Epilogue

Santana stepped in front of the full-length mirror that was in her bedroom and looked over her appearance. Her family would be at her house in less than half an hour and she wanted to look her best for her first family Christmas Eve with Brittany. She checked to make sure that her makeup was perfect, every hair in place, and her red dress on point. She checked over everything twice before deciding she was finally ready. She went to the living room, and as she rounded the corner from the hallway, she saw Brittany sitting on the couch in front of the coffee table.

She tiptoed behind her and put her hands over her eyes. "Hey you." She whispered in her ear.

"Hi." Brittany cooed and hummed when Santana nuzzled her ear with her nose.

"I'm still not used to your new ears." Santana said nuzzling her ear again and taking her hands away from her eyes. "But I love them, and I love you."

"I love you too." Brittany giggled and turned to look at Santana as she came around the couch to sit beside her. "I think it's going to take me some time to get used to them as well. You wouldn't think that it would be that noticeable; it's just ears, but I can feel that they're different."

"Well it's only been twenty-four hours, you'll get used to them soon." Santana said encouragingly. "Although, I have to say that I'm going to miss kissing those points. Who knew that they were an erogenous zone for elves."

Brittany blushed, sliding her fingers over her right ear. "You can still kiss my new ears. I like it when you do that." She said shyly.

Santana smiled and leaned in, pecking Brittany's lips. "Oh I intend to." She promised in a low voice and pecked her lips again before she looked to the coffee table and saw that Brittany had a bag of multicolored mini marshmallows that she was stringing together. "What are you doing?"

"I'm just getting ready for Ally and Alex to come over. I'm going to have 'Brittany' repelling from the top of the tree using a marshmallow rope."

"They'll love that." Santana said with a smile.

Before Brittany became human, she made an actual toy elf in the toy shop that looked exactly as she did when she had been a toy so it would look as if Santana still had her Elf on the Shelf. Santana was glad for that because she did not want to get another one now that she knew they were not toy. A toy she was okay with, but an actual person watching her and Brittany in their home was too much. She couldn't deal with that, and thankfully, Brittany was in agreement. Now that she was looking at it from a different perspective, she had to admit that it was a little creepy. She didn't like the idea of one of her friends from the North Pole watching her all the time either.

"So I was thinking that maybe we should change her name." Santana said picking up the toy and straightening out her dress. "We could let the twins decide on a name. I just think it would be less confusing…and weird."

Brittany chuckled. "I was thinking about that too. Your parents definitely thought it was a weird coincidence that you started dating someone that had the same name as your toy elf; and then the twins kept giving me strange looks the first time they met me. I don't know what they were expecting me to do, but they were definitely suspicious of me. They weren't wrong though. Kids are more observant than they are given credit for."

Santana laughed and set the toy on the coffee table again. "They are. Good thing that we were able to convince them otherwise and no one really thinks that you were an elf."

"Your mom nearly caught me a few times." Brittany recalled with a chuckle.

When winter ended, and it became warmer, Brittany had a hard time adjusting to the heat. To help keep cool, she wore her hair up in a high ponytail whenever she was home, but Maribel had a habit of stopping by with little to no warning, so a few times she quickly had to pull her hair out of the ponytail to hide her ears.

Santana playfully rolled her eyes. "Yeah, but at least you don't have to worry about that anymore."

Brittany giggled. "Now we just have to make sure that no one sees my magic and we'll be set."

Surprisingly, when Brittany became human, she retained her magic. That was not something that she had been expecting. In an effort to ease into becoming a human, Brittany tried to limit using her magic. She learned how to do everyday tasks that she would normally use her magic for, but when Santa turned her human, her magic didn't disappear along with her pointy ears. Santa said that it was possible that since her Christmas magic was deeply seeded within her, and she had a profound love and respect for the spirt of Christmas that it would always stay with her.

Santana wasn't worried about anyone seeing Brittany use her magic though. She was very good at keeping it hidden. "You know, as much as I miss those sexy pointy ears of yours, I'm so glad that you got to keep your magic. Not only is it cool as hell and so helpful at times, but it makes things in the bedroom at lot more interesting." She said with a smirk.

Brittany giggled and nodded knowingly. She didn't always use her magic when they were having sex. In fact, most of the time she didn't. They had a healthy and active sex life, but on occasion, she would use her magic to spice things up. Those were always exciting days for them.

