Will all their plotting and planning, the conniving and jiving shape them, or break them?

"She reaches for the phone again...her number is one—is the only one—she knows by heart. Just like that, Rachel relapses. Just like that, she breaks her self-imposed Quinn sobriety." Post 3x10.

She holds Quinn close, allows her to cry into her neck, allows blood to stain her favourite leather jacket.

Nothing is out of place here, except for Rachel.

Post 2x09. Quinn and Rachel talk.

Rachel and Adam take everything to the extreme - even sexting.

Rachel and Quinn jokingly play Dr Wagz's Mirror of Truth game, but it quickly becomes apparent that there are indeed a few truths that need to come out.

Quinn never should have heard it. She doesn't make a habit of eavesdropping on conversations, especially not on set. But Rachel shoved her away, Quinn had yet another fruitless conversation with fucking Coleman, and now she's here. Ear pressed to Rachel's office door like a goddamned flyover state housewife.

"Quinn has known Rachel long enough to know that, without her meds, she is a car without any brakes. And while even Quinn can't stop her, she can at the very least steer her away from oncoming traffic." Alternate scene for 2x06. Instead of Rachel and Quinn having a conversation with Chet and Coleman in the control room, the two talk in Quinn's office.

Adam and Rachel try to pick up the pieces, but disagree over what goes where. Post-season 1.

Start small, he planned after impulsively buying a one-way ticket to California. Don't go overboard, he'd written on the in-flight magazine, then deciding he should live some place close to Rachel. (I.E. Adam doesn't make a move after making a move, and Rachel keeps at what she knows.)

The situations aren't always ideal, but Rachel knows that on reality TV everything is salvageable. Until it's not. Partly canon and partly what I wished would have happened in episode 7 and thereafter.