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So this is my final chapter for this story, I hope you enjoy it, tell me what you all think of it. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, followed and like the story, you keep me writing. Even though I'm not the best and have a lot to learn, I feel honoured that everyone reads my stories, so a big thank you to everyone XxX
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Santana looked at the face staring back at her. The woman looking back was pale, nervous and timid looking, nothing like the person she used to be in High school. She sighed and turned on the tap at the sink, tearing her eyes away from her reflection in the bathroom mirror.
She splashed her face with some cold water, relishing in the chill it gave her. She was Santana motherfucking Lopez, badass bitch at McKinley High school and now one of the most feared lawyers to ever grace the court room, so why was it so hard to ask a simple yes or no question?
Because you don't want to be rejected by the one person that you truly love with all your heart.
Santana Lopez was going to ask Brittany Peirce, her girlfriend of nearly 3 years to marry her. Except that the simple question of 'will you marry me' kept getting stuck in her throat. Over the last 5 or so months that Santana had had the ring, there had been multiple chances for her to propose. After taking some time off and heading off on holiday to Rome with Brittany, the thoughts of marriage had consumed her and when she got home she immediately went and bought the most perfectist ring ever made. She had taken Brittany out to fancy dinners or to romantic places like at the top of a cliff looking over the beach watching the sunset romantic, but every time she felt the moment was right the words just didn't want to be released from her mouth and she was left many a time looking like a fool with Brittany concerned about her sanity.
But Christmas was fast approaching and Santana wanted to bring in the New Year with a promise of marriage so it had to be done before then. In all honesty Santana couldn't wait to Brittany's wife; sure they had fights like any normal couple, well a mostly normal couple since most of their fight revolved around animals, mainly around a small cat called Fish that had been terrorising her relationship with her blonde. But like most normal couples they got through the hard times and had fantastic make up sex.
A knock on the door brought Santana back to reality, she turned off the tap and shouting a quick "Yeah" before reaching for a towel to dry off the remaining water on her face.
"San can I ask you a question?" her girlfriend's voice floated through the door from their bedroom.
"Yeah babe just give one second and I'll be out." She said her voice muffled by the towel she had buried her face in.
When Santana entered the bedroom she saw Brittany lying on her back on the bed staring at the ceiling.
"So what do you want to ask me" Santana asked as she plopped down on the bed beside Brittany and lay on her side facing the blonde.
"Well, see...emm I know you don't like animals much but there's this puppy at work and she's sick and a stray so she doesn't have a home and with the vet's being closed to the public over the holidays I was wondering if I could take her home to look after her?"
"Why is the vet's closed? Don't you have someone that's on call to feed the animals or something?" Santana said as she propped herself up on her elbow, resting her head in her hand.
"We'll it's just that with the building getting the new extension we've had to move the animals to the nearest vet's for the time being but I want to keep an eye on the puppy just to make sure it doesn't get any worse and...I kinda got attached to it." She said sheepishly with a shrug.
Santana gave Brittany a thoughtful look like she was considering the option when she knew that the answer was gonna be yes. Despite what Brittany said about her not liking animals she did warm up to them eventually. Like with fish for example, she and the cat had come to some sort of silent agreement and the cat had stopped trying to attack her and even let her pet him now and again and Santana had stopped trying to kick him down the stairs or lock him in the cupboards.
"I just wanted to ask you cause of the problems fish caused between us and I just didn't want to take the puppy home and you not be ok with it, I could probably get one of the nurses to take it home though" Brittany said, she didn't want to cause any more problems by having another animal in the house.
"No you can take it home, it's better having you look after it rather than have some nurse who doesn't know what she's doing" Santana smiled as the Brittany quickly pulled her in to a kiss in thanks.
One of the things that Santana loved most about Brittany was her big heart. She wanted to help anyone and everything as much as she could and it warmed Santana that Brittany had thought about her feelings before taking the puppy since the last time Brittany brought an animal home Santana had gotten upset that it was interfering with her relationship with the blonde and causing her physical pain.
