It was destiny, and her cleverness too, of course, the fact on the matter is that all it was needed was an old book and she figured out that her mother had feelings for Quinn.

Rachel has a book kept inside a drawer of her nightstand. This book has a dedication, a dedication written by none other than Quinn Fabray. Now, she wasn't spying, she was just looking for something Rachel asked her to take. It was when she spotted the book and got curious. So she opened it.

I still don't know which one I love the most, books have been my loyal companions, they have been there for me, especially at the worst moments of my life, but music brought me here, surrounded by the best of friends, you especially. So, you brought music to my life, I'm bringing books to yours…

This is my favorite book by the way…

Lucy Quinn Fabray.

18/12/2015

"Lucy?"

Toni frowns; she didn't know Quinn's first name was Lucy, or she was just too young before to connect things.

"My name's Lucy."

She closes the book quickly and gets intrigued when a photograph slips from it. She is ten years old, she is barely a child anymore and she is definitely not stupid. She has a photo of her crush kept inside her diary. So this can just mean one thing: Rachel has a crush on Quinn. Maybe that's because her parents are not happy together anymore?

"You're so pretty." She says to the woman in the photograph. She smiles because that's a very young version of Quinn. She is used to the 35 years old woman and seeing Quinn with pink hair is just too funny.


After that she started collecting information, the more she inquired about her mother's past, the more she was becoming certain that there was something between her mother and her best friend's mother.

One day though she asked the woman herself.

"Why my name is Lucy?"

"Because I chose it?" Rachel smiles at her daughter.

"And why did you choose it?"

"I told you the story already sweetie." Rachel frowns as she fidgets with her fork. They are having lunch at their favorite restaurant in NYC. "I wanted Antoinette, but your father thought it was too obvious, so we decided it was going to be your middle name."

"And then you chose Lucy?"

"Yes." Rachel nods, sipping on her water.

"Quinn's first name is Lucy." Toni states matter-of-fact as Rachel drops her fork on the table, chocking on her water.

"It is." She says calmly as she recomposes herself.

"Why did you choose it if you knew this is Quinn's first name?"

"Quinn doesn't own this name Toni. I picked it because I like this name." Rachel explains, losing her temper. "Sorry." She pinches the bridge of her nose.

Toni is not sorry though, because that reaction speaks volumes.

"I like it too." The girl says with a small smile on her face.

"Let's ask for dessert?" Rachel questions her with her mega watt smile back to her face.

"Yep."

Her next step was to tell everything to Ben and as the boy already knew about his mother's sexuality, he didn't find it weird or unfounded at all. If anything, it made sense, Rachel always gives him the best birthday's gift. The brunette girl was more than sure about her mother's feelings, but they needed to find out about Quinn's. That's why they needed Santana.


Back to the present…

"Knock, knock."

Ben says playfully as he stands still at the guest room's doorway.

"Come in." Toni gestures to him, she is sitting Indian style on her bed. She was reading.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to explode like that… I don't like seeing my mom sad."

"It's okay. And I don't like to see my mom sad either."

After their little fight they both went to their respective bedrooms and didn't leave it until next morning. It was still raining. Quinn noticed the mood they were in, but they just blamed the rain and informed her they were going to spend the day watching movies again.

"Are we going to continue with the plan?" He asks unsure.

"Of course we are. Didn't you see how happy she gets just when my mom calls her?"

He nods, smiling happily.

"Okay, I'm gonna take my lap top." He informs as he goes back to his bedroom and gets back in a bolt, making the girl giggle in amusement.

"I want to read it one more time." Toni informs him.

"Then we're going to send it to her?"

"Yes." She nods.

"Still don't know how you managed to convince her…"

"Have you seen my pouty face?" She questions him playfully.

After awhile in silence as she was concentrated on the reading, she turns her attention back to the boy.

"You need to add something in here."

"What?"

"My name. Did you forget?"

"Yeah, sometimes I forget you're Lucy."

"That's because I don't like this name." She explains. "Although, I'm liking it more now…" She completes as a mischievous smile spreads across her face.


The sun is back next day and as they already concluded their plan, or part of it anyway, they decide to spend the day at the pool.

"Who is it?" Quinn mumbles to herself as the doorbell rings.

"Are you expecting someone mom?"

"No." She says and stands up from the lounge chair. In the kitchen, she presses the button of the intercom and she is presented with a familiar voice. She goes toward the entrance hall right away. When she opens the front door, with a big smile on her face, she has no time to react before the girl is hugging her tight. "Wow." She says as she hugs the other blonde just as tight.

"Hi." Beth says as she pulls away.

"Not that I'm complaining, but what's gotten into you?"

"Nothing…"

"You never hugged me like that."

"I never had a reason…" Beth says evasive.

"So, any particular reason for you to be visiting?"

Quinn asks as they walk further in the house.

"Just wanted to see the kids."

"Oh… Good."

"I mean… and you of course." She adds promptly, making Quinn smile from ear to ear. Beth lives in Los Angeles too, she is studding in UCLA.

They go to pool area and Beth is welcomed by the two kids with a loud cheer.

