"Okay in the morning" he said already excited, rubbing his hands together, they did their usual good night, made the calls and finally fell asleep at some ungodly hour in the morning, she woke early in anticipation of his visit and eventually went down to get something to drink at about 7.45 to find her dad sitting in the kitchen still in his PJ's
"Dad what are you doing here?" she asked shocked
"I'm having a well-deserved day off in fact a week off I know it's a novelty but me and your Mom need time"
"Time?" she asked wishing she'd brought her phone down with her to let Sam know everything was off
"Yeah we're off for the week later today so you'll have the house to yourself get Quinn, Tina and Kurt round, have a girlie week or Sam and have a whatever you two do week"
"Actually Sam should be here in a minute we're going to Kurt's for breakfast and I asked him to wake me up this morning if I'd have known you were going to be here I wouldn't have got him to come all the way here" she said wondering if she sounded genuine
"He's in the bathroom, he said he was to wake you up at 8 but was bursting for the loo" her Dad said with a smile on his face "I too was young once my daughter" he said turning back to his paper as she saw Sam appear at the door
"Morning Mercy you didn't need a wakeup call then?" he said laughing
"Morning Sam what time did you hang up this morning?"
"About 4ish"
"And you're up already, what time did I last speak?"
"Maybe about 3.45ish, I was just listening to you sleep" he said as Mercy's Mom entered the kitchen
"Morning guys, just the two people we needed to see before we left, did Dad tell you we were going away today?" her Mom asked
"Yes Mom" she replied
"Morning Mom" Sam replied
"So you two can play house for a week" she said kissing them both "But after that your Dad and I wanted to help with your deposit, if you don't mind, we cashed a bond and it's money well spent if you accept it, and we think you're doing a great job working towards your future, call it an early wedding present" her Mom said brushing Mercy's hair off her face
"I'll talk it over with Sam and get back to you, thanks for thinking of us" Mercy said looking at her Mom and Dad
"Yes thanks for thinking of us Mom, Dad" Sam echoed looking at Mercy and then her parents
"We'll be gone at 2 so be back from breakfast before that won't you?" her Dad asked
"Come on Mercy get dressed they'll be waiting" Sam told her when there was a break in the conversation
"Back in a bit" she said sipping the last of her juice and disposing of the glass in the dishwasher, 30 minutes later she was back down looking fierce, grabbing Sam's hand and kissing her parents, leaving for breakfast somewhere with whoever
"Well that was well planned" she said as they went through the door towards his car tapping her phone inviting everyone except Quinn to breakfast at the Lima Bean. "Let's go scenic give every one time to get there"
"Why are you inviting everyone?"
"Because I don't want to be lying to my parents"
"So you'll lie instead of telling them we wanted to get our mac on but not about breakfast?"
"You got out of there alive I think you need to thank me" she said laughing
"We have a week babe our thing is going to happen, but don't tell everyone about the week otherwise we'll get no time" he said she just looked at him and smiled
"Hot mess" she said giggling
"Yeah but I'm your hot mess" he laughed as they pulled up at the Lima Cafe, he didn't take the scenic route. They were sitting for about 10 minutes before Kurt and Blaine turned up all flustered and wanting to know what the police said, Tina and Sugar turned up about 3 minutes after them, Sugar was eating breakfast already but came anyway as they all did their orders and settled into the booth
"So, what happened?" Kurt asked and everyone leaned in for the answer
"Nothing" Mercy said, looking at Sam "She didn't call the police but, what she did tell me was that you all felt neglected since Sam and I got together and I want to apologise for that"
"Neglected?" Blaine asked before he continued to say "Since Kurt and I got married I've blown Sam off about 200 times sorry Dude" he smiled at Sam who shook his head signalling no sorry necessary
"Mercy that shit happens, I was tight with Mike all through school I didn't have time for lessons much less friends I only got to see you all because we were in Glee club together don't mind Quinn's shit she's got some sort of agenda trying to make you feel guilty for having someone to love" Tina said
"Truth" Sugar said "Definitely an agenda don't trust her Mercy"
Mercy looked at Sam and rolled her eyes "why doesn't it feel like this shit is over?" she asked him and all he could do was hug her because he didn't know the answer and from what was being said it seemed like she was right.
So they had breakfast and talked about what Blaine and Kurt were going to be up to once they went back to New York, what Tina's plans were and Sugar's quest for Artie to get her pregnant now she'd finished College eventually the conversation wound down and everyone said their goodbyes and ventured home.
It was only 11am, Sam had a clear 90 minutes before he had to be at work as they sat in his parent's kitchen talking about the future and their hopes for grandchildren. Mercy felt overwhelmed with it all. There was so much pressure from both sides to extend the family and quick, she just wanted to get married to Sam and spend all her waking hours with him or, with the knowledge of knowing he was going to be at home when she got there, smelly, crying babies sort of mud the picture.
