Now i am not sure how this turned out but i hope you guys like it. I was planning it to be a one-shot, which it is. But if i get reviews asking me to continue i juts might. So please review. Thanks!
I dont own glee
Quinn walked down the hall of a Cincinnati hospital, rolling up her long sleeve shirt that was under her light blue scrubs. It was a busy day in the ER and Quinn had thirty-five minutes until she had to scrub in for surgery and she decided to get a snack. She likes to take the long way to the vending machines because it goes past the nursery.
Quinn loves looking at the babies and seeing the joy they bring their parents. Quinn knows she shouldn't do it to her self because it just brings her pain of Beth, but it also helps Quinn realize that she gave someone else happiness by giving up her baby girl.
As Quinn was pulling her hair back into a pony tale she rounded the corner and stopped short. She couldn't believe the sight in front of her. Quinn's brain was telling her to run and she probably would have but her legs wouldn't move. Old feelings starting pouring through Quinn and she tried desperately not to cry.
Standing in front of her was the man she once loved-still loved. He looked the same. Well why wouldn't he, its only been two years. She couldn't shake the memory of the two of them breaking each other's heart. Their break up a mutual decision, but it was a loud, angry breakup and left the two of them hurt and confused.
"What the hell Quinn!" Puck screamed from the other end of the living room in the apartment they shared in Cincinnati. "I never cheated on you! Why do you always assume the worst and pin things on me I never did?"
"What?" Quinn yelled from the opposite side of the living room. "I never do that! But its not like you give me reason to trust you."
"What the fuck are you talking about? I have given you every reason to trust me, never giving you a reason to not trust me."
"Oh yeah?" Quinn said putting her hands on her hips.
"Yeah that's right"
"Then why did I find this in your pocket?" Quinn asked picking up a piece of paper. "Because I'm sure that Tessa is a girls name. And this seams like good reason for me to think you are cheating on me."
Puck clenched his fists and took a deep breath and said as slowly and calmly as he could, "Quinn I told you she came on to me and slipped that in my pocket. She was completely hammered and couldn't stand up strait. I turned her down though, you can ask Finn."
"There you go again trying to get other people to take over your problems!"
Puck looked at her confused." Wha- no Quinn" Puck said with disbelief and confusion in his voice. "You are delusional." He said flat out.
"Oh fuck you Puck!" Quinn started yelling again. "Excuse me for being a little tired with trying to study and graduate college, having to stay up all night."
"Why do you always insist on using that as an excuse?" Puck said a little more as a statement than an actual question.
"Excuse me?" Quinn said walking towards Puck slowly. "It is not an excuse. I study hard so I can make a living one-day. And it doesn't help when you come in at two in the morning when I finally have fallen asleep and you wake me up." She said stopping a few feet in front of Puck.
"Is that you trying to make me feel bad again for dropping out of college? Because I'm getting real sick of it Quinn."
"You're getting sick of it?" Quinn yelled. "Imagine what I am getting sick of!"
"Ok ok whatever, I've heard this a million times!" Puck yelled finding him self getting angrier.
"Maybe because we have had this argument a million times!"
"Well maybe we wouldn't have to if you weren't such a bitch all of the time because you're always so fucking tired!" Puck said mocking Quinn on the last part.
Quinn immediately smacked his face hard leaving his left cheek bright red. But before he had time to react Quinn yelled, "Get out!" She said pointing a finger into Pucks chest.
"What?"
"You heard me," Quinn said. "Get out!" Quinn screamed pointing to the door.
"No this is my apartment too, I also pay for it."
They both stood there eyeing each other down, both trying to catch their breaths from the creaming they were doing. After a few minutes of awkward tense silence Quinn said, "Fine I'll leave." Quinn said turning around and walking to their bedroom.
"What Quinn?" Puck asked shocked. "No"
"If you won't leave then I will!" She called from the bedroom, pulling out her suitcase and putting it on the bed.
As she was throwing her cloths and belongings into her suitcase she could tell Puck was standing in the same place shocked and not sure of what to do. Quinn realized that all of her belongings weren't going to all fit in one suitcase so she pulled another out. After about ten minutes Puck walked in to the room and took her already zipped suitcase and put it on the bed and emptying its contents.
"Puck stop!" Quinn yelled reaching across the bed trying to stop him.
"No you can't leave Quinn." Puck said trying to ignore her hand that was trying to stop his. "We can make this work."
"Puck that's what we said the last time!" Puck stopped and looked at her giving up the war they had with the suitcase, letting her put the cloths back in. "And look we are still back to where we were the last time." When Quinn finished putting the stuff back into the suitcase she zipped it again and put it on the floor, resuming with the half packed suitcase.
"Well that's just because you are stressed" Puck said desperately trying to get her to stay. "And I- I will work on my part in causing you stress just please-"
"Puck!" Quinn said firmly stopping what she doing trying to get Puck to stop trying to plead with her. "We just keep hurting each other and it is a viscous cycle. Maybe one day it will work out but." Quinn stopped what she was saying because she could see the hurt in his eyes getting stronger, and she could feel her self start choking on the lump in her throat. Quinn looked back down, continued her packing and said trying not to cry "but not today."
