Chapter 12.

It was morning now and Santana had already left for work, she woke up early today so she could feed Oliver and let Brittany sleep in. Then she put Oliver down in the bed next to her wife and left for work. When Brittany woke up she was in a good mood, she looked at her phone, and it had a text from Maria asking where they should meet up, she quickly answered, started to get Oliver ready and left to meet her "mother in law".

Right before she arrived at the café she was going to meet Maria, Santana called.

"Hey."

"Hi" Brittany said back.

"Look…. " Santana took a breath.

"San. Please don't start this up again."

"I'm not, I'm just going to tell you to be careful and.."

"Careful?" Brittany laughed. "It's not like she's dangerous San."

"That's not what I meant. I just… Don't let her sweet talk you, okay?"

"I can take care of myself Santana."

"I know, I just thought I should mention it to you."

"I know your mother San. She can't fool me."

Santana smiled into the phone, Brittany did know her mother, they had spent most of their teenage years together.

"Santana?"

"Yeah I'm still here. Call me after okay?"

"Sure. Bye"

"Bye"

Brittany turned around and saw Maria sitting at a table. She was already drinking a coffee and it looked like she was enjoying herself. She walked over and sat down, Oliver was sleeping in his stroller.

"Hey"

"Hello Brittany. I'm so glad you decided to come and meet me." Maria said.

"Yeah well. I'm not so much doing it for you, but for Santana." She stated.

Maria smiled and laughed a little.

"Yeah well… I think that's going to take some time."

"Can you really blame her?" Brittany spat out, and it sounded more angry then she had planned on. But she quickly backtracked her words. "I'm sorry.. " She looked over at Oliver. " I'm not here to pick a fight."

Maria nodded

"You know. I know my daughter, and she's stubborn."

"Yeah well, she got it from you so you can't really be mad at her about that."

Maria laughed a little bit again.

"No dear. I could never be mad at her. She had the courage to do what I never did."

Brittany looked shocked.

"Are you gay?" She said.

Maria's eyes went wide. "What? No!" And then she laughed out loud. "What I meant was, she had the courage to be herself no matter what people thought. I never had that, not until now anyways. I married Carlos because my mom thought he was the perfect guy, and I did love him, but there was so much that she didn't see." She took a breath, gathering her thoughts. " Nobody saw the fact that he was abusive, he never hit me, but, his words, the way he would speak to me sometimes. He could might as well had punched me in the face."

She never looked at Brittany while she spoke.

"Leaving him is something I should have done a long time ago, actually I shouldn't have married him at all. But then again I got Santana and Diego from it so I can't really complain."

Brittany nodded. And then finally spoke up after being silent for a while.

"Why are you here? I get that you want to see Santana. But you gotta know that I won't let you into our lives unless she agrees, and I won't do it unless I feel secure about the fact that you're not going to screw her over again."

"I understand that."

Oliver woke up. Brittany quickly picked him up and placed him on her lap.

"He's beautiful." Maria said.

"Yeah, he is."

"He is your's yes?"

"I gave birth to him yes, if that's what you meant."

Maria nodded.

"Can I hold him?" Maria asked, giving Brittany a pleading look. Brittany nodded and handed him over to her. Maria hugged him so tight. "Ohh I've been such a fool."

Brittany got a little sad, she looked at Maria and understood that she cared deeply about this woman. Maria had almost been like a second mother to her during high school.

"I'll do everything to make it better Brittany." Maria said.

"I believe you." And she did believe her. " I can't make any promises, Santana is, Santana. But the thing is, and this might sound stupid, but, I can kind of get her to do anything I want if I really want too. But I'm not going to push her with this before I'm sure that I'm doing the right thing."

Maria nodded. Then Brittany's phone rang. She looked at the screen, it said Santana.

"Hello.. Yeah… it's going fine.. Sure.. Ohh, okay.. No that's fine, yeah see you home."

Maria looked at her questioning.

