Hello, so sorry for the delay I have been ridiculously busy lately. I hope that you enjoy chapter 15!

HIsland429- lol i would like to stab him repeatedly with light sabers as well, glad you are enjoying, thanks for your reviews!

lileyfan1415- glad you liked those scenes, there are some more finn and rachel ones in this one but not many.

sfdc- so close indeed!

Callie1121- hmmm maybe, we shall find out!

M- i will try and make them longer, I am planning on making the next one long

alopez208- the next chapter will have interaction between the two families and I will try and add some more of the kids

Cadet- welcome back! glad that you are enjoying the story!

AndyNeko- thanks so much! you will find out...eventually

cm- no writers block, just busy and thanks you too!

Also, holy crap at the last new glee how the hell do they expect us to live until april with that damn cliffhanger!

"Finn sweetie, please stop pacing its not helping anything." Rachel said desperately.

Finn had returned home about five hours ago from his meeting on base with Colonel Montgomery. He had filled Rachel in on everything that was going on with Santana. Montgomery had told Finn to go home and he would call him when he got word on what was going on in Afghanistan. He had started pacing back and forth in the room about an hour ago saying that he should have heard something by now.

"Rach, I should have gotten a call by now, this isn't good!"

"You don't know that Finn, she could be fine and they are just trying to get her medical attention or something." Rachel said in her best attempt at comforting him, though she was worried herself.

Finn's phone which was sitting on his night stand started to vibrate. He bolted to it and picked it up before the second ring had finished.

"Hello!" he said.

"Hudson! I need you to come back in, we have news, good and bad. 15 minutes max Hudson. Tell me you didn't say anything to Mrs. Pierce." Montgomery said and Finn's heart sank, it didn't sound good.

"I didn't. I will be there in ten minutes." he said quietly and hung up the phone. He dashed around the room getting ready.

"Finn?" Rachel asked, he hadn't told her anything that had just happened on the phone.

"He said that he had good and bad news and asked me if I had told Brittany anything, I said that I hadn't and now I have to leave, I will call you the second that I find anything out." Finn said and he rushed from the house.

It took Finn only eight minutes, a new record, to get back to the base. It was 3:30 in the morning, so that may have something to do with it. He quickly made his way up to the conference room where he had been earlier. As he entered everyone looked up, they didn't look happy. Finn swallowed hard and prepared himself for the worst.

"Hudson, have a seat." Montgomery said.

"Yes sir." Finn said sitting down at the table.

"Okay Hudson, our troops got to the location that we showed you earlier and they fought their way through the guards and made it to the cell in the back only to find this." Montgomery said and he turned on the monitor.

The monitor showed a picture, a picture of a picture that made Finn gasp. It showed the cell, the cell that Finn knew all too well. In the cell however is what had caused Finn to gasp. On the cell floor was Santana, her clothes were ripped, she was covered from head to toe in bruises and cuts and blood and mud. She was thinner and paler than Finn had ever seen her, and she had always been skinny. Her eyes were open but looked to be closing half way as if she were falling asleep. Finn had to hold back tears, he had never seen Santana so broken. There was writing on the picture, it read; Catch me if you can.

"Oh god, what is the good news?" Finn said.

"The members of Smith's cell told us that they didn't even know he was leaving and that everyone was accounted for, meaning that he is on his own. They also told us that there were only a handful of places that he could safely go, especially with Officer Lopez. That is good news, we can have people waiting at all of these places and he is alone." Montgomery said.

"How do you know that these people were telling the truth, how do you know that this whole thing isn't just a trap?"

"Because of what else they told us, they were angry that he just left them so they told us that he was planning something. Something big, like the next 9/11 big, and whatever it is he can't do it without Lopez."

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Brittany woke up suddenly, she had been having a nightmare. She reached out to the other side of the bed and felt nothing but the cool sheets and it all came back and the dream made sense. She had dreamt that Santana was being tortured. She had been screaming out her name, but Brittany couldn't do anything to help her. The dream had ended when the man who was doing the torturing had pulled the trigger Brittany had shot up in the bed. She turned and glanced at the clock on her bedside table. The red numbers showed that it was six in the morning her alarm was set to go off in fifteen minutes so she just turned it off and decided to shower and make the kids breakfast. She really hoped that none of them would remember what day it was today because she really didn't want to think about it. It was her birthday, Santana's birthday. Brittany was sure that her parents would call as would Santana's and the glee club and Rachel and Finn, but she really didn't want to talk to any of them.

She took a quick shower and threw on her sweats. The beauty of working as a dance teacher was that she could always were sweats to work and never look like she didn't belong. She ran down the stairs and started to make pancakes and bacon. The breakfast was done by the time all three of her children had dragged their way down the stairs. Brittany could tell by their faces that they all knew what day it was and they were feeling as bad as she was. They ate their breakfast quietly. Mike and Shay offered to drive Tony to school. They each hugged Brittany, a little longer than they normally did in the mornings, and left not much longer after finishing their food.

As Brittany cleared the dishes her phone rang, it was the first of the many calls she would be getting today. She checked her caller ID and it said; Sandra Lopez. Brittany took a deep breath before answering the call.

"Hi Sandra." she said in a smaller voice than she had intended.

"Brittany, how are you sweetie, I called because I know today is going to be hard for you." Sandra said, she sounded better than Brittany but still upset.

"I am okay, its the first time in all the time that I have known Santana that we haven't been together on her birthday." Brittany said, it was true somehow they always seemed to be together for the Latina's birthdays. Santana would either be home or on leave.

"I know I remember how she always refused to have her birthday party on her actual birthday because it was her day with you, I should've known then!" Sandra laughed, Brittany giggled along with her.

Brittany spent almost an hour on the phone with Sandra, she even said hello to Emilio. After that her phone never seemed to stop ringing, she was glad that she had taken the day off. She talked to everyone from the Glee Club, Mr. Schue and Ms. Pillsbury, her parents and then Rachel had called and come over for a little while before the kids got home from school. When the kids got home from school they all just went to their respective rooms, leaving Brittany alone in the living room staring at a picture of her and Santana in high school.

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"Santana! You are awake, I am sure you noticed that we moved." Alex said coming into the room. It was still concrete but it wasn't as dank and musty and it was a little brighter. Their was a nicer mattress in this one too.

"Why did we move?" she asked weakly.

"Oh, there was a little trouble but we are okay now. It has come to my attention that today is your birthday!" Alex said.

"Is it? I had no idea." Santana said, normally this would have been one of her sarcastic comments but she was serious, she had no concept of time or date.

"It is and I have decided to give to give you a gift. I am going to let you call your wife." he said and Santana immediately perked up.

"Are you serious?" she asked nervously, she really hoped that he wasn't pulling her leg.

"I am, it is your birthday and this is my gift to you." he said and he handed her his phone.

Santana took the phone hesitantly and dialed Brittany's number. It took her three rings to pick up, Santana hadn't heard her voice in so long so when she answered it took Santana a moment to respond.

"Hello?" Brittany's voice asked and Santana gasped.

"Brittany." she said quietly, there was a pause on the other end.

"Santana?"