"Mom stop it Mercy's stressed enough as it is" Sam said "Mercy" he called when he noticed she wasn't paying attention to any of it
"Yeah, family" she smiled at him, her face telling him to get her out of there
"She wasn't listening anyway" his Mom replied
"Yeah" Sam said tending to agree with his Mom on that "Say bye, I got to get her back before I go to work" he said kissing his Mom and smiling at Mercy before bending to kiss her forehead "Stressed babe?" he asked, she just smiled "Baby talk needs to stop Mom, we don't know each other that way yet let alone babies, I want my wife to myself for a bit, a long while actually, I think I'll have issues with sharing" he said laughing.
Mercy got up and kissed Sam's Mom before they left the house "What's up babe?" he asked as they got to the car "You've been in a funny mood since the Cafe conversation"
"I've just got this funny feeling Sam something is going to go wrong I can feel it"
"We'll deal with it babe" he said shutting her car door, going round to the driver side and getting in "Babe we will deal with it, whatever it is, okay?" he asked, just about getting a nod out of her before he started up the car
The drive home was mostly him talking, trying to lift her out of her funk, he didn't feel right leaving her and going to work especially as her parents were going away but he'd planned to try and get off early, if he couldn't he'd go as far as to call Tina and ask her to go sit with her for a while till she went to work "I'll see you later babe and I'll call okay?" he told her not happy about leaving her, she nodded again, he kissed her as she stepped out the car and stood at his car as usual waiting for her to get to the door, she opened it, he turned to get in his car startled when he heard her shout him, he turned to see her running towards him, instinctively he rushed towards her, his mind trying to second guess what was going on for her right now, he grabbed her as she flew at him "What's up babe?" he asked to silence he just held her until she lifted up off him "I'll stay with you today?"
"No Sam I just want you to be careful today, please just be careful" she said hugging him again
"I will babe" he said letting her hold on as long as she needed to before watching her walk back to the house, this time she went in. Sam drove to work wondering what was up with her at 3 when he knew her parents had gone he called to check on her, rather than texted her
"Babe are you okay" he asked
"Yeah it's you I'm worried about Sam, I'm still trying to see what it is but, it's going to be a total shock and babe I'm there for you and you're there for me right"
"That's right babe; hold up Derrick's calling me" he said "boss I'm coming" he signalled "I'll call back in a bit bye, love you"
"Love you too" she told him listening as the phone went dead
The Lima Times offices
"Sam some police here to see you, what you been up to?" Derrick, asked, Sam looked past him to see two uniformed officers coming towards him
"Police!" he said alarmed walking towards them "Are my parents alright?" he asked as the one officer walked past Derrick and grabbed his hand "What are you doing?" he asked as he felt metal rub against his wrist, while his other hand was dragged behind his back and he heard the other officer reading him his rights "What the… what did I do?"
"Sam do we need to call anyone" Derrick asked
"My parents and tell them to tell Mercy" he said as they dragged him away "Stop dragging me I'm not resisting" he told them
The Police Station
Sam sat in the cell for about 2 hours just wondering what was going on, thinking this can only be a mistaken identity he'd done nothing, suddenly the door opened and an older man in a dark blue suit came into the room "Are you Mr Samuel Evans? The officer asked
"Yes" he said and the man was gone again "What's going on!?" Sam shouted after him
It seemed like hours later but may have only been about another hour before anyone else came to see him, this time a female police officer came in "Sam; can I call you Sam?" she asked as she stepped closer "things are taking so long because we're doing investigations at the same time, but when we heard you were getting ready to leave town we had to act fast" she said
"Why was I leaving town?"
"Were you not leaving town with your girlfriend?"
"No Mercy's parents have left town this afternoon for a week, what's happened to them?"
"How many girlfriends have you got Sam?"
"One, why?"
"I'll be back in a bit" she said leaving the room, still he was no wiser as to what was happening
'What the fuck is going on?' he thought, Mercy said something was going to happen she asked me to be careful and she was definitely scared for me, she's here and she loves me. That's what she told me to hold on to she's here and she loves me he said closing his eyes unsure of what was waiting for him and the word trouble started to hit home.
Two officers, one of them being the lady he'd seen before, came into the room, switched on a tape recorder and started talking "Mr Samuel Evans; Sargent Palmer and DCI Gordon we'd like to question you about an alleged assault on a Miss Quinn Fabray that happened 2 days ago in her house"
Sam could barely catch his breath as he listened to the officers unfolding Quinn's attempt to break him and Mercy up "Wait she's saying I planned the whole thing?" he gasped as he listened to the accusations "I'd sent her upstairs to get changed?" he asked as they talked at him "I grabbed her? I kissed her, and what actually tried to rape her no fucking way, no fucking way" he shouted
"Did you attempt to rape Miss Fabray" Gordon asked
"No" he shouted "that's all a lie, it didn't happen like that"
"Are you saying it happened Sam?" Palmer asked
"No" Sam said followed by "I need a phone call, I need a lawyer"
"In a minute Sam" Palmer said
"No not another word until I've had my call, and got my lawyer" he insisted
It was clear the officers were pissed, the way they flicked the recorder off and left the room but, 40 minutes later Sam got his call and used it to call Mercy
"Mercy where are you?" he asked as soon as she picked up
"I'm here Sam at the station, what's going on"
"You've got Satan's third eye, Quinn's saying I assaulted her or something, they started asking questions and turning the story, I think she's said I raped her but I need a brief, your Dad's gone on holiday, do you know anyone else?" he asked
"I'll get onto it, are you okay?" she asked "And don't brave it out for me, I need the truth"
"I'm okay, I've done nothing wrong"
"What can I do?" she asked concerned
"Just get me a lawyer for now, and I love you"
"I love you too Sam, and I'm on it"
"Do Mom and Dad know?"
