Rachel's eyes shot open then furrowed immediately; the small hairs all over her body where raised and she felt eyes on her. She recognized the feeling immediately as her body recognizing a threat nearby, almost too close. Looking out the window, Rachel saw the sun hadn't come up yet and that she should get moving to go and see Quinn. The small girl threw the covers off her body and made her way across her room to her window. Pushing the curtains aside and opening the window, Rachel pushed herself out of her second story bedroom and made the change, her wolf hitting the grass with a soft thud, then bounding off into the woods towards the small park that had become hers and Quinn's meeting place.
The feeling of being watched only intensified after she became a wolf, Rachel pushed herself faster as she smelled the air, there was a light bitterness to the air that made Rachel's large brown eyes crease. She made it to the park in record time, now it was just about waiting. Rachel paced around the perimeter of the park, smelling the air and listening for the sound of light steps of someone's approach.
Quinn came to a stop just out of site of her wolf, the blonde looked over the beast with new eyes, looking at the way it moved and kept looking around, clearly agitated about something. Moving into the park, her wolf looked over to her; Quinn couldn't help but furrow her brown when she got the distinct feeling that something was wrong as the wolf trotted over to her side, circling her.
"What's up with you today?" Quinn asked, always feeling slightly stupid that she was talking to an animal, but the connection between Rachel and her Wolf felt so right, and she knew her wolf understood her, so she just had to get over it.
Rachel took comfort from Quinn being near her, the bitterness in the air was getting stronger and Rachel knew she had to get Quinn out of there quickly. Rachel circled the blonde again and gently pushed against her, making Quinn take a step back towards where she had just been.
"Hey, what's going on?" Quinn frowned as her wolf kept pushing against her, forcing her back towards the entrance to the park then looking up at her and making a soft whimpering sound. Then her wolf's head snapped up and looked back towards the woods. Then Quinn saw a dramatic change in the beast that she knew to be soft and gentle, suddenly her wolf was taking and aggressive stance in front of her.
Rachel's eyes darted between the trees, taking a deep breath and letting the metallic bitterness that Rachel associated with blood flood over her. Quinn needed to leave, whatever was coming didn't need to know about Rachel's connection to the vulnerable human. Rachel glanced back at Quinn and growled softly at her, then nudged the blonde again with her head.
"Okay, okay I get it." Quinn didn't know what was happening, but something was definitely wrong. Her wolf was agitated and clearly trying to get her to leave. Quinn hadn't even gotten a chance to open fire with all the questions she had, not that the wolf could really answer. Quinn looked down again and stroked her wolfs head lightly, backing up and starting to walk away, Quinn called out. "I'll see you later Rachel." And didn't miss the way her wolf's head perked up and how her eyes widened dramatically, then Quinn took off running back home, thinking about what that could mean.
Rachel was running through the woods back home, she hadn't been gone long, but the feeling of being watched didn't leave her. Bounding into her back yard, Rachel started the change after making a running leap at her still open window, tucking herself into a ball she cleared the window but continued through the air until she hit her bed on the opposite side of the room landing upside down with her legs against the wall in her human form.
"I give it a 9.5, I had to deduct half a point for getting caught sneaking out." Shelby was standing in the young Lycan's door way with her arms crossed under chest, staring down at her daughter who only offered a guilty smile."You want to tell me what you had to do without letting your mother know?"
"I was meeting Quinn at the park." Shelby just nodded but her glare held.
"And you couldn't tell me that because?" Rachel's face turned grim as she righted herself and crossed the room to start pulling her clothes on.
"There was something out there this morning, and I had to make sure Quinn didn't linger." Rachel paused as she pulled her jeans up on her hips and zipped them in place, then she turned back to her mother, with a serious expression. "It smelled like a Vampire."
"Okay, well if you smelled them, then they smelled you and know that they are on our territory and won't make any trouble." Shelby was shocked that there was a Vampire in town and she hadn't felt it, usually she was the first the sense when another Mythic was nearby. If only Rachel could sense them, that meant they were older, and stronger. But the feud between the Vampires and the Lycan's had ended centuries before, of course all Mythic's policed and took care of one another, but there was no open fighting between species.