"It was just Santana. She was just wondering how things were,."

Brittany looked at her clock, she figured she should be getting home now.

"Okay.. So I have some stuff I need to do, but it was nice seeing you again Maria." She said while getting up. Maria got up from her chair too, and handed Brittany Oliver.

"Yes Brittany. Thank you so much for coming today. It really means a lot."

"I'll talk to her, but it won't be for you, It will be for her. She won't say it out loud, but she misses you, she always have."

"Well I miss her too, so I'll take whatever I can get. And thank you again."

With that Brittany walked away. She needed to do some shopping before she got home, when Santana called she said she wouldn't be home before really late and wouldn't have the time to pick up some stuff that they needed.

Quinn was at the mall, not really looking for something specific but she just needed to get out, and she didn't feel like driving around. So she figured window shopping would do the trick. After an hour or so she decided to grab some coffee at the little coffee shop. She went up to order and sat down with her coffee. 5 minutes or so after she got her coffee the waiter started cleaning the table next too her, and bumped into her.

"Ohh I'm so sorry." The waiter said,

"Don't even worry about it." Quinn said, smiling back at her. She held her gaze a little longer then what she probably should. But this girl was beautiful, she was tall, had brown hair and curves to die for. She smiled back at Quinn, making Quinn blush and look down.

"Look, I don't really do this often, but I just need to compliment you on your eyes. They are breathtaking." The waiter said, while blushing a little.

Quinn looked at her nametag.

"Umh. Thank you.." She paused a little. "Meg.. You have a really nice…" She was about to say something that wouldn't have been okay at all. " The coffee here is good."

Meg smiled at her. " I don't really make the coffee, the machine does it for me. But thanks."

Quinn just smiled at her. Before she could say another word she saw Brittany and Oliver making their way over to her.

"Quinn! Hey, I didn't know you were here." Brittany was smiling like she always was.

"Britt" Quinn said, standing up giving her a hug. "I'm just here for coffee."

"You went to the mall for coffee?" Brittany asked

"Umh. No. Not just for the coffee, I just felt like coming here."

Brittany nodded.

"Excuse me." Both girls turned around. "I'm getting off my shift right now, and you can just forget all about this if I'm wrong, but.." Meg took out a little piece of paper and handed it to Quinn. "Monday is my night off, you should call me, if you wanna hang out or something."

Quinn took the piece of paper. And Brittany raised her eyebrow looking at Quinn, looking at Meg, then looking back at Quinn again. She understood quickly that Quinn wasn't going to say anything so she decided too. Meg was about to leave when Brittany stopped her.

"Hey!" Making Meg turn around. She snatched the paper from Quinn's hand and handed it back to Meg. "She's happily married, so she won't be needing this." She wasn't being rude, she smiled while saying it, but she did want to make a point.

Meg looked confused.

"If I offended you in anyway, or your girlfriend.." Brittany cut her off.

"Oh no. She's not my girlfriend, I'm just her wife's best friend. So it would be good if you left now."

Meg nodded, and Quinn looked embarrassed. Brittany turned to look at Quinn.

"Britt. It is not at all what it looks like." Quinn quickly said.

"Really?"

"She just came up to me and started talking, I didn't want to be mean so I didn't say anything, but I wouldn't have called her."

"I'm not one to judge Quinn, but flirting with someone else, that's not cool, taking someone's phone number, that's even worse."

"I wasn't like that at all Britt. You know me, I wouldn't do that to Rachel."

Still, even knowing she wouldn't call Meg, Quinn felt guilty and Brittany saw it.

"Quinn.. Look… I'll forget about this, you should too. "

Brittany didn't really know what to say. So she just left it at that.

Quinn just nodded. And both girls turned around and walked in different directions.

When Quinn got home she was greeted by a very cheerful Rachel.

"Well hello there Quinn, how was your day?" She went up to kiss her but Quinn turned her head around. She looked at Rachel with tears in her eyes.

