Song: Jealous of the angels – Donna Taggart. Britt: Bold, Liv: Italic, both: Normal with Val, Faith and the boys in the background.
Santana leans back in her sister and sister in laws arms as her wife and their goddaughters voices filter through the venue and covers her mouth to silence her sobs, she lowers her head tilting it as she feels Naya and Heather both hide their faces in her shoulders and takes a hold on their hands as she feels tears soaking her shirt.
I didn't know today would be our last
Or that I'd have to say goodbye to you so fast
I'm so numb, I can't feel anymore
Prayin' you'd just walk back through that door
And tell me that I was only dreamin'
You're not really gone as long as I believe
''Oh my god, girls look.'' Quinn and Marley breath out while pointing at the screen showing pictures of Susan, Brad, Maribel and Lio with their children and grandchildren, Marley tightens her hold around her husbands waist feeling him choke out a sob knowing this surprised all of them but also hurts the four standing between them the most and leans up on her tiptoes kissing his cheek murmuring sweet nothings.
There will be another angel
Around the throne tonight
Your love lives on inside of me,
And I will hold on tight
It's not my place to question,
Only God knows why
I'm just jealous of the angels
Around the throne tonight
Brittany lifts her hand wiping away her tears and smiles proudly as she hears Liv's beautiful voice filling the venue and the fans lifting their phones with the light on, she takes a hold on Liv's hand as she hears her voice crack and searches the crowd looking for her wife smiling sadly as she sees her looking at the screen behind them with tears streaming down her cheeks.
You always made my troubles feel so small
And you were always there to catch me when I'd fall
In a world where heroes come and go
Well God just took the only one I know
She locks eyes with her wife as she sees the group all standing around her, Nay, Heather and Puck, she shoots her a sad smile and lowers the headset again as she hears their kids ending the small instrumental solo they added.
So I'll hold you as close as I can
Longing for the day, when I see your face again
But until then
Santana covers her mouth gasping tearfully hearing her kids and Faith join her wife and Liv for the chorus and gulps thickly. ''Fuck.''
''They are right.'' Heather breaths out voice thick with tears.
''Mom and dad.'' Puck continues his voice cracking as he pulls them in his strong arms feeling the rest of their family circle them in a group hug.
''Mami and papi, are hella proud of all of them.'' Naya murmurs sniffling watching her daughter, nieces and nephews belt their hearts out on stage beside her sister in law.
God must need another angel
Around the throne tonight
Your love lives on inside of me
And I will hold on tight
It's not my place to question
Only God knows why
I'm just jealous of the angels
Around the throne tonight
Nico wipes away his tears as the song comes to an end pulling his little sister in his arms as she walks over to them also crying and kisses her head, he turns to look at the rest of his family opening his arms and smiles as his brother, Faith and Liv walk into his arms as Demi jogs onto the stage to hug his mom tightly while the fans all cheer and clap loudly.
Demi kisses her best friends cheek reaching up to wipe away her tears and smiles lovingly. ''You raised them B, that talent is all yours and I think it's no wonder that Liv is following into your footsteps with that amazing voice.''
Brittany hums in agreement smiling proudly as the kids walk over to them and kisses Liv's cheek. ''She will make it damn far and will give us a run for the money.''
''She sure will.'' Demi murmurs proudly as she hugs the kids with a big smile, Nico smiles slipping away from them and walks over to the edge of the stage crouching down holding his hand out for his mami.
''Mami will you join us on stage?'' He asks, Alex crouches down beside him and looks at the rest of their family smiling lovingly.
''Will all of you join us?''
Brittany watches on in confusion as her sons help their family on stage and turns to Demi raising an eyebrow as she sees the knowing smirk. ''What are they planning?''
''Aunt D won't tell mom.'' Val answers before Demi can softly pushing her away, she giggles as she sees her pierced eyebrow raise and leans up on her tiptoes kissing her cheek. ''Mami might need a hug.''
