Hey hey so sorry for the long wait but life kinda got in the way!
The song used in this chapter is Home by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Cursive: Britt singing, Underlined: The two boys singing, Normal: Santana singing and Bold the four of them singing
"You're welcome Nieto."
Emily walks up to her sister as she sees her watching Bryan and Lio with a smile and wraps an arm around her waist. "I really feel like we have a family now B."
Brittany turns her head to look at her and nods her head. "I do too Em, our family just got bigger and I love every second of my life right now." She turns her head to look at Santana and smiles slightly as she sees her tickling Santi.
"Thank you for opening my eyes Em, if I ignored Santana's offer we would have never met the whole Lopez family."
Emily places a kiss on her sisters cheek and smiles. "I am glad you took that offer sis, you live your dream and I can see that you really enjoy all of it."
Emilio slides up next to both girls and chuckles. "Ai girls quit whispering and join us at the table." Brittany looks at him and smirks.
"Yeah in a second." She looks at the table and smiles. "Boys I have a surprise for you."
Bryan and Santino immediately jump off Lio's lap and jog to Brittany, Bryan looks up at his mother and smiles. "What is it mommy?"
Brittany crouches down and looks at them with a smile. "Please look at my back, no touching it still hurts a little bit." She turns her upper body slightly and turns her head to look at them, Santino's and Bryan's eyes widen as they see the big tiger on Brittany's shoulder.
"Whoa! Mommy you have our drawing on your shoulder!" Santino looks at Brittany and smiles.
"Did you like it that much Britty?" Brittany turns so she is facing them again and nods her head.
"I like everything you draw for me buddy, but I think your mami would kill me if I had my body full of your drawings."
Santino giggles as his mother immediately nods her head and places a kiss on Brittany's cheek. "We love you Britty." Brittany places a kiss on both of their heads and smiles.
"And I love the both of you too."
Brittany slowly stands up and lowers her sweatpants a little bit, she shows everyone the lilies with stars and smiles slightly as Emily gasps. "Yes Em I decided to tattoo the lilies because you call me a dancing Lillie sometimes, and the stars mean all the good changes I made in my life."
Maribel looks at the tattoo and smiles. "Daniel really outdid himself, these are beautiful Britt and I like the meaning behind the tattoo."
Brittany nods her head and smiles slightly. "Yeah he really did a great job, but I have one more."
She turns left side to the group and holds the crop top in place with her right hand, she slowly lifts her left arm and shows them the five birds on her rib. Lio smiles as he sees how the birds fly and slowly walks to Brittany, he places a kiss on her cheek and turns to the group slowly pointing to the birds.
"The two big birds are Britt and San, the slightly smaller bird is Em and the two little ones are Bry and Santi."
Emily cuddles into her boyfriend and smiles. "She will probably add one more bird in a few months." Brittany looks at her sister and nods her head with a chuckle.
"Yeah I will but for now five were enough, I think one more and I would really cry from the pain." Santana nods her head in agreement and smiles slightly.
"It is direct on one of her ribs and she already had tears in her eyes, I think it still burns but she ignores it right now."
Brittany pulls her girlfriend into her and chuckles. "Yeah it burns like hell but I can ignore it for now, Daniel will join us for dinner tonight I think he will arrive any minute now."
Lio chuckles as the doorbell rings and shakes his head. "Talk of the devil, I will open the door Emilio please order some Chinese."
Emilio nods his head and takes out his cellphone, Brittany looks down as someone pulls on her sweatpants and smiles as she looks into her sons blue eyes. She let's go of her girlfriend and picks him up, she places him on her right hip and smiles as he cuddles into her.
"What's wrong baby?"
"What will happen when we go back home mommy? I don't want to see you hurt again."
"We will make sure your mommy is safe buddy." Brittany turns around and smiles as she sees Sue looking at them in concern, Brittany places a kiss on her sons head and sighs.
"I will make sure nothing happens to any of us baby, Sanny and I need to talk to you and Santi after dinner okay?" Bryan nods his head and places a kiss on his mothers cheek.
"Can I go play with Emilio and Kevin?" Brittany nods her head and places him back on the ground, she smiles as she sees Santana hugging Sue and walks to them. After giving Sue a hug she steps back and sighs.
"Thank you for coming Sue, and thank you for giving us time off." Sue looks at Brittany's bandaged hand and the bruise on her stomach and sighs.
"No problem, how are you feeling?" Brittany shrugs her shoulders and smiles slightly.
"Better than yesterday." She looks at her girlfriend standing next to Sue and sighs. "San, Em and the boys have more problems right now, Santana and Em saw everything happen and the boys are scared because I got hurt."
Sue looks at the girl in front of her and sighs. "You ignore your thoughts and feelings right now that's not good Brittany, you have to talk about it."
