Title: Radios in Heaven
Author: Lao Tse
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: Don't own Glee or its characters, they belong to FOX and Ryan Murphy. Any songs, lyrics, doesn't belong to me if I don't state otherwise.
Rating: PG-13/T, this might change
Pairing/Characters: Rachel Berry/ Sam Evans, Noah Puckerman, Mike Chang, Tina Cohen- Chang, Brittany S. Pierce, Quinn Fabray, Artie Abrams
Warnings:Major character death.
Wordcount: +30.000 in total
Spoilers: All episodes aired to be on the safe side.
Summary: Sam is new to McKinely, and Rachel did get together with Finn during her sophomore year, the couple broke up between the summer of their junior and senior year when Rachel found some not so good news, and Finn couldn't handle it. Even if Rachel had some friends in Glee Club when she was together with Finn, they disappeared on her when they broke up. Now at the beginning of her senior year, Sam Evans steps in to her life and as he does, some of the other memebers of New Directions shows her that she still has friends there. They are there for her in ways she would never thought that they would. But both Sam and Rachel will have battles in front of them that they need to win, Rachel in more ways than one.
This is the first time that I try my hand on something that is angsty, and I hope that I will do this justice, and I would love to know what you think of this.
_Radios in Heaven_
Chapter 1: You Found Me
~ I guess that you saw what nobody could see. ~
Sam walked inside William McKinley High School, this was his first day at this school, he had moved to Lima, Ohio, after his father had gotten a job promotion that had brought them from their lives back in Tennessee to this small town in Ohio.
He had decided that he was going to change his whole persona for this school, he wasn't going to be the boy with the brownish hair and glasses that loved Avatar and Star Wars and made what other thought were silly impressions of different celebrities, Sam was going to turn this around and be the blonde haired surfer like boy that also had a spot on the football team.
Sam had been to the administration office where he had gotten his schedule for this semester and the combination to his locker, as he was putting some of his things inside his locker, he saw a couple of what he guessed were football players or some other of the athletes from the school, he saw that they were carrying some cups, from the look of it the cups were filled with something that looked a lot like these icy drinks that you could get at 7eleven or at machine in the cafeteria that he had passed on the way to his locker.
He didn't really pay any more attention to what was going on in the hallway this morning, he knew that he might have trouble finding his the classroom for his first class, the now blonde haired bout study the map that he was given with the rest of the papers that principal Figgins secretary had given him, looking at it didn't make him any surer of where he was supposed to be, that was when he was brought back to what was going on in the hallway, almost every student in the hallway started to laugh and he turned around to see what was going on and that was when he spotted a short brunette standing at her locker almost at the end of this hallway. The jocks that he had seen pass by him a couple of minutes earlier stood around her, and she was dripping, they had tossed their drinks over her, and everyone was laughing. Sam slammed his locker and walked in the direction that the girl was going, he saw that she sneaked inside one of the girls bathrooms, Sam knew that walking inside that room was a bad idea especially that this was his first day.
Sam saw how the jocks were walking away from the girl's locker and he made a snap decisions, he knew that this might be something that he would regret later, but if there was one thing that Sam hated it was any kind of bullying.
The blonde haired boy ran up to the jocks and he grabbed one of them one his shoulder and turned him around, and from what Sam could see the one that he had grabbed had been a hockey player, and Sam had a hard time holding his laugh in, the girl that they had slushed didn't look that out of place, not to Sam but this jock, might be in the wrong decade, the hockey player was sporting a mullet.
Sam pushed the other boy against the lockers that were to their left, and he held him against it. "You don't do that," Sam almost yelled and he was close to punch the boy that he was holding.
"It was just Manhands," the jock said and tried to get away and he turned his head to the side and looked at his friend, "some help here." Sam felt how a couple of the other players were pulling him of the hockey player, Sam struggled against the grip that the other players had on him.
"She knows what happens," one of the players that was holding Sam said and the player that Sam had pushed against the lockers were locking at the blonde haired boy.
"And I will not do anything to you," the hockey player said and glared at Sam, "because I think that you will know what you need to do."
