"I can't believe you did that Q!" Santana says as she's looking back at the paparazzi
"Santana why did you say that about us getting married?" Santana looks back
"I was caught up in the moment babe I'm sorry!" But it's too late
"We haven't had this discussion but I think we need too" Quinn is mad. They enter Quinn's apartment
"What's the big deal Quinn? We're in love you don't think we're leading up to that, eventually?" She grabs a water from the fridge
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"Santana I don't believe in marriage, I won't be getting married, I've seen how it tore my parents apart and I want no part in it" Quinn admits causing Santana to freeze.
"Wait, are you serious right now?" She can't believe it.
"Very. Why do you think we never talk about it?" That sounded harsher than it should
"I see." Santana says as she grabs her purse
"Don't leave San, please don't be mad" she grabs her arm
"No Quinn, it's okay. I get your insecurities I just never thought this would be what broke us" she reaches the door
"So you won't be with me because I don't want to get married?" Quinn asks
"I've always dreamt of my wedding day Q, I want to spend the rest of my life with my wife and as of recently I though it would be you. But I guess not."
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Her eyes began to water as she left. Quinn sat there. She had questioned her choice before? What was going on? She would text and call Santana but she wouldn't answer
So she did what any normal person would do.
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"Lucy Quinn Fabray!" Santana yelled into the phone, Quinn laughed she was only first named when she was in trouble.
"Yes my love" Quinn responds causing Santana's studder
"A...a million roses... will not"
"What was that my love" Quinn loved having this power over her
"Stop it Q! I was saying a million roses will not solve this issue" she sighed
"I know baby but it's a start right?" She smiled "I love you but I'm not sure we can be together" Santana said causing Quinn to freeze and cue internal panic.
"Let's talk about it please?" Quinn begged. Santana told her, she needed to work on her issues before they could make a decision on their relationship.
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-2 weeks later-
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Quinn had barely been sleeping, she called Rachel and flew her out to LA, she needed her best friend. She's at the airport waiting
"This better be good! Quinn Fabray just paid a small fortune to have me overnighted" Rachel says laughing as she hugs her.
"Thank you for coming Rach" she smiles
"Q, I say this with love, you look like shit!" Which earns her a shoulder smack.
"Wow good to see you too best friend" they laugh as they head to Quinn's loft.
"Okay spill Fabray why am I here?"
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"What is your stance on marriage?" She asks "To you? Or?" She laughs again
"I'm serious Rach" Rach knows how serious she is right now, she's never talked to her about marriage with any of her previous relationships.
"Honestly?"
"Yes!"
"I think you have formed an unrealistic idea in your head that you actually believe now, Q your parents marriage sucked it's no secret but that's not you. You're not your parents" she put her hand on her leg
"I don't think santana and I are going to make it" she admitted
"I saw this coming, after your little Romeo and Juliet rant on tv"
"Shut up it was not that dramatic"
Quinn laughs as she looks to Rachel who is serious
"Okay okay it was a little dramatic, I was caught up in the moment, Santana told me she was in love with me and..." she's interrupted
"I'm sorry what?" Rachel looks at Quinn "What?"
"Lucy Quinn Fabray!" She smacks her arm "Don't call me that!" She smacks her back
"YOU LOVE HER!"
She was starting to get excited
"You need to calm down of course I do!"
"No Q I need to hear you say it!" Rachel sits back, she's known Quinn her whole life and she has NEVER said she was in love with anyone she dated, yes she would say 'love you' but never the full 'I love you' and actually mean it.
"I love her Rach, I'm completely in love with her and I'm scared shitless" she finally admits. Rachel sat there speechless
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"Say something!" Quinn smacks her hand
"I never thought I'd see the day!" She hugs her best friend
"What are you talking about Rachel?" Quinn is confused
"You're going to marry her!"
"What? You know how I feel about that and Did you not hear the beginning part of this rant?" Quinn said
"Only the end of your rant matters Q!"
In that instant she realized her best friend was right. How the hell did she end up here? In love? Actual love? Thinking about actually getting married?
"No no no" Quinn tries to say but it's too late
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"Let's go look at rings Fabray!" Rachel pulls her off the couch.
"No rach" she stops
"We won't buy anything we're just going to look, chicken!" she mocks
"We can't!" Quinn yells "I already have one" Rachel's jaw drops, mind blown
"WHAT! Don't lie to me Fabray I'm warning you!" Quinn rolls her eyes and heads to her room, she has a safe, she walks over, enters the code and pulls out a black box.
"Gimme" Rachel says as she snatched it out of her hand
"OH! MY! GODDESS!" Rachel turns around Quinn shrugs.
"It's not much but it reminded me of her"
"Q! It's a 4.5 Carat diamond ring for crying out loud!"
"Should it surprise me you know the carat size?" She laughs
"How long have you had this?"
She was afraid to admit so she looked down
"Lucy!" Rachel demands, Quinn says nothing but points to the picture in her room.
