Hello. Alot of you from other fandoms who know me may know I have a slight obsession with Glee and in particular Puckleberry and Pezberry friendship. I've never had the courage to actually sit down and write something for them though but I thought it was about time that changed.
This is taken from a prompt that was on the Puck/Rachel LJ some months ago asking for Puck to be the head Gleek and Rachel to be the school badass, I figured I'd give it a try. Won't be a very long fic probably 10 or so chapters and POV's alternate between Rachel, Puck and Santana.
Anyway I hope it's okay :)
I'll Cover Your Heart in Gold Stars.
At twelve years old Rachel Barbara Berry learnt the most important lesson of her young life.
People are inherently cruel to anyone they perceive as different.
The lesson is learned on a cold January afternoon when she returns home from dance class to find her daddy crying in the living room and her dad nowhere in sight.
One look at her father's tear stained face and the utter devastation and heartbreak in his eyes is enough for her to know that things would never be the same for either of them again.
It seems incomprehensible to her, that someone could despise something about someone so much that they could take away their life without a second thought. That someone could be filled with so much hate that they could clench their fists and pound them into someone until there was no life left in that person.
Her dad dead, her daddy broken, her world collapsed.
There's a funeral and a wake but honestly Rachel doesn't remember half of it. All she remembers is the numbness that settles over her as they lower her dad into the ground and the feel of her daddy's hand clasping hers as he shatters before her eyes.
Her daddy takes a job in another city and packs their whole lives up into drab brown boxes. It's during the move northwest from Kenton to Lima that Rachel decides she was going to make damn sure she's as average as they come.
The girl with the big Broadway dreams and the bright shiny future, dreams no more.
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She meets Santana Lopez her second day in town, stumbling upon the girl completely by accident at the local park.
Santana calls her a midget and the girl that Rachel was would have droned on at the Latina about basic decency and the proper way to greet someone but the girl she's decided to be in Lima wouldn't dream of it.
Instead she turns to the taller girl, arches an eyebrow and calls her a skank.
They're pretty much inseparable after that day, Santana being fearless and powerful and pretty much everything Rachel herself is trying to be.
The Latina has problems of her own, feelings and circumstances she finds difficult to deal with and Rachel like to think that somehow the two of them together makes things better for the both of them.
Time ticks by and everyday Rachel finds herself fitting into her new persona with more ease and the pain in her heart lessens ever so slightly.
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Reputation means everything to the teens of Lima, Ohio and by the time the two girls reach high school, Santana's rep is very much planted in badass territory, Rachel finds herself considered a badass by association and in all honesty it isn't a bad thing to be.
People leave them alone, for the most part, and the only time there's ever any real trouble is when Santana and herself go looking for it or if some vapid cheerleader type girl rubs either one of them the wrong way.
The Latina tends to go straight for the jugular, her temper as fiery as her Spanish heritage would suggest and anyone who messes with them, if they're halfway smart, soon learns never to mess with them again.
They breeze through days upon days in their private little bubble for two until early into their sophomore year when a teacher with big dreams and sickenly good intentions forces Rachel out of her shell dragging Santana along for the ride.
