A.N.: Hey! This time I left my beloved land of Narnia, to venture onto uncharted lands… by that I mean the GLEE-verse, of course. This short story (four chapters or so), is made of missing moments from 3 episodes I particularly enjoyed. I hope you'll like them, even my beloved Narnian readers.

Everything is mostly canon, they're only more affectionate with each other, because I remember high school and we were always hugging and kissing, so… enjoy! If you want to, leave me a review, but you don't have to… I'm lazy, too.

"'Cause this is thriller, thriller night

Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try

Thriller, thriller night

So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller, oh!"

Chapter 1: The Sue Sylvester Bowl Shuffle

"I need you to do this number with me, to make Finn jealous."

Noah Puckerman can't stop the silly smile that comes to his lips at Rachel's outburst. She sure knows how to make an entrance. Beware world: Rachel Berry is back!

"Hello to you, too. What song would this be? And why me? Finn already hates me enough, without adding to it by hanging out with you."

Rachel sighs and sits on the piano bench next to him. She plays a simple refrain with one hand and he repeats it on a lower scale.

"First of all, Finn has no right to decide who gets to be my friend, particularly now he isn't even my boyfriend. And you are my friend, Noah. I hope you know that. Plus he feels very intimidated by you, because it looks like all his girlfriends can't help but fall for your charms. And your guns, yes. This makes you the perfect person to sing a duet with, if I want a reaction." She speaks rapidly, as usual, without stopping to give him time to intervene. Or refuse. "And you have to admit, we sound amazing together, as we have proved during the Run Joey Run debacle."

He has to laugh at her smug tone. He puts an arm around her shoulders and adds:

"We really do, don't we? So what do you want to sing, princess?"

"Do you know Lady Antebellum?"

"I do." Then he thinks about it and turns to look at her, taken aback. "You want to sing Need You Now? You really want him to get mad!"

"I really do." She smirks. "I have the lyrics and the tabs here. Will you sing with me then?"

"Sure. Why not." He shrugs and stands up to pick up his guitar.

They are working on it for less than thirty minutes when Sam comes into the room to collect his guitar. He smiles at Puck's confused look, while Rachel explains a bridge with intricate hand gestures.

"Hi guys! What are you rehearsing?"

They both smile at him and gesture for him to take a seat with them.

"Rachel here wants to make Finnocence jealous and asked me to sing Need You Now with her. Want to help?"

Rachel claps at Puck's suggestion and goes to pick up Sam's guitar from the little office. That's when Quinn enters the choir room, attracted by her boyfriend's laughter.

"Oh! Hello. What are you all doing here? Isn't it time to go home?"

"Puck and Rachel are working on Need You Now, by Lady Antebellum, and I'm offering second guitar services during rehearsals." Sam answers with a warm smile. "Are you going home?"

"I was." Then she appears to ponder something for a moment and shrugs, dropping her bag on a chair and taking off her jacket. "Do you need piano services, too?" She offers with a smile.

Puck and Rachel look at each other, quite surprised. Rachel is the first to look at the blonde Cheerio with a big smile.

"That would be lovely. Here's the music."

Lauren has just finished her wrestling training, when she hears Puck's voice come from the glee room. Curious about what he is up to now, she goes inside and sees him and Rachel Berry sing, making ridiculous eyes at each other, accompanied by Sam and Quinn. They are both laughing at the singing duo's antics, even the glacial Cheerio princess, and Lauren has to admit it: Puck and Berry's show is amusing and quite cute. And they are admittedly very good. She claps for them when the song finishes and they all stand up to bow to her with a smile.

"You wouldn't happen to be able to play drums, would you?" Asks an energized Rachel Berry.

"Not really, no. But I play a mean tambourine." Lauren jokes.

They all cheer and that's how Lauren Zizes finds herself joining their rehearsals during all the following week. Once the performance is done, in front of the football jocks, no less, she has to admit they did quite a good job. Puck and Rachel are flawless.

It is after one of this rehearsals that Sam and Rachel start to talk, since Sam is curious about the reason why she and Finn broke up. So she tells him about Santana and their never-ending feud and her stupid revenge.

"Don't get me wrong, Noah is a superb kisser. I certainly don't regret that!" She hastens to add, making Sam laugh. "But it wasn't right. It was petty and it hurt him… I'm always hurting the people I love." She says sadly, lowering her eyes. They have reached their cars and Sam can see Quinn, coming out of the school with Puck and Lauren, talking animatedly with the wrestler.

"I think he's going to forgive you. You'll see."

She looks up, then, and fixes him with an intense stare.

