This actually doesn't have the party itself, I was nearing 9,000 words and realized that I hadn't even gotten to it yet. So instead of making like a 20k chapter, I was just going to divide it into two. Easier on the eyes also.
Read and enjoy.
Halloween had finally arrived. After the emotional exchanged with Judy, the three women had stayed up the better half of the night and into the early morning talking. Though the next day was rough on the both girls who only had a few hours of sleep, neither would of traded in the memories for a full night's of rest.
Rachel should feel happy, she knew she should. But ever since the last night of staying up all night with Judy, there was this pain in her heart that she didn't quite understand. She should feel happy, right? Hiram was finally giving her the attention she always wanted as a child, Judy was becoming the motherly figure she always wished she had. But she couldn't shake the feeling of dread, as if it was too late.
As a child, she always wanted that big and happy family. She so sure when she was young her Family was simply amazing, filled with love and cheer. But as the years went by, she slowly begun to realize that she had the furthest thing from the truth. Her Dads, as loving as they appeared cared only about themselves, it had only taken her now to see that. Hiram throwing himself into this race and forgetting that he had a daughter again.
She was worried about coming out, she might act so very confident, and she was at the end of the day, but she couldn't fight back this feeling. She was afraid, she loved Quinn with her everything and wanted everyone to know, but she was afraid of Quinn. It was an dumb fear, Quinn had proved in the past month that she would never run away again, but what if the hate from school or Glee Club became too much for her?
Too much that Quinn ran, just like Hiram, just like LeRoy, just like Shelby. She wouldn't be able to deal with it, she had opened herself up to Quinn, to finally allow herself to love the girl with all of her heart, If she left, she wouldn't know what to do. The one person that had been there for her when she needed someone. It would be like finding that answer, that feeling you were always searching for and watching it slip away, fade.
She couldn't allow that, so if it met keeping Quinn to herself for longer, so be it.
It was finally the afternoon, Glee Club meeting only a bell ring away. All the talk today over the school was how Puck had personally invited the 'Gleeks' to his party, making a big deal about it.
Quinn herself was rather excited for the party, even if she got a little too gabby in public with Rachel it could easily be blamed on from all the underage drinking and the two being best friends. Also, Rachel had taken only a day to make Broadway worthy costumes for the two after something she called Swan Queen. She had no idea what that was, only that it was based off of their new favorite show on ABC.
But hell, she saw it a reason to eye sex Rachel while she wore the 'Ms. Mayor' outfit, and her a light brown leather jacket paired off with even a rather real looking Lima Police Badge. They had just to get through Glee and then Cheerio practice. She didn't know which one was scaring her more.
Today was going to be the day her and Rachel were going to come out to Glee Club, seeing as at the end of the day, they are their closest friends. At least Finn already knew who should've been the only one that would react badly. On the other hand, Sue had been acting oddly...happy, joyful, smiling. Something was very wrong, The last time she saw her that happy it was when she crafted the plan to become a judge for the Regionals for last year.
One step at a time though, first; her and her girl had to sing this song.
She was placing her books back into her locker, taking out her gym bag that had her practice Cheerio uniform. Her eyes were drawn to Rachel as she hurried down the hallway towards her. Call it her sixth sense when it came to Rachel's emotions, but she could feel that something was off.
Wordless, she shut her locker and met Rachel halfway. The halls were mostly empty, she grabbed her hand and drew her into the nearby restroom. Locking the door in place, she watched in silence as Rachel paced back and forth in front of the sinks.
Rachel was a talkative person 99% of the time, but in times like these she knew that she couldn't push the subject and allow Rachel to come to her. The blonde walked forward, going to wrap her arms around the girl. Rachel melted into the hug, face burying itself into her neck, Quinn would never get over the fact that their bodies just seemed to fit just right. Neither one too tall or too short.
Finally, she heard Rachel sigh, moving back from the hug so she could speak, "I don't think we should come out to Glee Club."
Quinn felt a stab into her heart, she always feared this moment, from the very start of this all. Even if she ever got Rachel, she feared that she would grow up one day and realize that she or no one could love the monster that Quinn was. Tears filled hazel eyes as she stuttered to talk. She felt her hands shaking, her entire body shaking. Her vision became blurry as tears flowed freely, was this how it felt for her heart to break?
Rachel's eyes went wide as she realized how that sounded. Her hands flying up to gently cup Quinn's face, "No, no, Baby. I am not breaking up with you, no. It's just, I was thinking today, thinking about to last year and then Freshmen year. And then this year with the Sunshine situation. Tina's words 'Ambitious little freak'. Even after I proved to them I have something more than ambition, that I just wanted to be their friends, they still just hate me. All the hate I have gotten from them, the words and the tears, I..I am just afraid, Quinn." Rachel could feel tears stinging her eyes as she spoke, the woman's words still echoing through her head.
Quinn nodded in silence, "Rachel, half of the time it was because of me."