"Quinn? What's wrong?" Rachel looked worried.

"Some woman flirted with me at the mall today…." You could see the guilt going thru Quinn.

Rachel kept smiling. "That's not something new Quinn, you're beautiful, of course girls are gonna flirt with you."

"I flirted back." Was all she said.

"What?" Rachel said

"I flirted back" Quinn repeated.

"Yeah I heard you the first time, I just thought I heard wrong. Cause my wife would never flirt with someone else." She was hurt and pulled away from Quinn.

"She gave me her number and I took it." Quinn continued, taking Rachel's hands in hers.

"But I threw it away as soon as I got outside. I didn't want that number Rachel." She needed to be honest, but figured it would be best not to tell her that Brittany basically turned down the girl for her.

Rachel didn't speak. Instead she walked into the living room and sat down. Quinn followed.

"I love you Rachel."

"You have a funny was of showing it sometimes Quinn."

"I'm sorry."

Rachel looked at her. " Why would you even do that?"

"I have no idea what came over me Rachel. I just knew I needed to get home and tell you about it."

Rachel shook her head.

"If you didn't do anything, then why would you even tell me this?"

"Because I need to be honest. With all of the things we've been thru these past months…" Rachel cut her off. " Yeah with everything we have been thru you would think that we could at least not flirt with other people."

Quinn looked down.

"I'm not making excuses, but haven't you ever done stuff you wish you could take back?" Quinn asked.

"Of course I have. " Rachel got up and walked around. You could clearly see she was thinking.

"Do you wanna be with me Quinn?"

"Yes"

"You're sure? Because I'm not gonna ask you again. If you come to me in a couple of months saying you wanna end this then…"

"I wanna be with you."

Quinn walked up to Rachel, again talking her hand, cupping one cheek with her other hand.

"I love you. I want to be with you."

"Don't do something like that again Quinn."

"I won't. I promise."

She leaned in to Rachel, but did so slowly asking Rachel if she could kiss her before she just went on doing it. Rachel didn't pull away, so Quinn took that as a yes, and it was. Not soon after they were both kissing each other again,

By the time Santana got home from work it was late, she had probably never been this late before, and when she walked inside the light was turned off and Brittany and Oliver were probably both sleeping. She was tired, so tired and couldn't wait to get to bed. The walk upstairs was heavy and when she reached the master bedroom she saw that the light were on.

"Britt. You're awake."

"Yeah." Brittany was reading some book.

"Whatcha reading there Britt?"

"Ohh you wouldn't know about it Santana,"

Santana smirked. "Try me! Tell me about the book."

Brittany smiled, took off her reading glasses and placed the book on her lap.

"Okay, well right now the vampire is trying to hide his human girlfriend. And I just read that the werewolf kissed the human girlfriend too and that complicates things…"

Santana smiled looking at her girlfriend talking about this, of course by now she had stopped listening. But she loves seeing Brittany so excited about the story. She soon snapped back to reality when Brittany started clapping her hands.

"Santana are you even listening to me?"

"Umh.. Yeah sure Britt."

"What did I just say then?"

Santana thought about it.

"Look the point of it all is that you have really nice boobs."

Brittany just looked at her confused.

"You really think you're gonna get out of this by complimenting my boobs?"

Santana nodded and smirked. "Is it working?"

Brittany laughed. "Maybe."

Santana pulled her wife to her and kissed her. " I really do.. Mean… it…. They … are.. Nice.." She said between kisses.

"You're nice." Brittany responded.

And suddenly the book fell to the floor and now Santana was hovering over Brittany. Giving her kisses down her neck. She suddenly didn't feel so tired anymore.

God I can't even say how sorry I am for not getting this up sooner. Today has been my first day off in weeks and I had a baby shower earlier in the day. I don't feel like this is my best work, but.. I don't know.. I also didn't have time to check for spelling and so on, so bare with me on the mistakes.. Review and let me know :D