A/N: This story has been nagging at me for a while and I just had to get it out. I loved season 9…save for the last few episodes. Although the acting was fantastic. But I also loved season 7 where Arizona and Callie worked their way back to each other. And I know, I know that they'll have to do that yet again in the coming season.

Disclaimer: The characters in this story are not mine and belong to the producers of Grey's Anatomy. I'm just borrowing them for a little bit.

Any mistakes are mine. Sorry!

By the end of her third week in Malawi Arizona Robbins just couldn't take it anymore. Yes, she expected to cry at night, to grieve for the lovely woman she had left behind…well, broke up with, in Seattle. But now, Arizona wasn't just crying at night. She cried in the clinic and she teared up during surgery as she worked diligently on the tiny humans she had flown half a world away to save.

As the perky peds surgeon became more despondent, it did not escape the notice of her co-workers, one of whom finally asked her why she was crying. After telling him that she missed her girlfriend he asked if she wanted to go back home. Expecting to say no, Arizona was surprised when the word "yes" came out of her mouth instead. The clinic manager nodded understandingly and after working out logistics Arizona found herself on a puddle jumper on her way to Lilongwe International Airport.

Flying made the blonde nervous. She never felt closer to death than she did in a plane. The first bit of turbulence caused her stomach to flip and she grabbed the edge of her seat, knuckles white. The co-pilot looked at her over her shoulder, telling her to buckle up as another air pocket jostled the small aircraft. She tried to comply as the plane shook more violently, alarms starting to blare in the cockpit. Arizona's stomach leapt into her throat as the plane began a rapid descent towards the mountains surrounding the Rift Valley. She tried once more in vain to force the buckle together before the plane was ripped apart and everything went black.

A/N 2: So this is cannon through 7x07 and AU from that point on, though it does involve elements of season 9 cannon. What if Arizona and Callie were broken up when the plane crash occurred? Can they find their way back to each other despite their personal tragedies?

A/N 3: Thank you for reading this little teaser. If you liked it, please tell me what you think. If you don't like it, well, please tell me what you think (no flames though please).