"We both know that is a lie, Quinn. They made the choice, they made the choice to attack me. To be like everyone else, to attack everything about me. Why should we tell them how happy we are? Why should we tell them anything," Rachel moved away from Quinn's arms as she raised her voice, "Kurt? Kurt was ready to tell everyone if I didn't step down to give him more spotlight. Mercedes? I know for sure, she will use it against us. I am sure Puck will make some kind of thing about adding it to his spankbank. Santana and Brittany are too busy doing whatever the hell they do, when neither girl deserves each other."
Quinn just stood in silence as Rachel showed the anger that she always kept a cool grip on. All the years of seeing Doctor William for her depression and anger issues coming out. Rachel fell against the restroom wall and brought her knees to her chest, crying in earnest now.
"I love you, Quinn. But I am.."
Quinn cut her off, in the cold and Head Bitch tone she had used for years, "But not enough to tell everyone else? Do you not think I haven't thought about it also, Rachel? Do you think you're the only person that has been stabbed in the back by them. There was only one person that came to me when I needed someone, anyone. When my parents threw me out, it was you that came. I don't care for one moment about what that Club thinks. They all feed off each other, bringing all someone else down because they lack the happiness in their own life. But we have happiness. When our parents didn't give it to us, our friends. We created our own happiness, we found love this is fucking hopeless place."
Quinn marched forward, staring down at Rachel from above, "They will do anything to feel better about themselves. Somedays, I wonder if they are my friends. They let me down, they let you down. Mr. Schu, Kurt, Santana, Brittany, Finn, all of them. They have only cared about themselves. Do not think for a moment that I don't care about you. That my main and only goal in life is to make you happy."
Rachel had stopped crying now as Quinn bended over to gently held onto Rachel's knees, "It's always going to be me and you vs. the World, Rachel. If you think for a moment I will ever forgive my Mother for watching by my entire life as Russell beat me and Frannie down word after word, you're crazy. Just like how I know you will never forgive your Dads and Shelby for never being there when you needed them. I am not a very forgiving person, I am selfish, I am.."
"Wonderful, loving, amazing, breath taking, intelligent, elegant." Rachel whispered out as she wrapped her arms around Quinn bringing her down to sit next to her. Her brown head resting on Quinn's shoulder, their arms holding onto each other.
"I just want someone to love me." Quinn's heart broke as she heard the broken sob of Rachel. Quinn clenched on tighter.
"You do have someone, Rachel. You have me, you always had me." Quinn whispered into her hair as she pressed her lips down into wonderful brown waves.
It took awhile, luckily the bell still hadn't ringed yet for school to be over, but finally Rachel spoke, "You're right, Quinn. We will tell them, and if they try to bring us down, it doesn't matter. We created our own happiness."
Rachel turned and placed herself into Quinn's lip. Staring unblinking into her eyes, "I never have to be alone again, don't I?"
"Never again." The vow, which they didn't fully realize what they were saying to each other until years later, was sealed with a sweet and passionate kiss.
A kiss that sealed the relationship that would go to capture the nation in years to come.
Will always kept to his office before Glee Club started, dramatic entrances for when he was going to launch into the lesson for the day. The bell was still a bit off from ringing but was surprised when the familiar head of Sue breezed through the choir room and entered his office shutting the door behind her.
"I realized something, Will." She started as she sat down in one of the chairs. Hands folded into her lap, she was still getting used to now wearing her tracksuits at every moment of the day. Today was jeans and a Cheerio Red polo.
Will just nodded his head and smiled, reading over a possible lists of songs to use at the ever approaching Sectionals which was only less than a month away. He should of listened to Rachel about starting earlier with planning their setlist.
"Will, this is when you ask me what I realized." Sue said again after moments of silence.
Will sighed and looked up from the papers on his desk, smiling at the woman. It was still odd for most of the other teachers to see the two worst enemies turned into rather close friends. Emma was the only one that didn't talk behind their backs or just blink at them blankly when they eat lunch together in the Staff Room, "Sue, what did you realize?"
"When you and Ginger took me shopping, Shelby just left, didn't she?" Sue spoke in a low voice as she leaned over the desk, resting her forearms on the metal.
Will raised a brow, thinking back to it, "Yeah, yeah she did. What does that mean though?" While he usually didn't mean Sue's crazy ramblings about politics or some plan she crafted to get back at the Social Studies Department for trying to take funds from the Cheerio budget, today he was starting to feel the pressure from his lack of planning, ontop of Terri still trying to contact him to get back together.
"Will, think very carefully. People goto clothing stores to shop, right? She walked in while we were in line, near the front windows of the store. She lingered around the line, and then left right after she spoke to me, without buying anything."
Now that was something he missed, raising his brow he leaned back into his chair, "She didn't see you in the bar, did she?"
"Not from what I remember. She said she thought she knew me from Regionals last year. But, I think we can both agree you and Emma have done a job done well in changing the Sue from then to the Sue I am now."
Will nodded, purely physically, the woman looked different. Dressing well, with fitted clothes she looked much different from all the years of track suits. Granted she was still the ruthless and cold self, there was a certain charm to it, once one understood why she was that way, "So, you're thinking that she knows quite well who you are, and you somehow fit into one of her plans?"
