Santana was a happy women. Ever since high school ended, everything fell into place. Her life honestly felt like the conclusion of an "it gets better speech". Leaving high school, she thought her life was over when she left Brittany to go to OSU, but she really had no choice. OSU was never her first choice, but it would hopefully get her places. Maybe even out of Ohio eventually.

Late into her senior year, while Santana was out drinking with friends, she ran into Puck for the first time since high school. He had grown up and definitely hadn't lost any of his flare. He asked her out and the rest is history.

They went out for four years beginning their life together. Puck finally decided he wanted to make things official and popped the question. He hadn't failed to surprise her that night. Santana liked where they were in their relationship and didn't see a point in getting married. The look in his eyes when he asked her though made Santana melt inside making her say yes. One year to the day he asked her, they tied the knot.

One year from the date of their wedding, they got to celebrate at the beach in none other than South Carolina. Although everything was beautiful and she was having a good time, Santana had a plan for today. Lately she had been wanting to talk to Puck about the possibility of maybe getting off her birth control. Although if you would have asked her a year ago, or even six months ago, Santana would have never even considered the thought of getting pregnant. She was comfortable with her life and didn't want to spend her days with kid puke all over her, but seeing all her friends starting their families made Santana realize that her biological clock was ticking. If she was ever going to have kids, she should probably start soon. No matter how much she wanted it, she can't be 27 forever.

Waking up to the beach was definitely something Santana could get used to. She turned in the bed smushing her head into Puck's bicep. Santana scooted up the bed slowly traced along Puck's mohawk with her finger. Waking up, he turned and wrapped his arms around her waist. "Morning babe." She crawled back down so she could cuddle with her hubby and gave him a weak 'morning' before kissing him.

They laid together until Santana decided it was time for them to get up and eat. She got up and opened the curtains that covered the oceans view and looked back to Puck.

"Babe, time to get up." She heard him groan into the pillow he used to replace her body with and slowly leaned up.

"What are we doing today?" He asked as he walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, pecking her neck.

She leaned back against him and shrugged. "I want a day on the beach. I need to get my tan on." She smiled and pecked his lips before he turned around to go brush his teeth. She followed shortly after repeating his actions.

Santana was glad they were renting a house and not staying in a hotel for the weeks they were staying there. She was amazed they could afford it and if it was a couple years ago they would probably be in one of those one room hotel rooms. Puck had certainly done right working his way up the business ladder and now was making the big bucks.

Once they finally went down to the beach, Santana decided she wanted to bring up the subject that had been bugging her lately. "Babe do you think we will ever have kids?"

Puck looked at her like she had just spoken in another language. Sure she knew he probably wasn't expecting that but she figured he wouldn't want kids since the whole Beth situation. It seemed like an eternity until he finally spoke up saying, "I never thought you would want kids."

"Well neither did I but now I kind of want to. I want to talk about it at least."

"Do you want kids? Someday?"

Santana smiled. "I think so. It's just..seeing people with their babies, it just makes me think about what I could be missing out on, you know? Do you?"

"Yeah, I would like kids." Puck smiled.

"Do you think we would be ready for one? Like if we started trying?"

"I think if we got you pregnant we would become ready."

"I want to start trying. Like soon. Like now."

Puck laughed, "Okay, calm down, Santana. You can't just decide in a five minute conversation that you are going to try to get pregnant."

"Just...trust me. I feel like this is gonna work. This is what I want. Is this what you want?"

He sighed and said, "You're crazy. You know that right?" She leaned up and kissed him before smiling and snuggling against him.

It turned out getting pregnant wasn't going to be as easy as Santana initially thought. It had been six months since they started trying, and nothing was happening. Puck thought they should keep trying for a while but Santana felt something was up. They already knew he could get girls pregnant, so it had to be her right? Something was wrong with her and she needed to find out what.

The doctors they went to didn't give them much information. He said there seemed to be nothing wrong with her and told her to be patient and keep trying. She had definitely regretted spending all that money just for that advice, but what could she do?

A few more months pass and nothing. She was getting so frustrated with herself. Stupid teenagers did this everyday without even trying. Still, Puck was always there to tell her everything would work out. She was starting to second guess herself.

One day, Puck and her met up with Kurt and Blaine who they hadn't seen since high school. She was quick to see that a lot had changed about them. They spent about 20 minutes looking at pictures of their five kids they adopted. Apparently they were siblings that would have been separated without them. They said even though it was hard work, but they would never take back adopting them. Those kids were the pride of their lives. Santana was really fascinated with it. Maybe this was the road for them to take too. She talked to Kurt for what seemed like forever to Puck about all their kids and the process. They had a 16 year old girl, a 13 year old girl, a 9 year old boy, a 7 year old girl, and a 5 year boy. Kurt told her about how they originally were matched with the five year old but then they found out he had siblings and decided to take them also.

This conversation got Santana thinking and when they got home she decided to bring it up to Puck.

"You want to adopt? I thought you wanted a baby?"

"Well I'm sure we can adopt a baby or something close. But like why are we still trying for a baby when it obvious I'm not getting pregnant anytime soon."