"No, this one was different, he hid his scent from me, and kept downwind, but his presence was strong." Rachel pulled a grey v-neck tee shirt on and went to lace up her boots. "It felt familiar."
"Okay, so I'll call Maria, let her know to keep an eye out. It's not a big deal that we have new neighbors honey." Shelby sighed as her daughter just kept lacing up her boots. "Just tell me when you're coming and going." With that Shelby left the girl to her morning routine, moving down the hall to her son's room, knocking a few times on the door before opening it. Her son was pulling his pants up and had his toothbrush sticking out of his mouth.
"Morning Ma."
"Rachel thinks we have new neighbors." Shelby said as she leaned against the door jam, not wanting to actually go into her son's pigsty of a room, making a note to make him clean it later.
"Yeah, what kind?" Noah called from his bathroom as he finished brushing his teeth.
"The blood sucking kind." That made her son stop and look at her, making brief eye contact. "We have to assume that since only Rachel sensed them that they are more powerful then us and we should just keep our distance while they pass through, they know where we are, and that we're settled, they won't make trouble as long as we don't."
"I know the drill mom." Noah rolled his eyes, but went on alert, trying to sense the vampire like his sister had.
"I know you do, I just want to make sure to remind you. I remember that incident with the clan of succubus last year."
"You say clan like there were a lot of them, there were four, and Rachel was there too." Noah grinned at his mother's disapproval and obvious discomfort, than spotted Rachel in the hall before he through a Metallica t-shirt over his head then grabbed his bag. Kissing his mother on the check as he swept past her, he caught up with his sister in the kitchen where they ate their breakfast in silence. When Rachel followed Noah to his mustang instead of going over to her bike, he knew she wanted to talk with him.
"I think its Jesse." Noah almost swerved into oncoming traffic, then snapped his head to the side to look at his sister who was just staring forward calmly, the only sign of emotion was the slight furrow to her brow. Noah set his jaw and turned into the parking lot of the school, easily finding a space and turning off the engine, but neither twin made a move to get out.
"You need to tell Mom about what happened between you two when we get home, she needs to know if it's really him." Rachel just nodded somberly. "Do you think he saw Quinn?"
"It's possible, but I'm not sure. If he didn't see her than he definitely caught her scent." Noah nodded then too, Vampires had a keener nose than Lycans did, and they had the stronger sense at all times while Lycan's had to make the change. "I can't let anything happen to her just because he's obsessed with me."
"We'll tell Santana, and protect her. She may not know it yet, but she's a part of our pack now. You may have to tell her because of this." Rachel shock her head then turned to glare at her brother.
"What do you think she'll say to something like that, 'Oh hey Quinn I'm a werewolf and you're my mate, hey also, my stalker vampire ex-boyfriend is in town so look out for that.' I mean I think she figured out the wolf thing already but," By the way Noah was looking at her Rachel knew she had to explain a little. "Well she called my wolf by my name this morning saying she'd see me later."
"Oh, well then she so knows." Noah ran a hand through his Mohawk and took a deep breath. "We have that Glee audition today, after that's over you should invite Quinn over to the house, talk it over there." Then there was knocking on the driver's side window, Santana opened up the door and looked at the twins expectantly.
"So I hear we have a Vamp in town."
By the time lunch was finished Rachel still hadn't seen Quinn all day. She was nervous about her safety and how maybe she should have ran with the other girl back to her house just to make sure Quinn had gotten there instead of going home, but then Rachel walked into her fourth period English and Quinn was sitting in her usual seat waiting for class to start, so Rachel just heaved a big sigh and sat down next to her.
"Hey Babe, I haven't seen you around today. I thought you might be home sick or something." Quinn rose an eyebrow as she turned to look at the other girl who had a charming smile on her face. But all Quinn saw was the wolf, the monster of a wolf that kept finding her every morning this week at the small park on the outskirts of town; their eyes were just the same.
"Really I saw you this morning." Rachel's eyes widened slightly, then Quinn watched as the shorter girl seemed to reel herself in again.
"I must have missed you."
