Get Ready, Here I Come

Title: Get Ready, Here I Come

Pairing: Rachel Berry/Quinn Fabray

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or the film One Fine Day, I am just borrowing and having some writing fun.

Summary: AU. Rachel is a single mother and working actress on Broadway about to branch into producing her first show. Quinn writes a column for a newspaper and works too much. One day see's their worlds collide and they find something they hadn't really been looking for.

A/N 1: This came about after coming across and old VHS (yes VHS) tape of the film One Fine Day, it suckered me into watching it and then my mind wandered and I thought hmm wonder how this would be with a Faberry twist…and so I started writing stuff down…I have not written anything in what feels like a lifetime and it is probably in dire need of corrections, so all mistakes are on me...so that being said if anyone wants to be a beta for the story that would be cool.

Chapter One

Monday, 1.00am

"Mommy. Mooo-ommm?"

"Hmm." Rachel stirred from her slumber, squinting in the dull light from her bedside lamp, scripts and sheet music strewn over her bed from when she fell asleep trying to get some last minute work done. Her TV flickered and old episode of law and Order played.

"I'm thirsty, mommy" Matty her son stood beside her bed, holding his worn and tattered favoured teddy bear Phantom tightly against his chest, his thick mop of black hair falling across his eyes.

"Okay" Rachel sighed, smiling as she got up from the bed, ruffling Matty's hair and walking with him to the kitchen to get a drink of water.

"Okay?" Rachel asked as she sat perched on the edge of Matty's bed while he drank his water. He nodded at her as he drank, gasping when he was finished. "Okay then sweetie" she took the cup and have him a kiss on the forehead "good night"

"Wait! There's still some left" Matty protested reaching for the cup

"Barely a sip, you don't need it, time for sleep" Rachel moved to switch off his lamp.

"I do need it mom, I do" Matty pleaded his bottom lip jutting out slightly and his big hazel eyes looking up at her through his fringe. Rachel sighed, thinking – you would get your fathers big old moo cow eyes wouldn't you, so not fair – as she handed him the cup so he could drink the last remaining drop of water that was in it.

"Okay now it's good night for real, alright?" Rachel took the cup and looked at her son trying to be stern.

"Good night, mom" Matty said as he snuggled deeper under his covers and pulled his Phantom tight against him.

"Night, honey" Rachel again went to switch of his lamp

"I'm excited about the field trip tomorrow. I love big boats" so close…I was so close…Rachel thinks to herself as she sits back and looks down at Matty.

"That's good" Rachel says stifling a yawn

"The circle line is big right?"

"Yeah"

"Good" Matty beamed "mom?"

"Shhhh, sleepy time now" Rachel pleaded

"Is daddy coming to my soccer game tomorrow?"

Rachel sighed and looked away, focusing on the trucks and match box cars on Matty's bedside table, before looking back and answering.

"Well baby he's gonna try" She saw the sudden deflation in his eyes. Silently cursing his father for always putting her in this position. "Honey do you remember when I explained to you that daddy has a, uh, different schedule than a lot of other daddies?"

"Yeah"

"Well musicians, they don't always know exactly when they're gonna get a chance to play, so, uh, there's a chance he might not make it tomorrow." She said as she thought of her son's mohawked father and how many times he said he would try to be at something and failed to show up.

"But he's gonna try, right?" Matty asked hope tinging his voice.

"Yeah he's gonna try" Rachel leant down to hug her son "I love you more than all the shining stars on Broadway, including Barbara" she said as she winked and kissed his cheek, poking his sides making him giggle softly.

"Do you love him, mom?"

She looked at Matty's big questioning eyes, seeing the small flicker of hope there. How do you tell your child that you never really loved their father that they were the result of a one-time hook up? She thought back to that time six years ago where she had just graduated Julliard and was working as a singer in bars, amongst other things, before she caught her break. Noah or Puck as everyone called him played in one of the bands and was very promiscuous to put it lightly. Rachel had always denied his advances until that one night when she didn't.

She had been rejected for the tenth time that week for a part, something about not having the right look, and so after that nights gig instead of going home like usual she had decided to drown her sorrows with the band, well one thing led to another and the next morning she woke up next to Noah. She had never felt so stupid, or hung over, she was not a big drinker. Thankfully Noah was a good guy about it and after some teasing and suggestive remarks, things went back to normal and they stayed friends, as if that night never happened.

Until one month later, several pregnancy tests, curse words usually reserved for sailors on leave and a visit to a doctor, she had to tell Noah she was with child. She was so distraught at first; this had not been part of her plan. It was supposed to be graduate Julliard, pay her dues, and be a Broadway sensation, not fall pregnant from a one night stand after drinking too much because you were depressed.