Sue nodded, "Will, everything you have told me about this woman is that she is calculated. Didn't she scheme with that St. Jesus boy to get Rachel to start thinking about her birth mother?"
Will paused for a moment, Sue wasn't wrong actually and it would support their first fears of Shelby being back in town to do something about Rachel, "It's not out of the question, but she would have to know that Rachel became a Cheerio. I fail to see how going through you will get to Rachel."
"Well, she can't go through you. And I am sure Rachel's fathers have some kind of binding term in their contract. Or she wouldn't of gone to such extreme lengths last time. We're educators, Will, and if we don't protect our students, what kind of educators would we be?"
"But, what if Rachel wants to get to know her Mother? No one has really ever asked what Rachel wants." Will reasoned, glancing at the clock they still had some time before the bell ranged.
"Curly, think for a moment. Picture never knowing one of your parents. Your entire childhood you have put on a strong face, pretending that you didn't care, you had your parents, the ones that raised you. Then suddenly, out of the blue, all those hidden and dark thoughts about finally meeting that parent comes true. You throw yourself into the relationship trying to be the child you always dreamed of being. But then, she plainly tells you that she can't handle it and is just going to start over," Sue's voice became quiet. Will knew that she was drawing from her own personal pain from her parents that she always wanted, "Then ask yourself if you ever want to see that woman again."
Will was lucky, in all reality. He had two loving parents he could lean on at anytime. His parents were normal, loved with him with ever fiber of his being. Put up with Terri's crazy conversations, and now his mid-life crisis. They said artists best work came from personal heart ache or trouble, but he had never really had any of those until now. It was easy for him to sit here and preach about forgiveness when he, in fact, never had to give it.
Sue didn't know what overtook her. Flashes through her mind of her own parents. She still remembered the day they left to go on their 'grand Nazi hunting'. Who the hell leaves their two young daughters, one with a serious mental sickness, with some nanny while they went and lived out their dreams? She hated them both, even when her Father died she didn't even go to his funeral. She finally hunted down his grave and spat on it, she took great pride in telling her mother how much she hated her.
As a girl, she spent so many nights wondering what she had done wrong. What she did to her parents to make them leave. So hated herself for so long, blamed herself for not being a good enough daughter. Young Sue would of done anything to have her parents love, to just have them to hold her and tell her that everything was going to be okay. But years and years of self hatred changed into a deep and burning loathing of both her parents.
Sue was sure that Rachel most likely felt the same way. The more and more she thought on it, she didn't know why she was even doing this with Shelby. She knew that she was attracted to the woman on some physical level, but she felt a burning hatred for the woman that she hadn't felt since the last time she spoke to her mother. Shelby was just as worse as her. She refused to allow Rachel to be hurt again by the woman who couldn't make her mind up.
Will watched in silence as Sue stared at the material of his desk. He found that in moments like this it was better to just let her be. Sue held a lot of painful memories, placed deep inside of her. She, in moments like these, was best left to simply think and feel all the emotions she buried. He only moved his hand over and gently took Sue's hand into his, "Where did you go?"
Sue was snapped from her memories, she was used to Will's touchy and emotional nature by now. It did feel rather nice, knowing she did have a friend out there, and in the most unlikely the person, "Memories."
Will nodded, "Do you want to stay for Glee? Quinn and Rachel asked to open with a duet and some news."
"Team Faberry is finally going to tell?" Sue raised a brow, not moving her hand away from Will's just yet. In fact, gently cupping his too for a few moments before slowly moving it to her lap.
"Most likely. I am sure most of the Team already knows about them, with all the duets they do about love songs or the way they look at each other." He moved his hand back to his own space, typing the rest of an email about transportation for Sectionals.
"And how about you? All we have talked about the past few weeks is my life and our students." Sue wasn't the best when it came to asking people about their feelings. She was too blunt and direct to the point, lacking the gentle hand needed sometimes.
Will didn't answer right away, staring back down to the song choices. He had assigned the kids to look into any type of song from any type of music. They were stuck doing the same old same old. He was already on planning using Quinn's piano skills, much like how Shelby used Jessie's skill to sing Bohemian Rhapsody. They needed a set to come out swinging combining all elements of theater into their performance to woo the judges.
"William, I asked you a question. How is you and Ginger Wonder doing?" Sue repeated herself, leaning back into the chair, a black leather folder in her lap.
Will snapped out of his thoughts. He shook his head at the woman, closing the folders on his desk, "I have been focusing on Sectionals."
"That bad?" Sue gave a half smirk as she watched Will from over the desk.
"She's married?" Will shot back with a raised eyebrow. The bell was about to ring, standing up from behind the desk he walked into the empty Choir room. Sue right on his heels.
"Plesh, she's faking it. I am 100% certain she's lesbian." Sue sat down near the piano as he spread sheet music across the chairs that went up the bleachers. She open her own black folder, the setlist Rachel and Quinn had created for the Cheerio Sectionals, she wanted every part committed to memory before she started tearing into her team.
"Lesbian? Sue, she's married." Will paused in writing on the whiteboard and turned to stare at the woman who seemed amused by herself.
