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Chapter 19

Glee

They enter the choir room and are the first ones to arrive so they take their sets in the middle second row. The others start arriving and taking their seats as well. Since Finn isn't there the need to surround the tiny diva is no longer necessary but they do so anyway. Mercedes is the last to arrive. She looks around at the others scoffs and takes her seat by Kurt not wanting to sit alone but not liking that they are still in protection mode for some reason.

Rachel just sighs and puts her head on San's shoulder while Quinn rubs her arm than takes her hand. It was a stressful day being on guard watching for anyone to react badly to her new status. Add that to Mercedes reaction at lunch and she was just ready to go home, order take out, cuddle and watch TV. She was exhausted and mentally drained.

Mr. Shue shows up ten minutes late per usual. "Ok guys we are not going to open the floor to singing today, I have to go to an emergency meeting that Figgins needs me for so you will split off into duet groups for now and meet back here fifteen minutes before the end of practice so I can wrap up the day with you." He pauses looking at Rachel. "Rachel, what are you wearing? That looks like it says Cheerios on it."

Rachel sits up to address his question. "Yes it does Mr. Shue, I joined as trainer/manager this morning."

Mr. Shue is speechless for a moment. "You… why… you know what I don't have time to figure this out right now I have a meeting. Split up I will meet you back here before the end of practice. We can talk then." With that he grabs his briefcase and is out the door.

They all split off and work on their individual duets. At fifteen till they make their way back to the choir room. Mr. Shue comes in right behind them, "Ok guys we have a change in the competition time. We have to have it on Thursday instead of Friday. Mr. Figgins has a family problem and will be leaving directly after school Friday so we will do it the day before so have them ready then. Ok that's it you are free to go." He says to the group then turns to Rachel. "Rachel can you please stay behind? I need to have a word with you."

She shakes her head while she walks toward him. "I can't Mr. Shue, I have dance class in thirty minutes and still need to get there and change."

He nodded, "ok Rachel but we will talk. Something is off here and I don't like it. Go on to dance class and I will talk to you later." As he finished his sentence he headed out and rescues her from responding to him.

She looked to San and Quinn. "He looked really angry and confused."

San puts an arm around her. "I don't know querida. I guess we will find out later, let's get you to dance." Quinn nods her agreement.

Rachel sighs, "You guys don't have to come and endure an hour of boring dance class. You can go back to my house and wait for me if you want. Britt will bring me home."

San looks at her like she kicked her puppy. "We wanted to go, your dance class is cool. Unless you don't want us there."

Rachel grabs her hand. "No that's not it. I just didn't want you to feel obligated to be there."

Quinn cuts in "we don't feel obligated."

"Yea," San says "We don't mind going."

Rachel smiles, "ok."

In the car on the way to dance Quinn's phone goes off notifying her a text has come in. She takes it out of her bag and reads the text scowling. "It's from my mom. She said she finished up the deal early and will be home tomorrow and wants me home after Cheerios." She looks down at her lap not happy with this new revelation.

Rachel reaches back and takes her hand. "Hey you can come over and stay again as soon as she allows it. You are always welcome Quinn. We will miss you though."

San nods from the driver's seat. "Yes we will. I've gotten used to our routine we've got going the last week. When do you think she will let you sleep over again?"

Quinn contemplates this for a moment. "Don't know I might be able to talk her into it if I tell her we have practice this weekend and are all crashing over to ride in together. Besides it won't be too long before she is gone on another business trip. A week or two tops." They both nod as San pulls into the parking lot behind Britt.

After practice the girls decide to eat out and go to the Thai place they all love that serves the vegan dishes they love. They eat and talk about Cheerios and Glee. Rachel has already drafted up the new training for the next week for the Cheerios so she can assess the girls while they are training.

San looks over the paper she Q, and Britt were handed. "When did you have time to do this querdia?"

Rachel just smile sheepishly. "I did it during free period when you were studying for that test we had the next period. I didn't need to study for it so I did this."

San looks at her in disbelief. "How did you not need to study for that shit? Calculus is hard as hell."

Rachel shrugs. "Math is easy for me. I like it, it's logical, it always makes sense. There is always one definitive answer." She shrugs again, "I can tutor you if you like. I have a few tricks for helping you remember."

