Chapter 12

Santana groans a little and opens her eyes to be met with darkness. She sits up and the ratty comforter slides off her torso onto her lap, she wipes her eyes and finds them dry and crusty. She lets out a big sigh and looks to the side of her to see a sleeping Brittany. She swallows and looks at the blonde hair cascaded on the pillow they share and her mouth is slightly parted as short calm breaths puff out. Santana sighs and stops staring at Brittany and puts her head in her hand.

"Jesus" she mumbles into her hands and thinks about their kiss and how it's pretty much going to ruin her life.

Brittany doesn't wait for Santana to say anything or move away, she gently connects hers and Santana's lips together. Santana is shocked but she can't help and kiss back at those soft pink lips that are now attached to her own. Brittany feels Santana kissing her back so she deepens the kiss moving her lips against Santana's. Brittany takes Santana's bottom lip between her own and sucks on it a little before going back in for her lips. Santana lets out a sigh when Brittany brushes her nose against her own, Santana opens her mouth a little but it's enough for Brittany's wet warm tongue to slide its way into Santana's mouth. Feeling Brittany's tongue stoke against her own somehow pulls Santana out of The Brittany trance and she pulls away and pushes Brittany away.

Brittany catches herself and is confused. Santana kissed her back. Brittany looks at Santana whose seething and she frowns.

"I… What's wrong?" Brittany asks and Santana laughs bitterly and shakes her head.

"Who do you think you are?! Huh?" Santana growls and Brittany frowns a little. Santana is confused herself by the amazing kiss that just occurred but she can't be, she promised him. Brittany slowly starts to walk to Santana and Santana puts her hands up.

"Stay away from me!" Santana shouts and Brittany stays rooted in her place, wondering what the heck is happening right now. Santana isn't finished.

"You can't do shit like that"

"Santana" Brittany says softly which makes Santana's insides feel mushy. Brittany takes a step forward and Santana moves away.

"Don't say my name like that! You don't fucking know me and I don't want to know you" with that Santana nudges Brittany's shoulder roughly as she storms back into the chapel. Brittany sighs and rubs her forehead.

Santana unconsciously brings her fingers up to her lips and strokes them, she can still feel the tingles from Brittany's lips, and she can still taste her. Santana shuts her eyes and all she can see is his smiling face, like Brittany described. It's her happy place. Santana is with him and they are happy, Robbie's laughing and his soft blue eyes are sparkling, sort of how Brittany's eyes sparkle. Santana shakes her head and opens her eyes to be brought back to this stinking world that she lives in. Santana lays back down on her spot of the bed that is still warm and shuts her eyes, slowly drifting to sleep with images of Robbie in her mind.

The next morning Santana awakes to an empty bed and puffy eyes. She throws the comforter off her and rubs her eyes as she walks out of the room, she looks at the girls that are in thought and talking. What if they are talking about me? Santana thought and scoffed.

"What's going on here?" she orders and Brittany looks up at her but Santana refuses to meet her gaze. Maggie who is tucking her shirt into her khakis looks at Santana.

"We've come up with a plan" she says and Santana rolls her eyes, and crosses her arms around her chest.

"Well a plan is what made us have to relocate from our last place" she says with raised eyebrows and Brittany looks down a little because it was her plan. However they did get some useful bits and some guns so.

"You haven't even heard it yet" says Quinn who is running her fingers through her scruffy bob, Santana shrugs with an unimpressed look.

"Don't care, don't want to hear it. I'm not leaving and certainly not following a plan from you knobs"

Brittany shakes her head and clears her throat a little, Maggie just turns to the other girls and shrugs.

"We can't stay here forever, what about the others?" asks Rachel and Santana is about to bite at her until Brittany interrupts.

"Rachel's right, I mean we can't just leave them. When we split up Tina was still passed out don't you want to see if she's okay?" Brittany says carefully and Santana doesn't look at her, she looks at her nails and shrugs. Santana does care about Tina and does want to know If she's okay.

"What's the fucking plan then?"

Brittany looks from Santana to the girls and nods.

"We go looking for the others first, we search for petrol and then we go looking for Maggie's sister" Maggie smiles at Brittany then picks up a bottle of water.