"It's called denial. I can smell it on her, she's dipped her feet into woman loving." She brought her right index finger to tap on the side of her nose, "Like a bloodhound."
"You can smell it on her?" Will just stared at her with a puzzled expression. He still didn't know how the two became friends really. He had sworn she was going to throw that coffee mug at him the day he stormed into her office, now look at the pair.
"The kids call it gaydar. Pretty sure half of my Cheerios are sleeping with each other." Will just sighed and shook his head as he went to sit down next to her at the front of the room, eyes glancing down towards the setlist in her hands.
"Did Rachel make that?" He looked down at his own failure of a setlist, which was more of a rough outline.
"Her and Quinn sat down with myself almost a month ago to draft this. I just carry it around with me as a reminder for the rest of the team. It's all mental."
Before Will could respond the bell finally rang after what felt like hours of talking. Not that he didn't like talking to Sue, quite the opposite, but he was looking forward to the weekend. He had no plans for Halloween, he was just going to call it a early night. All sorts of strange people came out on All Hallow's Eve. Not to mention him and Sue's tradition of going to the local Sports Bar on Sunday to watch the NFL games for a few hours.
Sue just snorted and leaned back into her chair, perching her reading glasses onto her nose and read over the papers in her lap. In reality she was studying the Glee Club members as filed in in ones and twos for the club meeting.
The first two in were Rachel and Quinn, both dressed in their perfect white and red of the Cheerio uniform, they talked in hush tones until they saw Will and Sue already sitting there. They offered smiles and polite hellos to the two.
"Q, Rachel. Better be ready for practice today. I want to see the team run through the entire Sectional performance before you two go and lesbian out for the night." Sue made sure not to actually yell like she would usually two, eyes going back and forth between the two girls.
Both Rachel and Quinn knew at this point that no matter if they were dating or not, Sue would always call them lesbians. It was rather an odd feeling knowing that Sue actually knew about them. If Quinn was honest, it made her feel on edge, the Coach Sue she knew was ruthless. This was the same woman who kicked her off the team and left her in the dirt when she got pregnant.
Rachel felt rather protected at the thought, Sue was a powerful woman at the school, the kids and teachers feared her. She knew Quinn had bad experiences with the woman, but there was a warmth hidden behind those eyes, a warmth that reminded her much of Quinn. Perhaps that is why Quinn was afraid of her, because she was a grown version of Sue Sylvester.
"Yes, Coach. Are we going to go along with the members we have or shall we plan for tryouts?" Rachel asked. It was a rule when talking to Coach, a Cheerio had to speak with 'their chest', their feet spread at shoulder's length and hands tucked behind their back resting on the small of their back.
"No, for Sectionals we go as is. The Team right now is doing well with less people and less complex stages. After we win, we can talk about doing tryouts or something. Now go and sing or whatever you do here." Sue waved them off the two girls taking the back row as their heads came together to talk.
Sue couldn't help but to give a small pleased smile. She always knew Berry had the potential to be more. And paired with Quinn the match were made in heaven to rule the world. Ah, what a wonderful thought.
Next came Troll and Playboy, she was seriously start to doubt her Cheerios. First Quinn, then Rachel and now what Laura? Lara? Lauren, there it was, girl was dating the Troll. There must be something that kept on attracting her Cheerios to the boy. It wasn't for his skill in football that was sure.
She noticed something, the way that the Troll's eyes lingered on the two girls, it was only a split second, a glance longer than friendly before he sat now in the front row. Sue narrowed her eyes at the boy, Finn flinching hard under the hard stare of the Cheerleading Coach.
Something was up, she could smell it in the air, and it wasn't just the repressed and not so repressed gay in this room.
Speaking of repressed gay, Blonde Haired Wonder, she needed a better name for him, walked into the room next. Now, she could smell gay on people, it was her trait after years of teaching it came in handy when needing to help her students learn something or if they needed help actually coming out.
She recalled his name being Sam, transfer student and new this year. She wrote his name on the folder in her lap, she would keep an eye on him to see if she was actually right. The Apex Gay came next and from the glance Sam sent his way, Blonde Haired Wonder was not fully straight.
God was all of Glee Club gay? She sent a glance towards Will and raised a brow. The man seemed not to understand as the rest of the club drifted in. B with Wheels, then the Asian Duo. A bit later, the cheap Rihanna Rip-off came in. She could feel the glare being sent towards Rachel and Quinn's way. Sue took another note at that one, she would be lying if she didn't keep up on all the drama she could.
A few band members entered also, seems Will did have other friends than her.
Santana being the last one, head down as she took her spot next to Quinn and Rachel. Now that was something new, Santana was always connected to Brittany, Brittany always connected to Santana. While she was sure the two girls loved each other very much, they both had a lot of growing up to do before they could actually feel that love. She wrote another note in her folder, she could feel the eyes of the Club on her, God she never got over the rush of people fearing her.
God she needed help.
Will sat in silence watching as the kids piled in. Finally all of them were gathered as he stood and was about to speak, Mercedes broke the silence, "Mr. Schu, why is Coach Sue here?"
