Prologue


*Brittany*

It starts off slow. Oh so agonizingly slow. You watch with an unreserved lust as they stand on stage back to back, gently singing and dancing in sync to the opening strains of Beyonce and Shakira's Beautiful Liar. By the time they get to the halfway point of the song you're convinced that you're in love. The way her hips sway side to side in time with the music, the way she handles Shakira's vocals and the way she and Rachel are seductively grinding yet not grinding on each other has you heated which is a feat given that the A/C is on and you're sitting right there under it. You look over at Quinn and aren't as surprised as you thought you would be seeing her outright ogle at Rachel who is doing the same thing Santana is. Flawlessly shaking her hips and singing what has now got to be your favourite Beyonce song. At least she isn't watching Santana you tell yourself. That's your job. Tonight in this little bar on the corner of 5th and Parson, tucked away in a little booth in the back, you realize that somewhere along the lines you've fallen in love and as you spare a side glance at Quinn, you see it in her eyes, the way that they take in all of Rachel that she feels the same. She's fallen in love too. You both join in with the rest of patrons at the karaoke bar in giving them standing ovations at the songs end and mentally make notes to have all the people who've offered to buy them drinks killed. It's not in your nature to be violent, that's always been Quinn but right now in this moment as Santana and Rachel glide back over to the booth laughing and shoving each other lightly, both surprised that they had the nerve to do that, and that they remembered the choreography, you share a secret look with Quinn. It's a look you both perfected as children and it's a look that says more than you both are willing to out loud right now. You both make a silent pact there and then that you would protect Santana and Rachel even if it costs you your lives. Ironically, protecting your lives is exactly what they were hired to do.