"So fill me in Little One, any special some one in your life?" Santana asked.
"No." Marley shook her head. "I have my music and my kids, anything more would take away from that." Santana knew Marley meant the shelter kids, seeing Unique roll her eyes Santana made a mental note to talk to her later. "And what about you?" wide eyed Unique shook her head she hadn't expected the woman to speak to her.
"When you decide to start looking call me, Mercedes has my number." Quinn said before taking a bite of her slider, Unique's eyes quickly shot to the woman by her side.
"It's her job, match maker and she's good." Mercedes said taking a drink from the beer in front of her.
"She found my soul mate." Tina promised the other girls.
"And mine." Santana said so softly that only Marley could hear her, when Marley looked to Brittany and then back to Santana the Latina nodded. "When you're ready she can find yours." Marley now understood why Santana wasn't sitting by Quinn.
Nodding Marley turned her attention onto the food in front of her, she'd had a problem with food in the past, a struggle with bulimia, Santana, Quinn and Mercedes had helped her mom with all the therapy bills and given her mother a job, Marley waited tables after school. Once she was doing better Mercedes offered Marley a job as her daytime singer, after school of course, before that it had been a jukebox for the day and a DJ for the night. They had taken everything slow so as not to stress Marley out, it was her friendship with Unique that had helped her in the end just as much as the therapy.
Mercedes sat amused by her singers, while Marley was usually the quiet one it was Unique that sat nearly stone still between Quinn and Tina. "You and your mom have to come visit, meet Pierce, his food is right up there with your mom's." Santana promised.
"Um..." Marley glanced in Unique's direction.
"Bring her." Santana understood.
"You should totally come to my party, Mike will love you, he's Tina's soul mate, we're dancers, so are you I can tell by how you move your body." Brittany chirped as she dipped her fries into the ranch.
"Umm.." Marley glanced at Santana who just nodded again and took a drink from the tumbler Mercedes had given her. "O..okay." nodding Marley was completely unprepared for the arms thrown around her "Oh!" the blonde woman was hugging her, Marley lightly patted the arm across the front of her, Santana smirked.
"It's gonna be great!" Giving her another squeeze Brittany released Marley going back to her fries.
Wiping her mouth with the napkin Marley nodded to Unique ""I would love to hear more but we have to get back to singing." wiping her own mouth and placing her napkin next to her plate, Unique knew it was a restroom run first. Getting up Santana and Quinn let the girls out before sitting back down and moving the plates to the center of the table so they could bring their own with them to their new spots.
"Congratulations, I have never seen Unique speechless." Mercedes admitted, Santana chuckled finishing her glass "You are important to Marley so I know she has talked about you, I don't think Unique knows the truth, although I'm sure Marley has figured it out, since we have not aged since the day we met her."
"She's a smart girl, I'm sure she knows something's up." Quinn agreed, Santana simply nodded before biting into the fry that Brittany offered her.
Taking Shane's hand to climb the stairs back up to the stage the girls waited for a break in the music to take over, once again it was Unique doing all the talking "We are back my darlings, did you miss us?" when the small crowd roared the curvy woman threw her head back and laughed, Marley just giggled and blushed. Once the band was back in place Unique smiled at them, it was their cue to start up.
Brittany squealed taking Santana's hand, Quinn smirked seeing the blonde throw puppy eyes at Santana. Quickly wiping her face with her napkin Santana slid out of the booth, letting Brittany lead her to the dance floor the Latina immediately became hypnotized by the Muse and the swaying of her hips. Mercedes couldn't help but laugh as she watched the transformation of the war goddess from great white shark to guppy unless someone stepped too close to Brittany. "I don't think I've ever seen her this...relaxed isn't the correct word," Mercedes shook her head thinking a moment she settled on "content."
Quinn nodded "She's at peace, Brittany does that for her...us." Quinn amended. "No if you'll excuse me, I think I'm going to dance." placing her napkin on the table Quinn smiled before slipping from her seat.
Mercedes nodded noting Tina was still by her side. "Not a dancer?"
"It's more fun watching Brittany." Tina admitted.
"How did you meet her?" Mercedes asked curious.
"We went to school together, I don't think anyone expected our friendship," Tina said honestly. "Mike was a football player and Brittany a cheerleader but I was a Goth."
"You're right, I can see a cheerleader and football player hanging out but not a Goth." Mercedes was interested.
"Glee club, it was a group of misfits but it was the one place we could be ourselves and not be judged, there was always a connection between Mike and Britt, they just clicked."
"Santana told me, he's Brittany's nephew."
"Learning who she was, it made me worry more about her," Tina shook her head watching the trio dance "I love her but she's always been in her own little world and that makes people treat her differently, even the other cheerleaders. I just, I made it my job to watch out for her and then learning she was...you know.." Tina gestured at the blonde happily dancing with the two other women "I worried who would look after her once Mike and I were gone." teary eyed Tina smiled "I don't have to worry anymore." reaching over Mercedes gave Tina's hand a squeeze.
"We got her, and Santana will move the heavens and earth to keep Brittany happy and safe." Mercedes promised. "We look after our own." Tina could tell Mercedes hadn't meant it as in gods looking after gods but friends looking after friends. "So tell me what do you know about running a club?" Instead of dancing Tina spent her time talking with Mercedes about club management, with the goddess showing her the different programs she used to keep track of everything. Looking up from her laptop Mercedes smiled "It's good to see them like this."
"Like what?" Tina didn't understand.
"Alive." Mercedes had no other way to describe it. "Before they were just going through it, you know, just getting up and working and then doing the whole things over the next day." Mercedes couldn't help but smile as the trio danced together, she could tell Santana's aura was keeping other people from approaching. "I haven't seen Santana and Quinn like this for almost a century, they started to perk back up when they found Marley but then Santana threw herself back into her work once Marley was..." Mercedes wasn't going to out the girl's personal problems so she simply gestured to the stage.
"She sings beautifully."
"Does your club have a stage or just DJ?"
"Both, our DJ's a guy we knew back in school," seeing the side eye from Mercedes she promised "he's talented, Santana and Quinn can tell you..." Tina smirked the trio were in their own world "later." Mercedes chuckled, the trio was gathering a crowd of admirers.