Author's Note

Hey guys! I just finished my historical-based story, The Trail's End, and I'm really proud of it, so if you haven't read it maybe you'd like it. It's a Finchel AU based on Bonnie and Clyde. Anyway, I really enjoyed the historical tie-ins during that story, and in my other story Once Upon A Time – based on the TV show – there's a whole 'other-life' twist. That's where this story comes from. An AU where the New Directions are all well-known people from the past, stuck in a sort of 'time-warp'. Therefore, the title is a reference to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it also has a whole other reason that you'll understand once you read this! I have high hopes for this story, and I hope you all like it! Thanks and enjoy.

Full Summary

The New Directions aren't so 'new' after all. It wasn't just a coincidence that these students all ended up in a club together, no – little do they know that all of them are really people from the past, caught somehow in the present. Little do they know how they'll save each other; bring each other back home. But once they go back, they're back for good, and if they don't get back to their time periods at all…they could alter the course of history forever. How will the New Directions get everyone back in time? Will they even realize who they are in the first place? And how will friends and couples deal with never seeing each other again – let alone remembering their time in Lima, Ohio? They say a picture is worth a thousand words…

Cast Of Characters

The Boys –

Will Schuster – Jonathon Larson: A New York-loving composer/playwright. Most famous for his Broadway show, the still-loved RENT (1996). His other most notable work, tick, tick…BOOM! (2001), was pursued after he died. Born: 1960. Died: 1996 (Age 35)

Finn Hudson – James Dean: An all-American actor. Most famous for the movies East Of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause, and Giant. Born: 1931. Died: 1955. (Age 24)

Noah "Puck" Puckerman – Giacomo Casanova: Italian adventurer and author, but most famous for being a ladies man. Born: 1725. Died: 1798. (Age 73)

Kurt Hummel – Oscar Wilde: Irish writer, playwright, and poet. Most famous for his works of satire during the Victorian Era, especially his play called The Importance Of Being Earnest. He was gay, which in the Victorian Era was a terrible crime, and was sent to jail because of it. Once he got out, he was as flamboyant as possible because he knew they could not send him to jail again due to double jeopardy. Born: 1854. Died: 1900. (Age 46)

Artie Abrams – Christopher Reeve: an American actor/film director, most famous for his role of Clark Kent/Superman in the original Superman: The Movie. He was noted for being in a wheelchair after becoming a quadriplegic, but even more noted for never letting it get the best of him. Born: 1952. Died: 2004. (Age 52)

Mike Change – Michael Jackson: an extremely well-known dancer, singer, and all-around pop icon. His famous nickname was "The King Of Pop". Some of his more famous songs are Thriller, Beat It, Black Or White, and We Are The World. Born: 1958. Died: 2009. (Age 50)

Blaine Anderson – Charlie Chaplin: An English singer, composer, and comedic film actor, best known for his silent films. Born: 1889. Died: 1977. (Age 88)

Sam Evans – Patrick Swayze: An American actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his roles in the movie Ghost, Dirty Dancing, and Point Break. Born: 1952. Died: 2009. (Age 57)

Rory Flanagan – George Harrison: An Irish musician, best known for being in the band The Beatles. Born: 1943. Died: 2001. (Age 58)

The Girls –

Emma Pillsbury – Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American activist for women's rights. Born: 1815. Died: 1902 (Age 86)

Sue Sylvester – Margaret Thatcher: A very powerful and venerated British politician. Nicknamed "The Iron Lady". Born: 1925. Died: 2003. (Age 86)

Rachel Berry – Fanny Brice: New Yorker, comedian, singer, dancer, film actress, Broadway and stage actress, and radio actress. Her nickname, "Funny Girl", became the title of a Broadway show created about her, in which Barbra Streisand famously portrayed her. Born: 1891. Died: 1951 (Age 59)

Quinn Fabray – Louisa May Alcott: A highly loved American novelist, best known for her novel Little Women, and it's sequel, Jo's Boys. Born: 1832. Died: 1888 (Age 55)

Santana Lopez – Selena Quintanilla-Pérez: A Mexican-American singer, known as the "Mexican Madonna". She is known for her very pure voice, and her assassination one week before her twenty-fourth birthday. Born: 1971 Died: 1995 (Age 23)

Mercedes Jones – Ella Fitzgerald: Known as "The First Lady Of Song", she was a powerfully talented jazz and soul singer. Born: 1923. Died: 1996 (Age 73)

Tina Cohen-Chang – Kayo Hatta: An Asian-American filmmaker, writer, and female activist. She directed and co-wrote the film Picture Bride, which a Sundance Film Festival Award. Born: 1958. Died: 2005 (Age 47)

Brittany S. Peirce – Anna Pavlova: A Russian ballet dancer, known as one of the finest and most beautiful dancers in history; the first one to dance Swan Lake. Born: 1881. Died: 1931 (Age 49)

Sugar Motta – Elizabeth "Liz" Taylor: A British-American actress; noted for her beauty and sex appeal. She was one of the great actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. Born: 1932. Died: 2011. (Age 79)

Couples

Finchel, Klaine, Brittana, Quick, Wemma, Samcedes, and more may come in later.

Friendships

Kurt/Rachel, Finn/Quinn, Puck/Finn, Quinn/Rachel, Mike/Sugar, Santana/Mercedes, Santana/Rachel, Kurt/Rory, Rory/Sam, Emma/Sue (maybe), Blaine/Santana, Quinn/Kurt, and more may come in later.

Prolog

The roar of the crowd made her heart beat out of her chest. She loved any kind of acting, but there was just something about a live audience that she thought feeds her very soul. They were actually roaring for her. Well, she thought it just goes to show ya' – a few years ago she was telling herself 'do you think beautiful girls are gonna be a star forever? I should think not! Any second now there're gonna be out – finished! And then it'll be my turn…'. And now, it was. So maybe she didn't have the prettiest face of the bunch. So maybe her nose was a little large and stuck out a bit. The crowd didn't seem care – they were roaring, weren't they? – and she's never felt more like a princess in her sparkly, silver dress with her tweeted feather tam-hat placed just so perfectly to the side of her head, and…

"Are you in here?"

She whipped around and saw him, peeping his head into her dressing room.

"Nick! Oh, Nicky!"

He smiled that half-smile she loves and embraced her.

"You're going to be so great out there," he whispered in her ear. She knew Nick was a gambler, and therefore wrong for her every way, but she realized that he could not have been more right. Oh, my man I love him so…when he takes me in his arms – the world is bright; all right…

"Oh, Nicky…th-they told me…they told me 'if a girl isn't pretty, she'll never make it'…"

"Hey, who you talkin', doll? You're beautiful."

And that's all she ever wanted to hear. God, they were roaring…

"Fanny?"

Beep! – Beep! – Beep!

Rachel Berry sat up in bed and rubbed her eyes, her screeching alarm clock reading 6:00 a.m. She shuffled out of bed and flicked off the alarm, but never fully awoke until about a half-hour later, still in the grips of her sparking dream. It was funny – her dreams were so clear when she was asleep, almost like she really was there, but when she woke up, it was like she was trying to remember something from years ago – only little blurbs and snippets came to light, but nothing that actually told her anything. Huh… Rachel thought, as she swung open her car door that morning. Funny…