18. Baby
"Santana!"
"One minute" Santana yells from the kitchen.
"I need you now San."
"What is it?" Santana asks entering the living room.
"My waters just broke."
"Are you sure? The baby isn't due for another three weeks."
"I'm sure. It looks like our baby is eager to meet us. Will you get the bag?" Rachel asks.
Santana had started to panic as soon as she heard the words waters and broke so she ends up just standing there without attempting to move.
"Santana!"
"What?"
"Will you get the bag? I really think we should get to the hospital" Rachel says.
"Yeah. I'm sorry. I'll get it. Stay there."
Santana runs into their bedroom trying to think where she put the hospital bag. She checks the bottom of the wardrobe and under the bed but she can't find it.
"Rach where is the bag?"
"It's in the wardrobe."
"I've look in the wardrobe."
"It's on the shelf at the top."
Santana walks back over to the wardrobe and instantly finds the hospital bag exactly where Rachel said it was. She grabs the bag quickly and runs back into the living room.
"Okay I got it, let's go. Oh crap we need to get a taxi. Where's my phone?"
"It's on the couch and don't worry I already called one."
"You know you're a little too relaxed for someone whose about to push a baby out of them" Santana says.
"I'm sure in a few more hours I will be a screaming mess like most other women."
"Yes and I'm the one that has to sit through all of that" Santana jokes.
"I really am glad that you're here with me and not Brody."
"I told you that we would get through this together and I meant it. As far as I'm concerned donkey face doesn't exist and that baby is yours and mine."
"Well it looks like our baby is eager to meet his mothers" Rachel says as she feels the pain of a contraction.
"I think that's the taxi. Let's get you to the hospital."
It is two days later by the time the new family returns home. Santana suggests that since the baby was asleep that Rachel should get some sleep too. Rachel had slept for almost two hours before she eventually wakes up.
She goes in search of her girlfriend and finds Santana in the kitchen cooking.
"Hey, I've made us some soup for dinner so you can eat whenever you want."
"You're amazing, thank you."
"How about I run you a bath and then we can eat afterwards?"
"That sounds perfect but I can run my own bath."
"You just had a baby who's going to need you to take care of them. So let me take care of you for a while. So why don't you check on our daughter and I'll run the bath."
"Okay, thank you" Rachel says leaning up and pressing a kiss against Santana's lips.
Santana turns the soup down and heads into the bathroom. She turns on the hot water tap, adds a bit of Rachel's favourite bubble bath and lights the candles that her girlfriend likes to keep in the bathroom.
Once the bath is full, Santana turns off the tap and goes to get Rachel. She finds her girlfriend standing over in the bassinet.
"Hey, your bath's ready."
"Do you want to join me?" Rachel asks.
"I would love to but this is about you relaxing and I want to finish dinner."
"Okay maybe next time."
"Definitely" Santana smirks.
Santana watches Rachel leave the room before turning her attention back to the baby who was now wide awake and looking at her.
"Hey Sofia" Santana coos as she picks up the tiny baby.
She sits herself on the bed, her back resting against the head board. She places Sofia on her chest so the little girl's head is against her heart.
Sofia was gorgeous. She looked exactly like her mother. There wasn't hint of Brody in the little girls face and Santana was hoping that there never would be.
It was just over eight months ago since Santana was lying in bed with Rachel telling her that everything would be okay. The truth was she was scare shitless. She had been, right up until she heard the first cries of the baby in her arms.
She's still not a hundred percent sure she'll be a perfect parent but she knows she'll try to be. Santana would never have imagined that this would be her life, dating Rachel Berry with a new born baby but here she was with said baby cuddling into her chest.
"Te adoro mi pequeñita. A ti y a tu mama. Siempre estare aqui para quererlas y protegerlas a las dos." she whispers before placing a kiss on the baby's head.
Santana had come to New York to find her place in the world and she thinks she might have just found it.
A/N Thank you to Beebeeborez for the translation.
"I love you my little one. You and your mother. I will always be here to love and protect you both."