A/N: Hey everyone!!!! I needed to write this to relieve stress. It is currently 12:00 am and I am fricking tired. Sorry for the swearing in this but it's Puck. I needed to make it realistic. This will be a chapter story!!! I've recently been obsessed with Puck and Rachel and it's starting to affect my grades. You see, my friends came to sleep over for a math project a couple nights ago and I was totally obsessed with reading Puck and Rachel fics. Unfortunately they can't do any work while I'm reading so we ended up pulling an all-nighter and they got kind of pissed. So I am going to try to cure my obsession and write this fic. I was listening to "Gravity" from Sara Bareilles while writing this so I'm sorry if it's kind of fluffy and mushy. Anyways here it is... Oh yea! This takes place after Sectionals and after Finn goes ballistic on Puck and Quinn.

A Somewhat Heroic Rescue

Rachel Berry was standing in front of the slushie machine in her school's cafeteria. She was debating on which flavour to get. She absolutely LOVED grape slushies but currently she was thinking about expanding her tastes and trying something like cherry or orange. Now most people think that Rachel Berry would positively detest slushies, seeing as she got on slammed in her face every morning. But truth was that Rachel loved the icy mush that people considered liquid (as long as it wasn't in her face of course.) She gave up and finally settled on grape. Screw trying new things, her life was perfect the way it was. Of course that was a COMPLETE lie. She had no boyfriend, (after her completely messed up relationship with Puck) no friends and basically nothing to live for except for the fact that she was going to be a star. Now normally that was enough for her, but lately she just wanted to fit into high school and have people accept her for who she was. She mentally resolved to step down from some solos and give more parts to Mercedes. The girl had surprised her after that amazing ballad she had performed in front of Glee. She had an amazing voice considering the fact that she never had Rachel's training.

All of a sudden she felt someone breathing behind her. She had a pretty good idea of who it was but refused to turn around and look at him. Instead she just stared at the slushie machine. Out of the corner of her eye she saw someone grab a cup and fill it with grape slushie. She watched as the cup came closer and closer to her face. There was no way someone would slushie her right in front of the machine. That was totally cliché, wasn't it? Never the less, if someone was going to give her a slushie facial, she would turn around and face it head on. She squeezed her eyes shut and spun around to face the person who was standing behind her. After she had counted to 10 (9 times) she deduced that she was not going to get an icy cold beverage thrown in her face at this moment. Slowly she opened her eyes and found herself staring into the face of Noah (Puck) Puckerman. Drat! She was hoping that she had been wrong and it had been someone else standing there. Rachel still felt awkward around Puck after their brief but intense relationship and painful break up.

Her ex-boyfriend looked down at her with a smirk. "This was what you wanted wasn't it?" he asked and held out the grape slushie as some sort of peace offering.

She was determined to hide the fact that her heart was pounding as she reached out and grabbed the slushie. Their fingers touched briefly and it sent an electric shock up both their arms.

'Damn it!' Puck thought furiously. Screw Rachel Berry! He had never felt this way about anyone. Not even when he was fucking Santana or having sex with Quinn after he had wanted her for so long. She made him feel good about himself, made him like he wasn't a complete asshole. Yet she had broken up with him, and it had been one of the worst days in his life. He wasn't into relationships and all that shit, but with Rachel, it had just felt right.

"Thanks Noah" she said as she smiled shyly at him.

"No problem Berry" he smirked. Suddenly the football team entered the room. Oh great. He thought. He needed to leave Berry in case the jocks saw them together and gave her even more shit than before. The football team had given him ALOT of crap ever since he joined the Glee club and he didn't want them to bug Berry because of him. "I gotta go" he said as he grinned down at her "But trust me, it's for your own good." He gave her his infamous smirk and turned to walk to the other side of the room.

Rachel just stood there, stunned at the exchange between Noah and her. Why had she left so suddenly? She asked herself confused. She was too busy pondering over what had happened that she didn't even notice the football team waltz over to the slushie machine and get a large orange slushie.

She didn't notice but Puck sure did. He felt himself tighten as he watched this total douche named Kevin turn around and face Rachel. Before Puck could run over there and beat the crap out of him, Kevin took his slushie and threw it in Rachel's face. It all happened so fast, Puck had started running over to them when he first realized what was going on and the next thing he knew, Kevin was lying on the floor and Puck was on top of him, his fist in the air, ready to punch him again. After he had made a complete mess of Kevin's face Puck glanced up only to see a shocked Rachel Berry with orange slushie dripping from the tips of her hair. Damn. She was smoking hot when she was surprised. Then again, she was fricking hot most of the time. Puck snapped himself out of his thoughts and looked at the bitch lying pathetically on the floor. It hadn't been much of a fight, Puck was stronger than all of the guys on his team. He had realized that after the coach had made them all take a fitness test right after they had joined the team. He tried to find something threatening to say but seeing Rachel like that totally took his breath away. Fuck, he was starting to sound like a girl. Doing his best to regain his composure, he got off Kevin and turned to face Rachel. "Are you okay?" he asked sincerely.

"I'm fine" she said, willing herself to stay strong.

Puck could see right through her lies "What's wrong Berry? I slushied you all the time before" he said wincing at the memories "What's so bad about it now?"

"Nothing" she said firmly "I am totally used to boys and their Neanderthal like behaviour. It's just that I thought these cruel displays of manhood had passed and I didn't bring a extra set of clothes to school today.

Puck sighed. He should have known it would be something girly like this. "Come on" he said dragging her out of the cafeteria. He took one last glance at the miserable form lying on the floor and suddenly he felt awesome. He was a badass and nobody could mess with him. He led Rachel to his locked where he took out a white t-shirt and his letterman jacket. He glanced down at Rachel's impossibly short skirt. Thankfully it didn't have any signs of slushie on it. He took a moment to admire the incredibly sexy legs on the crazy chick before he brought his eyes up to look into her deep chocolate ones. "I'm not as stupid as you think Berry" he smirked "I actually brought a spare set of clothes to school, knowing that those football bitches won't stop messing with us until we either bow down and kiss their feet or kick their ass."

Looking up at him, Rachel Berry smiled. "I recall a time when you were one of those football bitches too."

"Well I'm over that now. Come on Berry." He said as he dragged her to the nearest girl's washroom. He opened the door for her then walked in with ease. He had been in there plenty of times, mostly he had his lips smashed against another girl's while in there but whatever. He threw his clothes at her and watched in dismay as she headed over to one of that stalls. "You're not going to change in front of me?" he asked, slightly disappointed. She gave him a look of pure disgust but he wasn't going to give up that easily. "Hey, come on, I need a reward for saving your sorry butt back in the caf. If I didn't step into I can guarantee you that they wouldn't be satisfied with just dumping a slushie in your face."

He was as Rachel crossed the room in three steps and stood on her toes so that their faces were only inches apart from each other. "Just this one time" she hissed.

He smirked. Noah Puckerman always got what he wanted when it came to girls. Puck watched as she set his clothes on the bathroom counter then proceeded to remove the wet freezing t-shirt leaving only her bra. She threw the shirt in the sink then paused and looked over at him. "Make one move toward me and I will kill you." she threatened.

He shot her a lazy grin. "Whatever you say ma'am."