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Chapter 22

Winter Break

It was almost 8:00pm when they got back to the house. They took turns unloading their purchases and putting some in the guest room and some in Rachel's closet to hide, the rest for Puck and Britt and the wrapping paper they just put on the couch in Rachel's room.

Once they were done Rachel fell back on the bed. "Oh my god, I'm tired." The other girls sat next to her on the bed. She looked to the clock. "Ok. It's 8:05pm, if we leave now we can make it to the tree lot. That should give us time to pick a tree then call ahead for some Thai take out and be back before 10:00pm. We can leave the tree in the garage and put it up. We can decorate it tomorrow." She said rubbing both girls' on their backs.

San sighed. "Ok sounds like a plan. But tomorrow we sleep in then worry about getting the tree up." Quinn and Rachel nodded and they all got up and headed out again.

They arrived at the tree farm and headed to the smaller trees. As they inspected the trees Quinn looked around and spoke to the girls. "I don't think we need a big tree but if it's ok with you two I would like one that is at least 5ft tall. These littler ones don't look very full at all." San and Rach nodded and went to the next row of taller trees.

They all were inspected the trees then San called to them from down the row. "Hey girls, I think I found the one we need." She said pulling the tree out a little for them to see.

Quinn walked around the tree. "Yes, I think you're right. It's small but has lots of full branches to hang stuff on." She paused looking to the others. "What do you think Rachel?"

Rachel looked at the tree for a moment, "Yes, I think this tree is more than acceptable. Let's pay for it then go into the shop and see about some ornaments. I think I would like some new ones that we get together." The girls nod happily and San goes off to get the tree guy to pay and load up the tree.

When they are finished paying for the tree and a tree stand that they attach for the girls Quinn directs them to the SUV to load it. "It's the red hummer right there." She points to the only SUV in the parking lot. "It has a luggage rack." She levels her best HBIC glare at the man, "Do not scratch my Hummer or I will end you." The guy scurries off scared mumbling a 'yes ma'am' to her. Rachel and Santana just chuckle to themselves. Loving that she has the ability to scare the crap out of people outside of school too. After Quinn supervises the loading they head into the little shop.

Rachel is scurrying around like a kid in a candy store with the girls smiling indulgently following behind her. She picks up two, twelve count packages of oddly shaped, multi colored ornaments, every one different than the others. "I love these they are so pretty. What do you guys think?" She asks slightly bouncing in place.

They chuckle and San answers. "I like them too. We should get both packs. They are all different and unique." She looks to Quinn who is nodding her head in agreement.

Rachel beams a smile at them. "Ok great. Now let's go look at the specialty ornaments and pick some out. About four each I think and we should have enough for our tree." With this she heads in that direction. The girls chuckle again and follow the tiny excited diva.

They all end up picking out five more each. A set of music notes, a piano, pom-poms, a set of carolers, a wreath, old style wooden toy drums, top, and train. They also got an antique looking Santa, a reindeer, an ice skater, and a puppy with a Santa hat on. They found three gold ornaments, an angel, a star, and a koala bear that look surprisingly a lot like the ones on their bracelets. They agree on white light and San grabs three packages of them. Quinn also picks up some gold and red garland and white tree skirt that looked like snow. San found an electric train set and just had to have it saying she was going to put it around the tree skirt under the tree. Lastly Rachel found a beautiful gold light up star tree topper. They headed to the register and paid for their bounty and headed to the car. While they had been paying San had called in their order for food so they headed to pick it up. The snow was already starting to come down. They wanted to get in, unload and hunker down for the night.

Once at the house San and Quinn easily lifted the tree down and put it in the garage. Than they all grabbed bags of ornaments and food and headed in, locking up behind them.

As they entered the kitchen through the garage Rachel looks back over her shoulder to the girls. "Let's put the ornaments in the living room for now and come back in here and eat. I am famished." The girls agree and do as she suggested.

They sit down to eat and talk about their plans for the next day and plans for Sunday to go to the homeless shelter to serve dinner, sing and pass out toys to the kids. After they finish eating they clean up the take out mess and head up to change for bed. Rachel and San change quickly and sit on the bed to wait for Quinn. They want to talk to her now before they go to bed.

Quinn comes in and sees them sitting up in bed not lying down waiting like they usually are. "Hey, what's up? You guys are usually under the covers waiting when I get back." She stops standing beside the bed unsure of if she should get in or not.

Rachel looks up at her, playing with her fingers. "We wanted to talk to you for a minute." San nods

Quinn looks a little apprehensive. "Oookay, do I need to start packing my things or something?"

