Another Type Of Magic
A/N: I own nothing. Now Harry is really making changes, this next chapter skips episodes "Mash-Up" through "Mattress" because I really don't like some of those episodes and trying to sit and write about them will just end with results that show how board mindless I was writing them. Also sorry about the wait life keeps getting in the way.
Chapter Fourteen – Sectionals
The fallout from the news of Quinn's pregnancy was small compared to the ripple created by the news that Harry had finally gotten himself suspended again. Now, no one actually knew why he had gotten suspended but they knew it had something to do with Tanaka the football coach as he had also quit the football team.
Things had sort of gone south after Mike had pulled Harry away from Jew-Fro saving the bushy haired teen from a pummeling. Harry had gone to see his aunt only to find out she had gotten engaged to Tanaka who he knew for a fact completely repulsed her. One thing had led to another and after Tanaka refused to call off the shame wedding Harry had ended up punching the overweight man and it was only Ken's obsession with his Aunt that saved him from expulsion.
Sue Sylvester walked into her office and instantly knew someone was sitting in her chair because it was now facing away from her.
"I don't know who…" She began but Harry swiveled the chair around to face her.
"I'm going to stop you right there Dragon Lady." Harry said, "I know it was you who told Jew-Fro to post the Quinn Story and I don't like that."
Sue went to speak but Harry stopped her again.
"I'm not finished! Do you know how much Quinn looks up to you? If she ever found out it was you who told him to post that story, she'd be crushed." Harry said.
Sue scowled, " If Q thought that much of me she would have come strait to me after finding out she was pregnant with Frankenstein's baby."
"No she wouldn't have, because the one thing Quinn fears more than being alone is disappointing you. That girl would commit murder if you asked her to." Harry said standing and walking toward the coach.
"I know that you like to make people think that you are this big badass, but I can see in your eyes that you truly care about Quinn, Santana and Brittany and that above all else you want them to succeed. So here's my advice to you Coach Sylvester, don't turn her away." Harry said walking toward the door but Sylvester stopped him.
"I can't have a pregnant cheerleader on my team, the judges would be more concerned about her water breaking and spraying all over them." Sue said.
Harry chuckled, " I never said you had to keep her on the cheerios. I said don't turn her away. We both know that she can't stay on the team in her condition, but putting her on standby until next year and bumping Santana to temporary head-Cheerio while Quinn is out would be better than kicking her out all together. Just, be a shoulder for her to lean on when she needs it, even if you feel like burning your tracksuit afterwards." Harry said.
"You know something Scar Face, you're alright." Sue said pulling him into a hug.
They pulled apart and Harry cleared his throat.
"We never speak of this." He said.
"Agreed, now get the hell out of my office I can taste your body spray in the air. Plus you've been suspended for the shiner you gave Tanaka." Sue said.
Harry smirked as he walked out the door and walking to his locker to collect his work. Mercedes walked up to him a small smile on her lips.
"How are you?" She asked.
Harry smiled at her.
"I've suspended for two weeks and I'm grounded for the next month, so board."
Mercedes laughed as Harry walked beside her toward her class.
"What's happened?" She asked him.
"My Aunt got engaged to Coach Tanaka." Harry told her.
Mercedes made a gaging sound, "My point exactly." He said.
Mercedes laughed and walked into the class waving goodbye to Harry who made his way home.
His suspension came and went and the week of Sectionals arrived quickly.
"So Sectionals are at the end of this week. We're going up against Vocal Adrenaline and some school from Lima Heights." Blaine said.
"Yeah, it's been a crazy few weeks." Harry said.
"Tell me about it." Blaine said from his spot on Harry's bed.
"Okay so after I got suspended they found out that there was not enough money to pay for a wheelchair accessible bus but that was solved really easy."
"You paid for the bus." Blaine said.
"Right, then there was the whole situation with Rachel having a crush on Mr. Shue and Mercedes finding out about the real baby daddy."
"Did she…"
"No I got her to keep it quiet, that was an awkward conversation." Harry said.
Flashback…
Harry was asleep in bed when his bedroom door burst open slamming against the wall, as he was alone in the house no one should be slamming his door open. Harry jumped out of bed and faced his would be attacker only to find Mercedes standing in the doorway an angry scowl on her face as she stared at him.
"What did I do?" Harry asked.
"Did you know?" She asked crossing her arms.
"More details please?" He asked.
"About Puck being the baby daddy!" She snapped.
Harry sighed, "Yeah, and before you start yelling at me I tried to get Quinn to tell him the truth." Harry said.
Mercedes looked pleased with this answer.
"I told Puck to lay off." Mercedes said.
"Good and could you please not tell anyone. I know that it's a huge secret to keep but for Quinn's sake don't tell anyone." Harry said.
Mercedes bit her lip but nodded.
"And could you do one more thing for me?" Harry asked.
"Sure." Mercedes said.
"Could you close the door and let me get dressed?"
It was at this that Mercedes noticed that Harry was standing before her in not but his boxers. Her face flushed and she bolted from the room slamming the door closed.