Thankfully her fathers were very supportive and she didn't have to put her Broadway aspirations on hold, she just had to re-shuffle some things and Noah surprisingly had been as helpful as he could be, whilst never really being present due to touring and gigs, he always sent her money every month without fail, as much as he could afford which had increased over the years as he garnered more success and he always phoned and sent gifts for Matty's birthday and Hanukkah. He was just never really there. But he tried the best he could, so Rachel could never really hate him.

And she had eventually gotten her break with a small role in an established show, which led to one of the leads in a new ensemble production and she was on her way, accolades, reviews, nominations and steady work came to her and she could start paying rent herself instead of her dads.

Rachel looked down at Matty and smiled her huge megawatt smile, her brown eyes shining lovingly at him.

"I will always love your daddy, because he game me you." She said poking her son on the nose causing him to giggle "Now go to sleep...please"

Matty nodded and closed his eyes. Rachel turned off his lamp and exited the room, shuffling down the hall to her bedroom. She looked at all the paperwork on her bed, there was a new production starting up and she was the lead. Rehearsals and workshops would be beginning in a month. She was also co-producing this with her friend Artie who worked as a director, they had finally decided to form a production company after talking about it for years and years and this was to be New Direction Productions first musical, if all went to plan anyways.

She had a big meeting tomorrow with potential backers so she had been going over every aspect of the production before she had fallen asleep exhausted. She shuffled the papers together and placed them and the folder on her bedside table before getting under the covers, grabbed the TV remote and switched it off and turned off her lamp, sighing into the darkness and relaxing, finally letting sleep claim her. She rolled over and hugged a pillow, sighing deeper, a sudden high pitched siren went off

"What the?..." Rachel pulled back the covers and looked under the pillow finding one of Matty's fire engines, red lights flashing and siren wailing, she whacked the top of it a few times in frustration trying to make it stop, she placed it atop the papers in her bedside table, the red flashing lights illuminating her room, siren still going. Groaning Rachel pulled her pillow over her head waiting for silence.

"Mommy? I can't sleep mommy" Rachel heard in the darkness, rolling over and turning on her lamp to find Matty standing by her bed with his bear Phantom.

"I had a bad dream"

"In just those few minutes you already fell asleep and had a nightmare?" Rachel flicked the bedside lamp on and looked at her son. Matty nodded and Rachel cracked under his gaze, patting the space next to her and pulling back the covers, Matty's face broke into a huge grin as he hopped up into the bed and snuggled into his mom. Rachel sighed again and again switched off her lamp, not before looking at her clock and seeing it read 1.00am, she sighed again.

Monday, 6.30am

"Ow!" Rachel woke suddenly to a sharp pain impacting her nose "Matty, remember what we discussed, no hitting mommy's nose" she grimaced her voice thick with sleep as she removed his arm from her face and looked over at him sprawled out like a starfish next to her. She looked to the clock reading the time 6.30am…she put her head back down, and then sprung up again her hair sticking up in every direction, jostling and waking Matty slightly with her movements "Oh! Shoot" she shot out of bed "Matty, sweetie…time to get up"

"Ugh...don't wanna getup…" Matty grumbled as she ushered the sleepy boy out of bed and down the hall to get himself ready as she went to the kitchen to make breakfast and get organised, today was an important day and she could not be ill-prepared.

Monday, 6.30am across town

Bzzzzzz…Bzzz…Bzzzzzzzz. A Blonde head burrowed itself deeper under the covers trying to avoid the sound penetrating her sleep. Sighing finally, Quinn poked her head up, construction sounds wafted in through the window from outside combining with the still buzzing sound of her doorbell. Groaning, she shuffled out of bed running her hands through her shoulder length hair, making her way down the hallway to the door.

"Hi Quinn"

"Auntie Quinn!"

"Noodle!" Quinn scooped her pseudo-niece up into her arms and hugged her, quickly putting her down again and rubbing her face, stifling a yawn. Quinn looked at her cousin Sam standing in the doorway and smiled, moving aside to let him in.

"Lily, be careful" Sam called after them watching in slight horror as Lily had made her way over some broken floorboards and under some questionable looking scaffolding.

"Hey, watch your step!" Quinn yelled after Lily, making her way down the apartment hallway dodging power tools and stray pieces of wood and scooping Lily into her arms again and manoeuvring around to the kitchen, where she sat Lily down on the bench.

"I do it all the time, Dad" Lily shrugged, rolling her eyes at her father. Sam switched his gaze to Quinn.

"Does it all the time" Quinn scoffed "She doesn't do it all the time" Quinn laughed lightly, shooting Lily a faux glare, averting her eyes from Sam's raised and accusing eyebrow.

