Last part in this lovely three-shot journey :) Hope this chapter pleases you and thank you all for the follows, reviews and favorites! It started out as an idea while cooking breakfast and ended up like this. So thank you all very much :)
Sorry for the long wait, but here it is! Read away.
xo, Emily
Santana fixed her dress slightly and looked around. It was a beautiful day out. It was perfect really. Today was the most important day in her life and she wasn't nervous at all. Just over two years ago she had been in a church about to marry Maria and she had been nervous as heck, but here she was; on a beach in Fiji, about to marry the love of her life and she couldn't be happier. She wasn't nervous at all because she knew it was right. Who cared that they'd only been together for 2 years? They were meant to be and everyone knew it. Neither of them had really proposed to the other, they had just agreed that it was the right time and together they had gone to the store and bought rings for each other. Normally you'd ask the bride's parents for their blessing, but the only person Quinn and Santana wanted to ask was Maria and she had instantly given them her blessing. It might seem weird that they'd ask Maria, but Quinn felt that it was the right thing to do. It proved that Santana really was ready to start a new part of her life without being attached to anyone else in any way.
So here they were, at a beach in Fiji, just the two of them, a witness from the hotel and the judge who was performing the ceremony. It was just what Santana had wanted all along. It wasn't some massive church with hoards of people she didn't know or care about. She didn't care if her mother wasn't there to cry, or her uncles to drink an excess amount of alcohol and hit on the much younger bridesmates. She didn't want to be with anyone than Quinn. And soon she would be. They had agreed that neither of them would walk down an imaginative aisle, because they were equals in the relationship, so they were just gonna meet up by the flower arch. Santana was finished first, which is why she was currently waiting for Quinn. She looked out at the ocean and smiled. She caught something in the corner of her eye and turned to see Quinn walking towards her. Her bouquet of pink flowers were in one hand and she slightly waved at Santana with the other. It wasn't a regular 'move your hand from side to side' wave, it was Quinn's adorable 'move your fingers up and down wave'. They were both barefoot with simple, white dresses on and pink flower bouquets. They also each had one pink flower behind their ear and all of their hair was pulled over one shoulder. Santana couldn't help but notice how incredibly elegant Quinn was and how effortlessly she moved through the sand.
"Hi."
Quinn bit her lower lip slightly and then smiled brightly at her soon-to-be wife.
"Hey gorgeous."
Santana replied, matching Quinn's bright smile.
"You ready for this?"
Santana nodded.
"I am, but I just need to do one thing first."
Santana leaned in and gently kissed Quinn, just because she could. When she pulled back she noticed that Quinn was blushing slightly, and it was utterly adorable.
"I love you."
Quinn giggled and took her hand as she turned towards the judge.
"I love you too, Santana."
The older man smiled at the two.
"Let's begin."
He said what he needed to say before the girls could say their vows. They had each written their own vows and the other had no idea what they had written. Santana was first out.
"Lucy Quinn Fabray. I've known you for over half my life and all those years with you have been the best of my life. We've been through a lot; we went from being best friends to enemies in just a matter of months. After high school we lost contact and only saw each other whenever we'd randomly run into each other, and considering the fact that we lived on different coasts that wasn't very often. When you came into my life again I finally felt complete. I know that this is where I want to be. And it's where I need to be. I don't believe in God, and neither do you anymore, but I pray to some higher power every day that you came to that church that day. That you stopped me from making the biggest mistake of my life. I'll forever be yours, Quinn, I promise you that. I'll be by your side through everything. I'm the luckiest person in the world because I get to wake up next to you every day and I will be forever grateful for that. Quinn; I think you're the most beautiful person I have ever met, inside and out, and I'm so honored that you chose me. Thank you for choosing me, thank you for making me so happy. I love you."
Santana knew her vows by heart and she got to watch Quinn's reaction the whole time. They were both crying and Santana raised a hand to Quinn's cheek and gently wiped away the tears with her thumb. Quinn smiled slightly and leaned into the touch. Santana took a ring out of her cleavage and gently slipped it onto Quinn's ring finger.
"Quinn, it's your turn."
Quinn nodded and took a deep, shaky breath.
