Hey guys so I'm back with a new story this time! Don't worry, I will continue updating NSN but I just really wanted to get the concept of this one out there for you all to read!
The idea came to me whilst watching the London 2012 Olympics over the summer-especially the woman's football. Well done to USA for your win!
I will be referring football as Soccer so not to confuse my American readers.
Anyway, this is kind of a taster chapter to see if you guys enjoy it and if I should continue writing.
Oh and also, my head canon for Judy and Russell is that they are very accepting of gays and also Quinn never had Beth and Shelby never re-entered Rachel's life, I never really enjoyed the SHELBY-Rachel story line in Season 1 so...This is obviously AU. and set during S2.
ENJOY!
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee.
Sweat drips down her face, collecting in pools at the dip of her collar bone. Her feet pound against the dewy grass as her thighs burn in exertion. Her breathing comes out laboured as her lungs fight to regain they oxygen they lost. Her heart bounces about in her rib cage so fast that she feels it might break out of its confinement.
Adrenaline pumps through her lean body as her eyes look around her, trying to find a clear spot amongst the chaos around her.
Shouts are heard, cries of pain are hauled into the crisp Autumn-y air. Bodies run past her, trying to stop her from getting to her goal.
She takes no notice of them, her eyes firmly planted onto the cool, collected eyes of her teammate's. With one look they silently exchange words. With a burst of adrenaline, she pushes herself harder and runs into a clearing. As soon as she does so, the team mate kicks the ball over to her, the black and white ball flies over the heads of her opponents straight to her feet.
Quick as a flash, she's making her way down the field, dodging the attacks she's getting thrown at her. She's almost there, almost able to taste the victory on her tongue as the clock ticks the seconds away in her head.
She's about to make it, however, as she goes to push more force into the ball, an unexpected force collides into her feet, sending her over the ball and head first onto the grass. Sticking her arms out, she softens her landing and allows herself to roll through the green blades and land on her back.
Her eyes screw tight shut when the whistle sounds, not signalling a foul, no. Signalling the end of the game.
She groans and smacks her forehead. When she opens her eyes again, she's faced with the only thing she hates, the only thing she despises. The face of her.
Evil brown eyes twinkle down at her, a evil, sadistic smile tracing her lips. The bright blue uniform bores down at her with as much arrogance as the person wearing said uniform.
This couldn't be any worse...but then, they speak.
"Oops, sorry" their voice says with false sincerity "let me help you up" a small, tanned hand reaches down towards her.
Her eyes turn to slits as she stares between the hand and said owner of the hand.
"Like hell you will" the annoyed, gruff sound of her beast friend says, coming into view and viciously pushing the other out of the way.
"Calm down Lopez" They say, still smirking at her as Lopez helps her up from the ground.
"I'll calm down when you grow a few inches taller Berry." Lopez says with a growl before turning to the girl in her arms "You alright Quinn?"
She places a hand on her shoulder and nods "Santana, let me" she whispers in Santana's ear before stepping between her and Berry.
She dust grass off of her shorts and clears her throat "Fair game, Berry. Shame it was only a friendly" she says, smiling sweetly at her opponent.
"Yes, shame, because if it wasn't a friendly...we would've destroyed you and your pathetic team" the evil smirk turns into a snarl as Berry speaks.
"We only drew because the ref didn't call you out on your foul. What did you bribe him with this time? A blow job behind the bleachers after the game? Or did you already do it? Someone should tell him to get his dick checked out, god knows what STI's are crawling around in that shit hole you call a mouth"
Brown eyes flare up in anger at her words and she takes a menacing step towards the blonde captain "I wouldn't push me if I was you, Fabray" Berry warns, her face getting close to Quinn's.
"Oh I'm just getting started Berry" Quinn growls back.
"Girls, shake hands and leave, I don't want any trouble on my pitch!" The ref says, walking up to the two bickering girls.