"I think you know that's a lie Rachel." Rachel hadn't expected Quinn to just call her out like that, at least not in the middle of a crowded classroom. "Look I get that I don't know everything about you, but when you go and flaunt things, you shouldn't be surprised when you get caught. I'm not stupid Rachel."
"I never said you where." Rachel voice was rushed and slightly higher than normal, then Quinn noticed that the girl's eyes were darting around the room, looking at the other students as if checking if they were listening. Then as if realizing that she hadn't denied anything quickly added. "I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Sure you don't." Quinn rolled her eyes, but it wasn't like she had expected the girl to just out right say it, whatever it really was.
Class started then and Rachel didn't get a chance to talk to Quinn again until class was over, then Finn appeared, as if out of nowhere and stool Quinn away. Rachel followed then, but really all Finn was doing was walking Quinn to her next class, Rachel wanted to punch him. When Finn had finished his boyfriendly duty, he turned around to find Rachel glaring up at him; all 1800 feet of him, really, how freaking tall is this guy.
"So I heard that you decided to try out for the Glee club, I'm the captain." Finn had this smug look on his face, and at that moment Rachel didn't care this was a crowded hallway full of students, she wanted rip Finn's balls off and force them down his throat, maybe that would get rid of that look. But Rachel pulled herself back, realizing she was just being jealous that her mate had a boyfriend, Rachel would have hated anyone in his place just as much, so it really wasn't his fault. "So I have a pretty big say in who we let in." Was that a threat?
"Is that a threat?" Finn just smiled a little smug smil, like he thought he was just so clever and jabbed Rachel in the shoulder.
"I'm just saying I wouldn't get your hopes up." Then Finn walked off, looking like he was trying to strut but tripping over his feet and almost falling; Rachel's eye twitched and she walked into the classroom, taking her seat next to Quinn.
"What did you and Finn talk about?" Quinn had seen everything and from the look on Rachel's face, it wasn't good for Finn's life in the foreseeable future.
"No offence Babe, but your boyfriend is a dick." Rachel huffed as she crossed her arms and Quinn couldn't help but think that a pouting irritated Rachel was the most adorable Rachel she'd seen yet, then Quinn just tried to not think about how she thought Rachel was adorable. "I mean he basically just told me that I wasn't getting into the Glee club because he doesn't like me and he's the Captain so his say goes. From what I heard you guys need the members and really have to let anybody in, dude needs to be taken down a peg, I mean does he not get how friggin awesome I am, didn't he learn anything from football, hasn't he seen my motorcycle."
Quinn tried to come up with something to say back, something along the lines of 'hey that's my boyfriend, be nice.' But Quinn couldn't come up with anything better, and she really needed to be firmly on Finn's side, even though it sounded like he was acting like a child. Then the teacher walked in and started class and the two didn't get the chance to talk again.
"So it looks like we have a few new people who need to audition." Mr. Shue, said with a big bright, slightly creepy, smile on his face. He wasn't very pleased that he now may have to deal with the Corcoran twins on a larger scale, but if they could sing he would deal with it. "Sam why don't you come up here and introduce you self before you start."
"I'm Sam," Sam looked nervous standing in front of the other students and Mr. Shue, but Rachel smiled at him, something that didn't go unseen by Quinn, and Sam just took a deep breath and power through. "I like comic books and am the new quarterback of the football team, I'm dyslexic so my grades aren't so good but I'm working on it. Um, I only really showed up cause Rachel asked me, but I can see how this might be fun, so, here goes." Then Sam picked up an acoustic guitar and played Billionaire by Bruno Mars. Rachel was smiling and clapping by the end, some of the other boys had joined in, Artie had done a fine job on the rap, and all the other Glee kids seemed happy to have the new blonde boy in their ranks. Then Puck stood up and took the acoustic guitar from the blonde and slung the strap over his shoulder.
"That was real nice dude, but you stool my artist." Puck was all smiles as he pulled a stool to the front of the room and sat down on it. "So, I'm Puck, my sister will try to tell you my name is Noah, but don't believe her, it's all lies. I'm your basic all American badass, hailing from the glorious city of New York, I like football and the ladies, uh, that's it. Enjoy." Then Puck winked and started plucking at the guitar.
