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Brittany was sleeping peacefully, even though she was still trying to get over the tragic loss of her wife, Santana Lopez-Pierce. She wished that Santana hadn't left her at such a young age. But sadly, she had. Even though she promised Brittany that they would never get divorced, since they loved each other so much, and there was no one better for either of them, Brittany was heartbroken when she received the news that her wife had sadly passed away.
"I miss you so much, baby." Brittany would normally whisper to the framed photograph of her and Santana in their bride dresses on the day they got married.
They both loved it so much. Every time they saw it, it touched their hearts.
Brittany was just getting to the same part of the dream she hated, (where she wished that Santana did not leave her) when she heard faint sobbing coming from the room across the hall.
She knew that her daughter, Bonnie, was also feeling upset about Santana leaving her and Brittany knew exactly how she felt.
Brittany then got out of bed and padded to the door across the hall. She then opened it and was heartbroken at the sight of Bonnie crying in bed. It made her want to cry too.
"What's wrong, BonBon?" Brittany asked her daughter as she walked over to the bed and crouched down beside her child.
"Mama!" Bonnie cried with tears running down her cheeks. "I want Mami!" She added, holding both her arms out.
"Oh, baby girl." Brittany says softly, thinking that she's going to cry tears. Gently hushing, she lifts her daughter out of bed and cradles her beside her hip.
Brittany then began to rock her child as she bounced side to side, letting out a soft shushing sound as a way to comfort Bonnie.
The cries don't ease immediately, but after about twenty-five to thirty-five seconds, the cries soften and turn from sobs to whimpers.
"Shh, honey, it's okay." Brittany cooed with a straight face, trying her very best to hold back the tears she wanted to cry. "There's no need to cry, sweetheart. Mama's here." She added as she swayed side to side, wanting to cry along with her daughter.
"I miss Mami!" Bonnie sobbed as a few more tears rolled down her cheeks.
"I miss Mami too." Brittany whispered before she sat on the bed, still holding her daughter in her arms. "I miss her so much, sweetheart." She added, starting to rub soothing circles around Bonnie's back.
"I want Mami to come back!" Bonnie moaned while Brittany stroked her hair. "When will she come back?"
Brittany then froze. Her daughter had just asked a question she could not respond to. Now she really wanted to cry, as she did not want this to happen in the first place. Oh, how they both missed someone they loved so much.
"Babycakes, I don't know how to say this, other than..." Brittany began but then stopped as she tried to process the sadness that was coming to her, already knowing the heartbreaking answer to her daughter’s question. "She's not coming back." She added as then wiped a few tears away with her finger as she sniffed.
"What do you mean?" Bonnie asked as Brittany wiped a few of her daughter's tears away with her thumb. "What do you mean Mami isn't coming back?"
Brittany sniffed in response. "I don't know how to say this, sweetie, but..." Brittany then paused for a few seconds so she could gather up enough courage with what to say next. "Mami's dead."
"What?!" Bonnie yelled in shock, making Brittany flinch as she continued to try and calm her child down. "Mami's dead?!"
"Shhh, it's okay, bunny." Brittany cooed sadly, kissing her daughter’s forehead. "Look at me. Look at me."
But Bonnie just frowned in response and looked down in sadness. Brittany had to do something. She couldn't just let the girl she loved so much be sad for the rest of her life.
"Look at me." Brittany said for the third time, gently placing her hand on Bonnie's chin and moved her head up until she met her mother's sparkly blue eyes. "OK, that's good. Thank you. Now, listen, sweet girl, you're not the only one who misses Mami. I miss her too."
Bonnie sniffed as she continued to look at her blonde-haired mother. "You do?" She asked before blinking a few times, causing more tears to fall down.
"Yeah." Brittany said in a soft tone. "Don't cry, angel." She then cooed as she got some tissues out from the bedside table and wiped her daughter’s tears away. "Don't cry, shhh." She whispered as Bonnie then eventually calmed down.
"I miss Mami a lot. But not as much as you." Brittany lies. She obviously missed Santana the most. But she did feel that Bonnie missed her as much as Brittany and everyone else in the family did.
"But hey. Baby boo," Brittany starts, making Bonnie look at her mother again after looking down for a few seconds in sadness and despair. "Instead of us being sad that Mami is gone, let's try and remember the good times we had together, when it was just the three of us."
"That does sound nice." Bonnie answered back, managing to smile a tiny bit, making Brittany smile too.
"That's my girl!" Brittany smiled gleefully before she pressed Bonnie's nose, doing the 'boop' sound with a smile.
"And I don't know if you remember this, but I do. It was the day we first brought you home from the hospital. I'll never forget it." Brittany then said as she decided to tell Bonnie about the day, she and Santana first brought her home from the hospital.
