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Chapter2:

"Britts let's go." Santana called to her girlfriend as she left the locker room after Cheerios practice. It was their turn to have the late visit with Quinn. Puck and Sam had gone right after school but they had to leave for work at 5;00. It was now 5:00 and Santana didn't want Quinn to be alone for longer than the 10 minutes it took to drive to the hospital from Mckinley High. Today was the twentieth day Quinn was in the hospital and the twentieth that Santana was visiting. Those twenty days had been horrible, the worst in her life.

The expression "you don't know what you have until you lose it" was never truer than it was for Santana. She missed her best friend dearly, more than she ever thought she would. Brittany had always and would always be number one in Santana's life, she'd believed that as long as she had Britt she'd be good, no one else was needed, but she was wrong so very wrong. Brittany was the love of her life, her other half, but Quinn, Quinn was her soul mate and it was only now that the blonde lay motionless on a hospital bed that Santana realized it. They had of course drifted apart several times over the course of their high school careers, mainly Santana's doing, though no matter how far the gap between them grew Quinn had always been their for her. The first person Santana had gone to when her Abeula throw her out after she told her she was gay, was not Brittany but Quinn. Who else knew what it was like to be rejected by those who were meant to love you no matter what, unconditionally, than Quinn? Santana felt even guiltier for her apathy during Quinn's pregnancy than ever as the blonde held her close, Santana sobbing in her arms. Quinn had rocked her and whispered loving, caring, and necessary words into her ear before pulling away and smiling at Santana. "I'll tell you what I came to realize when the Jones's took me in and what I told Mike when his father disowned him earlier this year. Our parents, grandparents are human, they make their own choices, they make their own mistakes, they are inherently just as fallible as we are, some even more so than ourselves. Should they love us unconditionally no matter what, yes. I can say this because though she is no longer mine to raise, I will love Beth with all my being for the rest of my life and should she ever show up on my doorstep confessing the worst possible sins I will still love her, because she is my daughter and always will be. Unfortunately your Abuela made a different choice and though it hurts more than you ever thought possible, it was her choice, it has noting to do with your actions, it was her choice to forsake you. Now look around, who is still with you? Your parents, Brittany, the Glee club, me," she'd paused and winked here, giving Santana her secret smirk, "these are the people who matter, the ones who love you because they choose too not because it was their duty or obligation. No matter what happens, whether you Abeula comes back like my mom or stays away forever like my father, you will always have the family that choose you. That loves you, bitch and all."

In that moment Quinn had seemed so wise and mature it both warmed her heart and broke it to see that life had given Quinn such wisdom at such a tender age. But Santana was grateful because Quinn's words still got her through the days when she missed her Abuela more than anything. Santana didn't know what it would happen but when Quinn woke up she would be there for the other blonde in her life. Quinn knew Santana better than anyone, sometimes even more so than Brittany, they were cut from the same cloth, and Santana would do everything in her power to help her best friend that she'd only just rediscovered.

Santana and Brittany walked into Quinn's empty room at 5:15. "She looks better." Brittany said before climbing into the bed like she did every time they visited. Brittany had been amazing through everything, at first Santana feared that her innocent girlfriend would have trouble dealing with Quinn's condition. It was hard for Brittany to comprehend more difficult events at times, and Santana wasn't sure if Brittany would or could understand that Quinn was in a coma, but she had, once again proving to everyone that she was smarter than she was given credit for. From the first day she could Brittany would climb in and cuddle Quinn while telling her about their school day and Lord Tubbington, "I read that coma patients might be able to hear us while they sleep. I don't want Quinn's dreams to be of all the bad things that have happened to her, I want her to dream of happy things, like us, Puck, Beth, unicorns and ducks. She like my duck stories." Brittany had said when Santana gave her a questioning look. It was answers like that that made Santana love Brittany even more and that made Quinn and she promise to protect Brittany all the days of their lives.

Now Brittany told Quinn about how coach was nicer now that she was pregnant, just like Quinn had been. "well not nicer, you've always been nice, but you could show other people besides me and Sanny that you were really actually nice. " Brittany amended. "Your always nice now. It's so great. Everyone misses you, especially Puck and Sanny."

Santana rolled her eyes and continued to read her magazine. This was their routine Brittany would chat Quinn's ears off while Santana scanned the newest fashion magazines for articles Quinn might like and then she'd read them to her blonde best friend. "Oh Quinn look at this, it looks like the blazers you've insisted on wearing all year are actually coming back, Natalie Portman wore a dress and blazer combo out last week. " Santana interjected during Brittany's complaint that Lord Tubbington was smoking again.

"San?" Brittany's voice was a whisper and nervous.

"What?"

"I…Quinn…she just squeezed my hand." Instantly Santana was up and her hand in Quinn's free one.

"Q can you hear me? Squeeze my hand if you can." There it was, a distinct pressure on her hand just as she had commanded Quinn to do. "Britt, I need you to go get Quinn's doctor."

Brittany smiled with a nod before kissing Quinn's cheek, "That's it Q, keep coming back to us." Then she ran out the door.

Santana claps both her hands around Quinn's and leaned close, "Okay Sleeping Beautiful, you heard that, Britt wants you to wake up and come back to us. Remember what we said freshman year? We'd do anything to keep Britt happy, well this is it, time to step up before I have to kick your ass for making Britt sad for so long." Santana smiled as the pressure on her had increased even more in a definite squeeze, Quinn was coming back to them, soon it would be Santana's turn to step it up and help Quinn the best she could.

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