5/14/13 CH 20
A/N: It's a bittersweet ending for me, I thank you all for carrying me through this year of my life with your support.
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee, I don't own the music I use. All I own is the story. Thanks ! All mistakes are also mine alone !
Enjoy & Thanks for Reading
Taylor
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Scarlett Rae Lopez was born after 6 hours of labor at a bouncing weight of 7 lbs and 3 ounces. She was the spitting image of Santana, including her loud attention getting cry at her displeasure of environment change.
Rachel won the bet when they ended up rushing Brittany into and emergency c-section when the doctor realized the baby was in position, and rear facing but quite stuck, with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. Santana passed out the minute they put Brittany under the anesthesia.
Though it was dramatic and nail biting it was an amazing experience. Rachel smiled over at Quinn as she held the little girl in her arms. Santana and Brittany were cuddled up on the bed together. The nursing staff having since given up asking Santana to get off the bed that it was against hospital policy.
Rachel sat on the sofa between her dads. They were all in the room with the Lopez family, again also against hospital policy but Rachel pulled some strings and they were in the "Presidential Maternity Room" that took up the size of four normal sized rooms. The grand parents were fighting over time for the baby, but Quinn name had been pulled about 13 minutes ago, and so she had 2 more minutes until another name was pulled.
Rachel smiled baby Scarlett was going to be very spoiled if she had her way about things.
"Rachel are you already shopping for Scarlett." Leroy said peering down at her tablet. "You're terrible…oh wait I love that, she has to have that!"
Yup SPOILED
4 months later
They we all back in the same place. Quinn and Rachel were helping talk Santana through give birth naturally. She had gone into labor early and Brittany was stuck in traffic.
"You're doing so good Santana, I'll be there in a few minutes I love you." she said on speaker phone from Quinn's cell phone.
"Oh sure! I'm freaking dying and it's your fault. You're child is the devil." she screamed at the end of her contraction.
Brittany was chuckling. "I love you too sweetheart." you could hear the baby in the background babbling. "It's ok mommy will be ok Scarlett."
Santana calmed slightly. "I'm sorry baby, get here when you can. I love you both."
"We know." Brittany walked into the room. "See I made it." she handed Scarlett to Rachel and took over holding her wives hand. "You're amazing Santana. I love you so much." she whispered. Quinn looked over at Rachel and they shared a smile. Life was pretty amazing.
Everyone was present when Shane Quinn Lopez entered the world at 7 lbs and 11oz. Looking just like Santana as well. Having used Santana's eggs both times , as Brittany's weren't viable which turned out why Santana hadn't been able to get pregnant for so long, and the same sperm donor the babies looked exactly like Santana.
4 months later
Rachel was running around her apartment looking for Scarlett's shoe. Where had the little girl lost it? "You're going to get me in trouble, you Mami is on her way and you know she's going to be mad at me."
"That's because you use things like that as an excuse to buy the kid more stuff." Quinn laughed letting herself into the apartment.
"That isn't true, Fabray." Rachel said from on the ground looking under the sofa for the little pink glittery MaryJane. The baby looked up from her spot on the blanket in the middle of the room and squealed when she saw Quinn. "Someone is happy to see her auntie."
"Hi pumpkin." Quinn pulled Rachel to her feet and kissed her soundly. "How about her other auntie does she miss me too?"
"Always. How was your day?" Rachel said pushing her hair out of her face. Still glancing around the room for the shoe.
"Good, very good. I have the designs finished and ready for final review, we can do that after dinner." Quinn handed Rachel the missing shoe. "It was in the elevator."
"Oh! It must have fallen off when we went down to visit Yarin and Peyton." she smiled up at Quinn. "Thanks you're a life saver."
"So I've cleared my schedule, and I've asked Yarin to clear yours," Quinn smiled. "Could we go away for the weekend?"
"Really? Just the two of us?" Rachel said excited with a grin. "Yes, absolutely yes I would love to go away with you." Rachel snapped out of her happiness, with a frantic look. "I have to pack, where are we going what do I…"
"Rachel just let me take care of everything. I've talked to Kurt and Blaine they're taking care of the clothes. All you need to bring is you and your tooth brush." Quinn promised with a kiss.
"Oh Quinn you're so romantic!" She grinned as the familiar awning of the Biltmore came into view. "Seriously? This is amazing."
