A/N: Okay so here's the next chapter, i hope you like it although its a bit of a filler.
Let me know if you have any ideas and ill try and put them in.
Thank you to darkandtwisty22 my awesome beta!
Chapter Eleven – Family
Deep breaths, just take deep breaths and this will all be okay Rachel. No it won't, who the hell are you kidding here? You have your old school here trying to win you back, your new school is sat watching extremely pissed off and your mother... Your fucking mother is here!
Rachel gritted her teeth, folded her arms and spun on her feet. She stormed off back up to the doors of the auditorium, leaving the rest of the students all wondering about what was going to happen next. In the end it was Santana that stood up for the McKinley group, her eyes on Jesse's ignoring everyone else in the room. She wanted to make an impression; she wanted him to remember whatever it was that she planned to tell him. Quinn leaned backwards in her chair, she hated when her friend got like this but it was pointless to try and stop her, only Brittany could do that.
"Okay look, you have no right coming here and trying to win our Berry back." She shouted. Brittany stood up by her girlfriend's side and slid her hand down her arm until they were holding hands.
"She was our friend first, we're her family." He glared at the Latina.
"Wrong. Me, Britt-Britt, Tubbers and the Incredible Hulk back at home are her family." She replied, cockily.
"For now, but she'll be mine again when she realises what a bunch of freaks she's hanging out with, me and Rachel are meant to be together." He raised his voice and stepped forwards, "I will make her mine!"
"¡Hijo de puta!" Santana lunged forwards ready to jump over the last few stairs, luckily Puck had caught onto her and was now holding her back, "Stay away from her, she's not yours!"
Quinn was so thankful to have a friend like Santana.
"What are you going to do? You're losers!" Jesse chuckled and the rest of his club laughed with him.
"You're right." The cheerleader said, calming down a little. "We're a big bunch of misfits, but we're a family and we stick together. If you mess that up, I'ma go all Lima Heights on your ass!"
"Exactly, she's a star, unlike the rest of you talentless idiots!" Jesse growled.
"Oh heeell to the no!" Mercedes was up now, next to the cheerleader "I got your back, Satan, nobody tells me I have no talent."
"Hey, hey guys!" Mr Schue shouted, "No more fighting, we can prove our talents when we perform tomorrow."
"Whatever, I'm still going to kick his ass if he goes anywhere near the Munchkin."
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"Dad? Daddy? Girls?" Rachel stepped into her house and for the first time since everyone moved in she was alone. Goose jumped up into her, she was not expecting the force of his pounce and he ended up head butting her right in the eye. She yelped and pushed him away gently, she wished Brittany was here, she would always calm him down with just her presence.
She felt the sting just under her eyebrow and went into the bathroom to inspect it. Once inside she saw the small cut, it wasn't bleeding too badly which was good because she hated the sight of blood. She cleaned it up and rooted in the cupboard for a small band-aid. When she found one she felt the tears well up in her eyes as she saw the image of the duck, it was Brittany's.
"I have to fix this." Rachel said to herself and returned to the living room, clicking the voicemail button.
"Hey sweetheart, it's your dad, we've been called out of town for a little while." She groaned. Perfect; she was home alone tonight, Dave was staying at Sam's for a movie night. "We'll call you tomorrow when we have more information on when we'll be back, be safe, no drinking or boys-" She heard a rattle of the phone and her daddy's voice took over, "That only goes for you David, the rest of you girls... Please just be safe and... Well... I guess you have been dating for a while..." She cringed, "Just be careful, miss you and be back soon."
She went upstairs and sat by her desk, pulling out a pad of paper and jotting down ideas to make it up to everyone.
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We're family, just talk to her. She's not going to hurt you... Hopefully. Rachel walked through the corridors at a quick pace hoping not to miss her moment, but when she saw the girl she found herself slowing down until she was frozen in place, too afraid that she was going to get beaten up by one of her best friends. She waited and waited watching Santana at her locker, unable to find the nerve to talk to her but she knew this could be the only chance she had to make this right.
"Keep staring, that's not creepy what so ever." Santana said, her voice dripping with sarcasm as she looked over her shoulder.
"Santana," she moved closer.
"Berry-Backstabber." The Latina remarked, "What do you want? I'm really not in the mood to talk to you after yesterday.
"Where were you three last night? I was so worried; you ignored all my texts and calls." She folded her arms and looked down.
"Oh and I wonder why. Oh no, it's because you lied to us Manhands!" Santana threw her book in her locker.
"Please, don't do this." She begged, "I need you, all of you. I have an idea of how to make it up to everyone but I need your help."
"I don't know, you really pissed me off yesterday..." The cheerleader replied sadly and then noticed the duck plaster over her eyebrow. "What the hell is that?"
