It's Christmas Time... Well in the story anyways. Okay heads up I have added the Jewish Holiday, Hanukkah, into the story as I thought it needed to be... Rachel is Jewish after all... Yet the writer's only let her say "Happy Hanukkah," right at the end of the episode. I want to apologize in advance if I have gotten any of the culture of the holiday wrong, I'm not Jewish so I don't know a lot about the holiday. I do have Jewish friends and have learnt a bit by them but I also did some research. If I offend anyone I want to say I'm sorry, it's not my intention to do so, I just thought Rachel Berry deserves to have her faith and beliefs in the story. If you find a mistake and feel the need to confront me I'm more than willing to listen, as I would love to learn about the Jewish holiday. That said, I hope you all enjoy.
Quick Happy Birthday shout out to one of my closest friends on FF, caseyrn12.
Thank you to my amazing Beta Comegetit, I truly appreciate everything you do for my story.
I do not own any Glee
Chapter 38
It was Monday the last week before Christmas break, yesterday was Rachel 18th Birthday; the brunette celebrated it with her Glee Club friends. Quinn organized a surprise party for Saturday night for her girlfriend, taking Rachel out for the day, spending the day up in Columbus. When Rachel got home and walked inside all her family and friends were in the living room and yelled out a 'Surprise, Happy Birthday'. Once the party was over Quinn stayed the night… Rachel's fathers waivered the rule about an open door policy, so Quinn and Rachel took full use of the door being close. On Rachel's actually birthday Quinn showered her with love, they didn't do anything special because the diva had her birthday party the night before but they did spend the afternoon cuddled up under blankets watching the snow fall down over Lima at their special place. That night it was the family dinner, Hiram and Leroy took their daughter out to her favorite restaurant in Lima, and they insisted that Quinn, Judy and Santana come along too. At the end of the night Quinn finally gave her girlfriend her birthday present... It was very simple. It was a small pendant for her bracelet; it was a gold key with 18 inscribed on it.
Rachel walked down the hallway and came up to her girlfriend who was grabbing books from her locker. "Here's my list," Rachel said handing out a piece of paper.
"Huh?" Quinn asked confused grabbing the piece of paper and reading it.
"It's my Christmas list… there's 15 things on the list but you can pick out five."
"Babe, seriously? Spray tan? Tooth Whitening? Your body looks amazing and your teeth are already white," Quinn said as she looked at her girlfriend.
"Look I'm just trying to make it easy for you… If you like you can make a list for me also," Rachel stated.
"Well I've kind of already gotten your present and it's not on that list," Quinn said a little worried.
"Really?" Rachel asked surprised.
"Yes, Really."
"Oh, okay don't worry about it then," Rachel smiled as she tried to grab the paper off her girlfriend.
"Let me hold on to this anyways," Quinn smiled. "I might buy you something else… If you're lucky," Quinn smirked.
Rachel beamed. "I love you."
"I love you too."
"So are you ready for tomorrow?" Rachel asked. Quinn was going to join the Berry family in their Hanukkah celebrations, as Hanukkah started tomorrow.
"I'm a bit nervous… But I'm also excited to learn about your religion."
"You're going to love it," Rachel beamed. "I'm so happy you decided to join us."
"Well of course I wanted to join you. I want to learn about your beliefs baby," Quinn smiled placing a peck on her girlfriend's lips. Quinn closed her locker, "Shall we go to Glee?" Quinn said holding out her hand for her girlfriend to take, which Rachel immediately took.
Quinn and Rachel were admiring the work the Glee kids did with all the Christmas decorations around the room, including the decorative tree when Blaine and Kurt walked in followed by Artie wheeling his way in.
Everyone turned as they walked in the room. Kurt opened his mouth to speak. "Sue Sylvester has asked us to volunteer with her at the Lima homeless shelter and sing some numbers for them."
"Hold up! Coach Sylvester asked you to volunteer with her?" Mercedes said.
All three of the boys nodded also confused by why Sue Sylvester would ask them such a thing.
"Well I think it's a great thing to do," Quinn said.
"I'm with Quinn," Sam voiced.
"It would be lovely to help out the people in need during this time of year," Rachel added.
Everyone else nodded in agreement. "I have the perfect song to sing," Rachel stated jumping up and grabbing sheet music for the members of the Glee Club, but stopped as she saw Mr. Schue walk into the choir room.
"This year, it's a whole new sprig of mistletoe," Mr. Schue stated, excitedly as he walked into the choir room. "Guess who's not getting coal in their stocking for once… us. I just got off the phone with Don Borowski, the local station manager at Lima's PBS affiliate. It turns out that their annual broadcast of the Yule log burning has been canceled."
"The Hell?" Puck voiced.
"Ya, they can't afford the licensing fees anymore… But thank you, Scrooges who own that copyright because Don came to Sectionals, he loved what we did and he is offering us…"
"A Christmas Special featuring all of us?" Rachel butted in. "Okay, please say you said yes!"
"Not only did I say yes, but when Don said that they were looking for a director for the Special, I nominated you Artie," Mr. Schue smiled down at Artie.
"Me?"
"Yeah… He saw West Side Story, loved your work and he wants to take a meeting."
"But I… I swore I would never sell out and do television… I'm really going to have to think about this, Mr. Schue."
Santana just stared down at Artie. "Are you fucking kidding me, wheels?"
"Santana language," Mr. Schue scolded.
The Latina shrugged. "Pull your head out of your ass and do it Artie…"
Rachel interrupted Santana. "Artie I think what Santana is trying to say is this may be a once in a lifetime opportunity."
"That doesn't mean I should do it," Artie said.
"I think you're being a loser," Puck added. "Just because you did West Side Story doesn't mean you're this big show all of a sudden."
"You should take the opportunity, Artie," Tina added.
Everyone else sat there stunned at what Artie said.
Tuesday evening found Quinn knocking on the Berry residences door, Rachel answered shortly afterwards and beamed. Rachel gave her girlfriend a hello kiss and then ushered her into the living room.
"Quinn, I'm so happy you could join us," Hiram smiled.
"Thank you for inviting me to your family cultural tradition."
"You were welcome as soon as you and Rachel got together, Sweetie," Leroy added.
"So do you understand what we're doing tonight? And what the meaning of Hanukkah is?" Hiram asked.
"I've done some research… Hanukkah is Hebrew for dedication and this holiday celebrated the re-dedication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt."
Hiram beamed, "Yes, that's correct. The Syrian-Greek soldiers seized the Jewish Temple and used it to worship their gods. The Jewish people were too scared at the time to fight and get back the Temple and Jewish people were forced to worship their gods and if they didn't they would be killed. But years later a group of Jewish people didn't want to worship the Greek gods so they rebelled, they were known as the Maccabees and they fought and got back the Temple," Hiram said enthusiastically.
"So once the Maccabees regained control of the Temple in Jerusalem it was spiritually defiled by the worship of all the foreign gods, so the Jewish people went to purify the Temple by burning ritual oil in the Temple's menorah for eight days. However they only had enough oil for one day but they still lit the menorah and to everyone's surprise the oil lasted for the full eight days," Hiram beamed, he was so happy to be sharing his faith with someone else.
"Okay daddy I think that's enough. Otherwise you're going to overload my girlfriend's brain," Rachel smiled.
