A.N/ Hi! Here is the new chapter, but before, here is the entire cast of this fictional Hamilton Revival:
Alexander Hamilton - Anthony Hernandez (OC)
Aaron Burr - Max Kelton (OC)
Eliza Schuyler - Rachel Berry
Angelica Schuyler - Santana Lopez
Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynold - Tina Cohen-Chang
John Laurens/Phillip Hamilton - Blaine Anderson
Marquis de La Fayette/Thomas Jefferson - Sebastian Smythe
Hercules Mulligan/James Madison - Jake Ronda (OC)
King George III - Jesse St James
Ensemble - Brittany S. Pierce, Rory Flanagan, Andrea Cohen, Jake Puckerman, Kitty Wilde, Matt Rutherford, Sarah Mila (OC), Alex Samuel (OC)
Director - Quinn Fabray
Choreographer - Mike Chang
Producer - Will Shuester
Let's get back to the story...
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee or any of its character, I don't own Hamilton either.
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When they got back to the apartment, Rachel felt that something was wrong with Blaine. He hadn't talked at all since they had left the theatre. Rachel knew him, he wasn't usually quiet.
"Are you okay?" She asked.
His face didn't show any emotion, he just shrugged.
"I'm just tired." He replied, before living her to go in his room.
She was concerned. He wasn't being himself, but it was late and they had had a long day, so she thought he just needed some sleep. She went to the bathroom and took a shower, slipped on her pajamas and lied in her bed, thinking that tomorrow was her day-off, but on Monday she would go on stage again, the following day too, and the following too. It felt like a dream, and it was a reality. Being in an off-Broadway show was even better than what she had dreamt of. Probably because Blaine was there with her. He made her days happier and always pushed her to her best. Sometimes, she just wondered what she would do without him.
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The next Monday, Rachel woke up with energy and ambition. She couldn't wait to go to the theatre again. But could you really blame her? It had became like her home and she felt so good and at this place when she was on stage that she never wanted to stop.
"Blaine!" She screamed in the apartment. "Hurry up, we are going to be late for the rehearsal!"
Rachel liked being waited, of course. She was a drama queen after all. But she was professional and being late for a rehearsal, a show or an audition wasn't allowed in her mind.
"Blaine!" She screamed again when she received no response.
He finally left his bedroom, sleepy and with bags under his eyes, heading towards the bathroom.
He had became himself the day after the party, she didn't knew why, but when he left to the theatre leaving her enjoying her day-off, it had seemed like everything had went back to normal. When he had got back, they even had watched a Friends marathon, Rachel giving up after a few hours saying that she needed her beauty sleep, but Blaine had stayed. No wonder why he had bags under his eyes.
When Blaine left the bathroom, she picked a cereal bar and shove it in his hand, saying that he wouldn't have time to take his breakfast, before almost dragging him out of the apartment.
"I want to apologize." She said once they were sat in the subway. "I shouldn't have acted like that this morning."
"It's okay Rach," he smiled at her, "I know how you are when you're stressing. Plus, you could have just leave me there."
"Never. I need my partner in crime!" She joked.
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"This rehearsal will mostly be a dance and placement rehearsal." Mike told them when the entire cast arrived at the theatre.
"Mike and me wanted to do some minor changes and see how it goes." Quinn explained.
"The first choreography we will change will be 'The Schuyler Sisters' with the ensemble, our Schuyler Sisters and our Aaron Burr." Mike said and the whole ensemble went on stage as well as Tina, Santana, Rachel and Max.
Mike let them start the choreography and stopped them to show them the changes they had to do, Placing Santana and Max more in the center of the stage at the moment of the song where they were supposed to talk, and changing a movement in the choreography that Rachel was supposed to perform with the ensemble.
Quinn nodded and suggest that Santana and Tina were most turned towards Rachel at that moment and that the girls should hold hands at the end of the song.
Then they worked on other songs and carried on until noon. Santana offered her to eat with her and Brittany but she refused saying that she was tired and wanted to get some rest before the show.
Blaine took them sandwiches and they went back to eat and talk and just do what they always did together since they had met.
"I feel like like it's a new step in my life." She said quietly when they had finished eating.
Blaine lifted his head and smiled to reassure her.
"I know what you mean, but it's a good thing. It's means you have new opportunities and you should enjoy it."
"It's just scary, and exciting at the same time. And scary. But I don't want to stop."
"Then don't." He simply answered. "You've always wanted to be an actress Rachel, and that's why you were born. So don't let the world living without your light. You deserve everything that is happening to you."
She just grinned at him and hugged him tightly, feeling lucky to have him as her best friend.
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They went back to the theatre for the show they had this evening. Rachel went to her dressing room and started to do her make up and Maureen, her dresser, helped her slipped on her first dress. The first week had been a little complicated, she was not accustomed to run backstage after every song to change into another dress, but now she was able to do it without stressing and thinking that she would not be ready for the next song she had to perform, because Maureen knew her job well and also had the ability to calm Rachel.
Before every show, the all cast met backstage and formed a circle, holding hands. Some people wished good luck, said something encouraging or prayed. It was a like a ritual and Rachel believed that being all together before going on stage gave them courage and inspiration.
At the intermission, when she went back to change, Rachel found herself talking with Anthony and she finally went to his dressing room.
"I hope we're going on Broadway next year." She confided.
"We have to. I mean look at us, we're so good we're going to win all the Tonys." He said and she laughed.
Anthony was the lead role and Rachel supposed to be his wife in the musical. They had a good chemistry on stage but never really had talked together in 'real life'. They got along well, but that was it.
But recently, they had talked a lot more, laughed too, and Rachel had started to asked herself if he was into her. Not that she would complain if he was. After all he was hot, smart and one of the most talented men she had met.
