Author's Note: Prompt by beckingham - Rachel tends to absentmindedly fiddle with her wedding ring. It never fails to make Puck want to jump her, with a bonus from inspire16 if it's totally not absentmindedly.
Disclaimer: No, RM, the Insane, hasn't adopted me yet. The song, even though adapted, belongs to Creed.
The Ring
She's doing it again.
Rachel is sitting on Sam and Quinn's couch, talking to the blonde about her new workshop for Spring Awakening (which she'll star as Wendla, because she looks a lot like the girl who 'originated' or whatthefuckever the role. Fuck his life, her costar is St. Jerk). Quinn is giggling ("Isn't this musical about, like… sex?" She whispers the last word and Puck wants to laugh), and Rachel is chuckling and… fiddling with her wedding ring.
The wedding ring he gave to her one and a half year ago once she was done with Julliard and he was done with NYU.
And, yeah, it makes him totally hot and hard and desperate to fuck her, because he feels like the man for having put a ring on her or whatever the fuck that song was all about. So he slides next to her in the couch, and Quinn smiles at him and stands up to go check on baby Claire. So he pounces. He kisses that soft spot behind her ear that he knows makes her all hot and bothered, and whispers in her ear all sorts of dirty things that he wants to do with her (she blushes and feebly pushes him, hissing "Noah!" in that sexy voice he loves. He smirks. He knows she loves dirty talk. It totally turns her on).
Five minutes later he's hiking her skirt up and taking her against their apartment door (it pays off to live in the same building their best friends do), and she's screaming and demanding, "More, more, more, God, Noah!" (Thank fuck their apartment is all soundproofed).
Oh, yeah, he's the man.
See, she knows Noah is jealous, insecure and just plain furious that she's doing Spring Awakening with Jesse. He hates Jesse with a passion she only saw him dedicating to his videogames and sex, all because of a silly little mistake Jesse did when they were all kids. (She has forgiven her ex-boyfriend for it, so why can't Noah?)
She also knows he's furious that her new role demands her to be shown in various aspects of undressing and in a passionate sex scene with Jesse. And she's also aware of how turned on he is whenever he sees her fiddling with her wedding ring. No, he doesn't know she knows that. There are some things they know about each other that they don't acknowledge they know. (He's turned on by what she's doing right now. She loves the filthy things he whispers in her ear when he's talking her into having sex with him).
So, if it happens that she's distractedly twirling her wedding ring in her finger while she's talking with Quinn about Spring Awakening and he's in the kitchen talking and having a beer with Sam after their weekly dinner at the Evans' apartment, it may not be as absentmindedly as he thinks it is.
She's just that good actress.