Brittany immediately walks over to her wife ignoring the girls sighing in relief and catches her as she let's herself fall in her arms, she kisses the top of her head and runs her hand up her back as she feels tears sliding down her neck.
''The song was beautiful mi amor.'' Santana breaths out sniffling, Brittany just tightens her hold around her waist and smiles as Naya, Heather and Puck join their hug.
''Alright guys now that the adults are a bit distracted the kids had the chance to set something up, while the most in our family are surprised by the song and filled with emotions because it really hit them the younger ones have another surprise!'' Demi announces her voice echoing around the venue, she steps aside seeing her family all look up in confusion and mentions her hand at the teens joined by Ryan and Emily standing side by side all holding an instrument. ''Please give it up for Olivia Puckerman, Faith Pierce, Nicolas, Alexander and Valerie Lopez.'' She pauses looking at the two new kids joining the others and chuckles. ''Oh hell, also to the two bonus Lopez kids Emily and Ryan!''
''What are they planning?'' Marley asks softly as she steps closer to Brittany still hugging the rest of their family watching her daughter strum the guitar with Nico and Ryan.
''I have no idea Marls.'' Brittany breaths out pulling out of the hug keeping her wife in her arms, she glances to the side feeling her family all step beside her and sniffles as she sees Puck, Sam, Quinn and Heather all stand beside her while holding onto their significant others.
''Mami, mommy this song is for you.'' Alex announces while locking eyes with his moms, Faith nods her head in agreement as Liv and Nico continue strumming and smiles.
''Yeah mami and mommy this is also for you.''
''And for you mom and dad.'' Liv tells them looking at her parents.
I'm five years old
It's getting cold
I've got my big coat on
I hear your laugh
And look up smiling at you
I run and run
Past the pumpkin patch
And the tractor rides
Look now, the sky is gold
I hug your legs
And fall asleep on the way home
Heather gasps softly hearing her daughters voice fill the venue and leans against her sister while holding onto her wife hearing her choke out a sob, Brittany gulps tears filling her eyes knowing exactly what their kids have planned and tightens her hold on her wife while wrapping her free arm around her sister her hand splaying on Marley's hand Naya and Heather both hold.
I don't know why all the trees change in the fall
But I know you're not scared of anything at all
Don't know if Snow White's house is near or far away
But I know I had the best day with you today
They all gasp softly as their kids voices all blend beautifully together and give up wiping away their tears, Puck reaches out placing his hand on his best friends back and locks eyes on tear filled blue orbs. ''They definitely got your musically talent, fuck B they have the same effect on us as you do every time you sing with Cedes and D.''
I'm thirteen now
And don't know how
My friends could be so mean
I come home crying
And you hold me tight
And grab the keys
And we drive and drive
Until we found a town far enough away
And we talk and window shop
'Till I forgotten all their names
I don't know who I'm gonna talk to now at school
But I know I'm laughing
On the car ride home with you
Don't know how long it's gonna take to feel okay
But I know I had the best day with you today
Brittany just chokes out a sob the second Val and Alex's voices fill the venue and lowers her head kissing her wife's head as she nuzzles her head in her chest tears soaking her shirt. ''I am so fucking proud of them.'' She murmurs tearfully hearing her wife and their family all hum in agreement.
Liv locks eyes with her dad as she strums the guitar solo with Nico and turns her body so she is completely facing him, she blows him a kiss as they lock eyes and leans back against Nico and Alex as she feels them also turn so they are all facing their parents.
I have an excellent father
His strength is making me stronger
God smiles on my little cousins
Inside and out he's better than I am
I grew up in a pretty house
And I had space to run and I
had the best days with you
Nico stops playing the guitar knowing his mom doesn't expect him singing and walks over to her after sliding the guitar behind his back, he pulls his girlfriend with him both standing in front of his moms feeling his siblings join him while his cousins slide in front of their parents and reaches up wiping away his mothers tears while Val and Alex both pull their mami in a hug.
