What is Love
"Mercy I know we've been friends for the longest time and I don't really want to hurt your feelings but I'm just not into you that way I just want to be your friend" Sam said as he stood holding Brittany's hand
"Mercedes you must have known that Sam was only ever going to be a friend to you look at you it's clear you're not his type" Brittany said laughing
"Don't do that Britt it's not nice" Sam said pulling her away "Come on let's go Mercy I'll see you later" he said smiling as he walked away from her
"Brooklyn Britt let's go find a spot and get our mac on" Sam said before they even got out of Mercy's ear shot
They had just landed in Brooklyn for National and Sam had been Mercy's dance partner for this term, they had spent a lot of time together and he had kissed her a couple of times and taken her out for hot drinks even. He had never asked her but they acted like boyfriend and girlfriend for almost the entire year. Now they were here he had taken the opportunity to ask Brittany to be his girlfriend just before they were ready to perform.
"You Ok Merc I saw what he done, that was cruel" Kurt said linking their arms and walking off towards the hotel
"Yeah I'm fine I sort of knew it was too good to be true so I didn't invest" Mercy lied
So they performed and as usual Sam and Mercy danced together and she enjoyed the show giving her runs and sweetening the effects of the music and building everyone's sound levels up to keep up with her, with a surprise note at the end
"Wow Mercy where did that come from?" Mr. Schuster asked when they got off stage
"Just the way I feel Sir invigorated I guess" She replied not wanting to alert anyone to the fact that if she had been able to she would have screamed.
"That was really good Mercy" Sam said coming at her from the back and giving her a peck on the cheek as a well done
"What the fuck are you kissing her for" Brittany asked as they walked away from Mercy
"She's my friend and we communicate that way, problem?" Sam asked
"Yeah I don't like it" Brittany said "By the way I'm having a girlie night with Santana tonight so we won't see each other"
"What's that about?" Sam asked
"What girlie night just hanging with my girl getting my groove on" Brittany said doing a shimmy shake
"I don't like it" Sam said "You've got a boyfriend now make a decision you don't want me having friends I say the same" he said moving his arm from around her
"I'll cancel this time with Santana but she won't like it" Brittany said
"Tough" Sam said "and I mean cancel full time we only get after school to spend any time together I want to be exclusive with you nobody invades our time" he said
"We have to see friends Sam it's not healthy to spend all our time together" Brittany said
"Who told you that?" he asked
"Santana" she said
"Look if I can't speak to Mercy you can't speak to Santana" Sam said
"But she's my best friend" Brittany said stopping to look at Sam
"Mercy's my best friend" Sam said
"It's not fair you need to have a best friend like mine"
"Like yours what do you mean?" Sam asked
"Like Santana's my friend with benefits we share like lady kisses, and touch each other every Friday, but it's not cheating because it's with a girl, Santana said so that's why Fridays our girlie day. So you should be friends with like Kurt of someone like him"
"You sleep with Santana?"
"No we hardly ever fall asleep we just touch each other and feel good"
"Do you like that more than being with me?"
"Men are different because they go inside but Santana makes my whole body tingle so I like my Lady kisses better but you're nice I like your hands"
"Ok I get the gist" Sam said pulling away a bit from Brittany "So you're saying you want to be with me but you want to be able to make out with Santana every Friday?" Sam asked for clarification "Like my permission to two time me yeah?"
Brittany looked at him for a short while before saying "Yeah I think that's right"
"So in order to share you I have to stop speaking to my best friend because she's a girl?"
