This was supposed to be a short story about 5000 words as max, and a one shot but it will be two or three parts with about 10 000 words in total.
I will be posting the other two parts during the weekend.
This story will contain spoilers for the upcoming episode (3x08), I started to write this or plan it out when I saw the promo.
So this will be my take on who Rachel gets Sam back and of course some nice Samchel moments in the two other parts.
Give Me a Dollar
As soon as she had realized that she was actually not going to be able to compete at Sectionals this coming week, she had decided that she needed to help New Directions to her best abilities to make sure that they were going to win.
And to Rachel that meant one thing, they would need to find someone with a nice voice and that could sing and most important knew what New Directions was all about, that meant that she would need to find Sam Evans, even if they had moved to Tennessee again, she would offer up the room that her fathers used for their guests if that meant that Sam Evans was coming back to them.
Sam did have a nice voice, and when you thought about it, he had a sexy appeal that they would need now that both Brittany and Santana had left them to join the Trouble Tones.
Rachel had started out to look for Sam using Facebook, that hadn't gone that well, she had manage to find him but the information that was posted there didn't help but with some help from Jacob Ben Israel, she didn't want to think about what she had done Rachel had managed to get the information that might be enough, it appeared that Sam Evans was working extra at a bar that was called the Stallion, all she had to do know was to see what this was all about and when she had scooped that out she would just convince Finn that they needed to get Sam back, and of course that Finn was the one to blame about this fact to begin with.
And when Sam was moved in to her house with her fathers that was kind of absent she would be able to make sure that everything went as she wanted and as she knew that Sam wanted all she had to do was to figure out a way to dump the extra weight that she had been carrying around for a longer time then should have, she needed to dump Finn.
/
Rachel parked her car outside the bar, Stallion, she walked up to the door, when she noticed that most of the people that was attending this bar was middle aged women, or at least in their thirties, and from what Rachel could tell there was a bachelorette party or two also, this did not look good. This was not the place that a High School senior should be working.
Rachel walked inside, she was surprised when they didn't ask to see her ID, and she had a false one made, having Noah as a friend was a good thing when it came to this.
The brunette looked around and that was when she saw him.
Sam Evans was standing on the stage, dressed in just a pair of read shorts. Her eyes traveled all of his body, and she was once again starting to question herself why she had stayed with Finn for so long, the boy, Finn, was an idiot, and didn't really know what was right from what was wrong, and Sam was a nice boy, and he looked good, so he looked so good.
And Rachel was tiered of always putting all the boys in her life before her, that was the reason for her being suspended, she had once again put her friends needs before her own and now she might lose the chance to get into NYADA because of what she did, and besides that she wasn't the reason that Kurt didn't have enough of extracurricular activities and she wasn't the reason that Finn couldn't get a scholarship playing football, and yet she had given a part of herself to him that she would never get back, these are just a couple of the things that she had done for the boys in her life, it had to end.
And it was going to end right now, well as soon as she had Sam back at McKinley that was the time when she could put her plan in motion.
Rachel knew that she had been right. This was not the place where Sam should be working. There was just one thing that she could do right now, she was about to turn around and leave the bar, she would never call it a strip club, that was not what she wanted to tell Finn that Sam was working because she would need Finn to help her convince Sam that it was the right thing to do, to come back to New Directions and to live with her.
As Rachel was about to leave this building her eyes locked with Sam, and she saw the look on his face, his whole face broke out in a smile as he saw her, Rachel raised one of her hands and she waved at him, and when he did the same thing, that was the first time she had felt like she was living her own life in a long time.
Rachel continued to walk to the door, when she felt a hand on her shoulder, she closed her eyes, took a deep breath before she turned around, and this was the first time that she was looking into Sam's green eyes since she had told her that he was moving.
Rachel threw her arms around him and pulled the bare chested boy in for a hug, and she couldn't help but to try and inhale his smell, he smelled like a combination of sweat and soap.
"Rach," Sam said as he was the one to break the hug, but he still had his arms around her waist, they were now just looking at each other, "why are you here?"
"I came to get you back," Rachel said and looked at him, "but I don't think that this is the place to talk about this."
"I'm not coming back," Sam said and looked at her; he saw that there were tears welling up in her eyes, "I don't have anything to comeback too."