It was weird, thinking that someone would be interested in her, after all this time. She had dated her last boyfriend in High School, Finn. She had thought that they were meant to be, that they would get married and have babies together because well, she was a romantic and totally in love. But then he had proposed to her, she had refused because she wanted to live Ohio and go to New York, he had broke up with her saying that she was a 'selfish bitch' and her perfect little world had broke in pieces.
She had fixed her heart, and during her second year of college, she had dated Noah. He was a bad boy, and yeah, it attracted her. They had dated for three months, and she had discovered that he had cheated on her.
Blaine had been the person Rachel had needed, forgetting everything else he had to do and just staying with her to comfort her broken heart. They had cuddled in her bed for hours, Blaine whispering that Finn was an idiot and she deserved better, that everything was going to be fine, kissing her hairline and singing softly in her ear.
Mia, Blaine's girlfriend at the time, had thought that he was cheating on her with Rachel and had broke up with him. Rachel had felt so guilty after that, that she had apologized a million times, Blaine only replying that it wasn't her fault, and that he didn't think he was in love with Mia anyway.
So, yeah, it was pleasant, feeling that she could be liked. She didn't knew if that would led to something, but for the moment, she just wanted to enjoy laughing and talking with him.
She was so into the conversation that she didn't hear Blaine calling her name. Anthony and her heard a knock on the door.
"Come in!" Anthony said.
"Anthony did you see Ra..." he started before noticing Rachel in the room and his face hardened. "Oh. Well, you kinda seem busy, I'm gonna leave you. " He said before he left the room.
"Blaine, wait!" She said before waving Anthony goodbye and following Blaine.
She knew shy he was upset, she could understand. They were supposed to spend the intermission together, like they always did, and Rachel felt guilty not to have respected that.
"Blaine I'm so sorry," she said when she catched him up, "Anthony and I started talking and I guess we didn't see the time pass."
He stopped and turn to face her.
"Yeah, well you and Anthony seem to have a lot to talk about."
"I said I'm sorry! We can still spend the rest of the intermission together!" She responded.
"You know what, forget about it. We don't even have enough time anymore, I have to change before the second Act." He said and left Rachel standing in the middle of the hallway.
She didn't understand what happened. He wasn't like that habitually, and she knew she had made him upset, but still, that wasn't an excuse for his behavior!
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During the rest of the show, there hadn't any off-stage communication between the scene for the two best friend. And honestly, it was weird having to play his mother when she knew he was annoyed by her. During the scene, where Phillip was supposed to die in his parents arms, Rachel felt something was off. She just hoped it wouldn't last long.
They always went back to the apartment together, and even if they was something weird between them, they wouldn't change that. But having Blaine sitting silently next to her, it was awkward. She didn't know why he was so upset. She had forgot to spend the intermission with him, but it wasn't of a big deal. Nevertheless she didn't want them to stay like that.
"I really am sorry." She said looking at her shoes and Blaine lifted his head to look at her. "I... I know I sort of broke our pact to meet at the intermission no matter what but I... I swear I didn't do it on purpose."
Her eyes finally left her shoes to look at Blaine.
"Please don't be mad at me, I hate when we can't just talk and act normaly around each other." She said.
There was a hint of sadness in his eyes, she noticed, but it rapidly disappeared.
"I'm not mad at you." He chuckled.
"Really?" Rachel said, a bit of hope in her voice.
"How could I?" He joked and it was like nothing had changed.
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The next days passed pretty normally. Except for the rapprochement between Rachel and Anthony. Over the previous days, they had seen each other a lot more that they used to, meeting in his or her dressing room at the end of the show, spending their break in the rehearsals together.
Therefore, no wonder why one afternoon she had invited him at her apartment to show him her Barbra Streisand's vinyl collection.
However, making out with Anthony on the couch was unexpected. Anyway, she didn't want to stop.
What was even more unexpected was hearing someone coughing. Rachel lifted her head to see Blaine standing awkwardly next to the door. That's when she realized their position. She was on top of Anthony and his hand was on her upper thigh, dangerously close to her underwear since she had decided to wear a dress that day.
She immediately got up. Anthony did the same and he waved uncomfortably at Blaine who was watching them with a dark look before leaving the apartment.
She stood in front of Blaine for a couple of seconds, what seemed like hours to her, before he just walked to his room without a word and closed the door after him.
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The following day was a Sunday. It was the only day when they were both off and could spend time together outside of the apartment or the theatre. But this Sunday, Blaine had decided that he wouldn't talk to Rachel.
He was mad at her, she knew it, and yet she just didn't understand why, which made her angry. So the day went like that, without addressing a word to each other.
Finally, Rachel decide to end this. Blaine was watching TV on the couch, and she moved to stand in front of him.
"Why are you mad at me?" She asked, blocking his view.
Blaine simply leaned to the left to continue watching TV and answered with a : "No."
"Are you kidding me?" She said, coming closer to him. "You didn't talk to me since last night and you are mad at me I can see it!"
"No I'm not."
This answer irritated Rachel. She was trying to have a talk with an adult, with a grown person, and that was all he had to say? Who was he kidding?
"Is that because of yesterday?" She asked, trying to compose herself.
For the first time since the previous day, he lifted his head to look at her, a hint of annoyance in his eyes.
"Well, obviously I didn't really appreciate to see two persons making out on my couch, if you want to know, but I'm not mad about it." He said dryly.
"I have the right to make out with someone on the couch, so you have no reason to be mat at me and it makes me angry!" She said, loosing her patience.
"See? You're the one whose enraged, not me." Blaine shrugged.
"You... you..." she stuttered, pointing at Blaine, because well, she didn't know what to say.
She chose to just leave and went to her bedroom, slamming the door.
A.N./ That's the end of the chapter! I hope you liked it and I would love to know what you think :)
