Heart to Heart

Ok so I was torn as to whom I wanted my boy paired with for my final piece of this challenge and ultimately went with Mercedes…. I'd say the scene is kind of AU post 'Laryngitis' Quote used "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know." - "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere." The Maltese Falcon (1941)

He seriously didn't know what was wrong with him. At first he wanted to land 'That Black Girl In Glee Club Whose Name he Couldn't Remember' because she had joined the cheerios and her popularity was on the rise. It was simply a matter of High School politics.

However soon it became more then that and it was suddenly beginning to scare him to death.

There was something about Mercedes Jones that wasn't like Santana, Quinn, hell even that shrewd Rachel that drew him in deeper and deeper.

She seemed to see through him in an eerily manner and when he found out that she quit the squad cause she wanted to be true to herself well the old Noah Puckerman would of cut his losses and went back to Santana in a heartbeat. After all the jealous look in his ex's eyes was kind of hot.

But he wasn't the old Noah Puckerman.

Maybe it was his impending fatherhood or perhaps it was the unceremonious shaving of his Mohawk that did him in he really didn't know.

Sucking in a deep breath he approached the music room where he had told her to meet him a few minutes before glee rehearsal.

She was thankfully alone as she was looking over some sheet music they were learning for Regionals which was just three weeks away at this point.

"You're here to break up with me aren't you?" she asked him with a sweet smile, "I understand."

He flashed her one of his trademark smirks as he reached over and placed a hand on her shoulder.

From her body language he could tell he was making her uncomfortable and so he pulled back.

"I'm not…" he paused as he shifted the tone in his voice to a more serious one, "breaking up with you Mercedes."

He watched her face twitch, as she must have been impressed that he actually called her by her actual name thus solidifying the seriousness of the moment.

"I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know."

He let a moment of silence slip past them letting it all sink in. He was laying his heart on the line, which seriously was a hard thing for a bad ass like him to do.

Finally he watched as Mercedes opened her mouth to reply.

"You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere."

He let out a laugh.

This was why he liked her. For her witty comebacks like this.

He flashed her a smile.

"Anyway the old me… the me you think you know…well the moment he saw you out of that cheerios uniform telling me you quit the squad I would have been done. I would have said I was just using you to regain my studlyhood."

"You weren't."

"Well I was at first but…."

"But before you go on I have a confession to make too. I was only going out with you to see how it felt like to be dating someone as popular and as…." She lowered her voice, "HOT as you."

Wow, he didn't see that one coming. He didn't know what to say to respond to this and so he decided to just keep to the script and see where it lead to.

"I've fallen for you Mercedes, I mean honest to goodness genuinely fallen for you and while I can't promise that this will be some epic storybook romance or anything I kind of would like to give us a real shot."

He could tell she was speechless she really was and so he leaned over and planted the simplest of kisses on her cheek as the rest of the glee club began to file into the room.

The End.