"Manhands?" Sam asked and looked at them, he still didn't understand what they were referring to, from what Sam had seen it was a girl and to Sam she had looked rater feminine out but he wasn't one to judge.
"Treasure trail, Ru-Paul," the jocks continued as they continued on to list the nicknames that were used on McKinley for the girl.
"Who is it?" Sam asked and looked at them, he wanted to know who the girl was.
"Berry," the one that Sam had almost punched said and looked at the blonde, "and if you don't want to join her on the bottom, you stay away from her." Sam nodded his head, and he already knew that he was late for his first class, so he could be even later; he was going to check up on the girl, Berry.
Sam stood outside the door to the bathroom where Rachel had walked in to, Sam raised a hand and knocked on the door, he wanted to make sure that there was no one else but Rachel inside before he walked in, no one said anything, so the he opened the door and he peaked inside from what Sam could tell the only one that was inside the bathroom was Rachel, the blonde haired boy took a couple of steps in so that he could close the door behind them. Sam walked up to the girl; he placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Are you okay?" Sam asked and looked at the reflection of her face in the mirror, from what Sam could tell she had been crying, the girl turned her head to the side so that she was looking at Sam.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" The girl asked and looked at Sam, Sam smiled at her, and she was one of the prettiest girls that he had seen.
"Sam Evans," Sam said and he put a loose lock of her hair behind her ear, "and I am here because I wanted to make sure that you are okay," the girl let out a small laugh.
"just so that you could tell the rest of the jocks that I need one more slushy shower," she said and Sam blinked a couple of times as he looked at her, "just tell them that they should wait until tomorrow I don't have any more cloths to change."
"What are you talking about?" Sam said and he walked closer to her, "I won't do that, I don't understand why someone would do something like that."
"You should stay away from me," she said and Sam looked at her, "I will drag down your reputation."
"I don't have one," Sam said and he handed her a couple of papers towels that he had wet, "this is my first day."
"Another reason why you should stay away from me," she said and looked at Sam with her brown eyes, she looked sad, Sam had no idea on what he was going to do about it.
"I heard some not so nice names," Sam said and placed a hand under her chin so that he could tilt her head up a little so that he could looked her in the eyes, "but what are your name?"
"Rachel," she said and looked at him, and Sam saw a small smile gracing her lips, "Rachel Berry."
"It was real nice to meet you Rachel Berry," Sam said and shook her hand, "and if you don't mind maybe you can show me around this school, the map that I got didn't help that much."
"I think that I can do that," Rachel said, and Sam saw the first real smile from Rachel, and her eyes lit up like his own eyes had done when he was younger and it was Christmas morning.
"Ms. Berry," Sam said and held out his hand for her to take, "I think this will be the start of a beautiful friendship." Rachel nodded her head, for the first time since her break up with her former boyfriend she felt like she had someone in her life that she could trust.
RiH
"You should join out glee club," Rachel said about one week after the bathroom incident, as Rachel had started to call their first meeting and the start of their friendship, "I know that you play the guitar and we need someone that would be able to be great male lead and that would complement me in a perfect way."
"And you think that I am the right person for the job?" Sam asked and took a bite of his apple, Rachel nodded her head, "but isn't both of your exes in this Glee thing?"
"Yes," Rachel said and looked at her friend, "Noah won't care and Finn will get over it."
"But you broke up with him this summer," Sam said and looked at Rachel, "and from what you told me Finn is your male lead and he used to be the QB before I took his spot, I don't think that I should take his place as lead in Glee too."
"Samuel," Rachel said and reached for his hand, "I love the fact that you are thinking of others before yourself but if this is something that you want then you should go for it."
"I can join," Sam said and looked at the brunette that was sitting in front of him, and he saw her smile, "but I'm not going for the lead."
"I will be happy cheering you on as you sway on the background until Mr. Schue sees the potential that you have as male lead."
"So now that I have agreed to join your little club," Sam said and looked at her, Rachel reached over the table and moved some of his hair away that was covering his green eyes, "will you tell me why you broke up with Finn?"