"What?"
"Your eye, what happened? Did someone hit you? I'll kill them!" Santana yelled.
"Hey, I'm fine, Goose jumped up at me too hard." She said and calmly.
"Oh, okay well... What's going on with Vocal Adrenaline?" The cheerleader scowled.
"San, you know I'm not leaving right? No matter what." Rachel looked up and caught the tears forming in Santana's eyes, "Are you crying?"
"No!" She sniffed, "...You're really not going anywhere?"
"Without my three best friends? No chance. How could I survive without you guys?" She smiled warmly, "Please give me a chance?"
"Fine, but you better promise to never scare me like that again Berry, we're family and family sticks together." She said pulling the smaller girl into a hug.
"Santana, are you drunk? You're really emotional right now, more than me and I'm the one who messed up." Rachel squeezed her.
"I'm not drunk, I just realised last night how much I missed home." She said pulling back.
"Why? What happened last night?"
"We ended up staying at Britt's after we begged her parents to let us stay the night. They refused to let any of us sleep in the same room and you know I like to gets my cuddles on with my Britt-Britt." She sighed, "Okay, enough, what's the plan?"
"Well, firstly, I need you to get Brittany on board with this." Rachel saw Santana bite her lip.
"That's going to be hard, Rae." Santana picked up her bag and put it over her shoulder, "She's really upset."
"I have that covered, actually." She grinned, "just get her to meet you at her locker at the end of next lesson, you both have a free then right?"
"Yeah..." She nodded, "Okay then, I'll see you later."
Santana turned to shut her locker when Rachel's hand held her back.
"Mind if I put my books in here? I have to get to my lesson and my locker is at the other side of the school." Rachel asked with an expression that the Latina couldn't say no to, so she cursed under her breath for being so easily broken by the girl who she had once found irritating and agreed.
"Fine, but don't mess up my shit Berry." And with that she left, walking down the hall. When Rachel was sure her friend had disappeared she shouted for her back up.
"Dave?" She yelled and waited as he appeared from the boy's bathroom with a large box with holes covering it.
"Okay, I'm here, will this work?" He asked taking out the animal and placing it inside the locker.
"Yeah there's three large slots at the top of the locker, it can breathe." Rachel examined it before shutting the locker door.
"We've already missed half of the lesson, you know?"
"What? But I was just talking to Santana." She gasped.
"Yeah, she's never on time to lessons. The car drive back from the farm must have taken us longer than we thought and then we were setting up the fencing in the garden, we must have lost track of time." He explained his theory, "Want to ditch?"
"No, I do not want to ditch but it's probably better than walking into a lesson half way through without a reasonable excuse." She hit him on his shoulder, thinking over everything she had planned for the day, "We can go do Quinn's part of the plan."
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Santana was walking down the corridor with her pinky linked with her girlfriend's; they turned the corner and saw Rachel stood with Karofsky on the opposite side to the Latina's locker. She instantly knew the diva was up to something, so she played along, obviously not wanting to spoil any surprise. As they reached the locker she heard Rachel's fake cough, she figured it was a signal for Brittany to open it instead as when she lifted her hand again her small cough turned into her stamping her foot and kicking her foot against the metal doors on the other side of the hall.
"Britt-Britt, will you open my locker for me?" Santana was about to explain why when her girlfriend nodded and went to unlock it without needing a reason, she found herself smiling.
The blonde let out a huge squeal of excitement when she saw the animal.
"San!" She grabbed her arm and tugged her close, "There's a duck in your locker!"
"Oh, really? You don't say." Santana looked back to Rachel who was now making her way over with a box to fit the duck inside.
"Hello Brittany, Santana." She beamed, "I see you got Santana's early birthday present, I helped her get it you know."
The Latina was thankful that she wasn't given all the credit otherwise she would have felt a little guilty, but seeing the look of pure delight spread across her girlfriends face made all previous irritation for the diva wash away.
"Okay, okay, what do you want from me Rachel?" She smiled, ready to do nearly anything now.
"Well, I have a plan to get Vocal Adrenaline back." She handed her an envelope, "The instructions are in there, but be careful, you don't have much time to prepare. Brittany the cheerios are in the auditorium right now waiting for you. Once you're done with them, you will head over to the choir room where you will prepare together. Then you will need to arrange an emergency meeting with the Glee club, you can do this over lunch and then teach them through the dance and song."
"Rant much?" Santana sighed, "I'm probably going to regret asking this but how did you get the cheerios on board?"
"Well Coach Sylvester is my god mother and with a little persuasion I was able to convince her to let them help. So now it's just up to you to bring the gleeks." She breathed deeply, "Oh and please let Quinn know to go to her locker at lunch."
