''B mija?'' Emilio asks walking over to the table with his brothers in law after the tall blonde tucked the kids in.
''Yes papi?'' Brittany asks tilting her head back to look at him, he holds the cigars and bottle of whiskey in his hand up and winks.
''You in?''
Santana laughs as she watches her wife's eyes light up and shakes her head in amusement as she immediately jumps up with a grin. ''Hold up, B smokes?'' she hears Claire ask in surprise, she turns to look at her and slowly nods her head chuckling.
''Yeah but only on special occasions and only with papi, tio Eduardo and tio Fernando.'' She tells her snickering. ''They started it since we got engaged and still keep it up on their birthdays and new years eve.''
''Doesn't she stink after?'' Chris asks in amusement.
''Nah the cigar smell is so much better than the normal cigarette.'' Santana breaths out as she watches her wife take a drag while talking to her papi and uncles. ''Papi always did that with Marcus too, so the second he asked her to join in showed me that I had his full blessing and now seeing them together warms my heart.''
''Papi saw the same thing we all did.'' Maribel tells her with a slight grin. ''Marcus send her to you to brighten your life up again mija, and boy did his plan succeed.''
''It sure did mami.'' Nicolas agrees as he hugs her from behind, he kisses her cheek as she turns to him and smiles. ''Our guardian angel made sure we found our happiness and our happiness came in the form of mommy exactly Eleven years and eight months ago tomorrow.''
''The day after Abuelo's birthday twelve years ago, tio Puck bumped into mommy again.'' He continues as he locks eyes with her. ''Ever since you have been the happiest and me too.''
''The both of you made me just as happy back then little love.'' Brittany breaths out as she creeps up behind him, she hands her wife the rest of the whiskey in her tumbler and hugs Nicolas as he turns to her. ''And we only expended our familia and added more happiness on top of that.''
''And we will continues doing that.'' Nicolas murmurs as he nuzzles his face against her shoulder. ''Te amo mommy.''
''I love you too, magic light.'' She chuckles as he turns to her in surprise and winks. ''You think I told you that story without a reason?''
''You mean...''
''You are the magic light that made mine brighter Nic.'' She murmurs. ''Your mami just added her light on top of that and thanks to those three brightly shining points we manage to handle life like we do and the twins feed off of them.''
''Fuck babe, I completely forgot that story.'' Santana whispers as her eyes turn misty. ''You come up with so many amazing new ones, but you only told Nic this one.''
''I did yes.'' Brittany agrees as Emilio just smiles knowingly, knowing exactly why she only told Nic that story. ''I love our Angels but Nic is the one that made my dim light shine brighter, the both of you pulled me out of the darkness that was a part of my life all the years before so yes the both of you are my magic lights.''
She cups the back of Nic's neck as he just nuzzles his nose against her shoulder with a soft sniffle and kisses his temple, she smiles as Ashley just drops on Santana's lap to hug her and rubs Nic's back.
''B, Liv how are your schedules the weekend in two weeks?'' Emilio asks curiously.
''Free till now, next weekend is filled though why?'' Brittany and Liv reply in unison.
''Maribel gave me three tickets for a Whiskey trip in Tennessee, I first thought about asking the boys but I think I rather ask my lovely daughter in laws.''
''I am down.'' Brittany breaths out grinning as Santana just shoots her a wink after she looked down at her, Liv nods her head in agreement and smirks.
''Oh yeah, count us in papi.''
''Oh boy.'' Abi breaths out chuckling. ''Papi and our wives out to taste some Whiskey, that can end good but bad too.''
''It will end in them drunk.'' Santana muses. ''I hope you will ask one of the guys to drive you all babe.''
Brittany nods her head and snickers. ''I will call Kev tomorrow.'' She let's go of Nic as he slowly steps out of her hold with a soft chuckle and smiles as he sits down beside his mami pulling his girlfriend in his lap, she drops down in Santana's lap chuckling as she grunts and kisses her temple.
''So any plans next week? Aside from the twins birthday.'' Maribel asks curiously, Santana chuckles running her hand over her wife's thigh and turns to her mami.
''Preparing ourselves for all the kids that will grace our house on Wednesday, B has to train the little and big Angels during the week but we will try to keep it slow why?''
''How many kids did they invite?'' Emilio asks in amusement as Brittany hums in agreement.
''Fifteen?'' Brittany asks glancing at her wife.
''Eighteen, plus all parents.'' Ashlynn corrects chuckling.
''So full house.'' Quinn breaths out chuckling, Santana hums softly and pats Ash's leg.
