A/N: Don't know exactly where this one came from ... and it's shorter than the others in this installment so far ... but I hope you enjoy anyways!
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"You going to report me, Sue; get me fired?"
"No."
He doesn't think he'll ever be able to understand Sue Sylvester.
One minute she's insulting people at random, making a crack at his hair, trying to destroy Glee club. The next she's saving it from extinction, being almost kind, showing brief glimpses of a softer side of herself. And yes, he dares to say it; Sue has a soft side. Her heart isn't just a black hole in the middle of her chest, apparently. He's seen her hurt, seen her almost smile for reasons other than the pain of someone else.
But then she reverts back to the evil Sue everyone knows and is afraid of, pushing students out of her way in the hallway, and yelling obscenities and belittling comments at her Cheerios and anyone else in the vicinity. She's a schoolyard bully, toying with people's emotions and fears and drawing Will into her web of cruelty at the expense of the 'new girl'.
(It's hard to balance the image of them – of the two Sues – with each other. They don't mesh in the slightest, but the two different mentalities seem to be sharing the same body.)
But she saved them; saved the very thing she's made it a mission of hers to destroy. She did God-knows-what to get ensure them another year to prove themselves. He still doesn't know the circumstances of that arrangement, but he knows that sometimes it's the only thing holding him back from losing his temper at her (even if sometimes it isn't enough to hold him back). That, and times like this …
When she pleasantly surprises him; by acting like a decent, compassionate human being.
(Sounds insane, right? But he's seen it with his own eyes, and he's starting to think that there's really a lot more than insanity and rage under her tough exterior than she'd like to let on.)
Oh yeah, she's an enigma this one. But a worthy opponent, he must admit. And just maybe more human than anyone else would ever believe.
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