End Flashback…
Blaine laughed hysterically at the end of this tale causing Harry to scowl at him.
"Anyway after that was the whole Hairography problem, I put my foot down when Shue pulled out wigs." Harry said shuddering at the memory of the rest of the clubs performance.
"Do you have video?" Blaine asked.
"Of course I do, I'm not an idiot." Harry said playing said video for Blaine.
"And then was your commercial, but I get the feeling there's more going on with that." Blaine said.
"Yeah, Sylvester got the glee club banned from the year book somehow making me and Rachel captains of the Glee club, then Quinn black mailed Sue for the page after she nearly got us kicked out of the competition and Mr. Shue took the fall for that so we don't have a teacher. Oh and Shue found out his wife was faking her pregnancy and planning to take Quinn's baby." Harry said.
"Wow, I should go to your school." Blaine said.
Harry smiled and laughed and checked the time and cursed.
"I've got to go, I promised Brittany I'd help her with her homework." Harry said.
The next day found Mercedes pulling him toward an empty class.
"Rachel is getting suspicious and she's making everyone else suspicious too." She said.
"Shit, as much as I love that girl she can't keep her mouth shut!" Harry cursed.
"This is going to be bad." Mercedes said.
"We can deal with it." Harry assured her.
Mercedes nodded and followed him out the room and to English both spent the rest of the school day worrying about Finn finding out at practice during lunch, Quinn was whispering to Puck while Rachel watched them. Mr. Shue walked in followed by his Aunt who was announced to be their faculty advisor.
"Well do you guys have any ideas for Sectionals?" His Aunt asked.
Mercedes made it clear she wanted the solo but as always Rachel protested.
"Audition, right now you and Mercedes sing a song the best one gets to perform." Harry suggested.
The two divas agreed and in the end it was Mercedes who won with Rachel admitting defeat. Then things went to hell, not minutes after Rachel and Finn walked out to get something to eat did Finn storm back in and punch Puck. Harry and Mercedes jumped up and pulled the two apart while his Aunt ran to find Schuester. Harry kept a tight hold on Finn while Mercedes kept Puck from Finn with help from Mike.
"What is going on here!" Shue cried upon walking into the choir room.
"Tell the truth!" Finn cried out at the same time Harry locked eyes with Quinn the, I told you so going unsaid.
"Punk just walked in and sucker-punched me!" Puck snapped pointing at Finn.
"Don't play dumb, you're to stupid to play dumb!" Finn snapped back his elbow slamming into the side of Harry's head send him sprawling to the ground slamming his head on the side of the piano leg. Matt quickly took Harry's place holding Finn while Mercedes and Tina rushed to check on Harry whom wasn't getting up.
"He's bleeding!" Tina called which earned a squeak from Emma who rushed from the room returning with a large first aid kit. While they where looking after Harry, Mr. Shue tried to get to the reason for Finn and Puck's fight.
"Enough! What is going on with the two of you?" He snapped.
"I wanna hear from you, both of you." Finn yelled.
"Finn calm down." Mr. Shue said.
At this point Harry was pushing the girls as he stood and helped Matt hold Finn who tried to lunge at Puck again.
"NO! They're both lying to me." Finn scream, moving away from Matt and Harry to stand across form Quinn and Puck.
"Tell me the truth." He said looking at them, "Is it true?"
Quinn stepped forward and nodded, "Yes, Puck is the father."
The room was in stunned silence Harry and Mercedes looked down not wanting to meet Finn's eyes.
"So all that stuff about the hot tube, you made it up?" Finn asked her.
"You where…"
Harry's fist collided with Pucks jaw sending the taller boy back into a chair.
"Zip it Puck, you've already done enough." Harry warned.
"You knew didn't you, you all knew." Finn accused.
Harry wiped the blood running down his face off before looking at Finn.
"The only people who knew where me and Mercedes, and we only knew because these two told us." Harry said.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Finn asked.
"At first, because I pissed, then because the person who should have told you was Quinn. Like I've been telling her to do since day one." Harry said.
Finn stared at him taking in the head wound and the tired look in his eyes before turning and walking out.
"I'm done with all of you." Finn said.
The second the door slammed shut Harry rounded on Quinn.
"I warned you this would blow up in your face, but you just dragged us all down with you." He said before turning to Rachel.
"As of this moment you should be the last person to talk about stooping to the lowest level." Harry said.
"I didn't do anything." Rachel objected.
"Please Rachel we all know it was you who told Finn." Tina added.
"You knew that telling him would break him and Quinn up and that's why you told him. Well congrats, but now because of you, we're going to be a man down for Sectionals. Finn just quit and Harry can't perform with his head bleeding like this." Kurt said as he and Mercedes held Harry's button up to the wound.
Rachel looked around and moved to apologize to Harry who held up a hand and shook his head for her not to.
"You made your bed, now lay in it." Quinn added before walking out to be alone while Harry was escorted by Will and Emma to the hospital.