Barley containing their disgust, the girls shake hands. As Quinn goes to walk away, Berry tugs on her hand forcefully, bringing their bodies flush together, her breath blowing into Quinn's ear.
"You think this is the end of it? Oh I'm just letting you off easy sweet cheeks. You have no idea what you're getting yourself into. I'll see you at the Tournament" she growls before pulling back and jogging over to her coach and team.
Quinn watches the smaller girl go, her anger slowly starting to go. Her eyes land on the wiggling bum of her rival for a moment. She bites her lip and tilts her head to the side. Upon catching herself, she shakes her head vigorously and walks away to Roz Washington (otherwise known as Black Sue by the team) and the rest of her waiting team.
"Never in my life have I seen such poor play happen on the pitch" Roz's voice floats over to Quinn when she finally arrives, standing next to Santana. They both look at each other and roll their eyes, knowing Roz is going to go off on a rant whilst throwing in some harmful comments in there. "Little miss petunia here" Quinn looks over, realising Roz is talking about her "Was only just able to keep possession of the ball before the little brown ball of annoying ran over and attacked her"
"She came out of nowhere Coach, we tried to stop her" A blue haired girl-Ramona-says from next to Quinn.
"I do not care where she came from, your job is to keep her away from Fabray. I did not win three bronze medals at the Beijing Olympics in synchronised swimming or bring our Female Olympic soccer team to victory in the recent London Olympic Games on trying. I did and that's it. Get your sorry asses into the locker rooms"
The girls on the team all grumble, not to happy about going to the lockers. Because of how cheap Figgins is, he would not allow the soccer team to have two different shower rooms-one for the McKinley Soccer Team and one for their opponents and so they have to share them. This, Quinn was dreading.
She doesn't know when, why or how her feud with Berry started, it just did. She remembers the day Berry and her Dad's moved into the house next to hers as if it was yesterday.
Ten years ago
Seven year old Quinn sits on her doorstep, watching in excitement as removal men carry the furniture of their new neighbours into the house next door. She's been waiting to see any hint of their being a kid her age living there. So far, she's been disappointed. She's been sat out there as soon as she heard the moving Van pull up and watched as lots and lots of boxes were taken out the back.
No one else has turned up yet, it's just been the removal men bringing in a dining table, chairs, coffee table, settee's and a few Beds. The boxes they carry are taped up, stopping Quinn from seeing what's inside.
She stands on her tiptoes, peering over the fence when she hears the sound of a baby. Her eyes light up in excitement when she spots a baby doll poking out of one of the boxes, obviously the source of the baby sounds. They have a child! Finally she'll have someone to play with!
Green eyes dart over to the street when the sound of a car pulling up fills her senses. She watches as a tall, dark skinned, scary looking man steps out of the driver's side, soon followed by a smaller, pale man with thick rimmed glasses. The taller man steps round the car and hugs the smaller one, placing a kiss to his head-much like Daddy does with Mum.
Quinn's eyebrows furrow together at the sign of affection. Can a Man and a Man show affection to each other like Daddy and Mum?
"What are you doing Quinnie?" Quinn hears her Mum walk out of the house and walk down the path to her, placing a caring hand on her head.
"Mum, can a Man kiss another Man?" Quinn asks.
"Of course, love is love, no matter where it comes from" Judy finally spots who Quinn was referring to "Russell! Our new neighbours are here!" Judy calls into the home.
Quinn becomes confused as she sees more and more children toys leave the moving Van, but still no sign of a child. They even walk past with a swing set at one point, but the child still has yet to be seen.
The two Men spot Quinn and Judy watching and approach them with big smiles on their faces. The taller, scarier Man holds his hand out for Judy to shake. Quinn's eyes widen at how large his hands are.
"Hello, I'm Leroy Berry and this is my Husband Hiram Berry, I take it you're our neighbours" The taller man-Leroy-says.
