A/N: Here is the third chapter. Remember to let me know if I should do a fourth chapter as an epilogue or if I should just leave it here. Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or any of it's characters. Glee belongs to it's creators and FOX.

Ch.3

Somehow Valentine's Day had become the most important day of my life, when the most significant and wonderful things happened to me. At first I didn't realize it was happening the moments were so small so fleeting but now I can see it. Now as I hold my first born, my beautiful Kaylyn Maria Fabray, born February 14, 2025 I could see how those first few Valentine's Day's brought me to this day, to this moment.

It started with Valentine's Day wedding gone wrong but a night I would remember and treasure for the rest of my life. The first night I made love to the love of my life, I just didn't know it at the time. Then there was the New York Valentine's between two best friends reacquainting. The next years Valentine's Day was the game changer though.

I nervously wiped my hands on my dress as I stood at her front door, a bouquet in right hand. I couldn't believe I was doing this, this was crazy but somehow I knew it was right. For the past year Quinn and I had been hanging out more and more, every time she was home in New York we'd go out, to new restaurants, movies, Broadway Shows, museums, baseball games, you name it we did it together. Neither of us had dated anyone significantly during the whole year. My feelings started changing fast, or maybe they were always there but I was unaware of them due to my feelings for Brittany. I had no clue how she felt, if she got butterflies in her stomach the way I did every time I saw her, or if her skin grew hot and tingled at the slightest touch as mine did, or felt so safe and content in my arms the way I did in hers. I had no clue but I had to find out and today of all days felt like the best day to try.

Gathering my courage I knocked on her door. I heard some noises through the door and then it was open and she was staring at me as gorgeous as ever even if she was in an old Yale t-shirt with Oxford sweatpants. Her short cropped hair a complete mess but somehow looked cool. Sleep filled her eyes, she had been napping it was clear, I remember now that she'd only gotten in from Thailand this morning. "San?" she sounded so confused. It was really cute the way her eyes went from me to the flowers and back again.

"Quinn, I know you're probably tired, just getting home, but I have something to ask you. I…" I paused the speech I had rehearsed flew from my mind as she leaned against the doorframe a small smirk on her lips. "My feelings, how I feel about you, they've changed Quinn, over this past year I've grown to realize that I like you and not just because you are my best friend, no Quinn I like so much more than that. I could list the things I like about you but that would be really cheesy and movie cliché and I think standing here now dressed up with a bouquet of roses is movie cliché enough, so instead I am going to ask that you give me a chance, that you go get on one of your cocktail dresses I know are in your closet and you come back here, accept my flowers and let me take you on a date." I tried to fidget as I waited for her answer. She was lightly nibbling on her lip and had a distant look in her eyes for a moment before focusing back on me. "No."

My heart stopped and broke, "Oh." I was about to turn and leave when she took the flowers from hand.

"Instead I would like to invite you to stay the evening with me. You see Beth is coming to spend the night with me, we've had this planned for a while now and I can't cancel now, no matter how much I want to, because…" She paused and stepped closer to me, her left hand coming up to cup my cheek, "I really really want to go on a date with you too Santana, you're not the only one whose feelings have changed. So tonight will you spend the evening with me and Beth, I'm sure she won't mind she loves you, and then tomorrow I will put on that cocktail dress and let you take me on a date."

"Absolutely"

That night and the next day had been amazing. I had a blast playing Monopoly and LIFE with Quinn and Beth. The next day I took Quinn back to the Italian restaurant we went to last year. Despite my nerves it was simple and easy being on a date with Quinn. Two years later I was the one to be surprised on Valentine's Day.

The news, CNN of course, flickered on my television screen, my eyes glued to the report of the current upheaval in Eygpt. My heart raising as the anchor reported that several mobs had formed and were marching on the government buildings. Quinn had been in Eygpt just three days ago, reporting on the recent elections that had occurred. The results had set off a rebellion as somehow the current President whom the people were dissatisfied with somehow managed to be elected again. This was the hardest part of being in a relationship with Quinn, of loving Quinn, waiting to see if she would come home or not from an assignment. She had moved her way through the CNN ranks and was now one of the top foreign and war correspondents. Though I was so proud of her I feared that one day she would get caught in the mess she was reporting on and not come home. In fact I hadn't heard from her in three days and that scared the crap out of me.

Suddenly there was a knock on my door. I backed towards the door as I kept my eye on the television waiting to see if Quinn would appear. I turned quickly to open the door and gasped at the sight I saw. There was Quinn, still in her work clothes, suitcases beside her, on one knee a ring box open with the most gorgeous ring I had ever seen sitting there sparkling at me. "Quinn what?"

"Santana I know this is not how you would have expected this to happen, I doubt it is any woman's dream but here I am, about to head back to Egypt and I knew I couldn't leave again without doing what I had originally come home to do, to surprise you with." Quinn said she was talking so quickly I could hardly understand. She shift slightly before taking a deep breath, "Santana Maria Lopez you have been my friend since freshman year of high school, you have been my best friend through and through for just as long, you've been my confidant and my rock since we spent that magical night on this day nine years ago at Mr. Schue's failed wedding, and you've been my amazing girlfriend for two years, and now I would like to call you my wife. I love you more than anything in the world, so you Santana Lopez do me the honor of marrying me?" I couldn't believe my ears but my heart and lips did because I instantly yelled "Yes" and tackled her. We laughed and kissed and laughed some more before Quinn slid the diamond ring on my finger and we stepped inside. Quinn explained to me that she had planned to surprise me like I had her, on Valentine's Day, two years ago and take me out to dinner and propose at our Italian restaurant (as we had begun to call it), but she'd been recalled to Eygpt as soon as she had landed and was to be on a flight to Eygpt tonight.

I just smiled at her, "This was even better, I loved it. I love you. Please just be careful and come home to me."

Quinn leaned in and smiled at me as she kissed me "Always."

She did come home and a year later, on Valentine's Day, we were married. I can still remember how gorgeous she looked as she walked down the isled towards me. She'd worn an ivory A line dress with a chapel length train. Delicate embroidery shimmered in the sun. Beth had been a junior bridesmaid and Rachel was Quinn's Maid of Honor and Puck her Best Man. I had Brittany as my Maid of Honor (we reestablished our friendship around the time I began dating Quinn) and don't laugh Kurt as my Best Man. I had worn a diamond white mermaid style dress that hugged all my curves. The wedding was simple just our closest family and friends. My mom and Judy cried like crazy and Beth was excited to have "another Mom".

Now here we were another Valentine's Day another milestone moment. "Honey?" I turned to Quinn when she called me. She looked exhausted, labor would do that to you, but she was beaming, "Can I?" She nodded towards our daughter in my arms. I laughed, "Sorry of course, she just so…"

"Perfect." Quinn filled in.

"Just like her Mama." I said truthfully as I laid Kaylyn in Quinn's arms. She already had light hair like Quinn, her eyes a bright blue but that may change with time; I hope they are hazel like Quinn too. She was a small baby but not to small and her skin darker than Quinn's but lighter than mine.

Quinn smiled down at Kaylyn before looking up at me, "Thank you."

"For what? You're the one who just gave birth to the best thing that has ever happened to me." And she was I loved Kaylyn beyond words; I couldn't even explain how I felt for her so quickly.

"For loving me and for making all my Valentine's Days the best ever." There was nothing for me to say so I just kissed my wife and my daughter, yes this was certainly the best Valentine's ever.

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