"Right, okay." She nodded, "I think I get it, now get your Jewish ass out of here, we needs to get practising."
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"Are you going to tell me what's going on?" Quinn asked as Santana and Brittany each held one of her hands and pulled her to her locker, "Seriously? Why is it so important? I can go at the end of the day."
"No you really can't!" Santana replied. She wondered whether there was going to be another farm animal hidden away in there, although it was a nice gesture the thing had crapped all over her homework and her teacher wasn't very happy with the excuse.
"Tell me what's going on!" Quinn was pushed forwards and found herself in front of the locker. She sighed when she saw the serious expression on Santana's face and just decided against fighting with her and opened the door, the second it swung open a wave of tiny circular sweets hit her. Luckily Karofsky was behind her and caught her before she tripped over. "What the hell?"
Once most of the sweets had fallen out she saw the note inside her locker, 'Just in case you had any cravings today – R*' She smiled and giggled at the fact that Rachel had managed to fill the metal storage place with skittles.
"Aww, that's so sweet!" Brittany smiled.
"Yeah it is." Quinn agreed.
"I wonder what the finale is..." Santana said.
"Finale?" The pregnant teenager looked over at her, "What do you mean finale?"
"She's been trying to make it up to everyone, she got Britt-Britt a duck-" She started to list the items but Karofsky spoke.
"Two actually, we left one at home." He smiled.
"We didn't see the other one when we dropped the one from her locker off, but I guess it could have been in that hutch you guys put together..." She answered the question herself, "Anyways, she bought Puckerman a season ticket for a football team, promised Mercedes and Tina a solo, Kurt got a signed picture of Barbra Streisand and Mike and Artie got a new video game each."
"Wow..." Quinn said quietly, "I can't believe she's done all that."
"I know and the best bit's yet to come, let's go meet up with the gleeks and I'll explain," Santana said. She had to admit, she was really excited.
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The new directions were all backstage when Vocal Adrenaline took their seats. Mr Schue, Miss Pillsbury and Sue Sylvester were all there too, but only the cheerios coach actually knew what was going on. Then Rachel appeared, taking the stage. Most of the gleeks were still annoyed with her and since she hadn't come to the practice they were sure she had returned to her old school.
"Hello everyone." Rachel smiled, her eyes falling on Jesse and then her mother. "I have gathered you here today to show everyone what we can do when we join together, I have managed to run around and put together a song to perform, one that will prove to everyone here that we are ready for Nationals this year and we're going to win it." She saw the happy faces of her old friends disappear. "Oh and I've chosen two of the best singers and two of my best friends to lead this, not me, I'm just swaying in the back."
The stage was dark with only a few lights dotted around. Everyone moved onto the stage and spread out, the cheerios at the very back, the New Directions just before them and Santana was stood in the middle with Brittany by her side.
The lights turned flashed on, the spotlight found Brittany as she started the song, walking to the front of the stage.
Yellow diamonds in the light
Now we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine
What it takes to come alive
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go
Santana was now next to her girlfriend as they started the chorus off. Brittany and Santana both spun around and in the back the gleeks were following the easy enough dance routine that the Brittany had taught them, the cheerleaders following a slightly harder routine as they twisted around and performed a stunt as two girls on either side of the stage were thrown up in the air.
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
Santana turned slightly to sing to Brittany, the blonde leaned forwards and kissed her cheek. Quinn caught Rachel's eye and the two smiled, the last day had been forgotten. The brunette sent her a wink and turned around to be twirled around by Puck.
Shine a light through an open door
Love and life I will divide
Turn away cause I need you more
Feel the heartbeat in my mind
Rachel's eyes fell on Jesse's as Brittany took her turn to sing to Santana with the rest of the gleeks singing in the background. His jaw was slack and his eyes were wide. She felt proud of her friends for being able to pull this off; it was totally worth it to see that look on his face. Yes, he meant a lot to her, but the New Directions were family now.
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
(I just can't deny)
But I've gotta let it go
Ooh
Brittany walked quickly back to join the gleeks in the middle of the stage as the New Directions belted out the chorus. The cheerios twirled around and followed each step Brittany had taught them precisely as she and another cheerleader then ran up from the back of the stage and preformed a back handspring, smirking when they saw the jealous expressions that Vocal Adrenaline had when they landed.
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
The cheerios in the back pulled off a few lifts as everyone paired up in front of them. Brittany took hold of the Latina's hands as she sung directly to her, Quinn and Rachel did the same, spinning their partner and lifting them into the air slightly.