Judy smiles back and shakes his hand, moving to shake Hiram's as well "Judy Fabray. My Husband will be out in a minute to welcome you"
Right on time, Russell appears at Quinn's left side and immediately picks her up "Hey kiddo!" he says, tickling her sides. Quinn giggles, hitting away her Daddy's hands.
Russell finally notices the new additions to the neighbourhood and smiles "Hello I'm Russell Fabray, this is our Daughter, Quinn" He holds out a hand to Leroy.
Leroy exchanges pleasantries with Quinn's Daddy, introducing Hiram in the same manner as he did to Judy. He watches Russell closely when he says Husband, watching to see any kind of negative reaction. Russell's smile grows bigger and doesn't bat an eyelid at the mention of Hiram and he treats him pleasantly. Leroy lets out an exhale of air.
"Rachel, our daughter, is here somewhere"
"Most likely bossing the removal men about" Hiram says with a roll of his eyes.
"How old is Rachel?" Judy asks.
Quinn looks round for any sight of this girl, eager to know how old she is.
"She's going to be seven in December"
"DAAADDDYYYY!" A voice of an angry girl comes travelling through the house, followed by the stomping of feet.
"Speaking of the devil" Hiram says with a good natured roll of his eyes, making Russell and Judy giggle.
Quinn's eyes widen as they land on an angry brown haired girl. She stops stomping to look up at her Dad's with an angry pout. Quinn can't take her eyes off of her, she's the most beautifulist girl she's ever seen. Long flowing brown locks and big brown eyes adorn her face which immediately captivates Quinn.
"The men won't listen to me! They're just laughing when I tell them something!" The girl says, her pout still prominent.
"Rachel, honey, this is Mr and Mrs Fabray, they're our new neighbours" Leroy says, gesturing to Russell and Judy. Rachel looks away from her Dad's, her pout immediately disappearing, only to be replaced with a big mega watt smile. She steps forwards and curtsies.
"Hello Mr and Mrs Fabray. I'm Rachel Barbra Berry" Judy and Russell both blink in surprise at how polite and formal the young girl is. They shake themselves out of it and smile warmly at her, offering Hello's back.
Quinn wiggles about in Russell's arms, wanting to be let down. Once he does so, she shyly steps towards Rachel, noting how much smaller the girl is to her. Rachel's eyes land on Quinn, making Quinn loose all the air in her body. Her eyes are bright and sparkly, shining with happiness. It makes Quinn smile.
"Hi" she says, shyly looking down at her shoes "I'm Lucy Quinn Fabray, but you can call me Quinn"
Rachel smiles at her "Nice to meet you Lucy"
Since then, Quinn doesn't really know when the rivalry started. Their parents got along perfectly fine though. Hiram and Judy always had tea round each other's houses, gushing over soap oprah's and fashion magazines whilst Russell and Leroy would bond over Sports. Quinn would come home from school to find Leroy and Russell sat in the living room, the TV switched onto the Sports channel, both holding a bottle of beer and laughing together. She'd walk into the kitchen and see Judy and Hiram sat at the kitchen island with cups of tea and laughing together. But yet, you'd never see Rachel and Quinn bonding like their parents.
They went to elementary school together and both became friends with Santana and Brittany. They did get on, but one day, Rachel stopped talking to her. She never played in the sand box with Quinn or even spoke to her. Quinn never and still doesn't know what she did. She knew something had changed the day Judy told Quinn Rachel was going to go to a different Middle School than Quinn. Since then, they've been at each other's throats and always, always competing to get one over the other.
When Quinn found out Rachel was taking singing lessons, she demanded to have them as well as guitar lessons. When Leroy told Rachel that Quinn was starting to play Soccer and got on her middle schools team, Rachel joined her middle school's soccer team. Once Middle School finished, Rachel demanded to go to Carmel High-despite it being further away than McKinley.
