''Nic!''
Santana jumps up yelling her sons name as she watches him fall down on the grass clutching his ankle with a pained grimace after a tackle and immediately feels Puck and Quinn's hands on her back as Brittany sprints out onto the field with the Medical staff.
''Where Nicolas?'' Brittany asks softly as she kneels down beside the little boy.
''Ankle.'' Nicolas cries out still holding it with tears in his eyes, Brittany gently takes his hands off of his ankle and unties his shoe. She takes it off along with his sock and looks at it wincing as she sees the small dent of a cleat, she gently moves it feeling him wince and looks at him.
''Does it hurt badly when I move it?''
''No but it stings.'' He whines.
''Just the shock of the cleat digging into his skin.'' Brittany tells Kelly the medic beside her, she slides his sock back on and glances at the back. ''Can you hand me the ice spray?''
She grabs it as soon as she holds it out and looks at Nicolas. ''This will be cold but it will sooth the pain.'' She informs him, she prays his ankle as he nods his head, running her free hand up his leg as he groans and smiles slightly. ''All done.'' She murmurs placing the spray back in Kelly's awaiting hand.
She watches him sit up and raises an eyebrow. ''Can you continue, or do you want to sit out the last ten minutes?''
Nicolas shakes his head rubbing his cold ankle and grabs his shoe. ''Continue.'' He tells her sliding his shoe back on, Brittany nods her head helping his tie his shoe and helps him stand back up.
''You are in charge of taking the penalty.'' She tells him softly as she notices the rest of the team gathering around Beiste for some last minute advice and to drink, she glances at the goalkeeper and smiles slightly. ''The goalkeeper mostly jumps to the left in all scenarios, I am pretty sure he will jump in that direction too during the kick.''
''So kick right?'' Nicolas asks smiling, she nods her head and pats his shoulder.
''Kick right.'' She confirms as she stands back up. ''I will tell your mami that you are okay.'' She promises as she sees him looking at the sidelines with a grin, she taps his shoulder again as he thanks her softly and winks. ''Make the hattrick complete Nicolas, you already scored two, I am sure the third one is just around the corner.''
''Thank you Brittany.'' She just winks nodding her head as the referee jogs over asking if he can continue and jogs back to the dugout with Kelly by her side, she just locks eyes with Beiste, jogging past her as she nods her head and walks over to Santana.
''He is okay.'' She informs her with a kind grin after locking eyes with the three adults. ''The defenders cleats just dug into the skin above his shoe, the ice spray numbed the sting.''
Santana nods her head and smiles. ''Thank you.'' She whispers surprised that Brittany jogged over knowing Beiste and Kelly never do, she watches her jog back to the dugout and turns to her best friends with an eyebrow raised. ''That's new.''
Puck chuckles and nods his head. ''Yeah but I think she will bring in a few new things.'' He breaths out watching Nicolas prepare himself for the penalty kick. ''We never saw Beiste run out onto the field with Kelly either, but Britt reached Nic before Kelly did.''
''Is a trainer allowed to do so?'' Quinn asks curiously not wanting the blonde to get in trouble because she did so with Nic and one of the other players in the first half.
''Normally no.'' Puck breaths out. ''But Britt has knowledge because she studied sport medicine, I think they put her down as assistent for both.'' He breaths out shrugging as Nic takes the kick, he hollers his name as he easily scores and watches him sprint over to the sidelines with a big grin.
Brittany laughs hearing her best friend and the two women cheer Nicolas's name the loudest right after he scored and shakes her head in amusement. ''Those three are always the loudest.'' Beiste tells her in amusement watching the little boy sprint over to his mami. ''I never hear any of the parents aside from them.''
''He just scored his very first hat-trick.'' Brittany breaths out chuckling. ''I am sure he will receive a huge ice cream cone after the match.''
''Thanks to your tips on the field.'' Kelly tells her. ''You gave him tips where to kick and to observe the goalkeeper after the free kick and now with the penalty kick too.''
''Soccer is all about observing and taking chances.'' Brittany breaths out shrugging as Beiste turns to her in surprise. ''Goalies are never allowed to favor a side but somehow that kid favors left the whole game, it's easy to pin point the direction he jumps in that way.''
Beiste just blinks high fiving Nicolas as he jogs past them smiling as Brittany and Kelly follow her lead and watches him jog back onto the field with his teammates. ''Huh I didn't notice that.''