Brittany looks down at her feet and shrugs. "I will but not now, please just give me some time if I want to talk I have enough people around me right now." She looks back up and looks Sue in the eyes. "Please don't ask me to talk now."
Sue slowly nods her head and sighs. "Okay but please take this week to just relax and enjoy your time together."
Brittany nods her head and smiles slightly. "We will Sue, San and I will try to write some songs here for our new album."
"Solo's or duets?" Sue asks curiously, Brittany shrugs her shoulders and chuckles.
"I don't know yet, a lot of things happened the last two days a lot of old wounds opened again and I have a lot lyrics in my head right now."
Sue nods her head in understanding and smiles slightly. "Well I will see it when we get back in LA, I will stay here for one day and I will drive by Mike tomorrow to let him know that everything is okay."
Brittany slowly nods her head and smiles. "Can you ask Mike to search for the letter from child support? I have a copy of the letter in my office, if it goes to court I need to show them the custody papers."
"But she is an adult now right?" Sue asks curiously, Brittany nods her head and smiles slightly.
"Yeah she is but if they want to sue me for kidnapping her, I have it on paper that they signed the custody over to me I just need to keep my mouth shut about tricking them to signing it."
"What do you mean with tricking them?" Maribel asks curiously as she walks into the kitchen with Lio and Emily, Brittany looks at them and smiles slightly.
"I told them that they needed to sign a paper stating that they couldn't go to school for a talk with the teacher, they signed the papers without reading it so it was pretty easy." She looks at her sister and shrugs.
"I know that I will have a hell of a fight with them if they ever sue me, but it was worth it and Emily is an adult now so they can't hurt her anymore."
Emily walks to her sister and kisses her on the cheek. "We also still have some videos of how aggressive they were, and some pictures of bruises so let them sue us they will lose that fight."
Maribel looks at the two girls and smiles. "Nothing will come between the two of you, we can see how strong the bond is and nobody can break that down."
Lio nods his head in agreement and chuckles. "If somebody ever tries it they will run away crying and hoping that the dragon will leave them alone." Brittany chuckles and nods her head in agreement, she glances at her girlfriend and sighs.
"Can you guys excuse us for a few minutes? I know that the food is here but I am not hungry yet."
Lio looks at his daughter and sees her looking down at her feet with a forced smile, he nods his head and smiles as Brittany walks to Santana. Brittany stops in front of Santana and slowly lifts her head so that she can make eye contact, she places a kiss on her forehead and sighs.
"Will you join me in the backyard?" Santana slowly nods her head and follows Brittany out to the backyard, Brittany leads them to one of the chairs and sits down pulling her girlfriend on her lap. "Talk to me babe."
Santana looks at the pool and shrugs. "I don't know what to say Britt, I am not so strong and I can't ignore everything but I want to be strong for you and Emily." She looks down at her hands and sighs. "Kevin and I were awake last night and heard the both of you whimpering in your sleep, it hurts to hear that and it hurts to know that we can't change much about it."
Brittany sighs and places a kiss on her girlfriends shoulder. "Just knowing that you are here helps me a lot San, knowing that I can sleep in your arms and knowing that the boys are safe keeps me calm."
She intertwines one of their hands on Santana's leg and smiles sadly. "I know I don't open up so fast but give me time and I will talk to you, but I want to hear what bothers you baby I know you are hurt because you saw everything happen please talk to me."
Santana turns her body so she is sitting sideways on Brittany's lap and buries her face in her girlfriends neck. "I was scared as soon as I saw him hitting you, but I was really scared as soon as he pulled the K-knife." Brittany tightens her hold on Santana as she starts sobbing and closes her eyes with a sigh.
"I am okay baby, nothing bad happened try to ignore the bad thoughts." Santana shakes her head and bites back a sob.
"I-I can't, I-i keep thinking what would happen if you didn't react so fast and turn.." Santana cuts herself off as a sob escapes her throat and shakes her head, Brittany softly strokes her back and sighs.
"I only thought about keeping you and Emily safe baby, that was all I cared about in that moment I learned how to protect myself and I am glad he only managed to injure my hand."
Brittany looks behind her as she hears footsteps and smiles sadly as she sees Maribel and Lio walking towards them, she sits up a little and continues stroking Santana's back. Lio grabs a chair and sits down beside Brittany, he pulls Maribel on his lap and strokes his daughters arm.
"Hable con nosotros mija." Santana takes a deep breath and sighs keeping her face buried in Brittany's neck.
"I just don't want to lose her or Emily, what if something bad happens and she is too late protecting herself?" Brittany bites her lip as she hears the pain in her girlfriends voice and looks at Maribel, Maribel slowly stands up and crouches down in front of both girls she strokes her hands up and down her daughters leg and sighs.
