Sam hurried to the choir room with his bag slung over his shoulder, before taking the nearest seat he could find. Broadway, that was the project for glee club- put your name in the hat and then pick your partner, simple enough. When the assignment was revealed, Sam noticed Rachel smiling insanely like someone who belonged in a psychiatric ward. Sam walked to the hat, and buried his hand inside, pulled out the name and shook his head slightly as he read out the it out loud.

"Rachel" he said softly, shrugging his shoulders.

He had originally hoped to get Quinn as his partner, but he eventually came to the conclusion that if he worked with Rachel, he was bound to win for the week. Sam wandered back over to his seat moments later to grab his bag.

Rachel smiled as she looked over to Sam, she had never been paired with him before, but she had assessed the talent of each and every member of the Glee Club and knew with the right song, they could be brilliant. She then looked over to Finn, she had longed to be paired with him, but obviously fate had dealt her a different hand. After all the names were drawn and everyone was paired up. Rachel strided over to Sam and smiled as she held a bunch of sheet music in her hands.

"So Sam, I was thinking we could get together in the auditorium after school and discuss music ideas? Try out a few I picked up in the library maybe. I know with my talent at both stage performance and organization and your voice, we can win this week for sure.." She said giving a reassuring smile.

Sam stood for a second, processing everything she had said. He laughed slightly to himself, knowing that Rachel would probably end up doing most of the work, and he'd just have to stand at sing, which is what he considered to be a rather brilliant deal.

"So I suppose you've mentally decided on the song then?" he asked, with an obvious sarcastic tone in his voice.

"Well, I have indeed come up with a few selections." Rachel said quite confidently as she then looked around. "There's 'As Long As Your Mine' from Wicked or even 'Class' from Chicago or…" She smiled widely as she continued babbling on, which was understandable since whenever she had the opportunity to discuss Broadway songs she would take it.

"Rachel, shut up!" Sam interrupted, signing loudly with irritation. "I suppose we'll go with Class…I can't imagine we'd be good at love songs, so that's the safe option" he continued , laughing awkwardly.

Rachel looked at him, raising her right eyebrow slightly higher than her left in confusion. "Well, the only problem with Class is that I don't think Mr Schue would advocate swearing…" she replied, shrugging her shoulders as she looked at him.

"Well, I'm not particularly comfortable singing a love song with you, Rachel. I don't want people jumping to conclusions." Sam stated, looking down at her awkwardly.

"Fine. We'll do 'Take It Like A Man' from Legally Blonde. That's generally to do with friendship, and it's in the Broadway category. That way we both win" Rachel reasoned, nodding her head once.

Sam simply nodded along with her. He recognized the title, though the lyrics were entirely unknown to him. Sam wasn't really in the mood to argue over song choices, and it wasn't like it really mattered. Rachel walked briskly in the direction of the auditorium, and Sam sauntered along the corridor behind her.

"Yeah, you take your time then" Rachel joked, laughing slightly as she spoke. "Right, okay. Do you know the song at all?" she asked, handing him a copy of the music. She tended to keep things like that in her schoolbag, just incase they were ever needed.

"Well, I'm pretty sure I've heard it somewhere, but I'd be lying if I said I know the words." Sam replied, looking over the lyrics.

"I suppose we'll just have to wing it and see how it turns out. We'll fix the bad bits later rather than sooner." Rachel replied, shrugging her shoulders.

Though she had never been a blonde, she found the musical very inspirational. Rachel had always liked the idea of being able to do anything she set her mind to; she would make it on Broadway if it killed her. After Brad, the piano guy, played the introduction Rachel began:

"First a deep breath. take it all in. Feel all those halogens warming your skin, smell how they pump in pure oxygen. See they care. I know you're scared, nevertheless think of the people you want to impress. Swallow you're pride for me, just nod 'yes' and prepare. 'Cos something's in the air…" She sang, looking at Sam as she did so. Rachel had gotten into the habit of staring at people while singing, as she managed to convince herself at it made a better connection.

"Here you'll become what you're suppose to be, you think you can't but you can. Think of the guy you want most to be, here's your chance to make it. So take it like a man." Rachel finished, nodding her head as a prompt for Sam.

Sam tensed slightly, looking down at the lyrics in his hand and trying to guess the tune in the very little time that he had to think about it.

"What does she want? Not really sure. Why can't we leave things the way that they were? Why can I never say no to her?" he began singing, slightly off tune which was understandable considering that he didn't know the song. Sam looked at Rachel, almost as though he was looking for approval.

"That I don't like. That's kinda neat. Guys who wear that get beat up on my street. Still I've come this far, I can't retreat in my shell. I'm in the hands of Elle…What the hell!" Sam continued, getting into the song. It wasn't as bad as he originally expected.

They both sang the rest of the song, both respectively and together until it reached the end. Sam sighed in relief, laughing slightly afterwards.

"See, that wasn't too bad. You should probably look it up on you tube though, you were a little bit off" Rachel indicated, squinting her face. "…and maybe we could like hang out or something" she continued, glancing down at the floor as she spoke.

Sam looked at her, raising an eyebrow. "I'm free every night this week…except Monday, Wednesday and Friday because I've got football practice" he responded, making his way to the back of the auditorium.

"Alright. I'll see you tomorrow then" Rachel called, watching him leave.

Rachel was rather glad that she had been partnered with Sam. It would be a whole lot better than she originally expected, or at least that's what she thought after their first rehearsal.


Yeah, I think this fic is gonna be full Sam/Rachel fluff (: Its my first Glee fanfic, so be nice. Constructive criticism would be good too though. If I get two reviews, I'll continue; If not, I won't.