Disclaimer: I do not own glee, just my ideas
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Santana Lopez was sitting in a little cafe with her best friend, Noah 'Puck' Puckerman, in a small coastal town in the north of Australia. If anyone had told either of them in high school that they would be best friends and serving in the army together they would have laughed in their face and most likely swung a punch at them or shoved them into a locker. But it had happened since they were both placed in the same unit after passing basic training. And then assigned as bunk mates as they completed the rest of various other training, were they learnt to put their past behind them.
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You see in high school Santana was known as one of the skanks. A group of girls who didn't fit in with the social cliques and were often found behind the bleachers drinking and smoking, God knows what. No one dared to really bother them as they weren't known to be the most social of people or the nicest and were often getting into fights with anyone, in and out of school. Then causing them to spend a good portion of their high school careers outside of the principles office and not in lessons.
Santana was also known to have a temper, which could often cause her mood to do a 180 in a matter of seconds. No one really knew the reason behind why. Until she got a bit drunk and emotional one night when she was off for a few days in Amsterdam with the rest of her squad and blurted out the reason to Puck. Who then sat with her, calming her down and telling her that he would always be there for her from now on, no matter what as that is what best friends are for. After that it was never really mentioned again on purpose, as Puck knew how badly it effected her. But he was always there for her when it did get to her.
She joined the army because she didn't know what to do with her life and wanted for once in her life, to do something that would make her parents proud of her. As well as give something back to those who had helped her and been kind to her for the last couple of years. Plus it meant that she would learn some awesome life skills, that she wouldn't of learnt of otherwise. Having decided this when the final bell went to signal the end of her high school career she emptied her locker and dumped everything in the nearest bin, before emptying her pockets and walking to Lima's Army recruitment office. And as they say the rest is history.
Now Puck is a totally different story in high school he was a jock. He was a badass, who was on top of the social ladder being the schools running back for the football team. He through the most epic of parties throughout the school year. Slept with nearly the entire upperclassmen who were on the schools cheerleading squad. But could never hold a relationship for more than a few weeks or a couple of months at best, so gave up hope with them.
The most important things to him were his mum, Linda, and his little sister Sarah. They meant the world to him. So when he finished his last day of school he went partying and forgot to pick Sarah up from a friends house. The next day when he got home his mum shouted at him and told him how disappointed she was in him. It nearly made him go off and do something reckless for making her feel like that and letting Sarah down. But on the way to the gas station for some unknown reason he decided to take the long way. He was then driving down the high street and looked out of his window and saw the recruitment office and thought why not. To him it was a way to escape Lima, make something of himself, make his mother proud and protect those he loved. It turned out to be one of the best decisions of his life.
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This was there last day on leave before they had to head back to base. So they were making the most of a relaxing environment before being thrown back into their hectic and important jobs. Before the squad had split to go their separate ways to spend their few days on leave, they had been briefed that they would be departing for Afghanistan when they got back, to relieve another squad from their 6 month rotation tour there.
For the squad it wasn't their first tour to Afghanistan, but for Puck and Santana it was their fifth time there. This was as the squad had been put together two years ago when Santana's and Puck's sergeant had decided they had enough of the action and wanted to transfer to a desk job, so that they could start a family with their fiancee. At the time Santana had just been moved up the ranks to a corporal, so she couldn't just yet be in charge of the squad. Because of this they put someone who was thinking of retiring after a year in charge to be able to assess Santana on her leadership skills to see if she had the capability to lead it. A year later she was a sergeant with Puck being a corporal.
Who would of thought that a girl dubbed in a group who would do nothing with their life, would become a sergeant in the US army. Or that the badass jock who had no clue what to do with his life would be a corporal, and said sergeants best friend after never speaking for 4 years only knowing of each others existence.
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