Disclaimer: In no way do I own Glee that title belongs to Ryan Murphy and his writing team, Apologises if it seems if this doesn't seem fully American, I'm British so we have different words for different things so if I put some of the British words in let me know

Santana POV

Thrusting my hand up in the air to gain the attention of the cabbie before he drives by, I grab my duffel bag off the ground, and walk quickly to the cab before anyone tries to steal it away from me. I get in throwing my duffel to the other side of cab, it hits the door as it drops on to the seat, I hand the driver a piece of paper that has the address where I want to go and we soon join the what's seem like the whole city on the road. A few minutes in I find myself looking out the window remembering the last 5 years of my life, various memories fly through my head some good some bad, there were mostly good but the few bad memories I have are not pretty in the slightest, shaking my head to get rid of some the more graphic memories I turn my attention to the driver, "How far away are we?"

"No long Ma'am, traffic seem to be good for this time of day and it'll thin out as we get out of the city center"

Nodding my head I return to various cars and buildings blurring by, my thoughts turn to the people I'm going to meet, whether they'd be pleased to see me after all this time or whether I'd have to change my plans once again and find a motel, then figure out what I'd do.

About 10 minutes into the drive the driver whose name I had been told was Paul started to try and make small talk, the usual questions of; so what do you do for a living? (to which I rolled my eyes and look down, seriously was he blind? my dog tags were in plain view and I had all my military gear on) What will I be doing in the city? (like that was any of his business) Are you visiting family? (well I consider them family even if I don't say it out loud for them to hear) I just let him whittle on asking question after question, he even gave me landmarks and what he considered interesting places to visit, I for the most part tried to ignore him and stared out of the window at the people and buildings we were passing. Finally we came to stop, I got out throwing a handful of bills at the driver it was more than enough to cover the fare with a keep the change I threw over the shoulder I walked up to the correct apartment and knocked well banged would be a better description of what I did but at least if they were in they would hear me anywhere in the apartment that's my reasoning and waited for an answer. It was only a few seconds and a faint hold on until the door was open and Lady Hummel was stood in front of me with what seemed to be a look of shock but a small amount of warmth. He opens the door further to let me in, I nod and smile a thanks to him and walk past him and with a force of habit I check out my surroundings, directly to my left is a wooden table with 4 chairs around it past that is the kitchen which from here looks spotless next to that is an open door and from here I can see a toilet, across from that is a double bed something on the ceiling catches my eye and I notice a track with a huge curtain at the end, that explains the privacy issue, the track run across the ceiling making 2 decent size squares meant for bedrooms, and finally in front of me is the living room TV in the far right corner with various chairs and a couch set up around it. I notice someone on the couch and smile

"Hey warbler" he smiles back "hey Santana you got here quicker then I excepted I haven't exactly had a chance to tell Kurt yet"

Kurt kinda looked put out as he huffed at his fiancé "tell Kurt what Blaine?" he even went to put 1 of his hands on his hip but caught himself and crossed them instead.

"Well Santana called a couple of days ago explaining that she had a few weeks leave and would it be ok if she visited I didn't think it would be a problem and told her she could stay here as long as she didn't mind the couch" As much as I loved to start fights, I felt an argument was possible so I offered Kurt away out "look Kurt it's ok I can go find a motel to stay at its no problem"

"No Santana stay sorry this just caught me by surprise I guess, are you ok with the couch? I could ask Rachel if she doesn't mind sharing if it's not"

"The couch is more than fine Kurt thanks, I've slept on far worse during the last 5 years and speaking of Berry where is she?"

"Oh she's at the dinner that all 3 of us work at, she'll be getting off soon though, if you're hungry we could go down there and wait for her to finish her shift she'll be pleased to see you safe " I agreed after mentally figuring out when it was that I last eat something, I put my duffel behind the couch outta the way while the boys waited at the door, a quick elevator ride down to the lobby and we were on our way.

Lady Hummel and The Warbler entangled their hands pretty much as soon as we got out on the street, talking back and forth about something or other, I just left them to it remembering a time where I couldn't stand to be in the same room as Hummel let alone Berry but after the shit that went down Senior year, when I knew that I was joining the marines, I made time before left to talk to both Rachel and Kurt to apologise for the way I had been, they both accepted, I even told them where I was going I hadn't told anyone apart from my parents, but with Lady Hummel knowing Glee Club would all know the next day, I couldn't face telling Q and Brit face to face to I was quite happy to let Kurt and his big gossip mouth to do it for me. The diner wasn't far from the loft but I had a few people nod their head towards me or they actually stopped me to say thank you for what I do, 1 old lady actually hugged me, you shoulda seen the grin on Lady Hummel's face wanting to burst out laughing luckily for him he didn't. So when Kurt opened the door, I was relieved I took a quick look around through the window I spotted Berry straight away with her back to the door, speaking with a blonde that had the same uniform on as Berry. I nodded a thank you to Kurt as he had waited for me before closing the door, I whispered to him as I past that I was going to go over to Rachel, he smiled and walked over to Blaine who was sat in a corner table looking over the menu. As I make my way to the 2 waitresses I notice the blonde is checking me out when her gaze comes back to my face I smirk and she blushes but holds my gaze, Berry doesn't even notice that the blondes attention has moved from her, when I'm close enough I pull the dwarf to me and hug her from behind and before she can scream or something because I know Berry, I move my mouth to her ear and say "Is there a chance that I could maybe get a cup of decent coffee around here" Now she does scream

"SANTANA" she spins around and jumps at me throwing her arms around my neck, I'm almost certain that if we had been back at the loft she would have wrapped her legs around my waist as well. I laugh and wrap my arms around her waist again and squeeze her slightly "hey Rach" as I hold her I glance up and notice the blonde looking at us, a quick glance around the diner and the few patrons they have in are all looking at us. Rachel looks up and smiles, thank god I'm holding her because I think my legs turned to mush as I notice the happiness in her eyes but that quickly turns to worry . oh I didn't tell you? I kinda developed a big crush on the little diva while I was away she wrote to me often telling me things she felt she couldn't tell anyone else

"Santana how did you know I was here, and why are you here? You're not supposed to be here for another few months, are you hurt? Where are you hurt? Do you need me to go get something for you?" I just stood there stunned I had forgotten what Rachel was like it seemed normally I would cut her off after her 1st question. "Rachel stop" I grabbed her hands and made her look at me "you have to pause between questions if you're expecting and answer" I smiled at her " Firstly I knew you were here because I came in with Lady Lips and The young Burt Reynolds over there" I gestured to the 2 of them failing to try and seem completely interested in the menu, I laughed and turned back to her "2nd I'm here because I have a few weeks leave and thought I'd come and see my favourite Broadway twins," she huffs at the nickname for her and Kurt "I got my leave early and no I'm not hurt and I don't need anything other than a very nice waitress going to give me a coffee and possibly a tuna Panini?" She smiled and went to answer but Blondie got in there 1st "Its ok Rach I'll get it, you can go your shift is almost over anyway" Rachel turned to her "Really thanks Dani I'll make it up to you and I'll owe you 1" Dani just shrugged and shushed us away while throwing a grin a me, I know that look when I see it, maybe because my feelings for Rach will never go anywhere maybe if this Dani is single we could some fun.