You are the light that peeked through the cracks
The backup on the computer when it crashed
You lift me when it seems I'm fused to below
How do you do it babe?
Will I ever know?
You make me warm
Even surrounded by ice
The flame that burns in your eyes for me
Ignites the gunpowder within
There's so many things I love about you
But where to begin?
Santana's been working hard on new batches and has started to finally make money after she paid Ty back. She figures they'll be able to get out of there in 6 months.
Ty come down to the basement where she's hard at work and clad in safety glasses.
"Yo chica. I got some good news for you." He says.
"What's that?" Santana says as she's tinkering with chemicals.
"My cousin works on a government weed farm in Santa Barbra and she said it's cool if y'all live there you just gotta pay your way and work in the fields."
Santana is speechless and she drops what she's doing and jumps up on Ty wrapping her legs around him and kisses his cheek.
"You're the shit Ty!"
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Brittany and Quinn refuse to turn tricks for Artie anymore. Both of them actually got a job at a dollar store and are trying to get their lives on track but he doesn't like that.
He confronts them in the dressing rooms of the strip club and waves over two huge men.
"I own you bitches. Now this is what happens when a ho doesn't listen."
He snaps his finger and the two men start punching and kicking the girls as they scream out for help. But no ones coming.
After their beat down they run home and tell Santana who was already working on getting dirt on Artie from the time she found out they started tricking for him.
Turns out he's fixing the books of the club and hasn't paid the taxes for about 15 years.
Santana barges into his office with a stack of papers. He looks at her confused so she decides to explain.
"Those are the tax forms you haven't filed for 15 years. I suggest you let Brittany and Quinn go on their way or shit will go down. You know not to fuck with me Artie. You saw what happened to your friend Finn."
He puts his hands up in surrender. "Ok, ok. Deal. Are you sure you don't want your job back?"
"Fuck off." She yells before slamming his face into his desk and leaving.
She goes home and attends to the two blonde's wounds. They're not too bad, just some cuts and bruises but the girls feel heavenly finally free from Artie.
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It's a normal day and everyone in the house is crowded in the living room getting high and watching movies.
There's a knock at the door and Santana pulls her gun out to answer it. She looks through the peephole and nothing's there so she opens the door. When she sees is she gasps.
Right at her feet is a baby in a box with two pieces of paper and she gets flashbacks to when she found Santi like that.
The baby looks familiar and it hits San that this is the little girl she cradled at the crack house.
"What the fuck does it say drop babies at my doorstep on my forehead?"
The birth certificate of the child is blank except for a first and middle name and birth date. Sofia Rose born December 30th 2016. Santana finds it funny that this little girl shares her birthday.
Santana does the calculations in her head and since it's the beginning of August that makes Sofia 7 months old.
She reads the other piece of paper that was in the box and realizes it's a letter.
I saw how you were with her that night when you calmed her down and I just knew you could give her a better life than I ever could. Please take care of her. I know you will. You can give her the love I was never capable of giving.
Santana's so lost at staring at the baby in her arms that she doesn't notice Sam reaching for the phone to call 911.
"Let me call and report this." Sam says.
"No! I refuse to let this baby suffer going through the system."
"So what are you gonna do?" Sam asks baffled.
Quinn answers for her. "She's going to keep her. Sign the birth certificate San. Make her a Lopez."
Sofia opens her eyes and smiles up at Santana and her light blue eyes light up the whole house and her curly black hair shines softly.
Brittany looks at her completely enamored girlfriend and promises to love Sofia just as much
Santana tickles Sofia's chin. "Well I'm Santana little girl. And this is Brittany. Over there is Quinn and the rest you'll get to meet eventually. Let's get you some formula huh Sof?"
Santana and Brittany go to the store to get diapers and baby supplies. They get a stroller too and wheel the baby down the street. Brittany notices how her blue eyes, dark hair and olive skin make Sofia look like the perfect mix of her and San.
"I promise I will do whatever I can to take care of you Sofia. I want her to be ours. I want to be on the birth certificate."
"Are you sure Sweets? That's a lot to take on."
"Id take on the whole world with you."
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Santi is leaving for college in Santa Barbra, California. He's kind of frightened. Or more like terrified.
Santana saved for his plane ticket so he could go to the college he got a baseball scholarship from.
Everyone's so proud of him the college even offered to pay for room and board and a meal plan because he's such a good first basemen.
He shoulders his duffle bag and bends over to tickle Sofia's cheek.
"Say goodbye to your Tio, Sof."
The baby coos and giggles and Santos starts to tear up.
"I'm gonna miss you little one. And I'm gonna miss everyone here. I'm just a little scared." Santi admits.
"We'll be out there to join you in about 6 months I just have to officially adopt Sofia and make a bit more money and we will be right there beside you. Besides, Lopez's aren't scared of anything." Santana smiles at him.
Santana puts Sof in Brittany's arms and gives her a kiss goodbye.
"I'm gonna miss you little one." She says.
"You're such a hot milf." Brittany exclaims while smiling hugely.
"So are you."
