A/N: A little bit of action for my readers! Let me know your still with me! Reviews=Love
"You know this is a stupid idea right?" Rachel whispered as she crouched down beside the cold cement wall of the warehouse.
An inky blackness covered the city, it was the wee hours of the morning and the air was thick with the waning moments of summer. Rachel wasn't sure if it was the humidity or what they were about to do but she felt like she couldn't breathe.
"You have a better idea?" Puck asked standing above her, hands on his hips.
"Any idea is better than this idea. I don't even know how you talked me into these shenanigans. What happens if we get caught?"
"Who says shenanigans?" Puck shot back in a whisper.
They were all dressed in black, a knit cap pulled over Puck's head despite the heat. They were on the outskirts of Lima in the old industrial district. The factories and business had long left town for the greener pastures of cheap labor in China. The abandoned warehouses were a perfect place for illegal activity to occur. The cops had tried to police the area at one time but now the rundown, overgrown industrial park just sat to rot, sort of like the people you could find inside it. The police had far more important things to do.
"Why are we whispering? And why are you squatting?" Finn asked watching the two of them pointing a small penlight in their respective direction.
"We don't want to be seen" Rachel said as if he should have known that. "Turn that light off."
"It's pitch black out here, I can barely see my hand in front of my face" Finn said lifting an unseen eyebrow in her direction.
"Look Rachel, we need to do something to get things moving, we can't just sit on our asses holding our dicks for the next year."
"I actually don't have a dick Noah, and your crudeness is not flattering" Rachel said standing up.
"You sure?" Puck taunted her.
"She doesn't" Finn laughed.
"Gross" Puck began "But seriously, it's been almost two months and things are stalled. While you guys have been living in your pretty little house selling drugs to housewives and business guys, fucking each other senseless in your free time…" Puck began, he could feel them look at each other in the dark.
"Come on, yeah, I know about that! You suck at hiding it. Meanwhile, I've been living in a shit hole apartment with rodent roommates, getting beat up by goons. Pushing hard shit to nasty hookers and needy junkies and putting guns in the hands of dangerous people. I've been running all over this fucking shit hole of a state intercepting guns and meeting with shady characters. Spending every night in crappy bars or hanging around underpasses with the scum of the earth and I haven't been laid….. In like two months."
"Wow… two months, really?" Rachel said sarcastically as if Puck's sex life was really that important. Or maybe she just felt that way because she was getting some.
"Yeah we get it" Finn said "Can you just get on with the point. It's hotter than shit out here."
"So instead of waiting for Mancini to come to me, let's go get some dirt on him, let's move this process along a little." Puck finished.
"You don't think his warehouse isn't guarded?" Rachel gasped.
"I've scoped it out, one dude out front who looks more interested in his pizza than guarding anything" Puck said running a hand over his Mohawk. "Mancini doesn't really need much security, people around here aren't messing with him."
"I gotta go with Puck on this one Rach, think of all the unanswered questions you have" Finn said walking closer to her and putting a hand on her back.
"What exactly do you think were going to find here?"
"I don't know but it can't hurt to take a look" Finn said.
"Fine, fine" she sighed "How are we getting in? We can't exactly just walk up to the front door and walk in"
"That fire escape goes into the foreman's office, where Mancini's office is."
"Up there" Rachel pointed in shock.
Beside her Finn was at his full height reaching towards the ledge above him. The rickety fire escape could be reached from the ledge with little effort, but they had to get up there first. Finn jumped and was able to brush his fingers along the edge of the ledge.
"Puck, give me a boost" he said
"What are you doing?" she hissed in his direction.
"Going in" Finn said as if that was a totally normal answer.
"Shit yeah Bro, you always know exactly what to say to me" Puck laughed walking over to them.
"Are you guys serious? This is a bad idea. There are rules we have to follow. We can't just fly in like cowboys."
"Wrong sis" Puck said lowering his face to within inches of hers "right now, we're drug dealers. Criminals, this is what we do."
Puck held his face there for a minute longer than normal and Finn sighed. He knew that Puck was attracted to Rachel, who wouldn't be? But he wasn't playing this game with him, not this time. They had shared women in the past by passing a good lay onto the other, hell they had even had a few three-ways before. It wasn't a sexual thing for them, they were comfortable in their sexuality and in their relationship with each other but this wasn't going to be one of those times. Because Rachel wasn't one of those girls. Rachel giggled uncomfortably and stepped back from Puck.
"Bro" Finn said "Focus"
Puck turned back to Finn and Rachel let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. She had to admit, Puck was a handsome guy and she wouldn't be against kissing him, if she didn't have Finn. What she felt for him was so much stronger than some silly attraction to a buff guy with a Mohawk. Puck squatted a little and Finn stood on his thigh as he reached up. Standing on Puck gave him the few inches he needed and he used his arms to pull himself up and swing his leg over the edge of the ledge. He stood up to his full height and brushed himself off looking down below him straining in the dark to see them.
