The showdown
I own nothing, just had to write how I would have liked it to go….so disturbing.
"I haven't even told my parents yet!" Santana runs crying out of Coach Sylvester's office. As she runs down the hall Brittany was waiting for her locker at her. She runs right into Brittany's arms crying.
"Santana what's wrong?" Brittany asks holding her tightly.
"Santana!" Mr. Schuester hollers as he chases her down the hall. "Santana wait, let us help."
"San, what's going on, help you with what?" Brittany asks confused by what's happening.
"Brittany if you don't mind I would like to talk to Santana alone" Mr. Schuester says apologetically as he walks closer.
"No, please Britt don't leave." Santana cries not letting go of the blonde "Mr Schue, she's my….my…girlfriend." Santana mumbles looking into Brittany's eyes. Brittany smiles at her nodding her head. This is the first time they have labeled their relationship but Brittany liked the idea of being Santana's girlfriend.
"Oh….okay then will you both please come with me back to Sue's office so we can talk, we really do want to help," he says quietly.
"Help with what?" Brittany asks as she wraps her arm around Santana's shoulder walking down the hall towards Sue's office. "San, this is all starting to scare me, are you okay?" Santana shakes her head as tears stream down her cheeks. Once the girls are sitting Coach Sylvester plays the video for Brittany. Santana can't even face the tv, she sits with her head in her hands. "Oh my God, San we have to tell your parents before they see this."
"I know but I'm not ready, I can't do it. I wasn't ready to tell anyone." Santana sobs into Brittany's neck as the blonde pulls her into an embrace.
"It's ok I will be there with you, I won't let you do it alone. We will figure it out." Brittany whispers kissing her head.
Coach Sylvester puts her hand on the head cheerleaders shoulder , "Santana is there anything we can do, I feel responsible for all of this somehow."
Santana quickly rises "I've gotta go," she walks dumbfounded to the door.
"Santana, where are you going?" Brittany questions. "We have to do our mash-up."
Santana keeps walking ignoring the calls for her. Brittany stands as Coach Sylvester grabs her arm "B, I don't think I have ever seen her like this, please let us know if we can help."
"There's nothing anyone can do, this was her biggest fear. She just wanted to get through the school year, she didn't want people to find out, she can't handle it" Brittany answers without looking up. "I'm sorry I have to find her" she says as she exits the office.
Mr. Schuester walks to the auditorium to inform Shelby that the mash-up may have to wait.
"Why, your kids are here and mine are getting ready" Ms. Corcoran responds. "Afraid of defeat Will?" She laughs. When he doesn't smile or comment back she knows that something is wrong.
"You might be down 2 girls" he whispers trying not to let the kids hear him.
"What? Why? Where are my girls?" She responds rather loudly causing the New Directions to take notice. Mr. Schuester takes her by the arm leading her out into the hallway.
"Okay, I don't know what is going on but Santana is in there throwing chairs and swearing left and right. I am not sure she can sing, but if not I can do her parts too" Mercedes huffs.
"Santana's here?" Mr. Schuester asks surprised.
Mercedes looks at him confused "yeah, where else would she be, we have to perform in a couple minutes."
"Good, is Brittany with her?" he asks quickly.
"Yeah when have you ever seen those two apart, it's quite annoying actually" Mercedes replies putting her hands on her hips.
"Okay, Mercedes I will go calm her down and we will get ready to go on" Ms. Corcoran announces.
"Shelby wait! Let me come with you" Will shouts following her closely.
"Why are you so concerned about my girls all of sudden?" Shelby questions.
Will takes her by the hand leading her away from the kids and explains the last couple of hours to her. When they get to the room hurricane Santana had definitely struck. The room was a mess, chairs were thrown around and the girls all sat in one corner while Santana sat in the back by herself. They walked over to Brittany. "Is she okay, are all of you okay." Everyone nodded not really sure what was happening.
"No, she is not okay, she is scared, hurt, she wants to be alone but I am not leaving, I told them to leave," Brittany points to the other girls "but they wanted to stay. She needs to know we are here for her."
"I know Brittany and we are all here for both of you." Ms. Corcoran says hugging the blonde then turning her attention to Santana. "Santana, you want me to reschedule this?"
No….no…I'm ready." She stands walking towards the rest of her group. She reaches for Brittany's hand who takes it immediately giving her a big smile. "I'm sorry."
Santana manages to make it through most of the performance. Every word seems to sting a little as the words to the song cut into her, make her remember Finn's words "Brittany doesn't love you." She sees Finn whispering something to Rachel, Rachel immediately turns to look at Santana. As the song finishes Santana jumps off the stage walking up to Finn "what did you just say to her! Did you tell her too!" Brittany takes a few steps closer in case she needs to calm Santana down. She has only seen this side of Santana a few times and the outcome was never good.
Finn comments back to Santana who reels back and delivers a forceful slap to Finn's face. "You happy now, you ruined my life!"
"Santana!" Brittany shouts as she jumps down behind the brunette wrapping her arms around her waist.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Finn rises from his seat getting in her face.
"You know damn well what I am talking about!" Santana yells trying to get out of Brittany's grasp.
Mr. Schuester and Ms. Corcoran both stand from their seats a few rows back. "Santana! Finn! That's enough!" Mr. Schuester shouts.
"Poor Santana, you can dish it out but you can't take it" Finn replies sarcastically. "I call you out and now I have ruined your life. So what you're gay, if you weren't such a coward you would have admitted it a long time ago instead of making everyone miserable!"
"You son of a bitch! It wasn't for you to tell! Do you have any idea how many people you have hurt? My family is going to see that! Santana screams as she lunges at Finn again. Brittany holds on to her waist pulling her away as tears fall from Santana's face.
"Maybe it's time your family knew" Finn says softly as he turns to sit back down.
"You don't know her family, you don't know her. What you did was disgraceful; I thought you were my friend" Brittany says angrily still holding her girlfriend tightly.
"I am your friend Britt, this is between Santana and I." Finn calmly states trying not to upset her anymore, he had never seeing Brittany get angry before.
"No, Finn, you're not, not after what you did. You hurt the person I love more than anything, you told her I didn't love her, you outed her to the whole school. She wasn't ready for that Finn! You can't force someone to be ready. Now she has to tell her family and hope they understand." Brittany releases her grip on Santana's waist when she feels her body trembling. She grabs Santana's hand quickly pulling her out of the auditorium before she breaks. Santana reaches the hallway and the whimpers turn into gasps as she tries to catch her breath between sobs. Brittany pulls her down to sit with her as she holds her letting her cry.
Mr. Schuester runs out into the hallway. "Brittany, are you guys going to be alright?"
Brittany shrugs her shoulders as she holds Santana, "we are going to have to tell them before they see it and honestly I don't know what will happen."