Firehouse 51

Lollipops

Brittany walked back into the house to find that Santana was now awake and sitting up on the couch.

"Oh hey."

"Hey Lopez." Brittany walked into the room and sat next to her on the couch. "Where's Fabray at?"

"She went to the bathroom." She looked over at Brittany, who looked exhausted. "You good?"

"Yeah. I'm fine. You don't mind if I join you two out here?"

"Not at all." Santana scooted closer to where Brittany was sitting.

"Do you guys always sleep out here?"

"No, just whenever Quinn can't sleep. She'll come to my bed and wake me up and ask if I'll sleep out here with her."

"You never, you know, ask her what's wrong?" Santana shook her head. "Ever?"

"I did the first time. That was, when she first came to the house. But I never asked her after that. I knew it was Army related, so I didn't want to bring up old memories. I'm sorry if I said anything earlier that triggered anything."

"Don't worry about it. It's alright."

Quinn came walking back into the room and sat on the chair next to the couch.

"You took my spot, Pierce." She said, with laughter following.

"Move your feet, lose you seat."

Quinn punched her playfully, then got comfortable in her chair. Brittany handed Quinn her paper back and she proceeded to place it in her wallet.

Brittany tried to stay up and watch the episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that was playing on the tv but she fell asleep.

*****

She was woken up by Candidate Evans cooking breakfast in the kitchen. Santana was leaning on Brittany's shoulder, but she didn't mind. She took a couple seconds to look at the girl who was out cold next to her. Brittany didn't move too much, she didn't want to wake her up. Santana was beautiful, she had a short sleeved shirt on that made her arms pop.

Brittany turned to see if Quinn was still sitting on her chair but she wasn't. She got up from her spot and headed for the bathrooms to freshen up.

"Good Morning, Brittany." She turned to see Evans talking to her while he flipped a pancake. "Hope you like pancakes, I got plenty."

"I do actually. Thanks. I'll be back out to grab a plate."

As she walked to the bathrooms the rest of the guys were walking out to the common area. Strangely, she felt at home here. She didn't know what to expect when she first got to Lima but it was much more than she expected. She took her things into the bathroom and started to brush her teeth.

*****

Santana woke up a little after Brittany got off of the couch. She had been awake the whole time, but didn't want Brittany to think that she was weird and purposely pretended to sleep. Which she did, but no one needed to know that. In the middle of the night, Santana got cold so she moved closer to Brittany. It was like she was a heater, because she could feel the warmth coming off of her.

Quinn came back into the building after her normal run in the morning and went straight to the fridge to get her protein shake.

"Hey." Santana said as she walked over towards the kitchen. "Had a good run?"

"That I did. I did three miles in less than 20 minutes." Santana was grabbing a bunch of pancakes as Quinn finished her sentence, and ended up putting four of them back on the plate.