"Today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone, so leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything
I'm gonna kick my feet up then stare at the fan
Turn the TV on, throw my hand in my pants
Nobody's gon' tell me I can't" At that Puck looked at Rachel as she made a face at him, the boy just laughed and smiled as he sang through.
"I'll be lounging on the couch just chilling in my Snuggie
Click to MTV so they can teach me how to dougie
'Cause in my castle I'm the freaking man
Oh yes, I said it, I said it
I said it 'cause I can
Today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone, so leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything
Nothing at all, nothing at all
Tomorrow I'll wake up, do some P90X
Find a really nice girl, have some really nice sex
And she's gonna scream out
This is great" Then Puck looked to the room to fill it in for him, the only person who responded was Kurt.
"Oh my god, this is great" Puck looked slightly mortified, but Rachel's booming laughter put a smile on the boy's face again.
"Yeah, I might mess around
And get my college degree
I bet my old man will be so proud of me
But sorry pops, you'll just have to wait" Puck looked at the ceiling then, as if singing to the sky, Puck looked back at his sister and her smile was still in place, but now it was much softer.
"Oh yes, I said it, I said it
I said it 'cause I can
Today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone, so leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything
No, I ain't gonna comb my hair
'Cause I ain't going anywhere
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
I'll just strut in my birthday suit
And let everything hang loose
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone, so leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything
Nothing at all
Nothing at all
Nothing at all"
"Very good, Puck!" The clapping and cheering made it hard for anyone to hear the teacher's words, but then Puck took a bow and the teacher had the floor again. "Now, I would just like to say welcome to our two newest members and a quick good luck to Rachel, I'm sure you will do just as well."
"What the hell's that mean? I am so rocking this out Mr. condescending." Rachel sat down at the piano after getting a nod from the red headed piano man, then turned to the crowd of students. "So I'm Rachel, and if yall want to get to know me, come get the information by yourself because I should need no intro. I would just like to say that this goes out to the haters." Rachel had a cocky smile on her face, and when Quinn heard sniggering off to her left she saw that Santana was barely keeping herself together. Then Rachel turned back to face the keys, and started her song.
"Tell me off in a letter
Completely ignore me
Getting high off of saying
Why you don't adore me?
Baby, please, I'm well versed
In how I might be cursed
I don't need it articulated" Rachel looked out at her peers then, making brief eye contact with Finn then Santana, the latter of which just burst out laughing.
"Stand in line wasting
All of your time just to hate me
Every dime gone to ways
You can find that might bait me
And drag me down, sight set proudly
Bring me to the ground see
You love to be somebody's enemy" Rachel took a deep breath then and the chorus took off, Quinn watched on speechless as the cocky girl swayed to her music.
"Maybe nobody loved you when you were young
Maybe, boy, when you cry, nobody ever comes
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Machine gun
Locked and loaded
You're practically floating away now
In your fortress you feel like
You're more or less safe now
But let me say I don't mean harm
Oh, but, baby, you'd be charming if you'd come undone
Get back where you started from" then Rachel sent a cocky smile Quinn's way as she burst into the chorus, seeding the girl a wink.
"Maybe nobody loved you when you were young
Maybe, boy, when you cry, nobody ever comes
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Machine gun
Never mind how you've rationed your time
And the battle is underway
Maybe times are gonna change
Don't just hide in the silence behind
What you've really been trying to say
What a skill, baby, aiming to kill me
With words you don't mean" Then Rachel fluttered her eyelashes at the giant of a boy and Quinn frowned. Had she missed something? But when Quinn looked at her boyfriends face, he was blushing bright red, then Quinn looked back to Rachel, but the other girl was completely in groused in her song again.
"Maybe nobody loved you when you were young
Maybe, boy, when you cry, nobody ever comes
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun
Machine gun"
The room burst out into applause, Puck standing and whistling as his sister stood and took her bow, then mock curtsied. Rachel took her seat next to her brother and the twins bumped fists as the Mr. Shue tried to calm down to room.
