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Chapter 5
Quinn woke up at the sound of someone working out, she looked over at the clock that was next to her, 6.30 AM, who in their right mind would get up that early for a work out. She had a feeling that if she got up she would see Rachel somewhere in the apartment working out, she didn't feel like it. She had sent the camera crew to a hotel where they would be staying for the night and the wouldn't come back until around 9.00 AM, so she should have at least had an hour or an hour and a half left of sleep before she had to go up.
She grabbed a pillow and she tried to hide her face in it and cut out the noise that came from somewhere in the apartment but she had no such luck. That just meant that she had to go up and face Rachel even if she wanted to sleep some more.
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Rachel was almost done with her daily work out, yesterday had been one of the few days that she skipped that part of her routine but today she was back on it.
She was almost done with it as she heard someone walking inside the room where she was as she turned around she could see Quinn walking inside the room and the blonde yawned, Rachel couldn't help but to smile, Quinn was cute as she just had woken up and Rachel could tell that the blonde didn't really know where she was going to go.
"Good morning." Rachel said and she gave the blonde a beaming smile, Quinn couldn't help but to smile, Rachel was way too cheerful this time of the day.
"Morning." Quinn mumbled as she looked at Rachel. "Do you mind if I use the bathroom?"
"No, you can go ahead I still have some of my routine to do before I have to take a shower."
"Thanks." Quinn said and walked to the bathroom, the day had started and it was way too early for her to function, she knew that she needed to call the camera crew to come over so that they could start the taping of this day.
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Quinn had made the call and the crew came over and the work of the day started. The first thing that was caught on camera was Rachel singing and dancing around in the kitchen as she made breakfast for all of them.
Rachel herself had been surprised that she didn't care that the cameras were there as much as she had thought she would about them.
"Quinn, it's nice to see you a bit more awake." Rachel said and sat down a plate with some fruit in front of the blonde.
"Yeah, you are up way too early for me." Quinn said before she took a piece of the fruit that Rachel had cut up for her. "And way to cheerful at that time of the day."
"I know." Rachel said and sat down with a cup of tea. "All my friends tell me that, but I have had the same schedule since High School."
There it was again, Rachel mentioned High School but yesterday the brunette hadn't wanted to talk about it but somehow she brought it up again. Quinn had feeling that this might be a topic that needed to be talked about, showing the world that you could grow stronger from the pain that you felt when you were younger.
"Okay." Quinn said as she reach for a mug of coffee, that was something that she needed and everyone knew that, she had been surprised when Rachel had given her the mug at first but she had accepted it. "So how does your day look like today?"
"I have a taping for a show that I am doing a guest spot on, not thing big." Rachel said and looked at the calendar in her phone. "Oh, and I have a meeting with the cast of the play tonight."
"So you have a busy day to say the least." Quinn said and sipped on the coffee. "So do your days always look like that or is this just today?"
"My days are pretty busy but not like this but I like it when I have a lot of things to do." Rachel said and glanced at the clock. "We kind of have to leave if you are going to have this on tape." Quinn pointed out the door for the crew to know that it was time to leave.
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They were on the set where Rachel was going to be shooting the cameo that she had on a TV-show, that she had told them about that morning.
"Nice to see you Ms. Berry." An assistant said as she had walked up to Rachel, Quinn and the camera crew saw what was happening and they were filming.
"Sure, so where am I supposed to be?" Rachel asked not really looking at the girl that had welcomed her to the set.
"Your trailer is over here." The assistant said and she started to walk and Rachel was following her and after the two of them was a host and a camera crew. "So what are the cameras about?"
"Don't mind them; they are just following me around." Rachel said, she didn't want to talk about that with someone that she was just meeting and wouldn't have that much to do with any way.
"I was just wondering what that was about."
"I thought I said that you shouldn't mind them." Rachel snapped, this was one of the reasons why she hadn't wanted to this show, the show with Quinn, all of the questions that would turn up and being asked by people that should own their business.
"Sorry." The assistant said and looked down, she had dealt with a few of these kinds of stars, and she hated it, they were all so full of themselves and Rachel Berry didn't seem any different from the rest of them.
