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February 20th

"Mr. Schue she fell asleep." Mercedes said as she and Quinn reentered the choir room. Both girls had dried tear tracks on their faces.

It had been thirty minutes since Santana had gotten the call and she had fallen asleep on the couch in Will's office. No one had left the choir room. They all sat there wearing the same expressions, sadness, grief, helplessness. Quinn and Mercedes sat back down in their chairs and looked up at Will.

"Her mother called a few minutes ago, she is on her way to pick her up." Will said.

"Lucy is going to be devastated, Brittany is like, was like a second daughter to them." Quinn said.

"I have never seen Santana like that, it was scary." Mercedes sniffled.

"It was." Will agreed.

Sue chose that moment to walk into the choir room.

"What the hell is wrong in here? Who died?" Sue asked sarcastically, but at her words Quinn started balling again, followed by Mercedes and Tina, Kurt had never really stopped.

"Sue, Brittany was murdered." Will said flatly. Sue looked shocked.

"Oh my god." she said, tears forming in her own eyes. "Where is Santana?" she asked, true concern in her voice.

"She's asleep, in my office, her mother is on her way to pick her up right now." Will said.

"I'm so sorry, I had no idea, oh god." Sue said, the tears were flowing from her eyes now.

Then the door to the choir room opened again and Lucy Lopez burst into the room. Quinn was the first to react, she ran up to the woman and threw her arms around her. Lucy's eyes were red and puffy.

"Where is she?" Lucy whispered to Quinn.

"She's asleep in Mr. Schue's office, Mercedes and I stayed with her until she fell asleep." Quinn said.

"I'm going to get her, thank you Quinn, Mercedes, Mr. Schuester. The rest of you should probably be getting home too." Lucy said, everyone reacted to her as if they had been waiting for someone to tell them to move. Emma entered the room as Lucy walked toward the office, she clearly had been following Lucy but had been unable to keep up with her.

Santana's mother walked over to the couch where she saw her daughter sleeping. Her face was red and blotchy, she didn't even look peaceful in her sleep. Lucy gently shook her arm trying to wake her up so she could bring her home.

"Mija, mija, its me Mama." she said, Santana's eyes opened and she looked confused for a split second before the tears started forming again. "Shh, shh baby, lets go home." Lucy said.

Santana stood slowly and wrapped her arms around her mother, Lucy hugged her daughter tightly, knowing her life would never be the same. She then grabbed her hand and led her out of the office and out of the choir room where she nodded to the people who were still there, no one said anything because they didn't know what to say. Santana was quiet the entire way home, sobbing in silence. Once Lucy pulled into the driveway and the two entered the house she brought Santana to her room and lay with her on her bed while she sobbed into her arms.

February 21st

Santana was awoken by the light streaming in her windows through the open blinds. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around the room, she was still in her Cheerios uniform and she still had her socks on. It took a moment before everything from the previous day came rushing back to her, immediately she felt the tears start to form again. She let them come as she sat up on her bed. Glancing at her bedside table's clock she saw that it was eleven in the morning, she thanked her parents for not waking her up and telling her to go to school. She sat on her bed crying for a few moments before her mother entered the room, her eyes were also red, Santana knew her mother had been crying as well.

"Hi baby." Lucy said sitting on the bed with her daughter.

"Hi." was all she could manage.

"I think you should take a shower sweetie." Lucy said quietly as she rubbed Santana's back.

"Okay." Santana nodded, she stood up from her bed, grabbed her towels hanging on the back of her door and walked into her bathroom.

Lucy sighed as she heard her daughter getting into the shower, this was going to be ruff. She decided to lay out some clothes for Santana, she pulled out a pair of black sweat pants, a blue tank top and a white hoodie. After that she walked downstairs and started making her some food, she knew that Santana wasn't going to want to eat but she needed to. After about fifteen minutes Lucy heard the shower upstairs turn off just as the doorbell rang. Lucy hurried and opened it, she saw Quinn Fabray and Mercedes Jones standing there, dressed in similar clothes to the ones that Lucy had laid out for Santana, both of the girls had bags under their reddened, puffy eyes.

"Hi girls, shouldn't you be in school?" Lucy said trying to make her voice stop shaking.

"Couldn't go, we were too upset." Mercedes said.

"We came to make sure that Santana wasn't alone, so you could have some time because we know how close she was with you." Quinn said.

"Thank you girls." Lucy said gratefully, hugging both of them.

