A/N: Hey guys, I apologize for the long wait. School started up again and I was busy getting acclimated with the schedule. Also, thanks for the reviews, favorites, and alerts. Lastly, to the person who said they thought this story would have some killing, trust me it will get gruesome. Just be patient with me, I'll update as often as i can.
disclaimer: I do not own Glee or it's characters, they belong to RIB.
"You're sure about this, mija?" Gloria asked her daughter.
"I love her, mom," Santana replied sincerely with a smile on her face while thinking of Rachel.
"We know you do Santana, you're eighteen, an adult, we can't make this decision for you. Si estas segura de que esto es lo que quieres, then you have our blessing," her dad told her as he patted her knee to show his support.
"Wait here," Gloria said as she got up from the couch and made her way upstairs. Santana and her dad could hear a lot of shuffling upstairs and then Gloria was coming back down the stairs. She sat back down next to her daughter. "Here," she said while taking Santana's hand and giving her a ring. Santana took it and stared at it tears threatening to fall. "It's beautiful, mom."
"Era de tu abuela, she gave it to your father to give to me, y ahora I'm giving it to you to give to Rachel," She told her daughter with a huge smile on her face.
"Thank you," was all Santana could get out before the tears fell.
"It really is beautiful, San." Quinn told her as she handed the ring to Brittany so that she could look at it too. They had been driving for a while now and the sun was about two hours away from setting. They had made a few more stops to use the restroom, grab something to eat, pump gas, and take more pictures with the state signs. They still had a long road ahead of them to get to California and Santana was already getting tired of driving. Rachel had fallen asleep again along Sugar. Brittany had woken up in the middle of Santana's story about when her parent gave her their blessing to marry Rachel, so Santana decided to tell her about it as well. She could really use both of her best friend's advice. Once she told Brittany, Quinn had to put her hands over Brittany's mouth to keep the excited cheer from escaping. Santana was glad that they both were happy for her.
"I really like it, San. Can I be there when you tell Rachel, I want to see the look on her face when she sees it." Brittany asked as she handed the ring back to Santana, who placed it back in her pocket.
"Britt, I don't think San would want an audience when she proposes, she might deny it, but Rachel tells me she's a romantic. I'm sure she has something great plan-" Quinn was explaining to Brittany when Santana cut her off.
"I'm not denying anything and I don't have anything planned. I want it to just be simple. I know Rachel likes big and spontaneous, but what if she…" Santana cut herself off and turned to look at Rachel with a sad smile on her face.
She might not say it out loud, but she was scared that Rachel might say no. They had talked about marriage before. Rachel had made it clear that her career was very important to her. Santana told her she understood and that she would never want to be what held Rachel back. When Rachel received her acceptance letter from Juilliard, Santana was afraid that she might have to let her go, but then she received her letter from NYU stating that they would be glad to have her and she felt that she was meant to be with Rachel. And during Spring Break, Santana took a trip to New York to tour NYU and she found that she missed Rachel too much, which only reassured her that she wanted to be with Rachel forever. She's still afraid to hear Rachel's answer, but she doesn't know why.
"..says no? You're scared of getting rejected in front of people, is that why you want simple?." Quinn asked her.
"she's not going to say no, Rach loves you," Brittany tried to reassure her, but all Santana could think about was the work 'rejected' that came out of Quinn's mouth. Brittany sensed that Santana was beginning to get nervous about the proposal.
"She's going to say yes, I know it, and then you'll feel silly for ever worrying about it." she tried to lighten the mood to get Santana to stop looking so concerned. She turned to look at Quinn and gave her a look that said to help her relax Santana.
"S, you need to calm down. You said you've talked about marriage with her before, so she obviously wants to be with you forever, she's not going to reject you." Quinn told her, and there was that word again.
"Quinn, can you do me a favor and not say the words 'marriage' and 'reject' in the same sentence," Santana told her with an annoyed look on her face. She knew her friends were just trying to help her calm down but she was really starting to feel the nerves kick in.
