Yay to almost being finished season 2! I have some cool ideas on how to incorporate Sam in the first eight episodes of season 3 while he's still in Kentucky. Also just a side note, I do not attend Church. I know that Sam and Quinn are both religious and go to Church and that is how Quinn finds out about his family situation, so I tried my best to make the beginning scene as accurate as possible. If I got any facts wrong or used any wrong words I apologize! Also does anyone else hate the rumours episode? I know it's a really popular episode and I love the Brittana storyline, but I seriously hate how everyone treated Sam and Rachel made me so mad during this episode.
Rumours
She hears about his family situation at Church. Their families don't sit beside each other anymore due to obvious reasons, but both still attend every Sunday morning. She usually spends most of her weekend nights overthinking so she doesn't actually fall asleep until the middle of the night, making her exhausted for Church. Most mornings she's half asleep, only partially listening to what the Pastor is saying. This morning is just like those times, just as she's about to doze off on her mother's shoulder the Pastor asks them all to pray for one of their own. That catches her attention.
She sits up straight as he asks them all to keep one of the families in their prayers as they have recently been faced with financial struggles. She looks around the room to see if anyone gives off any indicators. She's hoping maybe the Pastor will give them all a hint to who the family is since she's curious, but all he says is that those who want to anonymously donate can do so by visiting his office, and then concludes the service.
She waits patiently beside her mother just like she does every Sunday, letting her mother gossip for ten minutes with some of the other mothers before they head home. Usually she doesn't pay attention, but then she hears Evans and her ears perk up.
"It's a shame really, Mary never found herself needing a job since Dwight had been doing so well and now they're both struggling to find one. I heard they're living in a motel, so sad."
A motel? How can the five of them possibly fit into a motel room? She feels awful. Sam doesn't deserve any of this. She whispers to her mom that she's going to head to the washroom before they go and that she'll just might her by the car.
She's hoping they haven't left yet. She runs outside trying to find Sam's car but it's not there, he's already gone. She sighs in defeat and starts to head towards her car, but then someone tugs at her dress.
"Quinn!" She turns around to face Stacy. What's she still doing here if Sam has already left, usually he takes his siblings with him when his parents want to stay behind after Church. She remembers because she would often go with them, hitting a McDonald's before heading to his house.
"Stacy? What are you still doing here? Why didn't you go with Sam?" The little girl grabs her hand and tugs her towards the playground where Stevie is sitting on a swing.
"My parents are inside having a meeting, they wanted us to wait for them out here. Sammy's at work. Come push me on the swing Quinn! Stevie won't do it." She follows Stacy towards the swings. Sam at work? When did he get a job? Before she can ask Stacy more questions, Sam's parents head out of the Church. Mary looks surprised when she sees her.
"Oh. Quinn." She doesn't blame her, Sam probably told them what she did. She tries not to think too much about it because it makes her feel awful.
"I know Sam and I broke up, but if you need anything seriously, please don't hesitate to ask." It's not until she's standing right in front of Mary when she notices how tired she looks and it makes Quinn feel even worse. She wishes there was something she can do, Sam has already been through so much, mostly because of her.
"Oh no Quinn, we couldn't." She pulls Quinn a little farther from the kids so that they can properly talk, and she assumes it's because neither Stevie or Stacy really understand what's going on.
"I have so much time on my hands now that I'm not on the Cheerios, I can always help babysit, I know Sam has a job now. You guys already have my number, just give me a call whenever." She says it to make it look like her and Sam are on good terms, she knows that there is no way Mary will accept her help if she knew Sam hated her. Mary sighs and reluctantly agrees. "How is he?"
Mary tears up a bit and smiles sadly. "I think he's taking it hard, but he never wants to talk about it. He only comes to the motel when it's time to sleep or he has to watch his siblings." Her heart breaks for Sam, and she regrets now more than ever cheating on him because now she can't be there for him the way she wants to be.
She makes plans to babysit the little ones tomorrow night so that Mary can join Dwight in job hunting.