Rachel moves to kneel in front of her taking her hand. "Of course not. I told you earlier that I want you here." She moves back pulling Quinn on the bed with them. "We just wanted to talk to you." She nods and settles sitting in front of them Indian style.

San grabs one of her hand, "We wanted to tell you that we talked this afternoon while you were with your mom and we are now officially a couple." She says looking in to her eyes. Neither of them miss the crestfallen look that passes over her face for a moment before she schools her features.

She smiles brightly but it doesn't reach her eyes. "That's great you two. I'm happy for you. Did you want me to start sleeping in the other room or something?"

Rachel's eyes widen in panic for a different reason then the conversation they are having. She launches herself into Quinn's arms. "NO! You can't leave me. I need you both here with me. Please don't go, I need you." She says in a rush holding on to Quinn for dear life.

San is immediately right beside her holding them both and Quinn tightens her arms around her. "Hey, hey, I won't go sweetheart. I just wanted to make sure. I don't want to sleep in the guestroom. I'll stay with you, I promise." She says rubbing her back trying to calm her.

She breathes a sigh of relief deflating against her. "Ok… Ok… I'm sorry."

They all pull back sitting closer than before. Quinn cups her face. "It's ok. Just calm down a little and tell me what it is you wanted to talk about."

She takes a deep breath and looks to San for help. San rubs her back and turns to Quinn. "We were talking about what we wanted with our relationship and we decided…" She pauses taking a breath of her own trying to drum up the courage to just say it. She looks to Rachel and at her nod of encouragement turns back to Quinn. "We decided… we decided, we want you." She says letting out the breath she was holding.

Quinn just looks at her confused. "I don't think I understand. You have me, I'm right here."

Rachel sighs a little in frustration. Then smiles at her. "No sweetie. We want you to be a part of our relationship." She says holding her hand.

Quinn just looks gob smacked. Seeing this San rush to speak. "You know, like Britt's four aunts that we love so much. We want to be with you as your girlfriends. All of us together."

Quinn just looks back and forth between them for a second. "Are you serious? Do you realize what that would mean? Do you really want to share each other with me?!"

Rachel squeezes her hand, "It's not us sharing each other with you. It's all of us working at a relationship together the three of us."

San nods vigorously. "Yea just like B's aunts. They have been together for more than twenty years. They raised six kids together and made a life together. A good life. That's what we are wanting to try and work for. All three of us together." San pauses for a moment to let her get her thoughts together. "If this is something that you don't want, it's ok. We just both have feelings for you and we thought maybe you would want to be with us. If you don't we can forget we ever had this conversation and continue on like we always have. We just needed to know if it was a possibility."

Quinn look from one to the other again finally recovering from the shock. "You two really want to do this. You both really want me with you." She says with a small smile.

Rachel smiles back. "Yes we do." She looks to San asking with her eyes if it's ok. San nods and Rachel leans toward Quinn gently brushing her lips softly against hers.

When she pulls back Quinn's smile is a little bigger. "Are you sure? You do realize what we will be putting ourselves through right? My mom will kick me out for sure, which is not that big of a deal considering you said I could move in here if that's still an option. We will have to deal with a lot more than just being gay. We are being gay with two other women."

San leans forward and brushes her lips to Quinn's too. "Yes we are sure. My mom will probably do the same, but it's not like we are not all rich in our own rights and can't support ourselves and each other. The rest of the world can go to hell and kiss my ass. You guys are worth it to me to try."

Rachel leans into San beside her. "I feel the same way. If you want to wait a while before we tell anybody we can do that. This is new to all of us. There's no need to announce it to the world right away if we don't want to. But I want to try. I want to be with you both if you two will have me."

Quinn and San share a look and crush her in a bear hug. Quinn leaning back just enough to look her in the eyes. "Of course I want you," she looks to San, "both of you. We can figure the rest out. We have the next two week to really get to know each other better and see how we work as a unit." She leans back in taking Rachel's lips with her own in a slow deep kiss. Pulling back after a moment she leans to San and does the same. After they stop their kiss San and Rachel share a one as well. Pulling back from her Rachel squeals and hugs them both to her.

San leans back a bit. "So, it's official? We are all together? I have two girlfriends?" She looks between them.

Quinn smiles and kisses her chastely. "Yes!"

Rachel bounces excitedly. "Absolutely!"

San smirks puffing out her chest. "I always knew I was badass." She says smugly, causing them all fall into fit of laughter.

