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I'm sorry I haven't reviewed in such a long while. But honestly, my life have just been upside down the whole spring and it still is- although not half as much as before and most of the things have been turned right again. I also have too many stories going on, and I try to update them all somewhat regularly.

I put up a new story a while ago. And I'm so happy and grateful for anyone and everyone who would check it out. It's called fly me to the moon and is an AU- Barole story.

S is for Snow

"Come on Britt. Where are you?"

I knew it was a bad idea to let Brittany drive in this weather. Actually it was a bad idea to let her drive a car at all. I had known her all of these years, married for fifteen and had child- later children, including a wish to adopt a child who would need us the last couple of years- for twelve. I should have known better than let her drive in all of this snowing and blowing and…

"Hi. This is Brittany. I didn't hear the phone but you can leave a message. Unless you're the ghost of Lord Tubbington- then just get out because you're dead and should stay dead. Even though I miss you a lot." I shook my head at Brittany's voice message. It was simply her and normally it would half be very cute. And half be just heartbreaking because I remembered how heartbroken she had been when the vet had to put Lord Tubbington down.

"Hey… This is Santana again. Can you just call me up and tell me where you are? I'm getting really worried and you said you'd be home by now. Okay, call me. Love you, bye."

I hung up again and continued pacing over the floor in the kitchen. If it had been only Brittany who was out it would have been one thing. She'd be gone for hours every once in a while. To stop and watch some unicorns she had seen or whatever. But when she had eleven year old Isabella Santana (biologically my daughter) and three year old Zachary Tubbington (biologically hers) I couldn't help but worry.

Outside of the window there was more snow than what I had ever seen all at once before. It was at least a decimeter thick and it was still snowing so much I could barely see Zach's playhouse through all of it- and it was only a couple of meters away from the window anyway.

"Hi. This is Brittany…" I listened to the voicemail once again and waited for the tone for what must be the millionth time. "…I miss you a lot." Wow, world's longest voicemail wasn't it! Then at last was that tone and I started talking to her again, hoping to get a reply this time.

"Can you please just call me up Britt? You know I worry a lot when you're out with the kids and late home. So please… Just give me a quick call and let me hear that you're okay."

I hung up, looked out the window and down the driveway and road. But couldn't see much anyway. The driveway was filled with thick snow, but I couldn't get it away now- it would be the same in half an hour if it continued like this anyway.

I started pacing the kitchen again, but at last I just couldn't just wait anymore. I grabbed my thickest and warmest coat (And made sure it was the black one so I would be somewhat visible through all of this snow), put it on along with gloves and boots and then walked down the driveway and the road towards town.

God, why on earth had I let Brittany talk me into moving into a house in the middle of the forest for?

But what was good with it, would be that if I just continued down this road. Then Brittany, Zach and Bella would for sure see me if they came from town and home. But another downside with it was that it was such a long way into town.

But of course, there weren't many cars and people driving by here. So if Brittany had had an accident and laid upside down up towards a tree somewhere no one would drive past and see it. And that would be the reason I hadn't heard anything about it yet. But still it was Christmas eve so someone must be on their way and…

I had had the most annoying headache all day. Probably after all the stress that came before every Christmas when you had a wife AND two children that believed in Santa Claus. Bella didn't believe in Santa anymore though but sometimes keeping the truth away from Brittany made me just want to let her know the truth about Santa.

But as I walked further and further between the road and the trees my head was pounding worse and worse. I was freezing and pulling my coat around me didn't even help in the slightest. The light in the snow hurt my eyes and I was starting to feel kind of fever- ish and dizzy and had to fight to keep on my feet.

I had never even experienced such a pounding in my head before and I was starting to become so dizzy even keeping my eyes open made me nauseas. At last I just had to close them, knowing that in all of this snow and far out on the country side I could die if I fell I continued to walk. But the wind was so strong, and when I stumbled on something on the ground I fell flat on my face, hit my head in some stone that wasn't completely covered in snow and couldn't even get up onto my feet again.

