'' Shit, Snixx.''
Brittany slips past Quinn as she watches her wife pull her fist back to strike again and quickly grabs her wrist, she pulls her back wrapping her free arm around her waist and kisses the back of her neck as she struggles. '' Calm down my love, the boys can see you.'' She murmurs softly as she sees the boys watching them in concern after hearing their mami scream.
She is about to shake her head as she sees them slamming the car doors closed and sighs softly as they already sprint towards them, she let's go of her wife as she sees Daniel kicking his leg out and dives forward catching Alex as Daniel's foot hits his shin.
'' Nicolas no!'' She calls out pulling him back by the collar of his shirt as he pushes Daniel hard for tripping his brother up, she rubs Alex's back ignoring the burning of her forearm where it scraped against the pavement and raises an eyebrow. '' You okay?''
She pushes him in Santana's arms as he nods his head and turns back tightening her hold around Nico as she hears him growl still trying to grab Daniel, she changes her hold on him pushing his arms against his side using all her strength to keep him pressed against her front and glares at the Brown's. '' Get the hell out of here.''
'' I will sue you for this! Your lawyer saw your fucking wife hitting my wife!'' Mr Brown warns pointing at her, Quinn turns to him raising an eyebrow and raises her hands smirking.
'' Your wife got hit? When did that happen?'' She asks confused tilting her head, Brittany sucks in her lips trying to contain the laugh bubbling up as she sees the shock on Mr Brown's face and turns to her wife cupping her cheek.
She turns her head sighing inwardly as blackened brown orbs lock on her own darkened ones and nods her head to her car. '' Car, now.''
She softly grabs her hands squeezing it softly to silently tell her that she is not mad at all that she attacked Mrs Brown and pulls her to the car also keeping her tight hold on Nico as he continues struggling in her arms, she opens Nico's door and nods her head inside. '' Get in Nic.''
She hears him growl as he slides into the car and looks at Quinn, she takes out her wallet and throws it towards her. '' Take it with you, can you grab dinner for us and meet us at the house?''
Quinn easily catches the wallet and nods her head knowing she needs to calm Nico down, Brittany slides into her car after making sure Quinn gets into her own without a problem and starts her own car pulling out of the parking lot hearing Nico still growl softly.
'' He is over his point.'' Santana murmurs softly turning to her wife after trying to calm their son down together with Alex, Brittany nods her head driving down the road and sighs.
'' I will calm him down as soon as we get home.''
She reaches out grabbing her wife's right hand knowing she always slaps with right and kisses the back of it. '' How is your hand?''
'' Hurts like hell, I sure as hell noticed that the last time I slapped someone was a while ago.''
Brittany nods her head and sighs. '' You need some time to calm down too, can you please go take a shower as soon as we get home?'' She looks into the rear view mirror knowing Alex is a bit shaken up too at the shock of stumbling and sighs softly. '' Happy will you also take a shower please? It will calm your nerves a bit.''
Alex nods his head trying to still his trembling hands and sighs as his mother parks her car. '' I will mommy.''
Brittany smiles slightly and turns off her car, she slides out of it as soon as her wife and Alex jumped out running up to the steps and opens Nico's door ignoring the fiery glare directed towards her. '' Come on Nic.'' She murmurs softly pulling him out of the car knowing he is trying to block her out, she takes his hand in a firm grip and pulls him into the house ignoring him trying to pull away from her.
She locks eyes with her sister as soon as she walks into the kitchen and softly thanks her and Naya for babysitting Val. '' Dinner will be here soon, you are welcome to stay.''
'' We called Puck, Marls, Cedes and Sam over too, we hope that's okay.'' Heather says softly as she opens the back door leading to the yard for her, Brittany shrugs her shoulders and picks Nico up as he tries to turn out of her grip.
She throws him over her shoulder as he struggles while hitting the small of her back and walks outside ignoring the pain his hits causes knowing he doesn't know what he is doing, she looks over her shoulder while walking to the free spot in the middle of the patio and locks eyes with her sister. '' Lock the door.''
