Protecting the Heart

Disclaimers: I do not own any part of Glee or its characters. This is purely for pleasure I get nothing else for this. Want to give a special thanks to Niekie for helping proof read this story for me. She's all kinds of awesome and an amazing author herself. Check out her Glee fic too.

Chapter 15

The next day Santana, Rachel, Will and Daniel planned for the renovations to the backyards and nailed it all down. Day two Santana and Daniel went to the hardware store and bought all they needed sure they could do it all themselves. Rachel and Will were skeptical considering the grand scale that those two had planned for so they were reserving judgement for the moment as they watched the two of them tear up the fence and part of the backyards. On the third day after the block party the space between the backyards looked like a bomb hit it.

The next morning Santana was woken up around 3 to little hands on her face. "Mimi," slap "Mimi," slap.

Opening her eyes she smiled. "Good morning Mija. How is Mami's baby?"

Rachel smiled kissing the baby's cheek then laid her on Santana's chest. "She's been fed, changed and rocked but she will not stop asking for you so you get to get up and put her back to sleep."

Santana shifted as the baby nestled into her neck and opened her arm to Rachel. "Fine but you get to snuggle me too."

Rachel huffed but moved into her and rested her head on her shoulder. "Honey she needs to sleep in her own bed."

"I know and when she falls asleep I'll take her to her bed." She said rubbing the baby's back.

"You know darn well that if you lay there with her for any amount of time we will all fall back to sleep and she will stay here for the rest of the night."

Santana just smirked. "I really don't see the problem."

Rachel sat up a bit leaning into her ear. "The problem love is that if she gets used to sleeping in our bed we will never have a moment alone at night and that means we have no privacy for more adult activities."

She emphasized the point by biting Santana's ear playfully causing a groan and for Santana to get up and head toward the hall. "Ok Mami's girl, let's go and rock for a bit."

Rachel failed to stifle her laugh as she settled back into the bed. A half hour later Santana came back baby free and crawled back in spooning a now sleeping Rachel, falling back to sleep quickly. A few hours later she was awoken again by voices.

"But I want to wake her up now. We're supposed to be fixing the fence today and maked the gate." Teddy whisper whined to Rachel.

"I know you are but she'll get up soon enough." Rachel told him and Santana could here Rosie next saying Mimi. "Let Mami sleep baby."

Santana smiled deciding she'd heard enough. "Mami's awake."

Teddy bounced happily and Rosie, seeing Santana's eyes open, squealed in delight reaching for her. Sitting up she settled Teddy between her legs and Rosie in one arm. "What is all of this racket in my room so early in the morning?"

Teddy looked up at her scandalized. "Its 9 Mami, it's late. We always get up at 8 or 7."

Santana looked thoughtful. "Well I guess it's time for breakfast so we have energy to build the gates today."

Clapping excitedly he jumped off the bed rushing toward the door. "Come on Mami, we need pancakes and soosage."

Rachel giggled as Santana stood swinging the baby making her laugh following behind. "I'm coming Mijo." She winked at Rachel then sauntered out the door.

After her laughter calmed Rachel finally stood herself and followed her family downstairs.

Back in New York Angel was sitting at her desk when the captain came in slamming the door behind him. "We got it, Rodriguez came in with it and we have all we need for a warrant for their arrests. They are all going down."

Angel was up and around her desk quickly. "Are you serious?"

He just smiled. "Yes, but we are keeping it hush hush because we still haven't found that damn leak. We are forming a task force from Precinct 8. You and I will go to lunch together and head over there so that we are there to take the fuckers down. Mention this to no one and I'll see you in an hour for lunch."

She nodded, "Will do Cap. I'll see you then." As he turned to leave she headed back to her desk to get her paperwork in order. An hour later they met and left for lunch in Angel's car.

They met up with the unit that was going to be going in with them. They had about 10 warrants for arrest and 5 warrants for properties. According to Rodriguez there was a big lunch meeting today and all of these people would be present so this was the time to move.

Putting on her bullet proof vest she turned to the captain. "Cap, are you sure that Rodriguez's intel is good? It would suck donkey balls if we raided the place and it was bad."

Captain nodded. "It's been verified. It's all good. Now is the time."

With a stiff nod she turned back to getting ready strapping on her gun holster. "Alright, let's go get those sons a bitches." With a quick nod they were off to meet up with the captain from that precinct to brief him on everything.

Rachel and Will sat in the loungers drinking virgin strawberry daiquiris watching Santana, Daniel and the boys put up the fence. They laughed as Daniel hit himself with the hammer again and Will smirked yelling toward them. "Sweetheart, why don't you let Ana work with the hammer. I happen to like your hands in tact please."