"What if I told you that there was something for you to comeback to," Rachel said, and she did what she could to hold her tears back.
"What would that be?" Sam asked and looked at her, and she knew what he was asking her.
"I'll make sure that you have something to comeback to," Rachel said and she moved her hands to his and held on to them, she tried to interlock their fingers, but Sam moved his hands away from her.
"You are still with him," Sam said and looked at her, "I won't comeback until you break it off with him."
"Sam," Rachel pleaded as she looked at him, "I will break up with Finn but Sectionals is at this weekend and I can't do that before that he will leave and we won't have enough members."
"I can't," Sam said and he moved away from Rachel, her hands were falling from his as he walked backwards but his eyes were still locked at her, "I love you, but I can't comeback as long as you are with Finn."
"We need you Sam," Rachel said and looked at him, "I won't be on that stage, they need you, and I need you there." Rachel looked at him, she was pleading with him, "I need you there to hold me together as they compete."
Sam heard everything that Rachel told him, and it broke his heart looking at Rachel, this down, he had never seen her like this during the time that he had known her, the closes he had seen her like this was a year ago when she found out about Finn and Santana, and that should have been the end of their so call relationship, Finn shouldn't have done what he did at Nationals.
/
Rachel was in her room, she knew what she needed to do to make sure that Sam was coming back to them, and to her, he had told her that he wasn't going to be number two behind Finn Hudson ever again, Sam had told her earlier that he would gladly take a step back and let her have her time in New York chasing her dreams he would do his best to follow her as soon as she left or later when he had the money to do so.
Sam Evans had told her that he was going to break up with her if he was her boyfriend if he noticed that he was holding her back from what she was destined to do and he had told her that Finn would never do anything like that.
Sam had heard all the stories about Terri Schuester, Mr. Schue's ex-wife from different people, and they had all told him that she was crazy, and Sam had opened his mouth this summer and looked at Rachel straight in the eyes and told her, that she would ended up like a mix of Terri Schuester, April Rhodes and maybe even Mr. Schue and a splash of Holly Holiday if she stayed behind in Lima with Finn, she would resent him for the rest of her life and she would be asking herself, what if, not one question of what if, her whole life would be a series of what ifs'.
All of this thinking on her part, and all of the things that Sam had told her made her even surer that it was one thing that she needed to do, she was going to bring Sam back to McKinley and in the process get herself a better boyfriend.
/
A couple of days later, she had managed to get Finn to agree to her idea, now that she knew where Sam was, she just needed Finn at the bar with her, so that Sam saw that she actually went through with what she was going to do.
Rachel glanced to her left, she saw Finn sitting in his car, driving the two of to the club where Sam was working, the boy had no idea what was waiting for him and Rachel knew that Sam was just as clueless.
"You can park here," Rachel said as she saw that the club was coming up ahead, "we can walk from here."
"Okay," Finn said and he pulled up at the nearest parking space, "So what is this anyway."
"You guys need Sam back," Rachel said as she got out from the car, "and you are here to help me convince him to come back." Rachel sighed when she looked at Finn.
"But can't you do that yourself."
"I already tried," she said and looked at her current boyfriend, "but I think that it will be more effective if it came from you, you know that Sam looks up to you." Stroking Finn's ego, that is the way to get him to do things that you want him to do, he can't see when someone is being sarcastic or just messing with him if it's not something that he feels bad about.
"you are right," Finn said and he leaned down to kiss her but Rachel started to walk to the door that would let them inside the Stallion, Finn looked after her with a confused look on his face, which when you think about it is how he always looks.
Rachel was the first one to spot Sam once again on the stage, and the first thing she heard from Finn.
"I don't think that is something that I will ever forget," was what he said when Sam pulled of his pants and the two of them saw Sam standing on that stage with a couple of other dancers, in his red shorts, and they weren't that long.
Rachel snapped her head in Finn direction and held out her hand, "Give me a dollar," Finn just looked at her, like she was crazy.
"What? Why?" Finn asked as his eyes left Sam and he looked at Rachel.
"You are best friends with Noah, he must have told you how a club like this works," Rachel sighed, and he her eyes were trained on Sam, she wasn't going to let him out of sight, "You told me that I was a prude but I know how it works when you go to a strip club so give my dollar, well when you are at it give all of your singles."
