Everything that includes Rachel and Finn from season 1-4 happened, so this would be season 5.
I don't own Glee or Abba. Surprisingly.
Mistakes are all mine.
I just had this idea in my head for a few days so yeah... Enjoy :)
"Rach? Hurry up! The fucking ceremony starts in about 15 minutes and we need ten minutes in the car! Well, five if you let me drive!"
Santana knocked on the bathroom door where her best friend was getting ready since 30 minutes. Yeah, in less than 15 minutes they would see all their friends and teachers from high school again (except for one certain boy) and she wanted to look good, show them how much she grew up and that she wasn't the geeky loser anymore, but come on: they already knew her, it just had been one year. No need to dress up like Megan Fox on the red carpet!
"I swear if you don't get out of there in like three seconds, I will get a baseball bat and smash your door until there is only dust left!" She shouted and kicked with her foot against the white door with the big, golden star in the middle.
"Woah you should really work on your self-control, Tana!" The short brunette said as she came out of the bathroom. Well, with her white heels she wasn't that short anymore! And the sweet sundress she wore let her legs only seem longer.
"Finally!" The latina growled. "And now get your hot ass in my car, cause I won't be late because of your hair!" , Santana hissed and added sweetly, "But it looks really good! I like these soft curls! Which shampoo did you use to get them this shiny?"
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As they drove in the parking lot of their old school, it was already totally filled. This was the only day in the year where anybody who doesn't go to McKinley High would want to park here! It took them five minutes to get a parking place between trees and an old, rusted moped. Better than nothing!
Of course they were late, but they weren't the only ones.
"Berry, Satan, hold on!" A man voice shouted through the hallways.
The two girls turned around and saw Noah Puckerman running towards them.
"Wow, New York really suits you, Rachel! You look great!" Rachel blushed and hugged the former bad boy of their school whom she hadn't seen since the wedding.
"Thank you, Noah! I have to admit you also look much better without the mohawk!"
Since Puck left school last year he couldn't decide if he should shave his head or if he should still wear the mohawk, at least he was famous for it. But then he just shove it off, cause the girls in LA thought he was some weirdo... that was weird!
"Yeah, hello?! Am I invisible asshole?" Santana said and pulled him towards her.
"Hey Satan, nice to see you again!" He smirked and gave her a short hug.
"Of course it is! Okay, you know, I'd love to stay and chat about your newest hairstyle, but we are already late and I don't want to miss the whole ceremony... and why the hell are you both grinning like kids on christmas eve?"
Rachel and Puck looked at each other with those knowing smiles. The only reason Santana wanted to be there in time was cause her ex-girlfriend was graduating today and even if she didn't admit it, she wanted her back! At any price.
"We are Jews; we don't have Christmas!" Puck smirked and Rachel giggled.
"Whatever! You two are stupid, I'm awesome and now HURRY!"
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The ceremony was nice. Not as spectacular as their own last year, but it was great to see their friends from glee club again. The ones who were graduating today and the ones who already did last year. They came all together for one thing: the glee-club reunion! It wasn't an official reunion, but almost everybody was there and after the graduation ceremony they would all head to Arties house to have a little party with barbecue.
First, Rachel didn't want to come back to Ohio. She just didn't see a reason! Yes, her friends were graduating, but non of them needed her there: Sam had Mercedes, Blaine had Kurt, Tina had Mike, Britany hat Santana, Artie had his whole family! And yeah, maybe she also wasn't sure if she wanted to meet one certain ex-boyfriend... or she wanted to, but she was afraid of what would happen!
But then Kurt told her that her ex-fiance wouldn't come to join the party and Santana convinced her somehow - girl had a huge talent - to spend her two first holiday weeks back in Ohio, before she would fly with her dads to europe.
And as it turned out it was great to spent some time with her former glee club members - although the last year Rachel had contact to everyone more or less, only Kurt and Santana lived with her in New York, so there was still a lot to talk about.
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"So you record own songs now? That's amazing Mercedes!"
"Yeah I know. Everything happened so fast the last year and I'm just starting to realize it!" Rachel smiled and took a sip from her cocktail. It was great to hear about all the successes her friends made the last year: Mercedes was recording own songs and would probably be the next Whitney Houston soon; Mike just got one of the main roles in a new dance movie and was totally excited about it; Quinn was doing great at Yale and happily dated a guy named Leo and Puck did finally settle somewhere and wasn't fooling around anymore. It really seemed like all of her friends grew up during this one year out of school - just like Rachel did.
"I'm so happy for you! You really deserved it!"
"Thank you! And what about you? Did you get the role for Fanny?"
