TITLE: CRYSTAL HEART
STORY: LOOSELY BASED ON GLEE
A/N: LEA MICHELE LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE. WHICH INSPIRED ME TO WRITE THIS .I HAVE NEVER WRITTEN ANYTHING BEFORE SO PLEASE FORGIVE MY DEFICIENCIES.
N.B. PLEASE READ THE PROLOGUE BECAUSE ITS PIVITOL TO THE
EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE PROLOGUE WILL BE DEALT WITH IN ANOTHER NEVER HAD TO TYPE ANYTHING AS WELL SO SOOOOORRRYYYY AHEAD OF TIME
I DON'T OWN LEA OR DIANNA BUT IN MY WORLD THE RULE THE UNIVERSE
PROLOGUE: THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
IT BEGAN JUST LIKE ANY OTHER SUMMERS DAY IN LIMA BUT BY THE TIME THE PALL BEARERS EXITED THE CHURCH THE CLOUDS HAD ROLLED IN, IT NOW SQUATTED OVER THE TOWN THICK AND SUFFOCATING PUCK AND SANTANA IN FRONT, MR SCHUE. AND SAM IN THE MIDDLE AND FINN AND MIKE AT BACK THE CEMETERY WAS HALF A MILE DOWN THE ROAD BUT THE PROCESSION CHOOSE TO CARRY THE COFFIN IN WHAT COULD ONLY BE A FEEBLE ATTEMPT AT PENANCE.
LEADING THE CORTÈGE WAS ONE QUINN FABRAY, THE ONCE PROUD AND BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OF WOMANHOOD NOW A BAG OF SKIN AND BONES TO WEAK TO WALK SHE WAS PUSHED IN HER WHEELCHAIR BY TINA. EYES THAT ONCE DANCED WITH MISCHIEF AND BURNED WITH DESIRE NOW DESOLATE AND EMPTY.A HEART THAT WAS ONCE FULL OF HOPE AND PROMISE NOW BARREN, MOURNING OPPORTUNITIES LOST. NO PLACE FOR LOVE TO HIDE BECAUSE ALL THAT SHE HAD TO GIVE WAS GONE THE DAY RACHEL BERRY DIED.
AS THEY APPROACHED THE CEMETERY IMAGES OF THE GIRL WITH THE DARK CHOCOLATE POOLS FOR EYES, WHO'S SMILE ON THAT RARE OCCASION WHEN SHE TRULY WAS HAPPY RIVALED THE SUN FOR SHEER BRIGHTNESS . THE GIRL WITH THE EVER FORGIVING HEART AND DELICATE VOICE FLASHED THROUGH THEIR MINDS,THE REALIZATION THAT SHE WAS A GIFT FROM GOD TO THIS LITTLE TOWN CAME TO LATE .WHEN OPPORTUNITIES DID PRESENTED ITSELF TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS BEAUTIFUL GIFT THEY INSTEAD CHOSE TO SLUSHIE, TAUNT, TEASE AND TORTURE HER.
RACHEL BERRY WAS NO ORDINARY GIRL SHE WAS ONE OF GODS SPECIAL PROJECTS, HE HAD BLESSED HER WITH NUMEROUS ATTRIBUTES BUT CHIEF AMONG THEM WAS A VOICE THAT WOULD SOOTH THE WOUNDED THE SOUL AND AN UNBREAKABLE RESOLVE TO SUCCEED .THROUGH ALL THE SLUSHIES AND TAUNTS SHE HAD NEVER LOST SIGHT OF HER PURPOSE-TO BRING MUSIC TO WORLD . THERE WERE NIGHTS WHERE SHE WOULD WEEP UNTIL THE TEARS RAN DRY BUT SHE NEVER GAVE UP HER QUEST. IN THE END IT WAS GODS RESOLVE THAT FINALLY BROKE HE COULD NOT SEE SOMETHING HE HAD SO PAINSTAKINGLY SPENT TIME BUILDING BEEN CONSTANTLY TORN APART SO ON ONE FAITHFUL NIGHT HE HAD HAD ENOUGH HE GENTLY SCOOPED HER UP HELD HER TO HIS BOSOM AND TOOK HER HOME . HE WOULD RATHER HAVE HER LEADING HIS QUIRE THAN SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF HIS CREATION.
AS THE COFFIN WAS LOWED INTO ITS FINAL ABODE THE SUN BROKE THROUGH AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME A SMILE FLICKERED OVER THE FACE OF QUINN (A PROMISE KEPT?)
AS THE FINAL MOUNDS OF DIRT COVERED THE GRAVE THE SUN DISAPPEARED THE WIND PICKED UP HOWLING, HAUNTING THE STREETS OF LIMA . IT WAS QUICKLY FOLLOWED BY SHEETING RAIN AND A VIOLENT HAIL STORM,IT ALMOST FELT AS IF THEY WERE BEEN PELTED FOR PAST TRANSGRESSIONS BUT GOD WAS NOT VENGEFUL WAS HE?
AT THE END OF THE DAY WITH THE BIBLICAL WEATHER STILL HOVERING ALL THAT WAS LEFT FOR RACHEL BERRY'S PEERS AND THE TOWN OF LIMA TO SHARE WAS THE BURDEN OF COLLECTIVE GUILT. THOUGH RACHEL LIVED AMONG THEM SHE TRULY WALKED WITH ANGELS.