Protecting the Heart

Disclaimers: I do not own any part of Glee or its characters. This is purely for pleasure I get nothing else for this. Want to give a special thanks to Niekie for helping proof read this story for me. She's all kinds of awesome and an amazing author herself. Check out her Glee fic too.

Chapter 7

A few months had passed since the agents left them to their own devices and a lot had happened in that time. It took almost a week to fully get unpacked and everything in its place to both of their liking. Teddy and Eli became really close and played together every day. Usually Eli would come over to their house to play. They were still apprehensive about him being out of one of their sights so the only time Teddy went over to Eli's is if Rachel did too to visit with Will or they all went as a family for dinner. Rachel had made fast friends with Will and they found that they both really liked the eccentric couple. Santana also got to see a lot of Daniel around Campus and they were becoming pretty good friends too.

They also found that unlike Lima they were not ostracized for being in a Lesbian relationship. The neighbors all seemed to welcome them with open arms and the other parents on the block were more than happy to have playdates with all of the children while all of the moms sat around and gossiped. Rachel found that she really liked the little group of moms and Will of course was just one of them. They did what you would imagine moms would do and exchanged recipes and talked about their husbands or wife in Rachel's case. She found a kind of comradery in it all and was settling in well.

So far she hadn't minded being home all of the time. She set a good schedule for herself and Teddy, and almost every day while he napped she sang and wrote her music. She was also learning so many new recipes to cook and really found a new love for it now that she had time to experiment and create so many new and wonderful dishes. Santana wasn't complaining and loved coming home to a fabulous dinner every night, though she did make a point of taking them all out to dinner often to get them out of the house and treat them.

Santana was doing well at the University and really fell into the role of professor with ease. Her first day there Daniel rode in with her to show her around and incidentally that was the day she and Rachel had their first kiss between them that was on the lips. Rachel walked her to the door to say goodbye and Santana kissed her cheek before heading off.

Flashback:

After breakfast that day Santana kissed Teddy on the head before he ran up to his room to get dressed for the day and Rachel walked her to the door.

"Do you have a preference for what you would like for dinner tonight Ana?" Rachel asked.

Santana shook her head. "No, you know I'm not picky so whatever you make is fine."

She stepped outside turning back to Rachel in the doorway kissing her cheek with a see you later and turned to walk away. "What the hell was that Sanchez? My husband would divorce me if that's how I kissed him before leaving for work."

Santana rolled her eyes and turned back giving her a peck on the lips then looked at her new friend. "Satisfied?"

He just laughed and shook his head. "I'm not the one you should be worried about satisfying Ana."

She glared at the man then turned back to Rachel who just shrugged and leaned back in. She only meant for it to be a slightly longer chaste kiss but the moment they settled their lips more firmly together they melted toward each other and their lips started to move.

They were lost from the get go and Santana moved closer to deepen the kiss but stopped when laughter broke out behind her. "Ok, damn I get it, she's satisfied. Come on before we're late."

Santana broke the kiss and searched Rachel's face but saw nothing that looked like disgust or anything negative so she smiled pecking her lips once more before pulling away and softly stating, "I'll see you tonight."

Rachel just nodded dumbly and watched her run down the steps and jump in her SUV. As she pulled out of the drive Rachel touched her lips and shivered before finally moving back into the house.

End Flashback:

Since then they've shared a similar kiss every morning before Santana leaves for work. Both feared hearing from the other that it was all just for show so they never talked about it and it just became a part of their day.

It was now a few days before Halloween and almost two months into the fall semester and Santana was more than content with the way her job was shaping up. She had a nice group of students and most of them seemed to be really interested with what and how she had been teaching them.

"This week we are going to start studying human conditioning. Who can tell me one of the most famous physiologists for his work related to human conditioning?"

She looked around and sighed when no one raised a hand. "Oh come on guys this is basic stuff and part of the weekend reading you were assigned to complete before class today."

A girl in the first row raised her hand, "Pavlov ma'am."

Santana smiled. "Yes Sarah, Ivan Pavlov was most famous for his experimentation with his dogs. That experiment was the cornerstone for conditioning. Now, what I want you to do is write a paper about how conditioning is applied in society today."