They laughed again as Santana shook her head amusedly as he hit his thumb again. "He may be right my friend. Why don't you use the drill gun? You seem to have better luck with it."

Daniel sighed handing her the hammer and walking toward the drill. Rachel and Will lost it again causing Santana to look their way. "That's enough from the peanut gallery. You two better calm yourselves before we put you to work."

Rachel shook her head smiling brightly. "Oh no, this wasn't our idea. This was all you two. We will just sit and be amused with our strong partners that think they can build anything."

"We can build anything you just wait and see woman." Santana turned back to the ow coming from Daniel as Rachel and Will were almost falling off the loungers laughing so hard. "Where's my baby? Doesn't she need fed or something?"

Rachel s shook her head. "Nope, she's taking a nap and I have this lovely monitor to alert me to her needing me so get back to work lady, I want my yard back." She and Will just laughed some more causing Santana to chuckle at them as she turned back to her work.

Eventually Will and Rachel went inside when Rosie started to cry and after she was fed they decided to prepare food for dinner. Santana swore that they were almost done and they were planning on grilling out and admiring their work tonight.

Rosie sat in her bouncy saucer as Rachel marinated the steaks and Will made the pasta salad. "Do you think we should make some sandwiches for lunch? I honestly don't see them getting done before then and they said they were making dinner. I have a ton of cold cuts at home I can go run and grab."

Rachel smiled looking in the refrigerator. "That sounds good and I have some cucumber salad left over from dinner last night and some chips in the pantry."

"Excellent Daniel loves that salad. I'll just run home really quick and get the meat and bread. Be back shortly." With that he put the lid on the pasta salad and put it in the fridge before he ran off.

Rachel finished the meat, put foil over it and set it in the fridge for later then started pulling out things for lunch. Once Will got back they threw together the meal took it out back to the others. They all cheered and dug in.

The rest of the day was spent finishing up the backyard and when it was done Will was thoroughly impressed. Rachel loved what they had done but honestly knew the skill Santana had when she put her mind to something so she never had any doubt that it would be amazing. After taking a much deserved break they set up everything in Santana and Rachel's yard so the boys could play on the pirate ship while they cooked dinner. They left the gate open so they could admire their work.

Dinner was a success and they really enjoyed being able to go back and forth without having to go through the house and out the front.

As the boys continued to play the adults sat on the loungers passing Rosie back and forth playing with her. Currently she was sitting in Santana's lap playing with her fingers cooing and making noise as she talked with the others. "I think we should plan to have a BBQ this weekend with swimming and open up the yards so they can go back and forth with the pirate ship. I'm sure Amy and Arnold would come and Linda and John will bring the twins."

Daniel nodded along, "See, this is why I wanted to open our yards up. It gives up more room and the kids will love it. Last time we had a BBQ at our place the kids got bored swimming and we ended up moving it over to your place."

Santana smiled. "Yep, this fixes it."

Rachel and Will just listened as they made plans for the weekend, loving how excited they were. Rosie started to fuss and reaching for Rachel so she took her as Santana passed her over. This didn't satisfy her and she kept pawing at her mama's chest so Rachel stood kissing Santana lightly. "I'm going to take her up to get her ready for bed. Why don't you give him a few more minutes to play then he needs his bath and get ready for bed too."

With a yawn Santana nodded. "Ok baby. I'll get this cleaned up then bring him up to bathe him. You just get Rose bud settled, she looks ready to nod off in your arms."

After bidding everyone goodnight she went into the house to get Rosie bathed, fed and put to bed. It had been a long day and she was exhausted herself. All she wanted to do was take a long shower, preferably with her wife, then fall in bed with her and sleep like the dead.

She took Rosie to her bathroom and got her undressed and bathed her quickly because the baby was getting really fussy wanting to be breastfed and go to sleep. She took her into the bedroom and sat in the rocker to feed her. She and Santana had decided to leave the rocker in their room since both loved watching the other feed and rock her any time they got the chance.

Laying her head back she smiled listening to the others outside laughing as they cleaned up and sighed in relief as the baby finished eating and fell to sleep. She fired off a text to Santana to let her know that she was sleeping and to be quiet coming in then got up and headed in to the nursery.

Once she laid her down she kissed her forehead covering her up then turned to leave only to stop cold at the sight before her. "Hello Rachel."

She shuddered at his voice and was unable to speak above a whisper. "Brody"

A/N: I'm hiding until I can update. Don't kill me for the cliffhanger ;-) More to come very soon.