You Make Me Smile (Merzona)

A.N: Hello, I hope everyone is enjoying the story! I already wrote until chapter 7 and the future chapters are already being written. In my draft book I have some ideas to use for this story but for now I only have things planned until chapter 13. Chapter 5 will be the longest so far with (3000 words) and I'm sorry for that but I just can't find a good place to cut it so I hope you won't get bore. Don't forget to leave a review if you want I would appreciate it . Once again just a reminder English is not my first language so I apologize for any mistake in this story.

For those ones who are curious about Cristina here is my explanation: she won't be on this story due to the fact that if she was I don't think Meredith would turn towards Arizona for emotional support. Meredith and Cristina had one of the most strong and amazing friendships on the show and putting Cristina on this story would take all the purpose of making Meredith and Arizona get closer. This is my point of view of course. Plus, she's a very sarcastic character which I love but unfortunately very hard to write. (She's in Switzerland)

Chap 2

Next day

Things started to get even more complicated, it was the third day of the group in the forest and they were starting to believe that at some point they would die here. Mark woke all of them up early in morning with a bad cough and at some point, blood started to come out, unfortunately they all knew what that meant. Internal bleeding.

At this turns of events he started to heavily breathe so Arizona looks at Meredith in panic and the dark blonde runs to get the oxygen bottle. Mark, resting with his head on Arizona's lap looks at her and smiles softly. He sees Meredith approaching them with the bottle and shakes his head.

"I won't make it, don't waste that bottle on me" he whispers. Meredith looks at Arizona and the blonde pleads with her eyes for her to insist with him. Not being able to keep the tears from coming Arizona lets a few tears escape as Mark argues with Meredith about the bottle. He denies it again. "Let me die peacefully, please". They all sit in silence knowing very well what is about to come next.

"Ari? Can you sing that song that you always sing with Alex when things are rough? I always loved it." He pleads with tears on his eyes. She knows very well what song he's asking for because that's the song her brother used to sing to her when she was scared and she got used to sing to Alex, and Alex to her, when things started to get a little bad for one of the sides. She smiles and nods.

"Hands, put your empty hands in mine

And scars, show me all the scars you hide

And hey, if your wings are broken

Please take mine so yours can open too

Cause I'm gonna stand by you

Oh, tears make kaleidoscopes in your eyes

And hurt, I know you're hurting, but so am I

And love, if your wings are broken

Borrow mine so yours can open too

Cause I'm gonna stand by you

Even if we're breaking down,

We can find a way to break through

Even if we can't find heaven,

I'll walk through hell with you

Love, you're not alone,

Cause I'm gonna stand by you"

3/7 left.

Night comes around, the three of them look defeated at this point. The fire keeps them warm during the night but none of them can sleep. Mark's death hit Arizona harder than she thought it would and now she just wants all of this to end too. During the night Arizona starts to get worse and they have to use the last bottle of oxygen. Passing out due to tiredness Meredith finally sees Arizona sleep however she is really worried about her friends' leg. At dawn Derek starts to get worse, they all suspected that he had a concussion on his head due to the dry blood on his forehead since day one but he never complained about it. Meredith is left with two unconscious people in the middle of nowhere.

Somewhere at the middle of the morning Meredith hears a helicopter so she runs to the place where she and her husband wrote S.O.S and waves her arms in the air. She wasn't seeing the flying device yet but a few seconds pass and it finally appears in her vision. She waves and screams for help, hope filling her lungs after being stuck here for almost 3 days.

The ride to Grey- Sloan couldn't be slower, she was so thankful that they finally were able to find them after so long. The paramedic called the hospital after seeing how all doctors were doing and explain the situation giving the bad news to Dr. Bailey about how many dead bodies they had. The entire hospital knew about the crash and all the staff was very worried about them. Alex was at the ER with Bailey, Webber, Hunt, Altman and Avery waiting for the helicopter to arrive with their friends.

Alex gets relieved when he sees Arizona coming out of there. He scoots closer in order to help and so does Bailey and Webber while Avery, Hunt and Altman go see Derek. Teddy looks at Arizona, gives a welcome smile for seeing her alive, before going to help the boys with Shepherd. She gives Alex a kind and reassuring smile to keep him calm knowing that the boy hasn't been sleeping since his sister has been gone.

They take both doctors to the OR and prepare them for surgery, as soon as they arrive at the OR Bailey doesn't let Alex participate since he's too nervous about his sister condition however she lets him watch in case he wants. Callie comes a few minutes later frightened about her wife and sees that they have just started surgery. Meredith was being examined in the ER by her sisters who were very worried about her.

After Callie gives Bailey permission to cut Arizona's leg, Alex doesn't have the courage to watch the rest of his sister surgery so he leaves and goes to the waiting room where the rest of his family was, the last thing he needs right now is to fight with Callie about her decision.

In the waiting room was Arizona parents and April. Alex hugged both of his so called 'parents' since they kindly welcomed both him and April to the family and treat them both like their kids as well.

Arizona surgery ends first, apparently Derek had a really bad concussion and they needed a little more time with him.

In the recovery room Meredith decides to visit her friend, Arizona parents went to the hotel to rest for a bit after Alex reassure them that he was going to stay there all night, April went home because she had a little child to take care of and Callie went home to take care of Sofia.

Callie was devasted when she heard that Mark hadn't survive.

Alone with Arizona while Alex took a shower in her suite, she sits next to her friend and takes her hand, she was so glad that everything was over. She and Arizona developed a bond since the first day in the woods and after Cristina left for Switzerland she was hoping that she could find a similar friendship with someone else. In the meantime, while Meredith is caressing Arizona's hand the blonde wakes up, she smiles tenderly at the other woman. They don't talk, they just look at each other, each one having their own thoughts. Sharing a moment together lost in each other eyes.

Alex enters the room and breaks the moment between the two friends, Meredith says goodbye and Alex takes her sit giving his sister a kiss on her forehead before getting comfortable in the chair.