Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

To escape an arranged marriage, Brittany Pierce sets sail in the dead of night with her attendant, Sugar. Eager to explore her new freedom, she has no idea what's about to befall her… AU. Pirate!Brittana. Rated ARRR! STILL NOT DED

A collection of Brittana prompts submitted to me on Tumblr now in one place for your viewing (reading) pleasure!

She hasn't let go of your hand yet and you don't pull away. You do smile though, widely, because there's just something about her that's so pleasing to you. You don't want to let go of her hand, you want to hold on and see where it leads you. "Nice to meet you, Santana Lopez," you finally reply, and you honestly mean it.

Santana and Brittany haven't seen each other in five years. They haven't even heard each other's voice. Or that's what Santana thinks. And one day she makes the wrong, or right, decision to talk about their past on her radio show.

Santana meets Kurt at the gym. Somehow, he lands her a job interview for a position at the esteemed company, Market Communications Initiative. This could be her chance to land her dream job. Will she nail the interview or will she flop? Also, who on earth is Brittany S. Pierce and why does she seem so comfortable making Santana question everything she's ever known about anything?

Santana accepts that there were a certain prices to be paid for her success. Loneliness is just one of them. When a half-serious drunken suggestion makes her think about a cure for her loneliness, she's not sure whether she could actually go through with it or not. But of all the prices she has to pay, this is one, at least, she knows she can afford. Probably.

"On the day the Giuseppe Verdi was to finally dock in New York City, I heard shouts from the deck before I even opened up my eyes. L'america! L'america! they cried. Little did I know what awaited me in the new land."

For hundreds of years, wolves and witches have existed in peaceful coexistence until a terrible threat seeks to tear that alliance apart. With witches on the brink of extinction, Brittany finds herself at the mercy of a beautiful stranger who isn't exactly what she seems.

You're not dead, but you don't know who you are or where you are or why somebody's shot you through the head and you don't feel a thing. And years from now, you still won't know how wandering through this wasteland of a world, you managed to fall in love. Zombie AU. Brittana.

Moments and Pieces of a Love Story. A/U-ish. "And just like that time stops and all the breath leaves my body and I am lost in you. I never want to be lost anywhere else."

Santana is a well known cake decorator that specializes in weddings. Brittany owns the flower shop across the street from her. Though the two have never met, you can blame that on Brittany's tendency to overlook fleeting glances and Santana's rising popularity, things change when a mutual friend of theirs gets engaged and requests their talents for her big day. BRITTANA

In high school, you have to follow certain rules. Brittany is sick of them, while Santana lives by them.

This is a collection of ficlets inspired by random situations to place Brittana in. These are just for fun, but they needed to be kept somewhere easier to read than tumblr. Brittana. M. PeachesNCream. AU. Canon. Near-Canon. Crossover. Anything.

Given the opportunity to work alongside one of the greatest diagnostic teams in America, Brittany Pierce is immediately drawn towards a fellow associate . Doctor!Brittana. Complete.

It's been nine years since Brittany left for MIT. It's been nine years since Brittany S. Pierce saw Santana Lopez. Except that's a lie. Brittany sees Santana everywhere. (Canon compliant up to 4x22)

What should Santana and Brittany do when they've reached their happy ending and their love life couldn't be better? Meddle in the love lives of all their friends, of course! Sequel to Set the World on Fire

They're friends but nobody knows they're friends. [Doctor!AU]

Brittana. Canon. End S2-Pre S3. "It's these moments you live for. The quiet moments after you've both shattered. The ones you chase all day, every day. Since you knew what was at the end of the race." One-Shot.

"Being drafted into the military was the last thing Brittany Pierce wanted, but things don't seem so bad once she meets Santana Lopez..." Boot Camp AU, lololol I went there! (literally!)

1941: She never wanted to be a gangster. Never wanted to live the life of broken fingers and frozen lockers. How many skulls has she smashed? How many eyes laid raptured has she seen? She never wanted to be a gangster. Then again, she never wanted to fall in love with Brittany either.

[Prompt Challenge] Brittany works for a cruise line. Santana's dragged to a lesbian cruise to properly rebound from her latest breakup. [Brittana, Faberry, and porn.]

When survival feels like all there is then love can take you by surprise. Fate, gold and railroads bring two women together in the lawless mining town of Clothier changing both their lives forever.

"The gleam in her eyes promised trouble, certainly, but it promised just as much reward, if Santana decided to play along. She thinks of Brittany's smokey eyes, her cherry lips curved in a confident smirk... Yes, she thinks, there is just as much potential for pleasure there as trouble." Part of Playtime series. M for coarse language and sexual themes. One shot.

