Title: It's Been A Long Time Coming 1B
Pairing: Brittany Pierce/Quinn Fabray
Rating: PG this chapter
Summary: Quinn loved the outdoors in summer.
Spoilers: uhhh Quinn had a baby, and I think that's it.
Word Count: 800~
Author's Note: I had to add in a part B because I ended up writing something mostly from Quinn's POV. doiiii. And, it didn't fit in well with part two, so I decided to give it its own page. Rest assured though, part two will be up tomorrow. Or even in a few hours.
Again, this is for my lovely beta LeftiesAreHot. This is unbeta'd because I thought it was silly to ask her to proof a fic that is for her.
Quinn loved the outdoors in summer. No, she loved being outdoors whenever, period.
This love was one she had harboured since she had been a child decked out in frills and ruffles at her parents' dinner parties- If she behaved the whole night, her dad used to promise, the next day they would all go for a walk to the park, and let the girls play on the playground after church, or go for a hike. Over long vacations, they went camping. Quinn had adored Sundays, for it was when she could really enjoy herself (except during mass) and sometimes even entice her parents to play with her. On rare occasions, her father would produce a bat, gloves and a baseball, and the four of them would play. Quinn got her very first shiner from being hit in the face by a pitch when she was seven, and after that, the games stopped. But life was still peachy, and the outdoors became her first (her only) true love.
Then high school and the whole fiasco with Glee Club and baby drama happened, which only served to cause Quinn to fully appreciate life outside of a building- For a day there, just after Finn booted her out, she had slept on a bench at the park, under the stars. It had been where Brittany had found her, actually, and the day she invited (read: demanded) Quinn stay with her. Quinn owed her everything. Brittany went on craving runs at midnight, she went out for walks with Quinn at three in the morning, held her when she cried and entertained her with puppets if she was in need of cheering up. She even helped Quinn with AP chemistry. If Quinn hadn't appreciated Brittany before, she certainly did now.
The baby was born and adopted, Brittany and her family went to Holland to visit relatives and gave Quinn free reign of their house during that summer and the one after that, and now here they were, a week before graduation, with their last (and only) summer together approaching fast. After this... Everything was up in the air. Quinn had gotten a partial ride to the University of North Carolina's school of Architecture- Gotta put her art talents to good use, afterall-, and Brittany... Brittany had, to almost everyone's bafflement, gotten physics scholarships to several universities.
(Only Quinn, Santana and Brittany's AP Physics teacher were unsurprised by this news. Some of the glee clubbers nearly combusted with trying to put the words 'Brittany' and 'is smart' in the same sentence.)
One of those universities happened to be North Carolina, same as where Quinn was headed, but Brittany hesitated. Her parents talked of doors and closing them- or opening? - And how she should think very carefully about it. There wasn't an equation that could help her figure any of it out better, though, so she just held on to all her letters and once, Quinn caught her throwing darts at them. Another time, she walked in to find Brittany asking Charity to pick one. Yet another time recently (like, yesterday) Brittany played 'eenie meenie miney moe'. When Quinn suggested she make pro-con lists, Brittany just stared at her with a look so vacant and lost that the shorter girl could help but flop into her lap and hug her tightly.
Graduation came and went, and Brittany's family took off to Holland once more, though this time Brittany stayed behind. Quinn had turned down the Pierces offer to have her join them this summer, so Brittany had opted to spend what time they had left together with Quinn. It was sweet, and Quinn showed her appreciation very thoroughly when they got back from the airport after sending Brittany's family off.
Their first day together, Brittany suggested they go ice skating. Quinn happily complied because... Well it was fun, okay? Plus, she got to watch her girlfriend spin in circles on ice, wearing hugging-jeans and a fuzzy hat and mittens. It was outright adorable, yet sexy.
(She totally copped a feel several times while they were out there. Just sayin'.)
But when they went to the aquarium the next day, then the mall the next, then Rachel Berry's house with the other Glee girls the day after that, Quinn began to ache for the outdoors. She longed to be out, strolling hand in hand with her girlfriend along the pavement or sitting in the cool(er) shade of the trees in the park. But whenever she tried to bring up going out for an afternoon walk, Brittany would stare, brow furrowed with confusion. And Quinn could understand, really, because a heat wave was rolling through Lima, and any normal person would run to the nearest air-conditioned place, like they had been doing. Granted, the two of them hadn't exactly been keeping cool in those areas, choosing instead to engage in rather...torrid activities (as far as they knew, Rachel was still scrubbing the surface of her bathroom counter), but it just... Just...
Quinn wanted out, damn the heat. And she was going to get Brittany out there with her one way or another- She had plans.
Continued Author's Note;; After this fic is done, I'm taking one/two-shot prompts for any glee pairing. I've been really unmotivated to write for my multi-chaptered fics lately, and I need to try to change that. So, message/email/whatever me your ideas?
Thank you for reading!
