A/N: Hey lovely people of ! This is my 6th story here on Fanfiction! If you've read my stories before, you know that I've written Brittana and Quinntana, well... now I have to write some Dantana right? I really don't want this story to dwindle down and die, so I have already written a good large chunk of it, and I will be posting a chapter probably every time I finish a new one (finish 7th, post 2nd if you get the idea).

Just some things I would like to point out right quick! This story starts off canon, and as far as events that happened in the past and such, it is a canon story. However, aside from a few scenes that obviously come from the show, it doesn't actually follow along with the show (make sense?)

Also another important note... Finn is not in this story directly. It hurt too much to think about writing him in alive, and even more to make him actually die in the story. Therefore, he will not be mentioned by name. There is a possibility that I will mention an event in which he was involved, and maybe you'll easily tell who he is in the event, but his name specifically will not be mentioned.

Holy crap I'm sorry for this ^

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Glee!

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Dani's eyes flicked across the diner again, locking on the gorgeous girl. She'd caught the other girl looking at her just as much as Dani had been looking at her. The difference was that the Latina across the diner was shy, Dani could tell. Of course, she was really loud when she was talking to that girl Rachel, but at least Dani could tell that she was straight.

The Latina, whose name was Santana as Dani had learned, looked up and caught Dani looking at her. The blonde gave her a wink, and Santana looked away shyly. Sighing, the blonde smiled and went back to putting the ketchup into the bottles.

Then, surprising Dani, Santana joined her. Dani's eyes flickered up to the Latina's beautiful face. And then Santana spoke, "I dig your name. Do you think your parents knew you were going to grow up to be a lesbian, giving you a boy's name?"

Dani was intrigued by this girl. "I'm not a lesbian."

Santana's eyes widened with embarrassment. "Oh uh, you just, uh, wear so much eyeliner. I don't—"

Dani smiled, "I'm totally kidding! I love lady parts!" Santana looked relieved. "Dani is short for Danielle. And no, I don't think they knew. My parents are actually kind of D-bags. They caught me making out with a girl in the basement and all hell broke loose. I grabbed my guitar and never looked back. What about you?"

"My parents were pretty cool. Grandma not so much. I had a girlfriend. She was bi."

Dani nodded. "Any chance of you guys getting back together?"

"I love her, but um that's over."

Dani propped her chin on her hand and smiled slightly. "I mean it's probably for the best." Smiling a little more, she continued, "I think you need a... 100% Sapphic goddess..."

Santana, who looked panicked but not necessarily in a bad way, took a moment to say anything. "Um... I think I'm gonna go get the salt... salt sh-shakers." As she stood up, she mumbled, "shakers."

Dani smirked, proud of herself. Santana didn't look the shy kind of girl, but around Dani, she was. The blonde smiled to herself, knowing that she was doing this right.

She saw Santana talking to Rachel in a hushed voice. Santana looked absolutely panicked, while Rachel seemed to be teasing her or something. Santana looked back at her, and Dani gave her a playful wave. Dani smirked as Santana swung her head to look back at Rachel and gestured to her boobs for whatever reason.

"You're scared! I've never seen you scared before! It's so cute!" Rachel squealed, making Dani bite her lip to hold back a smile. Santana hushed the shorter girl up with more stern, inaudible words. She continued to fill the ketchup bottles, wondering when her next conversation with the Latina would happen.

For the next few hours, Dani could not keep her eyes off of Santana, and she caught the Latina looking at her a few times too, so she didn't feel too bad. But it wasn't until the next morning at the end of the "graveyard shift" that Dani got to talk to her again.

"Hot off the presses? What does that mean?" Dani heard Santana ask Rachel as she sat on the small stage against the curtain and watched Santana's back.

"I'm over my fear of rejection," Rachel announced, "and I am no longer afraid of failing! I'm auditioning for everything that I am remotely right for!"

She proceeded to tell Santana about the parts she could play, but Dani got lost in staring at the Latina, and then her eyes flickered over to the window where she was waiting for the sun to come up and fill the empty, dark diner with a sensational light. She wondered what it would be like to watch it come up with Santana.

"Where do you think you're going? You still have ten minutes and two dozen sugar caddies to caddy," Santana snapped at Rachel, who was grabbing her things. Dani looked back over to them.

Rachel leaned closer to Santana to whisper something, but due to the empty diner, Dani managed to hear it. "See, I thought that was something that you and Dani could do alone." She nodded with a smirk.

Santana exclaimed, "Okay, no, come on. You are not playing Yente the lesbian matchmaker!"

Rachel, using a New York accent, muttered, "I'm so tired, I have to get home!"

Santana was still protesting, "No you're not, I've been here all day—"

And then Dani spoke up as Rachel walked towards the exit. "Bye Rachel, see you tomorrow!" She was beaming, Rachel was amazing. Dani was dying to talk to Santana again.

Rachel looked back at her with a knowing grin, "Goodbye Dani!"

Santana looked suddenly very vulnerable and she narrowed her eyes before stepping closer to the stage. "Aren't you heading out too?"

Dani shook her head. "No, not yet. I like to watch the sun rise over that building." She pointed out the window. "I just love how the diner goes from being quiet and dark, to suddenly just... glowing." She was smiling, as Santana had moved closer to her. Santana smiled.

"I've never seen it."

"Well stick around, we'll watch it together!" Dani suggested, biting her bottom lip to hold back her huge smile.