She doesn't want to creep around Brittany and tread the water to see if she can trust her; she wants to dive straight in because she's never met someone like Brittany. She's never wanted to know so much about a person after meeting them for the first time and she's never wanted to tell someone everything about herself either. Girl!Peen entails.

Brittana AU. Santana Lopez is traveling for a work related meeting on Christmas day, but an unexpected encounter turns the trip from business to pleasure. One-shot.

A struggling radio station gets a chance to boost ratings and sponsors when one Bed and Breakfast located in the middle of nowhere asks them to run a special Christmas show in the dead of night. The countdown to Christmas commences. Brittana. AU. M.

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

*Sequel to Been There All Along* Santana realizes what she thought she wanted out of life was not what she needed. Brittany finds another passion she desperately wants to make a reality.

All I could think about was Brittany. Her blonde hair, held tight in a high ponytail, her blue eyes, mesmerizing and alluring, her perfect body and long legs, her piercings and her tattoos, wondering what they meant, why she was so guarded and what was her story.

Brittana. A/U. "You don't say anything but you know she knows you're looking. She knows you caught on to her presence." One Shot.

Sirens!Verse Halloween special featuring major characters from Sirens. It takes place after the events of Sirens. M.

Her eyes are dark but soft and shining, half covered by her thick, thick lashes. They stare almost as if they can see right through you, and it sends a shiver dancing straight up your spine. The way she's looking at you right now...it's very likely the sexiest thing you've ever seen in your life. Companion piece to Innocent. M for coarse language and sexual themes. One-shot.

AU. Army!Brittana. It's wrong on so many levels. It's fraternization, it's unprofessional, it could cost you your rank, your career, and worse-hers; but you can't stay away. You need her and it has nothing to do with the palpitations in your chest.

Brittany takes the subway every day. She often sees a brunette with long, black hair and amazing clothes. Brittany wonders if that brunette likes girls, but Brittany's gaydar has never been her strong suit.

"If a Babysitter gives you a matchbook, it's a formal invitation. You have to go." Unholy Trinity/Brittana Inspired by Burlesque & Coyote Ugly

[Prompt Challenge] Santana is a street racer. Brittany is the girlfriend of her biggest rival.

"You let a tiny feeling of self-satisfaction color your love for her. Sure she's grumpy and stubborn and steals the covers at night, but she's yours. It's pretty freakin' awesome." Companion piece to Innocent. M for coarse language and sexual themes. Two-shot.

[Prompt Challenge] Brittany is a sports journalist. Her next piece is an interview with Santana Lopez, rising MMA star.

[Prompt Challenge] Brittany is a cop and Santana is the new, annoying district attorney.

[Prompt Challenge] Everyone fears Santana, the hot Political Science professor. That is, everyone but Brittany.

"She's caught in her gravitational pull, like a meteor heading into the sun, and Brittany knows if she gets too close she'll be incinerated, but she can't help it- her heart knows that Santana is more than just her best friend." Brittana do it in a muhfuggin SPACE SHUTTLE. :3

Morris College is not what Santana was expecting. (Women's College!AU)

"Brittany's last thought as she drifts off to sleep, lazily tracing her sticky fingertips along Santana's bare arm, is that the moon's shining through the window, highlighting the room in silver- but all she sees is Santana in the beams." #Lesbowaii. PREPARE FOR FLUFF

Brittany holds her like she's a balloon, like she's a hope that might float away. 5x13 fic.

Brittany never questioned her life, or the Games. She accepted that competing in the brutal brawl to the death- and winning- was an inevitable part of her future. But now, for the first time ever, she has something to lose; something she wants that she can never, ever have- because in the end, if she wants to win, she will have to kill her... AU. Hunger Games!Brittana

Santana expects to see Brittany back in Lima, it's for Will and Emma's wedding after all. What she doesn't expect to see is her holding hands with a child that looks exactly like she did when she was three years old. Warning: GP Santana, so if you don't like it, please don't read.

912 AD. The great North is a dangerous place. Santana, a priestess native to the plains of Iberia, is forced from her home to take refuge in foreign lands. There, she finds a viking girl determined to prove herself, and a love she never knew she had. Brittana.

When Brittany graduates and moves to New York, Santana realizes that all her dreams are coming true, just not how she expected. Sequel to (I've Got To Admit) It's Getting Better. Spoilers up to 4x18 "Shooting Stars"

Santana realizes that sometimes the sacrifice you think you have to make isn't really a sacrifice at all. – Rated M for sex and language **Sequel to "Suite Surrender"**

Alone for the night in the loft, Santana's brooding thoughts manifest themselves in a way she never expected. Rated M for sex and super brief language.

