So it would seem that I'm about to embark on a multichapter Glee fic for the first time in a long time. For the record, I haven't actually watched an episode of Glee in a few years (minus the Quarterback because of course I watched that one). But I've kept up with the spoilers and this is my way of dealing with the ridiculousness that appears to be the intended series endgame.
There will be spoilers up until the end of season 6, I suppose. The pairings will be as follows: Brittana, with Klaine, Samchel, Quick to begin. Quam, Puckleberry. Klaine, Samchel and Quick are not my endgame, no matter what the Glee writers want. So fair warning.
There is every possibility that the characters in this story will seem OOC, but I resent many of the things they've done since season 2, so in my mind, Santana would never set out to ruin Rachel's Broadway dreams, Puck stole an ATM because he was devastated over losing Beth, Finn was never the perfect guy that we were supposed to believe etc. Quinn and Puck shared one scene where she was encouraging him instead of tearing him down, that does not equal true love. And while I don't hate Samchel, Puckleberry will always be it for me.
This is a prologue of sorts to set up the events that follow. I own nothing, Enjoy!
Santana leaned back in her chair and stared at her fiancé. Brittany was tearing her napkin into little squares and forming patterns on the table between them. Santana rolled her eyes but her lips turned up into a smile. In less than three weeks she would be Santana Lopez-Pierce. And the beautiful blonde in front of her would be Brittany Lopez-Pierce. The wedding planning was less stressful than she'd expected. Things were going well.
"San, that's what I want for my bridal present from you." Brittany repeated. "It's simple."
Santana tapped her nails against her cup. "Babe, there is nothing simple about what you're asking."
Brittany looked up from her napkin and not for the first time Santana was struck by the wisdom in her blue eyes. People believed that Brit was stupid. But people were wrong. And even before she opened her mouth, Santana knew that she'd do what she asked. Because Brittany knew people.
"I want everyone to have their happy ending, San. You and I are endgame. We always have been. We took some time and we were with other people but it was always going to be me and you." Brittany explained. "But everyone else got mixed up. Kurt and Blaine keep getting back together. And everyone thinks that Finn was Rachel's penguin but he wasn't. He never was."
Santana reached forwards and tangled her fingers with Brittany as the blonde thought over her next words.
"She and Sam are starting to like each other and Puck and Quinn keep pretending to be soul mates. But they're all mixed up, San! Kurt takes away Blaine's sparkle. And Sam got all confused. He thought he loved Mercedes and then he thought he loved me. And now he's trying to love Rachel because his penguin thinks she's someone else's penguin. But Sam's penguin is with Rachel's penguin. That's why I need you to fix it, San. Blaine and Kurt need to move on. Sam and Quinn need to get back together. And Rachel and Puck need to stop fighting destiny." Brittany inhaled sharply, out of breath.
Santana ran her free hand through her brown curls. She knew better than to fight Brittany on matters of love. Without Brittany, Santana wouldn't believe in love. And it wasn't like Santana didn't see things her way. Everyone had taken a wrong turn sometime in high school and all of them had been trying to find their way back since.
"Please, San."
She wondered if she could actually pinpoint when everything went to shit. A snarkier, younger Santana might have pointed to the day that glee club started as the beginning of the end. But that wasn't true. The day they all joined glee club was the beginning of everything.
"They all just need some help."
Maybe it wasn't just one day for each of them. Maybe there was a different moment that each of them went astray. Blaine had made a mistake when he stayed with Kurt after the Chandler incident. Sam was a little harder to pinpoint. Maybe his mistake had been dating Santana after Quinn broke his heart. He couldn't be faulted for Quinn's mistakes. Maybe he should have allowed his heart to mend and then see where it took him.
"I've been waiting for them to all figure it out. But it's going to be too late soon."
Everything got too complicated when she tried to factor in Quinn, Puck, Rachel and Finn. Finn would forever be spoken of with fondness and sadness. He was dead and so all sins must be forgiven. But Santana had a longer memory than most. And at the end of the day, Finn Hudson had been a very flawed individual. She believed that had he lived, he would have grown into a better man. But he hadn't. When he died, he was still a boy; a boy who held far too many hearts in his clumsy, careless hands. He always seemed to fit a little too conveniently into the divides. His attention to Rachel had inspired Quinn's decision to find comfort with Puck. His lies had broken Rachel's heart and inspired her to seek those same comforting arms of Noah. He had condemned Rachel's actions but forgiven Quinn's. He had chased Quinn and wouldn't rest until she had cheated on Sam. He had wanted Quinn only so long as Rachel was panting after him. Even after their reunion at Nationals, Finn always had one eye on Quinn. Despite his best intentions, he broke Rachel's heart when he put her on that train to New York. And even when he realised that he didn't fit into Rachel's world, he held on.
