Hello again!

I am soo soo sorry that it's taken me this long to update. School has started and I've had to adjust but it's all good now and these next couple of days should make up for all the time I've missed. Oh and there's some Faberry in this chapter and a lot more in the next chapter ;D

Sorry this chapter is kinda short and less action-y but the next chapter should help with that!

All mistakes are mine. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own Glee…

Chapter 3: NYC or Bust: Part 1

My eyes cracked open as the light finally hit me. I blinked away the sleep and the haze as whatever I was dreaming about left my mind. I sat up and raised my hand to my pounding head that had been bouncing back and forth against the bus window while I slept. I noticed a weight in my lap and looked down, Rachel's head was in my lap with her feet overlapping into the seat across the aisle from us. She was sound asleep, just like most of the bus I realized.

She's kinda cute when she's asleep. I smiled to myself and felt a stirring in my stomach as I brushed a strand of her hair out of her face that had fallen across her nose. Wait. What? What am I thinking? I pulled my hand away and tried to readjust so I wouldn't be touching her and feeling these things and was it hot in here or was it just my face heating up?

All my shifting caused Rachel to stir and roll her body over so that her face was buried in my stomach. Now it really is hot in here. The heat from my stomach spread to the rest on my body while she snuggled her face further into my abdomen. I yelped at the sudden feeling and bolted up causing Rachel to shriek as she fell into the floor. Our little commotion caused the people around us to stand as if shocked and the driver, who I identified as Mike, to slam on the breaks and caused everyone that hadn't been alerted by me or Rachel to be through into the floor of the bus.

"What the hell?" Santana shouted as Brittany helped her off the floor.

"Why'd we stop?" Blaine asked as Mike stood up to look back at everyone else on the bus. I heard grumbles and complains as everyone helped everyone else off the floor. Rachel rustled at my feet and I grabbed her hands and pulled her up, trying to convey my apology with my eyes.

She brushed herself off and then turned to me, "What was that?"

"I. Uh. Sorry guys I just had a bad dream and screamed," I looked down in embarrassment. Great just great.

"If Lord Tubbington were here he would help with your scary dreams," Brittany said but then fell silent as sadness took over her face. Santana wrapped her in a hug and kissed her on the cheek as they sat down again.

"Could you please keep your yelling to your dream and yourself? Some of us just got to sleep after driving for hours," Karofsky mumbled as he curled up back in his seat. Kurt and Blaine mumbled their agreements as they returned to their seat. "Some of us need our beauty sleep," Mercedes grunted from her already laying down position.

"Well at least no one fell on you," Finn mumbled from his laying down position on the floor in the aisle.

"Shut it Frankenteen, you are just mad that you are too tall to lay in a seat like a normal human being."

"Whatever Satan," he retaliated weakly.

Mike sighed, "Guys just go back to sleep." He nodded at Tina who sat back down again as Mike retook the driver's seat.

I turned to Rachel, "I'm sorry about that it was just I-"

"Save it. It's ok. Whatever you were dreaming about must have scared you a great deal or you wouldn't have cried out like that. I understand that you might need your space so I'll move over there."

"Rachel wait!" But it was no use, she had stepped over Finn and settled down in the seat across the aisle. I sighed as Mike started the bus forward again and dropped back in the seat. After a few minutes of tossing and turning and readjusting myself to try to get comfortable but with no avail I decided to go talk to the only person who actually seemed to be awake, Mike.

I shuffled to the front quietly, trying not to disturb anyone and maneuvering around Finn until I finally made it to the front and looked back. Everyone, even Finn seemed to be sound asleep, the only real noise being the bags and all the weapons loaded up in the back seats occasionally crashing together.

"Wow. Everyone seems to have passed out quickly," I remarked.

Mike laughed, "Yeah it's been a long lifetime crammed into a couple of months and everyone loves it when they can get a few hours of actual sleep."

I nodded, "We should probably stop soon and find a place to set up camp for the night." I looked out the window and noted that the sun had set low in the sky before continuing, "Where are we anyways?"

"Pennsylvania, where exactly I have no idea. My navigator fell asleep," He gestured behind him to Tina curled up with a large map.

"Ah," I hummed.

