Chapter 2: Journey to a land far away

Much to their annoyance, the kids had to be at school to get the bus to the airport at 5am, for most of them that meant getting up and out of bed at about 4. Kurt and Rachel were probably the earliest to get up; they each had a long routine to go through before they would even consider leaving the house. Puck, Sam, Finn, Artie and Mike, in complete contrast would get out of bed just in time to have something to eat.

Tina got up at 4.15. This gave her time to have something to eat, get dressed and check that she had everything she needed in her hand luggage. Similarly Mercedes got up, and before leaving sent a text to Kurt.

The three girls, commonly known as the unholy trinity had finally managed to drift off to sleep, around an hour before their alarm went off. Quinn woke up to turn the high pitched alarm off, studying the illuminated time on the display: 4.20. It took her a few moments to open her eyes enough to actually see the time, and to remember why they were up so early. After furiously rubbing her eyes to force herself awake, she glanced over to her two friends who had barely even stirred to the harsh sound of the alarm. Brittany was lying in the middle of the bed, one arm under the pillow and one arm clinging to Santana's arm that was wrapped around her waist. Under the sheet their legs were a tangled mess, if it wasn't for their contrasting skin colours, you wouldn't be able to decipher whose legs belonged to whom. Quinn decided that Brittany would be the easiest to wake up, so she gently shook her, causing her to stir.

Quinn: wake up Britt, it's time to get ready for London

A sleepy Brittany gave Quinn the biggest smile she had ever seen from someone this early in the morning, before gently untangling herself from Santana. The two girls stood hovering over the bed eyeing Santana who was now face down on the pillow, arguing about who got to wake her. Santana was not a morning person, even less than she was a day person.

Brittany bent forward and gave her a soft kiss on the shoulder, eliciting a soft moan, and causing Santana to turn over. Quinn just stood back and watched, it was almost as if they were trying to wake a sleeping dragon, dangerous.

Brittany: San, its London day, wake up

San: Not now

Brittany: we have to San, otherwise we can't go

San: a few more minutes' mom

Brittany: San, its Brittany, wake up

Santana let out what sounded more like a growl than any other noise Quinn had ever heard. Brittany just sat perched on the side of the bed, and commenced to gently run her hand up Santana's back. She bent forward and gave her a kiss on the lips, which after a few moments, caused Santana eyes to flutter open and finally wake up. Not just wake up, but wake up with a slight smile. If there was anyone who could wake Santana up, it was Brittany. Quinn thought it was as if they were in a fairy tale: Brittany was the night in shining armour, but with some weird twist she didn't have to wake the sleeping princess, but instead woke the evil dragon. Before long, all three girls were up, dressed and ready to leave the house. Ok, Santana's movements and speech resembled a zombie, but they were up and ready, that's all that mattered.

Santana's pov

Not that I'm not exited to go to London or anything, I am, but seriously this IS NOT morning. How can people actually function this early? Britt looks so happy though. I don't know how she does it, she manages to look beautiful even at this time of night, I mean, morning.

/

By 5 am, all of the kids, plus Mr Shue and Miss Pillsbury lingered in the school parking lot, waiting for the bus to arrive. It was so early in the day that the temperature was freezing, and all of them were dressed in summer clothes, it was supposed to be hot later that day. Rachel was talking to Puck, Lauren, Sam and Finn. The boys didn't seem to mind the cold, but Rachel was visibly shivering. Mercedes and Kurt were leaning against a wall, arms linked. Mike and Tina were hugging to stay warm. Artie was sat in his chair, with a blanket over his legs, his mother had thought about the temperature before leaving. The three girls stood together. Quinn was shivering violently, barely speaking because her teeth were chattering so much. Santana and Brittany were hugging tightly together to keep warm.