At first she thinks Mary must have given her the wrong address. This is where they're staying? The rooms are so small. She knocks on room 304 and Stacy opens the door, overjoyed to see Quinn. Mary is grabbing her purse, telling her Sam has already gone to work and that she'll be home by nine. Quinn bites her lip wondering when Sam gets off and Mary must notice her distress because she tells Quinn Sam won't be home until ten. She thanks Quinn one last time before leaving.
She helps the kids with their homework first and then fixes them up a snack. She takes them to the park for a while, and when they return she lets Stacy play with her hair as Stevie watches tv. They play some games she brought and before she knows it, it's eight and someone's opening the door.
She assumes it's Dwight or Mary so she doesn't bother checking, just cleans up the game pieces as Stacy runs to who's at the door. She regrets that choice as soon as she hears Stacy scream "Sammy!" from behind her.
She whips around surprised, and Sam looks just as shocked to see her standing there. Stacy is still talking to him, trying to grab the pizza he's brought home for them. But Sam isn't paying attention to her, he's still looking at Quinn.
They both stare at each other for a while, neither of them saying anything, but Stevie breaks the silence, asking them why they're being so weird. Sam looks away from him and jokes with Stevie, asking him why he's so weird before ruffling his hair.
Quinn is still frozen in place. Mary said he wouldn't be home until ten, why is he here? He sets the pizza down on the table and tells his siblings to dig in while he talks to Quinn outside. She follows him silently out of the room. He takes her to a bench and as soon as both of them have sat down she blurts out, "your mom said you wouldn't be home until ten."
He chuckles a bit and then sighs, asking her "what are you doing here Quinn?"
"I just want to help Sam. You don't deserve this." He chuckles again and she looks at him confused.
"That's what Kurt said to me." Kurt? Since when are he and Kurt friends? He must have seen her confused expression because he explains that he had dropped a pizza off at Dalton when Kurt still went there and ended up telling him everything. He tells her that Kurt had said that same exact thing and then dropped off clothes for him the next day.
She doesn't know what to say to that, she appreciates Kurt for helping him and keeping his secret, but he can't tell him that. She's not his girlfriend anymore, it's not any of her business. So she asks him how he's doing instead.
It's not until he blows his bangs out of his eyes she notices the tears shining in them. She lays a hand on her shoulder and then wraps her arm around his shoulders as he sobs into her shoulder.
She thinks the school paper is stupid, nobody was into it two years ago, so why would she pay any attention to it now? But she realizes she should have when Finn storms into the choir room saying how there's something in it about her and Sam.
She rolls her eyes and gets up from her chair asking Finn if he seriously believes the school newspaper? It's written by highschoolers, how credible can it be? But then he's asking her why wouldn't Sam do the same thing that Finn did to him. She bites her lip from telling him that it's because Sam is a much better guy than he is, but luckily she is saved when Santana storms into the room screaming at Brittnay for giving people the impression that she is a lesbian.
But then Finn is pushing Sam and it is taking Quinn a lot of patience to keep herself from screaming at Finn. Is he an idiot? There's no actual proof of what the newspaper is saying and he is about to punch Sam for some stupid gossip an eleventh grade wrote about them?
She doesn't have time to react to Sam calling her his girl because she's in the middle of trying to stop a fight between him and Finn. God why isn't anyone helping her? Where the hell is Mike? She thinks to herself. Luckily she isn't stuck for long because Mr. Schue is able to pull them apart, which is really no help since Finn ends up storming out of the room anyways. She's too pissed off at him to go after him. Sam looks at her, but she's too annoyed with him as well to do anything about it. She's also mad at Rachel because she knows she probably had something to do with this. She takes a seat next to Artie who tries to ask her what's going on, but she ignores him, deciding what the hell she's mad at him too.
Mr. Schue doesn't explain what their assignment for the week is. Just starts singing a duet with April who appeared out of nowhere, which confuses the hell out of Quinn. Finn keeps looking at her weirdly throughout the performance, but she can't be bothered to deal with him right now. She's allowing herself to enjoy something for once without having to deal with the consequences.
She likes this assignment way more than last week. If she can pick a song and sing it as a duet with Finn, maybe it will calm him down and make him realize that there is nothing going on between her and Sam. She can't mess this up, not when prom is so close.
