Brittany sighs softly waking up in the middle of the night and sits up softly groaning as she feels her left hand throb in the cast she need to wear for two more weeks, she runs her right hand down her face and looks around wondering what woke her beside the pain.
She glances over at her wife as she hears her groan softly and frowns as she sees her shiver under the blanket, she holds her right hand against her forehead and raises an eyebrow. '' Damn babe, you are burning up.'' She mumbles under her breath, she slides out of bed after taking a painkiller and walks into the bathroom.
She walks back into their bedroom after wetting a towel and walks over to her wife sitting down on the edge, she puts the thermometer she grabbed in her ear. She holds it with her injured hand and runs her other through dark locks as she groans. '' It's okay baby.''
She takes the thermometer out of her ear as it beeps and continues running her fingers through her hair, she looks at her temperature and frowns. '' Well you are not going to work my love.'' She mumbles as she sees a light rise in her temperature, she grabs her phone off of the nightstand after tucking her back in and places the towel on her forehead kissing the tip of her nose as she sighs contently.
She slips out of the room after grabbing her own phone and walks down the stairs, she looks at the time biting her lip as she sees it's a little past three am and unlocks Santana's phone.
She sends Liz and Bren a text message telling them that San is sick and can't come in and asks them if they can cover her for the next few days, she places the phone down and unlocks her own sending her dad a text knowing he just got off of a night shift.
Hey dad could you pick up the boys? San has a fever and I don't want them to get sick too. Love you.
She smiles as he immediately reads it and grabs Santana's phone as it buzzes, she opens Liz's message and smiles as she reads it.
Hey Britt no problem Bren and I will make sure every shop is covered, take care of San.
After thanking her and telling her that she will she looks down at her own phone and smiles as she sees Brad's reply.
Good morning or night, no problem I will be there in ten.
She walks up the stairs after turning off Santana's alarms and walks into Nico's room, she picks him up kissing his head and frowns as she also feels that he is warmer than normal. She places him back down and walks through the joint door into Alex's room, she leans down placing her lips on his forehead and sighs dropping her head as she feels the same warmth on his forehead.
She quickly walks out of the room and jogs down the stairs as she hears a knock, she opens the door and bites her lip. '' Sorry dad but both boys might as well stay here, they already have a light rise in their temperature too.''
'' Did you take their temperature yet?'' Brad asks concerned as he steps into the house hugging his daughter, he takes off his jacket as she shakes her head and smiles. '' Come on I will take Nico and you can check on Alex.''
He walks up the stairs before she can protest and slips into Nico's room, Brittany watches him slip into Nico's bathroom and walks into Alex's bathroom grabbing the thermometer out of his bathroom.
She walks over to the bed taking his temperature shushing him softly as he whines and takes it out as it beeps, she sighs sadly as she sees his temperature and leans down taking him in her arms.
She runs her injured hand over his sweaty back and walks over grabbing a change of clothes out of his closet, after she changed his diaper and his clothes she walks out of his room still holding onto him and walks into Nico's room.
'' Does he have a fever?'' Brad asks from the rocking chair with Nico in his lap, Brittany sighs and runs a hand through Alex's blonde locks.
'' Yeah, Nico too?'' She bites her lip as he nods his head and walks over to him, she leans down kissing Nico's head and shushes him as he grunts.
'' Go to bed Britt, I will stay here tonight.'' Brad mumbles smiling tiredly, Brittany shakes her head and sighs.
'' No dad it's okay I can do it, you just came back from work.''
Brad shakes his head and stands up taking Alex from her, he shushes both boys as they whine in their sleep and leans down kissing his daughters forehead. '' I don't care, the boys are still asleep so I will take them with me into the guest room and cuddle with them. Go cuddle with your wife we detected their fevers early enough so maybe they will be a bit better in a few hours.''
'' Are you sure?'' Brittany asks softly knowing how tired he is, Brad nods his head and smiles.
'' I am Britt, try to go back to sleep.'' He follows her out of Nico's room and walks down the hall into one of the bedrooms knowing she will follow, he places both boys in the bed propping pillows behind their backs so they won't roll off and turns to her.
'' Thank you dad.'' Brittany mumbles softly hugging him, Brad smiles tiredly and hugs her back kissing her head.
'' Anytime, now go to sleep.''
Brittany nods her head and walks out of the room after kissing the boys heads, she walks back into her bedroom and slowly takes the towel off of Santana's head. She quickly wets it again with cold water and places it back on her forehead, she sits down on the edge of the bed as she groans and cups her cheek running her thumb over her cheekbone. '' Baby can you sit up for a second?''