"Yeah they're here too, here's your Mom" Mercy said passing the phone over
"Sam what have they done to you? Are you okay? What are they saying you've done?" his Mom asked all at once
"I'm fine Mom Mercy will fill you in I've only got about a minute left on the call I love you both and I know I don't need to say this but I want to, I'm innocent"
"We know that Son and we love you" his Mom said "We're going to get you the best Lawyer and you'll be out in no time" she told him before Sam heard the Officer telling him time was up and then the phone went dead
"You could have let me say bye, I'm the victim here" he said, annoyed at the officer who took no notice just escorted him back to the cell. Two hours later he had a lawyer sitting in front of him hearing his side of the story and giving him advice
"Mr James thank you for taking the time out to come and see me" he said once he'd agreed to take on the case
"No problem Sam, Mr Jones vouched for you, said you were innocent and he's has good judgement, so if he says your innocent then I'm compelled to help you. I hear you're his future son-in-law is that correct?" Mr James asked
"Yes Sir Mercy and I have been together on and off for 7 years, since school, more on than off nowadays, engaged for 2 years and hoping to get married as soon as we afford the deposit for our home
"So is there history with Quinn?" he asked "Every detail" he urged, Sam started to relive the now headache that was Quinn starting from School and finishing at the point where Mercy and her had their talk missing out the severity of the fight for fear of Mercy getting into trouble "That's all for now Sam" he said as he got up, walking towards the door he stopped "Mercy's account of that fight was a bit more graphic but I guess your protecting her" he said smiling
"I have to Sir, it's my job" Sam said smiling back at him
"Right I'm going to speak with hopefully Quinn's Lawyer and see what's to become of all this, back in a bit" he said before he turned and left the room. 40 minutes later he was back "To what I understand Quinn's not around only her mother who is pursuing the case because Quinn is too distraught to do so herself" he said as he walked into the room throwing paperwork on the table "This makes it difficult for us to disprove things and it might mean a longer stay in here" he informed Sam
"What's the length of a longer stay?"
"Well you might be lucky enough to get bailed and Mr Jones has that covered, if it's an option" he replied "let's get this interview over with and see what happens from there"
"Worst case scenario?"
"High bail especially as she says you were ready to leave town"
4 hours later Sam had made his statement and the decision had been made to release him pending further enquires, it took a while for the police to sort his things out and release him, but when they did as promised Mercy was waiting for him along with his parents, he fell into her arms tired but angry, kissed her forehead before going to hug his parents "I'm innocent" was all he could say
"He's staying at mine tonight" she informed his parents as they left the station
"We've brought him some clothes" his Mom said as she clung to him crying, his Dad holding them both and Mercy watched on crying herself
"I brought your car home earlier" his Dad said when the crying died down "I explained to Derick and your job's still there too"
"Thanks Dad" Sam said as they left the station
"Thanks Mr James" his Mom said shaking his hand, followed by his Dad as Mercy just hugged him
"Sam I'll be in touch" Mr James shouted as he left
Eventually Sam and Mercy got in her car, watching his parents drive away before he broke down, clinging onto Mercy as if his life depended on it
Mercy's House
"What do you want to eat?" she asked as they entered the house, his tears finally dried up
"I'm not hungry I'm angry"
"I understand that babe, but you've got to eat so tell"
"You doing some for yourself?"
"Yep I'm starving haven't eaten since you got locked up"
Sam watched her move around the kitchen, putting things together, went to her when she finally stood for while at the fridge, the door open just looking in it, he stood behind her looking in himself "How did we get from happy to this?" he asked pulling her into him "Don't answer that, I know, it was me, I'm so sorry babe" he said leaning into her back and kissing her neck "We could lose everything, everything we saved for all our dreams everything I want to kill this bitch I really do, slap me" he said pulling away from her
"Sam we can't stop trying we have a plan, we need to stick to it, please don't get me started on the slapping thing I might never frigging stop" she said making him laugh
"I've a feeling this thing is going to get bigger before it finishes and we're already on shaky ground. Seriously I'm scared for us Mercy, especially after what you said at the lake yesterday or was that the day before I've lost track of time"
"Sam what is the one thing we're sure of?"
