Hello, Thanks to everyone who has reviewed, favorite, and followed this story it really means so much to me. I hope you like this chapter, let me know, my head cannon differs from the show. Oh yeah, and I do not own Glee or these characters.

Mercedes paced back and forth in her room for over an hour before picking up her phone from her nightstand to call him.

Ring….ring…..ring….

"Come on, pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up!"

"Hello?"

"Kurt! Everything has gone to hell!"

"Mercedes? What's happened?"

"He just…and then I, I don't know, I had to get out of there."

"Calm down hun, you're not making any sense. Just take a deep breath and tell me what happened."

Mercedes took several deep breaths before continuing, "I was in Sam's room showing him where he could put his things, when he picked up this box from the shelf in the closet. I never would have wanted him to see what was in this box" she said staring down at the heart, "but he just wouldn't let it go! He took off running with the box, I chased him and we ended up fighting, well, wrestling actually, with him dominating me and opening the box. What was in there was private Kurt."

"And….What was in the box?"

"….."

"Mercedes? Are you still there?"

"I'm here Kurt, just, it was a Saint Valentine figurine inside of a heart shaped box that Sam gave me a couple of years ago on Valentine's Day."

"Okay?"

"Don't you see? I kept that gift with me and took it everywhere that I have been, Ohio, LA, and now New York, I even had it when I did that mini tour last year with The Dutchess. It makes it look like I still have feelings for him, like I never got over him."

"You do, you didn't, continue "

"Kurt! That is not helping! I was so embarrassed, the whole thing made me look like some love sick teenager, I just had to get out of there, I just couldn't face him."

"Did he say anything?"

"He said, and I quote, 'you still have my heart'"

"He said you still have his heart and you ran! It sounds like Sam is trying to be open and honest with you, maybe you should do the same."

"What? Sam was just talking about the box. Wasn't he? Do you think that he meant that he still has feelings for me?"

"Bye Mercedes."

"Kurt wait! Do you think he was talking about his feelings?"

Dial tone

"Well fuck you very much." She said putting her phone back on the nightstand and sitting on her bed.

Knock, knock, knock

"Mercedes" Sam said in a soft tone, "Are you still awake?"

Mercedes tip toed over to her door and pressed her palms and face against the door. She could feel his presence on the other side of the door, like he was doing the same thing she was doing.

"I know you're awake….I can feel you. Can you please just let me in so we can talk?"

"Sam, I'm not ready. I just need some time to think."

"Fine. Goodnight" he said in a tight tone, and with that I felt him lift off the door and heard him slam the door to his bedroom. I hated making him so upset, and I ached for his touch, but I knew that if I had let him into my room tonight there is no way we would be talking, and I knew that we desperately needed to clear the air. Feeling exhausted, I decided to climb in bed and go to sleep, and everything else would have to wait until tomorrow.

Buzz…buzz…buzz

Mercedes sighed hearing her 5:00am alarm going off dreading the morning. Her record label scheduled an interview on The Morning Show for her where she would also be singing a new song from her album called Colorblind! She was excited, but she really hated getting up this early. By the time she made it into the living room after showering and getting dressed Sam was nowhere to be seen. She checked his room, but was relieved to find that he had already gone for the day, she wasn't really ready to get into a heavy conversation this early in the morning, so after verifying that her car service was downstairs she locked up her apartment to get started with her day.

After her Morning Show appearance Mercedes decided to have her driver take her to Kurt and Rachel's apartment to see if she could catch Kurt and tell him off for hanging up on her, but Rachel opened the door. "Hi Rachel, is Kurt here?"

"Hi Mercedes, come in" she smiled brightly, "Can I get you anything?"

"Kurt"

"Oh, Kurt isn't here."

"Rachel! Why didn't you tell me he wasn't here when I asked the first time?"

"Because, you look like you have something on your mind. If you need to talk I am always here for you."

"This is your damn fault!"

"Me!" Rachel looked confusedly "What did I do?"

"You used my own feelings against me. You knew that I would never admit to it being weird for Sam to live with me right in front of him. You forced me to say yes."

"Oh that, you're welcome"

"Rachel, this is serious" Mercedes said going to the couch to sit down, "I have a lot of unresolved feelings for Sam, I'm not over him and it's going to be torture to live with him."

"It won't be if you tell Sam how you feel about him, you two can pick up where you left off."

"It's not that easy Rachel, Sam moved on, with numerous girls"

"If he really moved on then why did I catch him looking at pictures of you on his phone before he went to sleep on this very couch one night, actually I saw him doing it more than once."

