senses were screaming: "This is wrong!" all over and she leered secretly at Callie who was walking beside her on their walk toward the gate. She had turned a blind eye to Callie's wincing and sarcasm ever since the brunette had agreed to come with her. And suddenly it hit her. There was no solution to this and although everything inside of her screamed in agony she knew that there was no way out of the scenario that was about to happen. So she just stopped walking.

"What, did you forget your passport?"

Arizona took a deep breath and prepared herself. She couldn't believe what she was about to say.

"I won the Carter Madison-Grant! I WON the Carter Madison-Grant! Do you know how rare that is? Do you know how special that is? This is the best opportunity of my professional carrier. I get to go to Malawi with almost unlimited funds and help children, help tiny humans who might otherwise never get to see a pediatrician surgeon. I get to change lives. That's the dream! I am living the dream and I am over the moon about it, or I would be, but you are ruining it for me. First with your whining and now with your fake smiley pats of aggressive enthusiasm, you are ruining Africa for me."

Callie looked awkwardly around to see if people around them were paying attention to the blonde's outbreak. She wasn't sure of which foot she would stand on. Arizona's word hit her like a sharp knife straight in her heart. Not because they weren't true, but because they were.

"I-I'm not".

"You are!" Arizona exclaimed with hurt and anger in her voice.

And then Callie put her guard down and took a step closer to Arizona.

"Okay fine, I don't want to go to Africa", she finally admitted. "Okay? But I do want to be with you. Okay, so I'm REALLY trying here. We're gonna miss our plane so let's go."

The brunette turned and did an attempt to start walking at the gate again but immediately stopped again when she saw that Arizona didn't follow.

"Oh my God", Callie said and rolled her eyes and again facing the blonde. "Okay, do you wanna fight? The flight's eighteen hours so we can fight on the plane."

"You are ruining this for me." the blonde was on the verge of breaking out in tears by now. "And I don't wanna do this."

Callie looked confused.

"W-w-hat, so what does that mean, you suddenly don't want to go or…?

Arizona collected herself together and opened her mouth.

"I don't wanna go to Africa with you."

A few seconds of silence passed by.

"Arizona", Callie sighed. "No, okay? No.

"I'm sorry", the blonde managed to get out. "I'm sorry…"

"Sorry? You're sorry? It's three years!

Arizona looked Callie straight in the eyes and she felt like crying.

"I'm gonna miss my plane", she said sadly. "You take care of yourself."

And with that Arizona started walking towards the gate again leaving Callie behind who let out a sob.

"No! No!" the brunette cried out and turned around again. "Please, please, I can…we can do this, we can figure this out."

Arizona's heart broke yet again at the pleading in Callie's voice but she braced herself.

"You stay here and be happy", she said and shaked her head with sadness as she were trying to shake of all bad things she was feeling in that moment. "And I go there and be happy."

Callie suddenly felt a wave of anger and frustration rush through her.

"If you get on that plane, if you go without me, we are done. Do you hear me? We are over!"

"We are standing in the middle of an airport" Arizona's voice broke. Screaming at each other. We're already over."

And with that she turned and left, leaving Callie behind. Callie just stood there, watching Arizona Robbins back become smaller with every step the blonde took down to the gate, while everything inside of Callie just burst. And before she even knew it tears were falling down her face and she started to run. She had to get out of the airport. And maybe, maybe, when she had came outside she would see that all of this was just a bad dream. She would wake up soon and then it was going to get clear to her that this was just a dream. A bad dream. A night mare…