Chapter Twenty-Nine: Will and Terri's Ultimate Sleepover

Rachel, Quinn, and Kurt were all very excited. They were all packed and waiting at the Corcoran house for Will and Terri to pick them up while they dropped off Wilde with Shelby. It was a Saturday night and the trio had also gotten permission to go to a get together with some of their school friends that was two blocks away from the Shuester's home as long as they were back by the time specified by Will and Terri.

They didn't have to wait long, as Will and Terri along with Wilde, were ringing the doorbell soon and Shelby was opening the door to let them in. Shelby was thankful that they had arrived. The big kids were about to drive her nuts asking when they would arrive just as much as Beth was asking when Wilde would be there. Amelia was already there, so at least Beth had been somewhat entertained.

"I am so glad that you are here to get them. They are about to drive me insane." Shelby told the two as they walked in the door.

Will and Terri laughed. Rachel had already texted Terri twice to make sure that they were still getting to go home with them.

Shelby motioned for Terri to follow her into the kitchen while Will was talking to Wilde. Once there, Shelby turned.

"Are you sure that you don't mind keeping all three of them, Terri? They may be teenagers, but they have a way of finding mischief like no one I have ever seen before. I am not going to even begin to try to explain it because I can't."

"Shelby, they will be fine. Will and I are not pushovers…well, I am not a pushover. I have a feeling that Rachel could get Will wrapped around her finger in no time."

Both women laughed and Shelby shook her head.

"Terri, remember not to let her have a lot of sugar. I will warn you so that you can't blame me later." Shelby said with a laugh. Shelby knew that Terri remembered the tail end of Rachel's last sugar binge.

"Of course. I will make sure that there is virtually no sugar involved." Terri laughed.

Before long, the kids were all packed into the back of Terri's SUV, and Terri and Will were hugging and kissing Wilde. Shelby could tell that it was the first time that they had left the little girl since they had gotten custody of her.

Shelby thought that both of them were going to cry as she walked them to the door and Beth, Amelia, and Wilde all ran up the stairs towards Beth's room.

Shelby looked at Terri and Will and smiled.

"She will be fine. If she wakes up and wants to go home, I will call you. I think she will be fine, though. She has Beth, and we all know how much she loves Beth."

"It is the first time that she has spent away from us since we've had her." Terri sniffed.

Shelby smiled and leaned forward, wrapping her arms around the slightly younger woman.

"She will be fine. You just make sure my baby doesn't drive you insane tonight."

Terri laughed and wiped the tear that had slipped down her face away.

"We will take care of your baby too. We will see you in the morning."

Shelby smiled and nodded.

Soon, the Shuester's were out the door. Shelby just hoped they were ready for the trouble trio. She wasn't quite sure that anyone was ever adequately prepared for them though.

-OneStepAtATime-

Terri showed the three kids into the guest room where a queen sized bed for Quinn and Rachel and a full size blow up mattress for Kurt sat. All three kids were a bundle of energy, something that Will, who was with them for several hours every day of the week, had never seen. He could tell they were excited and he really didn't understand why. They were just going to spend the night with him and Terri and then they were going to a party that they had to be home from by eleven…unless they could talk Will and Terri into letting them stay out later.

"Terri, what are we going to fix for supper? You know Rachel is sort of picky…" Will said, looking in the fridge.

"I do know that. And I also know that it has to be something that you will eat like a normal human being. Judy told me that Rachel all but throws up at every meal because you passed that ridiculous gene onto Beth." Terri laughed a little. It really amazed Terri just how genetics worked. Her husband had definitely passed his atrocious eating habits down to his biological daughters. At the same time though, Beth, who had grown up in the Corcoran home, reminded Terri so much of Rachel sometimes that it was scary. Especially when the five year old wanted to get her way. Sometimes, Terri felt bad for Shelby simply because she knew that the two girls together were a handful.

Terri had a feeling that Wilde was going to be right up there with them when she came out of her shell a bit more. Right now she had only lived with Will and Terri for a little over a month, and there were times that Terri and Will both knew that she forgot where she was. They didn't make her talk about her time with Frannie, but sometimes, late at night when she woke up and was still tired, Wilde would mention things that had occurred during her short four years. Apparently they had moved around a lot and Frannie always had a different boyfriend. The Shuester's were very thankful that they could provide their daughter with a stable home now. They could see that she was thriving under the conditions. She was gaining weight and she was happier. That was all they could ask for.

