A lot of Glee writer's say they find it really hard to write Brittany. I don't know if I should find it awesome or disturbing that she is the easiest for me to write. Regardless I am glad you all think my Britt's fit's the shows character now on with it shall we lol
A/N: Okay from here on out there are a lot of things heavily influenced or taken right from the Resident Evil world just with my own little twist per usual lol
so in the RE and RE 2 movies you learn more about the corporation and you see Flashes of Dr. Isaac's at the end of RE1 and the all through RE2 were the main bad guy is Dr. Isaac's right hand man and fellow experimenter so I decided to have Bryan Ryan fill that roll and Jesse saint James will be playing Dr. Isaac's just keep those in mind for the rest of this fic and the sequel =}
Disclaimer: Once again I only own my mistakes
Chapter 36
"Shit…Shit…Shit…" Each curse followed the clicking sound of his empty gun. He was out of ammo and trapped in a damn alley. No defense against the approaching undead, as he struggled and pulled on a locked door in full blown panic. He knew he was about to die and it was all that little bitch's fault. As Finn slumped to the ground in tears his only comfort was in knowing that as soon as he turned he was going to find Rachel Berry and bite the shit out of her. By this point the had lost all control of his bladder as the zombies gained ground and he covered his head and rocked back and forth sobbing. Then the crackling of a gun shot sounded around him and he felt the stickiness of warm blood seeping into his clothes.
Suddenly the alley was lit up like the fourth of July by spot lights and the night air went from carrying ghastly grunts and moans to the dull thump thump of bodies dropping and the clinking of empty shells hitting concrete. Just as quick as it came upon him it was over and a crisp "All Clear" caused Finn to raise his arm covered head to take in his saviors. Five people dressed all in black tactical gear and helmets stood in various positions around him armed to the teeth in weapons.
"Sir we have neutralized the area, one civilian, no viable subject's to salvage" The same crisp voice spoke while pressing down on a radio mic strapped to his chest.
"Very well report back to base camp"
"And the civilian sir?"
"Has he been infected?"
Finn shuffled back into the wall behind him as another soldiers waved some sort of device over his body then turned to the leader and shook his head. "Negative"
"Then he is of little use to us" The leader of the group nodded to the other four and they all began to move out. "WAIT!" Finn cried out in desperation. "I know where you can find what you're looking for. Someone infected but not turned! She is holding my friend's hostage" The leader of the group halted them all and looked the boy up and down before walking a bit away to give this new information to his superior. In a matter of seconds Finn was being pulled to his feet and shoved towards the alley entrance "You're lucky day kid. Boss man wants to talk to you. Ortiz find this loser some new pants he is not getting in my ride reeking of piss"
One of the other soldiers snapped to attention then took off and before Finn knew what was going on her was tossed into the back of a large black SUV wearing a new pair of black tactical pants
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First he dragged her outside for some stupid bullshit and now every time she would try and go back in he would distract her. She wasn't stupid she knew what he was doing and it was time to call him out on it.
"She's back isn't she?" Pucks whole body tensed.
"I don't know what you're talking about"
"Puck I know you. You are a shitty liar and even worse at trying to be coy, so unless you want to loose your dick and start singing soprano I suggest you just be honest with me. Rachel is here because you wouldn't be at the house for this long if she wasn't"
'Damn Santana was not going to be happy' "Alright fine, yeah she's here. In the shower or eating or whatever"
Quinn immediately turned to go back inside. "WAIT!" Puck raced in front of her to block the doorway.
"Out of my way Puckerman!" Quinn started pulling at his crossed arms to no effect.
"Look I actually want you to see her and I want you two to work things out. I'm not trying to stop you, I just gotta say this first" Quinn nodded.
"Be careful with her. You haven't seen what she has been like the past few days, she isn't as strong as everyone thinks she is. There is no way Rachel could survive if something like the other day happens again. We barely managed to bring her around this time. You're her whole world Quinn and I know that is a lot of pressure but…"
"I love her Puck. I know I fucked up but I swear to you I will make things right. I will do whatever I need to do to prove myself to her. Just like you are" Quinn gave him a hug before he stepped out of her way. "Hey Quinn?" She turned back.