"Fine Quinn give up, move on and give up like you always do!" Puck said angry.
"You need to learn how to let things go."
"Your right Quinn." Puck said trying to control his temper. "I don't need to let things go, so I guess I will start with you. We do need to be over, it is not like we make each other any happier."
"Oh come on Puck you are being over dramatic!"
"I'm being over dramatic? I am not the one packing my bags!"
"Oh screw you!"
"Whatever Quinn!" Puck yelled walking out of the room and putting his jacket on.
"Where are you going?" Quinn asked walking to the doorway of their- now his bedroom.
"Out" Puck yelled opening the door. "Hopefully you will be gone when I get back!" And with that the door slammed and he was gone.
Quinn stood in there looking at the metal door, frozen. She started to fell the tears slowly streaming down her face. She started kicking herself for losing him. Thinking maybe if he had just tried a little more she would have given and stayed. 'No!' She thought to her self, 'It is better this way'.
Eventually Quinn got the will to walk back over to the bed and finish packing. About a half an hour later she had three suitcases, a duffle, and three smaller bags and three boxes neatly packed away in a corner of the bedroom. It was late and she knew she couldn't take everything now so she just took the duffle she packed, her school stuff, her purse and left a note telling Puck she would pick the stuff up later when he wasn't there. That is the entire note said because Quinn didn't know if anything else needed to be said.
Quinn walked out of her apartment knowing she probably won't have another reason to see Puck again. Its not like they share a pet (they were going to get a dog), and they rent the apartment and she just paid this months rent and their contract was coming to an end, so Puck could do anything he wanted with the apartment. But a little part of Quinn knew- hopped that they would work out some day. She knows Puck was right, a lot of their problems were the stress of her nursing school and his partying, and they would be able to work it out. She didn't want to regret her decision because she knew it was the right one, so she just told her self one-day. One-day her and Puck will be together again.
Quinn felt her self slowly letting go of that hope she was holding on to for those two long years. Standing before her was Puck and a gorgeous brunettes smiling happy at each other and down at the nursery. She tried to convince her self it wasn't him, but she knew it was him, she could never forget those dark eyes that enhance her every time she hasn't seen him for a while.
She couldn't believe it. Puck really has moved on. After everything they had been through she thought they were end game, and she thought he felt the same way too., but apparently not.
Quinn held back the tears as she watched the happy couple cooing at one of the babies in the nursery. That should be us she thought. They were supposed to be having another kid one day and be getting married. Then she noticed the neither of them was wearing a ring. That there kid was most likely a mistake just like Beth was. Although she doesn't like to think of Beth as a mistake, she technically was one.
Quinn couldn't help the envy she felt for Puck and his girlfriend or whatever she is. They get to keep their baby because they have a better situation than she and Puck did with Beth. Although she felt she was still young at twenty-three Quinn knew that she would be able to raise a baby now, not that she would want to, she was still starting her career after all.
Quinn could see her and Puck standing there seven years ago looking in at their beautiful daughter but knowing they couldn't keep her. Instead of pure joy their hearts were aching with sadness a longing to be able to keep their daughter. Only if it was a few years later they knew they could keep their daughter. But they couldn't and it broke their hearts. The only thing that kept them moving on was each other and the knowledge that their baby was better off with someone else.
Most of her hated seeing Puck move on with another girl and start another family, but a small portion of Quinn couldn't help but be happy for him that he could move on with his life. But as she saw Puck wrap his arm around her and she leaned in on his shoulder she felt bitterness start to flood her body. That was suppose to be them, she kept telling her self.
She kept trying to will her self to turn around and stop staring at them like a stalker, but she just couldn't move. She still couldn't manage to believe her eyes because it killed her so much to see.
But then she saw something and she knew she wasn't telling her self this to feel better. She didn't see any true love between the two new parents. Sure she saw friendship and true happiness, but no true love. Puck wasn't looking at her the way he use to look at Quinn, there just wasn't the same look in his eyes. He was hugging her the way he hugged Rachel after the glee club won Regional's-happiness but no true love attached-as friends. That gave Quinn a little hope that maybe that wasn't the end of her and Puck. She just knew that it wasn't going to be today, tomorrow or even next year. Because she was not going to be the one to break up a family.
Quinn was broken from her thoughts when she saw Puck look over at her. He looked shocked and a little confused as to why she was standing there staring at him. Quinn jumped a little; mortified she just got caught spying on a sacred moment. But she felt a little better when Puck smiled a little and raised his free hand to wave at her. Quinn smiled back happy that he was happy to see her.
Just as Quinn thought Puck was about to go over and talk to her, her pager went off and said there was an emergency and they needed her in the ER stat. Quinn gave Puck a quick wave and ran off in the other direction before she could get a chance see his face.
As Quinn was running down the hall of the hospital she couldn't help the smile on her face. Maybe this was her and Puck's first step reconciling. One day she thought.
One day.
So there it is. Please review let me know what you think. But this is a one shot so please don't set this to your alert because i am not sure if i will expand this story. Thanks for reading!