"They didn't decide yet! But I'll get a call the next two weeks..." Rachel was nervous. Not this kind of 'good' nervous, what helps you to do everything only better and motivates you. Nor the kind of nervous you have before a random school test you don't want to fuck up! No, this was the kind of nervous you couldn't stop or even switch off, never. She just had to wait and pray that she got the part and until then, her head didn't let go all of those 'what if' questions.
"Oh well then, I keep my fingers crossed! But they have to be idiots if they don't take you!"
She wanted to say something else, when suddenly a big, soft hand was on her shoulder. Rachel flinched and turned around.
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"Finn..." She breathed. Her heart immediately began to beat faster and faster and for one second she even forgot to breath.
"Hey Rachel!" The tall boy said with a sheepish smile.
"What-what are you doing here? I thought... you... you..." Rachel was totally surprised and didn't know what to say.
She didn't plan on meeting him today! Or the next two weeks she was in Ohio. Finn was supposed to be in Texas with his mom and Burt to visit some of his relatives. Why was he here now? What was going on?
"I kinda thought it would be great to see you again... the whole Glee club, I mean! Not just... whatever! Well, my mom said we could drive a few days later so Kurt could come with us too!" He smiled and Rachel was pretty sure her cheeks flushed!
"Oh okay... well... um, Hi!"
"Hey!" He chuckled, not being able to take his eyes off her.
The last time they saw each other was... yeah, at the wedding! Well, the wedding that didn't take place, but whatever. Since then they phoned a few times, but it wasn't the same! And now he was standing in front of her, in dark jeans and a simple white shirt, and totally took her breath away! If she had known he'd come today, she could have planned this conversation... no, she wasn't crazy, she just wanted to be prepared! But now her brain couldn't form one simple sentence... The fact that he looked this good didn't help it!
"Hi Finn, great to see you again! Come on, the others will be surprised to see you!" Mercedes said after a few seconds in silence.
Thank god! Finn smiled at Rachel one last time and then followed Mercedes to the group.
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Yes, the other were surprised to see Finn. Apparently he didn't tell anyone bout his plans to visit today, not even Kurt or Puck.
"So you're in college now? How is it going?" Artie asked while putting a big salad bowl on the long garden table, already fully loaded with french fries, meat, vegetables, burgers, baked potatoes, sauces, beer, juices and more.
"It's great, you know? A bit hard finding the classrooms and being there in time, but it gets better everyday!" Everyone on the tabel laughed. He was still a little dork!
"What? It's really big there!" He defended himself.
"And the party life? Any hot girls there? I'm sure you and Puck already checked them out!" This question came from Sam. How sensitive it was; asking a question about new, hot college girls when his ex-fiance was sitting two meters away!
"Um... yeah, sure. But I rather focus on getting the teaching degree now! I mean, no one likes old teachers like !" Everyone laughed by the memory of their old physics teacher. He was really old, like shortly before death! And one time, he seriously took out his dentures... during a physics lesson... while the students where writing a text! Urgh...
"Don't remind me, gosh!" Quinn giggled and changed the topic by telling the others about her experiences in Yale. Finn smiled and looked onto his plate, not really listening to what the blond girl was talking about.
He still had a lot of thoughts in his own head!
First, he didn't want to talk about hot girls, when the only hot girl he could think of was his ex girlfriend, sitting right in front of him!
Probably he shouldn't think that way anymore. It was over, since more than 7 month. Okay, on Valentine's Day something happened between them, but it didn't seem like it meant something to her. (He hoped it did, it just had to!) But to him it meant everything!
And secondly: he missed her, he really did. There was no day where he didn't think of her, think of what he'd done, what she was doing, what happened between them. But the more he thought about it, the more he saw what a dick he was. Yes, sending her to New York so she could live her dream was selflessly and brave, but not to get in touch with her for four month was just stupid. He was stupid! For letting go the girl he loved, the girl he wanted to marry, the girl he would give up everything for. But now he couldn't change it anymore and he couldn't force her into giving him another chance. The only thing he could do was to wait. Wait for her to say anything, to show him any reaction.
During his little dialog with himself in his head he didn't realize that she got up from the wooden bench, but when he looked up she was gone.
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"Hey, what are you doing here?" Finn asked as he came into the kitchen. Rachel winced and turned around. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you!" He said with an apologetic smile.
"Twice a day! Slowly I start to think you do that with purpose!" Rachel laughed and closed the fridge where she just searched after something cold to drink. It was really hot in Ohio, so much hotter than in New York, and she was thirsty. But since she didn't plan on getting drunk today and the few bottles of juice were already empty, she had to search for something new.