"Sorry, but seriously you need to relax. Look, you have the ring, she loves you, you love her, you've been together for three years, and you're going to be in California, it's perfect. You'll be fine," Quinn said with a shake of her head showing how ridiculous Santana was being for even thinking Rachel will say no.
"Yeah, San. It's going to be great!" Brittany told her with a huge grin on her face.
"Okay, I'm calm. Thank you. It means a lot to me to have your support. I love you guys." Santana turned around in her seat to give her friends a genuine smile.
"We love you too, San," they both said in unison.
The sun was beginning to get lower in the sky and Santana was exhausted from driving, so when Quinn's phone went off, she was hoping whoever was calling would say they should stop and rest.
"Hello?" Quinn answered. Santana couldn't hear the rest of the conversation but she could make out that it was Mercedes.
"Yeah, hold on," she said before covering the mouth piece to speak to Santana.
"Mercedes is suggesting that we should stop to camp here before it gets dark, do you want to just keep driving?" Santana was relieved when she heard that.
"Yeah, I'm tired. I say we stop," she told Quinn, who then went back to talking to Mercedes..
"Okay, call Sam and let them know we're stopping now to set up camp before it gets dark," she told Mercedes before hanging up.
"S, you should have said something if you were tired, I could have driven for a while." Quinn had a concerned look on her face. Santana had told her she hadn't gotten much sleep the night before because she was up thinking about the proposal and then they got up early in the morning to get on the road.
"I'm okay. Maybe you can drive in the morning," she told her before getting off the main road and onto a dirt road that led into the forest. They hadn't passed any towns in the past 10 miles and the next town wasn't for another 15 miles up the main road, everything was forest after forest.
"Can we even camp here?" Quinn was looking out through the window at all the trees.
"Who cares. There's no towns in about a 12 mile radius from us. No one will know," Santana said irritated mostly because she just wanted to get out of the car and stretch.
"I don't like it here, it's kind of scary," Brittany was also looking out the window.
"It'll be fine, B, just like cheer camp." Santana reassured her as she turned right in a fork on the road. She continued driving for about another 10 minutes turning into different dirt roads and making different turns whenever the road split.
"San, where are going? Do you even know the way back to the main road?" Quinn leaned forward in her seat to give Santana a pointed look. They were a whiles way from the main road and she was sure they were lost in the forest now due to all the turns her friend just made.
"Relax, Q, we're heading North so the way back is South, I just want to get away from the main road incase there isn't camping allowed here," she turned to look at her friend.
"Weren't you the one who just said 'who cares' when i asked if we could camp here," Quinn said making air quotes and rolling her eyes at Santana's contradiction.
"You worry too much." As soon as Santana finished her sentence there a was a loud popping sound followed by the sound of Mike's car breaking and possibly also Puck's. Santana's car veered left, she had no control of the cars direction. She hit the breaks as quickly as she could but it wasn't fast enough to keep from hitting a tree with great force.
"Fuck!" she screamed pushing the air bag away from herself. The passenger's airbag went off too, keeping Rachel from hitting the dashboard, but she now had a few scratched on her face from the airbag. Sugar luckily had her seatbelt on and was now wearing a shocked look on her face. Quinn who hadn't had her seatbelt on had been pushed forward when the car hit the tree and she hit her head on the center console. She had a stretch across her forehead and was unconscious. Brittany had her seatbelt on too, so she was fine, but she was now holding Quinn with tears beginning to form in her eyes.
"What happened?" Sugar asked getting out of the car.
"Are you guys okay?" "Are you hurt?" "Help them!" were all being shouted as the girls got out of the car. Everyone except Artie had gotten out of their cars and ran over to see if anyone was hurt badly.
"No, Quinn's not moving." Brittany said with tears already falling down her cheeks. She was pulling Quinn's limp body out of the car. Mike and Puck helped her carry Quinn's body out and they laid her down on the grass. Everyone was now circled around Quinn's body.
