Written for the Quartie Ficathon. I came up with these ideas before I saw them in the prompt.
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee or any of the songs mentioned
Glee Rehearsal- 4:00 January 3, 2011
"OK guys, welcome back after a hopefully relaxing winter break," Mr. Schu came walking into the choir room at a brisk pace holding a top hat in one hand and a notepad in another.
"If by relaxing you mean outlining five chapters for your AP World History class and doing 80 math problems then yes, I had the most relaxing break in history," Artie Abrams mumbled under his breath, still ticked about his teacher's fear of snow days.
"I'm sorry to hear about your break Artie, but mine was far worse as I had a cold for the entire two weeks, and I could not hit my full range even after I drank honey lemon tea every single second of the day and ate Ricola cough drops at an alarming rate, I don't see how you can even dare suggest that—"
"Rachel! Will you shut up, I'm sure your voice was still better than all of ours combined." The choir room murmured in agreement at Santana's snide remark.
"Artie, Rachel, Santana- that's enough. I thought we went over this at sectionals, we are a team, and a dang good one. And to stress that point, I have come up with yet another, shall we dare say bonding assignment. This week you are going to do another round of duets!"
The choir room broke out into a chorus that was not exactly harmonized, "This is what we always do!"
"Come on Mr. Schu!"
"Can we do a dance number instead?"
"Can't you think of something more creative?"
"I was thinking of the perfect love hate relationship ballad for me and Finn to sing together once we got back after our musically deprived winter break, Mr. Schuster, and I'm glad to see that I have finally mastered telepathy after extensively reading the Self Teaching Guide to Telepathy that my dads got me for Hanukkah."
"Guys! Enough! There are a few catches- I have picked your partners according to who hasn't sung together yet and who's voices I think have a possibility of sounding good together, then you will pick your song out of the hat, after that you two will make this song that is usually sung solo into a duet, and put a bit of your own spin on it." He waved the sparkly hat as members gave each other "the look."
"Well, I don't care who's my partner, just as long as I get the bigger solo." Mercades stage whispered to Tina who nodded ferverently back at her.
"Wait, what is the motivation here, because if the prize is not good than I am totally going to be spending more time shoveling dog poo than doing this crap assignment. And Breadstix better not be the prize because that is getting way too old."
"Well, Santana, the prize is getting to sing your duet at sectionals if you win, and seeing as last time you guys only voted on yourselves except for Finn and Rachel, Coach Beiste and I will be picking the winners.
"OK, here we go! Starting with Rachel and Sam, come up and pick your song."
Sam looked less than pleased and Rachel had look just above disappointment on her face as they walked up to the piano, until, "Firework by Katy Perry? You have got to be kidding me." Everyone roared at their expressions until, "Be quiet, I know you are just jealous because we are going to make a smashing Broadway rendition of this awful song, come on Sam, we have to get working I can't let my creative juices just sit, they might spoil." She grabbed his wrist with a little more force than necessary and stomped out of the room.
"OK, then," Will continued, "Finn and Mercades you are next." Both looked confused about their partner as they walked up to the piano together to pull out a sheet that Will read out as, "People Will Say We're In Love from Oklahoma!" Mercades looked horrified.
"Mr. Schu, how on earth am I supposed to dip my chocolate thunder in that song? I am no old-style musical girl" He shrugged at her and gave her a nonchalant nod of his head.
"How old are these 'Oklahoma' people anyways because I haven't heard of that band, ever."
"Gee Finn how dumb are you? Oklahoma! is a freaking musical, not a band, even I know that." Santana snarled at him. The two glared at each other until Mercades huffed and pulled Finn out of the room.
"Alright up next, Quinn and," Quinn waited with bated breath, "Artie, come get your song." Quinn sighed; at least she and Puck weren't together, Artie was better than she could have hoped for.
Artie's body tensed, how on earth could he be seen singing a freaking duet with the most popular girl in school? Sure they had had their moments over the past year but they had barley even said one word to each other. He hoped with all his might that they would get a song that had nothing, nothing at all to do with romance or even friendship. Something about total awkwardness- that would be the perfect song for the two of them.
He held his breath until he heard Mr. Schu say five words that made him want the floor swallow him whole, "I'm Yours by Jason Mraz."
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