Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
A Rachel Berry and Santana Lopez fanfic;
By emmielovestonks;
Disclaimer – I own nothing but the plot.
This is the first time that I've written a Glee fanfic and I'm super excited to be writing it. I've wanted to write one for ages but couldn't think of a good enough storyline. I hope you all enjoy this because I'm excited for you all to read it. Also, I cannot wait for September for season 4 to start!
High heels were the only sound echoing through the otherwise silent corridor, along with the steady breathing of a short brunette with the taste of sweet memories on the tip of her tongue as she walked through familiar, yet slightly different corridors where she spent four incredible years of her life. The glowing red lockers still lined the walls with new posters with unfamiliar names campaigning for student president and to join the numerous clubs at school.
Rachel Lopez-Berry had arrived at the school early this Monday morning at a special request of one William Shuester who was still the choir master behind the famous New Directions at McKinley High. She'd left her wife, Santana, and their two adorable children, Oscar and Idina at home in New York City while she made this quick visit to Lima, where it all began for her.
She quickly made her way through the school and before she knew it, she was in the choir room where she had first began to talk to her now wife. Rachel scanned the room and the feeling of intrusion bubbled inside her. This wasn't her choir room anymore; there were too many unfamiliar faces on pictures and numerous unfamiliar trophies in glass cases around the room. However, one of them shot out at her immediately and she wandered close to it. Engraved on the small plaque, National Champions of 2012 from William McKinley High School, The New Directions! Rachel beamed as all the memories came flooding back and she may have let a small tear slip down her face before she heard someone enter the room behind her.
Spinning quickly, she saw William Shuester stood behind her with a bright smile on his face as he saw her.
"Will Shuester!" Rachel cried as she lunged into his arm completely losing her dignity in the movement. Will threw his arms around and hugged her tightly before pulling apart and looking at her properly. This was their first reunion after the birth of his last child with his wife Emma.
"It has been far too long since we last saw each other," Will began, "Lola is now 2 years old and is missing her godmothers!"
Rachel's smile faulted at this. Lola Rachel Shuester was Will and Emma's youngest daughter and Rachel and Santana were her godmothers. Will and Emma had two other children, their eldest daughter was 10 and she was called Annabelle Shannon Shuester and her godmothers were Shannon Beiste and Sue Sylvester, believe it or not. The former was Emma's Maid of Honour at her and Will's wedding and Sue gave her away seeing as Emma didn't have her parents anymore. The couple had one son, Joseph Finn, whose godfathers were Finn and Kurt and he was 6 years old.
"I know it has and we apologise," Rachel admitted, "Santana has just finished her maternity leave with giving birth to Idina and has started work on her fourth album and I've started rehearsals for the revival of Legally Blonde on Broadway."
"Congratulations!" Will cheered and hugged her again. He loved to hear from his original (and favourite, but he would never admit that to anyone except Emma) New Direction members about what they were doing and how he'd helped them succeed. He was also thrilled that Finn had actually named his son Luca William after him.
"Thank you, I'm so excited. Jesse is playing opposite me as Warner; it's brilliant to work with him again," Rachel informed the teacher.
Rachel and Jesse had bumped into each other in New York as they happened to be exiting the same building holding the auditions for Wicked that Rachel appeared in as Elphaba. It turned out later that Jesse had auditioned for Fiyero and had won the part with Rachel winning Elphaba. The two became best friends with working together and Rachel was the first person Jesse introduced his boyfriend Sebastian to. There was tension between the two divas at first, even more when Kurt and Blaine were reintroduced to him but Sebastian had promised that he'd changed, both he and Jesse had changed and as time went on, it proved he was right.
The trust between Rachel and Jesse gradually got deeper and deeper and when she and Santana started to talk about children, Jesse was the first person they thought of when thinking about a sperm donor. After many discussions, Santana was inseminated with the developing foetus, the egg from Rachel and the sperm from Jesse and 9 months later, Oscar Kurt Lopez-Berry was born. 2 years after this, Santana was inseminated again but this time with her own egg and 9 months after that, Idina Quinn Lopez-Berry was born and the couple decided it was enough.
Will once again congratulated Rachel and then they began a short discussion about how the children were doing until the bell rang and the current New Directions flooded into the choir room.
Rachel's heart began to pound and she licked her lips nervously. Will gave her a reassuring smile before stepping forward to introduce her.
"Everyone, this is Rachel-" Will was cut off by one of the seniors in the front row with long brunette hair and eager blue eyes shining with emotion as she looked at Rachel.
"She's Rachel Barbra Lopez-Berry. She's starred as Elphaba in Wicked for 3 years, Maria in the Sound Of Music for 2 years and she's just started rehearsals for the revival of Legally Blonde The Musical!"
"Rachel, this is Sawyer Maynard," Will told the older brunette.
"Hello, Sawyer," Rachel said smiling at the teen. She could swear that she saw Sawyer's heart start to beat more rapidly. She then looked towards everyone else and said, "I'm here today to speak to you about following your dreams as Mr Shuester here asked me to."
The group looked intently at her and Rachel's nerves faded away as she felt more at home in her original setting where some of her most favourable dreams began.
"As Sawyer said, I've had a few experiences on Broadway and that has been my dream since before I can remember," Rachel began. "I never wanted to do anything else and I'm so happy that I've been able to reach my dream and I wouldn't have been able to do it without this man here." Rachel put her arm on Will's shoulder and smiled at him.
"I need to you listen to everything Mr Shue says as he's always right in the end, even if you don't want to believe that he is." Rachel blushed at this remember the many times she had argued her point with the teacher and had nearly always been proved wrong.
"Wasn't one of your dreams to marry Finn Hudson?" One of the other seniors asked. Finn had left the army and took over the tire shop from Burt but he worked part time at the school in the arts department, helping Will out with performances and song ideas. Rachel wasn't surprised that he'd admitted to his relationship with the now famous Rachel Lopez-Berry.
"It was, but that all changed just after I finished high school," Rachel replied dreamily. That had been a dream that she was as sure about as Broadway but things changed and she wouldn't have had them any other way…