"If you could keep San from killing me that would be great" Quinn gave him a devilish grin. "Santana is harmless. It's Brittany you need to fear" She went inside. Puck gulped and went to look for a good place to hide.
Just as she was about to knock on her own bedroom door it opened and her best friend barreled into her almost dropping the empty plate she was holding.
"Shoulda known better then to use Puck" Quinn smirked. Santana sighed.
"I ain't cut out for this Oprah shit. So just don't fuck up again yeah?" Quinn patted her second on the shoulder and entered the bedroom.
Two guard dogs down, one to go. She could hear the shower running as she took a seat on the edge of the bed not having to wait long before her fellow blonde stepped out of the washroom with what she could only assume were Rachel's dirty clothes. Brittany gave Quinn a small smile.
"I don't like that you made her a sad panda but you and Rae apart is like hot coco without marsh-mellows tastes good but just not as sweet or fun to drink. So you fix this or I'll train my ducks to poop on you. Deal?" Quinn blanched for a second then grinned.
"Uh...yeah…Deal" Brittany gave a little bounce clap.
"Kay! I gotta tell Rachie you're here cause it's up to her if she wants to talk to you or not" Before Quinn could either agree or disagree Brittany was back in the bathroom where faint voices could be heard. So Quinn just sat and waited. 'Huh thought she'd be the hard one'
Quinn looked up anxiously as the bathroom door opened and a small figure stepped out with steam billowing around her. Rachel and Quinn locked eyes and held the gaze as Brittany followed her best friend from out of the bathroom "I'm gonna go play with the dolphin's now so be nice to each other and NO YELLING!" Brittany gave Rachel a kiss on top her head and hugged Quinn whispering a good luck in her ear before bounce walking out of the room. The silence and tension grew thick around the pair as Quinn took her first good look at her lover in days.
The brunette was always on the small side but now standing before Quinn in only a towel wet hair sticking to her skin, she looked so haunted and broken and even smaller. Quinn was worried Rachel was just turning into an apparition that would fade away with the receding steam. Quinn noticed she seemed gaunt and paler despite it only being a few days. There were deep purple bags under her eyes and her whole posture and demeanor screamed defeat and resignation. Noticing the brunette start to shiver as the cool air around her lapped at her wet skin had without thinking about it moved forward to wrap the girl in the warm blanket she just removed from the bed and had around herself previously.
Quinn moving so suddenly seemed to bring Rachel from her trance as it caused her to jump back in startlement. Quinn for her part sucked in a sharp breath at the rejection and had to will her emotions back under the surface knowing it was all her own fault her girlfriend was this skittish around her anyway.
"Sorry. I just thought…" She held the blanket up for the other girl as her sentence trailed off and died on her lips at the small shy smile Rachel gave her followed by a soft spoken "Thanks" As Rachel covered herself up with said blanket letting the damp towel then pool at her feet before placing herself on the edge of her bed.
Silence once again taking over the room Quinn knew she would have to be the one to break it. To make the first move. She was the one that fucked up after all and as she took a deep breath she prayed to god she wouldn't muck it all up all over again feeling that this was her one and only real shot to make things right. So she sat on her heels at a respectable distance from the girl who owned her heart and took a moment to just bask in the smaller girl's presence already feeling a sense of home and completeness even if things were still rough. Just being around Rachel did that.
"First I wanted to say thank you for seeing me. I would have understood if you never wanted to see or speak to me again, so I am grateful"
Rachel started to respond but Quinn held up her hand "Please just let me say what I need to while I still have the courage then you can do or say whatever you want" Rachel nodded.