"Really? Thank you, I promise it's just temporary and I'll take it back after New Year's." Brittany said in between kisses and Santana grinned in to the kisses.
The next day Brittany brought home a small bundle of fur wrapped in a blanket and Santana had to admit that I was cute but she thought fish was cute to start with and then he turned in to the exorcist of cats, so Santana was a bit weary around the puppy just in case it decided to turn in to a vicious demon too.
"Isn't she just sooo cute...her names Holly 'because you know it's the holidays" gushed Brittany as she held the blanket against her chest swaying with it gently.
"Yeah Britt she's a cutie" Said Santana as she continued to flick through the channels from her space on the couch. "So what's actually wrong with her?"
"She wasn't keeping down the milk formula we were giving her...she was abandoned. My guess is she's the runt of the pack and got left behind or she was abandoned by the owner because they couldn't sell her, I don't know what's more sad." Brittany said as she huddled the puppy closer to her with a sad pout on her face.
Brittany looked over at Santana and placed the puppy in between them. She noticed the tension in her girlfriend's posture, her stiff shoulders and neck and straight back. "Baby are you ok? You seem a little tense"
Santana tensed even more, which Brittany thought was impossible, and took a big gulp of wine that was in her other hand. "Yeah I'm fine Britt, just work and stuff...I'm gonna go and take a shower" and with that Santana finished off the last of her wine and headed in to their bedroom before Brittany could get a word in and was left wandering what she had done wrong.
Santana all but ran in to the ensuite bathroom that adjoined their bedroom and locked the door. She put the shower on and started to undress. The reason that she was so tense was that she had spoken to Quinn on the phone when she had gotten home to talk through some proposal ideas. All through the conversation Quinn had ripped apart her proposal ideas "You can't take a hot air balloon ride, its winter and you're afraid of heights and I don't think she'll accept if you spew on her." "The big screen at a basketball game? You hate sports and isn't that a bit tacky for you?" "No you can't gatecrash Rachel's musical to propose to her on stage you'll get arrested and Rachel will be pissed and I don't need that stress...I love her but Urgh I don't need that type of shit, no thank you"
So Santana had ended the conversation with more stress than she needed. Quinn had mentioned a small intimate dinner at the house with candles and nice music and that seemed like an option Santana could manage and she had arranged for Quinn to come over to help set up minus Rachel "That dwarf is not getting in to my house Q, I don't think I could afford to get it fumigated after she had dropped her fleas everywhere", which then led to even more stress because she was actually gonna do it, she was actually gonna propose to Brittany.
Santana took her time in the shower and when she got out she found Brittany lying on their bed dressed in her pyjamas, a pair of short shorts and a tank top. Santana soon followed with her own version of just boy briefs and a camisole.
Santana threw herself on top of the bed and rolled over so she lay on her stomach. She snuggled her face in to the pillow with a groan. Beside her she felt Brittany move and felt the bed dip next to her hip and soon after Brittany's weight had settled over her.
"How are you feeling now?"Brittany asked as she started to massage Santana's shoulder eliciting a muffled groan from the Latina below her. "Is there anything I can to do make you feel better?"
*How about you propose to me* Santana thought as she shook her head no, enjoying Brittany's hands as they massaged her neck, shoulders and back.
"You know that you can tell me anything San even if I might not understand it cause it's all lawyerly and stuff but sometimes just talking about it helps" Brittany said as she dropped a kiss to the Latinas neck.
Santana tensed again, she did not want to talk about this with Brittany, it would become the least romantic proposal of all history because she would panic and probably end up screaming it at her or something, so she shook her head no again.
Santana managed to twist so she was on her back looking up at Brittany. "Britt it's nothing, don't worry ill figure it out"
Brittany pouted "But I don't like seeing you like this...is it something I did? Did I do something to make you upset" She knew Santana and sometimes getting Santana to talk about her feelings was like pulling teeth so it was best to be direct with her.
"NO! God no Britt you haven't done anything wrong...it's my own fault I'm putting the pressure and stress on myself" Santana said as she grabbed Brittany's hands rubbing her thumbs over the knuckles pulling them to her lips she gave them a small kiss.