Quinn grabbed her girlfriend's hand. "It's okay baby… Thank you Hiram."
Hiram beamed. "Okay so we're about to light the Hanukkiya." They walked over to the window sill where a silver candle holder with 9 holders was placed. "The reason we place the Hanukkiya near the window is because the Hanukkah lights are not for the 'lighting of the house within', but rather for the 'illumination of the house without', so that people outside can see it and be reminded of the holiday's miracle."
"Okay Honey," Leroy patted his husband on the arm. "So Quinn each night before sunset we light one candle, we light the one in the middle which is called a shamash." He pointed to the candle holder in the middle which was higher than the other ones. "We say blessings before and after we light the candle. On the first night we say all three blessings then on all the other nights we say the first two blessings."
Quinn nodded along, trying to remember everything. Rachel was next to her girlfriend beaming that Quinn wanted to learn about one of the Jewish holidays.
"Then after we have lit the Hanukkiya and said our blessings each night we celebrate by giving each other a gift," Leroy added.
"Oh, I didn't bring any gifts," Quinn said worried.
Rachel looked over at her girlfriend, "Baby, don't worry. You're here to learn about it, I didn't expect you to give gifts," Rachel said squeezing her girlfriend's hand.
Quinn nodded. The blonde watched as the Berry family said their blessings in Hebrew and then lit the first candle and then the shamash and then they said the three blessings again. Quinn felt honored that the Berry family was including her in their spiritual life.
Once they finished they then handed out small gifts to each other. Rachel gave her parents the same framed photo of herself exclaiming that they could both put it on their desk at work. The Berry man gave Rachel new sheet music stating that she always needed more, Rachel was thrilled.
That night Quinn stayed over at the Berry residence, once Quinn got snuggled up in her girlfriend's bed she waited for her girlfriend to come out of the bathroom and join her. Rachel came out not that long after, but before she got comfortable in bed she grabbed something from her study desk. The brunette then walked over to her bed and laid down next to her girlfriend then handed the parcel over to her girlfriend. "This is for you baby," Rachel said nervously.
"What for?" Quinn asked surprised.
"It's your first Hanukkah gift," Rachel smiled.
"I thought I wasn't doing the gifts with you?"
"Well I didn't want you to get us anything but I thought I will give you the gifts."
Quinn smiled. "Baby, you didn't need to do that."
"I know that… But I'm so happy you want to learn about my faith and I wanted to give you something in return… So I decided to show you what types of gifts my family gives to each other over Hanukkah. We don't usually spend a lot of money on each gift, we usually choose meaningful presents. However, because dad believes in Christmas we usually save our big present for then."
Quinn smiled and nodded, leaning over to give her girlfriend a kiss on the lips. "Seeing as you're giving me Hanukkah gifts, don't get me anything for Christmas."
"But…" Rachel tried to get out but Quinn cut her off.
"No buts, Rach… Please don't get me anything."
Rachel pouted. "Okay."
"Promise me… Otherwise I know you will get me something," Quinn smiled.
The brunette continued to pout. "Look you're showing me about Hanukkah so I'll show you about Christmas… Well you already celebrate it, but I'll do all the Christmas stuff between us okay?"
Rachel finally smiled and nodded. "Okay I promise, but my Hanukkah gift on Christmas Day will be Christmas related."
Quinn nodded in approval, "Okay."
"Okay, so open up the present," Rachel squealed, excitement overpowering her again.
Quinn unwrapped the present and pulled out a yellow t-shirt, she scrunched up her nose confused and looked over at her girlfriend. "Look at the front." Quinn turned the t-shirt around and saw writing covering it. She beamed, it had 'Rachel's Girlfriend' written on it. "Seeing as I made myself one saying 'Quinn's Girlfriend' I thought it was only fair that you had one too."
"I love it," Quinn beaming, leaning over and planted a kiss on her girlfriend's lips. She pulled back and then looked at her brunette. "I haven't seen yours yet, though."
Rachel beamed. "I know you haven't, you haven't had your cheerleading competition yet. I told you I'd wear it to that."
"I think I might wear this now," Quinn said as she pulled off her t-shirt she was wearing, exposing her naked chest and slipping on the yellow t-shirt.
Rachel went wide eyed as she got a glimpse of her girlfriend's naked breasts.
"How do I look?" Quinn asked.
"You can't just do that to me," Rachel whined.
"Do what to you?" Quinn asked confused.
"Throw off your t-shirt, letting me see your naked chest then pulling another t-shirt over your head while I can't do anything about it."
Quinn smirked. "Who said you can't do anything about it?"
Rachel then smirked. "Good point," she said as she quickly straddled her girlfriend's waist. "As sexy as you look in that top, you look way better without it," Rachel stated.
Quinn giggled. "Are you going to take it off me?"
"I certainly am," Rachel smirked moving her hands down to grab the hem of the yellow t-shirt.
"I'll only let you remove it, if I get to remove yours."
"Deal!" Both Rachel and Quinn giggled as the brunette pulled off the t-shirt that Quinn just put on then leaned down and captured her girlfriend's lips in a heated kiss.
The next day in Glee, Artie wanted them to perform their songs in the auditorium so he could pick which and what songs he wanted in the Christmas Special.
Rachel was performing, 'River'.
Quinn beamed in her chair as she watched her girlfriend sing. Once the brunette finished the Glee Club softly applauded.
"Yeah… Rachel could you please come see me?" Artie asked.
Rachel smiled and nodded, making her way from the stage up to Artie. "Yes Artie, of course."
Once Rachel got to Artie she lowered herself to be eye level with the boy. "What's up?"
"It's about your song… It makes me want to kill myself."
Rachel stood up shocked. "I'm sorry, Joni Mitchell is not depression, she's emotional!"
"It doesn't fit my vision for our Christmas Spectacular."
Quinn stood up; walking over to Rachel and Artie, after hearing what Artie said to the brunette she was pissed. "Excuse me, Artie!"
Artie turned his face to look over at Quinn, who was walking closer to them.
"If it doesn't fit your grand plan for the Christmas Special then just say so, you don't need to disrespect and talk down on someone after singing a stunning song!"
"I'm sorry, I am very busy working out what needs to be done and I don't need to be wasting my time with things that don't fit for my plan."
"And what is that exactly?!" Rachel said angrily.
"We begin in the Swiss Alps, in the village of Gstaad, in the perfectly appointed living room of Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson's chic swank chalet. The tree towering and opulent. The fireplace draped in garlands. The stockings bejeweled. Kurt and Blaine, the perfect hosts have invited their friends to drop in for an evening of Noel Coward-esque banter and fun, happy, cheer-filled songs."
"Are you telling me I'm not invited to Kurt and Blaine's for Christmas?" Rachel asked upset.
"Not unless you pick a happier song… The evening's festivities conclude with Finn dressed as the Christmas Elf Itchy…" before Artie could go on Santana burst out laughing.
"Finn as an Elf… oh, I have to see that."
Artie then continued. "Finn dressed as the Christmas Elf Itchy reciting 'Frosty the Snowman', start with fun, and end with fun… That's how you do it, kids."
"The Frosty story isn't fun. At the end he melts and dies," Sam said.
"I'm rebooting Frosty… In my version, he doesn't melt… He, well, new pages forthcoming."
