SERIES TITLE: 24/7
AUTHOR: TaleWeaver
FANDOM: Glee
SERIES SUMMARY: Finn is the unofficial leader of New Directions. Rachel is the Vice Captain of Vocal Adrenaline. But they still spend lots of time together – it's sort of inevitable when you're stepsiblings. A 'What if?' scenario about Finn and Rachel dealing with their attraction when living in the same house.
RATING/PAIRING: Varies from PG to R for sexual implications and language, depending on the 'episode'; Finn/Rachel UST and romance. Finn/Kurt and Rachel/OC friendship
DISCLAIMER: Glee belongs to Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, and FOX studio. The initial concept comes from a YA novel of the same name that I read back in the mid-nineties; the book was nothing special (thus why I can't actually remember much about it) but the basic idea – a teenage couple who have to cope with living as family – always intrigued me.
Rachel's BF Jason is partly based in personality, and totally based in appearance, on Tamaki Usui from the manga/anime Kaichou wa Maid-Sama (just 'Maid-Sama' in the English translation). Just do a search on the character if you want a visual.
Part of Hiram's characterization (a bisexual man who remains faithful to a devoted spouse, loses them, and can't bear to love another of their gender) is borrowed from the manga Ouran High School Host Club, by Bisco Hitori. That's the infuriating and wonderful thing about Rachel's Dads; when you know nothing about a character, you can make them do anything!
SPOILERS: season 1 specifically; character backgrounds.
SERIES NOTES:
(I'm explaining it here, because I don't think I'll ever have enough plot to develop a full-blown story out of it)
The 24/7 universe goes AU pre-series; Leroy Berry dies when Rachel is thirteen or so, and she's so devastated that Hiram changes his mind about letting Rachel attend Carmel high, hoping that perhaps Shelby can play some positive role in her life after all - given Rachel's need to perform, and Vocal Adrenaline's standing, I can only assume that Rachel wanted to attend Carmel, but her Dads wouldn't let her because Shelby was there. Shelby has never revealed herself to Rachel as her birth mother, but she has been very supportive in a mentorship role. Hiram is actually bisexual, and can't date another man without feeling as if he's betraying Leroy, so he winds up meeting and falling for Carole Hudson during the second semester of Finn and Rachel's freshman year.
Just because I heard a rumour that he'd love to do it, Hiram is played by John Barrowman, thus completely justifying Carole falling for him instead of Burt. I mean, it's John Barrowman. (Yes, I am a fangirl, why do you ask?)
I've been toying with this series from about the mid-season break, so some of the things I've written here have since become AU. But then, so is this whole series, so who cares? * shrug *
Also, these were written mostly in the order I thought of them, so this will jump back and forth in time.
MUSE-IC: Every piece has a particular song as a theme. Just copy, paste, and take out the spaces. If YouTube's gone on a complaint spree again, just search for the title and artist.