Brittany just turns to her and chuckles. ''Observe, I am sure we will get one more chance to score.'' She stands up as she notices one of their defenders taking the ball from the opponents watching Nicolas sprint onto the opponent side of the field and walks to the sideline. ''Nicolas!'' She calls out.
She covertly moves her hand towards her abs making sure the opponents coach won't see it, silently telling him to run over the sideline and turns to one of the midfielders. ''Jason!''
She mentions her hand to the penalty box telling him to sprint into it the second Nicolas rushes over the sideline with the ball and watches him pass the ball high, she turns on her heels just locking eyes with Beiste, smirking as she hears several parents cheer and chuckles. ''That makes four.''
Beiste shakes her head in amazement and laughs. ''You instruct them things without yelling it.'' She tells her as everyone sprint over to Jason after he scored. ''Be prepared to settle your ass down beside me during several matches whenever you have the time Brittany.''
''I will make the time.'' Brittany tells her. ''And it's easy, I just told the boys in the changing room to focus on my hands and explained the easy moves so they know where to sprint.'' She explains shrugging.
She follows Beiste to the other coach as soon as the referee blows his whistle and shakes his hand as the air fills with loud cheers from the boys knowing they won their first match. ''You sure got yourself a talented assistant Beiste.'' The coach compliments after shaking Brittany's hand.
''Yeah I definitely got lucky.'' Beiste agrees chuckling. ''Let's see if she brings the Angels to the top this year.''
''No pressure at all.'' Brittany teases as eleven boys sprint over to them with loud cheers, she crouches down as the coach walks off to talk to his boys and looks at them as they stop right in front of her. ''That was amazing boys.'' She compliments with a grin.
''You all played amazingly together and always made sure someone stood free to try and score, that is what an awesome team does.''
''I have nothing to add.'' Beiste tells the boys as they turn to her grinning. ''I am so proud of all of you, let's hit the shower before we enjoy our post match Popsicle!''
Brittany stands back up as they sprint off with Beiste and Kelly following close behind, opting to stay out onto the field and walks over to the sidelines after grabbing her bag.
''First win as coach Brittany.'' Puck breaths out snickering. ''Amazing match Britt.''
''Got to compliment the boys.'' Brittany tells him chuckling as she drops her bag at her feet. ''I didn't do anything.''
''The last play was all thanks to your coaching.'' Quinn tells her chuckling. ''You coached them more this match then Beiste did the whole season.'' She adds softly. ''This is their first win this season Brittany.''
Santana nods her head in agreement and chuckles. ''Yeah we lost the past five games and only managed to score one goal, they scored four today and only one goal against us.''
Brittany glances at the middle school building making sure nobody can hear her and sighs. ''Beiste knows how to train them, but she misses the match vibe.'' She tells them softly. ''You can't motivate fifteen young boys, if you aren't motivated yourself.''
''I gave her some tips and hopefully she will use them, if she does more wins will come in.'' She adds shrugging. ''Before we ran out to warm up I told the boys to have fun and taught them a few easy hand signals that all coaches use to tell their teams how to run, sitting in the dugout allows us to observe and after observing our goalie for the first ten minutes I used the short water break to tell him to quit favoring the middle and just focus on the ball and on the opponent feet because that will tell you where his kick will land.''
She turns to Santana and chuckles. ''Nicolas is a rusher.'' She breaths out. ''He runs all over the field and chases anyone with the ball, I told him to slow down a bit and stay near his position.''
''Yeah he always did.'' Santana breaths out laughing.
''But we did notice him slow down sometimes.'' Quinn adds.
Brittany nods her head and smiles. ''It's hard to break some habits and him rushing all over the field isn't a bad thing, but normal matches last ninety not forty minutes and it's hard to keep that energy going for so long.'' She explains.
''So we will try to focus on keeping his energy level even the whole time so he will last the whole match, he is definitely a key player for this team and if he continues playing like he does now, he will definitely land in the focus of high school soccer coaches.''
''He will love that.'' Santana breaths out with a grin.
''We aim to keep him up high.'' Brittany promises. ''Beiste also knows that he is the reason behind most chances, either with a good assist or an awesome goal so you might have a hyped up son after his shower.''
''Why is that?'' Santana asks curiously noticing Puck and Quinn also turn to Brittany with an eyebrow raised.
Brittany just shrugs and winks. ''Wait and see.'' She tells them softly as excited children voices fill the air around them.
