A/N.: Edit 17/08/2014

Chapter 9 – And now what?

"Wha-what?" Quinn chocked "I mean… ho-how can I help you?" The lion girl asked nervously.

"Hm… come here…" Rachel said eying Santana over Quinn's shoulder.

When the blonde got close enough the kitty girl pulled her inside the stall. The lioness let out a squeak in a very uncommon way for a feline. Santana always ready to joke, catcalled them and clapped being accompanied by Britt who was soon cheering on them too.

"God! Will you two stop it?" Quinn calls from inside the stall, her face buried in her hands even though they couldn't see her.

"Sorry Quinn…" Rachel says sounding embarrassed. "I just thought it would be better to ask you for help than Santana or Brittany. Santana would only tease me even more, and I'm afraid Brittany wouldn't be gentle enough." the girl rambled quite nervously…

"Wait. What kind of help?" The lion girl asked… her eyes bugging out and her back pressed completely against the wooden wall of the stall in an attempt to put as much space as possible between them.

"Hum… my tail got stuck. I was trying to close the tail hole but couldn't find the hook. It's really awkward but can you untangle my fur from the hook? I tried to do that alone but I'm afraid to damage my fur… and it hurts." Rachel rambles again, not looking at Quinn in the eyes.

"It… it's your tail Rachel…" Quinn says nervously.

"I know!" the kitty girl meowed "Look, I know it's a really embarrassing, not first date type of situation, but…"

"Hey… it's okay. Tu-turn around I'll help you no need to cry." The blond said kissing the now very watery eyed girl's forehead.

Rachel gives the blonde a small smile and does as she said, her tail hanging down, in her embarrassment. Quinn's first touch was faint and barely there. She tried to see where the fur was stuck but her vision as blocked by the girl's tail and fur.

"Rachel… your tail is blocking my sight. I can't see where it is stuck… can you move it a little?" Quinn said in concentration.

Without answering Rachel moved her tail to the side, exposing the hook where her fur was stuck.

"I may need to touch it so I don't hurt you…" Quinn kindly warned and Rachel nods with her front pressed against the changing stall wall.

It was so embarrassing. She felt like she was shamelessly presenting herself to Quinn. It was too soon for that. She wasn't even in heat. She knew it wasn't the situation, but it really looked and felt like that.

The lion girl was as troubled as the kitty before her. Only, it was a very different type of trouble.

There was Rachel, the girl she had this big crush on. The girl who got so much of her attention in only one week of knowing her. Giving her access… looking like she was presenting herself to her. Ready to mate.

Only that she wasn't. It wasn't a real situation. It wasn't what was really happening there. But her mind did travel to those venues. Will she have this chance again on the future? Will it be for real when it comes again?

Maybe if she behaved right now she would have the chance. Would the kitty ever mate her? A lioness. But Rachel didn't seem to mind much about the species of her possible mates. Nor did she mind. She mated with Emma once after all. Also, they were both felines, so not really that far apart.

She really needed to touch Rachel's tail. She felt the girl shudder with the touch, but she looked so embarrassed. Quinn sighed and quickly freed Rachel's fur from the hook and closed the lid of the tail hole.

"Tha-thank you, Quinn." Rachel breathed "Why don't you wait outside so I can show everyone how the pants look on me?" the girl said wanting to get away from this situation.

When Quinn got out of the cubicle she was meet with Santana's plotting eyes. The gorgon probably wanted to embarrass Rachel, and her, mostly, even further. The lion girl just shook her head, eyes pleading for Santana to not do that.

The latina raised an eyebrow as if demanding a reason for her to behave and Quinn just mouthed that later she would explain.

For the lion girl's relief, Santana did behave and they moved on with their day, as if that incident had never happened.

It was by lunch time that they noticed that someone was following them. The first one to notice was actually Santana. She was sure she saw a pretty suspicious movement every time she looked around.

Soon after that they found Kurt and Mercedes sneaking around and hiding behind some plants.

"Seriously, you shouldn't hide behind plants when you're stalking a nymph." Santana said from behind them making Mercedes scream and almost start a fire. Luckily Kurt was quickly in cooling her down. Haha. No seriously, literally.

"Yeah… they talk to me." Brittany nodded with a cute serious face.

"I think I see why Finn is so scared of her now." Rachel mumbles making Quinn snort.

"She did burn him a little…" the girl smile was devious and the kitty could only look at her trying to hide her amusement.

After that Kurt and Mercedes where openly following them, as if they had been invited to accompany them and Quinn sure was pissed with the new development. She really just wanted a normal date with Rachel. Was that asking too much?

"Why are you two stalking us? This is a double date. Are you two dating by any chance to make it a triple date?" Santana asked harshly, her snakes clearly showing her annoyance.

"No."

"Yes."

Both of them spoke at the same time, and everyone looked at Mercedes at with a weird face. The fire elemental just gave her frosted friend a pointed look which made the boy huff in annoyance.

"Anyway Santana… The mall is a public venue. We're not committing any crime by being here." Kurt said.

"Yeah, but by stalking us you sure are." The gorgon answered.