San beams a smile at her. "That would be great. I'm not sure I did very well on that test." Rachel nods and they go back to the conversation.

Once they all are done eating Britt heads to her house and the other three head to Rachel's. They finish homework, watch a movie and head to bed. The next day is pretty uneventful. Cheerios practice goes well both morning and afternoon. The rest of the school day is pretty boring. They head home to let Quinn get her things and pick up her car.

As Quinn is packing her things Rach and San come in to the room. Rachel can see she's upset. "Hey, what's wrong? You're not leaving forever you know." She says bumping her shoulder with her own.

Quinn sighs, "I'm not really sure. I hate leaving. My house is so cold and boring and mom is never home even when she is. I just wish I could stay here with you two. I feel better when I'm here like I can breathe."

San walks up to her other side. She and Rachel hug the girl from either side. Rach looks at her bags. "Why don't you leave your things here that you won't need at home? That way you always have things here for you. Like a second home. We will call this room yours. It's your space when you are here if you need to be alone or whatever. Like a sanctuary, you can leave or bring anything you want."

Quinn looks at the sincerity in her eyes and beams a smile at her. "I think I'd like that." She hugs Rachel to her. "Thank you Rach." With that she hangs up everything that was hanging and puts the rest back in the drawers. The only thing she takes home with her is her toiletry, and school bags. Rachel takes note of what she packs. She uses the same products that San does.

They walk her out to the car and hug her one last time before she heads home. Rach turns to San. "San? Can we go to the mall? I want to go to that store that sells the toiletry products that you and Quinn use to stock the bathroom so she doesn't have to bring anything with her when she comes and has what she needs. You already brought extra stuff to leave here."

San thinks this over. "Sure carińo, anything you want. We can also go to the shop that sell the make-up we both use and stock up on that too. I need to get some more anyway, than we can grabs something at the food court for dinner, head home to do homework and settle for the night."

Rachel squeals and hugs her. She pulls her back into the house and to the garage door in the kitchen where several sets of keys are hanging. "I want to drive if you don't mind." San nods her approval and she continues, "I just don't know what I want to drive."

San looks confused. "You can drive my car if you want."

Rachel chuckles, "No San I have my own cars I just don't know which one to try out first." She opens the door and pulls San through as she turns on the light.

Once they are in San sees what she was talking about. "Oh my god, where did you get these?"

Rachel giggles, "My daddy." There in the garage was a blue 64 1/2 Mustang convertible, a black 69 Camaro, a red 63 Corvette, and a 62 Chevy Nova. There was also a 06 Audi R8. "He collected classic cars and said when I turned sixteen I could either pick one or he would buy me something else. The Audi was his everyday car. There is another garage in the back that has a silver 70 Firebird, a 69 Charger Dukes of Hazard replica, a blue 50 Chevy Truck and a black 60 Jaguar. He left them all to me. I want to try them out and see if I want to use one for an everyday car or get a different car altogether."

Santana's jaw is in the floor. She is drooling she's sure, she just doesn't care. Car heaven is all she can think. "These cars make my Lexus look like a matchbox car." She says giggling. "Oh my god these are awesome. If we weren't on our way out I would say let test them all now but…" she looks around contemplating. "I say the closest one to the door that's not the Audi. The Camaro definitely."

Rachel just laughs the "Camaro it is, maybe if you're a good girl at the mall I will let you drive it home." She says with a flirty wink.

San's eyes bug out at this. "I can be a good girl. What do I need to do to be a good girl." She rushes out.

Rachel is full on belly laughing. San is bouncing on her feet. Once Rachel catches her breath she answers the excited girl. "All you have to do is help me find the products for you and Quinn we need for the house and help me find some new make-up." She says kissing the girl softly on the lips.

San's brain short circuits not expecting the kiss. When Rachel pulls back they look at each other than crash back together in a heated kiss. Rachel wraps her arms around her neck fisting her hands in San's hair. San wraps her arms around her waist and runs one hand up to hold her upper back. Rachel runs her tongue along San's lower lip begging entrance which she is granted immediately. They don't duel for dominance just enjoy each other. San keeps her hands in place not wanting to move and spook the girl or over step any boundaries.