"Not just because it's a girl it's because it's Mercedes as well she's fat, black and not very nice Santana said and she's always trying to sing better than everybody else it's not right"
"Ok Fat; Mercedes is chunky not fat she is all about that base, Black; well that is stating the obvious yes she is and proud from what I know; Not nice what did she do to you?" Sam asked
"She's never done anything to me but she had a sing off with Santana about Puck once and she won even though Santana was giving it up to Puck at the time and Santana said she wasn't a nice person"
"That doesn't make for a horrible person Britt Mercy's a nice girl and very kind and loving she never has a bad word to say about anybody really" Sam said in her defence "And about the singing she tones it down in Glee I've heard her do much better songs than those and I'm sorry but she is a good singer the best in Glee club actually only nobody recognises that"
Brittany sat considering what Sam had said while he continued "And Britt I really can't be your boyfriend I mean don't get me wrong it was good for the week it lasted, great sex really, but I'm not used to sharing girls and definitely not with other girls so I think you need to go and be Santana's girlfriend"
"Are you splitting up with me Sam?" Brittany asked
"Brittany you're with Santana I'm not getting in between that and with all that talking I just realised where I need to be myself"
Sam left Brittany that evening and went in search of Blaine for advice "Dude I just did the worst thing and I don't know how to get back from it but I need to because I just realised something"
"Slow down dude what in hells name are you talking about?" Blaine asked
"I just officially agreed to go out with Brittany" Sam said
"She's a lesbian dude anyone can see that" Blaine said
"Except me" Sam said laughing
"That's not it anyway she made me tell Mercy after a week because she must have been jealous of our relationship, Mercy and mine that is, so anyway I told Mercy and I know I broke her heart today just before the performance, I guess I was thinking with my dick, only to find out she wants me to be a third wheel in the relationship with Santana. While discussing that with her I've realised I'm in love with Mercy and I don't know what to do about that after the way I've treated her today"
"She's out with Kurt at the moment she says she's fine because she never invested but, Kurt says he knows her best and she is hurting like hell so he's trying to find a karaoke bar for her to let it all out"
"Shit dude what should I do?" Sam asked expecting an answer
"Dude of all the people in Glee Mercy's probably the only one I haven't gotten close to firstly she's Kurt's bestie and I felt funny pushing in on that and secondly she's not very welcoming is she?" Blaine asked
"She is too" Sam said "Why has no one taken the time out to get to know her you'd all realise what you have here" Sam said looking a bit perplexed
"Sure she belts out when she has to but she does little else bro I mean I don't think I've ever heard her sing a whole song she's always la la la ing behind Rachel or Santana you know?" Blaine said
"Dude have you never heard her sing with Artie or belt out a diva tune in the auditorium?" Sam asked and Blaine shook his head saying no "It's a must when we get back" Sam announced as he left Blaine no wiser as to what he was going to do to get back in Mercy's good books and he wasn't about the start wondering the streets of Brooklyn alone looking for them.
"Tina, Mike do you know where Kurt is?" Sam asked
"He's out with my girl because of you" Tina said to him cutting her eye
"I know start ripping I just got it off Blaine" Sam said as he walked towards them with his arms outstretched
"Dude you better have some way of fixing this, she cuts deep" Mike said
"How do you know that?" Sam asked stopping in his tracks
"Because she's my girl's bestie" Mike said turning to Tina as he said it as if that was common knowledge
"T how can I apologise to her I really mean it" Sam asked
"Sam I kept telling her you were leading her on all those kisses and hugs dates at Lima Bean, late night movies, fair rides and all that I bet you didn't do that with Quinn, Rachel, Brittany or Santana did you?" Tina asked
"No I didn't actually" Sam answered realising he had been treating her like a girlfriend without knowing it better in some instances
"And then you tell her you weren't leading her on bull shit" Tina shouted at the end of her sentence "Well nothing against you you're a man whore and you need what you need but my girl didn't deserve that if I was a man I'd kick your ass down" she paused "She's already dealing with the body type haters, the colour haters, the singing hater and then now she has the talking to Sam haters all for what? nothing you gave her nothing"
"I didn't mean to T I just didn't realise.."
"Didn't realise what?" Tina asked putting her hands on her hips waiting as Sam searched for the words
"I didn't realise I was falling in love with her" Sam blarted out
"So you're in love with Quinn enough to give her a promise ring, then Santana enough to lick her out, then let me see Rachel enough to fuck her on the bed upstairs while everyone's downstairs throwing her a fucking party and now Brittany enough to break Mercy's heart and humiliate her by rejecting her in front of your new girlfriend and now you love Mercy I think not baby puppy fuck you" Tina said waving a finger in his face "Do her the biggest favour and leave her alone my girl is worth ten of you" Tina finished before she grabbed Mike and walked off.
