Sylvesters (Series)

This series is one of the longest running and is the most prollific within my Gleekathon. It runs on the supposition that Sue Sylvester is in fact secretly Brittany's mother. For reasons which were never made overly clear to Brittany other than to allow her to go to McKinley without anyone knowing who they are to one another, they have been carrying on this secret for a number of years.

This assumption is carried through the majority of my stories, whether it's mentioned or not. That is to say, at any time when Sue or Brittany are mentioned, except for very few exceptions (Such as the Paper Heart series), then you're to assume I'm intending them to be mother and daughter.

For the stories at the core of this series, the concept is to follow the show's canon but add a Sylvesters twist that runs parallel to that canon. That will be the case until such a time as I can't possibly work around flat out evidence to the contrary (aka, when we finally see Brittany's parents).

Stories
As the series runs over the majority of the stories in one way or another, they can't all be included here, only the ones where it is flat out used as part of the plot. Also the series breaks off into a number of arcs:

Core stories
These are the stories that run parallel to episode plotlines.

Season 1

 * The Sylvesters [123]
 * With My Little Eye [141]
 * The Smell of Failure [153]
 * My Girl in Blue [181]
 * Sue's Kid [195]
 * Story Time [223]
 * And Hair of Gold [240]
 * Oh Captain, No Captain [270]
 * Always Family [291]
 * Back in Play [312]
 * Go, Izzy, Go! [333]
 * Inside & Out [341]
 * Mother Made of Steel [353]
 * Kiss & Tell [385]
 * Unsee, Unsee, Unsee! [393]
 * The Morning Sanity Departed [439]
 * What's the Story, Lobster Girl? [461]
 * A Promise is a Promise [503]

Summer from Seasons 1 to 2

 * Like Father, Like Daughter [516]
 * How Do You Solve a Problem Like Brittany? [532]
 * Home is Where the Heart Is [550]
 * Of Two Hearts [579]
 * Painted Doors [598]
 * Mi Casa Es Sue's Casa [629]

Season 2

 * Cover Summer [642]
 * It's Britney, Dear [659]
 * No One Ever Said [677]
 * Cheer Up, Cheerio [704]
 * Tricks & No Treat [773]
 * Jack Frost [778]
 * Confess On To Holiday [818]
 * A Christmas Carol [790-794], White Christmas [795]
 * A Christmas Carol [790-794], White Christmas [795]
 * A Christmas Carol [790-794], White Christmas [795]

Extras
These stories feature the Sylvesters series universe but don't fall in line with the episodes. A lot of these include flashbacks, and Sue and Brittany's connections to Brittany's father, Joe Pierce, and grandfather, Joseph Pierce.

Past

 * The Golden Ring Toss [56]
 * The Pink Majestics [258]
 * The Sylvesters Vacation in Quebec [282]
 * The Sylvesters Vacation in Hawaii [284]
 * The Sylvesters Vacation in San Diego [286]
 * One Second Chance [364]
 * Story Number One [371]
 * Best Days [740]

Present (or near past)

 * I Don't Want To Talk [114]
 * Vigil for Joseph [186]
 * What You Don't Know [253]
 * Mine to Tell or Not [318]
 * Feel It In Your Bones [374]
 * Family On Break [378]
 * A Subtle Kiss That No One Sees [383]
 * You Know All My Secrets [399]
 * Bete Noire [413]
 * A Rose Foreverafter [419]
 * Comet [425]
 * Belief Enough For The Both of Us [429]
 * A Diary Decodes a Daughter [446]
 * Truth to Tell or Not [453]
 * Wishes on Eyelashes [455]
 * We Have No Secrets [715]
 * Crawling Back [719]
 * Calling In Schuester [737]
 * Have Your Cake & Eat It Too [739]

Sue & Donovan Wells
Another arc includes Sue's flirtation game with Glee Club substitute Donovan Wells.
 * In the Keys [343]
 * Filling in a Substitute [546]
 * Your Gentleman Caller [584]

Other series
To note, Sylvesters series connects greatly into the following series
 * Boston Britt
 * Trinity

Characters
All stories, unless involving a POV Swap or something like that, are from the point of view of either Sue or Brittany. Initially, the people in Brittany's life are very few who know her secret, Her family consists of her mother, her paternal grandfather, and her aunt Jean, who doesn't in fact know they're related.

Brittany
On her birth certificate, her name is listed as Brittany Jean Sylvester. However when they began to perpetuate the lie that she is not Sue's daughter, she began to go by the name of Brittany Susan Pierce. She goes by her father's name, even though she never met the man until she was sixteen years old, and she chose her mother's name as her new middle name so no matter what she would always know where she belonged. Having two names has been a cause for confusion from time to time.

Mother's Side
Jean knows Brittany solely as a friendly girl who often visits, at times with Sue. They chose not to tell her, out of concern that she might say something.

Father's Side
While on her mother's side she has only her mother and an aunt who doesn't know they're related, on the Pierce side she has a more extended family connection.

Joseph Pierce Sr.
Sue only ever tried to go and find Brittany's father to tell him about her once. Instead of finding him though she found his estranged father, Brittany's grandfather, Joseph Pierce. He begged to be a part of the baby girl's life, and Sue allowed this. Brittany and Joseph are extremely close and one of her most prized possessions is a stuffed blue hippo she named Blippo, which her grandfather won for her in a ring toss game at a carnival.

Joseph Pierce Jr, aka Joe
Joe is a veterinarian. He met Sue when she brought in a pet to his clinic years ago. They had a brief romance, but then they separated, he moved away.... Joe later married and he and his wife had two daughters. It wasn't until Joseph fell ill and Joe was contacted that he came to run into the girl he'd soon realize to be a daughter he never knew, from his union to Sue. Since then he's been doing everything in his power to reconnect with Brittany. She now has a room at his home, and Joe shares custody of her with Sue.

Cat & Izzy Pierce
Catherine and Isabelle Pierce, respectively 12 and 7 when Brittany meets them, are Joe & Charlotte's daughters and Brittany's half-sisters. There is no doubt that they are related to her when seen at her side, resembling her. They quickly bond with their older sister and go on to assist in her filming of her show, Fondue For Two.

Who knows?
From the time she was born, other than her mother, only her grandfather knew the truth.

The first person to be actively told was Santana. Brittany told her the truth the same day they bought their charm bracelets. After this, the only other who knew was Quinn, who happened on the truth by accident. Sue is unaware that either of the girls knows.

After running into her father and getting to know them, her father, stepmother, and half-sisters also found out.

Most recently, Holly Holiday figured out the truth, though only Sue knows that she knows.

No one else knows.