Everyone just looked at Artie. Most of them just shook their heads at what an ass he was being.
After school Quinn, Rachel, Santana, Brittany and Judy found themselves walking amounts hundreds of Christmas trees. Judy wanted to have Quinn and Santana with her as they picked their Christmas tree for the holidays, and of course Rachel and Brittany tagged along. Judy just smiled, happy to have wonderful children in her life.
Rachel and Quinn walked hand in hand down the aisles of trees, chatting away. Rachel would comment on each tree stating what's good and what's not good about each tree. The brunette had already picked out a tree with her father's last week, and it was already decorated, but Rachel loved Christmas tree shopping so of course she came along with Quinn to help pick out one for the Fabray household.
An hour later and they found a perfect tree. Quinn and Rachel left to head over to the brunettes place for their Hanukkah celebrations. Judy and Santana would be waiting for Quinn to come home after being with the Berry family, so they could decorate the tree together.
Once Quinn and Rachel got to the brunette's house the sun was about to set, so they did their blessings and lit the next candle on the Hanukkiya. Rachel led Quinn away from her fathers and pulled out a wrapped gift behind her back. "For you, baby," Rachel beamed.
Quinn smiled and grabbed the gift off her girlfriend. She then opened it and saw a silver framed photo. Inside the frame was a picture of the two of them in New York, when they were in Central Park together. There was an inscription on the bottom of the frame, 'You Light Up My World, Everyday." Quinn beamed. They wrote 'Light UpThe World' while they were sitting under a tree in Central Park. "This is perfect," Quinn bent down and gave her girlfriend a kiss.
Rachel just beamed and kissed her girlfriend back.
Quinn left shortly afterwards, she was going to invite her girlfriend to come but Judy just wanted it to be the three of them that night. She just wanted it to be the close family, which Quinn understood. Rachel wasn't upset because her and her father's decorated their tree together without Quinn last week so she couldn't complain, she was however excited to see the end result.
Once Quinn arrived home she walked into the living room where the tree was already up. She looked around; there were boxes of decorations all over the living room, her mother and Santana weren't in the living room so she went and checked the kitchen area.
She found the two sitting on stools on the kitchen bench sipping away at what Quinn thought would be hot chocolate. "Hey," she said as she strolled in.
Both Judy and Santana turned around. "About bloody time," Santana smirked. "Hello, Honey… Did you have a lovely time? Would you like some hot chocolate?" Judy got up to grab her daughter some hot chocolate before Quinn even said yes.
"It was great… And yes please mom," Quinn then sat down next to her best friend. "What have you been up to?"
"Just hanging with Judes, Britt had to go home and start packing." Brittany was going away for the holidays to visit family.
"When does she leave?"
"Saturday morning," Santana stated, you could tell she was a little upset that her girlfriend was going away for the holidays.
"Have you bought her a present yet?"
"Ya, but I'm not telling you what it is," the Latina laughed.
Judy turned around with a mug of hot chocolate in her hand for her daughter; she smiled as she watched the two best friends chatting away. She interrupted the two girls by placing the mug in front of the younger blonde. "Okay girls, let's take our hot chocolates into the living room and start decorating our tree."
The two girls nodded. "I'm so putting the angle at the top," Santana claimed.
"No way! I'm so doing it," Quinn said angrily.
"I said it first!" Santana retaliated.
"Pfff… So! I'm older and taller," Quinn laughed.
"Is that a wrinkle I see," Santana said as she pointing under Quinn's left eye and started laughing.
Quinn just pushed her best friends hand away.
"Okay girls… I think I will be doing it… I'm much older than both of you… So I win," Judy smiled.
Both girls just shrugged, whatever Judy said went. Quinn placed her iPhone into an iPod dock and put her Christmas playlist music on. Quinn, Judy and Santana then started to decorate their Christmas tree while sipping on hot chocolate and chatting away to each other.
Glee Club rolled around and Blaine and Rachel jumped up and performed a song together for Artie. It was an original song that Blaine wrote called 'Extraordinary Christmas'. While Rachel and Blaine were performing Brittany and Santana jumped up to join them in dance.
After the song Rachel and Blaine looked down at Artie and waited for the criticisms, but none came. "I bow to you," Artie said.
"Oh, God!" Rachel said relieved.
"Gold… Gold! That's what I'm talking about! I see Cheerios behind you, kind of a dancing Santa thing."
"Just as long as they don't upstage us," Rachel exclaimed. Quinn just laughed at her girlfriend.
"Yeah, as long as they don't upstage us," Blaine too added after Rachel.
Artie wheeled to the front and turned around, looking at the Glee Club, "Good."
Ms Sylvester then came in and interrupted the group. "Look at you do-gooders… Hard at work."
Artie then wheeled up to the cheerleader coach, "Coach Sylvester, we're in the middle of rehearsal."
"Yeah, and I think it's great you're working so hard on your performance. And I'll tell you what; everyone at the homeless shelter is really looking forward to the show. I just wanted to confirm with you, Artie that we're on for Friday night?" Ms. Sylvester said, then she turned around to leave.
"Oh, Friday." Coach Sue then turned back around. "It's a no-can-do on Friday. We're taping our Christmas Special for the Lima PBS," Artie said.
"You told me you were in."
"This is a huge opportunity for us." Now Artie starts talking about big opportunities. "Can we just do it another night?"
"I promised them. You don't want to disappoint these kids."
"Hmmm, like your behavior has disappointed us for years? Last Christmas, you cut down our tree, you stole our presents and you made Becky dress up like a reindeer," Artie said angrily.
"So you're gonna walk away from people who have nothing?" Sue asked.
"No, not at all. We're just gonna distract them from their plight and the smell of urine and make them happy with our glamorous Christmas cheer," Rachel said.
"Rachel!" Quinn yelled angrily. "The homeless don't have TV's," Ms. Sylvester said at the same time.
Rachel turned around and looked at her angry girlfriend. "That was so rude, Rachel."
"So you're all agreed on this?" Sue asked.
"No," Quinn shot up out of her chair and walked to stand next to her coach. "I was homeless once, I know how they are feeling and I'd rather help them then be seen on a television program."
Rachel went wide eyed, and realized what she previously said and knew that it must of hurt her girlfriends feelings, but before she could react or say anything Santana stood up.
"I'm with you. I would have been homeless if it wasn't for you and Judes," Santana said walking over to stand next to Quinn.
Rachel then stood up as well, making Quinn go wide eyed with surprise. The brunette walked over to her girlfriend and squeezed her hand, she then whispered into her ear, "I'm so sorry… I really didn't mean it. I won't let my stardom cloud my mind of what's really important. I'm not going to let what happened before happen again. I've learnt my lesson and I'm not willing to risk losing you again," Rachel said, remembering the time when the two were applying for colleges and Rachel didn't consider her girlfriends dream of going to Yale all because she clouded her mind on becoming a star and didn't think to consider what Quinn wanted… That was not happening again. Quinn smiled and nodded, whispering an 'I love you'. Rachel turned around and looked at the Glee members, "Helping the people in need is what Christmas is really about." Quinn squeezed her hand in her girlfriends.
Brittany then jumped up. "I think helping the little kids is better than doing the show."
Sue waited to see if anyone else wanted to join them but no one did. Coach Sylvester then turned to leave, "I'll see you girls on Friday. Rachel will you perform something for the kids?"