So maybe Finn's mistake wasn't a mistake so much as it was a character flaw. He always wanted what he couldn't have. Finn loved the chase. He was forever chasing what he couldn't have and he was never happy with what he got. It was a particularly tragic theme as he always got what he wanted. She liked to believe that someday he would have grown up. That he would have settled down and allowed himself to be happy with what he had. But Brit was right; Finn and Rachel would never have lasted.
"I've made a million different plans, but I need you on this one."
Quinn's mistake wasn't so obvious. Many would point to her dalliance with Puck and the baby that followed. But Q was heading nowhere fast before she became a mother. The kindness that followed meeting Beth was something that had to be learned the hard way. Perhaps Quinn's mistake was more like Finn's. Q was forever chasing a dream. She wasn't a fan of reality because reality was hard. For all the talk of Rachel being the dreamer, it was Q that spent the most time with her head forcefully in the clouds. Santana thought that maybe her mistake had been not allowing Sam fully into her heart. She had seen the fear in her friend's eyes, the terror that she'd get hurt. And Santana was ashamed to admit, even just to herself, that she had loved it. So Quinn had lost Sam. That was Quinn's big mistake.
Rachel and Puck were so intertwined that it was hard to tell who was at fault. Rachel should never have chased Finn. Puck should never have been a jerk about their breakup. But Puck had chosen Rachel over football and popularity. And Rachel had been a friend to him when everyone else hated him for pollinating Quinn. Rachel had never seen Puck. Or maybe she'd just never allowed herself to. There was a reason that it was always Puck she went to. She wasn't 15 year old Q. She didn't choose Puck to hurt Finn. She chose Puck because she trusted him. And Puck was forever getting himself into trouble trying to make her happy.
They'd been too young, too immature when they'd dated. They'd both grown through falling for other people, and everything with Beth and Shelby. Maybe Rachel's mistake had been not breaking up with Finn in Junior year for lying. If she'd followed her instincts, she would have dumped him. And when Puck inevitably comforted her, she would have been single. So maybe Puck's mistake was not using his Jewberry powers of persuasion and pep-talking Rachel into making the right decision. His mistake had been going over to her house while she still had a boyfriend.
"I know, Brit." She acknowledged finally.
Quinn was light when she was with Sam. There was really no other way to describe it. She was quieter, more introspective. She was happy. Sam had been too young and uncomfortable in his own skin. But they'd both grown up and he knew his worth. He would never allow her to walk all over him. They would complement each other. They always had.
"I can't believe that Quinn told Puck that she was his soul mate!" Brit vented.
Santana snorted. Yeah okay, she couldn't believe it either. Even for the Queen of Denial, that had been rich. The two of them would forever share a daughter and there was love there. But mostly there was pain and often, hate. Quinn had spent years calling him a Lima Loser and those wounds had barely begun to heal. The two of them had never been lovers, they'd never been friends. They were parents but they shared nothing else. Santana hoped that someday they could be friends. There was so much potential there, but they were forcing love where there was none.
Puck, on the other hand, Santana didn't understand. He was smarter than people gave him credit for. For someone who'd spent years denying having feelings, he had always been perfectly in tune with his own. He knew his own heart. And Santana knew that Puck had loved Rachel since before glee club. And Puck knew that he loved Rachel. Maybe he felt that being with Quinn was less of a betrayal to Finn. But Santana thought that Brit was right on this one. Finchel was never built to last. So maybe that guilt needed to go.
"I'll do it." She announced, interrupting Brittany's rant. "You're right. Everything got all mixed up. Sam and Quinn, Puck and Rachel."
"And Blaine and Kurt. I know Sue is trying to get them back together but she's wrong."
Santana could feel a headache coming on. Sorting out the loves lives of the other losers was hard enough. But going head to head with Psychotic Sylvester was something else entirely.
"Don't worry, San. I've got a plan for Klaine." Santana snickered at the way Brittany's face soured while mentioning the couple's couple name.
Santana raised an eyebrow as Brittany started speaking. Oh things were about to get downright interesting.
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