Chapter 10
At the moment Quinn wished she could be anywhere else. She is trying her hardest to remain in her seat on the risers in glee club and not punch Finn Hudson right in his face. She is gripping her chair so hard that her knuckles are turning white and the seat begins to crack. What's gotten Quinn so angry? Finn has decided to sing yet another love song to Rachel. It's not like she hasn't sat through others, but this performance in particular infuriates her to her very core mostly because of what happened the night before.
Right now all she can do is glare daggers at Finn and his clumsy choreography and dopey smile, and watch Rachel for any reactions. She can hear Rachel's heart beat speed up in what she thinks is love and it only fuels her anger. As soon as Finn finishes his song, kneeling down in front of Rachel of course, Quinn abruptly gets up from her seat, attracting everyone's attention, and hastily exits the room.
"Um…ok," Mr. Schue says, "Finn that was a…nice performance."
Finn gets off of the floor, "Thank you, Mr. Schue."
"Mr. Schue is right Finn, that was a good song choice," Rachel says as she gets up and kisses him on the cheek. She turns to Mr. Schue, "Would you mind if I go check on Quinn? She seemed kind of upset?" Rachel inquires and Piper scoffs from her seat, arms crossed in irritation.
"Sure, Rachel that's fine," Mr. Schue replies.
Rachel turns to leave, but is stopped by an oversized hand latching on to hers, "Rach," Finn tries to coo sweetly to Rachel, "I'm sure Quinn is fine. She's a big girl…uh a big girl vampire. I think it's better if you stay here with me, where it's safe."
Rachel slowly removes herself from his grasp, "Quinn is a friend of mine and as a friend it is my duty to make sure that she is alright. I assure that I will be fine, Quinn wouldn't hurt me," she responds, "I'll see you later, Finn."
She grabs her bag and heads out the door, "Are we still on for tonight?" Finn calls out after her.
Rachel turns around, "Um, I don't know I have a lot of work to do today, I'll call you later though," she says and can't help but feel guilty for lying. She offers him a small wave and then sets out to find the angry vampire.
The first place that Rachel looks is Quinn's locker, but she's not there. Then she checks all of the bathrooms and still no sight of the vampire. She walks outside to the football field, hoping that the blonde-haired girl is there because she's running out of places to look. But still, she's nowhere in sight. Rachel turns to leave when she hears a loud thud and sees a flock of birds fly swiftly through the skies. She looks in the direction of the trees near the football field and scrutinizes the sight; then she hears another sound. She briskly walks in the direction of the noise, going into the small forest until she finds her target.
Quinn's back is to her and Rachel can see that she is breathing heavily. Rachel can also see that a tree has fallen, and she wonders if Quinn may have been the abrupt end to this poor tree's life. If so then she will certainly have to talk to her about it. As she looks around she sees a hole in another tree and her breath hitches at the sight. She's pretty sure that Quinn heard her because her body stiffens for a moment.
"Quinn," Rachel says in a small voice, "are you ok?"
"I'm just peachy, Rachel," Quinn replies voice dripping with sarcasm.
"You don't get to talk to me like that," Rachel says slightly defensive.
"And you don't get to ask me questions that you damn well know the answer to," Quinn replies snappily.
"That is it, Quinn Fabray," Rachel shouts, "You don't get to come to my house in the middle of the night, tell me all of these sweet things and then the next day treat me like this. If this is how you're going to treat me then I guess you didn't really mean what you said. And if you were hoping to get into my pants by feeding me some bullshit about how you want to be with me, then you're sadly mistaken." In an instant Quinn has Rachel pinned to a tree; Rachel doesn't know whether to be scared or aroused at the way that Quinn is holding her and looking at her with her glowing yellow eyes.
"Everything that I said to you was the truth," Quinn says through gritted teeth. She pauses before continuing in an effort to calm herself down, "I want you Rachel and I can't stand knowing that he has you. I couldn't take seeing him sing that song to you in glee. The entire time I wanted to just…tear him apart. But I couldn't do that because…you love him. And I meant what I said when I said that I just wanted you to be happy," Quinn finishes sadly. Her eyes have returned to their normal color and she tries to avoid making eye contact with Rachel, "I'm sorry for upsetting you Rachel, I came out here to get control of my emotions so that they wouldn't…explode all over you, but it happened anyway." Quinn says and begins to step away from Rachel, but is stopped when Rachel cups her face.
Rachel holds Quinn's face in place and just stares into her eyes for a moment, "You're right, I do love him," Quinn lowers her face, but Rachel lifts it back up so that they are looking in each other's eyes, "but, like I told you last night, I don't know what I feel for you. You are making me question everything about my relationship and myself. I enjoy being with Finn, but lately all I want is to spend all of my time…with you. I won't let myself…fall for you until I know who you are. I mean we still don't know each other Quinn and I want us to."