'' No.'' Brittany sighs and as she buries herself under the blanket and grabs the water bottle shaking her wife again.
'' Please babe, you need to drink something.''
Santana sighs hearing her pleading voice and slowly forces her eyes open groaning as her head throbs. '' God my head throbs.'' She groans out covering her eyes, Brittany quickly reaches out as she tries to take the towel off and shakes her head.
'' No keep that there, you have a fever baby that will help bringing your temperature down.'' She pulls her in a sitting position ignoring her grunted protest and holds the bottle up to her lips, she reaches into her pocket taking out one of her ibuprofen she takes for her hand and holds it up to her lips. '' Please take this.'' She mutters softly.
She kisses her cheek as she does as she asks and takes the bottle from her as she empties it out, she places the bottle back on the nightstand and tucks her back in. '' Go back to sleep baby.''
Santana shakes her head and sighs. '' I need to call the girls so they take over the shops.''
Brittany slides into bed next to her and pulls her in her arms shushing her as she protest about her getting sick too, she kisses her forehead and sighs softly. '' I already send them a text and they will make sure the shops are covered until you come back.''
'' What about the boys?'' Santana mumbles tiredly as she cuddles into her humming as she feels her run her fingers through her hair.
Brittany sighs and kisses her forehead. '' I wrote dad to pick them up but decided to leave them here the second I noticed them having a fever too.'' She tightens her hold on her as she tries to jump up and kisses her head as she mumbles about the boys needing them. '' The boys are asleep in the guest room with dad, he offered to stay the night and take care of the boys while I take care of you.''
'' You will get sick too.'' Santana mumbles on the verge of sleeping, Brittany shrugs her shoulders and kisses her head.
'' Don't care. Stop fighting against sleep baby, dad will make sure the boys will get more sleep and I will make sure the three of you will feel better soon.''
'' Mh kay.'' Brittany smiles running her hand down her back and kisses her forehead as she feels her drift off to sleep again, she grabs her phone off of her nightstand knowing she won't get any sleep the next few nights and unlocks it opening Puck's chat knowing he is awake and getting ready for work.
Hey Puck I need to cancel this week, the boys and San have a fever so let's work on the paintings next week I don't want any of you to get sick.
She starts up Netflix on her phone after grabbing her headset out of the nightstand and pushes play on a random movie she already watched, she pauses the movie as Puck replies and reads his message smiling.
Hey B no problem take care of your wife and kids, I will drop by before work and bring ingredients for soup and breakfast so you don't have to leave the house. I will also bring Gatorade for San, you need something else?
No and thank you Noah, love you.
She dims her screen as she hears Santana groan and rubs her back until she quiets down again, she turns back to the movie leaning her head against the headboard and sighs sadly as Santana sniffle ends in a bad coughing fit that wakes her up.
'' God I feel like shit.'' Santana croaks out groaning, Brittany smiles sadly and slips out of bed. She walks into the bathroom grabbing the cough syrup and walks back over to her wife, she holds the bottle up chuckling softly as she grimaces and helps her sit up.
'' I know you hate the taste, but it will help baby.'' she watches her take a gulp of the syrup and leans over her grabbing her water bottle as she gags, she watches her down the bottle in one go smiling proudly and squeezes her hand softly as she yawns.
'' Lay back down baby, I will check on the boys.''
She walks out of the room as she cuddles with her pillow and walks down the hall to the guestroom, she opens the door after knocking softly and walks in. She smiles slightly as she sees her dad sitting up half asleep with both boys cuddled into him sucking on their thumbs and walks over to the bed, she leans down scooping Nico up as he immediately crawls towards her as soon as he sees her and rubs his back as he whines after coughing. '' Oh smiley.''
She sits down on the edge of the bed pulling Alex in her lap as he crawls to her and kisses their heads, she slowly stands up after making sure her dad is tucked in and kisses his cheek as he slowly wakes up. '' It's okay dad I have them, go back to sleep.''
She walks into their bedroom and slips into the bathroom filling the bathtub with lukewarm water, she places the boys in after undressing them and kisses their heads as they look up at her with a pout. '' I know boys.''
'' Ma.'' Alex mumbles sadly, Brittany sighs washing their hairs and kisses his forehead.
'' Mami is sick too baby, but we will cuddle with her as soon as you get out of the bath.'' She frowns as Nico coughs and rubs his back as he starts crying, she picks him up as she notices him shiver and puts on his bathrobe.