"So, what are you doing?" He stepped closer to her and leaned against the cooking island.
"Um... I was looking for a cold juice or something, I'm really thirsty, but it seems like everything in this house is empty!" She shrugged her shoulders and smiled up to him.
"You still don't like beer, huh?" He grinned. "Well great to see that not everything has changed..."
She raised her eyebrows. "What do you mean?"
Finn wanted to say something, but before he could answer Mercedes and Quinn came laughing into the kitchen.
"I found her! Oh, hey Finn!" Mercedes said and looked from Rachel to the talk boy.
"Um sorry to interrupt, but... Rachie, Santana is searching you!" Quinn said.
"Oh okay... well then I better not let her wait to long!" She said and went out of the kitchen without looking back at Finn.
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"Hey Babe, everything's fine?" Puck asked as he saw Rachel running out of the house.
She somehow looked angry. So yeah, angry girls were hot, but this was a mix between angry and sad and sad girls really were just horrible! Especially when they started to cry... he knew that from his mother and sister!
"Yeah, just need some time alone." She said quietly and walked past him without looking up. He really didn't like the sound of that!
"Hey do you maybe need to-" He started but she cut him off.
"NO!"
"Oh okay, I um, I'm here if you... need somebody..." He said but she didn't hear him anymore.
Puck watched her for a second, but then turned around. Why should he follow her? She wasn't his hot little jewish american princess anymore, rather a hot jewish american queen... woah what was he even thinking about? All he wanted to say was that she was an adult now...
Okay, he really needed a new, cold beer. Chicks could be really crazy when they had a problem with anything. He should stop trying to understand them!
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"What are you doing here alone, pumpkin? The others just turned on karaoke!" Kurt said as he sat down next to Rachel on the stairs in the back of Arties house. She was sitting there since 20 minutes, just looking at the little pond, listening to the cheeping birds and enjoying the setting sun. It was silent, but it was a nice silence!
"Thinking." She said shortly.
"About Finn?" Sometimes it was really scary how good Santana and Kurt knew her. They just had to look at her and they immediately knew what was going on in her mind.
"You should really talk to him, Rachel!" Kurt said and slide closer to her. "I know that there happened much between you the last year and probably I shouldn't interfere, I mean he's my brother and your like a sister to me... okay, no, that would be really strange! Ew... Forget it. But seriously, you two need to talk! About everything!"
"I know... but I don't know how!" She sighed and put her head on his shoulder.
Rachel wanted to talk to Finn. She wanted to clear up everything, so it wouldn't be that strange to see him every time. She wanted him back... as a friend, like he used to be once! Just someone she could talk to night and day, who would always listen to her! Someone she could call in the middle of the night just to bring her vegan vanilla ice cream from the gas station! Someone who would just be there for her, take her in his arms, kiss her on the head and tell her that everything's gonna be okay with so much credibility that she really believed it. But the other part of her knew that they couldn't be just friends anymore. There just happened to much!
"It's going to be alright, princess! Either way..." He didn't say anything else, but it was perfect that way. She just needed to hear that this wasn't the end of the world, that it didn't really matter. For now.
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"Ray, where have you been? We just sang Mamma Mia with the guys! You should try it to, it's so awesome!" Santana said as Rachel and Kurt came back to the group. She was obviously already a bit drunken.
"Oh, cool! Maybe. I was just in the backyard, you know... enjoying the sun!"
Santana raised her eyebrows after looking at her a few seconds.
"No, you were just sinking into self-pity! You can stop it now."
"What? I wasn't!"
"Yes you were. Oh god, Rach, just get over it and talk to him!" Damn, even with a liter of champagne in her system she could read her like a book.
"...Am I being that obviously?"
"Yes, you are!"
Rachel bit her lip. She didn't want anyone to know what was going on in her head. And now Kurt and Santana just found out what she was thinking about in like, three seconds!
"Oh come on, that's rubbish! Go in there, he's getting juice or something unnecessary from the basement, and talk it out! Now!" She pointed with her hand to the door.
"That comes from you? The girl who is afraid to tell her ex that she is sorry for breaking up with her, that it was a big mistake and that she still loves her?" Rachel put her hands on her hips. If she should talk to her ex, Santana could do exactly the same!
"Okay, see: you will go in there and talk to Finn and I will find Britany... and talk to her! Kay?"
"And how do I know you're not just saying that so I talk to him?"
"Because you know me? I never lie to you... Yeah okay, I already did a few times, but that doesn't matter right now. You just have to trust me on this! I want you to be happy and ...oh come on, pinky promise?" Santana hold up her pinkie finger.
Rachel grinned. "Pinky promise!"