"There are a lot of moments in my life that I am not proud of. I have treated people cruelly and caused deep hurt. As you know better than anyone. I am not sure when it all started; I suppose it just gradually took me over day by day as the years went by. It seemed like the more I had tried to deny my father's influences the more I ended up becoming like him anyway. I used to be quiet and shy. I used to love to read and play piano and draw, but over time I gave that all up to fit the mold my father had placed me in. Though one thing has never really changed about me. I have always been horrible at expressing my inner most thoughts clearly. But after years of ridicule and abuse that problem only became worse. I was taught that nothing I felt or thought even mattered the only importance was in being quiet and dutiful. To listen not speak. To become pretty and popular and to learn to control others just as well as my father had taught me to be controlled. So I was forced to bottle up my feelings even more. To never show what I was really thinking or feeling because it would be used against me later. To keep everything locked away even more then I already had been. The problem was that I had become so good at it that later when my father was out of my life and I was once again free to be myself, I discovered there was nothing of the old me left anyway or at least that's what I thought. So I just went about the way I had been taught the new me not Lucy but Quinn. Until one day I met this loud headstrong brash tiny slip of a thing that was determined to ruin my life and steal my boyfriend" Rachel once again tried to protest and Quinn held her off "At least that is what it looked like to me anyway. Thing is she never once feared me or backed down or cower away like all the others. Instead she consistently undermined all of my efforts to destroy her. Having some insane idea in her head that we could actually get along and be friends" To this Rachel gave her an impish grin and Quinn moved closer taking her girlfriends hands in her own and running her thumbs over them in a circle.
"I had never in my life met anyone more determined or stubborn than myself or my father and I never could understand why no matter what I said or did she continued to want to be near me. It confused the hell out of me and turned my world upside down. My whole life then became a game of cat and mouse not only against my own thoughts and feelings but against this doe eyed pretty little thing that would just not leave me be" Quinn looked sincerely into Rachel's eyes hoping the other girl could see and hear the sincerity in her own words and face. She lifted Rachel's chin and placed a gentle kiss over closed eyelids.
"You never gave up on me Rachel and you started to get me thinking but more importantly you started to get me thinking like the old me again. Like Lucy. But most of all you taught me not to hide away what I was feeling that it was okay to show the world who I really am. These last few months with you have been the happiest of my life. You brought me back to myself and you love me for me. Not for what you can get from me. But I need you to know it is still hard for me to get all my jumbled thoughts and feelings out so that they actually make sense to others. Sometimes my brain and mouth just can't seem to figure out how to work together. That day what you heard me say? It all came out wrong and sounded bad because my brain was still so jumbled trying to process everything that had happened. I know it seemed as if I am fearful of you" Rachel tensed but did not move away from the gentle embrace Quinn now held her in. "But that is not the way it really is. Truthfully I am scared FOR YOU. NOT OF YOU. Yes the way you reacted to Finn may have been a bit…um…eccentric but I am grateful. I was scared because my whole life no one has ever really gave a damn about me. No one has ever loved or protected me like you. Even back in school when I was so cruel to you. You never turned your back on me. When something was wrong it was never my best friends or boyfriend that knew where I would run and hide to. It was always you who found me and wanted to make sure I was okay. I spent the last few months looking back and I can see it all and out of everything the one and only constant in my life has been you. Regardless of the reasons it was always you Rachel. And that. YOU. It scares the shit out of me because I am not sure I know how to handle someone loving supporting and protecting me the way you do they way you have always done. I worry every second of the day that I can't show you the same. That I can't prove that I love you just as much. Because I don't really know how to love. All I know is what you have taught me and I always seem to mess it up anyway. Sometimes I think this is all just a dream because I know I don't deserve you I haven't done enough good in my life to deserve some one like you. I am not deserving or good enough for you Rachel you should have so much more everyone knows that but yet your with me despite it. These things that you can do? They don't scare me Rach. It's only the thought of you one day realizing I'm worthless and being left behind as you learn and grow. That's my fear"
By now Quinn's head was the one that was bowed with tears streaming down her face as she whispered out the last of her confession and waited for the rejection she was sure to follow. A gentle caresses upon her cheeks wiping away her tears caused her to lift her head and she looked into those soft Bambi eyes she loved so. A delicate kiss upon her brow that left her skin tingling is what she received. "Lucy Q, there is just one thing you have never seemed to understand and we can never really work until you do" Quinn gave Rachel a sad glance yet Rachel could see the love and hope behind the regret and fear in those beautiful hazel eyes. "You foolish girl. I could never leave you behind or outgrow you. After everything we have been through over the years you still don get it do you?" "What?" "No matter the circumstances. Good or bad. Push or pull. There can never be a me with out you my love" Rachel draped her hand behind Quinn's neck and pulled the blonde into a slow but passionate kiss that sent both girl's hearts not only soaring to the heavens but grounding and centering them all at once.