"What? Really?"

"Yes! Now does that sound like something that a man who is over a woman would do? When I saw that I knew that I needed to get you two back together. He was miserable without you, and to think that you were right here in the same city must have made it even worse. The last couple of days that he was here before we took him to your place he was like a different person, he was happy because he knew he would be with you soon."

Mercedes had no words so she retorted back with, "I'm sure he wasn't miserable."

"Fine! Maybe miserable is too strong of a word, but he was sad though. I hadn't even realized that he was sad until I saw him happy, just give in Mercedes."

"I don't know if it's a good idea right now, we both have so much going on."

"Mercedes! Sam is your soul-mate, he would do anything to make you happy and you're just going to throw that away? It is so comforting to know that there is someone there for you rooting for you and in your corner no matter what, someone who balances out your crazy, to have that person who is your best friend and your lover is amazing. I lost my soul-mate and I don't know when I'll ever feel whole again. We spent so much time apart in the end trying to find our own ways, and in the end I feel like I've been cheated. Don't waste any time Mercedes, because you never know how much time you have left."

"Rachel" Mercedes said with tears in her eyes, "I'm so sorry."

"It's okay, I'm alright. This is just my reality. All I'm trying to say is, do you want to let Sam go and then someday down the road, let's say 10 years from now run into Sam with his wife and children."

That was a sobering thought. "Okay Rachel, I think I need to go home and talk to Sam."

"You do that." Rachel said forcing a smile.

"Are you going to be okay, I don't want to leave you like this."

"I told you I'm fine," Rachel said, this time with a more organic smile, "Now go and get your man back."

"Okay, bye. And thank you." She said hugging Rachel before exiting her apartment.

The more she thought about her conversation with Rachel the more anxious she became to get home and when her driver pulled up to the building she ran up the stairs opening the door out of breath. "Sam!" she called, but was met with silence.

She walked into the living room only to find Sam sitting on the couch playing video games. What the fuck, "Sam, didn't you hear me calling your name?"

"Oh, Mercedes….hello" was all he said in a tight tone while flexing his jaw. Okay, he was pissed, "Sam. Sam I know you're upset about the way things happened last night. You wanted to talk to me and I couldn't do it, but I'm here now and I'm ready to talk, okay."

"So now you're ready to talk, alright, talk!"

"Sam, can you just calm down so we can have a discussion, I want to talk about our feelings."

"Tell me. Mercedes what are you feeling?"

Mercedes took a deep breath before continuing, "Last night when you opened the box I ran away because I was embarrassed that you saw what was in there"

"Why would that embarrass you? You were embarrassed that you once loved me?" Sam said looking down

"No!" Mercedes said closing her eyes, "I was embarrassed because I still love you, after all this time"

The three seconds that she didn't hear anything were the quietest and longest three seconds of her life, "Sam…" she started to say but was cut off by Sam's electric kiss. His lips were moist and soft and damn near hypnotic; she was instantly following his lead as he grabbed the back of her head to deepen the kiss. He slid his tongue in her mouth and their tongues wrestled for dominance. His taste was sweet like honeydew and Mercedes couldn't get enough; she began sucking on his tongue, which caused him to push her down flush against the couch while pushing his erection against her core repeatedly. This only ignited the fire within Mercedes as she started grinding against him seeking relief. He slid his hand under her shirt and pulled one of her bra cups down to feel her hard nipple and massage her breast. He pushed her shirt up and pulled away from their kiss to take her nipple in his mouth and suck hard. Mercedes grabbed hold of his hips and pulled him into her in an effort to bring him as close as possible, but it wasn't enough, she needed more. She reached down between them and started to unzip his pants. He noticed what she was trying to do so he pulled his pants down then reached under her skirt and pulled her panties off in one swift motion. He pulled back to look into her lust filled eyes before attacking her mouth again while rubbing her breasts. She reached for his hips once more and he grabbed her left leg wrapping it around his hip before pushing deep inside of her moaning at the feel of her tight hotness. "I'm home! Oh God I missed you tiger lilly!" Sam said while thrusting into her balls deep. Mercedes was too lost in the feel of him to respond with anything coherent; she moaned his name over and over again. They both knew that neither would last long since it had been so long since they had been together and Sam wanting to make sure Mercedes came reached between them to rub slow circles on Mercedes clit while he continued to penetrate her. Mercedes whole body stiffened and her inner walls closed around Sam impossibly tight as she began to convulse screaming Sam's name. Sam continued driving into her through her spasms coming deep inside her with an, "Oh shit Mercedes!"