"I love you baby, please be careful. And Santi behave yourself!" Brittany warns playfully.
The siblings leave and about 20 minutes later they pull up to the airport.
They both get out and immediately hug each other with tears sitting in their eyes.
"Make me proud ok? God I'm gonna miss you so much Ti. I love you be safe."
"I love you too Tana. Kiss Sofia for me. You're an awesome Mom by the way."
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Santana, Brittany and Quinn lay on Britt's bed playing with the baby.
Out of nowhere Quinn starts crying and thinking about the baby she lost.
"I'm just so happy she came into our lives. I'm gonna be the best aunt ever." Quinn explains.
"Well you better because you're her god mother, her Madrina." Santana reveals as the tickles Sofia's tiny feet.
Quinn smiles knowing how much that means to Santana to entrust her with the little bundle of joy.
Brittany turns to her girlfriend, "I didn't know you were religious."
"When I was younger I would go to this church after a beating or after school, it was the only place I felt safe. The nuns would clean me up and feed me. So I do believe in god. But I'm not active in the church. And being her Madrina means so much more than godmother. It's another parent in a way who will always be there for Sof and I know Q loves her just as much as us."
"Plus you get to explain to her how the hell we got her." Brittany laughs.
After a while they all fall asleep in a circle around the bed with their new beacon of hope sleeping soundly in the middle.
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It's Halloween and it just so happens to be the same day the adoption has gone through.
Santana cried for hours and Brittany laughed at her and told her Sofia was making her go soft.
Sofia's dressed up as a cute little elephant costume that Brittany made herself. And at ten months now, Sofia's a crawling elephant and it drives Santana crazy.
Q joins them along with Puck who's there incase anyone tries to fuck with them while trick or treating. This is the Bad Lands after all.
Sofia's starting to make noises and laugh more too and her blue eyes light up just like Brittany's do. Santana loves it.
Later that night as Santana's putting her in the bassinet Puck made he with wood he got from his new construction job and she stares at this wonderful little life cradled in comfort.
Brittany stands unnoticed in the doorway as Santana begins to speak.
She runs her finger over the baby's forehead. "I love you so much already and I swear I'm gonna do everything I can to protect you from this world amor. I want to give you the life I could have never dreamed of having."
Brittany walks away wiping a happy tear out of her eye. The action seems foreign but she likes it.
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Santana has saved enough for Cali but that means she needs to get clean. There's only black tar heroin out there and she doesn't want to shoot or smoke dope. Puck, Quinn, and Brittany join in the mission of detoxing.
The others refuse and since they all shoot it won't be hard for them to use the tar dope in Cali.
Santana mostly wants a fresh start.
The four decide to go two at a time so someone can watch Sof while the others are sick for about a week.
Santana and Puck go first. Quinn's gotten back together with him after she realized Mateo was just a fling and she loves Puck.
The pain is horrible. Brittany holds Santana as she screams and wreathes on the mattress they put in the basement so Sof didn't see her Mami like that.
"It's ok baby. Take these Xanax they should help relax your muscles." Brittany hands them over. "How about a bath huh?"
The brunette nods and Brittany carries her up the two flights of stairs and sits her on the toilet while she runs that bath.
She undresses Santana and helps her get in the tub before the blonde slips I behind her and holds her close.
She massages her arms and legs because Brittany knows they hurt the worst right now. Along with stomach cramps and all around shittyness.
In the hot water Santana almost feels normal. Her skin isn't crawling and her legs aren't restless. It doesn't last long though.
She's surrounded by heroin and that's what her body needs.
"Just one line B please."
"No san you know it will just start the process over. Today is the worst day I promise you'll start feeling better tomorrow babe."
The throwing up the constant diarrhea, muscle cramps. Crawling skin. Withdraw sucks.
The rest of them go through it and within a week they feel almost 100 percent.
But the craving to get high will never go away.
They collectively decided weed and alcohol were ok because they don't make you dope sick.
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Sofia turns 1 today and Santana turns 25. The baby is almost walking by now and she's all wobbly and cute.
Santana walks back in the room and she hears something that could be compared to music in her ears.
"Mami." Sof yells.
Santana bursts into tears and scoops Sofia up into her arms.
"You are so amazing mija."
Brittany walks over and another beautiful thing happens.
"Mama." Sof giggles.
They hop up and down and laugh, so proud of their daughter and so happy to have her.
Then San spots Sam about to shoot up on the couch.
"Hey don't fuckin do that shit in front of my kid!"
He huffs and goes into his room knowing she's right.
They sing the two Lopez girls happy birthday and all is right in the world for once. And it might just stay that way for a while.
Sofia sits in her high chair and devours the cupcake they made for her and in the process she gets it all over her moms.
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This is it. Everyone is waiting on the platform for the plane to board to California. There's an anxious feeling settling over all 9 of the house members, half excitement, half terror of the unknown.
"Boarding flight 2748 to Santa Barbra."
*Hope you enjoyed all the craziness in this chapter. What do you think about the baby and all of them getting clean? Will it last forever though?