Santana hummed and leaned into peck Brittany's lips again. She would have liked to kiss her more deeply, but she didn't want to ruin their makeup. "I can't wait to tell everyone about the engagement." She said with a wide smile and glanced to Brittany's left hand to see the ring she had put there.

Brittany grinned and pecked Santana's lips again. "I can't wait either."

They waited eleven months before Brittany asked Santa to turn her human. She wanted to go through the transition only three months after leaving the North Pole, but Santana was the one that asked her to wait a little while longer. She practically begged her to wait. She knew that this would be the biggest life changing decision that Brittany would ever make and she wanted to make sure that being with her as a human really was what Brittany wanted, and she didn't think that three months was enough time for her to be sure. Brittany didn't think that she had to wait any longer to be sure; she knew that Santana was the one for her, but she could see that it was important to Santana that she give it more time, so she agreed to wait until right before Christmas.

Within minutes of Brittany returning home from the North Pole after becoming human, Santana dropped to one knee, diamond ring in hand, and proposed to her in front of the fire. She didn't waste any time asking her to marry her because she thought if Brittany could give up being an elf so they could be together, then she wanted to make it forever. She wasn't sure how she could ever thank her for what she did for them, but she was going to spend the rest of her life trying.

They had been engaged for twenty-four hours and as excited as they were to share the news, they had not told a soul yet. They decided to wait because they wanted some time to themselves to celebrate privately before they told anyone else, because they knew as soon as they did, there would be a huge fuss about it, especially from Maribel.

"My mom is going to lose it once she finds out." Santana said.

Maribel and Brittany had a great relationship. She was the first girl that Santana introduced to her parents that Maribel truly thought was a perfect match for her daughter, and as such, she made it a point to spend time with Brittany and invite her to every family event.

Brittany chuckled. "Yeah. She's going to want to start planning the wedding tonight."

Santana playfully rolled her eyes. "There's going to be no stopping her. She'll have the whole thing planned for us by New Year's. We may not even get to plan it ourselves."

Brittany giggled again; setting down her finished marshmallow rope, and took Santana's hand into her own. She loved that Santana pretended to be annoyed with her mother, but actually liked the fact that she was involved in her life. She knew it was important for Santana for her mother to be part of the planning. "Honey, I think that's a little exaggerated. Of course she's going to let us plan our own wedding, but she's going to be excited and want to give us ideas and help us plan. She's probably been waiting for this since you were a little girl."

"Yeah." Santana said with a nod. "She used to get such a kick out of it when I would have play weddings at my abuela's as a kid." She said and then paused for a few moments. "I wish my abuela could come to our wedding." She said with a flat smile. "I think she would have loved you."

Brittany lightly squeezed Santana's hand and rubbed the top of her hand with her thumb. She had heard the story of how Santana and her abuela had a falling out after she came out as a lesbian in high school. It had been one of the worst moments in Santana's life. Thankfully, they made up a few years ago during Santana college graduation, but unfortunately that was short lived. About a year and a half after their reunion, Alma sadly passed from complications from pneumonia.

"I wish she could be there as well." Brittany said. "I think I would have loved her too."

Santana nodded and took a deep breath to push away her sad thoughts. She didn't want to be sad. She was engaged to Brittany, and it was a happy day, so she changed the subject away from her abuela.

"You're parents are going to be excited when we tell them too. Although I think we may have to come up with a better plan to keep them contained and incognito."

Brittany's parents were still alive and well in the North Pole. They had visited once for a few days, and it had been a success and a total disaster at the same time. They loved Santana, and Santana in turned loved them, even with their idiosyncrasies and unusual quirks, but unfortunately, hiding the fact that they were elves was not their strong suit. They had never left the North Pole before, as they were not scout elves like Brittany, so every time they left the privacy of Santana and Brittany's house, they nearly revealed themselves in one way or another. Mostly it was because they were set in their ways and they would forget not to use their magic in public, or Pierce would get annoyed with wearing a hat and he would keep taking it off, showing his ears. By the time that they left to go home, Brittany and Santana were so stressed and exhausted over having to watch them every second that they decided the next time Brittany's parents came for a visit, they would have to limit the amount of outside activities they planned. It was just too risky to take them out until they learned to be discrete.

"I don't know what we're going to do with my parents." Brittany sighed; she was really concerned about them. "We can't not invite them; they're my parents and I want them at my wedding, but they're going to be found out the second we leave them alone and I don't want to spend our entire wedding worried about them doing something. I want to enjoy it."

