The Doctor and the Rockstar

Dani nervously paced her living room, her phone clutched in one hand, Santana's phone number in the other.

"Your making me dizzy with all this pacing Dani, just call her already" Dani's best friend and manager Ashley Debri, said from the couch. "Just call her D, she's obviously into you, otherwise she wouldn't have given you her number, besides that doctor is smoking hot, you need to jump on that before someone else does".

Dani rolled her eyes "Grow some damn lady balls Torrez, and call her all ready, this constant back and forth is giving me a headache" Dani's other best friend and one of her back-up dancers Devon Reynolds said.

"Okay, okay I'll call her" Dani says dialing the numbers into her phone.

Still pacing nervously Dani listened to the phone ring a couple of times her nerves getting worse with every ring, finally after what felt like an eternity Santana answered the phone "Santana Lopez" the dark haired beauty said into the phone.

"Uh, hi, Santana, it's Dani, umm Dani Torrez" Dani said nervously into the phone, cursing herself for stuttering and acting like a complete idiot.

"Hi Dani, I was hoping you'd take up my offer and call me" Santana greeted.

Dani released a nervous laugh "I guess I was just trying to work up the nerve. Are you working today?"

"No, actually today is my day off" Santana replied.

"Oh well that's great, would you like to meet up and get some coffee or something?" Dani asked, glaring at her two best friends who were trying to stifle their laughter from the couch.

"I would love to, I can meet you at the coffee shop we first meet in an hour" Santana said trying to keep her excitement about seeing Dani out of the hospital under control.

Smiling Dani replied "That sounds perfect; I'll see you there in an hour".

"Awesome, I'll see you then. Oh and thanks for calling Dani" Santana said.

"You're welcome" Dani replied softly before hanging up the phone.

With a huge grin on her face Dani started jumping up and down "She said yes, she said yes, were meeting for coffee in an hour".

Devon smirked "Yeah we kind of guessed that D, now was that so hard?'

Dani glared at her friends "Shut up, and help me figure out what to wear?"

"Oh I thought you'd never ask" Ashley squealed, jumping up from the couch she grabbed Dani's hand and dragged her to Dani's bedroom, and into her large walk-in closet.

"Okay so it needs to be casual, but smoking hot at the same time" Ashley said digging through Dani's closet.

"You realize you've made a huge mistake right?" Devon said coming into the closet and sitting next to Dani on the couch inside the closet.

Sighing Dani nodded her head "Okay I got it" Ashley said holding up a pair of grey skinny jeans, black high heeled shoes with an open toe and a see through brown shirt with a black cami to go underneath it "And you can top it off with sunglasses and some jewelry" Ashley said a proud smile on her face.

"For once I actually like it" Dani standing up and taking the clothes from her friend.

"Your words wound me Dani" Ashley said holding a hand to her heart in fake pain.

Smirking Dani stripped out of her yoga pants and tank-top, not ashamed to strip in front of her friends, the two people who knew every little thing about Dani, and everything she'd been through in her life.

"You look hot D" Devon said standing up to find a silver necklace that hung low on Dani's chest, a couple different rings, and Dani's favorite pair of aviator sunglasses.

Smiling Dani moved to the bathroom, where she applied a small amount of make-up and made sure her blue hair looked alright.

"Okay, I should probably get going, the coffee shop is actually pretty far from here, and I don't feel like walking that far, more chance of the paps finding me" Dani said as she grabbed her phone, purse, and keys. "You guys are more than welcome to stay here and hang out if you want".

"I think your forgetting D, I'm living with you for the next like four weeks, or until your able to take care of yourself after the surgery" Devon said with a smirk.

"Right well you two have fun, try not to kill each other" Dani replied rolling her eyes.

"Can't promise anything, have fun with the smoking hot doctor" Ashley said following the shorter girl down the stairs.

"You know for a straight girl, you seem to be pretty interested in the fact that Santana's hot" Dani replied back.

Ashley just shrugged "I may be straight as a board, but I can recognize a beautiful looking woman without feeling attracted to her, unlike you two" she said looking pointedly at Dani and Devon.

Devon held her hands up in fake surrender "What can I say, I'm not exactly the relationship type of girl" she defended.

"I try to have relationships but you and I both know how hard it is when your famous and all people want you for is your fame or money" Dani said pushing the elevator button that went directly to her penthouse, if you had the access code. "I'll see you two late, and please behave" she said throwing them a pointed look as she stepped inside the elevator.

After a twenty minute drive Dani found a parking spot near the coffee shop. Taking a deep calming breath Dani got out of her car and walked the short distance. Stepping inside she looked around the small fairly empty shop, spotting Santana in the back corner, at a small table, Dani smiled and walked towards her.

Santana had her long dark hair down, letting it flow down to the middle of her back; she was wearing a pair of ripped blue skinny jeans, with a loose white blouse, and a pair of low black combat boots.

