Hi guys! Missed me much? I'm so sorry it took so long... And I hope you haven't abandoned me... So, here's good news; I'll update more often here and, maybe, I'll be starting a new story very soon, so, keep your eyes open. And once again; Perhaps Glee, I can not thank you enough.
So... Yeah, that's it. Hope you enjoy it.
And I still do not own Glee.
Quinn never realized when she fell asleep, so she was pretty confused when she woke up on the couch of her living room. Her body was sore and her head was throbbing, even more each time the annoying dancing animal on TV said anything with its irritating voice.
"Stupid thing!" She cursed to no one specifically while turning it off with the remote. Whimpering, she got up, cursing under her breath again for the flash of pain throughout her back with the move and headed for the kitchen to have some tylenol or... anything that could make her feel better.
After she stole one of the Brittany's after practice medication, and was drinking her glass of water leaning on the kitchen counter, she stopped to listen around her.
Silence.
Everything was oddly quiet, like, too quiet. Looking down, she noticed that her loyal, beautiful dog was nowhere to be seen. Weird. Apollo would always follow her around the house, but again, nothing seemed to be the same it was one week ago.
Her life was something real close to a roller coaster these last days, all because she found the tiny brunette in the damn alley.
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"B?" The small blonde whispered shyly while putting only her head inside the hospital room. Said girl looked up from her place on the chair next to the bed and smiled softly when she saw her girlfriend standing there and Quinn could see how exhausted her girlfriend looked; she also looked like she was crying.
"Hi Q... Come in." Brittany whispered back, sniffling while looking back to the sleeping girl on the bed. Quinn entered and closed the door, standing oddly next to it.
"She... She still hasn't woken up?" Quinn asked softly, not wanting to disturb the brunette. Brittany took a deep breath.
"Yeah, she did... Just when I got here after, you know... Our talk... But the nurse was, hm, changing her..." The taller blonde said carefully, waiting for some reaction from Quinn, who only kept a blank face. "And... Let's just say she wasn't very happy about someone she doesn't know touching her..."
"And... She freaked out?" Quinn asked concerned, walking to the fragile girl and looking at her face and arms; she had a cannula to help her breathe and her bruises were all still there. She couldn't help but smile when she saw that Mr. Lamby was held loosely by her hand and looked up when she heard Brittany sigh.
"It wasn't pretty, Quinn, they had to sedate her... Again..." Brittany said with a sad sigh and they both stayed on a comfortable silence while staring at the sleeping girl. "She called you, you know..."
"She did?" Quinn asked, looking up to her girlfriend who never took her eyes from Santana. She wiped away a tear and sniffled, nodding. Quinn bit her lip, feeling sad seeing her girlfriend so sad. "Britt..."
"When I came to her she calmed down a little." She started, sniffling louder this time. "But then as the nurse finished taping the diaper on, she panicked. She kept begging me to not let her go and I tried to calm her, but then, she saw you weren't here. They had to call Dr. Holliday to sedate her... It was horrible Quinn." Brittany was fully crying by the end of her speech and Quinn came quickly to her side to hug her, letting her cry.
"I know, babe, I know..."
Brittany managed to calm herself down after a few minutes and got away from Quinn's embrace to look to her in the eyes. Quinn looked sad, confused and scared. Exactly like she was. She took a deep breath.
"Quinn... Quinn, baby, I can't do it without you." She whispered, breaking their eye contact to look at Santana, who was unaware of anything around her. She knew Quinn was doing the same. "I really want the best for her, but... I can not do anything without you... You're my strength, my everything baby..."
"I know, baby... You're my everything too... You know that, right?" Quinn said in the same tone, making Brittany turn her face to her again. They looked in each other eyes for a few seconds before Brittany leaned to rest her forehead against Quinn's, both closing their eyes, just enjoying being close.
"What are we gonna do, Quinn?"
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"Babe?" Brittany's voice brought Quinn back from her thoughts and she smiled soft when she saw her dropping a few bags she was carrying on the table before walking straight to her.
"Hey honey. Found everything?" Quinn asked, putting the now empty glass on the sink and turning around to face her beautiful girlfriend. She looked as tired as Quinn felt.
"Everything and a few more things." Brittany gave her a sweet smile before putting her hands on Quinn's hips and pulling her to a lovely kiss. They rested their foreheads against each other and stayed like this, enjoying the moment.
Quinn sighed after a while, her eyes closed and her hands resting on her girlfriend's shoulders. "We made the right decision, right?"
Silence again.
Brittany took a deep breath, pulling her girlfriend closer to her body, kissing her temple, her cheek, her chin and finally, she started a slow, calm kiss full of love. She smiled when she heard Quinn's contented sigh. They finished the kiss and Quinn didn't even bothered to open her eyes as she moved to lay her head on Brittany's shoulder as Brittany rested her cheek on the top of her head, rocking her lightly side to side.
"Yeah..." Quinn whispered and got her head up to look Brittany in the eyes.
"Yeah?" Brittany gave a small laugh. "Yeah what, babe?"
"We made the right choice." Quinn said firmly this time, answering her own question.
"I know... And I know it was a hard decision, but we made..."
"The best for her, right?" Quinn asked with a shy smile. Brittany smiled back and pecked her on the lips.
"Of course! So... Where's that sad excuse of a dog, huh?" She asked in a playful tone and Quinn gave her an offended look, slapping her lightly on her arm.
"Britt! Apollo is an amazing dog, okay? Don't talk about him like you don't love him!"
"I do love him, but he doesn't love me anymore." The dancer pouted and Quinn raised a brow, a smirk firmly on her face.
"Oh, and why would you think that, darling?"
"He didn't came to welcome me like he always do." Brittany's pout grew and Quinn couldn't help but giggle.
