''What do you mean?''
Brittany nervously bites her lip walking over to the window and sighs. ''You don't ask about my life, I know you are curious but you don't pry. You accept my wishes and you don't bombard me with questions when I write you telling you that I can't come in due to personal reasons like yesterday, you are not like any other bosses and that is the reason why I am not even thinking about looking at those offers.''
''I don't feel the need to pry, if you want to talk you can always text me, call me or just come into my office and if you don't want to talk you don't have to. You just started working for well with me Brittany and you don't know me yet, it will take a while to get to know each other but you will see that I am not like any other bosses.''
''Already noticed that boss.'' Brittany murmurs smirking having heard that she hates being called boss, Santana turns to her with an eyebrow raised and lifts a finger pointing it at her as she sees her teasing smirk.
''I know you still have the newbie protection but watch it Pierce.'' She warns chuckling, Brittany's bites her lip in amusement and turns to face her leaning her shoulder against the window.
''Or what Lopez?''
Santana runs a hand through her hair and chuckles. ''You will stick to boooring shoots for a whole weekend.'' She threatens smirking, Brittany breaths out a laugh and shrugs.
''You do know that whatever shitty shoot you give me, you are there to watch right? Which means you will be bored too.''
''Dammit.'' Santana breaths out rolling her eyes, Brittany snickers as she watches her tap her chin thinking of something else and bites her lip as she hears her son grunt softly.
''Saved by my boy.'' She breaths out as she walks past her laughing softly, Santana watches her crouch down beside the couch and shakes her head as she sees her run her hand through Liam's hair.
Fuck that woman keeps surprising me.
She glances at the time walking over to her laptop as she sees that it's already past midnight and quickly turns it off, she walks over to the couch slowly placing her hand on Brittany's back so she won't wake the kids and quickly pulls away as she feels her jump. ''Sorry didn't want to scare you, it's past midnight and the little ones have school tomorrow. Let's call it a night.''
Brittany nods her head slowly picking her son up knowing she just prevented a nightmare breaking through and wraps her hoodie around him to protect him for the cold, she turns to look at Santana shaking her head as she holds her jacket out for her to put on again and smiles slightly. ''Keep it wrapped around her, you can give it back tomorrow.''
''You sure?'' Santana asks softly as she kisses the top of her daughters head, Brittany nods her head slowly walking out of the office and places her lips on the top of her sons head as she feels him move in her arms.
''It's okay baby boy.'' She murmurs softly.
''Nightmare?'' Santana asks softly as she walks beside her seeing the little boy frown in his sleep, Brittany nods her head sighing sadly and rocks him softly.
''Yeah he has them whenever his day was filled with new things, his mind works a bit different then that of a normal kid.'' She runs her hand down his back feeling him relax again and bites her lip. ''I asked a children psychologist what it could mean and after a few appointments she just stated that his nightmares mean that he works through the new things in his life and that everything together causes night terrors because he doesn't know how to store everything at once.''
Santana hums softly walking to her car parked beside the one Puck drives her around with and unlocks it, she unlocks the car they arrived at the office with and reaches in grabbing both booster seats. ''But he handles them well?''
''Yeah he calms down almost immediately whenever I touch him or as soon as he wakes up and crawls into my bed he falls back asleep fast too.'' Brittany murmurs softly taking one of the booster seats from her, she looks at the car after placing her son in and smiles slightly. ''Nice car.''
Santana smiles slightly softly closing the door after she buckled her daughter in and slides into the drivers seat, she turns to Brittany as soon as she slid in the passenger seat and bites her lip running her hand over the steering wheel. ''This is the car I bought of the very first money I got from building this agency up, Sof is my one and only baby and there is nothing in this world I am prouder of but my agency..''
''You are proud of what you build up and it's your baby too, Sof is your life, but your job, your agency is your career life and you shed blood, sweat and tears to make it reach where you are now.'' Brittany murmurs smiling knowingly, Santana freezes stopping in front of a red light and turns to look at her.
''Yeah exactly, how did you..'' Brittany nods her head to the green light watching her drive off and shrugs.
''Whenever you talk about your daughter you see the look of pure love and pride in your eyes, but whenever you talk about your agency you see that it's success means a lot to you and that you are happy that you made it this far and will reach even more in the future. I know I just started working with you Santana, but your agency, the people working for you and you are one of a kind, not everyone can say that they are good friends with their boss.''
''The people working for me are friends or well most of them are, Quinn, Nick and Puck are with me since the very beginning. We all met in college and it just clicked, it clicked more between Nick, Q and me and the three of us are like the three musketeers but Puck joined into the mix after he saved our butts from a few drunken guys and the second I started this agency he immediately offered to drive me around so I don't have to put up with the stress LA traffic brings with it.''
She turns to look at her the second she parks her car in front of Brittany's apartment building and smiles slightly. ''Q studied photography so we immediately knew that she would be the one who would be working right by my side and well Nick is just drop dead gorgeous and the second I found out what I wanted to do, I asked her if she would let me be her manager slash the agency she would work for so after we sat down and had a talk with Yolanda we all came to an agreement.''
''You know that this is the reason your agency is a hit right?'' Brittany asks softly, Santana tilts her head in confusion killing the engine of her car knowing they will talk a bit and raises an eyebrow.
''Huh?''
Brittany chuckles taking off her seat belt and turns to face her completely. ''You put your heart behind everything you do, you don't use your title around the agency so to you everyone is equal and it doesn't matter if it's a newbie like I am or Quinn who works with you since the very beginning. You treat everyone friendly and you expect to be treated like that too, if they don't I am sure you can be quite a bitch too but as long as they don't disrespect you and your agency they will never face your bad side.''
