Disclaimer: I still don't own Glee or any of the characters ;)
Three months timeframe…
Brittany and Santana have been spending a lot of time together and their friendship has gotten unbelievably strong. Every Saturday morning is spent having brunch together (Tina knew to leave a gap while scheduling appointments) and every Sunday has the women going on a morning run together, with Roxy of course, and then spending the day having movie or Netflix marathons. Both women have remained single, preferring to spend whatever mutual free time they have with the other.
Neither woman will admit it to the other, but they've both fallen completely head over heels for their counterpart with every new thing they learn about the other woman. Brittany has made sure to stick to her plan of slowly winning Santana over. She hasn't done anything too crazy that crossed the line, but definitely does things to let Santana know she's thinking of her.
One time, she got Puck and Sugar to sneak her into Santana's office where she left the brunette a small vase of white daisies (her favorite flower) and a little tube of mini M&M's. Another time, Santana was texting her while at work, complaining that she was hungry because she forgot to eat before going in to work so Brittany surprised her with her favorite Breadstix dinner and a double order of breadsticks.
Brittany knew she was gaining brownie points for these little things because they showed that she actually listened to Santana and learned her likes and dislikes. Anyone could go and buy expensive gifts, but Brittany's surprises were from the heart…and based on the feedback she was secretly getting from Puck and Sugar, she was doing a damn good job of impressing the lovely Latina.
Brittany also made sure to help Santana take care of Roxy after she was spayed. With Brittany's extra care, Roxy's recovery went quicker than expected and she was going for her morning runs again in no time. Santana fell just a little harder for Brittany when she saw how carefully she tended to Roxy post-surgery.
It wasn't all one-sided though, when Brittany fell ill with a nasty Spring-time flu, Santana was there as often as possible to take care of her, even cooking Brittany homemade chicken noodle soup when she refused to eat anything else.
Over the past three months, Brittany has built pretty strong friendships with Puck and Sugar, just as Santana has become friends with Tina and Mike. Both sets of friends were just waiting for the day when they heard the news of the two women becoming official girlfriends. Everyone could see how perfect they are for each other. Each of the women's friends, some on multiple occasions, had even caught them in heated situations.
Brittany and Santana had yet to share another kiss, but that doesn't mean there weren't any almost-kisses. There were actually quite a few of them. The chemistry between them was undeniable, but both women were nervous about taking the next step; Santana due to her own insecurities and Brittany due to her fear of ruining all the progress she's made with Santana thus far.
Saturday…
This was the first Saturday in three months that Brittany and Santana had to break their brunch plans. Brittany had to schedule an emergency surgery for one of her favorite patients and did not want to wait until Monday to perform the procedure.
Santana completely understood and told her not to worry about their plans.
From Britt-Britt: "The surgery was a success! :)"
To Britt-Britt: "Awesome! Although, I knew it'd go well…she was in the best hands ;)"
From Britt-Britt: "Aww! Thanks :) just wanted to share the good news with you."
To Britt-Britt: "Thanks. I have good news, too…I got the night off! I forgot that some company had booked a party at the bar, and Puck said he and Sugar could easily handle it if I wanted the night off. Yay!"
From Britt-Britt: "Nice! Wanna come over later and get a jump start on tomorrow's movie marathon? If you aren't busy…"
To Britt-Britt: "I'm never too busy for you ;) I have a few errands to run, but should be free around 3pm. Would that be good for you?"
From Britt-Britt: "That's perfect. I'm almost done cleaning up here anyway so I'll be home shortly. Come over whenever you're free. You can bring Roxy if you want…I think LT misses her lol"
To Britt-Britt: "Will Do!"
Saturday afternoon…
It's about 2:50pm when Santana pulls into Brittany's driveway. She knows she's a little earlier than she had initially said, but Brittany did say to just come over whenever she's free. Santana walks up to the front door and rings the bell. Brittany doesn't answer. She waits a minute and rings it again. Still no answer. Santana knows Brittany is home because she parked behind her car, so she tries calling the blonde's cell but it goes to voicemail. Now Santana's starting to worry. She tests the doorknob and it's unlocked. The brunette enters quietly, in case there's something wrong (she watches a lot of crime shows). Most of her worries go away when Roxy goes straight to LT's bed to cuddle with him. If there was something wrong, she'd be acting strange, right? Santana hears loud music coming from the basement…the one place she has yet to see of the blonde's house. She makes her way over to the basement door, opens it slowly, and carefully descends down the stairs.
