The Life of a Psychic
Summary: Rachel has been secretly psychic all her life. But after winning Regionals Junior year a violent vision comes to her that not only scares the Glee Club but also makes her decide to change things
Puckleberry
Other pairings will come and go and will definitely be side dishes for the story. The whole Puck chasing Lauren thing didn't happen for the purposes of this story.
SO HERE'S WHAT YOU MISSED: Rachel gets a vision of her death on a Broadway stage. New Directions has no idea about her psychic abilities and Puck is determined to be the one Rachel completes her Bucket List with.
Chapter 5:
"I know I left it here somewhere Finn! Help me look!" Quinn growled as she stomped into the choir room the next day in the early morning. Finn sighed as he followed Quinn in and looked around for her missing jacket.
Quinn walked along the back row where she'd been sitting last rehearsal and paused wgen she saw a pink slip of paper on the floor in front of two chairs that were turned to face each other. She picked it up and read the neat curvy handwritting. Her eyes widened as she reached the bottom list and she knew without a shadow of a doubt who owned this list. The stars were unmistakable.
"What's that Q?" Finn called from behind the piano where he'd been looking underneath for the jacket. Quinn didn't bother to respond as she looked at the two chairs that were moved. Puck had been sitting in one of those chairs...Oh. My. Glee.
"Finn we need to call an emergency Glee meeting, don't invite Puck or Rachel." Quinn ordered sternly and before Finn could ask why Quinn whipped out her cell phone and began making the text. "It seems like Puck needs an intervention before he ruins our chances at Nationals."
Puck scowled at the male dancer that was sliding Rachel down the length of his body for her to gracefully fall into a split. The beginning of the dance class had been awesome. He got to watch Rachel's tight little body dance around the room and bend in the most delicious ways but now...not cool.
The only thing that stopped Puck from decking the Douche, which he shall be here on out referred to, was that after practice Puck would pull Rachel out to his truck and seduce her into a steamy make out session with boob groping and everything.
Puck's eyes glazed over as he recalled the way she let him climb on top of her in his truck after their intense discussion in the choir room. How she moaned and squirmed beneath him and when his hands wandered above her clothes she let him. Awesome...
Rachel snapped her fingers in front of Puck's face and he snapped out of it to stare up at her heatedly. Rachel flushed at how he looked like he wanted to devour her. "You ready to go?" she asked shyly.
Puck grinned and stood up to wrap an arm around her shoulders and lead her towards the door. She was still in her dancer tights and he couldn't wait to have her pressed up against him again. But as they were walking towards his truck Rachel had a vision with flashing scenes of a boy with blonde hair running, the screech of tires stopping and a woman crying hysterically. "My baby! My baby!"
Rachel jerked out of Puck's arms and look around wildly. "What's wrong Rach?"
And that is when she spotted the blonde 6 year old running from the dance studio and towards the road. Rachel didn't second guess her actions and ran after the boy. Puck watched Rachel run off in a dead sprint for a few seconds before he gave chase after her.
Rachel saw the boy about to make it to the road and out of the corner of her eye she saw a car making its way down the street and not slowing down. "STOP!" She screamed but all that she had managed to do was get the boy to stop in the middle of the road and look at her. She never stopped running even as Noah screamed at her to stop and she dived across the road to grab the child and turn her back towards the car to take the blow.
Not even a second later she felt herself being pushed to the ground in the next lane over with the boy still in her arms. She heard the tires screech and the mother had taken notice of her child. Apparently she'd been talking in front of the hair salon across the street with her neighbor and hadn't noticed her child leaving the dance studio and spotting her.
Rachel felt the sting of the scratch marks up her side and as she got up she released the child who ran crying into his weeping mother's arms. She sat up to turn and berate the driver when she realized who had pushed her out of the way. Noah was curled up in front of the car holding his side.
"Noah?" Rachel stood and ran to Puck's side as Sam Evans stepped out of the driver's seat of the car. Puck's eyes were screwed shut and he was hissing in pain. "Noah why did you do that? You could have been killed!"
