Brittany wrinkled her nose as she entered her brother's room, she glanced around the room before exiting quickly and grabbing one of his brooms. With a bit of effort, she manages to poke him hard with the handle of the broom keeping as far away from him as possible. "You need to get up and shower, you've got to go to work."

"No, I don't, Ken can handle it," Charlie grumbled pulling the blanket off his head and turning to look at Brittany.

Brittany sighed, and poked him again with the broom handle wincing when he grabs the end of it and wrenches it from her grasp. She pouts for a minute, but it's not until he's about to hide under the blankets again that she finally decides to put her foot down. "I get that you're upset that Santana has a new boyfriend. But you've got responsibilities! Sam ate some bad clams last night and everyone else is super busy, so you need to take a shower and get ready. You've already spent the past week on a boat fishing and you smell like death. You might want to take two showers. Lucas and I managed to cover for you with mom and dad but you know how mom worries, not to mention dad expects you to be there. This is a family affair, as much as you wish your last name was something else you're family and dad expects you to be there."

"I don't wish my last name was something else, I wish that I could have something real without people latching on because of my last name. You think that Miguel Lopez wouldn't use me to get close to dad? You think he wouldn't parade Santana around for me and insist that she date me or something, so he could get close to dad? I want people to like me for me, like Mike apparently likes you for you, which is why you should go to MIT. You shouldn't wait around for anyone. Mike will catch up. I mean Lucas has Rachel, I don't know what she sees in him but apparently, she loves him for more than the money. I don't think all the money in the world could make up for the fact that Lucas is a gigantic prick."

"Be nice, Lucas helped keep mom and dad off your back," Brittany reprimanded him. "Santana really likes you. And you have to admit that it must have been hard to like you when you weren't being honest with who you were. But she liked you, you should have been honest sooner, Santana would have loved to be smug to her parents. It would have made her love you more."

Charlie smirked, she really would have loved throwing it in her parent's face. It would have been hilarious, she was just like him in that way. With a groan he rolls out of bed and flinches, when he grabs a whiff of himself. He smelled disgusting and he watches as Brittany scrambles back. "It's not that bad."

"Uhuh," Brittany said looking around and grabbing the Febreze and spraying it in his general direction. "You might need three showers Chuck, you smell like death. You should also shave you know how mom gets."

Charlie frowns and rubs his jaw feeling the scratchy stubble and looks at himself in the mirror. "Fine you win."

"I do?" Brittany blinks and then grins. "Awesome. I always win." Charlie nods and smirks and makes a movement to grab Brittany and pull her into a hug. "Charlie. Don't you dare! You smell so bad!"

"But I want a Brittany hug!" Charlie laughed watching as Brittany hopped up a few stairs to get away from him.

"Gross! If you touch me, Lucas will be my favorite brother from now on. I swear!"

Charlie laughed as Brittany took off and ran a hand through his hair grimacing at how gross it was. He couldn't be seen like this, like he was wallowing in self-pity. It wasn't a good look for him. Besides, he needed to figure out what to say when he finally saw Santana again, if she was even showing up.

~?~

"Ah Santana," Russell Fabray said waving at her a big smile on his features and it's enough to cause Santana to wince, she had spotted her father attempting to talk to him earlier. It didn't look like it had gone very well. Which had only put her father in a semi-foul mood.

With a sharp look from her mother, she pushes a smile on her face and heads over to him. "Mr.—"

"Russell, we've talked about this. You've been an excellent influence on Brittany and from what I hear Charlie," Russell said patting her on the shoulder heavily.

Santana grimaced slightly, "I haven't really done anything just been myself. Brittany's a good friend and Charlie—well we—" She's not sure she should even mention it.

"It's a shame he's working today," Russell continues as he reaches for a drink from one of the waitstaff. "But the boy has never enjoyed events like this. Even when he was a child, he would find the quietest place and hide there until the event was over. If I didn't know better, I'd say he did this on purpose."

Santana shifted uncomfortably, "He probably didn't, he really doesn't seem like the type to enjoy dressing up," she mumbles. She flicks her eyes over the party for a moment, there were plenty of people who were talking and chatting and she spots Rachel talking to Brittany animatedly. It turned her stomach, that she was stuck on a boat with someone who had all but stolen her boyfriend, but the last thing she wanted to do was start a scene. "Mr.—Russell, is there something my father did? I mean it doesn't seem that you're impressed with this party."