Her car is in Burt's shop for the next week for repairs, so Finn has to drive her to and from school everyday until it's fixed. He doesn't go on his usual route to her house the next day afterschool, so she thinks maybe he's just hungry and wants to get some food first. But she grows confused when they park at the Lima Bean. Finn hates coffee, why are we here?
When she sees the rest of the Glee club seated at a table she realizes what this is all about.
She can't believe what Tina is saying about Sam, her boyfriend is Sam's best friend. And Sam and Kurt having an affair is about the most ridiculous thing she's ever heard. Sam is straight, and even if he wasn't, he's not a cheater. Sam is one of their own, how does it not make them sick that they're talking about him like this?
Then Rachel starts talking, trying to justify the whole thing. Quinn wonders if she'll be arrested if she throws Rachel to the ground right now and slaps her across the face. She can't sit and listen to this anymore, it's just making her angry. So she tells them all that she knows Sam's not gay and leaves, consequences with her relationship be damned. If this is what it's going to cost her? Rachel can have Finn.
She sees Sam in the hallway next day at school and curses. Really Sam, Kurt's jacket? She grumbles under her breath and pulls him into an empty classroom.
"You know how this is going to look right, people already think we're doing it." He tells her with a smirk.
She rolls her eyes and whisper-yells at him "what do you think you're doing?!" He looks at her confused and she uses her hands to gesture at Kurt's jacket. "What happened to your varsity jacket?"
He shrugs his shoulders and tells her "I gave it to Stevie to wear to school, he outgrew his winter jacket and didn't have another one. I don't see what the big deal is."
She rubs her fingers into her temples a few times to stop an oncoming headache. "The big deal is that people think you're having sex with Kurt, it's in the paper."
He curses and throws his head back. "I'm not even gay. I'm going to beat the crap out of whoever runs that paper."
Before she can yell at him to not do anything stupid, the warning bell rings signaling to students it's time to start heading to their next class. So she lays a hand on his shoulder and tells him to just be more careful before exiting the room.
When she enters the motel room afterschool, she finds Sam with his head in his hands sitting at the table. Nobody else is there, which confuses her because the only reason why Quinn is there is to watch the little ones, other than to talk to Sam for ten minutes after he arrives home from his shift of delivering pizzas.
"Hey." She approaches him carefully because he's clearly upset. She puts her purse down beside her and takes a seat next to him, laying a hand on his shoulder. When he raises his head it's obvious that he's been crying.
"How do you do it?" She furrows her brows in confusion because she has no idea what he's talking about. She hopes he doesn't ask her how she dates Finn because she doesn't know how either and she doesn't feel like telling him that prom is her only reason. "You're so calm. It's like what they say about you doesn't affect you. And I can only imagine how much worse it was last year, but I can't deal with this Q. They don't know anything about me."
Her heart aches for him, because he doesn't deserve any of this. Glee club is supposed to be a family, how could they treat him like this? They're all supposed to support each other when everyone else is tearing them down, not add to that pain. They were never cruel to her during her pregnancy last year, so why are they treating Sam so differently? "As long as you know how amazing you are, that's all that's important. Who cares about what they think?"
He rolls his eyes like the answer is obvious. "I do Quinn."
She rolls her eyes back at him and places her hand over his. "Well you shouldn't, because I think you're amazing."
Before she can say anything else, Stevie and Stacy are running into the room after being picked up from their parents, who are now on their way to search for more jobs. Sam's work calls him and tells him that they don't need him tonight, so the four of them have a Disney movie marathon, watching the movies Quinn brought over and laughing when Stacy makes them sing to all the songs.
When she leaves Sam hugs her and she feels the happiest that she's felt in a long time.
She decides to start reading the newspaper so she can be prepared for every time that Finn is going to go off on her and Sam, but she's surprised when she finds that there are no articles about her today, instead one about Rachel and Finn.
She storms up to him and he has the audacity to tell her that he's the one who should be mad. Him? What the hell does he have to be mad for? Every day that she hasn't spent babysitting she's spent rehearsing a duet for their assignment. She's putting more effort into their relationship than she ever has, and he's still mad?
