Thanks to everybody who keeps reading this. I hope I'm doing something right :)

This is one of my favorite songs ever. Turning Page by Sleeping at Last. Yes, it's from Breaking Dawn soundtrack but these guys are too amazing.

Chapter 10 - Turning Page

Your love is my turning page/Only the sweetest words remain

"As you may know already, Santana, I have a mission for both of you." Quinn said passing as we stood in front of her under the shade of the trees near the house. We are away from the others, enough so they can't hear us.

"Yes, Ma'am." She stops for a second in front of me and raises her perfect eyebrow. She's trying to find out if I'm making fun of her.

"We can't wait to go there! It's going to be so much fun!" Brittany is being her bright self near me, she's excited and still a bit flushed from all that net making out. And by making out I mean, the two kisses we managed to give before Quinn started calling us for the meeting. One can never have peace in this camp.

"We'll bring the device as fast as we can, we'll avoid main roads so we don't have any close encounters with other groups, specially New Directions." I say casually, as I have in other missions with ND. Before I know it, I'm on the floor with Quinn's hands around my throat and Brittany telling her to stop.

"If Brittany. Comes back. With so much. As a scratch on her face. I will chase you. Til the end of the world. Do you understand, Lopez" She spoke in intervals to stress the dramatic effect. A bit exaggerated in my opinion seeing that I was already turning purple.

"Quinn…I…" I tried to speak but she does have a really nice grip for such a petit person. "I swear…Let me…I can't breat-" I try to take her hands of my neck but I can't. She has a knee over my chest and I feel like I'm crushing to the ground like a sand castle under a foot.

"SAY IT. OR YOU'LL DIE RIGHT HERE?!" She's not letting go and my vision is already going blurry. I know Britt is trying to make her roll off of me, but she's not moving.

"QUINN, please stop. San is alright, she won't hurt me, she won't, I know it…Please stop, please. You are hurting her."

"Trust me…" I manage to utter. "I luf 'er" I say and I see that deadly flame vanish from Quinn's eyes. She takes her knee out and I take a big gulf of air. Brittany kneels next to my head and raises me to lay my head in her knees. Her eyes are red and she's in the brick of crying. Quinn is standing by my feet and rolls her eyes. "Quinn" I say as I manage to. "I would rather hurt myself than hurt Britt-Britt. You might not believe it." She does not, she crosses her arms and rolls her eyes again.

"Why do you are so rude to Santana? Finn might be a traitor in disguise and you don't even question his comeback?"

"Oh please, Britt, Finn is a troll. He can't fool a dumb sheep."

"People say I'm stupid all the time Quinn, you should know better." Britt says bitterly helping me up.

"What I said is true, I love Brittany. I don't know why or how and, to be honest, I never felt this before." Now, I roll my eyes at my own lameness, what have I become?" I love her, I will protect her the best I can although obviously you keep people here better trained that we did back at the ND."

"That much is true, you are some lazy fucks." She turns away and begins to walk towards the house. The suddenly she turns. "Your carriage, love birds" Like that she throws the keys of a van to us. Brittany catches since I still feel a bit fuzzy from the lack of oxygen.

"I'm so sorry, Quinn really hates new people."

"It's okay, I would hate them too if I was in charge of all these people." I try to take the dust out of my already disgusting clothes.

"You are not mad?" Brittany stops studying my face.

"How can I be mad when she's just trying to protect you." And then I realize what she means. My anger usually rises up over the littlest things. I guess that's what happens when someone watches you for long enough, she remembers things about myself that I'd probably forget. So I just smile at her and give her a peck on the lips. "This is all your fault, you know? You turned me into a wuss."

"I've just made you more civilized. You should thank me, all that bad energy always unbalanced your chakras." She motions her hand throw her body as if to tell we where the ~chakras~are.

"I bet those are some hippie silly colorful thing you believe."

"There are points of energy that run through you and that help you….you know what? I'll explain you later. Let's pack and I'll tell you all about it on the road." She just shakes her head and takes my head leading us back into the house.

When we reach our room I see a new pile of clothes by the backpacks.

"I guess you passed Quinn's first test, you got yourself new clothes."

"Thank you, LORD. I can't stand these lousy rags anymore." I look at her sideways as she picks stuff to leave.

"I think I need a bath don't you?" She smirks at me like She just had the greatest idea of all times.

"We…" I start staggering and she knows I got what I meant." We shouldn't be seen together…as in naked…as in by other people than Quinn?"

"Why? It's not like they don't know you care for me or how I sighed over you this past few months?" This girl is a puzzle to me. A magnificent and complicated one. She takes a step towards the door and locks it, then she turns to me and kisses me deeply. I'm pretty sure nobody has ever kissed me like this.

"I just don't want to give them leverage over us. The less they know, the better. I trust Quinn, she's like a sister to you, I don't trust the others. I want us to have some freedom."

"How does one thing have to do with other?" She looks at me with a raised eyebrow. "San, this doesn't…"

"We'll be alone in a while, we should enjoy our time alone to do…those things… I don't mind them thinking that I'm madly in love or that you are too with me. I just don't want them to know we have figured ourselves out, not yet at least. Some people might try to pull us apart."

"I don't think that's possible." She chuckles and points to the chain binding us.

"We'll figure something out. I just don't want anything bad to happen to us. I want to see hippie naked Brittany sleeping with the bugs and not the scared hidden version of you. And most importantly, I don't want to lose you. You are the light of my eyes now."

"Oh San, you really have gone mushy." She giggles and kisses me again. And suddenly, being mushy was not so embarrassing.