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A/N: Okay so before I start the actual chapter…I'm putting it to a vote of sorts. Rachel. Who wants to see Rachel join the Cheerios? I'll post the question again at the end of the chapter. I'd appreciate answers. This is your chance as readers to get to leave your input for the story, so yes or no to Rachel becoming a Cheerio (: xx Once again thank you for all the reviews! They're all lovely! Xx

Quinn has a small frown on her face which turns into a look of, and Santana starts rubbing her back soothingly, "Word to the wise…She likes you back."

Quinn's head snaps up to look at Santana, "She likes me back?" She enunciates each word.

Santana nods slowly, "Yeah Q."

Quinn bites her lip and lets out a breath, "What if she's just not telling me she isn't comfortable with this because she's afraid."

Santana stops her immediately, "Hold up there blondie. Rachel, is Rachel. Believe me, if she didn't feel comfortable she'd have said something. Don't start back peddling because you're scared."

The blonde looks down at her hands, "I am scared though."

Santana starts to rub a hand up and down her back again, "Why? You like her and she likes you. What's the problem?"

"She hasn't said anything to me."

Santana rolls her eyes, "You haven't said anything either. And let's not forget that you just realized what you were doing like two minutes ago."

"What should I do?" Quinn asks, so unsure and so not like her usual self. Santana sighs and pulls her in closer, allowing the blonde to rest her head on her shoulder.

"I'm not going to make you do something you aren't ready for Q. But I'd suggest maybe talking to the hobbit. This does concern the both of you."

Quinn nods, "Yeah…Oh my God what about my mom?"

Santana shrugs, "I think if she had a problem, we wouldn't be hanging out right now Q. She knows about Brit and me and she's been cool bout being there when mami couldn't be."

Quinn nods, but bites her lip, still not quite convinced, "She wont…she wont throw me out would she?"

Santana laughs lightly, "No she wont throw you out. That's not even a slight possibility."

Quinn sighs, "How can you be so sure?"

The Latina smiles slightly, "Because your mom loves you Q. She loves you, and if you entails wanting to get with Berry, then so be it, that isn't gonna change who you are."

Just then Brittany comes bounding into the living room with a Tupperware container filled with some sauce or stew, the tall blonde wasn't entirely sure what you'd call it but it was a liquid-y form. Surveying the scene she places it quickly onto the table and wraps her arms around Quinn's waist.

"I love you Q." She says quietly before giving her a quick kiss on the head, tightening her arms around her slightly.

Quinn allows herself to relax against her two best friends, "I love you too B."

Brittany then looks up over towards Santana, "Why are we hugging Q?"

Quinn chuckles and Santana grins, "Because Q just realized that she's been flirting with Berry, and that she likes her. So we're showin our support babe."

Brittany's face splits into a wide smile as she pulls the blonde towards her once more, even more energetic, "That's awesome! Aww Q! That's so great! You and Rachel are like super hot together."

Quinn's face once again gets overtaken by a severe blush as she stumbles with her words, while Santana simply cackles besides her.

"Brit, I'm scared." Quinn whispers, "I mean…This is so new."

Brittany furrows her brow slightly, "Q, it isnt new. It's just something you just noticed. The feelings were always there, how else do you think I knew you liked each other?"

Quinn looks up at her, "She's going to freak out."

Brittany giggles and shakes her head, "No silly, Rachel isnt going to freak out. Talk to her. Trust me."

Just then Mrs. Lopez walks into the living room, "Mija let Quinn go, her mama is waiting for this." She smiles good naturedly at all three cheerleaders before addressing Quinn, "I expect to see you soon, none of this week long wait."

Quinn smiles at her and nods, picking up the container after giving her a hug, "Yes ma'am."

Carmen Lopez hits her bottom in playfully chastising her for the use of 'ma'am', "Tell your mama I expect her for lunch at our café tomorrow."

Quinn smiles and nods her head, walking to the door followed by Santana and Brittany.

The taller blonde wraps her arms around Quinn's neck, "I'm so glad you figured it out Q."

Santana smirks, "Yeah, I mean I was beginning to wonder if you'd ever get it."

Quinn lets out a shaky giggle and shrugs, "All the jealousy makes sense now. I mean seeing as I never got this jealous over you or Brit."

Santana barks out a laugh, "I'm sure it makes a hella lot of sense."

Quinn smiles, "Tell Leo goodbye for me, and that I'll be sure to hang out sometime soon."