"But why" Santana's eyes widened at the question and she quickly thought of a decent answer
"Because...I'm Trying...for Partner at work...yeah that's why, it's pretty stiff competition" Santana grinned at the amazing save and it wasn't a complete lie either she had submitted her name to be partner at her firm but she was just a junior associate and had no hoping hell of getting it.
"Oh well that's good but you shouldn't be stressing over something like that...that's silly" Brittany smiled and dropped another kiss on Santana's lips.
"It's not silly Britt this would be a really good thing for us" Santana frowned up at the blonde who just smiled back.
"Of course it's silly, you're worrying about something that you don't need to. Of course you'll get partner you're one of the best lawyers in the country and I've watched law and order heaps of times to know it's true"
Santana smiled at the blondes words and shook her head if only that were the thing she was worrying about then she might feel better.
"You still look worried how about I fix that right now, help relieve some of that tension" Brittany mumbled as she started to kiss down Santana's neck and trailed her hand down her stomach and past the waist band of her shorts making Santana arch her back off the bed with a moan. Santana could only nod and moan.
The days following went past in a blur for Santana as she started to prep for her romantic dinner with Brittany. She knew the blonde would be home late on the night she planned the dinner since she was helping move the animals to the nearest vets since their clinic was getting redone. So when the day finally arrived, the night of the dinner, Santana hauled Quinn over to her place so they both could begin to get the place ready.
With the food cooking in the oven and Quinn finishing setting the table Santana breathed a sigh of relief now all that was left was for Quinn to get the fuck outta there so she could start sweeping Brittany off her feet. However just when Santana was about to kick Quinn out, the jingling of keys and the turning of the lock alerted the women to an intruder.
"Shit she's home early" Santana said quickly pushing Quinn in to the spare bed room and slamming the door knowing that Brittany was just about to enter the house and would most likely ask Quinn to stay if she saw her, which was not happening.
"Baby Hi" Santana greeted as she literally pulled Brittany through the door and slammed the door shut behind them.
"Umm Hi what's going on?" Brittany asked as she was led through to the living room where Santana grabbed her work stuff and chucked it behind the couch. She gasped as she saw the dimly lit dining area which was lit up with so many flickering candles that it could be called a fire hazard. "W...Why? What's all this for?" She stuttered as she took in Santana's fancy appearance with a glazed look of arousal and approval.
"Nothing Britt-Britt just wanted to have a nice romantic meal with my gorgeous girlfriend that's all because I know you're busy helping out at work and now you have the puppy to look after." Santana said quickly casting a nervous look at the wall that separated the living room and the spare bedroom Quinn was hiding in.
Santana lead Brittany in to the dining area and pulled out a seat for Brittany before running back in to the kitchen to plate up the food and get the most important part of the meal ready, the champagne.
Santana had decided to put the ring in the champagne flute, cheesy sure but whatever, Santana didn't care as long as she could get the question out and that Brittany said yes. Santana re entered the dining room with the food and place them down beside Brittany. She poured them both a small glass of wine so they had something to drink while eating, the champagne would come later. The conversation flowed easily while both women ate despite Santana's nervous demeanour, which Brittany never mentioned anything about.
Quinn lay down on the bed in the spare room; if she was going to get stuck in here the she might as well make herself comfortable. She rolled her eyes at Santana's greeting to Brittany and the lame excuse she had given for their romantic dinner. The Latina was soo obvious she was surprised that Brittany didn't see what was going on.
Looking to her side she noticed a small bundle of blankets and could help the "Aww" that escaped her when she noticed the little puppy encased in the blankets. Slapping her hand to her mouth she listened to make sure that she wasn't heard in the room next door. Breathing a sigh of relief that she wasn't heard she went back to admiring the puppy in the blanket. She remembered Santana mentioning something to her about another demon that was going to be stealing Brittany and trying to kill her in the process, she didn't realise that the demon would be so cute. It wasn't long before Quinn noticed that there was another occupant in the room. She scowled when she realised who it was.