"That we love each other" he said spinning her round to face him
"And you know I'm down with the fighting for us thing, I also know that if Quinn and her mother have teamed up this is going to get orbital but, I'm going to do whatever I have to do to support you, you know that" she said reaching up to kiss him and he pulled her in
"So what do you want to eat? she asked again, when he finally let her go
"I'll try what you're having but I'm still angry" he said looking in her eyes as he spoke "At myself that is"
"That's cool I can deal with angry at Sam, Sam" she said laughing and dragging him out the kitchen and upstairs
"Oh is this how you deal with angry Sam?" he smiled as they mounted the stairs "I can be angry for a real long time you know"
"That's fine I can do long, believe" she told him making him laugh
"And loud" he added as they disappeared to the bedroom Sam being the first one to wake up the next morning "Babe" he whispered to a sleeping Mercy before he got out of bed to visit the bathroom going back to hug on her some more, he lay taking it all in 'Shit I'm gonna miss all this if Fuckbray gets her way, what is she fucking playing at? When did she turn into this monster bitch? What the fuck does she want?' he lay thinking, bringing tears to his eyes
"It's you Sam, you know that don't you she wants you, if she can't have Puck you're the next best thing with Finn gone" she answered
"Did I say that out loud babe?" he asked
"Say what out loud?"
"I was just wondering what her game was and you answered the question, did I say it out loud?"
"No babe that just came to me as I woke up, or slept maybe I just had enlightenment or something" she told him awake now as she turned to look at him "Babe if it has to go that far to keep you out of prison we'll go there, you know that right?"
"What!?" he shouted sitting up to look at her unable to believe what she was trying to tell him, after last night that was not the conversation he'd expected from her "Mercy we are not going back there we said we'd stopped that shit, I'm not going to be better off with anyone else, I'm not going to heal any fuckers heart, I'm definitely not going to fuck her so I can get off with whatever she's trying to fit me up with, and that babe, is the end of that conversation" he said slamming himself down on the bed and turning his back to her
"Babe I didn't say that to get you mad, I don't need you to be mad at me right now, while I'm feeling like this" she said pausing for a reaction she didn't get so she turned him round to face her carrying on to say "I told you I had enlightenment, I see us having to go that far so I'm not asking you to do anything I'm just letting you know that everything that follows is a result of what we see here" she smiled
He looked at her for a short while, his mind thinking on the words she told him yesterday and what happened after those words "I trust your judgement but" he held his hand up stopping her from grabbing his mouth "Will our relationship be compromised?"
"That, Sam Evans is the right question" she said laughing "Not if we play this cute" she replied going in for a kiss, he knew what she wanted because he wanted it too
"Please tell me we did not just get turned on quoting I Robot to each other?" he asked when they came up for air
"No I quoted it because I was turned on and needed you there too" she said giggling after another kiss
"Human in danger, human in danger" he shouted as he went in for another kiss making her laugh as he did it
"Sam its 11.30 you need to get ready for work" she said nudging him to wake up
"Leave me I'm dreaming about you" he said turning round "Babe" he said upset "You were just getting down with that Chante song, you'd just stepped out the sea all wet, walked into our bedroom and I was just going in for the drying exercise, I'm gonna hate work all day today now"
"I'll be here all wet and waiting for you later" she said laughing "and thanks for the comparison but there is none really" she said laughing more
"What!" he shouted
"I'm prettier, bigger boobs, better ass, more sass and I got you" she said still laughing "Don't get it twisted hers are good too just not a comparison" he got up laughing
"You got that right" he said as he went in the bathroom
She sat on the bed thinking of way to stop him thinking about the Quinn stuff and how she was going to play this she needed Quinn to quit, although she'd just promised him more or less that they wouldn't have to compromise their relationship to get her on side, she really wasn't sure how far they'd would have to go. That bitch professed to be my damn friend. I'd let my defences down with her around him enough for the recent events to take place, now I guess she's telling me she was just waiting to strike, maybe after I went out with Sam she'd never been a friend, well we know what we do to our enemies don't we Miss Jones, so Miss thing what are you going to do to stop this bitch.
"Stop it" she heard bringing her back to now
"What?" she looked at a wet Sam asking, coming out the bathroom with a towel round his neck "Are we up for round 4?" she asked looking at how ready he was
"Honestly, I'd love to, as you can see" he told her "But I've got to eat, get my uniform from Mom's and get to work in like, 40 minutes" he said looking at his phone on the side cabinet "And the stop was about the current situation you're trying to sort out in your head" he said looking at her "Can we have this weekend before we start talking about all that Babe, I'm just not at the serious talk stage with that?"
