Catbast - thanks! Haha and I agree!
LaurenKnight13 - hahaha no no you aren't selfish. I appreciate it actually. Gets me motivated to write. Hope you like! :]
HeyaBrittana - hahaha I don't even like him lmao. Enjoy!
The T.M. - thank you! Enjoy this one :]
Lanter - aww thank you so much. Yeah, that was fun to do that. Hope you like this one too!
Lea - haha I love them, too. So glad you like this. De rien! J'ai pris français au collège ;]
Jac Lag - so glad to hear that. Hahaha no one likes Chris. I don't even like him.
Bydneley - lol. Aw no problem. Thank you for the review
Wkgreen - hahahah she needs to get the hint already ;]
Whatevergirl87 - awwww :] thank you…yes, she totally does and Beth is so cute haha. Ohhh, you are very right. Holly may have some help. I always love your reviews. I'm so glad you like the story and pay so much attention to everything. It's awesome ;]
EmotionalPanda - she just might, but you'll have to wait and see ;]
DeadFlash27 - haha I agree 1000% :]
Shing-hai - lol aw, man! That means so much. I'm so glad you've liked the story so far. Haha in my other story, Santana is a lawyer. But this was different. No, no. I hate writing Brittany like that. I'm not really good at it so I'll leave that to Ryan, Brad and Ian haha. I love Holly Holliday. Hahah thanks! So so so glad you like.
MLE - thank you! Ah they are my two favorite to write haha
0A - thanks! I'm still trying to work Rachel in. Oh I could be down for some Faberry. I had some requests for Quick…so I think I'm going to ask everyone for their opinions at the end and see which pair wins haha.
Momo30 - thank you! I'm so glad to hear that. It made me smile. Hope you continue to like! :]
Rioux - aw, well I'm glad you're all caught up now. Everyone is game for Brittana. It's just always on and everyone knows it haha. You'll have to wait and see ;]
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Dara Nitz - aw well I'm excited for you to see where it goes..I'm glad you like this. I know right? And I totally will ;]
Heyalovexo - aw thank you! I'm so glad you like this and thanks for the kind words.
Verena R - aww thank you so much! You're so nice…haha she would be an amazing matchmaker. More Brittana is on the way ;]
Thieee - aw thank you! So glad to hear that.
DarknessRules558 - thank you! Santana is around 25/26 and Brittany is around 23/24. Not sure on exact age, just wanted Santana to be about a year or two years older than Britt.
Venera22 - thank you! And ah I know, love writing her. It's so cute haha
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Santana knocked twice before entering Brittany's hospital room
"Hey!" Brittany said clearly surprised at Santana's appearance.
"Um, hey. Holly…sorry, Dr. Holliday wanted me to bring this to you because she had a patient."
"Oh, that's funny. I didn't hear her name being paged." Brittany said curiously as Santana set the food down on the table near her bed. "Are you on duty?"
"No, I actually just finished."
"Oh." Brittany said before taking a bit of the food. "Wow, this is so much better than what they've been feeding me these days."
"I can imagine. The doctor's café is like the best kept secret here." Santana said with a laugh as she watched Brittany eat.
"I totally understand why they want to keep it a secret." Brittany said. "Are you hungry?"
"No, I'm fine. I'm actually going out for dinner in a bit so I'm good."
"Oh, hot date?" Brittany said teasingly.
"Oh yeah." Santana said extremely sarcastically. "I'm just grabbing dinner and drinks with Dr. Holliday."
"Oh, that's nice." Brittany trailed on. She thought about mentioning the fact that she and Dr. Holliday talked about her but that idea left her mind when she saw something that Santana was holding. "What's that?" Brittany said pointing at the object. "I mean, if you don't mind me asking?"
Santana looked caught off guard as she looked down to the item. "Oh, um, this was just one of my patient's necklaces."
Brittany's face scrunched not really understanding why Santana had it.
"She, um…well let's just say I've seen a lot of her in the past couple of years and she's helped me through some tough times. She uh died today and her daughter gave this to me."
"Oh god, I'm so sorry." Brittany said immediately regretting asking. She reached out her hand and grabbed Santana's in an effort to comfort her.
