Natasha Cantrell looked at the St. Lawrence Children's home with disgust. Her babies were in that building. She had been so close to getting them back the other morning but the spontaneous breathalyzer they had given her prevented that. She wasn't drunk, she had had only a shot...or two to calm her nerves. By the time she had gotten to the police station and was given another breathalyzer she was under the limit. Now, she was sure there was a pending restraining order and maybe some assault charges that hadn't been filed. This was her last shot to see her babies and she was damn sure going to take it.
Walking up to the doors of the children's home, Natasha noticed a fairly large group of people coming up the sidewalk. They must be here for whatever event was happening. That was her way in. She could blend in long enough to get inside the building and be able to sneak away and find her babies. Natasha bent down to look as if she was tying her shoe before she stood up and casually fell in line behind the group of people. It only took a moment for them to be buzzed in.
Santana and Rachel carried Sierra and Samara outside to join in the evening festivities. Santana was so excited that each twin matched the person who was carrying them. Quinn was the first to spot them and came over excited. This was the first time that she was meeting the girls and she could tell just how excited Rachel and Santana were. To her, they already looked like a little family.
"Hi guys." Quinn greeted Santana and Rachel.
"Hi Quinn." Rachel replied back as she shifted Sierra on her hip. The little girl was looking around excitedly at all the people there.
"Nice to see you have your waddle down pat." Santana joked.
"Oh hush. I have every right to waddle since it's almost my due date. I'm worried that he is going to try and stay in there longer." Quinn pouted as she rubbed her belly. Being pregnant had its ups and downs, but Quinn was definitely ready for Davis to come out. "So are you going to introduce these two cuties to me, because I have met almost everyone else."
"This is Sierra and that is Samara. Say hi little ones." Rachel prompted the twins. Sierra, ever the more social one reached her hand to Quinn who immediately shook it causing the baby to laugh. Samara was just the opposite, instead of even making eye contact with Quinn, she hid her face in Santana's neck making the woman chuckle.
"Don't be shy smiley girl. It's okay to say hi." Santana rubbed Samara's back trying to get her to at least look at Quinn.
"That's okay. I am sure she will say hi when she is ready. They're both so adorable." Quinn reached out to tickle Sierra who seemed to be eating up the attention.
Suddenly there was a commotion at the double doors that led from the living room area of the building. "You two! Bring me my babies now! I don't know who you think you are, but those are my kids!"
"What the hell?" Santana mumbled under her breath. Instinctively she placed her arm around Samara holding the little girl tighter to her side. "Who is she talking to?"
"Uh San, I think she is talking to us." Rachel mumbled, her eyes wide with fear not for herself but for the baby she was holding.
"Let go of me! Put my kids down now! Sierra, Samara, come to Momma. Come on now! Put them down so they can come to me." Natasha continued to scream as several of the volunteers and Martha attempted to hold her back.
At hearing their names yelled, mixed with the amount of tension floating around, both girls began to cry. Santana looked down in concern at Samara as she slowly began to back up towards the side door. Rachel followed suit as Quinn took a stance in front of the two women. She may be pregnant but there was no way in hell that woman was getting close to Santana and Rachel or the twins.
"Devin, get my handcuffs off my belt. I can't believe you just let a whole group of people in here like that!" Martha now had her hands on Natasha but that was about it. Santana could see Stephanie making her way towards she and Rachel with wide panicked eyes. Chloe and Agetha both had made their way towards Natasha in an effort to try and defuse the situation.
"I'm sorry! We've been letting people in and out all day. I didn't think it was a big deal!" Devin whined, he knew he was in so much trouble.
"A big deal?! There is a reason for that camera at the door buzzer! Everyone shows their IDs if they have them, if not you wait and confirm their name is on a list. If a huge group does come in anyway, you meet them at the door with backup. You should have called me Devin if you felt over whelmed." Martha was fuming, never in her life had she worked with someone who just randomly decided to throw caution to the wind. At least now she had this woman in cuffs so that she couldn't get to those babies. The last time this had happened was the last straw. This woman had been given chance after chance to do right by her babies and she had failed every time. This was definitely going to be the straw that officially broke the camels back.
"Mrs. Cantrell, calm down. You know you aren't allowed to just show up like this." Chloe had her hands up trying to get Natasha's attention but the woman just continued to scream at Sierra and Samara.
"Santana; Rachel. Take the twins inside to the nursery and stay there with them please." Stephanie suggested with pleading eyes when she finally made her way to Santana and Rachel through the crowd. "Please, they're never going to calm down out here and her yelling like that."
Rachel's mind was going a thousand miles per second. Everything was moving so quickly around them. Puck had now made his way over to Quinn. It seemed as if everyone was now crowding around the girls trying to protect them. They could all hear the sirens blaring in the distance as Agetha, Chloe and Martha continued to try and defuse the situation. Rachel finally got a grip on her bearings and was able to open the side door and lead Santana into the building back to the nursery.