The rivalry carried on to high school. When Rachel found out that Quinn had become Captain of McKinley's Soccer team in Freshman year, she made sure she became Captain of Carmel's Soccer Team. When Judy informed Quinn that Rachel had joined Carmel's glee club Vocal Adrenaline in Sophomore Year and became captain, Quinn joined New Directions (dragging Brittany and Santana along with her) and became their Captain. The only thing Rachel didn't try to win against Quinn was Skateboarding. She refused to even touch a Skateboard in fear of falling off and somehow damaging her voice, therefore putting a halt to her Broadway Dream.
So, she one-upped Quinn in another way. She stole her boyfriend. This little fact is what made Quinn realise that she absolutely hated Berry's guts. Puck had held a party at his house during Freshmen year and stupidly allowed anyone to come. So, Rachel and her soccer team friends came along. This caused massive tension amongst the party-goers as everyone feared that a fight would break about between the two rivalling soccer teams. Particularly between Quinn and Rachel. But oh how they were wrong-no one expected what happened next to happen.
Quinn walked in on Rachel and Finn-her boyfriend and Quarterback for McKinley's football team- playing tonsil hockey in Puck's bathroom. That's when all hell broke loose. Luckily, Rachel only walked away with a black eye and Quinn with a bruised nose. If Quinn hadn't have just been using Finn as a beard to cover up her gayness, then she probably would've been angrier. What made her really confused though, was that she was jealous. But why? She only used Finn and didn't love him, so why was she jealous? But Quinn silently thanked Rachel for this-of course she wouldn't do it to her face. It allowed her to finally come out and be who she was.
But it wasn't just that that makes Quinn hate Berry. No. It's her cocky, I'm-better-than-you attitude. It's her confidence, her ambition, her strive to get what she wants, her demanding nature that makes her hate her so. Also the way her hair falls perfectly round her face, the way she's still beautiful without loads of makeup-wait, no, she's not.
Nevertheless, Quinn has forever since then been getting Rachel back for stealing Finn. Their rooms faced each other perfectly, their windows where perfectly aligned and everything. So, whenever Quinn brought home one of the many girl's waiting to be with her, she'd always keep her window wide open and make sure she's extremely loud and the girl she's with is very vocal. She'd only stop when she'd hear the angry shouts of Berry and the slamming of the brunette's window, a smirk on her face.
Yes, those days she loved the most.
Quinn looks up from her gym locker when the sound of the shower stool opening sounds through the empty room. What? Isn't she the last person in here? Quinn looks down, seeing that she's still got her towel wrapped round her dry body. Strands of her hair are starting to dry and frizz. Woah, she must've zoned out for a while.
Quickly shrugging off the towel, Quinn pulls her clothing on, wanting to get out before whoever is in here sees her. Just as she's bending down to tie up her shoe, the very last person she wants to see steps into her peripheral vision.
She turns her head, her eyes immediately landing on the wet, long and dripping tanned legs of Rachel Berry.
"Stop staring Fabray" Berry growls, causing Quinn to dart her eyes up to look at her. Quinn clears her throat and places her foot on the ground, noticing how Rachel's got a very small towel wrapped round her body, the end stopping just below her bum.
"Like I'd waste my time staring at your midget body" Quinn retorts, fighting against the urge to look down. She hates to admit this, but from all the dancing and Soccer Berry plays she does have a nice body. Quinn had the pleasure-She means disgust-of getting a sneak peak at said body a week ago.
"Funny, you did exactly that last week." Berry smirks at Quinn, spotting the fearful uh-oh I got caught look in her eye "Yeah I saw you staring at me as I got changed after my shower. Enjoy the show?"
Quinn scoffs and hoists her bag up onto her shoulder, making sure that her Soccer boots wont dig into her side "If I had to chose between staring at your naked body or eat dog shit, I'd eat the dog shit-at least with that I can get the taste away easier, with you I will forever have the image of your body engraved in my mind, forever giving me nightmares" Quinn smiles sweetly at her.
