All. for You

Rachel squared her small shoulders; she had to be brave. She was sick of that barbaric neanderthal Karofsky scaring her newly made best friend Kurt to death. Plus she did kinda owe Kurt. After all he did stand up for her when she got egged the previous year by Vocal Adrenaline. If Finn wasn't man enough to stick up for his almost brother; Rachel would be!

She walked up to the football player and looked him straight in the eye, which was difficult because he had a good foot on her.

"You need to STOP bothering Kurt" she said in her harshest voice, standing on her tip-toes to hopefully look a bit more threatening.

Karofsky however just laughed "Who's gonna make me? You Midget?" he jeered

Rachel poked at his chest " I don't know what your problem with Kurt is. But I do know he is so scared he can barely stand it! And I will not stand by and watch the sweetest guy in this school die just because of a stupid homophobe like you!"

All of a sudden she found herself on the ground with Karofsky on top of her unbuttoning her blouse. She screamed.

"Make one sound and I'll kill you Midget" Karofsky snarled taking of his jacket.

Rachel closed her eyes as he began to hit and claw her face.

Knowing it was probably useless she screamed again.

A few seconds later she heard footsteps running towards her.

Strong arms pulled her to her feet and a familiar voice spoke "Kurt get her to the bathroom."

Another arm entangled hers and she was blindly led away.

When she finally opened her eyes she saw Kurt looking at her with a worried expression.

"Kurt" she asked softly before flinging her arms around her fellow diva sobbing.

"Shh.. Rachie...Shh...it's over... he can't hurt you any more... I won't let him I swear...Shh." he pushed her away and buttoned her blouse for her. " There, now let's get you cleaned up."

He lifted her onto the counter, grabbed a towel from his bag, wetted it, and carefully cleaned her cut lower lip, nose and left eye. " your right eye will have quite a bruise" he said looking at the already dark circle " Why'd you even try talking to Karofsky? He is totally psychotic! He would have killed you if Mr. Shue and I hadn't shown up when we did!"

"How did you find me?" she asked ignoring Kurt's question.

" I was talking to Mr Shue about you and I doing a duet. We heard you scream... I knew you were in trouble... and I guess Mr Shue knew it too, because we both started running in your direction. We got there just as Karofsky was about to... take you. And you haven't answered my question."

" I did it for you." she said softly looking into his aquamarine eyes .

"What?" Kurt was absolutely flabbergasted. Rachel Berry , the selfish diva, his best friend, had done something nice without any thought of her personal gain.

"We both know he is scaring you to death. I couldn't stand by and watch it happen!"

"Oh, Rachie!" he cried hugging her tightly. " I'm sorry!"

"For what?" she sounded confused.

"We were best friends since kindergarten, but in seventh grade I pushed you away. Do you remember what we were like?"

"Of course. We sang and danced all the time...played and finished each others sentences." she grinned at the memory of their younger days.

" I wish I could make up the five years I treated you like crap." he said seriously.

" You could start now" she said, a suggestive tone lingered in her voice.

He laughed " Fine tonight we'll hang out at your house, I'll give you a proper make over, then we'll eat cherry chocolate ice cream while we watch Rocky Horror."

"Sounds good" she agreed.

"Come on" he said offering her his arm " Mr. Shue is waiting in Principal Sylvester's office to hear our statements."

Rachel took her friends arm and they walked out of the bathroom.

Little did they know that that would be the first in the memory bank of their expanding relationship. A relationship of music, trust, and most of all romance.