Rachel massages her scalp with her fingernails but doesn't move them otherwise. San pulls Rachel's tongue into her mouth and sucks on it causing a low moan to rumble out of Rachel shooting a bolt of hot arousal straight into San's center. She decides that it is time to slow down. She slows the kiss gradually and pulls away slowly resting her forehead to Rachel's both trying to catch their breaths.

San recovers first. "So much better than driving that car." She says breathily.

Rachel chuckles. "I'll say." She sighs, "We better go if we want to get everything before they close." San nods and Rachel ducks back in the house to get the keys. "Ok, go through to house, lock up and you can put your car in the garage if you want to. Tomorrow we will take the Nova to school and I will let you drive home." She winks at her and San melts. She runs back into the house to do as she was asked.

Once they have pulled out the Camaro and locked up San's Lexus they head to the mall. Rachel is enjoying driving this car. It was always one of her favorites. As she drives San texts Quinn telling her to be ready tomorrow that they will pick her up in the morning in style. Quinn replies with an ok with a question mark but San says no more. Once they arrive at the mall they park and head in. They hit all the stores they were wanting and ate dinner in the food court. When they are done they head back to the car. San is putting up the bags in the trunk and Rachel is leaning on the hood when three boys walk up.

Adams, Karofsky, and Nelson. Karofsky is the one to speak first. "Hey Man hands this cannot be your ride. It is way too cool for a loser like you." They laugh not knowing that San is at the trunk.

When she hears the laughter she looks around the trunk she sees the boys. But what makes her heart stop is that Rachel is standing stock still, she doesn't even appear to be breathing. San takes off like a shot and is around the car in a second and in Karofsky's face pushing the boys back away from Rachel. "What the hell is your problem Karofsky? Get your asses away from her."

Karofsky doesn't appear to be phased by the girl but she can see the fear in his eyes. "I was just wondering how a loser could drive such awesome wheels. I didn't do anything to her."

She feels Rachel behind her, the girl has molded herself into her back and is shaking like a leaf. "Step off boys. You need to leave her alone or you will have me to deal with. You know I can end you in a heartbeat. You will be social pariahs and the losers you claim my girl to be. But she's not, she's on top and we can end your high school careers and you know it. This is your last warning. Back. The. Fuck. Off. My. Girl. Or you will have me, Quinn and half the football team to deal with." All the boys are shaking in fear and run off toward the building.

She turns around in Rachel's arms holding her tightly. "Shh I've got you querida. Are you ok?" Rachel nods but doesn't let go and burrows further into her. San just holds her for a moment. She shifts their bodies and puts her arm under Rachel's knees lifting her and carrying her to the passenger side of the car. She opens the door and gets in still holding Rachel. "It's ok, I've got you, I'm here carińo." She rocks her and strokes her hair. Rachel is not calming as quick as she would like. She takes out her phone and calls Quinn.

"Hello? San?"

"Quinn can you leave the house for a little bit?" She says a little panicked that she can't get her calmer.

"What's going on San you sound scared? Is Rachel ok? Where are you?"

San takes a deep breath, "We are at the mall. We had a run in with three of the jocks and I can't get Rachel to calm. She is clinging to me and unresponsive to my touch or voice. We're sitting in the car. Can you call Puck and see if he can drive you here? I need someone to drive so I don't have to let her go."

"I'm talking to him on Facebook chat right now. He is on his way here. We will be there as soon as we can. Where are you parked?" Quinn sounds panicked as well now. Thankfully Puck only lives one street away from her.

"We are in the north parking lot tell Puck we are in Rachel's Camaro, he will know it. Hurry, I need to get her out of here!"

"Rachel's Camaro…? Ok, he should be here any second. Try to say calm, if you're freaked she will stay that way. We will be there soon. Puck just pulled in we will be there in fifteen."

"Ok bye." She hangs up and calms herself as much as she can. "Ok querida, its ok baby. I'm here and he can't hurt you I won't let him. Shh carińo. I got you." She cooed and whispered in her ear as Rachel finally started to calm a little. She repeated it over and over until she heard the squeal of Pucks tires.