"Aunt Terri!" Rachel yelled through the house. Will laughed at the look on Terri's face.

"Love, she is loud, you knew that." Will said, still hanging off of the refrigerator door.

"Will, you are going to mess up the door and then where will we be? You will be going out and purchasing another one."

Will shook his head and smiled. They had this argument every time he opened the fridge.

"You better go see what Rach wants, Love. She will be storming in here in a bit."

"Maybe we can order take out." Terri said. She was pretty sure all of the kids liked Chinese food, and she and Will also liked it. And, Will didn't mix anything weird into his Chinese food. Wilde did though. Terri shuttered thinking about the last time they had eaten Chinese and the little girl had asked for the soy sauce and ketchup…yes, Terri would rather not think about it.

"Aunt Terri!" Rachel yelled again. Terri rolled her eyes when she heard the other two laugh. What in the world were they doing?

"Will, how about Chinese? You can find the take out menu while I go see what they are doing." Terri said. Will nodded.

Will loved how big his family had gotten. He was not used to a big family but had always wanted one. He had been nervous at first because three of the kids that were obviously in this new, extended family, were in his glee club. But, he soon learned that they were not necessarily the same kids in school that they were out of school. He and Shelby had talked about it in the break room one day not long after Quinn had slushied Rachel.

Shelby had told him that she had noticed how different the kids acted at home versus school as well. She said that she had come to the conclusion that it was because of the hierarchy of high school. Kurt hung out with the same kids he had throughout elementary school for the most part, Quinn wanted to be popular, and Rachel beat to the tune of her own drum regardless of what others wanted of her. She hadn't been getting hit with any more slushies as far as any of the adults could tell, but Shelby had told Will that she would not sit by and let it happen. She wouldn't sit by and let it happen to any of the kids at that school.

At home, though they were different. They were still just kids. All of the adults could tell that they were trying to grow up in out in public, but still wanted to cuddle at home. They were at a fine line in their lives where they didn't really know what they wanted.

Out in the living room, Terri was walking towards the kids. They were in the guest room, where Rachel had yelled for her three times now. She went to the room and walked in, staring at the mess before her.

Their overnight bags had obviously exploded. Terri automatically caught sight of the large bag of candy that was in one of the bags. She leaned forward and grabbed the bag and then looked at all three kids.

"Do not even think about it," Terri started, "I got the pleasure of meeting sugar high Rachel at the sleepover the girls had a couple weeks ago. I also know that Santana and Beth talked Rachel into jumping on her mother in the middle of the night. I am not nice in the middle of the night, so I will not be happy if that happens to me." Terri eyed each of them carefully.

Each of the kids backed up a bit. Good. She wanted them to have a healthy fear of her because she knew that Will was already half twisted around their fingers.

"Um…Aunt Terri, you can have it." Rachel said, the other two nodded quickly.

Terri smiled.

"Why thank you. Now, what was it that you bellowed through the house for?"

"Um…" Rachel stood in place but moved around a bit nervously now that Terri was right in front of her.

"Rach…"

"We were wondering if maybe we could stay out tonight until midnight…I mean, Mom and Aunt Judy and Uncle Burt told you and Uncle Will that you were both in charge of our curfew…"

"Rachel." Terri said, looking at the girl.

"Aunt Terri…"

"No. You can all be home by eleven. That is a bit later than I would like you to be out anyways. You can thank your Uncle Will for that. He said eleven. Rachel you are still only fourteen, and Quinn, Kurt, you are both only fifteen. I think eleven is plenty late enough, now come on. We are going to order Chinese take out."

Terri turned and left the room, but not before she heard Rachel whisper, "Maybe we should have asked Uncle Will first, I thought for sure she would give in."

Terri just shook her head and smiled and then went to threaten Will within an inch of his life if he told those kids they could stay out past eleven.

-OneStepAtATime-

"What time are you guys going to be home?" Will asked. He had been duly threatened several hours ago, and now he was dropping the kids off. They were going to walk back. Since it was only two blocks away and they were all together.