And then he tells her that he was staking out watching her at the motel room. She doesn't comment on how possessive and stalkerish that sounds because he's already mad, but really? Staking out? She tells him that he needs to learn how to trust her instead of calling him crazy and ignores his comment about how he can't trust her if she doesn't tell him the truth. Why are they even dating if Finn can't trust her?
She doesn't even want to perform with Finn, she's so annoyed at him. She ignored all of his texts yesterday and she hates how he puts an arm around her waist, can he not tell she wants to be as far away from him as possible?
And then Rachel, does Rachel ever make her blood boil. Finn is her boyfriend, how dare she say that she prefers her duet with Sam better. So does Quinn, but who the hell is Rachel to say that? And her reasoning being since her and Sam have gotten closer recently? If Rachel does not stop talking she is seriously going to throw her out of that chair. She ignores Arties stupid comment because she's already so furious with what Rachel said. And it's not like she could even sing more duets with Sam if she wanted too, not with Rachel as the dictator of the Glee club.
"I know what you're doing. You want Finn and I to stop singing together so that you can sing with him again." Quinn could not care less about who Finn sang with, even if it was with Santana. But Rachel's comments and her bad attitude? Are starting to really bug her. She agrees Finn and Rachel perform well together but there is no way she's going to let Rachel get her way after everything she's done.
So she tells Rachel that she can't sing with Finn as long as he's with her. She closes her palms to refrain herself from calling Mr. Schue a hypocrite again because Rachel mandates everything about this stupid club. She storms out of the room because she can't deal with being around any of those people anymore. They went from self-acceptance to this? Funny how Rachel wanted a nose job everyone dropped everything to help her and Sam is living in a motel and this is how they act. It's ridiculous and she won't be around for it anymore.
She can't believe Rachel and her stupid solo. And for Finn to play the drums for her? If she didn't need to win prom queen so bad she would have dumped him yesterday. This is not the guy she fell in love with last year, she doesn't know who this is. He's just allowing Rachel to sing to him like he doesn't have a girlfriend.
She's not going to sit her and allow this, but she's not going to freak out either. So she calmly asks Rachel, "don't you think it's a little inappropriate that you're singing a love song to my guy?"
And then Rachel calls her a hypocrite and tells her she's a cheater and if she could go up to Rachel and punch her she would. But she can't, so for the millionth time she says that there's nothing going on between them.
She ignores Santana's stupid comment where she blames Sam for all of this. Does she not have any respect for anyone? Sam is literally her ex-boyfriend. She watches Sam tell them all about his recent living conditions, and then storm out of the room and right before she's about to start yelling at everyone, Kurt beats her to it.
"You know I am really disappointed in you guys, especially Rachel and Finn. The way you were all attacking Sam was not okay. We're supposed to be a family, and this is how we treat each other? This is not the group of people that I came back for."
Finn looks at her with guilt in her eyes and Rachel looks like she's about to cry, and Quinn can't do it. She can't be in this room any longer. So she picks up her bag and walks out ignoring all the looks she gets as she does so.
She goes to the classroom she knows he'll be in. Her heart breaks when she sees him crying in the corner underneath all the planets. She drops her bag on the floor and wraps her arms around him whispering into his hair that it's going to be okay.
She sees Kurt as soon as he appears at the doorway. He raises an eyebrow at them as if to ask is he okay? She nods her head and smiles at him, and he smiles back at her before leaving the two of them.
Finn sends her about a dozen texts that night apologizing, telling her he's going to give some of his old clothes to Sam, telling her he's going to make it up to them. She doesn't answer any of them. His fifteenth one is him telling her that the Glee club had all pitched in money to buy back his guitar, which Quinn had told him that Sam had to sell it when she went off on him after school after he tried apologizing to her in person, and he needs her to come with him to the pawn shop tomorrow so he knows which one to buy back. She agrees to come but tells him that she doesn't forgive him.
She wakes up the next day still mad, but is able to throw on a grey sweater and a pair of jeans before she can convince herself to just cancel. Finn honks his horn and she heads outside. She grows even more annoyed when she sees a guilty Rachel sitting in the back seat of Finn's truck. As soon as she opens the passenger door Rachel tries apologizing.