And now I know why the all the trees change in the fall
I know you were on my side
Even when I was wrong
And I love you for giving me your eyes
Staying back and watching me shine and
I didn't know if you knew
So I'm taking this chance to say
That I had the best day with you today
Brittany chokes out a sob pulling him into her arms as soon as she hears the music end and kisses the top of his head. ''God I hate all of you for turning me into a sobbing mess.'' She kisses Emily's cheek pulling her in the hug too and covers the side of her little bump with her hand. ''I hope your kids know just how amazing their parents are and will do this for you too, words can't even describe how proud I am of all of you.''
''We wouldn't be like this without you and mami.'' Nico murmurs softly pulling his mami into their hug kissing her cheek, Alex joins them pulling Val and Ryan with him and hums in agreement feeling their parents hug the five of them.
''Nico is right, without your constant support and all the love you gave us we never would be the person we are now.''
''Without you, we would have never had so much joy in our lives and we know we were quite the pain sometimes. But even though the both of you were angry or disappointed and had to scold with us we never felt unloved.'' Val murmurs nuzzling her face in her mami's chest.
''Without you we would have never felt the love a parent normally would give their child, you took us in without hesitating and we will be forever grateful for that.'' Ryan continues as he looks up at his boyfriends parents, Emily nods her head in agreement subtly running her hand down her little bump she still manages to hide beneath her clothes and bites her lip knowing everyone is listening to them while the band distracts the audience with a song.
''I will be forever grateful knowing our little bean will have two amazing grandparents and a group of supportive and loving great aunts and uncles, I really don't care what blood says to me you all are my family and after everything the both of you did for me…'' She pauses glancing at Ryan and smiles slightly tears filling her eyes as she feels Nico hug her from behind covering her bump with both of his hands. ''For the both of us without hesitating at all shows us just how much you care, you aren't just my boyfriends parents and our little beans grandmothers, you are my parents to and I feel honored that we all get to feel your love.''
Santana and Brittany both just choke out a sob and pull her closer, Santana kisses the side of her head and sniffles. ''Fuck kids, did you have to make us sobbing messes while I don't know how many strangers can see us?''
''Yes we had to because everyone can see just how great all of you are.'' Nic murmurs kissing his mami's cheek, Brittany pulls them all in her arms keeping her wife in the middle and sniffles.
''We wouldn't be the parents we are now without three, now five amazing kids and a grandchild on the way.''
She smiles lovingly as they all just tighten their holds around her and lowers her head kissing the top of her wife's head feeling her body still tremble with soft sniffles knowing both performances made her emotional, she turns her head glancing at their family seeing them all hug each other and smiles sadly. ''Separate family time today, dinner together tomorrow?'' She asks softly as Demi slips away from them to thank her fans once again, she slowly leads her kids and wife backstage knowing they will follow and kisses Faith and Liv's heads as their kids all swap places to hug their family.
''So, so proud of you girls.'' She murmurs softly as she watches her wife also hug them, Liv looks up at her as Faith slips away after thanking them softly and smiles slightly.
''Couldn't have done it without your help aunt B, words can't even describe how thankful I am that you managed the label to sign me up and that you get to write and compose my songs.''
''I am not the only one doing that though.'' Brittany murmurs softly as she kisses her head again.
''What do you mean?'' Liv asks confused, Brittany nods her head to Alex as he walks up to them and smiles slightly.
''Ask Lex.''
Alex chuckles as Liv turns to him in confusion and wraps an arm around her shoulders. ''Mom hired me as her assistant and she will show me everything she does now for the label, mom got a better offer so as soon as I learned everything she does and I graduated a private online college which will only take a ten months if I am good. She will resign as a songwriter and composer.''
''Better offer?'' Everyone asks in confusion while Santana just grins proudly wrapping her arms around her wife's waist, Brittany nods her head leading them into Demi's changing room watching her follow them with a proud grin permanently edged on her face and runs a hand through her hair.
''Yeah a much better offer, which also allows me to be home much more so San and I both can spend some time with our grandchild.''