"I understand Rachel…What do you want to know?" Quinn asks.
"Everything." Rachel says plainly.
Quinn nods her head before saying, "I'm no good at this."
Rachel looks confused, "No good at what?"
"Letting people in."
"Well I'm not people, I'm Rachel. And I can wait until you're ready," she says as she caresses her cheek. Quinn begins to lean into her touch and releases a sigh of contentment.
Quinn turns her head and places a light kiss on the inside of Rachel's hand, "Thank you."
"You don't have to thank me," Rachel replies humbly, "but there is something that you can do for me."
Quinn smiles slightly, "What can I do?"
Rachel drops her hands from Quinn's face and guides Quinn's hands to rest on her waist before wrapping her arms around Quinn's shoulders, "You can…kiss me?"
Quinn raises her eyebrows in shock, "And why do you want me to kiss you?"
"Because every day I keep replaying in my head the night that I kissed you and I can't help but to wonder what it would've been like had I not run away."
Quinn nods her head, "When was the last time you kissed Finn?"
"Today," Rachel says honestly and Quinn drops her hands and tries to move away from Rachel, "but it was only on the cheek," Rachel rushes out. "Since that night I couldn't bring myself to initiate a kiss, a real kiss with him because I…" Rachel stops.
"Because what?" Quinn asks
Rachel sighs heavily and stares into Quinn's eyes, "Because I know that I felt more in that one, small kiss with you, than I have in any of the kisses with him," she replies honestly.
Quinn instantly grabs Rachel by the waist and even though she pulled Rachel into her fairly quickly, her lips met Rachel's softly and moved against hers at a slow pace. Quinn kissed Rachel with all that she had; she thought that if this was going to be the only time that she got to kiss Rachel, she would make it count. She softly pushed Rachel back against the tree and began kissing her a little more feverishly. Rachel's hands held Quinn's head tightly in place, while Quinn tightened her hold on Rachel's waist. Rachel parted her lips and Quinn took that as her opening and sensually slid her tongue inside Rachel's mouth. Rachel moaned at the contact and the moan reverberated throughout Quinn's body. Quinn was quickly losing control of herself as their tongues battled for dominance. Rachel lets out another deep moan and Quinn can feel her fangs dying to come out.
"Rachel," Quinn says in between kisses, "I hate myself for saying this but we need to stop."
Rachel is at a loss of words so she only nods her head to show that she understands. When Rachel comes out of her kissing induced trance she realizes that she is eye level with Quinn, in fact she is looking slightly downward at Quinn, and that's when she realizes their current position. At some point, during their heavy make-out session, Quinn had picked Rachel up and Rachel wrapped her legs around Quinn's waist. Rachel can practically feel her center pulsating and she's positive that Quinn can feel it too and her cheeks redden.
Rachel clears her throat and tries to regain her composure, "Um Quinn, you have to let me down," she says timidly.
"Oh, I'm sorry I forgot," she carefully places Rachel back on her feet and catches her when she stumbles slightly. "Are you ok?" Quinn asks with a somewhat smug look on her face because if the way her legs buckled was any indication of how that kiss made her feel, then Quinn had every reason to smile.
Rachel, detecting Quinn's cockiness, playfully hits her on the arm, "I'm fine you ass."
"There's no need to be mean Rach," Quinn says still looking smug.
"Whatever. Since we've been out here for a while and I left glee to come looking for you. You have to take me home," Rachel says as she picks up her bag that she had abandoned earlier.
"It would be my pleasure, lead the way" Quinn says as she follows Rachel out of the woods and to the parking lot.
-break-
The next morning at school Quinn is feeling a lot better. After spending the rest of the afternoon and some of the night with Rachel, she was beginning to think that she could get what she wants. Quinn has been pressuring herself to be open with Rachel, even though Rachel said there's no need to rush, but she can't help but to. She wants Rachel to know everything before she gets in too deep…she hopes that once Rachel know her past, that she won't change her mind. But right now, Quinn won't ponder on that. She walks down the halls and stops by her locker before she was supposed to meet Rachel at hers, per Rachel's request. After Quinn opens her locker door, she is overcome by a familiar scent and hears the increased speed of heart beats behind her.
She rolls her eyes and without turning around she says, "What do you want?" clearly agitated.
"I want you to stay away from Rachel," Finn says trying to sound threatening.
"Did Rachel ask you to do this?" Quinn says, still not bothering to face him.
