"Are you sure you're okay? I mean…we can leave if you want." Santana puts a protective arm over Rachel's shoulder as they move through the club.
When Santana told Rachel about going to the club tonight, and how Mack's wanted her to come, she didn't even complain. Rachel agreed right away. Clubs have never been Rachel's thing. Sure since they've known each other Rachel has attended some clubs with them, but clubbing is never something Rachel would suggest they do.
"Santana, I'm fine." Rachel says turning in Santana arms. "Let's dance."
They had initially been walking around the club looking for their friends. Mike, Tina, Puck and Quinn had wondered off as soon as they got into the club. They always have a buddy rule when they go to parties and clubs. You either stay with the group of one other person from the group. No wondering off by yourself or going home with strangers.
"Hey ladies!" Quinn comes up from behind and pushes into Rachel from behind. Puck is right behind her and moves to dance behind Santana. Tina, Mike, Mack and some random girl shows up dancing together next to them five minutes later.
"Rachel!" Mack grins over at Rachel. The girl Mack was dancing with leaves once Mack gets done whispering something into her ear. Mack licks her lips then dance her way in between Rachel and Quinn. Her back is pressed to Quinn's front and she grabs Rachel hips in front of her.
"Hi Mackenzie," Rachel smiles at her. Mack eyes go wide.
"Did she just call me Mackenzie?" She says looking over Rachel's shoulder at Santana. Santana roll her eyes but nod anyway. "Babe please just calls me Mack." Rachel hesitantly nods and continues to let Mack pull her into her.
The rest of the night is full with the group of friends, plus Mack and her roommate Toni dancing and doing shots with each other. Quinn is the DD this time for their friends and Toni's boyfriend came to pick up Toni and Mack.
Santana spends the next day in bed until an hour before she has to be at work. She had a nice hangover going for her that she got to sleep away until work at four. Rachel's not a big drinker so she was able to get up and do whatever she was going to do on her day off.
Santana is in Rachel's room pulling on her a t-shirt she left over a couple of nights ago when Rachel comes back into the room.
"How you feeling?" Rachel sits on the bed. Santana is standing in front the full length mirror messing with her hair.
"I'm good." She smiles. "I wish I didn't have to go to work though. It would be nice to laze around with you all day."
"Santana we both know that you're the only one that does the lazing." Rachel teases while coming up behind Santana, putting her hands around her waist, placing a kiss on the back of her exposed neck.
"Did you have fun last night?" Santana watches for Rachel's reaction in the mirror.
"Yeah. I had a great time." Rachel smiles. "Mack is nice."
"I told you. She's a wild child."Santana says eyeing the clock on the night stand. "Shit, I have to go." She turns around in Rachel's arms in they share a quick kiss. "I'll call you on my break."
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The last two months Santana has spent learning how to balance work and school, and still being able to squeeze in time to hang out with Rachel and her friends. She spends most of her nights with Rachel. Especially since three weeks ago they started having sex. They still haven't given each other the title of girlfriends. It's stupid because they act like a couple anyway. Rachel might not say it but Santana knows that Rachel sees her as her girlfriend anyway. Rachel doesn't just have sex with people. She has to be fully committed to that person. And she is committed to Santana even though Santana hasn't stated that she feels that same way. Yeah her actions show that she's into Rachel but still. Rachel would rather have Santana tell her that she feels the same way. But Santana is just not ready for that. She doesn't like the idea of being tied to just one person.
That's why when they are out at the clubs, school or even just the dining hall, she ignores the jealous look Rachel gets when other people flirt with her. Like right now they are at a house party and she's dancing with some random girl. Yeah, she let the girl grope her ass a little but she doesn't plan on going home with her or anything. But anyway…Rachel is standing across the room talk to Mack and glancing at Santana every few minutes. Rachel usually is not the jealous type. Mack and Rachel share the same kind of confidence Santana is attracted to. Rachel will cut up lose before she change anything about herself to make another person happy. Santana watches Rachel frown when the girl whispers in her ear. Santana tell the girl she came with someone before walking away.
