Chloe smiled at the twins as Stephanie worked quickly to get their lunch items back out. Santana was standing behind the high chairs playing peak a boo with the girls, they were loving it. Rachel was still holding Matthew but she was watching Santana with a full heart. The immediate connection Santana seemed to have formed with the twins worried Rachel a little bit. If these were the girls that Santana fell in love with then Rachel would be beyond happy, however, they didn't know anything about these girls. How long had they been in the home? How long were they staying? Did they have family that were in the process of coming to pick them up? Was their parents working case plans to get them back? That was the devastation side to becoming foster parents. As quickly as a child was placed in your custody, they could just as quickly be removed. Rachel was worried that Santana and herself was just setting themselves up for eventual heart break. She could feel the tears already welling up in her eyes, maybe becoming foster parents weren't something they could handle.

"Oh wow, we have been in here a while. All the big kids should be down for lunch by now. We can go introduce you guys if you want and I can show you upstairs since the classrooms are empty." Chloe looked down at her watch and back up towards Rachel and Santana.

"Ye..yeah. We should go meet the other kids now." Rachel nodded and tried to suck back the tears that were still trying to fall. Don't cry now Rachel, wait until later. "I just..were should I put him?" Rachel held up her arms gesturing to the still slumbering Matthew. Santana could not only hear but see the distress on Rachel's face. Something was wrong.

"Is it okay if I run to the restroom before we meet the others?" Santana asked trying to be nonchalant and convey to Rachel that she needed to follow her.

"Sure. I will put Matthew in his crib and then meet you guys in the hall?" Chloe responded as she reached for Matthew.

As soon as the baby was out of Rachel's arms, Santana approached her and grabbed her hand leading her out of the nursery. "What's wrong Rachel?" Santana asked quietly as they made their way towards the bathroom. Rachel couldn't respond, she was trying to hold back a sob, all she could do was shake her head. Santana opened the bathroom door and checked to make sure it was empty before she turned to face Rachel. "Talk to me baby." Santana gently cupped Rachel's cheeks wiping the tears that were now falling with her thumbs.

"Can we do this? Can we really be foster parents? I was watching you with Sierra and Samara, those babies adore you already. And..and..little Matthew, he was so sweet and precious and I could hold him for hours just watching him sleep. Then I imagine them or someone like them coming to live with us and then being taken away. I don't know if I can handle heart break like that over and over." Rachel was full on crying now. Santana sighed, she knew exactly how Rachel felt. That's what you signed up for when you become foster parents though, you provide a stable, happy, healthy and safe home until the child or children can be placed back with their parents or relatives or be adopted.

"It's a hard situation. It takes strong people to be foster parents and I know we can be that strong. We are that strong. But if this is not the way that we want to expand our family anymore I need to know. We can start looking into donor's for one of us to carry, or a surrogate, we can even apply for adoption that way when or if we foster a child it will be for a more permanent situation." Santana brought Rachel's face forward and kissed her on the lips. She needed a connection with Rachel that was more than holding her face at the moment.

"Okay...we can do that. But can we talk about this more later?" Rachel said when Santana pulled back. "I really want to meet the other kids. I need to think about all of this. I'm not giving up on helping and volunteering and I don't want to give up on becoming foster parents. Like you, I need to make sure my head and heart can agree on this, though. Those twins though Santana...I can see you are already falling in love with them. Are you going to be able to handle volunteering here? We don't know anything about them or their situation, they could be gone the next time we come back." Rachel was now holding Santana, her arms around her waist.

"I promise we will definitely be talking more about this later. And I know. If they aren't here, I will be okay. This is my project, I will make myself be able to handle this if I have to. Therapy sessions everyday if need be. I can do this. We can do this. Plus, that's what we want right? We want them to get to go home and not have to be here. This is a nice place and so is the new place, but it isn't supposed to be a permanent home." Santana whispered as she pulled Rachel closer to her for a long hug. They needed to get cleaned up and head out of the rest room before Chloe came looking for them. There was still a lot of kids to meet.

Chloe was standing in the hallway waiting on Santana and Rachel just like she said she would. She took a moment to take in their appearance's when they came out of the rest room. This wasn't something new to her, she had had many volunteers need to take a moment after meeting kids for the first time. "This is a hard job and being a volunteer is a hard job. You want to take all of them home but you know you can't. You fall in love with their little faces and their laughs and you get so used to seeing them day after day and then one day you get the call that little Michelle or Jimmy is being reunited with their parents or a relative has been approved to take them. It's both heart breaking and heart warming. You miss them and you worry but to know they are going somewhere where they can get all the love and attention they deserve, it makes it a little easier. I don't know what plans you two may have for your future, but if it involves becoming foster parents, it's happened more than once that our volunteers become foster parents, you must know it's truly a rewarding experience. It's not easy, but really who said the best things in life were easy?" Chloe shrugged her shoulders, these women needed a pep talk because they could not go into the cafeteria with the big puppy dog eyes they were sporting at the moment.