"Come on Rach" Finn said squatting.
"What….me? I can't get up there." she gasped.
"You mean to tell me you can't fly?" Puck asked, he was right behind her. His lips touching her ear.
Gripping her hips strongly he lifted her in Finns direction with little effort, he could bench press more than this. Finn reached down with two hands and grabbed Rachel's.
"Don't drop me" she hissed at him.
"I'm not going to drop you, I promise" Puck said from below her.
Thank god she had chosen to wear jeans instead of the black skirt she had originally had on when Finn told her to get dressed in dark clothing. As Finn pulled, his biceps flexing Puck slipped his had to her ass pushing her even higher in his direction.
"Hey…. hands" she squeaked out.
"Dude, seriously?" Finn said pulling Rachel the rest of the way up on the ledge.
"I was boosting her" he said innocently.
"Well you can count that as your one and only feel" Finn said evenly, he wasn't normally the jealous type, especially where Puck was concerned but with Rachel he just was.
"How is he going to get up here?" She asked looking down into the inky darkness.
Finn chuckled handing her the penlight "Oh he's got this".
Puck backed up and ran full forced at the wall, he leapt pushing up off the wall sending him higher in the air. He reached up and grabbed Finns outstretched arms as he scrambled up the rest of the wall. Rachel stood their with her mouth hanging open, it looked like something from an action movie. Finn pulled back hard bringing Puck over the wall the rest of the way. Puck brushed himself off and fixed his hat with a shit eating grin on his face.
"How…." Rachel was speechless, something that didn't happen much.
"We used to make up all these badass moves in the Academy. In our free time we would go out to the test course and climb up walls and jump off shit" Puck laughed.
"Seriously?" she laughed.
"Yeah" Finn laughed, they were kinda assholes back then, well pretty much up until 2 months ago.
They walked along the wall to the fire escape which Finn tugged on when they got close. It was rusty and beaten with age and lack of upkeep but it appeared to still be attached firmly to the wall. He jumped up and grabbed the bottom rung and hung from it for a minute bending his knees so his feet stayed off the ground. Convinced it would hold their weight he turned to Rachel and lifted her up. She grabbed the bars and pulled up the rest of the way, swinging her leg over the edge and jumping down onto the metal platform. Puck and Finn scurried up behind her and they made their way to the second story window which was already broken for them.
Rachel slipped in first dropping down into an office almost weightlessly. Finn and Puck followed making a little more noise. Rachel creeped to the door and opened it softly, the warehouse was bathed in soft light. She stepped out onto the catwalk and looked below her at the warehouse, there were stacks of boxes all over the place, huge marijuana growing system in one corner and three large men sitting around a table playing cards. She slipped back in the office and shut the door quietly.
"Puckerman" she hissed.
He looked up from the papers he was looking through "What?"
"Three huge guys downstairs, with guns"
"What?" Finn hissed this time shooting a look at Puck "I thought you scoped the place out"
"Just the outside" he said.
"Real efficient Noah" Rachel hissed back.
"Oh well excuse me, not everyone can be as efficient as you" Puck rolled his eyes.
"Fuck you Noah, I'm got getting killed on your account"
"Who's getting killed?" Puck asked honestly.
"I'm just saying..." Rachel started.
"Maybe is you quit talking..." he shrugged.
"Look, lets just get what we need and get the fuck out of here" Finn said shutting them both up.
Rachel took the desk while Finn and Puck took the two filing cabinets that flanked it. They worked like that for a while, silently and efficiently. Occasionally stopping to ask in whispers about stuff they found. Any papers that seemed to be of interest they kept, the rest they put back exactly where they found them. They were careful not to take to much, so as not to draw to much attention to missing items.
Suddenly the door to the room flew open and one of the men Rachel had seen downstairs came in, he was alone and shocked to find somebody in the office. He turned to call down to his comrades when Puck pulled his gun on him.
"I wouldn't fucking do that" Puck's voice was gravelly and fierce.
"Your gonna stop me?" the man laughed "I got one of those to, mines bigger".
The man pointed his semi-automatic at Puck's chest as Rachel sank down behind the desk, she was pretty sure he hadn't seen her. She saw Finn pull his own gun from his hip and point it at him
"So do I asshole, looks like your outnumbered" Finn said evenly.
"The way I see it, you call for your friends, I kill you and we will still be even" Puck said evenly.
"Or I just shoot you both right now."
Rachel crouched around the outside of the room and got closer to the man. She made eye contact with Finn who nodded easily and his arm steady holding the gun at the man's head. Rachel had seen Finn shoot on the range, he was an excellent shot, she knew that if he pulled the trigger he wouldn't miss.