Rachel stood there stunned; she cannot remember a time where Sue Sylvester has called her by her first name. "Absolutely Ms. Sylvester, I've already got some ideas."
Sue nodded and then left.
Quinn let go of her girlfriends hand and then walked over to Mercedes and Sam who were sitting next to each other on the choir room chairs. "You two should be ashamed of yourselves. You call yourselves Christians yet you choose to do something for yourselves then others!" Quinn angrily said, she then turned around and walked back over to her best friends and girlfriend. She grabbed Rachel's hand and then they made their way out of the choir room, Santana and Brittany following behind, the rest of the Glee kids didn't say a thing.
Quinn again was at the Hanukkah celebrations with the Berry family. She watched them say their blessings and also light the next candle.
Rachel then led Quinn away from her fathers. "Here's your next Hanukkah present, baby," Rachel said excitedly.
Quinn took the present and then looked at her girlfriend "They just keep getting better and better." Quinn beamed.
The blonde opened up the present, it was a grey jumper, she opened it up and saw 'YALE' written on the front. "Rachel…" she whispered out.
"Before you say anything let me explain," Rachel led Quinn into the dining room to take a seat. Hiram and Leroy were in the living room and Rachel wanted to do this privately, there was a black bag on the dining room table and Rachel grabbed it and pulled out what was inside, it was a light pink jumper with 'YALE' written on it. "Rachel…" Quinn breathed out again but again Rachel hushed her.
"Now this doesn't mean I'm planning to move to Yale with you, but this is me saying that if you get in I want you to go." Rachel started to tear up and so did Quinn. "I love you Quinn, so much… More than I ever thought I could love someone and I know Yale is your dream and I won't pull that away from you even if you want to come to New York with me."
"Are you saying you don't want me to come to New York with you?" Quinn started to cry.
Rachel placed her light pink jumper down on the table and grabbed both of her girlfriend's hands. "As much as I want you by my side, walking through Central Park together and going to a Broadway show every week, I can't and won't take you away from Yale."
"So what are you saying?"
"If I get into NYADA I'm going to go to New York and if you get into Yale you're going to go to Yale."
Quinn eyes filled with more tears. "Rachel… I can't live without you."
Rachel tears started to overflow and fall down her cheeks. "And I can't live without you, and you won't live without me, I'll still be there, baby. I'll only be a two hour train ride away… I'm not saying we are going to break-up, that's the last thing I want, baby. But I'm scared that whoever chooses to drop their dream for the other will eventually regret it. And I don't want you being angry at me for making you come to New York."
"So you're saying we will do long distance?"
"If you consider two hours away being long distance, then yes. I know we can get through this, I'm not scared of loosing you."
"I love you so much, Rachel Berry."
Rachel gave her girlfriend a small smile and wiped Quinn's tears away, "I love you so much, Quinn Fabray. And I'm not going anywhere, okay. I have complete faith that our relationship is strong enough to sustain through this."
"I believe we can too," Quinn said as she wiped her girlfriend's tears away.
It was Friday evening, day four of the Hanukkah celebrations. The Berry family with Quinn watching, were going to light the Hanukkiya and say their blessing before they headed over to the homeless shelter to help out Coach Sylvester.
Once they finished Rachel quickly took Quinn up to her room, she grabbed a present from her study desk and handed it over to her girlfriend. Quinn smiled and opened it up. It was a framed A4 piece of paper. Quinn looked at it and beamed, it was the original piece of paper used when Quinn and Rachel wrote 'Light Up The World' together. It did have a lot of scribbles on it and changes but that didn't bother Quinn at all… She actually thought she threw it out. "I thought I threw this out."
"No you didn't… You actually gave it to me and I kept a hold of it."
"This is amazing, Rachel," Quinn beamed. "Our first ever song we wrote together."
"Our only song we have written together," Rachel added.
"Well hopefully they will be more," Quinn smiled.
Rachel beamed and nodded, "Absolutely."
Quinn leaned over and gave her girlfriend a kiss on the lips. "Thank you," the blonde said as her lips disconnected with her girlfriends.
"You're welcome, Sweetie. Now let's go to the homeless shelter."
The co-head cheerleader smiled and nodded, "You have no idea how proud I am that you chose to do this instead of the Christmas Special."
Rachel looked straight at her girlfriend. "Quinn, firstly I want to apologize for my outburst I made yesterday…"
Quinn interrupted her girlfriend, "You already apologized for it."
Rachel nodded. "I know but I still feel horrible about it, it was rude and inconsiderate. Once I realized that it hurt you I understood why straight away… You were homeless once, yes you always had a place to stay but it wasn't your home… And knowing that, knowing that someone I love and care about at one point in their life was homeless I couldn't and wouldn't choose to be on a Christmas TV program over helping out in a homeless shelter… Even if it's a fantastic opportunity and it would most likely help with getting into NYADA."
Quinn pulled her girlfriend in for a deep kiss. Breaking a part to whisper 'I love you' then reattaching her lips to her girlfriends.
Quinn, Rachel, Hiram and Leroy walked up the steps to the homeless shelter. Waiting outside for them was Judy, Santana, Brittany, Brittany's parents and Ms. Sylvester.
Once there Coach Sylvester gave them a run down on their responsibilities, they were about to break away to get everything ready, but then Puck walked through the door. He walked straight over to Sue, "Coach Sylvester, I was wondering if you needed another set of hands?"
Sue smiled… She actually smiled… Then made him wash up, grab an apron and help start preparing and dishing up the food. Once he was all set up he came and stood next to Quinn and Rachel.
"Noah, why aren't you at the Christmas Special?" Rachel asked.
Puck shrugged. "This seemed cooler."
Quinn smiled as tears started to form in her eyes; Puck really was a great guy.
An hour and a half later as they were dishing out the food Coach Sylvester came up to them. "Ah, ah, ah, ah… Portion control… Come on."
"Seriously though, I don't think we have enough food for everybody," Quinn said sadly.
"Yeah. Economy gets bad, people give less."
Just after Sue spoke those words the doors opened and Mr. Schue, Emma and the rest of the Glee kids came in. "Hey," Will said excitedly.
Artie getting wheeled in by Ms. Pillsbury lifts up a metal round container. "I know we're late, but we were all hoping there's still time to help. We brought the turkey from the Special with all the fixings."
"Yeah, it's a prop but it's still real," Mr. Schue said.
"Why don't you put it on the table over there kiddo," Sue smiled.
They all continued to feed the people, until all the food was gone. Coach Sylvester then asked Rachel to sing a song for everyone. Rachel, Quinn, Santana and Brittany worked on a song yesterday and today so the rest of the Glee Club, Judy, Leroy, Hiram, Brittany's parents, Mr. Schue and Ms. Pillsbury just chose to go amongst the kids and hang out with them while the girls sung.
Rachel, Quinn, Santana, Brittany, Rachel/Quinn/Brittany, Rachel/Quinn/Santana/Brittany
It's Christmas time, and there's no need to be afraid
At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade
And in our world of plenty, we can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world, at Christmas time.
But say a prayer, pray for the other ones
Oh, At Christmas time, it's hard, but when you're having fun
There's a world outside your window
And it's a world of dread and fear
Where the only water flowing, is the bitter sting of tears
And the Christmas bells that ring
Are the clanging chimes of doom
Well, tonight, thank God it's them instead of you.