As Quinn gets into the car, she waves goodbye to the two at the front door, making her way back home.

'Okay Fabray. Get yourself together. And open your damn eyes, you can't afford to be oblivious anymore, it isnt fair to you.'

Quinn's surprised when she parks the car in front of her house, having not realized that she made it the entire way while on autopilot.

'Wow, I've seriously got to stop coasting through drives on auto. That cant be safe.'

Walking up to the front door, she takes a deep breath and walks in.

"Mom? Carmen says you better stop thanking her, and that she expects you to be over for lunch tomorrow at your café."

She says while walking into the kitchen, and as soon as she steps into the room she greeted with a timid yet genuine smile from Rachel, which the blonde returns.

"Hi."

Rachel tucks a strand of hair behind her ear, "Hi yourself."

Quinn's stomach flutters with about a million and one butterflies and she finally understands why.

She clears her throat and chances a hug, wrapping her arms around the tiny brunette's waist and breathing in deeply. The butterflies are seemingly sated; until they come back in full force the second Rachel's arms respond and wrap themselves around Quinn's neck.

Rachel's heart beats rapidly against her chest and she's so glad that Quinn cant see her face blush once again. "I see you came back in one piece, so I'm presuming you drove safely."

Quinn chuckles as she pulls away, "I told you I would. Plus I had to get back to you right?" She asks playfully, raising an eyebrow and smirking.

'Oh my God I do flirt with her! Shamelessly! I didn't even mean to!'

Rachel's heart flutters as she ducks her head quickly, trying to hide the grin that takes over her face, "You did indeed have to get back to me…us! Your mother and me."

Quinn finally remembers her mother and she turns around quickly to say hi to her, noticing her smiling widely at them from her place near the table.

"Hey." Quinn says giving her a little wave.

To which Judy replies to by laughing and turning back to the food, "Hey."

Rachel goes to take a seat, when Quinn suddenly reaches a hand out and grasps the brunette's hand gently in hers, "Let's get out of mom's way for a little while? We can…We can go hang out in my room for a while, until we have to go to yours?"

Rachel notices Judy nodding her head vigorously over Quinn's shoulder, smiling widely at her mouthing 'yes! Go!'

Rachel slowly nods her head, "O-Okay sure." She feels Quinn's hand tighten slightly in hers and suddenly they're walking hand in hand up the stairs towards the blonde's room.

Once in her room, Quinn slowly ushers Rachel to take a seat on her bed while the blonde herself takes a seat on the rug at the foot of the bed.

Rachel smiles at her, "What's up?"

Quinn clears her throat and locks eyes with Rachel's, and the brunette's breath hitches seeing as the blonde below her is looking up at her through her eyelashes, hazel eyes seeming to penetrate right through her soul.

Quinn clears her throat and shakes herself mentally, "Santana! Santana and Brittany aren't going to make it to the sleepover this weekend, but they uh said something about catching a movie on Saturday."

Rachel smiles and nods, "Okay, that sounds like a good idea. I'm guessing that either Santana has the house or Brittany does. Those penguins."

Quinn laughs and is a million times calmer now. 'It's only Rachel, she's still the same girl, whether you knew you liked her or not. She's still her.'

"Why penguins though? I never got that. And what the heck is up with the lobsters?" Quinn asks suddenly.

Rachel giggles shaking her head and shrugging, "I don't know, oh gosh…wait why haven't we checked?"

Quinn laughs as she gets up off the floor and walks over to grab her laptop before joining the brunette on the bed, "I don't know. I guess we thought it was a one-time thing, I know I didn't expect her to bring it up again."

Rachel smiles noticing that Quinn was back to her relaxed self, "Well let's check, so at least we'll know what they're both on about."

Quinn giggles excitedly, "Okay, so what do you want to search for first? Penguins or lobsters?"

Rachel smiles warmly at the blonde, "whichever one you want to search for first."

Quinn grins and begins typing, "Okay, let's start with penguins. The fact that Santana brought it up just tickles me pink."

Rachel laughs and nods, "Okay."

After a good time searching, they both come to the same conclusion. Rachel looks at Quinn at the same time the blonde looks up from the screen and towards the brunette.

"So…they search their whole lives searching and once they find their soulmate…they stay together for the rest of their lives."

Rachel nods her head once, "That would seem correct. However of course it depends on the species."

Quinn smiles, "The fact that Santana said that is so beyond all kinds of sweet, I'm literally starting to get a tooth ache."