She places Nico down as soon as she hears the familiar click and crouches down in front of him firmly cupping his cheeks in her hands, she locks eyes on almost black eyes sighing inwardly knowing Nico's tiger just came out completely and licks her lips. '' Come back to me Nic.''
'' No! Daniel went to far by tripping Alex up once again and his damn mother swearing at you was the last drop!'' Nico screams out stomping his feet in anger while glaring at his mother, Brittany tightens her hold on his cheeks as he tries to push her away and raises her pierced eyebrow.
'' Calm down baby!''
Nico pushes her forcefully away and turns on his heels running to the small shed, Brittany quickly regains her footing and sprints after him. She slides in front of him before he can hit the door made out of steel and catches his fist ignoring the burn in the palm of her hands as soon as he hits it, she pushes him away from the shed and turns him around.
She kneels down behind him and quickly wraps her arms around him making sure to pin his hands against his sides, she kisses his temple as he continues struggling and shushes him softly as she notices angry tears roll down his cheek. '' You want to hit something, fine but nothing made out of steel, wood or stone!''
She turns him in her arms and holds up her hands. '' Hit as hard as you can.''
'' No! I don't want to hit you!'' Nico yells out in shock, Brittany sighs softly in relief knowing he is slowly coming back and opens the shed. She grabs the sparring pad and holds up two boxing gloves.
'' Put these on.'' She sees him look up at her his blue eyes still filled with hatred and bites her lip. '' Just do it.''
She straps the pad to her right arm ignoring the burn it causes as it sticks to the open wound caused by the pavement and crouches down in front of him as soon as he put the gloves on. '' Now hit as hard as you can, until you feel like every ounce of anger left your body.''
She sees him hesitate and bites her lip knowing she has to challenge him before he can hit the pad. '' You think it was fun for me to hear her talk so much shit about our family? Or to watch your brother stumble as soon as Daniel's foot hit his shin?!''
She stumbles back as the first hit, hits the pad and widens her stance locking eyes with her son. '' Go on.'' She feels more hits hit the pad and watches angry tears flow down his cheeks knowing every ounce of anger from the past school year leaves his body with every hit he lands, she glances at the door as she hears it unlock and bites her lip as she sees her wife watching them with tears in her eyes while Sam, Puck, Mercedes, Naya, Heather, Demi and Quinn stand behind her also watching them.
She turns back to their son and sees his eyes slowly fade back to it's normal color, she locks eyes with him and smiles sadly. '' Let it all out baby boy, get rid of everything that feels bad.''
After a few more hits Nico sinks to his knees and buries his face in the gloves sobbing loudly, she quickly takes off the pad hissing softly as she feels her arm sting once again and shakes it out. She reaches forward pulling the gloves off of his hands and throws them into the shed kicking the door closed, she picks him up wrapping her arm around his waist as he wraps his legs around her waist and rubs his back kissing his head. '' It's alright my love, everything will be okay.''
She walks towards the house keeping him in her arms completely ignoring the fact that he is almost twelve and almost past her wife's height and walks into the kitchen, she smiles sadly as she locks eyes with her wife and kisses Nico's head as she sits down beside her slowly rubbing his back under his shirt as he sobs loudly.
'' It's okay mijo, please calm down.'' Santana murmurs softly as she runs her hand through their sons hair as he continues sobbing with his face buried in his mothers neck, Nico and Val both walk up to their brother and hug him from behind kissing his cheek.
'' It's okay Hermano, we are all here and okay.''
'' Yeah mano, love always wins right?'' Alex and Val say softly while rubbing his back, Brittany closes her eyes her heart breaking as Nico continues sobbing and kisses Alex and Val's head.
'' Mh love will always win my loves.''
She slowly stands up as they step back smiling sadly and rocks Nico in her arms as she leans against the kitchen counter, she shakes her head as Quinn silently points at their dinner and sighs. '' He will eat later, you guys can dig in though.''