As their laughter dies down Rachel looks over to the clock. "It's getting late. We should really get some sleep, we have a lot to do tomorrow and I don't know about you two but I am exhausted." She says crawling under the covers. San follows her under the covers and snuggles in with Rachel's head on her chest. Quinn gets up to turn out the light. Than walks back over to the bed to get in and turn out the lamp. As she crawls in Rachel reaches back. "Come on my koala Quinny bear. I need my snuggles." She say's as Quinn wraps her up from behind chuckling at the name. Rachel turns around just enough to kiss her softly, turns back to San to do the same, then lays her head on San's chest sighing in contentment snuggling in letting sleep take her. The other girls lean over her to kiss each other than lay back down and follow her to sleep.

The next morning Rachel wakes up refreshed and feeling better than she has in weeks. She has her girls, they are spending the holiday together, and she doesn't have to go to school for two whole weeks. She stretches and looks at the girls sleeping beside her. She smiles, they are dead to the world. She slowly detangles herself from them and heads to the bathroom. When she comes out she sees the girls have gravitated to each other and are wrapped up together. She smiles looking at them, they are so cute all snuggled up with each other. She looks to the clock seeing that it is after 8:30, grabs her robe and heads down to start breakfast.

She decides that her vegan breakfast bake and smoothies would be good this morning. She prepares the smoothies first getting them done and in the refrigerator to stay cold. Then she prepares the breakfast bake putting it into the oven. It needs an hour to cook. Once she rinses the prep-dishes and puts them in the dishwasher she decides to go ahead and start the baking for Christmas. She starts the cookie dough for her vegan sugar cookies. It needs to chill for a couple of hours before she can roll it out, cut it into shapes and bake them.

She is just finishing up the dough and is about to put it in the fridge when she feels arms around her. Recognizing her scent she leans back into her. "Good morning Quinn." She says.

Quinn nuzzles her nose into Rachel's neck. "Good morning sweetie. What are you doing up alone?" She says turning Rachel in her arms.

Rachel kisses her nose. "I woke up and thought I'd make my girlfriends breakfast this morning. Then after I put it in the oven I decided to start my Christmas cookie dough so it could chill in the fridge to be rolled out, cut, and baked later. When did you wake up?"

Quinn smiles, "not too long ago. I woke up and realized someone was missing. San woke almost as soon as I did. She's in the bathroom."

They stand there for a moment in each other's arms staring into the eyes in front of them. Quinn leans in and lays her lips on Rachel's in a slow, soft kiss. It's not enough for Rachel. She leans in further raising up adding pressure to Quinn's lips, then running her tongue along her bottom lip causing a low moan from Quinn's. She immediately opens her mouth to the seeking diva allowing her to deepen the kiss more, their tongues exploring.

As they are kissing Rachel feels another set of arms wrap around her from behind and lips on her neck. San suckles her pulse point for a moment then releases it, "is there room for one more over here?" She says as Rachel trails kisses down Quinn's neck.

Quinn moans again, "Only if it's you." She says leaning over and taking San's lips while Rachel is kissing her neck. She buries one hand in Rachel's hair and the other in Santana's. After a few moments they shift. San and Quinn stop kissing, Rachel turns her head to take San's lips with her own and Quinn latches on to Rachel's neck.

They continue for another minute until the oven buzzer breaks through Rachel's haze. "Ok. We need to stop or breakfast is going to burn." She say's breathily stealing one last little kiss from both before trying to extract herself from her girlfriends. They groan in protest but release her. She goes to the oven and removes the breakfast bake setting it on the counter. As she closes the oven door she turns back around to see Quinn leaning against the counter with San leaning against her. Her arms wrapped around San just watching her.

She walks over kissing first San then Quinn chastely. "Go set the table and quit distracting me. You look too good standing here together watching me. Breakfast is ready." She says as they chuckle and move to do what she has asked. She grabs some pot holders and places the breakfast bake on the table. She then grabs the cookie dough putting it in the fridge, retrieves the smoothies and returns to the table as the girls finish setting it and they all sit down to eat.

San takes a bite of the food and moan her appreciation. "Oh god querida, this is good."

Quinn nods swallowing her mouthful. "It is, you're going to have to teach me this one. What is the meat type stuff in it though?"

Rachel takes a drink. "Thank you. It is actually soy sausage and I will teach you next time I make it."

San takes another bite looking thoughtful. "So, what's the plan for today?"

Rachel look up from her food. "Well, we need to bring the tree in and figure out where we want it and decorate it. I want to get the pies and cookies for Christmas dinner finished today so I don't have to worry about them tomorrow." She pauses thinking. "We need to wrap presents and call Noah and Britt and see when they can come over to exchange gifts. When all of that is finished I want to go up to the media room and snuggle with you two watching some Christmas movies."