''Mami, Tio, Tia!''
They all turn to Nicolas as he sprints over to them and chuckle as he stumbles over his own feet trying to reach them fast, Brittany steps forward catching him before he can fall and looks at him. ''Easy Nicolas.'' She tells him chuckling, she helps him up right smiling as he thanks her and watches him rush over to Santana crashing against her legs.
''Look!''
Santana crouches down looking at the yellow band he holds up and smiles slightly. ''You got called captain?'' She asks with a proud grin, he immediately nods his head and smiles brightly.
''Si!''
''That's so awesome buddy!'' Puck gasps out as he crouches down to hug him. ''Amazing match like always Mat.'' He compliments with a big grin.
''He deserves this title.'' Brittany tells Santana as she turns to her in surprise. ''Beiste didn't pick someone yet even though you normally do after three matches, but I pointed out his skills and she agreed.''
She smiles as Beiste walks over to her the other parents with their children in tow and clears her throat. ''I would like to invite everyone to join us for the first official little Angels win lunch.'' She announces loudly, she looks at the parents surrounding them and smiles. ''Would you all like to join us at the Young, Wild and Crazy Grills?''
''It's on us.'' Beiste continues with a grin as she hears several parents murmur. ''Just tell them that you have a reservation for a little angel and they will show you to one of the tables we reserved.''
Brittany turns to her friends as Beiste leads several parents to the parking lot and smiles. ''The five of you are invited too, same booth like last time.'' She tells them softly.
''You sure you have so many tables free?'' Santana asks curiously as they all trail after Beiste.
Brittany nods her head and smiles. ''We made sure to book the restaurant out beforehand, we would have continued with lunch even if the match didn't go like we though.'' She unlocks her car parked beside Puck's truck and drops her bag in the trunk. ''
''You just invited thirty or more people.'' Puck breaths out as they watch several cars drive towards the restaurant.
''Don't worry about the costs, I have a big party discount and the school pays most of it.'' She informs him. ''Beiste and I will just pitch in what's left.''
''I'm starving.'' Nicolas whines before any of them can reply, Santana laughs and nods her head hearing the others chuckle.
''We will go to the restaurant in a few minutes mijo.'' She unlocks her car and smiles. ''Get in.''
''Well can't let him starve.'' Brittany breaths out chuckling. ''I will wait near the employee entrance, you don't have to walk through the whole restaurant.'' She tells them with a smile as she opens the door of her car.
''Yeah see you there B.'' Puck breaths out, Santana just hums in agreement as they all walk to their respective cars and slides behind the steering wheel noticing several paparazzi's scramble in their cars.
She sighs pulling out of the parking lot after lowering her sunglasses and grabs Nic's. ''Mijo.'' She breaths out holding them out for him. ''They are near again.''
Nicolas grumbles sliding his glasses on and sighs. ''I love your job, but I don't like them mami.''
''Me neither baby.'' She whispers with a sigh. ''I hope they will leave before we leave the restaurant.'' She glances in the rear view mirror chuckling as she sees him playing with his captain band and reaches behind her seat to pat his leg softly. ''Don't forget to thank Brittany for that after everyone left.''
''Huh?''
''Brittany talked to coach Beiste and told her that if anyone deserves that band it's you.'' She explains. ''So please thank her as soon as no one but your aunt and uncle are around.''
''I will mami.'' He promises with a happy grin. ''Will we go watch her match tomorrow?''
Santana nods her head and smiles. ''We will.'' She breaths out. ''If she is as good as she is in coaching, we can watch another amazing match.''
''She is really good and so nice.'' Nicolas breaths out with a big smile. ''She talked to us the whole time before the match started and even warmed up with us.'' He gushes. ''She gave me some tips while she sprayed my ankle and told me to just observe the goalkeeper, that really helped me.''
''Do you think she will show me some tricks?'' He asks cutely as Santana parks her car between Puck's and Brittany's.
''Why don't you ask her after lunch?'' Santana asks turning in her seat to look at him. ''Maybe she will offer some one on one training soon.''
''That would be so awersome!'' Nicolas exclaims grinning as he takes off his seat belt. ''Can we go eat now?''
Santana laughs and nods her head noticing Brittany, Puck and Quinn waiting for them, she slides out of her car keeping her sunglasses on as she sees several SUV's pull up and nudges him softly as soon as he slid out. ''Run.'' She whispers.