She pointed to a boy in the back who raised his hand. "Yes Michael?"

"Is it still really used today?" He asked in confusion.

She just smiled. "It's used more then you could imagine in so many aspects of life. One place I can think of that I have personally seen it used is High School."

He cocked his head in surprise, "High school?"

"Yes and I know all of you attended high school so I want you to think about the social hierarchy in your school. Think of the popular kids and the ones at the bottom of the totem pole. Those on the top conditioned the lower level students to act the way they wanted them too."

She looked around as they were all writing furiously. "As extra credit anyone who can write an accurate account of the social system and how it relates to conditioning will receive 100 extra credit points that will make a huge difference in your final grade in the class. As I have said before I will only be offering 2 extra credit opportunities and this will be the largest."

Everyone started murmuring to each other. She looked at the clock then to the door hearing a little knock and smiled seeing Teddy's face pressed against the glass of the classroom door and Rachel coming up behind him pulling him away from it. Chuckling she turned back to the class. "Now I'm going to take my wife and son out shopping for a costume so we can condition the boy into knocking on strangers doors in hopes of receiving candy." The students all laughed as she motioned for Rachel and Teddy to come on in. "Ok guys I'll see you all next time. You have two weeks to complete the assignment and if you have any questions as always please email me and I will get back with you as quickly as I can."

They all gathered their things as Teddy ran across the room and threw himself into her arms. "Mami mami, are we going shopping now?"

Santana lifted him into her arms and kissed his temple. "Yes mijo just as soon as we take mama to get some dinner. We'll go after we eat and get you the best costume we can find." He squealed happily and she pulled Rachel into her side. "Hey, how are mama and my peanut today?"

Rachel smiled putting a hand on her belly accepting the little kiss Santana gave her. "We're doing fine, we're just starving."

Santana kissed her once more as the students filed out of the room smiling at their professor and her family. "Well it's a good thing that my boy and I are planning on taking you out to dinner then. Let me get my briefcase packed and we can get out of here."

Rachel smiled with a nod as she sat at Santana's desk while she put Teddy down and gathered her things for the day and shutdown her computer. "Ok let's get out of here and get some food so we can make this boy scary for Halloween."

Teddy huffed and crossed his arms. "I don't want to be scary Mami. I want to be a caveman."

Rachel looked at him in confusion, "A caveman?"

"Yep, cause den I can have a pet dinosaur like Dino." He said seriously and they both chuckled.

"Ok baby we'll see what we can do. I'm sure we can find something." Rachel said standing and taking Teddy's hand smiling when Santana took his other.

They headed out and went to dinner at a local restaurant called Open Range that was owned by their neighbors the Henderson's. It was a really nice steakhouse that Rachel craved for their steak and Teddy loved for their skillet mac and cheese. Santana always tried something new and had yet to be disappointed.

As they were shown to their seats Amy Henderson came rushing over and happily hugged Rachel. "Hey guys, I didn't know you were coming in tonight."

Rachel smiled hugging her back, "Yes, we are out to find Tony a costume for Friday night. He wants to be a caveman and Ana is treating me to a night without cooking."

Amy beamed at her. "Well at least Anita helps take care of you through your pregnancy. Arnold was worthless when I was pregnant with Abby. I worked right up until the day I delivered."

"Don't let her bad mouth me ladies. I tried to get her to stay home and rest but she insisted on working." Arnold smiled coming up behind his wife and stuck out a hand to Santana and Rachel. "Glad you could make it out to see us tonight."

"Me too, Maria just loves the steak here. The closest I can come to making it that good is on the grill and it is a bit cold to be cooking out so here we are." Santana said winking at Rachel.

"Well we're glad you chose us for your steak needs. Oh Maria, are we still on for Thursday for play group at your house?" Amy asked.

Rachel nodded excitedly. "Oh yes, I have everything picked out for lunch and lots of fun stuff for the children. Will is bringing the makings for mimosas and we are having those little sandwiches you all liked so much."

Amy clapped happily and Santana gave Rachel a confused look, "Babe, mimosas?"

Rachel chuckled grabbing her hand. "Not for me silly. I'll be sticking to straight orange juice."

