For six months Santana has been living in New York City with Kurt and Rachel, but now Brittany has received her diploma and is finally coming to join them. Can new relationships accommodate old ones? And can the past ever really be recaptured?

Sent to live with her aunt in Texas, Santana comes face to face with a past she thought was long gone. She is shown the beauty in life through the eyes of her childhood best friend, Brittany, who ultimately shows her that life and love are one and the same... by making her feel it. AU

Like a rope that has come untwisted, there are three strands of Brittany Pierce's life. How could a simple interaction between two people be the difference between becoming a bartender, a lab assistant, and a sex worker? Maybe random events determine our destiny; maybe they don't.

In the summer of 1898, Santana Lopez joined the J.P. Adams & Son Traveling Circus & Menagerie as it toured the states of the Upper American Midwest. She also fell in love with the knife thrower's daughter.

I stare at my suitcases, open on the bed. I don't know where to start. How do I decide what to take when I have to leave behind everything I know?

You nod, studying her deeply, relishing whatever confidence has inhabited her. It dawns on you that this is why she's shining so brightly. She's becoming the woman she wants to be. That would make anyone glow.

"Maybe 'happily ever afters' don't exist. Maybe they're fragmented and sprinkled throughout our lives to remind us to keep moving forward. Maybe, if we look from the right angle and maneuver the pieces just so, they become a masterpiece we keep adding to until the day we die." Future fic, Brittana as mothers. Sequel to "Taking the Long Way," but can stand independently.

AU. 1862, the North has started the draft. Santana follows her father to war, intent on proving her worth as a doctor. Brittany enlists in place of her father, intent on keeping her family safe. In this broken land, they find a home in each other.

Three years after graduation, Santana Lopez and her roommates, Quinn Fabray and Rachel Berry, attend a dance class in NYC. Follows most of the events in Glee if Brittany had never gone to WMHS.

I wanted to follow her. So bad. She was the most interesting person I'd ever seen in my entire life and I didn't even know why. Brittana

Santana and Brittany cope with the loss of something important to them. Will it tear them apart or bind them closer together?

Through random acts of kindness two strangers find something they never expected.

Santana's journey toward self-acceptance through love, loss, friends, career and family. Contains Glee history through "Original Song." Rated M for sex.

Brittany is perpetually cast as the dumb blonde, but the reasons behind her demeanor are more complex than that. She looks back on her childhood, her relationship with Santana, and the life-altering effects the decisions of her youth had on her future.