Fish the cat hopped out of his basket and stretched before jumping up on the bed, making its way over to the bundle of blankets where he knew there was a weird new intruder. The blonde human that he liked had be making noises to the brunette one that he didn't like about a new guest and he was intrigued to see what it was.
Quinn watched as fish made his way over to the bundle and started clawing at the blankets. She quickly and carefully moved him away from the puppy not wanting him to hurt it. Quinn had a love hate relationship with the cat. The love side of the relationship was because she loved all cats in general and the hate side of it was because it had tried to kill Rachel and had caused nothing but problems for her and Rachel when they had looked after it while Santana and Brittany were away on holiday. If Quinn didn't know that Santana hated animals then she would think that Santana had trained fish to terrorise Rachel while they were away. Poor Rachel was still nursing some of the scratches to this day.
"No you leave the puppy alone evil cat" Quinn hissed lowly as she pushed the cat away.
Fish looked up at Quinn and Quinn was certain that it was challenging her to a fight but she held its stare giving it her best HBIC glare that she used so often in high school. After a few minutes Quinn relented, realising that having a stare down with a cat and winning was near impossible.
Sensing his win fish walked back over to the puppy to inspect it but Quinn was not giving up without a fight and she picked him up with the intention of kicking him out of the room and putting him in Santana and Brittany's room. When she quietly opened the door, fish took his chance for his escape and dug his claws in to her hand. Quinn gave a small hiss of pain and let the cat drop to the floor where he sped off in to the living room/dining area where the other women where have their meal.
After finishing their main meal and Santana got up, collected all the dirty dishes and headed back in to the kitchen. She heaved a big sigh as she collected the champagne and the glasses, this was it the moment she grew a pair and asked Brittany to be her wife. She slipped the ring from its hiding place in the kitchen and popped the ring in the bottom of Brittany's glass. After filling up the glasses with an ample amount of champagne, a slightly bigger amount for her so she could settle her nerves, Santana headed back in to the dining room.
Standing in the doorway of the dining room, Santana shot Brittany a nervous smile and stopped to take a steadying breath, she could do this she was Santana Lopez, badass mother fucker from Lima Heights Adjacent. Shooting Brittany one more smile she took a step in to the room only hear a high pitched strangled screech. Something beneath her foot moved and shot away and the next thing Santana knew, she was performing a spectacular nose dive towards the floor that would be worthy of an Olympic medal. When she landed, she felt the glasses in her hands shatter and the liquid seep in to her fancy dress she had worn for the occasion. A tiny blur of fur shot off to the other side of the room and out of her line of site.
Looking to her other side she saw Quinn frozen in a crouched position in the hallway, with wide eyes and mouth open in horror. Brittany's "OMG" came next as careful hands helped pull her up in to a sitting position.
"Baby are you ok what happened...fuck San you're bleeding," Brittany followed the Latinas line of sight finally taking in the other blonde in the hallway. "...Quinn?" What're you doing here?"
Startled back to reality the blonde stuttered the first response she could think of "I...uh...came here because...I emm need emm...coffee...yeah...coffee, that's why" the blonde finished with a nod for her head and folding her arms across her chest.
"Oh, well can you help me get Santana up she tripped over fish...I don't know how he got out of the bedroom he's usually kept in there while we have dinner"
Santana who had moved her glare to the cat that sat a few feet away from her licking the champagne off the floor snapped her head back to the blonde who was entering the room. "Yeah I wonder how he got out" she ground out through clenched teeth. If looks could kill Rachel would be phoning the nearest funeral home for a Quinn sized casket as we speak.
Quinn entered the room and moved to Santana's other side and helped Brittany get Santana to her feet, she knew that with Brittany in the room Santana wouldn't attack or do anything hurtful to her. She flinched slightly when Santana grabbed her hand and looked up in to Santana eyes when she felt something small drop into her palm. She gripped Santana's hand and squeezed gently watching Santana wince and look back down at their joined hands. Blood was steadily dripping from Santana's hand on to Quinn. Quinn quickly looked up to Santana face, knowing that the Latina hated seeing blood of any sort especially if it was coming from her own body. Quinn saw the colour leave Santana face before her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she wasn't quick enough to warn Brittany as the Latina's knees gave way and she fell forward.