"You don't understand, Sam. Finn has a very short attention span. And I mean very short. Plus, he cares for his popularity almost as much as Quinn, even if he doesn't show it. Just you wait until you win that championship game. He'll have half the school after him and I won't have any chance. It's imperative I get him back before that."

She stops speaking after that, probably because the others have reached them. Sam, though, keeps thinking about their conversation for a long time and he has to admit – the more he repeats her words in his head, the more Finn Hudson seems like an asshole. Who put him in charge anyway?

Quinn is perfectly able to own up to it (if only to herself): she doesn't hate Rachel Berry. Despite what she forcefully tells anyone who dares insinuate that she more than tolerates the miniature diva, sometimes she almost likes her. Maybe because last summer, after Beth was born, Quinn spent a lot of time with Puck and Rachel, talking about the absurdity of her mom adopting their daughter. She knows how deeply Rachel actually feels, even if she doesn't always go about it the right way. She also knows that Finn is too hurt by what Rachel did – Quinn's fault to a degree – to forgive Rachel only because he's jealous. He'll probably just try to guilt Puck into staying away from her. In addition, Quinn is confused about her own feelings: Sam is sweet and she likes him, but part of her will always be in love with Finn. She can't blame Rachel for wanting to try anything to get him back. All the same, she has a great time helping with the song. The two 'hot Jews' (she really has to stop hanging out with Puck…) sound wonderful together and she doesn't mind spending time with them again. After one rehearsal, while Rachel and Sam are walking ahead, Mr. Shuster sees them and asks what they are doing still at school so late. Puck tells him he is working on something with Rachel and that's how she finds herself unable to stop smiling during their performance in front of the football players. They are really good (and flirty, but she thinks they can't quite help it) and, judging from Finn's annoyed air, they fulfilled their purpose. For now.

Rachel knows, intellectually, that violence isn't the answer and that calling Noah a girl wasn't a real insult – being a girl isn't insulting at all – but she also knows that the intensions behind this jocks' words are anything but honorable. So she goes all mama bear on their ass. Nobody insults her people in front of her! She knows only too well how much it hurts.

She almost laughs when she notices that Sam is the one who is bodily restraining her. Her feet are literally off the floor and he is yelling at her to calm down and laughing at the same time. Rachel finally laughs, too – before she sees the look of sheer rage on Noah's face. She suspects he took the barb as more of an attack directed to her and their bad ass performance than on himself. Coach Beiste is having problems restraining him. Rachel sighs and goes limp in Sam's arms.

"Put me down Sam." He hesitates, not sure of what she's going to do. Or maybe of what he's going to do without the distraction of a hysterical Rachel Berry to hold back. "I'm fine Sam. Put me down. I need to stop Puckerman before he gets suspended." At this, he lets her go without a second thought. "By the way? Nice abs!"

The blond shakes his head with a grin, watching warily as she plants herself in front of Noah Puckerman and grabs his face in her hands, avoiding the swinging guitar. Sam promptly catches it and puts it out of harm's way… poor thing.

"Look at me, Noah! Calm down!"

Puck isn't really in an amenable mood right now. He wants to bash some heads in, even if Evans took away his weapon of choice.

"Noah!" The voice calls again, forcing him to face its owner, who has her hands on his jaw. "Stop it! Listen to me! You have to calm down, or you'll be suspended again!"

Puck finally focuses his attention on a frantic Rachel Berry. Who has tears in her eyes. That doesn't certainly help him to calm down. He hates to see girls cry.

"They insulted our performance, Rach!"

"I know."

"We worked our asses off!"

"I know. We were great."

"They made you cry!"

At this Rachel finally smiles, albeit a bit sadly, and throws her arms around his neck. He feels the rage leave him in a wave and puts his own arms around her waist. Out of the corner of his eye, he sees that Coach is looking at them with her mouth open. Rachel's voice against his throat brings his attention back to her.

"Thank you, Noah. You're always defending my honor and listening to my crazy plans. And you smell awesome. You are quite the friend and knight in shining armor. I don't want you to get in trouble because of me. We can sing about it later, if you want. Something from your selection of angry music if it'll make you feel better."

The randomness of her thought process makes him laugh out loud.

"That's your angry music too, Bon Jovi!" He chuckles. Rachel squeals as he tightens his hold on her waist and lifts her off the floor. The room goes silent and still in a second. The only noises are Sam, Artie and Lauren's snickers – probably laughing at the strange scene they make in the middle of a brawl – and Tina and Brittany's 'aawww'.

"This is so knocking down my bad ass-points." Puck grumbles. His only answer is Rachel's wobbly laugh against his shoulder.

