A/N: First of all guys, I'm so sorry for this long wait, I was just feeling so unespired for this story that I couldn't even begin to think where to start writing. But I think I have got my mojo back lol. Anyway hope you like this chapter. Enjoy reading or not, whichever.
Our Love Was Always Forever
Chapter 13 - Never Give Up
Rachel woke up today in an exceedingly happy mood. She had no idea why she was so happy, she just was. Considering what went on between her and Santana yesterday, the brunette should be feeling down but she wasn't since she has promised to win Quinton and Isabella back since she saw them. She wasn't letting anyone bring her down. Not Jesse and certainly not Santana.
The brunette nodded her head in confirmation as she stepped out the bathroom with a determined look on her face. She needs to act on her plan to get rid of Jesse as quickly as possible. She walked through the still apartment and toward the empty kitchen, not at all surprise that Jesse wasn't there and didn't even bother coming home.
It's his health he was risking, not hers. Whatever he caught from those whores he kept sleeping with wasn't her problem. She has long stopped herself from sleeping with the boy. She rather he yell or even hit her than let him touch her, and that was sad. She got everything that she needed ready before stepping out the door, shutting it behind her.
-Fabray's-
"I can't believe you overslept" Isabella said, scolding her dad who was rushing around the kitchen trying to at least make the girl a sandwich.
"Oh shush miss smarty-pants, scold me later. Eat now" he said as he pushed the egg and bacon sandwich toward the irritated child. "I'll be right back" he said leaving out the door.
He had no idea how he managed to oversleep. He knew he didn't get much sleep because Jen was there until 1:30am, but he still should've been able to get himself up on time. The two had stayed up just talking but the brunette didn't want to sleep over again because she feared getting asked too many questions by Lizzy. Even though they had talked about everything Quinn still hadn't found a way to tell Jen that Rachel was back.
He didn't think it was necessary to be honest about that portion of his life, Rachel was none of Jen's concern so therefore he didn't feel like he had to tell her if he didn't want to.
"Bella you ready?" he asks as he adjusted his tie. He was wearing a black dress pants with white long sleeve button down shirt with a tie of course.
"Ready!" Lizzy cheered as she stood in front of her dad, all dressed and ready to go.
Quinn smiled down at his daughter before zipping up her coat. Winter weather was already there and he didn't want his baby sick. "Okay Princess let's go, you're already late." he said as they made their way out the door and Quinton locked the door behind him.
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Rachel sighs sadly as she looked at her wrist watch for the hundredth time and glanced toward the door. All the kids were here except hers and the office secretary hadn't come to tell her that Quinn called and said Isabella wasn't coming in. That made her worry, maybe something happened or her baby wasn't feeling well. God, she probably needed her mommy.
The brunette's self battle stopped when she saw Isabella run into the room out of breath. The brunette teacher smiled before walking toward her and kneeling down to her daughter's height.
"You okay sweetie?" she asked, her motherly instincts kicking in.
Isabella nodded, bouncing up and down, "Sorry I'm late Mrs St. James but my daddy overslept." she said with a pout working its way on her face.
Rachel couldn't help but to chuckle at the girl's expression. Looks like Isabella has inherited her craving in wanting the perfect attendance record, even though she was only in kindergarten. "It's alright sweetie, just put your stuff away and get settled, okay?" Rachel asked Isabella who nodded before walking toward their coat hangers.
Rachel let out a sigh of relief as she watched Isabella as she interacts with her friends. She was fine, and there was nothing to worry about. She smiled again before walking around to see who needed help.
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"Hey you wanted to see me?" Jen asked as she popped in her head inside Quinton's office.
The blonde motioned for her to come in with his hand since he was on the phone, "All right that's fine. Yes Ma'am, let's do that. Okay...bye" he sighs as he places the phone down.
"What's wrong?" Jen asked as she sat herself on his desk in front of him and leaned toward him, pecking his lips softly.
Quinn breathed as he rests their foreheads together, "You free today?" he asked as he placed his hands on the girl's knees.
"Yeah, why?" Jen replied.
"Because I just got off the phone with my mom and she said she wants to meet you before I go to LA, so that means today." he says nervously.
"What! Quinton I can't meet your parents today, I am not ready" exclaimed the brunette, wide eyed.
"Babe I doubt they'll care, their just wants to meet the girl their son is dating." Quinton said, trying to soothe her.
"Which is why I should be prepared. Not unprepared like I am right now." Jen told him loudly.
"Please baby," Quinn said kissing the girl's neck "Pretty please, I promised her that we'll be there today." he said again as he trails down kisses on her neck making Jen groan.
"O-okay, we'll go today." Jen groaned as Quinton nibbles on her collarbone before pulling away.
He smiles at her "Okay, so I'll take you home after work so you will be able to change while I go and pick Bells up from school then we'll come back and pick you up and go to my parents." he explained, "How does that sound?"
"Perfect." Jen said before pulling Quinn down by the back of his neck into a heated kiss.
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"Why is it that I always find myself with you here helping me?" Rachel asked she looked around the empty class room. All kids gone for the weekend and her and Isabella were packing things up.
Lizzy shrugged as she put away the colouring pencil box before taking her coat and putting on. As she went to do the sippers like aunt Tina had showed her, her teacher keeled in front of her and put up the sipper before smiling and ruffling her hair like her daddy does. But Isabella didn't whine, she smiled, Wishing her mom was the one doing all those things to her.
