(This contains spoilers/ plot from Born This Way. If you haven't seen it, you may get confused.)

Challenge #3: Doll

(Suggestion by Boris Yeltsin)

[Quinn-centric]

When Quinn Fabray was a little girl, still Lucy Fabray, she was stunning. Her naturally brown hair hung down to her hip bone in large, long curls, and her big hazel eyes sparkled with a natural glow that made other parents look at her in awe. Simply naturally stunning at the young age of three, she had been noticed by a lot of people. So many, in fact, that one had suggested she go into pageants.

Her parents, with money to spare, greatly accepted the idea and began to train her. She would do two hours a day with the new woman that would come over, Cara, and practice her steps and turns until she had them perfect. All she ever wanted to do was impress her parents. They molded her until she became the perfect little cliché pageant girl, scoffing at the bargain dresses and holding the fans of prize money high as her trophy collection began to expand. In her first year alone she had won grand supreme in twenty pageants out of the twenty four she competed in. Her parents had never been happier with her.

She began to come out of her shell, but it was cracking the wrong way. She became rude, unwilling to accept new friends into her already tight circle. She would make fun of others for what they wore, or how they carried themselves. This is how she was raised from the first of her pageant days, and four year old Lucy had connected trophies to callousness, and callousness to her parents approval. It was a dangerous bargain, but she didn't know any better, and they hadn't even noticed.

As Lucy grew she began to win less trophies. Her parents had been going away on business more and more, and as Cara was set as her permanent nanny, she had grown closer to her than her own parents. After one particular trip, when Lucy was six and they had left her with Cara for a week, her parents noticed her closeness to her. Her mother, strangely distraught with the thought of her daughter looking up to another female figure, fired Cara and decided to go with babysitters and relatives instead of a nanny. Lucy was devastated, never to see her mentor again. She quit pageants, and as she grew Lucy had lost most of the friends she had made over the years. Her transition to middle school was an ugly one, and she had never missed someone as much as she missed her mentor.

Lucy became Lucy Caboosey, eating lunch in her teacher's rooms when she could, and in the hallway when she couldn't. The world was a cruel place to Lucy, and she had nowhere to turn. Her parents had all but given up on their once treasured little girl, so she had stashed her trophies away, not wanting to be reminded of who she once had been.

When her father had been transferred, the world was looking up. A new job meant more money, and moving on the last day of school meant a whole summer of prep for her new school, a high school in Lima, Ohio. Lucy Caboosey was ready to be transformed. So her father let her get a nose job, and she smeared Proactive on her face all summer while she tanned her pale skin and bleached her once brown hair. The summer ended with a new girl, skinny and athletic from her summer dance and gymnastic classes, ready to take on high school as a completely new person.

Now Quinn Fabray, Lucy hadn't forgotten about her past. She hid her secrets with skill, and fit right in to the popular crowd after nailing her cheer tryout. She had an identity, she was a person. But even as Quinn, Lucy was still malicious, with a biting temper and the ability to make people fear her. She liked the person she had become, popular, in the place of her tormenters at her old school.

Her parents had asked her if she wanted to do pageants again, but as Quinn. Her mother had begun to pay attention to her again, and as much as she had missed the love of a mother, she had realized that that's not what she was getting-or ever got. She was receiving the selfish pride of a mother that wanted to re-live her past through her child, and the daughter-as both Quinn and Lucy- decided that she did not want to be her mother's doll again.

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