"Quinn I-" Quinn raises a hand to get her to stop and shakes her head.
"No." is all she says as she hops into the car. Finn sighs and runs his hand through his hair, clearly frustrated.
"Quinn, she's just trying to apologize." He looks like he's about to say more, but stops himself as soon as he sees Quinn's glare.
She looks at Rachel through the mirror and says "you had no right to treat us the way you did, feelings for MY boyfriend or not. You had no right. The both of you have no idea what you put him through." They both grow silent at that and no one says anything the whole ride there.
She doesn't bother waiting for them after she gets out of the car. Just heads inside of the shop and starts inspecting the guitars. She finds it instantly and tells the clerk she would like to purchase that one. Rachel and Finn both head to the register to pay and she leaves deciding she'll wait for them at the car.
Finn asks her if she wants to go with them to drop off the guitar when they're all back inside of his truck. She tells him "no, I have nothing to apologize for. Take me home."
She pulls Stacy onto her lap as soon as she sees her come into the room. She really enjoys the number that they all perform together, and she loves that her and Sam finally get to dance with Stevie and Stacy outside of the motel, but her favourite part of today was seeing how happy Sam was and swears to herself that she's going to do everything in her power to help him stay that way.
Prom Queen
She joins in the discussion the girls are having about prom and thinks to herself, is Lauren serious? There is no way marriage is as important as prom. She sets herself a mental reminder to ask Lauren if she's free tomorrow afternoon so she can help her go prom dress shopping. She's been trying this new thing where she tries helping out others. Maybe then she will finally start getting some good karma, and it will look good for her campaign. She feels bad for Mercedes and now no one has asked her to the prom. She sets a mental reminder to see how she can help with that too.
Sam tells her about how he's taking Rachel and Mercedes to the prom while they're both babysitting his siblings afterschool. Although she still hates Rachel, she's happy for him. She had been trying to convince him for weeks, even buying him a ticket for his birthday last week (along with a new comic book, she isn't that much of a bitch). He sounds so excited, telling her about how he's going to borrow a suit from his dad and they're going to get a special at Breadstix. She smiles on the outside, even though she's dying on the inside wishing she was the girl he was planning on doing all that stuff with, even if they are the complete opposite of her prom dreams. At least she would still be with him.
She picks out a baby blue dress because it makes her feel like Cinderella, and blue is Sam's favourite colour, but she doesn't tell Finn that. She feels nauseous the entire time she's getting ready, but she convinces herself that it will all be worth it as soon as she has that crown on her head.
She feels slightly better as soon as she sees her mother and Finn's reactions as she walks down the stairs. He says all the right things, and she tries not to think about how badly she wants to be hearing them from someone else.
The corsage he gets her is perfect, and she tries not to think so hard about how he managed to get it right. She appreciates the effort, but a corsage with a ribbon matching her eyes? That's not Finn's doing, someone must have helped him out. And she thinks she has a good idea on who.
She's heading off to Sam's table as soon as she walks into Breadstix. She's telling them they all look great because she genuinely think the girls look beautiful, even Rachel, but also so she knows their votes are secure. She does hoping Sam will see how amazing she looks and realize he wants her back. It's all apart of her plan, she'll get crowned prom queen, Sam will tell her he still loves her and wants to be with her again, she'll break up with Finn and she and Sam will get back together and Finn can go date Rachel again or whatever.
She cannot believe Finn is trying to start something the night of prom. All this Jessie stuff happened last year, he needs to let it go. She pulls him away trying to convince herself that as soon as she has that crown it'll be worth it.
She knows Finn's focus is not on her during Rachel's solo. She knows that he still loves her and she wonders if she ever thinks that she might still love Sam. She wants to ask him how much longer they are going to do this? Just pretend like everything is fine and that they're in love with each other and not with the people they screwed things up with.
But it hurts her heart too much to think about, so she tells Finn that she's glad to be at the prom with him, that it's what she's always wanted. Even if it isn't the truth.