She doesn't walk over to Rachel though. Santana finds herself going to get another beer and wondering where Quinn is. Last time she checked Mack was her assigned buddy. But Mack is standing with Rachel in the other room, Quinn nowhere in sight.
"Where's, Q?" Santana directs towards Mack when she get back to the girls.
"I don't know…" Mack shrugs.
"What do you mean you don't know?" Santana feels her heart beats speed up. The whole fucking point of their buddy system is so none of them get hurt or go missing. You're suppose to know where your buddy is all the time.
"I mean she told me she would be back and then wondered off with some guy. I assume they are hooking up. Calm down." Mack says.
"Quinn doesn't just hook up." Santana sighs. "How long has she been gone?"
"About ten minutes. I think…"Santana glare at Mack.
A Mack word doesn't make her feel any better. Quinn is like a sister to her. Just the thought of something happening to her is making her panic. She can't lose another person she cares about. Her mom gone is still something she has to fight through every day.
"Oh you think? That's fucking great Mack!" Santana shrugs Rachel hand off her shoulder. "Help me find Quinn." She demands before walking away.
Ten minutes later she finds Quinn in the back yard with some guy pushed against her. Quinn is clearly drunk and not really into the kiss the guy is forcing on her. Santana feel her whole body start to shake with anger.
"Get the fuck away from her, now!" Santana says shoving the guy. He stumbles.
"What's your fucking problem?" She steps towards her once he regains his footing.
"Come on, Quinn." Ignoring the drunken asshole Santana grabs her friend's hand. The guy that was forcing himself on her friend makes a move to grab her but Puck comes out of nowhere and shoves him.
"Don't think about it dude." Santana was too concerned about Quinn to notice all her friends that came to the party had found her.
"Let's go." Santana hear Rachel say before the girl steps next to her, helping Quinn walk around the house to the Pucks truck.
Puck is the DD. He picks Quinn up and put her in the car besides a seething Santana and a quiet Rachel. Mack is in the last row of seats in the truck and Pucks date is in the passenger seat. The car ride is quiet as they make their way to Puck and Rachel's apartment.
Puck carries Quinn to his room and asks the girls if they need anything before leaving with his date.
"I'm going to check on, Quinn." Rachel comes out of the kitchen with a bucket and a glass of water. Santana watches her walk down the hallway before turning her glare onto Mack.
"I'm sorry, Santana. I didn't think anything of it."
"If something would have happened to her, I would have fucking killed you."
"I know." Mack looks like she's going to be sick.
"I don't know how you do shit, but I look out for my friends! That guy could have hurt her!" Santana says advancing on Mack.
"Fuck I know!" Mack screams. "She's my fucking friend too!" Mack doesn't back down from Santana. She knows Santana's just scared. She won't actually hit her.
"You are a lousy friend then. You…"
"Santana." Rachel voice cuts throw the air. "Calm down."
"Don't tell me what to do." Santana doesn't move her eyes away from Mack's.
"Mack…you can take my bed." Rachel says stepping out from between the hallway and the living room.
"Maybe I should just go home."
"Maybe you should!" Santana yells.
"Santana stop yelling at her." Rachel says sternly. "Mack go sleep in my bed." Mack nods and starts to leave the room, avoiding eye contact with Santana.
"How's Quinn?" She asks when she's standing next to Rachel.
"She'll be fine." Rachel squeezes Mack shoulder. "It's okay. Don't worry." She nods her had in Santana's direction.
Rachel starts to get the pullout couch ready once Mack leaves the room. Santana is still standing by the apartment do breathing hard.
"I'll go get you something to sleep in."
Three minutes later when Rachel returns Santana is sitting on the end of the pullout bed in nothing but her bra and panties. Rachel throws her gym shorts and t-shit at her.
Santana silently dresses and gets into the pullout bed. She makes sure to keep some distance between herself and Rachel. She's sorry that she snapped at the girl but she's in no mood to talk right now.
