-Chapter 38-

-Rachel pov-

"I told you not to mess with them that is why!" I am still pissed off that Santana went to the Dalton Academy and even more so that she got blinded "You could have been hospitalized! Your eye is behind a patch pup! What would I do if you got hurt? You are my submissive and I love you! I take care of you! If you get hurt it breaks me!"

"I am sorry still Woofstress" Santana is on her knees "Can we do this at home instead of here in the club room? I also have a song"

"Is it for regionals?" She nods and I sigh "Alright"

"Thank you" I sit down as Brittany, Mercedes, and a few Trouble tones girls go up "At lot has happened within the week...I was blinded, we all got slushied, and we learned old friends can turn on a dime...but we are more than them! We are stronger than them! Which is why I propose this as a song for us to do!"

(Lyrics from genius)

[THE TROUBLETONES]

Ah, ah, ah, ah

Ah, ah, ah, ah

Ah, ah, ah, ah

Ah, ah, ah, ah

[SANTANA with THE TROUBLETONES harmonizing]

You know the bed feels warmer

Sleepin' here alone (Sleepin' here alone)

You know I dream in color

And do the things I want

[BRITTANY]

You think you got the best of me

Think you've had the last laugh

Bet you think that everything good is gone

Think you left me broken down

Think that I'd come running back

Baby, you don't know me, 'cause you're dead wrong

[MERCEDES with THE TROUBLETONES]

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Stand a little taller

Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

What doesn't kill you makes a fighter

Footsteps even lighter

Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger

Just me, myself and I

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Stand a little taller

Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

[SANTANA with MERCEDES]

You heard that I was starting over with

Someone new

They told you I was moving on

Over you

[BRITTANY with THE TROUBLETONES]

You didn't think that I'd come back

I'd come back swinging

[BRITTANY]

You try to break me, but you see

[MERCEDES with THE TROUBLETONES (THE TROUBLETONES)]

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

(Stand a little taller)

Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

(What doesn't kill you makes a) fighter

Footsteps even lighter

Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

(What doesn't kill you makes you) stronger, stronger

Just me, myself and I

(What doesn't kill you) makes you stronger

Stand a little taller

Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone!

[SANTANA]

Thanks to you I've got a new thing started!

[MERCEDES]

Thanks to you I'm not the broken-hearted!

[SANTANA]

Thanks to you I'm finally thinking about me!

[MERCEDES & SANTANA]

You know in the end

The day you left was just my beginning

[SANTANA]

In the end

[SANTANA (and MERCEDES) with THE TROUBLETONES, {MERCEDES}]

(What doesn't kill you makes you) stronger {Stronger!}

Stand a little taller

Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

What doesn't kill you makes a (fighter)

(Footsteps even lighter)

(Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone)

What doesn't kill you makes you (stronger, stronger!)

Just me, myself and I {Yeah!}

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Stand a little (Taller!)

[SANTANA with THE TROUBLETONES (MERCEDES), {BRITTANY}]

Doesn't mean I'm lonely (Brittany: What doesn't kill you) when I'm alone (No, not alone)

Stronger, stronger (Yeah)

Just me, my {What doesn't kill you} self and I (Yeah!)

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger (Stronger!)

Stand a little taller (Stronger!)

Doesn't mean I'm lonely {What doesn't kill you} when I'm alone (Not alone)

[THE TROUBLETONES]

Ah, ah, ah, ah

Ah, ah, ah, ah

Ah, ah, ah, ah

Ah, ah, ah, ah

"Down" Santana looks at me with a pout and I smile "Please down girl"

She slowly comes and kneels in front of me. Everyone's eyes are on us for sure. I reach out and start petting her head. Her leg bounces as I pet her.

I have been so focused on anger this week. I have failed at comforting her in her time of need. I have been a bad mistress to her. But that stops right here and now.

"You are such a good girl" I pet her face and she licks at my hands "Such a good girl! I am sorry for being so angry! You have been hurting and I will help you from now on pup! Yes I will!"

"So this is truly new" I look at Puck who puts his hands up "Spank bank is always taking new memories to relive at a future date!"

"You mean to relieve yourself at a future date?" He smirks and I shake my head "My girlfriends are not for you masturbation pleasures Noah!"

"On another note anyone have another song?" Mom looks desperate to move away from that topic of conversation "Anyone have any ideas at all?"

