A month and a half later.
''I don't know how to thank you for all of this mija.'' Lio breaths out as he climbs back into the truck holding out a cup of coffee and a chocolate bar for Brittany, Brittany chuckles taking the coffee and takes a sip as she starts the car once again looking into the mirror before driving off.
''I told the three of you that you don't have to thank me papa Lo, you know I love moving your stuff because that means that you are almost completely living near us.''
''You are one of a kind you know that?'' Lio asks softly smiling brightly. ''Seriously B, I think no one would have jumped into a truck to drive almost 1200 miles three times in one week.'' He reaches out patting her leg and sighs softly. ''We all feel bad though because we know that you go home, cuddle with your little boy and still stand up in the middle of the night to feed him so San can sleep.''
Brittany glances at him and smiles slightly. ''I will be alright papi.'' She tells him shrugging. ''This is the last trip we had to make and I love midnight feedings and cuddling with D, he started sleeping a bit more so I managed to sleep a few hours longer too.''
''Promise me something?'' Lio asks as he looks at her.
''Depends on what I have to promise.'' Brittany mutters snickering, she laughs as she sees him rolling his eyes and shakes her head. ''I saw that.''
''Just promise me to lay down as soon as we get at the house, everyone is there and the boys can help us move everything you did enough B.''
''I'll try but judging San's call a few hours ago, she is coming down with something and D is cranky so I think I will have a sleepless night.''
''She told you, she is getting sick?'' Lio asks as he watches her wave in and out of traffic, Brittany shakes her head and chuckles.
''I don't think she noticed it herself yet, I just heard the slight change in her voice which tells me she will get a cold soon.''
Lio raises an eyebrow and snickers. ''Well damn, that is some creepy soulmate thing B.'' He turns to look at her and laughs. ''I can tell Mari gets sick before she knows too.''
Brittany shrugs her shoulders and smiles slightly. ''Sometimes we know our loved ones better than we know ourselves.''
''That's for sure B.'' Lio murmurs smiling lovingly as he thinks of his wife. ''Mari knows be better than I know myself too though, hell she tells me to take a break and to smoke a cigar to come down noticing how stressed I am even though I sometimes think that I'm not that stressed.''
Brittany laughs and nods her head. ''Yeah San is like that too, she forces me to slow down and take a break even though I am feeling like I can still use a lot more energy and just work through the things I set up for the month.''
''Like what?'' Lio asks curiously.
''Well this month it's helping you all move, go through some dances with J and be there for my family, San has a meeting with both Alicia's so her publicist and Alicia Keys for her first public appearance and they will discuss the timing and San wants to try to leave right after the show.''
''Are you joining her?'' Lio asks curiously, Brittany bites her lip and shrugs.
''We are both still thinking about it, I do want to go and cheer her on because it's her very first award show and it's something special. But we don't want to bring D and we both don't know if we are ready for us both to leave him, I already struggle leaving him for almost eighteen hours but calling San and the pictures she sends me helps.''
''I didn't know that.'' Lio mutters frowning, Brittany glances at him and forces a smile.
''Because we both didn't tell any of you about it, it's hard to leave him but I know San is there with him and that he is in good hands with his mami and both of his grandmothers, godparents and with J.''
''You know that it's okay to worry right?'' Lio asks softly as he notices her small concerned grin. ''Hell I worried for three years about Santana and if Mari didn't stop me, I would have had her strapped to my chest 24/7.''
He smiles as Brittany laughs and shrugs. ''She is my only daughter and definitely my princess, since high school I worry about you and Q too though and well let's just say that I don't worry as much as I did before you started dating San.''
''Really?'' Brittany asks surprised, Lio hums and reaches out patting her leg.
''Yeah sure I was against the both of you dating but only because I allowed myself to listen to some damn rumors going around the small town we moved to, but the more I got to know you the more I saw and still see how much you care about my daughter.'' He smiles slightly as she glances at him and shrugs. ''The day you came over without the badass stuff we normally saw you wearing and we talked for hours really showed me that you would do anything for Santana, you coming over every day in the week that time she had a high fever just proved it more to me and also to Mari that is why we stopped telling you to go home and to just crash in San's room.''