Santana just nodded and looked back to the other couple. Amy smiled at the two. "Well, we'll let you get to your menus and get some dinner. If you need anything you just let us know and I'll see you Thursday Maria."

They said their goodbyes and turned their attention to the menus and each other. A while later after a wonderful meal they found their way to the costume isle at Walmart and Rachel was standing with Tony looking over the options.

"I don't know baby, I'm not seeing anything like a caveman. What about being a dinosaur? I see a costume here for a blue one." Rachel asked.

Teddy just stood looking at it and frowned. "I don't like that one mama. I want to be a caveman with a pet dinosaur."

Rachel sighed and started looking back through the rack. A few moments later Santana came around the corner holding a leopard costume and some fuzzy brown house shoes that looked like they went halfway up the leg. "I got it."

Rachel and Teddy both looked at her like she was crazy. "Um… I don't think..."

"I don't want to be a cat Mami." Teddy said sadly.

Santana just smiled kneeling down to his level. "I know mijo but there are no caveman costumes so I'm going to make you one out of this leopard one. Cavemen made their clothes from animals so if I take off the head part and cut off the legs making it a tunic you can wear your fluffy brown sleep pants under it and you will look like a caveman. It'll also keep you warm. The slippers look like fur and have hard grip bottoms so they will work for caveman shoes. I also got some fake fur stuff from the fabric isle."

Teddy looked at it all and smiled. "Can you really make it Mami?"

"Of course, I don't have any classes tomorrow so we can spend the day getting it ready."

Teddy started jumping up and down and looked to Rachel who put the dinosaur costume in her hand back on the rack. "Well if you think you can do it that's fine with me. I'll work on some dinosaur and caveman snacks while you two get that made."

Santana stood smiling brightly and dumped her load in the cart. "I just need to grab a few more things then we can go."

She picked Teddy up as Rachel took the cart and led them to the craft isle where she got the rest of things needed to complete the costume. Once she was sure she had everything she needed they headed home for the night.

She had purchased a sewing machine at one of the store in Richmond when they were outfitting the house and when questioned by Rachel about it she simply said you never know when you'll need to mend something. Now she was extremely happy that she had decided to make that purchase. It would have been harder if she had to sew it by hand.

The next day she spread everything out in the dining room on the table and got started. Teddy never left her side helping with anything she asked of him. Rachel just watched and brought them snack and lunch when they got hungry. At one point Santana and Teddy got up and went to the garage and Rachel had no idea what they were doing in there. Right before dinner was ready Rachel was putting the last thing she needed in the oven when Santana called for her to come and look.

Rachel wiped her hands and made her way into the dining room to find a fully dressed Teddy looking like an authentic caveman with one of his dinosaur stuffed animals in a wooden box on wheels. She immediately grabbed her phone out of her pocket and took his picture.

"Oh my god you look so cute." She gushed and Santana beamed.

Teddy shook his head. "I look furo... furos… I look mean." He said giving up on remembering the word Santana had called him.

The both held in their laughter and Rachel nodded solemnly. "You do look very ferocious. I only hope you don't frighten the other kids on Friday night."

Santana turned him back to her. "Ok mijo we need to get this off of you and put it up for trick or treating."

He looked down with a pouty bottom lip, "Awe Mami, I wanta wear it more. Por favor?"

Santana almost caved but to Rachel's shock held firm. "No, you can wear it Friday for Halloween then after that you can wear it to play around the house in. Dinner is almost ready and if you get it dirty or it gets ripped or something you won't have it for trick or treating and I won't have time to make another one before then. Let's change now and clean up for dinner."

With a sigh he nodded his little head and turned to let her take off the costume. Rachel smiled, proud of the way she was getting better at resisting the boo boo lip. "I can't wait for Friday to see you in it pulling your little pet dinosaur. You look great baby."

He looked up and beamed as Santana put his regular shirt back on him. "Now go on up and clean up the mess I know you made picking out the dinosaur you wanted for your wagon and I will call you when it's time for dinner."

He nodded and launched himself into her legs. "Thank you for my caveman suit. You're the bestest Mami ever."

She hugged him tightly to her and smiled when he pulled away and ran to do as he was told. Rachel came over and wrapped her arms around Santana's neck. "Thank you. That turned out so amazing and he is over the moon."