Sam is not stupid. Despite Kurt's insinuations, the bleach didn't affect his brain, thank you very much. He sees the way his girlfriend looks at Finn after he defends her against Rachel's, spot-on, barb. Despite what Hudson says, they all know Quinn will choose the Cheerios and that Santana and Brittany will feel obligated to follow her. She is their captain. What the other girls do after the team dissolves, that he finds impressive. He knows they don't know the first thing about football and that they couldn't care less about the Championship game. They care about them and the glee club, though, enough to risk getting hurt. He loves them for it and finds Rachel and Tina jumping and chanting "Football team! Football team!" extremely cute. Plus he doesn't doubt that Lauren can 'bring the pain'… she scares the hell out of him.

Rachel honestly thought this football game deal would be harder than it ended up being. True, they are probably losing spectacularly (she isn't to clear about the rules of this silly game), but Finn's smile when he saw them saunter into the pitch is enough for her. Sam grabbing her fists with a laugh and Noah's tender "Are you ready for this?", were even better. She had been ready to help them win. Rachel Berry doesn't lose if she can help it. Tina almost getting hurt wasn't in the plan, though, and she has to bring Finn back down to Earth: they cannot win without the rest of the team and she'd rather sing during the halftime show than get trampled by a group of overgrown teenagers. Of course, what Finn is preoccupied with is getting the cheerleaders back (part of her knows that what he really want is to have Quinn back. She catches Sam's sad eyes and has to look the other way to stop herself from crying…). Despite everything, they survive the last two and a half minutes and she follows Noah to the boys' locker room to hear what he's going to say to convince the rest of them to join in time for the show.

"You can do it." She assures him, then she sends him inside with a pat on his arm.

He's talking about children and losers and whatever else, when she feels a hand on her head. Sam smiles at her and asks:

"You OK? How's he doing?"

She smiles back and nods.

"I think he's got them. He's quite the orator, it would seem."

They are both laughing about it, with their hands in front of their mouths to prevent the others from hearing, when a reunited football team comes out of the door, ready to be zombified. Sam slaps shoulders happily and Rachel hugs a couple of them and sends them to the girls' locker room, where make-up and costumes are being done. When Noah comes out of the door, Rachel jumps on him, hanging on his shoulder-armor-thingies and feels Sam hugging them both from behind her and laughing. If nothing else, she made a new friend after all of this and she's happy about it. Noah lets them go and turns around, offering her his back.

"Come on, little zombies, let's go get all disfigured and shit!"

Rachel laughs and climbs on, letting him carry her to the rest of the group, where she proceeds to zombify them good and pretty. She did take a theater make-up class after all.

"-that you were a real team out there. I'm so proud of you!" Coach Beiste's speech is over when the girls enter the locker room, back in their civilian clothes and armed with skin-cleaning products. They are welcomed by the boys' loud cheering and, laughing, start to spread to cover the whole group and help them 'de-zombify'. Finn doesn't know if he should hug Rachel or Quinn, his head is so confused, but it turns out he doesn't need to choose, because the girls don't even look at him, they head to Puck and Sam's group, arm in arm with Lauren and talking animatedly. Finn follows them with his eyes, quite confused. It takes Mercedes clearing her voice pointedly to make him look away. The sassy girl is standing in front of him, hands on her hips and frown firmly in place.

"What are you doing, white boy? Don't you think it's time to stop playing games? If those two girls haven't been able to become friends, after all this time, it's all your fault. I hope you know it."

When Finn only sighs sadly and looks down, she grabs his chin and starts cleaning his face, shaking her head.

"I know you're confused. I can see it. Hell! I think even the walls can see it. And I know that you have been hurt, by both of them. The point is: if you can forgive Quinn, don't you think you should give Rachel the same courtesy? Haven't you punished her enough?"

"It's not that simple, Mercedes. It hurts, what they did. But I could probably put it all behind me, if I had to. What I don't understand is how I can like both of them at the same time!"

"That is really nothing strange, you know. It happens all the time. You also know they both regret what they did. Lord knows Rachel talks about it enough to cause selective deafness in both me and Kurt." She adds the last part in an angry whisper. Finn can't help but laugh. He is really happy that the three divas have become such good friends. Who knew that it was enough to separate them for a while?

Finn looks around again at the well-oiled machine that his two teams have become: the girls take off one boy's make-up and send him to the showers, getting to work on the one who comes next. Mercedes' touch on his shoulder distracts him again.

"You should probably hit the showers before they finish all the hot water." At least this time she's smiling.