Afterwards Sam just lay on top of Mercedes panting hard trying to catch his breath while still inside of her. Sam looked at Mercedes turning her head to face him and said, "I love you to, and all that I am, all that I have to give is yours." Before reaching in and trying to kiss Mercedes again. This time she turned her head away and pushed him out of her and off of her.

"Sex isn't love Sam"

Sam looked at her confused, "Yeah, I know that."

"Do you?" Mercedes said straightening herself up and putting her panties back on. Sam pulled his pants back up while saying, "Yes."

"Then why are you proclaiming your love for me now only after we have had sex, and after everything that has happened?!"

"Mercedes, that's just us, you know we get a little carried away, but you know I love you. What do you mean everything that's happened?"

"Actually I don't know that you love me. You moved on so quickly after I broke up with you. You couldn't wait to be balls deep in the next bitch, despite telling me how much you loved me on the regular. It's like what we had didn't mean anything to you! Now you want to sit here and tell me you love me? Get outta here!" Mercedes said while getting up to leave.

Sam couldn't believe what was happening. He would lose her again if he didn't do something. The thought mad him angry and he grabbed her arm pulling her back down to the couch, "Sit down!" he yelled. Mercedes tried to get up again but one look in Sam's eyes told her she better not move. "Let's get something straight here. You broke up with me. You broke my heart! We were just finally back together after that whole thing with Shane, we made love for the first time, I thought we were in a good place in our relationship, and then you were dumping me again. I knew that you were leaving, but I thought that naturally you would be willing to give the long distance thing a try because our relationship was as important to you as it was to me, but nope, you ended it again without so much as a second thought."

"I can't listen to this." Mercedes said trying to get up again. Sam pulled her back down again saying, "Listen! You need to listen to me. I was devastated, you were the center of my universe, everything I did was for you, and when you were gone, I didn't know what to do. I wanted to feel that love again so badly, to be loved so badly that I tried to force it into other relationships. It didn't work, it only made me realize how much I missed you and that I would never love anyone the way that I love you, wholeheartedly. Me being with them was me trying to replace something that was irreplaceable, I see that now. I never once stopped loving you, I was just lonely and I didn't think you wanted me anymore." He continued, "You also need to know that I haven't been with anyone, sexually, since we broke up."

Mercedes turned her head at that, "What? That can't be true you were with Brittany"

"It is. Brittany and I were two people that were hung up on other people. I wasn't with anyone like that and I know you saved it for me." He said looking at her.

"Are you fishing for information." She said rolling her eyes, "Yes, I haven't been with anyone else."

"So why did you leave me Mercedes, honestly, what's the real reason?" he said looking into her eyes

"I don't know."

"Mercedes"

"Fine, when we're together it's amazing, and intense. Sometimes, it's too intense for me, it's like I don't have any control over myself I will do anything for you and it scares me." Mercedes said looking away

Sam turned her face back to his, "Do you think you are alone in this? I would do anything to make you happy. I'll do anything to be with you again, anything to be able to call you mine again."

"Sam, I don't know if it's a good idea, the thought of us is so overwhelming to me, and I know you say you love me but I just don't know if sex is clouding your judgment."

"Mercedes, what do I have to do to prove my love for you, I'll do it whatever you need. I just want to be with you again."

"Sam, I don't think there is anything to can do right now it's just going to take time."

"How about we take sex out of the equation, if we don't have sex for a while, will you agree to be mine again?"

Mercedes eyes bugged out, "Sam, are you crazy! After what just happened on this couch you really think you can abstain from sex?"

"I don't think, I know I can, and I will if that's what it takes to get you to say yes to us again."

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but alright. That would kind of take the pressure off of me knowing that I'm not going to miss an important appointment because I decided to lie in bed fucking you all day. How long would we wait?"

"We can wait as long as you want to wait. You're in control. You decide. What do you say, will you be mine again? Let me show you I love you without the physical."

"Yes!" Mercedes said smiling and kissing his lips, "I'm yours! Um…just to clarify, when you say no sex, does that include oral sex?"

Sam smiled, "If it has sex in the title we're not doing it."

"Right, right, right. What about using our hands."

"We will use our own hands on ourselves, but not on each other, there is too much temptation there."

"Okay, just clearing that up. Can I still kiss my boyfriend." Mercedes said with a smile.

"Your boyfriend would be very happy if you would come over here and kiss him right now." Sam said seductively

Mercedes leaned in ad placed a chase kiss on Sam's lips and laid down in his arms wondering what the hell she had just gotten herself into.