Her remaining worries disappear as she finds Brittany in a fully finished dance studio, dancing some intense hip-hop choreography to "Dirrty" by Christina Aguilera. Her moves are definitely living up to the title of the song she's dancing to. The blonde woman has her hair pulled up in a messy bun and is wearing sweatpants and a sports bra. Santana's breathing picks up as she notices sweat dripping down a set of well-defined abs and she finds her mouth instantly dry at the sight before her. She's pretty sure all the moisture in her body has found a home in her panties. Santana thought she had seen Brittany dance suggestively at her bar, but that dancing pales in comparison to the moves she's pulling out right now.
That song ends and the blonde's iPod changes to "Dancing" by Elisa. Brittany flawlessly changes from hip-hop to contemporary choreography and where Santana was beyond turned on watching her before, she's now mesmerized by the story the dancer's movements are currently telling. The Latina watches silently, her eyes slowly filling with unshed tears as the blonde continues dancing. Santana never wants her to stop, but alas, all good things must come to an end.
Brittany jumps a little when she finally sees Santana standing at the bottom of the stairs and halts her movements. She walks over to her docking station and turns her iPod off. As the blonde starts stretching to avoid cramping up, Santana finally finds her voice.
"Sorry for interrupting you," she says sheepishly, "and for just barging in to your house. I got worried when you didn't answer the door or your phone."
"No worries. It's not like I've never just walked in to your place before," Brittany says with a cheeky grin. "Sorry for worrying you, I guess I just lost track of time."
"It's fine. But way to not tell me you have a full dance studio in your basement! I guess you weren't lying when you said you're passionate about dancing. You're…amazing."
"Thanks. Yeah, this is kind of just my place to escape and lose myself. I didn't get to go running this morning, so I figured I'd blow off some steam before you got here."
"Just when I didn't think this house could get any better… Damn," the Latina chuckles.
Brittany smiles when she hears the smaller woman's comment. She finishes stretching, grabs her water bottle, and motions for Santana to head back upstairs. She follows right behind the brunette and may or may not check out her ass just a little bit on the way up.
"Let me take a quick shower and then we can figure out what we wanna do for dinner later. Pick out a movie while you're waiting. If you want or need anything, you know where everything is," the blonde yells as she makes her way upstairs to get clean clothes from her room.
Fifteen minutes later, Brittany comes back downstairs fresh and clean and ready to see what movie Santana picked out. Two movies and a white pizza from Lombardi's later and both women are starting to doze off on Brittany's couch. They were about an hour into the third movie when a loud noise jolted Santana awake, making her fall off the couch. Brittany could not stop laughing and actually had tears forming in her eyes when she felt herself being pulled off the couch. Santana moved to quickly straddle the blonde and started tickling her mercilessly.
"You think that was funny?! Huh?!" Santana yells over the blonde's shrieks of laughter.
"Stop! Stop! Mercy!" Brittany yells in between gasps for air.
"Never!" Santana yells.
Brittany manages to grab a hold of Santana's wrists, but the hold quickly gets reversed as Santana pins the blonde's hands above her head. Both women stop laughing as some serious sexual tension settles all around them. They lock eyes in an intense stare, both briefly taking the time to glance down to enticing lips. Santana starts leaning down towards the blonde woman still lying beneath her. As cliché as she knows this moment is, she also can't help but think about how right this feels. Right before her lips land on Brittany's, Santana feels a wet tongue on her cheek. Roxy has, yet again, effectively ruined their moment. The brunette buries her head in the crook of Brittany's neck and groans, then pulls back and starts to get up, but Brittany holds her in place, still straddling the taller woman.
"Go on a date with me," the blonde says, but Santana knows it's more of a question than a statement.
"Brittany…" Santana sounds hesitant.
"San, it's obvious there's something between us. One date. Give me one chance and then decide if you want to stay friends," the blonde softly pleads.
"…okay."
"Okay?"
"Yeah, okay. When?"
"Tomorrow night?"
"I can do that."
"Okay then, tomorrow night," Brittany confirms as she slowly sits up, guiding Santana to sit up as well. "Wanna finish the movie?"
"Yeah, it's not that late."
They finish the movie and Santana decides to call it a night.
"Are we still running together in the morning or…?" the brunette trails off.
"Yeah, we are. Meet me here at 7am?" Brittany asks as she walks Santana and Roxy to the door.
"Sounds good. See you then," Santana says as she gives Brittany a hug goodnight.
"Goodnight," Brittany says and watches to make sure Santana gets in her car okay. As soon as she closes the door, she calls Tina.
"Hey, Britt," Tina greets as she answers her phone.
"Hey, Tina. I need your help."
"What's wrong?!"
"Nothing! Nothing, sorry. Santana agreed to go on a date with me…tomorrow night. I have an idea of what I want to do, but I need a favor and help setting up for it after I get back from our run in the morning. Think you and Mike can help a girl out?" Brittany asks.
"OH MY GOD! It's about damn time! Of course Mike and I will help you!" Tina yells into the phone.