There was a massive sigh of relief when the bus finally turned up. Artie was the first to get on the bus, which took some time, causing a huff to come from Santana. Once they were on the bus, Mr Shue told them to settle down and get some sleep so that they were not tired later, and then took his seat at the front of the bus next to Miss Pillsbury.

Everyone had taken their seats next to the person they wanted to sit next to, other than Quinn, who due to a lack of seats had to sit next to Rachel. Rachel had her headphones on, and Quinn could clearly hear that she was listening to a soundtrack from a musical. Quinn just sighed before letting her head drop against the back of the chair, slowly letting her eyes flicker shut as she entered dream world.

Artie spent the entire journey playing on his Nintendo DS. Sam also played games for a while, but soon fell asleep, his games console still in his hand, playing the familiar soundtrack to super Mario. He was sat on the bus next to Finn, who was asleep almost as soon as the engine of the bus kicked in. Mike and Tina were also napping within minutes. Mike had his mouth open and was snoring slightly, whilst Tina had her hand linked with his and her head on his shoulder. Lauren and Puck sat together. She had fallen asleep quickly, and once she was soundly asleep, Puck made himself comfortable by resting his head lightly on her shoulder. Mercedes and Kurt had fallen asleep whilst listening to a shared iPod, one earphone each.

It took a while for Santana to get Brittany to go back to sleep. Brittany kept arguing that she was just too wide awake to go to sleep now. Once they had gotten comfortable, it only took a few minutes of Santana running her fingers though Brittany's soft blonde hair for the blonde to drop off to dream world. When Mr Shue looked back to check on them, he saw Brittany with her head resting on Santana's shoulder. Santana had her head on the top of Brittany's and appeared to have a smile on her face. Their hands were together on top of Brittany's lap, fingers entwined.

To his left, Emma had fallen asleep with her head against the window. She had of course, insisted on cleaning the window thoroughly before allowing her head to rest anywhere near it. So now it was just Mr Shue, and Artie awake. They sat silently whilst the others slept, watching as the sun slowly rose, changing the colours from the deepest of black flecked with shimmering stars through to an eerie shade of purples and pinks, eventually turning to bright blue, as there wasn't a cloud to be seen.

Wills Pov

They all look so peaceful, and Emma looks adorable. I'm so glad I get to do this for them; I know they're going to love London.

/ airport and plane

By the time they arrived at the airport, they checked in quickly with no problems and made their way through security. Santana smirked as she got frisked by the security guard, causing the others to giggle at her. Miss Pillsbury was really unhappy about having to take her shoes off. It wasn't long before they were boarding their plane, and exited to see who they were sat next too; nobody actually thought about checking their tickets whilst they were inside the airport.

Artie was sat at the front of the plane, and decided that since he was sat alone it would be a sensible time to catch up on some much needed sleep. Mr Shue and Miss Pillsbury were sat together, close to the rest of the glee kids. Will had requested that they were all seated close together, so that he could keep them in check and make sure that there were no problems.

Puck, Finn and Sam were sat in a row together and argued over who got the window seat. Behind them, Mike sat next to Lauren. They didn't talk much, but it didn't really matter, they were both shattered. Tina, was sat in between Kurt and Mercedes, but swapped seats so that she could lean across the aisle to chat to Mike.

These were the only seats close together, towards the back sat Quinn and Brittany. A few seats behind them were Santana and Rachel. Most of the kids were happy with their choice of seats. All of them except for Santana that is. After aggressively shoving her luggage in the overhead compartment, Santana took her seat next to Rachel with an oomph, crossing her arms in the fashion of a sulking toddler, and staring forward to where her best friends were seated.

/ Rachel and Santana

After the plane had taken off, and a few minutes of silence Rachel lent forward to put her book away; the autobiography of Barbara Streisand. Santana couldn't help but catch a glimpse down Rachel's top, and like what she saw, though she would never admit that. After the hostess had come round with snacks and drinks, Rachel decided that it was time to be brave and break the silence.

Rachel: Santana?

San: what do you want Berry?

