Here are the last two chapters of season two! I'm really excited about next chapter which will be more of a filler of what happens between the end of season two and beginning of season three. I've already started writing it so I hope I can get it out super soon!
Funeral
Life has finally been good for Quinn. Her and Santana finally made up after prom, she's decided she's going to finally break up with Finn and tell Sam how she feels about him.
She's giddy on her way to the motel. She put a little extra effort into her appearance today, going with a jean skirt and white ruffled blouse, adding a blue headband to her hair.
She can barely contain her excitement as she knocks on the door, and much to her surprise, Sam wears an identical expression. He pulls her inside and they both say "I need to tell you something!" at the same time. She laughs and tells him to go first.
"Mercedes and I are dating!" She feels the colour drain from her face. Mercedes? They weren't even friends before prom and now they're dating? She's not paying attention to him as he's telling her how they had such a good time and prom and he decided to ask her out on a proper date after she kissed him goodnight after he drove her home after prom. She kissed him? Her heart shatters inside her chest, of course she kissed him, he's perfect. She knows that better than anyone.
"But hey, what did you want to tell me?" Her eyes snap up to meet his in shock. She can't tell him how she feels now, she can't do that to him. She tries to think of something else, but comes up short.
"Oh. I forgot." He doesn't notice the major decrease in her mood, just pouts playfully and tells her if she remembers to tell him. She smiles and nods, even though she won't. Looks like she's stuck with Finn after all.
She's annoyed at how quickly Finn jumps at the chance to sing at Regionals with Rachel. She thinks that they are both aware that neither of them really want to be in this relationship anymore, but at least she's being subtle about it.
So she reminds both of them not so nicely that their duet was this reason they lost last year. Which may not even be true, but she still hopes it hurts.
She leaves a bottle of coach's favourite protein powder and a new tracksuit on her desk while she's gone to her scheduled washroom break. She knows Sue probably doesn't deserve it, she knows Sue put her life through hell, but Quinn was close to her sister once, so she knows how badly it hurts to miss your sister and know there's nothing you can do to get that closeness back again.
She thinks it's a great idea when Finn and Kurt suggest planning the service, even if she doesn't voice her opinion.
She doesn't know what Mr. Schue or Rachel was thinking hiring Jessie as whatever his role is. He's cruel and useless, they have gotten this far without him, why do they need him now? The fact that the New Directions are not like Vocal Adrenaline or other cutthroat groups is what works for them.
Finn picks her up on the way to the funeral. Nobody really feels like driving alone. She wears red because black makes her cry. She sits next to Sam because simply sitting next to him makes her feel better.
She feels Sam squeeze her hand during her speech because she's crying and he knows how much she hates publicly crying.
The girls all comfort each other in the washroom after the funeral. Helping each other fix their hair or touch up on their mascara. When she looks down at her phone she realizes Finn has been waiting for her for ten minutes and she should probably head out so he can take her home.
She doesn't comment on how Finn has been crying when she gets into his truck, just squeezes his hand and apologizes for taking so long. She doesn't want him to feel worse.
She can tell something's off, and she just assumes it's because this whole funeral has been hard on all of them. So she tells him that she's so proud at how great he did at the funeral, but that just makes him cry more.
So she asks him, "why are you crying?"
And then the bomb drops, "because I'm breaking up with you."
And oh, they're doing this now. She thought they would wait until both of the people they love actually loved them back. She knows why he's doing this, and it doesn't hurt as much as she thought it would. She doesn't ask him why because they both know, so she asks to confirm, "because of Rachel? Because you still love her?"
And yeah, he's right. He shouldn't have done this with her. He should have let her just stay happy with Sam if he knew Rachel was his soulmate, but he ruined everything. He made her ruin everything.
"I thought I could fix everything from last year, but I can't."
She just wants him to stop. Stop talking and stop explaining because she doesn't care. She doesn't want to hear it. She doesn't care that Finn feels tethered to Rachel, she doesn't need him to explain it to her because she gets it, she knows exactly how he feels. But Rachel will come back to him, it's so obvious Rachel loves Finn, but Sam is over her. He's moved on, and now Finn is leaving her too.
She tells him no because how dare he? How dare he create this mess in her life and try to leave when it's time to clean it up. So she tells him they'll stay together, even if he's confused about his feelings for Rachel. And they'll become prom queen and king next year and Sam will surely want her back by then and then Finn can have Rachel.
But he tells her to stop. That he doesn't want that life, and doesn't he realize that she doesn't want it either? But that's what they're stuck with now, they both made that choice.
"Don't you feel anything anymore?" Of course she does, she feels all the time. He has no idea what she's feeling.
She screams back at him "you have no idea what I'm feeling!" and before she can stop herself, she's crying. So she asks him because he seems to think she's so heartless, "are you happy now? Is this feeling enough for you?"