"Well no, b-but" he begins but is promptly interrupted.
"Then we have nothing more to talk about," Quinn says, slamming her locker door and heading in the direction of Rachel's locker. Finn grabs her arm to stop her. Quinn glares at him, her eyes quickly changing color.
"I want you to stay away from my girlfriend," he says more sternly and emphasizing the 'my'.
"Or else what," she says through gritted teeth, "what do you think you could possibly do to me?"
"I'll tell Figgins that you attacked me," he says and Quinn's face hardens, "I'll tell him that one day you just lost control and you bit me."
"You're not marked dipshit," Quinn replies.
"Yet," he says smugly, "You and I both know that it won't be hard to find a vampire willing to bite me. Maybe Piper could do it for me," he adds with a wink.
Quinn's face reddens at his implications, she doesn't move because she worries about what she could do to him in the state that she's in now.
Finn steps closer to her, "Like I said, stay away from Rachel. She's not yours and she never will be," he says while looking her straight in the eyes before walking away.
Quinn stands in the middle of the hallway for a moment because she doesn't know what else to do. She throws her fist into the nearest locker and it causes a massive dent. She looks around to see several students staring at her with their mouths wide open, there's one who is standing particularly close.
She nods at him, "Is this your locker?" She says motioning to the locker that her hand is still currently sitting in.
He slowly nods. She removes her hand, "I'm sorry for the ruining your locker, if you want you could take mine?" she offers.
He only stares at her before saying, "That was awesome."
She rolls her eyes and starts to head away, "I'll have my stuff out by this afternoon, its locker 1686." She walks away, but she doesn't bother going to meet Rachel; she can't risk it. What if Finn holds true to his threat, then she'd surely meet death.
Quinn is thankful that she and Rachel don't share her next class, but she knows that Rachel will soon figure out that something is not right. Quinn walks into the classroom and takes a seat in between Piper and Blaine.
"Hey Quinn," Piper says, "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine," Quinn simply states, not wanting to have this conversation with Piper.
"Don't tell me, it's got something to do with her," she says somewhat annoyed.
"It's nothing that's got nothing to do with anyone, ok." Quinn says getting annoyed, she turns away from Piper.
"You wouldn't be having this problem, if you just stuck to you're kind." Piper says under her breath.
"That is enough," Quinn shouts drawing the attention of everyone in the room, including the teacher, "It does not concern you, so why don't you just let it go and move on." Quinn snaps at her.
"It does concern me when you decided to leave me for her," Piper says getting angry.
"In order for me to have left you, there would've had to be something more than just sex between us," Quinn says. Piper tries to slap Quinn, but Quinn easily catches her hand.
"Let me go," Piper says, her eyes changing color to match the anger she is feeling right now.
"You don't want to do this Piper, you won't win" Quinn says, letting her hand go.
"Fuck you, Quinn, just fuck you." Piper says feeling more upset than angry, and then she storms out of the room. Everyone watches her leave and then turns their attention back to Quinn.
"That was a little unnecessary, Quinn. You should go talk to her," Blaine says.
"She just needs time to cool off," Quinn says dismissing him.
"No, she doesn't. This will happen again. You need to talk to her."
Quinn knows that he's right, but she just doesn't have it in her right now so she turns her attention to the teacher, "Please continue on with your lesson sir," she says and waits for him to gather himself before proceeding with the lesson.
-break-
Quinn is relieved when the final bell rings. She just wants to go home, where she won't have to worry about Rachel or Piper. She exits the school building and pulls out her packet of cigarettes from her bag. She picks one, lights it, closes her eyes and inhales deeply only for it to be cut short by the cigarette being pulled from her mouth.
"I haven't seen you all day," Quinn knows that voice and by the tone, she can tell that this person is not happy.
"Well, there are over 200 students attending this school, so to find one could be nearly impossible," Quinn replies smartly.
"That may be so, but that becomes highly unlikely when that one person was supposed to find me," Rachel says with her hands on her hips and a frown fixed on her face.
"Look, something came up and I…" Quinn starts.
"Bullshit, Quinn Fabray. I can't keep doing this with you. We move forward, and then we move right back. It's exhausting."
"Well regardless of how far we move, it means virtually nothing since you still have a boyfriend," Quinn replies somewhat frustrated. But after seeing Rachel's face, she immediately wants to take it back.
"So it means nothing to you," Rachel says sadly.
"No, Rachel that's not what I meant. It means everything to me, but..."
"But what…I know that what I've asked you to do is not ideal, but I asked because it means something to me," Rachel says making Quinn feel guilty.
As Rachel turns to walk away, Quinn says, "Wait,"
"Why should I?" Rachel asks.
