Disclaimer- I own neither Glee, nor Doctor Who
Rachel Berry had always loved the stars.
Her fathers adored recounting stories to their friends of Rachel laying outside on the grass staring up at the night sky declaring one day she would be among them. In fact, Leroy Berry was convinced his daughter would be an astronaut for several years. That is, until they took Rachel to a Broadway show for her seventh birthday and she announced afterwards she was going to be a famous Broadway performer when she grew up.
Hiram Berry liked to say Rachel went straight from admiring one type of stars to admiring another.
But her love of the stars in the sky never truly died as Rachel grew. She still enjoyed sitting in her backyard on hot summer nights just staring up at the sky, wondering what it would be like to be among those bright shiny lights in the distance.
But never did Rachel imagine she would get to find out, until one day a man with a blue box showed up at her door…
"Oh fuck," Rachel Berry groaned as the contents of the several boxes she had in her arms spilled out into the hallway.
"What's wrong?" Sunshine Corazon, Rachel's roommate, well, ex-roommate stuck her head out of the apartment.
"Nothing," Rachel sighed, "I just spilled the box."
Sunshine, a petite Asian girl, came out of the doorway and began to help Rachel pick up her belongings. "Maybe it's a sign," she said.
Rachel raised a brow, "A sign of what?"
"That you shouldn't be leaving New York!" Sunshine exclaimed.
Rachel shook her head with a small smile. "You think I would be leaving if I didn't have to?" Sunshine shrugged. Rachel grabbed a couple books and shoved them in their box, "It's a little too late for signs."
The two girls finished repacking Rachel's things and carried the boxes down the stairs to Rachel's car. They had been roommates for about a year and a half, having moved in together after graduating from New York University. Both girls had big dreams of singing on the stage, but neither seemed to have the instant success they expected. Instead they held part-time jobs, Rachel as a waitress and Sunshine as a secretary, using the rest of their time to scour the city for auditions. Then finally, things started looking up.
Sunshine had been offered a recording deal with a label out in Los Angeles. She would be moving out there in several weeks, which left Rachel with no roommate and not nearly enough money to pay her rent.
Although Rachel was happy for her friend, she couldn't help but be a little bitter that Sunshine's success was forcing Rachel to move back home with her fathers.
Sunshine had offered for Rachel to come to L.A. with her, but Rachel wanted to be on Broadway and no matter how much she detested her hometown, Ohio was a lot closer to New York than California.
Her fathers had come to collect most of her things several days ago. Rachel had several boxes filled with what was left in her car, the same one she had driven to come to New York to begin with, and was planning to make it to Ohio by that night.
"I really am going to miss you," Sunshine said sticking her hands in her pockets as Rachel shut her trunk.
"I'm going to miss you too," Rachel replied giving her friend a hug, "But you're going to knock 'em dead in L.A."
"Thanks," Sunshine beamed and waved goodbye as Rachel got in her car and pulled out onto the street.
It was hard going home, but Rachel planned on making several weekend trips back to New York to continue to look for parts on stage so it wasn't like she was going to be gone forever. She'd be back in New York in a matter of time. And it might be nice to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life, Rachel mused as she watched several people running down the street, going so fast they looked like they were running away from something.
And she would get to see the stars again, that was easily Rachel's least favorite thing about the city. You couldn't see the stars at night, the lights were far too bright.
Rachel mulled over that last sentence as she hit a red light. Several people dashed across the street, screaming as they went. Night, lights, bright, good rhyming words for a song. Rachel filed that thought away for when she got home.
The traffic light turned green and Rachel turned right onto a side street, only to be forced to stop short. A large green statue stood in the middle of the road. Rachel scowled and honked her horn.
"Hey! Whoever left this here better move it!" she called, rolling her window down.
The statue turned to her. It looked like a hulking green man with four eyes in some sort of space suit.
"Prepare to enslaved," The thing said.
A/N- Omg, I can't believe I'm actually publishing this. I don't have a lot of this written and the chapters are fairly short, but I'd like to see your reactions so please review!