"You don't know that, babe. You could get pregnant anytime. Are you sure you don't want to keep trying?"

"Do you want a biological baby that bad? I just really hate thinking I might be pregnant and never being pregnant. You heard Kurt. Why have our own when there are plenty of kids out there that need a loving home?"

"I'm fine with adoption, babe. Beth was adopted. And I know that there are many kids out there. I'm not against adopting. I just never thought we would adopt."

She kissed him sighing, "Can we at least look into it?"

He nodded. "Go for it. In the meantime, I want to keep trying. You could get pregnant anytime."

She nodded even though in her heart she felt that she wasn't getting pregnant anytime soon.

After a whole lot of researching, Santana came into their living room with her notebook where she kept all her notes. "Babe, come in here." She looked up from her notebook when she heard him come in and sat down. She moved close to him and said, "Ok, I've done my research." Santana was having a lazy day, with her glasses on while sporting her natural curls.

"Okay? Tell me what you have."

"Well to be very basic, there are different ways to do it. We could do the whole birth mother who hasn't had her baby yet, but if we are lucky enough to even get chosen, there will be like 20 couples behind us willing to take the baby also. We could adopt through foster care which is cost free but cost isn't really a problem for us. Or we can adopt internationally which is more expensive."

"Have you thought about which one of those we should do?"

"Yeah. I don't think we should do the whole newborn because like that would be really hard and long but I like the ideas of both foster care and international. What do you think?"

"I'm okay with both of those ones. We have the money for international."

"Yeah, I just don't know where we would adopt from if we did it internationally."

"What about Africa?"

She nodded. "Okay." She smiled and buried her head into him. "I love you so much. I can't believe we are really doing this."

"Me either, babe." He smiled but was a little more weary of what they were doing. There was so much unknown when it came to adoption. Would they even be able to love an adopted child like they would love their own?

Their decision gave Santana more research to do while Puck was working during the day. She also met up with Kurt many times to talk about things and get advice. He was 100% supportive and promised he would decorate the child's room when they found out if it was a boy or a girl.

The paperwork involved with adoption was something neither of them ever anticipated. Puck would come home to Santana filling out the huge packets of paperwork and handing him some stuff he needed to fill out. He constantly got texts at work asking him questions for the paperwork. They had to decide their age preference which they decided was newborn to 3 years old. They finally turned in all the paperwork only to be given more forms to fill out while they waited to be matched with a kid. They soon found out that the waiting process was a whole lot harder than the paperwork. She spent days just looking through magazines thinking about how they could decorate the room and what toys they would get.

One day, Santana logged onto her email to see an email from their agency. She had been used to emails coming in updating people on adoption laws and stuff that she wasn't as worried about, but this email was different. Inside held a picture of a two year old girl from Ethiopia. She was so beautiful, Santana couldn't help but cry. She quickly forwarded the email to Pucks work email and sat down just staring at the picture of her. Her name was Batri. Puck had emailed back saying how cute she was and that when he could come home they would go out to dinner to celebrate. It would still be months before they would be able to bring her home, but it didn't matter because it was so worth it. When Puck got home, they went out and talked for hours about it. She really wasn't sure if Puck really wanted this at first, but that night confirmed to her that he was happy.

Kurt and Santana had been working on who they had given the American name Abby's room. Santana decided that she wanted it to be a surprise for Puck even though she was pretty sure he had peaked in a few times. All that mattered though was how Abby would react to it. Their plane took off in two weeks and she had a lot to do before then. Puck was taking time off of work since they were going to be in Ethiopia for two weeks. Their adoption agency suggested that they take some items to donate to the orphanage so they got a suitcase full of some of the requested items that they said they needed, got packed, and headed to the airport.

Santana was beaming as they drove to the airport. She put her hand on Puck's thigh, rubbing it gently before saying, "Babe, I'm so nervous."

"Why are you nervous?"

Santana loved Puck for how calm he was. He always did a good job of keeping her at ease.

"I mean like..what if she hates us? Or what if they sent us the wrong picture or something and they send us back?"

"I doubt that will happen, babe. I think these people know what they are doing."

The plane ride was excruciating. Once they finally arrived, they had to drive to the orphanage which was another four hours away. They slept most of the car ride and when the driver finally arrived, he lightly poked them to wake them up. Santana was startled of course and screamed but then she realized where she was and she woke up Puck. How he stayed asleep through her scream she still has no idea, but her getting him awake was a whole lot easier.

They were greeted in the front of the orphanage by a nice middle aged women. She led them to the room where the adoptive parents sometimes stay and they put their stuff in it. Santana took note of how small and not so nice it was and could tell Puck did to. When she told the lady about the donations she brought for them she was overjoyed and gave her a hug. She was caught off guard but managed to return the hug.

They were then asked to follow her to meet baby Abby. She talked about how much she loved the name which gave Santana a certain pride. Truth be told though, Santana was dying inside. She didn't want the first time meeting her to be one of those times when the baby is wailing and doesn't know what's going on even if that may happen. She had seen enough videos of those experiences.

She let them sit in the room that looked like it could be her office and left to go get Abby.

"I thought this day would never come," Santana said before taking his hand.

