After Santana sent Finn into the living room to wait with her father she piddled around the kitchen, cutting the brownies, making coffee, doing the dishes, anything she could possibly busy herself with to avoid the two men waiting for her. She loved them both more than anything in the world and would do anything for either of them, but what they were asking for she wasn't ready to give. What happened over the past three months had all been her doing, and knowing both those men they were sitting there blaming themselves in secret and each other out loud. It wasn't long before she heard arguing coming from the other room.

"Well how did you manage to just lose her!? You let her take off!"

"Yea, what was I suppose to do tell her she couldn't spend the summer with her mother!? I had no idea she was lying to me! She never had before!"

"Seriously!? You can't even tell when she's lying to you!? Way to go! Dad of the Year Award goes to Chibs Telford!"

As Santana ran into the living room she saw her dad leaping over the coffee table with his arms aimed for Finn's neck. "HEY! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING!?"

"THIS WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T LEFT HUDSON! GET YOUR SHIT AND GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER!"

Finn recoiled at her father's words. Deep down everyone blamed Finn for Santana losing it...even her for a while. Sure the club had no idea what was going on but they knew the real reason she left, she went to find him. Spending the summer with her parents at their beach house in Cape Cod was code for I'm going to go hang around the base in Newport, spending everyday looking into every face hoping to find his. When her calls went from twice a day with texts at all hours to her barely calling once a week, they knew it meant she was starting to panick and didn't want to waste anytime on the phone. After two months contact stopped all together, everyone guessed she had given up and was to ashamed to admit it...but no one doubted she would come home, until she didn't. Kerrianne and Bella had called every hour of everyday until she blocked their numbers and everyone elses, Chibs went over to her mothers house everyday until they finally arrived home and informed him she was staying in Massachusetts to 'get her life back together'. Marybel also made sure to point out that he had no parental rights to 'her daughter' and to leave her alone.

Everyone knew she was losing it and didn't want them around to see it, her mother was right she was trying to piece together the life she had prior to her junior year...the life she no longer wanted. The way Santana saw it she had two options: the life she had almost had with Finn or none at all. She would wake up every morning wander out to the pier and sit there staring out at the vast ocean, everyday from dawn til dusk. Some days she would close her eyes and hear his voice in the crashing waves, others she would imagine jumping in and letting go...her 'heart belonged to the sea' now. When Santana was younger she would hear those little phrases, and see all those slogans proudly displayed on the shirts of Navy Wives in San Diego. She thought those people were crazy...to put yourself through all of that just to have your husband gone for a year or more at a time or to lose him altogether. It wasn't worth it...at least that's what she thought until Finn left with the notion they would never see each other again. When she said it she meant it, but now she would give anything to see him again, to know he would come home to her, even if it was just for a couple months at a time. At least then she would know he was okay, she would have those little moment she missed so badly, even if they were spread out between years of deployment. At least she would have them to look forward to...now she had nothing.

Chibs, Kerrianne and Bella waited patiently for her to come around, they had become so close that they knew it was only a matter of time before she came home. As the third month came and passed they all were on edge, not even talking to each other... When Chibs' brought his two youngest daughters 'home' from Belfast they came home to him and their sister, with out her there, their house was no longer a home. Santana had been the glue that had made it work, she had been living with her father happily for months by the time they left for Ireland. Having her their had made it an easy transition for the girls, it wasn't just them and the dad they hadn't seen in years. Kerrianne had a tougher time adjusting to another sister out of jealousy, but once she learned that Santana had only recently learned about Chibs being her father and the transition she went through to get to the point they were at made it easier for her to let her father in too. Bella being the youngest had dreamed for years of seeing her daddy and being a family again, with or without their mother. She was a daddy's girl from the moment she was born and that had never changed, having another sister was just the icing on the cake. Of course the girls argued, fought and tattled on each other constantly but they had become sisters and that was an unbreakable bond...at least it was to Kerrianne and Bella. One night in late July Bella went crying to her father because she couldn't understand how close she and Santana had become and how easy it was for Santana to just leave her. Bella vowed that if anything had happened to or with Beau she would lean on her sisters for support not shut them out and Chibs had to explain how Santana never grew up with siblings, or from what he gathered a family at all. Eventually Chibs found a way to rally his girls and restore their faith in their eldest sister. He made them believe that when she was ready she would be back, that even though they only had a year together as a family, the bond and love shared between a father and his daughters and the bond between sisters could never be broken...no matter how long or short the time they spent together.