"I think I got one" I stand up and inform the band of what it is "Join in if you feel it"

(Lyrics from genius)

[RACHEL]

I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive

I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise

[RACHEL with TROUBLE TONES GIRLS (SANTANA)]

To fly

To fly (Uh, yo, yo)

[ARTIE]

I used to think that I could not go on

[SANTANA]

I wish today it would rain all day

Maybe that will kinda make the pain go away

[ARTIE]

And life was nothing but an awful song

[SANTANA (TROUBLE TONES BOYS)]

They got their guns out aiming at me

But I become Neo when they aiming at me (If I can see it)

[BLAINE & (TROUBLE TONES BOYS)]

Me, me, me against them

Me against enemies, me against friends (Then I can do it)

Somehow they both seem to become one

A sea full of sharks and they all smell blood (If I just believe it)

They start coming and I start rising

Must be surprising, I'm just surmising (There's nothing to it)

[BLAINE & SANTANA]

I win, thrive, soar

Higher, higher, higher

More fire

[RACHEL & SANTANA (RACHEL)]

(I came to win), to fight, to conquer, to thrive

I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise

[FINN with TROUBLE TONES BOYS (RACHEL & TROUBLE TONES GIRLS)]

I believe I can fly (Fly)

I believe I can touch the sky

I believe I can fly (Fly)

I believe I can touch the sky

[ARTIE]

See, I was on the verge of breaking down

[SANTANA]

Paint they own pictures, then they crop me in

But I will remain where the top begins

[ARTIE]

Sometimes silence can seem so loud

[SANTANA (TROUBLE TONES BOYS)]

I am not a word, I am not a line

I am not a girl that can ever be defined (If I can see it)

[BLAINE (TROUBLE TONES BOYS)]

I hear the criticism loud and clear

That is how I know that the time is near (Then I can do it)

See we become alive in a time of fear

And I ain't got no motherfickle time to spare (If I just believe it)

Cry my eyes out for days upon days

Such a heavy burden placed upon me (There's nothing to it)

[BLAINE & SANTANA]

But when you go hard your nays become yays

Yankee Stadium with Jay's and Kanye's

[RACHEL and SANTANA (RACHEL)]

(I came to win), to fight, to conquer, to thrive

I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise

[FINN with TROUBLE TONES BOYS (RACHEL and TROUBLE TONES GIRLS), {MERCEDES}]

I believe I can fly (Fly) {Fly}

I believe I can touch the sky {Ooh-ooh, uh, yeah}

I believe I can fly (Fly)

I believe I can touch the sky {Fly}

[FINN & (MERCEDES)]

I believe I can fly (Fly)

[ARTIE (RACHEL with TROUBLE TONES GIRLS)]

(Get ready for it, get ready for it) Then I can be it

(Get ready for it, I came to win) If I just believe it

(Get ready for it, get ready for it) There's nothing to it

[MERCEDES with TROUBLE TONES GIRLS]

Get ready for it

[ARTIE & TROUBLE TONES BOYS (RACHEL & TROUBLE TONES GIRLS), {MERCEDES}]

I believe I can fly (Fly) {Ooh-ooh}

[FINN with TROUBLE TONES (RACHEL and TROUBLE TONES GIRLS), {MERCEDES}]

I believe I can touch the sky {Fly}

I think about it every night and day (Fly) {Oh}

Spread my wings and fly away {Ooh, whoa}

[ARTIE & TROUBLE TONES BOYS (RACHEL & TROUBLE TONES GIRLS), {MERCEDES}, TROUBLE TONES]

(I can fly) I believe I can soar (Fly) {Get ready for it}

(I can fly) I see me runnin' through that open door {Get ready for it, fly}

[FINN with TROUBLE TONES BOYS (RACHEL & TROUBLE TONES GIRLS), {TROUBLE TONES}, ARTIE, MERCEDES]

{I can fly} I believe I can fly (Fly) (Woo) (Get ready for it)

[ARTIE & (TROUBLE TONES)]

(New Directions: I can fly) I believe I can fly

[ARTIE with TROUBLE TONES BOYS (and GIRLS)]

I believe I can (Fly)

"Well" Mom smiles and looks absolutely ecstatic "I think regionals will be ours!"