Couples Therapy- Chapter Five- Rashel and Quinn
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Now presenting… Ah what the hell. You know what story this is already.
Rashel and Quinn
Quinn was not looking forward to this meeting. He knew that no matter what came up in this meeting Rashel would always be his one true love, but both of them carried a lot of baggage. Baggage wasn't really a bad thing- when you carry it right, but spilling all of that baggage… Just the thought constricted Quinn's breathing, like a weight upon his chest.
As for Rashel's feelings… It was hard to say. She was being… detached. She didn't want to talk about it and she would often close her mind to the subject whenever it arose.
Needless to say, Quinn was almost out of his mind with worry. Almost.
Nearly a week after David and Gillian's session (Paul needed a break from the day-to-day insanity of the Daybreak Mansion as to not go insane himself) the dreaded called arrived.
"Hello?" Quinn asked into the phone in his and Rashel's room.
"I'm waiting for you." Wow, was this a lame horror film?
"We'll be right there." Quinn suppressed a sigh and hung up. "Paul's ready for us."
"Let's hope we don't embarrass ourselves to badly." If it were meant to be a joke no one would've laughed at the ice in her tone.
"It's time?" Ash asked as the couple solemnly made their way to Paul's office.
Quinn nodded and Ash said, "Ah, sweet!" And went running into the living room shouting "Hey guys! It's Quinn and Rashel's turn!"
Quinn made a mental note to kill Ash later.
When they arrived at the door, they both stopped short. Neither of them wanted to do this, Quinn realized.
"You knock." Rashel commanded.
Quinn did.
"Come in!" The tired voice of Paul traveled through the door.
At their hesitation, Paul called, "It's not going to be that bad! You're not getting an operation! It's not brain surgery!"
"It will be if my head explodes." Quinn hissed,
Rashel smacked him. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"That this guy annoys the hell out of me!" Quinn shot back grumpily. He turned the handle and strode in the room. In his anger, he almost slammed the door in Rashel's face, but luckily he was able to let go of the door before his arm could swing back.
("It's about time they showed up! What detour did they take?" Ash asked loudly.)
"How are you two?" Paul asked once they were both seated.
"Fine."
"Whatever."
"A little reluctant for this meeting, huh?"
"A bit."
"Why? Are you feeling neglected, upset, sad, what?"
I'm feeling a headache coming on. Quinn thought.
("Look at the expression on Quinn's face!" Ash laughed.
"Oh, he looks ready to kill Paul!" Eric said.
"You don't think he will do you?" Hannah asked, worried.)
"No." Both Quinn and Rashel were shaking their heads.
"So why the hesitation?"
"I really don't think we need it." Quinn shrugged.
Rashel laughed humorlessly. "You would think that Quinn."
(The Daybreakers exchanged looks. This was gonna get really gooood… or really bad.)
"Excuse me?" Quinn demanded.
"Have you even noticed how closed off I've been? Did you even think to ask me?" Rashel asked, her tone rising along with the blush in her cheeks.
"I tried to ask you!" Quinn claimed, his face acquiring the same redness.
(AN: pagebreak here, because I like pagebreaks :])
~Flashback~
Quinn and Rashel sat eating and drinking breakfast at the island in the kitchen. It was the first day of Rashel's detachment.
"Hey," Quinn put down the blood packet. "Rashel what's-?"
In mid-sentence, a water balloon came flying out of nowhere and caught Quinn on the back of the head. Delos's triumphant laughter rang in the silent halls.
"REDFERN!" Quinn roared and pelted after the prince.
"Yes?" Male and female voices echoed in the halls, answering Quinn's call.
Later in the week, the boys were playing a game of Assassin, where they take each other out with paint guns.
"Hey, Rashel." Quinn began when he thought it was safe. "Are you-?" A blue paint ball hit Quinn square in the chest.
"I GOT QUINN!" James yelled.
"RAM- RASMA- WHATEVER THE HELL YOUR LAST NAME IT! JAMES!" Quinn was a very sore loser.
The last time was just yesterday. Quinn and Rashel were training along with some of the other Daybreakers. Rashel seemed to be working especially hard, and Quinn thought her eyes looked a little red, as if she had been crying.
"Rashel," Quinn moved away from the fighting. "What's-?" Quinn staggered back, he clutched his stomach as his eyes bulged.
"Right in the gut!" Ash exchanged high-fives with Morgead.
~End of Flashback~
"You could've managed to ask when you weren't going to undergo bodily harm!" Rashel seethed.
"Well excuse me for respecting your privacy!" Quinn retorted.
"You're excused!"
"Hey, hey, hey!" Paul raised his hand and made calming gestures. "You guys need to settle down!"
Quinn and Rashel faced opposite directions and when they started taking deep breathes, their faces returned to their natural pale colors.
