Santana grumbles feeling something bouncing on the bed. She turns to bury her head into her wife's body only to find the spot cold and empty.
"Sanny it's time to get up." Ashely says jumping on the bed trying to wake her up.
"Go away Ashely." Santana says turning over to get away from the little girl.
"It's Christmas eve!" Ashely shouts jumping on the bed.
"And I'm going to sleep in." Santana says trying to swat her away.
"Britt asked me to wake you up. We're going eat your mom's breakfast in a few minutes." Ashely says.
"She's made her famous empanadillas?" Santana quickly says sitting up. "The ones she makes every Christmas Eve?" she asks.
"How should I know? This is the first Christmas Eve we're all spending together. All I know is Britt told me to come get you, she's helping your mom-"
Before Ashely can finish Santana leaps out of bed and is running into the kitchen. She loves her mom's empanadillas and doesn't want to miss out.
"I'm here!" Santana announces sliding into the kitchen.
"I can see that." Gloria says looking up from cooking. "Now go get dressed, no one needs to see you in a sports bra and Brittany's boy shorts." she says.
That's when Santana notices that she's really not dressed to be down here.
"Sanny as cute as you are, you should go get changed, breakfast is almost ready." Brittany says kissing her cheek.
Santana runs upstairs to throw on one of Brittany's sweatshirts and workout pants, before running back down.
"Did mami teach you how to make empanadillas?" Santana asks as they walk into the dining room.
"Yes, now I can make them for you." Brittany says all happy.
"Best. Wife. Ever." Santana says.
The whole family sits down to enjoy Christmas Eve breakfast together. Pierce decides he needs to say something before they start eating.
"This year has been a blessing. We've gained a daughter officially." he says nodding to Santana. "We've become closer to the Lopezs and are enjoying some new Christmas traditions from the Lopezs." he says smiling. "I hope we can continue this for years to come."
"Here, here," Gloria says as everyone murmurs their agreement.
"This is really good," Whitney says through a full mouth.
"She's a really good cook. It's one of the many reasons I love her." Mario says leaning over and kissing her.
"Awe," Whitney, Santana and Brittany all say.
"Can I have pancakes?" Ashely asks being a very picky eater.
"Just try some empanadillas." Whitney says between bites.
"I don't want to." Ashely says pushing her plate away.
"Well I do," Santana says taking the plate as she has already finished hers.
"I'm sorry Gloria." Whitney says as her daughter goes to get the pancakes that were made for her in case she wouldn't eat the empanadillas.
"It's fine," Gloria says. "It's not like they'll go to waste."
By the time they finish eating it's nearly noon which for the Pierce's means that it's time to watch It's A Wonderful Life. The Lopezz who normally would be doing last minute shopping or just doing their own things join in.
"You guys really watch this every year?" Gloria asks a little surprised.
"Yep, every year after breakfast." Whitney confirms.
"It's my favorite movie." Pierce adds.
"Britt," Santana softly says. "Do you want to go into the basement for some alone time?" she asks.
Brittany is torn between wanting to watch the movie with everyone else and spending some alone time with her wife.
"Aren't you two joining us?" Ashely asks when she notices her sister and Santana not following them.
"No we're going to the basement." Brittany says deciding right then what to do.
"You aren't going to watch the movie with us?" Pierce asks with a little frown on his face.
"No daddy, we're going to spend a little time alone together." Brittany says before her and Santana head downstairs.
"Let the girls go Pierce, they'll come back up to play board games after the movie." Whitney says patting him on the back.
"We totally will Pierce." Santana reassures him.
Brittany and Santana head to the basement as the rest of the family settles down to watch the movie.
"San," Brittany moans kissing her wife. "We can't with them upstairs."
"I know, but I'm horny." Santana says pulling away slightly before things get too heated. "I was hoping I could at least feel you up this morning since we can't have sex." she complains.
"I'm sorry honey," Brittany says as the pair snuggle together on the couch. "Your mom saw me coming out of the bathroom and invited me to help her cook."
"It's fine, I'm just glad that we get to spend time together alone." Santana says kissing her.
"San," Brittany groans pulling away before her wife starts to feel her up.
"Sorry," Santana chuckles.
"I can't wait to get home so we can have sex again." Brittany says.
Neither woman likes not having sex, but both agreed with their parents and Ashely in the house they'd likely be caught. And they'd been caught enough when they were younger. Plus their parents made them promise not to have sex while any of them were in the house. Gloria mentioned something about being traumatized enough when they were in high school.
"So why did you want to spend some time alone?" Brittany says stroking Santana's hair. "Not that I mind. You know I love spending time with you."
"Honestly I've just missed being alone with you. We haven't had any alone time since we got here between our moms and Ashely aside from sleeping we haven't been alone for a minute." Santana admits.