The day Beau came barging into his house with 'important information' Chibs about shot his ass and buried him underneath his roses. It was seven in the morning and he had no idea how Beau managed to get in the house in the first place, much less where the balls came from to bust into his room flipping on the light and opening the curtains. When Chibs got downstairs he saw both his daughters and Joe sitting around the kitchen island willing the coffee pot to brew faster. When he saw Joe half asleep on the counter his patients ran out, he yelled at his daughters and their boyfriends demanding to know what was going on and what was so important that they all were in his house at the crack of dawn. Joe swore he had been drug out of bed by Beau that morning and had gotten there with him and Beau was too excited to bother himself with an explanation.

"Santana has been staying at the Marriott! She's back in town!"

"How do you know that!?"

"I work there now and there is a guest who has the penthouse suite booked for the next two months whose name is Santana Stanford!"

"AND!?" Chibs yelled.

"AND! AND HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU KNOW AROUND HER NAMED SANTANA!?"

"IT'S A HOTEL DUMBASS! THESE PEOPLE AREN'T FROM HERE THEIR ARE VISITING! THAT'S WHY THEY ARE STAYING AT A HOTEL AND NOT THEIR HOME!"

"I figured you would say that's why I snuck into the room to and snooped through her shit!"

"BEAU!" Everyone yelled at him.

"WHAT!? She can't be made that I did that! She was the one who taught me how to channel my inner Mexican third eye and snoop without getting caught! Anywayyyy! That's not the point! When I got into the room the first thing I saw was a shit ton of Navy apparel and a picture of her and Finn on the refrigerator! It's her! She's home!"

Everyone sat in stunned silence not sure what to do next. Chibs first instinct was to run down to the hotel wrap his daughter in a hug and never let her go, but he knew he couldn't. Instead he gathered his little family in a hug, boys and all and told them they needed a plan. Kerrianne and Bella started breakfast while he, Joe and Beau started strategizing. They knew showing up in her hotel room with a bouquet of 'Welcome Home' flowers would send her running off again but knowing she was so close and not getting to see her was making the aching hole in their hearts unbearable. As Chibs sat at the head of his kitchen table he realized for the first time that despite the his immediate dislike for Beau, Joe and inevitably Finn, they were his family now, they weren't going anywhere anytime soon and he didn't want them too. They completed his family. Once the girls were done with breakfast they sat down as a family around the dinner table, held hands, said grace and enjoyed the meal together. Santana and Finn may not have been there but deep down in all of their hearts they knew it wouldn't be long before they had them back and could be complete again.

As a first order of business, Beau took the address off the hotel reservation and he and Joe took turns staking out the house. Every night one of them would sit across the street in the vacant lot keeping tabs on who came and went. During the day they had Brody keep tabs on her at the country club, or Georgia around town. Like clockwork every night an older gentlemen would come home around eight, and there would be no more activity until the lights when out at ten. Joe snagged the license plate number the first night and had Juice run it, they found out it belonged to Dr. Edwin Stanford, a coworker of Ricardo Lopez at Charming General Hospital. Juice was still trying to dig into the nature of Stanford's work but the Telford's assumed that he was a psychiatrist or therapist of some sort hired by the Lopez' to help San 'put her life back together', since they never shared a room. Santana's day consisted of the same thing day in day out. Get up, go to the gym, come home, get dressed go to the country club, come home and go to bed. On Sunday's Santana and Dr. Stanford would go golfing with her parents, followed by lunch at the club and then they would return home and he would keep himself busy in the office while she went to the store. As much as Santana's weekly routine puzzled them, no one expected her to be married and trapped in an abusive relationship.