Rachel and Santana both sighed and prepared themselves for the one of the biggest meeting of their lives. Rachel looked down at her outfit. Was she presentable enough? It was really too late now. The jeans and nice lavender blouse would have to do. Santana's mind was whirling in a while different direction, what if the kids were mean? She wasn't allowed to take out any punks. "Wait!" Santana needed a moment to gather her bearings.

"I know this is overwhelming, meeting them all at once. They know who you are and they know you are volunteering, they just don't know that you're here today. Some of the older ones are going to go nuts, Rachel's music is played a good bit here and Santana, some of them watch your lecture's on repeat and have actually been to a show or two of yours." Chloe was grinning from ear to ear.

"Wait, really?" Rachel asked in awe. They knew who she was and some of them were fans! That was more than exciting.

Chloe turned around from looking in the cafeteria window on one of the doors. "Most of them are tweens and teenagers. They keep up with the latest music and trends, hence you guys helping decorate the rooms. Agetha and I are "too old". You two really don't know your fame do you?" Chloe was shocked to say the least. "For some of these kids in here, you're like the power couple of their worlds."

"You're serious right now?" Santana waited for Chloe to answer, which she did with a head nod. "We don't read about ourselves, we have security that keeps the paparazzi away when we are in the city and McKinley is so small that no one bothers us there. I guess we really don't know our fame."

"You two are in for a loud awakening. You might want to hold your ears." Chloe giggled as she stepped back and opened the cafeteria door. She looked around the large room, almost everyone had made it through the line and was setting down to eat their lunch. The little kids were settling in nicely with their helpers making their rounds to check that everyone had everything they needed. "Guys! Settle down please." The older kids released a groan. "Oh, hush. You can go back to talking in a minute. I want to introduce you guys to the first set of our new volunteers that are going to start coming to hang out with everyone." That really got everyone's attention, you could hear a pin drop in the room. Even the little ones were looking on with wide excited eyes. "Are you ready?" Chloe asked the cafeteria, wincing when she received a very loud yes. "Okay, come on in." Chloe turned her attention back to the door where Santana and Rachel had been standing just out of view.

Rachel grabbed Santana's hand and gave her a reassuring squeeze before they both entered the cafeteria. The entire room erupted into an applause. Loud cheers and whistles floated across the room. Both women shyly waved as Chloe tried her best to get the noise level down a quiet roar.

"Okay, okay settle down. I know you're excited to see them. As most of you know this is Rachel Berry and Santana Lopez. They are going to be volunteering here on a regular basis, so please mind your manners, be kind, be friendly, be respectable and everyone will get along great. Now ladies would either of you like to say anything and then you are more than welcome to join us for lunch. I know I still have to give you the upstairs tour of the classrooms, but we might have a few kids that would like to do that instead." Chloe stepped back and brought her hands down in a gesture offering the floor to the ladies if they would like to speak. Santana looked to Rachel letting her speak first.

"Okay..um. I'm Rachel. Rachel Berry." Rachel stopped speaking when the cafeteria erupted into cheers and whistles again. She laughed out loud before continuing. "We appreciate the warm welcome and we are just as excited to be here as you are to have us. I don't know how much you guys know?" Rachel looked to Chloe for guidance.

"They know everything."

"Great! So you guys know we are here to help out with whatever you need and that we are decorating rooms for you at the new place." Everyone began to cheer again. The teens had been the happiest when they had heard about the list of people who were going to be helping with the new place. "We have some really good ideas, but we want your opinion and your ideas too. I think Mrs. Stidham is out right now asking the other guys at the other homes about their ideas. But all of that is in the future. Right now, I guess I just want to say thank you for allowing us to come into your home and be a part of your world. Santana, is there anything else you want to add to that?" Rachel turned her head to look at Santana who was staring longingly at a little Latina boy, swinging his feet as he munched on a carrot stick.

"Yeah, sure." Santana cleared her throat before she began to speak as the applause and whistles settled back down once again. "Like Rachel said, we are here for whatever you need. Please don't be afraid to come talk to us or ask us questions. We're here for you guys. I know that you all have been working on your pieces for the art show coming up and I would love to see them if you will allow me. I know I sometimes don't like people to look at my stuff before it's done." Santana shrugged her shoulders as some of the children laughed. "Lastly, I just want to say thank you again for allowing us to visit. We have some super exciting fun things for you guys to be involved in and I honestly can't wait to get started."

Everyone began to clap. "So lunch ladies?" Chloe asked.

"Lunch would be great. Can we sit with some of you guys?" Santana asked the lunch room that erupted in cheers of over here's and sit by me's. She laughed to herself as she and Rachel were handed trays. This was going to be such an exciting experience.