''Okay that's just creepy.'' Santana mutters as she gazes into Brittany's bright blue eyes, she swallows thickly as she just raises an eyebrow and sighs softly. ''You just described my work ethic and you just started working for me two days ago.''
Brittany shrugs her shoulders and smiles sadly. ''I learned to read people, had to have that ability when I was younger but I hadn't so it's just like they always say.'' She glances at her son still fast asleep in the backseat and gulps. ''People learn from the mistakes they made, I definitely learned from them and it allows me to raise my son showing right from wrong something my folks never did.''
Santana bites her lip hearing the emotions in the blonde's voice and reaches out slowly grabbing her hand. ''What the hell happened in your life that makes your voice crack with so much emotions Brittany?'' She asks softly.
Brittany chokes out a laugh and shrugs turning back to face the empty street in front of them. ''I think the better question would be, what didn't happen in my life Santana.'' She replies softly, she runs a hand through her hair forcing a smile as she notices the concern on her face and exhales slowly. ''I will be fine though.'' She murmurs, she glances at her watch seeing the time and bites her lip. ''I think it's time for you to bring Sofia home, we have to stand up in under four hours to get them ready for school.''
Santana slowly nods her head knowing immediately that she doesn't want to talk and smiles sadly. ''Yeah I think so too, will you come to the agency tomorrow?'' She hums as she nods her head and smiles slightly. ''Want to drive with me after we dropped the kids off? You don't have to hail a cab.''
''Oh no I can't a…''
''You aren't asking, I am offering.'' Santana murmurs cutting her reply off, she locks eyes with her and shrugs. ''Besides your picture is all over the web right now, I don't really like the idea of you sitting in a cab with strangers hitting on you like the first day we met.''
''You really don't mind?'' Brittany asks softly, Santana shakes her head and smiles kindly.
''Not at all, meet up at 8 in front of their class?''
Brittany nods her head and smiles slightly. ''Yeah sounds good, see you tomorrow Santana.''
''See you tomorrow Brittany.'' Santana replies softly watching her slide out of the car, she raises an eyebrow as she sees her pause before closing the door and smiles slightly as she leans back in. ''Forgot something?'' She asks softly.
Brittany nervously bites her lip and clears her throat. ''Can I hug you?'' She asks unsurely, Santana smiles reassuringly taking off her seat belt and slides out of her car, she walks around it looking up at Brittany as she looks at her in shock and chuckles. ''I don't want you breaking your back, you are ridiculously tall and leaning back into the car to hug me will only cause you discomfort.''
''Maybe you are just too short.'' Brittany quips with no bite at all, Santana snickers shrugging her shoulders and smiles slightly.
''Yeah no, not everyone is a giant.'' Brittany laughs softly slowly taking a step forward and slowly wraps her arms around Santana's shoulders pulling her in a hug.
''Thank you.'' She murmurs softly, Santana slowly wraps her arms around the blonde's waist and smiles slightly.
''You don't have to thank me for anything Brittany.''
''I do though.'' Brittany murmurs softly as she pulls back a bit, she looks down at Santana and shrugs her shoulders smiling slightly. ''Just like I said before, not everyone is like you are.''
''I know but if we all were the same that would be hella boring.'' Santana murmurs trying to lighten up her mood, she smiles slightly as she hears her chuckle and winks. ''There ya go even though the frown doesn't make you less beautiful, your laugh makes you prettier tho.''
Brittany clears her throat trying to cover up the blush covering her cheeks and bites her lip. ''Thank you Santana.'' She murmurs softly not knowing what else to say, Santana looks up at her and smiles slightly.
''Please call me San or S, I only get full named whenever I fuck up.''
''Only if you call me Britt or B.'' Brittany replies easily with a slight smirk, Santana nods her head and chuckles.
''Deal.'' She walks back around the car to her drivers seat as Brittany opens Liam's door and slides in, she watches her take him in her arms and turns in her seat to look at her. ''See you tomorrow Britt.''
''Yeah see you tomorrow San, thank you again.''
Santana just smiles and nods her head. ''Anytime Britt.'' She watches her walk towards the entrance of the building after closing the door and starts her car as she sees her unlock it, she waves at her as she turns to look at her the second she walked into the building carrying Liam and pulls out of the parking lot glancing in the rear view mirror at her daughter still sleeping soundly.
''I think we both just made new friends mija.'' She murmurs softly as she sees the cute smile on her face with her nose nuzzled in Brittany's jacket, she turns back to the road humming softly to the radio playing and bites her lip. ''I really want to know what went on in Brittany's life to make her this guarded.'' She murmurs to herself as she parks her car in her garage, she slides out of the car opening her daughters door and slowly picks her up smiling slightly as she sees her tightening her hold on the jacket wrapped around her.
She walks into her house after closing the garage door and walks to the front door punching in her alarm once again, she turns on her heels walking up the stairs after kicking off her shoes and walks down the hall slowly shoving the door with a bright pink S on it open. She walks over to her daughters bed slowly placing her down and quickly changes her into her pajamas, she tucks her in laughing softly as she notices the death grip she has on the jacket and shakes her head. ''Yeah you can keep it for tonight mija.'' She whispers softly smiling lovingly, she leans down running her hand through her blonde locks and kisses the top of her head. ''Good night mi corazón, te amo.''