"I'm going to make us lemonade." Quinn announces as she leaves the trio.

"So?" Toni inquires eagerly.

"He is going to publish it." Beth informs, a smile plastered to her face.

"Yay!" Toni beams happily. "I told you." She hugs her best friend.

"But it is going to take awhile." She informs them as Toni deflates a little, pulling away from the hug. "Hey, don't be like this. They are going to kill us at least that will leave us some time to enjoy our lives in the meantime."

"That's not funny." Ben mumbles.

"I wanted it now." Toni complains petulantly and Beth rolls her eyes at her.

"He will publish it, but he thought it will be better to do it at the end of the year, he has lots of stories to publish now. His column is very famous."

"Yes I know, my mom and Kurt love it." She rolls her eyes. "That gave me the idea actually…"

"Exactly, and he knows them, we need to be careful. I said it was someone I knew and he already got suspicious as to why I was asking him to publish a story. I didn't want to press him or he would get more suspicious." She gets thoughtful. "And then he mentioned something about me being his first scoop…" She shrugs. "Whatever that means."

"Bummer."

"I can't believe we will have to wait till the end of the year!" Toni stomps her foot.

"Geez! Calm down." Ben interjects. "Maybe we can convince them to go back to Lima for Christmas; actually, it will be even better if you think about it."

"It will." Beth nods. "By the way, you are pretty good little guy."

"Thanks…" Ben says, blushing slightly.

"No, I mean it… You're pretty good." Beth sighs as she sits on the lounge chair. "I've always seen her as an irresponsible teenage girl." She admits as Ben frowns annoyed. "No, I don't resent her. I love my mom. I can imagine my life without Shelby in it. I just thought Quinn was the silly teenager who got pregnant by a jerk. And no, I don't resent him either." She turns to her bother. "But he was kind of a jerk." She mumbles.

"He was. He got Quinn drunk on wine coolers." Toni says in a serious tone.

"What are you talking about?" Ben asks confused.

He knows about his parents' past, and he knows his mother got pregnant when she was sixteen years old, he knows that they weren't dating and that they were too young to that kind of responsibility. Of course as every kid, he had questions, and he was curious to know why her mother wasn't dating his dad and what that meant, also why she got pregnant if she didn't want the baby? And if it was an accident, was he an accident too? After all, they just got married after he was born. Quinn and Puck answered his questions and they told him everything, but wine coolers were never mentioned.

"Nothing." Beth cuts the little girl off. "But, really, you're going to be an amazing writer someday."

"Ben!"

They hear Quinn calling him out.

"Help me out here?!"

"Coming!" He shouts as he runs to the kitchen.

"Who told you that?" Beth questions Toni as soon as he leaves.

"I just heard mom saying it. She was having an argument with Uncle Noah."

"When did that happen?"

"In Lima, on Christmas, Ben and the other kids were playing outside and I got back inside. My daddy said something bad about that Finn boy and Uncle Noah didn't like it. He then snapped at my mom because she was married to my dad and they started fighting and suddenly mom said it."

"Said what?"

"She said: says the guy who got his wife drunk on wine coolers to take her virginity."

Beth promptly covers Toni's mouth with her own.

"Toni! That's not something you should be saying."

"But you asked me." The girl replies indignant.

"And you shouldn't have eavesdropped on them either."

"It was unintentional." She pouts.

"Yeah right."

"Here we are." Quinn says as she has a tray with glasses on her hands. Ben is right behind her holding the jar of lemonade.

"You're spending the day with us right?" Quinn asks her daughter.

Beth glances at their face as the two of them are waiting for her answer expectantly.

"Sure." She finally says, with a smirk on her face.


Everything that it's good soon comes to an end. Or so it's what Toni is thinking right now. Today is the day her father is going to pick her up and take her home. Rachel should be the one doing it, but she was busy as she is the one in charge of Toni's father moving out.

Rachel was the one finding him a new apartment and she was the one in charge with the packing. They decided to do everything while Toni was out and Rachel wanted to make sure that the moving mess was over when Toni gets back home. She thinks it will be better to her daughter this way rather than seeing her father things being packed and moved out.

What Rachel doesn't know is that her daughter is more than okay with everything. She is going to have two bedrooms now! And divorced parents are so much easier to manipulate. Not that she is a manipulative girl. But most important, she loves her dad and she loves her mom, she just wants to see them happy. She really believes Rachel's going to be happy with Quinn. And she also loves Quinn.

Toni is in Ben's bedroom when she hears the doorbell ringing. And even though she is sad that she is leaving, she can't help but beam in excitement. She has missed her dad.


Meanwhile downstairs…

"Hello Quinn."

He greets the blonde woman with his mega watt smile as soon as she opens the door.

"Jesse…"

And Quinn greets him with far less enthusiasm.


Between finchel and Quick I think Rachel ending up with Jesse is not the worst thing that could happen… samchel? Good lord no! But congrats to Rachel, she now dated every guy Quinn dated (from glee club that is…) will she move to the girls now? Santana is married though… so I think there's no one left. Just Quinn herself lol

That's the first time I'm going to write Jesse by the way.