Hi all, I know I am terrible! I have no excuses except overwhelming senior year and college applications! I really do apologize for the wait and hope that you enjoy the following chapter. I will try really hard to get another chapter up sooner!

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Brittany smiled to herself as she left the school, she had been told within minutes of finishing her audition that she received the job as their new dance teacher. She was now walking down the street to pick up Kyle, whose school was very close. She couldn't wait to get home to tell Santana, she was now going to get to dance everyday and get paid for it. She reached Kyle's preschool within ten minutes.

"Hello Ms. Pierce, let me go grab Kyle for you." the receptionist of the high end preschool, Linda, said.

"Thanks Linda." Brittany said with a smile. It made her very happy that she was now able to pick him up from school. Santana had contacted the school to let them know that Brittany was able to take Kyle home.

"Momma!" Kyle squealed excitedly as he came into the room with Linda.

"Hey buddy, ready to go home?" Brittany asked picking him up in a hug.

"Yup!" he smiled as Brittany set him down, though kept a firm hold on his hand.

"So do you want to walk home today or take a cab?" Brittany asked, hoping that the boy wouldn't want to walk today.

"Ummm lets take a cab." he said and Brittany smiled, that way she could get home faster to tell Santana her good news.

"Cab it is." she said and hailed one quickly.

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Santana was sitting in her office staring at her computer. She was meant to be working on her latest novel but she was entirely too distracted. All day she had been thinking about Brittany and her audition. She knew that Brittany was a phenomenal dancer, but still she had been worried all day long. Glancing at the clock for the fifth time in the past hour she noticed that Brittany and Kyle should be home any minute now.

The clock wasn't the only thing that Santana had been shooting glances at lately, she had also found herself staring at the top drawer of her desk. Sitting safely in the locked drawer was a small black box with a beautiful diamond ring nestled inside. She and Mercedes had found it this morning, Santana had known instantly that it was the perfect one. Just as she was about to pull it out and admire it once again she heard the door to the apartment open and little feet running towards the direction of her office.

"Mami!" Kyle yelled as he burst into her office a minute later.

"Hola mijo!" she said standing up and giving her son a hug. "Donde esta tu Momma?"

"Kitchen!" he said happily taking her hand and led her down the hallway to their large kitchen.

Brittany was standing in front of the fridge with her back to them, Kyle let go of Santana's hand and ran to the living room to watch TV. Santana stood staring at her girlfriend for a moment before clearing her throat to let Brittany know that she was now in the room. Brittany turned around slowly, with an unreadable expression on her face.

"How did it go?" Santana asked anxiously.

"They loved me! I start next week!" Brittany said excitedly, and Santana's face broke into a large grin as she surged forward to kiss her girlfriend.

"I knew you would get it! I told you babe!" Santana said as she pulled away. "This calls for a celebration! Let's go out for dinner, come on my treat."

"Of course, where to?" Brittany smiled as she played with Santana's hand.

"Wherever you want, this is your night Britt." she said with a smile.

"Hmmm, lets go to the usual place, I love the patio there so much." Brittany replied.

"Sure thing, I'll go change. Why don't you make sure Kyle is ready." Santana said and walked into their bedroom.

She was having an internal debate while she picked out her outfit for dinner. She didn't know whether or not to bring the ring. Was tonight the right night? Did she want to do it with people around? With Kyle there? No, she thought, not tonight. She would wait a little while longer, she wanted to make it as special as she possibly could. So she quickly picked out an appropriate outfit and fixed her hair and makeup and replaced her glasses with her contacts. Once she was satisfied with her appearance she walked back into the living room where she saw her son and girlfriend engaged in a very heated discussion about the best episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.

"Well I agree with Kyle, the episode when SpongeBob has to work at the Chum Bucket is much better than the episode with the fry cook games." Santana said.

"You are just saying that." Brittany said and stuck her tongue out at Santana.

"Nope, that was always my favorite, ever since we were kids." she replied honestly. "Why do you think its Kyle's favorite?"

"Fine, I lose, I get it." Brittany said in defeat.

"HAHA! I win!" Kyle said loudly and wore a signature Lopez smirk.

"Fine, fine you win, I guess that means I will have to buy you ice cream after dinner." Brittany said.

"Yes!" Kyle said excitedly.

"Now, lets get going please." Santana said.

Brittany and Kyle followed her to the front door, quietly talking about how Santana was being a bossy pants. Santana couldn't help but giggle at this, it was adorable to watch Brittany interact with her, their, son. Santana thought that it was about time that she made Brittany one of Kyle's legal guardians. She would ask her tonight, Santana thought. They pulled out of the fancy apartment complex in Santana's cherry red BMW convertible and made their way to their usual restaurant.

They arrived about ten minutes later and were taken to their usual table in the back part of the outdoor patio. Kyle sat in the chair on the end of the table on the left and Brittany and Santana took a seat on either side of him. The waiter set down their menus and took their drink orders quickly before leaving them in peace. They were quiet for a few minutes while the two adults looked over their menus and Kyle colored furiously on his kids menu.

"What are you gonna get babe?" Santana asked as she set her menu down in front of her.

"Chicken Caesar Salad. You?" she asked.

"New York Strip and French Fries." Santana smiled, she loved the steak here and always had to have french fries with it.

"Of course," Brittany smiled "What about you Little Man?"

"Chicken Nuggets and French Fries, duh Momma!" Kyle said.

"Why did I even ask." Brittany said shaking her head, the boy couldn't get enough chicken nuggets, or french fries for that matter, just like Santana.

A few minutes later they placed their orders. They talked mostly about nothing and Kyle continued to color away. After a few minutes of coloring Kyle stopped suddenly, looked up and asked a question that made both women freeze.