One night Joe and Kerrianne were sitting outside the home when they heard what sounded like a scream coming from the house. Joe quickly armed Kerri with a spare hand gun from his glove compartment then snuck up to the house to peer in the windows. Seeing movement in the living room he hit the ground and crawled up to the window. Looking in he saw Santana cleaning up a broken vase but she looked unharmed, slowly he made his way around the house and shimmied up the trelious and watched the doctor get ready for bed. When the light went out he climbed back down and watched Santana sit numbly on the couch. She looked okay but Joe had a terrible feeling in his stomach...something wasn't right. Walking back to the car he saw Kerrianne stealthily making her way up the driveway.

"What are you doing!? Get your ass back in the car!"

"You were taking to long! I got worried!"

"Never go in after me without me knowing! If you get worried call Chibs or Beau! Don't ever put yourself in danger!"

"Fine! I'm sorry!"

"It's fine lets get back to the car!"

"What did you see...?"

"Nothing really...a vase broke...probably startled her."

"Whats wrong then..."

"I really don't know...something...I'm just not sure what."

The couple sat in silence, Joe wrapping Kerrianne in his arms and holding her tightly. Kerrianne had no idea what he saw but his reaction was scaring her. The sun started coming up around 6:30 so they reluctantly headed home, neither comfortable leaving Santana there alone. Joe brought Chibs and Beau up to speed over breakfast at the diner, Juice was suppose to be meeting them with important information. The men sat in uncomfortable worried silence, until the diner door chimed and Juice came sauntering in. Walking up to the table everyone felt Juice's mood shift when his eyes landed on the trio.

"What's wrong?"

"We really don't know..." Joe replied, have a seat and I'll fill you in..." Juice followed his eyes scanning the diner and they landed on a table of doctors from the hospital. Looking back at his little brother Juice became panicked.

"Is she ok?"

"Appearance wise, yes. There is something going on though and we can't figure it out." Beau answered.

"How so?"

"Joe went up to the house and was looking through the windows last nig-"

"Joseph Elijah! What did I tell you!?"

"I was careful and Kerrianne heard screaming coming from inside the house! I had to make sure she was okay!"

Juice shook his head and turned his attention to Chibs, "I dug into this guy a little more. He is a neuro surgeon at the hospital. Recently he added Santana to his bank accounts, will, mortgage, and he purchased a car in her name last month. I searched all over California and no where is documented that they are married. I told Lucas and Hale about what's going on and they are contacting Rhode Island and Massachusetts to see if there is any record of them getting married or anything legally binding them up there..."

"You weren't suppose to tell anyone!" Joe spat at his brother.

"I told them everything they aren't going to tell Jax or anyone else! Your secret is safe! We need their help!"

"It's fine Joey!" Chibs' reassured, "Juice is right we need to know and that's the way to find out...how long will it take for them to get back to you?"

"Hopefully by the end of the day..."

"And Finn?"

"Last thing I found was him checking into boot camp in Illinois..."

"Illinois! He was suppose to be in Newport!"

"No he had to report to Newport, from there he was shipped with a group of recruits to the training camp in Illinois. It's the only Naval training facility they have."

Chibs' anger boiled over at that point and he stormed out of the diner. "Why didn't he tell her that!?" Beau yelled.

"He probably didn't know, I reviewed all his recruitment paper work and all it said was for him to report to the Naval base in Newport by May 28th. From there all the documentation was internal."

"We should have looked into that further when he left..." Joe conceded. "We could have given her a piece of mind...do you know where he is going after that?"

"Not yet but Bobby will get an invitation to his boot camp graduation and paper work about all that when he is done."

"How long is boot camp?"

"About three months...from there he could get shipped anywhere. My guess is he'll be sent to San Diego or back to Newport."

"Why would they make him report all the way to Newport if there is a base in San Diego?"

"Who knows..."

Before the information came back from Rhode Island and Massachusetts the Telford's got wind of the house explosion and Chibs could no longer keep away from his daughter. He had to know she was okay, to know that she wasn't caught in the explosion. Blowing past security at the hotel Chibs made his way up to the hotel room Beau had given him and banged on the door. The instant he saw his daughter the air was knocked out of him. Now he was sitting next to fucking Finn of all people, across from his daughter waiting for an explanation.