''What offer is it B?'' Mercedes asks confused, Brittany glances down at her wife seeing her smile proudly and nudges her softly.
''You want to tell them love?''
Santana hums looking at their family and bites her lip trying to contain her proud grin. ''As soon as Alex took over Britt's position, Brittany will still occasionally join Demi and Mercedes on stage but her main priority will be being the CEO of all composers and songwriters Black well soon to be Black and Lopez records have under contract.''
''No fucking way!'' Everyone gasps out in shock while proud smiles cover their faces, Santana smiles proudly and nods her head patting her wife's stomach.
''Way, Britt-Britt just signed the contract and will own half of the label. Senior black dropped this offer in her lap and after we both discussed it with our kids for weeks, she decided to take it.''
''That is not the only amazing thing that will happen though.'' Brittany murmurs halting their family from tackling her in a hug, she smirks as they all tilt their heads in confusion and reaches out placing her hand on Nico's shoulder. ''Tell them Smiley.''
Nico smiles slightly pulling his girlfriend in his arms and looks at their family. ''Well I think you all know that I struggled finding a direction I wanted to go to college for right?'' He runs a hand through his hair as they nod their heads and smiles slightly. ''Well I found what I want to do.''
''What is it Sobrino?'' Naya asks smiling proudly as she looks at her nephew, Nico smiles glancing at his mami and bites his lip.
''I will follow into mami's footsteps and will go to culinary school studying baking and pastry arts, after I graduated I will take over mami's shops and she will also take a step back to enjoy more free time.''
''Britt and I will both step back from our busy careers and slow down, now that our kids are all in their mid/late teens we decided to concentrate less on our demanding careers and while we always made time for our kids we decided to take much more but to also enjoy life together.''
Brittany hums and smiles slightly. ''Yeah we are both proud of what we achieved the past twenty years and San owning the best bakeries LA has to offer while I stormed the charts with different stars and have a few awards myself we sat down together the five of us and brainstormed which led us to this decision in the end.''
''Mommy and mami will still work but they will cut back a lot, we told them it's time to enjoy their lives without the added stress of work and as soon as little bean is a bit older I am sure they will take a trip together to enjoy some time together too.'' Valerie continues.
''We sure will mija.'' Santana murmurs smiling slightly.
''Well I think we can all understand that seeing we all did that years ago, the both of you were the only ones still working full time while also being the loving parents you are for three..'' Puck cuts himself off and chuckles looking at Ryan and Emily. ''Five kids.'' He corrects. ''We all have a lot of respect for the both of you how you managed every thing but we are also glad to hear that you are finally cutting back and are ready to enjoy your lives.''
Marley nods her head in agreement and smiles brightly. ''We all watched how you came home from a long day of work and sat down to have a family dinner and help your kids do homework, we know you still took the time for yourselves and never let anything come between that but I think now with some more time and a grandchild on the way the both of you will be really enjoying life.''
''Yeah what they said.'' Quinn tells them while mentioning her hand at Puck and Marley. ''We are hella proud of the both of you.'' She continues pointing at her best friends. ''And of all of you.'' She mentions her hand at all the kids standing around the room. ''You are all turning into amazing young adults and you all are a splitting image of your parents.''
''Only the good sides though.'' Sam tells them laughing ducking as Brittany throws one of Demi's stress balls at him.
''As soon as Nico has another Tiger fit or Val and Lex struggle keeping Snixx in we know where to find you Evans.''
Mercedes laughs and jogs over to her. ''Group hug!'' She yells tackling Brittany in a hug, she laughs as Brittany stumbles back by the force of everyone following her lead and leans up on her tiptoes kissing her cheek as soon as she managed to gain her footing back. ''Words can't even describe how proud I am of the both of you and of.'' She turns to the kids in their middle and winks. ''All of you I am sure that no matter what path you decide to take in life, I know for sure you all will succeed just like your parents did.''
