Title: Puck's Dark Persuasion/ Chapter 2
Author: grapeslushie01
Pairing,Character(s): Puck/ OOC
Rating: R
Word Count: 4,626
Spoilers: Probably spoilers for the whole season. I am starting right after Sectionals.
Summary: After having just ended a horrible relationship with her ex-boyfriend, Nicole Evans is determined to stay out of trouble and has deemed boys off-limits. Once she meets Puck will she be able to stay on her way to reformed good girl or will she give into Puck's Dark Persuasion. (No smut in this chapter, but there will be in later chapters.)

Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or Chasing Pavements. I do own Nicole Evans.

A/N: Puck and Quinn do not start dating after sectionals in my story. I know it doesn't follow canon, but I just will not be able to work it in my story.


Cupid is a knavish lad,
Thus to make poor females mad.

A Midsummer Night's Dream


First Day


Puck watched Nicole's fine ass, through the clear windows of the office, walk away from him down the hall. Damn, that girl was hot. She had long black hair that framed a gorgeous pair of green eyes and pouty lips. The girl had a nice rack too; she had to be a C-cup at least, maybe a D. That will be a nice change from all the B-cups around this place. Her body was smokin'. Ummm…The things he could do to that body…Damn. And the way she cracked that joke was totally badass. Oh yeah I'm so going to tap that.

Puck's dirty thoughts were interrupted by Ms. Nooner coming back into the office. She has been acting all flustered whenever he was around, since he convinced her to have a nooner with him, in his truck. Thank God for reclining sits, they've helped him put a lot of miles on that truck, if you know what I mean. She was pretty hot and once he saw her last name he just couldn't help himself.

This time his dirty thoughts were interrupted by Mr. Shue. "Hey Puck, what did you do now?"

"Put Jacob in the dumpster."

"Well at least you own up to your actions." Mr. Shue says with a small tired smile. He doesn't look to upset about it, but the kids in Glee Club seem to get into a lot of trouble, so maybe he is use to it.

"Hell yeah I own up! I'm a lot of things, but liar isn't one of them." Badasses do what they want, so they have nothing to be ashamed about. Why would I lie about anything? Well okay there is that whole problem with me getting Quinn, my best friend's girlfriend, pregnant, but she was the one that lied about that. I guess I could have told Finn the truth, but Quinn was the one that was carrying the baby and I figured as the actual father of the baby I had to support her in whatever decision she made. It sucked that it blew up in our faces, but I was just trying to do what was right by my kid. Grrr! Stop thinking about this Puckerman. There is nothing you can do about it now.

"Alright let me go talk to Figgins. Hopefully we can get this straightened out quickly." Mr. Shue says. He pats his shoulder before walking toward Principle Figgins office.


I'm sitting in Miss. Pillsbury office; the walls are all windows, except for the one behind her desk. Isn't the point of counseling people suppose to be that they don't know what you are talking about or even if you need the talk to someone? Whatever. We got all my core classes selected and now I have to choose an extracurricular activity.

"I see here in your transcript that you were in the choir at your last school in…New York!" She says surprised. "I thought that your family was from Austin, Texas? Why did they send you to a private school in New York? And…ummmm" She keeps looking at my file. "You were expelled from there, because of personal reasons?" She looks kind of confused now, I guess because the description is so vague. The school did not want my bad reputation to reflect on them.

"Yeah that's right." That is all I say. She seems like a really nice woman, but I am not giving her anymore details.

"Okay well." She says with a look of acceptance of her face, which I am very grateful for. "We have a Glee Club here; maybe you could give that a shot?" She suggest optimistically.

"What exactly is a 'Glee Club'?" I have never heard of Glee Club before. It doesn't really sound like a cool thing to do, but that hot guy was in there, I wonder if there will be a lot of hot guys in there…No, no, no you are not going there. This is not a time for a relationship, or a hook up, no matter how hot the guy is. I don't care if one glance full of desire from him makes you melt; this is your time to focus on you. You will not make the same mistake you made in New York.