"Okay" she said grabbing his hand as he put his phone back down and pulling him towards her "You can't come out the bathroom like that and expect me not to react babe" she said kissing him hard
Sam kissed her back and seriously he could have gone for more but he was compelled to go to work they needed the money and he needed to see his boss "Babe you can see I'm up for this but I really need to go can we pick it back up later" he said after breaking the kiss "Please" he said, she let him go "And don't be mad about this, I will make it up I promise"
"I'm not mad Sam" she said getting up "I could make you breakfast, that's the least I can do after sucking the life out of you" she said dragging her night coat on and heading towards the door as Sam shook his head and laughed at her comment
5 minutes later he was dressed and in the kitchen as Mercy put eggs on plates along with two rashers of bacon each and some toast "That was fast" he said picking a rasher of bacon off one of the plates put it in his mouth and then took the plates off her
"I'll do your hot drink to go shall I?" she asked looking at the clock as Sam threw the food in his mouth
"Please" he replied with his full mouth "12pm Mercy I got to go, I'll text" he said jumping up, giving her a kiss and running out the door
The day went by as normal and the weekend was quiet too as neither of them had really informed their friends about the situation or that Mercy's parents weren't about. It was about 8pm on Sunday when Sam got a call from Puck as he sat in Mercy house waiting for her to finish work and get home
"Hey Puck" he answered the phone saying
"Never mind the pleasantries Bro I've just spoke to Quinn who tells me she's doing you for rape and it's all my fucking fault what the fuck is going on?" Puck asked "And Dude you're on loud speaker Lauren's here, I don't need any bull shit right now she's ready to drop and we could do without the stress" he told him, Sam rolled his eyes and started rubbing the back of his neck
"Dude from the beginning" he said taking Puck and Lauren through the events of the last few days up to when the police came to arrest him "Seriously Dude I don't know what she's doing we've never actually slept together but, I guess I put myself in the frame falling for her drama at the house, I can see me losing Mercy over this, you know how she is with Drama and this one's bringing it"
"Dude honestly I don't know how you're still together after that fucking stunt, I take my hat off to you" Puck said "But anyway, you two need to watch that trick because there is a game. I know you would never do a thing like that you don't have need to but, the police and the judge don't know you do they? And I'm guessing you're going to have to get her onside to stop this one Bro and I mean seriously on side" Puck finished
"Mercy said the same thing and we're ready for it"
"What you're willing to leave Mercy for her, what would that do to Mercy Dude you need to think that through big time" Puck advised
Sam didn't hear much more of the conversation his mind was on what Puck had said, he had drifted back to the conversation Mercy and he had that morning 'is that what she meant?' he asked himself 'she meant this was not another game it was something that was going to happen for real like we'd totally split'
"Dude, Dude" he heard through the phone "where you at?" Puck asked
"Nowhere shit just got real for me Dude I got to go" he said, cutting the phone off and calling Mercy straight away, frustrated for getting her answer machine "Mercy call me now" he said mad down the phone he went outside the front door for fear of smashing something in the house, about 5 minutes later he made another call, this time getting her
"Sam what's up what's happened?" she asked worried
"I don't care what you doing, drop it and get back here now"
"Sam Evans you better …." She got out before he was talking again
"Don't Mercy, just get back here, now" he said and actually put the phone down
Mercy stood looking at her phone in two minds as to whether she was going to ignore him or not for the way he spoke to her and how he slammed the damn phone down, she remembered his selective turrets, she could do without that at her place of work, so she made her excuses and left saying there was another family emergency. She drove home getting angrier by the second as she replayed Sam's drama in her mind, is this the same man that had his fucking fingers up Quinn's fanny less than a week ago giving me a hard time for what I've got to fucking hear this she thought driving faster, she got home in 20 minutes instead of her usual 25, he was waiting at the door.
"This had better be fucking good Evans" she said as she walked past him into the house, he followed her just about shutting the door
"This morning when I asked you if our relationship would be compromised you told me no" she nodded slowly realising he understood what she actually meant 'Shit how the fuck do I backtrack on this' she thought as she stood outside herself watching herself nod at him "You nod" he laughed sarcastically "that's because your saying there will be no relationship right?" 'If we have to do that surely it's better than you going to prison for crying out loud' she stood there thinking, but saying nothing, trying not to admit she'd been found out "And I'm supposed to say?" he asked, she rolled her eyes because she knew saying nothing wasn't going to work right now and she hadn't prepared anything to fight back with
"Sam it will keep you out of prison" she finally said, because she couldn't find anything else to say
"It's too much Mercy, we promised and your breaking our promise, I'm so fucking mad right now, I can't believe you think I'd be alright about this your like selling me, fucking giving me away actually, don't I mean anything to you?"
"Sam you mean everything to me, to think of you sitting in prison somewhere for the sake of someone's jealousy I can't do that to you, Quinn well; she can have your body but she'll never get your heart because that's mine for life, you never know she might get tired of being second best and give you back"
"Mercy" he said rolling his eyes "Do you know what it feels like to love someone that's in a rush to throw you away?"
"Those are not even your words, they belong to Enrique Iglesias song" she said laughing
"I feel like a fucking Ping Pong that's why it came to me" he said laughing and walking towards her "Mercy, I refuse for that to be a plan A, B, C, D, or even E I'm not on that page I'm not leaving you no time ever, you love me remember and I know you're saying all this out of love babe but it's too much. Worst case scenario she builds a false case, I'll do the time, I'll be protesting my innocence all the way through, and I'll come out like one of those hard knocks. The joke will still be on her because whatever you're doing whoever your with I'll be coming to get you back and you know how I am about that, I'll even make that a promise" he said pulling her in and kissing her "Now you're here and we have time let's stick with the Enrique theme and get some Bailamos going on up in here" he said grabbing her hand and leading her up the stairs, finding some mood songs while Mercy freshened up
He started the music just as she came into the room obviously ready for bed "Come dance with, me show me some of those moves you got, you know I need the practice" he asked, she laughed as she grabbed his hand to dance showing him some steps, body moves and how to put them together before dropping her sexy moves on him "Okay that got me beat" he laughed pulling her with him to fall on the bed.
