August 17th, 2022
It started as a normal day in the Lopez house. Rachel and Santana, laying together, in bed, naked, but this day was special. It was their 5th anniversary.
Eight years ago today, they finally got together. Exactly three years later they got married.
They were peacefully sleeping until someone, Puck and Quinn, came into their bedroom, probably expecting them to be dressed, or at least covered by a blanket.
Quinn shrieked and quickly turned around, motioning Puck to do the same. Instead, he walked up to Santana and said, "Hey, Satan, wake up!"
She groaned and replied, "No. Tired."
"C'mon! I need you to wake your wife up, its your anniversary and Quinn and I are here to celebrate with you guys, just us."
"You do realize that the rest of the old Glee club will be here later, right?"
"Yeah, but, until then, just us."
Santana sat up. She looked around and smirked at the way Quinn was facing. "Hey, Quinn."
"Ugh. Shut up Santana!" she said, blushing, knowing Santana was doing it on purpose
"Fine, ruin my fun. Puck, I'm going to go get clothes, wake up Rach," Santana said.
Pucks eyes widened in fear and he quickly said, "No no no no no! You're her wife, that's your job!"
"Are you scared Puckerman?"
"Yes," he said.
Quinn, obviously not aware of what was wrong, said, "For gods sake! I'll wake her up!"
"Quinn," Puck warned, "I wouldn't!"
"What's the worst that could happen?" she leaned forward and shook Rachel, "Rach, wake up!"
Rachel groaned, rolled over, took her pillow and hit Quinn with it.
Quinn, obviously not expecting that, sat on the side of the bed and tried again, "Rachel Barbra Lopez! Get your ass out of bed!"
Rachel leaned forward and pushed Quinn off the bed, resulting in her landing on the floor and Puck and Santana laughing loudly.
Quinn was very evidently getting frustrated. She grabbed Rachel's arm and drug her out of bed. Rachel landed on the floor and Santana stopped laughing and glared.
Rachel rubbed her eyes tiredly and said, very angrily, "Who the hell did that?"
Quinn ran behind Puck and said, "Noah did it!"
Rachel stood up and said, "Quinn. Puck. Please, get out of our room!"
They quickly left and Rachel turned to Santana, who had yet to get dressed. "That was amusing," she said.
"Give me PJ's. If I'm waking up early, I'm dressing cozy," Rachel said, ignoring Santana's comment. Santana handed her her Slytherin pajamas while she wore her Ravenclaw ones.
They walked out and Rachel ignored Quinn and Puck and went straight downstairs to their kitchen to get some coffee. Not wanting to walk over and ask she yelled, "Anyone want any coffee?"
She heard Puck and Quinn say no and Santana say yes.
She grabbed two cups and filled them up. She walked into the living room, where the other three were, and gave Santana her cup. When she sat down Puck said, "I can now take wake up a lesbian couple that is naked off my bucket list."
"Puck, if I didn't just sit down, I would have smacked you," Rachel said leaning into Santana on the couch they were on.
"Now I can take watch a lesbian couple cuddle off my bucket list," he said.
"Seriously," Santana said, "what the hell is wrong with you?"
All Puck did was shrug and put his arm around Quinn. They heard the doorbell ring and Rachel said, "I'll get it," she stood up, "though, who the hell would be here this early?"
The trio heard the door open and then a coffee cup drop, then a person, maybe two, drop.
Santana was first out of her seat running to the door, looking at the floor, worrying about her wife. She sees that Rachel has fainted and looks up to see what caused it.
She herself wants to pass out when she sees it. There, standing in her doorway, was 18 year old her, Quinn, Puck, and Rachel.
She looks back down at her Rachel and picks her up, knowing she'll wake up soon. She says to younger them, "Follow. Don't. Touch. Anything."
She walks into the living room to see Puck and Quinn making out. She rolls her eyes and says, "Hey, guess what! Rachel will be fine, she just fainted. Also -" she gets cut off by groaning.
She looks down at Rachel and sees her holding her head. Out of everything she says, the first thing she says when she wakes up is, "Crap. I spilled my coffee."
Santana laughs and says, "Yeah, don't worry baby, you can have mine. Also, do you know where they came from?"
Rachel shakes her head staring at herself sadly. She can tell by the outfit that it's senior year. She looks at Older Quinn and Puck and sees them just staring at themselves.
Santana decides to break the quite, but as soon as she opens her mouth her phone rings. She answers it to Brittney talking fast. She notices Rachel get up and walk to the kitchen.
When Rachel's in there, getting herself more coffee, her phone rings and she sees is Kurt.
"Hello?" She yawns.
"Rachel! How could you yawn? Young us are here!" He says excitedly.
She yawns again and says, "Yeah, but it's senior us. I don't wanna relive that. And besides, I'm only just now refilling my coffee."
"Fine. Okay, so everyone will be at your place so we can all talk."
"Okay," she said. "Bye Kurt."
"Bye," he says and she hangs up.
She walks back into the living room to see everyone sitting awkwardly. She walks to the couch Santana is on and says, "Stand." Santana looks confused, but stands anyway. Rachel walks around her and lays down, only after putting her coffee on the coffee table.
