Six years later
''Doctor Lopez, Doctor P immediate care needed in the pit!'' One of the residents calls out as she skids to a stop right outside of the office they are in.
Brittany and Santana both jump up from their chairs where they sat to go over a case of a five year old that got brought in after a nasty fall from his bicycle and jog out of Brittany's office after slipping their lab coats on.
They both jog down the stairs nodding their heads as Mercedes and Marley jog right in front of them and burst through the double doors, Santana puts on her game face as her eyes land on several gurneys with patients and clears her throat. ''Residents stand aside and wait till Dr Pierce, Dr Jones, Dr Rose or I call you over!'' She announces loudly as they all walk over to the gurneys.
''Briefing.'' Brittany orders her soldier voice appearing as a paramedic roams around.
''Mass car crash due to the icy roads.'' The paramedic informs them. ''All hospitals in and around New York have all rooms filled, Lopez heart was the last one free.''
Brittany thanks him looking down at the patient he brought in and notices almost immediately that he broke his arm. ''Yellow.'' She informs Santana, Marley and Mercedes all of them having agreed on colors to inform another doctor what grade of injury someone has. ''Residents can handle it.''
Santana nods her head and snaps her finger. ''Heart, Tyson this will be your patient.'' She informs the residents in their third year. ''CT scan first.''
''Yes Dr Lopez.''
She walks through the room as Brittany, Marley and Mercedes also walk around to look at patients, stopping as they find one that need immediate treatment and slowly shakes her head always hating the winter months.
She nods her head as other doctors enter the room to offer their assistance and walks up to her fiance as she notices every patient being treated and Brittany having the only one marked red. She snaps on her gloves as she notices the almost amputated leg knowing Brittany will give her silent orders so they can both work on treating the patient and looks down. ''Britt?'' She asks softly.
She looks up blood draining from her face as she hears her hum and clears her throat. ''That is Jayson's mother.'' She whispers, she watches her body tense completely as she looks at the person's face and turns on her heels searching for the paramedic knowing Mason would have sat in her car too. ''Ron!'' She calls out as she notices one of their paramedics running around.
''Are there any children brought in too?'' She asks as he immediately runs over.
''Two children uninjured.'' Ron informs her as he looks down at the notes he took. ''We placed them together in a room because they were freezing.''
''Go.'' Brittany just tells her as they lock eyes. ''Keep me updated please.''
She nods her head as she squeezes the hand placed on the pillow beside Jayson's mothers head and turns on her heels after asking Ron what room, she sprints out of the pit after silently telling Marley what is going on and sprints down the hall.
She knocks on the door covered with farm animals and walks in. ''Mijo.'' She breaths out in relief as she notices Mason sitting on the bed beside his best friend Jayson.
''Mama!''
She catches him as he jumps in her arms even though he is as tall as she is at the age of eleven and cups his cheek. ''Are the both of you injured?''
''No mama only really cold.'' Mason replies.
''How is my mommy doing Ms Lo..'' Jayson pauses and smiles sheepishly. ''Santana.''
''Brittany is with her and we will do everything to help her Jayson.'' Santana replies as she walks over to him, she places Mason back down on the bed making sure to wrap both boys up in a blanket and turns to Jayson. ''You are uninjured too?''
''Yes we are just cold Santana, it's really cold outside.'' Santana hums in agreement as she grabs the thermometer laying on the table and grabs two clean caps, she smiles as both boys hold still the second she takes their temperature and sighs as she notices them shiver.
She pages her papi asking him to come down as she notices that their temperature is perfect and runs her hands over the blankets covering them. ''I called Abuelo down, his office is always nice and warm.'' She tells Mason softly. ''The both of you can stay up there and watch TV till mommy and I are done okay?'' She adds after sending her fiance a message that both boys are fine.
''Okay mama.'' Mason whispers as he cuddles into her, Santana pulls Jayson close as he just nods his head knowing he is worrying about his mother and rubs his back. ''Your mom has the best doctors treating her Jay.'' She reassures softly. ''We will make sure she will get healthy.''
''Who is picking Mat up?'' Mason asks worrying about his little brother.
''Aunt Ash will pick him up.'' Santana replies softly. ''She is walking to his kindergarten, don't worry mijo.'' She turns her head as she hears a soft knock after he just hummed and smiles as her papi walks in.
