Disclaimer: I don't own Glee.
A/N: Yea, I didn't get around to adding Mike and Tina. They just didn't fit in this chapter but I promise to get to them in the next one. This is mostly Rachel, Puck, and Kurt but it does have Finn and some light Blaine. I'm pretty sure Santana will be in the next one but I can't make any promises.
Some people were wondering about a Pezberry friendship. When Santana first comes into this story she's more of an 'enemy' of sorts to Rachel. I, too, am in love with Pezberry so I can assure you all that they will become friends… eventually. Now when they finally do become friends I'm not sure. Anyways, on with the story. Oh, and review, please, and let me know what you guys thought of this chapter.
Rachel sighed when she saw the blue lights in her rearview mirror as she leaned over the seat to pull her registration from the glove box and when she straightened up the cop knocked on her window. She frowned. She hadn't done anything wrong, why in the hell was she getting pulled over. She rolled the window down and the cop leaned down peering into the car through her window.
"What did I do wrong, officer?" Rachel asked looking up and her eyes widened. "This can't be happening."
"License and registration." Finn told her and unnecessarily shined the flashlight in her eyes.
Rachel bit down onto her tongue and handed over what he asked for. "Can I ask what I did wrong?" She tightened her hands on the steering wheel until her knuckles were white.
"Just stay here for a few minutes. I'll be right back." Finn said and stalked back to his police cruiser leaving Rachel to stare after him in her rearview mirror.
Rachel reached for her phone to text Kurt what was going on and when her phone rang a few minutes later she picked up quickly. "Help me!" She hissed.
"Were you speeding?" Kurt asked. "Why'd he pull you over?"
"I have no idea." She whined. "He didn't tell me."
"Okay, I'm sending back-up. Just sit tight for a few minutes." Kurt told her and then the phone clicked dead.
"Kurt." She whispered loudly. "Kurt!" She sighed, throwing her phone onto the seat next to her and glanced into the mirror again to see that Finn was making his way back to her car.
"Rachel." He spoke up once he reached her window.
"Finn." She refused to look up at him and instead focused on the cars that were quickly driving past them. "Are you going to tell me what I did wrong?"
"Nothing." He said. "You weren't doing anything wrong but I heard from Mike that you were back in town and when I saw the star bumper sticker I knew it was your car."
Rachel let out a breath and because her teeth were clenched it came out like a hiss. "Give me my license and registration."
"Excuse me." He leaned down.
She ripped the papers from his hand and then a second set of blue lights flashed in her mirror. "Are you kidding me!" She groaned, throwing her head back onto the headrest.
"Sup, Berry." Puck appeared beside Finn and Rachel's head snapped in his direction.
"Puck?" Rachel took in the sight of him. He was wearing a police uniform and Rachel would be lying if she hadn't noticed how good he looked. He had lost the mohawk and Rachel noted that he looked better without it. He had gotten older in the last ten years but he still had that adorable boyish grin she remembered from high school.
"I saw your car pulled over and figured I'd see if you were having some kind of trouble." Puck said looking over at Finn. "What's going on here?"
"Nothing." Finn said quickly.
"Can I go now?" Rachel asked coldly. "I'm meeting Kurt and Blaine for drinks and I'm already late as it is."
"Just a second, Rachel." Puck said motioning Finn towards the cruiser.
Rachel watched the two of them from her mirror and it wasn't until she saw Finn storm off away from Puck and get into his cruiser, driving off quickly, that she let the tears she had been holding back spill over her eyes and stream down her cheek. She wiped them away quickly when Puck appeared back at her window and leaned down so that they were at eye level with each other.
"You okay?" Puck asked in a soft voice when he saw her tear-stained cheeks.
"No." She admitted. "He's wearing a wedding ring. I'm guessing he's still with Santana?" Puck nods and she takes a deep breath. "He invited me to the wedding. Did you know that? He had the audacity to invite me to a wedding where he would be marrying another girl less than two years after we broke up." Rachel shrugged. "I guess that's when I realized it was really over. He was gone and wasn't coming back." She laughed sourly. "I don't even know why I'm telling you this."
"You can leave now." He told her quietly. "I talked to Finn. He's going to leave you alone for a while."
"Thanks." She offered him a small smile but she knew she looked pathetic crying over a guy that she hadn't been with for eight years; a guy that was married to someone else.
"You should get going. Kurt doesn't like to be kept waiting." Puck straightened up and Rachel nodded.