I should have been afraid of this happening. Afraid that I would be completely covered in snow so no one would be able to see me from the road. I should have been afraid of falling onto the road in case there was a car. I should have been afraid that no one would come and see me from the road and then I'd die out here.

But as soon as I even tried to open my eyes I was so dizzy I thought I'd vomit. So I closed them again, and let myself be surrounded by a thick and welcoming dark.

I moaned and slightly opened my eyes after what felt like half a second. "Santana." I could hear Brittany's voice and felt her hand in mine. I'd recognize the way she took my hand among a thousand others. "San… San?" I pressed my eyes shut again. "No. Don't disappear again. Follow my voice. Come towards my voice and come back. Please San?" I slowly opened my eyes again.

"Britt?" I tried to reach out my hand and feel but my arms were so heavy. There was something put into one as well and that just made it worse. Somewhere I could hear some sort of alarm go off but it sounded so distant. I was shivering cold which wasn't weird because I felt I was only wearing a thin gown. Where were the clothes I had been wearing just a minute ago? I had been outside, in the middle of the blizzard trying to find the children and Britt…

"Brittany?" Immediately I shot up in sitting position and looked around. I was sitting in a hospital bed and Brittany stood right by and as good as I could with God knows how many needles in my arm and hands I threw my arms around Brittany in a hug. "Where were you? Why didn't you answer your phone? Where are the children? Where are the children? Why am I in hospital? Where are the children?" A male nurse had come into the room and was trying to calm me down.

"Miss Lopez. Miss Lopez. It's okay. Calm down." But I was already stressed up. Breathing fast and then I couldn't breathe at all except in short, shallow breaths. "It's okay." He reached up for something behind me when I, between every breath- if it could even be called that started coughing and held up a mask in front of me and put it over my mouth and nose.

I tried my hardest to get air both in and out, but my chest just hurt so badly it must have taken me forever before my breaths and heart rate finally was back to normal and I sunk back towards the pillows again before the thought about the children hit me again and I shot up again.

"The children are alright." The nurse's words were like the most beautiful kind of music that I had ever heard. "You should worry about you. If they hadn't seen you in a pile of snow things could have gotten a lot worse. But you've gotten yourself a bad cold. But… Miss Lopez… What?" I removed the mask and tried to say it again.

"Mrs.… Shes' my wife…. Deal with it." The nurse chuckled slightly at my last and nodded to Brittany.

"I think I can deal with that. But I think you will have to teach me a bit about how to do it when someone comes out because my little brother Ellis coming for New Year and I think that is why he's coming." I lifted my hand weakly and shook his. "Oh, And I'm Andy. Sorry I'm new here and haven't really gotten everything yet with introducing myself first and all of that. Are you okay? You seem cold."

I didn't feel cold anymore, actually I didn't. But still my whole body was shivering and I could barely speak anyway because I was grinding so much. "I'll get you one of these blankets that we heat up. I'll be right back." Andy walked out of the room and out of my sight. And soon came back with a blanket made of some paper- like thing that he put under my usual blanket and put a thick hose in. "That should do it. Anyway, the children are right outside. I'll go get them." He walked out of the room and soon Bella and Zach came running into the room.

"Mami" Zachary screeched and stopped and started jumping by the bed. "Help me up. I need to come up." Isabella helped him up and he crawled over to me and laid down so he held his cheek against mine. "I was really worried mami. I thought you'd miss Christmas. But it's only Christmas Eve yet. It is Christmas Eve, right mum?" He looked questioning to Brittany and she nodded. "I wanted to make you a get well card when mum said you were ill but I didn't have anything to make it from." Zach pouted and seemed sad but seemed to cheer up slightly when I stroke his hair and told him it was alright.

"Here mami." Bella put a box on the floor and opened it. "We have thermoses with hot chocolate, whipped cream. Pancake tacos in paper with condensed milk cream, strawberries, chocolate and banana. And we've got the cupcakes and the cinnamon for the hot chocolate. So, even if we have to stay here with you mami. We can have our real Christmas Eve even if you have to stay here mum. And Andy gave me some paper cups so we can drink the hot chocolate." She put five cups on the table by the bed and poured up exactly as much in each of the cups- and no matter how ill I was, I could count.