Santana pulled her as close as she could with her ever growing belly. "Well I can't be the bestest Mami ever if I don't try. I'm just happy that it turned out so well and he liked it so much."

Rachel laid her head on her shoulder. "I don't think I say it enough but thank you for all that you do for him. You are so good to him and with him. It means the world to me that you care for him so much. You didn't have to be like this with him. You could have just let me deal with everything for him and just keep an eye out for us but you are so great with him and I just wanted to say thank you."

Santana lifted her face up to look in her eyes. "It is my pleasure. When this all started I did what I could for him because he's yours but now that boy is in my heart and I would do anything for him because of him. I love him so you don't have to thank me for that. He's my mijo."

A tear escaped Rachel's eye as she fell just that much more for this incredible woman and she buried her face in her neck. This last few months they'd been getting closer and closer and as Rachel had always known leaving this fake relationship was going to hurt but as time went on she realized that she had sorely been underestimating her feelings for this woman. When they went home and went their separate ways it was going to more than hurt, it was going to destroy her.

This realization just caused her tears to fall harder and small sobs to erupt in her throat. Santana squeezed her tighter in confusion and the need to help. "What's wrong? Why are you crying?"

Rachel shook her head and refused to meet her eyes. "I'm… ok…"

She said between sobs and Santana didn't believe a word of it. "You know I don't believe that for a moment. You don't just cry like this for no reason. Honey, please tell me what's going on."

At the term of endearment she just cried harder. She just couldn't bring her emotions under control. Her heartache and hormones were doing a number on her. Santana was really starting to get worried. She guided her to a chair and sat pulling Rachel into her lap.

"Come on now sweetie breathe before you pass out." She said as she took Rachel's hand and put it on her own chest. "Now just match my breathing, in and out."

She just cooed and talked her through it until she finally started taking deep breaths and melted into her. "That's it baby. Breathe for me."

Rachel sighed kissing her neck softly then moved to sit up. "I'm sorry for that. Thank you but I need to check on dinner."

Santana wasn't having it though and held tight, "Oh no you don't. Tell me what that was about."

Rachel shook her head. "It's just silliness Ana. I'm hormonal and pregnant and my emotions got away from me again."

"No, I've seen you hormonal and crying. That was not this, something was hurting you. Please talk to me." Santana pleaded with her needing to know what was wrong so she could fix it.

Rachel melted back into her and sighed again realizing that she wasn't going to let this go. "Can we talk about it after dinner and we but baby to bed? Please, I don't want to talk about while he's awake and could walk in seeing me upset."

Santana kissed her temple not liking this at all but conceded. "Fine but we are talking about this tonight before bed."

Tilting her head slightly she kissed Santana's jaw and sat up. "I promise I'll talk to you but I really need to make sure dinner doesn't burn. Why don't you get our boy then set the table for dinner."

Santana looked into her eye's seeing nothing but sincerity and let it go for now. She leaned up and kissed her lips softly. "Ok, go on and I'll get him."

Rachel shivered slightly at the contact and slid off her lap heading into the kitchen. Santana watch her go hoping that whatever was bothering her wife she'd be able to help her with. She got up and headed upstairs not even realizing that she thought of her as her wife in her head and not just in the sense of their pretend relationship.

Once she was in the kitchen Rachel breathed a sigh of relief at having stalled her for now but she knew she'd have to talk to her tonight. Santana was too wonderful and worried too much about her to let it go so she'd have to figure out what to say to her.

The rest of the evening was spent with Teddy dominating the dinner conversation with talk of his costume and how much fun he and the other kids would have at their playdate Thursday and Trick or Treating Friday night. After dinner Santana insisted on washing dishes and Rachel took Teddy to the living room to watch TV until she was done then they put on a movie and snuggled together to watch.

Once getting ready for bed and putting Teddy down for the night Santana gently took Rachel by the hand and pulled her back into their room. She guided her to the bed and climbed in holding out her arm for Rachel to move into. When Rachel was fully settled into Santana's chest she kissed her head softly. "Ok, now talk to me querida."

Rachel melted at the Spanish endearment. Santana had only called her that a few times but every time it caused her heart to skip. "It's really nothing and I wasn't lying when I said my hormones got the better of me."