"San," Quinn said gently as she knelt in front of them on the pavement. "Rach, sweetheart it's ok. We are all here now me, Puck, and San. We won't let anything happen to you." She cooed while rubbing her back and San's arm. They both calmed a little more at Quinn's touch. "Ok sweetie, I am going to rotate San's legs and get you both in the car just hold on to her." She helped San turn and maneuver until they were both in the car. She fastened the seat belt around them both and went around the back closing the trunk taking the keys out of it and moved to the driver's side. "Puck follow us to Rachel's." She says as she gets into the driver's seat. She starts the car and drives toward Rachel's.

The farther away from the mall they are, the calmer Rachel gets. She is now laying loosely in San's arms just breathing her in. She finally comes back enough to speak. "I'm sorry San. I'm ok. They just scared me."

San lifts her chin just enough to look her in the eyes. "I told you before, there's nothing to apologize for querida. It's ok." She says kissing her head looking over and locking eyes with Quinn for a second. Rachel nods and burrows into her neck kissing it.

Quinn can't decide if she should be pissed, worried, scared, or what. She's furious that the boys approached and scared Rachel. They will be dealt with. She's worried that it took so long to calm her down that San got that scared. Which pisses her off all the more at the boys. She's scared that if they don't find out which one of them hurt Rachel that somehow he will find a way to do it again. At least they have it narrowed down from five to three.

She pulls into the drive and turns to the girls. "Do I leave this in the drive or does it need to go into the garage?"

San looks up at her. "The garage remote is above your head hit the middle button and park it behind my Lexus."

As the garage door opens and she drives through she sees the other cars and whistles. "Geez Rach. These are awesome." She says getting out of the car and heading around to San's side. She opens the door unbuckles them and takes Rachel out of San's arm. Rachel whimpers at the loss. "Shh sweetie, it's just me." She says and Rachel looks up at her than burrows into her. San gets out locks up the car and takes Rachel back carrying her into the house. Quinn looks over and sees Puck enter the garage. "Hey, can you lock up the garage and meet us inside please?" He nods and goes to do as he is told.

When she makes it into the house she finds them in the living room on the couch with Rachel in San's lap. They look up when she enters the room and Rachel holds a hand out to her. She rushes around the couch and takes them both in her arms. She looks over as Puck comes in the room and sits on the chair next to the couch. "Ok. Can you two tell us what happened?" She said sitting back a little but not losing contact with them completely.

Rachel looks up and starts telling them what happened. "Well after you left we decided to go to the mall to pick up somethings we needed for the house." She looks to San "We gotta get everything out of the car still."

San shakes her head, "Don't worry about it querida we will get it before we go to bed. It's ok."

Rachel sighs, "Ok. So we went to the mall, made our purchases, ate at the food court and got ready to leave. San was putting the bags in the trunk and I was leaning against the hood just enjoying the breeze for a moment before I got in the car. The boys came up and Karofsky was taunting me about my car. I don't know what all was said. They all started laughing and I just froze."

She started shaking a little so San pulled her to her and continued from this point. "I had the trunk open and was putting the bags in and didn't see them approach." She squeezes Rachel tighter. "I'm sorry querida. I shouldn't have let you out of my sight. I'm so sorry." She starts to get really upset and has tears in her eyes.

Rachel looks up and takes her face in her hands. "No angel. You didn't do anything wrong I was the one that walked away from you and went to lean on the car. Don't do that to yourself. You have nothing to be sorry for." She says and kisses her nose.

San nods, so Rachel puts her head back on her shoulder and San continues where she left off. "So, I heard the laughing and looked around the trunk lid and saw Karofsky, Adams, and Nelson. They were entirely to close and Rachel was standing stock still looking like she was in shock. I flew around the car and pushed them all away from her. I yelled at them, threatened them, scared the shit out of them and they left. I turned to Rachel and hugged her but she wasn't calming down so I picked her up and took her to the car, opened the door and sat with her. I waited a bit trying to calm her and when she wouldn't I called you. By the time you got there she had calmed some, than the closer we got to home the calmer she was. Now we're here." She finished leaning over with Rachel in her arms and laid her head on Quinn's shoulder.