They woke up about 1 in the morning, he finally gave her a synopsis of what Quinn had said to Puck and Lauren and his reaction when the light came on "We need to go see the lawyer in the morning we can't hold off any longer Sam this could get real very quickly"
"Yeah weekend is over" he agreed before they got up to make something to eat
As thy sat eating Mercy broke the silence "Babe I know it's not what you want but our friends have to know what's going on, if Puck knows they'll all know soon, and I think it's best it comes from you rather than Quinn"
"Your right" he said taking his phone out 'Shit just got real, Fabray has accused me of rape' he wrote with a frown face at the end, showed it to Mercy before pressing send
'On my way' came back almost immediately from Blaine
'At Mercy's' Sam sent back
10 minutes later they were sitting in her den with Tina, Blaine, Kurt and Artie all listening to Sam's story as he held onto Mercy
"Dude I hate to say it, but we always keep it real, I think you brought this on yourself going there in the first place" Blaine told him
"I know this Dude, I just didn't see it coming"
"So what's the plan?" Tina asked
"Well I had a plan but Sam threw it out the mix" Mercy told her
"Please don't tell me you were going to give your man away again Diva" Kurt said shaking his head "You were weren't you?" he asked as she nodded her head making Kurt roll his eyes "So not the answer she's banking on that" he told her
"Okay we could go with half of that original plan except everyone knows what's happening except Santana, Brittany and Rachel they're all close to Fabray" Artie said as everyone listened to Artie's version of Mercy's original plan and agreed that as long as it was all make believe it could happen. The party finished about 3 in the morning, everyone went home satisfied they had a cunning plan set up for Quinn, that was going to be put into action the following day.
The Plot
Kitty was on shift at the Lima Bean that morning, as a former cheerleader, not forgetting that suck up she had with Fabray on Thanksgiving week, the word was bound to get back. So that morning Artie's plan went into action, he was with Tina and Blaine in the café pretending to talk secretly waiting for Kitty to take the bait and sure enough after only 5 minutes of fake talk she grabbed it
"What's going on?" she came to them asking
"Can't say it's not really our news" Blaine told her
"Come on Artie, we have history, you can tell me you know I'm good for it" she said
"She is good for it" Artie said looking at the others
"It's on you if it gets out Artie, I'm saying nothing" Blaine said putting his hands up, signalling he wanted nothing to do with it
"Mercy and Sam split up last night big deal, he called her Quinn and she flipped then he admitted he still had feelings for Quinn, Mercy told him to leave" Tina said excitedly
"Oh they'll sort that out" Kitty told them fanning it all off
"No Sam actually said he wants to see what this thing with Quinn can be, she was his first love apparently" Tina confirmed "Apparently that's why it was so easy for him to do the nasty with her the other day" she added as Blaine looked at her, his eyes popping
"Tina you've said too much" he said, his face creased with genuine disgust for Tina's story
"Got to go" Kitty said looking around the table "Customers"
"Tina you went too far what was all that about doing the nasty and everything, Mercy will go mad" Blaine told her not impressed
"Quinn will believe it, that's what's important" she replied as she looked to see what Kitty was doing , sure enough she was on the phone "And it worked" she told them pointing at Kitty
'In motion' Artie sapped and sent to the small group
Sam and Mercy were with the Solicitors getting their house in order before the hearing, as a formality he'd had to present back at the Police station that morning, so they went and did that, with his solicitor, then the two solicitors discussed the preferred outcome. Sam was happy to hear the most they were looking at requesting was 3 months, he tried to discuss with Mercy the prospect of doing the time rather than going ahead with the plans for Quinn's demise but she wouldn't agree.
By 12pm he was ready for work and she was ready for the 48 hours of separation "No contact Sam until 48 hours from now when we should have everything we need, okay?" she asked
"This is going to be so hard Mercy" he said hugging her "We tried separation a week ago we lasted less than a damn day"
"We're doing this to save us Sam that's our focus and no crying please this is hard enough as it is" she replied "Just go, walk away, but please come back" she said turning her head away to stop him from seeing her cry.
Sam went off to work and then back to his Mom's waiting for Quinn to react, later that night she did
"Sam I hear your free, do you want to go get something to eat, drink or something as friends I mean tomorrow?" she asked as if nothing had happened to get them to this point
"Quinn" he gasped down the phone "Are you back?" he asked
"Yeah I'm back" he could hear the smile in her voice
"Not waiting for her to say anything else he carried on "I needed to speak to you actually are you going to bed just now or could we meet up? I mean, I've just come in from work, so I'm still very much wake" he said enthusiastically
"Okay yeah but you come to me, in about 20 minutes?" she said, putting the phone down
He stood holding the dead phone laughing nervously "What the fuck am I doing?" he asked himself, 'Mercy I do this because I love you' he thought before getting up, putting his coat back on and leaving to get to Quinn's house, rehearsing his lines all the way there only to forget everything as soon as he knocked the door
"Sam" Mrs Fabray said as she opened the door "What are you doing here?"
