A/N: Hey guys! It's crabbyabby3 and cArLySTAR15 here with a new collab story! This is our first one together. So this story is drabbles, and it takes place during the summer after season two. Not AU. The chapters will be divided sort of...ish. Like one of us will write one chapter, then the other will write another! But for now, this is written by both of us. YAYYY!
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Break A Leg
"Good luck, Rach."
"Finn! You're not supposed to say that to a performer right before a show! That's bad luck!"
"Well that's just kinda stupid."
Rachel was playing Maria in the Lima Reparatory Theater's production of West Side Story. It was their final performance, and so far everything had gone swimmingly. Finn was sitting in the driver's seat of his red pickup truck, and was dropping Rachel off for the seven o'clock show.
Rachel rolled her eyes at her boyfriend as she stepped gingerly out of the car.
"Jeez, Rachel. I just forgot!"
Rachel walked past the drivers window and hissed, "Break a leg."
Finn's eyes widened.
"Oh. Yeah," he said under his breath, but then said much louder, "Break a leg, babe!"
Rachel beamed and kissed him lightly on the cheek before running into the theater.
Two and a half hours later, Finn was back at the theater. He waited outside for a while in the car before Rachel charged out in sweats and one of his t-shirts, glowing like she always was after a performance.
"How'd it go?" he called out the window, though he already knew the answer.
"Oh my gosh, Finn, it went great! I loved this show. I met so many knew friends, and-" Her words were muffled as she walked around the back of the pickup to get in. After she sat down he kissed her on the lips.
"What was that for?" she asked softly, blushing.
"I love you."
"I already knew that," Rachel giggled.
They both laughed. Finn started the car and drove out of the parking lot, but instead of taking a left towards Rachel's house, where he was supposed to drop her off, he kept going straight. Rachel raised an eyebrow but did nothing to make Finn go in the other direction.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you." Finn said. "We're going for a walk."
"Hate to break to you, Frankenteen, but it's raining."
"No Rachel, don't call me that! And yes, I am aware it's raining." He said nothing else, as if that explained it all.
Rachel decided to go along with it, and before they knew it, they were the only people at Lima Park. She only raised alarm when he started to get out of the car.
"Well, let's go." He said. Rachel followed suit, and soon the two of them were running around the park, sopping wet.
Rachel was hysterically laughing as she tackled/hugged Finn, and the pair collapsed and caught their breath. Then, before they could get Rachel was up and running again.
But this had gone from more this had gone from more than a mere game of chase. This was war.
Finn sprinted after his girlfriend, but she was always a tad faster than him. Damn those years of intense dance training!
He was on her tail, and she was trying her best to throw him off. But it was one dodge to many. The world seemed to slow down as Rachel slipped, and her legs collapsed underneath her. At first, Finn thought it would be okay and she would get back up and continue running. But when he took a closer look, his stomach churned. Ankles weren't supposed to bend that way. He rushed over and bent down beside her.
"Are you okay?"
He looked closely at her face to see that she was fighting back tears. He scooped her up into his arms and carried her to the truck. She buried her face into his already soaked shirt and let the tears fall freely. When they reached the car he sat her down in the small backseat and put his sweatshirt underneath her ankle to elevate it.
"Finn," she whimpered. "Finn, it hurts."
"It's okay, baby. It's okay." Finn felt so guilty. It had been his idea to go in the rain. They could've just hung out at one of their houses and none of this would've happened.
He got in the driver's seat and drove as fast as the law would allow to her house. He thanked Grilled Cheesus that her dads were out of town for the weekend so he wouldn't make them hate him even more.
He lifted her out of the car and into the house. He carried firefighter-style up the stairs into her room. He set her down on the bed and asked the question he had been avoiding.
"Do you think it's broken?"
"I-I don't know…" Rachel's voice trailed off.
"Okay, let me see." Finn said. He prodded her calf, and she just nodded. So her leg wasn't injured, just her ankle. "Can you rotate it?" he asked.
"No, no please don't make me try." Rachel said, sniffling.
"Rach, if it's broken we need to go to a hospital. But if it's just a sprain, then we can just wrap it with a bandage and call it a day."
"Fine." Rachel took a deep breath. She gingerly rotated it and Finn could see it caused her a lot of pain as she took in a sharp breath. But in the end she made a full rotation and Dr. Finn left the room to get an Ace bandage.
Ten minutes later Finn and Rachel were lying on Rachel's bed on their backs, facing the ceiling. Finn had tried to slink away and get home (he didn't want to rush things with Rachel; sometimes he still felt like he was walking on eggshells with her).
But Rachel grabbed his hand and grabbed his hand and said with her best puppy dog face, "No. Please don't leave me."
And that was how he was in this position now.
Just as he was drifiting off to sleep, Rachel spoke.
"You know, we might have been better off if you had just stuck with good luck instead of break a leg."
A/N: Aww cuteness! Hope you guys liked it! Please review!