"I've taken that into account. You pull that trigger and my brother here will take you out in one shot. He's an excellent shot." Puck laughed "Looks like you loose either scenario."
"I'm not afraid of you fucks, I've seen guys twice the size of you fall at my feet" the man laughed.
Rachel crawled up on a chair directly behind the guy putting her own gun to his head clicking the safety off. She lowered her lips to his ear and whispered "Or maybe I kill you right now."
The man looked over his shoulder, a little shocked to see her standing there since he had no idea where she came from. The shock was replaced with nonchalance though and it appeared having the barrell of Rachel's gun against his head didn't phase him much.
The man whipped around and shoved her off the chair "Chicks with guns" he said shaking his head. "Never send a women to do a man's job, sweetheart."
As the man was laughing Rachel pulled herself off the ground and brushed herself off. She walked around and stood in front of him for a moment before she kneed him in the balls hard. He gasped and grabbed his crotch as he doubled over, Rachel bent over close to his ear and said evenly "Don't call me a chick."
She grabbed his gun from his hand and turned it back on him.
"What do you want from me" he gasped.
"Were going to leave and your going to take a little nap" Puck said approaching the man "and when you wake up, your not going to discuss this with anyone and we will know if you did."
"Who are you?"
"That is not important" Finn said as the two men approached him.
He tried to stand up straight and Finn punched him hard in the gut causing him to double over again "that's for shoving my wife."
"That little slut" he motioned towards Rachel.
Finn stepped forward again and kicked him in a hard upward motion "and that's for calling her a slut. Maybe you need to watch your mouth."
Puck was at the mans side and he took a small syringe from his pocket, uncapping it and stabbing him in the neck with it. Rachel gasped, as that was unexpected. The man dropped after less than 30 seconds.
"What was that?" Rachel hissed out a whisper.
"Tranquilizers" Puck said recapping the needle and sliding it in his pocket. "You can never be to safe."
"You carry fucking tranqus around with you?"
"I carry a lot around with me" Puck said lifting his skirt to show the knife on his belt.
"Come on" Finn said "Let's get the fuck out of here".
Rachel was pacing back and forth in the bedroom as Puck and Finn watched her. Their heads moving together as she moved. She had changed out of her dark clothing and was wearing a pair of tiny cotton shorts and a tank top. The windows in the room were open but it was still stifling in the room.
"Dude you need some AC or some shit" Puck said sitting next to Finn on the large bed.
When they had gotten back from the warehouse they had piled all the stuff they got up but agreed to go over it at a later time. It was so freaking hot that work was the last thing they wanted to do. Both men were topless, basketball shorts hanging from their hips, Puck actually considered just getting naked but figured Rachel wouldn't be to fond of that. Plus the humidity was so high right now he probably wouldn't feel any cooler. Finn reached up and tugged on the chain for the ceiling fan which whirled to life pushing the thick summer air around the room. Puck turned his attention back to Rachel who continued to pace back and forth.
"She going to stop doing that?" Puck asked Finn.
"Probably not for a while, she does it to think" Finn said watching the way her hips moved when she walked, the way her legs looked so amazing sprouting out of those tiny shorts.
"That's obnoxious" Puck laughed.
"No" Finn said fondly "it's unique."
"Ok, What is really going on with you two?" Puck asked seriously looking at Finn with honest eyes.
"What do you mean?" Finn avoided the question.
"Stop shitting me man, I know your screwing, I can see that. But what is really happening?"
Finn was silent for a couple minutes and Puck didn't push him, he knew his friend and if he pushed Finn, Finn would shut him off. Puck just simply turned his attention back to Rachel and ran his eyes over her body, he understood the attraction.
"I'm in love with her man" he said honestly his voice barely above a whisper, turning his head to look at Puck.
Puck could read Finn like a book and the look on his face said it all. Puck had never, in all the years they had known each other, seen that look cross Finn's expression. It was raw emotion, a true feeling from someplace deep inside.
"No shit man" Puck said "Your being truthful".
"Completely dude. I'm in love with Rachel Berry and even though that seems like the worst thing in the world, I'm so happy. I don't know how this happened but now I can't imagine not having her in my life"
"Rachel Fucking Berry dude, who would have thought"
"There are 6 billion people in the world Puck, 6 billion fucking people. Of all those, there has to be one for me right? They always say love comes when your not looking for it."
Puck looked at him for a minute
"Well what happens when this is over? When we go back to DC?"
Finn looked up at the tiny women pacing across the bedroom floor and smiled "I don't know and that scares the shit out of me. All I know is that that women" he nodded his head in her direction "she does something to me. She wants me to be a better man."