He held back a sigh, it seemed he would never have the first word when it came to Glee Club meetings. At least Rachel had finally stopped with it, actually if she spoke during the meeting it was a collective thought. It was always after or before practices she would give him her ideas. She wouldn't be Rachel Berry if she didn't explain why it would be better if they did it her way.
"I am going to stop you there, Black Thunder," Sue's voice cut through the room, she could hear the collective gasp at the nickname, honestly people these days were too fragile, "I am here, because William here happens to be my friend and colleague. And I am a bitterly depressed person, William here thinks to think watching you all sing show tunes will change that. Let's prove him wrong shall we?"
Will had to hand it to her, at least she could come up with some reasoning on the fly. He gave her wink, sure it might of been taken the wrong way by the Club, but the school was already filled of rumors of the two having sexual relations. He could care less at this point, Sue had proven to be a better friend in the past month than the collective group of staff.
"Right, yes. And she will be helping in our selection of songs for Sectionals.."
And once more he was cut off, by Kurt this time. William sighed, he sometimes wonder how he got anything done, "Mr. Schu, no offense to you and Coach Sue's new founded friendship, but last year didn't she say the only reason we got another chance was to keep on trying to ruin us?"
There was a few collective mumblers of agreement. The Cheerios stayed silent, staring at the back of Kurt's head, well the Power Three; Rachel, Quinn and Rachel. Sam, who only heard stories of the woman just shook his head in disagreement, while the rest of the club seemed to agree with Kurt.
"Again, I am going to stop you there, Porcelina," That one was better, she made a mental note to keep that as his nickname. He was to whiny to be Apex Gay. She slammed the folder shut as she raised herself to her feet, "There is this magical thing called forgiveness. I know that as teenagers you can't think past either your stomach or who you're going to use next to become the 'Head Bitch' of this school. I am going to be painfully honest with you all."
"No one CARES what you think. I am here because Curly and I are friends. He has gotten his head out of his ass and I have gotten over my issues with him. That's called being an adult, kiddies. Grow up. This might be highschool, but at the end of the day it is what you make it. Think about that. Q, Rachel, Santana, if someone speaks out of place again, smack them." Sue gave one last freezing look of hate out over the club before taking her seat again.
The Club was actually stunned into silence, minus the Cheerios. They had quickly gotten with the program of Sue's blunt and honest nature when it came to situations.
Will himself couldn't agree more, he had babied this club for too long, "Thank you, Sue. There are going to be changes here, kids. Now, at the end of the day, we call came here to find something, but I don't know about you, but I am tired of being the laughing stock of this school. Shall we be remembered as losers? Or are we going to go out there, take each combination by storm? It has been my fault as your Coach and educator getting lost with the day to day. It is past time I start doing all of you right.."
The room was silent, until he met Rachel's eyes who gave him a small nod and smile. She looked rather pleased with the change of events, "I gave you all the assignment of picking any range of songs for this upcoming Sectionals. We shall dive into your choices, but Quinn and Rachel asked for the floor before we start. So girls, come on down." He gave them an actual real smile and waved them down towards the front as he took a seat next to Sue.
"Showtime, Curly. We need to have a talk about the gay to straight ratio of your Glee Club later." The blonde woman whispered as he took his seat next to her.
The two girls were in the front of the room in the blink of an eye. The two speaking to the JAzz band members, who seem to already know what song they were going to play.
Neither girl took a seat behind the piano the two standing before the Club, Quinn spoke, "If it's not obvious by the song, I seriously doubt each one of your intelligence."
Rachel nodded over towards the band, a classic jazz sounding tone starting up. Sue knew it from any wear. Smiling behind her hand, she had to hand it to them, at least they had good taste.
Quinn and Rachel focused on each other and only each other. They had spent the rest of the week trying to find the perfect song for this moment. They realized that though, this was for the two of them, not for anyone else. If they wanted to sing how much they loved each other, then they would pick any song they wanted.
So they settled on one of Quinn's classics after much pouting by the blonde.
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you
You'd be like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
Quinn opened, her smooth voice always sounding the best when singing songs such as this. Both girls could feel the eyes of the Club on them as they sanged. They always did have a stage chemistry, anyone in Glee Club could see that. Rachel glanced over the crowd, only the likes of Santana and Finn saw what they were doing, each offering a thumbs up or a nod. Kurt couldn't help but to have a large smile, at least he wouldn't be the only open gay kid now.
Perhaps Quinn had been wrong, it doesn't always have to be them against the world.
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you
Rachel still hadn't started singing yet, the opening being called by Quinn, with her own dramatic flair. The diva swayed gently to the music as she stared into Quinn's eyes, neither girl could stop the massive grin coming to their face.
All the fear that had plagued the two all day had left them by the second line. Both girls were drawing off of each other, their eyes being all the courage they needed to sing all their emotions into the words. In that moment, everything else faded away from them, it was only the two of them and this love that started out so sweet and so fragile grew larger. It felt good finally to show everyone just how much they loved each other.