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Flashback
"You feeling okay?" Santana asked her wife softly after they had entered the house with Santana cradling a sleeping newborn baby girl in her arms. "You know, from all that pushing?" She added after Brittany had quietly closed the door behind her so that she wouldn't wake their child up.
"Yeah. I'm fine but that was a rough eight hours that I will never forget." Brittany responded in a matched volume as she and Santana sat on the couch with Brittany exhaling deeply. "I'm just glad that we’re now parents to this little bundle of joy." She added as the two of them looked at the newborn wrapped in her blanket, adoring the sight of her sleeping peacefully.
"Just look at her, all bundled up." Santana whispered as she and the blonde smiled at their daughter who cooed, making them chuckle "Hola, bebé." Santana cooed as she moved a tiny bit of the blanket down from her chin to see all of her face and her eyes a tiny bit open as she was still sleepy. "We're your mamás, and we love you so much."
Bonnie just made a straight face in response with droopy eyes as she was still sleepy and had no idea what her mother had just said, making Brittany and Santana chuckle.
"You're so adorable." Santana then crooned as she stroked her thumb across her daughter's soft cheek. "I love you, mejillas dulces."
"Shall we give Bonnie a tour of the house?" Brittany asked her wife as she looked down at her newborn child with an open-mouthed smile. "Does that sound good?"
"Of course." Santana responded as she looked back down at her daughter. "Would you like that? Huh?" she then crooned as she also did an open-mouthed smile at Bonnie who raised a little fist in response, which Santana carefully held with her hand and kissed it three times. "I'll take that as a yes from our child."
"Let's go." Brittany whispered softly before she and Santana carefully got off the couch as Santana was the one who was holding a newborn in her arms. So, Brittany decided to take over as she took Bonnie from Santana's arms.
"So, this is the living room." Brittany said softly as she and Santana stood by the doorway and gestured around the room. "And this is the TV." She added as she kneeled down by the TV and showed it to their child. "Yeah! TV! Can you say, "TV"? Huh?" Brittany then teased as she leaned down and pecked her daughter’s forehead.
"When you get older, you'll be able to watch whatever you want, and neither me nor Mama will be able to stop you." Santana added as she smiled at their child along with her wife.
"And this is the kitchen." Brittany then said as three of them entered the kitchen of the Lopez-Pierce household and began to walk around slowly. "Here is the fridge." She then gestured to the refrigerator, giving Bonnie a good view of it. "Just don’t eat too much. Or else you’ll be fat like Mami." Brittany then teased as Santana grinned at her wife, pulling her closer for a peck on the lips.
"Very funny, babe." Santana responded to her wife as she smiled at the newborn in Brittany’s arms. "Don’t listen to her, amorcita. I'm not fat." She added as she turned back to Brittany. "And your punishment, Mama, is changing BonBon's after-dinner diaper. You deserve it."
Brittany exhaled through her nose as she shook her head slowly in response, smiling. "You may be laughing now, but I'll get you back for this."
"Do I seriously have to remind you who changed Bonnie's first like, ten diapers while we were at the hospital?" Santana asked as Brittany swayed their child side to side. "You already got your revenge."
"I offered to do the diaper changes but you insisted that you changed Bonnie's dirty diapers until we came back home." Brittany added in a soft voice as she combed her fingers along Bonnie's head.
"And here we are back home, so, you might as well accept defeat." Santana replied as she raised her arms in the air, gesturing to the furniture in the kitchen.
"I already have." Brittany admitted as she bounced their baby girl slightly before pressing a kiss to her child's forehead. "Our baby may be only three days old but I can already tell that we're gonna be great parents to this adorable little girl."
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"That’s what happened when I got home from the hospi-tal?" Bonnie questioned Brittany, pronouncing the word, 'hospital' correctly, but in a funny way that made Brittany giggle.
"Yeah, that’s what happened when we got you home from the hospital, sweet girl." Brittany confirmed to her daughter as she held the scrunched tissue in her hand, nuzzling Bonnie’s head softly. "After that, I changed your next dirty diaper, then me and Mami both gave you a bath, I fed you and then we both put you into your bassinet. It was so heartwarming, just seeing you sleep so peacefully."
"Can you tell me any other stories, Mama?" Bonnie asked her mother as she looked into Brittany's eyes. "Please?"
"OK, let me think." Brittany responded as she thought for a few seconds. It wasn't hard to think of happy memories that the three of them had had in the past. "Ooh, do you want me to tell you about the time you made your first ever appearance on Mama's talk show, Fondue For Two?"
"Yes! Please!" Bonnie exclaimed cheerfully, causing Brittany to chuckle at her daughter's excitement, even though she was feeling nothing but sadness. "Please tell me, Mama!"
It was clear that Bonnie really wanted to know what happened, since she used to love appearing on Fondue For Two when her parents asked her if she wanted to make an appearance.
Brittany giggled slightly before pressing a few kisses to Bonnie's cheek. "Okay, sweetheart, here's what happened."