"That sounds about right for our to do list." Quinn says as she finishes her smoothie. "I like that last one, it's the best idea I think." San and Rachel nod smiling. "How about San and I get the tree in here and set up while you start the baking. We can get the lights and garland on it. and get it ready for decorations. That should give you some time. How much baking do you have to do?"

Rachel thinks for a moment. "I have the cookies that just need to be rolled out, cut and baked. Then I have the pumpkin pie I wanted, the chocolate for San, and the cherry for you. A couple hours of work." She says with a shrug.

"We can always start wrapping presents if you aren't ready when the tree is so we can all decorate together. We can also start the laundry." San says as she gets up to start clearing the dishes.

Rachel gets up to help her. "Yes, that sounds like a plan." Quinn nods and they go about cleaning up from breakfast so they can start their chores for the day.

After they finish the breakfast dishes San and Quinn head out to the garage and get the tree. They decided to put it in the living room by the fireplace. Rachel rolls out, cuts and lays out cookies on cookie sheets, getting them started in the oven. After they are all cut and waiting to go in she starts on the pies.

San and Quinn work on getting the lights on the tree after moving some of the furniture around and setting the tree where they had decided it looked best. When they finish Quinn headed in to the kitchen. Quinn decided she really wanted to pop and string some popcorn for the tree. While she popped it San went to get the laundry started and then joined her at the table to help string it while they all talked.

By the time the girls finished with the popcorn strings Rachel had finished the pies and was putting the last of the cookies in the oven. While Quinn cleaned up the popcorn mess, San helped Rachel reload the dishwasher with the baking prep-dishes, then Quinn goes to put the popcorn strings on the tree. Rachel takes the last cookies out of the oven and puts them out to cool. She and San head into the living room to help Quinn decorate their tree. Then Santana sets up the train around the tree.

Once the tree is done they start the fireplace and sit on the couch together with the overhead lights off just looking at the tree. San sitting against the arm rest, Rachel in her lap one arm wrapped around her. Quinn next to San with San's other arm around her and Rachel's legs in her lap holding her hand. They just sat and enjoyed the tree and each other for a while.

Rachel shifts looking at her girls. "It really turned out pretty didn't it?" She says.

San tightens her grip on both of them. "Yes it did, but I think it's time to get up and finish up the wrapping and switch out the laundry so we can settle down to watch movies sooner."

Quinn stands holding her hand out to help Rachel up off Santana. "Yep, let's get done. I'm looking forward to movie cuddle time."

Quinn and Rachel head upstairs to the guestroom to wrap Santana's gifts while she switches out the laundry. After they all finish with wrapping each other's gifts they sit together on Rachel's floor and wrap the presents for Puck and Britt. Santana texts them to see when they can come by.

Santana-Puck & Brittany: Hey guys we wanted to know when you would have time to come by and open Christmas presents with us.

Puck-Santana: I am leaving in the morning for my Granny Puckerman's house for Christmas, will be back Tuesday morning, can come any time after that.

Brittany-Santana: goin in hr 2 Ant's house. Will b bk tues. cn com after.

Santana-Puck & Brittany: Come around 4:00pm we will make dinner. Merry Christmas.

Puck-Santana: Will do. See you then, have a good Christmas.

Brittany-Santana: K c u thn. Happy Christmas.

San shows the girls the texts "Ok, Christmas presents with our buddies on Tuesday."

Rachel leans into Quinn. "That sounds good. Let's take all these down and put them with the tree and I will make some homemade hot chocolate, grab some of the cookies I made and we can go watch Christmas movies."

Quinn kisses the side of her head. "Sounds good but let's change into PJ's before we head up to watch movies. That way if we fall asleep we will be comfy."

They head down loaded down with packages. Rachel opened the bundles and wrapped each item individually so they had more packages to open and wouldn't be suspicious of two large identical packages. She started arranging them under the tree while the other two went back up to get the rest. When that was finished Quinn grabbed her camera and took pictures of the tree with all the presents before they banked the fire for the night. They grabbed the cocoa and a tin of cookies Rachel made and headed up to change for bed than went to the media room. They picked out ten Christmas movies, loaded the ten disk DVD changer, and settled on the recliner couch together. They watched A Christmas Carol (Rachel's pick), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Santana's pick), and fell asleep during Polar Express (Quinn's pick). They were snuggled in with Christmas movies playing in back ground more content then any of them had been in a long time.

A/N: Ok hope you liked this Chapter. I just wanted some calm non-angst time for our girls just working and being together. More to come. Next up Christmas Eve at the mission, and I might get to Christmas morning with our girls.