The following morning Quinn got both girls up and ready so Santana could go into work early so she could take the next day off apart from a little huffing and puffing both girls were up and eating breakfast. "Mom why couldn't I have stayed in bed for a little longer it's not like I have school" Holly asks.
Quinn turns and glares at her daughter "It's not something you ought to be proud of little girl and you are being punished that doesn't mean you get to sleep in, we have to take Maya to school then you are coming with me."
"Ok jeez I only asked" she huffs.
"Don't start with the attitude Holly, I'm not going to put up with it today understand?"
Holly rolls her eyes and goes to huff again but sees Quinn taking a step closer to her "Yes I understand" she says quickly "I'm sorry" she adds knowing pissing her Mom off this early won't do her any favours.
Quinn leans across the table "I should think so, I wasn't joking when I said I wouldn't put up with it today" she stands back up when Holly nods.
"Mommy, why does Holly get to go to your office but I have to go school?"
Quinn sighs she knew this was coming "Because baby Holly can't go to school today so she has to work with me, but don't worry it is not going to be fun for her she has to do all her school work."
"Okay I just like coming to your office don't I?"
"Yea you do baby and Mommy has to go in Saturday morning, if you are good till then I'll take you with me ok?"
Maya smiles "Yea I can be good, and Mommy, Auntie Brittany is picking me up today isn't she? I'm going to play with Alex."
"Yes babes and Mama will pick you up when she finishes work" Maya happily continues with her breakfast.
It's only ten o'clock and Quinn is stressed, Maya decided when she got to school she didn't want to go in, Holly wasn't helping, laughing every time Maya tried to run off, Quinn finally had enough and sent Holly to the car to wait with a sharp smack to her bottom. Quinn also pulled Maya aside and threatened her with coming straight home after school and not going to Alex's was enough to get her in. Since they have been at the office Holly has moaned about having to do her school work, she has left Holly in the office to go get some coffee and calm down for five minutes she pulls out her phone and sends Santana a text 'YOUR children are going to be the death of me xx' she only has to wait five minutes for a reply 'Why are they are only ever MY children when they are in trouble guessing you have had a rough morning xx love you stay strong and tell Holly whatever she is doing to stop it or I'll come down there myself xx' Quinn laughs now there is a threat for the teenager.
Quinn heads back to her office to see Holly swinging around in her chair "What do you think you are doing?" she asks sternly, stood with her hands on her hips.
"Um just starting on my homework" she says quietly kicking herself for again making her Mom angry.
Quinn walks over to her daughter "Out" she says pointing to the chair "Go and sit at that desk and get started, I'm not going to keep asking you Holly."
As Holly stands up she tries to walk backwards to avoid what she knew was coming, her Mom pulled her closer and smacked her backside for the second time that morning "Ow Mom" Holly winces throwing her hands back to cover her backside.
By lunch time Holly had managed to do three of her assignments which Quinn was quite impressed with she looks up when she hears a knock at the door "Come in" she smiles as she sees Santana come through the door "Hey baby, this is a nice surprise."
"Yea I thought I'd come by and see how you're getting on" she says motioning to Holly.
Quinn shakes her head "Fine now, a few little incidents this morning but it's all sorted now."
Santana walks over to her daughter and kisses the top of her head "Hey girly been giving your Mom some trouble this morning I hear."
Holly looks up "Yes Mama but I have been good since" she tells her hoping not to get in anymore trouble.
"Good because I have come to take you both out for lunch then after, you missy are coming back to my office for the afternoon to give your Mom a break" she tells her.
"But Mama I have been good since this morning" she giving her Mom a pleading look, she knows she won't get away with half as much with her Mama as she has with her Mom.
Santana raises an eyebrow at her daughter "Don't be giving your Mom that look she has enough to do this afternoon with worrying about you misbehaving."
Quinn steps in before her daughter answers her back again "Babe she has done really well since first thing, she even managed to do three of the five assignments."
"Good then she can do the other two this afternoon" she says in a no nonsense tone, neither Quinn nor holly decided to say anything else.
Santana treated them both to a nice lunch they walked Quinn back to her office she sent Holly up to get her things. "Babe don't be too hard on her" Quinn says.
"Quinn am I ever? I just thought you could do with the break I only have paper work to do this afternoon and I know you have a lot to do" she tells her.
"Ok I'm sorry babe I didn't mean to question you and you are right it was a rough morning and I do have a lot to do" she says leaning over and kissing her.
Santana smiles "So you going to tell me what happened this morning?"
"Well your youngest decided she didn't want to go to school and kept running off, Holly kept laughing at her so was making her worse, I sent Holly off to the car with a smack and threatened Maya with no Alex's and then our eldest just kept arguing with me about doing her work, I left her alone to go get coffee and calm down and when I came back in she was swinging around my desk on my chair so again I gave her another smack and sent her to do her school work."
Santana shakes her head "Well I will be having a word with little miss Maya when I pick her up, she knows better than that and I won't say anything to Holly this time because you dealt with it but she will be under close watch this afternoon."