She can see the guilt across his face and she scoffs. If he feels bad he shouldn't be doing this. She doesn't see the problem with keeping them going, so why does he? He tells her he's sorry and that he still loves her and is he serious? He can't be serious. She is so over him trying to be this perfect good guy. It's crap. So she tells him not to touch her and moves away from him.
And that seems to piss him off because he tells her, "you know Quinn it's not my fault you ruin everything you touch."
She can't be around him anymore. She knows she treated him awfully last year, but she didn't do anything to him this year. So why does everyone keep punishing her? She gets out of the car, slamming the door behind her, and runs as far away from him as she can.
He hasn't attended church since his mom died, for obvious reasons. So of course Kurt gets lost after using the backroom and ends up exiting through the back instead of the front. He's trying to find his way back to Mercedes' car when he sees her. She's sitting under a tree, head hung low and golden hair like a halo. By the way her shoulders are shaking he can tell that she's crying. He knows Mercedes will be waiting for him, and he doesn't really owe Quinn anything, they aren't close friends and he could just send Finn a quick text that his girlfriend is behind the church crying, but before he realizes it he's walking towards her.
"Quinn?" She freezes, and then wipes her eyes before looking at him. He can still see teardrops tangled between her eyelashes and it makes his heart hurt for the girl in front of him.
"Oh, Kurt. Hi." She uses her hand to block the sun while she looks up at him, so to make things easier for her he takes a seat next to her on the ground, trying not to think about what it will do to the designer pants he's wearing that he just bought online last week. He doesn't know what to say and she doesn't really feel like talking so they both sit and silence for a moment before Quinn bursts into tears again. "Oh God Kurt, I'm so sorry." She's furiously wiping at her tears and Kurt lays a hand on her shoulder to tell her it's okay.
"I promise I won't tell anyone that I saw the Quinn Fabray crying in front of me. I'm not ready for that kind of publicity." He gets a laugh and the tears stop, so he decides that now is probably the best moment to go in. "But Quinn, what's wrong?"
She opens and closes her mouth a couple of times, as if she's hesitant on whether or not she should tell him. So he speaks before she can start. "If this is about Finn you can tell me, I know he can be dumb at times."
She smiles sadly at him as a single tear escapes down her cheek, she doesn't bother wiping this one away. "He broke up with me."
Did Kurt think his stepbrother and Quinn were meant to be? No, not at all. But does his heart still ache for the hurting girl in front of him? Like you wouldn't believe. So he tells her that he's sorry because an apology is the only thing he can give her right now.
"Oh Quinn, I'm so sorry." She looks sad, and Kurt thinks that she might start crying again, but then she's laughing. It's dry and humourless, but it still startles Kurt because the last thing he thought his apology would do was make her laugh.
"I'm not even crying because he broke up with me. Isn't that pathetic? My boyfriend just broke up with me and that's not even the reason why I'm upset. Maybe Finn was right." Kurt doesn't know what to say because when Finn broke up with Rachel this is not at all how she reacted.
"Right about what?" He expects her to say that the two of them were just not meant to be, or that Rachel was his soulmate. What he was not expecting her to say is what she said next.
"That I destroy everything I touch." His heart drops. Quinn is one of the strongest people he knows. With everything that happened to her last year, she closed off her heart. Many people don't get that. Quinn isn't heartless because she means to be, she makes mistakes because she's afraid of getting hurt again. Kurt sees it, and he wishes others would too.
"Oh sweetie no, don't believe that." She smiles sadly at him as a few more tears escape her eyes. Anger floods his body towards Finn. How dare he say something like that to her after how he went after her while she was dating Sam. Yes Quinn was also in the wrong, and she shouldn't have kissed him in the first place, but Finn should not have pursued her afterwards.
"No it's okay." She leans her head on his shoulder and he smiles, then leans his overtop of hers. "Kurt? Can I tell you a secret?"
"I promise I won't tell a soul. Maybe Blaine or Mercedes depending on how juicy it is."
She giggles, but then tears are reappearing in her brown eyes. "I still love Sam." He can tell that she notices his shock and confusion because that was the last thing he was expecting her to say, so she starts rambling. "I thought that if he saw me with Finn he would regret breaking up with me for Santana, but then he didn't. And I don't know why I didn't just break up with Finn after Santana left him for Karofsky, I guess I was just scared. Scared that if I did break up with Finn and tell Sam how I felt he would tell me that he didn't feel the same."
So he places his hand overtop of hers, because he knows the feeling of loving someone and not knowing if they love you back.
She wishes Finn would stop trying to be nice to her, does he not see that she does not want to talk to him. Of course she's not going to quit Glee club, she loves Glee club, but obviously she's not going to tell him that. So she makes up some lie about how she has some big plans for New York so she can get him off her back.
New York
Brittnay drags her to sit next to Sam while they're eating lunch the first day they get there. She had sat next to him on the plane because she had called him crying the night before about how Finn had dumped her. Mercedes was sitting next to Kurt anyways. She ended up falling asleep on his shoulder ten minutes into the flight so she didn't have to answer any questions about what happened.