''Yep but we have the best teens helping us.'' She glances at her wife and smiles slightly. ''Britt and the crew will prepare lunch for us and Britt will also bake a cake, so most of it is planned.''
''Is it themed?'' Liv asks curiously, Brittany nods her head and laughs.
''It sure is.'' She breaths out. ''Soccer and superhero themed.'' She adds snickering.
''So like Nic's eleventh birthday?'' Sophia asks chuckling, Nicolas laughs and nods his head.
''Yeah and we are decorating it almost the same too, we all just don't know what cake mommy has planned.''
Brittany just smirks as everyone turns to her with an eyebrow raised and winks. ''Wait and see, I have the same one planned for Saturday just a different taste so we won't be bored.'' She chuckles as her wife pouts and pecks her lips. ''Patience ba..''
She cuts herself off as the doorbell rings and frowns. ''Are we expecting someone?'' She tilts her head as Emilio shakes his head in confusion and watches him walk into the house to open the door, she turns to Santana and smiles as she notices her already looking at her. ''How does a weekend at our house sound at the end of this month babe? I am sure the Kendrick's will join us too.''
''Sounds go…''
''Santanita.''
Santana cuts herself off as Abi hurriedly nudges her and turns to her with a frown always hating it when she cuts her off, she raises an eyebrow as she just nods her head to the entrance of the house and freezes as her eyes land on her abuela and her papi rushing out with a deep frown.
''Oh no they are still here?'' Alma growls.
''Not planning on going either.'' Brittany sneers her blue eyes immediately shooting daggers, she taps Nic's leg and nods her head to the house. ''Kids up.''
''Mom…''
She shakes her head and shoots him a look. ''Go, please.''
''And here I thought I could visit my son and finally connect with my grandchildren again.''
''Too bad, either accept us the way we are or stay out of our lives.'' Abi replies shooting her Abuela a glare.
''You still allow those Americans to ruin your lives and cheat on you, you are dumb!''
''Cheat?'' Nicolas asks with an eyebrow raised turning on his heels before he enters the house.
''Nic.'' Santana breaths out pleadingly.
''No I remember who she is and what she uttered, why the fuck is she here?''
''Nicolas.'' Brittany warns as she notices the rage in his eyes. ''Remember what mami and I told you?'' She winks as he frowns and holds out her hand silently calling him, Beth, Ash and Sophia back over to them. ''Don't allow the past to disturb your happiness, stand over the people that try to bring you down and show them that their fucked up view on life won't change yours.''
''What crap are you teaching my great grandson?'' Alma growls.
''Great grandson?'' Nicolas asks with an eyebrow raised after he walked to his parents feeling his mom just wrap her fingers around her wrist. ''I am nothing to you just like you are nothing to me after you wished my mom dead.''
''Mommy, mami?''
''Don't you dare.'' Brittany growls as Alma turns on her heels the second Quinton walks out tiredly rubbing his eyes, she glances at Liv nodding her head as she walks over to her wife and kids after humming softly.
Santana watches Brittany jog over to Quinton after her papi slid over to shield him and turns to Alma. ''I have no idea why you are here and I honestly don't care, all I care about is that you stay away from my wife and kids.''
''Can't you see that they are breaking up our family?!''
''No the only person we lost because Abi and I finally found our happiness is you, because you can't get it through your thick fucking skull that we can also be happy with American women!'' Santana replies glaring. ''You want us to live a life we don't fucking want, everyone else in our familia accepts us just the way we are and after you walked out of our lives nothing but happiness graced our lives!''
''Every single person around us loves them.'' Abi adds as she slides beside her sister with her arms crossed. ''Hell sometimes we think papi loves them more than he loves us.'' She adds with a teasing grin as she glances at Emilio. ''They see that they are our soulmates, the mother of our children and our forever!''
''You can try to break us up again, but the same thing that happened years ago will happen again.'' Santana continues. ''It will only make us grow even closer even though people think it's not possible, it will make us stronger and it will give us more shit to teach our children so they can stand above homophobic and racial shit at school.''
''God is so big on acceptance, but you side with the devil and try to spew hatred.'' Nicolas scoffs out as Alma just glares at his mami. ''Hiding behind the bible won't save you from gracing hell with your presence in a few years.''
''One wrong move and I won't hesitate to protect my family Alma.'' Brittany promises as she notices her fist ball up and her face contort with rage as she turns to Nicolas. ''Touch my wife our children once and you will regret it a lifetime.''
''Y'all will just stand around and accept her threatening me?!'' Alma screams as she turns to her son.