"It's not your fault." Santana said with a light laugh. "I'm happy for her, you know. She always thought she was dying and that she would finally be able to see her husband again. She always seemed so alone so I'm glad she's finally with him."
Brittany could see the sadness in her eyes and she couldn't help but wonder if Santana identified with this woman because of loneliness. And then that made her wonder what Santana identified with when it came to her.
"Yeah, I can't imagine losing someone you love and just having to go on day to day without them." Brittany said. Santana was about to respond when Brittany's hospital phone rang.
Sorry." She offered to Santana before picking it up. "Hello?"
"Hey, Britt. It's Quinn."
"Oh hey, Quinn. What's up?"
"Nothing. What are you doing? And how are you feeling?
"I'm feeling fine. Dr. Holliday gave me actual food so I'm just enjoying that with Santana."
"Ohhhhhhh, Santana's there?"
"Yeah."
"Well, be sure to let her know that I am going to personally thank her when I see her for making my daughter obsessed with Grey's Anatomy and other similar shows."
"Oh, Quinn, I definitely will even though I can sense the sarcasm in that."
Quinn and Brittany laughed.
"So you just left me a couple of hours ago. What's the real reason you are calling?"
"Oh, that's right. Well, Chris is flying in now. He should be here in a couple of hours and will be visiting with your parents tomorrow."
"Oh." Brittany whispered out. "I guess better later than never, right?" She said dejectedly.
"I guess. But Beth and I will be back tomorrow, too. And of course, we will be there when you get discharged on Wednesday."
"Sounds good, Quinn."
"Okay, see you tomorrow and tell Santana I said hi."
"Will do. Bye, Q."
"Love you, B."
"Love you, too. Bye."
She hung up the phone and Santana couldn't quite read her face.
"Everything okay?"
"Um, yeah. Quinn wanted me to tell you that you got Beth hooked on medical shows." Brittany said and Santana smiled.
"I'm glad I could be of service in that department. So what's the real reason she called? If you don't mind me asking now." Santana said mimicking Brittany from several moments before.
"My boyfriend will be here tomorrow."
"Oh, that's great. But you don't seem so happy."
"I guess I am but I also don't feel anything towards the whole situation. Like he's coming to visit the day before I get released. He wasn't here for any of it. Hell you were here more and you don't even know me."
Santana just shrugged. "Well, I guess if he couldn't get a flight out that's something he really couldn't help."
"Yeah, but still. I've always felt that after he transferred to California that our relationship wouldn't end up working. Quinn, Kurt, Blaine, Mercedes, my sister and my own parents hate him."
"So then why are you still with him?"
"It's safe with him, you know? I've spent all these years building a relationship with him and if I break things off with him then all those years would be just a huge waste of time."
"Yeah, but if you're not happy then why further waste your time?"
"He always promises to visit more and never does. He knows I don't have the heart to break up with him over texts or phone so I feel like he uses that against me."
"You're too much of a nice person." Santana said bluntly and Brittany looked at her. "I mean if I were you, I'd leave him an email or a text saying 'It's over' and then go on with my life. But see I'm a bitch and you aren't so…."
"You don't seem like a bitch. I mean you've spent more time here than any of my doctors, you treat Beth better than anyone else I've seen in years, you were respectful to my parents when you didn't have to and you save people."
"Well, maybe I am very skilled at separating my personal life from my professional life." Santana said immediately pulling up the walls that she always built around people.
Brittany didn't really know what to say so they remained silent for the next few minutes. She kind of felt insulted because Santana basically just referred to her as a part of her professional life. She was kind of disappointed to hear that and was even more curious about the girl behind the medic nametag.
I uh….." She started not really knowing how to break this awkward spell. "I'm sorry about my parents, by the way. You don't have to do dinner with them."
Santana laughed a little. "It's fine. I understand that they are extremely happy that you are okay. I wouldn't mind going."
"You really don't have to. I wouldn't want you to risk possibly breaking away from your professional life." Brittany said unintentionally.
"Touche." Santana said with a laugh as she raised her arms in defeat. Brittany was half expecting that comment to start a fight between the two. Instead Santana just shook it off and looked at her watch. "Uh, well I should head out. I've gotta go change for tonight."
"Oh okay. I'm sorry about saying that. I had no right."
