Trigger warning *some slight violence*

Sam sat nervously at the airport as he listened to both Will and Sue discuss the way Sam needed to handle meeting with his bio-mom with Mercedes. He knew they wouldn't like hearing that he wanted to meet Quinn with Mercedes. The minute he told them that he wanted to be with Mercedes, they both tried to convince him that it was a bad idea. He argued with Sue for a few minutes before his mind went back to Mercedes.

"Sam, I think we should hold off on that until after we deal with this adoption story."

"I don't want to hold off." Sam responded as he sent a text message to Mercedes asking her if she was on the way. He knew that she had to head back on set to record before meeting with him at the airport, but he thought she'd been done by then. She left to pack way before Sam left the set so he figured she would have already been done recording on set.

"Listen Sam, I get it." Sue stated as she made her way over to him. "I watched that episode where she sang "River Deep Mountain High"...I felt a bit weird watching that scene til I remembered you all are about thirty pretending to be teenagers."

"We're in our twenties." Sam responded without looking at her as he waited for Mercedes to reply.

"Some of you look at least forty..."

"Sue."

"Whatever. What I'm trying to say is that I get you're into her but right now the rumors are killing your reputation. It's been trending on twitter and the things being said are not good... As I told you before."

"I don't care about my reputation. I care about Mercedes. And I want her to be there with me." Sam responded. At that point, Sam didn't care what Sue said. There was nothing that would make him break things off with Mercedes. So, he decided to tune them out as he sent another text message to Mercedes asking if everything was alright.

"Sam, I don't think you should ignore Sue. She knows what she's talking about..."

"Listen to Curly Sue, he has seen all of my awards." Sue stated cutting Will off before pulling out her phone. "Do I need to read more of what they have been saying for you to understand why this needs to be held off?"

"Sue, don't read that stuff. Some of the things being said is completely shameful."

"No, he needs to hear it. If he cares about Mercedes, he'd leave her alone." Sue added.

"Look, it seems like he's adamant on seeing her. So, how can you put a spin on this?" Sam could hear them going back and forth but his mind was on Mercedes. He wondered if Mercedes saw what Sue was talking about and if it scared her into not coming to join him at the airport. He debated logging onto twitter but wasn't sure if he was sure he was mentally prepared to see what Sue was saying. He knew if he'd want to defend her the minute he saw anything disrespectful towards her. He remembered Sue reading some of the tweets and he still couldn't believe the things people were saying, but he looked anyway.

"No offense, but let's be real. When have you ever seen a guy like Sam with a chick like Mercedes."

"I just don't see the chemistry. I wish the show only made them friends."

"I'm not racist or anything, but I just don't see why Sam would leave a pretty girl like Brittany for a girl like Mercedes. Don't even get me started on that ghetto car name."

"There's no way he really likes her. This has to be a publicity stunt."

"She was named after a singer...not a car!" Sam stated between gritted teeth before getting up from his seat. He was done reading the tweets as they were just verging from rude to completely racist. He needed to call her.

"What did you say, Sam?" Will asked as Sam walked off. "Did you hear what he said?"

"I barely ever did. I think it's because it's hard for him to flap his big lips." Sam heard Sue say as he called Mercedes. He needed to hear her voice. He needed to know where she was. He needed to tell her to not read what was being said or if she had already read them that they could discuss it.

"It's your girl Mercedes. You know what to do. Beep."

"Uh...hey Mercedes, it's me Sam. I'm at the airport. My flight takes off in an hour. I was really hoping for you to be here by now. Please call me back. I'm getting worried." he paused before looking at his watch and noticing he had less than an hour before take off. "Please call me back." he added before hanging and staring at the phone as if it would ring. "What the fuck is going on?" Sam asked out loud before walking back to where Will and Sue were.

"She's not coming is she?" Will asked as Sam sat down and called her phone again without answering him.

"Maybe she saw all the crap people are saying about her. I'd say it's for the best." Sue responded as Sam glared at her.

"She's not answering her phone." Sam hung up the phone and looked over at Will before standing back up and grabbing his bags. "I need to go back on set."

"Whoa...Sam, we have an itinerary and your mother is set to meet with you when you land in..."

"She's not my mother."

"You can't just leave her, Sam."

