AN: Sorry for the delay guys! Hope everyone's still there and alright.
I've actually touched down in the States so I've been busy being the ultimate tourist; so you can thank the 12 hour flight for the next couple chapters!
As always, thank you for reading.
The next morning, Quinn and Santana rise early to return to the hospital to have the Latina's stitches removed.
Quinn watches with fascination as the doctors pulls at the thread, previously holding her girlfriend's side together. She's always been a relatively sheltered child and so apart from her injuries from Russell, she's never had to go through this herself.
When they're all finished up at the hospital, they get back in the car and sit for a moment.
"So baby love, do you have any ideas of what you want to do?" Santana asks.
"Considering we decided to go on a date and then I fell asleep straight after, I haven't really had much time to think about it. But whilst I was waiting for you just, I did think, how about an activity date? Like bowling or mini golf?" As she finishes, Santana's face lights up, she knows how much her girlfriend loves things like this.
"Are you serious? You want to do that?"
Quinn just chuckles, "After that smile, how can I deny you anything my love."
Santana leans over the centre console for a bruising kiss, "I love you Luce."
"I love you Tana. Now let's get going, I need to beat your ass at something today."
Santana just laughs and heads off in the direction of the bowling alley.
When they arrive, Quinn runs to the bathroom while Santana pays, gets their bowling shoes and allocated lane number.
They both head to the lane and change their footwear before Quinn bowls first.
They decided after a long discussion that they were going to play one game with the safety bumpers up and one with them down. Quinn is more than happy with this as it at least gives her a shot at winning one game and that's proven with her scoring a spare on her first bowl.
After their first game and by some kind of miracle, Quinn wins by 3 pins and so Santana is determined to win the second game.
Half way through, Quinn is beating her again and so she decides it's time for sabotage and she knows the best way to do that is to try and turn Quinn on, to distract her.
When the blonde leans over to pick up her next ball, Santana lightly smacks her bottom and presses her front against Quinn's back, she leans in close to her ear and places a small kiss behind it, knowing it's a weak spot.
"Baby, you're going have to stop putting that perfect ass of yours in my eye line." She whispers, placing multiple kisses in the same spot.
Quinn turns around with a devilish grin and a wink, "Nuh-uh, sorry lovebug. I'm busy." And she pushes Santana's shoulders back slightly and walks towards the lane, putting an extra sway in her hips.
It's then that Santana realises she's already been played at her own game, she's been staring at Quinn's ass every time she got up.
Well played Fabray.
Quinn ended up winning both games and Santana really didn't mind because it made her blonde extremely happy.
Once they'd finished bowling, they had some food and then went down to play on the arcade.
The jumped on the dance revolution game and when Santana saw that Quinn was, once again, beating her, she picked her up from behind and swung her around, both giggling like children.
When she placed her girlfriend back down, she turned in tanned arms, wrapped her own around Santana's neck and leaned in for a soft, lingering kiss, both still giggling.
Once their turn was up, they moved around to play a few more games, including the basketball one, where it turns out that Santana is extremely good at basketball (which Quinn thought was severely hot).
They then went into the photo booth, with Quinn sitting on Santana's knee and they did the usual poses of smiling, Quinn kissing Santana's cheek, one of them kissing and the last one was of Quinn laughing and Santana had a look of pure love in her eyes, staring at Quinn as if she's the only thing in the world.
Once they had had enough of the arcade, they went out for ice cream and then made their way home, where they were greeted by Maribel, who had just returned from work.
"You two look happy. How was the stitch removal Mija?"
"Yeah, everything was fine Mami. We went on a date after the hospital so I feel good right now."
"A date, huh? Well come and tell me about it then!" The older Latina grinned.
Santana decided that she would rather work out than have her mother coo over them, so she announced her plans, kissed Quinn on the cheek and headed upstairs to get changed.
Quinn sat beside Maribel in the couch and replayed the days events to her.
"They were always my favourite types of dates to go on with Emilio. They're just so care free and he smiled more than he ever did. I loved the feeling of having nothing to worry about and constantly acting like teenagers." She tells Quinn smiling.
"I aren't much for when we go out to eat together. Sometimes I think we forget we're still in a small minded town. We get stared at a lot and don't get me wrong, I am not ashamed of Santana, your family is the best thing that's ever happened to me but it just makes me self conscious. Plus everybody knows about Russell, so I feel like we're animals in a cage. But when we do things like this, I feel like because we're so wrapped up in each other and we're having fun, if people are looking, I don't notice."
Maribel is grinning, reminiscing about when she used to feel this in love, like nothing else mattered at that point, it was just her and her love.
"You remember that feeling you have when you're with her Mija. It'll warm your heart for the rest of your life."
Quinn blushes in response and then remembers the photo strip, "How cute is this Mama?" She asks, handing Mari the photos.
"She looks like a love sick puppy here." Mari laughs, pointing to the last photo, Quinn just smile's shyly.
"Do you think we can get through her going away? Sometimes I just worry that love isn't enough." She says dropping her head.
"You listen to me baby girl. She adores you, she would give you the world if she could and I know you love her. As long as you both want to make this work, you won't have a problem. You may have issues, sure me and Emilio fought about it sometimes but that's mainly because I was struggling. The difference is Santana cares way more about your well-being than her Papi ever did about mine. I was also too scared to tell him. You need to stay honest with each other on your phone calls and through your letters and you'll be just fine.