Rachel laughs, "Brittany absolutely appreciated it."

Quinn was about to start typing again searching for lobster facts when Judy knocks on the door, "Girls? I was thinking we could go over to the house a little bit earlier than your dads."

Quinn looks over at Rachel and nods her head letting the brunette know she was good to go.

Rachel smiles, "Okay, let's go then."

The lobster search forgotten for now.

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"Rachel Barbra Berry! Where are you babygirl? Come give your daddy a hug!"

Rachel was in the living room sitting beside Quinn when the voice of her daddy interrupted their talk.

"Daddy!" She flies into his arms, her daddy twirling her around hugging her back just as tightly.

"Hey sweetheart." He kisses her on top of her head as he sets her back down onto her feet.

She pulls back slightly and beams up at him; she stands on her tiptoes and pulls him down to give him a quick kiss on the cheek and wrapping her arms around his neck, hugging him again.

"I've missed you." She whispers.

He smiles at her, hugging her back, "I've missed you too pumpkin."

She smiles up at him as he puts her down, "I notice that you've used three different nicknames. Am I right in presuming that you've just really missed using them?"

Leroy grins at his daughter, "I've missed using them but I've missed you more darling."

Just then, Hiram walks in pushing up his glasses and hanging up his coat, before doing anything else he's enveloped into a bone crushing hug, "Dad!"

He smiles brightly, turning around and hugging his daughter properly, "Hey sweetheart. I've missed you so much!"

As the two catch up, Quinn walks over and smiles up at Leroy, "Hiya Officer Berry."

His smile widens as he wraps his arms around the blonde, "Hi Quinn. You're not missing a chance to call me officer I see."

She smiles stepping back and shaking her head, "It suits you Leroy."

He grins, taking one of her small hands in his larger dark hand, "You are a charmer little one."

As the group is about to move further into the house, Judy walks down the stairs, "Aww my men are home!"

They share a large group hug, with Quinn and Rachel smiling at them.

"Come on let's get the food onto the table." Rachel pulls Quinn behind her.

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"You didn't have to go through all of this Judy, we'd have been fine with ordering," Hiram starts but is cutoff by Judy shaking her head.

"Oh no. I wasn't about to let you two come home and not have a nice home cooked meal."

Leroy looks away from his conversation with Quinn for a second, "Thank you so much Judy, honestly this is an amazing welcome home."

Quinn smiles at them and as her eyes land on Rachel, she tilts her head slightly when she notices the brunette's got her 'I'm smiling but I'm not really a hundred percent happy' smile

The blonde stores it away for later, thinking it best to talk to her about it away from the grownups.

As soon as dinner is over with the parents decide to go into the living room for some coffee to relax and catch up, and the two girls decided to take care of the dishes.

Quinn slides up besides Rachel at the double sink, placing the last stack of plates down and taking her spot to rinse and dry the dishes.

"What's wrong?"

Rachel sighs quietly, not out of annoyance but simply out of frustration at herself for being found out, "Nothing's wrong Quinn."

The young diva can practically feel Quinn's eyes staring through her façade.

She turns her head slightly to check and sure enough Quinn is looking right at her with a disbelieving look on her face, and a raised eyebrow.

"Seriously Rach? You're going to seriously play that card?"

Rachel continues scrubbing the plate, not giving her an answer. Quinn however wasn't having any of that. The blonde reaches a hand into the soapy water and grasps Rachel's hands, pulling them out of the water, halting any further movement. Her thumb unconsciously rubs circles around her wrist, "Please tell me."

Somewhere in the back of Quinn's mind, far, far back, she knows exactly what her thumb is doing, but she couldn't stop even if it wasn't all the way in the back of her mind. She knows she likes it, and Rachel isnt pulling her hands away and looking at her in disgust so she's pretty certain Rachel at least doesn't mind it.

Rachel revels in the feeling of Quinn's hands in hers and her thumb rubbing circles across her skin and she cant help but wish Quinn was aware of just what that's doing to her.

"I'm just thinking about when and how I should tell my fathers about what happened."

Quinn squeezes her hand, "Oh."

Rachel gives her a small smile in return, "Yes, 'oh' indeed. I'm sorry I worried you though."

Quinn lets go of her hand slowly, allowing them both to return to the task at hand, "Don't apologize Rach, I just know you and you didn't worry me per se…I mean, I worry about you period. The end. That's just how it is."