Santana decides to just lay on her, with her head on Rachel's chest, and Rachel is fine with it. She looks at younger her and Santana and they look like their eyes are going to fall out of their head. She decides to ignore it and says, "Okay, so, until everyone gets here, younger us asks questions to older us, any of us, and we answer it to give them a good idea of their future. Uhm. Santana, start. Just say who your asking."
Younger Santana looks at them and says, "Me. What the hell?"
"I'm going to take a guess and say you're talking about me laying on Rachel?" Older Santana smirks.
"Yeah."
"We're married. Today is 8 years of being together and 5 years of being married."
Young Rachel was next. "Me. Are we happy?"
"Happier than we've been since Sophomore year," older Rachel smiles sadly.
Then Puck. "Me. How many things do we have off the bucket list?"
"Got two this morning, so that's, like, 37," older Puck said.
Lastly, Quinn. "Santana. Are you still always being mean and teasing me?"
"What else would I be doing?" Santana asked, smirking.
Young Santana went again. "Puck. How long till you finally married Quinn?"
"How did you -" Puck started but she cut him off.
"Wedding rings."
"Oh. Well, this year is Six years."
Rachel. "Does he ever...stop?"
"No. Not until you go to New York, though you do go home one Christmas, after first year of college, and he does it again. So, I'm not sure if I'd even say that," Older Rachel says sadly. Younger Rachel looked down sadly.
Younger Santana looked at the Rachel's confused. "What are you talking about? Who's he?"
Older Rachel looked at her younger self then looked at older Santana. She looked at her as if to ask 'should I tell her'. She nodded. Older Rachel looked at younger Santana and started, "During summer before Junior year, my daddy, Leroy, died in a car crash. My dad, Hiram, blamed me, because he was on his was way to pick me up from ballet. About a week after he died my dad came home drunk. He called me down to the living room, though, at the time, I didn't know he was drunk. I got down there and as soon as I did, he hit me.
"He knocked me to the ground and yelled 'You selfish bitch! It's your fault he's dead!'" she paused and looked at young Santana, who was staring in shock at young Rachel. She continued, "He continued beating me, so, when school started, I changed my style. It was exactly how younger me is dressed. All black. So, more towards the end of Senior year, Santana approached me, we had a moment, and we became friends. After high school, we moved to New York together. At first, I was okay, then some shit happened, not going to go into it, but I ended up cutting again."
She was cut off by young Santana yelling, "Again!?"
Young Rachel looked at her guiltily. "Yeah," she said, pulling up her sleeves. Both Santana's and Rachel leaned closer to look.
"Huh," older Rachel said, "I forgot what they looked like fresh." That comment made older Santana glare at her. "Don't worry, I'm not going to do it again."
"Anyway," young Rachel said, trying to get the attention off that. "Can you continue your story?"
"Yeah, um. So, after that thing, I got super depressed. Like, tried to kill myself in the bathroom, depressed. So, I was in the bathroom in Santana and my's apartment, and I forgot we had plans. I was just thinking of everything and I gr -."
She got cut off by Santana shoving her face in her neck saying, "Please don't tell this part. I don't wanna cry in front of myself."
Rachel laughed and said, "To bad. I grabbed my razor..."
Flashback Rachel's POV
She's going to hate me, was all I could think. Santana is going to hate me when she finds my body.
Ah well.
I grabbed the razor off of the counter and sliced my arms until they weren't recognizable. I started feeling woozy, but I kept going. I was about to pass out when I heard Santana's voice say, "Hey, Rach? You in there?"
"Uhm... Ye- Yeah," I replied.
"Are you okay?" Santana asked, obviously concerned.
"Oh, um... Ye-" I didn't get to reply because I passed out.
Flashback End
"What about after that?" young Santana asked.
"I don't know, I was unconscious. Anyway, I don't think older you will live through the rest," Rachel said, nodding to the sobbing Santana that was laying on her. "San, I thought you didn't want to cry?"
She lifted her head and said, "I don't care anymore! That was an emotional day for me! I found you in the bathroom, passed out, your arm cut to hell. Not to mention the bathroom door was locked so I almost destroyed the apartment trying to find the key. Let me cry!"
"Holy crap," young Santana said, looking at Quinn and Puck, who also had tears running down their cheeks. "We're really that much in love that I cry at a story?"
"Yeah," Puck said, seeing as Rachel and Santana were in their own world. "Alright, look you two. I probably shouldn't be saying this, mostly because I don't know if you'll know this, but I remember saying this to everyone else in Senior year. I think," he looked at younger him and thought. "It's obvious to everyone, but you two, that you love each other. Everyone thought it. Everyone."
"We do no-" Rachel started.
"Don't even try to deny it," young Quinn said. "We all notice it. Sometimes we have glee meetings without you to figure out how to get you together. Those are our Operation: Pezberry meetings."
The two brunettes stared at the other four blankly, still ignoring the couple laying on the couch.
Finally looking away, the older brunettes noticed everyone just staring at each other on the other side of the room. They looked at each other and Rachel said, "Why don't you go to the bathroom and clean up. Not only is this our anniversary, but it's a Glee reunion, and I don't think you want everyone to see you after you've been crying." Santana nodded. "While you do that I'll change."