''We are sure about that too C.'' Demi murmurs smiling proudly, Quinn nods her head in agreement and smiles proudly.
''Lex will follow into his moms footsteps, Nic will follow into his mami's footsteps, Faith will follow into her mami's footsteps, Liv and Val into Britt's footsteps.'' She pauses looking up at her best friend and snickers. ''Your wife sure as hell made an impact on the kids lives.''
Santana smiles proudly cuddling into her wife and nods her head. ''Well yeah but can you blame them? She had an amazing career, is loved by many and still the best mom, wife, sister, friend and godmother someone could have wished for.''
Brittany just chuckles kissing the top of her head and smiles slightly. ''Well Val won't really follow into my footsteps though, she will follow more into the direction of Heath's but instead of behind the camera she will stand in front of it.''
''Yeah just like you, you forgot the contract you had with the rolling stones I had to photograph you for?'' Heather asks her sister laughing, Brittany laughs and rubs the back of her head.
''Fuck yeah I forgot that.''
''You were a model?'' All the kids ask in shock as they look up at her, Santana laughs feeling her wife's face heat up the second she buries it in her hair and hums smiling slightly.
''She was for a few months before you all were born.''
''Can we see it?!'' Val asks excitedly.
Heather burst out laughing and nods her head. ''I still have the magazines, I will bring them with me tomorrow.''
Quinn laughs seeing Brittany blush and clears her throat. ''Well anyways.'' She turns to the bonus Lopez kids and winks. ''Em will follow into Heath's footsteps and Ry will be a kick ass IT nerd.''
''Hey!'' Ryan exclaims as everyone burst out laughing, Brittany smirks reaching out to pat his shoulder and snickers.
''Nope he changed his mind Q.''
''He did?'' She asks in confusion, Ryan blushes and nods his head rubbing the back of his neck.
''Yeah I will still be doing a bit of tech stuff but instead of random computers, I will join mom's studio and will go to college studying music producer.''
Emily rubs the back of her neck and smiles sheepishly. ''I also decided to skip the photographer dream, it's more a hobby for me and I can see how much it stressed aunt Heath out so I also changed my mind and decided to join my boyfriend going to culinary school after graduating I will be helping him out running mami's bakeries.''
''Mom?'' Brittany breaths out turning to Ryan.
''Mami?'' Santana asks surprised turning her head to look at Emily.
Alex and Nico both exchange a big loving smile slowly taking a step back from their partners and pull their little sister between them seeing the rest of their family also step back, Emily slowly nods her head seeing the tears glistening in their eyes and smiles shyly.
''Well yeah, the both of you took us in the day our birth givers kicked us out for not fitting into the imagination they had of us. You were and still are the parents we will run to when something is happening to us and soon the both of you will be the loving grandparents of little bean.''
''We could list up all the things you do for us but it will all come back to one thing and that is, even though you didn't give birth to us you took us into your family and helped us through the troubles teenage life brings with it. We know we can always count on you and from day one you all showed us that we belong to your family and that you love us like you love your children.'' Ryan adds.
''Yeah you never gave us the feeling that we were not welcome, you not only let us into your children's live but also into yours the second they kicked us out. Not everyone would let everything drop and send two of their family out to make sure you will get the guardianship so nothing will happen to us.'' Emily continues.
''We love you and if anyone ever asks us who our parents are, our answer will be the two of you.'' Ryan murmurs smiling lovingly.
Brittany sniffles wiping away her tears and pulls the both of them in a hug feeling her wife and kids join them. ''We love the both of you too and whenever someone asks us how many kids we have, the answer is always five because you belong to our family and I couldn't have wished for better partners for our sons.''
Santana hums in agreement kissing their cheeks and smiles lovingly. ''Having five children is our greatest achievement and no success we ever reached in our career will ever top that, watching the five of you become amazing young adults is amazing and we will be forever proud of all of you.''
''We love you.'' Valerie murmurs cuddling into her mami's side as her brothers cuddle into their mom's side.
''And we love all of you.''