Only for now I let go of it and just looked around the room. Brittany stood right by and smiled, Bella was fixing with the pancake tacos and the cupcakes and putting them nicely up on the table to have a nice and traditional Christmas Eve. Bella had on her Christmas shirt, jeans, earrings with snowflakes and rainbow-colored sneakers, for her it was very important to fight for pride and that was why she would always be wearing at least one piece with rainbow print. And Zachary was just adorable in his brown sneakers, plaid pants, knitted shirt and beanie that looked like a teddy bear as he sat and played with my hair.

"Oh and mami." Bella had finished fixing with the food and now came standing by the bed. "Something happened while we were in town and that's why mum didn't answer her phone. Mum told us she have known for a couple of days a girl needed an emergency foster home and… ANDY?" The door opened and in came Andy with a small brown- haired girl sitting on his hip. "Mum thought that a foster child would be a good Christmas present and then after Christmas you'd have all the meetings. But you were already in the system and everything and something turned up so it was a real emergency and now we have a foster sister. And you have a foster daughter."

I was to say at least very, very chocked and looked from the little girl to Andy, to Brittany, to Bella, to Zach and then back to the little girl. Actually, I was so chocked once again I could barely breathe and Andy put the girl down onto the floor before he rushed over to me and held that goddamn mask over my nose and mouth again.

"M- My ch- chest." I stuttered because my chest and throat felt like it was on fire and just hurt so badly.

"We're trying to find out if you might be getting a pneumonia Mrs. Lopez." Andy told me as calmly as he ever said anything- or at least what he had the ten minutes since I had met him the first time. "That would be why it hurts so bad…. I'll go get something. You should probably get to know each other for real. And… I'll be back in a minute." When my breathing was back to normal he hung the mask on the wall again and then disappeared from the room while I turned towards the girl who was hugging a glass figure to her chest and was wrapped in a blanket printed with the American flag.

"Hello." I turned to the girl. "Why don't you come and sit up here so we can talk. Did it scare you when I couldn't breathe?" The girl crawled up on the bunk and nodded. "Well it's okay. And I'm good now. My name is Santana, and you may call me that. Or San like Brittany does. Or mami like Zach and Bella does. Whatever you like, okay? Can you tell me your name and the name of your bear?" The girl nodded and pulled her thumb out of her mouth.

"My name is Carlie- Snow Carmichael. And this is Lucky. He's holding a four- leaf- clover and my mummy told me that brings luck so that's why I named him that. I have an American flag too. My dad was in the army. He died there."

For a moment it wasn't Carlie- Snow sitting in front of me. But Finn Hudson. And suddenly the memories of the day he had been hit by a car flashed by and I remembered the last blizzard that year and…

"So, can we call you just Carlie?" Carlie nodded and told me that was what everybody called her anyway and was handed one of the pancakes and started chewing on a side of it getting her whole face full with whipped cream and even though, after everything I just had to fight the tears away I couldn't help but smile.

"What is it San?" Brittany laid an arm around my shoulders and looked at me distressed in that way that only she could. And if there hadn't been any children in the room… or anyone at all except for us… And I hadn't been ill… well I know what I would have done. But I couldn't so I just continued smiling and looked to the children who now all had either whipped cream or blue frosting from the cupcakes in their whole faces.

"Even if my life would give me rain. Or a blizzard. Or a freaking tornado…"

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that…. I'm so lucky… And I'm so happy to have you guys." I looked to Carlie. "All of you."

Isabella is portrayed by Rowan Blanchard, Zachary and Carlie- Snow are portrayed by Finn and Elle Donoghue.

Random fact (I've started leaving these in every chapter I put up… or at least when I remember it)

In the story Carlie-Snow who is portrayed by Elle Donoghue is only adopted sister to Zachary who is portrayed by Finn Donoghue- in real life. These two are sister and brother.