"We devised a plan, at least one of the kids from glee will be here at all times until, until the funeral." Mercedes said, whispering the last word.

"That is very sweet, come on in girls, I just made some pizza if you want some, I'll see if I can get her to come down." Lucy said disappearing up the stairs.

Mercedes and Quinn walked to the living room which was connected to the kitchen of the Lopez's house. They had both been here before, Quinn more than Mercedes. The living room was filled with pictures of Santana at various points throughout her life, the majority of the pictures contained her since she was an only child. They found a few pictures of Santana with the Glee Club, and a lot of her and Brittany, but they quickly stopped looking because it was making them too upset. They sat down on the couch after a minute and waited. About three minutes later Lucy returned.

"She will be down in a minute." Lucy told Quinn and Mercedes sadly, they just nodded.

They really hadn't thought of what they were going to do when they actually saw her. If the previous day had been any indication then they were in for a rough day, they just hoped that maybe they could get her to talk and eat and distract her a little. Mercedes turned to Quinn to say something but before she could say anything the door to the room opened.

Santana stood in the doorway. She was wearing black sweatpants, a blue tank top and a white sweatshirt. Her hair was wet and thrown up into a messy bun on her head, she had on her glasses instead of her usual contacts. The eyes beneath the glasses were red and puffy, there were no tears flowing but the other two girls just assumed that there were none left, that she had used them all up. Quinn stood up and walked over to Santana and pulled her in for a hug, after a moment they broke apart and then Mercedes hugged her. Quinn grasped her hand and pulled her back over to the couch.

"Aren't you supposed to be at school?" Santana said in a rough voice.

"Couldn't go, none of us could." Mercedes said. "So today we are here for you."

"And I brought your favorite movies." Quinn said pulling the eight Harry Potter films out of her bag, Santana always watched them when she was upset and needed to be distracted so Quinn thought they would be perfect.

For the rest of the day Santana lay on the couch with Quinn and Mercedes watching Harry Potter movies. She was semi distracted, not fully but for a little while at a time she could concentrate on the movie. Lucy, Quinn and Mercedes even managed to get her to eat and drink. It wasn't til the night time that she started crying again, this time it wasn't her mother who lay with her until she fell asleep it was all the Glee Club girls and Kurt, all except for the most important one.

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Present Time

"What happened after that?" Brittany asked in a whisper as Santana wiped the tears from her eyes at the memories that were flowing through her.

"To be honest I don't remember exactly, I don't really remember the funereal, and I don't remember much of senior year up until Nationals." Santana said. "If you want to know about then, you will have to talk to someone else. Speaking of which, does anyone besides your parents, my parents and me know that you are alive?"

"No, I had to find you first before I found anyone else."

"Well, I am going to call Mercedes." Santana said drying her tears for the final time as she pulled out her cellphone, Brittany smiled at the mention of seeing another person that she hadn't seen in years.

"Cedes!" Santana said into the phone when Mercedes picked up.

"San! Are you going to tell me what is going on now?"

"Yes, can you come over? Like right now?"

"Uh ya, do you want me to bring Kyle?" she asked, sensing the tone of urgency in Santana's voice. "There aren't people with guns waiting for me are there?"

"No! Just leave Kyle with Sam and get over here as quickly as possible." Santana said.

"Okay, I'll be there soon, just so you know you are really freaking me out Santana."

"Sorry. I'll see you in a few." she said and hung up.

"Mercedes lives in the city too?" Brittany asked. "With Sam? Whose Kyle?"

"Yes, Mercedes and Sam got married." Santana said, not answering the last question.

"Who is Kyle?"

"Kyle is my son." Santana said.

"You have a son?"

"Yes but that is a conversation for another time." Santana said, and the tone of voice that Brittany used told her it was best not to press for more information at the moment.

"Okay, whenever you're ready. I'm pretty sure you are really overwhelmed right now, you are taking all this really well Santana." Brittany said.

"Well I'm still not entirely sure if you are real yet, and that I haven't just lost it and gone nuts, thats another reason I called Mercedes." Santana said.

There was a knock on the door and Santana knew it was Mercedes, after all she lived really close. Santana told Brittany to stay in the living room where she was as she answered the door. Santana opened the door and saw Mercedes standing there, she immediately pulled Santana in for a hug.

"So Satan, what in the hell is going on?" Mercedes asked.

Santana didn't say anything, she just grabbed Mercedes' hand and led her to the living room. Mercedes gasped as she entered the living room.

"Hi Mercedes." Brittany said.


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