And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time, (This Christmas time, no)
The greatest gift they'll get this year is life, (Is life)
Where nothing ever grows, no rain or rivers flow, (Nothing ever grows, oh, or river flow)
Do they know it's Christmas time at all? (At all)
Here's to you,raise a glass for everyone
Here's to them,underneath that burning sun
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
(Yeah!)
Quinn and Rachel then walked together and went to play with some of the children. While Santana and Brittany did the same. Then they all broke out in song while playing amongst the kids. Quinn and Rachel shared a moment; they sung and smiled at each other. When there was a pause in the music they both whispered 'I love you' to the other.
Feed the world; let them know it's Christmas time
And feed the world; let them know it's Christmas time
And feed the world; let them know it's Christmas time
And feed the world; let them know it's Christmas time
That night Rachel was laying in Quinn's bed, wrapped up snuggly in her girlfriends arms.
"I had such an amazing time tonight, baby… I loved what we did," Rachel said as she smiled into her girlfriend's chest.
"So did I," Quinn smiled as she yawned.
"Goodnight, baby… I love you," Rachel kissed Quinn's cheek.
"Night, I love you too," Quinn yawned, as she slipped off to sleep with her girlfriend wrapped tightly around her.
Christmas Eve, the fifth day of Hanukkah found Quinn again over at the Berry household. She watched the Berry family say their blessings and watched when Rachel lit the next candle on the Hanukkiya.
Rachel then walked over to her girlfriend "You're not getting bored, are you?"
Quinn shook her head, "Of course not, I think it's beautiful."
The brunette beamed and then handed the present that she was holding over to her girlfriend.
Quinn beamed and then opened the present, it was another framed picture, however it wasn't of her and Rachel. It was of the blonde and Beth. Quinn's eyes started to fill with tears and as looked at the picture. She remembers that moment so clearly, it was the first time she held Beth at Shelby's place but she didn't know that anyone took a picture of them. Quinn was staring down at Beth in her arms obviously not seeing or hearing anything else that was going on in the room. Quinn then noticed that there was also an inscription on the frame just like the one she received the other night; it read 'when a mother meets their daughter'.
The co-head cheerleader looked at her girlfriend, silently asking how she got that picture. "Before Shelby went and made us tea she quickly took a photo of you and Beth, she gave it to me the last time we went and visited."
Tears fell down Quinn's face as she nodded and stared back at the picture. She then looked at her girlfriend, "Thank you," she whispered out as the tears continued to fall.
Christmas Day, also day six of Hanukkah, Quinn woke up in her bed alone. She left the Berry house last night without Rachel so the families could celebrate Christmas morning with their separate family. Though, Rachel, Leroy and Hiram were going to join Quinn, Judy and Santana for Christmas lunch.
Quinn stumbled down the stairs to find her mom in the kitchen, already preparing Christmas lunch. "Merry Christmas, mom," Quinn said going over to give her mom a kiss on the cheek.
"Merry Christmas, Sweetie," Judy beamed.
The younger blonde went to pour herself a coffee, and then she turned around to watch what her mom was doing. "Did you need any help?"
Judy smiled and then wiped her hands on a tea towel that folded around her apron. "I'm done… I was just about to start on a light breakfast for us; did you want to make the pancake batter?"
Quinn nodded and put her coffee cup down to start preparing breakfast.
Mother and daughter started making breakfast together. Once they were finished, Santana was still up in her room. "Want to take all this up to San's room and have breakfast there?" Quinn asked.
"Sounds like a lovely idea."
So the younger and older blonde set all the food and drinks on two trays and then made their way up to the Latina's bedroom.
As they got to Santana's bedroom Judy lightly knocked, then opened the door, "Knock, knock," she said as she entered, Quinn followed behind.
Santana slowly woke up, "Sup," she yawned. "Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas, Santana. Quinn and I made breakfast," Judy said walking over to the Latina and sitting down on the bed.
Santana pulled the sheets up over her shoulders as Judy sat down. "Umm… Judes?"
"Yes, Sweetie? Would you like some bacon?" Judy said handing out a plate that was filled with bacon.
Quinn was about to join the two. "Judes… I'm kind of naked under here," Santana said.
Quinn stopped walking and burst out laughing, Judy looked awkward and jumped off the bed as fast as she could. "Oh, Santana. I'm so sorry. Quinn and I will just leave… Come down when you're ready," Judy said flushed.
Then the Latina burst out laughing, and threw the covers away revealing that she did have clothes on. "Only jokin'. So I'm pretty keen for some bacon and coffee."
Quinn laughed and then joined her best friend on her bed. "Good one," the younger blonde said while handing the Latina a mug of coffee.
"Merry Christmas, San," she added as Santana took the coffee.
After breakfast the three went down to the living room for present time. Judy quickly went into the kitchen to place some food in the oven then she came back into the living room and knelt down and pulled out two presents for Quinn and Santana, then handing them over to the girls.
They opened the presents and both girls saw that they had diamond earrings; however they were different, matching both girls personality. "Thank you, mom, these are beautiful," Quinn said standing up and hugging her mom. "Thanks you, Judy," Santana said as she too stood up and gave the older blonde a hug.
Judy then handed another present over to her daughter, "This is for you, Sweetie."
Quinn opened it and it was another form of jewelry, however it was a bracelet. It was layered with diamonds, however there was a space that was white gold and had an inscription on it; it said 'Quinn' on one side and on the other it had, 'Love Always, Mom'. "Mom, I don't know what to say… I love it."
"You're welcome, Sweetie."
"Santana and I got you something," Quinn said going to the Christmas tree and grabbing the present.
Judy smiled and grabbed the present; she then opened it up and saw a framed photo. She turned the photo around and saw an envelope covering the picture she peeled the envelope away and saw a photo of Quinn and Santana in there cheerleading uniform, smiling together. She then opened up the envelope and pulled out a voucher to a day spa. "We thought you might need some time to relax and get away from us," Santana said.
Judy smiled and gave out a little laugh, "This is lovely, girls. Thank you." Judy then went and hugged her daughter and Santana.
Once she pulled back she went back over to the Christmas tree and pulled out two more presents, one was an envelope that she handed to Quinn and the other was a small box which she gave to Santana. They both opened up their presents and Quinn came face to face with a check… that held a thousand dollars. Quinn went wide eyed… "Mom!"
"Use it however you please, Sweetie."
Then Santana piped up as she saw a set of keys in the small box. "Judes?" She said lifting up the keys with a BMW label.
Judy beamed. "So I received a promotion from work for going on the business trip while you girls had Sectionals, and in my promotion I received a business car… So I traded in my other car and may have brought you a new car."
"WHAT!" Santana yelled out in surprise.
Quinn beamed; she knew her mom was giving Santana a car, the blonde actually helped pick it out.
"Do you want to so see it? It was delivered this morning."
"YOU BOUGHT ME A CAR?" Santana yelled still in shock.
"Well you don't have one, Sweetie. So yes I did, Quinn and I picked it out."
"You brought me a car?" Santana said still in shock, her eyes started to brim with tears.
"Do you want to see it?" Judy asked again.