"Sure I can. I learned how to do it from her." Sam replied as he tried to call Mercedes again and walked away from them. He wasn't sure what was going on but something told him that he needed to head back to set where he last saw her.

Mercedes couldn't stop singing as she packed a couple things to head off to the airport to meet with Sam. She was nervous about taking this step with Sam but she was also excited about it as well. She knew many had opinions about the whole thing and Holly recommended that she stayed off of social medias because the rumors caused a frenzy. She knew shit would hit the fan when they finally find out that there was some truth to the rumors. She knew that many people will continue to have and share their opinions on her being with him. With all of her anxiety of what would happen with the news of them being together, she was still excited about it all. She couldn't stop smiling as their last moments together continued to replay in her mind as she packed for the trip.

"Can we make the meeting private?" Mercedes asked and smiled when he slightly smiled back at her. "Don't get me wrong. I want to write across your forehead MINE. I think it's imperative that all these girls out here know you're taken."

"I want them to know, too." Sam replied with a broader smile.

"I just feel that with our careers about to soar, I want this part of our lives to be for us and only us for as long as we can. You already have a lot to deal with this whole adoption leak that Brody has unleashed on you. And again, I'm sorry about all of that."

"You don't need to apologize for him...and if we're being honest, I should've known something like this would have happened sooner or later."

"Yeah, but it only happened sooner because Brody feels that something was going on between us and needed to get back at you for it."

"Something was going on between us." Sam responded as he pulled her closer and kissed her on the lips. "The more I got to know you, the more I felt as if we were meant to be together. We seemed to click right off the bat. I feel like together we can take on anything. Do you remember our birthday week when you gave me advice to come out here? You've been a part of my life since then and I didn't even notice it till now." he added and reminded her that she needed to tell him that they've been connected since birth. Unfortunately, they were interrupted.

"Actually Sam...I..."

"Mercedes, Finn needs you both back on set!" Marley said from behind the door. She sighed and looked at Sam as he smirked at her. "If you see Sam, can you tell him that Finn is requesting you both back like now. He's kind of upset." Marley added before trailing off.

"Ugh...I guess we can talk more when we're on the plane. I just need to go back to my apartment and pack then head to the airport after returning back here. I still have a scene with Marley later." Mercedes stated then prepared to walk out the door, but stopped when Sam pulled her back.

"Can I get one more kiss?" he asked. Mercedes felt her cheeks heat up as she wrapped her arms around his neck and allowed him to kiss her once again. "I'll see you at the airport and we can board together, okay?" he asked as he placed his forehead against hers. She nodded softly and with her eyes still closed, she placed a kiss on the tip of his nose then allowed him to slip out of the room.

She just kept replaying him saying that they were meant to be together over and over as she packed. It took her longer than she thought to pick out what to bring to meet with his bio-mom. First impression was important and she needed to look great for this meeting. She knew this wouldn't be as important as meeting his actual mother but to Mercedes they all mattered.

"Alright, Mercedes, get it together girlfriend." she said out-loud to herself just as her cellphone began to ring. She skipped over to it, in hopes that it was Sam calling to see where she was. The smile that was on her face slowly went away when she answered the phone to hear Brody's voice instead.

"Hey babe."

"Why are you calling me? And I'm not your babe."

"Yeah, I know I have to work at getting you back as my babe and that's what I've been doing. Working really hard to get you back, babe."

"I am not your babe and I know what you've been doing." Mercedes responded as she closed her suitcase and checked out her hair before holding the outfit she chose to head to the airport in against herself.

"Of course you know what I've been doing. Working hard to release your music finally like we've always planned." Brody responded causing Mercedes to stare at her phone in disbelief.

"Have you lost your ever loving mind? You are no longer my manager. My music will be released and it won't be that crap that you've had me record years ago. I have a new manager now and we are releasing my real music soon."

"Yeah yeah yeah, I heard all about your new manager and I can see how me and her can work together at releasing your music when we get back together."

"Brody, listen to me. I'm only going to say this once and only once. So get this through your head. I will never work with you again and I will never get back with you. I know you thought you did something by leaking rumors of me and Sam, but you practically just helped us realize that we belong together."

"We belong together, Mercedes!"

