Santana was woke from her slumber to her phone vibrating like crazy she reaches her arm out trying to grab it before it goes to voicemail and trying not to wake Quinn who is currently snuggled into her side. Once she grabs it she frowns at the unknown number but she answers it anyways, knowing it could be someone from the base trying to get ahold of her.

"Staff Sergeant Lopez"
"Lopez, It's General Ford"

Santana instantly shoots up forgetting Quinn was curled into her but remembers when Quinn groaned and rolled over. Oops Santana thought.

"Sir?"
"You're listed as of Sasha emergency contacts. I know you guys were close so I'm calling as your best friend's father not as your general. I know you guys were close"
"May I asked what happen?" Santana swallows the lump forming in her throat

"It was a training accident. She didn't get out of the way in time."
General Ford takes a deep breathe "she... She's currently in a coma and it's not looking good. We're flying out today to get to there as soon as possible." Santana tries to fight back but the tears are inevitable

"I can't fly out until after the 27th. Before you make any decisions about her will you at least let me see her and be there? I can try and catch a red eye there. Please sir let me see her." Santana's starts to sniffle and Quinn wakes up

"Of course dear. We won't be making any decisions until we hear from the best doctors. I've used my connections and the best will be there after we get there. I'll see you on the 28th Lopez. Get some rest enjoy your Christmas and try not to worry or think about Sasha to much right now. Enjoy time with your family. I beg you."
Santana sniffles

"Yes sir. The 28th. If you don't mind I'd like to call you every day for updates." Santana wipes her eyes
"That'll be fine. Enjoy your day. It's time for us to board"
"Merry Christmas Dave."
"Merry Christmas Santana"

Santana dropped the phone and stared at the wall across from her. Quinn sits up at the noise
"Babe what's wrong?" Quinn asks sleepily
"Sash... Sasha's..." Quinn rubs Santana's back.
"You need to calm down. Breathe and tell me what happened"

Santana takes a few deep breaths regains her composure the best she could

"There was a training accident and... And... They don't know if she's gonna make it. She's in a coma. She couldn't couldn't... Get out of the way in time. Her family is flying out today... I'm gonna try to catch a late flight in the 27th. I need to been there...there"

Santana starts to break down. Quinn instantly wraps her arms around Santana and pulls her into her body. Quinn lays them down and hold Santana close. She doesn't know what to say so she says nothing but tries to comfort Santana while she close to inconsolable. Quinn's never had to deal with death closely, sure her grandparents have died but she was either to young and doesn't remember much or she wasn't born yet. A few minutes later Santana has cried herself back to sleep, so Quinn takes this time to add her number to Santana's phone and sends herself a text message.

Later on Quinn runs into Rachel in the kitchen and sits at the table trying not to get lost in her thoughts

"Morning. Why the long face?"
"You remember the girl Santana introduced us to when she came home. Sasha?"
"Yeah why?"
"There was a training accident and they don't know if she's gonna make it. Santana got the call this morning and now is a mess."
"Oh my god. That's horrible. Where's Santana now?"
"She cried herself back to sleep"
"When I get done making breakfast go head and take it to her, I got to leave afterwards but we'll meet you guys at the nursing home later."
"Alright sounds good."

When Santana wakes up for the second time she feel likes she's been by a high speed train. Her eyes are still closed by she can hear someone moving around in the room, so she rolls over and peeks an eye open. She's met with Quinn straightening her hair and putting on her makeup. Quinn sees Santana's eye open in mirror and turns around.

"Hey"
"...hi"
"Breakfast is ready... It's on the table there."
"Thanks. Quinn?"
Quinn turns back around looks Santana in the eyes as if she was expecting the question Quinn gets up and moves to the bed to comfort Santana.
"This morning wasn't a dream was it?"
"Unfortunately not sweetie" Quinn moves to kiss Santana's cheek. "I did you the favor of booking you a flight there and arranged for a car to pick you from the airport to take you to the hospital."
"Thanks. You're not coming?"
"I can't. I have to attend some gala bullshit thing for my father" Quinn rolls her eyes " Trust me I would much rather be with you." Santana shakes her head and starts eating her food.

"You ready to go have lunch with my grandpa?"
"Yeah. I'm kinda nervous though"
Santana chuckles lightly "why"
"This is like meeting the parents!"
Santana laughs "he probably won't even remember he met the famous Quinn Fabray."
"I'm not sure if I should be offended or not"
Santana shakes her head "let's go!"

Santana and Quinn walked into the nursing home hand and hand Santana was pointing Quinn down the hallway when they were stopped by a nurse.

"Santana!?"
Santana turned around at the sound of her name.
"Girl Chang!"

Tina ran up and gave her hug, which Santana had no problem returning
"Welcome home."
"Thanks. What are you doing working on Christmas?"
"Oh Mike is on tour with Rihanna and my family is visiting family out of state so I decided why not spend some time with my patients."
"Patients huh?"
"Yep, finally finished nursing school. I was going to go someplace out of state but then Mike started touring the world so I decided to stay close to home."

Quinn sneezed bringing both girls out of their conversation. " Sorry"
"Don't be. Tina this Quinn Fabray. Quinn this is Girl Chang. We went to school together and apparently she's a nurse who takes care of my grandpa."
Tina rolls her eyes and holds her hand out to shake Quinn's "Tina Chang. Nice to meet you."
"Quinn."