"Okay..." Santana agreed, sitting on the stage. They sat there for a while, quiet, watching the window. Well, Dani was watching Santana. Finally, she decided to play little something on her guitar. Santana looked at her, surprised, as she started playing.

They sang a bit, giving each other cutesy, flirtatious smiles, before Dani gave her a sly smile. "Walk me home?"

They left the diner in silence, walking side by side down the sidewalk. Neither of them said anything until Dani stopped in front of an apartment building.

"Well, this is where I get off."

"I guess that's goodbye?" Santana asked, looking disappointed.

Dani hesitated, before smiling a little bit. "For now." She leaned towards the Latina and gave her a small kiss on the lips. Dani smiled sweetly and added a, "See you around", before heading into her apartment.

She was in a reverie as she entered her apartment and fell onto the small couch in the small room. She'd never felt so immediately attracted to someone, and she had a weird feeling that Santana felt the same way.

She took out her phone and sighed, realizing that she didn't have Santana's number. But suddenly, an alarm when off on her phone. Confused, she read the message on it. Santana really likes you. –Rachel. It was followed by a cell phone number, but Dani didn't know if it was Rachel's or Santana's.

Another alarm went off, labeled That's my number ;)

Rachel must've gotten into her phone when it was sitting with her stuff in the diner. Whatever, she was fine with it, Rachel would have Santana's number. She saved the contact and then drafted a text.

To Rachel- Hey, it's Dani! Thanks for the info ;)

It was only a matter of seconds until Rachel responded.

From Rachel- You have Santana's number?

To Rachel- Nope.

From Rachel- Poor you ;)

Another text came through immediately with a number that Dani had to assume was Santana's. Biting her lip, she saved it as a contact and drafted another text.

To Santana- You sound like an angel when you sing. Just thought I'd let you know. (;

From Santana- Who is this?

Dani smirked and bit her lip, bringing her knees up and folding them under her on the couch.

To Santana- Why doncha take a guess?

There wasn't an answer in the next few minutes, so Dani drafted another text.

To Santana- Do you think your parents knew you were going to grow up to be a lesbian, giving you the name of a famous guy musician? ;)

From Santana- Oh, hey Dani.

To Santana- Aw you don't sound excited to hear from me ): Should I be hurt?

From Santana- Haha, no, sorry. How'd you get my number?

To Santana- A little birdie let it slip.. (:

From Santana- Damn Rachel.

Dani chuckled at her phone.

To Santana- Hahaha :D How'd you meet Rachel, anyway?

Dani really wanted to get to know this girl, because the sooner she got to know her, the sooner their relationship could evolve. Dani hadn't ever had a long term girlfriend before, or really any sort of relationship, and she'd never felt this good from simply texting someone before.

From Santana- High School. She and I weren't always so close though.

To Santana- Tell me about it (:

From Santana- I don't want to bore you with details lol.

To Santana- Aw come on! :P

From Santana- She used to be extremely annoying and even more conceited than she is right now, and I used to hate her, even though we were in Glee Club together. Then eventually in senior year we sang a duet and rocked it and we've gotten closer since then. Not to mention the fact that she and Kurt let me live with them here in NY.

To Santana- Who's Kurt?

From Santana- Our friend, also from high school. He is an intern at and goes to NYADA with Rachel.

To Santana- Why didn't you apply for NYADA?

From Santana- Well... I initially planned to stay in Lima well because my girlfriend at the time wasn't going to graduate, but she got me a cheerleading scholarship from Louisville. I started school but then I dropped out and headed here, and by then me and my gf had already broken up

To Santana- Interesting. (:

From Santana- Why I don't get any dirty drama from you? ;)

To Santana- Oh why, are you having dirty thoughts about me?

Dani knew what Santana had meant, but the opportunity had been right there, and she had to take it. She was holding back a laugh as she waited for the reply.

From Santana- That's not what I meant!

To Santana- Okay, well you didn't deny the dirty thoughts.

From Santana- Well, you can't blame a girl for her thoughts...

Dani gasped slightly and felt her skin heat up a bit. How could she get turned on from a text message? "Geez," she muttered.

To Santana- I don't blame you. I mean, I'm kind of hot so it's not surprising.

From Santana- Kind of?

To Santana- You can tell me how hot you think I am, if you'd like. ;)

From Santana- ._.

To Santana- Do you work tonight?

From Santana- No... do you?

To Santana- Nope! Wanna hang out later?

From Santana- Kurt and Rachel and I were supposed to be hanging out tonight at our place.

To Santana- I can crash the party =D

There wasn't an answer for a few minutes, so Dani guessed that Santana was asking Rachel and Kurt if they were cool with it. The blonde was hoping and hoping that they wouldn't mind, because if she had to wait until work on Monday to see that Latina again...

From Santana- That works. (:

To Santana- Yay I can't wait!

She proceeded to get the group's address and then she spent an hour digging through her closet to find something nice to wear. Once she decided that she didn't have anything good, she decided that she would go shopping. Honestly, she didn't clothes shop much. She was living paycheck by paycheck, and she obviously her parents didn't help her with anything. But she decided that this was one of the special occasions where she could spend a little bit of money.

She went out around the city a bit, buying some new jeans and a new blouse before deciding that she didn't really want to spend anymore money and she headed back to her apartment to find something to do to entertain herself until she could go over to Santana's place.

You like? Tell me what you think of it through a review, or shoot me a PM :) Just another note, obviously I started from the first time Santana and Dani met, but like I said, this doesn't follow along with the story directly (i.e., there will be no band formed and direct scenes after episode 5x02 will not be written)

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