Collection Title: Rainedrops
Author: Claddagh Ring
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee.
AN: I had this idea of a potential collection of short little Rachel/Blaine oneshots. Right now, there's only one written, but I think there will be more. I hope so anyway. These will hopefully feature Rachel and Blaine, as friends or more if the mood strikes.
This first one is a take off 3.04 Pot O' Gold – Blaine feels guilty after Santana and Brittany leave, but Rachel's having none of that.
Title: And Then There Were Two
Rating: K/PG
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It was mere happenstance that she spotted him on her way to the choir room. She didn't usually take the outside route through the courtyard, but Jacob Ben Israel had been creepily leering at her locker as she rounded the corner. While she would have really liked to study her sheet music before Glee started, it just seemed better for her sanity and gag reflex to avoid the borderline hyper-sexual all together. So she turned and ran the opposite way, a path which took her halfway around the school and led her straight into one Blaine Anderson.
He was alone, sitting at the top of the concrete steps with his head in his hands. It was a little unusual, seeing him like that as he was typically surrounded by people, lit up from the inside out by his blazing smile. He seemed like such a happy person most of the time; he was hard to bring down. So unlike Rachel, who was hopelessly a slave to her emotions. Clearly, he was upset about something, but she felt like she was intruding on a private moment, especially if he had gone so far out of his way to be away from everyone else in the school. She thought about turning around and going back the other way – what if Jacob is still there sniffing around my locker? – but what kind of person did that make her, just leaving him there, upset and alone?
"Hey what are you doing out here?" Rachel blurted out before she could conjure an excuse to walk away.
She must have startled him a little, as his head sprang from his hands and he looked wildly around for a moment before his eyes settled on her, squinting in the afternoon sun. "Hey Rachel," he half sighed, half laughed as he stood up and leaned against the guardrail. "How are you?"
"Me? I'm fine," she replied politely. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah," he said, looking at his shoes. "Just thinking."
"What about?" When he didn't immediately answer, she continued. "I'm sorry, I'm not trying to pry or intrude on your personal business. People say I do that a lot and I'm really trying to stop, though it can be hard when my friends are upset or people are doing stupid things like blacking out my face in in the library yearbooks, which upsets me because it's defacement of school property and-."
The sound of Blaine's soft chuckling forced her to stop rambling and a light blush began to steal across her face. "Sorry," she said.
"It's fine," he smiled reassuringly. "It's you and it makes me feel better."
"But why do you need to feel better?"
"I heard about Santana and Brittany leaving Glee," he said sadly and then, with a shrug, "and I can't help but feel like it was partially my fault."
"What?" Rachel gasped in surprise. "Why?"
"Well, because of the the last rehearsal, when I sang Last Friday Night," he explained. "Santana seemed offended or something and then the next thing I know, she's quit and taken Brittany with her."
"But that wasn't your fault," she insisted. "Honestly, I think Santana was looking for an excuse to leave and you just happened to give her one. It's not personal, Blaine."
"But maybe she was right," Blaine argued. "I mean, I just joined your club and some of you have been there for two years. It just wasn't my place to come in like that."
"Quite frankly, I'd be disappointed if you didn't," she asserted. "You're a part of this club now too."
"I guess I still feel like the new guy. I wanted to prove that I could belong," he said sadly. "I don't know, I'll probably just hide away in the back chorus line from now on."
"You don't need to prove anything!" Rachel cried earnestly as her hands flew to her hips. She stamped her foot even as she admonished him. "We're so lucky to have you with us this year and anyone who really cares about Glee Club at all knows this. You're astounding and I won't listen to you doubt yourself anymore Blaine formally known as Warbler."
Her eyebrow arched expectantly, daring him to argue with her. She would not let him feel guilty for something that probably would have happened even if he were still at Dalton and most of all, she would not let him talk himself or his talent down. He was better than that and they both knew it; everyone knew it and she was going to remind him of that whether he liked it or not.
She almost hoped that he would challenge her, but instead his signature grin stretched across his face once again. There, she thought, that's the Blaine I know.
"Thanks Rachel, I needed that."
"Too right you did," she laughed, beckoning him forward. "Now come on, you can play 'protect me from Jacob Ben Israel' as you walk me to the choir room."
"It would be my pleasure," Blaine said, giving her a slight bow and offering her his arm. She laughed as she looped her own through his, smiling all the way to rehearsal.
AN2: So every now and then when I watch Glee, I come up with little scenes that I wish had happened or I felt were missing from the episode. Lately, those have been Rachel and Blaine centric, because I love those two in every shape, form, and fashion and just legitimately cannot understand why they're not best friends... Anyway, I wanted a place to posts these little tags or deleted scene type stories, as they'll be very short and I don't want to make a whole new posting every time one of these actually comes into fruition. So, that's why this, Rainedrops, is here.
Also, if anyone has any ideas on scenes or tags they would like to see, drop them in the review or send me a private message and I'll see if I can work it out. This could be fun, I think, if it were a community thing.
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