"Thank you! Okay, here's the plan…"
Brittany and Tina go over all the details and once everything is planned out, they say goodnight. Tomorrow is going to be a busy day so they need to get all the sleep they can get.
Sunday…
Brittany wakes up at 630am feeling nervous and excited for her date with Santana tonight. She throws her hair up in a ponytail, puts on her running clothes, and gets her water bottle ready. As soon as she's done with that, she hears her doorbell ring. She checks the clock and as expected, it's already 7am. She opens the door to find Santana in her running gear and Roxy wagging her tail excitedly.
The women exchange shy smiles and greet each other with a hug before Brittany locks up and they make their way to the park. Once they reach their favorite trail, they stretch and then head out. They just run together for a while until Santana breaks the comfortable silence that had settled over them.
"Sooo, where are we going tonight?" she asks.
"Uh-uh. It's a surprise," the blonde replies, shooting a quick grin at her running partner.
"Aww! C'mon, Britt! You know how I am with surprises. I go crazy trying to figure them out!" Santana whined.
"You're cute when you whine," Brittany winks at Santana, "but that doesn't mean I'm gunna cave and tell you."
"Ugh, fine! Can you at least tell me what I should wear?"
"Just wear something super casual. Like, jeans and a t-shirt would be fine. Something comfortable."
"That doesn't help me narrow down what we're doing, but thanks for at least giving me that," Santana grumbles.
"You're welcome!" Brittany says smugly. "Oh! And eat a little something before I pick you up, but definitely don't come totally full."
"Jeeze, could you be any vaguer?!" Santana huffs.
"I mean, I could try…" Brittany trails off.
"Smartass," Santana giggles and bumps shoulders with the blonde as they continue running.
They finish their run and use the distance back to Brittany's house as their warm down. When they approach her house, Brittany turns to Santana and asks, "So, I'll pick you up at 7pm?"
Santana gives her a small smile and says, "I'll see you then."
Brittany runs inside and takes the quickest shower ever, knowing she'll have to take another one after everything is set up, before heading out to go meet up with Tina and Mike. They should have already started setting up stuff for the date tonight.
The three of them get the final touches done at 530pm, leaving Brittany just enough time to drive back home, shower, and get ready before she has to pick Santana up. As she's leaving, she tells her friends for the umpteenth time how much she owes them, but they just smile and tell her to have a great time tonight.
Both women spend way too much time trying to pick out a casual outfit, but they still want to impress the other even though they aren't getting all dolled up. Before going to pick Santana up, Brittany goes to the very back of her yard, picking her single best tiger lily from the wild garden growing there. She remembered Santana saying how beautiful the flowers were a couple weekends ago. The blonde knocks on Santana's door right at 7pm. When Santana opens it, her breath is stolen. She doesn't know how someone can look so beautiful in a simple pair of jeans and a t-shirt.
"H-hey," the blonde stutters out.
"Hey yourself," the Latina says and smiles at Brittany's sudden shyness.
"This is for you," Brittany says as she holds out the flower.
Santana's smile widens at the sweet gesture. "Thank you."
"You're welcome. You look beautiful."
"I look normal," the brunette says as she looks down at her clothes.
"Well, you normally look beautiful, so…" Brittany compliments.
Santana blushes at this comment and quietly says, "Let me put this in a vase and then we can leave."
A few minutes later finds the women walking toward Brittany's car. The blonde makes sure to open the door for the Latina before making her way to the driver's side. Santana's already slightly swooning and the date hasn't even started yet.
After driving for half an hour, and Santana persistently trying to get the blonde to reveal their destination, Brittany pulls up to a fairly secluded house. It's clearly old, but still beautiful.
"Umm, Britt, whose house is this?" Santana asks as they get out of the car.
"It's Tina's parents' house. She's house-sitting it while they're on vacation, but it's ours for the evening. C'mon, our date is actually in back, but I have to grab something from inside first."
Brittany and Santana enter the house and the taller woman quickly navigates them through the first floor and into the kitchen where she grabs a basket out of the fridge.
"All set. Let's go!" Brittany smiles and leads the brunette out the back door.
As soon as Santana steps out onto the back porch, she's met with gorgeous scenery. There's a huge lake at the end of the flat yard, with large trees lining the edge to provide them shade. She notices a large quilt already laid out and unlit tiki torches strategically placed around the set up area. Santana realizes Brittany has planned a sunset picnic for their date and thinks it is the cutest thing ever.
Brittany takes a hold of Santana's hand and gently swings it between them as they make their way across the expanse of the backyard. Santana bites her bottom lip to prevent the goofy grin that wants to make an appearance on her face.