Santana nodded her head and then the trio walked out of the living room and opened the front door, the Latina didn't even grab a coat before she exited unlike Quinn and Judy. Santana ran to the black BMW in the driveway with a big red ribbon on the top. "OH, FUCK… NO WAY!" Santana yelled excitedly. "I HAVE A FUCKING CAR," Santana continued as tears of joy and happiness started to flow down her face. Her parents took this possession away from her, yet Judy and Quinn helped give it back. Santana turned around and ran back to Judy who was on the porch and threw her arms around the older blonde. "Thank you Judy… Thank you, thank you, thank you."
"You're welcome, Sweetie," Judy said as she wrapped her arms around Santana.
The Latina pulled out of the hug and then threw her arms around Quinn, as the younger blonde was standing next to them. "Thank you, Q… Thank you for everything."
Quinn smiled while in her best friends embraced, "You're welcome, San."
As Santana was pulling away from Quinn, Rachel and her father's arrived. "Merry Christmas," Rachel said excitedly, as she jumped out of the chair. She then stood there shocked as she saw Santana pulling away from hugging Quinn, wondering what must of happened for Santana to hug her best friend… because that doesn't happen often.
Santana turned around and beamed, still excited and overjoyed. "Judy and Quinn brought me a car!"
Rachel widened her eyes surprised and then turned to the driveway seeing a black BMW with a red ribbon on it. "Wow," was all Rachel could say.
Quinn walked over to her girlfriend and pulled her into a hug, swinging her around "Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas, Quinn," Rachel squealed as Quinn continued to swing her around in a hug.
Once Quinn landed her girlfriend back on her feet she then walked over to Hiram and Leroy, giving them a hug and saying 'Merry Christmas' to them both, she then helped them bring their bags into the house. Rachel walked up and gave Judy a hug and wishing her 'Merry Christmas', Rachel even went over and gave the Latina a hug. Hiram and Leroy walked up and gave both Judy and Santana a kiss on the cheek, exchanging Merry Christmas'.
The three girls headed into the lounge room while the three adults went into the kitchen. Santana grabbed out her phone and pressed one on speed dial. It didn't take long for Brittany to answer.
"Merry Christmas, San," Brittany squealed out.
"Merry Christmas, B," Santana smiled into the phone. "Guess what?"
"Ummm did you see Santa?"
The Latina chuckled, "Judes and Q brought me a car!"
"No way!"
"Ya, it's totally trippin' I'll pick you up from the airport when you get home," Santana smiled, happy to have the privileged of picking her girlfriend up.
Quinn and Rachel were sitting on the couch smiling at seeing their best friend so happy. "You and Judy made her Christmas," Rachel whispered.
"I didn't do anything besides help pick the car, it was all moms work," Quinn whispered back.
"Oh yay! I can't wait, I miss you so much," Brittany said to her girlfriend.
"I miss you too. Tell mom and dad I said Merry Christmas. I better go."
"Merry Christmas, Brittany!" Rachel yelled. "Merry Christmas, Britt," Quinn yelled after her girlfriend.
"Merry Christmas Rachie and Quinnie!" Brittany yelled back, making Santana pull the phone away from her ear because it was too loud. "Say Merry Christmas to Judy and Hiram and Leroy for me. I love you, San."
"I love you, Britt, bye," Santana waited for Brittany to say bye and hang up before she disconnected the call and then walked over to Rachel and Quinn.
Rachel went into her handbag and pulled out a present handing it to Santana, "This is from Quinn and I."
Santana took the present and smirked, "You already doing couples presents?"
"Shut up, S. Just open the present," Quinn snarled.
The Latina laughed and then sat down on the coffee table in front of Quinn and Rachel and opened the present; she came face to face with an iPod. "Wow, thanks," Santana said, surprised, but happy.
"I was going to upload a variety of music onto it but Quinn wouldn't let me," Rachel pouted.
"Thanks, Q," Santana said seriously.
Quinn nodded a no problem back to her best friend, while Rachel began to pout, "What? Why wouldn't you want music already on it?"
"Seriously? You have to ask me that one? Do we have anything in common, Rachel? I wouldn't like anything you put on it," Santana said honestly.
"Okay you may have a point there, Santana."
"Anyways…" Quinn voiced. "We got that for you to put into your new car," Quinn added.
"Thank you both, I'm not gonna hug you though, I've already hugged you Q and you Rachel just flung yourself on me and I was to hyped from getting a new care to care, but I care now," Santana said seriously.
Both Quinn and Rachel laughed.
Santana jumped off the coffee table and walked over to the tree, kneeling down and pulling out two presents. She handed one to Rachel and one to Quinn. "So I kind of got you something too."
Rachel beamed, "Santana you shouldn't have, thank you."
"Don't thank me, until you see it," Santana laughed.
"Is it safe for me to open?" Rachel asked seriously.
The Latina smirked and nodded.
Rachel and Quinn both opened their presents. Rachel pulled out a black sweater with a big gold star printed on it and squealed, "I've tried searching for a star sweater but I never been able to find one, where did you find it?"
Quinn looked at the sweater and beamed, Santana probably just brought it as a joke because the Latina hated the way Rachel dressed, but deep down Santana knew Rachel would love it.
Santana shrugged, "I have my ways."
Rachel shot up and beamed, "I'm going to hug you now," she said as she flung her arms around a surprised, but happy Latina.
Quinn looked back down at her present, it was a dress that was very much her style, she looked at her best friend and smiled "Thanks, San."
The Latina shrugged and nodded silently saying you're welcome.
The blonde looked over at her girlfriend. "Can I give you your present now?"
Rachel beamed and nodded excitedly.
"It's upstairs in my room."
"Gross," Santana said standing up. "I'm out!" The Latina then heading into the kitchen to hang out with the three adults.
Quinn and Rachel then walked up to the blonde's room. Once inside Quinn grabbed the present from her bedside table, she then handed it over to her girlfriend. "Merry Christmas," she said with a smile.
"Thank you, baby." Rachel took the present; there was an envelope and a small box.
"Open the envelope first," Quinn said.
So Rachel did. She pulled what was inside out, inspected it and then squealed. Quinn just smiled, happy to see her girlfriend so happy.
"You brought Wicked tickets!" Rachel squealed.
Quinn nodded, "I told you the next time we go to New York we'd go to Wicked."
Rachel inspected the dates of the tickets, they were after graduation. "We're going to New York after graduation?"
"Well we need to start searching for an apartment for you… That's if you don't choose to use the NYADA faculties… But either way I'll help set up everything with you."
"I haven't even gotten in yet… I haven't even got told if I'm a finalist."
"Babe, really? I have complete faith that you will get in."
"I love you, Quinn."
"I love you, too. Now open up the next present. I thought you might want to use it when we go see Wicked," Quinn smiled.
Rachel opened the box and came face to face with diamond earrings, "That was on my list!" the brunette squealed.
Quinn shrugged, "Ya I guess I used your list after all."
"Thank you, baby. So much, I love them," Rachel leaned in and gave her girlfriend a thank you kiss.
"Quinn, Rachel, I don't want to walk in on something that a mother doesn't want to see. You know the rules, people are here. Now please come downstairs we have visitors."
The couple pulled back and laughed then they remembered Judy saying they had visitors. "Visitors?" Quinn asked confused. Rachel shrugged, "Come on."