She drains the tub after helping Alex put on his bathrobe and grabs the children's Tylenol, she carries them to the bed and places them down next to Santana. She sits down on the edge sighing softly as Nico immediately buries himself into her coughing again and helps him take some of the medicine, after giving Alex some she places the bottle beside her and rubs Nico's back as he is send into another coughing fit after sniffling.
'' It's okay baby boy, try to breath slowly.'' She mumbles as he starts crying again, she rocks him watching Alex as he slides under Santana's arm that is thrown over her pillow and smiles lovingly as she watches her pull him closer kissing his head.
'' God they are warm.'' Santana breathes out turning her head to cough, Brittany reaches over feeling her temperature with the back of her hand and frowns.
'' Yeah you are too baby.'' She kisses Nico's head as he whines before coughing again and sighs softly as she sees his runny nose, she reaches into her nightstand grabbing a tissue and wipes his nose shushing him as he tries to push her away. '' I know you hate it smiley, but we have to clean your nose.''
'' Where is dad?'' Santana mumbles tiredly sliding closer to her with Alex, Brittany runs a hand through dark locks as Santana lays her head on her thigh and taps Alex's nose as he looks up at her from his position on her knee.
'' Asleep in the guestroom, he tried to stay awake for the boys but I told him to go to sleep.''
Santana nods her head and runs her hand down Alex's back as he slowly drifts off to sleep, Brittany sighs softly as Nico sneezes and kisses his head. '' Bless you.'' She frowns as he slips into a coughing fit and pulls him up on her shoulder running her injured hand over his back, she jumps up as she feels wetness slide down her back and rocks Nico as he cries loudly. '' Shh it's okay baby.'' She mumbles taking off her shirt, she wipes his mouth frowning as she sees mucus covering her shirt and throws it into the hamper.
Santana sits up frowning putting Britt's pillow behind Alex's back and rubs her eyes. '' He sounds full.'' She mutters as she hears him cough, Brittany nods her head in agreement and places him on her chest walking around the room humming softly to calm him down.
'' Do you have enough strength to walk into the bathroom?'' She asks as Santana coughs, she leans down picking Alex up ignoring the pain in her arm and walks into the bathroom. She places both boys down on the ground after covering it with towels and turns to her wife placing her on the toilet seat, she walks into the bedroom and grabs a black throw out of the closet.
She walks into the bathroom closing the door and rolls the blanket up in front of the door, she turns to her wife as she coughs and sighs softly as she sees her and the boys look at her with glazed eyes and running noses.
'' Take of your shirt baby.'' She mumbles walking to the shower turning it on the hottest temperature, she helps Santana take off her shirt as she sees her struggling and crouches down in front of the boys opening their robes.
She runs a hand through Nico's hair as he reaches for her and grabs a bucket as he coughs up mucus again, she places it in front of him and sighs softly. '' Spit it in the bucket smiley.'' She looks around as the room fills itself with steam and walks to the sink, she quickly takes another ibuprofen as she feels her hand throb and leans against it watching her wife breath deeply through her nose with Alex settled in her lap.
She picks Nico up as he tugs on her sweats and places him on her hip kissing his head. '' Breath deeply baby, the steam will help your cough.''
She smiles slightly as he does as she says and rocks him softly as he cuddles into her covering the tattoo on her chest with his little hand, she walks over to Santana and leans down kissing her head. '' You okay?''
'' Bit better.'' Santana mumbles adjusting her hold on Alex as he cuddles into her, she looks up at her frowning and bites her lip. '' How is your hand?''
'' Hurts like hell but that will pass, it's more important that you and the boys are getting better soon babe.''
'' You carried them around too much baby.''
'' I think the biggest challenge was giving them a bath.'' Brittany replies shrugging, she walks over to the shower turning it off and closes Nico's bathrobe as she notices that he fell asleep against her chest. '' Think you can carry Alex to bed baby?''
She holds her back as she tries to stand up and quickly grabs her bathrobe, she wraps it around her shoulders and closes it covering Alex with it too. She opens the door and nods her head to the bed. '' Crawl under the blanket immediately.''
Santana nods her head and carries Alex over to the bed, she slides under the blanket and moves to the middle, Brittany follows her and slowly places Nico down next to her kissing his head as he whines. '' Cuddle with mami, baby boy.''
She smiles as both boys cuddle into Santana sighing contently as they clasp their hands on her stomach and leans down kissing her forehead. '' I will make some soup for you and the boys.''
She slips on her shirt as Santana tiredly nods her head and places two pillows behind the boys to secure them, she walks out of the room after grabbing her phone and jogs down the stairs frowning as she smells coffee and food.
'' Good morning honey.''