Santana woke up with a pounding headache and the smell of alcohol and disinfectant invading her nostrils. Groaning she opened her eyes to a blinding light and shut them again. Counting to ten she slowly opened them and turned her head to the side. A smile crossed her face at see her girlfriend in the chair beside her bed. Girlfriend, fuck that meant she didn't ask the question, the events of the proposal or lack of proposal flashed across her mind. She groaned, the universe was against her.
Santana's final groan alerted Brittany to her girlfriends consciousness and she was quickly by her side "San, baby thank god, you had me worried there, how're you feeling?" Brittany said in a rush as she brushed back the bangs on Santana's forehead.
"Ugh I'm ok...I think, what happened?" Santana asked as she tried to look at the blonde in front of her but her face was swimming in and out of focus.
"You stood on fish and tripped, you cut yourself on glasses you were holding and fainted when you saw the blood. You had to get some stitches in your wrist"
"You're a fucking klutz Lopez" Quinn's voice said around the curtain and seconds later Quinn appeared holding an ice pack to her face.
Santana scowled at Quinn but took some satisfaction in her pain because she was the one that let fish out of the room and had caused all this.
"Q, you ok to look after San while I go check in with the doctor?" Brittany said as she kissed Santana's forehead and got up patting Quinn's shoulder
Quinn nodded and took Brittany's seat next to Santana's bed "What happened to your face?" Santana snickered as she inspected her gauze covered wrist.
"You happened! You head butted me when you fainted. Caught me right in the eye too." Quinn said as she pulled away the ice pack to reveal a swollen black eye "Don't know how I'm gonna explain this to Rachel, she'll go ape shit...sorry about your proposal though, I mean it could've been worse she could've like swallowed the ring or something"
Santana quickly shot a panicked look at Quinn "Shit the ring did you get it? She didn't see it did she?"
"No she didn't, you gave it to me before you tried to break my nose and I cleaned off all the blood for you too...no need to thank me" Quinn said as she handed Santana the freshly cleaned ring. And Santana quickly tucked away in to her boob cleavage just as Brittany came back in to view.
"Don't worry Q I wasn't planning on thanking you anytime soon." Santana smiled as Brittany approached. "You owe me big time"
"The doctor said that we can go now but you have to rest for 24 hours because Quinn has a surprisingly hard head and she gave you a concussion" Brittany said as she helped Santana in to a sitting position.
"Gee thanks Britt" muttered Quinn as she slapped the ice pack back on to her eye and winced at the tenderness of it.
Santana looked around the balcony of the fancy restaurant they were in and fiddled with the glass in front of her. This was her second attempt at a proposal this month; the whole intimate dinner at home thing didn't turn out so well and ended up with her getting stitches and nose diving the floor, not one of her finest moment.
"This place is gorgeous San, thanks for bring me here... but you know you don't have to make it up to me for that whole dinner disaster thing" Brittany said as she reached across and held Santana hand that was fiddling with the glass.
Santana had called in the help of Kurt this time, since the prancy smurf knew all the fanciest restaurants in town and had used the favour that Quinn owed her by getting Rachel to book them a private table on the balcony by using her 'celebrity' Broadway status. The plan this time was after dessert, a nicely dressed man would come out playing the violin serenading them both before Santana got down on one knee and asked the question.
So that meant that Santana was on edge for most of the meal and it didn't help that her phone kept going off every 5 minutes. She smiled at Brittany and held on to the hand that was on top of hers. "Please let me treat you, after all I did put you through a small panic attack when I fainted." She said as she flashed Brittany her wrist and the newly healed scar.
Brittany giggled "I didn't know you were afraid of blood...I don't think I'll be asking you to visit me at work anytime soon"
"Yeah probably not the best idea..." Santana blanched and nodded thinking about all the animals that get sliced and diced there. The buzzing of her phone brought her back and she picked up the phone to see who was annoying her, she suspected Kurt or Mercedes since they both liked to gossip and probably wanted a play by play of what was happening "Sorry baby I'll switch it off...it's just...hobbit? Why the fuck is she calling, whatever I'm not answering"
"You don't think it has anything to do with them looking after fish and Holly I know they were a bit reluctant to do it after last time."Brittany asked and Santana shrugged switching off her phone.