''Mijo, Jayson are the both of you okay?'' Alexander asks as he walks into the room, he turns to his daughter as they both nod their heads and kisses her cheek. ''I will bring them up with me and stay with them, go back to the pit.''
''I will Gracias papi.'' She turns to Mason as her papi just nods her head and kisses his forehead. ''Listen to Abuelo, mommy and I will come up as soon as we are done okay?'' She pats Jayson's back as he nods his head with a grin and winks. ''Love you.''
''Love you too mama.''
She turns on her heels after Mason replied and jogs out of the room knowing both boys are in good hands, she sprints back to the pit raising an eyebrow as she notices only a few patients around and holds a nurse back. ''Hey do you know where Dr P is?''
''Operation room four.''
She thanks her immediately jogging to the operation room and walks into the scrubbing part of the room, she grabs the gown hung on a hook knowing it's for her and grabs her cap listening to Brittany talk through the procedure she is using to save Jayson's mom's leg.
She walks into the room after scrubbing in and holds up her arms as two nurses walk over to help her into the second gown. ''Need assistance Dr P?''
''Always.'' Brittany replies using the usual formal voice with a playful undertone. ''How are the boys?''
''Cold but uninjured.'' Santana replies as she steps between the nurses standing opposite of Brittany. ''Run down?''
''Severe amputated leg, ruptured spleen which we removed and two broken ribs we managed to set with plates.'' Brittany informs her as she concentrates on doing the running Lopez sutures. ''Dr Jones joined me in here before being paged and removed the ruptured spleen and set her ribs, all we have to do is stitch her leg, bring her to her room and wait for her to wake up.''
Santana nods her head knowing she doesn't have to do anything and watches Brittany in her element as she works carefully and precisely on every stitch. ''Can Jay see her before he comes home with us?'' She asks knowing the boy will come home with them as long as his mother is in the hospital.
''He can I will cover her leg so he won't see it.'' Brittany replies. ''We will all visit her after we ended our shifts.'' She drops the instruments in her hands after the last stitch and eyes Jamie's vitals. ''Vitals are stable.'' She informs everyone. ''Let's move her into her room, the next 48 hours are critical and she needs close observation but Dr Marley and Dr Jones already offered to do it.''
She thanks the nurses as they nod their heads telling her that they will bring her to her room and walks into the scrub room. ''What do you think mi amor?'' Santana asks as they both take their gowns off.
Brittany throws her cap into the laundry basket and blows out a breath. ''I think she will be fine.'' She murmurs. ''We will keep a close eye on her and I will be on call for her in case something happens, all we can do now is wait and hope.'' She continues as she washes her hands.
She locks eyes with Santana after drying her hands and smiles. ''Ready to clock out, grab the boys and visit her for a few minutes?'' She follows her out of the room as she nods her head and slides into the elevator holding the door open for Santana as it's about to close, she pushes the button to their floor and leans over quickly kissing Santana's cheek.
''What was that for?'' Santana asks with an eye wrinkling grin knowing they normally show no PDA around the hospital.
''Do I need to have a reason to kiss my fiance's cheek?'' Brittany asks with a slight grin. ''We are alone in an elevator, no one around to judge us.''
''Well in that case.'' Santana whispers after eyeing the numbers of the floors passing by noticing that they are three floors away from theirs, she quickly lifts up to her tiptoes cupping Brittany's cheek and kisses her softly.
She smiles into the kiss as Brittany relaxes, knowing exactly why she needs the body contact at the moment and slowly pulls back. ''I am fine.'' She whispers as they lock eyes. ''I know exactly what you are thinking.'' She continues just as softly as Brittany raises an eyebrow. ''I am right here with you and not driving around Britt-Britt.''
''Thank god for that.'' Brittany breaths out. ''Driving home will be a bitch though.''
''We will make sure to drive as slow as possible and we won't take the interstate.'' Santana murmurs as they both step off of the elevator the second the doors slide open, she follows Brittany into the dressing room and opens her locker. ''It will take longer but who cares, Mat is home with Q and Ash so we will have a full house tonight.''
''I am fine with that.'' Brittany breaths out. ''I don't want Ash driving in this weather while being pregnant.''
