Standing up, she staggered a bit. "Wait!" she called to her unmoving girlfriend.
Rachel huffed as she waited for whatever the drunk girl had to say, thoroughly displeased.
"I'm sorry." It was a whine. She was whining. What sort of apology was that?
"Santana, I am not in the mood for this so I would suggest you give it up and simply go to bed. We can discuss it in the morning."
The taller girl pouted and Rachel found herself beyond thankful that the girl wasn't in a stupor of drunken hysterics. Because really, it would be far too unfair to have to console the girl she was currently upset with.
"I love you with all my hearts."
"All your hearts?" the diva asked with a roll of her eyes.
"Ye-ah." The single syllable broken into two by a hiccup. Looking down at her own chest, she raised her right hand to poke herself just above where her heart lie. "My cold heart." Another poke. "My warm heart." Poke. "My hard heart." A jab. "My soft heart." Rachel would have argued that cold/warm and hard/soft were quite similar, but held back due to her girlfriend's inebriated state and the fact that she didn't want to argue at all. "My-my small heart. My big heart." Rachel rolled her eyes. Could her girlfriend not be more creative? "My drunk heart." Santana looked up with a crooked smile before her expression fell. "No! Not my hearts!" She seemed to be panicking slightly as she frantically tried to reform words. Rachel watched her bewildered.
"They don't belong to me." Santana began, looking past Rachel, swaying drunkenly as if her profound thoughts blindsided her. "They belong to you." She looked back to the girl she was addressing as her voice took on a more urgent tone. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to say it like that-to claim them! They're yours! All yours!"
Taking a step forward, Santana gripped each of Rachel's shoulders and looked at her with such sincerity and belief it awed Rachel. "I love you with all your hearts."
And it made complete and total sense to Santana.
A pause.
A sigh.
Rachel opened her arms for her customary Apology Accepted hug.
Because how could she refuse that?