I DO NOT OWN GLEE.
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GLEE!
It was a dinner party with a most unexpected guest list. In fact even the guests didn't know about it until the last possible second because Rachel had planned it that way.
"Hello, welcome to our home! May I take your coats?"
"Thank you dear, I'm not exactly sure why we are here. Mr. Schuester assured me that he would explain everything." Mrs. Fabray said walking slowly into the house, Quinn trailing behind her petulantly.
"Actually that was a lie." Rachel explained smoothly. "I believe it is time that Quinn and I put this animosity behind us. I have tried to be a friend, I have tried to be a team mate, at this point I would be thankful if she merely treated me like a fellow human being. My fathers suggested and I concurred that perhaps if we held an informal mediating session of sorts that we could work all of this out."
And she had promised Mike that she would make his afternoon booty camps less painful.
"Well that sounds like a lovely idea." Mrs. Fabray agreed her perfect smile not even cracking. "I think this could be very helpful don't you Quinnie?"
"No." She replied smiling. "Why would I want to do anything to make your life easier when you destroyed mine?"
"Contrary to what you may believe I didn't destroy your life Quinn. I didn't make you cheat on Finn and I certainly didn't make you lie to him." Rachel sighed. "I've had this conversation with you before, many times. What do I have to do to convince you that I am genuine? I am not actually a magical being who can turn back time."
"It would figure that you would be the only magic-less hobbit." Quinn sneered seemingly forgetting that she was putting on this display in front of her mother.
"I apologise for my daughter. I can assure you she was raised better than this."
"I assume she was raised to look down on others who do not share her beliefs and turn her back on those who do not bend to her whim." Rachel replied. "Isn't that what you did when she fell pregnant? I don't think you taught her tolerance but perhaps I am making assumptions. I'm sure you are a lovely person, just as I am sure that Quinn is capable of not being completely hateful."
"Rachel have you offered our guests something to drink?" Leroy asked entering the foyer. "It's a pleasure to meet you Miss Fabray and always charmed to see you again Judy."
"Lovely to see you Leroy." Mrs. Fabray replied, he'd consulted with her on the divorce proceedings, the proceedings her husband still was not informed of. "Will Hiram be joining us this evening?"
"He's fussing over his lasagne. Rachel informed us that neither of you adhere to her vegan lifestyle and granted her blessing to have meat in the house. It's treat for us too." Leroy laughed. "Wont you please sit down, tea?"
"I'd love one." Mrs. Fabray answered. "Cream, two sugars. And Quinn will have a ginger ale."
"Is there any space on these walls where your eyes aren't following me?" Quinn asked staring at the photo covered walls.
"My fathers are proud of me." Rachel replied stiffly. "They like to joke that this is the Rachel Berry Museum and once I'm on Broadway they can charge admission to let people in here."
Mrs. Fabray politely laughed which did nothing to cover Quinn's snort of derision. Thankfully the bell ring effectively breaking the tension. Rachel excused herself returning a few moments later with the last of their guests.
"What are they doing here?" Quinn snapped angrily.
"I invited them." Rachel answered calmly. "You hated me before your pregnancy but it intensified greatly afterwards, your animosity towards me can be directly correlated to my relationships with both Noah and Finn. It only made sense that they both here too."
"And I'm here to keep things on track." Mr Schuester added. "I'm the most impartial."
"Aah! The last of our guests have arrived." Leroy boomed greeting Puck and Mr Schuester with handshakes and Finn with a hug. "Hiram assures me his masterpiece is moments away so if you'd like to adjourn to the dining room?"
Finn hung back grabbing Rachel's arm.
"So how goes it?" He asked kissing her softly.
"She's still alive isn't she?" She grumbled. "Of course now we will both be armed with pointy objects."
"I can totally see Quinn stabbing someone with a knife." Finn agreed. "But you're a pacifist."
"Doesn't mean I can't 'accidentally' jam a fork in her thigh." Rachel muttered darkly. "I'm trying to help her, why wont she let me?"
"It's all about control, it always is with Quinn." Finn reasoned. "You have to let her think she's in charge and if it doesn't work at least you tried."
"I don't fail." She corrected him. "Rachel Berry never fails, mark my words by the end of dinner things will be different."