Kurt was standing in the middle of a karaoke bar trying to convince Mercy to get up there and sing it out "you need to confront how you feel Merc or it will eventually make you bitter"
"I said I'm fine Kurt please just leave it besides if I start I'm not sure I'll be able to stop"
'Where are u' Kurt read on his mobile from Blaine 'Uxburry's' he wrote back before attending to Mercy again
"Let's have a drink then and talk" Kurt suggested and Mercy took him up on the offer. So Kurt went to the bar and got two coke's knowing that Mercy wasn't a drinker he didn't ask for anything stronger as she would ask the bar tender what was in the drink so he tipped a bit of his dark rum in her cup before bringing it to the table. "Cola with a K some fake stuff but you don't like sprite" he said putting the cup down in front of her. When the cup was finished Mercy felt like singing
"Do you want to sing Kurt" she asked "I feel in the mood to sing" she said getting up to find a song
"You can have this one Diva I'll take the next one I'm a bit weak at the knees" Kurt said
"DJ my friend tells me my hearts broken and I need to sing it the fuck out" Mercy shouted "oops" she said covering her mouth that was a swear" she said laughing "So here's my song" she said giving him the book
Meanwhile Blaine had the address searched for where Kurt and Mercy were he told Sam to get there and then sent a sapp to the others telling them that Sam was going to get fucked off good and proper by non-other than Mercy Jones in about 15 minutes everyone was up, dressed and on their way to Uxburry's for the showdown in seconds. As they walked through the door they saw Mercy on stage talking to the DJ with a book in her hand and Sam sitting in the back watching what was going on. He texted Kurt 'did you give her a drink!?' looking at Kurt's reaction to the text before he looked around and saw Sam sitting at the back and nodded a yes 'bad move dude' Sam wrote
"Hey" Mercy said swinging around a bit too fast because she felt dizzy and held her head "Woo" she said and steadied herself before carrying on "I'm going to sing to you I don't get the opportunity to do this very often so it's a bit of a treat for me only one person has ever heard me really sing but he turned out to be less than a friend but I'm singing this because of him so to Sam" she said to blurred faces she couldn't make out. Hit it" she said and laughed "I've always wanted to say that" and she started to sing "What Is Love" by Veronika Bozeman
The audience was quiet as Mercy built the atmosphere and started singing with feeling, Sam sat listening to the words which he knew were directly for him
"Wow Mercedes that was … Wow" Blaine said making her look out into the crowd because she heard her name
"Who is that?" she asked "Kurt" she said looking around for him as he came to the stage to get her Sam appeared "Sam" she said looking in puzzlement "What are you doing here?" she asked
"I'm listening to my girl sing a song to me beautiful" he said holding his hand out to get her off the stage
"Will you sing a song with me Sammy please" she said not seeing any of the others who started clapping for encouragement "please" she said and he jumped up on stage with her
"What do you want to sing Mercy?" he asked
"We have lots of favourites don't we?" she asked him "You choose" she said
""Conqueror" by Estelle & Jussie Smollett if you fell up to it I like when we sing that one" Sam found the song in the book and the DJ put it on for them to start singing, Sam started the song was beautiful and they sounded perfect together the other Glee members stood around bobbing along and clapping, wooping and banging the air as they sung.
Excitement throughout the bar as Sam and Mercy finished their song "You two make beautiful music" the DJ said as they left the stage
"I'm about to find out if we can make beautiful anything else" Sam said making Mercy look at him
"Babe you need to go home Kurt gave you an alcoholic drink only a bit but you know you don't need a cap full to get in a state" Sam said laughing making her laugh
"I knew he'd done it I saw him but I needed to get over my heartache are you mad at me?" she asked Sam
"No I'm in love with you" he said looking at her to see her reaction
"Oh we're on the same page at last" she said laughing even louder
"Mercedes that was fabulous girl you can sing" Quinn said
"Why have you been hiding that from us Mercedes" Santana said
"Girl you need solo's lots of solo's" Rachel said hugging her
"Duets I say you sounded orgasmic" Tina said looking at the two of them
"I like this pairing" Puck said "I think Sexy Mama's in good hands right?" he said to Sam
"Right" Sam said ferrying Mercy through the crowd "Oh she's never said because she doesn't need the spotlight to shine, that's what her Mother tells her" Sam said turning to leave with Mercy in his arms "oh and by the way we're a couple now and forever your looking at my future wife"
"She's drunk Sam how do you know she's going to say yes" Mike shouted after him
"I'm not that drunk, I'm going to be his wife" Mercy said laughing
Mercedes Jones- Evans and Sam Evans have left the building" Artie said to everyone's cheer
The end