AN: This is the Dantana and Little Rachel story I promised you. Hope you enjoy, Read and Review :)

Have you ever felt forgotten? And not important? Have you ever been ignored by the person who was suppose to provide you with adequate care, and with love. But won't even provide you with food? Do they let you get teased everyday for wearing the same dirty clothes, doesn't let you take a bath because it will waste water so you smell? If your answer is no to everyone of those questions, then you don't know what it feels like to be neglected.

Rachel does. Rachel was five years old, she was only three when she lost her mother in a car accident. Her mother was a famous broadway star, but to her she was just her mother. She missed her mother deeply, and her father did too. Which was why he acted the way he did and did the things that he did.

He got drunk, he slept on the couch all day. He never asked her how she was, all he did was yell at her so Rachel spent most time on her own. Stealing food off the street just to live. It was New York anyway, there was plenty of waste around. Sometimes Rachel would have to sneak into a shop, at only five years of age she had learnt things kids her age - or anybody legally, should have. But because she was small, even smaller for the average height of a five year old, she pretty much got away with it.

But one day, when she was digging through a trashcan. These group of girls came over to her. There was one ginger haired girl in the middle. And two blonds either side of her. They were all smirking at her and then the ginger one sneered "Aw, look who it is, it's the hobbit that eats from the trashcan" they all laughed but Rachel ignored them, concentrating on finding something she could eat "You act like an animal and you smell like one" she cringed "It should be illegal to walk around smelling like that, go bathe in a puddle or something, you could fit in it" she sneered.

And that's what gave Rachel the idea. She spent the next few days finding hidden puddles behind corners, she splashed the rain water on her face and then carefully took off her clothes and washed her body. She didn't know how to do it, and she probably ended up smelling worse then she already did. She quickly changed back into her clothes when she heard voices and then stayed hidden behind the wall.

"Okay, we have fifty sugar cakes, forty chocolate muffins and blueberry, twenty sponge cakes and sixty doughnuts, this diner is turning into a bakery!"

"We should so do that San, but we had to have some kind of dessert in there, have you got the rest of the food inside already?" Rachel couldn't help but melt a little at the thought of them sugar cakes, she had never had one of those before, well she had, but they were always half eaten when she got her hands on one. The only place she hadn't stole from was the diner because you could never get away with anything there.

"Put them all on the stands, then people can just pick one up and take them to the till"

Rachel felt herself smiling. Suddenly she didn't feel as cold anymore. She heard the two girls walk inside and a van drive away. When she was sure the cost was clear she sneaked out from behind the wall and followed after the two girls dressed in red and white. There was one with black hair and one with brown. But Rachel couldn't tell much about them from the back. All she knew was that the black haired girl was probably Latina.

They walked into the diner and Rachel knew she had to wait. So she waited outside a window as she watched the two girls go into the back, into the kitchen. As they were unpacking and ready to stand everything up, Rachel watched the people in there, making sure none of them were too close to her route. She did not want to get caught. Because she really wanted something to eat right now.

After waiting there for what felt like ten minutes, the two girls who looked around nineteen twenty to Rachel walked back out and started to put out all of the desserts. Rachel licked her lips when she saw the sugar cakes, and then the girls went back to working. The tanned one picked up a notepad and started taking people's orders while the other one sat behind the till. The Latina came close to the window so Rachel quickly turned away and when two men were walking into the diner, she followed behind them. They could pass as her two gay dads, as this was the twenty first century after all.

The two men didn't notice her, but she stayed close enough for it to look like they were her fathers. She tried hiding half her body behind them as they walked towards the counter, a little away from the dessert stands. Slowly, Rachel checked that no one was watching and went over to the stands. She stared at them, pretending to think about her choice before she looked around again and grabbed one. She then looked around again, before stuffing it into her pocket and attempting to walk out as fast as she could.

"Excuse me, you have to pay for that"

Rachel then broke into a run. Her father sometimes got angry with her, so the fear that came over her body when the one with black hair spun around and grabbed her by the waist made her scream and cry "No! No! I didn't do anything! Let me go! Please I didn't do anything!" she kicked her legs as the older Latina girl carried her back over and sat her down on the counter. Everyone in the diner stopped to watch and see what was happening.

Rachel looked through her tears at the name tag on the girl's uniform "I'm sorry Santana, I'll give it back to you, and you can have all my other food as well if you want!" she begged. Santana stepped back and studied the little girl, she thought this would be part of a plan, her parents getting her to come steal some food and then pretend to be sorry about it to get away with it. But now it looked like she was really afraid. The little girl was covered in mud and dirty water and her clothes were rough and dirty and were too loose on her little body.

"Dani, take her into the back" Santana decided. Dani nodded as she came over to pick Rachel up. But Rachel whimpered and moved back "I'm not going to hurt you" Dani assured her. Rachel still didn't look like she trusted her "Please sweetie, we can get you cleaned up if you like" Dani offered.

Rachel shook her head and whimpered again trying to slide off the counter.

"Wait! We just want to talk to you"

Rachel looked like she was going to cry again so Santana sighed as she watched Rachel break into a run and run past her out of the doors. Dani gasped "Wait San, you can't let her go!" Dani said. Santana shrugged and looked back at her girlfriend "She might come back"