I DO NOT OWN GLEE!
This story is set 3 years after the end of season 2
The old New Directions crew have graduated (but don't worry, they will be back!)
Rachel, Blaine, Finn and Kurt are in New York.
Will still coaches New Directions and is now married to Emma who is expecting a baby
Shelby and Beth are back living in Ohio after living in London for 2 years, and after VA's embarrassing loose 3 years in a row at Nationals, Shelby has been invited back to be coach of VA
Jesse is also back in Ohio after his Show Choir Company went bust. He is now living with Shelby and Beth.
Beth is 4.
Basically I think that is all you need to know so far. I was quite annoyed that they didn't sort out the whole Shelby and Rachel storyline and they didn't even mention Beth! So here is my idea for what would happen. Hopefully a multi chapter story, will have to see!
"19 year old Rachel Berry has become an overnight Broadway success playing green girl Elphaba in the hit Broadway show Wicked. Critics describe Berry as the new star of Broadway and it is expected she will be nominated for her first tony in July." The TV screen blared.
Jesse, who couldn't help but feel insanely jealous of his ex-girlfriends success, felt comfort in the familiar sound of her name. He couldn't help but stare at the picture of perfection which was Rachel Berry, covered in Green Paint singing on a Broadway stage. A dream they had both wanted, but only one could achieve. After the humiliation of Jesse's show choir business, he couldn't seek refuge in his own home after his parents had disowned his after his drop out of UCLA. He was in a deep funk. Not only did he have no job or girlfriend, he was sleeping on his old show choir coach's sofa.
He didn't like to admit it, but he often thought of Rachel and her old team-mates. Wondering if that Frankenteen was having more success than he was or what Mike Chang, who couldn't sing but at least dance, was doing.
His thoughts turned back to Rachel, who he hadn't spoken to since the 2011 nationals where that giant had cost them the competition. He was happy for her, achieving her dream whilst he wasn't. He had tried to break back into the business, with audition after audition, however no such luck. For now he settled for the lazy life until new work came up. He feared that he would never reach his dream. Sick of the empty house as both Shelby and Beth were at Carmel High, he put on the Wicked Soundtrack, imagining him and Rachel singing in every song.
An upbeat Lady Gaga track was blaring through the Carmel High speaker system as Dakota Stanley and the members of Vocal Adrenaline were practicing the dance routine. It was fast paced and complicated involving intricate lifts and movements. Of course no performance was perfect as was constantly told the teenage members of VA who were currently on hour 15 of their 24 hour rehearsal.
Shelby, who was sat at her desk in the middle of the auditorium, examined the routine whilst keeping an eye on her 4 year old daughter who was sat colouring on a chair. She didn't like bringing her to rehearsals, but as Regionals was coming up, she spent as much time as she could there, providing Beth was getting enough sleep and food.
As the music stopped the VA members froze in their ending posititions breathing heavily.
"So Shelby what do we think?" Dakota shouted. Shelby thought for a moment turning the mic on.
"Wow... it was good, how come you never produced anything like that compared to Goolsby"
"I never liked him. You Miss Corcoran will always be my favourite"
"Well thank you. Ok everyone take a 15 minute break, and drink a red bull." She heard the group moan.
"One more peep and that break is going down to a minute. I am never usually this nice. GO!" she said turning her mic off. She sighed looking down at her little blonde haired daughter who looked up and gave the cheesiest grin. A perfect show face. She must have learnt that from Jesse.
Rachel Berry came in from a great show. She put down her keys, not wanting to wake Finn who was asleep in the bedroom. Still buzzing from the adrenaline, she switched on the laptop making a cup of tea whilst waiting for it to load up.
She quickly logged into Facebook to find a new invitation request named "CLASS OF 2012 NEW DIRECTIONS REGIONAL MEETUP" Rachel instantly smiled as she saw this, created by Mr Schuester who had invited the whole of the New Directions to the Regionals in which both VA and New Directions would compete. She immediately pressed accept, knowing she would be able to get a few days off to fly back to Ohio. She and Finn could stay with her dads, whilst Kurt and Blaine stayed at Burt and Carol's. It would be perfect.
She noticed that most of the others had accepted also, Quinn and Puck, who were now seeing each other, Tina, Mike, Brittany and Santana, Sam and Artie. She couldn't wait to see everyone again. Eventually she turned off her laptop and made her way to the bedroom where she snuggled into bed with Finn.
Ok.. so what do you think? I was thinking starting at Regionals and doing quite a few chapters of various goings on going into a lot more into the Shelby and Rachel relationship as well as Beth's story.