When she wakes up a quarter passed eleven, Rachel is fully clothed sitting at the end of the bed having breakfast. She looks over and Quinn is sitting in the lazy boy chair with sunglasses on and a piece of toast in hand.
She says nothing to both of them as she gets up to use the bathroom. On her way back to the living room she stops by Rachel's room to see the bed made and Mack nowhere to be seen.
"Mack left?" She says once she's back in the living room.
"Good morning to you too." Rachel says. Santana just stare at her. "She left about an hour ago."
"I hope you feel like shit this morning, Fabray." She says looking over at Quinn.
"Sorry, San." Quinn says quietly.
"Don't do that to me again." Quinn nods and that's the end of that conversation. Quinn knows how Santana has been on edge about everything lately. She's afraid to lose anyone else. She's been giving extra long speeches before they all go to parties or clubs. Remind Quinn that it's not safe to walk around campus at night by alone. Santana just wants everyone to be safe.
Santana follows Rachel into the kitchen when she goes to put her plate in the sink.
"You save me some?" She asks standing next to Rachel at the sink.
"Your plates in the microwave." Rachel says and tries to turn in leave but Santana grabs her arm.
"I want apologize for snapping at you last night." Santana starts. "I was just worked up about, Quinn. I'm sorry."
"I know." Rachel says then steps back. Santana leans down to kiss her but Rachel turns her head and the kiss lands on her cheek. "I have to go meet Tina. I'll talk to you later."
Santana watches her go with a confused face. Rachel is usually very affectionate. Always wanting to touch and she's usually wants to talk about stuff like what happened last night. But this morning she just brushes Santana off.
Later when she's freshly showed and had some time to think, she shows up at Mack's door.
"Are you going to go all angry drunk on me?" Mack says only opening her apartment door enough to peek her head out. Santana smiles.
"I'm sorry." She says. "I was just scared. I would have chewed Quinn out too if it had been you instead of her. I love you both."
"Awww...do you need a hug?" Mack says opening the door.
"Shut up." Santana pushes her way into the apartment.
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A week has gone by since they all made up. Everything has gone back to normal for the most part. Except her and Rachel. Something's different. She figures its nothing serious because Rachel would have said something to her about it. Santana doesn't plan on bring it up unless Rachel does first.
"Oh goodness you are amazing..." Santana breathes out as Rachel slides her naked body back up hers.
Right now they are in her dorm room. Quinn is out with Mike and Tina and is staying the night at Tina's so it's the perfect time for them to be completely alone.
"That good, huh?" Rachel says with a grin on her face.
"Always." Santana pulls Rachel in for a kiss.
"What are you doing?" Santana asks ten minutes later when Rachel gets out of bed and starts putting her clothes on.
"It's getting late. I'm about to start heading home." Santana's confused. She assumed Rachel would stay with her tonight.
"But Quinn's staying at T's. You can stay." Rachel continues to get dressed.
"Not tonight." Santana lets out a frustrated groan. Rachel's been saying 'not tonight' or 'not right now' for the past week. Every time she tries to do something with the other girl, Rachel ends up blowing her off.
"I thought you took your last final earlier today?" Rachel gives her a confused look. Most of Rachel's excuse revolved around school. Either she had a paper to write or a final to study for. But today was the last day of finals.
"I did."
"Okay…so you have no reason not to stay."
"I think the fact that I just don't want to stay is reason enough." Santana's shocked. Rachel sounds pretty upset. She doesn't remember doing anything in the last ten minutes to be getting this kind of tone from the other girl.
"Okay…what's wrong?" Santana says leaning over the bed to grab her shirt. "What did I do?" She says slipping into the shirt.
"Does it even matter?" Rachel sighs and grabs her purse on her way to the door. "It's not like you care." Rachel walks out. Santana opens the door to follow but then remembers she doesn't have on any clothes.
"Fuck."
TBC