I know things now (2/2)
Title: I Know Things Now (2/2)
Pairing: Santana/Brittany
Rating: PG
Summary: Based on some more (but kinda sad) super awesome fan art that can be found here!Santana's in the hospital after being beaten by her father. I know, crappy summary.But I decided to write a back component to the floor since people seemed to wish it!
Spoilers: None.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.At all.
nd I'm working on a fluff piece so people won't think I'm a manic depressive or anything.
Brittany noticed something was wrong almost immediately.Her breathing had changed.Become more labored.But more importantly, she hardly knew.
"Santana?San, wake up."
Nothing.
"San!" She was getting no answer from the little battered girl next to her."Santana!" She was screaming her name, shaking her body to no avail.Brittany's parents ran in, rubbing the sleep from their eyes and winning in the sight.Brittany was shaking Santana, crying.Not alone was she not waking, but they took in the bruises that covered her body."Help!Please!" Brittany's mother reached for the ring on her daughter's desk and dialed 911.
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It didn't take long for the paramedics to arrive.But it did have some convincing on Brittany's part for them to let her drive with them to the hospital.
"Please.She's my girlfriend.I'm all she has.Please." Whether it was the way she pleaded or the ceaseless stream of tears, she was allowed to sit with them and give her hand.
"Where did she get all of these bruises?" A new female paramedic was typing notes into a tablet while waiting for Brittany to answer.
"I-I don't know.She was ok.I mean, she wasn't ok.But she was.She only went to sleep.I don't know.She has to be ok.Please say me she's going to be ok." She didn't trouble to appear at anyone else in the backbone of the quick moving vehicle.The sole person she could see was Santana.She looked like she was sleeping.
"We're passing to do everything we can to get out what's wrong.It looks like she has a fairly serious concussion. Where are her parents?They're going to take to be notified."
"I believe they kicked her out."
The paramedic shook her mind and sighed.It hadn't been the 1st time she'd seen kids in this town be kicked out or beaten because they'd been courageous enough to get out.What the pit was wrong with these people?
The ambulance came to an abrupt end and the rear doors were opened.Even as they pulled the gurney out, Brittany didn't let go of Santana's hand.She had to be her grounding force.The rope that pulled her out of the darkness.She couldn't let her go.
"You can't go with us through those doors."
Brittany's head snapped up, forcing herself to spirit out from Santana."What?"
"There's a waiting room inside to the left.Someone will come see you." They started to track the gurney away through the doors that Brittany wasn't allowed through.
"But she's my-"
"We'll take charge of her." And they were gone.
"-world." She said it to no one and everyone, with her hand still reaching out.
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Her home hadn't been far behind.They managed to run past Brittany, slumped against the rampart by the doors they had taken Santana through.
"Brittany!Come on pumpkin, lets go wait inside." Her father wrapped his arm round his eldest and guided her through to the waiting room.
4:13 AM
She was exhausted but couldn't sleep.But she didn't look like she was awake either.Maybe it was a dream.A nightmare.She would heat up and Santana would be there.No bruises, no tears, no pain.Just Santana, there to distinguish her to not watch horror movies before bed.
"Excuse me." She approached the nurses station. Can you order me anything nearly Santana Lopez? They brought her here about an hour ago."
The harbour looked her over.Red puffy eyes.Disheveled shirt, jeans that hadn't been buttoned, and place that were left untied.She gave the young blonde in presence of her a little smile."I'll try and find out where she is.What's your name sweetheart?"
"Brittany.And thanks." She shuffled back to where her home was sitting.
4:46 AM
A new doctor came into the waiting room and spotted the Pierce family.
"Excuse me, are you friends of Santana Lopez?"
Brittany's head shot up. "Is she ok? Can I see her?"
"You can see her, but you want to read a few things."
Everything he said was a blur as he take them through several doors and kill a few hallways.All Brittany managed to see was that she had been hit in the head.Hard.Causing some sort of swelling that they had somehow fixed.But they didn't know if she'd wake up.She didn't see anything.But the lowest part sent her into a panic.She had understood that.
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"San?" She was keeping her hand while her parents were away the way talking to a law officer. "I'm here.I love you acknowledge that. But I wanted to make sure."
Her younger sister had fallen asleep in one of the chairs in the little room.Brittany's cell phone perched under her chin.
5:30 AM
The law officer had left after getting as much info as he could. Which unfortunately, was not a lot.
"Sweetheart, you should go home and get some sleep." Her father was attempting to rouse her youngest as her husband scooped her into his arms.
"No.I'm not leaving her. She needs me.She needs to recognise that I'm here." She didn't trouble to spirit up.A new wave of tears streaming down her face.
Her mother sighed and nodded."You should at least call some of your glee friends.I don't wish you to be alone."
"Ok mom."
"Call us if anything changes.We'll be second in a few hours." She kissed her daughter's head before leaning over Santana to do the same.She didn't give birth to the girl, but ended the days she had become a permanent member of the family.
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6:00 AM
"Britt? What did I assure you about calling me this early?" Quinn's voice was dazed and irritated.
"Q-Quinn, I-I'm sorry.I didn't recognize who else to call."
"What's wrong?" She could hear exhaustion and a few hiccups, and something else she couldn't place.Beeping?"Where are you?"
"It's Santana." At the name of the name Quinn rolled her eyes and fly back onto her pillow.
"I told you Britt, I don't need to learn about you love spats. It's too often to deal wi-"
"She's hurt.She's in the hospital. And they said she might not waken up." She choked the final break out.
"What?!" Quinn sat up and started putting clothes on."What happened? Britt? What's going on? Where are you?"
"She showed up at my family and she was covered in bruises and she fell asleep but I tried to arouse her up and she wouldn't wake up so we called 911 and now I'm just waiting." It came out in one breath. "Quinn, I don't recognize what to do." She was sobbing into her phone.