"Now Rashel and Quinn, I want you to calmly face each other. Good. Now Rashel I want you to talk about why you've been so… distant lately."
Rashel's answer was simple. A reply that would strike rage into many reader's hearts. "Dove."
"What the hell does Dove have to do with this?" Quinn tried to mask the shock in his voice.
"Dove was your first love."
"So?" Where the hell was Rashel going with this?
Rashel looked away, unable to look Quinn in the face. "I feel like your second best. That's the thing. I know you love me... but... I'll always be second... but it's fine. I'm used to it..."
Quinn gazed at the smooth texture of her cheek, seeing as he couldn't look her in the face. "You're not my second best...You're my soulmate, and that will conquer any feeling I ever felt towards anyone, especially Dove."
Rashel laughed a humorless laugh. It wasn't a cruel laugh, but the laugh you use whenever someone doesn't see your obvious point. A hopeless laugh. "But you loved her, Quinn."
Quinn shook his head and his fingertips tucked her hair behind her ear. Tenderly, he turned her head to face his so he could stare into her eyes. "I might've had, a long time ago. But she's dead. Along with anything I ever felt for her. You're the only one I care about now. I love you, and you only!"
Rashel shifted, as if uncomfortable because of the intensity of his gaze. He needed to understand where her insecurity was coming from. "... But she saw a side of you that I'll never see. When you were human... No matter how much you love me... There's always going to be a part, no matter how small, that will belong to her. And that hurts..." Rashel's voice broke on the last word. Oh, no. She couldn't cry; she hated tears.
Quinn hastily but carefully wiped the moisture from her face as the tears fell. "Yes, she did know me as human. But trust me when I say that I wasn't as smart as I am now. I proved that by falling for her in the first place."
"She's the exact opposite of me though... What you wanted in a girl I don't have... That proves why you fell for her."
"No. You are, that's why I realized I was stupid then. Dove was gentle, tame and quiet... and weak. But you're strong, both physically and mentally. You're beautiful, competent and insightful, and understand me, like no one else has ever done, and ever will. Everything about you, I love. If you had been there, when I was human..." Quinn looked away, holding back his own tears. "I wouldn't have given Dove a second glance. It was always you, and always will be. As I said, I now realize I was stupid when I was human, when I thought I liked what she had."
Quinn could see the hesitation in her eyes. "... Really...? I don't know..." She bit her lip and cast her gaze down, as she was unable to move her head with Quinn's hands on either side of her face.
"I love you, Rashel. I'm yours, all of me. Not parts, all. Completely whole. What she and I had will never compare to what you and I have. We were destined to be together, our souls bound forever. We were made to only love each other. Which really means, anybody in our pasts that we were with, were just fake. It was not really 'love' at all. Because what we have...is finally real. Pure and true."
Rashel wrapped her arms around Quinn's neck, pulling him close. "I love you." Rashel whispered against his shoulder.
"I love you too." Quinn breathed into her delicious, dark hair. "Forever."
On the other side of the mansion:
"I swear I had no clue!"
"Really we had no idea!"
"Please have mercy!"
Delos, James, Ash, and Morgead were duck taped to chairs in a completely dark room except for the bright light shining on the four boys.
"I'm only guilty by association this time! I should be let go just because of that! C'mon it's my first time!" Morgead whined into the dark.
The captive's Soulmates all stepped into the light, all looking very pissed.
"We had no way of knowing they were talking about important stuff! Please!" James started at Poppy with his best puppy dog eyes.
"Don't listen to him Poppy." Mary-Lynnette put a hand on the made vampire's shoulder. "Ash does that all the time. I'm immune."
"Do you all realize why you are here?" Jez thundered at the boys.
"Yes! God damn woman, you don't need to scream!" Ash scowled.
"YOU MESSESD WITH QUINN AND RASHEL'S RELATIONSHIP!" Maggie exploded. "THEY'RE ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHIPS!"
"And we agree. They're so cute together!" Mary-Lynnette said cheerfully.
"So now… You all are going to suffer. Because all that pain you caused them would've been avoided." Jez said.
"We didn't make them feel like that!" Ash and Morgead exclaimed simultaneously.
The girls exchanged uncomfortable looks.
"Well they're right." Mary-Lynnette shrugged.
"And the only reason we are reacting like this is because we are on our periods…" Maggie frowned.
The girls looked at their Soulmates and at each other again. They shrugged and turned to go back into the dark.
"We'll back for you in the morning!" Poppy called merrily.
"Wait! Wait!" Delos called. "Damnit." He cursed when they heard a door slam in the distance. And even worse, the lights went out in the next second.
"I'm not afraid of the dark, I'm not afraid of the dark, I'm not afraid of the dark, I'm not afraid of the dark-."
"DELOS STUP UP!"
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