AN: Here's the next installment of my Faberry a day challenge. I tried doing it in one story instead of doing multiple posts thinking it would be easier but I got less response so maybe it didn't work? Let me know what you guys think: Separate posts or under the same story just different chapters? Also tell me what you think of this. It's one of my favorites so far.
One Word
Hazel eyes met brown from across the deserted hall and there was a noticeable spark between them. Quinn walked slowly towards the shorter girl and swallowed the lump in her throat.
"How do I look?"
The smaller girl smiled lightly and looked up at the blonde through her eyelashes.
"Beautiful."
The electricity cracked and popped in the air around them and Quinn could feel her hair stand up on end. Her cheeks heated up and the polyester uniform felt too tight suddenly.
"When you sang that song...it was for Finn and only Finn...right?"
She couldn't keep the break out of her voice when she asked the question that had been plaguing her mind since they performed. Rachel blinked at her, biting the inside of her cheek. Quinn could feel her heart pounding in her chest and the sweat beading on forehead. It all came to the answer that came from the brunette's lips and each second that she didn't answer sounded more an more like a yes.
"No."
Just that one word and Quinn swore her heart stopped beating.
"What?"
"No, Quinn. I wasn't."
Quinn bit her lip and nodded slowly.
"So. Who else?"
"I think you very well know the answer to that, Quinn," Rachel said quickly as she took a bold step closer to Quinn, "The real question is how you feel about it."
Quinn took a shaky breath, "No wedding?"
Rachel shook her head and smiled, "To Finn? Not today. Not ever."
Quinn licked her lips self consciously, "I think that's the best news I've heard in a long time."
Rachel smiled brightly and ounces towards the Quinn who reeled from shock when arms were thrown around her neck. The feel of the other girl's body pressed to hers, her chin pressed into her shoulder made her want to weep with happiness as arms snuck instinctively around Rachel's waist.
Breath tickled Quinn's ear as Rachel whispered, "Take me home."
I'm already there with you in my arms, is what Quinn really wanted to say but instead she just nodded wordlessly and let Rachel pull her towards the car. She didn't even remember the car ride or how they got upstairs to her room. Before she knew it Rachel's body was crashing into hers and they were a mess of limbs, teeth clashing into each other desperately. Clothes being pulled and pushed off of them until they crashed onto the bed and were reduced to nothing more than a writhing mess of quivering nerves.
At least that's how it should have happened. But as soon as Rachel said the song was just for Finn, Quinn has given up. Instead of bodies crashing together, it was a pickup truck into a red bug. It was a mess of limbs and blood, metal clashing into metal. Quinn's body feeling pulled and pushed at the same time as she crashed into the cement until she was nothing more than a quivering bloody mess on the cold cement.
Rachel liked to believe that she hadn't really affected anyone in her life. But in reality she had affected multiple people, particularly Quinn Fabray. For her, one word from Rachel Berry was the difference between life and death.