She watches her family slowly sit down around the table eating their dinner smiling sadly as Nico's cries subsided in sniffles and sigh sadly, Brittany kisses his head as she feels him calm down and feels him yawn against the skin of her neck. '' Take a nap my love, we will all be here when you wake up.''
'' Promised?'' Nico asks brokenly, Santana stands up walking over to them and kisses Nico's head she places her hand on the small of her wife's back knowing she is hurting too and hums softly.
'' We promise mijo.''
Brittany continues rubbing his back as she feels him nuzzle his face in her neck and slowly sways them humming softly, Nico wraps his arms around her shoulders and sniffles. '' Sing?'' He asks softly.
Brittany hums softly sitting back down and smiles as Val and Alex walk back over to her again, she smiles lovingly as Val crawls into her lap while leaning against her mami too and winks as Alex locks eyes with her as soon as he crawled in his mami's lap.
It's like a storm
That cuts a path
It's breaks your will
It feels like that
Santana kisses Alex's head as he cuddles into her and looks over at Nico as she hears him sniffle, she smiles lovingly as she sees him cuddled into his mothers arms with his eyes closed and looks at her wife as her soothing voice fills the kitchen knowing everyone is listening.
You think you're lost
But your not lost on your own
You're not alone
She watches Faith and Val cuddle into their parents and glances down at Alex tapping his leg as she sees his eyes droop knowing their kids will fall asleep soon. '' Couch mijo.'' She murmurs softly kissing his head.
I will stand by you
I will help you through
When you've done all you can do
If you can't cope
I will dry your eyes
I will fight your fight
I will hold you tight
And I won't let go
She stands up as soon as he slid off of her lap and takes Val from her wife, Brittany stands up still carrying Nico and walks into the living room placing Nico on the couch smiling as Alex, Val, Faith and Liv cuddle up beside him. She kisses their heads and runs her hand through Nico's hair as he grumbles softly at the movement around him.
It hurts my heart
To see you cry
I know it's dark
This part of life
Oh it finds us all (finds us all)
And we're too small
To stop the rain
Oh but when it rains
'' Take a nap guys, we will be in the kitchen.'' She murmurs softly as she sees Liv and Alex the only ones still awake, she stands back up after kissing their heads once again and turns to her wife walking up to her as she sees tears pooling in her eyes.
Santana reaches out pulling Brittany close as soon as she nears her and nuzzles her face in her chest sighing softly. '' I hate seeing them like this.'' She mumbles softly, Brittany leads her into the kitchen still hugging her close and nods her head in agreement.
'' Yeah I do too, Nic just had his first experience with the tiger being out full blown.''
She leads them to the refrigerate and grabs a cool pad balling it up in her hand to cool the palm of her hand, Santana pulls back and frowns. '' Really full?''
Brittany nods her head and sighs. '' Yeah he tried to block me out the whole time but I was just as annoying as my mom was when I was in his age and didn't let him hurt himself, I am glad we bought the sparring pad and gloves.''
'' Hey B?'' Naya asks softly interrupting their conversation, she nods her head to her forearm and frowns in concern. '' You are bleeding.''
Santana immediately pulls back and looks at her wife frowning in concern, Brittany sighs lifting her arm and shows her the wound on her forearm. '' It's dried blood, I scraped against the pavement the second I dove forward to keep Lex from falling.''
She reaches out grabbing a few paper towels and wets them, Santana bites her lip grabbing them from her and softly dabs around the wound softly wiping the blood and dirt off of her wife's arm.
Brittany bites back a hiss as she accidentally touches the wound and leans back against the counter, Santana's head snaps up as she hears her wife let out a pained groan and closes her eyes sighing sadly as she sees the pained grimace covering her face as her free hand slides behind her back.
'' Take off your shirt Britt-Britt.'' She glances at the table and locks eyes with Sam. '' Sam can you please close the door? Don't want the kids to wake up and see this.''