"No, Brody we don't. You belong in hell!" she responded before hanging up the phone, taking a deep breath and making her way to her bedroom to get dressed. "How many numbers of his do I need to block?" she asked herself out loud as she blocked his number. "You will not ruin my day, Brody." she added once she was fully dressed and heading for the door, her cellphone rang once again. She looked at the screen and noticed that it was Finn instead.

"Hey Finn, I know I'm needed back on set. I'm heading back there now. I just needed to pack for the weekend." Mercedes quickly said before allowing him to speak.

"Oh...I didn't know you left. Uh yes, we do need you here for the scene with Marley but I was actually calling to speak to you regarding what's going on with Sam. I know all the rumors swirling can make it hard for you two to do the scenes that we have plans for the both of you. I also know you were very hesitant because of the backlash you were getting from the viewers."

"Uh...yeah."

"I just want you to know that I do see it and have your back. If you want us to tone things down we can put more attention on Marley and Jake's relationship. I just want you to understand how big of a star you are about to become. I saw this in you back when we first met and I'm happy to see you blossoming on the show. We appreciate what you're doing on the show."

"Look Finn, I wanted the challenge and I appreciate you all having my back with the backlash. I am pretty sure that I will need it and I do not want you to change the direction of the story-lines. I think the fans will come around...sooner than later." she replied as she made her way out the door.

"Great, so we'll see you on set shortly." Finn stated before hanging up. Mercedes was a bit happy to hear Finn say that he appreciated her and had her back with the backlash. The day just kept getting better and she could not see anything making the day go bad for her.

Brody slammed his fist against his steering wheel several times as he tried to dial her number and noticed that she blocked his number once again. He couldn't understand why Mercedes didn't understand that she belonged to him but he was never giving her up. She was going to be with him or no one else at all. He watched as she placed her luggage in her car and back out of her driveway. He wondered if she was heading to Lima. Either way, he knew wherever she was going he was going there as well. He quickly followed behind her. As he followed her, his anger seemed to snowball.

"Who the hell does she think she is? I made her!" he shouted behind her. "I made you! You would be nothing without me! You are nothing without me!" The more he shouted, the more his anger continued to snowball. "I put all my energy in her...and what does she do? What does she do?" he paused as if someone was in the car with him before continuing to vent. "I knew she shouldn't have gone on that show." he stated as he watched her drive towards the set. "Good. Drive back to set." he continued to follow her with no plans on what he wanted to do. He had exhausted everything that she could do to get her back with him and now all he wanted was for Sam to no longer be the problem that he has became.

To avoid Mercedes noticing that he was following her, he decided to drive ahead of her and park near where she normally parked. He watched as she got out of her car with a smile on her face as if she was living the life. This just angered him even more. He was hoping that she would be in a bad mood. He was hoping she'd be sad. If she was feeling insecure, then he could use that to get her to forgive him but she wasn't.

"What the hell is she so happy about?" he asked as he got out of his car and followed her in. He knew that he was known on set, so he had to be as invisible as possible so he made sure to cover up as much as possible. He stood right behind her as he listened to her speak to Marley without her even noticing that he was near.

"Okay, dish. You have a smile on your face as if you're walking on sunshine." Marley said with a smile. "It's Sam, isn't it? Were you guys...you know...doing it back when you were in your dressing room?"

"MARLEYYYY!"

"What? I just want to know because I've always thought you two were cute together. I totally ship it." Marley replied. "And we can finally double date. We couldn't do it when you were dating that jerk."

"Marley."

"What? He was creepy. I still don't know how you ended up with a guy like that." Marley continued. Brody tried his best not to jump into the conversation and explain that Mercedes pursued him. That he told her to date someone her own age. That he told her that he couldn't and shouldn't have dated her. He wished everyone would remember that she was the creep and not him. All he did was make her life better than it was when he first met her.

"Can we not talk about Brody? I just want to move on with my life...and yes maybe something is happening with Sam but right now we're just friends. Plus, I need to charge my phone. I probably missed a couple calls or text messages." he heard Mercedes respond as they both walked towards her dressing room. He watched as they said a couple more things to each other before parting ways. Brody watched as Mercedes entered her dressing room and decided to make his way towards the room. He looked around before turning the knob and making his way in. "Marley, I really don't want to talk about what's going on with me and Sam right now." Mercedes said without looking towards the door.

"What's going on with you and Sam?" Brody asked causing Mercedes to turn and look towards the door in shock.