"It's release to be ok. She's going to be ok.Santana's way too obstinate to not waken up before she's voted prom queen.You recognize that Britt." A sigh of rest when she heard the sobbing blonde choke out a little laugh. " Now where are you?"
"Lima General.Room, uhm, 2224."
"I'm on my way." She hung up and climbed into her car.Before she left, she sent out a mass text.
GLEE EMERGENCY
SANTANA'S IN THE HOSPITAL
LIMA GEN RM 2224
DON'T Know WHAT'S WRONG
It didn't take long for the former members to visit or text her support to assure her that they were on their way.
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6:05 AM
"San, you get to heat up.You take to.I can't do this without you.I can't be without you.So please."
She smoothed Santana's hair away from her forehead.Careful to avert the spot on the face of her head where they'd apparently drilled a little hole. Giving her a soft kiss on the nose.
"I know you.Please wake up."
6:15 AM
Quinn ran in, trying to find her breath.She sat opposite Brittany and took Santana's other hand.Taking in how little she looked.For all of the spite and big talk, Quinn's heart broke to see her friend look so low and broken.
"You're going to be ok Santana." She whispered it into her ear, more for herself and Brittany."She's going to be ok." She nodded at Brittany's tear stained face."I, uh, I let the balance of the glee club know.I mean they're all on their way."
Brittany just nodded."I know her, Quinn."
"I know.I know Britt."
They sat in silence.Listening to the sounds of the hospital and each others breathing.It didn't take long for the relief of the order to quietly file into the room.By 6:45 they were all crammed in.Waiting.
"Maybe we should talk to her." Rachel suggested.Everyone rolled their eyes.
"Only if you wish her to heat up and suffocate you." Quinn stated while trying to crush a laugh.Everyone else laughed.Everyone except Brittany.
"What happened?" Tina was the initiative to ask the motion that everyone else wanted to know.They all looked at Brittany, who just stared at Santana, willing her to heat up.
"We don't actually know guys.But we'll get out after she wakes up." Quinn said it with a feeling of finality.Everyone else just nodded.
7:30 AM
"I'm going to go get some coffee, who wants some?" Everyone's hands shot up into the air.Puck groaned."Fine, then someone come with me." Everyone looked around, not lacking to be the one to leave Brittany, but desperate to not be in the way to see her crying.
"Why don't we all go? We can get back some food and give Britt some time alone." Quinn looked at her teammates, her time as head cheerleader had it's advantages.They all nodded and slowly made their way out the door.Giving Brittany's shoulder and Santana's free hand a squeeze.
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The way was still again.Just the voice of her breathing and the monotonous beep from the machines.
"San, remember that call you saw in a magazine?The one you said you wanted when we were seven?It had the dark stones in it.You said you liked it because it reminded you of my eyes."
She smiled at the memory.They had been lying on Santana's floor looking at Tiffany's catalogues that her father had stacked up. Circling with a red sharpie the several things they wanted.By the time they had finished, almost everything had a red band about it.But Santana had cut out the figure of the ring.It was platinum with a low diamond in the center.Surrounded by small white ones.
"I'm going to buy it for you San!"
"Ok!Why?" Santana scrunched her nose.
"Because you're my better friend!" It was a simple answer.And the truth.
"Ok! Then, I'm going to buy you this!" It was a simple necklace, spelling out the book Love.
"Why?"
"Because you're my better friend and I know you!"
"Ok!"
Brittany fingered the necklace she had on.Santana had kept her end of the deal.
"They don't get the pack anymore.But I establish a rank that has one.And he's letting me have him money a slight bit at a sentence for it.I wanted to make it to you at prom. Because I only need to be with you.Forever.No matter what.I wish to see you be a mom Santana.And be famous.And I wish to see you pass down an aisle, towards me. I don't need to do any of that stuff without you.I can't. I don't recognize how.So please, please wake up." She cried as she put her pass low on the bed.
"Did you just nominate?" It came out ragged and breathy.
"Santana?" Brittany lifted her mind to get warm dark eyes staring down at her."You're awake!" She cried as she gently pulled the smaller girls look to hers."You're awake." She kissed her and smiled. As promptly and softly as she could, she climbed into the little bed with her.Carefully wrapping an arm about her."I was so scared.I thinking you were gone."
"I would never forget you Britt.Ever.And yes."
"Yes what?"
"I desire all of those things.I wish them with you.So, yes." She smiled and rested her mind on Brittany's shoulder.
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8:00 AM
The glee club filled back into the little way to find Brittany playing with Santana's hand as she detailed the events of the late evening.Everyone let out a collective sigh of rest to find that their champion was not simply alive, but awake.
"You get to differentiate the cops.There's no way he can go out free.No way." Puck voiced over the glee club's murmurs.
"I know.I know." She looked down at her hand it Brittany's. She was circling the office where she knew a mob would reside."I know."
"You know we're here for you, and that we'd do anything for you.No matter what." Rachel looked down.Ashamed that she hadn't done more the late night.
"Does that include singing to me? Because I'd sooner you not." She smiled at her. Rachel looked up and wiped a buck from her cheek.
"Alright kids.You want to go.Ms. Lopez here needs to rest.You can get second in a few hours." A harbour with a kind face ushered them out as they called back row of encouragement and promises to return.
"Can she stay? Please?" She pulled Brittany's arm round her.
The nurse smiled."Sure thing sweetie." After checking her IV she turned and left.
"Thank you." Santana whispered.
"For what?"
"For loving me, and for letting me know you."
"I know you too Santana." She pressed a soft kiss to her head. And began to hum the first few bars of what sounded like 'Songbird' as Santana drifted into a comfortable slumber.
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