Brittany sighs taking off her shirt making sure the tank top she wears under it doesn't slide up too and throws it to her sister, Santana turns her around in her hold and raises her top wincing as she sees the bruises covering her wife's back. '' Shit babe.''
'' Yeah Nic has quite some strength.'' Brittany murmurs wincing as she feels Santana runs her fingers over the small of her back, she ignored the gasps around her and shrugs. '' I can live with this as long as our kids are okay.''
Santana sighs softly slowly lowers the top again. '' 1 to 10, exactly how much is your back killing you at the moment?'' She smiles sadly as Brittany turns back around frowning and raises an eyebrow. '' Baby you just carried Nic around, I know that I can't carry them anymore and they are almost my height hell they will turn 12 soon.''
'' Eight.'' Brittany murmurs softly, Santana drops her head and sighs.
'' Alright go upstairs and take a bath please, I know that struggling with Nic, having him hit the sparring pad and carrying him around hurt you as fuck because we both never saw tiger come out in him before. Please relax for a bit babe, the kids will be out for the rest of the night because the meeting, the discussion and everything that happened afterwards powered them out.''
'' Nic still has to eat.'' Brittany mumbles softly, Santana nods her head and leans up on her tiptoes kissing her cheek.
'' I will wake him in a few and will make him eat, please just go and relax babe you send me and Lex upstairs to take a shower to relax now it's your turn.''
'' Santana is right B, take this time for you, relaxing will be the best thing now because your eyes are still quite dark.'' Heather says as she stands up, Naya nods her head in agreement and smiles.
'' Yeah listen to them B.''
Brittany sighs as she hears their family all murmur their agreements and turns to her wife, she nods her head as she sees the concern more than evident in the brown orbs she loves so much and leans down kissing her softly. '' I will.''
Puck stands up pulling his wife up with him and walks over to his best friends kissing their cheeks. '' We will all go and let the two of you relax, we all can only imagine how stressful today was for all of you.''
Brittany smiles slightly as everyone nod their heads in agreement following their lead and pulls Quinn in a hug as she kisses her cheek at last to say goodbye, she kisses her cheek and sighs softly. '' I don't even know how to thank you for helping us with this Q.''
Quinn shakes her head pulling back and smiles intertwining her hand with Demi's. '' That is what family is for B, I am just glad it all went in the boys favor.''
'' We are too.'' Brittany murmurs softly as she follows the group out of the kitchen watching her sister and Puck walk over to their kids to pick them up, she leans against the doorpost of the entrance to the kitchen and runs a hand through her hair. '' We owe you Q.''
Quinn shakes her head turning on her heels after slipping on her jacket and glances at her wife. '' B the two of you owe me nothing, if anything I still owe you.'' She smiles as she frowns in confusion and holds up Demi's hand smiling slightly. '' If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have met my wife and I sure as hell wouldn't live here near our family. You and San do so much for any of us and whatever we do doesn't even compare to the things the both of you do for us, we are a family and if I can help in any way I will.''
'' Q is right you know?'' Mercedes says softly as she turns around standing outside, she smiles as she sees Brittany walk over to lean against the front door and Santana slide in front of her leaning back into her wife's embrace. '' The two of you are always the first ones who jump up if we need help, you helped us.'' She mentions to herself and Sam. '' Moving from NY to LA and you helped Quinn find a job here so she could leave New York too.''
'' The two of you helped us with Liv so we could relax a bit and during my pregnancy the two of you always had your phones near and loud so I could always call, hell B you drove I don't know how far to grab a chocolate bar I was craving because it was sold out in our area.'' Marley adds.
'' The two of you helped me graduate together with the rest of our friends and always let me crash at one of your houses to escape my birth monster, I was more part of both of your families as I was part of mine back in high school.'' Puck continues, adjusting his hold on his thirteen year old daughter in his arms.