And so she was once again dumb enough to follow the advice from her friend.
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It took her 10 minutes to finally go down the stairs to the basement. 4 to even find the door and 6 to calm herself down enough before entering the stairway. Behind her the door slammed shut with a loud slam. Great, now he totally knew someone was coming down. Don't freak our Rachel, it's going to be okay, she told herself.
She looked around the corner and saw him standing between two big crates with his back to her.
"Hey!" She said, just to regret it the second he turned around. Why did he have to look that good? Seriously, he'd always been attractive, but since he joined the army he wasn't just a cute boy, he was a really hot, young man! He got more muscles and his hair was shorter. Rachel saw a bit of sweat on his forehead and in some strange way it really turned her on.
"Oh Rach - Rachel! What are you doing here?"
"I... um... wanted to see if you need some help!" Probably she should have thought about what to say and not what to not say while she was waiting upstairs.
"You want to help me carrying crates?" He grinned at her which only made her knees weaker.
"No, not really..." Rachel looked at the ground. What the hell was she thinking? She couldn't just talk to him in the basement of Artie's house!
"I...I will just go upstairs. Sorry for bothering you!" She turned around and nearly ran up the stairs, trying not to fall.
"Hey, Rach wait!" She heard Finn behind her, but she didn't turn around. Finally was upstairs and wanted to open the door. But... why didn't it sprung open? She tried it again, but the doorknob didn't move. Finn was now behind her.
"Rachel, please! Can't we just act like normal... Do you can't open the door?"
"NO!" She screamed probably a bit too loud. "The fucking door just wont open!"
"Okay wait, let me try before you break it!" He laughed and pushed her soft a few centimeters away. Finn thought she just didn't do it right or was to weak, but the door was still closed after his third try!
"What the hell?" Finn said and pressed his body against the door. No move.
"Fuck!" They were locked!
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"Is is broken?" Rachel asked nervously while Finn was shaking the door lock.
"Doesn't seem like it is..." He murmured.
"And why can't we open the door then?" The whole situation really pissed Rachel off. Yeah, she wanted to talk to him, but not anymore and really not like this! So it wasn't surprising that her tone was a bit much annoyed.
"I don't know, am I a craftsman?" He hissed back and stood up.
Rachel knew he was right, but she groaned anyway.
"Was there any note on the door you didn't see? Maybe the lock is broken and nobody should close the door!" Rachel yelled accusing.
"Oh, so it was me who closed the door the last time? I'm sorry, but I remember you coming in here after me! Before you tried to run away from me like a crazy chicken!" Finn now was angry too. Why did she blame him? This wasn't his fault.
"Oh now it's my fault that we're locked in here? The door was already close when I came in, so you would be in this situation either way!" She stood right in front of Finn and looked at him angrily. Rachel didn't want to be locked in here, she didn't want to fight with him. But it felt kinda good to just scream once.
"Maybe you just slammed it to hard?!"
"Maybe you should shut up and get us out of here Mister Know-it-all?!"
"Why the hell are you like this to me now?"
"LIKE WHAT?"
"Like THIS! First you're nice, then you totally ignore me and now you are screaming like an arrogant, cocky bitch out of control!"
With that they both went silent... Damn, why did they just yelled at each other? The last time they fought that loud was perceived years ago! And he never said anything like this to her. Neither did she.
Rachel sat down on the cold, grey stairs and Finn took place next to her. After a few minutes in silence, Finn looked at her.
"I'm so sorry." He whispered. And he really was!
"Don't be." Rachel said, not taking her gaze of the stairs.
"No, I-I am, Rachel! I shouldn't have been yelling at you for nothing. What I said... wasn't true! Not at all. I'm an asshole and I'm really, really sorry for it!"
She finally looked at him with a hesitate smile. "But why? It's true. I did ignore you... and I did yell at you for no reason! I know that it isn't your fault that we're sitting here right now, but... I have just so much anger in me! I mean, why are we even acting like this? What happened to us?" Rachel wanted answers. She knew he was the only one who could give them to her.
"I don't know."
"But you have to! I-I don't know what to do, Finn. Why can we still fight like this? Why is it so hard to look at you? Even after all this time. Why can't it be just normal."
"Because you still love me!" He looked at her and for a second it seemed like she was about to kiss him, but then she abruptly turned around and stood up.
"We need to open this door!"
So that's the first part. What do you think? Should I continue with this story?
Please let me know if you have any ideas what could happen next.
I would love to read a few reviews, so you know what to do to make me happy :D
I'm really sorry if there are many mistakes, but I'm no native speaker.
Anyway, thanks for reading & have a nice day!
Xo Janina.