''Me neither.'' Santana agrees as they both change, she takes her engagement ring off of the necklace she wears during work and slides it on her finger smiling as she watches Brittany slide the ring she handed her shortly after their engagement onto her own finger. ''Ready?''
She holds the door open for her as she hums and follows her down the hall to her papi's office, she follows her in right after Brittany knocked and smiles as Mason immediately jumps up and runs over to hug his mommy.
''How is mommy doing?'' Jayson asks as he looks at them with big brown eyes.
''We had to operate her and she is asleep right now.'' Brittany tells him gently after telling Mason to go to his mama. ''Do you want to go see her before you come home with us?'' She holds out her hand as he nods his head and hugs him as soon as he took it. ''She has the best people around her to make sure she will get better fast Jay.'' She reassures him softly.
''I know, thank you Britty.''
Brittany just ruffles his hair and turns to Alex. ''Thank you papi, will you head home soon too?'' She walks over after Santana hugged him and kisses his cheek as he nods his head. ''Please drive slow and text as soon as you get home.''
''I will girls.'' Alex promises. ''Text as soon as you are home too.''
''We will.'' Brittany promises as she places her hand on Jay's shoulder, she leads him out of the room after both boys said goodbye and leads him down the hall towards his mothers room. ''There are a lot of machines attached to your mommy, but they are all making sure that she will get better fast.'' she tells him.
''It's a scary sight.'' Santana adds as she slides up on his other side with Mason. ''And she is a bit pale, but she is asleep so her body can recover from everything.''
Brittany opens the door as Jayson just nods his head, taking his hand as she feels it searching for her own and leads him inside. She slides behind him as she hears his shaky exhale and places both of her hands on his shoulders. ''I think she can hear you.'' She tells him softly as she leads him over to the bed. ''Santana, Maze and I will stand in the corner so you can talk a bit to her okay?''
She let's go of him as he nods his head with tears in his eyes knowing he is afraid to lose his only parent and walks over to her fiance and son, she lovingly runs her hand through Mason's hair as he cuddles between them and watches Jayson as he carefully pulls himself up on the bed to kiss his mothers cheek after whispering softly.
After a few minutes they lock eyes as he turns to them and smiles slightly. ''Ready to go?'' She walks over as he nods his head with quivering lips and hugs him close. ''She will be fine honey.'' She whispers lovingly as she rubs his back. ''You can come here every day so you can see it yourself okay?'' She pulls back as he nods his head and smiles as Santana walks over to hug him with Mason, she quickly grabs Jamie's charts while eyeing the monitors around and hums softly.
''Still green?'' Santana asks as she looks up.
''Still green.'' Brittany confirms as she hangs the chart back on the bed. ''Mercedes will observe her tonight.'' She adds as she walks over to them. ''Let's go home and drinks some hot chocolate.'' She leads Santana and the boys out of the room as they just nod their heads and locks eyes with Mercedes, she mouths a thank you as she mentions her head to the monitor silently telling her that she has the machines attached to Jamie on there to keep an eye on it and steps into the elevator pushing the button to go down to the parking lot.
''Whoa it's really cold.'' Mason breaths out rubbing his hands together as they step off of the elevator, Brittany hums in agreement wrapping an arm around Santana's waist as she notices her feet slide and shoots her a look.
''Told you to wear sneakers.'' She breaths out chuckling as Santana just grumbles, she unlocks her car as soon as they near it feeling both boys grab onto her jacket as they also struggle to walk on the slippy road and opens the door for them. ''Jump in, I will crank the heater up.'' She tells them.
She turns her car on immediately turning the heater on high as they all jump in and grabs the ice scraper she keeps in her door, she closes the door to trap the heat within and quickly scrapes all windows free of ice, she rubs her hands together as she drops into the drivers seat after clearing all windows and shivers. ''Damn.''
''You told me to wear better shoes, I told you to wear any jacket but that goddamn leather jacket.'' Santana tells her snickering. ''The cold will bite you in your butt, mi amor.'' She adds as the boys giggle, she quickly moves away as she notices Brittany's mischievous glance and holds up a finger. ''Don't you dare, your back will hit our couch tonight.'' She promises knowing she wants to run her ice cold fingers somewhere over her body.