Me and Emilio didn't struggle when he was away, what broke us was the way he was when he got back, because believe me, the man you met recently was not the man I married." Maribel explains.
"What if that happens to her? I don't think I can go through that heartbreak." Quinn asks sadly.
"I know my daughter and I know that she won't let that happen. She won't refuse the help that Emilio was offered when discharged and I know she'll tell you about her problems, Emilio just pushed me away.
Don't worry about it Mija. I have all the faith in the world for you two."
They both smile at each other and Maribel embraces Quinn hard. "I love you Quinn."
"I love you too mama, thank you."
Quinn spent the rest of the day with Maribel, cooking and talking while Santana hung out with Blaine.
She loves the relationship she has with Maribel. Judy was never so easy to talk to, she was harsh and close minded, even when she wasn't drunk, she locked herself up away from everyone else.
Quinn also loved to see Santana and Blaine interact, even though they weren't blood, it didn't matter to them. You could see the love and commitment they had to each other, the commitment all of the Lopez's had to being a family and it warmed the blonde's heart, she finally felt like she'd found her place.
Her relationship with Frannie was always rocky, her sister was a lot older and was always Russell's favourite.
When they had a surprise finding out Judy was pregnant, he prayed for a boy, one to play football with and to take over the family business and so was extremely disappointed when Quinn arrived.
Frannie wasn't so bothered as she was old enough to do her own thing when Quinn was born as there is 15 years between them. After Frannie left for college, Quinn rarely saw her again but does sometimes wonder if they could have had a relationship like Santana and Blaine.
When Santana and Quinn climbed into bed that night, Quinn instantly pushed their lips together. She'd enjoyed the date with Santana so much and was always subconsciously worrying about when she would be leaving.
They kissed rapidly, tongues fighting for dominance and so the blonde pushed her girlfriend on her back and straddled her. Grinding her hips roughly down into Santana's crotch, feeling Lil Q start to react.
She began to grin into the kiss, to which Santana noticed, "What are you grinning at?" She smirked.
"The fact that Lil Q reacts so quickly to me." She whispers, biting Santana's ear lobe and pulling slightly, making the Latina moan and her dick harden even faster.
Quinn starts to strip, whilst Santana reaches over for a condom.
When the Latina looks back, Quinn is sitting on her thighs, naked. She sits in awe. "My god baby, you are so beautiful." She pines, while Quinn blushes deeply.
Quinn loops her fingers into the band of Santana's boxers and pulls them slightly, the Latina nods and Quinn removes them as she takes off her t-shirt.
Soon, they're both naked and the blonde takes the condom from her girlfriend and slides it down her shaft. She pumps it a couple times and Santana reaches down towards her clit and gasps at the wetness she already finds there.
"Something got you excited Lucy Q?" She smiles devilishly and Quinn laughs before connecting their lips. She pulls back so their lips are grazing.
"You, lovebug. Always you." She whispers and lifts her hips, lines Santana's dick to her entrance and sinks down, moaning into her girlfriend's mouth.
They kiss for a couple minutes before Quinn starts to bounce and Santana thrusts up to meet her. They're both whimpering and moaning into each others mouths, Quinn has her bottom lip pulled between her teeth, which Santana thinks is one of the sexiest things in the world.
Santana flips them so that she's on top and begins to pound into her girlfriend. She leans down and take a nipple into her mouth and sucks, Quinn places her hands around the back of a tanned neck and pulls down, arching her back, trying to get them closer.
The Latina lifts pale legs around her waist whilst still thrusting forward as hard and fast as she can, getting herself deeper.
Quinn has pulled a pillow over her face, as everyone is in bed and she definitely doesn't want them to hear.
"Baby... I'm- I'm about to.." She whimpers.
Santana leans in close to her ear and sucks her pulse point hard. "Cum for me Q." She whispers.
And this pushes her over the edge, Santana can feel the wetness squirting but still doesn't slow down. She moves her head to suck at Quinn collar bone and reaches down to draw tight circles around her clit, which has Quinn screaming her name again.
The blonde's walls trap her so tightly, she's struggling to move but soon, she's cumming into the condom as Quinn comes for a second time.
They both ride out their orgasms before Santana slips out and removes the condom, throwing it away. She lies back on the bed and Quinn curls into her side, both still breathing heavily.
"I had a great day with you today Tana." She mumbles, running her fingers through the lines on defined abs.
Santana scoots down the bed and turns on her side so they're facing each other. She tucks a piece of blonde hair behind her ear before cupping a pale cheek. "Why do you sound so sad about it baby love?"
"I'm not sad." She pauses, shaking her head gently, "Just cherishing. I need to make the most of being with you now and loving every minute of it. I always love spending time with you but I feel like I took it for granted before."
"I know what you mean, but we have a lifetime ahead of us my darling. Don't you worry about that." Santana replies, smiling slightly.
"A whole lifetime, huh?"
"If you'll have me that long." Santana laughs.
"I don't plan on letting you go, lovebug. You're stuck with me, sorry." The blonde replies, leaning in for a peck on the lips.
They both laugh slightly before Santana replies, "I love you Lucy Q. Get some sleep."
"I love you too baby." Quinn answers, tucking herself further into Santana's arms and receiving a comforting squeeze in return.
With this, they both drift off into a sleep.