Rachel grabbed her girlfriends hand and then opened up the blonde's door. "Dad! Daddy! Quinn brought me Wicked tickets!" She squealed running down the stairs in search on her fathers, but stopped on the bottom of the stairs when she saw who the visitor was… Shelby with Beth in her arms stood in the hallway.
"Shelby," Rachel said surprised to see the older brunette. "Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, Rachel," Shelby beamed.
Quinn then joined her girlfriend and noticed Shelby and Beth. "Shelby," Quinn exclaimed surprised.
"Hello Quinn, Merry Christmas, you're mother invited Beth and I."
The blonde beamed, happy to see her biological daughter, she'll thank her mom later for doing this for her. Quinn walked over putting out her hands to lift Beth up; Shelby released Beth from her embrace and handed Beth over to Quinn. "Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, Beth."
Rachel walked over to Shelby. "Hello Shelby, Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah," the younger brunette opened up her arms indicating she was about to hug Shelby, the older brunette smiled and leaned down to give Rachel a hug.
Quinn then walked into the kitchen with Beth in her arms, "Hey everyone, this is Beth. Beth this is everyone."
Judy stared at her daughter holding her biological daughter in her arms, tears filled her eyes. She only saw Beth for about ten seconds welcoming Shelby inside and she didn't really take the time to look at the little kid… She looked so much like Quinn. Judy hadn't seen Beth since Quinn gave birth to her, she only saw Shelby at the 'West Side Story' school musical and Beth was with a babysitter at the time, but she knew that her daughter would love Beth to come around for Christmas so she called Shelby up and asked if she'd like to come around. Judy did however call Hiram and Leroy first if they were okay with it, because they hadn't seen Shelby yet… The last time they saw her was when she handed over Rachel to them.
Shelby then walked in besides Rachel. "Dad, daddy this is Shelby Corcoran… Shelby these are my dads, Hiram and Leroy."
Hiram and Leroy walked over to the older brunette and smiled. Leroy held his hand out; "Shelby, it's good to see you again," Shelby smiled and shook Leroy's hand.
"I think I can do a better welcoming," Hiram said, going over and giving the older brunette a hug. "You look fabulous, by the way. You haven't aged much since we last saw you… Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas, Sweetie."
Shelby smiled at both of them. "Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to you all. Thank you for inviting Beth and I, Judy."
Judy wiped a tear from her eye and tore her eyes from her daughter and Beth. "'You're welcome, Shelby. I'm glad you could make it. Shelby this is Santana my other daughter," Judy gushed, Santana smiled.
"Can you see the resemblance?" the Latina laughed.
Shelby moved over and shook Santana's hand, "I've seen your performances at Glee competitions and West Side Story… You were a remarkable Anita, and I also loved your mash-up of Survivor/I Will Survive at Sectionals."
"Thanks," Santana said honestly.
Quinn then went over and sat on a stool next to Santana with Beth in her arms, "Beth this is one of my best friends, Santana… San meet Beth."
The Latina just looked at the little girl and shook her head, "She looks so much like you, Q."
The blonde nodded, "Did you want to hold her?"
Santana went wide eyed, scared but nodded. Quinn then handed Beth over to Santana. "Sup, little Q," Santana smiled when Beth smiled at her.
Quinn then walked back over to her girlfriend and wrapped her arms around her waist, resting her head on the brunette's shoulder. Shelby dug into her handbag and handed an envelope over to Rachel, "Here's a late Birthday present for you Rachel, and also a Christmas slash Hanukkah present for you both," Shelby said indicating to Rachel and Quinn.
"Thank you, Shelby, you didn't have too," Rachel smiled taking the envelope from the older brunette.
"You want to open it, baby?" Rachel asked Quinn.
Quinn shook her head, "I'm comfortable where I am, you open it."
So Rachel did, she pulled out a piece of paper, it was an internet print off. She scrunched her faced confused but looked closely and then squealed. "Oh my god!"
"What is it?" Quinn asked, she didn't have time to read the whole thing.
"Shelby! You shouldn't have."
Shelby beamed, "Judy informed me that Quinn brought you Wicked tickets and I asked if you had organized accommodation yet and she told me no, so I asked both your parents and Judy if I could organize it. It's nothing really fancy, but it's the perfect location in New York and I have stayed there myself."
Quinn realized what the present was. "You brought us our accommodation while we're in New York?!"
Shelby nodded.
"Thank you so much," Quinn beamed, going over and hugging Shelby. Rachel then walked over and pulled the older brunette into another hug, "Thank you, Shelby."
"You're welcome, both of you," Shelby smiled.
"Okay who's ready for some food?" Judy beamed.
"Me," "Me," Quinn and Santana said at the same time.
"I might need to use that day spa voucher sooner than I thought," Judy laughed.
Christmas was definitely off to a great start.
That night Quinn went over to the Berry house. She had such a lovely Christmas Day, filled with family, friends, love, joy, laughter, presents, and food, you couldn't really ask for a better day.
Once they finished with the blessings and lighting of the candle, Rachel and Quinn said an early goodnight; Rachel stating that Quinn and her were going to spend the last hours of Christmas snuggled up in bed watching Christmas movies.
When Rachel and Quinn got into the brunettes room, Rachel turned and locked the door behind her. "Okay sit on the bed and wait… I'll go get your next present."
Quinn smiled and nodded, and sat patiently on the bed. She watched Rachel go into her en-suite bathroom and close the door. The blonde scrunched up her face confused to why Rachel would go into the bathroom to get her Hanukkah present.
Ten minutes later, Rachel walked out in a silk red robe. Music started from what Quinn guessed was coming from the bathroom, Rachel must have pressed play before she exited. Quinn went wide eyed, "Oh, god!" Quinn breathed out.
Rachel smirked and then her sexy husky voice started to sing and she sexily moved her hips walking over to her girlfriend.
I don't want a lot for Christmas.
There is just one thing I need.
I don't care about the presents,
Underneath the Christmas tree.
I just want you for my own,
More than you could ever know.
Make my wish come true...
All I want for Christmas is you...
Rachel then pointed at Quinn and undid her robe. Slowly pulling it off, revealing matching red laced underwear underneath the robe, Quinn's eyes looked like they were going to pop out of her eyes.
I don't want a lot for Christmas,
There is just one thing I need.
Don't care about presents,
Underneath the Christmas tree.
I don't need to hang my stocking,
There up on the fireplace.
Santa Claus won't make me happy,
With a toy on Christmas day.
Rachel pushed her girlfriend, making Quinn fall back on the bed. Rachel crawled up on the bed, making Quinn lay her head near the headboard of the bed, then motioned her body to straddle her girlfriend.
I just want you for my own,
More than you could ever know,
Make my wish come true,
All I want for Christmas is you.
Rachel then lifted her hand and Quinn noticed that Rachel was holding mistletoe, Quinn had no idea the brunette had been holding onto it this whole time... she was obviously distracted by looking at other things. Rachel then lifted her hand with the piece of mistletoe over Quinn's head, and smirked.
Oh, I won't ask for much this Christmas,
I won't even wish for snow.
I just gonna keep on waiting,
Underneath the mistletoe.
I won't make a list and send it,
To the North Pole for Saint Nick.
I won't even stay awake to,
Hear those magic reindeer click.
