Against All Odds

Chapter 15 - Brittany

My life flashed before my eyes. I fell backwards and just sat there. There was blood all over my hands and running down my arm. The warmness of the liquid made me uneasy and at that point I still hadn't figured out if it were my blood or hers. I looked up and away from me. My body started to shake and I could feel something running down my face. Tears. I went to wipe it with my hands only to smear the now cold blood onto my face. I started crying even more.

"Santana?" I heard someone behind me. "Santana? Babe? What's wrong?"

I heard the footsteps walking towards me and I realize that it was Emily. I could see her standing next to me but she wasn't looking at me.

"What happened?" She turned to me now and sat down next to me. I could feel looking me up and down. To see if I was hurt anywhere. "Babe it's okay. You gotta calm down. You're going to be alright."

I turned to look at her and realized that she was crying too. She grabbed onto my hands and held them tightly in hers.

"Why did you come here alone? Why didn't you tell me? Hanna, Spencer and Aria found me and told me that you had called them. They told me that you were coming here to meet A."

"I needed to end it. I wanted to save you from all the pain and suffering that would've came out of all of this again." I could feel her breathing heavily. She was crying harder.

"You could've died tonight. Do you not realize that?" She wiped her face with her sleeve. "I could've lost you tonight and A, well Logan, would've got what she wanted. To hurt me."

"I wasn't gonna get hurt, babe. And I didn't." Now I knew that I had to step up and stop crying and snap out of the trance that I was in. "I'm fine see? Only Logan got shot."

"But that isn't the point Santana. She had a gun. You were unarmed." I reached into my pocket and pulled out my knife. "So just because you had that small ass knife you thought that you could come here by yourself? I'm just, tired okay. I'm tired of losing people to death."

And I understood. Death took over her life.

"I'm sorry Emily. I am. I was just trying to protect you the way that you protect me." A smile broke through the tears. I was protecting her, from A. From her finding out about what had happened between me and Brittany.

"Come on you. Let's go find the girls and get you cleaned up. And call the cops." We got up and took one last look at Logan. "She had so much potential. Wasted because vengeance consumed her."

I grabbed my phone out of my pocket and called the police. They showed up and I explained everything. There were cameras in the room so they had everything on tape as evidence. After everything was settled, Emily and I went back to our room. The girls met us there and we all walked inside.

"So she was Ezra's sister?" Aria was the most confused out of all of us. She had no clue. "That's weird. Because he never mentioned anything about a sister."

"Come on Aria, he didn't tell you a lot of things. There's no need in trying to understand him. And well, his family obviously." We all laughed.

"Are you guys hungry? I can make us something or we can order pizza." Everyone agreed on pizza. "Alright. It's on me tonight." Emily took her wallet out and walked away to order the pizza.

"We gotta give it to you, Santana. You are the right person to be with Emily. You're everything she needs." And I was. I had thought about it a lot all day. When the gun went off, the only person that came to mind was Emily. She was who I had to be with, the right person. The only person. She's the person that I was in love with.

"Thanks guys. Emily means the world to me. I would never hurt her like that."

Emily and I jumped in the shower really quick so that I could feel clean again. but no matter how many times I washed myself I didn't think I got all the blood off. Emily insured me that all of the blood was gone so we got out and got dressed. We all sat and talked for about another hour, and then the pizza delivery guy said that he was outside. He wasn't allowed to come in the building so we had to go outside and grab it for him. Hanna offered to go and get it so I wanted to go with her.