"I can't believe you still haven't gotten this place fixed" Sam said looking around, Quinn rolled her eyes and tickled her niece

"It's my work in progress" she shrugged "So, what's up Sam?" she asked as she watched the man begin to fidget slightly.

"Um, well, you know that, um, me and Mercedes got married last Saturday"

"Yes, finally…how is Mercedes, by the way?" Quinn asked with a smile

"She's downstairs with the car. Probably growing a brain ulcer hoping you'll say yes" Sam averted his gaze "I need you to watch Lily"

"Okay, yeah. I can do that till around six. Would that help?"

"No" Lily replied for her dad from the scaffolding in Quinn's living room, which she was currently using as monkey bars, Quinn looked back at Sam raising an eyebrow.

"Well…" Sam trailed off trying to find the right words, Lily saved him the trouble.

"For the whole week, Aunty Quinn, the whoooole week" Lily exclaimed excitedly, Quinn looked hard at Sam, who blanched slightly.

"We were scheduled to leave this morning on our honeymoon, but our nanny called to say t-that, that she's gotta go watch her mother have a benign prostate removed or something, in Ohio. Mercedes's parents are too old, my parents live out of state and yours are t-too, too crazy. The tickets are non-refundable, so that leaves you." Sam rushed out finally inhaling a much needed breath. "Please, Quinn, do this, please" Sam interrupted before she could say anything more.

"Sam" Quinn sighed "You know I would love to, but, I'm, I'm working on a huge story right now, so…."

"You're always working on a story" Sam interrupts

"Well yeah, it's kinda what I do" Quinn protested

"It's always the same old story with you, always about the next breaking story or scandal, the newspaper always comes first! I'm family Quinn that should mean something" Sam burst out pacing the small kitchen, frustration coming through his voice.

Memories of Sam during those first few months of realising he was a single parent flickered into Quinn's mind, she remembered people crowding him and offering help but he was determined to manage things on his own, rarely asking for help. Lily had never known her mom, it had always been Sam and Lily, until he met Mercedes and she embraced Lily as if she were her own. The fact that Sam was actually asking Quinn for help regarding Lily was huge and Quinn realised how much it's probably killing him to have to ask her, that being said she wasn't going to just cave right away for him.

"Here's a tip Sam, when asking a favour of someone it's always better to go with flattery" Quinn rolled her eyes at him.

"Could you please just be a grown-up for once and do this for me? Why do you always get to be the carefree immature one?"

"Because there was a decree proclaimed when we were kids and at this ceremony you were given the responsibility crown, whereas I failed to show up" Quinn explained, winking at him. Sam heaved a deep sigh.

"Please Quinn, could you just once make a small sacrifice and help me out? She really wants to be with you, Quinn. She loves you, you're her favourite." Sam added finally trying the suggested flattery track.

"Damn flattery!...Alright, fine!" Quinn relented putting on an act of being annoyed even though she was never going to say no to him "I'll look after the little noodle for the week while you go on your honeymoon and have copious amounts of "nap" time" she finished with a smirk and wink at Sam.

Sam let out a deep breath and smiled a small flush creeping onto his cheeks at her suggestion that they won't be leaving their bedroom while on honeymoon. "Okay noodle, so just you and me hey" Lily threw her arms up in excitement and pounced on Quinn hugging her tightly.

Meanwhile across town…

"Go pee, wash your hands and face and brush your teeth. We're in a little bit of a hurry this morning because we have to take your friend Lily to school and we can't be late because of your field trip." Rachel ushered Matty out of the kitchen, while doing up her white blouse and fishing her green and pink argyle sweater vest out of the clean laundry.

"I hate Lily. She thinks she's so cool." Matty complained, dragging his feet down the hall.

"Remember the hamster" Rachel called after him down the hall

"Lily?" Quinn called, crouching to look under her bed. Lily had decided they were playing a game of hide and seek and Quinn had been searching for her for five minutes with no luck.

"Hey Quinn, here are Lily's doctor's number" Sam waved a piece of paper towards her.

"Where are you?" Quinn muttered to herself, hands on her hips surveying her room, completely at a loss as to where the small girl was hiding. Sam waved the paper in her face again and Quinn looked at it and nodded before resuming her search.

"And the number of a really good babysitter, who can help you out tomorrow and Quinn, there's one last thing" Sam said as he followed her around while she searched for the elusive Lily.

"This is really important" Sam implored "My neighbour was supposed to take Lily to the Westside Montessori school this morning, okay? She lives in my building" Sam still trailed behind Quinn, crouching to look at her under the kitchen table where she was currently on the other side on her knees looking for Lily.