"Holy shit." Santana breathed once she, Rachel, Puck and Quinn had made it inside the nursery. Everyone else had stayed behind either outside or in the hallway just in case something else was to happen.
"Santana, language!" Rachel chastised while rocky Sierra back and forth in her arms. The little girl was crying giant tears with her fist in her mouth. "Shhh, baby girl. You're okay."
"I'm sorry but that was intense. That woman just showed up out of nowhere." Santana was also rocking Samara back and forth in her arms. Neither girl seemed to be that interested in comfort right now. They were scared, it was understandable.
"That Devin dude needs his ass kicked." Puck paced around the room, he wanted to go back out there but he felt like he was needed here. For what reason he wasn't exactly sure, but he just knew he needed to be close to his family.
"You can't go out there and kick his ass. He's the fill in for Martha's partner, a rookie that should know better but apparently doesn't." Santana spoke as she rolled her eyes and made her way over to Samara's bed to grab her stuffed horse and a pacifier. "Here little mama." Santana placed the horse on Samara's chest so that she would grab it while trying to coax the pacifier into her mouth.
"I just...that woman...if she was willing to scream at these babies like that in front of all those people...I can only imagine how she treated them at home." Quinn said as she took a seat at the table. She had been standing on her feet for too long because her back was really starting to hurt.
"That's not fair. We don't know what their home situation was like when they were with her. All we know is that the girls have been here since they were six months old and no one has been able to pass an evaluation or complete a case plan in order to adopt them." Rachel turned her head to look at Quinn as she was handed Sierra's stuffed giraffe and blanket.
"Soooo...are you two planning on being the first ones to complete a case plan and pass an evaluation?" Puck asked with curiosity.
"What makes you think that?" Santana asked as she guided Rachel to one glider chair while she went to retrieve another one that had been found in storage and had been brought down.
"Well, there's the fact that both girls have now stopped crying and they have death grips on both of you like they're afraid you're going to put them down. Also, there's the fact that your first reaction when that woman started yelling was to protect the girls instead of going after her. Plus..you look like a little family already." Puck smirked as he stood behind Quinn rubbing her shoulder. All this tension had definitely tightened up her muscles and she didn't need the stress this late in the pregnancy.
"It's a discussion that we are still having..." Rachel answered before looking over at Santana and smiling at how protectively she was holding Samara. The little girl was laid back in Santana's arm suckling her pacifier, her little socked feet sticking out from underneath the blanket that Santana had grabbed and draped over her. Santana was humming softly and rocking back and forth in the glider. It was like she had tuned out everyone else in the room and the only one at that time that mattered was Samara.
"I'm so sorry you guys." Stephanie rushed in the room a few minutes later. Puck and Quinn had left to go pick up Beth from a dinner that she had with her soccer team after practice. Nicky and Rich were right behind her with the other babies and toddlers. "I would have been in here sooner, but I knew these two needed to be calmed down so we took the others upstairs to play for a while."
"You don't have to apologize. You had to do what you needed to do. We had these two covered." Santana motioned to herself and Rachel. "We would like an explanation of what happened if you're allowed to give details?" Santana probed, she needed answers and right now Stephanie had those answers.
"Obviously you know that that was Sierra and Samara's mother. That wasn't the first time she has shown up like that. It's been happening more recently since she has been out of jail. She showed up today because after the last time she knew there was a chance she was going back." Stephanie sighed and ran her hand through her hair before plopping down in the rolling chair behind the desk in the corner of the room.
"Is she the incident that happened the first day we volunteered here?" Rachel wondered out loud. She honestly didn't expect much of an answer since that seemed to be super privileged information.
"Yeah. We set up a supervised visit for her to try and deter her away from pulling the same stunt she did today but she showed up drunk." Stephanie shook her head, she was getting really tired of filling out reports about this stuff but it was part of her job considering it involved the twins.
"Why was she not put back in jail for a probation or parole violation?" Santana mused curiously.
"Surprisingly she wasn't out on either. She was the perfect inmate, completed her time, community service and rehabilitation." Stephanie rested her head in the palm of her hand while looking at Santana and Rachel. These two women would be the perfect placement for Sierra and Samara. She wondered if it had ever crossed their minds.
Santana looked down at a still sleeping Samara. She couldn't imagine a life of growing up with parents or a parent who would rather nurse a bottle of alcohol or pills instead of nurturing their child. She raised her arm so that she could place a kiss on Samara's forehead vowing that she was going to do everything in her power to give these girls a better life. Looking over at Rachel, she had a silent conversation with her eyes. There was no way in hell these girls were ever going to be around Natasha again.