Puck rolled his eyes and glared right back at Rachel. "You could have been killed! I'm a badass babe." He finished with a weak smile.
"Rachel! Puck! Are you guys okay?" Sam crouched next to Puck.
"What the fuck Evans! Watch where you're driving man!" Puck tried to stand up but he was pretty sure he had at least one broken rib. Rachel was fretting over him and it was kind of nice but it still hurt like a mother.
"I-I I dropped my cell phone between the seats and—."
"That is wreckless driving Sam! You could have killed that child!" Rachel screamed at Sam who stared between her and Puck and the child with horror. "Now that the consequences of your dangerous driving has sunk in, you will escort me and Noah to the hospital in your car!" Rachel scolded and Sam nodded dumbly reaching down to help Puck stand.
The mother approached the group and after shooting a glare at Sam who ducked his head apologetically she turned to Rachel. "You saved my baby." she weeped clutching the child to her chest where he cried in her arms.
"Noah is to thank ma'm. He saved me." When the woman went to Noah who sat in the back of Sam's car he smiled weakly as she thanked him profusely. Sam stepped up to apologize earnestly but the woman just scolded him for not rushing her hero to the hospital.
Rachel climbed into the back seat with Puck and let him lean his head on her shoulder so that he could hunch over to relieve some of the pain.
"Sam this isn't over. I should confiscate your phone for what happened today!" Rachel scolded and Puck sighed.
"It's alright Rach he won't pull that shit again. Right?" Puck growled as he glared at the rear view mirror. Sam nodded jerkily and Rachel felt a bit bad when she saw how he was shaking a bit.
When they got to the hospital and Puck was checked by a doctor, Mrs. Puckerman who was a nurse stormed into the room and glared at Puck who flinched but for the sake of his rep pretended not to be terrified of the small jewish woman. "What have you done this time?"
"He saved my life today Mrs. Puckerman!" Rachel cut across quickly.
Mrs. Puckerman blinked in surprise. "Rachel?" and Puck groaned mentally as he could see the gears turning in her head. "What happened Rachel, Dr. Miller said that he was hit by a car?"
"Well I had jumped in front of the car to keep a little boy from being hit and Noah pushed me and the boy out of the way and so he was hit." Rachel explained calmly.
"Oh my poor boy!" Mrs. Puckerman hugged Noah around the neck while Puck had that expression on his face where he thought "Damn this woman is crazy", Rachel knew this expression well. "Your a hero! Such a good boy I raised! Don't you think so Rachel?" Mrs. Puckerman turned to grin broadly down at Rachel and Puck rolled his eyes. 'Way to try to push me off on a 'nice jewish girl'...'
Rachel smiled. "Noah is amazing..." she said dreamily and Sam smirked while Puck looked on in horror. There would be not stopping his mom now.
He fully expected the next thing to come out of his mother's mouth to be something along the lines of: "If you want to repay Noah's heroic deed you could bare me a jewish grandbaby!" But instead Mrs. Puckerman just sent him a diabolical smile.
"I better get back to my shift. You kids be careful from now on!" Mrs. Puckerman grabbed Noah's ear to whisper into it. "Don't screw this up! You be nice to Rachel or so help me—!"
"Yeah yeah! I got it psycho!" Puck huffed and Mrs. Puckerman left with a scowl on her face.
The police arrived not long after and asked Puck if he was going to press charges. Puck just looked at Sam for a minute in serious silence watching him squirm and fidget. "Nah." Puck shrugged thinking the stress the poor guy was under was punishment enough. And then after the police left a reporter for the Lima Letter showed up wanting to publish the story. At first Puck was worried that saving little children would damage his badass rep but then realized that being hit by a car was totally badass.
When they were finally able to leave Sam drove Puck and Rachel to Puck's truck where he left them bickering about who should drive. Sam got a text (and he pulled over into a parking lot before even looking at it) and it was from Quinn saying that the intervention planned at the last impromtu Glee meeting was going to be tonight. They were going to meet up at Finn's and set up a battle plan then all of them were going to Puck's house to confront him. But after seeing how Rachel and Puck were together...he didn't want to mess with that.