He raises an eyebrow as soon as she sits down to ask her if she's okay and she nods at him. She can feel him staring at her, like if he doesn't keep an eye on her she will break.
Rachel finally joins all of them telling everyone how she has gotten them all tickets to Cats. For someone who seems to love Broadway does she not know Cats stopped running eleven years ago? So she tells Rachel just that.
She sits beside Sam on the bed because they have both agreed to help each other write a song. She also knows that he's afraid that if he leaves her by herself for too long she will self-destruct and kill Rachel, but she doesn't mind his company.
After hearing Brittnay's song about a cup she decides that it's better for everyone if they go outside to find some inspiration. And she can't stand to see Rachel and Finn together anymore.
Although getting out isn't much better because she's stuck hanging out with Mercedes and Sam because Brittnay ditched her for Santana and Artie. She paints a smile on her face when she's with them even though she would rather watch Rachel and Finn make out in front of her right now.
She suggests to Mercedes that all the girls should go back to their room to see if they have come up with anything. She agrees, clearly oblivious to the fact that Quinn could not care less about writing a song, she just wants Sam to herself. She loves Mercedes with all her heart, but all is fair in love and war.
She hears about Rachel and Finn's date from Sam. He tells her he wanted to give her a heads up because she couldn't care less. She's just annoyed because everything is working out with Finn and Rachel and Sam is dating someone else. She's in New York and she's miserable.
She spends most of the morning in the bathroom because she feels extra bitchy today and doesn't feel like taking out on anyone else, although she is contemplating telling Mr. Schue about how Kurt and Rachel keep sneaking off.
She doesn't know why Santana and Brittnay bother waiting for her when everyone else is in the workroom, do they not realize she wants to be alone so she can drown in her own self pity.
She tells the girls about her plans to snitch on Rachel and Kurt, but Brittnay tells her that she can't because then she will have to suspend them which means they won't be able to win Nationals, which she does not care about.
But then Santana brings up about how Finn dumped her and to get over it and she's annoyed. Of course she's pissed off, why does everything keep working out for everyone else but not her?
"I don't want to get over it! Okay?" And Santana tells her that the only person she is sabotaging is herself, which is probably true but she's too mad to think about that right now. "I don't care about some stupid showchoir competition!"
Santana is full of crap, how is some dumb showchoir competition supposed to make her feel better about herself? Nothing makes her feel better.
She's having a minor meltdown before she realizes it. Why can't she have her dreams come true? She knows she isn't the kindest person, but she does try. But it doesn't matter because regardless of what she does everything just continues to get worse.
She tells the girls, "I just want somebody to love me." when she really wants to tell Santana is "I had someone that loved me and you took him." but she doesn't because that doesn't go well with her new 'trying to be kind' look which applies to everyone but Rachel.
Santana suggests that she get a haircut, and Brittnay thinks it's a great idea so she decides to do it. They find a salon near the hotel and the stylist suggests that she cuts her hair to fall right above her shoulders. It's something different and she's never cut her hair that short before so she decides to do it.
She meets up with Sam afterwards in the boys hotel room because they both had previous plans to Facetime Stacy later on in the day. Mr. Schue okayed it because Brittnay and Mike are also in the room going over choreography for their group number.
He looks surprised when she and Brittnay knock on the door. As soon as she sits beside him he's playing with her hair. "When did you cut it?"
She shrugs and answers him, "just now, before Britt and I came here."
He plays with the ends of her hair and answers, "I like it." She bites her lip and smiles, looking more at Sam than Stacy the entire Facetime call.
She assumes Rachel and Finn kissed after their duet from the sound of the scattered applause. She just doesn't hope it will cost them the competition, even though she says she doesn't care, she really does love performing. So she continues on like she doesn't know what happened.
She sees Sam go over to Mercedes and hug her. She smiles because she is genuinely happy that he's happy, even though she desperately wishes it was her that he was hugging, that it was her that he was happy dating.
She can't believe Rachel and Finn. How they are always going on about how they do everything for the team, how they're these great co-captains, when in reality they just cost them all Nationals.
None of them say anything as they head back into the hotel. But as soon as they all enter the hotel room all hell breaks loose. She grabs Santana along with Mike and Sam to keep her from murdering Rachel. She takes Santana to the bathroom along with Brittnay to cool her down, but she continues swearing in Spanish all night and the next morning until they all get on the plane.
Her and Sam don't sit next to each other on the plane ride home. They decide it's best that she watches Santana with Brittnay and he sits next to Puck.
Although they didn't win, she is proud of how close they got as a group this year and how much Quinn was able to learn about herself. So long bitchy cheater Quinn, and hello new kind-hearted Quinn who cares about others more than herself, or her competition. And next year? She just knows that will be enough for her and Sam to get back together because they are Ken and Barbie. And Ken and Barbie? Well they are soulmates.