"I'm sure it's fine" she said knowing that she had threatened Quinn not to bother her, not even if someone was dying, she could mourn their loss tomorrow when she had a fiancée.
After what seemed like years the dessert plates came and went and Santana sat waiting for the guy to come out with the violin so she could do her thing. A minute past then five and Santana thought she was going to faint again if he didn't show up soon.
Peeking through the gap in the curtains in to the restaurant she saw the violinist guy making his way to the balcony, she turned so she was facing Brittany and smiled...well she tried to smile but she was so nervous it probably looked like she was constipated.
The curtains twitched and Santana breathed in a big breath, it was now or never, the moment was finally here she was gonna do it. The curtains were flung open and Santana was startled by the abrupt arrival of the violinist.
Except it wasn't the violinist she was looking at but a very angry set of brown eyes that belonged to one Miss Rachel Berry, with a hopeless looking Quinn behind her.
"YOU! You and you pack of demon creatures have just destroyed my life!" Rachel all but shouted and Santana flinched since Rachel was right up close to her face. Close enough that she felt spit hit her face with every seething word Rachel spoke and a finger poke savagely in to her cheek with every word.
"Emm I sorry?" Santana said as she looked up at Quinn for some answers but the blonde just shook her head.
"Your pack of rampant animals has just destroyed my entire Barbra Streisand collection, everything's gone!"
"Rachel honey it's not all gone we managed to save some stuff" Quinn said as she tried to pull Rachel away from Santana and the sharp knife that was left on the table to cut the celebratory 'you're engaged' cake.
"No Quinn most of that stuff was first addition things that I've been collection since I was in the womb...and now thanks to her it's all gone" Rachel wailed and threw her at Quinn and collapsed in to her arms sobbing. Quinn stood awkwardly patting her girlfriends back and whispering soothing words to her, rocking her gently from side to side. Quinn looked like she had been through war with scratches and gashes up and down her arms.
"Fucking Jesus Christ Berry haven't you ever heard of Ebay for fuck sake" Santana winced as Brittany kicked her shin under the table but she didn't care. The fucking hobbit just ruined her proposal; she got worked up for nothing again.
"What happened Quinn?" Brittany asked as she frowned at Santana not sure why her girlfriend was acting so rudely to Rachel since she was genuinely upset.
"We're doing up the spare room so we've had to move all the collectors stuff in to the living room and uh fish and Holly decided that the DVD and posters where good chew toys and scratching posts and then they proceeded to fight with one another." Quinn said motioning to her arms and hands.
Brittany sighed and shook her head "Rachel I'm so so sorry about that...I'll pay for everything they destroyed I know it won't replace the stuff but like Santana said you could get the stuff off of Ebay"
Rachel shook her head against Quinn's shoulder and pointed blindly to Santana "I want Santana to apologise since she's obviously trained them to wreck my life"
"What...fuck no, like hell am I doing that...not a fucking chance" Santana said outraged but another kick from Brittany put her in her place. "FINE!...I'm sorry Berry" she mumbled the last bit so it wasn't really audible.
Rachel muttered something in to Quinn's shoulder and Santana raised her eyebrows at Quinn for a translation.
Quinn sighed hating being stuck in middle "She wants you to say it louder"
"Fuck no next she'll be want me to publicly announce it to the whole restaurant" Santana glared at Rachel's back.
The small brunette nodded her head against Quinn should before pulling away and turning to the couple at the table. "That I would deem that an acceptable apology"
"No Berry I was being sarcastic...look I'm sorry ok and I'll pay for everything they destroyed, can you just leave us alone please" Santana sighed tiredly
"Ok that's fine, I'll make a list of all my stuff that was destroyed and send it to you, all I wanted was an apology anyway" Rachel beamed without a hint of tears on her face and skipped out the balcony and in to the restaurant. Quinn gave Santana an apologetic look before sighing and followed Rachel out of the restaurant.