Looking up Santana smiled and stood up when she spotted Dani walking towards her.

"Hi" Santana greeted stepping away from the table to greet the shorter girl with a soft, quick kiss to the cheek.

"Hi" Dani replied, her smile getting even wider at Santana's greeting.

"Do you want to go order, I wasn't sure what you liked so I thought I'd wait until you got here" Santana explained.

"You didn't have to do that" Dani said as Santana lead her to the register.

Santana just smiled "Yeah but I wanted to, so what would you like, feel free to get whatever you want, they have the best blue berry muffins. I'll have my regular Allie" Santana said smiling at the pretty blonde haired barista.

"I'll have whatever she's having" Dani said not failing to see how the barista Allie gave Santana a flirty smile as her hand lingered on Santana's out stretched hand that held her debit card.

"I'll bring your order to your table Santana" Allie said flirtingly.

Santana nodded her head with a soft smile, as she set her hand on Dani's lower back and guided her back to their table, making Dani's stomach do a nauseating summersault.

"I'm sorry about her, I've been a regular here since I started my residency at the hospital and she's been here ever since flirty and dropping hints" Santana explained once they were both sitting.

"It's okay Santana you don't have to explain, I completely understand, I mean you're a very attractive woman, anyone would flirt with you" Dani said, blushing slightly when she realized what she had said.

Santana smirked "You think I'm attractive?"

Dani's blush deepened "I ugh, yeah, of course I do".

Santana laughed lightly "Well I think you're pretty attractive as well, even if you are a famous musician".

"Oh so you don't usually go for celebrities then?" Dani asked.

Santana shook her head "I can't say that I have, although some of my closest friends and one of my ex's are pretty famous, not as famous as you but still famous. Of course I dated her in high school and part of college before she was famous".

Dani rested her arms on the table and leaned forward "Oh, anyone I'd know?"

"Rachel Berry-Hudson, famous on Broadway, just won a Tony award for her performance in Funny Girl, Kurt Hummel-Anderson, designer for Vogue, Blaine Anderson, Kurt's husband is a music writer, Brittney Pierce-Evans also my ex from high school is a professional dancer, and her husband Sam Evans is a model".

"I know Blaine, he's a writer for my record label, I've written songs with him before, he's a really nice guy, and I've heard of Brittney, I think my tour manager tried to get her to be a back-up dancer but she was already signed with someone. Are all of them your friends from high school?" Dani asked right when the barista Allie brought them two mocha's and two blue berry muffins.

"Here you go Santana, your usual order" Allie said winking at the taller Latina.

Santana gave her a small smiled "Thank you Allie". Watching the girl leave Santana sighed shaking her head "Sorry, umm yes they are, we all went to high school together in Lima Ohio, a very small town, along with Rachel's husband Finn Hudson whose a high school teacher. Quinn Fabray who's some kind of big shot lawyer here in New York, and her fiancé who is also my ex Noah Puckerman, but we all call him Puck, he's a sergeant in the Air Force, and is currently overseas" Santana explained before taking a drink of her favorite coffee.

"Oh so your one of those lesbians, tried to hide it from yourself and others by dating guys" Dani teased with a smile.

"Yeah I guess you could say that, high school wasn't exactly my most attractive age area, at least not until my senior year" Santana said.

"What happened your senior year to make you change?" Dani asked.

Leaning back in her chair Santana sighed "The summer before my senior year, I was diagnosed with cancer, the doctors found it in my right leg, they were able to remove it but I still had to do chemo, and everything else that goes with cancer. Going through that made me realize that I needed to be open with who I am, made me realize that I couldn't keep going around hating the world when really I was just trying to hide something I couldn't. It also inspired me to become a doctor and help kids with cancer, give them the fighting chance to have a normal life".

"Wow, that is some story Santana Lopez" Dani said shocked and not really sure what else to say.

Santana laughed "Yeah your telling me. And what about you Dani Torrez, where are you from, what makes you, you?"

"You mean you didn't google me and find out my whole story from the tabloids once you figured out who I really was?" Dani asked sarcastically, slightly afraid Santana had done that.

Reaching across the table Santana set her hand on top of Dani's "No I didn't do that, I want to get to know you, the real Dani Torrez, not the person the tabloids claim you are. I want to learn your story, and get to know you from you and only you" Santana said softly.

Smiling Dani intertwined her hand with Santana's enjoying the warmth the taller Latina was giving her "I think you're the first person to have ever said that to me, everyone else reads the tabloids and instantly thinks they know everything about me, knows what I've been through, and judges me about it".

"I don't want to do that, I want to get to know you, the beautiful girl sitting in front of me, not the girl on magazine covers" Santana replied.

