Manda's Note: This didn't exactly come out as long as I was hoping to make it but my mind kept wanting to skip around. So! I thought the best decision regarding it would be to ask you guys. Do you want to see a bit of time skipped or shall I continue on where it is? let me know! and enjoy!

She couldn't tear her eyes away from the Latina sitting in the dark kitchen gazing down at the innocence in her arms. It was three in the morning and Jane was just getting in from work, enough time to catch a few hours of sleep and then take Li out for a few hours. Now that she knew her granddaughter wouldn't scream herself to death maybe she could give Li some sort of good summer. As she stood there and watched Santana's careful movements and listened to the classic Little Mermaid song slip from her lips almost every concern that had gone through her mind earlier in the afternoon was wiped away. She looked like such a natural.

"Having a long night?"

Whispering not to disturb the baby she placed her keys on the key holder and shut the door quietly behind her. Santana's eyes snapped up immediately and she stopped singing as though Jane had frightened her from her paralyzing thoughts. Her serene smile was right back on her face when she looked down at the infant, she was such a different person than what Jane was used to walking into. Normally it was Santana standing in the kitchen with one of Puck's tee-shirts on and nothing else. Those were the mornings Jane's first words were always 'please tell me you took your birth control pill'. Didn't matter what she forbid the pair from doing… they did it anyway, six months ago she'd given up on lecturing. It wasn't worth it when it went in one ear and right out the other.

"No… I woke her up a half hour ago. I'm not used to her sleeping through the night. It worried me."

The girl with the fear that everyone close would eventually leave her, Jane hadn't seen that projecting off to the baby quite as soon as it seemed to. Especially not the infant that Santana had sworn up and down was going to ruin her life once it came out of its half creator. This wasn't a twist in the story that Jane had anywhere near close to seen coming, she'd seen Santana slamming out the door that morning and only coming back when she or Li needed her.

"Santana you and Noah are starting school soon… you've gotta let her sleep through the night."

She'd always been able to invasion Santana in the role of mother, mid twenties, ring on her finger, living at Connie's house full time. She'd always known that one day Santana would turn into the mother she herself hadn't ever gotten enough time with, she'd always been so much more on the inside then she'd let people know or get close to.

"You never wrote back to my text about Quinn."

The request that had kept her up all night came rolling out of her mouth with hardly a greeting to Jane. It'd been bothering her since she'd walked into Puck and Jane talking about Quinn in the afternoon. Jane could see it in the way she held onto the little girl in the bunny pajamas.

"I had to go talk with the social worker at the hospital Ana…"

The look on Jane's face alone told her that whatever was going to come out of her mouth next wasn't something that she actually wanted to hear. Yet she kept her eyes locked on Jackie as Jane pulled a kitchen chair over to sit next to the windows beside her, her eyes staying stuck on her little granddaughter.

"Well so long as she signed the legal documents thirty days after she was born there's normally nothing she can do to appeal for custody. However, this is different from normal case. Quinn's got a year to file that she was misinformed about the adoption and where the baby went. I can't say that you guys are in the clear till then."

Arms tightened around the infant in her arm suddenly, the thought of Quinn taking her away made her cringe. That wasn't how Jackie deserved to be raised, not as a pawn in a game like she'd eventually turn into if Quinn had custody of her. She would without a doubt use her to torment and push Puck for the things they'd both done.

"I need to know how far you're willing to go Ana. Are you in this for good? The two of you are actually going to raise Jackie together?"

Her response got stuck in her throat, she hadn't actually thought about it that way. She hadn't thought about it as taking full responsibility for something she hadn't even done. From the moment she'd picked the child up that night the whole thing had been purely instinctual. Everything just felt right, every time she coddled Jackie or kissed her little forehead. She couldn't find a reason for it, she'd never been the very nurturing type.

"I'm worried about you in this Santana; a baby is a big responsibility. A responsibility that you're in no way indebted to, this was Puck's mistake and decision, not yours. You shouldn't have to pay for the things that he's done and you shouldn't feel compelled to have to. A baby changes everything, especially raising a baby that isn't even yours."

Seeing the start of Santana's raised eye glare she knew she should have chosen her words a little more carefully. The touchy female in front of her always took things that were said harder than she was supposed to. She was just like her mother had been in that way, it was something Jane was quite used to now.

"Don't do it Santana you know that I don't mean it the way you're taking it. I never said that I was going to tell you not to do this I'm just letting you know that I don't expect you to do this and Noah shouldn't either. You don't have the responsibility here this is on Noah, not on you."

She watched Santana think about it yet her expression never changed, she only clutched tighter to the infant in her arms and furthered her smirk along.

"You practically raised me and you didn't have to."