She waved at him and watched him walk back to his own cruiser and though she'd never admit it, she might have checked out how good the uniform made his butt look.
"What happened, sweetie?" Kurt asked when Rachel walked into the bar, out of breath, and sunk into the chair across from him.
"Honestly… nothing." Rachel shrugged. "Finn didn't say much. It was weird though… Puck showed up."
"I know." Kurt nodded. "I sent him."
"You did?" She furrowed her brow.
"I told you I was sending back-up." Kurt shrugged. "You'll have time to thank him when he shows up. He shows up here every night right around… now." He smiled when Puck walked through the front door right on cue.
Rachel turned in her chair watching as Puck made his way over to the bar and leaned on the counter.
"Are you checking out Puckerman's ass?" Blaine asked.
"Wha… No!" Rachel sputtered and blushed wildly.
"Oh, Kurt, our little girl is growing up!" Blaine laughed. "She's noticing boys."
"Shut up." Rachel glared at him.
"That uniform does show off his greatest attributes." Kurt nodded in approval. "You should totally hit that."
"Kurt!" Rachel shrieked. "That is so… inappropriate and vile."
"I told you that you would have to kiss a few frogs along the way." Kurt told her. "But I never said you couldn't have fun with said frogs. Puck could be one of those frogs." He smiled innocently as if he wasn't suggested what she knew he was.
"I am not sleeping with Noah Puckerman." Rachel shook her head but her gaze drifted again the man at the bar and she chewed on her bottom lip thoughtfully.
Puck turned around then, catching Rachel looking at him, and nodded at her. She just blushed and waved at him from her seat. Her eyes darted away, embarrassed, and he studied her. She hadn't changed much since the last time he had seen her, which was ten years ago at graduation. He sipped his beer as his eyes looked her up and down. She still had a great body; a dancers body. She looked pretty much the same except that her eyes had lost some of their sparkle and her hair had grown longer.
Her eyes met his again but this time he was the first one to look away. He turned back around and leaned on the counter to flirt with a blonde that had been eyeing him since he walked in. He was pretty sure he was going to get lucky tonight and he was about to take the blonde home when a familiar voice stopped him.
"Puck?" The blonde asked when he tensed and turned suddenly towards the voice that was coming over the microphone over at the karaoke stage.
"Just a sec." He brushed her off, watching as Rachel adjusted the mic to be level with her mouth.
"H-hello." She tapped the microphone nervously. "I'm Rachel. Rachel Berry." Her voice sounded different somehow. She had never been one to shy away from a performance but for some reason she seemed a little wary of singing. "I uh… I promised myself I wouldn't come up here and do this tonight but my friends Kurt and Blaine…" She pointed out the two boys at their table and they cheered her name loudly. "They, uh, they kind of forced me to come up here." She smiled timidly. "I haven't sung for an audience in a while – a few years actually – so I'm sorry if my voice is a little rusty. I… I guess I should just get on with this then." She cleared her throat quietly and when the background music started Puck stepped closer to the stage so he could hear her better.
When Rachel looked up, holding onto the microphone with one hand, and started to sing, Puck's throat dried suddenly. He hadn't heard Rachel sing since high school and for some reason her voice still gave him chills. He watched her closely as she sang some song he didn't recognize but it was showing off her voice amazingly well.
The song ended much too soon in Puck's opinion and when she stopped singing she looked a little nervous but when Blaine and Kurt erupted in applause and started to whoop she broke out into a huge smile, making her way over to her friends. Puck grabbed another beer from the bar and walked over, sliding into the chair that was empty beside her.
"Nice performance, Berry." He said and she smiled at him. "Beer?"
"Thank you, Puck." She nodded at him and took the bottle from his hand. "It was 'Black Roses Red' by the way."
"I knew that." Puck lied.
"I'm sure." She laughed. "That would probably mean you had seen 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2' and I highly doubt you would watch that movie."
"Right." He frowned, ignoring the fact that he had in fact seen that movie but to be clear, his sister had made him watch it. "You still sound amazing, by the way."
"I know." Her cocky grin came back and he couldn't keep the smirk from his face. "You haven't changed much, Puckerman." She commented.
"Neither have you." His eyes looked her over appreciatively and she leaned towards him.
"Wanna get out of here?" She asked as her fingers skated up his thigh. "I'll show you just how much I've changed since high school."
A/N: Not beta'd, all mistakes are mine and I apologize for them because I'm sure this chapter was littered with them. Thanks for the reviews I got from the first chapter!