Brittany smiles as her mother sits at the kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee and walks over to her graciously accepting the cup she holds up for her, she takes a sip and leans down kissing her mothers cheek. '' Good morning mama, what are you doing here?''
'' Your dad texted me that the boys and Santana are sick, Lio gave me the day off so I can help you out. He is concerned about your hand and knows you will overdo it, judging the grimace on your face you already did and you didn't sleep either.''
Brittany shrugs sitting down next to her and sighs. '' Nico had a really bad cough and threw up a lot of mucus, Alex only has a light rise in temperature and is quite tired and San coughs too and judging the glazed look in their eyes they also have a headache.''
'' Did you give them something against the cough?''
'' Yeah I gave the boys a small doze of children Tylenol and San drank some cough syrup and an hour before she swallowed an ibuprofen, I also had them sit in the bathroom for half an hour and turned the hot shower on so they could breath in some steam.''
Susan nods her head and smiles. '' That sounds good, you thought of everything that would lessen the fever honey.''
Brittany nods her head and sighs. '' Nico is quite clingy and whines every time I put him down though, he is currently cuddled up to San but I am sure he will wake up soon.''
'' Yeah he is a mommy boy but it's good that he is cuddling with San now, Alex is quite fixated on San but it's good the both of you swap boys often so they don't only cling to one of you.''
Brittany nods her head in agreement and sighs running right hand through her hair. '' Yeah we try.''
Susan stands up grabbing a banana and hands it Brittany. '' Eat something honey.'' She grabs four bowls out of the pantry and walks over to the pan on the stove, she fills them with chicken noodle soup and places them on a tray.
She turns to her daughter smiling sadly as she sees the tiredness in her eyes and places the tray in front of her. '' Go up and try to make them eat something honey.'' She mumbles after she finished the banana, she walks over to the fridge and grabs four bottles of water. She places them on the tray placing the boys sippy cups on it too and squeezes Britt's shoulder.
'' I will clean up a bit and make another pan of soup soon.''
Brittany shakes her head stifling a yawn and smiles slightly. '' You don't have to clean up mama.'' She rolls her eyes as she shrugs and stands up hugging her. '' Thank you.'' She breaths out.
Susan smiles and grabs the tray. '' Come on.''
'' I can take it mom.''
Susan shakes her head slowly walking up the stairs and sighs. '' I know you can but I won't let you, your hand needs to heal honey.''
Brittany sighs walking past her towards the bedroom and opens the door, she smiles thanking her mother softly as she kisses her cheek after placing the tray on the nightstand and watches her walk out of the room closing the door behind her.
She turns to her wife running her hand through dark locks and bites her lip as she grunts her eyes slowly fluttering open. '' Time for breakfast baby.''
She sits down next to her softly shaking Alex awake and pulls him in her lap as he whines, she kisses his head grabbing one of the soup bowls as Santana sits up waking Nico and hands her a bowl.
She reaches out pulling Nico in between them and feeds the boys a spoonful of soup pouting as they both whine but still eat a bit. '' I know boys but you have to eat.''
'' No!'' Nico squeaks out shaking his head as she holds up another spoonful, she sighs softly feeding Alex another spoon and watches Nico as he coughs. '' It will make you feel better smiley.''
'' No!'' Nico yells again crawling away from her, Brittany closes her eyes knowing she needs to feed him something and bites her lip turning to Santana as she continues feeding Alex who happily eats his soup.
'' I think I have to breastfeed him.''
Santana nods her head finishing her soup and reaches out taking Alex from her, she takes his bowl from Brittany and looks at her. '' Do it babe, I think he just needs to feel you close just like Alex a few nights ago when he had a tummy ache.''
Brittany takes off her shirt humming and reaches out picking Nico up shushing him as he struggles, she unclasps her bra and throws it on the chair beside the bed. She lays him down rubbing his back as he nuzzles his face in her chest and kisses his head. '' Everything will be alright smiley.''
She runs her hand through her hair as he slowly latches on covering her tattoo with his hand and watches him run his fingers over her tattoo while suckling, she sighs in relief leaning back and turns to Alex as he crawls over to her.
She moves Nico a little bit as Alex immediately latches on too as soon as he settled in her lap and rubs his back, Santana places the bowl beside her on the nightstand and slides over the her wife. She lays her head on her shoulder looking at both boys as they suckle with their eyes fixated on the tattoo on Britt's chest and smiles. '' They love your tattoo.''
'' Yeah since they were born, they always had one of their hands on top of it.'' Brittany breaths out wincing as she feels Alex's tooth graze her nipple, she turns her head kissing Santana's head as she feels her cough and looks down at their boys locking eyes with Nico while Alex has his eyes closed close to falling into a deep slumber.
