The next morning Brittany wakes up to her phone ringing and blindly grabs it, she answers the call without looking and slowly sits up.
"Pierce."
"B you have to come to the studio right now!" Brittany swings her legs out of bed and looks at the time.
"What the hell is going on Mike, why are you sounding so stressed?"
"Your parents are here." Brittany almost drops her phone in shock and quickly jumps out of bed, she grabs a pair of sweatpants and pulls it on.
"Will be there in ten." She quickly ends the call and pulls off the large t-shirt she put on the night before, she quickly puts a white tank top on and straightens out her hair.
After putting her phone in her pocket she sprints out of the bedroom and down the stairs, she slides on her socks into the hall and puts on her shoes cursing softly.
"Fucking parents."
"Whoa sis where is the fire?" Emily asks in shock as she sees her sister running into the living room to grab her keys, Santana follows her girlfriend with her eyes and raises an eyebrow.
"Good morning babe, what's wrong?"
Brittany jogs to her girlfriend and places a kiss on her head, she turns to look at her sister and growls softly. "Our parents are at the studio."
Emily's eyes widen and she quickly jumps off the couch. "I am coming with you." Santana jumps up too and nods her head in agreement.
Brittany closes her eyes and sighs deeply slowly nodding her head knowing that she can't say no, the three girls run out of Santana's house and Brittany jumps in the car seeing the gate already open.
After driving through the gate and making sure the gate is really closed, Brittany turns on the radio and speeds down the road. Santana and Emily exchange concerned glances as they see Brittany's knuckles turning white from gripping the steering wheel so tightly and Emily sighs.
"What do they want Britt?" Brittany looks in the rear view mirror and sighs.
"I don't know Em, but please stay out of their way and behind me." Emily nods her head immediately knowing her sister is afraid they will try something and sits back.
"Why now?" Santana turns to both girls and sighs.
"They probably saw the both of you on TV." Brittany rolls her eyes and turns the radio off as she turns into the street where her studio is.
"They probably need money." Emily rolls her eyes and growls.
"They always need money!" Santana turns her head and looks at her with an eyebrow raised.
"They asked before?" Emily nods her head and quickly takes off her seat belt as Brittany parks her car.
"Yeah they write us letters or try to call." Brittany takes off her seat belt and opens the door.
"But that will end today." Santana and Emily quickly jump out of the car as Brittany slams her car door shut and quickly run after her inside, Tina looks up at the older blonde as she runs in and points to her office.
"Kevin and Mike followed them in there."
Brittany nods her head and sprints down the hall to her office, she slams the door open and sees Mike holding Kevin back.
"Kev please go to your girl, she needs you." She says as she steps in front of both boys glaring at her parents, Kevin quickly turns around and pulls his girlfriend into his side.
He pulls Santana into his other side and glares at his girlfriends parents not liking their smug smirk, Brittany crosses her arms in front of her chest and sighs.
"What are the two of you doing here?" Brett Pierce looks at his oldest daughter and smirks.
"Can't we visit our daughters?" Brittany chuckles dryly and shakes her head.
"You stopped being my parents the day I turned six, and you stopped being my family the day you threw me and Em out!" Susan Pierce stands up and glares at her oldest daughter.
"You still wear our last name!" Brittany shrugs and smirks.
"Yeah but I plan on changing that in the future, that is the only thing that still shows that we are family!" Brett Pierce stands up and turns to his youngest child.
"Come here buttercup." Brittany steps in front of him and glares at him.
"Don't you dare talking to her! Don't even look at her!"
"We are her parents!" Susan growls stepping next to her husband glaring at their oldest daughter, Brittany chuckles dryly and shakes her head.
"No you aren't you signed her custody over to me the day I turned eighteen, you have no right to say anything about her I stand on the paper as her guardian not you!"
Brett glares at his daughter and shakes his head. "You are lying!" Brittany shakes her head and smirks.
"No the two of you were just too drunk and believed me the day I told you to sign something for school, but it wasn't it was a letter saying that the two of you agreed to give me the full guardianship for my sister!"
Santana gasps as she sees the older blonde woman slapping her girlfriend and steps forward, Mike hold her back and shakes his head whispering. "Don't Santana."
Brittany looks at her mother chuckling and shakes her head. "You still can't slap Susan, if you want to leave a print do this." She quickly slaps her mother and smirks as she falls back on the couch clutching her cheek, Brett Pierce glares down at his oldest daughter and yells.
"You lied to us!"
"You never cared about us!" Emily yells glaring at her father. "You left Brittany alone to care for me the day I turned five, I never had parents but I had an awesome sister that was there for me when I needed someone!"
"We made sure you had money!" Brett yells slowly walking towards his youngest daughter, Brittany grabs his shoulder and pushes him against the wall glaring at him.
"Don't come near her Brett!" Brett struggles against her grip and glares at her.