"I told you that I received some news that he couldn't handle," Rachel said and looked at him, "and I would love to tell you but I won't tell you in school but if you come with me tomorrow after school you will find out."
"You promise that you won't back out if I come with you," Sam said and looked at Rachel, she had been the first friend and so far the only real friend he had made in this school, and from what Sam could tell Rachel felt the same about him.
"If you come with me I can't back out," Rachel said and looked at him, "but you have to promise me not to disappear from my life as soon as you find out what it is."
"Rachel, you are my only friend here and I would never let you down the same way that most of your so called friend have done," Sam said and reached for her hand, and if someone that didn't know them, it would look a lot like they were a couple that was in love and not friends but neither one of them cared one bit about that.
Sam was sitting with Rachel in a waiting room at a hospital in Lima, it was kind of strange to sit in a waiting room with your friend that you just had known for a couple of days, well a week, especially when she asked you to come with, and it wasn't in the ER, that Sam would have understood.
RiH
No, Sam was sitting with Rachel at the waiting room at the Oncologist part of the hospital, what Sam had been told by Rachel was that she had a form a leukemia, and that she was going in for some test.
Rachel had filled him in yesterday about this whole thing, it appeared that Finn and Rachel had broken up when Rachel had gotten te news that she indeed had a form of cancer and Finn hadn't been able to handle it. Rachel had spent most of her summer at a hospital in Cleveland for treatment and now that it was over she had to do some test in Lima, to make sure that it wasn't coming back.
"Rachel Berry?" Both Sam and Rachel looked at the nurse that had walked out to get them, Sam turned to Rachel.
"Should I wait here or do you want me to come with you?" Sam asked as both of them stood up from their seats.
"You can come with," Rachel said and she linked her fingers with Sam's as they walked up to the nurse.
"It's nice to see you here again," the nurse said and smiled at Rachel, "and I see that you have your boyfriend with you."
"I'm not her boyfriend," Sam said and let go of her hand but his hand felt kind of empty as soon as he had let go of Rachel's hand, he turned to the girl and mouthed a "sorry" Rachel just nodded her head.
"It's okay if Sam's with me right?" Rachel asked and looked at the nurse how nodded her head.
"I will let Dr. Lopez now that you have company with you today," the nurse said and smiled at her.
"Thank you," Rachel said and gave the nurse a hug, "and I will tell Noah about this."
"I hope you do," the nurse said and looked at Rachel, "it have been kind of hard keeping it from him, I have been asking him about you, you know."
Sam tapped Rachel on the shoulder, "Is that Puck's mom?"
Rachel nodded her head, in a positive reply, "and my doctor is Santana's father."
"And neither Santana nor Puck knows about this," Sam said and looked at Rachel who nodded her head, "So it's me and Finn that knows about this."
Rachel nodded her head and bit her lower lip and looked at her, "I'm sorry to dump all of this one you."
"It kind of cool knowing something that no one else knows about," Sam said and looked at Rachel with a big smile, "it's like we are living in our world." Rachel couldn't help but to laugh at the way that Sam was acting, and she remembered how he had told her that he was trying this whole image but as soon as he had seen Rachel being slushied he had forgotten about the idea to act like he was someone else, and that was something that Rachel was happy about.
RiH
Sam and Rachel walked inside the choir room a couple of days after that they had been to the hospital, the two of them sat down next to each other and they were talking and there was a couple of the others that were looking kind of strange on the two of them.
Everyone knew about the fact that Finn and Rachel had broken up during the summer, and now Rachel was seen with the new Quarter Back, and it was kind of strange, but not everyone cared about what they were doing, the only one that really had a problem with the twosome was Finn but he was probably just jealous of the fact that Sam was acting the way that everyone though that Finn should, but probably just because Sam was now the big athlete on the school, they hadn't have a game yet but the coach like Sam and Rachel liked Sam.
"It's nice to see all of you," Mr. Schuester said as he walked inside the choir room, and he looked at the students, "and I can see that Sam chose to join us on fulltime."
"What can I say," Sam said and looked at Rachel, "Rachel had some pretty great arguments and I wanted to see my friend more."
