Title: I Run To You
Rating: T
Pairing: Rachel x Puck (Noah)
Summary: When everything goes wrong I run to you.
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee or any of the music
A/N ~ In this story Rachel and Puck never went out because in my opinion that was the crappiest excuse for a relationship that I have ever seen in my whole life! So just remember that fact ok.
A/N ~ As you might guess after reading this chap my whole fanfic is based on the song 'I Run To You ~ Lady Antebellum'
Chap 1 ~ I Need You
She could still remembered the first time he had ever looked at her… really looked at her. It had been the very moment that he had walked through those doors and joined Glee for the first time. It was like gravity had shifted, their eyes had locked and from that moment on they had a common understanding.
And from that point in time they began their not so secret friendship. The rest of Glee noticed how they reacted differently around each other, how they could actually have a conversation without any crude comments… even though he threw in a few sexual comments here and there and especially how he would drive her to and from school every day.
Rumours sprang up like wild fire most the student body thought that they had some secret romantic relationship but in truth there was nothing romantic about their relationship. What it was and what it wasn't was two very different things.
They understood each other…
They were complete opposites…
They fit together like puzzle pieces…
But most importantly…
They shared a common pain…
They both had to sit back and watch as the people that meant so much to them use them and play them. It happened time and time again and at times when it felt like everything was just going to crumble down all around them they knew both knew that they had someone to fall back on and save them… again… and again… time… after time… over… and over.
It was like a cycle but neither was strong enough to break free from the cycle and say enough. So it continued.
Finn continued to use Rachel. Pretending to care for her and use her musical abilities for his own selfish purposes. Giving her false hope that they would be together one day.
Quinn continued to not want anything to do with Puck. Telling him that he would never have anything to do with his daughters life. Even when the bombshell about Finn not being the real father hit she still didn't want his help.
When Finn and Quinn broke up Finn proceeded to play with Rachel's emotions even more, using as her as a no-official rebound girl. They weren't together and Finn made that very clear… he continued to hurt her and confuse her to no end.
When Finn and Quinn broke up despite the fact that all this meant he lost his best friend Finn, Quinn had toyed with him for a while pretending to consider giving him a chance to be in his daughters life.
There was so much more as well… so much more hurt… so many more things that were left unsaid because it was truthfully to painful to think of. The only good memories either of them had was when they ran to each other the very moment that something happened.
They were each other life line. Their reasons to get up in the morning. And without the other they would surely perish. Just being able to hold each other in silence as tears stained their faces was enough… just enough to know they would make it through another day.
Well that was until another bombshell hit.
It had started out like any normal day and no one would have known anything was amiss if it wasn't the fact that no more than ten minutes into Glee practise the sound out gut reaching screams were heard throughout the halls of McKinley High.
It was the most horrifying sight as Quinn Fabray fell to the ground clutching her stomach for dear life as blood quickly stained the skirt she was wearing and pooled around her limp form.
That had been the day that Quinn Fabray suffered a miscarriage.
And the very next day was when Quinn Fabray and Finn Hudson got back together realising that they still loved each other and that no matter what issues they had they could work passed them.
Neither Rachel Berry nor Noah Puckerman were seen at school after that. But unlike every other time they didn't run to each other… they didn't find comfort in their life line… because for the first time since he walked into that room and joined the group he had swore he would never join they were both to lost to ever find each other.
A week passed… they barely ate… they barely slept… they simply locked themselves in their bedrooms and refused to see the light of day. But the one thing they did do was wait…
Wait for the other to call… wait for the other to make the first move… wait for the other to admit they needed the other first… but neither did…
Finally Rachel's fathers and Noah's mother forced them both to go back to school neither knowing that the same thing was happening to both of them.
So when they both arrived at school the air was tense… neither knew the other would be there but they both desperately hoped they would be. And then one of those things that only happens in movies decided to come to life. It was lunch time and an ungodly silence had fallen upon the students as they all realised that every member of Glee were finally all back at school even though two didn't know it yet.
That had been the moment that two doors open and the same time. There were two entrances to the cafeteria both double doors on either side of the large room directly opposite each other and it wasn't uncommon for them to open at the same time. But the bit that had everyone on the edges of their seats was who exactly had come through those doors.
The Glee members who had banded together once again forgetting what had happened and forgiving each member involved, were all the most anxious. They watched as their two missing members stood across the room from each other eyes locked neither able to look away.
But like always one broke and this time it was Rachel who couldn't help but let silent tears rush out of her burning eyes as she started to run to him. Puck walked forward about ten steps opening his arms as Rachel came crashing into them her arms wrapping around his neck as his wrapped around her waist their bodies moulding into each others finally feeling like they were at home in each other arms.
They were each others safety nets and they would never try and deny that again.
"I need you" The words slipped from both their lips at the same time neither letting go as the whole cafeteria erupted into cheering, wolf whistles, clapping and shouting.
The only two people that weren't on their feet applauding them were the two people who had forced them towards each other in the first place.
Finn and Quinn sat their looking at each other before they looked over at the hugging pair knowing that they were the ones that caused them both so much pain. They were the ones that made it inevitable for them not to need the other. It was then that they realised that no matter how much they wanted to fix all the mistakes that they had made they would never be able to because they had both played with fire… but they hadn't been the ones to get burned.
No the ones who got burned were the ones who were now clinging to each other now like if they let go everything would fall apart.
From this point on nothing would be the same.
Hey guys I'm back with another Rachel x Puck story. Hope you like.
Have any of you noticed that I seem to start one story and then come up with another idea for another story and start to write that one and then the last story kinda gets forgotten? Well I promise I'm not going to forget about my last Rachel x Puck story 'Blackmail Is The Best Type Of Mail' and promise I'll get another chap for that up soon.
But I just thought of this and kinda started writing and come up with this :)