Manda's Note: Ok my loves why haven't you fired me yet? I deserve to be fired for sure. I'm so sorry that all and any updates have taken so long. I took Christmas and the weeks after Christmas to visit my best friend. I have almost everything started with replies. I just have to finish them so I can get them to you! I know I have a lot to catch up with when it comes to gabe and I promise I'll get to it. So now since I'm snowed in (and I fully plan on making a snowman ...twenty? psh just a number) I'll be working on the rest of the updates that I owe you all. Thank you so much for your reviews and please keep them coming!

Hilary - Thank you for your words and thoughts and prayers, the holidays were just tough and I took a few weeks away. Things haven't been the same and I haven't really been in my mind but I'm getting back in to the swing of things now. It's hard and I miss her more than anything, it's tough but I'm working on it, we were very very close so I haven't been myself. getting back to figuring out my life once again now. Thank you so much for your thoughts, they really mean a lot :)

as for the chapter! This next chapter shows that they're the same people they've always been. just because they have the sweet and nurturing side doesn't mean that the old Puck and Santana aren't still in them. I wish I was working with the writers. Gabe would be written in in a heartbeat! I love to believe that they have a child that they're hiding …that's my story and I'm sticking to it! eep I'm so anxious to finish writing the other chapters up! I think they'll do you proud! I'm hoping so anyway. can't wait to hear your thoughts on this chapter!

Melissa – Thank you! I worked very very hard on this chapter and it means a lot to me that it moved you the way it did. Losing my mom's the hardest thing that's ever happened to me. Don't forget even when yours is annoying you (as all moms do) never leave the house without saying 'I love you' :)

enjoy!

"Remind me to steal Mike's hand sanitizer when he gets in the room."

With a smirk on her face she glanced up at him as she wiped her hands on his letterman jacket and he zipped up his jeans with his back turned to her finally under control. She kicked the trash can back to the corner of the room throwing a few pieces of sheet music over the evidence that they'd been stowaways in the choir room when they weren't supposed to be in there. Wasn't like they got very much alone time when they were home. Not with a happy and bubbly three month old baby who was starting to like more and more time with mommy and daddy as the constant in their lives. They did what they had to do when they had a free moment to do so. If they were reduced to getting some in the school it wasn't anything new. They'd been using a janitor's closet since they'd gotten to the high school in the first place as it was.

"I promise I'll repay you some time lat… Santana …really? you had to use my jacket?"

He actually looked surprised with her actions, that of which she couldn't understand. It wasn't like it was the first time she'd done something like it to him. She kind of like causing him to cringe and question her actions, it was something he did often. Driving him crazy really wasn't anything new. That was the way they'd always seemed to complete one another.

"Hey …at least it wasn't someone else I wiped off on your coat"

The statement gave even him the chills for a moment as he took his coat away from her and tossed it off to the side of the glee room. he'd remember to give it to his mom to take to the cleaners to wash… he'd just have to make sure to not tell her what exactly was all over it. wasn't like the it was the first time an 'unknown' substance had been all over him.

"Still don't understand why you hadn't just suc…"

He missed catching her hand to stop the slap to his cheek. Of course, it wasn't anything harsh but normally he remembered to stop her. Normally though, she had an infant in her arms. Gabe was Puck's new mechanism of defense when it came to breaking her down when he threw out a perverted suggestion.

"Try if Quinn had just stuck with sucking you, you wouldn't have gotten into the mess you got into last year now would you have?"

It was a low blow and they both knew it that was the exact reason she patched it up by kissing him a kiss that nearly made him need another hand. Instead she pulled away and fixed her lip gloss before leaning her forehead against his shoulder with a contented sigh. They might have been at school but, there was no one around. They could get away with the semi sweet moments. Picking her up he sat her down on top of the piano allowing her to lean down to lazily kiss him rather than keeping on tip toes any longer. She'd been so down that she could practically say anything she wanted to him without earning a negative reaction. The Seventeenth of November the verbal shots she took at everyone were still moody and defiant.

"Tried to take your anger out on Rachel today …want to talk about it?"

Asking between kisses probably wasn't the best way to make her happy but he couldn't help but wonder. That and he'd been royally pissed off with the placement of Sam's hands on her body. Santana herself had just been glad he hadn't attempted to put his hands any higher, she would have had an issue with the Justin Bieber wannabe then. Putting his hand on the back of her neck he pulled her closer to him to start on her neck. He was Puck, he knew the ways to soften her up.

"Why don't you go 'talk' Holly Holiday"

Knowing that one was coming he moved his hands from her neck to stroke a straight line down her back, hands resting on the waist line of her cheerios skirt as he took a step back to look at her. Her sincerities were acting up again and she felt threatened. It was an emotion he knew that she went through all too often, something that she'd always gone.

"Santana look at me"

He whispered and put his hand under her chin making her look at him, for a moment he couldn't see the sexy self sufficient bitch that she always attempted to make herself. The only thing he could see was the innocence behind her, the innocence that carried over from the day before at the cemetery, the innocence that was always in her when she gave Gabe a bath or laid with him on the floor tormenting him with kiss and trying to coax his very first laugh out of him, something that she still hadn't managed to do.

"Do not do the whole jealous of the substitute thing. You know that its bullshit. Yes, she's hot but …you're hotter and I mean that in every way."

Serious moments were not for Noah Puckerman, he always had a habit of breaking them. Instead, his hands went right down and under her cheerios skirt to slipping her red spandex off till it hit the choir room floor. He knew of all the ways to distract her into feeling better. Damn him for being so good at it too. His fingers traced lines up the inside of her thighs teasing her.

"You did lock the door right?"

Throwing a glance over to choir room door before she wrapped her arms around his neck and settled their distance with a steamy kiss they didn't hear the latch unlock its self till the obnoxious blonde was standing in the doorway clearing her throat.

"Always so easy to just let him back in Santana, one day you'll get it through your head that Puck doesn't settled down for anyone. He wouldn't even do it for me when I was pregnant. You'd think having a kid would be something to drag him into reality."

With that Quinn slammed out the door and the mood was broken as Santana pulled away from the kiss and pushed his hands out from under her skirt still on edge. Her mood was broken. Hopping down from the piano she put the red lollypop pants back on and glared at him with her arms crossed.

"Give me the keys to my car …I have to go see MY son."