Santana sighed and leaned back in her chair and rubbed her temples. The curtain's moved again and out came their violinist. Santana shook her head "Can we just get the bill please" the violinist gave her a sympathetic smile and nodded before disappearing.
The was December the 25th, Christmas day. The day that Santana wanted to wake up next to her fiancée and have glorious Merry Christmas sex but that sadly wasn't to be. Brittany still remained her girlfriend nothing more. Santana had one more trick up her sleeve; it was her last ditched attempt at make Brittany her fiancée before New Year's. Getting up she picked up the puppy that was cuddled up next to Brittany's feet and headed in to the living room where all the presents were, the Christmas tree standing proudly in the corner hiding most of the presents from view.
She brought out a ribbon and began tying it around the puppy's collar; make it as neat as possible before getting the ring and tying it on to the ribbon. She would present Brittany with the puppy as part of her gift since she actually quite liked the dog and kinda wanted to keep it. Sure there had been a few mishaps since the puppy had joined them at the start of the month, like Santana standing on the puppy's sick with her bare feet or having her expensive, made for court, shoe's chewed to bit's. Overall she did like the puppy and it made Brittany happy so it was worth it, especially if Brittany kept making it up to her every time the puppy did something to her or her stuff, they had found out just how strong the tinsel that they had put up around the house was, when Brittany had tied her to the bed with it after the puppy had chewed off Santana's jacket buttons on her expensive suit.
Hopefully Brittany would see it ring and then Santana would get down on one knee and ask her the all important question that she had wanted to ask her for the last 5 months.
"You my little furry friend are the key to this proposal, so I'm counting on you not to let me down ok? Since I can't trust the humans I like to call friends not to destroy each of my attempts" Santana said as she looked at the puppy and smile slightly when the puppy cocked its head like it understood what Santana was telling it.
Santana thought back to her last proposal attempt just last week when she tried the idea of a moonlight stroll along the beach, then beneath the moonlight she would declare her everlasting love for Brittany and ask her to be hers for eternity, cheesy she knew but that's what happens when you hang around Rachel Berry for too long.
Rachel Berry...She hated that hobbit more and more each day even more so after the restaurant disaster where Santana had to fork over a shit load of cash to help replace all the stuff Fish and Holly destroyed. Sixty bucks for a baby grow with Barbra Streisand face on come on! One, who would buy that and two, who would let their baby be seen it that! Obviously the Berry men did and when Santana had seen it, it looked suspiciously like something she had seen Rachel put on her cat, the poor fuck.
The only thing that bummed Santana was that she originally got the moonlit walk idea from Mercedes who she had been ranting to about Rachel. So it shouldn't of been a surprise when, just as Santana was about to get down on one knee she quickly kissed Brittany, only to hear wolf whistles and cat call. Turning just in time to see Mercedes, Kurt, Blaine, Sam, Tina and Mike, who had been spying and enjoying the show, take down the beach with sparklers and party poppers and what looked like a bag of popcorn in Mercedes's hands. Luckily Santana was able to dispel them before any awkward questions were asked giving away Santana's proposal. To give them credit they did look sorry and the texts on her phone offered some kind of comfort.
So this was Santana's last and only original idea. After sorting out the puppy she headed in to the kitchen to make her woman the best breakfast she would ever eat...well unless it was her she was eating because then that would be counted as the best breakfast/wakeup call anyone could ever get.
After making herself a cup of coffee Santana headed back in to the dining room to wait for Brittany to get up. On the coffee table in the centre of the room Santana noticed a white envelope with her name on it. Picking it up she opened it and was about to read it when she heard growling coming from behind her. Turning she saw Holly advance herself to the edge of the sofa where Fish, who had just entered the room, decided to rub himself up against the couch she as on.
What happened next happened in slow motion for Santana. Holly dove of the couch and on to Fish who was able to jump away and shoot towards the tree and began climbing its branches with Holly hot on his tail. With the added weight of the cat and the collision of the dog at its base, the tree tipped over pulling some of the Christmas lights off the wall along with the many cards, smothering both cat and dog and presents in its many branches and sending pine needles everywhere.
