Santana moves forward to confront Kurt but Rachel holds her back.
"Hey don't get mad at me. I'm not the one that's rude."
Santana was still being held back by Rachel. "You think so? Because I really beg to differ. We could have been naked in here."
"I was just coming in here to let you both know that Finn and Brittany are here. They made me let them in. Finn is an emotional vulture and Brittany is no better. Whenever a relationship anywhere is in crisis, they swoop in, feast on the drama, then want to fix everything. They've been watching too much Dr. Phil or something. I have no idea what their problem is. All Finn has done all morning is talk my ear off about the many ways he can save your relationship. And Brittany just stood their nodding behind him like a dashboard figurine. They're inside on the couch."
Rachel and Santana run into their living room. Finn gets up and walks over to them.
"Santana, Rachel. A fight is a wound. If you wait too long to apply medicine you'll be left with a scar of emotional distance."
Santana rolled her eyes. "Oh, God."
Finn continued. "Do not dismiss this. I know what I'm talking about. I'm the guy you and Rachel look up to. The leader of our group."
Santana looks to Rachel. "Can you believe this guy?"
Rachel stepped closer to Finn. "I'm going to say this as slowly and clearly as possible. Our relationship is fine. We don't need anyone's help. Whatever happened last night is behind us. We worked it out on our own."
Brittany stepped into the conversation. "You two play too many games and games are relationship poison."
Santana smirked and looked at Rachel. "See, babe. No more game nights."
Rachel rolled her eyes and swatted at Santana's arm.
Brittany clasped her hands together. "Anyway we are happy you worked it out and we're here to say Happy Anniversary, you two!"
Finn remembers something and pulls a wrapped gift out of Brittany's purse. "Oh right! Santana, you forgot this at our hotel. The gift? Complete with card?" He winks at her and hands it to Rachel.
Santana grabbed the gift then folded her arms. "I didn't forget anything. I actually did get her a gift. But thanks for being so condescending."
Finn steps back with his hands up. "Alrighty. So about tonight's Wine Cruise. There are going to be tons of other couples there so I hate to be the, 'Don't dress like a lesbian, Santana' Guy, but-"
"Unacceptable!"
Rachel put her hands up to grab Santana and then tilted her head and threw them down. "Ah what the hell. Go for it."
Santana is enraged. "Finn, we're not spending our anniversary at sea with you two! And starting now, we will not accept any more 'far off plans', or plans made at any time that involve boats or other things that suck. I love Britts, she's still my best friend, but oh my god how is it neither of you have realized how awkward this entire thing has been? We are not, I repeat, we are not spending our anniversary in the middle of the ocean with you two and a bunch of other couples we've never met before. It's weird! We want to be alone, don't you get that? End of discussion!"
Finn smiled. "Thank you for your honesty."
Brittany nodded along. "I feel so much closer to both of you right now."
Santana starts pushing them out of the apartment. "Yup. Big breakthrough. We did it. You guys get on the boat. I'm going to get my mack on. Maybe see you in another five months." When she got them into the hall way she shut the door.
Rachel smiled. "That was amazing. We are gonna have a great 'us' night tonight."
"Do we feel we've done everything to ensure that?"
Rachel thinks for a moment. "Crap. Kurt is still here. You stay right here, I'll go talk to him."
Rachel walks into the spare bedroom where Kurt likes to sometimes hang out. He clearly thinks it's his.
"You can't be here tonight."
Kurt looks up from his magazine. "What? Why not?"
"It's our Anniversary, Kurt! We want to be alone."
"Well where am I supposed to go?"
"I dunno, home maybe?"
"And what am I supposed to do there? Watch tv? Listen to music? Make a sandwich?"
Rachel rolled her eyes and said with a sigh "stop listing normal things like they are bad."
Kurt continues. "Rent a movie? Hang out with my roommate? Go out for a drink?"
Rachel grabbed his shoulders. "This is ridiculous. It's one night. Don't be dramatic and try to make me feel bad about wanting to spend my one year anniversary alone with my girlfriend."
Kurt looks off into the distance then hits play on the ipod dock. Fix You by Coldplay starts playing as he slowly exits the room with his head down as Rachel crosses her arms and rolls her eyes.
Later that night Santana is happily sitting in front of the tv. Rachel enters with two full champagne glasses and sits next to her. "Oh my God, what a meal. The lobster, the oysters, and the presentation...
Santana agrees. "I know. If this guy doesn't win Top Chef I'm writing Bravo a letter."
They nod and both take big bites of vegan pizza.
"What a perfect night."
Rachel nodded and handed her a champagne glass. "It's just getting started. Happy Anniversary, baby."
"Happy Anniversary."
They clink their glasses, take a sip, and then Rachel puts both glasses down on the table and lunges at Santana with a heated kiss. She rises, moves across the room and motions for Santana to follow her.
Santana is sitting on their bed and Rachel emerges from the bathroom in a very sexy negligee.
"Wow"
Rachel nods and walks slowly towards her. "Yeah, it's hot huh? It's a little creepy that Finn and Brittany picked it out."
"If that creeps you out, don't read the card they wrote to you from me."
They fall onto the bed and kiss passionately, then Rachel's phone starts ringing. She see's it's Kurt.
"Don't answer that."
"He knows we wanted to be alone so it might be important." She clicks the phone. "Hello?"
"Hey it's drunk. I got really Kurt"
Rachel hangs up and turns her phone off. "It wasn't important."
Rachel crawls on top of Santana, kissing her. Santana pulls back for a moment. "I do give you what you need, right?"
Rachel smiles. "Most of the time. It wouldn't kill you to put the groceries away without me having to ask though."
Santana laughs. "Whatever. So...um...as sexy as this outfit is, I kind of want to give you the present I actually bought for you."
She pats Rachel's ass to get her up and she runs over to her dresser and grabs the gift hidden inside her sock drawer. She came back over to the bed.
"A year ago if anyone told me I'd be dating Rachel Berry I'd have had them committed. And a year ago if anyone ever said I'd be madly in love with Rachel Berry some day I'd have had them brought up on Defamation of Character charges."
Rachel laughed. "Always the sweet talker. I hope this isn't your way of getting in my panties because you're gonna have to try again."
Santana smiled and stepped closer to her. "I realized a long time ago that I don't want to be with Rachel Berry anymore."
Rachel's face dropped and she pulled her hand away but Santana tugged her closer. "I want to be with Rachel Lopez."
Santana got to one knee and held a ring out in front of her. "Will you marry me?"
Rachel stood there in shock as her eyes became teary. "Well, that attempt definitely worked. Yes, of course I'll marry you!"
reviews and stuff. tbc.
final chapter coming up. for those of you wondering why I update so fast it's because due to my work schedule being so hectic I dont even start posting a story until I have about 90% of it written already. I hate waiting weeks if not months for updated stories so I dont want to do that to other people.
