A/N : I own nothing !

Chapter 10:

I can be your hero, baby

I can kiss away the pain

I would stand by you forever

You can take my breath away

RPOV

I felt a hand grab me from behind and pull me toward a hard body. I looked over and saw the big guy from earlier. Oh no! Not again…

"Hey there sexy!" he said loudly. His breath reeking of alcohol

"Let's party!"

He pulled me harder now and I fussed against him. I turned my face away from him and attempted to push away unsuccessfully

"No thank you" I said shoving him away to no avail

"Oh c'mon baby, I know you want it tonight, I've been watching you. Quite the little cock tease. Let me give you what that idiot wouldn't"

He grabbed my thigh and squeezed hard

"Let go of me!" I pushed and pushed, but he refused to let go. His hands griping harder and bruising me.

"Hum feisty I like it! You want it, and you know it, so stop pretending." He buried his face in my neck.

"Get off of me asshole!" I screamed, pushing and smacking at him now.

"Stop it!"

"Oh c'mon ba…"

PPOV

I found Santana and Matt pretty cozy on a couch in a spare room.

"hey did you see Rach recently?"

"Why do you care?" she snapped

"Easy San let him talk at least" Matt said patting her thigh.

"okk so it's a yes where is she I need to talk to her?"

"She is gone because of you I don't know what you did this time but I swear if you had hurt her I'm gonna kick your stupid ass Puck!"

I was about to answer her when Sam came in the room, his eyes showing concerned

"Her coat and purse are still in Matt's room"

Santana stood up "what? She wouldn't have gone without her stuff so she must still be outside." It was like she was talking to herself.

"Wait a minute, outside like in the backyard?" Sam exclaimed

"That's what she texted me yes why?" Santana looked at him confused

"Because I saw that asshole from your camp Puck, Dave, going outside in my way here"

I exchanged a look with Matt whose face paled before he clenched his fist as he stood up abruptly.

"Matt what's the matter? Who is he? " Santana asked reaching for him

"He-"

I didn't wait for his answer I was already running toward the backdoor. I slammed it with a loud bang and what I saw let me frozen for an instant. He was pressing her against the porch rail with all his body grinding into her, his hands high on her thighs. Rachel was whimpering, crying and struggling weakly.

"Please let me go"

I had enough, I grabbed him by the arm and send him away from her, hitting the wall. Rachel collapsed in my arms, sobbing loudly. I hold her to me and put my jacket around her shoulders.

"Shh Rae it's ok I've got you"

RPOV

I raised my head off of Noah's chest to see Dave standing up. He had an incredulous, upset look on his face. Horrified, I put myself behind Noah as fast as I could.

"What's the fuck Puck?" He towered over us. Noah put himself in front of me, one arm out in defense as Dave stopped in front of us.

"Seriously you're asking me that? What the fuck were you doing with my girl?"

Noah asked quietly in a hard voice. His body started to shake as he clenched his fists. I bit my bottom lip. If I didn't calm him down soon, he would explode.

He smirked "I just wanted to get a taste too, to know if she is as good as you said"

Noah's knuckles were white, and I found myself gripping the fabric of his t-shirt as I stood behind his back, protected. I had no doubt that he could handle himself in a fight, but I would prefer it not to come to that.

"You asshole" he growled

"Why, you didn't have a problem sharing before, so let me finish ok?"

He shoved Noah to provoke him some more, and the action jarred me, and I squeaked in surprise. Noah reached behind him to steady me, and turned his head.

"You 'kay, babe?" I nodded and looked up at him, eyes widening in surprise.

"Noah, watch out!"

He turned just in time to catch Dave's fist in his eye. He stumbled back, and I yelped. Noah shook it off, and before I could blink, he lunged, catching Dave around the waist and bringing him down. He straddled the taller boy, and pinned his hands.

Dave managed to throw him off, and slugged him again, this time in the ribs. I was hollering at them to stop. Neither of them seemed to hear me as I saw Noah put his hand of his ribs, I was pretty sure some were broken because his breath was irregular.

Matt came out followed by San and Sam. Santana put her hand in front of her mouth looking as horrified as I was. He grabbed me by the waist to keep me away from the fight.

"Rachel come here you're gonna get hurt." I was having none of it.

"Mathew let me go this instant I have to separate them he is hurting him and this is my fault."

I was trying in vain to escape his grip.

"Rach…" he said in warning.

"Do something then!" I yelled to no one and anybody before exhaustion took me and I started crying once again. The two of them were fighting on the floor now.

"Noah, please!" I begged, exasperated. He looked up at me with those hazel eyes, and Matt used the distraction to grab Dave's shirt and haul him off of him. I held out a hand and he took it, standing up with difficulty and brushed himself off. I grabbed his head and yanked him down to look at the huge bruise forming from where Dave's first punch landed. His lip was also split and bleeding a little, and he winced as I inspected him. I glanced over at Matt, who was yelling.