Russell looked at Santana for a moment, before shrugging. "I don't generally do business with people who think that they can get to me through my family. I'm trying to raise all my children to be self-sufficient. It's Judy who spoils them rotten."

"I heard that!" Judy said.

Santana turned and flinched when she saw Judy standing beside Charlie, she had known that he had—she squints. The man beside her wasn't Charlie. She stares stunned for a moment.

"I do nothing of the sort," Judy continues. "Thank you, Lucas," she said turning to him.

"Lucas?"

Lucas flickers his eyes towards Santana and he tilts his head. "Do I—?"

"This is Santana. Charlie's girlfriend," Judy said introducing the two of them, and wrapping her arms around Santana's. "We've got to make sure that this one sticks around, she makes him much less grumpy."

Lucas watched the panic flick over Santana's face and he slowly smiles, "Well, I think I must steal away from you two, so I can share all my brother's embarrassing stories." He extends his hand for Santana.

Judy sighed, "Don't scare her away dear, we're on a boat and I fear that Charlie may push you off if he finds out."

Lucas snorts, "I'd like to see him try."

"Have you seen your sisters?" Russell asks before Lucas whisks Santana off.

"Brittany's with her boyfriend and Rachel and Frannie is either handing out her card trying to get new clients or she's picking on Charlie. I'm not quite sure, probably the latter. She always did enjoy trying to make him cry," Lucas shrugs.

"Brittany has a boyfriend?" Russell blinks.

"You know this dear, Mike remember?" Judy says rubbing his arm.

"The Asian?"

Lucas pulls Santana away from his parents, before his father could go into a possibly racist rant in the middle of a boat. "So, you're Santana, Brittany's told me quite a bit about you."

"She said your name was Quinn."

"Lucas Quinn Fabray. Charlie is my identical twin. Though he wishes he could be this put together," Lucas said as he guided Santana towards Rachel and Brittany, who waved at them an excited smile on her face.

"You know that we broke up, don't you?" Santana says keeping her voice down.

"Because my brother never mentioned that he had an identical twin. I assure you that Rachel and Charlie wouldn't be kissing. It was me you saw on the boat, I had Charlie take me to find the dolphins so I could propose to her. I didn't mean to interfere with his relationship, but in my defense, my brother is a moron."

Santana snorted at Lucas's assessment, "He is a moron," she agrees.

"See! I told you that Charlie and Lucas were twins," Brittany huffed pulling away from Rachel. "So now you and Charlie can work things out."

Santana frowns, she doubted very much that Charlie would just pretend that he hadn't seen her with Josh Coleman. She even suspected she knew what he would say and the comment about how she seemed to be douchebags. Plus, she wasn't sure why she needed to apologize to him, he was the one who never mentioned that he had a twin brother, or that Brittany was his sister. It certainly explained a few things, like how close they were and why he would be with Brittany on Christmas. "I don't think—"

"Mija."

Santana froze, because her day couldn't get any worse. "Papi, mami." Santana said turning around slowly. She could already see her father's bluster about to come forth and she immediately slaps on a smile. "You remember Brittany, this is Lucas Fabray. Charlie's identical twin."

Lucas kept his face neutral as he stuck out his hand, "Lucas Fabray, it's a pleasure to meet you. You've managed to throw a lovely party."

"Lucas—Fabray?" Maribel repeated.

"Yes, you've met my brother. I must apologize for him. Charlie likes people to make their own opinions on him, he doesn't like people being nice to him just because. He gets that from our father."

"Russell Fabray?" Miguel said his voice straining and he turns to look at Santana angrily.

Santana shrugs, she hadn't told her father to be an ass to Charlie, "Yes. It's not like it came up, he's just a hot mechanic remember? Who I need to go find."

"He's the Captain for the day, he's wearing a captain's hat and everything," Brittany said helpfully.

"Yeah, that'll be fun," Santana said ducking behind Lucas and taking off to find Charlie. At the very least she could have some place she could talk to him. They might not get back together, but at least he would be a safe place to hang out with.