After the girls have eaten there salads. Santana excuses herself claiming she has to pee. She and Quinn lock eyes briefly carrying on a conversation without words. Santana exits the room and makes her way to the nurses' station where she had Quinn stash the gift they got for Rachel until she was back herself. Knowing that the gift shop would be closed by the time she got back, and wanting them to both be there when they gave it to Rachel.
"Hi, my names Santana Lopez. Quinn Fabray left a gift up here about an hour ago and I'm here to collect it please."
"Certainly. Congratulation by the way!" the nurse says happily.
Santana says thanks and makes her way back towards Rachel's room. She enters the door slowly doing her best to hide the gift and the balloon behind her back until she's closer to Rachel.
Rachel looks over to Santana, "That was fast... What are you trying to hide behind your back?"
"Geez! Way to ruin the surprise" says Quinn the smile on her face evident in her words. Rachel has never been good with surprises.
"No kidding babe. Well since you Rachel have given Quinn and I the best gifts we could have ever asked for, let alone know was possible. We wanted to give you a little something to say thank you. It in no way measures up to your gift to us but it's a start." Santana says while bringing the crystal vase with fresh stargazer lilies (Rachel's favorite flower) inside and two adorable stuffed elephants that have their trunks entangled and held together by a magnet at the end of their trunks also a balloon just so happens to have two elephants printed on it.
Rachel reaches for the item to get a closer look and smell the flowers. "Oh my gosh you guys! This is so adorable. Thank you!"
"Hey Q, show her your favorite part" Santana says
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Look Rach the elephants can come apart so I figured we could give each of them one when there born" Quinn says while removing the toys from the vase and demonstrating it for Rachel.
Rachel isn't even trying to fight back the tears any more. She is overcome with the enthusiasm they are both showing for the unborn babies. Not that she would have expected anything less, after seeing how they are with Mike and Tina's children. "That is too precious!" she finally manages to say and then gives each of them a kiss. "Let's make sure we save this balloon and press one of the lilies so we can put it in a scrapbook."
"Funny you should say that" Santana says as the walks over to the backpack previously discarded and pulls out a plastic bag from the gift shop. "Q when you came back up here, I went back in the store and grabbed this" pulling a new scrap book from the plastic bag and handing it to Rachel and Quinn who are sitting on the bed. "I figured we could stick with the elephant theme, and it's more neutral since we don't know what we're having yet. We tried to steer clear of the typical pinks and blues."
Rachel is sitting on the bed running her hand over the soft fabric that the front and back covers of the book are made of. "This is perfect San. I love it! Don't you Quinn?" Rachel turns to Quinn who is silently crying. She sets the book on the side table next to the flowers and hugs her tightly. "What's wrong baby?" Quinn continues to cry and buries her head in the crook of Rachel's neck.
"Aww baby! I'm sorry I went and got something without you! I just wanted to be able to surprise both my girls on this special day." Santana is worried that Quinn felt left out and she feels terrible for making her cry. She sits on the other side of Quinn rubbing her hands up and down her back soothingly whispering in her ear "I really am sorry babe, I didn't think much of it. It won't happen again, I promise."
Realizing she hasn't said anything and that Santana thinks she is upset with her for getting a gift for Rachel without her she immediately sits up and turns to Santana. "Oh God no babe. I would never be mad at you for wanting to get a gift for Rachel on your own." she says while wiping her eyes with the back of her hand. "I'm sorry I made you think that!" Wrapping her arms around the Latina for added reassurance. "I don't know what came over me" she ends the embrace and sits a little back on the bed so she can see both the brunettes better. "I... I guess it just all kinda sunk in. Like this is real, this is really happening. We are going to have a baby... TWO babies" her tears come back again but this time she's not alone.
Santana get off the bed shakes her hands out and dries her tears."Ok, well with that settled, how about we get our selves settled in for the night" she walks over to the roller suitcase and sits it in the recliner next to the bed."Rach I figured just cause we're in the hospital doesn't mean you can't at least do some of your nightly routine" she hands Rachel the small satchel with the tools needed for her little ritual.
Rachel practically leaps of the bed wraps her arms around Santana's neck and places several quick kisses to her cheek with a final peck to her lips. "Your are the best girlfriend in the world" she says while grabbing the offered bag and then makes her way to the sink to begin the task of washing some of the days germs away.