"Eleven, Uncle Will." Quinn said with a huge smile. She hadn't called him that yet, but with Rachel calling him Uncle Will, it was quickly catching on. Will smiled.

"Terri and I will be waiting up. Stay out of trouble and call us if you need anything." Will said. The girls climbed out of the car and Kurt turned around.

"Thank, Uncle Will! See you at eleven!"

Will drove all the way home with a huge smile on his face.

Rachel, Kurt, and Quinn looked at one another and smiled as Will drove off. They had been waiting on this party for over a month and they had all, barely, managed to stay out of trouble long enough to go to it. They were all super excited. It was an upperclassman, one who was popular for unknown reasons, probably because he liked everyone and he always had wild parties because he was in no clubs and was on no teams. No one really new. It just was.

The three went up to the house and through the door quickly. It was cold outside and they could hear the music. Both Quinn and Rachel were ready to dance. Kurt was ready to check out the people. Kurt was a people watcher and that was usually how he managed to know the dirt on everyone before they knew it themselves.

"Guys, there is Mercedes, I am going to go say hi. I will meet up with you guys later…out front at fifteen til eleven if not before then." Kurt said and hurried over to Mercedes. While Mercedes was okay, neither Quinn nor Rachel were huge fans of hers, but Kurt and Mercedes were almost as close of friends as Kurt, Rachel, and Quinn were.

"Let's dance, Rachel!" Quinn said, grabbing her Rachel's hand and pulling her into the middle of the dance floor.

For the next couple of hours, the two girls lost sight of Kurt and danced. They were joined by Santana, who was drinking from a red solo cup.

"Here, have a drink of the punch, it is awesome!" Santana said, handing the cup to Rachel. Rachel took a drink of it.

Yea, it was definitely awesome.

It was also about ninety percent alcohol and the rest juice.

"Damnit, Santana! That is alcohol! I can't drink that! Aunt Terri will figure it out the minute we step through the door." Rachel said just as Quinn was taking a drink from the cup.

Quinn nearly spit it out, but swallowed it. She handed the cup back to Santana who literally gulped the last of it.

"She is drunk." Rachel said, her eyebrows raised up.

"Rachie! Don't do that. You remind me of your mom! Badass Corcoran…no one is as scary as she is…she doesn't care who she is. She threatened me and Brit-Brit when we spent the night with you if we tried to sneak off and have sex. I don't know where Brit went off too…I think she went home an hour ago." Santana said. She and Brittney had been together, but Brittney's mom had told her she had to be home at ten, so the girl had left a bit before that. Brittney had told Rachel and Quinn bye as she was leaving.

"Santana, you have to stop drinking." Quinn said, going over to the girl because she had just grabbed a beer off of the table with all of the refreshments on it.

"Let's dance!" Santana said, now chugging the beer down. She grabbed Rachel's arm and then started dancing with her.

Soon, it was fifteen until eleven and despite the fact that more and more kids were showing up, Quinn and Rachel knew that they had to meet Kurt outside.

"Rachel, we cannot leave Santana here. She is trashed. She will never get home by herself. More than likely she will get herself into some sort of trouble. She has already been eyeing Felix Matthews…she will start making out with him the minute we leave if we don't take her with us." Quinn said. She had been watching Santana, mainly to keep an eye on her so that she didn't do anything stupid. Quinn couldn't just leave her. She wouldn't have left Rachel either. It came with the territory of being the oldest in the group, she supposed.

"What are we going to do with her?" Rachel asked. She wasn't sure that she wanted to take a drunk Santana into Will and Terri's house and parade her around in front of them. She also did not want to leave her here.

"Maybe we can sneak her in through the window in the guest bedroom. We can go in and leave her outside the window, and then when we go into the bedroom, we can help her climb in. It is a one story house, so it shouldn't be hard." Quinn suggested.

Rachel nodded.

"Yea, that will work. Come on. It is already ten til, and we still have a ten minute walk." Rachel said. Together, the two of them pulled Santana along with them.

"Where we going? Are we going to party more?" Santana asked.

"Yes, Santana. But this party is special. You have to be really quiet." Quinn told her as they met with Kurt.

"Guys! We have to… what is that? What are we supposed to do with her?" Kurt asked, pointing at Santana.