Santana sighed, "Yes but your hormones weren't what set you off they just fueled whatever was hurting you so please, tell me what was wrong."

"I'm worried about how this is all going to affect my babies. Time is going by fast and it's been months already and no sign of this coming to an end anytime soon. He's becoming so attached to you and what about the baby. When she comes you will be her mother too. What do I do when we go home and they lose you?"

Santana gasped at the thought of losing the children and shifted until Rachel was on her back and she was hovering above her propped on her elbow. "What makes you think they will lose me? Are you planning on everything going back to the way they were between us after we return?"

She asked in a panicked voice that calmed Rachel slightly. "Of course not. I've already told you that I want you in our lives."

Santana visibly calmed. "Then why are you worried. I plan on being around so much you get sick of me. He's not the only one who is attached here. I love him and I love this baby and unless you push me out of your lives I want to be there."

Rachel sighed and cupped her face. "I know that Ana but it won't be the same. You are their Mami but when we go home what will you be to them, their Aunt? I just know that he will miss you helping put him to bed and all the little things you do together on a daily basis. It's going to hurt him and I know it can't be help. That's why it was silly and hormonal of me. He'll be fine and you will always have a part in our lives it's just not going to be the same."

Staring at Rachel she tried to reign in her own emotions now because these are all things she was worried about too. Add to that the fact that she wouldn't get to sleep with Rachel in her arms every night and her heart started constricting in her chest. "I don't know how to fix all of that. Do you want me to distance myself from all of you from now on?" She almost choked on the words.

Rachel pulled her down to her, "Absolutely not. That is not what I want at all. All that would do is hurt the four of use even more. No, please don't do that. We need you."

Santana almost sobbed into her in relief and kissed her neck softly. "I don't want to either. I just want to be there for you and the kids."

Pulling her face up to look in her eyes Rachel's heart broke at the look of heartache she saw within them and she started kissing the tears that were streaming down her face in between reassurances. "It's ok… I want that too… we'll figure out what to do… when we get back… I don't want to lose you… I want to be there for you too…"

Santana calmed as she kissed her cheeks and melted into her resting their foreheads together talking softly. "We'll figure it out. We have to because I refuse to lose any of you. One of my biggest regrets was not coming back and talking to you after everything went down. I was so afraid that you still didn't trust me and wouldn't want me around. I honestly couldn't have taken that rejection again from you. Now that you are in my life again I refuse to ever let you go without one hell of a fight. You and the kids are my family."

Rachel looked into her eyes and leaned in connecting their lips in a softly in a barely there meeting of lips. Santana shifted and slightly added more pressure to the lips below her own and sighed into her. When they released they looked into each other's eyes for a moment then came back together with more purpose. Rachel wrapped a hand around Santana's neck pulling her closer.

They just kissed almost reverently for a few, neither pulling away, both afraid of pushing for more until Rachel couldn't stand it anymore and ran her tongue tentatively along Santana's bottom lip causing a small groan to erupt in her throat and she opened to Rachel. Taking the invitation Rachel quickly swiped her tongue into her mouth and they both moaned at the contact.

They kissed languidly for a while, neither knew for how long. Neither battled for dominance, it wasn't about that, this was just about showing one another that they were there. Rachel knew that this was going to make it even harder in the end but she couldn't bring herself to care. She just wanted to be closer to her. Santana was of the same mind and only wanted to be with the little Diva for as long as she could in any way that she was allowed and Rachel was the one that initiated this so she was just going to enjoy it.

The kiss ended naturally though neither knew how long they had been locked together. Hands never roamed and the kiss never built in intensity but both were deeply affected by it. After resting their heads together for a moment regaining their breaths they just looked into each other's eyes some more. Eventually Santana shifted pulling Rachel back into her and sighed as she settled.

"Never worry that I will not be there for you or them." She said kissing her temple lovingly.

Rachel smiled into her neck and kissed it softly. "Never doubt that we want you there." Nothing more was said as Rachel melted into her and fell asleep more contentedly then she ever had.