Puck was looking in between the two girls with a raised brow, his hands raised as he seemed to be in deep thought trying to figure out what was going on with the two. Santana just gave the pair an amused smile.
Pardon the way that I stare
There's nothing else to compare
The sight of you leaves me weak
There are no words left to speak
Rachel's powerful vocals came out of the nowhere as the beat of the song was uplifted, the two girls dancing around the front, facing away from each other and looking out to the club as they both swayed side to side.
But if you feel like I feel
Please let me know that it's real
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you
Puck's mouth formed an 'O' as it finally came to him. He looked over towards Finn pointing at the two, the taller boy just smiling and nodding his head. He leaned back into his chair and looked at the two.
Well it made sense actually when he thought back on it. He knew deep down he had failed Quinn big time, all of them had failed big time when Quinn was having Beth. No one was there for her, he was a coward. Puck had been so afraid, he didn't know why. He wasn't ready to have a kid, he wasn't ready to commit to Quinn. He was a Sophomore in Highschool for God sake.
But now looking at the two dancing and singing in front of him. He knew that he had missed his chance, all of them did. He wondered if he ever had a chance when it came to Quinn. And Puck didn't know which thought hurt the most.
I love you, baby, and if it's quite alright
I need you, baby, to warm a lonely night
I love you, baby, trust in me when I say
Oh, pretty baby, don't bring me down, I pray
Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay
And let me love you, baby, let me love you
The two came back together, facing each other. Their voices like always moved together in a melody that destroyed anything else in the Club. The two were playful smiles as they became lost in each other eyes.
It became obvious for the rest of the club just what they were trying to say. For those who didn't know were stunned into silence as they stared unblinkingly at the two. Santana crossed her legs, trying to ignore the dull pain that shot up in her heart. She wished she could do that, get up in front of all their friends and sing with the person she loved.
Dark brown eyes wandered over towards Brittany who was stuck in Artie's lap. It wasn't fair, it should be Brittany in her lap. It should be her and Brittany up right now singing their hearts out about how much they loved each other. Santana crossed her arms and settled back into her chair, she smiled towards Rachel and Quinn, she had to be happy for them.
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you
You'd be like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
Will and Sue watched as the two danced back and forth. They really did have a chemistry that seemed to be the perfect mix of damn near everything. Will had married his highschool lover and he regretted doing it every single day of his life, a puppy dog love that he forced himself into thinking something was more. But there was something about the two girls in front of him, the way they moved with each other, the way they looked at each other, it was something he saw not even in his parents who had a great marriage.
If it was if the two actually were made for each other. Like out of all those romance novels and books old and new. On one level, it was an amazing thought that something that pure is actually real. On another level, it was a very scary thought, at least for himself. To be that free and open with someone, to trust someone that deeply. In all his 15 years of marriage he had never once seen that look in his own eyes or Terri's. Hell, he told Sue more than he had told Terri in their entire marriage.
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you
Sue couldn't help but to look away. There was one thing between chemistry on stage to capture the viewers, but this was something different. This felt like a dance, a tale, something shared between two lovers. It felt wrong, seeing this, not in a bad way per say, but she couldn't stomach it.
It brought back painful memories of summer spent just over the border in Canada, beautiful strawberry blonde hair. She gripped the black leather folder in her hand until her knuckles turned white, God she hated this. Feeling, all this sappy songs bringing make memories she didn't want to experience, but she had to, she needed to if she was to finally get over Linda.
I love you, baby, and if it's quite alright
I need you, baby, to warm a lonely night
I love you, baby, trust in me when I say
Oh, pretty baby, don't bring me down, I pray
Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay
And let me love you, baby, let me love you
You're just too good to be true
As the final words were sung, Quinn reached out and grabbed Rachel by the waist. Pulling her to her and singing, "Too good to be true." She leaned down to claim her lips in a simple brushing of the lips.
They broke apart, earning a blush from Rachel, but Quinn wore a victorious smirk on her lips. It felt good to finally being able to kiss and hold Rachel in front of some groups of people beyond random strangers or their Family.
The room was deathly silent, Finn sat there not rather surprised by any of this. The kiss had drawn his attention though, it was one thing them saying they were dating and another actually seeing the two be physical. It was an odd sight, having Kurt as an almost step-brother now had opened him up to the Gays, but not everyone in Lima was as open as he was.
Mercedes stared down the two from her seat in the second row. Hands folded into her lap and back straight, people thought Quinn had the bitch arua down to a key. Quinn met them, the two becoming locked in fierce stare. There was a flash of something, a smirk on Mercedes before it was gone, a smile taking it's place.
"Wait, so you two are like..together?" Puck finally spoke through the silence, someone had to, it was getting weird with everyone just staring at each other dumbly. Or Santana just sitting there with a smirk as she kept her head pressed against the wall of the building.
"I think they made it pretty obvious." Santana spoke up in her usual matter of fact bitch voice.
"How long have you two been.." Mike spoke, his hands out in front of him as he struggled to find the correct word but pointing at them.
Quinn spoke before Rachel or the likes of Finn could answer, "Since I moved in with her last year."