"Uh. Huh" Quinn crawled around the counter, jumping out on the other side fully expecting to find Lily hiding there. Her brow furrowing when no Lily is revealed only paint tins.

"Quinn? Apartment 801, this is her phone number" Sam indicates to the bottom of the sheet of paper in his hands as he clamoured over tools and paint tins still following Quinn around the apartment.

"Okay" Quinn responded clearly distracted

"Her name is Rachel Berry"

"Rachel Berry, roger that." Quinn nods, pulling back the shower curtain quickly with a big grin on her face, frowning when Lily is not there. She spins around quickly when she hears a giggle out in the hall and rushes out, crossing over to her bedroom again.

"Now if you want her to take Lily to school for you" Sam started, bobbing his head around trying to gain eye contact with Quinn. "If you want her to take Lily to school for you, bring Lily to her apartment by eight, so you won't miss them. If not then call Rach and let her know that you don't need her to take Lily, okay? ...Quinn?"

Quinn nodded as she opened the closet revealing Lily, who squealed and giggled when Quinn picked her up and tossed her on the bed tickling her.

"I'm gonna miss my flight" Sam said sounding exasperated "You know, I don't think this is such a good idea, maybe I should cancel the honeymoon"

"Don't cancel your honeymoon" Quinn said letting Lily up and finally paying Sam some attention, now that the game of hide and seek is over and her reputation as Queen finder has remained intact "Give me that" she indicated to the piece of paper with all the guidelines and phone numbers written out in Mercedes perfect handwriting – teachers, Quinn thought, rolling her eyes

"Are you sure?"

"Yep, positive" Quinn winked at Lily and ruffled her hair.

"Okay those are the phone numbers….."

"Say hi to Mercedes for me" Quinn smiled interrupting Sam and beginning to usher him back down the hall to the door.

"Bye kitty-cat, be good" Sam said in one of his weird accents as he crouched down hugging Lily tightly

"Bye"

"Bye, kitty-cat, by kitty-cat! Oh, oh! oh! oh!" Quinn sang as she opened the door for Sam to leave, causing Lily to giggle. Sam stopped at the door and rolled his eyes a smirk playing on his lips, he nodded and waved and made his way down the hall and out of the building.

"Press 2, honey"

"What? Oh" Matty looked perplexed for a moment before realising Rachel was indicating to the elevator button as she continued putting her folders into her already packed bag. Juggling the small hamster cage slightly he managed to hit the button labelled two.

They rode down in silence, Matty making faces at the hamster, as Rachel wrestled with her bag, finally winning when the elevator dinged signalling they had arrived at the second floor. They made their way down the hall stopping at door number 203, Rachel knocked and they waited.

"I wonder where they are?" Rachel asked, more to herself than Matty as they stood waiting at the door and had no answer after a second knock.

"Some more?" Quinn looked over at Lily as she finished her bowl of Chocolate crunch; Lily shook her head in the negative as she slurped the rest of the now chocolatey milk from the bowl. Quinn looked into her pantry "We are gonna need some other stuff. We'll get loads of good stuff" she winked at Lily taking the bowl and putting it in the sink.

"Why don't you bang on their door?" Matty asked

"We can't bang on the door of people on their honeymoon sweetie" Rachel stared at the door for a moment, contemplating what to do; it wasn't like Mercedes not to call and let her know that Lily wouldn't need to be taken to school. But then they were honeymooners and going by how they were when they weren't honeymooners Rachel can only imagine how side-tracked they must be now. She looked down at Matty and back at the door, raising her fist and pounding on the door.

"What time does your school start?" Quinn asked as she handed Lily her backpack, and then turned to shrug her jacket on, slipping her feet into her worn black converse at the same time.

"I don't know"

"It's probably nine. Everything usually starts at nine. But we're gonna get there a few minutes early just to be safe. What street's your school on?"

"I don't know" Lily shrugged

"Hmm. Slight snag then" Quinn looked down at Lily, hands on her hips. Then she remembered the piece of paper with all the details, she grinned and raced to the kitchen to grab it, looking over it as she made her way back to the front door. Smiling at Lily triumphantly waving the paper at her, she opened the door and ushered Lily out into the hall, locking the door.

"I'm gonna miss my boat trip aren't I?" Matty asked his mom as they got to the street corner.

"They're never gonna leave on time" Rachel assured "We'll make it. I promise" she looked up at Matty as she tied his shoelace, light rain had begun to fall. A bus drove past them; the billboard on the side advertising a newspaper column, Quinn's smiling face next to it.

"Tell you what, let's run, just in case" standing and taking a firm grip of Matty's hand, clutching the hamster cage in the other, they started to run down the street.

Just as they turned onto the street where Matty's school was a yellow school bus ducked around the corner at the other end.

TBC...