''She isn't threatening you.'' Emilio tells her with a shrug. ''She is protecting her family and she won't be alone, touch mi hija's, our grandchildren or anyone else in our familia and you will regret it.''
''Why the fuck are you here?'' Liv asks with an eyebrow raised, Alma shakes her head and scoffs.
''I thought I could finally join my family again after ten years thinking my granddaughters finally noticed their mistakes, but looks like I am wrong and they still live in a fucking sin.''
''And we will continue living this 'Sin''' Santana tells her shrugging. ''What you call a sin, is what we call our happiness and our happiness is our relationship and the children we have.''
''You know where this sin will bring mami and mommy?'' Ashlynn asks as she feels Santana and Brittany sandwich her and Nicolas between them to protect them from the looks filled with hatred. ''It will bring them to heaven whereas your hate will shoot you in a rocket down to the burning pit and a leader holding a trident.''
''You shut u…''
''No you shut up.'' Sophia butts in as Alma snarls, she mentions her hand around them and chuckles. ''You see what is happening here?''
''Our familia automatically scoots together to stand tall against one person spewing hatred.'' Beth tells her as she stands between her aunts with Quinn right behind her. ''We all stand together and face hell and happiness since years, we allow nothing and nobody to ruin our bond and people that do try only see us growing even closer together because that is what a family is!''
''Take a look Abuela.'' Santana breaths out as she intertwines her hand with Brittany's, she mentions her hand between herself and her wife still making sure they are shielding the teens and mentions her hand at her sister and Liv knowing they are standing right beside her with their hands intertwined.
''This is what real love looks like.'' She continues as Alma just glares at them. ''Ab's and I really loved and respected you, but Britt is my family now.'' She tells her. ''If keeping her in our familia means losing you, I would take that trade over and over again in my life because she makes me happy, she gave me our four children and she supports me no matter what.''
''You will see that it was a mistake soon.''
''Yeah you told us that ten years ago.'' Abi replies chuckling. ''Look what those fourteen years have done to us.'' She glances at her wife and smiles lovingly. ''Liv and I are married for almost ten years now and are happily watching our almost eighteen year old daughter take on life and follow into her aunts footsteps.''
She mentions her hand to her little sister and squeezes her hand as she feels it slip in her own. ''Santanita and Brittany are happily married since almost nine years now, they have four amazing kids age 19, almost 18 and almost 8 with a bright future ahead of them and are as successful as ever in their careers.''
''We all had our ups and downs, our fair share of discussions and fights but we never gave up on our love.'' Santana continues. ''We talked it out, fought hard together against whatever shit landed in our paths and tried to raise our kids with the knowledge that the world still has a few homophobic people walking around.''
''We taught them to never judge a book by it's cover.'' Brittany adds. ''To give everyone a fair chance but if they ruin it, they aren't forced to keep contact with them.'' She continues, she glances at Nicolas and raises an eyebrow. ''You remembered what happened, would you give her another chance?''
''Never.'' Nicolas, Sophia and Beth reply in unison. ''She wished you the worst thing ever mommy, I already lost papi and hearing someone wish you the same is an absolute no-go.'' Nicolas continues. ''You taught us to respect the elders and we respect everyone the same unless they treat us differently, but I have absolutely no respect for her and will never have respect either because she doesn't respect you and auntie Liv.''
''No matter how much you are against something, wishing someone the worst thing ever is disrespectful.'' Beth adds as she watches Brittany place a comforting hand on Nic's arm as his voice cracks. ''She disrespected our familia, she doesn't deserve another chance.''
''I agree with Beth.'' Sophia breaths out. ''She brings nothing but hurt back in our lives, I don't want her here.''
''You missed out on a lot of things and that is your own damn fault.'' Santana tells Alma after they allowed the teens to voice their feelings. ''You missed both of your granddaughters getting married, you missed the birth of two of your great-grandsons hell they don't even know you exist because we never told them about you.''
''You missed Santanita finally having her real breakthrough and getting nominated for her first award, you missed so many of Soph's accomplishments and a hell of a lot of pure and loving family days here and at one of our houses.'' Abi continues.
''We continued our lives because losing you never gave us the feeling that we had to pause and try to connect again, you disowned us so we both didn't feel the need to crawl back and beg for your attention.'' Santana adds. ''And we still don't need it, we have mami and papi, we have Abuela, our tio's, tia, Sobrina and our friends.'' She lists up. ''We don't need you Alma.''
''You missed out on two amazing women we called our daughter in laws far before they married our hija's, loving, protecting and supporting our daughters.'' Emilio adds. ''You missed out on all the moments we saw nothing but true love, moments that showed us that our daughters are happy and found their soulmates.'' He continues.