Yellow diamonds in the light
(Santana: In the light)
And we're standing side by side
(Santana: Oh)
As your shadow
Together Santana and Brittany sang, pulling away from each other to dance with the gleeks in the back. Rachel could see Sue Sylvester watching the girls intently with a small smile on her face.
Crosses mine...
Santana jumped in the air as she sang loudly, watching as Jesse clenched his fist, he looked like he was on the verge of storm out.
We found love
Rachel couldn't stop herself as she grabbed for Quinn's hand, holding it tightly with hers. Every one of the gleeks and cheerios were too in the moment to notice and so continued to dance. It was only Jesse that witnessed and questioned it.
We found love in a hopeless place
(Santana: Ooh)
We found love in a hopeless place
(Santana: In a hopeless place)
We found love in a hopeless place
(Santana: Oooh-ooh)
We found love in a hopeless place
(Santana: Hopeless place)
Brittany spun Santana around, singing her line loudly with a crazy amount of enthusiasm. Mr Schue had never let her sing as much as Rachel had and she was enjoying every moment of it. Everyone joined together now, Santana and Brittany moved back to the middle to follow the routine with the rest of the people on the stage, the cheerios moved forwards and slotted themselves between the gleeks.
We found love!
Everyone walked up together, singing to the crowd, the New Directions were bursting with excitement, they'd done it, they'd totally one upped the competition and Rachel was going nowhere.
We found love in a hopeless place
(Santana: Ohoh)
We found love in a hopeless place
(Santana: We found love)
We found love in a hopeless place
(Brittany: Ooh)
(Brittany and Santana:We found love)
We found love in a hopeless place
Everyone joined together at the very front of the stage, out of breath and tired but each and every one of them were laughing.
"Well, I hope you enjoyed our performance." Rachel said to Jesse, "I'd love to stay and chat but I have a surprise for everyone to show them how much they mean to me, see you at Nationals."
With that she turned away and pulled Quinn along with her who couldn't hide her happiness.
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"What's going on Rae?" Brittany leaned forwards in her seat, "Where are you taking us?"
Rachel has ordered everyone into their cars the second the competition had ended and they'd managed to get rid of Finn. They'd been driving ever since and the brunette had been keeping quiet about where she was taking them, although she knew they'd like it.
"Just wait and see Britt, it's be good." Santana told her.
"Okay." She fell backwards and into her girlfriends embrace in the back of the car.
"Is everyone still following?" Rachel asked Santana.
"Um..." The Latina looked out of the back window and saw the other cars, "Yep."
"Oh good, I don't want anyone getting lost." She smiled.
"Grampa's field." Quinn said slowly, "We're going to the field."
"Yes we are." The diva turned the wheel and drove down the muddy pathway, she'd prepared herself for today and packed boots to wear, she was not falling over.
"Okay!" Brittany shouted, nearly causing Rachel to swurve into a nearby tree.
"Okay what, Britt?" Santana asked.
"I have a name for the ducks!" She smiled, "Thing 1 and Thing 2, like from cat in the hat, i love that film."
The cheerio just chuckled and pulled her closer.
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"Rachel Berry, you have definitely out done yourself." Kurt grinned and pulled Blaine down onto one of the blankets, "This is wonderful!"
She'd used the left over lanterns and fairy lights from her date with Quinn to decorate the tree and floor again, only this time she put more blankets out for the rest of the gleeks to sit on together and watch the stars. They all sat down and chatted with one another until the sun began to set and the stars became visible, Rachel looked over and saw that Santana had fallen asleep on top of Brittany who was stroking her hair and drifting off herself. Tina and Mercedes were giggling together whilst Mike, Puck and Artie discussed the new games they'd been given. Blaine and Kurt were talking quietly with Dave and Sam.
"This is perfect, I can't believe you did all this." Quinn pulled Rachel closer into her body.
"I had a little help." She admitted, "Grampa Gus helped a lot, I just wanted everyone to be here together so I could show them how much we needed to stick together."
"Trust me you did that and more." Quinn played with the diva's fingers.
"But, we're-we're good, right?" Rachel looked down at the blonde whose head was on her chest.
"We're more than good, I love you so much." She moved so she was peering down into her eyes, "I thought there was a chance you were going to leave me and go back to Jesse, you seemed so happy with him on that stage and the thought of losing you... Hurts."
"I am never going to leave you, never." Rachel kissed her gently, a kiss that secured the promise.
"Good, because I'm never letting you go." Quinn lay back down and cuddled into her girlfriend, looking forward to their future together.
Question: To make this a little different, would you guys like Quinn to give birth to twins instead?
Translation: Hijo de puta - I think its son of a bitch/bastard. Not sure though, i barely passed Spanish so forgive me if I'm wrong.
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