Santana stayed awake for a little longer just listening to her breathe then like every night she trailed a hand down to Rachel's stomach and rubbed it lovingly. "I love you little one and your Mama needs to stop worrying about me not being there for you or your brother because no matter what happens I will always be your Mami. Goodnight Rosie." She gave one last little rub then wrapped her arms around Rachel and fell asleep quickly.

Rachel opened her eyes when she heard her breathing even out and smiled kissing her neck once more then followed her into sleep.

In the morning they clung to each other more than usual at the door before kissing goodbye and Rachel watched a little teary eyed as she backed out of the drive. This didn't go unnoticed by Will and Daniel who saw it from their own porch and decided to divide and concur to make sure their friends were ok.

Neither spoke a word as about what had happened the night before which was becoming the norm for them with emotional things that involved them and not the children. Danial was able to catch up with Santana in her office before her first class.

"Hey, how's it going this morning?" He asked as he came in and took a seat.

Santana leaned back in her chair distractedly closing out of her emails. "Things are good, what brings you by so early? I usually don't see you until around lunch time when we don't ride in together."

He just shrugged, "Just checking in. You guys seemed a little off this morning. Are you and Maria ok?"

Santana smiled. "So when I don't kiss my wife properly you brow beat me into fixing that but if you think I hug and kiss her too long you think that's a bad thing?"

He chuckled shaking his head. "It's not that. She just seemed overly emotional for you to be going to work. Will and I were just concerned."

Santana softened standing and coming around the desk to lean on it. "She's ok, she just had an emotional hormone fueled evening that kind of trickled into the morning. The baby hormones get the better of her sometimes and she just needs a little extra cuddles to feel better."

"Oh good," he said with a sigh of relief. "You guys have become very important to us and I'd hate if something was hurting any of you."

Santana nodded and accepted a hug from him when he stood. "We feel the same about you guys. Thank you for the concern but we're really ok. The baby hormones just suck sometimes. Last week she burst into tears and told me I was worthless because I left a towel in the floor of the bathroom. Then she turned around almost in the same breath and cried harder because she felt bad about yelling at me. It comes and goes but I just look at Tony and remember that the rewards of it all out weigh the frustration of her irrational emotions."

He laughed and stepped toward the door. "Oh I remember when our surrogate was staying with us before Eli was born. She was all over the place with her emotions." They both laughed and talked a little more before they both headed out to class.

By lunch time the Sanchez home was full of activity with all 5 children, Will, Rachel, and the other two moms. They had just sat all of the children down at the kitchen table and Rachel brought the last of the food for the adults to the table and sat down herself.

Will looked over at her as she put a hand on her back and stretched breathing deeply. "Hey, you ok?"

Rachel smiled nodding. "Oh yes, she's just stuck up in my ribs and won't come out. She's being like her Mami and being difficult today."

They all laughed and Will sat back. "Is everything ok with Ana? You two seemed strange this morning."

"Of course, Ana is amazing as always. Wait until you guys see the costume she made for Tony yesterday. We couldn't find a caveman costume for him like he wanted and she just took a Leopard costume, some fake fur material and whipped him up an outstanding costume. She even made him a little wooden wagon for his pet dinosaur." She sighed in awe of her wife. "She's such a good mother."

They all smiled softly and Will took her hand. "She's great with him. I think we can all attest to having lucked out in the spouse and fellow parent department. I've seen Daniel, Anita and your husbands with all of the children and they are all wonderful."

Amy sat back and smiled. "Oh I couldn't have asked for a better father for my Abby and oh I just can't keep it in anymore. I went to the doctor yesterday and Arnold and I found out we are expecting a new little one. I'm due this coming May."

They all squealed in delight and got up hugging their friend. She looked to Rachel and beamed. "Looks like we're only four months apart and can do so much of this together. I didn't have other mothers around when I had Abby until she was almost two when we moved here and I met Will and Regina."

Rachel smiled and tears sprang to her eyes thinking that she may not get to be here for any of it and it broke her heart. "It will be so nice. I didn't have other mothers either until we moved here. Well, other than Ana of course. It's been so amazing having you all to talk to about everything."

Amy grabbed her hand and wiped her tears, "Baby hormones getting to you again?"

Rachel nodded her head and swiped at her tears. "Yes and it's driving me crazy."