She doesn't know what Finn's problem is, why can't he just let this stupid Jessie thing go. Rachel seems happy, and if he really cared about her he would let her stay that way, as much as it killed him. That's what she's doing with Sam. And then he's storming over to Rachel and Jessie and she's rolling her eyes. She swears that if Finn ruins this next for her she will never forgive him.
And then Finn is pushing Jessie and Quinn has about had it. What the hell is wrong with him? As soon as she sees Finn punch Jessie and coach running over she knows her night is done. Finn is kicked out and she's furious. After everything she's done, all the good karma she's tried to receive, this is what she gets. She glares at Rachel because she's the closest person she can lash out on before walking away.
But it's fine, she doesn't need Finn, she can still be crowned queen without him. She smiles when Figgins announces Dave won prom king even though she's dying inside. And of course to pour salt into her wounds Santana wins and has to tell her that she sucks. She could not hate Santana any more than how she does at this moment.
But then she hears Figgins announce Kurt as prom queen and her heart drops. Not because she didn't win, but because she thought they were done with all of this. Kurt is one of the kindest people she knows and it breaks her heart that their student body would do this to him.
She runs to the washroom because she is drained and at least there she can let all of her tears out in peace. But of course Rachel follows her, and she has about had it with her. Everything that has ever gone wrong in her life was because of Rachel. She told Finn about Puck being the father, although she will admit Rachel did the right thing. She cheated on Finn with Puck causing them to break up and Finn to pursue her, causing her breakup with Finn. She made what was supposed to be Quinn's sectionals all about her causing her an unnecessary amount of stress. And then she got Finn kicked out of prom.
She slaps Rachel because Rachel is so full of crap. She knows Finn still loves her, she gave her and Sam hell last week and now all of a sudden she and Rachel are best friends? It's bullshit.
But she regrets it as soon as she does it. As soon as she sees the look on Rachel's face she hates herself because Rachel is the only one in here trying to comfort her. She tells Rachel she's transferring because she hates this school and she can't be around these people anymore, it hurts her too much.
She decides to tell Rachel how she's feeling because what else does she have to lose? She tells her at least she doesn't have to be so scared all of the time. She wants to laugh when Rachel asks her what she's so afraid of. She thinks to herself, everything. Telling the guy I love him and fearing that he might not love me back. Being myself and fearing it won't be good enough. Facing the fact that everyone hates me.
But she doesn't tell Rachel all that, instead she says "the future. When all of this is gone."
She decides from this moment on she's done being cruel. Maybe then she'll win prom queen next year and Sam will stop thinking she's a bitch and Santana will stop trying to make her life a living hell. Maybe if she stops being so mean she won't hate herself anymore.
She tells Rachel to go into the gym without her, that she'll meet her out there in a minute. She's putting the final touches on fixing her makeup when Sam walks into the washroom. He's looking at her with all this pity so she snaps at him because it makes her like she's suffocating.
"You do realize that this is the girl's washroom right?" He just chuckles at her and continues staring so she goes back to reapplying her mascara.
"You look beautiful." His unexpected compliment makes her hand shake and she hopes he doesn't notice. "I'm sorry you didn't win. Mercedes and I voted for you."
She laughs and he laughs along with her. "Isn't it pathetic that winning prom queen was the most important thing in my life?" He shrugs his shoulders and tells her she has rich white girl problems and she laughs while shoving his shoulder.
He grabs her hand and pulls her out of the washroom while telling her "come on, let's go dance."
She stands with Mike and Tina as he goes to stand behind Rachel who smiles at her, she smiles back. She watches with worry as Karofsky leaves Kurt in the middle of the gym alone, she's hoping someone will go comfort him. Before she can start looking for Rachel or Blaine, she sees Blaine ask him if he wants to dance.
Santana and Mercedes start singing Dancing Queen, and she dances with Lauren. Eventually she moves onto Artie and Brittnay, before finishing the rest of the song with Mike and Tina. She hugs Tina and tries not to think about how much she misses her, the four of them had all been so close before she and Sam broke up. Sam moves over to them, joining them in their awkward dancing. He spins her around a couple of times and she forgets all about Finn and losing prom queen. The four of them dance together for the rest of the night and she thinks that if this is how she could spend every prom, she would never run for queen again.