You haven't seen the last of me Yet

by GypsySoul05

Set 8 years after high school, Lopez finds herself fleeing Miami, her job her life and going back home to pick up the pieces to start again. Along the way she finds that something didn't stay the same, and that somethings never change. And then there is the shock of realizing that she may not have ever known a certain Diva...but she wants too. Rachel Berry isn't who we remember.

1. Chapter 1

Chapter One

Santana sighed in frustration. How was she back in Lima, OH? She had asked herself numerous times on the drive from Miami to her hometown. Worse it was with her tail between her legs. She had just been fired from her prestigious law firm after Snix had reared her head. This time it truly wasn't her fault. She had tried so hard to keep her inner demons to herself...but in the end the truth revealed the end result was she was heading back home to lick her wounds and to start over. If she was being honest though she was mortified to go home again she was excited to be back where she first started to be.

She cranked the radio a little bit louder and decided to drive straight through the last 10 hours left. Remembering life in Lima, OH. the glory days, the fun, the conquests….oh the joys of being young. She sang along with the song…"I pity the fool that falls in love with you!" Oh also she got dumped by her 4 month girlfriend when said girlfriend got a peek at that sobbing Snix version of Santana. She didn't miss Dani, but she didn't like being dumped...who did?

"And although there's pain in my chest

I still wish you the best with a

Fuck you!

Oo, oo, ooo"

Santana pulled into her parents drive exhausted, it was early 3 am early. She smirked at the home that she had left 8 years ago. Not much had changed. It was still the matching beige color as all the other homes in the gated community. All the homes had the same look and style...cut out from the same cookie cutter builder 40 plus years ago. But it was still home. She could see the Fabray's prestigious lion like statue that marked their drive. The Pierces' large grinning cat mailbox that was 7 houses down. Nothing really seemed to have changed. Not enough that stuck out drastically. Sure Santana had come home over the years for holidays and mini vacations and her Abuela's funeral. But still she had expected something to be different since her entire world had been turned upside down. But the world in Lima, Oh just kept spinning...even without her revolving it. It was heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. Guess she still had more growing up to do. She let herself into the front door, smiled when her mother's perfume greeted her, just floating in the air as she stepped inside. Her father's forgotten lab coat hanging from the stair banister. Her mother keys in the bowl that sat on the hall table. A pair of cleats of her youngest brother were haphazardly sitting on a stair half way up the stairway. She was home. It was home, not everything had to change.

Santana was sleeping in her old bedroom that had been converted into a guest room several years ago, when she felt her mother climb into the bed, snuggling into her and whisper "I love you baby girl. I'm glad you're home."

"Hola Mama, I'm glad to be home." she said barely holding back her tears. She had held it all together until she had heard her mother's voice.

"It will all be okay. One door closes another one will open." she promised smoothing her daughter's hair from her face. "You will pick yourself. You're not done yet." she promised and that was it. Santana fell apart, holding onto her mother as she sobbed. She sobbed for the loss of who she use to be, who she turned out to be, who she was never going to be.