They all laughed but before anymore could be said a voice at the door stopped them. "What is all this laughter in my house?"

Santana walked in and they all laughed at her joke and she joined in until her eyes fell on Rachel and she saw the tears in her eyes. Dropping her bag she swiftly moved to her and pulled Rachel into her cupping her face wiping tears. "What's wrong querida? Don't cry."

They all awed and Rachel melted into her. "I'm fine honey I promise. Amy just told us that they're expecting a new baby and I got a little emotional. I'm ok."

Santana deflated in relief that that's all that was wrong and moved to Rachel's seat. She sat pulling Rachel into her lap then looked to Amy. "Congratulations, do you know when you are due yet?"

Amy smiled looking at them snuggle in together. "At the end May. We just found out for sure yesterday."

Santana nodded and Rachel turned in her lap to look at her. "Not that I don't love seeing you in the middle of the day but why are you home baby?"

Santana looked at the others a little shyly then back up to Rachel. "Well, you were still a little out of sorts this morning and I needed to see you and make sure you were ok so I came home for lunch."

Rachel beamed her famous smile as the others awed once again causing Santana to blush. Rachel leaned down and kissed her softly. "Thank you, I was still a little weepy this morning and I was doing better until Amy got me started again. I'll never complain about you coming home for lunch, especially when you are being so sweet to me."

Santana just blushed harder and buried her face in Rachel neck. Rachel chuckled with the others at this and leaned over plating sandwiches to share with Santana and pulled her face out when she had the plate ready. "Here honey, go ahead and eat. I know you have a class to teach at 2:00."

Santana smiled gratefully and dug into her food, never letting Rachel go. They all settled back into conversation until Teddy finally heard Santana's voice and came running. After playing with him for a few and finishing her lunch she kissed them both goodbye and headed back to work. The rest of the day went by quickly and was over before they knew it.

It was now Friday evening and they were heading out to meet up with the other three families to let the five little friends trick or treat together. The moment they came down the stairs and Santana put down Teddy's little wagon with the dinosaur Will and Daniel howled in laughter. "Oh my god that is too precious." Will said as they waited for them to come down the drive.

Teddy beamed at them, "My Mami made me a caveman."

Daniel ruffed his hair, "and such a handsome caveman you are."

Santana smiled and looked to Elijah. "Eli my man, I love it buddy."

Eli was standing dressed as Captain America and smiled brightly. After everyone complimented the boys they crossed the street to join the other two families and headed down the street to get started. The kids had a blast and the parents all enjoyed their antics throughout the night.

By the time the night was winding down and they were heading home Santana was carrying a sleepy Teddy and Rachel was leaning into them pulling the dino-wagon that now housed the giant bag of candy that the boy had collected. Santana sighed wrapping her free arm around Rachel. "I wish you had let me go get the car."

Rachel leaned up and kissed her cheek. "I'm fine. A little walk isn't going to hurt me."

"I know but this was more than a little walk babe."

"It's ok, the house is right there." She pointed to their home four houses down. "I'm just sleepy, I promise I'm ok."

Santana grunted guiding her across the street and into their yard. After waving goodbye to the other parents they made their way into the house and Santana took the now sleeping boy up to his room. Rachel took the dinosaur wagon into the kitchen dropping it and the candy to be dealt with the next day and headed up to check on Teddy and Santana.

When she came to his door she saw Santana pulling the covers over a now pajama clad sleeping boy. "Is he out?"

Santana kissed him lightly and walked over to Rachel pulling her close. "Yea, he never woke up. Poor little guy's exhausted."

Rachel laid her head on Santana's shoulder. "So is his mama. Why don't you tuck me in too?"

Santana smirked, "I think I can handle that." She said leaning down and taking Rachel's lips in a slow kiss. When they pulled back Rachel was breathless and Santana just chuckled at her reaction then took her hand guiding her down the hall to their bedroom.

Once they changed they came together as always and settled down for the night. Rachel was asleep almost as soon as her head nestled into the crook of Santana's neck and Santana was caressing her stomach like she did every night. "Goodnight Rosie. Mami loves you." Then she was out as well.

A/N: Up next things start to heat up a little more and we may see a little more of what is going on in New York.