Hi, So by the grace of God knows who I managed to get another chapter out before the new year. I think it goes without saying this is the last one before 2016 so a happy new year to all of you.
A few things about this story. The scene between Sam and Quinn is consensual. I am neither a Rachel fan or a Mr Shue fan. Nothing against either Matthew or Lea they both have amazing voices but with the exception of Season 1 and Season 6 (Shue) the characters grated on me. I also find it amazing that Santana was the one nearly punished for slapping Finn and what he did didn't get mentioned with the faculty.
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Next Chapter-3x07-I Kissed A Girl-As Sam and Quinn pick up the pieces of what happened. Puck and Sam have a heated confrontation and Rachel makes a mistake that may cost them all.
Baby Trouty Mouth-
Chapter 29-3x06-Mash Off
As Finn commits the ultimate betrayal, Sam and Quinn have another confrontation that sees them both in a surprising position. If you like Sam and Quinn then you should like this chapter no matter how messed up the relationship is.
It was hard to believe that twenty four hours ago Sam was talking to Finn about sex. That he was realising that Finn was heading towards rock bottom. It took a whole day to realise that not only had Finn hit rock bottom but that Quinn had slammed into it as well.
Santana had been out in full force, she had left Sam mostly alone maybe because Ethan's Kindergarten was shut due to some accident with the plumbing and Ethan adored Santana who he was convinced secretly adored him.
Sam had left Ethan in the surprisingly Sue Sylvester's office. Coach Sue wasn't teaching until cheerleading practice and she had assured Sam she was more than capable of looking after him until he could pick him up for lunch and Glee Club. "No trouble" she said waving one hand at him (and nearly hitting him in the face) "I do so much like infecting today's youth and while I hate teenage procreation at least your offspring is well mannered. He can watch the re-runs of last year's Cheerleading Nationals with me and help me figure out how to beat me…and how to ruin Will Sheuester life at the same time…" she looked at Sam. "I do hope he's trained" she said "I don't do bathroom breaks" after assuring Sue he was Sam pressed a kiss into Ethan's blonde hair and disappeared not sure if he would ever see his son again.
Ethan had already toddled off distracted no doubt by Sue Sylvester's shiny, shiny pompoms.
And then Sam remembered that he had Glee this afternoon. And that included Quinn who hadn't spoken to him since she'd told him that she needed support to regain custody of her daughter.
Sam had carefully avoided her and she had carefully avoided him. It seemed like the two of them were existing in totally silence. Until the silence was smashed into little tiny pieces. And it wasn't even by Quinn.
It was Shelby.
She was leaning against his locker her expression on of ice. "Can I help you?" he said politely as he opened the locker and she moved to let him. Shelby looked at him carefully. "Cute boy" she said her eyes on the cute pictures of Ethan over the last four years decorating his locker. "Evan's" she said finally "We need to talk" she jerked her head behind her to the nearest empty classroom.
Sam followed her slamming his locker shut and putting his books in his bag. Somehow he knew what this was about.
"Is there a problem?" he asked carefully. Shelby let out a small laugh that was somehow devoid of any humour "Did you know about Quinn's custody plans. You see when I asked Noah he told me that I should go looking for you, seemed to think you knew more than you were letting on, so I'm asking you straight…" she looked at him with her wide brown eyes so unlike her daughters "Did you know that Quinn was looking for custody?"
"Yes" Sam said frankly because he couldn't lie to her. It seemed she and Quinn had more in common than they knew.
She blew out a breath "And from one parent to another you didn't think that I should know?"
Sam stared at her before turning to shut the door suddenly grateful that the blinds in the room were shut. "Permission to speak like a parent rather than a pupil?" he asked dropping his bag on the table. Shelby stood up higher. "Granted" she said finally.
Sam stared at her "When I was fifteen I had unprotected sex with a girl. While I was ready to be a father she wasn't and while I was desperate to be a part of his life she didn't want me to be. So when I turned sixteen she blocked off all custody and I didn't have the money, the influence or the balls to fight back. Until last year when I moved to Ohio and she decided she wanted to be a schoolkid again and she signed over all of her rights to me"
Shelby stared at him nonplussed.