"It's a show choir; they sing and dance at the same time. Our show choir is called New Directions and they just won their first competition at Sectionals. It is pretty exciting. They have twelve members right now…oh look there is one of the members now." Miss. Pillsbury says, looking out the window of her office. I turn around and see the back of a short girl with long brown hair. "Let me ask her to come in here and tell you about the club." She gets up and walks outside. "Rachel" she calls and the girl turns around. She is right at the entrance of the office when Mrs. Pillsbury calls her and as she turns around I see bright blue liquid stuff on her face. "Oh Rachel, I'm sorry I didn't see…" Mrs. Pillsbury tails off uncomfortably, looking embarrassed for Rachel.

The girl puts on a big smile "It fine Miss. Pillsbury. I was just going to the bathroom to clean off. Is there something I can do for you?" Wow, the girl has guts. She had to, to be able to act that comfortable with blue goo sliding down her face. That is pretty awesome.

"I was just going to introduce you to the new student, Nicole Evans. She is thinking about joining glee." Miss. Pillsbury says.

The girl looks at me and gets this really intense look in her eye, like she is sizing me up or something. It is kind of intimating and then I realize that she is intimating me with a face covered in blue goo. Very impressive.

"Have you ever been in a choir or had any performance experience?" she asks in a very serious voice.

"I was in the choir at my old school." I don't tell her that I got a scholarship to that school because of my voice.

"Well then, it would be nice if you became a Glee Club member. The club is a pleasurable association, but as the female lead and star of the club I just want to warn you that I am determined to win our next competition at Regionals. I will not accept anything less than 100% of your effort." With that she turns away and walks purposefully toward the bathroom.

"Thank you, Rachel." Miss. Pillsbury says to her back and looks over at me. "Rachel can be a little intense sometimes, but she is a really good singer. Why don't you come to my office during lunch so you can meet Mr. Shue, he runs the club. I think you might have to audition, but don't worry about it, the club in very inclusive. I have left the period after lunch open on your schedule, because that is when the class meets every day, so it won't conflict with your other classes. "

"Okay, cool." I say as I get up. "I guess I should go to my first class." I look down at the piece of paper in my hand that has my class schedule written on it. I see that my first class is math. Oh great. I hate math and it has to be my first class in the morning. As I'm walking out of her office, Miss. Pillsbury stops this really tall guy in the hall, named Finn. He is also a member of Glee Club and she introduces us, tells Finn I'm thinking about joining Glee and then asks Finn to show me to my first class.

Finn has this dazed, sleepy look on his face for a few seconds, and then he smiles this charming, naive smile "Sure thing Miss. P." he then looks down at me. Oh wow, another hot guy. The full force of his charming good boy smile on me and it makes him seem very familiar. Who does he remain me of? As he walks me to class he is really sweet. He asks if he can carry my books for me, Miss Pillsbury gave me my books once we decided on my classes. I let him. He notices my accent, and asks where I'm from. I tell him my about my family and how we moved here for the small town life. This guy is really sweet and so familiar.

When we get to my classroom, he hands me my books, gives me that charming smile again, and that's when it hits me. My ex-boyfriend use to smile exactly like that and he was just a sweet. Well he was able to act really charming when he wanted to. He could turn that Charming All American Boy act on and off like nobody's businesses.

"I hope I see you in Glee." Finn says before he walks away.

"Thanks. See you later." I smile up at him as he turns around and walks away. The bell rings right as I enter the class. I stand in the doorway looking at the students, who at looking back at me. Awkward. I notice that Rachel is there, without the blue goo, and has changed into a bright pink blouse and a flowery short, short skirt.

The teacher looks up from her desk. "You must be the new student. Class, this is Nicole Evans. She just moved here from New York." The teacher says with a big smile, like the students should be really excited about this.

Why does she think that I lived in New York? How does she even know I was in New York? Maybe she saw my file and miss read it. They just star at me in silence, except for Rachel who has this look on her face that is excited, envious and angry. What is her problem? Don't get me wrong, after seeing her handle the blue goo, which I now realize someone must have thrown on her, with dignity I totally respect her, but she really needs to chill out. Unfortunately, there are only two sits open and they are on either side of her. Does no one want to sit next to her? That's must suck for her. The teacher asks me to take a sit and I sit next to Rachel. The teacher begins the lesson. I try to listen, take notes and ignore the glances I kept getting from Rachel.