Brittany fake grumbles, locking eyes with Santana as she hears both boys snicker and winks the both of them glad their antics made Jay smile. ''All buckled in?'' She asks as she puts on her own seat belt, she glances in the rear view mirror as they reply with yes and nods her head. ''Alright let's head home and enjoy that hot chocolate Santana will make.''
''What, why me?'' Santana whines as Brittany slowly pulls out of the parking spot.
''You make the best hot chocolate mama.'' Mason replies giggling, Brittany hums in agreement and bites her lip as she feels her wheels struggling to fight against the ice.
''Oh boy.'' She breaths out making sure only Santana can hear her. ''Boys can the both of you please watch something on our phones? This will be a long ride.'' She stops long enough to hand both the earphones she stores in the glove compartment and nods her head as Mason asks if they can watch Netflix. ''Nothing above the age of twelve though.'' She reminds them.
''That bad?'' Santana asks after they both made sure the boys found something, Brittany just nods her head gripping the steering wheel with both hands and sighs. ''Remind me tonight that I have to fasten the chains.'' Brittany breaths out as she turns the radio off needing all concentration to bring them all home safely. ''This years winter is a bitch.''
Santana just hums in agreement not wanting to distract her and keeps her eyes out for other cars approaching so she can help Brittany stay alert, she bites her lip as she notices Brittany's knuckles turning white with how hard she grips the steering wheel and sits up so she has a better view of the street just humming as she hears Brittany's soft thank you.
Later that night
''Well fuck.'' Brittany breaths out as all the lights suddenly turn off and they are left to sit in the darkness.
''Curse jar.'' The three kids giggle out.
Santana chuckles as Brittany drops three one dollar bills in the jar placed on the table and stands up. ''Q help me grab candles?''
''Boys can you cuddle close to Ash?'' Brittany asks as she also stands up as she feels the cold immediately enter the house the second the heater turns off. ''I will start a fire.'' She freezes as her and Santana's pagers go off on the same time and jogs into the kitchen, she grabs both and sighs pushing the button to tell the hospital that they are on their way.
She walks into the living room and locks eyes with Mason. ''Maze can you please grab all the blankets from upstairs? Downstairs will be the warmest place so you can camp out here.''
''Do you need to go in?'' Ashley asks as they lock eyes, Brittany nods her head and sighs.
''All hands on deck tonight.'' She breaths out. ''Do you have an appointment tomorrow?''
''None.'' Ashley whispers as she runs her hand over her bump. ''Q is off too, so we will stay here with the boys.''
Brittany nods her head and kisses her temple as she hears thundering footsteps coming down the stairs. ''I will call their school and kindergarten tomorrow but I think they are off either way.'' She turns her head as she hears Santana's snicker and locks eyes with her. ''We are both called in, all hands on deck tonight.''
''Yeah already thought this would happen after the power went off.'' Santana breaths out as she lights up the candles with Quinn. ''Fort time?'' She asks as Mason walks in carrying all the blankets, Brittany hums pushing the couch with Ash, Jay and Mat on it back smiling as the boys squeak and kisses Mat's head.
''It's time for a haircut baby boy.'' She murmurs against her six year olds head. ''Your hair got too long.'' She smiles as he nods his head and takes the blankets from Mason smiling as he immediately helps her, she tucks his favorite cuddle blanket around him as he immediately crawls into the fort with the boys and kisses his head. ''Mama and I have to go back to work, listen to aunt Ash and Q okay?''
She frowns in confusion as the doorbell rings right after they promised that they will listen and crawls out of the fort. ''Abuelo!'' She chuckles as Mat and Maze practically stumble over each other while they try to get out of the fort and smiles lovingly as they both hug their grandfather.
''Hey papi, what are you doing here?'' She asks after taking her winter jacket Santana holds out for her.
''Picking the both of you up, the roads are even worse than this afternoon and I fastened the chains.'' Alex replies, he chuckles as Brittany smiles sheepishly and winks. ''You had better things to do and a full house mija.'' HE tells her. ''And I rather drive all of us then knowing the both of you are out on your own.''
Brittany just nods her head as she zips up her jacket and turns to Santana. ''Please wear other shoes.''