Rachel looks up it's the picture of Santana and her at the Victoria's Secret event.
"You've got to be fucking kidding me Q!" She is shocked "That was almost a year ago!"
She was embarrassed
"I know I'm pathetic" She throws herself on her bed
"Are you crazy? Yes. Irrational? Sometimes but pathetic? Never!" She jumps on her best friend "YOURE IN LOVE Q, I'm so proud of you!"
"Well don't be because I ruined it" she took the ring and put it back in the safe. She started thinking
"Were going to get her back Q!" She nudges Quinn
"You realize I'm the one going to to marry her not you, right rach?" She laughs
"I thought you were never getting married Fabray?" She shoots back and Quinn's eyes widen
"Holy shit! I'm trying to get married!" She couldn't believe she finally said it.
"Yes you are now let's go get this hot supermodel back!" Rachel links their arms together.
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They call a few friends over to help with a plan, operation never getting married (Rachel's idea obviously) was underway.
Her apartment consisted of Kurt, Blaine, Finn, Puck, Rachel, Herself, and 3 model friends of Santana's.
"Okay friends" Rachel stood up
"How are we doing this?" Everyone looked up at her then back at Quinn.
"I think" Quinn started as the loft door opened, everyone turned and standing there was Santana.
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"What's going on here?" She asks setting her bag down. Everyone looks at Quinn.
"What are you doing here? Quinn says and Rachel smacks her arm
"We need to talk Q" Santana says "Alone preferably" she looks at everyone.
"Why the hell not" Quinn says to Rachel as she stands and retreats to their bedroom
"Maybe i should come back" Santana turns
"No No" Rachel grabs her arm
"Come sit here Santana" Kurt hands her a glass of wine
"Seriously guys what's going on? Did someone die? Is this an intervention? This is weird even for you Rach" she takes a sip as Quinn re-emerges.
Quinn walks up to Santana, kisses her cheek and exhales.
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Now of never Fabray get it together, she tells herself
"Quinn?" Santana says bringing her back from her thoughts
"Santana" Quinn takes a knee, everyone gasps
"Wha? T? What are you doing Q?" She asks
"Let me get this out or I never will" Santana nods but looks around at everyone
"I never wanted to be in random photo shoots, I never wanted to go to lingerie shows but more importantly, I never wanted to get married and for the longest time I was okay with all that, then a cocky, gorgeous supermodel came into my life and my world changed. This past year and a half You made me fearless, you made me want to be better, you pushed me and I pulled you. You stole my heart Santana, I want to spend the rest of my life with you...So I'm breaking my own rule, will you marry me Santana Lopez?"
She looks at everyone wiping their eyes, realizing this was really happening. She looked back at her and wiped the tear that had fallen
"I'm so in love with you Q, yes I will marry you" she stands up kissing Quinn as she puts the ring on her finger
"Jesus Christ Q!" Santana says as she looks at the ring.
"Right!" Rachel laughs in the background
"I love you so much" Quinn says again as she closes the distance more.
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"Do you still want to talk to me San? She asks
"It's not important anymore Q" Santana says as she closes the distance once more.
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-4 weeks later-
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Door Slam*
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"Go away Santana!" Quinn yelled as she closed the door to the apartment.
"Quinn! Stop!" Santana yelled entering the apartment.
"It's not what she made it out to be! I promise!"
Quinn went into the bedroom and locked the door.
"Ugh!"
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-flashback 30 min prior-
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The girls were at dinner when Santana went to use the restroom. Quinn was looking at the menu when someone sits down, she looks up.
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"Nat? What are you doing here?" Nat has tears in her eyes
"Tell me it's not true Quinn. Tell me you're not marrying her" Quinn exhaled
"it's completely true but who told you?"
Santana walks up
"Umm what's going on?" She looks at both girls. Nat continues, ignoring Santana
"You and I we're together almost 3 years. We had the talk, I still stayed because I loved you. We made plans. You lied to me Quinn"
Quinn sighed
"I never lied to you. I just wasn't ready"
"Oh and now you're ready?" She looked at Santana
"And you. I'm surprised you're still here, where's Olivia Santana?" Santana's eyes shot to Quinn who was confused
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"What are you talking about Nat, you already know Santana is with me" Natalie laughs
"Quinn has no idea does she?" Santana's face drops
"What's going on?" Quinn now looking at Santana.
"Go ahead Santana tell your fiancé what happened in your apartment 3 weeks ago!"
Nat sits back with her arms crossed.
"Babe can we talk somewhere else please?" Santana grabs Quinn's hand.
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"What's going on?" Quinn asks as they walk into the bathroom.
"You're scaring me Santana"
Santana starts crying
"Quinn, I swear I love you and it's not what it looked like, she kissed me!" Quinn felt sick
"Who kissed who? What are you talking about?" Santana is pacing
"Olivia came to my apartment, when we were on hiatus, I was drinking and blabbing on about us and one thing led to another and she kissed me and I'm so sorry Quinn" Quinn stares at her
"Is that why you came over to my apartment the day we got engaged?" Her eyes tearing
"Yes! I wanted to tell you immediately but then you proposed and I couldn't lose you and I'm so so sorry!" She walked up to Quinn but Quinn stepped back in disbelief
"Don't touch me Santana" and she walked out of the restroom.