He turned off his phone and turned towards Finn's house. He was going to try to stop the intervention.
"Noah~ you shouldn't be driving in your condition!" Rachel glared at Puck who was already pulling down his street.
"You keep saying that and yet I'm driving just fine." Puck rolled his eyes.
Rachel pouted and the second they stopped in his driveway she jumped out of the truck. Which was a big leap for her being so short. She ran around the truck and opened Puck's door for him. He rolled his eyes as she tried to help him down but he was fine. She was still being cute though so he was gonna milk it once they were in his bed.
Rachel helped him in and eased him into his bed but as she went to tuck him in he snagged her arm and pulled her on top of him. "Noah! You're injured!"
"It's just a cracked rib and a sprained wrist babe. My tongue is still working, let me show ya." He waggled his eyebrows and Rachel giggled as he kissed her breath away. When Rachel turned to get off him and lay beside him instead the scratches on her thigh rubbed painfully against his sheets.
Puck sighed as he pulled away and leaned his forehead against hers. "We're never gonna be able to do it if we both keep getting injured." Puck growled in frustration.
"I'm sorry you got hurt Noah." Rachel whispered vulnerably.
Puck opened his eyes to glare at her half heartedly. "I don't give a shit that I got injured pushing you out of the way but I'm fucking pissed that you just jumped in front of a car!"
"I saw that boy getting hurt Noah! I didn't think I just ran to stop it!" Rachel pleaded with him to understand.
"Yeah and you interfering made things worse for both you and the kid! Didn't you tell me something about how you can't change shit?"
Rachel's gaze hardened. "Then you just want me to let a child get run over by a car?"
"Fuck no!" Puck growled. "Just tell me when you see that kind of shit and I'll try to stop it!"
"I don't want you getting hurt either, Noah." Rachel moved her face into Puck's neck and sighed.
"I don't want you getting hurt either Rach so when you see something that we need to change then the person that actually can change shit needs to do it. It is pointless for us both to be in danger like today." Rachel could see his logic.
"Just be careful."
"Right back atcha, sexy legs."
Rachel snorted a laugh. "Sexy legs?"
"The sexiest I've ever seen. God you were hot today in dance." Puck kissed along her neck and nipped at the sensitive spot he found between the henge of her jaw and her neck. "So hot babe..." he whispered huskily and moved to climb on top of her.
Puck was just reaching down for that boob squeeze he'd been thinking about all day when the doorbell rang. Puck growled and ignored it. He knew it wasn't his sister cause she was staying with his aunt to hang with their cousins. When the person at the doorbell started pressing in the bell to the tune of "Sweet Caroline" he realized it was one of the Gleeks trying to bug him. He kind of hoped it was one of the guys so he could hit him. "You should probably get that Noah..." Rachel purred and when she said it all sexy like that he REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO.
"Fuck! Don't move I'll get rid of 'em!" Rachel giggled as Puck stomped out of the room and she looked down at herself her dance clothes and jacket were dirty and ripped from the hard concrete of the street so she looked around the room and went to Puck's closet. He wouldn't mind if she borrowed some clothes right?
Puck swung the door open with force and glared at the whole Glee Club standing in front of him. Except Trouty Mouth. Sam had failed in convincing the club to reconsider the intervention so he'd refused to help. "What do you assholes want?"
"Why so angry today Puck?" Quinn asked innocently.
"I was busy so you guys need to beat it." Puck growled.
"Well tell your skank to go, Puckerman cause we need to talk to you about Rachel." Santana pushed past Puck and went to his living room. The rest of the gang was able to push their way in after her and Puck was two seconds away from just kicking EVERYONES ass.
"What about Rachel?" Puck glared at how they all just lounged around his living room like he wanted them there. He didn't. But now he was a little worried he'd have to throw them off his hot psychic's trail. They couldn't have figured anything out right?
"Have you been making plans to corrupt Tinkerbell?" Mercedes accused with a sharp glare.
Brittany blinked in confusion. "I thought he was sleeping with Rachel?"
"Rachel is tinkerbell." Artie explained patiently. Brittany got an awed look on her face so she obviously didn't get it.