"She tells everyone lies about us, we always made sure the two of you had money!" He yells, Brittany shakes her head and chuckles.
"What money? The money I stole from you or the money you bought booze for?" Brett glares at his oldest daughter and shakes his head.
"What booze, we never drank!"
"Why does Susan have a bottle of Jack in her purse, and why does it smell like Britt's office is a fucking pub?" Emily yells glaring at her father, Brett growls and pushes Brittany back lunging at his youngest daughter as Britt stumbles back.
Brittany quickly recovers and lunges forwards tackling her dad down before he reaches Emily. "Mike call the cops now, I am done with this shit." Her head flies back as Brett's fist connects with her jaw and bites back a groan, she jumps up and pulls him with her by the collar of his jacket.
She turns the both of them around and slams his back against the wall. "I won't warn you again asshole, stay away from my sister!" Emily follows everything in shock and glares at her parents.
"How can you hit your own daughter?" Susan chuckles and shrugs.
"We just can." Unbeknownst to everyone in there Tina sits outside behind the desk and records everything happening in there on a DVD for the cops, Kevin holds his girlfriend back as she tries to lung at her daughter and sighs.
"Babe don't!" Brittany turns her head to look at her sister and sees her struggling in Kevin's grip, she shakes her head and sighs.
"Em stop I…." She cuts herself off with a groan as Brett's fist hits her in the stomach and stumbles back as he pushes her away, her eyes widen as she sees the pocket knife and pushes Santana and Mike to Emily and Kevin. "Get out now!"
Brittany dodges Brett's attack and turns them around, Santana and Mike both see the knife too and jog to Emily helping Kevin with holding her back as she cries for her sister.
Brittany lifts her arm and holds Brett's hand with the knife in her hand hissing as she feels the blade of the knife cutting her hand, she quickly kneels him in the stomach and turns his hand on his back pressing him down on the ground.
She tightens her grip on his arm as she hears someone else roar and sees Susan running to her with a bottle of jack Daniels in her hand, she lowers herself on Brett's back and quickly looks up as the door to the office burst open.
"Freeze, drop the bottle!" Brittany sighs in relief as one of the police officers step in front of her and quickly lifts herself up looking at the other officer.
"This one has a knife sir." The police officer quickly takes over and looks at the blonde girl as he handcuffs the men.
"Are you injured ma'am?" Brittany looks down at her hand and sees blood running down her fingers.
"Yeah but I will bandage and clean it up myself, just make sure they get out of my studio I will ask my friend to give you the security video's." The officer pulls Brett up and looks at the girl.
"We already have the DVD, what is your name?"
Brittany looks at him and smiles slightly. "Brittany Pierce, the two you just arrested are my parents but my sister and I already filled out a restraining order against them."
"They abused this?" The officer asks tightening his hold on Brett, Brittany glares at her father and nods.
"This is the first time but yes they did."
The officer shakes his head and sighs. "We don't need you to come down to the station, they abused their restraining order and we saw the attack happen they will land in jail for a few months."
Brittany nods her head and sighs. "I wished they just left us alone but now it comes to this, thank you for coming here officer and if this goes to court I will be there."
The police officer nods his head and leads Brett out of the office, Brittany follows them out and watches them walk out of the building. As soon as she sees the door closing behind them, she turns around and hits her fist against the wall behind her.
"Those fucking assholes!" She turns on her heels as she hears someone sobbing and sees her sister crying into Kevin's shoulder and Santana crying onto Mike's shoulder, she quickly grabs a tissue off the desk where Tina sits and clenches it in a fist against the wound.
She quickly walks to her girlfriend and sister and pulls them both into her ignoring the pain souring through her jaw as Santana's head touches it, she looks at both boys and sighs.
"Close the studio for today please and send an email out that we will close for a week, just tell them something happened and we need to have a few days off." Mike nods his head and quickly walks to Tina, Kevin walks to Brittany and joins the group hug.
"Do you need to go to the hospital?" He asks concerned after seeing the blood run down her hand, Brittany tightens her hold on the girls and shakes her head.
"I will ask Tina if she can clean it up." Kevin nods his head and slowly places a kiss on her cheek.
"I know we don't know each other that good but I still care about you Brittany, you are my girlfriends awesome sister and I hate seeing you get hurt."
Brittany places a kiss on her girlfriends head and places a kiss on her sisters head, she sighs as she still feel tears in her neck and mutters. "I am alright girls, please calm down."
She looks up at Kevin and smiles. "Thank you for holding Em back Kev, and we can always get to know each other better."
Kevin nods his head and smiles slowly stroking his girlfriends back, Emily slowly lifts her head and looks at her sister. "I was so scared Britt." Santana looks up at her too and let's her eyes trace over her girlfriends face already seeing a bruise form on her jaw.