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Quinn followed Rachel, she had been surprised to see how Rachel had acted around the assistant, and the blonde hadn't seen that side of the brunette earlier, well she hadn't be around Rachel that long to rally get to know her but it was something that was changing in how Rachel was acting depending where she was, that much Quinn could tell but she had no idea why it was like that and she for one didn't like that.
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Quinn stood by the side and looked as the scene was shoot and she could see the raw talent that the brunette possessed, it was amazing to see how Rachel worked. She was focused and Quinn could tell that Rachel wanted everything to work from A to B and so on, and whenever the director had called a cut she was there and talked to him. Quinn grabbed one of the camera and the two of the walked off.
"I want you to try and get as close as you can to them without disturbing them, so that we can get to know who Rachel is when she is working." Quinn said and looked at him. "I want the candid stuff, for the audience to see how Rachel is when she is working."
"I'll do my best Q." he said as he looked at the blonde.
"And Puck, don't hit on her we don't need that." Quinn said as she looked at the cameraman. "Again." Was sighed out and she wasn't sure if he had heard the last part and she didn't care if he had or hadn't.
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"You were the one that yelled cut." Rachel almost yelled at the director as she had been talking to him for the last five minutes. "That means that you think that it's done or that we need to do another take and I want to know what I should do."
"Rachel…" he said as he looked at the diva, he wasn't the one that had cast her, it was someone else that had done that and he had never really wanted to work with her in the first place, all of the rumors that he had heard was looking like they were true.
Puck stood a few yards behind them and he got all of it on tape and the same with some of the things that they screamed at each other, he was almost afraid of the small woman; she was almost acting like a small monster, monster was maybe a bit harsh, she knew what she wanted.
"Rachel, please listen to me…" the director almost pleaded with her.
"You don't call me Rachel. I want to know what we are going to next." Rachel demanded she was now in full diva mood; it had been a long time since she had been this bad. "I don't have the whole day to do this and actually this is the only time that I do have time for it."
"I know that but I can't help it if the actor that you are filming with ate something bad yesterday." He said as he closed his eyes and leaned back in the chair that he was sitting in, this was a nightmare why did he always get the divas. "Before you say anything, I don't schedule things, the studio does."
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Puck was back with Quinn almost looking like he was scared about what he just had witnessed.
"Puckerman, why are you back?" Quinn asked as she looked at the man, shaking her head she could see that there was more of what was happening with Rachel and some of the crew of the show that she was filming at the moment.
"I couldn't stay, I was afraid that she was going to eat me." Puck said and he almost shrank when he looked form Rachel to Quinn. "She is scary and I would say that some of those rumors are true."
"Fine just take some footage from here." Quinn sighed and walked away, she was hoping that she would get the chance to talk to Rachel again and get some answers to what it was that had made her act this way.
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"And that was all for today, great work guys." Rachel sighed, this had taken longer than the plan had been and now she needed to hurry to the restaurant where she was going to meet up with Jesse, Sam and some of the other cast so that they could talk.
"So where are we of to now?" Quinn asked as she walked to next to Rachel.
"I am going to meet up with the cast and we have some talking to do before we are going to go though some scenes for the next show." Rachel said as she walked to her car, she wanted to be alone but she had no chance of getting away from filming crew and Quinn.
"Okay." Quinn said and waved the crew with her, now was they almost back at where they had started off yesterday. Normally this didn't happen most of the people that she had been with like this had a hard time opening up in the start but as soon as they had passed the adjustment that the cameras were it was never really a problem but with Rachel it was almost the other way around.
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At the restaurant Rachel was almost back to who she had been before she had sat her foot on the set of the show that she had taped that day. Quinn looked at her camera crew asking them if she they had been sent to another planet or if Rachel was bipolar or something like that.
"So this is some of the cast that I work with on the play that I am doing right now." Rachel said as she saw that Quinn was there with the cameras. "So maybe you guys could tell them who you are."
"I think it would be better if you introduced them." Quinn said as she looked at Rachel.
"Okay." Rachel said and laughed, this could be real fun for her and a bit embarrassing for her friends. "This is Jesse St. James, and he is the male lead and I don't know why he is." Jesse turned to Rachel as he heard her just staring her, Quinn wasn't sure on what was going on.
