A/N: This is the final chapter of The Conquest. I feel like this chapter has come to a close, but I may write a one or two shot in the future.

Epilogue

Sanana sighed as her three kids ran around the large penthouse apartment she and Rachel owned. "Can you three calm down for one second?" Her only daughter stopped and stood in front of her.

"Sorry Mommy." The woman smiled and picked her youngest child up.

"It's okay, baby girl. I just don't want you guys to get dirty before the photo shoot and interview." she said, kissing her daughter's cheek just as Rachel walked into the room.

"Tana, where are the boys?" she asked.

"They're running around here somewhere." Santana said, smiling as the four year old rested her tiny head on her mother's shoulder. "Are you tired Emmy?" She nodded.

"Oscar! Tony! Stop running around!" Rachel said. Santana chuckled. She still couldn't believe Rachel had talked her into naming their children after award shows (She'd drawn the line at three kids. If they were going to have a name pattern, they were going to stick with it and she refused to have a child named Grammy).

"Rach, what time are the photographers and the interviewer supposed to get here?" she asked. Rachel looked at her watch.

"Any minute. Boys!" Their eight and six year old sons ran into the room. "Sit down and wait for the photographers to get here."

"Okay." Tony, their oldest, said as he saw the stressed look in Rachel's eyes. He was a smart kid and easily picked up on when one of his moms was not in the best mood. Rachel smiled at her son.

"Thank you." she said, just as their elevator dinged to let them know that it was five floors away. "Okay, they're here."

"Baby, stop stressing. The photographer is Tina and the interviewer is Quinn." Santana said. Rachel sighed.

"Is our house clean enough?" she asked. Santana closed her eyes and nodded.

"Yes, Rach, our house is clean enough."

"Baby girl, you're doing great." Santana said as she held Emmy in her lap. They were taking pictures as a family for a magazine that wanted to do an article on the celebrity power couple Pezberry and their family. The interview was also going to be taped and put online.

"Do I look pretty?" Santana laughed and rested her forehead on her daughter's (they were told to just act natural and carry on as if they weren't being photographed).

"So pretty, sweetie." she said, kissing her cheek. She loved that her kids were still young enough to not realize that they were the children of two very famous celebrities. They knew Santana and Rachel, the parents. They didn't know Santana and Rachel, the singer and Broadway star. She knew that eventually, and probably pretty soon with Tony, that her kids would realize just how famous their mothers were, but that didn't change anything. They didn't give their children special treatment and Rachel was very big on not allowing themselves or their kids to be given special treatment in public. She wanted her children to grow up as normal as possible, as if they didn't have celebrities for parents.

She had gone to Columbia with every intention of going on and becoming a lawyer, but when she'd been discovered while singing at the bar lounge she worked at her senior year of college, she'd decided to take a chance and go for it. Next thing she knew, she was one of the biggest celebrities in the world. Of course, it didn't hurt that her girlfriend was the hottest thing on Broadway.

"The kids are adorable." Quinn said. Rachel smiled as she held Oscar in her lap.

"They really are, aren't they?" she said, running her fingers through Tony's hair.

"San, lean in closer to Rachel." Tina said. Santana shifted Emmy in her lap and leaned in so that her head was right next to Rachel's. "That looks so cute." Rachel giggled as Santana kissed her cheek.

"Okay, so here's how this is going to work. There's going to be three separate interviews going on. First, I'm going to take Rachel and have an interview with her while Tina keeps taking pictures of San and the kids. After I'm done with Rachel, I'll do an interview with Santana while Tina takes pictures of Rach and the kids. After that, we'll do an interview with the both of you."

"Sounds good." Santana said, standing up as Rachel led Quinn into another room. She took a few more pictures with the kids before Tina asked for just some of her. Blowing a kiss at the camera, Santana waved at her children, who were watching in awe.

"So are you planning on going back to Broadway?" Quinn asked. They were almost finished with the interview and she'd been hoping to avoid this question.

"Well, with three kids under the age of ten and Santana's tour coming up, it's not really in the picture right now. However, I've had a very fulfilling career and I'm happy to take time off to care for my children. When they get older, I may venture into television or films, but right now my focus is on my children and my wife's career." Rachel said. Quinn nodded.

"Have your life and your career been everything you could have ever hoped and dreamed for?" she asked. Rachel smiled softly.

"Absolutely." she said, looking toward the door. She could hear her wife and children giggling about something in the other room. Quinn smiled.

"That's great. Thanks for doing this. Let's go get, Santana." Rachel nodded and went back into her living room.

"Tana, it's your turn." she said, pulling her wife into a kiss even though Tina was continuing to take pictures.

"Thanks, baby." Santana said, smiling at her wife before walking into the room Rachel had just left. Rachel smiled and picked up Emmy.

"Smile for the camera baby girl." she said. Santana grinned from the doorway before closing it and sitting down.

"What's up Lucy Q?" she teased. Quinn rolled her eyes.

"So are you ready for your tour?" she asked.

"Yea, of course." she said.

"Okay, now it's time for the Pezberry interview. First, let's talk about the first time you guys ever met." Quinn said. Santana bit her lip, thinking.

"I think it was in kindergarten. We had to sit by each other in class." Rachel said. Santana nodded slowly.

"Yea, I think you're right. At the time, I hated it. She was always leaning over and checking my work. It was actually really irritating." she said. Rachel giggled.