Berry glares at Quinn, her eyes turning into slits as she sizes her up. Neither speak for a while; both just continue to stare at each other. That is, until Berry moves her hand up to her wet hair and plays with the strands, watching as Quinn's eyes follow the movement. Quinn tries to fight it, but she can't help but watch as Berry's hand descends from her hair, brushing the edge of her towel covered breast, running down her side then gently hooking onto the bottom of her towel. During this, a smirk had formed on her face, knowing that Quinn thinks the complete opposite of her body.
"Hmm...you make it sound like a bad thing" Berry says, tilting her head to the side.
Quinn's eyes dart up to Berry's face again and she swallows thickly, trying to gain a little composure before she smirks and leans in close to the brunette "Trust me, it is" she growls before grabbing hold of her skateboard and walking out of the locker room.
She sighs in relief as soon as her board hits the pavement and she starts skating off down the road. She almost lost her cool then, almost. Berry had her hooked, but luckily Quinn wiggled away and slapped Berry in the face with her tail on her exit.
As she arrives at her home, she smoothly jumps off her skateboard and picks it up, easily strolling into the cosy home. She walks into the kitchen, spotting her Mum cooking at the stove and Hiram standing next to her, chatting away about the latest gossip on the Kardashians.
"Hey Mum, Hello Hiram" She greets the smaller of the Berry men and slides onto the island counter top, picking up one of the freshly washed berry's and popping it into her mouth.
"Hello Quinnie" Judy says, giving Quinn a kiss on the cheek.
"Hello Quinn, how are you?" Hiram asks, dropping his conversation with Judy to talk to Quinn.
See, the thing is, Quinn actually likes the Berry men. They're basically her surrogate Father's to her. Especially when she realised she was gay. They were the first people she spoke to about it. Hiram and held her as she cried in his arms over the realization and the worry of being kicked out of the house. The Berry men proceeded to assure her that would not happen and promised to help her whenever she needed-especially if they need her there when she told Russell and Judy.
Luckily, when she did tell them, Russell and Judy took it pretty well then proceeded to ask what take out they should get and what movie they should watch. This just brought more tears to Quinn's eyes.
So the Berry men are pretty fucking awesome people. Their daughter is not.
"I'm fine thank you Hiram, yourself?" Quinn asks, after swallowing the strawberry. Immediately she picks another one out, placing it into her mouth and piercing the flesh with her teeth.
"I'm very well. My daughter wasn't too harsh on you today was she?" Hiram asks with concern. He, much like Leroy and the Fabray's do not enjoy or understand the feud their daughters have and-along with Judy- constantly worry they'll seriously hurt each other one day. Especially after they pushed each other out of a tree during one of their neighbourly dinners. Now they sit them on opposite ends of the table and keep away from conversations that will make them clash. These dinners rarely happen.
Quinn shakes her head "Nah, fouled be pretty hard but other than that it was okay" She grabs another strawberry but Judy slaps her hand away, causing her to drop it. Quinn looks at the fallen strawberry forlornly.
"No more, they are for after dinner" Judy says, shaking a spoon in Quinn's face.
Hiram looks down at his watch and gasps dramatically "Goodness look at the time! I best be getting back, Rachel will be wondering where I am. Thank you for the tea Judy. Bye Quinn"
"Bye Hiram!" Quinn calls out, watching the small man run out of the door.
"Quinn can you set the table please? Your Farther will be home soon"
Quinn groans "But Mum!"
"Now, Quinn" Judy says in her 'don't-fuck-with-me-I'm-your-mother-voice' as Quinn likes to call it.
Quinn sighs and jumps off the counter, grabbing the forks and knifes and moves to set the table.
Okay so how did you guys like it? Do you like the concept of the story? Is there sexual tensions that is too delicious to handle between the girls? What about the explanations? Please tell me in a review guys! Lets me know if I should bother continuing the story!
Thank you very much for reading!
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