"Guys give her some air, is she breathing?" Mercedes asked stepping back as everyone followed her example and took a few steps back. Tina kneeled down beside Quinn, "she's breathing, look, her chest is rising and falling," she said with relief in her voice while pointing at Quinn's chest.
"Quinn. Quinn. Can you hear me? Quinn," she tried shaking her a little, but Quinn was still unconscious.
"Here, try pouring water on her face," Mike said breaking through the crowd handing Tina a water bottle. She quickly opened the bottle with shaky hands and poured a small amount over Quinn's face, causing blood to mix with it and then drip down the side of her face. The gash on her forehead began to ooze more blood. Fortunately, the water made Quinn jump awake with a terrified look on her face. Sighs of relief were able to be heard from everyone.
"Quinn, look at me. You're okay. It's okay, relax," Tina told her softly to calm her down while rubbing her hand up and down Quinn's arms. Brittany ran up and kneeled down next to Quinn immediately pulling her into a tight.
"Q! I'm so happy you're okay. I was scared. I wasn't able to stop you in time to keep you from hitting your head. I'm so sorry." she said with new tears falling down her face.
"Oww, i have a headache," was all she could get out.
"I think there's a first aid kit in the car, I'll get it," Tina said getting up from her spot next to Quinn and running to the car.
"B, look at me" she said taking cupping Brittany's face in her palms.
"I'm okay, it's not your fault," she told her friend reassuringly a then hugged her.
"What the fuck happened anyway?" she said turning to look at Santana who was holding a crying Rachel. Tina got back with the first aid kit and started wetting cotton balls with rubbing alcohol.
"Excuse me Brittany, " she said Brittany let go of Quinn and sat indian style next to Quinn while holding her hand.
"It's going to sting," Tina told her before rubbing the coating ball over the gash on Quinn's forehead. She tightened her grip on Brittany's hand and clenched her teeth to keep her from screaming out in pain. Tina bandaged her forehead and with the help of Brittany they helped Quinn to her feet. As soon as she stood up she lost her balance due to dizziness and fell into Brittany's arms. "Here, just sit down," Brittany helped her sit back down on the grass.
"Take these," Tina handed her some aspirin from the first aid kit.
"S, what happened?" she asked after swallowing the pills. Again everyone turned to look at Santana. She seemed to be in shock.
"Rachel come here, I'll clean up the cuts on your face," Tina told her while holding up the aid kit. Apparently Rachel hadn't felt the blood on her face. She let go of Santana and walked over to Tina. Everyone was still staring at Santana waiting for an answer.
"I-I-I don't know, the car just-" she turned to look over at the car and everyone else did the same. They had been too preoccupied and worried about Quinn that no one bothered to look over at the car. The front left wheel was popped which is what cause the car to veer left into the tree.
"How did that happen?" Kurt asked. The tire looked like someone had taken a knife and slashed it.
"Guys! Over here!" Finn's voice was loud and echoed through the forest. Everyone immediately ran over to where Finn was kneeled over looking at something on the road. Quinn, Brittany, Tina, and Rachel were still sitting on the floor helping out Rachel with her cuts. Everyone else gathered around what made the wheel pop. It was an old piece of police stingers. It was rusted and covered in dirt, which made it difficult to see on the road.
"What the hell are police stingers doing on the side of the road?" Puck questioned looking pissed.
"Well, they're rusted, I don't think anyone's been through here in a while," Sam added pointing at the stingers.
"Ugh, just fuck! What are we supposed to do now?" to say Santana was angry was an understatement. Her best friend fell unconscious for a minute, her girlfriend was hurt, and her car was now totaled.
"I can't get a signal on my phone," Blaine spoke up after a while of silence. He was looking down at his phone and then holding it over his head seeing if he could get at least one bar. "Anyone else?" he asked putting his phone back in his pocket. Everyone else checked their phones, Santana walked back to the car to check her phone.
"Nothing," she said also holding up her phone in the air trying to get signal. Nobody's phone got any reception.
"Fuck!" Santana screamed and threw her phone back in the car.