"Why should I?" Quinn counters reflexively and Rachel starts to walk away again. This time Quinn uses her speed to block her path and is derailed by the sight of tears welling up in Rachel's eyes.
"I'm sorry…I want to explain myself, I really do, but not here." Quinn says sincerely.
"Why not here?" Rachel asks.
Quinn sighs deeply, "Have you seen Finn?"
"Yea, he asked me to meet him by his car after school."
"Shit," Quinn says, "I have to go, but not because I don't want to finish this. Meet me tonight," Quinn asks.
"I can't, I have to…"
"Please, it's important," Quinn begs.
"Ok, where?"
"Could you meet me at RED?" Quinn asks thinking of the first place that came to mind.
"The vampire club?" Rachel asks somewhat hesitantly.
"Yea," Quinn says but then she picks up Finn's scent, "Be there around 10:00pm, I'll find you," she says and then hurriedly leaves to her car.
Rachel watches Quinn walk away and can't help but to wonder why Quinn was acting so strange…well stranger than usual.
-break-
Rachel had asked Kurt to escort her to the club because she had trouble coming up with a suitable excuse to tell her fathers of why she was going to a vampire club so late at night. So she just opted to tell them that she would be with Kurt; she lied mostly to spare her parents the worrying (at least that's what she tells herself to ease the guilt).
"Are you sure you want to go in there," Kurt asks eying the front doors to RED wearily.
Rachel takes another look at her watch and sees that it is 9:55pm, "Am I sure? No, not really. But I have to see Quinn."
"Ok, do you want me to come in there with you?"
"No, you don't have to. Quinn should be here soon," she says hoping that she is right.
"Ok, well text me when you get together with Quinn and call if you need anything," Kurt says.
"Ok I will, thanks for the ride Kurt," Rachel says as she gets out of the car. She tries to smooth out the imaginary wrinkles to calm her nerves as she walks to the bouncer.
"I.D. please," the Bouncer asks in a deep voice. Rachel fumbles to get her identification out, being slightly intimidated by the size and sound of the man guarding the doors. Finally she retrieves it, and shows it to him.
He looks her up and down for a moment, before handing her I.D. back to her, "Hands out," he says and Rachel complies. He then takes a red marker and places two very large red exes on the backs of her hands. He then instructs her inside, "Good luck," he says. Rachel doesn't know whether he was being sincere or if he was just being rude.
Rachel cautiously walks through the club, not sure where she's supposed to be heading. She looks around at all of the people, who are wearing very little to nothing, and feels completely overdressed. For some reason, she thinks a safe place to sit would be at the bar.
"I can help you with those," a man says to her, who is sitting on the stool beside her.
"With what?" Rachel asks.
He motions towards her hugging her jacket close to her, "Your clothes," he tries to say smoothly.
"That's very kind of you, but no thank you," Rachel says trying to be polite.
"What's your name, sweetheart?" He says.
"My name is Rachel," she says hesitantly.
"And who, my dear Rachel, is your maker," he asks and she doesn't answer, "You're not vampire, are you?"
"No, I am not," she says.
"Then what are you doing here, the only people who come here are vampires and those who want to be fed on by vampires and you look nothing like the latter," he says.
"With all due respect sir, why I am here is none of your business," she says getting annoyed with this man.
He reveals his fangs and moves closer to her, "I think it is my business if I want to make you dinner," he says with a wicked grin as he moves closer to her neck. Rachel, completely shocked, does not know what to do, so she only sits and tries to brace for the inevitable bite.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," she hears and looks to see that Quinn has pulled the man away from her.
He hisses, "Who the hell do you think you are? She has no marks, she's clean. She's open to be taken."
With lightning speed, Quinn pulls him close and bears her fangs, "She is mine," she says through gritted teeth. Her eyes change color and he begins to feel afraid because he knows that she is no ordinary vampire, "Touch her again and I'll rip you apart," Quinn says and throws him on the ground. He hurriedly picks himself up and disappears instantly.
Quinn's body is throbbing with fury, but then she feels a small hand holding on to hers. She turns and Rachel steps closer to her and caresses her cheek, "Quinn, calm down," she says softly.
That is all it takes. Quinn's fangs retract and her eyes return to their normal hazel color, "I apologize for my behavior, Rachel. You shouldn't have had to see that and I should've known better than to ask you to meet me here."
"You don't have anything to apologize for…you're my hero," Rachel replies genuinely.
Quinn turns her head, "You speak so highly of me…why?"
"Why not?" Rachel challenges.
"I don't deserve it, I'm no angel," she says sardonically.
