Pairings: Pre-Pezberry, Finchel and Quick.
Warnings: Some "name calling"?
Disclaimer for this whole collection: I don't own Glee
This whole collection is going to be unbeta'd and my first language isn't English.
A/N: So because I seem to have less and less time for writing, I decided to start dumping my unfinished ideas in this pezberry mystery box collection. I named it that because you never know what you're gonna get. It might be a drabble, it might be a scene, it might be a one-shot, it might be a short story, it might be a chapter from a multi chapter story (that I will most likely never finish) or it might be a request. This first one was initially going to be a multi chapter pezberry cop story, but I only wrote the first chapter, and since it's from 2012 it will most likely stay that way. This chapter have zero pezberry interaction, it's pre-pezberry. There is only Faberry in this scene (not romantically!) but they are talking about Santana.
"Hey Short Stack, I heard that you're getting your new partner today." Investigator Rachel Berry turned around and glared at her colleague Quinn Fabray.
"I told you to stop calling me that, I'm not that short. You're barely higher than me." Quinn chuckled.
"You're still shorter than me." Rachel huffed in indignation.
"To answer your question: Yes, I'm waiting for my new partner, officer Santana Lopez. And before you ask: No, I don't know anything more about her than her name. Lieutenant Noah just told me to train her, so my guess is that she's younger than us, most likely straight out of the police academy." Quinn immediately lighted up when she heard the name of Rachel's new partner. A wicked gleam twinkled in her eyes and she laughed out loudly.
"So it's finally our turn to get the infamous Santana." Rachel looked confused by Quinn's unexpected reaction. She had never heard about Santana before, at least not before lieutenant Puckerman told her that she had to take on a new partner.
"How do you know about officer Lopez?" Quinn was about to say something, but Rachel quickly cut her off. "No, never mind, I don't want to know. I don't believe in all the office gossip that you love so much. I rather see it for myself." Quinn smirked at her.
"Well too bad, you asked me, so I'm going to tell you what I know, whether you like it or not." Rachel sighed, but she quickly resigned to her faith because she already knew that it was no use arguing with Quinn. She always got her will. So instead Rachel wisely chose to sit her ass down in her office chair to listen. Her action seemed to please Quinn, who quickly started her story.
"Since you never bother to listen to the office rumors, I think it's my job as your best friend to warn you about your new partner." Rachel whispered under her breath "You're still not my best friend." Quinn ignored her and went on.
"Santana Lopez has actually become quite famous in our police district." Quinn made a dramatic pause, before she blurted out. "She's the police commissioners niece!" At this Rachel looked up at Quinn in shock.
"What!" Quinn hummed in acknowledgment and smiled in triumph.
"Oh, so now I suddenly have your attention. Yes, Santana is Armando Lopez's niece, and no she's not straight out of the police academy. I think she's actually one year older than you." Rachel furrowed her brows.
"But she's still just an officer?" Quinn nodded.
"Yes, but that has something to do with why she's here in the first place. Before she started in the police force, she was in the army. The rumor is that she was one of Americas first female Navy SEAL's." Rachel looked highly impressed.
"But when someone in her platoon ratted her out for being gay, she got an honorable discharge. Apparently the one that tipped them off about her being gay, just did it because Santana refused to sleep with him." Rachel looked appalled by what Quinn was telling her, it was almost like you could see the fumes coming out off her ears. Her voice vibrated in resentment when she spoke.
"I still can't believe that the government went back to that stupid "Don't ask, don't tell" crap, after Obama stepped down as president." Quinn nodded.
"Yeah, I agree with you, but it's still the law and we're supposed to uphold it, remember that." She motioned her hands around the police station. Rachel sighed.
"Well sometimes what you're suppose to do and what your heart tells you is the right thing, isn't the same. I just hope the next president will change it back again."
"I think your new partner probably agrees with you on that one, but for now back to my story. So like I said, she got booted out off the army for being gay. Then her favorite uncle, Armando Lopez, felt bad for her and gave her a chance to become a police aspirant here in our district. Since then she's been constantly transferred between all of our different police branches. Apparently no one wants to have her. They all complain that she's too reckless and that she refuses to take orders. I think they want to fire her, so they can get rid of her once and for all. But since she's the big bosses niece, they don't dare to do it. So instead they keep transferring her around, in hopes that she'll just quit herself. We were actually all wondering when they would finally dump her on us. So I guess it's our turn now, or more precisely it's your turn." Quinn smirked and laughed cruelly. Rachel looked up at her in irritation.
"That's just great! I haven't got the time to babysit some bratty kid, that apparently has decided to go rough. I have always suspected that Noah never appreciated my excellent advises on how to better run this station. So I guess this is his revenge." Quinn actually looked like she almost pitied Rachel, at least for a second that is.
"Look on the bright side, she'll probably be gone before a month has past. I think her record is three weeks tops." Rachel just looked miserable.
"Three weeks! That's a long time, she can do a lot of damage in three weeks! I have a ton of cases I have to solve, I can't put those on hold just to watch after some VIP kid." Quinn snorted.
"You're being a little over dramatic Shorty, you'll probably survive just fine. I think the only thing you have to worry about is if she'll try to get into your tiny pants." Rachel huffed.
"That is highly offensive Quinn and might I add rather stereotypical! Just because she's a lesbian doesn't automatically mean that she'll try to hit on every female she meets. Now you're actually just being rude!" Quinn laughed.
"I'm not just saying that because she's gay. It's because of the rumor that she's quite the lady charmer. I just thought that I should warn you." Rachel wiggled her right hand in front of Quinn's face.
"In case you have forgotten I'm engaged, and also very much straight. So thank you for the concern, but I don't think that's gonna be a problem." Quinn rolled her eyes.
"Oh yeah I almost forgot for a second, that you're engaged to that lumberjack you like to call your boyfriend. It's not like you talk about him all the time." Quinn rolled her eyes. Rachel shot up from her office chair and almost stomped her feet in annoyance.
"I don't talk about him all the time, and Finn certainly isn't a lumberjack!"
"Well he definitely fooled me." Quinn smirked.
Rachel huffed. "He's just a little bit taller than me, that's all."
"A little taller! He's at least a head, if not two, taller than you. You have to use a ladder just to kiss him!" Now Rachel actually stomped her foot. Quinn laughed.
"Take that back Lucy Quinn Fabray! You're just jealous that I have a great boyfriend, while you still keep drooling after Noah." That stopped Quinn's laughter.
"Shh, not so loud! I don't want the whole station to know." She pointed a finger at Rachel.
"That was a cheap shot. So yeah maybe Puck don't want to commit to me, but at least he knows what he's doing in bed. Not like your incompetent boyfriend." Rachel face paled.
"I'm never telling you anything ever again!" She hissed out. Quinn laughed.
"Well I'm just saying it like it is. On second thought maybe you should give Lopez a try, it certainly couldn't hurt you to find out what you have been missing out on in bed." Rachel looked shocked.
"That's it, this conversation is over!"
Quinn laughed, but wisely decided that it was probably high time to stop teasing Berry and get some work done. So she confidently walked over to her own desk, but kept an eye on Rachel, who was still fuming in anger a long time after Quinn had left her side.
A/N2: So what did you think about it? Feel free to tell me. And yes you might request more, but I won't guarantee anything. I have already gotten some requests to continue some of my one-shot stories from pezberry week 2016 (which have actually given me an idea for at least one continuation scene for one of the stories, which will be posted in this collection later on) However requests will most likely only be done if I have time and if my muse decides to grant me further ideas. But you never know, lightning might strike and your request might be answered :)