Yeah, that was what scared him.
GLEE!
"Well that went well." Puck said pulling the coleslaw from his for.
"I actually think pouring the bowl on your head was remarkably restrained." Rachel snorted. "We were meant to try to make things better not make things worse."
"I only told the truth."
"You said she was bat-shit crazy." Finn pointed out. "And that you'd rather raw dog a bee hive than ever go there with her again because she was the most selfish person you had ever met and the only reason you didn't regret what happens was because of Beth."
"Like I said, the truth."
"Well there is such thing as tact Noah." Leroy intervened. "Having been scorned by all three males that have been in her life is sure to leave some scars, the fact that they are all happy with other women doesn't help."
"Plus her father." Rachel reminded them. "Losing Finn a second time when he's the only one to ever come back, I understand the pain of that."
"Still doesn't give her an excuse to be a huge-"
"Perhaps you should go upstairs and clean yourself up." Hiram interrupted hastily. "I'm sure Leroy has a shirt you can borrow while we watch this one."
Puck looked to Finn who was practically yelling at him to go with his eyes, heaving a sigh he went upstairs with Hiram and within minutes was singing Pantera at the top of his lungs in the shower.
"I know you wanted to help sweetie but it's obvious that she wont accept it of you." Leroy said softly rubbing her shoulder.
"I feel almost guilty." Rachel admitted. "Like by losing Finn again she's finally cracked."
"It was always simmering underneath." Mr. Schuester mused. "Puck was uncouth with his words but he was right, we can't treat Quinn with kiddie gloves, she deserves the truth. If we continue to treat her with caution she may just decide that she can get through life by being petulant. Starting Monday I'm going to treat all of you as the young adults you are, Quinn included."
"What good will that do?" Finn asked.
"Hopefully it will shock her into realising that the world does not revolve around her and sometimes life sucks. But you have to deal with it. I think she needs to grow up. We tried, you can't say we didn't but it's up to Quinn now." Mr. Schue grabbed his coat and left, thanking Leroy for the lovely dinner.
"Daddy do you think he's right?"
"I think so baby." Leroy admitted. "She's not a little girl anymore, she can't always be the victim. She needs to take responsibility for her choices."
"Well I can tell you the chances of her doing that are about the same as the chances of Kurt showing up at school in sweats and his hair not done." Finn cut in. "There's only one person Quinn has ever cared about, herself."
"Not entirely." Puck interjected rubbing his hair with a towel. "She cared enough about Beth to let Shelby adopt her, that's probably the only selfless thing she's ever done."
"And probably something that plagues her everyday." Rachel agreed. "I don't think I've ever heard her mention Beth."
"She never brought it up with me." Finn said crinkling his eyebrows. "If I even mentioned the last year she got pissy and told me to leave. I doubt she talked about with Sam either and her parents just act like it never happened."
"Shelby sends me photos and videos of Beth." Puck revealed. "I tried to show Quinn but she completely shut me down. I don't know how she's going to feel when she finds out that Shelby's moving back here in the new school year."
"What? She's coming back?" Rachel asked her voice suddenly very small. It was one thing to know her mother had a new baby, one that she wanted. But it was another thing to see it around her town.
"Not only is she back, but she's going to be working at McKinley."
Rachel looked at Puck hoping this was one of his horrible ill-advised jokes but she saw nothing but sincerity on his face. It was lucky that Finn was here, lucky he was standing behind her, lucky she wasn't holding a dish because she promptly fainted.
GLEE!
So it appears Ryan Murphy has planted a bug in my head. I have had to put updating off because he has jacked my songs, several that I had painstakingly selected for my fics have since been announced/used for the show and has thus forced me to scramble for new songs. Originally this update involved a song but it was used on the show and I had to rearrange things. Hopefully he will stop stealing my ideas! You can guess which songs he's used, it's actually kind of freaky.
BTW-
I think Santana was completely unjustified in slapping Finn. He didn't call her out in malice, he didn't 'out' her to be mean, she however is a bitch because she can be. I think Rachel should have jumped her and pounded the crap out of her. And Santana is one of my favourite characters, usually. This season I'm seriously hating her. Also I am happy for the return of my dear Sam but it leads to another very important return...WHERE'S MY ZIZES?