"'Santana,' you murmur teasingly. 'If I'm going to have a Super Bowl snack, it should be while I'm learning about the Super Bowl itself, right'" Companion piece to Innocent. M for coarse language and sexual themes. One-shot.

Every day Postwoman!Brittany delivers books to Booknerd!Santana. Every day a shy smile and another book. A little kindness goes a long way, and even a cup of hot chocolate can lead to more.

Brittany has a secret admirer. Santana has a secret crush. AU.

Freshman wide receiver, Santana Lopez, hopes to make her name legendary in her college's yearly rivalry football game. Unfortunately, she faces some tough defensive opposition from linebacker #51- Brittany Pierce. AU Football!Brittana O LOOK, SHAMELESS SMUT

Santana's not foolish enough to believe that the sun is coming. She knows what's real and what isn't. (And she knows her sun has already set.) Season 5 sequel to Back to Black; short, ANGSTY smutty one-shots based off of Glee episodes. Brittana. Canon-based.

She just looks at you. She's staring at your mouth like she's measuring the distance stretched between your lips. But you have rules about this sort of thing: never on the lips; only fingers; no numbers; no names. And she makes you want to break your own rules.

AU: Set in a fictional 18th century Europe. At age 10, Santana Lopez, born into the wealthy and influential Lopez family, comes to acquire a peasant girl by the name of Brittany. And despite class differences, Santana falls in love with her.

Companion Smut Piece to No Solid Ground. The war is over, but Santana's worried she's lost her Christmas spirit. Can she find it again and give Brittany her first ever Christmas? Two-Shot. HOLYSMU.

You quickly turn your head, hoping your suspicions weren't correct but then you see the smooth, pale skin of someone's back and tousled, blonde hair spread out across the pillow as the girl lays face down on the bed, clearly naked, and crap, you were right. Because the girl lying next to you isn't just anyone. It's Brittany. [Girl Peen entails.]

Follows the events of Sirens. Features all main characters from Sirens. Brittany and Santana host a Christmas dinner at their apartment. Major life event for Brittana. Fluff (super fluff). sMut. Brittana. Sirens Verse.

"I need you." Brittany says, before pausing. "I want a divorce." Another pause. Santana's tongue feels heavy and dry in her mouth. She doesn't know what to answer to that nor how to process all the information. "And I need you to be my lawyer."

Santana Lopez thought being a security officer would be a lot more exciting, but literally nothing ever happens on her shifts- until she meets Brittany Pierce. AU Brittana. Two-Shot. SOLOSMU #4

Fill for the GKM... sort of. "Santana can't tell Brittany the awful things Katelin said about her. She also can't tell her that they're probably not the last mean things someone will say about the two of them, especially once they make their relationship public- if they ever make their relationship public. If they ever even have a relationship." Brittana. SOLOSMU #3.

Fill for the GKM. "Brittany's not sure what she expected to find at her first Harvard party- but whatever it was, it's not what she actually found." AU Brittana. Heavy recreational party DRUG USE. MJ/X/Lean. SOLOSMU #2

Brittany likes to drive: fast. As part of the most elite streetcar crew in Las Vegas, when she's not boosting cars she's racing them. When a sexy Latina from a rival racing crew throws a wrench in her life, Brittany's forced to make a choice: slow down and enjoy the ride or shut up and drive.

Brittany shows Santana that sometimes, losing has its perks. – Rated M for smut and language

Unable to concentrate on the paper she has to write, Brittany decides to see if Santana is up for a study break. – Rated M for smut and language

Another weekend away finds Brittany's plans to help Santana with the dishes derailed as Santana comes up with another way for Brittany to thank her for dinner. – Rated M for smut and language

Taking a break from the diner and from school, Santana and Brittany decide to meet up for a weekend away to reconnect. - Rated M for smut and language

Four years after a horrific string of unsolved murders mysteriously stopped, a new body has been discovered. The police call on the same team of private investigators who almost solved the case last time, but four years can change everything. Brittana. M. Glee. Crime/Mystery/Romance/Action/More!

"Her right tangles in your hair, yanking your head lightly to the side. She starts sucking and nipping at your pulse point furiously, and the thought of her marking you so passionately makes you tighten around her as she fills you" Companion piece to Innocent. M for coarse language and sexual themes. One-shot.

"Come on, San. This will be fun. You said you weren't scared, right?" "Right." - Rated M for smut and brief bad language

Summary: You're not quite sure what she's looking for, but with the way she's gazing into your eyes, you hope she finds it.

