The Wildebrams Saga 3: New New Directions
Chapter 1: So Here's What You Missed on Glee…
By Wilde Abrams
Author's Notes: The following is the third installment of The Wildebrams Saga, the continuing story of the life and relationship of Kitty Wilde and Artie Abrams.
While Kitty and Artie are both central to the story, this installment is more of an ensemble piece than the others. The story takes place almost exclusively in Lima, while Artie is still living in New York, and while Artie and various Alumni will show up from time to time, the focus will always be on Kitty and the other New Directions.
For those of you who need a timetable, The Wildebrams Saga is:
The Wildebrams Saga 1: The Ballad of Kitty and Artie
This is a retelling of the 2012-2013 school year (seasons 4 and 5a), and will tell the story of how Kitty and Artie met and fell in love. There will be a chapter for each episode, along with several "bonus episodes".
The Wildebrams Saga 2: New Beginnings
This story is AU and takes place during the 2013-2014 school year (overlaps season 5b) and tells what happens during Kitty's sophomore year when she is separated from Artie and there is no Glee Club at McKinley, and Artie's freshman year in college. With Glee Club gone our heroes are forced to find their bearings again so they can navigate the complicated waters of high school and figure out how to get their glee club back. Meanwhile Artie navigates college life and figures out what he is going to do without his love Kitty around. [ This is a rewrite of my current story A New Beginning. Because it is being changed so much, it's going to be a totally new publication instead of an in place replacement of the older story. ]
The Wildebrams Saga 3: New New Directions
This is also AU and is more of an ensemble story. It takes place during the 2014-2015 school year (overlaps season 6). Thanks to the efforts of Kitty, Mr. Schue, and the other season 4 newbies, Glee Club is back at McKinley and they have one year to demonstrate the validity of the program or its gone for good. Both sets of newbies (Season 4 and 6) band together, with a few other familiar faces to compete for the National Show Choir title. Along the way they will continue the tradition of weekly glee club lessons and have plenty of drama along the way. I'm hoping to recreate the drama and sense of urgency of season 1. Unlike the show itself, during season 4, I want to really focus on the current gee club members themselves. We will assume that the alumni are off in the world pursuing their dreams and will only be occasionally mentioned, and only seen if the story really calls for it. [ I had originally intended this to be the later chapters of A New Beginning, but the more I thought about it the more apparent it was that it deserved to be a separate story. ]
The Wildebrams Saga 4: Wedding Song
This story is also AU and takes place 2 years after New New Directions. Artie is about to graduate from college and Kitty is finishing up her sophomore year (Spring/Summer of 2017). Four years after they began dating, Kitty and Artie prepare to take the next step in their relationship and Artie is offered a tempting opportunity. As the title implies, this story will include the wedding of Kitty Wilde to Artie Abrams.
The Wildebrams Saga 5: Homecoming
Ten years after the original glee kids graduated (2022), Mr Schue holds an All Glee Club reunion. Kitty, Artie, and the rest of the alumni return to McKinley and catch up on where they are in life.
At the current time, this is where I intend the saga to end, burn who knows what might happen in the future.
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"So Here's What You Missed on Glee...
Rachel, Finn, Kurt, Santana, Quinn, Mercedes, and Mike all graduated from High School and went out into the world to pursue their dreams. Artie, Tina, Blaine, and Sam, along with Brittany, who flunked her senior year - Who didn't see that coming? - became the senior members of the Glee club. Unique quit Vocal Adrenaline and Transferred to McKinley - Yay! - Artie pissed off Tina and named Blaine the New Rachel, but he was quickly replaced by this new girl Marley - where did she come from? - Mr Schue decided to make Puck's black younger brother Jake his new special project even though he kicked over a music stand during his audition (Kurt: How Rude!). Finn washed out of the Army and came back to McKinley to see Mr. Schue when he found out Rachel liked this Brody guy - OUCH! - Artie got Finn to help him direct the McKinley production of Grease to help him out of his funk. Mr. Schue suddenly decided on a whim to go to Washington for a few months to advocate for Arts Education in Public Schools, and left Finn in charge of the glee club - and somehow everyone seemed okay with it except Sue! Finn and Artie poached this new kid Ryder - who had a raging crush on Marley, who was actually in love with bad boy Jake - who saw that coming?! - and the bitchy New Cheerleader Kitty from the Grease Cast to fill up the Glee Club roster. Poor Tina got the shaft again when Finn called in Santana to replace Unique as Rizzo when her overprotective parents pulled her from the show. (Tina: Unbelievable!) Speaking of Tina, she broke up with Mike after graduation because long distance relationships were too hard, and then got mad when he came back to do choreography for Greece, but didn't clear it with her first. After some awkward moments, Tina and Mike did decide to try their relationship again, but it was like literally never mentioned after that. But she got over it and developed a raging crush on Blaine, who cheated on and broke up with Kurt, and developed a crush of his own on Sam, who was dating Brittany. - Lost yet? - Artie crushed on bitchy Kitty, who acted like she didn't care about him for like half the year until she conspired with his mom to get him to go to film school. To thank her, Artie asked her to a carnival, and proceed to melt her heart to the tune of a Beatles themed glee club lesson, and the two of them have been all lovey dovy ever