"There's a sign up ahead. It looks like there's a town five miles up the road," Mike said out of breath he had ran up the road after he got glimpse of a road sign in the distance. He was now sweating.
"I'll drive into town and see if we can get a tow truck to come and help. We'll figure out the rest as we go. How's that sound?" He asked being able to breath normally again. He was waiting for a reply from someone.
"I think that's the best option we have right now." Rachel spoke up from where Tina had finished putting three small bandages on her face.
"okay, we'll be back as soon as we can locate help," he said walking over to his car and getting in the drivers seat. He turned around to explain everything to Artie who was still seated in the backseat. Tina hugged Quinn, Brittany, and Rachel and then made her way over to Mike's car. Mercedes soon followed.
"Drive safely and watch the road!" Kurt told Mike as he passed by in his car. "Will do."
"What now?" Sugar asked as she sat down next to Brittany on the grass.
"We wait for them to get back," Blaine told her also taking a seat on the grass followed by Kurt.
Santana hadn't moved from where she was leaning on her car. She felt this was her fault, if maybe she had watched the road better or if she wouldn't have gone so far into the woods they wouldn't be in this position. She was fell silent. Finn, Puck, and Sam were unloading one of the cooler Puck had brought. Santana finally decided to push off the car and walk into the trees disappearing in the distance. Rachel was watching her with concerned eyes, so as soon as she saw her girlfriend walk into the woods, she got up and followed. Everyone else had gathered around in a circle drinking and eating whatever was in the cooler.
Santana made her way deeper into the woods and finally stopped and sat down leaning up against one of the trees. She rested leaned her head back and closed her eyes. She knew someone had been following her, she could hear the leaves crunching behind her. So, she wasn't surprised when she felt Rachel sit down next to her. She didn't open her eyes or acknowledge Rachel's presence. They sat in silence for a while before Rachel finally spoke up noticing tears running down Santana's face.
"San?" she whispered afraid that Santana might be startled.
"I shouldn't have driven so far into the woods," she spoke softly her eyes still closed. The tears had stopped now, she seemed more relaxed.
"No one blames you," Rachel told her quietly resting her head on Santana's shoulder and interlacing their fingers together.
"I should have just admitted I was tired and let Quinn drive," she continued to list off things that she could have done differently completely ignoring Rachel telling her that no one was blaming her for what happened.
"I should have watched the road closer, I should have-" Rachel cut her off.
"Santana. Open your eyes, please" she looked up at Santana waiting for her girlfriend to do as she was told. Santana slowly opened her eyes and looked into Rachel's.
"I'm okay, we're okay, it's not your fault, stop trying to blame yourself for this, it was just an unfortunate event. It could have happened to anyone." she told her resting her forehead against Santana's.
"But it didn't, it happened to me. If I would have just-"
"Baby, stop. Please stop blaming yourself." Rachel tried again. She wrapped her arms around Santana's waist burying her face in her neck.
"You're hurt, Quinn's hurt. She was unconscious," Santana spoke up again with anger in her voice. She had convinced herself that this whole situation was her fault.
"We're fine now," she said while unwrapping her arms from around Santana's waist and getting up. She looked down at Santana and offered her hand. "Come on."
Santana hesitated for a moment before taking Rachel's hand and getting up. She immediately wrapped her arms around Rachel again and then pulled away to kiss her passionately and slowly.
"Thank you," she whispered against Rachel's lips. She grabbed Santana's hand and began to lead them back to where the others were. The sky was getting darker but it was still visible out and despite it being Summer it was cold out. Rachel had goosebumps on her arm from the wind.
"Are you cold?" Santana asked her rubbing her hands up and down Rachel's arms to try and warm her.
"I didn't pack any sweaters, it's supposed to be hot in California," Rachel told her as they reached the other.
"Where have you two been? Doing the dirty out in the woods?" Puck asked as he saw them coming out from the trees. He was wiggling his eyebrows with a smirk on his face.
"Noah!"