"Just remember, even if she cries that doesn't mean she hates us. She's probably gonna be scared and we can't blame her for crying."

"I know babe..." She was interrupted by the women coming back into the room carrying their little girl. They both simultaneously stood up to see her. She was the most gorgeous thing Santana had ever seen and could feel her eyes become teary. The brown eyed two year old looked like she didn't know what was going on but didn't look as scared as Santana or Puck had pictured her. The lady told them that they had been calling her by her name ever since she told them it and Abby loves it. When they were asked if they wanted to hold her, Santana suddenly became really nervous. Her heart melted when Abby put out her arms to them gesturing for one of them to hold her. Santana looked to Puck and he gave her the nod to take her. Santana slowly took the girl from her arms and felt how light the girl was. She seemed too small for a two year old. She finally saw exactly what all the months of paperwork and waiting was for. She felt like her daughter had been lost all this time and they just found her.

The lady told them that she would give them some alone time and be back in a bit. They nodded and Santana turned to Puck so that Abby could see him too. They talked and played with her and she went back and forth from their arms throughout the time. She was very quiet, but they got a couple smiles out of her. Puck looked like he just won the jackpot and Santana loved that look on his face.

She leaned up to give him a kiss saying, "She's perfect."

"I know. She's ours."

The worker came back in a blink and Abby held onto Puck, not wanting to be let go of. He rubbed her back and kissed the top of her head. The lady said that the kids long for holding time because there aren't enough workers to give them all one on one attention. They then got a tour of the orphanage and Santana was brought to tears by the second minute in. A room holding at least 20 kids was about the size of their kitchen. They were taken through one of the infant rooms where there was about two babies in every crib. They saw a couple of premature babies that they had taken in to give them the right medical care. Their supplies was limited and thats why they were so happy to get the items from them. They were then taken through another infant room but it held 1-2 year olds. This is the room where Abby stayed in and Puck noticed how her grip became tighter around him. These kids were very cute and a lot of them were putting there hands out to be held. The lady said after they got some of their paperwork done they could play with the kids if they wanted. They were going to be there for fourteen days after all.

They then were taken through a room with four to six year olds. There weren't as many of them but there was enough to fill up six bunk beds. The kids were nice and responded to them well. Then there was the 7-9 years olds and there were about 8 of them. The orphanage mainly does infants but they go up to the maximum of ten.

They all seemed so happy with having so little. It amazed her and she was happy to be giving at least one of them a nice family. They followed her back to her office so they could sign some papers. Santana did her share of signing and then took Abby so that Puck could sign them to. They were given some outfits that they could use if they didn't bring outfits of their own. They were glad that they brought some when they realized that the two outfits handed to them were supposed to last fourteen days. After they were done with the paperwork, they were allowed to go 'bond' with Abby so they went back to their room.

They played and played with her until she finally fell asleep on Pucks chest. They then took some time to look at her and take pictures of her with her iPhone which made her feel really guilty for having when everyone else had so little. She snuggled against Pucks side and the three of them laid there like a small family.

Santana looked up and kissed him on the cheek. "I'm so glad we did this babe."

"Me too."

They spent the next couple days learning Abby's daily routine and playing with some of the other kids. There were so many babies that were just dying for attention and they felt good that they could give some of them attention even if it was just for a couple minutes. By the end of the days they were wiped out. Abby usually liked to be in one of their arms unless she was right next to them. She had warmed up to them a lot since their first meeting and was even talking a little. Even if they couldn't understand what she was saying, it was still amazing to see how much she had changed since day one.

The fourteen days went by quickly and suddenly they realized they had to pack again and leave. The lady said her final goodbye to Abby and so did some of the other workers. They were sad she was leaving but happy she was going to have a family. She was a little fussy on the car ride to the airport but they couldn't really blame her. They were both worried about how she would be on the plane. When they got checked in and onto the plane they were both exhausted. Everything was harder with a little two year old. All three of them slept on the way there but it wasn't long before Santana had to entertain Abby and get up to change her diaper. The bathroom in the airplanes were so tiny she didn't know how she was gonna do it. Everything was moving and Abby was playing with her belly button. She couldn't help but laugh at the situation and when they finally finished there were three people waiting outside the restroom. Abby was fussy for the rest of the ride home but she was soon very observed in Santana's iPhone when she played an episode of Dora the Explorer.

Many many hours later, just when they thought the plane ride would never end, they landed. The whole bump of the landing scared Abby who began to cry but she was soon fine. Santana felt bad for the people around them but Puck just said "Shes been better than any other two year old I've seen on a flight this long. They can handle two minutes of crying." They had gotten off the plane and were greeted with both of their parents, Brittany and Artie, and Kurt and Blaine waiting for them. They were all so happy to see little Abby who was scared at first with all the new people but slowly warmed up to them. After going out to eat with everyone and celebrating, they drove home with Abby sound asleep in her car seat.

Her room was ready and everything but Puck thought it would be better if she slept in her crib by their bed like she did in the orphanage for a couple days. Then they laid there watching Abby sleep and snuggling close to each other. Finally, they felt like everything was complete.

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