I'm walking down the hall toward the nurse's office, I have math first period this semester so I take my naps in the morning now. It's not as good as right after lunch like last semester, but at least I'm not in class.

Principle Figgins didn't kick me off of the football team or Glee Club. I think he didn't ban me from football and glee because he felt bad about letting Coach Sylvester come back to the school.

But I do have to clean the bleachers after the next three football games, which sucks balls, instead of going to detention, because…I don't really remember, I tuned him out like five fucking minutes before he started talking. I think he said something about having to cut the janitorial staff. Whatever. Cleaning the bleachers is going to suck! Doesn't he realize that there are kickass parties I have to go to after the games? Getting pussy after playing like a badass at a football game gets all those Cheerios horny as hell and it is my duty as school stud and most kickass linebacker to take care of my Cheerios.

I'm about to walk into the Nurse's office, when I look down the hall and see Nicole standing with Finn, who is handing her, her books. Damn it! He must have walked her to class and I can just see Finn asking her with that dumbass smile on his face if he could carry her books for her. What a pussy! Shit! Girls eat that shit up. Damn it! Don't misunderstand. I'm not worried that I won't be able to get into Nicole's pant just because she has meet Finn. I am just sick of having to compete with him. It feels like I am competing with him for everything. He got Quinn, he got to call my baby his baby for the first six months of Quinn's pregnancy, and Rachel Berry dumped me for him. Whatever, it doesn't matter. I will still get Nicole. Finn shouldn't even be that big of a problem, since I think he is now going out with Rachel. I saw her give him a 'relationship calendar' this morning; it had kittens on it, seriously. Then the other night she was at the basketball game wearing a T-shirt that said 'Team Finn'.

Before Finn walks away I hear him say "I hope I see you in Glee."

Glee? She is coming to Glee? Unh…I can work with that, Puck thinks as he walks into the office and lies down in his usual spot. I know Glee has helped other people with like getting friends, getting self-confidence, expressing themselves and all that pussy shit. Glee helped me discover that women get all hot and bothered when they have a sexy stud singing them a sappy love song and that's one of the ways I'm going to get into Nicole Evans pants.

Was that my math class I saw her walking into? Well, maybe I need to start going to a few more math classes. I am so going to get this girl before Finn.


The bell rings, signaling the beginning of lunch. I've been thinking about what I might be able to perform for Mr. Shue and I think I've decided on my song. The instrument accompaniment is very simple, so it shouldn't be too hard for me to sing for him.

When I arrive at Miss. Pillsbury's office, I see a tall man with very curly brown hair that is cut short, with a dimpled chin. He is speaking to Miss. Pillsbury, who is sitting at her desk and she has this dreamily look in her eyes that totally say 'this man is God's gift to women.'

I knock on the door before I enter; they both look over at me. "Hi Nicole. This is Mr. Shue, he is the director of Glee Club." Miss. Pillsbury introduces us. Mr. Shue smiles at me "Nice to meet you. Miss. Pillsbury told me that you have had previous experience singing at your last school. That's great; I definitely think that you should join Glee. We are always looking for new members. You do have to audition, but it doesn't have to be today. We can wait, if you need some time to prepare."

I want to go ahead and audition. They always make me nervous, and I know that if I wait I will just worry about it. I already know how to sing the song anyway. "I'm ready now, am I going to perform in here?"

Mr. Shue looks uncertain about my decision as he shakes his head no and directs me to the choir room, followed by Miss. Pillsbury. Inside the choir room there sits a man behind a piano. "This is Twinkles, our pianist, he will be accompanying you. What song are you going to sing?"

"Chasing Pavements by Adele."

"Alright, just begin whenever you're ready." Mr. Shue says as he and Miss. Pillsbury take seats besides each other.

I close my eyes, take a deep breath, imagine I'm the only one in the room, and node at Twinkles.

