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"Did you meet the new head of Pediatrics?"
"Yes, Rachel." Santana answers with a sigh. She knows where this conversation is going and she would much rather be in surgery for 18 hours than deal with Dr. Rachel Berry's penchant for matchmaking.
"She's gorgeous."
"She is." Santana's not blind. The new doctor at West-Lima Hospital is a total knockout, but Santana's had enough relationship problems to last her a lifetime.
(Marrying Puck was stupid; letting Brittany walk away was even stupider.)
"Ask her out." Rachel says.
"You know, it's not that simple. I can't just –"
"Dr. Lopez, you are the head of Orthopedics. You are a certified bone-breaking badass. Are you seriously letting a pretty girl get the best of you? And before you say it – what happened with Puck was 6 years ago, and Brittany 4. I think you're due something more than casual hookups with Dr. Fabray in the on-call room." Rachel interrupts.
"Jealous?" Santana asks, because really, why is Rachel so fixated on who she does or does not fuck?
"Ask. Her. Out." Rachel answers as she picks up her tray and exits the cafeteria.
Santana is so screwed.
"So, did you ask me out because you wanted to or did Rachel tell you about my crush on you?" Dani asks as they walk out of the restaurant where they had dinner.
Santana's thinking that the food was nice and that maybe they can go get some ice-cream, before Dani's question fully sinks in.
"Wait, you what?"
"Come on Dr. Lopez, the night is still young." Dani says as she takes her hand and interlocks their fingers. She laughs a bit as she guides Santana down the street.
Santana is so screwed.
"You're in love with a doctor that wears Heelys, calls her patients tiny humans, and believes in magic."
"Yup."
"And she's in love with you?"
"Yup."
"Jesus Christ."
Dr. Hummel definitely agrees, Santana is so screwed.
"We're getting married and my Abuela won't come and you're parents won't even speak to you. How do you know where doing the right thing?" She knows she's panicking. After 3 years together, two almost breakups, and a goddamn shooting in the hospital, Santana finally asked the question. Two months later though – two days before the actual damn wedding – and she's wondering if this is all a mistake.
"Because this right here" Dani says, taking a hold of Santana's left hand and placing it over her heart "this frantically beating heart, the accompanying butterflies, and the ridiculously shaking hands feel too good to ever be a bad thing. Because there are a lot of things I don't know, like can fish drown or what is the sound of one hand clapping," Santana's eyes water as she lets out a chuckle at how ridiculously adorable her fiancee is "but I do know these three things: Number one, you are an amazing ortho surgeon. The best I've ever met in my life. Number two, I've loved you since our fist kiss." Santana remembers it well, sitting in that dumb ice-cream shop after dinner, her hand still tingling from when Dani had dragged her down the street. "And number three, in just a couple of nights I'll be calling you my wife for the rest of our lives. Nothing else matters." Dani finishes quietly.
Santana surges forward and kisses her. Tries to convey the amount of love she has for this woman. She knows they're not making a mistake, nothing else has ever felt this right. She feels it in her bones, and dammit, she's an ortho surgeon – bones are her life! So she pulls back just enough to look into Dani's eyes and confirm that at the end of the day, all she needs is this woman standing at that altar and she knows it'll be the perfect wedding.
"I love you."
"I love you too."
Santana is so screwed – and it's the best feeling in the world.
(Inspired by Grey's Anatomy)