She jogs after him as the paps jump out of their cars yelling her name and shoots Brittany a thankful grin as she just immediately rips the door open for them, she pulls Quinn with her mid run laughing as she yelps and steps into the restaurant. ''Sorry Q, but I don't think you like them that much either.''
''Hate them.'' Quinn and Puck grumble in unison as Brittany walks past them.
''Jay.'' Brittany asks knocking on the bar to alert the barkeeper, she smiles as he looks up his eyebrows raising in surprise as he notices Quinn and Santana joining her and just shakes her head. ''Treat them normal.'' She tells him.
''Can you tell Jack and Kyle that several cars outside need to be removed?'' She asks after he nodded his head with a sheepish grin. ''Tell them to make sure they leave the street, if they complain, allow them to call for reinforcement.''
''Will do Boss.''
She rolls her eyes as he scurries off laughing and shakes her head, she turns to Marley hearing her soft giggle and grumbles. ''I swear to god, if you all continue calling me boss I will start a damn dollar jar and force you all to drop in a dollar every time.''
Marley laughs following her to the table as she leads the group over and shrugs. ''On paper, you are Britt.''
''Yes on paper.'' She whines with a frown. ''I told you all from the beginning that I don't want to hear that word.''
''Yeah and that allowed us to use it teasingly.'' Marley breaths out laughing, she shakes her head in amusement as she just pouts and raises an eyebrow. ''The usual or..''
''Just coke.'' Brittany tells her chuckling. ''Need to be fit for the match tomorrow.'' She turns to the group after sliding into the booth beside Puck and smiles. ''What do you all want to drink?''
''Coke is fine for the three of us.'' Puck replies grinning. ''A children beer for Nic and orange juice for Beth.'' He turns to Brittany as Marley walks off to grab their drinks and raises an eyebrow. ''What did you tell your barkeeper?''
''Jack and Kyle are two cooks who are old bodyguards.'' Brittany explains. ''Whenever we have a celebrity here who brought paps with them, I send them out to chase them away and allow them to dine in peace.''
''And reinforcement?'' Quinn asks curiously.
''Retired officers.'' Brittany replies chuckling. ''They have some friends who live nearby, some paps don't leave without a fight but the second seven bulky men appear everyone flees.''
''And you hate being called boss?'' Santana asks chuckling, Brittany nods her head and sighs.
''I do yes.'' She confirms. ''My parents always forced all of their employees to only call them boss or Mr and Mrs.'' She explains. ''Their work style was to keep it as strict as possible, no first names, no laughter, no jokes nothing.''
''I don't want a environment like that.'' She breaths out. ''Everyone might be under me contract wise but I don't see them as my employees.'' She shrugs and chuckles.
''if you enter the kitchen you will think you walked into a zoo because they all goof around behind closed doors but that is exactly what I want, I want everyone to come to work and be happy because they can be who they are and not put on a mask and fight through eight or ten hours to earn money.''
''And that makes her the best boss.''
Brittany groans looking up as Jack and Kyle walk over and shakes her head. ''If one of you call me boss one more time today, the jar will find it's place in the kitchen.'' She promises chuckling.
Jack laughs and leans down to kiss her cheek. ''It's handled, they are gone and I don't think they will be back tonight.''
''Thanks boys.'' She breaths out smiling, she glances at the time and raises an eyebrow. ''Aren't you off the clock now?''
''We will stay a bit longer to help out.'' Kyle breaths out also kissing her cheek after Jack stepped back, Brittany shakes her head and smiles.
''Go and enjoy the weekend with your family, if they need a helping hand I am here to jump in.''
''You su..''
''I am.'' She breaths out cutting them off as Marley walks over with their drinks. ''Go before I call your wives and tell them to pull your butts into the car.''
''Alright.'' Kyle breaths out laughing. ''See you tomorrow Britt.''
Jack laughs as she raises an eyebrow and mentions his hand to several colleagues walking by. ''You really think any of us would miss out on your first match?'' He asks grinning. ''It's on our rest day, so all of us will meet up and cheer you on.''
''Y'all are crazy.'' Brittany breaths out chuckling. ''I decided to keep the restaurant closed on Sunday so you all can enjoy time with your family and not sit around and watch soccer.''
''We are watching someone belonging to our work family kick butts on the soccer field.'' Marley tells her grinning. ''And yeah right, you only kept it closed because of us and not because you have to cure a major headache.'' She snickers as she shoots her a look and shrugs. ''Just saying.''