"Hey what about me?" asks Quinn sticking her bottom lip out and giving Rachel her best puppy dog face.
Rachel looks to her and giggles at the look she's receiving "Aww sweetie you're a close second" she says with a wink and turns back to finish her task.
Quinn also laughs knowing Rachel didn't mean anything negative and gets up to see what else Santana brought from home. "Q, I brought us some pajamas, clothes for tomorrow and our tooth brushes. I also brought my laptop so we could watch a movie before bed seeing as how there's no T.V. in the room" Santana hands Quinn her pajamas and tooth brush. 15 minutes later once Rachel has finished her shortened task of settling in for the night, and Santana and Quinn taking turns in the bathroom across the hallway it's about 9:30 and the events of the day have taken there tole on all three girls and their exhausted to say the least.
"Hey San, why don't you set up Netflix on the laptop. I'm going to go call Ryan and send an email to Stacy and Tyler letting them know I won't be in tomorrow. I left in such a rush today I didn't tell anyone anything. I know they probably think I'm crazy"
"You got it babe. Any preferences on what to watch?" Santana asked
"Whatever baby girl wants is fine" She tells Santana while winking at Rachel before leaving the room to call her boss.
Santana walks over to the back pack and pulls out the laptop, Rachel's favorite pillow and an extra small blanket for herself. Her you go Rach. She gently tosses the pillow to Rachel on the bed.
"Huh. Oh. Thank you baby" she manages to say while grabbing the pillow she seems to have nodded off there for a second. Santana just smiles and goes about setting up Netflix.
Ten minutes later, Quinn is back in the room and Rachel is out like a light softly snoring, to which she insists she does not do. Even after Santana and Quinn recorded her one night last year after she performed a triple matinee of Funny Girl. Neither of the girls mind it. They honestly sleep better when she snores, knowing it means she is in a deep sleep and getting some much needed and well deserved rest.
"So babe, how did Ryan take the news about you not coming in tomorrow?" Santana whispers to Quinn who is sitting in her lap. They are both cuddled in the reclining chair watching the new season of Orange is the New Black on the laptop.
Quinn lets out a breath and shakes her head. "He wasn't too happy that I left early today, even though he understood and wished Rachel the best. I did remind him that part of me agreeing to go out of town for three weeks was that I was suppose to have the following two weeks off once I got back. So technically I didn't leave early since I wasn't supposed to be there today in the first place. I mean who calls you at 4 am before you board a plane and asks you to come by the office when you land."
Santana tightens her grip around Quinn's waist, kisses her exposed shoulder and says "Yeah that's pretty fucked up. I'm happy to have you back though. Please don't go away for that long again" Santana says through a yawn.
Quinn rubs her forearm, kisses her temple and hums "Im glad to be back baby. I hope I won't have to leave for that long again either, but you know I didn't really have a choice. It was a major client and Ryan didn't want to lose their business".
Santana yawns again nodding "I know we just miss you so much when you're not here".
Quinn laughs lightly at the Latinas excessive yawning and tells her she misses them as well. "Babe, why don't we pause this and go to bed. You've yawned like 5 times in the past two minutes".
Santana yawns again and nods in agreement. "Why don't you climb up in bed with Rach and catch up on some baby girl cuddle time. I'll take the chair".
"Are you sure S? I'm fine with the chair, besides you already went and grabbed the things from the apartment" Quinn says
"Yes I'm sure. Now get your fine ass off me and get in bed" Santana says with a light slap to Quinn's ass.
Quinn gets out from under the blanket and makes her way to Rachel "Hey you like my fine ass on you, and you know it" Quinn climbs into bed behind Rachel placing a kiss to her temple and wraps her arms around her waist, her left hand settling on her stomach and tenderly tracing patterns around it with her fingers 'I can't believe there's two babies in here' she thinks' ... "Goodnight babe, love you" she says over her shoulder and then nuzzles into Rachel's neck.
"Em love you" Santana mumbles out no longer awake enough to form complete sentences.
Ok so I know I said last chapter that there would be some more answers in the one, and I'm sorry to disappoint. Hopefully the length of this chapter makes up for it. Its my longest chapter yet at almost 2k words. The doctors will be back next chapter I promise. Hope you enjoyed. Please review. Thanks!