She licks her lips as he tries to reach up to pull on her bottom lip and nods her head humming softly.
You're my life's one Miracle,
Everything I've done that's good
And you break my heart with tenderness,
And I confess it's true
I never knew a love like this till you….
She smiles as she feels Santana slide her arm on her stomach securely holding the boys and wraps her injured arm around her pulling her closer, she turns her head kissing her head and sighs softly.
You're the reason I was born
Now I finally know for sure
And I'm overwhelmed with happiness
So blessed to hold you close
The one that I love most
With all the future has so much for you in store
Who could ever love you more?
She glances at the door as it slowly opens and locks eyes with her mother as she leans against the doorway watching her with a loving smile.
When you smile at me, I cry
And to save your life I'll die
With a romance that is pure heart,
You are my dearest part
Whatever it requires,
I live for your desires
Forget my own, your needs will come before
Who could ever love you more?
She quiets down as she feels the two boys and Santana completely relax against her and sighs softly, Susan pushes away from the doorway wiping away her tears and walks over to her daughter tucking her in with the boys still nuzzled against her chest and Santana fast asleep on her shoulder.
'' You are an amazing mother and wife honey.'' She breaths out leaning down to kiss her head, she runs her hand through both boys hairs and leans over her daughter kissing Santana's temple.
'' I learned it from the best mama.'' Brittany mumbles tiredly smiling up at her, Susan smiles and sits down on the edge of the bed after feeling the temperature of the three fast asleep in her daughters arms.
'' They still feel a bit warm but it looks like the fever is gone, try to sleep honey you look tired.''
Brittany scoots down running her hand down Nico's back as he stirs and smiles as he nuzzles his face against her chest sighing contently while slowly slipping back into dreamland, she looks up at her mother and sighs. '' We tried to wean them off completely, but whenever they are sick of hurt they need to nurse. Is that normal?''
Susan nods her head and smiles. '' That is completely normal honey, that way they feel close to you and your calming presence makes them forget their pain. It will happen often that they will walk over to you and tell you they want to nurse, it calms them down just like your voice does but nursing makes them feel more connection to you.''
'' How long did you nurse me and Heath?'' Brittany asks curiously keeping her voice low, Susan smiles sitting next to her on the bed and kisses her head.
'' You really want to know don't you?'' She chuckles as she nods her head and sighs. '' I stopped breastfeeding the both of you around fifteen months, Heath adjusted quickly but you still latched on whenever your temper or your hyperactivity became too much. The last time I breastfeed you was shortly before your third birthday, you somehow always noticed when I had a fight with him and would slip into the bedroom when he left and would just lay with me and nurse. I think you wanted to give the both of us the feeling that everything would be alright and you just needed to feel the connection.''
'' Really?''
Susan nods her head and smiles. '' You were always the one who needed the closeness well until you became a teen, but now I see your old you coming back the caring loving one who will still walk through fire and fight if needed.'' She runs her hand through her daughters blonde locks and sighs softly. '' Mari told me that she nursed San and Nay till they turned two, after that they both took well but San still latched on sometimes when she had temper problems. The closeness a baby feels to their mom while they nurse is something nobody can describe, it calms them down and they feel so much closer to each other it also helps you bonding with the boys.''
'' But doesn't San feel left out?'' Brittany asks concerned, Susan shakes her head smiling lovingly and kisses Brittany's head once again.
'' No she loves it we talk quite often about you and the boys, she loves to watch you nurse and it just makes her love you even more. The position she is in now, head on your shoulder facing down at the boys is her favorite position, because she is near you and she can look down at both boys.''
'' It makes me feel more connected to the three of you.'' Santana mumbles tiredly, she chuckles as both blondes whip their heads around to look at her and smiles tiredly.
'' Watching you nurse always amazes me Britt-Britt and watching the boys look up at us while they drink is something I just can't describe, every time I get the chance to just be this close to the three of you makes me just fall in love with you all over again.''
Brittany smiles slowly scooting down so she is settled against her pillow and pulls Santana against her, she turns her head and kisses her head. '' I feel the same baby, even though these moments are sparse and don't happen often anymore. When they happen I feel our connection grow closer and I feel the bond of our family just entwine tighter together.''
Susan smiles as she watches them both glance down at the boys smiling lovingly their eyes drooping and kisses their heads. '' Take a nap girls, you really need some more sleep and it's a little past two pm right now.''
She slips out of the room as they nod their heads mumbling that they love her and smiles slowly closing the door behind her. '' Love you too girls.''