"You know Brittany told me make up sex is the best kind of sex and you still have some groveling to do Mrs. Fabray you are only partially out of the cat house" Quinn feeling giddy and like all was once again right in her little piece of the world smirked playfully before hoping out of bead scribbling something on a piece of paper and slapping it on the bedroom door. "What are you doing?" "Not important" Quinn hopped back in bed and straddled the brunette "Now where were we? Ah right groveling let's see. 'How do I love thee let me count the ways' one…" Quinn placed a kiss on Rachel's left cheek before moving to her right "two…" she moved down to her girlfriend's jaw. "Three…"
Kurt walked down the hallway intent on sharing a piece of his mind with their fearless leader for setting Brittany on he and Blaine calling them dolphins and asking insane questions hands already on the barely opened door and starting to enter when he saw writing out of the corner of his eye. There was a sign posted on the door.
FUCK OFF!
'Well that's just vulgar and rude' he thought as he turned his gaze back into the room and wishing he hadn't as flashes of skin and giggles followed by moans surrounded him. Kurt quickly backed out of the room closing the door firmly behind him but not before hearing the husky timber of Quinn's voice as she stated "forty-three" shuddering at the images scorched forever in his brain and taking off as fast as his dainty legs would carry him. 'Fuck off indeed'
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It was around two hours later that the household was disturbed by the fences alarm's sounding and a loud crashing noise. No one was quite sure how Rachel managed to be the first one outside but trying to figure out that girl was given up on a long time ago. A beat up old station wagon was careening towards them at top speed covered in creepies as the driver turned sharply left and right trying to shake them. Those who where on guard duty raised there guns and along with Rachel and Brittany quickly took care of the problem all waiting with baited breath when Rachel stepped of the porch gun raised and aimed at the figure behind the opening driver's side door while the dust swirled around them. But she quickly lowered her gun and grinned.
"DAD!" Kurt's excited yell rang out around them as he ran forward and embraced his father. "It's good to see you are well again Rachel" The older man smiled at the woman who spent many a 'girls' night with his son. "What happened Burt?" "It's a long story kiddo let's go inside yeah. Cold out here" The group started back indoors.
"Hey Frodo nice toga!" Santana shouted while everyone else laughed. A deep blush rose from Rachel's chest up to her face as she pulled up the bed sheet tighter around her body and glanced over at her blanket covered girlfriend. "Oh dear Quinnie. I guess we are to late for 'The Talk' hmm?" "MOM!" Quinn's blush now matching her girl's as she glared at the retreating form of her chuckling mother. "We're just going to go…yeah…be right back!" Rachel snagged Quinn's hand and they both darted up the stairs trying to ignore all the laughing behind them.
"Well guess all is right on middle earth again" Dave spoke dryly earning an appreciative grin from Santana that he stuck with her theme
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"We have grilled the boy extensively Dr. St. James. It appears that all he has told us coincides from what we know about the good doctor when he left our employ. The baby was female and would be at the same age as this boy states this girl is. Also the description he gave seems to resemble that of subject 17 as well"
"Let's hope this boy's information is correct then shall we Mr. Ryan. I have spent to many years trying to track that man and his offspring down. If this girl is who we think and can do all this Finn states she can then it means that the Atalanta program was not a failure after all"
"Your orders sir?"
"You are to detain the girl and bring her to me even if she is not who we hope she may still prove useful. Take along some of our testers just to be on the safe incase the men are not enough. The next time we speak Brian, I expect it to be good news"
"Yes Sir"
Special Operations leader Bryan Ryan turned off his communication's monitor and relayed his orders to his troops to be armed and ready they would be moving out shortly. He entered the mess tent where there informant was being fed and smiled and the dim witted boy. "Good news kid, my boss gave us the go ahead to rescue you're friends. This time tomorrow you will all be in the infection free zone"
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Okay guys sorry it took so long I hope this chapter was worth it =}
Atalanta is a character in Greek Myth who was a strong yet feminine woman who faces obstacles and backlash for refusing to follow gender norms. She has always been one of my favorites so if you would like to learn her story you go to paleothea Myths / Atalanta . Html ((just remove spaces lol))
Till next time all
~Erin