Here is the latest installment of glee does TINA. Hopefully I can start uploading more chapters at least once a week.
The Lima Bean coffee shop is abuzz with customers, all chatting and sipping lattes and tea and iced coffee. The front doors open with Mercedes Jones walks into to her familiar stomping grounds. She finds the nearest table while looking around for her old classmate now assistant instructor of the New Directions, Finn Hudson, who had strict, but brief instructions to meet him at the coffee shop for an emergency. After hearing about the school shooting that happened last month and the inner turmoil it caused her, she got on the first plane to Ohio.
Apparently she wasn't the only one that Finn called because with a flick of her hair, in walked in her one-time rival and eternal friend and fierce diva partner Santana Lopez, with an attitude that gave away the impression that she couldn't give a damn.
Right behind was also former Cheerio and Queen bitch at McKinley Quinn Fabray. She too came under the impression that something horrible had happened when Finn called her.
Quinn is the first to notice one of her fellow classmates. "Santana, is that you?"
Santana turns around from the casher's desk to face her former co Cheerio captain. They haven't spoken since Mr Shue's almost wedding and their hotel experimental. "Oh hi Quinn, what has possessed you to come back to this hellhole from your hot older Yale professor? And I don't think it's for my sweet lady kisses, cause that is reserved for someone more in my ballpark."
The ex-Cheerio rolls her eyes at Santana's smart remark, but before she can answer she hears the squeal of another familiar face.
"Quinn, my god girl, what are doing here?" Mercedes drops her bag at her table and moves towards Quinn. They embrace.
"Hey Mercedes, I could say the same for you." Quinn greets her. Mercedes then glances at Santana and they too share a hug and pleasantries.
They sit down at Mercedes' table after placing their coffee orders and begin to ask one another what have they been doing since the last time they have seen each other. Quinn was busy at Yale, Santana now rooming with Kurt and Rachel in New York, and Mercedes finding a new recording label and manager. But before long, Santana gets bored with the trivial conversation and asked the essential question, already over with the mini reunion.
"Alright, can anyone answer me why we came here after we all promised to leave and never look back? Seriously, we come back here more often than a revival of Cats!"
Mercedes and Quinn roll their eyes at the latina's attitude. Quinn first answers, "Well if you must know Santana, Finn called me and asked he to help him with something important, it sounded really urgent."
Mercedes interjects, "You too, he called me too. After the shooting that happened, and judging by how frantic Finn sounded on the phone, I got the first plane out here."
"So I guess we all listened to Moby Dick and came back.-" Santana turns her head to see two other fellow former classmates. In walks Noah (Puck) Puckerman chatting up with Mike Chang.
"And I guess we aren't the only ones Finn called. Look over there at what the cat drug in."
Quinn and Mercedes look to the front door, just as Puck and Mike notice them. Mike signals Puck to their table. They all hug and greet each other and go through once again what they have been up to since their last reunion, Puck in LA "working on his screenplay" and Mike at dance academy.
But once again, Santana has had it with the mushy stuff. "So let me guess, Finn called you hobos too?"
"Yeah, and after the shooting, we all thought the worst and rushed over." Mike replys
"Finn our bro, we'll do anything for him and if he needs help, we'll help him."
"So what do you think is so urgent that Finn had us meet here?" Quinn asks
"I think it's about that Marley girl and her eating disorder. I guess Finn finally has taken action and he needs our help." Santana enters her two cents.
"I know, that poor girl. We have had our share of fights, but we have never really tried to sabotage one another.", says Mercedes
But before anyone else could conspire any further, Finn rushes into the Lima Bean. Slightly out of breath he begins to greet his former classmates.
"Now that we have completed roll call for the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Finn, can you please explain to us why you called us to come back here?" An agitated Santana queries.
Everyone stares at the former quarterback, who begins to sit down, adrenaline pumping with nerves and from sprinting from the school to the coffeeshop. Everyone else sit down with him, waiting for a response.
"Look guys, I'll cut to the chase, I asked you to come here because…I need your help." Finn slowly begins.
"What's wrong, bro?" Puck asks
"It's… about Blaine. He's been acting so strangely lately, especially after the shooting."
