Reunion
DISCLAIMER: I neither own Glee nor the characters. They are the property of Ryan Murphy and FOX.
Author's Note: This is my first Glee fanfic. I hope you enjoy it and please feel free to let me know what you think about it. This story takes place in the future. Ten years have passed since graduation and most of the members of New Directions have left Lima to begin their careers. What happens when they get invitations for their 10 year high school class reunion? Who will attend and what will occur when they return to McKinley High?
Santana Lopez muttered under her breath cursing as she looked at the mass amount of mail the courier had left for Rachel in her dressing room. Now as she sorted out the mail in various piles she almost regretted firing Rachel's personal assistant last week, but she had little tolerance for incompetent fools so she'd just have to deal with this little inconvenience until she found Rachel another PA.
She normally wouldn't even be doing this type of menial work even if Rachel was one of her top clients. The only reason she was helping was because Kurt had guilted her so badly or she would have told Rachel to open her damn fan mail herself. Managing Rachel when she had first started to get noticed by the networks had been a stroke of pure genius on her part along with her own dogged determination to make it out of that godforsaken town of Lima. Plus it never hurt that Rachel was still slightly intimidated by Santana even after all of these years.
"Santana, I can hear you cursing," Kurt Hummel's voice broke Santana out of her thoughts of who she could blackmail to take over as Rachel's personal assistant, there had to be someone in her firm that was competent enough to handle this job, no matter how demanding Rachel was in her requests for things to be done her way.
"She could answer this junk herself," Santana remarked as she continued to sort out the postcards from the various colored envelopes containing letters, frowning slightly over the pics on some of the postcards since they were plastered with images of Rachel and her co-star Tucker McIntyre, the fastest rising couple on Destiny's Journey, the number one daytime soap opera.
"Well if you hadn't of caused Chastity to have a semi-nervous breakdown last week you wouldn't be having to help me," Kurt reminded Santana only causing him to receive a look most would consider to be dangerous, but Kurt was not scared of Santana, he had too much dirt on her to ever be in her debt.
"She was a wuss," Santana claimed and was ready to toss another letter on the table when a return address caught her eye, Mr. Will Schuster, McKinley High School, intrigued she started to open the letter only to have Kurt reach out to grab her hand.
"Santana, all we have to do is sort the mail for Rachel, she reads it herself," Kurt had already told Santana this one time earlier although Santana ripped this letter open before he could stop her.
"I'm curious," Santana stated handing Kurt the torn envelope causing him to raise his eyebrows when he saw the return address too.
"What could Mr. Schuster want with Rachel?" Kurt asked not wanting to invade Rachel's privacy, yet he was as curious as Santana was wondering what was inside the letter.
"I'm her manager, I can read it," Santana cited as she opened what looked like an invitation. She quickly scanned the invitation rolled her eyes and tossed it to Kurt who immediately read it.
"I guess we will be getting one of these too," Kurt was reading the information then checking his blackberry for his upcoming schedule, two weeks would be tough for any of them to make this event, yet he felt compelled they should all attend. "You need to check Rachel's itinerary."
"Do you really want to go to this?" Santana asked, knowing how limited all their return visits to Lima had been ever since they had moved out to Los Angeles from New York when Rachel had received the part of Rebecca Bennett on Destiny's Journey.
"Yes, I am going back in all my glory if only to rub it into those narrow minded individuals we had the misfortune of going to high school with of how famous and successful I have become, all three of us are going," Kurt exclaimed thinking how fabulous it would be to face all those people who had made fun of him, now he had made it and most of them were probably just scraping by to pay their bills.
"Well it might be fun," Santana contemplated what Kurt was saying thus not hearing Rachel enter the room, returning from makeup with script in hand.
"What might be fun?" Rachel asked, thinking if Santana thought something was fun it would probably be something she definitely wouldn't want to be a part of, while she trusted Santana completely as her business manager, she was somewhat wary of her when she wanted them to go out together.
"Rachel, come here sweetie before we get you dressed, you just have to read this, I am having Santana clear your calendar for two weeks from Saturday, we have an event to attend we just can't miss," Kurt motioned her toward him handing her the engraved invitation and anxiously awaiting her response.
Rachel took the invitation from Kurt glancing over it immediately shaking her head, "No way in hell am I going to this soiree Kurt Hummel. Are you insane? Santana please tell him there is no way we can clear the calendar that quickly."
Knowing that this would be a perfect way to pay back Rachel for insisting she had to help with her PA duties until she found her a replacement Santana sweetly smiled as she looked over Rachel's upcoming schedule, deleting a few things and exclaimed, "Calendar is clear on that Saturday Rachel, we can go."
"No!" Rachel stomped her foot, wishing she could get away with throwing a diva fit on two of her best friends, although she knew they would not be fazed in the slightest by her antics.
"We are going Rachel, can't you see this is poetic justice, we are returning to McKinley High as winners, we made it, hell you are one of daytime's biggest stars, not to mention if Santana can work out the details you will probably snag a record deal within a few months after the ratings shot up for Destiny's Journey when Rebecca sang during the episode while she tried to bring Michael back from the brink of death."
"Rebecca Bennett's singing on the show has brought up the Neilson ratings for Destiny's Journey almost an entire point knocking The Young and the Restless out of first place for the first time in almost a decade," Santana informed Rachel as she reached into her briefcase pulling out the latest ratings for all daytime. "Numbers don't lie and this is just going to help me negotiate your new contract with Destiny's Journey for us all to get even more money than before. We are on top!"
"You both know why I don't want to go," Rachel said with a sigh, "I just can't face him."
"How you have avoided him for this long has amazed me," Kurt stated thinking of the few times Rachel had came back to Lima it was only for short periods of time, many not more than a few hours to visit with her two dads, and she would be gone before anyone knew she was there, she claiming she didn't want to cause a spectacle, which really was absurd considering how Rachel had always told anyone within a ten mile radius who would listen she was going to be a star when she left that town.
Before Rachel could respond her co-star Tucker came into the room, instantly noting the tension in the room as soon as he entered. "What is going on guys? You all look like you got a pink slip. Oh god, Rachel you didn't get one of those did you? I mean we have been rocking it lately, but you never know what that imbecile Kenny will decide is best for the show next."
Rachel gave Tucker a weak smile, she didn't need to worry him with her mood swings, even though her co-star was even moodier than she ever thought of being and that was saying a lot. "No pink slip Tucker, Kurt and Santana are trying to guilt me into going back to Lima for our ten year high school class reunion, but I am not going."
Well she was a big star now and it irked Kurt she wasn't even going to consider going back, he really hated resorting to pulling out the big guns on her, but really it was for her own good.
"Don't make me say the F word Rachel," Kurt warned her causing a look of consternation to instantly come over Rachel's face.
Tucker started to laugh, "For god's sake Kurt I've heard you say fuck before, we all have."
Santana snorted her laughter, "Oh Tucker the F word for Rachel is not fuck."
"No it's Finn," Kurt said making Rachel instantly drop her script, placing her hands on her ears before rushing out of the room in a huff, still dressed in her robe, completely forgetting that she had to get dressed and be on set for her first scenes of the day in less than thirty minutes.
Santana and Kurt just burst out laughing; they were used to Rachel storming out of rooms ever since their days in Glee club. Rachel Berry was going to their class reunion if they had to drag her all the way to Lima kicking and screaming, no way were they going to miss it.
Not even if Kurt had to refrain from saying the F word in her presence…