"All I know is that we are going the right way, slowly going." I nodded and look down at the street as Mike swerved the bus slowly to avoid a trashed car that had been abandoned on the street. "Yeah. When all this happened most people just left their cars on the street and all their other crap and since there's no real system to clean anything up it just collects. So people like us have to spend all our time dodging it," He sighed, "I wish things were different, back to the way they were."

"Don't we all." I mumbled and looked down, noticing a large control panel. I reached down about to press a button when a hand shot out and grabbed my wrist, "I wouldn't do that if I were you." I turned my head to make eye contact with Tina who continued, "A. You wouldn't find any music just static that would B. Wake everyone up again and I doubt you wanna wake them up again for no reason," she finished with a smile.

"Oh. Right. Sorry," I said sheepishly and she dropped my arm.

"It's ok," Tina said with a smile. She sidestepped me and turned to Mike, pecked him on the cheek and asked, "Shouldn't we be stopping soon?"

"Exactly!" I nearly shouted but when I got a scolding look from the Asian couple, I repeated it quieter.

Mike laughed and said, "Geez everyone wants to get off this thing I got it. Tina, grab the map and find us a place. Quinn, wake everyone up; you seem to be good at that," He laughed, "And make sure everyone eats. We should leave the food here so we don't attract even more attention to ourselves out there." Tina and I nodded; she reached back and retrieved the map then turned around to try to figure out where we were with Mike.

I turned around took a deep breath in and shouted out, "FOOD!" There were murmurs and bangs as people shifted awake again and groans of compliments like 'Blondie did it again.'

"Guys come on," I urged, "We need to eat so we can find a place to camp for the night."

"Did she just say camp?"

"For the night?"

"Never mind that, did she just say eat?"

"Yeah as in food?"

"I'm on it," Finn rolled his eyes, hopped up from his place on the floor and ran to the back to get the food bag out.

"Finally, Quinn wake us up for something important," Karofsky mumbled. This time when I walked back to my seat I got smiles of thanks or just indifferent glances in my direction, no glares. So I happily plopped back in my seat as Finn began passing out the food from the bag.

"Heads up," Finn shouts as he threw a can of beans at me. I caught it easily and then caught the spoon he threw right after that. "I'll go get you a can opener," He said with a wink and then lumbered off. I rolled my eyes and without even thinking, dug my nails into the top of the can and twisted the top off like I was opening a bottle of soda. Placing the lid on the seat beside me, I dug into the beans, finally realizing how hungry I was. Finn returned quickly, holding a can opener, and giving me a confused look.

I was shocked and started stammering, "Um. I. Well you see I-"

"I gave her the can opener I used," Kurt spoke up.

"Oh ok. Thanks bro," Finn nodded at him, winked lopsidedly at me, and then left. I turned back to Kurt in the seat in front of me and opened my mouth to thank him.

He stopped me by waving his hand and said, "It's nothing, don't mention it and I don't have any desire to know how you actually opened that can without the help of a can opener so having fun eating," And with that he smiled at me and turned back around in his seat to eat.

I sat there in shock about how I could've managed to be so stupidly obvious until Rachel spoke up from across the aisle and said, "Don't mind him, that's just Kurt being Kurt."

I smiled at her in return and replied, "Can I sit next to you again?"

"Of course," She slid over so that I could slip into the spot next to her. "Be careful, you'll get in trouble with the bus driver for switching seats," She winked. Wait what? Mike would be mad? Apparently the confused look on my face must've thrown her off because she quickly backtracked and said, "You know, because we aren't allowed to change seats on the bus normally. Well if things were normal," She paused but I still probably looked as confused as I felt so she kept on, "During school time with an actual bus driver."

Oh! I was caught up then. "Oh right, right of course. School time at a regular school on a regular bus."

She looked at me questioningly, "You're really strange, you know?" I just smiled and shook my head. Oh you have no idea. We turned back to our cans of food and finished eating. The rest of the bus was pretty silent except for the sounds of people stuffing their starving faces.

The bus suddenly slowed down before it stopped completely. Mike stood up and turned around to address everyone, "Ok Tina and I located these woods that appear to be away from any major living areas or people might've lived there. So eat up and we'll set up our camp after that to get some much needed sleep." Everyone smiling quickly finished their meals and got ready to go back out into the frightening world.