AN: so I apologize for my absence but unfortunately RL came crashing down around me in a huge way. My father was ill seemed to get better but had a turn for the worse. He is in a better place now. Unfortunately it left me with no desire to write and created a huge case of writers block. Im slowly coming back from it and well...here y'all go. thanks for sticking with it and me.
"Ray?"
"Hmmm?" Ray looked up at her brothers voice and saw a male and female officer from Lima PD standing behind him. Ray smiled softly as Beth grabbed Ray's hands and clapped them together.
"Good afternoon officers. Would either of you care for some coffee?" Ray greeted politely. Seeing the slight hesitance on their faces Ray quickly added, "It wont be any trouble. My brother has already made a pot and was going to bring me a cup before you had arrived."
"Now normally we would ask you to come down to the station to answer our questions, but given the given the weather out this way, we thought it was best to come to you." The female officer began once all the occupants of the room had settled.
"What's this about anyway?" Quinn asked. She had been in a daze from earlier that she had missed hearing Puck on the intercom.
"It's about the fight between Finn and I. I'm assuming that the idiot boy decided to press charges
once he got home." Ray answered Quinn's question while watching the officers.
"Are you kidding me?! My idiot ex-boyfriend jumps you outside my daughter's daycare, with her in the car mind you, gets his ass handed to him in the fight so he pulls a knife on you and he has the nerve to try and have you charged because you defended yourself?!" Quinn turns her furious gaze on the two officers, "Is Ray right? Is that why you are here?" Quinn demanded.
Ray inwardly smirked at her mates outrage. Whether Quinn realized it or not, the HBIC was feeling the pull of the bond and had displayed as much with her immediate defense of Ray and with the level of animosity towards Finn that could be heard in her voice.
"Miss Puckerman-Berry is correct. Mr. Hudson is wanting to press charges. He claims that she started the fight. To be honest we aren't here to arrest anyone. We have questions that we have to ask in order to get to the bottom of what seems to be a serious accusation." The male officer replied. He had been watching Ray and had noticed how she would wince when she would lean forward to pick up or coffee cup and again when she would set it down on the coffee table. There was also a nasty bruise on her right jawline along with some slight swelling around her left eye indicating the telltale sign of a black eye beginning to start. Hudson didn't look any better, in fact his face looked like he had gone 12 rounds in a boxing ring.
After gaining consent from both teens to video tape as well as voice record the interviews, the two officers asked their questions. Both Ray and Quinn answered their questions. Quinn, at Ray's insistence showed the officers her bruises from where Finn had grabbed her earlier at school. Pictures were taken of those bruises as well as all of Rays injuries from the fight were documented as well. When the officers got to the slash wound on Rays side, the officers asked who had cleaned her up and stitched the wound. It was explained to the officers that at the insistence of their fathers, both Her and Noah were first aid trained, survival trained as well as were field medics but due to their age the twins couldn't legally volunteer their services. Noah had retrieved the knife that Finn had used and turned it over to the two officers. All in all it took just over an hr to answer all the questions and have their injuries documented. Once the two officers had left, Ray slumped against the couch. Her mind began to work out the best way to explain everything to Quinn, while Ray's mind was going a million miles an hour Quinn was lost in her own thoughts.
The head cheerleader was beyond angry at her ex boyfriend, she was beyond livid, she was pretty sure they hadn't yet come up with a word that described her level of anger. She couldn't believe the nerve of that idiot, trying to get Ray arrested for a fight he started. The more she thought about Finn, the way he always treated Ray, the angrier Quinn got. Just recently Quinn had come to realize that she had always felt drawn to Ray, but due to her father and his oppressive ways, she denied her feelings and did what she had to do in order to please him and make him proud of her. While Ray had been gone, Quinn had felt a dull ache, pain in her chest, but with the sress of her pregnancy and Beth being born, and the tots first year, Quinn was able to ignore the ache and light pull that was underneath the ache and pain in her heart. Once Ray came back to McKinnley, the pull came back and Quinn could no longer deny what she had felt while Ray was gone. Since she had moved in with the twins, the pull had intensified. The head cheerleader had been examining her growing feelings for the quarterback with out even realizing that is what she had been doing. Ray had wormed her way, with out even trying, into Quinns heart permanently through Beth. The tiny tot loved Ray and seemed to trust the quarterback completely. Beth would actively seek Ray out when she wasn't feeling well, wanted comfort or simply just wanted cuddles before falling asleep. Quinn had only seen her daughter exhibit this behaviour with herself or Carol. Beth outright refused going to Finn when she was upset and wanted nothing to do with him it was like she shunned him. Whenever he would hold her as a baby she would constantly fuss or cry until she was removed from his arms. Yet with Ray, Beth couldn't get enough of the laid back jock, always wanting to be around her. Quinn was broken out of her thoughts at the sound of Rays voice and soft laughter.
"Really Duckie? You're playing this song?"
Pausing for moment to listen to what was playing, Quinn began to laugh as soon as she recognized the song. It was Katy Perry's Peacock. The bubbly blonde laughed in response to Rays question and began to dance around. Quinn watched Ray gently danced with Beth, whom had stuck like glue to Ray while the two from Lima P.D had been at the house. Quinn smiled at her daughters laughter as the quarterback twirled her around. As the next song began to play, Ray stiffened slightly and shot Brittany a sharp look. If Quinn hadn't been watching Ray, she would have missed it. Quinn was puzzled by Rays reaction to the song until she began to recall the lyrics to the song Teeth by lady Gaga and that it had recently been used in a Hillywood Parody for Vampire Diaries, and went completely still. She thought back to earlier to how inhuman Ray had sounded as the wound was being cleaned out, how Puck had to restrain her and struggled to do so, how Ray had quite literally disappeared in the rain. Quinn then thought back to all the times that Ray had moved insanely fast to prevent Beth from falling or hurting herself in other ways around the house. How Ray had smashed the panel outside for the pool after she had jumped from her room into the pool to save Beth. Plus there were all the crazy rambling from her father when he was drunk. She had always just thought that they just that, the ramblings of a drunk. Quinns eyes widened as it all clicked together and she looked back over to Ray who had been watching her the entire time. Ray nodded minutely as she realized had figured out what she was. However before anything could be said between the two, a popular Spanish Dance song began playing and Brittany pulled Ray up to dance with her. Quinn watched as Ray and Brittany carefully danced with Beth, causing the tiny tot to giggle and clap in happiness. As the small trio were dancing around, Santana and Puck came back into the room.
"Hold up. You two," Santana proceeded to point between the twins, "know this song?"
Ray smirked before answering. "Yes. Noah and sing it as well as do the dance steps as the song indicates."
"Prove it."
Ray handed Beth over to Quinn as Puck queued up the song once again. Santana was speechless as Puck and Ray sang the song perfectly while dancing as the song states. Once the song was over Ray sat down with a wince and finally began to eat her dinner.
"Hey sis, you know we should perform this in Glee tomorrow." Puck stated with a smirk.
"I like it. Maybe you ladies would be interested in being our dancers?" Ray asked in between bites. Ray smiled as Brittany jumped up and down clapping.
"I don't know..." Quinn trailed off.
"Its fine Quinn. Brittany knows the dance as I'm sure Santana does as well. I'm sure the four of us can improvise if needed. Besides this will just be Noah and I's way of," Ray stops for a moment and motions for Quinn to cover Beth's ears. Once Quinn does so, she continues, "saying 'Fuck you' to Schue. I cant wait to see his face and before you ask you will just have to wait and to find out, but I can say is that the man will be in an absolute pissy after Wednesday."