Santana laughs and holds up her Jordan's. ''I will.'' She promises chuckling as Mason and Jayson snicker, Brittany just smiles crouching down after ruffling Jayson's hair and hugs her sons.
''Mama and I will call in the morning, it's almost time for bed.'' She tells them softly as she kisses their foreheads. ''Cuddle up to aunt Ash and make sure to keep baby Fabray warm.''
''We will mommy.'' Mason promises as he pulls out of the hug to walk over to his mama, Brittany turns to Jayson as Mat also jogs over to Brittany and hugs him.
''I will check up on your mommy too.'' She promises the boy softly. ''As soon as the roads are cleared we will all drive down okay? It's too dangerous to have a filled car now.''
''That's okay, I know you and Santana will make sure mommy gets better.'' Jayson replies in a soft voice. ''Thank you Britty.''
''You don't have to thank me honey, have a relaxing evening okay?'' She kisses his cheek as he nods his head and stands up turning to her wife and future father in law after kissing Quinn's and Ash's cheeks.
''Ready to go?'' Alex asks, Brittany nods her head and catches his keys with a knowing chuckle.
''Alright let's go.''
''We will call later.'' Santana promises as they walk to the door. ''Love you!''
''We love you too!''
They all smile as they hear the kids and two woman reply in unison and step out into the cold, Brittany grumbles jogging past Alex after unlocking his car and opens the door for him and Santana. ''I fucking hate winter.'' She breaths out as she walks around the car to climb into the drivers seat of Alex's truck. ''How many patients entered?'' She asks as she pulls out of the driveway.
''Two till now.'' Alexander informs them. ''We just cover all floors and called everyone available in.'' He continues. ''We don't know when the power will come back on so people might go crazy.''
''Like about fifteen years ago.'' Santana grumbles as she remembers her first year as a doctor and people going crazy and attacking each other during a power outage during the winter months. ''People took the power outage to rob whatever store.''
''Oh joy.'' Brittany breaths out. ''We heard something about it overseas but we didn't know that it was that bad.'' She continues as she slowly navigates them down the roads.
''What the fuck!'' The three of them yell out suddenly cutting off whatever someone was about to say as a semi races past them, Brittany jumps on the breaks, pulling the handbrake to make sure to stop Alex's truck the second the semi crashes against a building and takes off her seat belt. ''Call it in Alex.'' She breaths out. ''We will need them.''
She jumps out of the car as he nods his head and quickly reaches out to hold Santana up the second she slips. ''Careful love.'' She whispers, she let's go off her as soon as she regained her footing and slides over to the trunk to grab the fire extinguisher they all have in their cars, she follows Santana to the car making sure her fiance won't fall and reaches out quickly grabbing her shoulder as soon as they are near and she smells the gasoline. ''Stop.'' She breaths out.
''What wh..'' Santana yelps as Brittany suddenly tugs her back with force, she gasps as cold hands cover her ears ready to curse her out as soon as she grabbed her wrist but freezes as she hears a very loud explosion even through the barrier of Brittany's hands firmly pushed on her ears.
She tucks her head underneath Brittany's chin as she turns them around, watching car parts fly around them and slowly moves back as Brittany pushes her. She looks at the burning car as soon as Brittany moved away and shakes her head. ''Fucking hell.''
''Fire department are on their way police too.'' Alex informs them.
Brittany nods her head placing the fire extinguisher down and sighs. ''You can call our guys off, there is no way that he or she survived it.''
''How did you know it was too late?'' Santana asks curiously as Alex once again takes out his phone to call the hospital, Brittany looks up after taking out her own phone and smiles sadly.
''The smell of gasoline.'' She replies. ''I would normally still run to it but after a crash like that, a car will burst into flames pretty quickly.'' She quickly sends Ash and Quinn a text informing them what happened but reassuring them that they are fine and rubs her hands together after sliding her phone back in her pocket. ''Let's talk to them before driving to the hospital.'' She breaths out as the police pulls up beside Alex's truck.
Santana nods her head slowly walking over to the police, feeling Brittany right behind her in case she loses her footing again and just reaches behind her to squeeze the hand she feels hovering near the small of her back. She shoots her a grin over her shoulder as she hears her soft murmur of love and steps beside her papi with Brittany right beside her as they talk to the police about what happened before they head over to the hospital to be on call.