'' Seriously the both of you are the best sisters we could've wished for, sure we have ups and downs but in the end the love only strengthens and we always make up not even a few hours after a fight.'' Naya murmurs smiling lovingly as she looks at her sister and sister in law.
'' Yeah and the both of you helped us with Faith and were by our sides the second we needed some parental advice because we were both new and just adopted our daughter, we also know that the both of you would walk through hell as long as it means that our family is happy and healthy.'' Heather says smiling lovingly as she cuddles her daughter close even though she is almost ten.
Demi nods her head in agreement and looks at the two girls standing in the door opening biting their lips as silent tears slide down their cheeks at hearing everyone talk about how much they appreciate them. '' The both of you helped me through relapse twice and made sure it wouldn't happen again, you also helped me through a break up and are the reason I met the love of my life. I know that I can call you any hour of the day and one of you would jump up and race over to be with me if dark thoughts enter my mind, you were also there the second my parents disowned me for loving Quinn. I don't think the both of you notice just how much impact the two of you have on our lives, without you any of us would be lost and knowing we have such strong support from two woman we love dearly warms our hearts.''
'' Demi is right no matter how late it is the both of you will always be there for us, but it is the other way around too if you need any of us we will be there because that is what family is. We aren't all bonded by blood but that doesn't mean that we aren't a family, in high school I hated holiday spend with my family because they suck but every day spend with the family we build for ourselves related or not is something we all look out to.'' Sam says smiling lovingly.
'' That is what family is for right?'' Santana asks softly sniffling.
'' Yeah related or not I love our patchwork family, nothing in this world tops the feeling of having all of you around.'' Brittany murmurs as she wipes away her tears, she pulls her wife closer as she sniffles once again and kisses the back of her head.
'' Group hug.'' Puck murmurs softly adjusting his hold on his daughter, he smiles as everyone gather around him and pulls Brittany close kissing her cheek. '' We love you girls.''
'' And we love you Noah.'' Brittany says softly as she pulls out of the hug, Naya smiles kissing her cheek and pulls back unlocking her car.
'' Now it's time to relax and enjoy the weekend, dinner at Dem's and Quinn's place on Sunday still stands right?''
Brittany nods her head and smiles. '' Yeah it still stands, it's also the day Cedes her new single will be released.''
'' Our single B.'' Mercedes says correcting her, she laughs as Brittany shrugs her shoulders smiling slightly and reaches out squeezing her hand. '' Alright girls, enjoy this evening and we will see each other on Sunday.''
Brittany hums and smiles watching everyone jump in their cars, she pulls her wife back into their house as the last one drives away and closes the door behind her sighing softly. '' God what a day.''
Santana hums softly and leans up on her tiptoes kissing her cheek. '' Yeah I am glad it's almost over, go take a bath mi amor I will tuck the kids in and make sure Nic eats something.''
Brittany nods her head and pulls out of her arms after kissing her softly, she walks up the stairs as her wife walks into the living room and sighs rolling her shoulders as she walks into the bathroom.
She quickly fills the bath with her favorite bath bomb and strips off her clothes, she slides into the water after making sure it has the right temperature and leans back sighing contently humming softly as the radio they placed in the bathroom fills the room with a soft melody.
She slowly opens her eyes as she hears a knock on the door after fifteen minutes and clears her throat. '' Yes?'' She smiles as the door slowly opens and locks eyes with her boys. '' Hey my loves.''
'' Hey mommy, are you okay?'' Alex asks softly as he walks into the bathroom with his brother, Brittany sits up making sure the water still covers her body and nods her head.
'' I will be fine boys, how are you feeling?''
'' Tired.'' Nico mumbles yawning, Alex nods his head in agreement and covers his mouth as he yawns.
'' Yeah really tired, we just wanted to say good night.''
Brittany smiles leaning over the edge as they walk over to her and kisses their heads. '' Good night my loves.''
'' Good night mommy, love you.'' Alex murmurs kissing her cheek, Nico follows his brothers lead and kisses his mothers cheek.