Rachel nods smiling to herself as she continues handing the blonde the clean plates for her to rinse off, "Well I hope you know that goes double for me."

Quinn's face colors immediately as she ducks her head trying to hide her shy smile, "So how are we going to do this?"

Handing over the last of the plates, Rachel raises an eyebrow, "We?"

Quinn rinses and dries the plate before facing her and nodding, "Yes, we, you don't think I'm going to let you tell them on your own, do you?"

Rachel shrugs, "Actually Quinn I wouldn't expect you to be here…" She trails off but quickly continues when she notices the blonde's dejected expression, "Only because I don't expect you to pamper and 'baby' me...I've become a bit of a burden."

Quinn folds her arms in front of her chest, "You've seriously got to stop that Ray. I told you before, this," She unfolds her arms and uses a hand to point between them, "isn't babying and being a bother. This is what friends do. What B and S do. This is what I want to do."

Rachel nods and as she's about to open her mouth to reply, a loud enraged masculine voice cuts through the house, "EXCUSE ME?"

Terrified and shocked Rachel steps closer to Quinn, and Quinn in return consciously moves closer to the brunette trying to comfort her.

Quinn timidly pulls Rachel with her towards the living room, where they see Hiram and Judy sitting slack jawed watching Leroy pacing back and forth, holding up the cordless phone to his ear.

Upon entering the room Quinn looks at her mom and Judy furrows her brow and whispers so as not to disturb Leroy, "Officer Moore called."

Hiram looks away from the retreating form of his husband, who decided to take the call in the dining room to let them talk, and faces the girls, who are still standing, Rachel clutching Quinn's arm, "Rachel honey, what's wrong?"

Quinn takes the initiative and steers them towards the couch and takes a seat and pulls Rachel down next to her, intertwining their fingers seems to finally get Rachel to start talking.

"While you and Daddy were away…well some things happened the other night."

Quinn squeezes her hand in reassurance every now and then as Rachel continues recounting the tale of the attempted break in and the vandalism.

Hiram is shocked beyond words for a few beats, "Rachel honey…"

She launches herself into his arms, as he wraps her tightly in a hug, "Oh honey I'm so sorry. So very sorry."

Judy ushers Quinn to come towards her and the young blonde goes immediately seeking the comfort of her mother.

"Dad, you and daddy didn't do anything; you have nothing to be sorry for!" Rachel's voice is muffled from her dad's shirt.

Hiram pushes her away slightly to look at her better, "Rachel, you could have been hurt." His eyes are tearing up.

Rachel shakes her head, "But I didn't. Quinn and Santana came and they."

She's cut off by a loud bang of the refrigerator door closing.

Leroy walks back into the living room, and sits down in the vacant couch and rubs his face, "Rachel sweetheart, I'm sorry."

The young brunette gapes at her father, "Daddy no, please don't apologize. I'm fine! Quinn made sure of it."

Leroy looks over to the blondes and locks eyes with Quinn's, "Thank you for protecting my baby girl Quinn."

The blonde shakes her head, "Please don't thank me sir, I…There was no other option."

Leroy is smiling on the inside, but he cant make his face reflect that, "Quinn, I hope you know that you could have gotten seriously hurt or,"

Quinn sits up straight and interrupts, "I'm sorry for interrupting you sir but I know what could have happened. But again like I told my mom, I'd do it again. She's Rachel. I'm not going to just not be there for her."

This time Leroy's able to smile, and as he turns to look at Rachel and his husband it grows because both of them are wearing similar expressions of awe.

"As an officer I have to patronize you for running in to this. As a parent I also have to patronize you for running into a situation like that one. However as someone who knows what it's like to be faced with a decision that could affect the people you love, I commend you. That was an incredibly brave thing you did young lady."

Quinn shrugs, a blush making it's way across her face, "I…Santana was with me, it wasn't like this was just me. And I didn't exactly do anything Leroy, sir."

Rachel interjects, "Don't listen to her daddy. She came all the way over here; calling Santana and making her come over as well, and then was even willing to fight the intruder."

Quinn glances at Rachel seemingly asking her to stop putting her in the spotlight and painting her in such an over flattering picture when she's pretty sure she didn't do anything deserving of such praise.

Hiram speaks up, "Quinn honey, no matter what you say or how you choose to downplay it. I can assure you that Leroy and I are both indebted to you. You saved our little Rachel." He stops but continues quickly before Quinn can say anything, "Or at the very least made sure she wasn't alone while going through this rather traumatic and decidedly horror film-esque."