"I have something that I would like to sing," Rachel said and stood up, she smoothed down her skirt as she turned around and face the group in front of her, "and I hope that you all will understand what I am trying to say."
"Of course," Mr. Schuester said and looked at rachel, "the floor is yours," he took a seat, as Rachel instructed Brad, the pianoman and the jazzband with what song she was going to sing.
"Is this a dream? If it is, please don't wake me from this high," Rachel was standing on the floor looking at her classmates, but most of the time that she was singing, her eyes were trained on Sam, who swayed his head to the song that Rachel was singing, Rachel could see that there were a couple of the others that were doing the same.
"You found me when no one else were looking," Rachel sang, it wasn't as much power as she normally used when she sang her Broadway classics, this was a song letting them know that there were someone there that was there for her and had helped her up from where she had been, "How did you know just where I would be?"
Sam slowly understood and listened to the words that Rachel was singing, "yeah, you broke through, all of my confusion." Sam had never thought about what Rachel had gone through this summer, and she had been all alone, and now he was there for her, he had never really understood what it meant to her that he was there for her, "the ups and downs, and you still didn't leave. I guess that you saw what no one else could see."
Rachel looked at him, the two of them locked their eyes, and they both know that there was probably more than friendship or that they had found their friend that never would leave their side no matter how hard it would be, "you found me, you found me."
As Rachel had finished the song, she looked at them, and Sam were smiling in her direction and she couldn't help but so smile at him, they had shared something not just with this song, but with what had let Rachel to sing this song to begin with.
"That was great Rachel," Mr. Schuester said as he stood up from where he had sat, "and I think that we have this week's lesson, thanks to Rachel," the group looked confused at him, "find a song that you can sing to anyone in this room, that will describe how you feel about them and how they have helped you through something."
Finn had had enough of all this that was going on, he stood up and walked down from his seat and glared at both Sam and Rachel before he opened his mouth and almost yelled at Rachel, "do you honestly think that he will be there for you when he finds about you."
"About what?" Sam asked and stood up, he positioned himself between Rachel and Finn, the tall football player wouldn't get a chance to touch his friend.
"Oh, so she hasn't told you," Finn almost taunted him and Rachel, both Sam and Rachel knew what was going to come out from Finn's mouth.
"Don't," Rachel almost pleaded with him, she hoped that Finn would have the common sense not to out this without Rachel being ready for it.
"What you don't want Sam to know about the fact that you are dying?" Finn yelled and looked at Rachel and then at Sam.
That was all it took for Sam, he pulled one of his arms back and he formed his hand into a fist before he was about to punch Finn, just as he had been close to do with the jocks that had slushied Rachel on his fist day, but a hand on his shoulder kept him from doing that.
"Rachel?" Rachel and Sam turned around and saw the look on the face on most of the glee clubs members.
"I have cancer," Rachel said and looked down, "I got diagnosed this summer."
"Are you going to die?" the question was one that everyone in the room wanted the answer to.
"I don't know, Brittany," Rachel said and looked at the blonde, "I have been getting treatment all summer and I do visit the hospital regular for cheek ups." This had not been the way that Rachel wanted the club to find out but now that it was out in the open, maybe there would be some people there for her too.
Sam placed one of his arms around her shoulders and pulled her in to a hug, and held on to her, and it didn't take long before that most of the Glee club was down there with the two of them pulling both Sam and Rachel in to a group hug.
"We will be there for you," Rachel was surprised to hear the voice of Mike Chang, he was the first one to say something, and Rachel knew that there would be a couple of other people there for her and not just Sam, that was all that she needed.
"Thank you," Rachel said and tears were falling down her cheeks as she looked at them, Sam dried some of them away with the pad of his thumb before he placed a kiss on the top of her head.
The song that Rachel sang was, You Found Me by Kelly Clarkson, it's not the whole lyrics I chose parts of it that I wanted to use.
Every chapter will be named after a song that more or less inspired the chapter or have a key plot to the story, and at the end of this story you will have a soundtrack/fanmix for this story, and I hope that you will enjoy it, please let me know.