AN: This is completely AU. I got the idea from an image online of light shining on a small rural path, that probably doesn't make sense now, but it will once you read the prologue. I hope you enjoy it and let me know what you think of it and I will take any constructive criticism. (Sorry if the characters are slightly OOC but i tried my best and i should improve in the later chapters as i get used to them.) Thanks for stumbling across this story!

forwhenthedayisgrey


Disclaimer: I do not own glee, but I do own the world and plot that this story is set in.

Summary: Brittany and Sam live in a small town/village in the middle of nowhere, when the come across a dark and daring girl who completely changes their lives around.


Memories of Our Past Together

Prologue-

As Light Shines Down On Our Lives

Brittany skipped along, her forget-me-not blue dress catching the wind. Sam watched, trudging slowly behind. He admired how Brittany always seems positive, even when the rest of the world is dark. She just didn't let anything keep her unhappy for long. Even when her father lost his job a year back for the second time, she was only down for a short moment before she was back to her normal, bubbly and cheerful self. She was quite unaware of the problems that having no money would have. The family was in great trouble before, the first time, but Brittany had started working and her father had found a new job, so they rebuilt their life in a few months. But then it happened once more. Her mother did not work, because she looked after the two younger children and the family depended on Mr Pierce for all their money. Even when they had money coming in, it was barely enough.

A few months ago, Brittany had brought up leaving school again to work, but then she had never talked to him about it again, so he assumed, hopefully, that she had dropped the idea.

A light droplet of rain fell onto Sam's shoulder and he shivered.

Then, as he was jogging to catch up the rain started pouring down harder. Brittany, uncaring, was crouched down by the side of the path, watching a small snail struggle to cross.

"Your mother will want to know where you are, and it's getting wet, we should go," he called to her. She stood up, turning around and gently picking up a small leaf from the verge and twirling it around her pale fingers.

"But I was watching Mr Snaily, and it's not too wet..." She clasped her hands together, she was visibly shivering, however, she tried not to care.

"You're cold, and your sister will be home by now, you promised her a singing lesson, didn't you?"

Brittany gave in and started to walk with Sam towards the small and white cottage which contained the Pierce family.


They came into the cottage drenched from the rain, their hair all ratty and Brittany's blue dress was all muddy around the bottom hem. They warmed themselves on the rug by the fire that heated the house. Brittany was lying on her back, gazing up. Her light blue eyes watching the still, chestnut wood that cloaked the whole ceiling. Sam leant against the faded couch watching her, sketching her every move into his memory.

Sharply, Brittany sat up making Sam jump.

"I left my leaf outside," she said simply, twisting to face him.

"W-what?" he started, but she raced out the door and into the rain. Sam, however, stopped in the doorway, not wishing to get wet again.

As he watched, light, from the now emerging sun, shone onto the path in front of Brittany. She stopped to pick up her leaf and then stared at the light, entranced. As she stepped forward, she saw that it wasn't just a light but a rainbow flowing right into the ground. Sam, still watching, didn't move. He couldn't move. It wasn't possible for him.

Brittany noticed a shard of glass in the light and she bent down to pick it up. Before she could, the light danced and changed in the reflection until Brittany could figure out a face. A face with tanned olive skin, dark hair and dark eyes. Brittany looked up; expecting to find the girl in the reflection but no one was there. Just the rainbow.

She stepped forward, her toes just going into the light. She didn't notice the rain still pouring; she just stepped forward into the light. She couldn't stop herself. She glanced back to Sam.

Sam his feet now free, ran forward, there was a sense that something bad was going to happen. Brittany collapsed the moment she stepped into the light. He saw her glance to him before she did. Memories passed across his eyes and he guessed that this was what it was like to die; his life flashing before him.

Brittany fell to the ground; her last sight of the world was a glimpse of Sam rushing forward. Then the memories came, one after the other, swamping her. Her first day at school, when her brother- Toby - was born, when Onria was born, when Lorr was born, when her father lost his job, when she failed her first test, when she… then blackness…pure darkness.


She really regretted doing this, it was really horrible. But, bad things have to happen to for good things to happen. You have to have the pain of a Band-Aid coming off for the cut to heal. And also, it was her job to do it.

Anyway, the girl wouldn't have any memory of it, so it wouldn't scar her forever. She glanced at the large pile of sheets on the table beside her. They would take a while to finish but she just had to complete the full biography of her character, and then she would be set to go down into the world, and her bosses could not stop her. Then she would be ready to face the girl, and fix her life.


AN: Okay, so there it is, the prologue. Let me know via review if you would like me to continue it, if no one is going to read it then I probably will not continue, so please let me know!

Thank you for reading!