''God that week was hell, aside from school, work at Burt's garage and checking up on mom because she often slept really bad and worked too much, I also had San's well being as a first priority and often just skipped days of sleep to make sure San and mom both were doing better.''
''Oh Mari and I noticed.'' Lio tells her smirking. ''You looked like death on two feet and you practically fell asleep standing every time we woke up and you prepared breakfast and coffee for us. Why the hell do you think we allowed you to sleep beside Santana even though we knew she was contagious and we had that one rule of the both of you not sleeping in the same room whenever we weren't home?''
He chuckles as she just shrugs and shakes his head. ''We knew you wouldn't rest if you couldn't be close to Santana, so we just dropped that rule knowing that if we had kept that one going you wouldn't sleep at all.''
Brittany chuckles activating the indicator as they near the exit she needs to take and smiles slightly. ''It was so worth it though because I could see Santana feeling better day by day.'' She drives off of the highway leaning back in her seat and sighs softly. ''Almost home.'' She murmurs softly.
Lio glances at the time and forces a smile. ''Yeah after being away for almost a day once again, I know I napped during the rides but you pulled through.'' He shakes his head as he sees her eyebrow raise and chuckles. ''Don't worry I won't apologize again, but next dinner and football game are on me B.''
He locks eyes with her as they stop in front of a red light and smiles lovingly. ''Just the two of us though, I want some father in law, daughter in law time. Time that doesn't include moving heavy shit into a truck.''
''I'm down.'' Brittany murmurs grinning as she drives off the second the lights turn green, she glances at the time and sighs. ''It's too late to move the shit in the truck now though, are you all sleeping at Jake's again?''
Lio hums and smiles slightly. ''Yeah just park the car in front of your apartment, they are already there.'' He tells her as he looks at the text his wife send him. ''They finished building the bit of furniture we brought two days ago up and the kitchen will be delivered tomorrow too.''
''So Puck and I will work in the kitchen while the boys help you carry everything inside?'' Brittany asks taking a right turn, Lio hums again and smiles slightly.
''Yeah and your mom, San, Q and Mari will decorate the house, working with such a huge group will surely help us getting done in the afternoon.''
''When will you all start working again?''
''Not for another four weeks, we all took our left over vacation days in Lima and told our boss we will use that time to move completely. After our vacation is over we still have four days before we start in New York.''
''So you all will be off when San has her first public appearance?'' Brittany asks slowly, she smiles slightly as she sees Lio nod his head in the corner of her eyes and bites her lip. ''San and I will discuss it some more, but I think you all will have baby boy for a few hours.''
''You know we will love that B.'' Lio tells her smiling lovingly. ''Nieto is always welcome.''
''I know he is, we will let you know soon enough alright?'' She parks her car in front of the apartment building as he hums again and looks at the coffee cups and empty chocolate wrappers littering the middle seat, Lio laughs and shakes his head.
''Leave it there, we will clean it up tomorrow.'' He throws his door open and nods his head to the building. ''Come on let's go up, I know you are dying to hold your baby boy.''
He laughs as he sees her tired smile immediately brighten and jumps in to push her softly. ''Move your ass B.'' He jumps back out slamming the door close as she slides out of the car and slams it closed, Brittany chuckles following him into the building and jogs after him up the stairs taking two at the time.
''Hey ma.'' She murmurs softly as she comes to a sliding stop at the front door her mother already waiting in the opening for them, she leans down kissing her cheek and walks in kissing her cheek.
''Hey sweetheart.'' Susan murmurs smiling lovingly, she kisses Lio's cheek as he walks in and closes the door turning to her daughter as she sees her looking around. ''San and baby boy are already in bed Britt-bear, San had a headache and fed him before laying down with him.''
Lio smiles slightly as he sees Brittany shooting him a knowing look and shakes his head. ''Told you, creepy as fuck B.'' He walks over to her and kisses her cheek. ''Go to them, we will come down with breakfast tomorrow.''