'' Good night mommy, te amo.''
'' I love you boys too, sweet dreams.''
She watches them walk out of the room and sighs softly, she slowly pushes herself up and steps out of the water grabbing her robe.
'' Leave it off mi amor.'' Santana murmurs as she walks into the bathroom, she takes the robe from her wife reaching for a towel and grabs the ointment they bought for bruises off of the counter.
She leads her out of the bathroom and nods her head to their bed. '' Please lay down.'' She smiles as she does what she says and crawls up the bed kissing the bruises on her back softly. '' God they look really painful.''
'' It's a dull kind of pain.'' Brittany murmurs shrugging leaning up as she feels Santana slide the towel between her body and the mattress, she moans softly as she feels her massage her back while rubbing her back in with the ointment and nuzzles her face in her pillow. '' Feels good.''
Santana smiles as she feels her wife relax as soon as she massages the kinks out of her shoulders and leans down kissing the back of her neck as she hears her hum softly. '' I am glad.''
She continues massaging the kinks out of her back feeling her wife relax completely and kisses her shoulder softly, she runs her fingers over the bruises lathered over her back and bites her lip.
She smiles lovingly as she hears her breath even out after a few minutes and leans down kissing the back of her head as she wipes her hands on the towel under her body, she lays down beside her kissing her forehead as her unconscious form immediately slides over cuddling into her. '' I don't think you know how much I really love you mi amor, without you my life would have never turned out like this. You are the love of my life and having you in my arms knowing that our kids are fast asleep right across the hall makes my heart swell even more, without you I could've never managed to live life like this and I don't know if you realize just how much I appreciate and love everything you do for us. Te amo Britt-Britt.''
She smiles pulling her close as she feels her hand slip under her shirt covering her heart and places her lips on her forehead, she closes her eyes sighing contently as the feeling of love surround her and hums.
'' Love you too so, so much.'' Brittany murmurs tiredly as she turns her head kissing her collarbone, Santana runs her fingers through her wife's blonde silk like locks and pulls her impossibly closer slowly following her wife into dreamland.
In the middle of the night Nico and Alex slip out of their rooms meeting up in front of their mothers bedroom and smile as their sister walks out of her own room tiredly rubbing her eyes, Nico crouches down kissing her cheek and smiles. '' Want to cuddle with mami and mommy?''
He stands back up as she nods her head and follows Alex inside as he silently opens the door, they walk into the room crawling up the bed and smile as they see their moms fast asleep in the middle of the bed in a loving embrace.
Alex crawls in the middle after grabbing the spare blanket off of the chair and lays down with his back against his mothers front, Nico follows his lead cuddling against his mami's front and turns to Val. '' Come here hermana.'' He murmurs holding his hand out for her while Alex pats the free spot in the middle of them, Alex kisses his sisters cheek as she cuddles up to them and wraps his arm around her looking up as he feels his mom wrap an arm around his waist.
Nico freezes as he feels his mami move and bites his lip as he feels her arm wrap around his waist, he smiles as she pulls him closer in her sleep and grabs one of the throw pillows from behind her placing it down for them to lay on.
'' Go back to sleep hermana, te amo.'' Alex whispers softly as Val cuddles into them under the blanket while they lay on top of their mothers blanket, Val nuzzles her face in the pillow as she feels both boys cuddle up to her and sigh contently as she feels their moms intertwine their hands on her tummy in their sleep.
'' Amo familia.'' She murmurs tiredly on the verge of falling asleep again.
'' We love you too Val.'' Nico murmurs as he cuddles closer to her, Brittany smiles tiredly their soft whispers waking her up and kisses her wife's forehead as she nuzzles her face in the crook of her neck while her body makes space for their kids.
'' Go to sleep my loves.'' She murmurs tiredly, she smiles as soft exhales reach her ears and runs her hand through Alex's hair looking down at their kids smiling as she sees them already fast asleep cuddled up together.