When they reach the edge of the quilt, Brittany kicks off her flip-flops and settles down. Santana quickly follows suit. Brittany positions the basket out in front of them and starts emptying the contents of it, placing multiple containers between her and the Latina. There's a variety of fruits, little desserts, and even a small container of mini M&M's, which she places closest to Santana, of course.
"So, as you can probably tell, we're having a picnic. Tina brought me here for one of her family cookouts once and I loved this spot. As soon as you said yes to this date, I knew I wanted to bring you here. The sun should be setting in about a half hour and it's the most gorgeous sight."
"This is perfect. Thank you for bringing me here."
"Oh, this is just the beginning," Brittany says with a sly grin.
The Latina shoots Brittany a look of intrigue, but knows better than to try to get any info out of her. She'll just have to wait and see what the blonde has up her sleeve.
Brittany and Santana pick at the spread of food in front of them and make small talk. Soon enough, the sun is setting across the lake, casting the most brilliant pink, orange, and golden hues across the clouds in the sky. It really is the perfect sunset and Brittany thinks to herself that she couldn't have asked for a better night to have brought Santana out here. As night falls, Brittany gets up and lights the tiki torches surrounding them. They cast just the right amount of light over the area to make it feel romantic, but not drown out the sight of the stars that are starting to shine in the night sky. They talk about anything and everything…hopes, worries, dreams, fears. After they've been talking for a while and learning even more about each other, Brittany clears away the food containers, putting them back into the basket, and then gets up and starts to put out the tiki torches.
"Are we leaving?" Santana asks.
"Nope! Just stay right there until I say so," Brittany answers.
"Whatever you say…" Santana just goes with it as she watches Brittany continue to extinguish the flames on the torches.
As soon as the last flame is out, Santana sees Brittany use the flashlight on her phone to make her way over to the base of the tree located right behind them. A few seconds later, she gasps as she sees the tree light up with soft white Christmas lights. There must be thousands of little lights strewn throughout the branches above them. In a stunned silence, she sees Brittany fiddle again with her phone and then music starts playing all around them.
As Brittany walks back over to the Latina, Santana can hardly find her voice.
"Brittany…" she whispers, still in awe.
Brittany holds out her hand and asks the brunette, "May I have this dance?"
Santana's heart is completely melted as she takes Brittany's offered hand and allows her to help her stand up. Brittany reaches out for Santana's other hand and brings them both up to wrap around her neck. The blonde then wraps her own arms around the Latina's waist and starts to gently sway them back and forth to the music.
"Is this okay?" Brittany asks the smaller woman.
"It's better than okay," Santana says softly, "I've never had someone go through all this trouble just for me. How the heck did you even make this work?"
"It's really just a well hidden extension cord for the lights and Bluetooth speakers for the music. And I might have had some help from Mike and Tina to get the lights all set up."
"Well, I'm guessing this took all afternoon to set up, so thank you. It's perfect. And make sure to thank Mike and Tina for me, too, okay?"
"Will do," Brittany says with a small smile.
Santana rests her head on the blonde's shoulder as they dance to one slow song after another and Brittany holds her close the entire time. Brittany's playlist finally stops around midnight and the two women reluctantly pull away from each other.
"I should probably get you home," the taller woman says.
"Yeah, I suppose it's getting pretty late."
They grab the basket of food containers and wrap up the quilt to bring back with them. Brittany turns off the power to the Christmas lights and speakers, mentally thanking Mike for agreeing to come back up here tomorrow and take it all down. She uses the flashlight on her phone again to lead her and Santana back up to the house, quickly locking up and then packing the basket and quilt up in the trunk of her car. Once again, she opens the passenger door for the Latina before climbing into the driver's side. As soon as they're out of the driveway, Brittany gently takes Santana's hand and laces their fingers together as she drives. They stay like that the whole car ride home.
The drive home was mostly spent in a comfortable silence, with both women sneaking glances of the other and blushing every time they got caught. Brittany eventually parks her car in front of Santana's apartment and gets out to walk the brunette to her door. As they reach her doorstep, Santana finally breaks the silence.
"Brittany?" Santana says softly.
"Yeah?" Brittany replies, just as soft.
"Why are you trying so hard with me?"
"Because you're worth it. You're special."
"I'm a mess."
"Well, as luck has it, I'm very good at organizing things." With that said, Brittany leans in and gives Santana a lingering kiss on the cheek. "Goodnight," she whispers, then turns and walks back to her car.
Santana closes the door behind her and leans back against it. Roxy comes over to greet her as the Latina quietly utters three words: best date ever.
A/N: I totally plan on somehow making this date happen for a future girlfriend. I think it'd be so romantic :)
A/N2: I only have two more chapters written so far. Three more should be coming after that? But I start my new job this upcoming Monday so idk how much time I'll have to write. I'll do my best to get the updates to you guys by the end of each wknd, but that might be delayed if I actually manage to have a social life lol