"I've come to see Quinn"
"How did you know she was back?"
"She called me, told me to come round, we need to talk" he said smiling, all he could hear in his head was this bitch set me up on my own damn phone
"Where the black girl?" he heard shocking him out of his thought, he knew this woman knew Mercy by name, she cried and thanked her, Mercy said, when she helped Quinn with the baby now here she is calling her names. Stop, get into character, we're doing this to save our life, Mercy will kill you if this doesn't work, get into character
"History" he said, inside he was shouting the fucking black girl how dare you, you old bitch
"Glad to hear it but for how long?"
"I probably need to speak to Quinn before I answer that"
"She's through there" her Mom pointed to what Sam knew to be the music room, so he went in, here we go again, he thought taking in air
"Quinn" he said, breathing out ready for the game to start
"Sam good to see you, I hear you and her have split up for good" she said excitedly "And I know if no one stands to get hurt you and I could be on the cards again" she said bouncing off the piano chair, making her way towards him
"Actually I split from Mercy because after the other day I realised I still had feelings for you, and I don't know how you're going to feel about this, but I want us to try again see if there's anything there you know?" he asked
"Are you asking me to be your girlfriend Sam Evens?" she asked making him blush, if she'd have really known him she'd have known he was embarrassed because he was lying "No promise ring?" she asked laughing
"You caught me off guard I didn't expect you to call, your Mom said you were out of town" he said thinking promise ring are you shitting me, I will promise you that nothing, I mean nothing is going to happen between us ever "So what do you say, can we try this thing out again?" he asked "Just put me out of my misery, I'm passing bricks here" he smiled awkwardly
"I've been waiting for this since, god I've been waiting, yes I will" she said going in for a kiss surprisingly he remembered the familiar feel of her lips against his and as her hands wondered too freely everything else came back; no sex indeed, after she's already had a fucking sprog for Puck, I didn't kiss Finn, Mercy's my girl 'lying bitch' he said in his head bringing him out of the false kiss
"I don't want to get carried away with your Mom outside the door" he said pulling away "Can we meet tomorrow maybe, have breakfast at the café and maybe go shopping for that friendship ring you asked for?" he suggested
"Yeah, that would be good 8.30am at the café then" she said giving him a kiss before he left.
He got in the car and drove until he couldn't see the house before wiping her kiss off his lips, suddenly, that didn't seem like enough to get her off him, this girl was trying to ruin his damn life, he could wait no longer he stopped at the gas station and washed his face in the bathroom before driving the short distance home. He lay on his bed thinking about Mercy and what she might be thinking he'd be doing now, thought better of calling her and opting to call Blaine
"Dude I just left her" he told him when he finally answered his phone "Everything is on we're meeting 8.30 in the morning at the café for breakfast, could you quickly call Mercy and just tell her the plan can kick off and I'm home, she'll be fretting" he said, before ending the call, Blaine did as asked
The following morning Sam was at the café for 8.30 as agreed, about a minute later Quinn turned up, they sat at a table for two on Quinn's request she didn't want anyone joining them. Quinn was getting familiar real quick when suddenly the door burst open, everyone in the café looked towards it, Sam gasped when he saw Mercy walked in with Tina laughing and joking until she saw Quinn and him sitting there, wrapped up
"Mercy I'm so sorry" he said getting up as he saw the genuine hurt on her face breaking his heart
"Don't fucking speak to me, you made your choice and we're both going to have to live with that" she said walking towards the counter quickly, she couldn't help it the tears rolled down her face, Tina hugged her, this wasn't acting and he knew it. He sat thinking he wanted this fucking game to be over, it wasn't worth it and he should have never agreed to it, Mercy was crying, because of his actions again and he wasn't meant to do a fucking thing about it, he felt fucked up.
His mind was so focused on Mercy's feelings right now, he never noticed when Quinn got up he just heard the conversation going on and looked at the chair and saw it was empty 'I'm doing a brilliant job of protecting my future wife today, not' he thought as the voices became raised, he knew one was Mercy's and for sure the other was missing Quinn
"You've always wanted him Quinn he chose you go for it, you finally won and no I don't have a damn thing to say about it, because he don't want me and for me that's it, I've stopped"
"I told you there was no way you were going to win against me, I always get what's mine" she said "Now if you know what's good for you, you'll keep the fuck away from him"
"What's good for me Quinn?" she asked
"I get so much as a sniff of you around my man, did you hear that, and that rape charge will be slapped back on so fast you won't be able to say his name fast enough"
"What rape charge" Tina asked
"None of your damn business" Quinn walked off back to the table saying, Sam sitting red faced trying his best not to look at Mercy because he knew that would give the game away. Quinn jumped on his lap taking his lips right there in front of Mercy feeling on him and smiling, he realised at some pint that his hands were at his sides and he needed to do something with them so he put them round her waist 'this must be bringing everything back for Mercy about that fucking day she caught us' he thought feeling totally uncomfortable in this situation.