Quinn wrapped an arm around San's shoulder and ran her other hand through Rachel's hair. She looked up at Puck. "Would you please grab the bags out of the car for them and bring them in?" he nodded and headed out to the garage to get the bags at a loss of what to do to help other than anything they asked of him. Quinn looked back to the girls. "Are you ok now Rach? Do you need anything?"

Rachel grabbed her hand and held it. "No. I'm ok now. I'm so sorry I scared you guys. Don't you need to get home soon? Is your mom going to be mad you left?"

Quinn just shook her head. "No, she won't even know I am gone. She left about an hour after I got home to go out drinking with friends. She will pass out on the couch when she gets home and be none the wiser. I'm staying here tonight. I just need to go by the house in the morning to get ready. I don't have any make up or any of my toiletries here."

About that time Puck came back with the bags. "What did you guys do buy out the place?"

They all laughed and Rachel jumped up. "No, we just got what we needed. Can you bring them up to my room?" She looked to the girls. "Come upstairs we need to sort out all we got." She says as she makes her way to the stairs following Puck. The girls chuckle a little at her and follow behind as asked. Once they made their way into Rachel's room she looked to Quinn. "You don't need to go home in the morning we got all you need right here I think."

Quinn looked shocked to San. San just shrugs. "We wanted you to have anything you needed here when you came over so we went to the mall and picked up the stuff you use. Make-up and toiletries. I think we remembered it all."

Rachel spoke up next. "Yea, and we picked up some stuff for San and some new shampoos and make-up for me too. I like the way your shampoos smell better than mine."

Quinn looked at all the stuff on the bed in awe. "You did this for me?" She looked from San to Rach. "Why?"

Rachel takes her hands. "We would do anything for you Quinn." She looks to San and she nods her agreement with Rachel's statement. Rachel continued. "I just wanted you to be comfortable and have what you needed here for when you come over." She squeezes her hand and looks between her two friends. "You guys take such good care of me I just want to do the same for you."

Quinn just stares at them in awe. "Thank you." They come over to her and hug her.

Just then Puck comes in with the rest of the bags. "Here's the rest of the stuff out of the car. I locked it up and put the keys up. Are you guys ok now? Mom is texting wanting me home. I tried to stay but she's having a fit."

Rachel walks over and hugs him. "No. Thank you Noah. Thank you for coming so quickly."

He just hugs her back harder. "Hey your my favorite person in the world. I would do anything for you. But I really gotta go before mom takes my keys and grounds me for a month."

"Ok Noah, we will see you tomorrow." She kisses his cheek and he turns to leave.

The other girls hug him and he leaves. They go through all the stuff they got from the mall and put it up in the bathrooms they belong in. After they have finished they get dressed for bed and settled for the night.

Rachel crawled in bed after San laying her head on her chest. Quinn lay behind her molding into her back wrapping her arm around her and laying her hand on San's arm. Rachel snuggled in sighed. They all fell asleep content and all of them slept through the night.

The next morning they got ready as always and ate breakfast together. Puck was meeting them at school so they headed into the garage to get the Nova.

Quinn looked around at the other cars. "I gotta say Rachel it's like a car show in here."

Rachel chuckled, "yea, they were my daddy's, now they're mine. I am trying them out to see which one I want to make my everyday mode of transportation."

Quinn got into the back seat, "well I wouldn't want to pick. I'd just drive a different car every day."

Rachel thought about this for a moment. "Well there are more cars in the other garage. Some of them I wouldn't want to drive all the time. It's something to think about."

She closed the door and when they were all seated and buckled up she raised the garage door and pulled out of the drive pressing the button to close the garage back up. They headed to school and went on about their day. The day was pretty normal except for Rachel. Other than during Cheerios she was pretty quiet and subdued all day. When ask she just said she was thinking. The girls let it go figuring when she was ready to talk she would. When the last bell rung for the day they headed out to the Auditorium for glee and the duet competition. There were five acts performing and they thought it should be a pretty good show.

A/N: Ok sorry I didn't get to the competition like I wanted to my muse ran away with me again. Next the competition and things with Mercedes come to a head and may just explode. We will see what happens.