Saturday came quickly and Harry joined the Glee club on the bus though he had been ordered not to perform which had forced the team to bring Jew-fro along. The club hadn't fully forgiven Rachel so they forced her to sit next to Jew-Fro. Arriving at the location for Sectionals Rachel led them inside and checked their performance position with Emma, which showed the New Directions would perform last. Rachel and Mercedes managed to lift every ones spirits at least until the show began. First the school for criminal girls Jane Adams Academy performed Mercedes' solo selection "And I Am Telling You, as well as the number they had done for Artie, "Proud Mary" in wheel chairs. Harry watched as each member of the team began to sink into their chairs the final straw was when the school for the deaf performed "Don't Stop Believin'" Rachel ordered the New Directoins to the green room for the break.
"I'll be back." Emma said walking behind the other Faculty advisors.
Harry stood and made his way back stage to the green room where everyone was at one another's necks. Harry gave a sharp whistle and all eyes turned to him.
"Mercedes do you have any other songs you could sing?" He asked.
"No, nothing as good as what Rachel could pull out of her skinny white ass." Mercedes huffed.
"Alright then Rachel, you'll be singing Don't Rain On My Parade. I happen to know that it's you backup song for everything." Harry said Rachel nodded.
"We could do Somebody to love." Quinn suggested.
"Yeah and who's going to sing Male lead? Puck?" Mercedes asked.
"I will." Harry said.
"Harry the doctor…"
"Screw that we didn't work our asses off to be cheated." Harry said.
"That's all great and dandy, but what about the group number?" Puck pointed out.
"You Can't Always Get What You Want." Harry said.
"I didn't ask for anything." Puck said.
"The song you idiot!" Santana snapped.
"Right, Santana, Mike, Matt and Brit you come up with the dance for that number." Harry said moving to the changing room.
Finn walked into the building carrying a stack of sheet music when Emma spotted him.
"Finn you too late, they're already taking their places." She told him.
Finn frowned and followed Emma to the seats for New Directions and sat on the last seat near the walkway. The announcer called for the New Directions from Lima Ohio and the music started and Rachel came singing down the walkway toward the end of her song the rest of New Directions walked out and once she finished the next song began and Finn scratched his head.
"Are you okay?" Emma asked
"This is the song I was going to bring." Finn said.
"Harry picked this song too, it's his favorite remember." Emma asked him.
Finn smiled, "Yeah."
Harry stood in the center of the group as Rachel finished her ballad.
"Ladies and Gentle men, The New Directions." She introduced before walking to her spot as the next song began.
New Directions:
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
but if you try sometime you find
You get what you need
You get what you need
Harry:
I saw her today at a reception
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she would meet her connection
At her feet was her footloose man
New Directions:
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
but if you try sometime you find
You get what you need
You get what you need
Mercedes:
Oh yeah, hey hey hey, oh...
Rachel:
And I went down to the demonstration
To get my fair share of abuse
Harry & Rachel:
Singing, "We're gonna vent our frustration
If we don't we're gonna blow a 50-amp fuse"
Sing it to me now...
New Directions:
You can't always get what you want, no!
You can't always get what you want (tell ya baby)
You can't always get what you want (no)
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need
Oh yes! Woo!
You get what you need-yeah, oh baby!
Oh yeah!
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find
You get what you need
After their performance of Somebody to Love they ran off stage where Harry promptly threw himself into a seat while the others went to spy on the Judges.
"You feeling okay dude?"
Harry looked up to see Finn standing at the door dressed in his outfit.
"Tired as hell, I'm not actually meant to be singing and dancing." Harry said holding his head in his hands.
"I was going to come and get them to sing that song too, guess good brains think the same."
"You mean, great minds think alike. I know I screwed up by not telling you about Quinn and Puck."
"No you didn't. You tried to get her to tell me the truth man, I know you and Quinn have been friends a lot longer than you and me so I get it. I'm not mad at you or Mercedes." Finn said extending his hand.
"You're not just saying that cause you cracked my skull open right?" Harry teased.
"Yeah, I'm sorry about that too man." Finn said and the two began to talk for some time.
"Finn?" Rachel's voice asked as the small girl walked in.
"Hey, I guess I got here a little late, Um… you think you can help me move Harry to the stage the dancing and singing made him a little sick." Finn said.
"I'll get Mike." Rachel said leaving only to return with the dancer.
Finn and Mike helped the dizzy Harry to the stage where they were announced the winners. Emma promptly took them to the bus and out to the school where Harry was taken home by Finn. Harry had a pounding headache on Sunday and on Monday when he went to school everyone who hadn't been at school Friday stared as Harry walked down the halls with his new hair style having had it cut to treat the wound on the right side of his of his head. This time he followed orders and allowed the others to perform for Mr. Shue who ran off as soon as they finished.
"Where is he going?" Puck asked.
"Like we know?" Santana said.
Harry laughed as Mercedes and Tina walked over to check on him.
With everything they went through they where still standing even if Puck and Finn had to be kept on opposite ends of the room.
End Chapter…