AU. Santana Lopez is engaged to her high school sweetheart Sam Evans. With her wedding 3 months away, Santana begins to get stressed, pressuring her relationship and is also stuck in a dead end job. Her friend Quinn advises her to seek counsel from sex therapist and relationship counselor Brittany Pierce.

When Brittany gets an invited to a special black tie dinner at MIT, she finds the perfect excuse to finally get Santana to visit her in Boston. She needs the perfect date, right? One shot.

Brittany and Santana can't seem to get enough of each other, anywhere and any way. A series of fills for the GKM. SMUTTY smut. Three-shot.

"You push your joined hands higher until they're knotted against her lower stomach, grounding her in place even as you work to send her higher and higher. You have her, and you're not letting go." Companion piece to Innocent. M for coarse language and sexual themes. One-shot.

AU. The problem isn't that Santana wants to hire new employees. She's overwhelmed at work, you can't fault her for that. The problem is she wants a certain blonde employee in more ways than just professionally. Side Faberry and Kurtbastian.

After having had no contact with Brittany for nearly six years, she suddenly re-appears in Santana's life. As Brittany and Santana reconnect and rediscover each other, they also look back on the events that has led them to the present moment. Brittana.

Santana accepts a different kind of payment for helping Brittany out of a jam. (Rated M for language and smut)

"It'd be funny to you how quickly Santana launches herself from the couch and nearly trips over her own feet as she positively sprints for the bathroom, if you weren't so distracted by how unbelievably turned on you are." Companion piece to Innocent. M for coarse language and sexual themes. One-shot.

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.

After Santana's record release party, Brittany decides to remind Santana why she'll always be her number one fan. (Rated M for language and smut)

Fill for the GKM. "Brittany bites her lip at the feeling of Santana's slick warmth pressed against her bare stomach- it's one of her favorite feelings." Brittana. Dirrrrty. SMUT. SUMOSMU #3 FTW!

A lesson in mind games quickly turns into a lesson about control. Rated M for smut

A late night lesson in the kitchen on the proper way to feed leads Brittany and Santana with the urge to satisfy another kind of hunger. Rated M for smut

"Your heart rate increases as you begin to form a mental picture of your position. You can tell you're slouching somewhat, so that the weight of your upper torso forces your hips forward. You test the bindings again. They keep your arms in place, your legs spread wide apart, leaving you open. Exposed." Part of Playtime series. M for coarse language and sexual themes. One-shot

Deciding to test Brittany's new abilities, Santana challenges her to a race, not counting on how distracting Brittany really can be. Vampire- AU Rated M for brief bad language and sex.

Sometimes Santana lets her jealousy get the better of her. (Rated M for language and smut)

The second round is on Brittany. Literally. (Rated M for language, smut and the earnest use of an online purchase)

GKM fill. For Santana, and probably the rest of the human population, if you're hiding under your girlfriend's desk after being interrupted by her students, the obvious and logical course of action would be just to wait it out. Apparently, the same can't be said for Brittany, who decides to pass the time much more "effectively" in her words.

"Brittany nodded and scooted halfway out of the booth before looking up at Santana with hesitant but daring eyes. "Would you be my first bite?" she asked." Brittana in the True Blood 'verse.

HeYa Season 2 RPF. By the time Heather and Naya figure out they feel more than friendship for each other will they be too scared to let it show or be bold enough to let it grow. Sometimes it's not just about falling in love. Sometimes it's about having the guts to do it and hold on to it.

Sometimes missing your dinner reservation isn't a bad thing. (Rated M for language, smut and the earnest use of an online purchase)

Campus celebrity Santana Lopez and shy film major Brittany Pierce cross paths during their last few months at college. A/U.

The last wedding Brittany went to was her own. Post 4x14 "I Do"

"A tiny part of her mind marvels at how effortlessly Brittany can reduce her to a stuttering idiot with little more than a look. The rest of her is busy trying to remember how to breathe. And failing." M for coarse language and sexual themes. Two-shot.

AU "The first time you meet her, you're not exactly at your best. In fact, this particular moment in time probably ranks somewhere in your top three worst days ever. Like, ever ever." M for coarse language and sexual themes. Three-shot.

She finds herself caring about what Brittany thinks. More than anyone else. She just doesn't know why. Re-upload! (Previous 600 reviews)

"The rest of the Glee club stares at you in shock, and you think you hear Puck mutter something about 'girl's going soft.' In all truthfulness, you kind of agree with him." M for coarse language, violence, and sexual situations

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.

Santana has been a slave most of her life so when she is sold from her longtime home into the King's service she felt she knew what to expect. However upon arrival she finds that her position as the Princess' caretaker is more ominous than it seems. War brews on the horizon as she learns the truth about the Abrams kingdom and that carefree lives of the royals are anything but.