"It has to do with Quinn" Sam said reading her mind "Because she sees it the same way…she gave up a baby for adoption but now she's confronted with all these feelings, it's her flesh and blood that she carried around for nine months and she cries for someone else. And trust me, I dated Quinn she's bottled all of this inside her for a year and then you brought Beth back, Puck doesn't get it because he didn't suffer as much, she lost her friends, her parents kicked her out and then she was sleeping on someone's couch not to mention the fact that she was embroiled in some bizarre threesome with Mr Shue's wife. She was sixteen and a screwed up kid and she doesn't know how to deal with it"
He looked at her "You gave up Rachel, tell me that didn't screw you up, me, you, Quinn, we all lost our children, I got mine back, you have a relationship with Rachel and I think all Quinn wants is have one with hers" he stared at her "Tell me you wouldn't have fought for Rachel if she was Beth's age, tell me you're not fighting for her now"
Shelby stared at him before sighing sitting down on the desk. "Coming back here was a mistake" she said finally and Sam could have laughed. "Course it was" he said finally "You think if Rachel's Dads would have took Rachel and set up house six blocks away from where you lived you could have dealt with it?"
She shifted slightly "I told Quinn she can't be in Beth's life" she said finally. Sam stared at her before shaking his head "You of all people should understand what Quinn is going through" he said finally "She's been abandoned. You know we must have spent weeks after weeks on your daughter and making her feel special and writing Original Songs and losing Club members so she can feel special and loved. Shue loves her and all the while, while his wife was abusing and manipulating Quinn, while she was drowning, while she was bottling herself up because she knew nobody would help her save herself from drowning Shue was helping Finchel get their shit together, Shue was singing show tunes and giving Rachel all the solo's. She didn't have anyone to go to!" he yelled the last line out feeling utterly furious. How could he be the only one who got this? How could he be the only one who saw Quinn Fabrey drowning? How could he be the only one who could be bothered or who cared enough to help?
He stopped breathing heavily. "Sorry" he apologised but Shelby shook her head "Your all young" she said finally "Young, pretty and yet so damaged" she sighed. "You're a parent, you know I have to protect my child, whatever Quinn is going through, whatever William missed or Rachel did or whatever is happening. She's broken like me, she's damaged like me, but she's gonna have to hit rock bottom and crawl herself up bit by bloody bit before she's ready to face it, like me."
Sam stared at her before shaking his head. "Someone broke her" he said finally "Weather it was you or Rachel or Puck or Mr Shue or Finn someone broke her and I don't like that I am the only one that seems to be remotely bothered in fixing her"
There was a look on Shelby's face that Sam knew was shown on her own face. It was the look of someone who was older than she really was and knew it.
He left the classroom just in time to hear Finn Hudson ask Santana if she was in love with Britney and call her a coward. He would have said something only he wasn't sure what he could possibly do anymore or who he could possibly say it to. He just wanted to collect Ethan and go home, he was suddenly so sick of McKinnley High that he wanted to go home and pretend that he was still in Kentucky with his parents and that he was still had some sense of innocence.
He picked up Ethan from Sue's office still intact and covered in a lot of glitter. Sue herself was watching something on the TV and didn't seem to notice him.
It was just after he had bathed Ethan and put him to bed in the small room off the corner of his own that the doorbell rang. He opened it to see Quinn looking at him with that wild look he hadn't seen on her face in a long time. It was that look of the woman that a long time ago he had envisioned a second mother to his kid.
"Santana is a lesbian" she said finally. "Finn outed her and now it's going to be used in a campaign add. She slapped Finn and yet" she smirked finally "She seems to be the one facing trouble…Shue's idea naturally" she shivered. "I need a drink" she looked around "Tell me were alone" she said finally.
Sam nodded letting her in. He went to grab some beers but instead reached for Burt's bottle of scotch. Quinn sat down on the couch looking exhausted. "She was like my sister, she is my sister" she said finally sipping her scotch. "And Finn trashes her, Finn trashes her and yet somehow she finds herself in trouble" she shook her head. "And Nurse Rachel is there" she bit her lip her blue eyes suddenly overbright and Sam looked away feeling out of place.
"Bastard" he said finally. Quinn downed her scotch reached out and downed his. She looked at him her eyes so wet that Sam couldn't help but pull her into his arms and curl her on her lap. "I have lost everything" she said finally. "Since I joined this club I have lost myself. Bits and pieces over time" she shook her head. "And yet I'm the crazy bitch, I'm the unfeeling person that ruins everything" she shook her head again. "I don't feel like me anymore" she said. She looked up "Sam tell me what to do?" she asked tilting her head to the side.
He didn't say anything. What could he say?
When she kissed him however he didn't protest, and when he took her upstairs she didn't protest and when the two broken people that neither one of them seemed to recognise anymore had sex before falling asleep in the late afternoon it was with broken smiles on their faces.
Because he was Sam and she was Quinn.
Two broken people in a world that didn't seem to care.
Let me know what you think.