She wrapped her arms around Quinn as they were greeted by the concierge Catatrina. "How lovely to see you both again." she led them up to the 18th floor then to 1815. Rachel was vibrating with happiness. "I'll let you be, enjoy your stay." she smiled and left the keys on the table in the foyer.
"Quinn, this is amazing." Rachel whispered looking at the room full of lilac and red roses.
"Well it's out first Valentines together." Quinn shrugged. She pulled the girl onto the sofa and pulled her into her lap. "I wanted it to special."
"You make every day special." Rachel said softly her own emotions getting the best of her. "I love you Quinn, I always have."
Quinn smiled and reached for the champagne and filled two flute glasses. "To enduring friendship and love." she said clicking their glasses.
"I love this, this is the best Valentine's weekend ever." Rachel leaned forward and kissed her. "I hope the remaining ones are half this good."
Quinn smiled and pulled away slightly. "I'd like that too. Rachel I know that we've been together less then a year, and that we've had a tumultuous go at our relationship be it friendship, of frenemies, and more recently our love." She smiled and held Rachel's hands. "I brought you here Kitten, because this is where I first honestly fell in love with you."
"Oh Quinn!" Rachel started to cry, tears of happiness that Quinn was getting her memories back. This was the first time that she had called her Kitten since the accident.
"I've loved you unknowingly for years when we were in school, and I truly fell head over heels on our trip here, Then I lost those memories, and fell in love with you all over again."
"Who gets these type of chances Rachel? Who meets the love of their life at 16? I want to spend the rest of my life with you, to support you in whatever path you choose, to hold you or carry you when you can't do it yourself. I want to have babies, extravagant baby birthday parties, over the top Diva meltdowns, to go gray together over our teenagers learning to drive." she grinned her eyes watering at the thought.
"What I'm trying to say is will you spend every Valentine's day with me for the rest of our lives." Quinn popped open a little black box, that she had hidden in her hand. "Rachel Barbara Berry will you do me the honor of being my wife?"
"Yes, Oh my god yes!" she launched herself into Quinn arms crying hysterically. "Oh Quinn I love you so much! I want babies, Broadway, gray hair, and joint projects…but most of all I want you forever and ever."
"Good thing because I'm not going anywhere." she grinned and slipped the simply elegant square four carat platinum flawless Ashoka ring, with diamonds on the band onto the singers petite ring finger.
"Oh god Quinn it's gorgeous." Rachel looked at the ring with a watery smile. "I love you."
"I'm hopeful that you always will." Quinn pulled her into her arms. "Because now that I have you I'm never letting you go."
11 months later
Opening Night
Rachel looked at her mirror and tears welling up she whispered. "Hello Gorgeous."
There was a tap on the door. "Five minutes to Curtain Ms. Berry." Rachel looked her makeup over one more time smiled at the picture of Quinn, herself that the four members of the Lopez family.
"Rachel?" there was a knock before Brittany popped.
"Hi Britt you ready to take Broadway back?"
"More then anything." She pulled Rachel into her arms. "Thank you so much for letting me be part of this. I love being able to not only teach in the studios, but choreograph and be in this production and any future ones that you will have."
"I couldn't so it without you Brittany, or Santana, but especially Quinn." Rachel took a deep breath and headed to the wings. It had been a long two years, for Rachel.
To leave Broadway, to find love, to start her own theater, and theater production company. To have started her side theater summer school/camp for kids, two building down from the theater. To be opening the theater with her favorite musical of all time.
With everyone that touched her life in the theater tonight. It was a private opening night, but every seat was filled and that made her heart soar, that people who had touched her and helped her get where she was, cared enough to join her in this.
She was 27 years old, and all her high school dreams had come true. She was famous, doing what she loved, and would be marring the person who was fated to be her HEA since birth in four week.
Life was amazing, complicated, challenging, but as long as she had Quinn and Broadway. Everything else was cake.
Taylor's Notes
So what do you think? This is the end. I will do an epilogue update on their wedding day, and babies . But this is the closing to the story. This story took almost a year to come to an end. I want to thank all of you that followed me with every update. I started this story when I was in a very dark place in my life, and I used writing as a cathartic way of pulling myself out.
I'm still not 100 % but damn if I'm not resilient.
Thank you for your support, kind words, and sticking it out.
~Taylor~
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