Brittany runs into someone from her past she thought she'd never see again-Santana. Santana has been through many things in her life and is left broken. Brittany's family takes the girl in, and tries to help her heal. Brittana

I didn't even remember exactly what she had said, but I knew it had been something about Santana. I just nodded. Nodding was okay, right? But now it was too quiet and I felt like she was reading me like an open book that had no pages. Sequel to If Only You Could See What I See

AU. Brittany is a new student who transfers to McKinley. She meet's Santana and the pair do not get along. Canon characterization mostly in tact.

Santana Lopez is a publicist in New York trying to rein in the biggest ego the city's ever seen. Brittany Pierce is attempting to create the next big thing in Seattle. They're 2859 miles apart, but one wrong number just might change everything.

This is a love story.

Santana is a teacher, and Brittany is her student. An affair in form of essays and romance hidden in the margins.

Santana and Brittany have been friends since childhood, and best friends for even longer. But what happens when they stumble into serious romantic territory? Girl!Peen entails.

It seemed so simple. In return for her ancestral house sold by her scheming friends, Heather agreed to fake-marry Hollywood playgirl Naya Rivera and stay married for a year to tone down the actress' notoriety. Until real feelings got involved.

Sequel to Charmed. Brittany and Santana have newborn infants, Rachel is new to LA and Quinn's husband is always on the road. Quinn turns to Rachel for support now that her two oldest friends have their hands full. Brittana and Faberry.

AU. They said she was just a pretty face, a model fed lines to sell a product. But if you squinted, there was more to Santana Lopez than they gave her credit for, and reporter Brittany Pierce was going to get to the bottom of it. Brittana/Faberry

AU. "I like the way you move" is the first thing she says to you the first time you meet. She's funny and charming and her hair runs wild and black. "I'm Santana," she says, and you nod.

Santana Lopez has been on for force for 3 years. Brittany S. Pierce just got out of the academy. How does a string of burglaries tie them together professionally and personally? A/U.

Brittany wants Santana. Bad. Unfortunately Brittany is exact opposite of what she wants in a potential girlfriend. Santana thinks so too. At least she does until she meets a blonde bombshell named Felicia and notices some…similarities.

Santana and Quinn's hopes of a peaceful and relaxing summer at Santana's grandmother's in Florida are dashed when the rest of New Directions invites themselves to join them.

'I'm okay'. Heather/Naya.

A kind of sequel/side story for Glimpse. The hard roads to obtaining a happily ever after for the same woman on two vastly different, yet parallel, paths.

Brittany and Santana are engaged but Brittany wants to try something new. This story follows through their engagement with this change up until their honeymoon. Heavy Brittana smut and fluf with a side of Faberry. The story gets smuttier as it goes on.

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

But when it comes to it, and Brittany's still got that same sappy look of adoration and disbelief on her face when the song ends, she doesn't give a crap who's looking. Spoilers for 3x13 "Heart".

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

New Years Eve Trilogy. Brittany and Santana spend three days together after Brittany comes home from Santa Fe. Spoilers for 3x10.

She wants nothing more than to just touch her, to stroke her face and see if the beauty there is real. Sometimes she looks and it feels like it can't be. Spoilers for 3x07

It's the same way that makes Santana think they'll be doing stuff like this forever. Spoilers for 3x05 "The First Time"

Santana has everything she ever wanted, the house, the car, the clothes yet she is alone on Christmas Eve, she wakes to find everything is different. Everything.

AU. Santana paints. She also goes through girlfriends a lot faster than she should. That is, until she meets Brittany. It seems, however, that she is Brittany's dirty little secret.

Companion piece to "The Only True Paradises." The evolution of Santana and Brittany's relationship from Brittany's perspective.

The tortuous evolution of Santana's feelings toward Brittany. See also "Pas de Deux," a companion piece from Brittany's point of view.

Brittany and Santana have the same problem: the girl next door. COMPLETE.

Santana/Brittany. Starts out in season one explaining how Santana fell for her best friend. All the unscripted/unaired interactions between the two. I promise the story is better than the summary ;

On the last weekend of summer, Brittany convinces Santana to come camping with her. For both bad reasons and good, it's a trip neither of them will ever forget.

"Life was hard enough before we died." Zombie!brittana crack fic that was inspired by a manip of the leaked pictures from the Superbowl episode. Spoilers for that. Fluffy, gory, ridiculous.

When Glee club loses a friend, everyone feels it. But one glee member feels it so much more than the others and embarks on her own journey to discover how to move on.