"I don't want to fucking hear it, you do not start a fight in my house! Now, I never really liked you, but I put up with you for the sake of the camp and shit. But now I don't give a shit anymore. So get the hell out of my house"

He crossed his arms over his chest as Dave turned and limped away. I heard the front door slam, but didn't pay much attention to it. I helped Noah back into Matt's spare room and sat him down on the bed. I shushed him again brushing past Sam, who leaned against the doorway, to get to the bathroom. I grabbed a washcloth and ran it under warm water. I saw his reflection in the mirror, I knew what he was doing, he was checking me out for injuries. I would have talked to him but his behavior for earlier stopped me to. I didn't understand why he didn't help Noah or tried to stop the fight. He rubbed his face tiredly.

"Ray you sure you're ok?"

I ignored him and made my way to the spare room but he beat me to it.

"Wait so I get the silence treatment now or something?" I looked over his shoulder at Noah who was still sitting on the bed touching lightly his bruised eye and wincing.

"Listen to me Samuel" I whispered-yelled "tonight you chose to not help Noah but by doing that you also chose to not help me because he was doing it for me, to protect me from that jerk" I shivered at the thoughts. "And this, this I cannot tolerate it, so move!" I finished as I tapped my foot of the floor.

"Rae?" I hurried to him "don't move Noah you're hurting"

Sam was still standing there, but I ignored him in favor of Noah

"Here, stop touching it" I swatted his hand away and dabbed at the lip, feeling bad when he winced

"I'm sorry"

"'S cool. I used to get in fights all the time at camp, so I'm used to it"

He shrugged. I simply shook my head and continued to dab at his lip until it was clean. I tilted his head down to look at his eye, and shook my head again.

PPOV

She was taking care of me like I was a wounded soldier or some shit. It was kinda nice, having her standing over me and cleaning my wounds. I looked over her shoulder and saw Sam standing in the doorway, watching us with interest. There was a look in his eyes that I absolutely did not like at all, but before I could glare at him and silently tell him to back the fuck off, Rachel's hair was in my face as she wiped gently at my eye. I closed my good eye, inhaling the smell of peach, my cologne and stale alcohol. The first two together smelled awesome, like they belonged together, and I just wanted to keep her close to me.

"You shouldn't have done that,"

I opened my eye and found Sam gone, and Rachel looking down at me with worry

"It could've been much worse,"

She was for real?

"Are you kidding? He was trying to rape you. You should let me take care of you right now" I said doing a rapid once over to check any injuries on her body, my eye came to a stop as I looked at her thighs. Bruises were already forming, I'd clearly see the mark of hands.

She shook her head and wiped at my lip, which had started bleeding again.

"While I find your behavior honorable, you still shouldn't have done it,"

"Fine," I snapped, feeling kind of annoyed

"Next time, I'll just let him hit the shit out of me,"

She didn't say anything, simply kept cleaning my face, and I sulked like a child.

We stayed that way in silence for a little bit, until it started to grate on my nerves.

"You called me Noah" I said. Her hand paused in its ministrations, and she looked at me in surprise.

"That's your name, isn't it?"

"You know what I mean, you didn't earlier, you were pretty upset," I looked up at her as she turned back to what she was doing. I could tell she was still kind of upset from the previous events, she looked really tired, but she also still looked beautiful. Her makeup was smeared, and she her hair was a mess, but her skin was pretty and looked soft. I really wanted to reach out and touch it, but I didn't know where we stand.

I'd been on my way to check on her, since it had been the first opportunity I'd had after being dragged away by the guys earlier. Those bastards had tried to shove drink after drink at me, but suddenly, I hadn't been in the mood. They'd finally been distracted by some slutty girls, and I had snuck away, figuring I'd see if Rachel was still there. When I found her, I wondered if she remembered anything about earlier in the main room, if she was still upset about it.

She had stopped cleaning my face. I looked up and found her yawning. I immediately felt bad. The night really worn her out, she'd had a shitty night, because of me on top of it all and now I was sitting here like an ass while she cleaned me up. I took her hand and placed her into the bed, lying down with her. She looked at me surprised, but didn't leave. I got up and turned off the light before crawling back on the bed.

She was curled up on my good side facing me, and I turned my head to smile at her. I knew I must look stupid, with my split lip and black eye, but she just smiled back and scooted closer, resting her head carefully on my chest. I wrapped an arm around her and stared at the ceiling.

"Thank you, Noah," she said quietly.

"No problem, babe"

I caressed her hair slowly "Rae I-"

"Shh we'll talk tomorrow. Now I just need you to hold me"

Who was I to refuse her that? I kissed the top of her head as I felt her fingers curling into the material of my shirt and closed my eyes. Her hair still smelled like peach, she was still wearing my jacket, and she was back in my arms.

"Night, Rae"

"Goodnight, Noah"

A/N : Next chapter we'll learn more about Puck's past and have some SMUT ;)