Glee ended before anyone knew it, with three new members and able to compete in the sectionals that where in a few months, as everyone started leaving, Rachel held back, gathering her courage. Then just walked over to Quinn and put on her best smile.
"So I was wondering if you wanted to come over to my house. We could study, and talk or something." Quinn had been talking with Finn, but now her focus was solely on Rachel, who looked slightly nervous. Before the blonde could answer Finn spook up for her.
"She's not interested in hanging out with a person like you, so just leave her alone." Finn was still angry that even though he hadn't wanted Rachel to be able to join, everyone else was on her side; he just couldn't win with her. But when Quinn gave him her best 'angry Quinn' look he tried putting on his best puppy dog look, making Rachel think he just looked constipated.
"I can speak for myself thank you." Then Quinn turned to Rachel, who was still glaring up at the tall boy, then looking back at Quinn, the blonde watched as Rachel softened towards her, it was almost a physical change, and suddenly Quinn wanted to listen to whatever it was that Rachel wanted to say, even if they had been fighting a little earlier. "I would love to."
"Great, I'll ride with you then and give you directions. Sound good?" Quinn just nodded and the two girls started walking away from Finn who looked like he was about to blow up, they had completely forgotten that he was there.
The ride to Rachel's wasn't as fast as it could have been since Quinn had driven both Santana and Brittany with her to school that day and had to drop them off first, though both got out when they arrived at Santana's. The car was silent after the couple got out, it had been like having a buffer before, with Santana to field all the talk and turn it into something else. When Quinn pulled into Rachel's drive, the two saw Puck yelling at another boy from the door, then the other boy turned, and looked at them, Rachel breathing in quickly as she rushed from the car.
"What the hell are you doing here? I didn't think you would actually be stupid enough to just nock on the front door." Quinn pulled herself out of her car with a frown, obviously the twins knew this boy, he didn't look much older than them, so maybe he was visiting from New York, though he obviously wasn't welcome.
"I came to see you Darling; I know you didn't think you could just leave me." Quinn's frown deepened, this guy was talking like he and Rachel where together. Then he turned to Quinn, his blue eyes snapping to her as if he just noticed her. "And you must be the girl that was with Rachel this morning." He got very close then and looked Quinn right in the eye. "Why don't you go be a good little human and play in traffic." Quinn's brain was slightly fuzzy, like she wanted to do exactly what she was told, then Rachel grabbed her hand and the feeling was gone.
"That's not going to work Jesse, she's with me." Quinn wasn't quite sure what was going on, or why this boy, Jesse, had called her human as if he wasn't one. But when Jesse looked at Rachel then, his eyes where darker than they had been when he was looking at Quinn.
"Ah, you Lycan's and your mates, it's disgusting to be with humans." Rachel just held Quinn's hand tighter then, and set her jaw. Rachel saw the questions on Quinn's face, but so did Jesse, and a slimly smile fell into place on his face. "Oh, she hasn't told you yet has she, that's why the compulsion almost worked." Then Rachel was pulling Quinn along and through the front door, Jesse tried to follow but it was like there was brick wall on the threshold of the house that only he couldn't cross. But Jesse held Quinn's eye contact, and Quinn's brain was fuzzy again. "You, little human, are friends with werewolves." Then Rachel pulled Quinn back and slammed the door in his face.
AN: So I hope you guys haven't forgotten about me. I'm really sorry about the wait, I really don't have a good excuse other than no inspiration to sit down and write. I did tell you I was bad at schedules though. So I did decide to bring in Jesse, as a sort of bad guy, and there will be the big talk in the next chapter about the werewolves and vampires, and other things. While I have you here you should go check out this petition to stop the changes to the site, it doesn't take long and the more people to sign the more the site might take notice. Censorship in my opinion is wrong, especially in this format, this is fanfiction, we do what we want. So please take the time to check it out.
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The songs I used in this chapter where 'Machine Gun' by Sara Bareilles and 'The Lazy Song' by Bruno Mars, I hope you liked the song choices and how it was done, cause I've never done anything with lyrics in it before and I really stressed over which songs I wanted to use. Anyway, I hope to have the next chapter up soon. (read: in the next week) Have a good one until then, and as always please let me know what you think. Ninja out.
