The next week and a half went by pretty nicely and Puck arrived the Saturday of the dance right before noon. They picked him up at the airport and Damon, Stefan, Puck and Rachel went to get some lunch at the Grill. He only had a small bag with him. Damon assured him that he had several suits he could choose from and since Puck liked Damon's style, he figured whatever he was offered would be bad-ass.

There wasn't many people there but Rachel recognised Elena, Jeremy and Jenna who were having some lunch with Alaric and Caroline and her mom at another booth.

"Watch out daddy and hide, Sheriff Forbes is here!" Rachel joked.

Stefan and Noah laughed too. The boy had been told everything by Rachel. He already knew everything about vampires so she figured she could tell him everything else.

"Very funny." He said as the Lockwood's came in and joined Caroline and Liz in their booth.

Tyler didn't see Rachel until Matt came over to say 'hi' to her. When he did, his eyes immediately zeroed on Puck who had an arm around Rachel's waist and was whispering in her ear. His eyes grew wide and she swore he looked pissed at this moment. She laughed as Noah's breath was tickling her and she knew that he had done it on purpose. Right now, Puck and her looked like a couple and Tyler obviously hated it.

"Well Rachel, looks like you were right. Tyler looked positively pissed that you're here with Puck. He definitely thinks of him as a threat." Stefan said.

Noah smirked and put his arm away from Rachel's waist so he could jokingly flex his arms, showing his 'guns'. He and Rachel had agreed to pretend they were together while he was in town.

"What can I say, the ladies dig me!" Noah said as Damon shook his head, trying to hide his amusement.

They ate while talking and catching up.

Puck and Rachel were keeping their act perfectly and for anyone who was watching, it looked like they were dating and happily in love. Rachel exchanged a look with Caroline who discreetly sent her a 'thumbs up'. She knew what Rachel was doing and agreed with her. Her words had been "Fair is fair, Tyler needs a little ego check and that Puck guy can do it.".

After dessert, while Damon drank his coffee with Liz, the Lockwood's, Alaric and Jenna, Rachel, Puck and Stefan joined Caroline, Elena, Jeremy, Matt and Tyler at the pool tables.

"Hey Rachel, so this is the famous Noah you told me so much about?" Caroline asked.

"Yes, Noah, this is Caroline and her boyfriend Matt. This is Elena, Stefan's girlfriend and her little brother Jeremy who is also a good friend of mine. This is Tyler." Rachel introduced.

"Cheater Tyler?" Noah asked with an angry face on as Caroline nodded happily, ignoring the glare Tyler was sending her way.

It was all part of the show and he enjoyed watching Tyler going from being intimidated to jealous, to angry and back to jealous.

"Let's play some pool." Stefan suggested to try and ease up the tension.

He also noticed that Elena seemed to be sensible to Puck's charm and he, too, was growing jealous of the young human. Luckily, Noah wouldn't be in town for long.

They stayed together at the Grill long enough to show Tyler how good they were together and then they left to go get ready for the night.

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While the teenagers of Mystic Fall's were getting ready for their dance, the vampire that had escaped from the tomb, Frederick, was finally settled in a small, isolated house. He had gotten up to date with the past few years' events and had looked around town.

He knew of the originals and decided he wanted to stay in town to see how things would play out. They had a doppelganger, Bennett witches and a werewolf line ready to be triggered. It was everything Klaus would need to break his curse.

Frederick had been out of the loop for too long to be able to contact anyone anymore but he knew somehow, Klaus would hear about the doppelganger being alive and would come here to break his curse. The plan was to wait, then go propose his services to Klaus and help him get back at Katerina the bitch.

Until then, he was settled in a nice house with an old couple compelled to think of him as their long lost son and to let him feed on them as much as he wanted.

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The dance went without any major incident.

Rachel got several envious looks for her date and she proudly walked with him on her arm. They danced a lot and enjoyed their time together.

"I missed this." Puck told Rachel as they went to get some drinks.

"Missed what?" She asked him.

"Us being together. I forgot how easy it was."

"Noah… We can't get back together… You know that right?" She reminded him.

"I know Rach, don't worry." He smiled softly in a way he reserved just for her. He added: "I just forgot how nice it was not to have to work so hard to be happy with someone…"

"Well, at least we have tonight… What time does your flight leave tomorrow?" she asked him.

"Around 10. Your father said he would drive me."

"Cool." She replied.

Rachel smiled softly when she noticed Jeremy and Dawn having fun together. After Vicky and crazy Anna, she truly hoped things would work out with the cheerleader. She grabbed Puck's hand and joined them. She noticed that earlier, at the Grill, Jeremy and Noah had gotten along pretty well and she figured that it would do Jeremy some good do have a good friend, even if it was an over the phone friendship.

"So, how is it going?" Noah asked Jeremy while Dawn and Rachel went together for the restrooms.

While Noah was giving the young Jeremy some 'bad ass' advises along with his cell phone number in case he needed it, Rachel was speaking with Dawn.

"So, are you having fun with Jeremy?" Rachel asked her while they washed their hands.

"He's nice and all but... I think we're just going to be friends after all..." Dawn replied.

"You might grow to regret it, I know for a fact that Noah is giving him advises now... No man coached by Noah Puckerman loses a lady." Rachel said, imitating Puck's voice near the end.

"Well then, I'll try not to resist too much!" Dawn giggle as they made their way back.

Rachel and Noah went back to dance.

"So, what did you talk with Jeremy about?" She asked him.

"Just gave him some advises so he didn't loose a lady when he really wanted her."

"I hope you told him to wear protection!" Rachel scolded him.

"Totally, that's like the first thing I told him, even before I gave him my phone number." Puck chuckled.

"Now, that's the Noah I know and Love." Rachel giggled too.

"Oh, so you love me now?"

"You know what I mean!" she said, rolling her eyes at him.

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At some point, Tyler managed to corner Rachel and asked her if she really was serious with Noah.

"It's none of your business anymore Tyler."

"Where you with him when we were together?" He asked her.

"I can't believe you just asked me this! Are you trying to somewhat justify your cheating on me? Noah and I have dated and are now very good friends. Maybe we'll get back together in the future, who know… But don't even think of accusing me of something like cheating!" She shrieked in rage before she threw her drink at him in front of his date who was just coming back from the bathroom and turned around, going back to Noah, Matt and Caroline while Tyler watched her go away with lust in his eyes.

She was so hot when she was angry...

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The next day, when Noah left to go back to Lima, Rachel was happy.

Not only she had spent some quality time with an old friend she really liked to spend time with but she also managed to get back at Tyler even more. It wasn't really her style to want to hurt someone but she wanted to prove to him that she wasn't going back to him, that she wasn't some weak little girl he could play with as he wished.


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