Rachel leaned down and placed an open mouth kiss on Quinn's neck. The blonde moaned out. Then Quinn placed her hands on her girlfriend's hips.
'Cause I just want you here tonight,
Holding on to me so tight,
What more can I do?
Baby, all I want for Christmas is you, you baby.
The brunette then sucked on her girlfriend's earlobe, whispering into Quinn's hear. "Mark this flower off your list," and took the earlobe back in her mouth. Quinn moaning out again. Rachel obviously meaning the mistletoe as Quinn's flower to mark off her flower list... If there even was a list. Then Rachel's sexy husky voiced sung the last bit of the song.
Oh yeah, all the lights are shining so brightly everywhere.
And the sound of children's laughter fills the air.
And everyone is singing,
I hear those sleigh bells ringing,
Santa won't you bring me the one I really need,
Won't you please bring my baby to me?
Oh, I don't want a lot for Christmas,
This is all I'm asking for.
I just want to see my baby,
Standing right outside my door.
Oh, I just want you for my own,
More than you could ever know,
Make my wish come true.
Baby, all I want for Christmas...is...you...
You...
Ohh, ohh...
Ooh, ooh...
All I want for Christmas is you
"Merry Christmas, and Happy Hanukkah, baby," Rachel whispered out.
"Best. Christmas. Ever," Quinn breathed out, and then she captured her girlfriend's lips on hers.
It was the second last night for the Hanukkah celebrations. The Berry family said their blessings and lit the Hanukkiya, then Rachel ushered Quinn to her room.
"Okay, sit down, I'll go get the present," Rachel said.
Quinn's eyes went wide. "Am I getting the same present as last night? Because I'd be okay with that," Quinn honestly said.
Rachel chuckled. "No… Well it might end the same way." Then Rachel winked at her girlfriend and grabbed a present from her study desk and brought it back to Quinn.
The blonde took the present and then leaned over and gave her girlfriend a kiss on the cheek, "Well I know whatever it is will be amazing, because every present you have given me has been. I can't wait to do this for you."
Rachel quickly leaned over and gave a peek on her girlfriend's cheek.
Quinn smiled and then opened up the present. It was a scrapbook. Quinn flipped it open and saw a decorated page with a picture of her and Rachel on their first date together. She flicked to the next one and it was another decorated page with a picture of her and Rachel at their three month anniversary. She flicked it over and saw her and Rachel at their six month anniversary. "I thought that we could maybe start scrapbooking special moments together. And maybe decorate it together."
The blonde turned and beamed at her girlfriend. "I love it... And it's a great idea."
Rachel beamed and flicked to the next page, "I thought we could decorate this together?" It was a picture on them together on Christmas Day, they were snuggled up on the couch in Quinn's living room, it was just after they had lunch. Rachel was resting her body on Quinn while the blonde had her arms securely around the brunette. They both were looking into each other's eyes with a smile plastered on their faces… They were so in love.
Quinn beamed at her girlfriend, "Absolutely." She leaned in and planted her lips on her girlfriends.
It was the last night of Hanukkah, just before the Berry family started saying their blessings Quinn spoke up, "May I join you this time?"
Rachel turned around and beamed "Really?"
Quinn nodded, "If that's okay."
"Do you know how to pronounce it?" Rachel asked. The blessings were spoken in Hebrew.
"I've been practicing," Quinn shyly smiled.
"Awww, baby… Yes of course you can."
Hiram and Leroy beamed. "Would you like to light the Hanukkiya, Sweetie?" Hiram asked.
"Oh, no, it's quite alright, one of you can do it, I don't want to take that away from any of you."
"Nonsense, Sweetie. Here," Hiram smiled, handing the lighter over to Quinn.
"Thank you," Quinn smiled.
They all then said the blessings together, Quinn then lit the last candle on the Hanukkiya and then said the two blessings again.
Rachel then exchanged the last of her gifts with her fathers and then she took Quinn upstairs and handed her the last present. The blonde smiled and took the wrapped present from her girlfriend. Quinn then opened up the present and pulled out a Calendar. The co-head cheerleader immediately knew what this was. The front was covered with all different pictures of flowers with an inscription saying 'Rachel and Quinn's Date Calendar'.
Quinn beamed up at her girlfriend, "I thought you weren't going to do this with me, seeing as I can remember things… Unlike Finn," the blonde laughed.
Rachel shrugged, "I changed my mind… I made myself an identical one… Now open it up," the diva expressed excitedly.
So Quinn did, as she opened it up she saw that it was a calendar from December 2011 to the end of December 2012. But what surprised Quinn was that each month held a background of a different flower. The blonde started to flick through the pages and she realized that the flowers Rachel has used were the type of flower that Quinn gave the brunette. Quinn looked back at her girlfriend, "I've given you these flowers," the blonde smiled.
Rachel beamed and nodded. "And now I'm giving them to you… Well in picture form. But every time you gave me a flower I wrote it down on a piece of paper with the meaning on it. All up you have given me 14 different types of flowers, and there was only 13 months that I put in the calendar so I took one away actually I took two away because I added a new flower in there."
"Which ones did you take away?"
"The Purple Hyacinth and the Yellow Hyacinth," Rachel answered.
Quinn nodded, the Purple Hyacinth was the first flower she gave to Rachel, it meant 'I am Sorry' so she understood why Rachel didn't want to add it in the calendar and the Yellow Hyacinth was the first flower she gave to Rachel on their first date but it represented 'Jealousy', Quinn gave her that as an apology of the way she acted in New York.
The blonde continued to scan through the calendar, she came to the month of their first year anniversary which was obviously dated on the calendar, the flower representing that month was a Red Chrysanthemum, of course, Quinn smiled. She then flicked back and noticed the date to Prom was put in the calendar, that month held a Gardenia flower. Quinn smiled, of course it would. There was already dates in the calendar of when the couple will see each other if Quinn got into Yale and Rachel got into NYADA, "You already planned for college," Quinn smiled.
Rachel beamed, "Of course I did, I've got dates when you can come to New York and when I can go up to New Haven."
"I love you," Quinn whispered.
"I love you too, baby," Rachel smiled back.
Quinn then started to flick for the flower Rachel added in, it was the month of June; it was a beautiful White flower. Quinn looked up at her girlfriend for an explanation to why it was there.
"It's a White Carnation it has a few meanings but the meaning behind why I added it in was that it means 'A Mother's Love', I even marked in Beth's birthday," Rachel smiled as she pointed to the 8th of June, which was Beth's birthday.
Quinn's eyes filled with tears, "How did I get so lucky…" she pulled Rachel in for an earth-shattering kiss. Once she pulled back the blonde looked into her brunette's eyes. "I love you so much, Rachel… Thank you… Thank you for all these wonderful gifts."
Rachel beamed. "Don't thank me, baby. You're learning about my beliefs… That means so much to me."
"Well I had a wonderful first Hanukkah, baby, and I can't wait to celebrate the next one with you," Quinn smiled.
The brunette beamed as tears filled her eyes, "Yes! I can't wait either, baby."
Rachel then pulled her girlfriend in for another earth-shattering kiss. The couple definitely had a great first Hanukkah and Christmas together.
Okay wow… just wow… that was a super long one! I hope you all enjoyed it. Until next time, take care!