She smiles as Jack and Kyle walk off after Brittany glanced at them, her eyes clearly telling them to go home and places the glass of coke left on her tray in front of her. ''Mike asked me if you want the usual.''
Brittany nods her head and smiles. ''For him.'' She nods her head to Puck and smiles slightly. ''Too.'' She holds up her hand and turns to the two women sitting opposite of her and Puck. ''Do the two of you like lobster too?''
She turns to Marley as they nod their heads and smiles. ''Make that four.''
''And for the little ones?'' Marley asks.
''I don't care.'' Nicolas orders giggling, Brittany snickers knowing it's the mac and cheese with bread crumbles and smiles as Puck orders chicken fingers for Beth.
''What exactly did you order for us?'' Quinn asks curiously as Marley walks off to place their order, Brittany takes a sip of her coke and smiles.
''Steamed lobster, steamed corn, creamy potatoes, green salad and well on the menu it's called secret sauce.'' She turns to Puck and snickers. ''Which is the garlic, butter, lemon sauce we created for Em's.''
''The one with the random herbs and spices?'' Puck asks in surprise.
Brittany nods her head and chuckles. ''The one that took five hours before we agreed that it was perfect.'' She confirms.
''Here you go.'' Marley breaths out placing three baskets of bread sticks in front of them. ''Don't eat all of it now though.'' She continues as they all reach forward to grab one. ''You need it to clean the plate.''
Brittany laughs as she walks off with a cheeky grin and shrugs. ''There is more, where that came from.''
''These are amazing.'' Santana breaths out blinking in surprise. ''What is it?''
''Oh no.'' Nicolas giggles out. ''Looks like mami found new favorite bread sticks.'' He giggles louder as Quinn and Puck both groan loudly and turns to Brittany. ''Mami will come here every day to eat those.''
Brittany laughs and turns to Santana. ''Fluffy garlic bread sticks with a cheese and herb mix.'' She replies with a small grin, she turns to Nicolas and chuckles. ''I have lots of them.''
Quinn just shakes her head as Santana steals one of the baskets and groans. ''Sharing is caring Snixx.''
''Hey these are amazing.'' Santana breaths out. ''Mine.'' She growls playfully slapping Quinn's hand away.
Brittany laughs holding her hand up so Marley sees it and mentions her hand to the bread sticks, she lifts one finger telling her to bring one more and takes a sip of her coke.
''You are the creator of all recipes?'' Quinn asks turning to Brittany, Brittany nods her head and nudges Puck.
''Yeah but some of them are also thanks to Puck putting in his two cents, we cooked a lot for Em's and she was quite picky so it took a bit to create something she likes but in the end she ate almost everything and even stole our food.'' She breaths out. ''There are a few recipes still in the making, two of them being desserts for adults but I am not quite satisfied with the taste yet so it's not on the menu.''
''Remember the beer ice cream we tried to make?'' Puck asks laughing. ''I never tasted something so disgusting before.''
Brittany crunches up her nose and nods her head. ''Hops just don't belong in a dessert.'' She breaths out chuckling. ''But the Whiskey lava cake we made will appear on the menu soon.'' She locks eyes with him and smiles slightly. ''We need to discuss some things during dinner tomorrow.''
''What are you cooking tomorrow?'' Puck asks curiously knowing she won't tell him about what until the timing is right.
''Are there any allergies or dislikes?'' Brittany asks with an eyebrow raised, she smiles as they all shake their heads and winks. ''Wait and see.'' She breaths out chuckling.
''I don't care what's for dinner as long as you have these sticks.'' Santana breaths out chuckling.
''I will have better ones.'' Brittany promises chuckling as Puck and Quinn just shake their heads and Nicolas giggles.
''Britt.'' Marley breaths out walking over to the table effectively interupting their conversation, Brittany looks up immediately standing up as she sees the telltale sign of tears in her eyes and whistles loudly calling Jay's and several patrons attention.
''Which table?'' She asks grabbing her napkin to wipe away the tear that managed to escape Marley's eyes.
''Main room, table six.'' Marley chokes out.
''Take thirty.'' Brittany tells her softly, she turns to Jay and sighs. ''Grab Kitty and tell her to join Marley in the break room for a bit.'' She turns to the table and just shakes her head. ''Excuse me for a second.''