This is a double shift day. There will be one more upload today: Padra's Run, chapter 1.

"Siren Call"

2. A Feeling On the Winds
World A (AU!Jesse/AU!Quinn, Rachel, Santana)

She had not been unhappy. She was worried about how long they had and could be stuck in this world that wasn't their own, she was scared that this had happened to them, she was uncertain how to act sometimes, but she wasn't unhappy. If anything she had been unhappier before she had landed here. This may have had something to do with the fact that, in coming here, she had been reunited with her Jesse, but beyond that… she was actually okay. So to say that she was doing even better now was saying something. Seeing her practically skipping about made Jesse smile. They were practicing for the week's Glee Club assignment in the choir room, and she was just serene.

"What is with you today?" he laughed as she sidled up to him at the piano.

"Can't you feel it?" she asked with a smile.

"Feel what?" he frowned, unsure. She leaned closer.

"It's going to happen. You and me, we're going home soon," she spoke confidently.

"We are? How?" he sat up. She shrugged, just smiling on.

"I have no idea. But I woke up this morning and… something felt different. It was hard to explain, but for a few seconds I actually thought we'd gone home already. Then I saw I was still here, and it should have felt like the biggest disappointment in the world, but then I figured this feeling wasn't so much that we were home but that we would be there soon," she explained. "Can't you feel it?" she repeated. He took a moment to 'feel' for this sensation she had.

"I guess things do feel a little different… better. Maybe it's just because we've been here so long though. We've gotten used to being here."

"True," she admitted, coming to sit at his side. "But maybe it's something more, and we are on the verge of returning. We should probably refrain from doing anything too… dangerous, just in case we end up driving off the road, or chopping off a finger or two," she couldn't help but think of her own transfer, how she'd almost drowned.

"So from now on we take the bus, and get other people to cook for us, got it," he nodded, and she laughed. After a beat, she looked back to him.

"It's going to be so weird though," she had to say.

"Being back there?" he asked, and she nodded. "Yeah, probably. Do you think we'll go back to when we left, or… when they leave?" he frowned, feeling like he was this close to a headache.

"Well, I came when I came, and Rachel did, too, so I guess we just go to whenever it is that they are… The school year is going to be over soon here, they'll jump in close to summer, and we'll have to redo everything again," she tried to count off in her head.

"Great," he sighed, and she laughed. "At least we'll have all the answers… not that we'll use them… because that would be bad," he obliged when he saw the look she gave him.

"We don't even know what they've done since the last jump, and even before that, Rachel hasn't exactly been forthcoming on that… The other us are probably going to be in for a surprise when they find out they started dating," she smirked at him and he cringed.

"They'll understand," he spoke 'confidently.'

"Sure," she nodded, though she looked ready to laugh.

"But it'll be fine…" She was smiling, though it usually wasn't long before thinking of going home meant thinking of being back with her family. "Hey…" he gave her hand a squeeze when he saw her eyes go off somewhere else. "What's up?"

"How am I supposed to go back there like I don't know about this world, about what my father did to me… the other me, and my mother. If he cheated here, what's to say he isn't cheating in our world, too? I don't know if I can look him in the eye like nothing happened." Jesse put his arm around her, bringing her closer and kissing the side of her head.

"Whatever happens, I'm going to be there with you, alright?"

"Promise?" she closed her eyes.

"Never leaving you again," he swore.

"We couldn't control it last time," she reminded him. "You were just taken, you and Rachel, and I was there by myself for a while before…"

"Last time was different," he shook his head. "It wasn't about us, and we had no say in the matter. I'm starting to think the reason you ended up here, too, was because I missed you too much," he spoke at her ear and she had no way not to smile.

"You willed me here?" she looked up to him.

"I think I did," he looked her in the eye. "So if I'm going to go anywhere," he looked down to her hand, which he still held in his own, "Then you're coming with me."

"Hope so," she added her second hand to his.

"I think I'm starting to feel that feeling you were talking about before," he told her, and she smiled, taking one more beat to enjoy the feeling of being so close to him before pulling back and standing to take back her position standing by the piano.

"Then let's not let it go to waste."

"What if we go back before we get to present this number?" he suggested, and she stopped.

"Didn't think of that. But they can figure it out," she shrugged.

"Want to go practice in the auditorium?" he offered, and she shook her head.

"It'll be taken," she revealed, and it took him a moment to understand.

"Rachel's over there?" he asked, and Quinn confirmed.

"Every chance she gets."

TO BE CONTINUED (TUESDAY)