"Well, it's completely understandable Finn, everybody was affected by that shooting." Mercedes softly replies.
"No, Mercedes, this started after we graduated, it started to get worse after he and Kurt broke up. He stopped involving himself in glee, he wasn't singing, suggesting songs, dancing. The school shooting made him completely clam up." Finn explains
"So why didn't you call the human puppy's ex? How is this our problem?" Santana snaps back. Everyone rolls their eyes at Santana's remark.
"Kurt and Blaine aren't really talking, and plus Kurt's busy at Vogue." Finn answers
"What about the Warblers? Why doesn't he talk to them?" Puck questions, with distain in his voice.
"He hasn't talked to any of them since the slushie incident, he feels betrayed by them, and I don't blame him." Finn replies
"Oh come on guys, I think Blaine has proven to us that his home is with the New Directions. And we are a family, if he needs help, then we owe to him to help." Mike remarks, putting up a good argument.
"Mike is right guys, besides we all have given a leave of absence at our schools and jobs for a week." Quinn backs Mike up.
"That depends on one thing, what is the glee club doing this week, and please tell me it isn't Katy Perry, cause I will go back to New York with your ex-hobbit girlfriend and Lady Elaine Fairchild?" Santana asks Finn
This was what Finn was hoping to hook his friends with, if simply asking them wouldn't work. "Well, Blaine has started to involve himself in class again, so Mr Shue decided to dedicate an entire week to Blaine's favorite artist…."
Everyone stares at him intently as he says the magic words, flashing a dopey smile, "…Tina Turner."
Mercedes and Quinn's eyes widen in surprise. Mike and Puck look at each other as well. Santana sits back down quickly. "When should I pull out my fringe dress?"
"Great, I was hoping you guys would say yes."
"Are you kidding Finn?! Tina Turner is a goddess! I live to be the beast she was on stage!" Santana shouts, almost losing her cool.
"Not to mention she is a survivor." Mercedes adds on
"I used her as a template for cheerleading, her energy and stage presence is unbelievable!" Quinn chimes in.
"So, what do want us to do, bro." Puck asks
"Well, the lesson is to use Tina's music to showcase your emotions, what you are feeling inside, and to build your stage presence, your stamina, in prepping for Nationals. So Mercedes, Santana you can help the kids with channeling their "inner Tina", the soul of Tina, the attitude. Quinn and Mike, you can help with the cherography, the energy that Tina brings to every show, show them the dance moves. Puck, I want you to teach the guys about Tina's rock n roll attitude, the sass, the force, the drive." Finn gives them their instructions
Everyone begins to mentally takes notes, already coming up with the music numbers to perform with the kids.
"Hopefully, with you guys being there, we can get the old Blaine back." Finn adds on.
"Sounds like a plan." Mike replies
"I'm already coming up with the perfect number to bring Tina to McKinley." Santana brags
"Well I'm looking for songs to help some of the girls with their confidence, especially that Marley, bring back that girl who wowed the crowd in Grease." Mercedes counter proclaims.
"Mike and I will be preparing the 'Tina Turner dance camp'." Quinn announces
"Yep, we're gonna show them why Tina is called the hardest working woman in show business. Come Quinn, you can come to my house, I called my parents when I bought the tickets and they are expecting me" Mike gets up first.
"As long as you take me back to the hotel Santana and I are staying at afterward." Quinn follows suit. They leave together, grabbing their luggage.
"Well, the glee club better be prepared for Santana Lopez's return tomorrow." Santana continues to brag as she leaves the coffee shop also, bags in tow.
"See you tomorrow, Finn, Puck." Mercedes bids the two boys goodbye.
"Hey can I stay over, since Kurt isn't coming home?" Puck asks
"Sure, let me ask my mom and Burt, and Kurt."
"Why Kurt?" Puck asks, confused.
"You know he will kill you if you drop one sock in his room." They both shudder in fear, knowing Kurt's temper.
Stay tuned for the upcoming chapter 7, Marley showcases her conflicted feelings about Jake, and gives him a warning, TINA TURNER style!