I've made up my mind, don't need to think it over
If I'm wrong I am right, don't need to look no further
This ain't lust, I know this is love

But if I tell the world, I'll never say enough
'Cause it was not said to you
And that's exactly what I need to do if I'd end up with you

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements
Even if it leads nowhere?
Or would it be a waste even if I knew my place
Should I leave it there?
Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements
Even if it leads nowhere?

I build myself up and fly around in circles
Wait then as my heart drops and my back begins to tingle
Finally could this be it?

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements
Even if it leads nowhere?
Or would it be a waste even if I knew my place
Should I leave it there?
Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements
Even if it leads nowhere?

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements
Even if it leads nowhere?
Or would it be a waste even if I knew my place
Should I leave it there?
Should I give up or should I just keep on chasing pavements
Should I just keep on chasing pavements?

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements
Even if it leads nowhere?
Or would it be a waste even if I knew my place
Should I leave it there?
Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements
Even if it leads nowhere?

When I'm done there is a moment of silence and I begin to wonder if I made the wrong decision to audition today, maybe I should have waited.

Then Mr. Shue gets this huge smile and says "Great job! Congratulations you are a Glee Club member! We have rehearsals next period, actually, so you will be able to jump right in there. We usually have a theme once a week and the kids have to come up with a song to perform to go with it. This week's assignment is to sing a song that is fresh, new, different…I'm trying to get them to re-introduce themselves or in your case introduce yourself. The song needs to have Hello in the title. I can't wait for you to meet everybody." He looks up at the clock and sees that we still have 10 minutes left of lunch. "We are going to rehearse a new number today, so don't worry you won't feel left behind. One of our members is going to perform their Hello number though, so that should give you a good example of what we do here in Glee. Let me go ahead and get you the sheet music for some of the songs that we already got down, that way when we rehearse them you won't behind. I'll get one of our members to help you with the choreography too." He says excitedly and walks quickly to the door. He sounds very eager about having a new member. I wonder what that says about the club. I think curiously.

"Congratulations, Nicole! I just know you are going to love Glee and Mr. Shue is just such a great teacher. Just amazing!" She says infatuated. Wow, I have never seen a grown woman have a crush this big before.

"Thank you, Miss P" I feel like I can call her that now, then Mr. Shue is back with the sheet music.

After getting the sheet music from Mr. Shue, I decide to try to open my locker, instead of going to lunch. Besides I so don't want to go through the awkwardness of trying to find a spot to sit.

I've been standing at my locker for the last five minutes trying to get this stupid combination to work, and becoming very frustrated that the locker will not open. I am about ready to just get a hammer and beat the thing, when I hear a voice behind me "Hey Evans, need some help." I turn around to see Puck leaning on the lockers behind me with his arms folded, and a wicked smirk on his face.

"Hell yes!" I exclaim as I hand him the slip on paper that has my combination. He does exactly the same thing I did, I swear it is exactly the same, and the locker opens for him.

"What the hell?" I cry, then I remember some of my manners and say "Thank you, Puck." I close the door to my locker, without putting any of my books away. Fuck that. I'll put them in there and never be able to get them out again.

"Your Wel… Wait. What? What did you do that for?" He sounds confused.

"I'm not putting my books in there. I can just see me putting all my books in there and not being able to get them out again after school today. I'll just carry them."

"Or you could do what I do, never use your books. Works-out fucking great for me, babe."

"That idea does sound like a lot more fun, but I'm actually going to do my homework this year…Or at least consider doing it. And that requires books." I say with a shrug.

"Pff…" he makes a sound. "Good luck with that shit." Then he steps closer to me, his eyes slowly rake my body, starting from my feet up. I feel his heated graze on my body and the tension raises, but in a very good way. When his eyes finally meet mine I can see that they are a warm dark chocolate. Hum. Dark chocolate is my favorite. "So where is your next class?" His voice is low and smooth.

Oh boy, his body being this close to mine makes my brain short-out, what is my next class? "Nothing." Is my first reaction, then I remember Glee. "Oh wait…I just joined Glee Club."

"Sweet" He says in that same smooth voice. The bell rings, he starts to swagger away, and I am totally staring. He stops and turns around. "Are you coming?"

"Oh yeah." I shake myself a little to try to clear my head and hurry to catch up to him.