"Oh, don't worry about that, love, he didn't even move yesterday when I got home from work either... Or day the before... Or any day since Tuesday, when we got home from the hospital." She pecked Brittany's pout, smirking "It's nothing personal. He just has a new love."
"Right." Brittany laughed.
"Bee?"
Quinn always knew Brittany had the most beautiful and shining smile in the world, but everytime she heard that small, sweet voice, she would give this totally contagious smile, full of love and happiness; the smile she would always only give to Quinn and a few other people, but even bigger.
"Hey sweetheart, I'm coming." She gave one last peck on Quinn's lips before going to get her baby. Quinn couldn't help but smile. She looked at the clock on the wall and went to put some juice on the purple sippy cup she had bought yesterday after she left work. She didn't want another mess like it was Wednesday when she and Brittany made the huge mistake of taking their eyes off of Santana for one minute while she had a cup of water in her hands. She smiled when she heard giggles coming from down the hall along with Brittany's playful complains of 'oh, now you love me, you silly dog'.
"Winnie!" She looked up from the sippy cup and smiled when she saw the very sleepy brunette on Brittany's hip, smiling softly.
"Oh, hello there, sleepy head, had a good nap?" She walked to the two girls, kissing Santana on the cheek and handing her the sippy cup, which Santana took happily after nodding, starting to drink right away, laying her head on Brittany's shoulder, giggling softly as Apollo jumped on the blonde.
"See? When I get home, hoping to be welcomed like I was so very missed, this dog won't even show up, but as soon as I get any near Sanny and, suddenly, he's all over me! Apollo, you're a very ungrateful animal!" She kept complaining, moving from one side to the other to stop the dog from jumping on her, making both Santana and Quinn giggle.
"Okay, very funny, but stop making San giggle so she can drink her juice, please." Brittany pouted, but did as her girlfriend said and sat down on a chair, adjusting Santana so she had her back leaning against her front.
"Oh! Guess what, Sanny? Bree bought you a lot of cool stuff, wanna see?" The dancer exclaimed and Santana nodded while playing with Brittany's fingers with her free hand.
"After the juice, Brittany." Quinn repeated with her best mother-like voice. Brittany rolled her eyes but did as she was told. Santana needed to have something in her stomach at the right times, after all, the doctor made it very clear.
A few minutes later Santana held her empty sippy cup in Quinn's direction with a shy smile. "All 'one Winnie."
"All done, sweetie?" Quinn smiled softly, taking the cup from her hands and leaning down to kiss the tip of her nose. The smaller girl giggled and turned to the other blonde.
" 'ool suff now?" She asked hopefully and Brittany nodded, getting up and placing Santana seated on the chair before she went to grab the bags of things she had bought, complaining about Apollo when she almost stumbled on him because he was laying exactly on her way to the counter.
Meanwhile, Quinn had just finished making her a cup of coffee and was watching Santana closely, her amazed expression to each thing Brittany showed her. Small things, like a pacifier - they wanted to break Santana's habit of sucking her thumb - a Panda's onesie, various animals' sweatshirts and this kind of stuff. She couldn't help but keep a sad smile on her face.
The bruises on her face were starting to go away, but they were still there, just like the others on her whole body. The blonde looked down to her coffee, remembering when she and Brittany made the final decision to bring Santana home.
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"So... She was actually... Ra... Raped?" Brittany felt her eyes start to water. She already knew that had happened, it was obvious after all, but hearing it from the doctor's mouth made it so... Real. So painful.
"Multiple times?" Quinn whispered broken. Her heart ached for the sweet girl laying on the bed a few feet from them, unaware of anything that was happening while she was too interested on the cartoon on the TV. "Do you... Do the police already have any clue about who..."
"Not yet." Holly Holliday sighed sadly. She had started to care deeply for the sweet girl who was under her care for one week now. She didn't wanted to believe in what had happened to Santana and kept making more and more exams until she was 100% sure of the results. "But they will."
"Damn right they will!" Brittany said angrily, wiping away a few tears. Quinn looked back to Santana and saw the girl staring at them with a confused look on her face, but she smiled shyly when she saw Quinn giving her a soft smile and went back to her cartoon.
"Brittany, I promise you they're doing their best." Emma started, trying to calm the taller blonde down. "I'm helping how I can, but... She won't say much to me, so..."
"But they have to find out this bastard and make him pay." It was Quinn's turn to use her best angry voice, sighing after that.
"They will Quinn, just... Be patient."
"What if he finds her before they find him, huh? Then what?" Brittany said with a angry tone that if someone that met her on high school heard her right now, wouldn't believe it was the same person.
"It won't happen, Brittany. If she comes home with you, you'll keep an eye on her and if anything happen, you'll call the police and if..." Emma was cut by Quinn's strong, but still calm voice.
"There's no if." With that, the three other women looked at her with confused expressions. Quinn did nothing but look back at the brunette on the bed, while still talking to them. "Santana will not get away from where I can see her."
Silence.
Brittany was surprised. And confused. Did that mean... "Baby, you mean that..."
"Santana's coming home with us." Quinn said in the most serious tone Brittany ever heard from her.
Yes, it would be hard, it wasn't what Quinn wanted for her life, but screw this. Santana was theirs now. She and Brittany would protect her from anything, take care of her in any way she needed and love her unconditionally.
If to keep her safe means that she would have to become a mother of a 20 years old toddler, so be it.
"I lost her once. I will not lose her again."
Hello again everyone! So, I know there was no even nearly enough of our adorable Sanny in this chapter, but it was necessary. Next chapter I promise there will be lots and lots of cuteness of her and our dear Apollo.
Please, review and let me know what you think and... Well, that's it.
Hope you liked it.
Kisses ;))