"I was joking," he said after looking at the glare Santana was giving him.
"Here, Rae." Santana had walked over to her car trunk and dug out one of the sweaters she had packed. She handed Rachel her NYU sweater that she had bought during spring break.
"Thank you." Rachel took the sweater and pulled it over her shirt, smelling it as soon as she had it on. "It smells like you" Santana just smiled and sat next to her on the grass. Rachel moved so she was now laying down on her back with her head on Santana's lap.
"Santana?" Sugar spoke up from across them.
"what?" she simply asked in a curious tone. She didn't seem angry or anything which made Sugar relaxed. She thought maybe Santana would scream at her for trying to start a conversation with her.
"Are you okay?" Santana gave her a confused look. "I mean, everyone was worried about Quinn and Rachel's cuts, but no one asked about you." Sugar finished. She really was concerned for Santana. They might not be the closest of friends but they had their moments.
"oh, yea, I'm okay. Thank you," she told her with a genuine smile on her face.
"Hold long do we have to wait here?" Brittany asked looking around at through the trees.
"Well the town was five miles up the road, assuming he's driving carefully, it could be a while," Kurt answered her.
"Maybe we should set up a tent, it's getting cold out here" Quinn suggested while rubbing her hands together.
"yeah that's a good idea, we were gonna camp out anyway," Finn agreed with her as he stood up followed by everyone else. They made their way over to Pucks truck and Started unloading the tents. They decided to set up all four tents since they were probably going to be sleeping there until Santana's car could get fixed. The sun was completely gone by the time they had finished setting up the tents. There was no way of reaching Mike and the others because of the crap reception, so all they could do now was wait for them to return, hopefully with some help. Kurt and Blaine started a small fire, they didn't want to make it big and attract attention incase they weren't permitted to start fires around there. The sky was full of stars, other than the sound of the firewood crackling, crickets could be heard. It was peaceful and relaxing. Everyone was seated around the campfire in silence. Rachel was laying down again in the same position she had been in earlier.
"So, Santana, you want to tell us what caused you to veer off lanes back in Indiana?" Blaine asked curious. Santana was hoping no one would bring it up again especially after what just happened. She got really nervous just thinking about Rachel finding out about the ring in her pocket.
"No, I don't want to talk about it!" She said too quickly which cause Puck to laugh, "What, was Rachel fingering you and you got overly excited?" he asked in between laughs. Everyone got looks of disgust on their faces.
"Noah! Must you be so vulgar!" Rachel screamed in disgust.
"So it is true!" Puck shouted back even more amused.
"Actually, it was Quinn's fault." Sugar added before Puck could say anything else. Everyone turned to look at Quinn waiting for an explanation. Quinn just looked between Santana and Brittany asking for help. She didn't want to be in this position. She didn't want to accidentally say something she might regret.
"How was it your fault, Quinn?" Kurt asked leaning forward expecting an answer.
"Santana and I had a misunderstanding and I said something that took her by surprise that's all." Quinn quickly added hoping they would believe her lie and just drop the subject.
"Didn't you say you wanting to look at something?" Rachel asked slightly lifting her head from Santana's lap to look at Quinn. Again, she panicked. Santana knew they weren't going to drop the subject until they got all their answers.
"Look at what?" Finn asked. Everyone looked confused and curious at the same time.
"It was nothing, okay, now everyone stop asking!" Santana snapped irritated.
"But I want to know what it was" Rachel pouted and then turned to bury her face in Santana's stomach. "Please," she mumbled which cause Santana to let out a slight laugh. She leaned down to kiss Rachel and then whispered in her ear "i'll show you later." Rachel seemed satisfied with that answer and got a small smile on her face.
"You guys are sickeningly cute," Sam said to them which cause everyone to nod in agreement.
"I got it, you got a tattoo!" Puck shouted pointing at Santana looking like he just solved the greatest mystery in the world.