Santana was drunk enough that she was pretty much doing whatever Quinn told her, thankfully, except she was still being rather loud.

"We can't leave her here. Brittney left over an hour ago." Quinn said.

"We are going to sneak her in through the window. She can leave when she sobers up." Rachel said, shrugging her shoulders.

Kurt looked at them like they were insane.

"Well, we have about five minutes to make it back to their house…"

"Oh shit!" Rachel said, and grabbed Santana's hand to pull her along with them.

They knew before they walked half way down the street, that they were not going to make it back to Will and Terri's on time because Santana was talking and laughing and causing all kinds of fuss.

"Santana, if you get me grounded…" Kurt hissed, grabbed her arm and pulling her along. Nearly fifteen minutes later they were finally at the house and Quinn was forcing Santana to sit on the ground below the window of the guest room.

Rachel finally walked over to the latina and stared at her.

"Damnit, Santana! Sit the fuck down! We are already late because of you!" Rachel hissed. Rachel was tired and she knew that sometimes people had to be harsh with Santana to make her listen.

Thankfully, it worked, and Santana sat down mumbling a "Geeze, okay, Corcoran," as she did so.

"Okay, let's go. Santana, don't you dare move!" Quinn hissed.

The trio went to the front door, Rachel pulled out the key that Terri had given her earlier and unlocked the door as quietly as possible.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here? Fifteen minutes later." Terri said, her hands on her hips. She wasn't really mad, but she figured that she had to at least act tough in front of them for a bit so that they would not do the same in the future.

"We are sorry, Aunt Terri. We left at five minutes til, and it just took us longer to get here than we thought." Rachel sniffed. She figured that she might as well pull out her acting tears.

What she didn't expect, however, was Aunt Terri not falling for them.

"Rachel Corcoran, get yourself into that bedroom and go to bed. All three of you. And do realize, kiddo, that I know the difference between real and fake tears."

Rachel's eyes widened and she ran towards the bedroom closely followed by Quinn and Kurt.

"So, do you think that we are going to get away with being late?" Quinn asked as she opened the window gently and popped the screen out.

"Hopefully. Santana, stand up." Rachel said quietly.

Santana stood up and start laughing when she fell over into the flowers that were under the window.

"Someone is going to have to go out there and hoist her up, or she is never going to get in here." Kurt said.

Rachel sighed. She knew automatically that he meant her because she was the smallest one, and they would need to pull Santana up. The window was a bit high for the first floor, so it was going to be hard to get Santana up through it.

"Fine." Rachel said. She took her sweater off so that she didn't snatch it on anything, leaving her only in her tank top. It was way too cold for this, but she was not ruining that sweater. Her mom had just bought it for her like the week before.

With the help of Quinn and Kurt, she was lowered to the ground. She then helped Santana up and pushed her towards the window where Kurt and Quinn were hanging half out of the window so that they could grab Santana's arms.

The minute they grabbed her arms though, Santana fell back, knocking Rachel onto the ground and underneath her.

"Damnit, Santana! Come on! You have got to help us out a little bit! Shit that hurt!" Rachel said. Santana had knocked the air out of her lungs and had caused her to scrape her arm. It was not bleeding all over her tank top from the cut that was not there.

"Sorry, Rachie. I feel sick…"

Santana then leaned over and vomited in the bushes.

"What is going on?"

Rachel froze. She slowly looked up into the eyes of both Will and Terri.

She sighed.

"Hi…"

"Don't 'hi' us. Go around to the front door and I will let you in while Will puts the screen back on the window." Terri said.

Rachel grabbed Santana's arm again and pulled her with her.

"Don't you dare throw up on me." Rachel warned her.

Soon they were in the house, Terri standing over all four of the teenagers, one who was practically passed out at the end of the couch.

"We couldn't leave her at the party." Quinn whispered.

"You should have told us that she was here, Quinn Fabray. She has obviously had way too much to drink and she needs to be watched so that she does not choke on her own vomit while she is sleeping. Anything could have happened."

"I am sorry, Aunt Terri." Rachel said, holding her arm against her tank top.

"Rachel, go into the kitchen so that we can get your arm cleaned up; Kurt, Quinn, go get ready for bed. Santana is going to sleep on the couch so that Will and I can keep an eye on her."