Rachel: I was just wandering, if you erm, wanted to do something to help pass the time

Santana gave her a raised eyebrow, before thinking to herself; oh what the hell, she's not THAT bad, I'm sure I can tolerate her for a few hours.

San: Well, what were you thinking man hands?

Rachel: erm I don't know, how about we play 20 questions?

San: make it truth or dare and I'm in

Rachel: how do we do dare's on a plane?

San: I'm sure we can think of something, you in?

Rachel: erm yes, ok then, if that's what you want to do.

Rachel had a horrible feeling about this game, though she didn't want to say, she had after all managed to get Santana to talk to her, without insulting her, other than the nicknames, but she was used to that, at least she hadn't threatened to murder her or anything. This had to be good progress for their relationship.

Rachel: Truth

San: We all know you're still a virgin, but how far DID you go with Finnocence?

Rachel: I let him touch my breast, under the shirt, but over the bra

San: right. I'll take truth as well I guess

Rachel: Do you really hate me?

San: didn't expect that. No. Berry, I don't hate you ok.

Rachel smiled, but with a slight look of confusion. Santana just looked down picking her fingernails, taking the game in her stride.

Rachel: Truth

San: are you ever going to pick dare? Right, let me think.. Would you, ever kiss a girl?

Rachel: well, it would depend who it was, but sure

Santana just sat with her mouth open, staring at Rachel. Turns out, you can learn a thing or two whilst being sat next to the girl you torment on a long plane journey to London Gatwick.

San: I'll take truth as well

Rachel: do you love Brittany?

San: I erm, what?

Rachel: you heard me, now answer the question

San: damn, I hate this game

Rachel: you picked it! Answer

Santana grumbled a little and then her answer left her mouth in a rapid spurt before she even had time to realise that she speaking.

San: fine, I do ok, I am totally in love with Brittany S Pierce. But don't you dare go telling anyone, you hear me dwarf?

Rachel: ok, I won't, but please stop with the name calling

San: fine

Their game continued for a while, mostly playing the truth side, but without too many more shocking revelations coming up. Santana mostly wanted to know about Rachel's non-existent sex life and Rachel mostly though of pointless questions such as what her favourite childhood memory is. There were a couple of dares, the best one being, Santana daring Rachel to tell Mr Shue that she couldn't sleep without her blanky, and asking for a hug to make her feel better.

/

Kurt and Mercedes had taken it upon themselves to create their own entertainment by using their ipods to create music quizzes for each other. Tina spent a large amount time leaning over and talking to Mike, but also spent much of the journey asleep, her head every now and then falling to one side, causing her to jolt awake briefly and Mercedes and Kurt to chuckle at the sleeping girl.

Mercedes: it's your go Kurt, who sang landslide

Kurt: that's just too easy Mercedes, Its Fleetwood mac. Come on, try a little harder.

Mercedes: I'm sorry Kurt, but we've been at this for two hours now, aren't you getting bored

Kurt: fine, let's do something else

/

Quinn was exhausted; she was trying to get to sleep but seemed to be spending the entire journey trying to calm down an extremely excited Brittany.

Quinn's Pov

I should have tried to swap seats with San. She would probably be able to get Brittany to sleep, or at least be able to cope with her. I could have coped with Berry, she's not all that bad, and at least I would be able to get some sleep sat next to her.

She had barely closed her eyes for 10 seconds before Brittany was tugging on her dress.

Britt: Q.. please, let's do something, I'm bored

Quinn: well what does Santana normally do with you?

Britt: well….

Quinn: actually forget I asked, I don't need to know

Eventually, Quinn had what she considered being a stroke of genius. She took out a pad of paper and some pens, handing them to Brittany. Brittany sat quietly, humming to herself while she drew pictures of ducks, cats, unicorns and rainbows with half of the colours missing. Finally a bit of peace and quiet, and Quinn managed to get some sleep.