Santana felt tears prick at the eyes at the destruction around her, someone up stairs clearly didn't want her to marry Brittany and Santana was about to give in to the fact that the blonde would never be anything more than her girlfriend.
She caught a flash of blonde as Brittany skidded in to the room in nothing but a tank top and panties.
"What happened here" she asked as she took in the fallen tree, lights, cards and the smashed angel, that Santana had named Brittany, that used to sit at the top of the tree.
Santana's lip trembled as she shook her head and sat down on the couch defeated, shoving the letter and her cup on the table she sat with her head in her hands and quietly sobbed.
She was aware of Brittany moving towards the tree and plucking out the two culprits from the branches. Fish was put on the ground and shooed away from the wreckage he caused, and out of her peripheral vision she saw Brittany freeze and gasp.
"S..Santana...wh...What's th...this?" Brittany stuttered as she gently untied the ring from the puppy's ribbon. She had been so focused on getting the pine needles off the puppy that she nearly choked on her own breath when her fingers bumped against the most beautiful ring she had ever seen on the puppy's collar.
Santana's head shot up and she stared wide eyed at Brittany who was fiddling with ring. She threw herself to her knees on the ground shuffled towards Brittany clasping her hand when she was close enough.
" For the last five months or so I've wanted to ask you the most important question of my life, but everything's just went so so wrong. First with the dinner and then the fancy restaurant and the moonlit walk and now this...I just want you to be my wife please." Santana looked up at Brittany's eyes pleading "I want to wake up every day with you by my side and fall asleep with you cuddled in to me every night, I want to be able to kiss you every day for the rest of your life and I want to spend the rest of my life telling you just how I love you which will take forever because there are no words that would do my love for you justice. Please say yes please..." Santana begged.
Brittany dropped to her knees and put Holly on the table, knocking the letter Santana had placed there off and on to the carpet. Shuffling closer to Santana, Brittany smiled and picked up the letter so she wouldn't rip it as she shuffled forward . She quickly cast her eyes down at the letter to see what it was and felt gasp again.
Santana watched with bated breath as Brittany picked up the letter and looked at it. There was a flash of annoyance as Santana waited for Brittany's answer but she seemed more involved with the paper. "Uh...Britt-Britt I kinda need an answer...I've just laid my heart out on a plate for you...and that papers got your attention more than me."
Brittany's head shot up and she launched she self at Santana "Congratulations baby I knew you could do it"
"Britt...what are you talking about?" Santana asked confused, was that a yes or did Brittany know about her proposals all along?
"You made partner, I knew you could do it" Brittany said gleefully as she waved the letter in Santana's face .
"I made partner? Really?...wow...That's nice but Britt can you just answer my question please...will you be my wife?" Santana said as she took the paper from Brittany's hand and place it next to her before taking Brittany's face in her hands "Please" she finished with a kiss, a kiss that Brittany returned whole heartedly.
"Yes I would love to be your wife Santana" Brittany said around the kiss.
"Really?" Santana mumbled and Brittany nodded.
"I think we should celebrate our engagement and you becoming partner" Brittany said as she pulled away from Santana.
"Yeah? How exactly are we going to do that?" Santana grinned at her fiancée. Fiancée, she could finally call Brittany her fiancée.
"By having all day sex" The glint in Brittany's eye told Santana that she was about to have the best Christmas of her life.
"Hold on...give me the ring" Santana said as she held out her had for the ring, Taking Brittany's left hand she took the ring from Brittany and place the ring on her ring finger, finishing it off with a kiss.
Santana was pulled up to her feet by Brittany and pulled in for another kiss before getting pushed forward "come on I want to have some crazy engagement sex with my fiancée...I'm sure I left some tinsel in the bedroom" Brittany said as she pinched Santana's bum making Santana squeak and shoot forwards "Don't worry baby there will be plenty more sounds like that before I'm though with you" Brittany said as she aimed another successful pinch forcing Santana in to their bedroom.