Summary: Rachel Berry gets in an accident when she was 8 which gave her super powers. 6 years later she starts her first year of high school managing to keep her secret from the student body of McKinley High, but one thing leads to another and the two most popular (lesbian) girls of WMHS find out her secret. What will Rachel do now? Pezberry and Faberry I don't know which one is endgame yet.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, except for this crappy computer and the clothes I wear.
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Even at young age, Rachel Berry knew the definition of pain. Pain was a physical or emotional suffering or torment. Pain was something she was familiar with. She was a growing, curious and energetic girl, and she was bound to trip or she might have done something that would probably make one of her limbs end up in a cast. But the second she touched the rock from space, she knew what pain really felt like. The pain was indescribable, but if you were to ask Rachel Berry what it felt at that moment, she would say something like this: "I felt like every single bone in my body was being split in half over and over again. It's like every single muscle was being ripped off of my body. My skin was melting with extreme heat, my eyeballs turned into liquid, my insides were violently smashed to pieces and my body felt like it was burning into ashes. I'd rather die than feel that again."
And throughout that torture, there were two things she couldn't forget. One of them was what it felt like to be burned inside out. The second thing she couldn't forget was that throughout the torture she felt herself slowly growing stronger, as if her body was being rid of everything and yet she felt like she was filled with something else. Something powerful. All of these thoughts didn't matter at that time. The only thing the girl wanted was for her torture to end. She was barely holding on to consciousness, and her body was already numb with pain, and for one second she thought 'Am I going to die?'
And right after that thought, the girl started panicking, but it was quickly swept away when she felt the pain starting to fade. The feeling of being burnt was there, but the pain was fading away, to Rachel's relief, very quickly. Rachel wanted to stay awake, but the urge to sleep and forget about the pain, was overwhelming. She struggled for a couple of minutes, but in the end the girl decided that falling asleep wasn't so bad, so she let go of the consciousness that she struggled to hold on to a few moments ago.
When Rachel first gained consciousness, she could hear hushed whispers from somewhere to her left. She wanted to see her fathers. It felt like forever since she last saw their smiling faces, but before she could do anything else, she fell back to an unexpected slumber.
The second time she gained consciousness was a little longer than the first. Rachel successfully opened tired eyes and saw that she was in a room that was blindingly white. The sun's rays peeking through the windows. A faint beeping could be heard from the machine that stood beside the hospital bed she was settled in. Rachel looked down and examined her arms. They were still as tanned as they were before, and they felt fine. No burnt marks, or anything that might have suggested that she was just in an accident, was seen. Seeing that there was nothing wrong with her body, Rachel looked back up to examine the room again. At first glance, the room seemed empty except for her, but at the corner of her eye Rachel saw a lump covered in a thick blanket.
"Daddy, Is that you?" she said
The lump covered in the blanket moved slowly. When Rachel was about to call at it again, the head of her daddy, Hiram, popped out of the blanket.
"Sweetie?" he asked quietly, as if he was afraid that if he spoke any louder he might hurt his daughter.
At that moment, Rachel wanted to get up from the bed and run over to her daddy to give him a big hug. Though Rachel didn't need to get up and give her daddy a hug, because Hiram did it for her. The short Jewish man gave Rachel a very warm hug, and she hugged back like her life depended on it. She could feel hot, wet tears on her cheek, and it took her a moment to realize that they were from her own eyes. "Where's dad?" she asked in a hushed tone. Hiram didn't answer right away, he looked her body over first, checking for any injuries that he might have caused from hugging his daughter too tightly. When he was satisfied that he didn't do any damage, he looked his daughter in the eye and said "He went to the washroom" this statement made Rachel feel a little guilty, and happy. She was guilty because she remembered that she had went to see the comet without any of her dads consent, and she used her knowledge of her dad's weak bladder to help her do it, but she was happy, because even after whatever mess she caused, her dad's habits were still the same, and that sent a feeling of familiarity in her chest. While all of these thoughts ran through her head, she didn't notice her dad's expression turn serious.
"Sweetie, Where were you when the blast happened?" he said in a serious tone.
This question cut through Rachel like knife. Her small body tensed immediately and she looked everywhere but her dad. Hiram put both hands on both sides of Rachel's face, making her look at him directly in the face. She was about to answer when the door to the room opened and Leroy Berry came in with the doctor.