She felt Rachel's arm wrapping around the side of her waist and pressing Quinn harder into the side of her body. It seemed she said the right thing to please Rachel, "You have been hiding it for this long?"
Arite spoke from mover Brittany, raised brow. He sounded hurt even. Rachel saw Santana's eyes whipped over to the wheelchair boy. She spoke before Santana could make this situation worse, "Yes, we did. It's like any of you have been shining friends to us in the past few months. No one was there for Quinn when she needed her friends and you all but, how does Tina put it, 'put up with the ambitious little freak'."
Sue had to hide her smile and laughter by hiding her face behind her folder. The pure sound of hate coming from Rachel's voice warmed her heart, it seemed being in the Cheerios had done her some good in giving her a backbone. Will just shifted in his chair, as a teacher he hadn't done anything about Rachel's bullying or to help in Quinn's situation last year.
Tina dropped her eyes in shame, but Mercedes spoke up now, "What is the point in telling us? Are you two just throwing in our faces like everything else you do."
Quinn had to count to 10 in her head to stop herself from going straight to screaming and yelling. Ever since the fight with Santana in the middle of Glee Club and the weeks of detentions the much larger diva seemed to have nothing nice to say.
"How about you be proud about two of your friends having the courage to come out in central Republican fucking Ohio." Santana's spoke from over and behind Mercedes, filing her fingernails.
Before what would be Santana vs. Mercedes Round 2, Will found his sense and stood up, raising his voice, "Everyone sit down and be quiet!." Though it came out more of a hiss, which scared the students more than him yelling. Rachel and Quinn were back to their seats in the back in a flash, knowing from Sue anger fits to get really far out of the way, a habit now.
Will's hands was shaking, anger moving through his veins, though it wasn't at the Club, honestly it was at himself. He had stood by for too long, trying to be all their friends, when in reality he wasn't even doing that. He had allowed Rachel to be bullied in front of her, he had allowed one of his students to struggle through something that no teenager should do by themselve, he's allowed Santana to throw around all the other members. It was time to set on correcting all of this, "I already gave you this talk already at the start of this year, and I hate to repeat myself. If none of you can work as a team, then I don't want you on this team. There is a new rule, the moment you step through that door, everything is left there. In here, we are one team, one unit, one everything. From this moment forward, Rachel and Quinn are your team captains."
He sent a burning glare at Mercedes and the club, daring them to try and speak out against him, "Coach Sue is now our co-director for the Glee Club. If we're going to win Nationals for the next 10 years running, we need to embrace a Winner's Ethos."
Sue stood now, reading glasses still on her face as she crossed her arm and stood in front of the group, "Changes, are coming. The Cheerios will be joining Glee Club for every practice. It will be good for them to have somewhere to let free and sing. William as showed me the benefits of having a soft hand also, just as I have showed him how it helps to be hard. Who here wants to become something more than just another Lima Loser as you kids seem to coin at every chance."
Of course, every hand raised in attendance, "We have wronged you all too many times. We have decided to try and correct that. From now on, there will be no more slushies, no more name calling, if you don't have anything nice to say then shut your mouth." Sue made a point to stare at Santana on that one.
Will was actually surprised, he had just made up about Sue joining at a co-director, he had not expected her to actually go with it. They have spoken about how much they wanted to change things around the school, but neither had done anything to start that.
He recovered quickly nodding his head at Sue, "You can leave now, but from this moment onwards, you are all going to be friends in this room even if there is a war going on outside. Alright?"
Each member gave a nod or a mumbled 'Alright'. Sue shook her head, "First rule about being on a Sue's Team, you will speak directly, with your chest and with respect to everyone around you. Let's try that again shall we?"
This time, the Club gave a much louder 'Alright' towards their two Coaches. Will speaking again, "Now, I assigned a project, anyone have any songs that they want to showcase?"
No one raised their hands, a few looking towards Rachel, "I have a few ideas but I was hoping someone else would have brought something up."
Most shocking, it was Finn that spoke up from his seat, "I..I watched Almost Famous last night with my mom and that song Tiny Dancer sounded really good."
Will silently thanked God someone had tried, "Do you know the song?"
"Yeah yeah, who doesn't know Elton John, Mr. Schu." He stood, glancing over towards Quinn, "Eh, Quinn, can you play the piano bit for me?"
In all reality it was more than just a ask to help him, it was a sign if these two can work together then this team had a chance of working through their issues. Rachel gave him a tight smile and nod of approval, while Quinn simply nodded her head.
In under a few minutes, everyone had the sheet music needed, Quinn flexing and unflexing her fingers as she ran through the opening lines a few times, before nodding towards Finn.
"Elton John songs wouldn't be bad, Sue. It's a classic but not that used in show choir." Will whispered over towards the Cheer coach from their spots in the front row.
"Perhaps." Was all Will got out of Sue before Finn gave a thumb ups towards Will and the Club quieted down.
"It's going to be rough, but think about it, eh?" Finn just gave an awkward smile and shrugged before Quinn started up on the piano.
Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand
While it was obvious Finn had no time to practice the song, he still did have that raw talent like all the Glee Clubbers had. Rachel starting to sing along, then Santana, and then the rest of the Club. Much like the famous scene in the movie in which Finn heard the song, before they knew it the entire Club was singing along.
Jesus freaks out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back she just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad
Piano man he makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on she sings the songs
The words she knows the tune she hums
Will spoke up now, "That's enough, Finn. I am sold on it, we're doing Elton John songs for Sectionals, everyone agree?"
Finn seemed a little put off by being interrupted halfway through his song, but he nodded, the rest of the club coming to an agreement, "Good, good. I am going to cut this meeting short seeing as it's Halloween. Have a fun and safe night, I'll see you all monday morning for practice. Bring your game faces, we're going the mile this year."
The Club was more than happy to get home early to get ready for Puck's party was starting once the sun went down. The Four Cheerios still had one more practice to go through, Rachel knew the team could run through the performance for Sectionals with ease, but up to Coach's standards she was less so sure about.
It was rather odd, the school had gotten used to seeing the four Cheerios, but ever since Brittany started dating Arite, she was always connected to his side, leaving it to the Power Three, a replacement for the Unholy Trinity.
"Well, that was rather unexpected." Rachel spoke up as they made their way onto the field. The sky was overcast, there was a chance of rain later in the evening, Quinn was just really hoping that it didn't start pouring rain during practice.
But of course, God loved to make a joke out of Quinn's life. As soon as the Cheerios were gathered the skies opened up into a downpour. Sue always made it point that when it rained to make them do mainly physical training and less of the actual practicing.
Sue seemed to be in a better mood today and called the Cheerios back into the Cheerio locker room.
Standing in the middle with the team taking a knee round her, Sue spoke up, "Right Queerios, I am going to be nice today and cancel practice because of the rain. Blame Curly for his niceness rubbing off on me. Starting Monday, you are all expected to join in every Glee Club meeting until the end of the year, if anyone has an issue with that, the door is right there."
Sue smiled when no one even made a move to stand, good, the girls left were only the core of the people who wanted to be there the most. Or actually didn't mind the changes that Sue kept on steam rolling.
The Coach looked out over the ponytailed heads, Larua? Lauren kept her eyes to the ground but sue could make out the forming of a smirk on her features, trying to hold it back. That was something to take note of, compared with Finn's glance during Glee before. Perhaps she's just happy about getting to sing with her boyfriend.
But if Sue knew one thing, it was that highschoolers were terrible human beings.
Practice was finished fast with a few more threats towards the Cheerios about not getting caught tonight doing anything dumb before waving them off for the night.
Rachel didn't finally breath until they were inside of Quinn's Red Jeep and driving out of the parking lot. Reaching out with her hand to grip Quinn's free one, she couldn't help but to lean over and press a kiss to Quinn's cheek, "I love you."
They paused a red light, giving Quinn the chance to lean over the center console, her right hand going to sank around the back of Rachel's neck and take her lips into a much more heated paring that they did in the front of Glee Club.
"I can't wait for the day to do that in front of everyone." Quinn whispered out, before turning back to the wheel. The rest of the trip back to Rachel's house was silent, Quinn's right hand tightly clasped by two of Rachel ones.
They were silent as they entered the large home, not surprising that Hiram was not home. Quinn didn't even have a chance to ask if she wanted to eat before heading over to the party, before Rachel had pressed her against the nearby wall.
Staring up at her with large doe brown eyes, "I really like what you said."
Quinn gave a gentle smile and wrapped her arms around Rachel, leaning down to press a kiss to the tip of her nose, "You know it's true. To me, it was that entire time."
Rachel gave a small sigh and pressed a soft kiss to Quinn's lips, "Don't worry, I agree, Baby. I just wished I could show how..happy I am by it."
Quinn raised a brow as Rachel; gave a small smirk before stepping away and deeper into the house, hips swaying a bit more than natural in that small Cheerio skirt. The blonde's head fell against the wall, eyes shutting for a moment as she bit her bottom lip.
Tonight was going to be a really long and wet night.
AN: Songs used were "Can't take my eyes off of you" By Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John.
I think I have made it obvious enough that Sue and Shelby will have some sort of relationship as Sue/Will figures out what she has planned. I actually have a few ideas in mind for whom she will actually end up with, I just haven't decided yet.
I am sorry, I had planned to just make one really long chapter with the party thrown in, but I just don't think it would of been enjoyable to read some 20k long chapter. I have over half of the next chapter written, so expect the party and the fallout of it in the next chapter.
After that it will be an overview of November, with Sectionals, I am planning on the Glee Club to have their show, just not Rocky Picture Horror Show. And do expect Coach Beiste to join Sue and Will, as I try to find some sort of Teacher enemy for the three to have. I rather still like the idea of a few of the Glee Girls playing football, was actually a fun episode to watch.
Annd before I get a bunch of hate for how I am treating Mercedes, is it so different how people tear into the character of Finn and make him the ultimate bad guy also? It's really preference, but there are a million fics with Finn as the bad guy, I wanted to change it up for once.