"No I'm not sleeping with Rachel." Puck rolled his eyes at the pointlessness of this whole conversation.
"But you're going to." Quinn said pointedly.
"Well..." Puck got a lecherous smirk on his face.
"Dude! What the hell?" Finn stood up and glared at Puck who glared right back. Quinn tried not to let the obvious jealousy flowing off of Finn bother her. Right now this was about Rachel. "Do you have to pull this shit with every girl I have?"
"You don't have Rachel you had her and don't even try to pull that guy code bullshit cause she was my girlfriend first!"
"You don't even like her! You said she made you want to light yourself on fire!"
"Well that was before, now she is my fucking girlfriend so I'm not going to put up with your shit!"
"Woah woah!" Mike cut in suddenly. "You guys are dating? Well then that changes everything. Wanna head out babe?" Mike asked Tina who seemed to agree with his sentiment and nodded.
"This doesn't change anything. This is still Puck we are talking about here. He'll sleep with her then dump her. Probably right before Nationals and then we'll be fucked." Santana pointed out.
"I'm not going to dump her!" Puck blurted before he could stop himself.
Most of the group raised skeptical eyebrows. "Ever?" Quinn scoffed. "You two only lasted a week last year! You two won't work out so you should just break up now."
"Well that just shows that you guys don't know shit about me and Rach. She broke up with me last year and I don't have to listen to this bullshit because none of you assholes gave a shit about Rachel until Regionals. And none of you give a shit about me even to this day and I've known some of you since elementary school. So fuck you guys!" And Puck gave them the big one fingered salute.
"Noah?" Rachel called as she came down the stairs wearing just his football jersey which was long enough to work as a dress. The whole group turned to see her and Puck couldn't stop the growl of approval. He really needed to get these guys out of his house. Rachel's eyes widened at the shocked slack jawed expressions of the Glee Club she blushed and nervously fidgeted. "What are you guys doing here?"
"You pervert!" Quinn yelled throwing a throw pillow at Puck's head. Puck glared at her and noticed the interested eyes of the other males in the room. He walked over to Rachel and stood in front of her.
"They were just leaving babe." He kissed her thoroughly and at first she resisted the PDA in front of the club but his tongue felt so good. He turned to glare at the now again slack jawed group and pointed to the door. "And just a recap. We're dating. You guys can go fuck yourselves and stay out of our business."
As the group made their way out the girls and Finn glared at Puck and Mike and Artie gave him highfives making him grin. "What was that about?" Rachel asked confused.
"Glee gossip is making them too nosy." Puck grumbled. As Quinn was about to step out after the group she paused and eyed Rachel. Rachel gave her a weak smile wondering if the tentative friendship they'd developed was over. Quinn handed Rachel a familiar piece of paper and gave Rachel a stern look and then a side hug before she left.
Rachel opened the list in horror, she'd prayed that Quinn had not just handed her THE list. She was beginning to fret over who else had read it and then she saw some writing of Quinn's next to the Sex list. USE PROTECTION RACHEL! I'M NOT KIDDING! It was underlined several times and Rachel couldn't contain her laughter. She handed it to a confused Puck who immediately broke out after her.
When Rachel finally calmed down she grew serious and glared at Puck suspciously. "Noah...how did Quinn find this?"
Puck gulped nervously and shrugged in false nonchalantness. "I don't know you should probably keep it in a more secret place."
"I know you have something to do with this Noah Puckerman." she warned.
Puck pouted and pulled her against him to kiss up her neck. "Let me make it up to you?" Rachel sighed breathily and Puck knew he had her.
Chapter 6: New Directions does a flash mob on Main Street and Rachel and Puck start exploring her deviancy list.
A/N: Thank you to everyone who reviewing! I'm going to start trying to make a habit of replying to reviews using the reply button I've already replied for all the reviews from Ch2-4 and I'm pleased with the response! If anyone has ideas for activities for Rachel and Puck to do then feel free to suggest some. During the week I'm pretty busy with school Tuesday and Thursday but on weekends I work night shift so I usually get a lot of writing done then. Please Read and Review!