Finn started to hand all of his one dollar bills to Rachel; he didn't question what it was that she was up to.
"Thank you," Rachel said as she grabbed his dollars and she made her way over so that she was closer to the stage.
When she stood as close as she could without being on stage she managed to get Sam attention and the blonde haired boy leaned down and Rachel looked at him almost pleadingly.
"I want a lap dance," Rachel said and she held all the singles and there was also some other bills in there just to make sure that she had enough to cover it all, Sam nodded his head.
The two of them started to leave so that Rachel would get her lap dance, she took a hold of Sam's hand, "wait I just need to do something first." She looked in the direction that Finn was standing.
"I'm coming with you," Sam said and looked at her, "I'm not leaving you alone with him right now." Sam had guessed as soon as he looked Rachel in the eyes what she was going to do.
"Sam!" Finn said and looked at the blonde boy who looked at the tall football player, and once again he questioned himself what it was that every girl he like saw in him.
"Finn," Sam greeted as polite as he could as he looked at his former friend, Sam knew everything that Finn had done, and everything that had made Finn mad and angry at his girlfriends for doing to him he had done to them and the same went when it came to things that friends had done to him, he had done to his own friends, Finn was an ass, there was nothing that would change that.
There were stories that Sam had heard that Finn never learned from the mistakes he had done, and of course he was never punished for the things he did, everyone dotted with him, and no one dared to cross the quarterback.
"So here is the thing," Finn said and smiled his 'famous' half smile, that everyone always feel for, all Sam wanted was to punch the living daylight of him right now, "you are a great team player and we really need those right now." Sam looked at Finn he couldn't believe what was coming out from the boy's mouth, he couldn't be serious about this, "and we haven't replaced you."
"Look," Sam said and he took a couple of steps closer to Finn, "I told Rachel that I wouldn't come back, because there is nothing for me to come back to."
"Sam," Rachel said in a gentle voice and looked at him, "there is something for you to come back too," as soon as Sam heard the tone in Rachel's voice he knew that he would have something to come back to, if he just said yes.
"Yeah totally," Finn said and looked at him, "Quinn is single, and you can get back together with her and I am sure that Mercedes will take you back too."
"Finn," Rachel said and looked at her boyfriend, "we should talk and we will let Sam get back to work." Sam knew what was going to happen.
"I'll be over there," Sam said and pointed to a door that probably led to some changing room or something like that, "so you know where to find me later."
"You want to talk to me," Finn said and looked at Rachel, she wasn't sure on how she was going to deal with this she knew that she needed to make sure that Finn knew that she meant what she said and that it was the best for them.
"Yes," Rachel said and looked at him, "I know what Sam meant when he said that there wasn't anything for him to come back to, and what he wants to come back to."
"Okay," Finn said and looked at her, "So just fix it."
"That is what I am doing," Rachel said and looked at Finn, "We are over."
"What?" Finn said and he looked around, trying to see if he had heard wrong, he looked at Rachel, but he saw the look on her face, "But you said that we were it, that I was your forever."
"People say a lot of things that they don't mean." Finn took a hold of Rachel's arm, and he started to pull her away, Rachel was starting to yell, she tried to get her arm away from him, people around them started to look at them.
"Finn, let go of my arm," Rachel yelled at him, but he didn't let her go, "You are hurting me." Finn didn't hear what Rachel was telling him he was focused on one thing.
"Hey!" Rachel saw one of the bounce walking up and he put his hand on Finn's shoulder, the tall football player let go of Rachel's arm as he looked at the bouncer, the bouncer held on to Finn, "you okay?" Rachel nodded his head, and there was a second bouncer coming up to them, and the first one pulled Finn out, and he snapped a photo of Finn and made some notes that was going to go along with the photo when it was printed and posted on the wall.
"Do you know where Sam is?" Rachel asked and she cradled the arm that Finn had held on to and pulled as she looked up at bouncer that was waiting with her.
"Sam?" a booming voice asked and looked at Rachel.
"Um," Rachel said as she was trying to remember what Sam called himself, "he's blonde, fit, young."
"You are describing almost everyone that is up on the stage."
"I think he called himself White Chocolate," Rachel said and looked at the bouncer, her eyes were filled with tears, "he said that he was going to be there," Rachel explained and pointed to the door that Sam he entered earlier, "maybe you can try and find him for me?"