"Did her hurt you somewhere else too?" Brittany shakes her head and sighs.
"No just my jaw, stomach and hand babe can you ask your parents if we can come down for a little while? We need to get out of the city for a while, I will talk to both kindergartens and please ask if Kevin can join us too."
Santana nods her head and pulls out of the hug, she walks down the hall and pulls out her cellphone dialing her mothers number. Brittany turns to her sister and wipes away her tears.
"I am okay Em." Emily slowly shakes her head and sighs.
"I know you only keep yourself strong for me and you are hurt so you are not okay, but I won't push you to talk." Brittany slowly nods her head and smiles.
"Thank you." She turns her head as Mike and Tina both walk to them and smiles. "Done?" Mike nods his head and smiles.
"Yeah I send out an email and called some parents." Tina looks at Brittany and sighs.
"Come on I will bandage your hand up." Brittany nods her head and follows Tina to her desk, she sits down on the chair and takes the tissue off the wound wincing slightly as she stretches her hand.
Tina looks down at the wound and sighs. "I hate seeing you hurt B." She quickly cleans up the wound and smiles slightly as she hears Brittany groan softly. "I know it hurts, you don't have to keep it in."
Brittany smiles slightly and shrugs. "I will always keep it in." Tina nods her head and quickly bandages her hand up, after throwing everything away she looks at Brittany and sighs.
"I know you keep almost everything in, but try talking about it too okay?" Brittany nods her head and stands up giving Tina a hug.
"I will T." She pulls out of the hug and looks at her girlfriend as she walks towards her, she pulls her in a hug as soon as she can reach her and sighs.
"What did your parents say?" Santana relaxes into her girlfriends hold and sighs.
"Mami and papi both told me to drive down immediately, Kev is welcome and Emilio is still there too." She slowly looks up and looks her girlfriend in the eyes.
"I called Sue too and she gave us the week off, she will drive to my parents tomorrow to look herself that we are okay." Brittany nods her head and sighs slowly pecking her girlfriend on the lips.
"I will drop Emily and you off at your house, can you pack some clothes for me too please? In the meanwhile Kev and I will pick up both boys."
Santana nods her head and slowly pulls out of the hug, Brittany looks at her sister and smiles slightly. "Come on guys we need to get going." Emily and Kevin both nod their heads and walk to them, Brittany walks to Mike and pulls him in a hug.
"Stop worrying Mike, I am okay and enjoy your week off." Mike pulls out of the hug and nods his head with a sigh.
"I will, please text me sometimes." Brittany nods her head and places a kiss on his cheek.
"I will." After saying bye too Tina, the group walks out of the studio and jump in Brittany's car. Brittany intertwines her bandaged hand with Santana's and drives down the road, she feels her girlfriend slowly stroking her hand and sees her looking down at her hand with a sad frown.
After dropping her girlfriend and sister off Kevin jumps in the passenger seat and Brittany drives off again, she turns to Kevin and smiles. "I will park in front of your apartment so you can grab some clothes, after that we will pick up the boys."
Kevin nods his head and smiles. "Okay, you really scared all of us today B." Brittany nods her head and sighs.
"I know and I know that the boys will sleep in our bed as soon as they see that I am hurt, he scared me with the knife too but I knew I had to keep my family and friends safe." She glances in the rear view mirror and sighs as she sees the bruise.
"Just like I told everyone before, I will do everything to keep all of you safe." Kevin nods his head and squeezes her shoulder softly.
"I know B." Brittany smiles and parks her car in front of his apartment, Kevin quickly jumps out and runs inside.
Brittany lays her head back against the seat and pulls out her phone, she scrolls through her contact list and taps on the name she searched for quickly writing out a message.
Hey Maria are you free tonight? -B
She lays her phone on her leg and looks out of the window, she grabs her phone as it vibrates and smiles.
Yeah I am and I heard what happened, are you okay? -Maria
Yeah I will be okay can you maybe come over tonight? Santana and Emily need someone to talk to, and I kinda want to talk to Lio about everything. -B
She places her phone back in her pocket as Kevin opens the trunk of her car and watches as he jumps back in beside her, she starts her car again and drives off. "Packed enough?"
Kevin nods his head and smiles. "Yeah I think so." Brittany nods her head and sighs.
"Can we talk tonight? Maybe after that you will understand things a little bit more, I didn't become so protective just because Em is my little sister."
Kevin nods his head and sighs. "I already figured that much, will you tell it Santana too?" Brittany shrugs her shoulders and sighs.
"Don't know yet I asked Maria to come over too, maybe I will tell it everyone."
Kevin nods his head and sighs, the both take off their seat belts as Brittany parks her car in front of Santino's kindergarten and looks at Kevin. "You coming in too?" Kevin nods his head and they both jump out of the car, Brittany leads him inside and walks down the hall to the directors office.