Leroy gives his husband a small smile, "Moore is going to be by tomorrow afternoon, we're going to try and see if we can get to the bottom of this."

Quinn speaks up quickly, "Leroy? I think that you should know that uhm there isnt exactly any more evidence of the vandalism in the backyard…That is to say the police collected what they could and documented everything, and after that we, as in to say the glee club, fixed things up. So I thought you should know in case you went out to look and didn't find anything out of the ordinary…That's why."

Rachel grins at the blonde adoringly as she rambles, Leroy smiles at her and places a hand in hers, "Relax, you did nothing wrong. Officer Moore told me all about how the boys spent all night on it. But thank you for thinking to tell me."

Quinn smiles sheepishly, ducking her head for a second before looking back up towards Rachel when the brunette speaks, "Babe, mom's almost asleep right now."

A quick glance to her mother and sure enough, Judy looked just about ready to land on the sleepytime train.

Leroy stops Quinn from nudging her awake, "It's late, how about I help her up to the guest room, and you all can just stay here for the night. You and Ray can help take Hiram up the stairs."

Quinn smiles and nods as Rachel giggles, "Dad and your mom are so light weights." She manages to say that all before an enormous yawn envelopes her.

Quinn giggles, "You were saying?"

Rachel rolls her eyes, a grin on her face, "Nothing Lady, now come on, let's get dad moving before he completely falls asleep."

He's helped onto his feet, and he's awake enough to take his weight, but not awake enough to navigate the halls, they guide him through the house and up the stairs and finally into his bedroom.

Rachel rushes to turn down the bed while Quinn holds onto Hiram, before walking him towards the bed.

As soon as his head hits the pillow, he's definitely out for the count. His quiet snoring being the indication.

Rachel removes his shoes and socks and tucks him in while Quinn waits by the door patiently.

Leroy makes his way out of the guest room, closing the door quietly behind him and makes his way towards Quinn, wrapping an arm around her shoulder, "Have I ever told you how extremely glad I am to have you and your mother in our lives?"

Quinn's smile lights up the room, and he continues, "If I haven't then here I am telling you. I'm glad. Never a dull moment with the Fabray women."

She turns and gives him a hug, "I'm happy I got to Rachel. I."

Leroy softly interrupts, "I know, hey don't worry about it though. I'm going to figure this whole thing out alright? Just you keep taking care of yourself and our little star and it'll all be okay. Okay?"

Quinn nods her head, subtly wiping her eye and sniffing stepping out of the hug.

Just then Rachel walks up to them out of the room and wraps her arms around Leroy, "Good night daddy. It's good to have you back."

He tightens his grip slightly, "I love you Rachel. Good night."

She kisses his cheek and takes a hold of Quinn's hand as she makes her way to her bedroom.

Getting ready for bed was done in silence and just when Rachel thought she'd have to break it, Quinn speaks up.

"Hey Rach?"

Rachel turns to face her from turning down the bed, "Yeah Quinn?"

The blonde smiles at her, "Nothing, I just…I wanted to say hey."

Rachel giggles, "Get over here dork." She hops into bed and Quinn slides in next to her, "Hey." The brunette finally whispers once they're settled in.

Quinn chuckles, "Good night Rach."

The brunette slides in slightly closer to the middle of the bed, "Good night Quinn."

It takes about a minute for Quinn to realize that the reason it felt kind of weird lying in bed like this was because she wasn't holding the brunette.

Quinn scoots down to the middle and wraps her arms around Rachel, pulling her in closer still, until her front was flush against the brunette's, Rachel's head fitting right under Quinn's chin. Rachel smiles to herself sleepily, "You comfy sir knight?"

Quinn smiles as she runs a hand through soft chocolate brown curls, "Very, are you?"

Rachel simply snuggles even closer, her nose brushing against the hollow of Quinn's throat, causing her breath the hitch.

Quinn tightens her arms around her, and kisses the top of her head, "Sleep well Princess. We're going to get to the bottom of this, don't you worry about it."

Rachel really wasn't worry about it at this minute though, her last semi-conscious thought was of how simply amazing the blonde smelled.

A/N: okay so once again I'm asking 'Who wants to see Rachel join the Cheerios?' It's really up to you. The majority votes gets what they want basically. So on another note...Who's freakin excited about the Prom episode? I know I am tehe can't wait! xx Feedback is love my lovely readers xx