''Your hatred caused all of us to turn our backs on you and I agree with our grandchildren, we don't need your hatred back in our lives so I want you to leave my house and never return.''
Brittany hugs Santana from behind as she feels her squeeze her hand softly and kisses her temple. ''You can try to break us up all you want Alma, but we will continue fighting it and come out stronger than before.''
She places her hand on Liv's shoulder and shoots her a wink as she just turns to look at her with a grin. ''Your hatred directed at us, made the four of us just grow closer, Liv and I went from being friends to being a family before I even walked down the aisle to say yes to my forever love.''
''It made our children stronger and not allow the hate in this world to affect them.'' She continues. ''So yes in some way you did something good, you made us see that even someone who you would call family can be a complete bitch and that we don't need everyone that is blood related around us.''
''A bitch?!'' Alma sneers. ''What did you just call me?!''
''You heard her and she is right.'' Maribel replies in the same tone. ''My husband asked you to leave our fucking house, so turn around and go!''
''Mijo..''
Emilio holds up his hand as she turns to her trying to act sweet and shakes his head. ''No get out of my house and leave mi familia alone, I won't allow you to ruin my birthday spend with the important people in my life.'' He tells her.
''I don't know what made you come over but I honestly don't care, all I care about is that you leave my house within the next two minutes or I will ask Lorenzo to call for back up and watch them forcefully remove you off of my property!''
Brittany just stands tall placing her free hand on Liv's back as Alma shoots them a harsh glare and raises an eyebrow, she bites the inside of her cheek as she turns on her heels screaming loudly as she storms into the house watching Lorenzo and Emilio quickly follow her to make sure she leaves and relaxes as she hears the front door slam shut.
''This is so not the excitement that I needed tonight.'' Santana grumbles as she rubs her face with her hands, She hums softly in agreement and just pulls her in a hug feeling everyone join them.
''Me neither love, but she is gone.'' She murmurs softly.
''Hopefully for good.'' Abi adds as they all pull out of the hug, she turns to her daughter and rubs her back. ''You okay?''
''Are you?'' Brittany asks turning to Nic, she sighs as she notices his eyes glistening knowing he is thinking back to the day the very first Alma accident happened and pulls him in a hug. ''I'm not going anywhere Nicolas.'' She whispers promisingly. ''Please don't allow the shit she spewed to enter your mind.''
''Mommy is right here mijo.'' Santana whispers softly as she sandwiches him in a hug. ''She just tried to hurt us with her words and she succeeded, but she won't do that again.'' She rubs his back as he just nods his head still cuddled between them and locks eyes with her wife, she smiles sadly as she notices the barely hidden rage knowing she absolutely hates to see Nic this vulnerable and leans over him to peck her lips. ''Familia cuddle night?''
''The twins are already in our bed.'' Brittany murmurs. ''Familia night sounds perfect babe.'' She hugs Nic tightly as he hums softly in agreement, kissing Ash's head as she joins their hug and nods her head as Liv just shoots her a look while holding Abi and Soph knowing their bed will be filled because they all need each other close that night.
She watches Emilio walk out of the house, slightly shaking her head as he mouths an apology and smiles reasuringly silently telling him that he is not to blame for the emotions taking over her son and wife. She slowly sits down pulling Nic in her lap knowing Santana will sit on her free leg and rubs his back as he cuddles close, she kisses his head as she feels his hand come up to cover her heart and squeezes it softly. ''Get rid of those dark thoughts little love, I am not going anywhere.''
She holds him close as he hums softly, listening to Maribel and Julia strike up a conversation with Quinn to distract all of them and intertwines her hand with Santana's on Nicolas's leg. She nuzzles her nose in his spiky hair as Santana slowly joins into the conversation to distract herself and closes her eyes as she feels Nicolas slowly relax.
''At the end of the day our blessings are bigger than our problems, sweetheart.'' She whispers softly not realizing that the conversation around her pauses to listen in on her soft murmur. ''We can't keep the bad memories stored in our heads, our familia creates the most wonderful memories and we have to treasure that.''
''I know a lot of things that happened in the past hurt, but always look at all the positive things.'' She continues softly. ''Today is Abuelo's birthday and we are here to create another amazing memory for all of us, let's overshadow the hate we just felt with lots of love because haters come and go but our familia will stand tall and never break apart.''
Nicolas slowly nods his head and lifts it to kiss her cheek. ''Te amo mommy.''
''I love you too, little love.''