"Trust me girls, after we find my sister we will find the cure"

"But first we have to eat, then we pack okay?" Brittany says as the girls nods and grab a piece of food. Santana doesn't and Brittany grabs a protein bar out of her bag and walks to her. Santana sees Brittany coming towards her and swallows.

"Did you not understand me when I said stay away from me?"

Brittany places half a bottle of water and a protein bar in front of her and takes a step back. "You need to eat" Santana rolls her eyes but inside she's sort of smiling at the gesture. Also her stomach makes a loud ass growl giving away the fact that she's starving. She looks up to see Brittany with a grin and snatches the bottle and bar off the floor and walks away from her. Brittany sighs a little and looks at the spot which Santana was standing at.

I don't understand why she doesn't like me Brittany thinks but then puts it to the back of her head when she sees Maggie hooking the radio to the waistband of her trousers. She goes in the room and grabs her backpack and starts to pack up all her stuff.

Once everybody has got their belongings they start to reload weapons and attach them to holsters and getting ready to go back out there and be open to walkers. Brittany grabs a crowbar and slides it in between the straps of her backpack so it's secure on her back and won't fall off, also she don't have to carry it so bonus. Maggie is holding her machete in her right hand and has her backpack on, Rachel is just holding a crowbar like she doesn't know what to do with it. Brittany feels like she really needs to run some lessons on how to use the weapons and how to kill a walker. Everybody looks ready and prepared to smash any skull of a walker.

"Let's go"

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Puck's boots scraping against the ground is the only thing that can be heard. It's deadly silent and that's saying something. He's been up since the sky started to turn light and he was out of that tailor shop. He's on a mission, he needs to find his friends and he needs to find them soon. It's fine a couple splitting up but everybody is on their own and that is not good. They have no vehicle, not a lot of supplies and no accommodation. It's too dangerous for them to be split up and alone, so puck is searching. Puck itches his head and turns around trying to retrace his steps back to the police car, he's just confused.

"They all went in different directions" he says to himself, he saw Tina and Sam head east but Mike and Artie went west. He's torn and doesn't know where to go or what to do. He exhales deeply then rubs his eyes, he looks from east then to west and he starts to head east. He needs to find Sam and Tina so then he can find Mike and Artie.

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Mike pours some water on his hand and splashes it on his face to wake him up, he rubs his eyes and runs his hands through his jet black spiky hair. Artie takes off his glasses and wipes them on his cardigan and looks at a blurry mike.

"Mike we need to find them"

Mike looks at him and inhales deeply and shakes his head a little.

"And how do we do that Artie? We don't even know where they are and you don't have you're wheelchair so we'd be too slow" Mike says and Artie sighs because he knows that Mike is right. Mike slumps down onto the floor and rests his arms on his bent knees.

"They'll come for us, I know it…"

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"Hold on isn't that the cop car?" Brittany says and squints her eyes so she can get a better look at the abandoned car with all for doors wide open parked in the middle of the street. Santana looks to Quinn then to Brittany who's already racing towards the car. When the group get to the car Brittany lets out a sigh and Rachel frowns in confusion and panic.

"They probably ran out of petrol like we did…"

Brittany shakes her head and turns to the girls and rubs her face before pursing her lips.

"It looks like they fled, I mean all the doors are open and…" Brittany walks around the car to the trunk and pops it open. She looks at Arties wheelchair laying there and two bags full of what she can recall supplies.

"Artie's wheelchair is in here as well as two bags of supplies"

"They ran, do you think..." Quinn questions.

"The walkers got to them." Santana says and rubs her eyes. Maggie looks at the girls faces and looks to the floor. But then she looks up.

"They're not dead, there's no blood or bodies so they must of got away" she says and Brittany looks at her.

"We need to find them, they're out there with no supplies. There's walkers so they're not safe" Brittany says with her hands on her hips and Santana just stares at Brittany. Quinn nods and picks up her stuff she put on the ground. Brittany grabs the bags of supplies and chucks one to Maggie and another to Mercedes.

"Artie's out there without a wheelchair, so someone must be carrying him"

"We're not lugging that cripples machinery around because he forgot to grab it! Now let's move" Orders Santana harshly towards Brittany and Brittany bites her tongue and shuts the trunk.

"But which way do we go?" Rachel queries and Brittany tilts her head a little. They don't actually know which way they are going or where to go. Brittany looks around and shrugs with a frustrated sigh.