"No, it's fine. Really."
"Okay." Brittany said not really believing her. "Have fun tonight."
"Thanks. I hope I see you before you get released but there's no telling where I'll be around the time you do."
"Yeah, I hope you do too. I know Beth would love to see you once more before I leave." Brittany wanted to add in "And so would I" and also something about seeing each once she got better but she bit her tongue.
"Yeah, I would, too. Well, take care, Britt." She said before leaving.
Santana cursed under her breath in Spanish as she made her way back to the firehouse to get changed. She always kept a change of clothes at the house in case situations like this randomly came up.
She arrived at a bar near the hospital a little after 10 and less than 5 minutes later she saw Holly approaching.
"Hey, mama." Holly said giving Santana a hug. "You look hot."
"As always." Santana finished her sentence with a smile.
"Let's go get our drink on."
After about an hour, the two women were a bit drunk and made their way over to a booth.
"So why is that you have no date tonight?" Holly said taking a sip of her beer.
"Why does everyone ask me that? And besides, I could ask you the same thing."
"Okay, you got me."
The two women laughed and began talking about the latest hospital gossip and the usual things.
"Why did you make me take the food into Brittany's room? She said she never heard you being paged to someone." Santana finally asked.
"I have no idea what you are talking about." Holly lied horribly. "I was so paged."
"You suck at lying. Now, fess up, Holliday."
"I don't know. I guess I like seeing you interact with patients. It almost makes you seem human." Holly teased.
"Oh fuck off."
"I'm kidding." Holly laughed and then her face turned serious. "Do you like her?"
"I don't know her." Santana responded.
"Okay, if I asked you that a couple of days ago, I would understand you responding with that. But you two have been talking for a bit and whatever that talk was about must have given you a little idea about her."
"Well, fine. Yeah I guess I could actually see myself being friends with her."
"Friends?"
"She has a boyfriend."
"Yes, but she also asked me about you."
"She did?" Santana said before finishing up her drink and signaling to the bartender for another one.
"Yeah, apparently her friends think you are just hanging around her to get credit or something." Holly drunkenly confessed.
"Well what'd you say?"
"That if you wanted credit, you would have taken the doctor's position. And she also wanted to know why you honestly kept visiting her."
"You know why I didn't take that position." Santana muttered.
"Oh girl, I know that. But what I don't know is how you consider someone who you take time out of your day to see, which you've never done before, as possibly just a friend."
"Just because she is hot doesn't mean I can't be friend with her. I'm not Noah."
"So you admit that she is hot. Oh, I'm an amazing matchmaker. She totally feels something, too."
"She probably just feels in debt to me. And for the thousandth time, she has a boyfriend." Santana said unconvincingly.
"You say that like you aren't even sure and besides, he hasn't even visited her yet. He better be in the army or something because that would be the only reason that that is expectable."
"Apparently, he's in school in California. He plays football and can't get out of training camp or something."
"And she's okay with that?"
Santana shrugged. "She seems on the fence with it."
"Oh, I am the reincarnate of fucking cupid." Holly said under her breath before going over to the bar for stronger drinks.
They kept talking for the remainder of the night and left around 2 in the morning. Both Santana and Holly had mid-afternoon to night shifts tomorrow so it wasn't that big of a deal.
When Santana arrived back to her apartment, she saw Marissa asleep on the couch with a finished carton of Ben and Jerrys on the counter and the dvd box of the Notebook by the television. That could only mean that she and her on again off again boyfriend were now off. Santana shook her head at the sight. It looked like the epitome of every romantic comedy breakup. She picked up her cousin and brought her over to her room. She set her in bed and then silently thanked every god that she was interested in woman and not men.
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Okay, so I'm going to ask and see how many responses I get: FABERY or QUICK in this story? Depending on which gets more, I will use and if it's Faberry then I know exactly how to incorporate Rachel into the story. Just let me know who you want to see Quinn with and also all other suggestions and ideas are welcomed!
AND LASTLY, WHO SAW THE YOUTUBE VIDEOS FROM GLEE LIVE IN DUBLIN. BRITTANY AND SANTANA KISSED ON STAGE! September 20th and Season 3 need to get here IMMEDIATELY. Haha
Enjoy this chapter :]