"Momma, how come you are here now, I thought Mami said I was never gonna be able to meet you." he said.

"Well I didn't think I was going to be able to move to New York." Brittany said after a minute of silence.

"Where did you used to live?" Kyle continued his questions.

"Colorado and then California." she said in almost a whisper.

"Which one first?"

"Colorado."

"Why'd you leave?" Kyle asked.

Shit! What do I say now, I can't tell him the truth, San! Help! Brittany thought, but Santana was no help she looked like she was in shock. Now she found herself thinking back to what really made her leave Colorado.

Brittany was walking down the streets of Colorado on the way back to the house that she shared with Grant and Katherine, her "parents". It was about half past five in the evening, and it was freezing cold. Brittany had never minded the cold weather and that is why she didn't object when the people from Witness Protection suggested Denver as a place to relocate her to.

She also enjoyed walking in this weather, many people found it odd but Brittany loved it. It gave her time to think and she loved that she could see her breath when she breathed. She was almost back to her house when she saw someone who looked just like Santana. She did a double take, but the woman was not her Santana. Now Brittany was thinking of her girlfriend, if she could still call her that.

Brittany tried not to think of Santana a lot but failed miserably. She found herself thinking of her at least once a day, and she usually ended up getting very depressed after. All she wanted was for Santana to know that she was alive and safe. She hated the idea of the love of her life thinking that she was dead. She knew Santana better than anyone else and she knew that her "death" was not something that the latina would get over in a short amount of time at all.

Brittany thought of how Santana must have felt at her funeral. She would have sat with her parents, Brittany's parents and brother. She wondered how she felt in school without Brittany, what the Glee Club did to help her, because they were probably the only ones who would know how. Brittany wished more than anything that she could just go back and find Santana, kiss her, hold her one more time. That was not possible though and Brittany told herself to get Santana out of her mind because she was turning onto her street now and didn't want Katherine and Grant to know that she was upset. She turned into the driveway of her house and heard a mans voice.

"Brittany!" they called, Brittany froze in her tracks. No one in Colorado knew her by that name.

She turned around and felt a chill in her body that had nothing to do with the freezing cold weather of Denver in January. It was Dan, he was here for her, he had found her somehow. She knew that there was nothing that she could do, she was stuck. Dan raised his gun and fired, Brittany felt the bullet pierce her collarbone area and she fell into the snow. Dan quickly scurried away and Brittany heard Grant and Katherine sprinting towards her. She felt the black taking over and her last coherent thought was of Santana.

"I didn't like the cold." Brittany told the boy as their food arrived.

Santana stared off into space then remembering the first day that she went back to school after Brittany had "died".

"I can't Mami." Santana told her mother as she sat on her bed, she was supposed to be going back to school today. She had been absent for week and a half.

"Yes you can mija. Britt wouldn't want you sitting around at home being sad! She hated when you were sad, she is probably sad watching you right now." her mother said, she too was missing the vivacious blonde.

"Mami, please don't make me go." Santana pleaded, tears forming in her brown eyes.

"You have to baby." her mother said.

After much persuasion and the promise that she would pick her up if it got to be too much, Lucy got Santana to agree to go to school. She dropped her off and waited to see her walk into the school. Lucy also noticed that everyone in the parking lot stared at her as she walked into the main hallway, most of the looks were sympathetic and a few others were confused since she wasn't wearing her Cheerios uniform.

Santana walked to her locker and felt the eyes of everyone in the hallway following her. She felt a lump in her throat as she opened the door to her locker and saw a picture of herself and Brittany sitting together. She quickly grabbed her books and shoved them in her bag. She ignored the calls of people and walked straight into Sue's office.

"I am quitting the Cheerios, here is my uniform." she said in a monotone voice as she set a bag down on Sue's desk.

"Santana!" Sue said, her voice sad.

Santana didn't turn around she just walked out and towards Mr. Schue's office. She found him in there on his computer. He looked up and smiled sadly as she entered the office.

"Hi Santana." he said.

"Hi." she said. "Can I sit?"

"Of course, do you want to talk?" he asked kindly.

"I think I want to quit Glee." she said in a voice barely above a whisper. She really did love the club and everyone in it, it just brought way too many memories along with it.

"Santana, I can't let you do that. I get where you are coming from, but I don't think that it would be a good idea, I think that being in Glee with your friends will be good for you. Please try for a few weeks and if it still makes you feel uncomfortable then I will allow you to quit but I don't think it is wise." he answered and the bell rang. "Now come on its time for first period, which as you know is Glee today."

She walked into the choir room a few minutes after he did and was met with many teary hugs and kisses on the cheek. In that moment she knew that Mr. Schue had been right, she did need this. She needed the support of her friends, her family.

"That food was really yummy Mami!" Kyle said, snapping Santana out of her memories.

"I agree, glad that you liked it mijo." she said trying to sound cheerful and not depressed like she was now feeling. She looked over and saw Brittany looking at her with concern in her eyes, Santana shot her a genuine smile and got one back in return. Though she had been depressed in her memory, she was happy now. Brittany was here with her and everything was right again.

They paid there bill and left the restaurant to go to the ice cream shop that was right next door. They bought their ice cream and sat down and watched as Kyle put toppings on his, they were close enough to see him but far enough away that they couldn't tell that he was speaking to the man next to him. The man left and Kyle finished putting crushed oreos on his ice cream before returning to the table.

"Momma! That man said he knew you! He said to tell you he said hi, he was Dan from Colorado." Kyle said happily and began to eat his ice cream while Brittany dropped hers on the table and her eyes widened in fear.