I am surprised at how much I enjoyed Glee. It started off a little weird after Mr. Shue had introduced me to everybody. One girl asked, Mercedes I think her name was, if I had really blown up the Gym at my last school. I responded with a very loud NO. That started off a whole slew of other questions, most about my possible bad behavior: Did you really beat up a teacher? Were you really part of the New York mob? Did you have to wear catholic school girl uniforms at your private school? (Puck). Tell me everything about New York! (Rachel) They were coming so fast that I couldn't answer all of them. Mr. Shue stepped in and told them that they shouldn't believe ridiculous rumors and to "at least let Nicole learn all your names first before your start grilling her."

We rehearsed Hello, Goodbye , Rachel and Finn had the lead parts. That girl can really sing, Miss P wasn't kidding when she said Rachel was talented. Finn can sing really well too, apparently he is the male lead to Rachel's female lead. You can see that Rachel totally loves that.

Mr. Shue handed out the sheet music at the beginning of class, which I had to use the first few times. By the third time I had the song down and I put the sheet music away, so I could focus on the steps.

When the class began dancing I got paired with Puck and I enjoyed it a little too much. Puck had a way of holding me that made dancing with him very sensual; holding me just a little too close, placing his hands low and firmly on my waist, then moving his thumbs in circles, caressing my stomach. One of the best parts of the choreography is when he had to lift me; his arms would flex and pick me up so easily, like I weighed nothing. This aspect of dancing made him seem so secure and safe, which is probably not true at all. I am sure he is a total heartbreaker. I bet he has held many girls in those arms and they all had the same reaction I have. It's extremely clear that he doesn't understand this appeal. He sees his body as something girls swoon over because it looks good; he has no idea that being held close to a strong body, with strong arms encircling you, makes a girl feel safe.

We stopped during the last twenty minutes of class for any of the members that wanted to perform their songs for the week. That's when Finn stood up and said that he was ready to perform. He sang Hello, I Love You by The Doors and I thought he was really good. At least he sang really well, I'm not so sure about his dancing…or whatever that was. Apparently his dancing didn't turn everyone in the room off; it might have turned some of them on judging by the look on Kurt's face at the end of the song. The boy looked like he was going to lose it any second now, poor guy. Then Rachel stood up and said "And that, fellow glee clubbers is how we say Hello." Like she was proud that he had sung about hitting on any girl he wanted.

The bell rings, signaling the end of class, and I watch as two girls in Cheerios uniforms, Santana and Brittany, link pinkies and walk over to Finn. They begin talking to him and Finn gets this shocked look on his face. I wonder what's up with that.

"Oh no," A deep voice says right in my ear. "Looks like Santana is causing trouble again, and Brittany of course, but Santana is the brains behind the operation."

I raise my eye brows and turn to Puck. "You know what that is all about?" I ask quietly. I don't really care anymore. I just want him to keep whispering in my ear.

"I would bet anything that Finn has just been asked to go on a date with both of them." He signs and shakes his head. "Idiot. Do you know how long he and Rachel have been making puppy dog eyes at each other? Months, now he is going to screw it up."

I didn't notice that he had put his arm on the back of my chair, so I was startled when I felt his large, warm hand on my waist. "But enough about them, we have more important things to discuss. You never answered my question about the uniform." He informs me, leaning closer and raising one eye brow.

"No I didn't." I simply say and squeeze his leg, right above his knee. "Use your imagination." I wink at him as I get up and walk out of the room. I make sure that I have an extra sway in my step just for him. I can't make-out with him, but there's nothin' wrong with a little flirtin', right?

I have almost finished my awesome exit out of the classroom, when Mr. Shue calls me and Puck over. "Hey guys, great job today. Puck, since Nicole is going to be your new partner for our numbers do you mined teaching her the choreography for the numbers we have already learned?"

Puck gets this big grin on his face. "No problem Mr. Shue."

"Great, thanks Puck. See you guys later."

Turning to look at the hotness that is Noah Puckerman, thinking about the hours I am going to spend in those arms, my determination to reform is already starting to weaken, and he hasn't even kissed me…yet.


A/N: Please R&R!