"You're right, you aren't an angel," Rachel says, "but I like what and who you are."
"You don't know who I am," Quinn states.
"I know enough to know that I will like the rest of you," Rachel says.
"Only like?" Quinn questions playfully.
Rachel chuckles, "We'll see," she says giving herself and Quinn hope, "Now what is it that you wanted to talk to me about."
Once Rachel mentions that, Quinn's demeanor instantly changes, "Did you tell Finn, you were coming to meet me," Quinn asks, voice dripping with loathing when she says his name.
"No, I did not, but if your tone is any indication, I'd say that this has something to do with Finn. Look Quinn, if this is you trying to talk me into breaking up with him..."
"—He threatened me," Quinn says interrupting her.
Rachel's face changes between surprise and confusion, "Excuse me, he did what?"
"Today he stopped by my locker before I was meant to meet you. He told me that if I didn't stay away from you, he would tell Figgins that I attacked him. Now do you understand why I have been elusive all day? I cannot do anything to sabotage the vampire cause…it would be the end of me if that happened. I would gladly die for you Rachel Berry, but not before I figure out what we," she motions between them, "could be."
The butterflies fluttering in Rachel's stomach at what she just heard distracts her from the importance of what Quinn said, well momentarily, "They're going to kill you?" she shouts incredulously.
Quinn shakes her head, "Is that the only thing that you've got out what I just said to you?"
"No, but it's one of the more important ones," Rachel answers, "who's going to kill you?" Rachel asks.
"The vampire council, but that's not important." Quinn answers.
"How is that not important?"
"Because I will live as long as Finn doesn't go through with his threat."
Rachel nods her head at Quinn. She then turns and begins to walk away.
Quinn, puzzled, shouts "where are you going?"
"I am going to kill Finn Hudson," a furious Rachel shouts back at her.
Quinn uses her speed to catch up with Rachel, "As much as I want that to happen, I can't let you do that."
"Why not?" Rachel asks, unintentionally directing her fury at Quinn.
"Because then he'll know that I told you, which means I didn't stay away from you, and he will lie to Figgins so calm down firecracker."
Rachel huffs at Quinn's impromptu nickname, "Well what are we supposed to do?"
"You could break up with your stupid, impotent, jerk, asshole of a boyfriend?" Quinn supplies.
Rachel glares at her, "Well then it's obvious what we do," Quinn says.
"Don't say it." Rachel says solemnly.
"We have to stop seeing each other," Quinn says regretfully.
"I don't want that," Rachel says immediately.
"Well what do you suppose we do? There are no other options."
"We can keep sneaking around," Rachel says and flinches at how bad that sounded.
Quinn shakes her head, "It won't work. If you keep breaking plans with him, soon he's going to realize that you're not at home in your room, flipping through song selections and that you're on my bed."
Rachel slaps Quinn on the arm, "I have never nor will I ever be in your bed Quinn Fabray."
"Never say never," Quinn simply says.
"Come on, this is serious Quinn," Rachel says.
"I know…and that's why we have to take a break," Quinn says sadly.
"…you're breaking up with me and we're not even technically a couple," Rachel says equally as sad.
"I'm not breaking up with you Rachel," Quinn says as she places her hands on Rachel's waist and pulls her close, "We just need to spend time apart for a while and then we can get to know each other better and see where it leads us."
Rachel nods her head in understanding, "I don't like this," she says through sniffles.
Quinn leaves a lingering kiss on her forehead, "I don't either," she says as she looks into Rachel's eyes. Suddenly she's overcome with a longing to kiss Rachel, because who knows how long it will be before she is able to again, so she does. The surprise of the kiss causes Rachel to whimper, but she beings to respond to the kiss immediately. Rachel begins running her fingers through short blond hair and pulling Quinn's lips ever closer.
When they stop, Quinn opens her eyes and looks at a dazed Rachel. Rachel brings one of her hands to touch one of Quinn's eye, "They're so bright," Rachel says dreamily.
"And yours are so dark," Quinn says knowing what the kiss did to Rachel.
Rachel blushes, "I'm not the one with the raging libido," she replies cleverly.
Quinn chuckles at that, "Unfortunately, I think it's time that I get you home."
Rachel relaxes her hold on Quinn, "you don't have to do that. I can call Kurt."
"I want to," Quinn says, "I just have to make sure that you're safe."
Rachel nods, "Ok…let's go" Rachel say and begins to walk away, trying her best to reel in her emotions. She is stopped when she feels Quinn's hand intertwining with hers. She looks up at Quinn.
"You'll be fine," Quinn says. She places a kiss on Rachel's hand then leads them out of the club.