"Your phone call already scared us and I don't want to know how you felt watching, but mija you have to stop thinking what bad things could have happened."
"Yeah Brittany is injured but she is okay mija, she is still here with you try to turn of those thoughts." Lio adds softly as he crouches down beside his wife, Brittany moves her girlfriends head off her shoulder and cups her cheeks in both hands.
She wipes away her tears and pecks her on the lips. "I am okay baby, and spending a week here will help all of us." Santana slowly nods her head in agreement and smiles slightly.
"I know sorry for being such a mess today." Brittany chuckles and pecks her girlfriend on the lips again.
"You don't have to say sorry for being a mess babe, I know it was a shock yesterday." Santana nods her head and smiles, she slowly leans in and kisses her girlfriend softly.
"I love you Britt-Britt." Brittany smiles and softly strokes her cheek.
"I love you too San." Maribel and Lio both watch the interaction and smile, Lio turns to his wife and kisses her on the cheek.
"Young love mi amor, now we only need a girl for Emilio." Maribel nods her head in agreement and chuckles.
"Brittany do you know a girl for Emilio?" Brittany turns her head to look at Maribel and chuckles.
"No but I think your boy already dates someone, he has a goofy grin when he reads something on his phone just observe him."
Lio raises an eyebrow and quickly nods his head. "I will, but let's go inside you are shivering and I hear music."
Both girls nod their heads and Santana stands up offering Brittany her hand, she immediately intertwines their hands and slowly pulls her girlfriend up and inside. The four walk back inside and into the living room, Emilio looks up from his guitar and smiles as he sees his sister and Brittany.
"Hey Britt, Bry and Santi told me you can play." He holds up his guitar and smirks. "Let's hear it."
Santana turns to her girlfriend and raises an eyebrow. "You can play?" Brittany takes the guitar from Emilio and looks at her girlfriend with a smirk.
"I can a lot of things you don't know yet babe." She turns to the boys and smiles. "Do you want to continue dancing?"
Santino and Bryan both shake their heads and giggle. "No we want to sing with you Britty." Brittany looks at them with an eyebrow raised and smiles. "Are you sure?"
Santino nods his head and sits down on the ground next to Bryan, Brittany sits down in front of them and smiles. "The song we always sing?"
Bryan nods his head and smiles. "Yes mommy." Brittany nods her head and looks up at her girlfriend.
"Come here babe, you will join in I think you know the song." Santana sits down next to her girlfriend and looks at their boys.
"What song boys?" Santino looks at his mother and smirks.
"You will see mami." Brittany chuckles and looks down at the guitar, she looks at both boys and smiles. "Ready?"
As soon as the boys nod their heads Brittany starts playing on the guitar and whistles softly, Santino and Bryan both smile and look at her.
Alabama, Arkansas, I do love my Mom & Ma
Not the way that I do love you
Brittany clears her throat and deepens her voice a little bit.
Well, holy moly me oh my
You're the apple of my eye
Boy, I've never loved one like you
Emily chuckles as she hears everyone gasp and crouches down with her phone in her hand, Santino and Bryan both stand up and walk over to their mothers they stand behind them and look at each other with a big smile.
Man, oh, man, you're my best friend
I scream it to the nothingness
There ain't nothing that I need
Santana pulls both boys in her lap and turns to look at her girlfriend with a smirk.
Well, hot and heavy pumpkin pie
Chocolate candy, Jesus Christ
Ain't nothing please me more than you
Brittany bites back a chuckle and looks at her girlfriend and the boys, she continues playing on the guitar and smiles as she hears how the four of them harmonize.
Home, let me come home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Home, let me come home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Brittany stops playing as she sees both boys yawning and chuckles. "It's time for bed boys."
Both boys nod their heads and slowly stand up, Brittany gives Emilio his guitar back and stands up too. She offers Santana her hand and smiles as she immediately takes it, after pulling her up she pecks her on the lips and turns to the boys.
She chuckles as she sees them leaning against each other and picks Santino up making sure to keep her son standing, she smiles as Santana immediately picks Bryan up and turns to the group.
"Say good night boys." After they wished everyone good night, Brittany walks in front of Santana up the stairs and opens the door to the bedroom where the boys will sleep. After changing both boys in their pajamas, Britt places a kiss on Bryan's head and smiles.
"Good night baby, I love you." After switching places with Santana, she leans down and kisses Santino on the head. "Good night buddy, I love you."
After tucking them in both girls slowly crawl of the bed and Brittany turns the night light on, she slowly follows her girlfriend out of the room and leaves the door half open.
Translation
Hable con nosotros mija—talk to us mija