They got up, and didn't even think that the others noticed they were leaving.
The others didn't. They were back into conversation, and the older of the six were trying to answer questions about the future.
"So," young Quinn said, "do you guys have a relationship with Beth?"
"Yeah. She's 13 now and knows that we're her parents, and she understands why we gave her up. Also, she thinks of us as her aunt and uncle," Quinn said.
"Thank God," Young Noah said. "Okay...is Rachel still super hard to wake up?"
Rachel glared, "It's not that hard to wake me up."
"Yeah it is, Rach," he said. "So, is it?"
"Yeah," older Noah said. "I'll actually let Quinn tell you this."
"Extremely. I woke her up for the first time today, not to mention she was naked, but the other two were to scared to wake her. I ended up dragging her ass off the bed," Quinn said, with a slightly traumatized look.
"Well," older Rachel said, walking in in new clothes, "I wouldn't be so difficult if you let me get some damn sleep."
Santana walked in, also in new clothes, and said at the same time as young Rachel, "Language!"
Rachel scoffed. "I could be saying the same to you miss 'why won't the fucking toaster fucking hurry up and toast my damn bread quicker'," she said in an awful Santana impression.
Santana laughed. "It was taking forever."
"Whatever." Rachel rolled her eyes and turned to address everyone, "Everyone else should be here soon."
"Like, in the Glee club?" young Santana asked.
"Yeah."
They sat around talking for another ten minutes. When the doorbell rang, Rachel said, "I'll get it."
"Will you not pass out this time?" Noah asked her teasingly.
"Oh, shut up, Noah," she said and walked to the door. When she opened it she saw the Kurt's, Blaine's, and the Finn's. "Hey guys. Uhm, Quinn and Noah are already in the living room. If any of you want coffee, I'll be in the kitchen getting some."
The six of them went into the living the first question they got was Santana asking, "Where's Rachel? Don't tell me she actually passed out again."
"Uhm... No?" Kurt said, confused, "She's getting more coffee, and I'm going to go join her."
He went into the kitchen to see Rachel leaning against the counter with a smile, holding her coffee close.
"You know," he said, startling her, "I find it amusing how much you love coffee."
"I can't help it. I almost love it more than I love Santana. Almost," she said while slightly laughing.
"Is it hard for you? Having yourself here when from you went through that...tough time?" He asked, worried.
"Slightly, but now I have people like you and Noah and Santana, so it's not like if you leave me alone I'm going to try to kill myself again. I'm good. I actually told the younger me, Quinn, Santana, and Noah up until I passed out in the bathroom, but I didn't tell them why."
"What did they say?"
"Well," Rachel said, jumping onto the counter to sit, "I'm not sure because I was trying to comfort my Santana. She was laying on me and was, like, sobbing. So, you'd have to ask Quinn and Noah."
"This will get really confusing," Kurt said.
She nodded and they started walking to the living room, Rachel cradling her coffee like someone might take it. When they were about to walk in the doorbell rang, so Rachel went to get it.
When she opened the door she saw the Brittney's, Artie's, Sam's, and Mercedes'. She opened the door further, so they could come in. "Hey guys," she said. "We're all in the living room."
They walk in and as soon as they sit down the doorbell rings. She looks at Santana and says, "Your turn."
Santana laughs and stand up. When she gets to the door, there stand the last two (Four?); Mike and Tina's. "You two are lucky," she said, "only you four get the door opened to me. The rest got Rachel."
Tina laughed. "Well, aren't we just special?"
The 5 walk into the living room. They get there just in time to hear young Rachel ask, "Why are you guys in Lima still, though?"
Rachel replied with, "We lived in new York for Four years when we were together, but then we got engaged and decided to move back. I actually found a job quite easy, and so did San, so that's a bonus."
"Well, what do we do?" Young Santana asked.
Santana spoke up and said, "I am a lawyer at my law firm, and Rachel teaches Drama and is the director of the New Directions."
"Do I ever get on Broadway?" young Rachel asked.
Older Rachel replied, "One show. For the Funny Girl revival, we were Fanny Brice."
"That's better than nothing," younger Rachel murmured.
Soon enough it was time for dinner. All the older one's sit at the very large dining room table, but the younger ones opted to sitting in the living room.
Rachel walked in, before they started eating, and says, with a glare, "Get anything on one of my couches, and I'll lock you in the basement."
"Okay," they all said, some looking scared.
She walked back in and sat down. They looked at her questionably and she said, "I had to threaten them. I don't want them getting anything on the couches."
Santana leaned over and kissed her. She then asked, "What you'd threaten them with?"
"Told them I'd lock them in the basement," she said simply.
Santana looks at her confused and says, "We don't have a basement."
"I know. They don't."
Santana laughed and they all went to eating. They all decided to leave all the worry of time travel and how everyone got here to wait until tomorrow.
The ones who flew in, decided that they'd sleep at Santana and Rachel's, seeing as they have the largest house.
After eating they showed everyone their rooms then went to the living room to hang out.