"-She seems to be healing faster than a normal girl in her age." The doctor told Leroy, not noticing that the girl they were talking about was awake. When they finally looked up, they saw Rachel sitting up with Hiram beside her. "Oh, somebody is up" the doctor walked towards the end of Rachel's bed, while Leroy ran to his daughter to give her his own bone shattering hug. Leroy had stopped started fussing over Rachel when the doctor decided to give Rachel a check up.
When the doctor had given Rachel the green light and said that she could leave the day after tomorrow, Leroy and Hiram started asking her questions. Rachel, being the actress that she was, lied and said that she was in the washroom when 'The Blast' happened and that she did not do anything she wasn't supposed to, but she knew that by the look on her daddy's eyes that he knew there was something she hadn't told them. She was glad that he didn't question her any further.
When Rachel decided that it was her time to ask questions, her dads nodded silently with smiles on their faces, encouraging her to talk. Seeing that Rachel had almost no idea after what happened in 'The Blast' she started with the easiest question she could think of. "What did they say happened?" both men looked at each other and Leroy decided to answer.
"A gas pipe blew near the heaters" he said "Nobody died, but I think there are seven people missing if I remember correctly. I couldn't remember what happened. A lot of people were injured, but they're all alright now. All I could remember was waiting for you to come out, then I felt the building shaking, and I thought there was an earthquake or something. I ended up tripping on something I couldn't remember, and next thing I know, I was waking up in a hospital.
"But daddy, you don't look like you have any injuries on you" said the petite girl
Leroy smiled "The doctor said I was healing up faster than a normal person, which is kind of weird since we were the only ones here who got nothing more than a scratch. Though I think spending a week in a hospital even though I wasn't even injured in anymore, was kind of irritating."
The family of three talked like this for a couple of more minutes, when Rachel started feeling her eyelids getting heavy, Leroy and Hiram decided that it was time for Rachel to get back to sleep. "Don't worry Sweetie, We'll be going home soon, then we'll forget everything about this and keep going with our lives. Rest as much as you can okay? See you next morning…" said Leroy before he kissed his daughter's forehead and letting Hiram do the same, before leaving the room. Rachel didn't hesitate to let herself fall into a deep sleep.
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One Year Later
Rachel was rushing home from school with her report card in hand. Her usually cute face was scrunched up in a deep frown. She had gotten a low A on one of her subjects. 'Stupid, Ms Jackson. Giving me a low A just because I broke my arm last week is unfair. She is such a poo!' the normally happy girl fumed to herself, and with all her thoughts clouding her mind, she had failed to notice a faint trace of steam coming out of her body. The more she thought about her teacher, the more steam came out of her body and leaving a small trail behind her.
When she arrived home, she had looked for her daddy in his office. She didn't bother knocking and just barged inside. Leroy Berry was talking on the phone with somebody, and before she could say anything, Leroy excused himself on the phone and said "Sweetie, I'm sorry but could you go back downstairs and let me finish up this call? It's a about the case I have, and it's something I need to talk about in private" Rachel huffed and stomped her foot. She was about to say something about him being a horrible father, when Leroy gave her the 'If-you-don't-do-what-i-say-right-now-you're-gonna-be-in-big-trouble' So Rachel hung her head and walked out of her daddy's office.
She went to her room to drop her things on her bed, before taking her report card and walking downstairs and heading for their pool by the backyard. 'Why won't anybody listen to me today?' she thought to herself while looking at the piece of paper on her hands. For a while the little girl just looked at her report card and her anger at her teacher increased. She couldn't think straight. She was usually a nice person, and she would never encourage violence, but sometimes she felt extremely angry for no reason. This was one of those times. Her thoughts were starting calm down but then, something weird happened
The piece of paper that was once her report card caught on fire.
Rachel stared at the burning paper in her hands. Her brain couldn't process what was happening. One second the paper was there. The next second, it was on fire, but what made Rachel's brain start working again was when she saw that her hand was on fire too. Rachel was about to scream and jump for the pool, when she realized that it wasn't hurting. She didn't feel like her hand was being burnt. It was felt a little warm, but it didn't felt like what it looked like. She was examining both of her hands when she spotted something at the corner of her eyes. There was a sliding door that leads to her kitchen. I was also a giant mirror, but it wasn't the door that caught her eye. It was what she saw in it that made Rachel gasp.
There, where her own body was supposed to be, was a- a girlish figure- that was on fire.
It took Rachel a second to realize that it was her, and not a weird alien. Her hair was on fire and it looked like a mini bonfire on top of her head. The rest of her body looked the same, except it was, quite literally, on fire…
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