"We'll head east first, it is closer to the town and that's the likeliest place they would have headed" States Quinn with a confident tone of voice and Brittany nods and turns east. They are going to find everyone even if it kills them, literally…

Brittany is in front leading the group as they inch further into the village. It looks a lot better than some others that she's visited but you can tell that it is run down. Some little corner shops have their windows broken and the town its self has no colour. It's like it's been drained and everything just seems grey and dull. They've searched every shop they've come across and there's been no signs yet, they haven't even come across one walker yet.

"It just seems too quiet" exclaims Quinn with a confused look. Brittany groans a little as they haven't come across anything, not a single thing. Santana sighs loudly, which actually resembles an angry huff.

"This is a fucking waste of time! They're clearly not here… we should have gone west or north, hell maybe south." Santana says and rolls her eyes and looks at everyone but glances at Brittany. Brittany turns around and faces the group of girls and looks at Santana. She's wearing some dark tight chinos and a grey t-shirt which is a little too tight around the chest area so it enhances her rambunctious twins which Brittany's eyes are glued onto right now. She hears someone clear their throat and she looks up and brushes off the fact that she was eye-fucking Santana's tits.

"We are going to keep looking until it gets late, then we'll find somewhere to stay and tomorrow we'll look somewhere else… okay?" She says and everyone nods except Santana who's got a hard face and glaring at Brittany. Brittany looks at her and blue eyes lock onto angry brown ones, Santana swallows a little as she looks at Brittany but more importantly into those ocean deep blue eyes.

"Santana?"

Santana rolls her eyes and barely nods as she mumbles incoherent sentences, Brittany nods and turns back around.

"Let's get searching"

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Tina groans as she and Sam drag themselves along the streets of god knows where. They physically have no strength, not even to open a door. It's been about 3 days since they've eaten and it's really starting to affect them. More Sam than it is Tina because Sam is a tall guy he needs food to like function, Tina is hungry like extremely hungry but more tired and dehydrated. Sam is willing to cut off his own arm and have a munch on it. Their slow and sloppy feet dragging across the pavement is the only thing that can be heard. Sam stops and rests a minute, Tina stops and looks at him with a sigh.

"Sam we can stop if you like?"

Sam shakes his head with little power and inhales deeply then exhales, he looks at Tina and stands straight.

"No I'm fine, just a little… shaky"

"You need to eat, we need to eat. It's too dangerous, you have no strength and what if we come across some walkers?" Tina says with a look and Sam sighs because he knows she's right. There's no sign of any walker activity yet so there is some time, time to also find the others so they can group together and figure out what to do next.

"Let's just keep on walking and see if we can find anything. There's got to be something around here like a shop or something" Sam says and picks himself up and starts to carry on walking with Tina following beside him.

About an hour later they come across a rundown local newsagents, Sam looks at Tina and looks around, he walks to the side and picks up a brick. When they fled they left all their weapons, well a crowbar and a revolver but at least they had some protection. It looks like this brick is their weapon now. Sam turns to Tina and nods a little.

"we need to check it out, there could be some food in there" Sam says and Tina looks at the small building that is dull and dark and has broken windows like everywhere else, there's rubbish and god knows what else scattered around and it's quite dusty. Tina has never really been one of the ones that go out for supplies or go to clear out some walkers, she's the one who fixes people or stays in and finds a way to cure it.

"I'm not… exactly trained in killing those walkers." Tina says with an embarrassed smile Sam pats her shoulder and looks at the market.

"I'll kill them all, just stay close to me" He says and smiles at her before walking into the rundown local shop. He slowly walked forward and Tina followed behind him, they stood on glass and other things on the floor that crunched which echoed throughout the tiny but messy newsagents. Sam looks from left to right and even checks in the back and behind the broken counter and there is no sign of any walkers.

"It's all clear Tina, look around for any packaged food or anything" Sam says and starts to rummage through things on the floor. Tina puts her hands on her hips and shakes her head before she starts to scavenge.

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Puck is crumbling, he don't think he can go on. That's a bit dramatic, you know when you get really hungry you feel like crying? That's how he feels right now but he's not giving up. He's passed nearly everything and he's collected some useful supplies, he found a coconut. A coconut. He lets out a long breath and stops for a second. He rubs his eyes and runs his hand over his Mohawk, he looks from left to right and then back to left when he sees something. He frowns and walks over to a store which has had its door busted in, he steps in and looks around. Someone's been here. He looks at the material that is falling from the window that looked like it was protecting them from being seen. He looks to the desk that is pushed up against the door as a barrier and to the little area where there is some rubbish and to ratty pieces of material. He smiles and nods.

