Rolling In The Deep

Prologue

"I don't know what to do with her anymore, Carmen." Cassandra July placed her hands on the back of her chair and sighed. "I mean, don't get me wrong. She's still as annoying as ever but ever since she won the Winter Show Case there's literally nothing anymore that she isn't capable off. It's almost scaring how much she works her ass off. I've never seen classmates who were that intimitated by someone. Nothing wants to work with her because they are all afraid of not being able to keep up with her."

The Dean furrowed her brows. The dance teacher wasn't one to exaggerate and she knew that Rachel was an exemplary student but she didn't know what Cassandra expected. Carmen gave her an almost sneering look. She caught the hint of taunt in the Dean's eyes and rolled her eyes.

"She did a duet with herself. Literally."

Carmen quirked a brow. Cassandra sighed at her disbelief and grabbed a CD out of her bag.

"Jason gave it to me. He didn't want to believe either that nobody wanted to work with her. It should have been a simple duet. But when nobody volontureed to do it with her she told him that it wasn't a problem."

The Dean took the CD and looked at it sceptically.

"If the school year continues like that you can already give her her degree in a few months. I really don't know what I can do with her anymore. I talked with the rest of the faculty and it seems like my class is the only one left that still challenges her. But it won't take long until there's nothing left that I can teach her."

"What do you expect from me?" Carmen asked with an almost stern sound in her voice.

Cassandra shrugged. "Find her another challenge, I don't know." She raised her hands in cluelessness. "There's just one thing that I can tell you, Carmen. If she was already that close to beat me in our dance off she is going to audition for the next Broadway show that offers the possibility and then she will leave the school in a heartbeat."

Carmel cleared her throat. "Do you really think it will be this easy for her?"

"With her?" The Blonde laughed dryly. "Without a doubt."

Carmen looked at the CD in her hand and sighed. She gave the dance teacher a nod at which she disappeared through the door. The Dean opened a folder on her computer and searched for Rachel's name. A moment later she dialed the number of her secretary just the room beside.

"Yes, Ms. Tibideaux?"

"Dianna, could you please make an appointment with every teacher of the list I'm sending you?"

She heard the woman nod. "Of course. For when?"

The Dean sighed. "As soon as possible. I'd like to get this over with at the end of the day."

The woman finished the call and tapped her fingers on the desk. She grabbed the CD Cassandra had given her just a few minutes ago and put it into the disk stoange. There was a window opening on her screen that she enlargened.

Rachel's face appeared on the screen a moment later. Carmen watched the freezed imagine and immidiately noticed the determination in Rachel's eyes. Rachel had grown since her audition for NYADA and not only her looks displayed the progress she had already made in this few months. The Dean didn't know what to expect when she started the video to the sound of Natalie Imbruglia's Torn.

She watched the two different versions of Rachel that were obviously dealing with some kind of conflict. Carmen laughed as the girls were watching each other through a mirror looking completely different. The one wearing bangs and her hair in waves, completely dressed in black and short and little revealing clothes and the other looking like the girl that had auditioned for the college just in spring. A Rachel wearing a head band, conservative clothes like a shirt for a nice girl and a plaided skirt that almost reached her knees, knee highs and ballerina shoes.

The performance was good. Great even. It was never easy to do a duet with oneself because it was simply not made to but Carmen admitted that Rachel had done great work. Somehow Rachel had successfully managed to give her characters different voices. While there was a sound of confidence and hope in Rachel's younger version there was a trail of widsom and reality marking her older self.

The Dean closed the window and sighed.

She defintely needed to do something about it.

A/N: I swear I haven't forgotten about Alternate Glee and Journey is going to be uploaded soon.
In My Veins and Rolling In The Deep are definitely not going to get as long as AG for which I have tons of ideas.
I just wanted to try something new and Rachel and Jesse are haunting me at night ;)

Hope you enjoy. R&R

April 19, 2015.