"Maybe," Santana told him with a wink. "Alright, well I'm tired," she added while stretching her arms over her head causing Rachel to sit up so Santana could get up. "I'm tired, too" Rachel said getting up and taking Santana's hand, who led them to where the tents were. "Yeah, tired. Is that code for something?" Puck shouted while Sam and Finn cat whistled.
As soon as the tent was zipped closed, Santana's lips were on Rachel's.
"I say we finish what we started this morning, before Q interrupted" she said in between kisses to Rachel's jaw and neck.
"mhmm," was all Rachel could get out. She laid on her back Santana moving to straddle her hips. She began to kiss Rachel's jawline up to her earlobe and then kissing back down to her pulse point lightly sucking on it. She moved her hand to rest on Rachel's waist slowly moving them upward under her sweater. Rachel sat up to let Santana remove her sweater along with her shirt throwing it to the side. Santana moved back to continue sucking on Rachel's pulse point causing a moan to escape from her mouth.
"We hear you in there!" Puck screamed from a distance. Santana just ignored him and continued her route down Rachel's body. She removed her own shirt and bra as Rachel discarded of her own bra as well. Santana cupped Rachel's right breast and began kneading it while taking her left nipple into her mouth.
"Fuck, San." Rachel moaned gripping the blanket that was laid out underneath them. She was trying to be as quiet as possible even thought everyone knew what they were doing in the tent. Santana began placing kisses down her abdomen. She unbuttoned Rachel's jeans and then pulled them down along with her panties. She threw them off to the side with the rest of the clothes and then continued to kiss Rachel's inner thigh making her way up.
"San wait," Rachel whispered. Santana quickly stopped and moved to hover over her hands on either side of Rachel's head. "What's wrong?" she asked concern written on her face.
"Nothing. I just want to see you," she moved up a little to capture Santana's lips with her own. Santana broke the kiss, again moving her lips down to Rachel's neck while slowly moving her hand down to Rachel's sex. She circled her clit a few times causing Rachel to moan, which was silenced by Santana's lips on hers. She easily slipped two fingers into Rachel and started pumping in and out slowly. Rachel's breathing began to pick up speed and she would let out a moan every now and then which Santana would quickly silence with by kissing her passionately. She thumbed Rachel's lit and began to go pump her fingers into Rachel faster using her hips to push in deeper every time.
"Fuck, San, I'm so close." Rachel moaned out. Santana began to pump faster while taking one of Rachel's nipples in her mouth again. She felt Rachel's walls tighten around her and then heard her name being screamed out in a loud moan. She fell limp on top of Rachel panting hard.
"yea, San, get some!" was heard from Puck followed by laughter and whistles from Sam and Finn. It cause Santana to laugh and Rachel to cover her face in embarrassment for being so loud when she came. Santana moved so she was now lying on her back and Rachel quickly turned to hide her face in Santana's neck still feeling embarrassed which only caused her girlfriend to laugh more.
"San, it's not funny!" Rachel pouted.
"It's a little funny." Santana told her with a chuckle and then giving Rachel a quick peck on the lips.
"I'm mad at you." Rachel told her rolling away from her. "No you're not, you love me." Santana told her with confidence while wrapping her arms around Rachel'd waist and pulling her back into her. She was now spooning Rachel from behind. She placed a soft kiss to Rachel's bare shoulder and then nuzzled her neck.
"mmmh, yea, i love you," Rachel told her finally falling into the embrace.
"I love you, too."
Rachel unwrapped herself from Santana to put her clothes back on while Santana put her bra and shirt on as well. They fell back into a cuddle and closed their eyes to take a nap. A couple minutes later Quinn, Brittany, and Sugar entered the tent saying something sleeping together because the more people there are in a tent the warmer it is. The guys had left the campfire on so that when Mike drove back he'll be able to find them easier. They huddled into their own tent to rest. Every one of them fell asleep. They figured they'd wake up once Mike and the others got back.
A/N: Again I apologize for the wait. Hope you guys liked it. Next chapter the massacre begins. Let me know what you guys think; i really would love to read what you guys are thinking.