Looking down at their intertwined hands Dani watched as Santana ran her thumb across to top of Dani's hand, soothing Dani's nerves and hesitation away "I grew up in Dallas Texas, with Lacey, she's six years older than me, we lived in a suburb area of Dallas, with our very religious parents. Lacey and I had to go to church every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday's for service. Lacey graduated from high school and came to New York for college to get away from our parents. Where she met Matt, my parents instantly disapproved of him, so Lacey stayed away, stopped coming home, stayed in New York, of course we still talked but it had to be in secret without my parents knowing. When I was seventeen they found me kissing a girl in the basement, they didn't give me a chance to explain or anything, they kicked me out. I had nowhere else to go so Lacey paid for me to move to New York with her Matt, who were already married at that point, without my parents or me in attendance. Izzy was born two months later. Then at nineteen I was discovered by my record label and now here I am".

"Your parents kicked you out at seventeen years old?" Santana asked shocked.

Dani nodded her head "I was a disgrace, a sinner, and no longer their daughter, of course some other things happened before I got famous resulting in my tattoos but that story is for another time I think".

Santana nodded her head "I think your tattoos are amazing, I really like the birds their beautiful" she said looking down at her phone when it dinged with a new text message "Wow, we've already been here an hour".

Dani laughed "Wow, I didn't even realize it. Do you want to go walk around Central Park, stretch out our legs, continue talking, getting to know one another. I don't know about you but I really don't want to leave yet".

"I don't want to leave yet either, and I think it's a perfect day for a walk" Santana replied.

Smiling both girls stood up grabbing their bags and leaving the coffee shop heading towards Central Park, leaving a seething and very jealous Allie behind.

For the next hour the two girls walked around Central Park, talking about anything and everything. Santana talked about graduating from Columbia Medical school when she was twenty two, and doing her residency at New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. And Dani talked about touring all over the country and the world, and meeting her fans who she loves very deeply and loves to interact and meet them.

Both girls deciding to go to lunch together and leave the park, getting ready to head back to Dani's car, when Santana hears someone call her name, turning around she see's Rachel and Quinn walking towards her.

"What are you doing out here San, I thought you had plans?" Quinn asked not noticing Dani standing slightly behind Santana.

"I do have plans, your actually interrupting them right now Q" Santana said giving her best friend a pointed look.

Rachel having noticed Dani and recognized the blue haired girl, her eyes widened as she elbowed Quinn to shut up "You want to introduce us to someone Santana?" Rachel asked when Quinn gave her a puzzled look, now noticing Dani behind Santana.

Santana rolled her eyes "Okay, Dani these are two of my best friends Quinn Fabray, and Rachel Berry-Hudson, or as I like to call her man hands. Rachel, Quinn this is Dani, the person I had plans with that you are currently interrupting".

Ignoring their Latina friend Quinn and Rachel shook Dani's hand "It's nice to meet you Dani" Rachel said.

"And nice to see Santana actually out of her apartment and the hospital" Quinn said with a smirk.

Laughing Dani smiled "It's nice to meet you both, and trust me I'm glad to see Santana out of the hospital as well" she said winking at the taller woman.

"Well I think it's time we get going Dani, I don't know about you but I'm starving" Santana said shooting her friends a glare telling to leave already.

"Oh Quinn and I were just getting everything ready for tonight, and we should get going as well, it was nice to meet you Dani, Santana I'll see you later tonight, come on Quinn" Rachel said pulling on Quinn's elbow who was too busy mouthing things at Santana to irritate her.

"Well your friends are nice" Dani commented with a light laugh as she and Santana continued their walk to Dani's car.

"Yeah there something else alright" Santana replied smiling as she reached over to intertwine her hand Dani's as they walked.

After lunch Dani and Santana stand next to Dani's car "I don't know if you have plans or anything but I'm having dinner with Lacey, Matt and Izzy, would you like to join?" Dani asked.

Santana smiled "I would love to but tonight is my group of friends annual dinner night, every week we meet at someone's house for a huge dinner, and attendance is mandatory, the only way I can get out of it is if I have an emergency surgery to attend to" Santana replied not failing to realize that Dani's smile faltered, reaching out to play with the shorter girls fingers Santana smiled "But I would love to have lunch with you tomorrow. I have to work but if you want there's a little restaurant by the hospital, and I'd love to take you there".

"Yes, I would love to have lunch with you tomorrow Doctor Lopez" Dani said smiling.

"Good, I'll text you tomorrow when I'm able to break free for lunch" Santana replied trying to hide how excited she really was.

"Sounds good, I'll see you tomorrow Santana" Dani said standing up on her toes to kiss Santana's cheek "Have a good night" she said softly.

Smiling like a love struck teenager Santana's smile widened "Good night Dani" she said softly letting go of Dani's hands and stepping onto the sidewalk, waving one last time at the blue haired girl Santana headed towards Rachel and Finn's house.