"Tina how's Mike?" he finally broke away from Quinn's lips to ask
"He's fine Sam, if I had a grave I'd be turning in it" she said, she could have said anything Sam only needed the opportunity to look at Mercy and pray she could see the sorry in his eyes "Anyway we got to be going we're going to buy a friendship ring in town" he said getting up so fast Quinn fell off his lap "Sorry" he said not knowing what else to do as he stood there thinking it should have been higher, Mercy giggled for the look on his face she knew what he was thinking
"You know Quinn if you have to pull stunts like you pulled to get your man I hope he's worth it" Mercy said looking at Quinn struggling to get up
"What do you mean stunts?"
"Getting your Mom to send me that message, getting Sam in court for rape and personally, if he can do such a thing, you're welcome to him, everyone is going to know what he did to you but, if you're walking around with a rapist what does that say about you?"
"I'm not walking around with a rapist"
"Yes you are I heard his parents say he'd raped you before we split up"
"He didn't we just said that because he wouldn't leave you" Quinn shouted
"But he told me he loved you, why didn't you just ask him to leave me instead of going through all that?"
"He knocked me back twice and no offence Mercy but, I really don't see why you're such a big deal"
"Offence taken I'm a big deal Quinn, so wait, what are you saying, Sam didn't assault you?"
"Sam's not like that you know that, I just wanted him back and now he's back, I'll go change my story and he'll be fine, as long as he's with me"
"Did you get all that DCI Gordon?" Mercy asked looking round the booth nearest the door
"I did Miss Jones, Mr Evans it's just paperwork but you will need to come into the station at some point to fill it all in, You Miss Fabray will need to come to the station with me" he said as the police car pulled up outside the café
"Sam, what's happening" Quinn shouted as they pulled her away "Come with me Sam" she begged, he said nothing just waved as Mercy went to him and he hugged her
"What's happening is, your plan has just backfired on you, again" Mercy said with a smile "Oh and Quinn the friend thing, never gonna happen" she said waving her finger as they watched her leave "Your Mom will follow" she shouted after the car, 50 minutes later Sam had done what he needed to and they were standing outside the station hugging
"I'm not gonna kiss you although I want to I've got her all over me I need to freshen up" he said getting Mercy in the car and getting in himself. They drove to his house, he had a shower and changed off. When he came back downstairs he grabbed Mercy and pulled her to him for their kiss "Remember your promise, that was the very last time" he said when they came up for air, she nodded in agreement before they made the journey back to Mercy's parents' house
"I did another song yesterday" she said in the car
"Yeah, why didn't you tell me yesterday?"
"Because"
"Her, you still thought there might be something there" he said laughing "You kill it Mercy"
"Don't laugh" she said slapping him playfully on the arm
"We got one night of slapping left" he said laughing
"I love you Sam"
"I love you too boo and when we get in I'm gonna show you how much, after the song" he said smiling at her "But" he looked at her sadly saying "I'm sorry I made you cry"
"Acting" she smiled
"No it wasn't I know you, I'm sorry"
"Okay it hurt, but I'm over it, you chose me again" she smiled
"I was always you Mercy, make no mistake, your mine"
"Don't even think about it" she pointed at him saying
"What?"
"I heard about the sing off remember"
"Sing off?"
"Santana and you"
"Mercy" he rolled his eyes saying
"God Sam I'm joking" she laughed
A few minutes later they were sitting outside her parent's house, looking at her parent's car "They're back" Mercy said disappointed
"But I still want the song" he said getting out to help her out
They got in the house, said their hellos and listened as her parents told them about their holiday, they in turn told them about everything that happened with Quinn up to the minute, After the conversation Mercy excused them saying she was going to play Sam the song she'd just started recording, they went to go to the den before her Dad asked "Can we listen in?"
"Yeah sure" Sam replied "Why did you feel you had to ask"
"It might have been private"
"Music private that would be a first" he said, they all piled into the den and Mercy put her phone in the pod as her new version of 'Trade it All' by Dametria McKinney belted out while they sat and listened
"That is brilliant babe and believe me you can trust me with your heart" Sam said
"I hope we can trust both of you on that" Mom said as her parents stood up
"Mercy, Sam" her Dad said getting their attention "You remember we said before we left we had a bond cashed that we wanted to put towards your mortgage fund?" he asked as they nodded looking at each other, thinking they hadn't even discussed it. "Well we decided to give it as a present so there was no discussion needed it's what we want to do for you so" he took his wallet out and passed them a cheque "Here it's yours"
Sam and Mercy stood looking at the cheque mouths open "It's too much" Sam finally said
"It's a start" Mom said
"Mom that's a house it's not a start it's a whole house" Mercy said tears already rolling down her eyes
"Actually it's more than that it's a house and a wedding, if I'm honest" Sam added, kissing Mercy for longer than he usually would with parents there but, he really didn't care and the way she held on she didn't either, eventually they heard her parents laughing and looked up "Sorry"
"That's fine, I'd be excited too" Dad said hugging Mom "So with this Quinn thing backfiring on her, money in the bank, rings brought, I'm guessing house hunting on the agenda" he looked at his wife saying "Would we be right in thinking a new dress was eminent?"
"I see you more in a suit to be honest Dad, but whatever" Sam laughed and everyone joined in
The End