"Awe poor Sanny isn't used to sharing anymore." Brittany jokes.
They both are just content to lie on the couch, wrapped in each other's arms occasionally kissing.
"We should head upstairs, the movie should be ending and I want to be on your team for Charades." Brittany says sitting up two hours later.
"I guess we should spend time with our families since it is Christmas Eve and we'll be leaving in two days." Santana says getting up.
Also San does want to win and when Britts is her partner they win.
"I was thinking we could give each other our presents alone tonight." Brittany softly says. "I don't want our families to see what I got you."
"Ooo now I'm curious." Santana says smiling.
"Sanny," Brittany says giggling as Santana tickles her.
Brittany tries to get away, but Santana continues to tickle her so she turns on the Latina and starts to tickle her back. They continue this until Ashely comes down.
"Is it okay to look?" Ashely asks carefully walking down with her eyes closed.
"Ash it's fine, we did promise not to." Brittany says extracting herself from her wife. "See we're fully clothed still."
"That hasn't stopped you before." Ashely points out.
"Let's stop this conservation before it goes any farther." Santana says starting to blush.
"Whatever," Ashely says in such a Santana way that Brittany does a double take. "It's time to play games."
The three girls head upstairs to play first Charades then Scategories. Santana knows the Pierce's Christmas Eve traditions quite well as she's spent Christmas Eve here many times when her parents had to work. The Lopez's don't have many traditions aside from breakfast are glad to join in the Pierce's.
"So we thought we'd do couples and Ashely can join whichever team she wants." Gloria says when the girls come into the living room.
"I want to join Britt and San." Ashely quickly says.
"You don't want to give any thought to it?" Mario asks a little surprised.
He has never played any kind of game with his daughter and daughter-in-law. He doesn't know how well they are together as a pair.
"Nope," Ashely easily says. "Britt and San are going to win."
Susan and Pierce just smile as they know that their youngest daughter is right. The pair hardly ever loses when paired together for any game nights. While Mario and Gloria don't know any of this.
"Don't be so sure." Gloria says.
Three hours later Ashely is celebrating her team's win. Per normal when playing Charades both women could guess what the other was trying to act out in five seconds or less. It impressed Mario very much.
"I never realized that they were that much in tune." Mario says in awe.
"Sometimes I find it more fun to just watch them guess than actually play." Whitney tells them.
"I'm still in awe of how Brittany got Santana to guess FBI with only miming glasses, shooting and doing a little turn around dance." Gloria says.
"Those girls are something else." Pierce says shaking his head.
"What's for dinner?" Mario asks as he's hungry, looking at first his wife then over at Whitney.
"Who said we were making dinner." Gloria jokes.
"What!?" both Mario and Pierce shout having assumed that their wives were making dinner or at least had plans.
"Are we not having dinner?" Ashely whimpers.
"Of course we are." Whitney reassures her daughter.
"Mom and Gloria put a ham in earlier." Brittany tells them all.
"Thank god," Mario breaths for all of them.
"Please honey we always have ham for dinner on Christmas Eve. This is a merging of our two family traditions and luckily they don't overlap so there was no tough decisions." Gloria calmly tells her husband.
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"Mami this is delish as normal." Santana says having just finished her first plate.
"Yes Gloria, this is the best Christmas Eve dinner that I have ever had." Whitney tells Gloria.
"Thank you," Gloria says ducking her head at all the complements. "I'm just glad to be here with all of you."
After dinner the four parents go into the living room to watch some TV. Ashely heads into the basement to watch some kid Christmas movies.
"Come on San, I want to give you your present." Brittany says grabbing her coat and her wife's.
"Please tell me we are not going outside." Santana begs as she hates the cold.
"Trust me, you'll enjoy this." Brittany says pulling her outside.
Brittany leads her wife outside in the backyard. She pulls her over to the ladder that leads up to their old tree house.
"Really Britt-" Santana starts before Brittany cuts her off.
"Trust me," Brittany says which causes Santana to climb up.
Brittany follows her up. She smiles when she hears Santana gasp when she reaches the top.
"Britt," Santana gasps.
Santana is staring not at the old tree house insides, but a room covered by fuzzy blankets and with pillows covering the floor. She's starting to suspect what her gift might be.
"Go lay down and just enjoy this." Brittany says turning on some music.
Santana settles herself down and stares at her wife. She licks her lips as the blonde starts to slowly remove her clothes.
"So I figured that you'd rather see me in your present." Brittany whispers standing in front of her wife not only in a blue lacy lingerie.
"Fuck yeah babe," Santana says reaching up and pulling her wife down on top of her. "We seem to think alike for our presents." she says removing her own clothes to reveal red lacy lingerie.
"Great mind think alike." Brittany says kissing her wife deeply. "And since we're not in the house we can totally do it."
"This is the best Christmas ever." Santana says flipping them over.