Disclaimers: I do not own Glee or its characters.
Spoilers: future chapters of Is It Worth Giving Up?
Rating: T

Notes: I just needed to do something. To write anything. This indirectly mentions Santana, but it focuses on Britt and two very important characters for the future. It is short. It drops a bombshell. And I am sorry for that.

February 2010

*Brittany's bedroom*

She toys with the phone in her hand. It's new – an iPhone – all fancy and everything. She looks to the sleeping girl next to her, who is only in this state because of the medicine that has been prescribed for all five kids who were most affected by everything.

She went downstairs just a few minutes ago. She was thirsty, aiming to get a bottle of water and then go back up and try to get a couple more hours of sleep.

Finally, she just can't anymore, and she speed-dials #6. It rings four times before the call is answered.

"Hey, Britt. What's up?"

She sniffles, the first sign that she isn't ok. It worries her friend, obviously.

"Brittany? What's the matter, sweetheart?"

"Are you with Jocelyn?" She has to stand up and go to the bathroom, closing the door so her crying does not wake Santana.

"Yes, she's right here. What's going on? Are you all right?"

"No," She chokes out. "Can you come pick me up, please? I–… I don't wanna say it over the phone."

"Ok." Her friend does not ever bother arguing. She can hear her shaking awake her girlfriend, telling her something is going with Brittany. "We're going to come get you, ok? Meet us outside."

It is easy being quiet enough not to wake Santana. Brittany quickly brushes her teeth, then throws on a sweatshirt, and grabs her Cheerios jacket, her shoes, and writes the sleeping girl a note. She sneaks downstairs, managing to get outside without alerting anyone to her presence.

17-year-olds Dani and Jocelyn pull up moments later. Their faces show how worried they are. Dani is the one to get out first, Jocelyn following close behind.

"What is going on?!" The half-Latina whispers harshly.

"Joce…"

"Can we go back to your house, please?"

"Yes–" Dani interrupts before Jocelyn can demand to know what is going on right here and now. "Yeah, come on."

They make it back to Jocelyn's house in one piece. Her parents are at work, so it is just the three of them since Jocelyn and Dani are homeschooled, as well.

They start in the kitchen. Dani gets the ingredients out for pancakes after washing some strawberries so Brittany can have something to snack on. And so she can have at least something on her stomach, because she knows the dancer probably is not going to want to eat after whatever kind of conversation this is going to be.

"Britt," Jocelyn sits beside the younger girl whom she has considered a sister since they were 6 years old. "Honey, please talk to us. Everything was fine last, what happened between then and before you called us?"

Blue meets brown and it takes her breath away to see the pain in Brittany's eyes. Not knowing what to do, she simply presses a kiss to Brittany's forehead, the tears tracking down her face as Brittany chokes out,

"They're charging him with murder."

A loud crash to their left causes both girls to jump harshly. Jocelyn glares at her girlfriend, "Dani!" but she is already apologizing.

"Sorry – I'm sorry!" She places the skillet gently on the bar, purposefully going slow and calm. "I'm sorry." She sighs out, taking a moment to gather her thoughts because she heard what the dancer said, and…

If those words mean what she thinks they mean…

"B," She whispers, coming around the kitchen bar to her friend's side. "Look at me."

She gazes into the blue eyes she fell in love with the day they met. Not that kind of love but, the kind that made her know she would protect the five-year-old little girl with freckles and blonde pigtails for as long as she could. She and Jocelyn are 1 year and 10 months older than Brittany, and they used that to their advantage at every possible moment.

Now though?

Now they've discovered that their best friend has gone through the unthinkable, seen the unfathomable.

Dealt with things, and kept secrets that no child should have to bear.

"Brittany, I need you to really be sure of what you just said."

Danielle thought her life was fucked up when she found out she was the product of her mother's infidelity. Her parents stayed together and are the true definition of love, but now, now she has been thrown into a world of hateful, disgusting people. She and Jocelyn has been told things, and have had to grow up a lot in the past month.

Brittany holds eye contact, the tears spilling over. She looks like the 8-year-old little girl who stood on Jocelyn's front porch and hugged them goodbye before she was dragged away by her mother, never to be seen again by the two little girls who had been her best friend for three years.

"Dani, I heard my mom say…"

And this moment right here is how Danielle Harris knew her world would never be the same.

"I heard my mom say that there is… evi-dence." Her voice cracks harshly. "That Russell knew that road was impassable. He paid someone to delay putting the sign out, and he went down that road!" Brittany slams her hand on the counter, gritting her teeth. "He went down that road knowing it was not safe. He went down that road knowing that it could end very badly for the other… occupants in the car."

Then, she breathes out, her bottom lip trembling, and she transforms from a grownup 15-year-old to a scared little girl.

"He went down that road, Dani…" Her eyes beg for her to make everything better, and Dani does not even dare to glance up at Jocelyn. "He went down that road, and now Abigale is dead."

So... that happened. I honestly don't think I will be getting much done for this fandom anytime soon, but I had this thought, and I just had to get it written out.

Please review and let me know what you thought.

Side note: Danielle Harris is Dani from season 5. Yes, Santana's girlfriend. No this will not have any Dantana. Before Brittany met Santana in the third grade, she went to a school for preschool thru second grade. When she was in Kindergarten, she met Dani and Jocelyn, both first-graders at the time. They were best friends until Brittany's mom moved her at the end of second grade. This will all be explained at some point in IIWGU because all of them are doing online schooling, and it's just too much to explain right now.

Shoutout to Isa Yodice12. We discussed bringing Dani in, so this is that! :)