Quinn hugs her wife "You know you are the best wife ever and a great mama you know that right."
"No we are just a good team babe" she says kissing her.
Holly comes back down with all her stuff "I'm ready" she says quietly.
"Ok say bye to Mom then and let's get going."
Holly says bye to Quinn and heads off with Santana to her office when they get there Santana leads her in and her eyes go wide, it's the first time she has been here "Oh my God Mama its huge."
Santana laughs "Yea it is babe, perks of being one of the bosses" she shows Holly round and then points to a desk next to hers "And that babes is for you to work at this afternoon ok?"
"Mama I did three of my assignments do I have to do the other work?"
"What do you think? And before you even think of arguing with me I know you tried it on with Mom and she punished you for it so I'm not going to discuss that but let me be clear I will not put up with you trying it on with me so sit your butt down and get started, if you get stuck or need anything ask me but no messing around understand?"
Holly sighs "Yes I understand but Mama I have to do a project and I don't know if you will have everything I need."
"Well do your other assignment first then shout me when you're done."
Holly finishes her assignment within the first hour, for the last twenty minutes she has been driving Santana mad, swinging on her chair, kicking her desk and now she is tapping her pen up and down "HOLLY" Santana shouts.
"What?" she shouts back turning round to face her angry looking Mama.
"Knock it off what are you meant to be doing now" Holly shrugs so Santana gets up walks over to her daughter she can see the look on Holly's face and guesses what she is thinking.
Holly stands up from her chair quickly "Mama I'm sorry" she says holding her hands out in front of her hoping not to get a third smack to her backside for the day.
Santana heads over to the desk and picks up the work she has done, she reads through and is impressed with her writing "Is this finished?" she asks. Holly nods "Its good babe, now what do you have left?"
"Just the project but Mama I can't do it, I don't want to do it" she says with a pout.
Santana sighs "Holly you need to get all this work done why don't you want to do it?"
"Because it's a family thing we have to do a timeline what am I supposed to write had a shit thirteen years but a great last 6 months."
Santana tries not to laugh knowing Quinn would have something to say about her language "Watch the language Holly, I know it may be tough but just be honest babe and only write what you want to, you must have a few good memories what about when your dad was around?"
"See everyone thinks my Mom changed when he left but that wasn't it he was a jerk as well it was just better hidden how bad they treated me, Mom didn't care after he went that was the only difference."
Santana pulls her into a hug "Ok what do you need to add into this project exactly?"
"It just says you need to write about your family and your best memories."
"Ok well then just write about the last 6 months then babe, add some pictures Mom and I have loads on our phones" she says with a chuckle, her and Quinn take pictures at every opportunity "And if your teacher isn't happy with that she can discuss it with me ok?"
Holly smiles no one messes with her Mama "Ok thank you."
"You're welcome, make a start on it now then we need to go and pick your sister up who I hear was in trouble herself this morning." Holly nods choosing not to say she didn't help.
By the time Quinn arrived home from work, Holly was sat watching TV and her youngest was stood in timeout and Santana was cooking diner "Hey babe."
"Oh hey" Santana says walking over and kissing her wife "How did the rest of your day go?"
"Good got loads done, how was Holly?"
Santana laughs "Testing for a little bit but got to the root of the problem she had to do a family project and was putting it off, will explain it all to you later."
"Ok and why is our little angel stood in timeout with her hands covering her bottom" Quinn says with a chuckle she can see in to the living room watching as her daughter wipes away tears with one hand and rubbing her bottom with the other.
"Well that's another story, after you left her this morning, she still played up for her teacher she tried to run away and pushed another child over to get to the door, hurting the little girl in the process they calmed her down and gave her a timeout but I warned her what would happen if we got told she pushed anyone again so I spanked her butt and put her in timeout."
Quinn sighs "What has got into her and what is with this pushing she knows better than that babe."
"I know I told her we would talk to her tonight and after her bath she is going straight to bed."
"So not a good day for the kids today then?"
Santana chuckles "Seems that way but tomorrow is another day I will take Maya to school I have told her she has to apologise and then I'm going to have a proper chat with Holly, I think we need to know more about her past babe, I know it won't be easy but it needs to be done." she can see Quinn about to say something "Babe we won't push her to talk about anything she doesn't want to so don't worry."
"Ok it would be good to know some things, right I'm going to shower and then assume dinner will be ready?"
"You would assume correct, I'm going to get madam out of timeout then we can sit and enjoy diner together."
Both the girls were being silly at dinner time so after they finished Santana took Maya for her bath and put her to bed, by the time she came back down Quinn had sent Holly for a shower and told her to go straight to her room. At 9 Santana went up and told her to get into bed this time she didn't need to be told twice when she came back down Quinn had poured them both a glass of wine they both agreed today was not a good day for their daughters and they were thankful it didn't happen often but both are hopeful for a better day tomorrow.