"Santana Lopez, I honestly don't think anyone would have thought that I'd be saying that name in my wedding vows 10 years ago. I'm really glad that I am though. I admire you a lot, I always have. You have never been afraid to speak your mind and do what you want. I've known that I was gay for a very long time, but I was so scared of coming out, while you were basically thrown out of the closet and you still landed on two feet. You're gorgeous and confident and adorable in every way, and I love the way you make me feel like I'm all those things too. I think that I'm the lucky one here, I burst into your wedding and you still took me in and loved me. You moved across the country for me and even though we'd only been dating for just over a year you went and bought a beautiful picket fence house with me. I don't think you can even comprehend how much that meant to me Santana; it truly showed me that you were committed to this. Committed to us. I want to be with you for the rest of my life, I want to shout from the top of my lungs that you are my wife. I see a future with you and it's everything I could have ever dreamed of. I'd love to have children with you one day, but if it never happens then that's okay too, because at least I have you. Santana, life makes love look hard, the stakes are high, the water's rough, but this love is ours."
Santana felt the tears slip down her cheeks and she smiled brightly at Quinn. Quinn also placed the wedding ring on Santana's ring finger.
"By the power vested in me by the state of Fiji I now pronounce you wife and wife. You may kiss the bride."
They grinned at each other and kissed each other deeply.
"Babe, I'm home."
Santana walked into the house she shared with her wife. They had been married for two months and they were still very much in the honeymoon stage.
"I'm in the kitchen, baby."
Santana could smell Quinn's home made lasagna and she grinned as she picked up her box and walked into the living room.
"Could you come into the living room for a minute?"
Quinn walked in, looking adorable in a cute apron.
"What's that?"
Quinn nodded towards the box and Santana grinned and beckoned her over.
"Open the lid."
Quinn sat down on her knees and opened the lid on the box and she instantly squealed.
"You didn't!"
Santana sat down too and grinned.
"I sure did."
Quinn picked up the brown and white puppy that was in the box.
"How did you know how much I love Pomeranians?"
"Well for one you almost die every time we see one."
Quinn hugged the puppy tightly and it licked her face.
"Thank you so much! Is it a boy or a girl?"
"It's a girl. What to do you want to name her?"
Quinn thought about it for a while.
"This is so hard. I think I want to name her… Bean!"
Santana smiled and pet the dog.
"Bean? Okay, welcome to the family Bean."
Quinn grinned and kissed Santana deeply.
"You're amazing. Thank you so much, it's perfect."
"Well you were talking about wanting a family, so I figured that first step should be a dog."
Quinn put the dog on the floor and gently pushed Santana down on the floor and straddled her.
"You're the perfect wife. I love you."
She leaned down and kissed Santana deeply while Bean ran around, exploring her new home.
"I'm just so nervous you know."
Santana rubbed Quinn's back.
"I know you are baby, but you just gotta wait and before you know it we will have a child running around."
Quinn put her head on Santana's shoulder.
"This is what's so nerve wrecking about adoption, we never know how long it's gonna take. We can't even prepare a room, because we have no idea if we're getting a baby, toddler or a child. We don't even know the gender."
Santana knew that it was quite stressful for Quinn. They had signed up for domestic adoption nine months ago and had still not gotten any good news. They wanted biological children too, down the line, but they had decided to try this out first. That way they could help someone who needed a family. Even though it was a lot better for gay people now than it had been there were still times where Santana was seriously wondering if people didn't pick them because they were two ladies. It was unfair though, they would both love the child and give it all the attention they could. They'd love it like their own.
They had been married for five years now and were more than ready to start a family. They were both successful in their fields and had well paying jobs. They lived in a big house in Renton, just south of Seattle. All that was missing was the child. Santana hated seeing Quinn like this. She was upset too, she really wanted this, but Quinn was just heart broken. She was also blaming herself, saying it was karma for giving away Beth. Santana, and the rest of their friends, were trying very hard to convince her that this was wrong. She had done the right thing when she gave Beth away, just like someone would if they gave their baby to them. They could take good care of a child. Santana had no doubts about that. She was sitting on the couch next to Quinn, absentmindedly stroking her back while her head was all over the place when her phone rang. She picked it up from the table and walked into the kitchen, while Quinn cuddled with Bean.
After a little while she returned to the living room, holding back a smile.
"Quinnie?"
Quinn looked up at her.
"I have some news."
"What is it?"
Santana walked over to the couch and bent down in front of Quinn and took her hands into her own.
"There's a young girl in Kent who gave birth to a baby girl last night and she wants us to be her parents."
Quinn's eyes were instantly filled with joy and that smile that Santana loved so much finally returned.
"We can visit them at the hospital today, and if we say yes then she'll be ours by the time she gets out of the hospital."
Quinn threw her arms around Santana and hugged her tightly.
"We're mommies. I want her. I don't care what she looks like, I want her. We have to go baby shopping!"
Santana kissed Quinn's head and grinned. Her wife was definitely back to normal.
And now they were about to embark on their biggest journey yet; motherhood.