She knocks on the door and they both walk in after hearing a Come in, Brittany looks at the men behind the desk and smiles.
"Hello Mr Smith, can we talk for a minute?" Mr Smith nods his head and points to the two chairs.
"Of course Miss Pierce, please have a seat." Brittany and Kevin both sit down and Brittany looks at him with a small smile.
"I don't want to go in Santi's class and tell the teacher about everything that happened, but well I came here to pick Santi up we will drive to his grandparents for a little while."
Mr Smith sees the seriousness in her eyes and sighs. "What happened Brittany?"
"My parents found the dance studio and it escalated in a fight." She holds up her bandaged hand and sighs. "I am scared they will find the boys too, so we will leave the city for a week or so."
Mr Smith sighs and slowly nods his head. "I understand, well I will give the teacher a call and I will tell her to send Santino out okay?" Brittany nods her head and stands up.
"Thank you Mr Smith." After saying goodbye they both walk out of the office and Brittany crouches down against the wall next to Santino's jacket, she looks up as the door opens a few minutes later and smiles as the little boy walks out.
Santino gasps as he sees Brittany's bandaged hand and runs to her wrapping his arms around her neck. "What happened Britty?" Brittany stands up with him in her arms and smiles thankfully as Kevin grabs his jacket and bag, she places a kiss on his head and sighs.
"I will tell you later buddy, we need to pick Bryan up now will you wait in the car with Kevin?"
Santino buries his face in her neck and nods his head, Brittany unlocks her car as they walk out and places him in his seat. After buckling him in she gives Kevin her car keys and turns on her heels jogging to her sons kindergarten, after talking to the director she stands against the wall and crouches down as soon as her son walks out of his classroom.
Bryan stops in his tracks as he sees his mother and gasps seeing the bandaged hand and the bruise on her jaw, he sprints to his mother and crashes into her. "Mommy what happened?"
Brittany tightens his arms around her son and relaxes slightly. "I will tell you later baby." She stands up with him in her arms and grabs his jacket and bag, she walks out of his kindergarten and sighs. "We will drive to Lio and Maribel today, mommy will tell everything when we are at Santana's house okay?"
Bryan buries his head in his mother's neck and nods his head slowly, Brittany jogs to the car and places him in his seat. After buckling her son in she jumps in the drivers seat and drives off, she turns the radio on and smiles as her son immediately starts talking with Santino.
After a twenty minute drive she parks her car in front of the gate and jumps out, Kevin and Britt unbuckle both boys and grab their bags and jackets. Brittany places Santino on her hip and smiles as Kevin picks her son up, she leads them through the gate and walks up to the door ringing the doorbell.
Emily opens the door and let's them in with a small smile, she looks at her sister and sighs. "Kev and I will load the bags in the car."
Brittany nods her head and places Santino down she walks into the living room with both boys and let them sit down on the couch next to Santana, after pecking her girlfriend on the lips she crouches down in front of the boys and smiles slightly.
"Do you still want to know what happened?" Both boys immediately nod their heads and Brittany nods her head sighing. "Do you remember how I told about my mother and father?"
Santino nods his head and smiles sadly. "You told us that they were really mean." Brittany nods her head and sees her son already tensing.
"Did they do this mommy?" Bryan asks sadly, Brittany stands up and picks both boys up placing her in her lap as she sits down next to Santana.
"Yes they did baby but I am okay yes I am hurt but I am glad nothing happened to you, Santi, Emmy or Santana."
Santino smiles sadly and looks down at Brittany's other hand seeing her knuckles a little bit bruised. "Did you fight?"
Brittany nods her head and sighs. "They tried to grab Emmy, I had to hold them back buddy but I am feeling better now I know you and Bry are here with us."
Santana leans into her girlfriends side and looks at both boys. "The police caught them, they won't hurt Britty again boys."
Santino looks at his mother and sighs. "Will we protect Britty next time mami?" Santana glances at her girlfriend and smiles sadly.
"Britty will always protect us baby, but we will make sure she protects herself too okay?" Santino quickly nods his head and cuddles into Brittany's side, Bryan looks up at his mother with tears in his eyes and sniffles.
"I don't like seeing you hurt mommy." Brittany wipes away his tears and kisses him on the head.
"I know baby but sometimes it happens, if I can avoid seeing you getting hurt I will do that baby." Bryan nods his head and cuddles into his mother's side, Brittany turns her head and places a kiss on her girlfriends head.
"Come on we will grab some snacks and start driving." Santana nods his head and picks Bryan up out of her girlfriends lap, Brittany stands up with Santino in her arms and walks out of the house in front of her girlfriend.
After placing both boys in their seats and making sure they have everything Brittany starts her car and drives off, she intertwines her hand with her girlfriends hand and places it on the gear stick smiling as the four in the backseat joke around.