The three kids went their separate ways. Rachel walked into the kitchen, where the light was shining, and sat at the table.

Her mom was going to be so upset with her.

Her mom. Rachel stood up and pulled her phone out of her pocket and hit her mom's number. She really wanted to talk to her mom before Aunt Terri called her.

It rang four times before Shelby picked up.

"Rach? Baby, why are you calling so late?"

Rachel burst into tears.

"I am sorry, Mama." Rachel said.

"Rachel, sweetheart, what is wrong?" Shelby sounded wide awake now.

"We didn't mean to be late…Santana…and then the window…and then she fell on me….arm….cut….Aunt Terri…" Rachel sobbed as she talked to her mother on the phone, making no sense to Shelby.

Rachel suddenly felt the phone being taken from her and watched Terri put the phone to her ear as she sat down at the table and took Rachel's arm in her own and wrapped a damp towel around it so that the towel could catch the blood that was still trickling down Rachel's arm.

"Shelby, everything is fine. I think that Rachel just wanted to tell you what happened tonight before I had a chance because she was afraid that she was in trouble."

"What happened? She is upset. Do you need to bring her home?"

"No, she is okay. They were fifteen minutes late, but that wasn't a big deal. They did try to sneak in a very drunk Santana in the house and Santana fell on Rachel and cut her arm pretty good, but we are fixing to clean that up so that she can go to bed. Everything is fine. Will and I are going to talk to them in the morning. I am not really sure what to do with Santana. I don't have her mother's number. She is passed out on the couch right now. Will and I are going to watch her for the rest of the night."

"I will call Maribel and tell her that Santana is at your house. Maribel and I are well versed in the misdeeds of Miss Santana Lopez, though I this is a first. Thank you, Terri."

"It is no big deal. We will talk more in the morning. I am going to clean Rachel's arm and then send her off to bed."

"Give her a hug and a kiss from me, please Terri. She is going to be upset regardless. That is just how Rachel works."

"No problem. See you in the morning."

Soon, Terri hung up the phone and set it on the table and looked at Rachel.

"Kiddo, stop crying. I am not going to kill you."

Rachel blushed.

Terri stood up and went to the cabinet next to the fridge and pulled out peroxide and bandaids. She sat back in front of Rachel and took Rachel's towel wrapped arm in her hands.

"Are you really mad?" Rachel asked.

"Nope. I am not really mad. I wish that you guys would have told me that Santana was with you. We would not have turned her away. WE would have done just as we are doing now." Terri said.

"Thanks, Aunt Terri." Rachel said.

Terri cleaned up Rachel's arm and then wrapped gauze around it because she didn't have a bandaid big enough to cover the cut. It was a rather large one, though just shallow enough that it didn't need stitches, thankfully.

"Okay, Kiddo, time for you to get changed and into bed. You probably should throw that tank top away as well." Rachel nodded and shed the shirt she had on.

"Rachel!" Terri said.

Rachel looked up at her, confused.

"What?" It was nothing for her to walk through her house in only a bra…

"Kiddo, you can't do that here. This is not a house full of just girls. Stay in here and I will grab you a shirt.

Rachel blushed again when she realized that this was, indeed, the house that Will lived in.

Terri was back soon and handed a shirt to Rachel. It was one of Shelby's shirts and it smelled like Shelby. Rachel breathed in the scent.

"I always miss my mom when I spend the night away from her. Does that make me sound like a little kid?" Rachel asked.

Terri wrapped her arms around Rachel and kissed her head.

"No, Kiddo, it doesn't make you a kid. Your mom told me to give you a hug and a kiss. Now, why don't you head onto bed, and we will all talk in the morning. Okay?"

"Okay." Rachel said, and then hugged Terri back.

Soon, everyone was in bed except Will and Terri who was sitting on Will's lap on the love seat near where Santana was passed out.

"I hope this is not an every weekend thing." Terri whispered.

"Ha. Next time we are taking Beth and Wilde. Shelby or Judy can have the Terror Trio."

Both laughed lightly. They both knew that they would never deny those three from coming into their home.


AN: Hey guys:) I hoped that you all liked this chapter.

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