Santana heard her grandpa's voice echo down the hallway and decided she had wasted too much time talking and standing around. She needed her grandpa fix

"Well were gonna head to see him. If you find a free moment feel free to join us. And keep in touch."
"Thanks I'll see what I can do." Tina gives Santana a hug and whispers
"I expect to know how to you managed to girlfriend thee Quinn Fabray."
Santana laughed "not girlfriends. But my number is still the same. See you later girl Chang."

The girls reach the door to Santana's grandpa's room Santana turn to Quinn
"Ready?"
"As I'll ever be."

Santana kisses Quinn's forehead and walks in. Mason jumps up and runs to hug his aunt. Rachel notices the girls hands linked together and raises her eyebrow at Santana. Santana catches her eye and rolls her eye and shakes her head. The girls are broken out of their staring contest when a booming "Tana!" Rang out causes both girls to jump slightly. Santana's whole face lit up and she ran over and gave her grandpa a big hug.

"You gonna introduce me to your girlfriend?"
"We're not girlfriends pops, were just friends"
"Uh huh, you gonna introduce me to your lady friend then" Santana rolls her eyes

Santana gets up and grabs Quinn and pulls her toward her and her grandpa
"San that was rude. I was in the middle of a conversation with Rachel."
Santana rolls her eyes "about Broadway? If you stick around you'll learn everything about it. Trust me. My grandpa wants to meet you."

"Grandpa this is Quinn. Quinn this is grandpa"
Santana's grandpa hold his hand out for Quinn to Shake, Quinn grabs ahold of his hand and is surprised when he pulls her in for a hug. Quinn regains her balance smiles and hugs him back.

"Nice to meet you sir."

"You Army too?"

"No"
"Then none of that here. I have to fight with Tana over there to break it every time she's around."
"Sorry." Quinn laughs lightly.

Santana leaves to go find Tina and to ask questions about her grandpa. She's just kind of wondering around the hall when she runs into Kitty Wilde. She rolls her eyes.

"Sorry ma'am. Do you happen to know where Tina Chang is?"
Kitty rolls her eyes "seriously? You're going to ignore me?"
"I'm not ignoring you I'm looking for Tina, Kitty."
"Oh so you do know my name. Surprising considering you've been ignoring me since you left!"
"Look, I don't want any trouble."
"I'm not looking to start any! I want answers!"
"Keep your voice down" Santana growled and pulled Kitty into the bathroom.
"Explain what your issue is with me now."

Quinn had excused herself to go to the bathroom and to secretly look for Santana. Quinn got herself lost in the nursing home, she went left instead of right, but she found Tina.

"Tina?"
Tina looks up at the sound of her name "You look lost."
Quinn laughs "yeah bathrooms?"
Tina laughs and shows Quinn back to the bathrooms. When Quinn pushes the door open she hears hushed yelling. She finds Santana and another girl in a heated argument.

"I did what I had do!" Santana said
"What? Run away from your problems? Left me standing there wondering where the hell you were and went?!"
"My family comes first and you knew that going in"

Quinn decides to clear her voice and speak up
"Hey baby, there you are, Rach is looking for you."

Santana whips around
"Hey. Tell her I'll be right there."
"Who the fuck are you?"

Santana whips back around and goes to speak but Quinn cuts her off
"I happen to be her girlfriend now if you'll excuse us we need to back to her family." Quinn grabbed Santana's hand and started to pull her out

"Seriously Santana? Seriously?! You're just going to walk away again."
Santana turns around

"Now I'm not. I'm being the bigger person. I didn't walk away all those years ago. I gave up. I heard the rumors I gave you the benefit of the doubt I believed you, only you. But then I caught you. I caught you with her. You were cheating out in the open. I don't know what's worse the fact I believed you or the fact I lied to myself and said it wasn't true. I'm not sorry for anything. Obviously you're doing just fine" Santana points to the wedding ring on Kitty's finger. "And I'm doing just fine. Now if you excuse me, my girlfriend and I need to go back to my family." With Santana walked out with Quinn hot on her heels.

Quinn catches up and grabs Santana's shoulders to stop her. Santana puts herself against a wall and takes deep breathes.

"Sorry and thanks. Sorry you had to see that. Thanks for saving me."
Quinn steps closer to Santana and pulls her into a hug.
"Don't apologize. You're welcome" Quinn rubs her back. "Let's enjoy today with your family. Your grandpa promised to tell me embarrassing stories about you"
"We're leaving!" Quinn laughs and grabs Santana back into her grandpa's room.

Santana spent most of Christmas Day with her grandpa, she could not have been happier, she missed the man. The day went great, Mason opened all his presents and Santana gifted everyone with a gift card to their favorite restaurant, besides Mason. She got Mason a mini drum set, Rachel doesn't know it but it's getting delivered to her apartment after the New Year. She's sure they'll both enjoy it. Santana also explained the situation with Ford to Rachel and explained why shouldn't be heading to New York with her and Mason, so Rachel decided her and Mason would stay in Lima until the day Santana left that way
Santana could keep her birthday promise to Mason.

There were plenty of pictures that were taken, Tina even stopped by and hung out for a few minutes. Santana told Tina she didn't want Kitty anywhere her grandpa or his room so Tina was sure to put in a request, she was happy to do so, she doesn't care too much for Kitty. Once everyone had their fill of food they decided to best to leave. Santana was a little disappointed because she wouldn't be able to spend more time with her grandpa, but she told him one of her friends was in the hospital and he understood. Everyone had left expect for Santana and Quinn, as the girls were leaving Santana's grandpa pulled Quinn close to her during her hug goodbye and told her to take care of Santana.