"Sorry about that." she said. Santana shrugged and smiled at her wife. "So we've known each other for a very long time, but we haven't always liked or even been friendly with one another."

"How did you guys start dating? I don't think I ever got the full story." Quinn said. Santana blushed.

"At the start of our senior year, I realized that I didn't really want to watch Rachel and her then-boyfriend be all over each other, so I decided to break them up. I didn't realize then that I actually had a crush on her. Anyway, I asked her to sing a duet with me in Glee Club and while rehearsing we started kissing, but she quickly pushed me away and left because she had a boyfriend and didn't want to cheat on him. I went to her house later to apologize and ask if we could try rehearsing again, but we just ended up making out. I realized then that I liked her and I didn't feel right doing that without her knowing that I had been plotting to break her and her boyfriend up. When I told her, she kicked me out, but we ended up being forced to do the duet together. During that rehearsal, we ended up making out again and she told me that she was going to break up with her boyfriend. I told her that what I was feeling was definitely real, but I didn't want to be her rebound. The next day, she broke up with her boyfriend and I promised to wait as long as she needed to get over him. About a week after all of this began, we were together." she said. Rachel grabbed her wife's hand and smiled.

"Have you guys ever broken up?"

"Once. About a week after Santana and I got together, she met my grandparents. My grandmother is sort of... blunt and she informed Santana that we were in love. She sort of freaked out and went about a week without talking to me unless she absolutely had to." Rachel said.

"Her best friend came and found me in the school library and told me that it was obvious to everyone else that we'd fallen in love very quickly and that we should just embrace it. I went to find her and we had a talk. I told her that I was in love with her and she told me that it was too soon and that she couldn't possibly love Santana Lopez that quickly. Looking back, I definitely overreacted. I was a complete jerk to Rachel growing up and I didn't have the best reputation in high school. I was basically the school slut until I started dating Rachel. But when you're seventeen, you've just told your girlfriend that you love her and she doesn't say it back, it definitely hurts. I broke up with her and we were apart for about three weeks." Santana added.

"Yes, until a friend-"

"A very nosy friend named Quinn Fabray." Santana interjected. Quinn shrugged, smiling.

"Yes, thank you for that. Anyway, a friend approached me and talked me into having a sleepover at her house. I wasn't aware that Santana would be attending and that friend, who shall remain nameless, locked the two of us in her bedroom and refused to let us out until we were at least on speaking terms. We got back together that night after talking everything out. That night we decided to just embrace the fact that we fell in love so quickly." Rachel finished. Quinn nodded. "That's the only time we ever broke up."

"Actually, Rach, that's not true." Santana said.

FLASHBACK

"Rachel, just back off. You don't know what I'm going through right now!"

"Then talk to me, Santana." Rachel pleaded. Santana sighed.

"Columbia is hard, Rachel. That's all it is."

"I just want to be able to spend time with my girlfriend. You're not even making an effort anymore!" Santana rolled her eyes.

"Then maybe you should find a new one if I can't give you what you want." she said, thinking Rachel would ignore her. However, Rachel grabbed her purse and phone.

"You know what, I think I will. We're over, Santana. I'm spending the night at Kurt's apartment." she said, walking out of their loft. Santana stared at the door in shock.

"What?" she whispered, sitting down and crying.

END FLASHBACK

"I forgot about that." Rachel said. Santana shrugged.

"We weren't apart for very long."

"How'd you get back together?" Quinn asked.

FLASHBACK

Rachel walked into the apartment the next night to find Santana curled up on the couch and watching some sad movie. "Why are you watching that?"

"I felt a little better about crying to sad movies." Santana whispered. Rachel nodded and stood awkwardly against the wall. "I didn't think you'd ever come back. I figured you'd have Kurt and Finn come get your stuff out of here."

"I'm sorry for leaving." Rachel whispered. Santana looked up in shock. "Can I sit with you?" The Latina nodded quickly and lifted up the comforter she was sitting under to make room for her girlfriend. "Did you even leave the apartment today?" Rachel asked.

"No. I skipped class and had someone email me the notes." Santana said, biting her lip as Rachel lifted her arm around her small shoulders and snuggled into her. "What does this mean?"

"It means I could never leave you, Santana." Rachel said, reaching up to cup the side of her face and pull her in for a kiss. "Did you brush your teeth? I mean, you're still in your pajamas."

"Yea, I showered last night after you left and then I showered a couple of hours ago. These are different pajamas." Santana said. Rachel nodded and kissed the Latina. "Love you."

"Love you too." Rachel whispered, resting her head on Santana's shoulder.

END FLASHBACK

"That's actually sort of sweet." Quinn said. Santana raised an eyebrow. "Anyway, why'd you decide to name your kids after award shows?"

"Quinn, you're talking to Rachel Berry." Santana said. Quinn laughed.

"That is true." Santana chuckled and kissed Rachel's cheek.

"So I think that went pretty well." Santana said as she and Rachel laid in bed. Rachel smiled up at her wife and nodded. "I really do love you, Rachel."

"I love you too, even though you only began pursuing me to break me and Finn up." Rachel teased. Santana rolled her eyes.

"Shut up. That was like the best thing I could have ever done. You're the best thing in my life. You have been since I was seventeen years old." she said. Rachel smiled softly and kissed her wife.

"You're the best thing in my life too." she whispered as Santana wrapped her arms around the Broadway star. "I love you so much."

"Always, Rachel." Santana promised, kissing her wife's temple as they fell asleep.