Brittany hums kissing her moms cheek once again hearing Lio explain her what they talked about in the car and walks into the living room kissing Maribel's cheek, she ruffles Jake's hair and shoots them a small grin. ''Hey and good night, see you all tomorrow papa Lo will explain.'' She tells them as she walks out of the living room.
She jogs down the hall slowing down as she nears the master bedroom and softly opens the door, she steps in shutting the door behind her and looks over at the bed smiling sadly as she sees her fiance laying in bed with the crook of her arm covering her eyes while holding their baby boy to her chest with her other arm.
She quickly changes into a long shirt and boxer shorts and slips into the bedroom to brush her teeth, after throwing her dirty clothes in the hamper she walks back out and crawls into the bed beside Santana sighing sadly as she just groans. ''1 to 10 baby?'' She asks softly as she slowly removes her arm from her eyes.
''8 and damn sudden too.'' Santana grumbles sniffling, Brittany bites her lip leaning down and kisses her forehead also immediately feeling her temperature.
''You are coming down with something love.'' She tells her softly, she gently takes their baby boy out of her arms making sure not to wake him and kisses his head. ''I will bring him into his own bed, think you can stay awake long enough to take an aspirin?''
Santana hums softly and slowly turns her head to look at her. ''I can tuck him in and get some myself Britt-Britt, you are awake for more than a day already and I'm sorry but you look like shit.''
Brittany chuckles softly and leans down kissing her softly. ''Thank you.'' She murmurs softly. ''And I am fine love, please just rest okay?'' She slides out of bed before she can protest and walks out of the room running her hand down Diego's back, she walks into his room carefully laying him down in his crib and tucks the small blanket around his waist.
She leans down kissing his head and slowly runs her hand through his light brown hair. ''Sleep tight baby boy, mami and mommy love you to the moon and back.'' She kisses his head once again smiling lovingly as he sighs softly in his sleep and turns on the small light they keep in his room, she walks out of it leaving the door slightly open and walks back into the bedroom grabbing the aspirin they keep in their desk drawer.
She walks into the bathroom filling a cup with a bit of water and walks back to the bed sitting down beside Santana. ''Open up baby.'' She drops the pill into her open mouth as soon as she sits up and holds out the cup of water for her to drink, she gently runs her hand through her dark locks and smiles sadly as she blinks a few times to see clearly. ''I think you have to lay off on the contacts for a few days San, just wear your glasses and try to relax a bit.''
''How the hell do you know that I am coming down with something before me?'' Santana grumbles softly as she collapses back down on the bed, Brittany laughs softly sliding back in beside her and kisses her temple lovingly.
''Your dad just calls it creepy soulmate bond, I know you better than you know yourself and same goes for you. You definitely know me better than you know yourself San.''
''Mh that I do and I know you need sleep, so please sleep.'' Santana murmurs tiredly as she cuddles into her side, she tilts her head up and kisses her cheek. ''I am glad you are back home Britt-Britt, we both missed you.''
''I missed the both of you too baby.'' Brittany murmurs tiredly as she kisses her forehead. ''When did baby boy eat?''
''Almost an hour ago.'' Santana replies softly as she nuzzles her face in her chest wrapping her arms around her waist enjoying the warmth oozing off of her fiance's body. ''He will probably wake up in three hours but I will do the feeding tonight.''
Brittany slowly shakes her head and yawns. ''Nah let me do it please, you really need to rest so your cold won't break through completely and I missed feeding him last night.'' She runs her fingers down Santana's spine and sighs softly. ''Every time I bottle feed him I feel so much closer to him and being away for almost a day still bothers me, knowing you are getting sick and took care of him the whole day is more than enough love.''
Santana sighs inwardly knowing she can't convince Brittany otherwise and slowly nods her head. ''Alright, but I want a bit of family cuddling before we go back to the house tomorrow morning.''
''Promised.'' Brittany breaths out yawning, she turns her head and kisses the top of Santana's head. ''Let's go to sleep baby, I love you.''
''I love you too Britt-Britt, good night.''
Santana chuckles softly as she just hear her soft exhale knowing she stopped fighting sleep and nuzzles her face in her neck, she places her hand on her abs feeling them ripple under her touch and closes her eyes silently hoping she can find the cold before it really starts.