"All right sweetie, we done here. Let me walk you out." Rachel said as she put together all of her things before the two walked out the class room. Rachel shut the light off behind them.
"Daddy!" Isabella yelled happily, running up to the blonde man.
Quinton opened his arms and enveloped his little girl in arms before kissing the side of her head "Have fun today?" he asked and Isabella nodded.
"Daddy this is Mrs. St. James, Mrs St. James this is my daddy. His name is Quinton." she introduced proudly as she reached for the two adult's hands and connected them together.
The two ex lovers shivered slightly at the familiar electricity that they used to feel together flashed through them.
"Nice to meet you Mrs. St. James." Quinn said, playing along.
"You too Mr. Fabray." Rachel responded, catching on what he was doing. Both parents looked down at the smiling face of their child and smiled adoringly at her.
"All right baby, let's go." Quinton said as he took Isabella's hand and turned toward his car.
"Quin-, Mr. Fabray can I speak to you for a few minutes?" she asked, praying Quinn wouldn't reject her.
"Is there a problem?" he asked sarcastically, raising his brow.
Rachel glared at the man, annoyed because he knew what Rachel wanted to talk about. Since Isabella was there she just smiled and played along. "No everything is fine, it's just a mini parent teacher conference is all." she said smiling down at Lizzy.
"I don't mind daddy, you can talk to Mrs. St. James." the little brunette said with a smile.
"All right, why don't you go and wait for me inside the car because it's kind of cold out here." he said he hands his daughter the car keys and watched her go and get inside the vehicle.
"What do you want Rachel?" Quinton asked seriously now that Isabella was out of ear shot.
"I want to be in her life Quinn, she's my-" Rachel started but was cut short.
"Okay, I'm going to stop you right there." he said cutting off the brunette, "I can't believe you would actually utter those words to me. I mean after five years you suddenly want to be in her life?" the blonde asked nastily, "Well guess what Rachel? She has gone five years without a mother so she doesn't need one now." he said, turning to leave.
"Quinton!" Rachel called and was relieved when the blonde turned to face her.
"I'm not letting you back in that little girl's life only to have you walk out again when things get hard. She was a baby then so she didn't really understand, but she does now. She's the smartest kid her age that I've ever met Rachel and if you left again she would be devastated and I can't risk that. I'm sorry Rachel, but I'm not trusting you with her ever again."
"She needs her mom Quinton, you know that." Rachel cried, "I need to fix things between her and I and between us." she whispered the last bit to herself but Quinn still heard her.
"There is no us! I waited for you for years to come back and tell me that it was a mistake and that we were meant to be together, that we were meant to be a family, but you never did. Every day I wished to see you come back to us. You left. Not even so much as a phone call to your own daughter on her birthday, not Christmas, never, not once. So no thank you, I think we will be just fine without you. And besides, we have Jen now." Quinton seethed.
"Jen?" Rachel replied breathlessly.
"Oh didn't you know that I was seeing someone?" he asked with a smirk, silently feeling guilty about the hurt look on Rachel's face. As much as he wanted Rachel to feel some of the pain he felt, he always hated it when the girl was sad or hurting.
"You're seeing someone?" Rachel asked on verge of tears.
Looks like Jesse wasn't the only thing standing in her way of getting her family back.
"Yeah, I am. Believe it or not, there actually is someone out there who can tolerate us. Isabella adores her and I couldn't be happier, so you see Rachel, there's no room for you. I don't need you hurting my daughter if you decided to do another disappearing act. It's not worth the risk to me." Quinton told her.
"Our daughter Quinton, she's ours! Yours and mine. We made her together." Rachel said, not caring that her tears were now flowing freely.
"No! Not ours! Mine. She hasn't been yours since the day you abandoned her." he whispered angrily.
"So now you're going to be using that on me all the time now? Letting me of how terrible of a mother I was? Don't you think I know? I have regretted it every single day since Quinn, but I'm back now and I want to make it right." the brunette cried, her heart aching.
"I will never let you live down how much you've made us suffer. I loved you more than anythingand you gave me my baby and she is best thing that I will ever have in my lifetime. I will always feel for you because without you I wouldn't have her, but other than that you don't exist to me." Quinn answered simply, wanting to cry and just hold the brunette in his arms. He hated seeing her hurt like this but she had it coming.
"It's nice to have you back Rach, but maybe it's best if you just stay as Lizzy's teacher." he added before turning around and walking toward his car.
"Quinton please." Rachel cried out.
The blonde stopped with his hand on the car handle and faced Rachel again. "You had so many years to come back and make it right but you didn't Rachel. You made your choices and I'm making mine. Goodbye." he said before opening the car door and sliding in, starting the engine before driving off.
Rachel lets her tears run freely as she just stood there looking where Quinn's car has disappeared around the corner.
Rachel should've known that Quinton single and waiting for her. Quinton Fabray was an amazing man and a girl would be crazy to not want him and Rachel had just let him slip through her fingers. But despite Quinton having a girlfriend Rachel wasn't giving up. She and Quinn had so much history for her to just let go of them again. She was Rachel Barbara Berry, and she wasn't giving up the loves of her life without a fight.
Rachel was going to get her daughter and her love back and no one was going stand in her way. Not Jesse, not Santana, and not this Jen woman who was certainly about to be in for a rude awakening.
TBC
