"Somebody once told me that the great kings of the past are up there, watching over us."

Grandma Fabray died when Quinn was ten. Quinn cried for days after her parents told her. The woman had been sick for a long time and Quinn had gotten used to going to visit her and watching movies with her every other weekend. They'd stay warm wrapped in their big blue blanket and would lie quietly while the movie played out in front of them. Often Quinn would choose to watch her grandmother rather than the movie on those days. They'd watch a variety of movies but they would always come back to their special favourite.

It was the day of the funeral and Quinn was sitting on their couch in their living room. She couldn't bring herself to watch her original copy and so had taken to watching the new DVD edition she'd gotten for her birthday. She was watching some of the special features when her mother walked in dressed in her good black dress.

"Quinn, are you ready sweetheart? We have to leave soon." Her voice was gentle and soft, she bent down to look her daughter in the eye. Judy could see the tears that had been shed now dry on her cheeks and Quinn's eyes were red and puffy from crying. She sat on the couch and Quinn snuggled into her mothers' side.

"I don't want her to be gone." Quinn cried and buried her head into her mother's shoulder.

"It's okay sweetheart. You know she's not really gone, she's in heaven now looking over us." Judy replied as she ran her hand through her young daughters' long hair.

"In the stars like the great kings?" Quinn asked, looking up at her mother with wet and expectant eyes.

"Yes, in the stars sweetheart, and whenever you want to talk to her, or think of her, she'll be up there looking over you. She'll watch out for her little Lion Quinn, I know it." Judy lifted her into her arms and placed the little girl on her lap. She ran a hand through Quinn's hair as her tears started to cease and her breathing evened out. Judy tried to smooth out Quinn's unruly hair so she would at least look presentable for the funeral.

"Mom!" Quinn sat up straight and glared at her mother, "Mom, you're messing up my mane. I did it special just the way Grandma liked it."

"So Where you from?"

"Who cares? I can't go back."

Her video, Simba and her blue blanket were the first things she packed when her parents kicked her out after finding out about the pregnancy. She cried as she watched it in Finn's room that first night. She'd locked the doors and would not let him in. She cried in different places than usual because now she saw the movie through new eyes and new experiences. Even Hakuna Matata didn't make her feel better anymore. She wrote the lyrics on her arm every day but it still didn't help. She sung it to her baby so at least she might feel like things were going to get better. Her Lion King friends were about the only thing that got her through her pregnancy and her homelessness.

She remembers standing in Puck's kitchen metal tongs and frypan in hand. She'd been having cravings of all kinds for weeks on end. Bacon. She smiled as she breathed in the scent of the forbidden food. Puck's mom had outlawed the sweet delicious salty delicacy, but the family had gone to Puck's little sisters' elementary school concert and so she'd taken the chance to indulge in her favourite food. She'd had to sneak the bacon into the house in her backpack and had somehow managed to keep it refrigerated until the opportune moment presented itself. It sizzled in the pan in front of her. She could see the movie in her head and she began to shake her hips as the music filled her head.

"You're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meat, eat my buddy Pumbaa here, 'cause he is a treat. Come on down and dine on this tasty swine. All you hafta do is get in line. Arrrre you achin'," She paused from her singing for a moment before continuing, "Forrr some bacon?"

She giggled to herself as she removed the precious food from the pan and sat down to eat. She devoured it with all the hunger of a lion eating an antelope and smiled to her self contented.

Quinn was shocked to find her mother at sectionals declaring that she'd left Russell and wanted Quinn to come back home with the baby. Quinn was even more surprised when her waters broke and she went into labour. She'd called out for her Mom and cried as she delivered her beautiful and perfect little girl into the world. She cried again when she held her, wanting only the best for her. Quinn knew Puck wanted them to keep Beth but Quinn couldn't do it. She knew her daughter could have a better life than they could give her right now. Maybe in another place and time, but not now, and not like this, so Quinn made the decision to give her to Shelby Corcoran, on the promise that she would give her every opportunity and the life she deserved. Quinn had left her daughter one thing to keep and be with her, she'd bought it on instinct one day. A plush Simba, just like her own, one that Beth could have always and share her life with just like Quinn had with her own.