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"I hope you're proud of yourself Natalie." Quinn huffed as she walked out of the restaurant
-End flashback-
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Santana was pacing in the apartment
"Quinn! Talk to me!" Quinn stormed out of the bedroom
"Do you now understand why I was so against marriage! Because shit like this happens. Love ruins everything. I broke the only rule I had for you Santana, I jumped through hoops to be with you!" She begins to cry.
"Baby you have to know it meant nothing, I was heartbroken over us" Quinn looked up
"it was a fight not a break up Santana"
"How was I supposed to know what Quinn?"
"Wait wait wait!" Quinn stops
"How did Olivia know anything and why was she even at your apartment?" Santana's face says it all
"I called her" With that Quinn walked out of the apartment.
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"Quinn? It's 2am is everything okay?" Rachel answered her phone
"N-no itsss not short stack, Santana cheated on me the day we got engaged" Quinn slurred
"Quinn are you drunk?
"Where are you?" Rachel was grabbing her shoes
"I'm at...where am I? Cuse me? What bar is this?"
"Quinn I'm coming to get you"
"I'm on the corner of 8th and 42nd" Quinn responded.
She was at the same club they would always go too before either of them were famous. Rachel stormed I'm looking for Quinn finding her at the bar.
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"Let's go Q" she grabs her hand only to have Quinn swat it away
"There's no use Rach, it's over" her eyes began to water.
"Come on Q" She said as they left the bar. They were bombarded with camera flashes
"Quinn! Over here" "Where's Santana?"
"Is it true you broke up?"
"Don't listen to them Q, get in the car"
They rode in silence, Quinn stared out the window. As they reached Quinn's loft, Rachel helped her inside.
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"Now start from the beginning "
Rachel said as she handed Quinn. water bottle
"And now we're here" Quinn ended the story
"Q I'm so sorry" Rachel said
"Are you sure you want to end it though? It sounds like Santana didn't initiate anything? And she did come to tell you?" Quinn looked at her friend
"Are you taking her side?"
"Absolutely not, you know I always have your back! I'm just saying look at all sides, Santana is the best thing to happen to you, we both know this, isn't it worth saving?" She grabbed Quinn's hand.
"I love her so much Rach, isn't that pathetic? She cheated on me and I still want to be with her"
"No Q, it's not pathetic, it's love, I think you guys can save this relationship but only if you want too, why don't you sleep it off and talk to Santana tomorrow." Quinn nodded as Rachel walked tucked her into bed.
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As she was leaving she saw the picture Quinn had of Santana's Victoria's Secret show, Santana had signed it in lipstick saying
"It all means nothing without you, I love you"
she smiled and let Quinn sleep.
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The next morning
"Omg my head, I'm never drinking again" Quinn said as she tried to sit up, she grabbed the water bottle and aspirin that Rachel left her.
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She headed to the shower when she saw the note in her picture, she smiled, picked up her phone and shot a text. She let the hot water run over her when she felt a set of hands wrap around her but she didn't turn around.
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"I love you" she said as she kissed her hand but she noticed something was missing from a very important ringer. She turned around immediately to find it wasn't Santana.
"What the actual fuck Nat!" She jumped out of the shower
"How did you get in here?" She was stunned as she went towards the living room
"I have a key or did you forget? I figured now you're single, I'm single" Nat followed her out of the room.
"Are you fucking crazy? Why would I ever want to be with you!" Quinn snapped
"I am in love with Santana! I'm going to marry her!"
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When all of a sudden they heard the loft door close, Santana was standing there watching/hearing everything unfold.
"Santana " Quinn said breathlessly. Without another word Santana walked past Quinn
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"Son of a bitch my eye!" Nat clenched her face
"I think Quinn has made it more than clear where she stands so I suggest you get the hell out" Santana was face to face with Nat.
"You're going to pay for that Lopez" Nat said as she grabbed her things and left slamming the loft door.
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"Babe, I know how bad this looks but I promise you..." Quinn rambled
"You can stop talking Quinn" Santana turned back around "I believe you."
Without another word Quinn kissed Santana like she never had before.
"One thing Q?"
"Anything " she responded
"Change the damn locks please!" Quinn laughed.
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"Are we going to be okay San?" Quinn asks as she hands Santana her glass of wine
"Thanks babe" she says as they sit on the couch and wraps her arm over her shoulders.
"I love you San, I'm in love with you and I've never been able to say both of those words let alone mean them to anyone else, I think what we have is special" Quinn says as she wipes the stray tear away.
"I feel the same way Q and I don't want us to lose this over something so petty"
"Marry me Santana" Quinn gently kisses her
"I would marry you right now Q, there's no one else I want to be with"