"Me too. I'm sure that they'll try, but just in case, I'm guessing you're going to want to invite Santa, so maybe he can keep an eye on them for us. We can tell people that he's your uncle so it wouldn't be weird that he's around your parents all the time. If anyone can keep them in check, it's him. I'm sure he can even find a way to disguise your dad's ears without a hat."

Brittany nodded. "Yeah, that's a great idea. That could work!"

"I'm sure we're going to have the best wedding ever, so let's not worry about any of that until it gets closer. We have a lot to do before it gets to that point. I know we haven't been engaged that long, and we've been a little distracted since I proposed, but we don't even have a date yet, which I think is kind of one of the most important things in starting the planning process."

Brittany smirked. "That's because you can't declare your everlasting love to me in the sweetest way possible, and then ask me to be your wife and not expect me to take you into our bedroom and make love to you over and over and over again."

Santana felt her cheeks heat up. "True." She said shyly as some of the memories from the past twenty-four hours crossed her mind. She certainly welcomed that kind of distraction with Brittany any time.

"But you're right. We should probably pick a date before we do anything. That's the first thing your mom is going to ask us about tonight."

"Um, are you sure it's okay for us to pick a definite date tonight?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't it be?" Brittany asked confused.

"I mean, I'd love to start planning the wedding tonight, but I know you want to get a job, so I thought you might want to wait until after you found one, that way you'll know when you can get off for the wedding." Santana said. She wasn't worried about the money, she made more than enough to support both of them, but she was worried about Brittany getting bored. She wanted to her to have her independence as well.

While Brittany was still an elf, she continued to travel to the North Pole to work in the toy shop. Santana had a full time job and Brittany didn't want to sit at home alone while she was at work. She had a wide array of skills that she had acquired over her lifetime, and some of them, especially toy making could be a viable career for her, but since she had no background in the human world, she couldn't just get a job because it would seem as if she had appeared out of nowhere. So she kept her job in the North Pole, until she became human and Santa gave her a new identity complete with every piece of official documentation that she would need to fit in seamlessly without causing any suspicion.

"I want to start planning the wedding tonight with your mom and any job that is offered to me, I will make sure that they're going to give me the time off before I take it." Brittany said and took Santana's other hand into her own. "I love you so much. I waited over ninety years to find my soulmate, and I've finally found you. I don't want to wait anymore. I can't wait to marry you. I want to be your wife and I want to have babies with you. I want it so bad that I can't stand the idea of having a long engagement."

"I want all of that too." Santana said with a soft smile. She didn't want a long engagement either. She wanted to marry Brittany as soon as she could and start a family together a few months to a year after the wedding.

Brittany smiled and leaned in, kissing Santana softly and deepening it after a few moments. Santana eagerly returned the kiss, not caring about ruining their makeup anymore; she just needed to be close to her future wife.

When they parted, Brittany rested their foreheads together and tightened her hold on Santana's hands. She was so happy. She had no regrets about becoming human. "I love you, San. I love you so much."

"I love you too, Britt." Santana whispered. She leaned in, intending to kiss Brittany again, but before their lips touched, they heard a car pull into the driveway and they knew Santana's family had arrived.

"They're early." Santana said pulling back from Brittany and then she rubbed her lips together. "How's my make up?"

Brittany rubbed her thumb just above her top lip to wipe off the smudged lip gloss. "It's perfect. How's mine?"

"Great." Santana said not finding a single smudge, but then she remembered about the marshmallows. "Oh crap, we have to get the elf in the tree before the kids come in."

"I got it." Brittany said grabbing her handmade rope and toy elf and quickly set them up in the tree while Santana hid the bag of marshmallows.

"It looks amazing!" Santana chirped with a smile as she looked at the fun scene that Brittany had set up for her niece and nephew. Her heart swelled at the idea that in the near future they were going to have kids of their own to do that for. She was sure their kids would love Christmas, because how could they not; one of their mothers used to be a Christmas elf. She laced her fingers with Brittany's as they walked to the front door to meet her family. "Are you ready for this? You know everyone is going to go crazy in about two seconds."

Brittany giggled and nodded. "I'm ready. I've been ready for this for a long time."

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A/N: Happy New Year everyone! I hope that you all liked the epilogue to this cute little fic. Pretty please send me your thoughts if you have a chance.

Thank you to my beta naynay1963 for beta-ing!

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