It had taken Santana the whole walk home from the diner to build up enough courage to ask the beautiful blonde beside her in for a coffee. The instant relief she felt when Dani's face lit up with the smile that turned Santana into a pile of goo gave her enough courage to reach forward and lock their hands together.

Twenty minutes later the two women were snuggled together on Santana's couch replaying the events of their shift and laughing about the useless attempts by guys to hit on them. As time went on the women found them edging closer and closer until their faces were inches apart, it had been three weeks since their little peck outside of Dani's apartment and Santana had wanted nothing more since then to have her lips against Dani's again. As Santana was about to move in for the kill and connect their lips together a shrill noise echoed around the apartment making both women jump apart in shock.

"Who the hell sets the fire alarm off at 7:30am" Santana screamed as she rushed around grabbing hers and Dani's shoes as well as her phone.

Luckily for Santana, Rachael was at home for the weekend so she wouldn't have to deal with the diva complaining the whole day about how someone had ruined her morning routine again. Dani giggled to herself as she was ushered out of the apartment and into the stairwell by a very flustered Santana. As they were walking down towards the bottom floor they spotted a women struggling with three children to get them dressed into something warm while trying to calm the youngest one down. Before Dani had even had a moment to think, Santana had made a dash for the women helping dress two of the children before picking them both up and shouting at the woman and Dani that she would meet them outside. Dani stayed behind to help with the youngest child before they made the final descent down into the cold winter morning.

It took Dani five minutes to find Santana again who was perched behind a fire truck attempting to keep her and the two children she had rescued from the building calm. As soon as Santana's eyes locked with Dani's a huge wave of relief over flowed her body and she was at peace again. Once the two women had made sure the children had found their mother again Dani pulled Santana closer to her to share their body heat.

"My hero" Dani whispered before pulling Santana down for a very heated kiss unlike their first. Both women moaned at the contact that signalled the end of their long drawn out game.

When the need for air was too great Santana pulled away with a whimper and as she looked into Dani's warm brown eyes she knew that she would have waited a thousand years for a kiss like that.