"What the hell are you doing here, Brody?" she asked as she slowly made her way towards her cellphone as it began to vibrate. Brody noticed where she was moving and decided to make his way over to it first since it was closer to him.

"Uh uh...no need for that, Mercedes. It needs to charge, right? I just want to talk to you." he replied as he took the phone and placed it in his pocket. "Just hear me out and I'll give you the phone back."

"I don't want to talk to you. We have nothing to talk about."

"Eh, I beg to differ." Brody replied as he slowly made his way to her. "Last time I saw you with Sam, you claimed that nothing was going on between you two. Yet, something is telling me that you've been lying."

"Brody, seriously, just drop it. Leave me alone. Leave Sam alone. Just go back to Rachel. That's what you wanted, right? Rachel? Go back to her."

"I don't want her. You and I both know that you are who I want. I don't plan on leaving you."

"I'll scream. I swear I'll scream." Mercedes threatened as he continued to walk over to her. Once he was close to her face, he placed his hand his hand on her face and stroked her cheek. He missed touching her. He missed kissing her. He honestly didn't realize how much he missed her till that moment there.

"Do you remember when we first came to Hollywood together?" he asked, ignoring the look of pure fear in her eyes as he continued to stroke her face. "Going to all those parties together to network and push you into the industry? We were amazing together."

"Then you ruined it. No one to blame but you on that one, sweety." Mercedes replied as she tried to move away from him again. Brody quickly grabbed her hand and pulled her back towards him. "Let me go, Brody!"

"I can't let you go. You know I can't let you go." Brody said as he leaned closer to kiss her. Mercedes moved her face away from him but Brody was adamant on kissing her as he gripped her face and pressed his lips against hers. He was so happy that it was happening that he didn't see her knee coming as she tried to knee him in the groin but instead kneed the side of his thigh. "AH YOU BITCH!" he doubled over for a bit then rushed behind her as she tried to make it out the door.

"HELP!" She screamed as he made it in time to slam the door close then locked it. He pulled her towards him as she tried again to once again rush for the door. He had no plan on ever hurting her but before he knew what was happening they were pushing each other against the walls of the dressing room and then rolling on the ground. He tried to pull her back towards him as she tried to crawl towards the door. She looked back and kicked him in the face just as someone came to her door and tried to open it.

"AH MY FUCKING NOSE!" Brody screamed and lunged towards her.

"Mercedes? What's going on in there?" she heard Finn asked as he continued to jiggle the doorknob.

"FINN HEL...!" she tried to scream but Brody quickly placed his hand over her mouth.

"Shut the hell up...I'm not trying to hurt you." he responded to her as blood dripped from his nostrils. Tears fell from her eyes as she prayed that Finn would open the door and save her. "Tell him you're okay." he demanded but before Mercedes could lie and say that she would Finn broke the door and made his way into her dressing room.

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF HER!" He made his way over to Brody and pulled him away from Mercedes then tossed him to the ground. Brody fell to the ground but immediately jumped back up. He'd been waiting for the day that he could give Finn what he deserved. He lunged at Finn's midsection causing the two of them to fall to the ground. Mercedes tried to pull Brody off of Finn but instead was knocked off as Brody pushed her away.

"Mercedes..." he did not expect to hit her and immediately ran towards her to make sure that he didn't hurt her.

"Don't touch me!" she shouted just as she watched Sam run into the room and tackle Brody to the ground. "Sam!" Mercedes shouted as she tried to stand up. Brody and Sam continued to tussle around the room as security finally made it to them and tried to separate the two. Brody was not willing to let this slide. He refused to get beat up by some kid. When the security held him away, he landed a couple punches in that caused Sam to lunge back at him and return the punches. Security was finally able to hold the both of them apart and dragged Brody out of the dressing room.

"I want him arrested! And I do want to press charges!" Finn shouted behind them as he wiped the corners of his mouth. Last thing Brody was able to see was Sam and Mercedes hugging. From the way that she looked at him, he knew that she was really done with him now. There was no way she'd want to be him now.

OH heyyyyy yall...how yall doing? My bad about last week... I will make it up to yall next week. It will be the last chapter and it will be a long chapter...I mean really long. Hope yall stick around.

Oh they will discuss the baby pic finally of course since it will be the end. Thanks for sticking around yall. Don't we love Brody lol