since! Ryder didn't 'get' Unique and said that she wasn't a girl, so she catfished him online using the image of this innocent girl Katie, and then developed a crush on him. Ryder caused a scene and threatened to quit Glee Club when he found out what Unique had done, but abruptly forgot about that idea. Becky brought a gun to school because she was afraid to move on with her life, and it went off, but Sue took the blame for her - that was nice! - and got fired [ Sue: I don't work here anymore ] - but after Becky confessed to bringing the gun to school and cleared her name, Sue decided to return to McKinley in a big way. [ STUDENT: Welcome back Coach Sylvester. SUE: That's Principal Sylvester! ] Sue framed Figgins with planted fetish porn and Nazi memorabilia in his desk drawer and took his job, demoting him to lowly Janitor. Then she picked up her old vendetta [ Sue: Destroy the glee club! ] She told Will that Glee Club had to win Nationals or the club was over. So like boo! Tina got carried at the Prom and Sue made the girl responsible the new Captain of the Cheerios instead of punishing her, and asked her to continue to mess with the glee club. Rachel got the lead in Funny Girl. Finn died, Unique got bullied, Jake cheated on Marley with this new head cheerleader Bree because she wouldn't sleep with him, and Ryder finally got his chance to be with her, but blew it because he got pushy. Marley lost her confidence. The New Directions lost Nationals. Sue canceled the Club, and Schue barely put up a fight. The Alumni returned to say goodbye to the choir room, which Sue was making into a computer lab, and Quinn decided to give Puck one last chance. Kitty cried at Artie's graduation, and she and the other four newbies just looked all depressed and lost when they finished cleaning out the choir room. Kitty and Artie decided that they should be allowed to see other people over the summer because they were going to be 587 miles apart for two years, even though their relationship was one of the healthiest ones Glee Club had ever had, so that makes sense!
Sue remade the school in her own image, focusing on academics, athletics, and nutrition; and all of the former New Directions started the new school year kind of lost, and had to scramble to figure out what to do with themselves. Marley isolated herself in her own private little bubble because she was hurting so bad from Jake betraying her and sleeping with Bree. Ryder got made quarterback and had all the girls pining for him, including cheerleader Missy Gunderson, and that Katie girl, but he still only had eyes for Marley. Jake decided to try monogamy with someone who actually put out and was still dating Bree, who got the other cheerios to bully Unique until she was so miserable that she wanted to transfer. But Kitty secretly defended her by putting Nair in someone's shampoo bottle. JBI's little sister Liesel picked up where he left off torturing the now former Glee Club members and Kitty got viciously slushied by her former friend Phil [ Phil: Welcome back looser! Kitty: UGH! ] - Yikes! - Marley helped her dry off and Kitty yanked Marley out of her bubble and made her see what isolating herself was doing to the rest of them. Marley made up with Kitty, and the two of them conspired to do whatever it took to get Glee Club back. Betty Pillsbury, Artie's hookup from Mr. Schue's Valentine's Day almost wedding transferred from Carmel High to McKinley because her mom got a promotion at work, irritating Kitty and making her jealous. Sue made Kitty her student secretary to replace Becky who was like a daughter to her, but had graduated, and she promptly put Bree in her place. Will restarted the drama club and all of the former Glee Club members joined along with Betty, Marissa, these two new twin cheerios, and that wired cheerio with the neckbrace. Sue didn't like it, but since the club was entirely funded from outside sources, she couldn't do much about it. Finn's mom Carole was so broken up about Glee Club being cancelled that she ran for school board and got elected on a Pro Arts Education platform. Kitty tagged along with Artie's parents and decided to surprise him by taking a surprise trip to see him over thanksgiving, but got the wrong idea when she saw him sitting next to this girl Julie, and of course she thought that they were together - OUCH! - She returned to Lima in a funk to find out that Marley and Ryder were finally together - YAY! - Marley didn't believe that Artie would do that to Kitty and texted him about it. Artie grabbed a red eye back to Lima and explained the misunderstanding to Kitty. Turned out that Julie was just a friend and classmate working with him on his film who had no place else to go for Thanksgiving. Artie and Kitty sat down and have a heart-to-heart and decided that the whole being able to see other people thing wasn't working for them, and when Christmas came around there were lovey-dovey again and were back as exclusive couple by New Year's Day - so like YAY! Halfway through the year, grades were down at McKinley and Sue's job was on the line. Superintendent Harris and Councilwoman Hudson-Hummel noticed that the people who were still getting good grades were all involved in the drama club. Sue suspected cheating, but Kitty, Will, and Finn's mom Carole managed to convince Harris that music is the reason. After all studies have shown that listening to music generates development in the brain. Meanwell Coach Roz was so bad with the Cheerios that they didn't even make it to nationals that year for the first time in like forever. Sue was forced to step down from being principal and went back to her old job as a cheerleading coach. They cleared Figgins' name and he was reinstated as principal with the understanding that he had to boost the grades at the school within one year. Glee Club got reinstated, but needed to place or win at regionals if they wanted the club to be back permanently. This was like like old hat for Will and the others so of course they agreed!
And that's what you missed on Glee. GLEE!"