"They've been here! Sam and Tina" he says to himself and walks out of the shop and looks at the dusty floor, he squints and can make out some traces. "I'm coming guys!"

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Brittany grunts as she plunges her knife through the eye of a walker, she kicks it in its mid-section and it falls to the ground. Brittany puts her knife back in her holster and carries on walking. Santana looks at the walker laying on the ground with blood pouring out of its head and then looks to Brittany and bites her lip. There's no doubt that Brittany is the strongest and most skilled in the group so Santana is actually glad she's with Brittany but she would never admit that.

"Hold up, do you see that?" Maggie says as she eyes something. There's some movement in an alley, it looks like the silhouettes are carrying something. Brittany squints and moves her head forward so she can get a better look at the distance that she is at. She sees them turn right, she whips her head around to the girls.

"There was someone there, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a walker!"

"Go"

Brittany and the girls jog over to the dark alley and look left and right for any indication as to where they may have went.

"Right" Brittany says and they all turn right and jog down the bit until they meet the end where it is light. Santana looks to the left and lets out a breath.

"TINA" Santana shouts and Tina turns around and smiles so big. She taps Sam's shoulder and he turns around and lets out a relived sigh. Tina and Sam run down to the girls and Santana engulfs Tina in a massive hug. Mercedes looks at Sam and smiles and then hugs him hard. Brittany and Maggie stand to the side and watch as the girls hug them both, Brittany smiles at Tina and Pats Sam's shoulder.

"Guys, this is Maggie." Brittany introduces Maggie and Tina and Sam introduce themselves. After a long detailed description on how they all got split up and what happened. Tina looks at Sam and sighs then they both look to Rachel. Before they can say anything Santana cuts in.

"Well now we are sort of all together, let's go look for the others" she says and she already walks off. Tina and Sam decide to wait to tell Rachel about Finn.

When Puck saw them he thought he was hallucinating, his knees buckled and he let out a sigh of relief. Gathering all of his energy he shouts to catch their attention. Santana is the first one to look and when she sees him she pats everyone and points over to him, where he's know falling to his knees. They all run over to him and help him up.

"Puck!"

"Oh my God"

"You're okay dude!"

Puck nods and chuckles breathlessly, looking up at everyone as Brittany and Sam lift him up onto his feet and support him to stand.

"I can't believe I found you guys… You got anything to eat?" He says and Brittany pats his shoulder and helps him to sit up against a wall. Brittany opens her bag and pulls out some canned fruit and a bottle of water and placed it in front of puck. Instantly he takes it and downs the water a minute of seconds and starts to devour the fruit. Brittany leaves him and walks over to Santana, Quinn and Maggie.

"Now all we need to do is find Artie, Mike and Finn" She says in a breath.

"What are we waiting for then?" Questions Santana and by the look on her face and the tone of her voice she's not waiting for an answer. Brittany gives her one any way.

"We shouldn't check tonight, I mean Puck can barely stand, we just found Sam and Tina…" Quinn nods her head in agreement and Santana rolls her eyes with a shake of her head.

"What I say doesn't matter" Santana murmurs quietly, but Brittany hears it and she sighs a little.

"Or, we could look for a place to stay, drop puck and anybody else off and go and check for the others?" She suggests trying to make everyone satisfied. Everyone meaning Santana. She sees Santana nod a little but what she doesn't know is Santana is holding back a smile. Brittany touches Quinn's arm and tells them that she's going to go tell the others. As she walks she brushes past Santana ever so gently and Santana looks up at her and into her eyes. Brittany looks into those deep brown eyes and sends her the softest smile ever known to man that makes Santana's knees buckle and her heart pummel. Santana watches as Brittany walks over to Puck and everyone and her eyes are on Brittany. She feels her lips tingle as she thinks about the kiss, the kiss that they shared.

Sorry I'm late on updating this story. I've been writing My Soldier, Brittany Pierce but I promise not t neglect this! Any ideas you guys want to add just PM me, I'm happy to take suggestions J thanks and review.