"Oh, you don't know what you are talking about." Jesse said and stuck his tongue out at the small brunette. "You see, gold star here, thinks that she owns the whole show and that she deserves to be in the center of everything."
"Don't listen to him." Rachel said and put her hand over his mouth so that he couldn't say anything more. "He is just jealous of all the coverage that I get he wants to be in that spot."
"So who is the blonde?" Quinn asked as she wanted to move on, it really looked like Rachel was comfortable around her friends and liked it, they were all joking with each other.
"That's Sam and he isn't even in the show." Rachel said and looked at him.
"So how did he start to hang out with all of you?" Quinn asked, so far from the look of it this was an interesting group of people.
"I don't know." Rachel said and she looked really serious. "One day he was just there and after that he has always been there."
"I ran into Rachel and spilled my coffee all over her." Sam said, Quinn and the camera crew just looked at him, they couldn't believe that he was still alive after what they had seen on the set that day. "And as I offered to pay the dry-cleaning bill, her friends came by and somehow we all got to some coffee place and sat down and talked."
"You see I thought sorry for him." Jesse said and gave the blonde man a smile not the same smile as he had given Rachel. "Not everyone can handle spilling coffee on Rachel Berry and still be cool about it and be alive."
"Yeah, but maybe there was a reason for me not yelling at him." Rachel said and she was about to break out a laugh.
"Right, that was the time that you didn't get to talk." Jesse said and he was laughing.
"And that is how I got to be a part of this group." Sam said and gave Quinn a smile. "Rachel couldn't object to it and when she had the chance to do so, I was already a part."
"And this is my friends." Rachel said and shook her head, she had gone from being pissed at the world to being really happy and the reason for that was that she was with her friends and the people that knew her.
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They were all back at Rachel's apartment and there was still some things that Quinn wanted to ask Rachel about, mostly about what had happened today but she had a feeling that it would be hard for her to get the diva to open up to her about these kinds of things.
"So I have some questions for you." Quinn said as she sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of tea in front of her, which Rachel had given to her. Rachel herself was on her way to sit down with her, with her own cup of tea.
"What are those questions?" Rachel asked as she sat down holding her mug, as she blew of the hot tea before taking a sip of it. "I'll do my best to answer them."
"It was just some about how it was for you breaking in to this business." Quinn said as she looked at Rachel, she looked kind of vulnerable as she sat there. "I have gotten the impression that it wasn't the easiest thing for you to do?"
"It's not easy for anyone to get a break at Broadway." Rachel said and looked down. "I got my first part at an off Broadway play."
"So how did you end up as a Broadway star then?" Quinn asked as she had listen to what Rachel told her about her way to break through in the show business.
"One of the producers of the first show that I was a part of knew someone that was going to help with the casting of a play and he somehow managed to get me an audition to the play and at first I ended up as an understudy for the main character and somewhere along the road the actress that had that part broke her leg." Rachel said and Quinn just looked at her and she was about to say something but Rachel was fast enough to stop her. "I didn't have anything to do with that."
"I didn't say anything about you being behind that." Quinn defended herself as she smiled at the brunette.
"Okay." Rachel said with a laugh. "And after that I kind of got the part, they didn't want to recast someone, so they just moved all of us around so that the parts were covered. "
"And that was the part that you got your first nomination and you won that award also, right?" Quinn asked, she wasn't sure if this was the same play that Rachel had won for.
"That was the same play." Rachel said and laughed, she thought about the speech that she had given that night. "I think that I thanked the actress that broke her leg, for the chance to play the part."
"You have to be kidding with me." Quinn said as she laughed as she listened to Rachel telling her about the story about her first acceptance speech had to give and how nervous she had been.
"No, it's true and she was there also…" Rachel said and she looked down on the table. "…I saw a clip the day after the show, and they had zoomed in on her when I thanked her, it was so embarrassing."
"So did you contact her after that?" Quinn asked, she liked when Rachel was acting like this, just like she was her friend and that they had been friends since they were kids, and that just meant that it would be great entertainment.
"I tried to call her and tell her that I was sorry…" Rachel sighed and looked at Quinn. "But she didn't want to talk to me so I sent a basket and some flowers."
"I'm sure that she liked it and understood what you meant." Quinn said and reached for the other girl's hand as she smiled.