"I'm hungry, can we go?" Brittany mumbled bored already.

"I am too. Let's go and we may wait for them there." Rachel said grabbing the taller of them by the hand.

As soon as Quinn noticed the action she was after them and taking Rachel's free hand in hers. Santana on the other hand took almost ten minutes to notice they were gone and now was sitting sulking while the other three girls ate their lunches.

"I really miss hunting." Quinn says eating her big plate of meat. "Since Russell as chased away from our household and my sis moved we don't hunt. Mom don't like to hunt with only two people, but I see she miss it too."

"You could put together some people from school." Britt suggested drinking her ambrosia. She didn't eat plants and vegetables or meat and other things, nymphs would feed themselves with drinks mostly.

"Mom and I are the last lions in Lima since Russell moved, Britt." The other blond explain

"You don't need to hunt only with other lions. You can hunt with friends too." Brittany pointed out as if it was the most obvious thing ever.

"There are a lot of predator types on the cheerios and on the other sport teams too." Rachel contemplates "We could make an event. Like, instead of a party in someone house we can make a hunting game on the city's hunting arena… and invite other students. You would be hunting for sport, but you will be hunting anyway."

"That's a surprisingly good idea, munchkin." Santana says, her eyes shining with mirth.

"Whoa! What? You're saying you want to organize a hunt? Just like that?" Quinn asked with one eyebrow raised.

"Yeah, it's not a bad idea actually. But I won't do it now. In a month maybe. I'm too busy with still organizing the house, the cheerios and the Small Magic classes that I'll teach." The kitty shrugs.

"Small Magic?" Brittany asks

"Yes. You know, for who don't wish to damage their clothes with transformations and such. I gave the school a list of the material I'll need." Rachel explained "They will begin on Thursday. Coach will supervise, but really could have some help. Like… from a witch or sorceress…"

"Aren't they the same?" Santana ruffed.

"Not really… very similar though. They say witches came from humans, even though lots of people say that they never existed, while sorceresses came from mages. And they say that Enchantresses are elves who were possessed by their magic." Rachel explained.

"There's Tina, but I don't know which of these she is." Kurt said appearing next to them "She is on glee club with us!"

"Oh, for all the gods I can't even name right now! You two still here!? What the hell?" the Gorgon stressed out.

"Calm down! We were eating. This time it was really a coincidence." He defended himself.

"Yeah were going now. We will be in your class Thursday, Rachel. Talk to Tina, I'm sure she will be willing to help. Bye!" Mercedes said grabbing her friend's arm and getting quickly out of there.

"Tina?" Rachel asked.

"The Goth kid on glee club." Quinn answered.

"I'll ask her Monday, then." The kitty girl says with a bright smile. "Now if you will excuse me, I'll be right back. Can you watch my things, Quinn?"

When the blonde nodded, Rachel quickly got up and headed in the bathroom direction. When the brunette was out of sight, Quinn sighed showing a gloomy expression.

Brittany noticed it and quickly pointed it out to Santana.

"What is your problem, Simba?" Santana huffed not really wanting to show concern. "Since you got out of the changing stall you're all… urgh! Gloomy and shit. Did you try to make a pass and she turned you down?"

The gorgon just sat there not really looking at her friend. Arms crossed and scowl in place.

For a moment it really seemed that Quinn wasn't going to answer. She just sat sighing again and again and Santana was just about to snap when the lion girl opened her mouth to speak.

"It's just that…" she hesitated a little "When I saw Rachel for the first time all I could think about was ravishing her. I just noticed that I may feel more for her than desire, that day when Britt found her sleeping in the choir room. I mean I knew I was feeling too possessive for it to be only desire before but still… All I could think of was about doing her. Fair and square. Pull her tail and just fell her against me. But I started to feel, and I started to notice that I was feeling. And today on the stall I could touch her tail, something I desired so much and she… she was mortified. I could see how uncomfortable she was with the situation. And although I was respectful I feel like trash because inside may head I was just so happy that I was being able to touch her that way."

"Oh please, Quinn, cut the crap!" Santana breathed sounding very annoyed. "So, she is hot and you wanted to fuck her… Big deal! I think I never saw someone who is not a teacher talk so much! Geez…"

"Q, Rachie is not mad at you for touching her and all… I mean, it was necessary right? She let you do that, and she is ok with you." The nymph tried to comfort her friend.

"Look. It's normal to wants on someone you find hot. And it's normal to develop feelings for someone you're attracted to. Yeah, she probably got really embarrassed because you had to touch her so intimately so soon in your relationship. Maybe she got embarrassed because she also wanted that, but she doesn't feel ready yet." The gorgon said patting down her restless snakes.

They didn't talk much after that, they just sat there waiting for Rachel. Quinn was just thinking over the whole situation and trying to calm down. She really didn't want to jeopardize her chance with Rachel. There was something about the brunette… Santana and Brittany however were being just too cute together. The latina was happily nuzzling the blonde's neck while the blacks snakes of her hair were giving Britt little pecks making the girl giggle joyfully.

That's how Rachel found them.

"I thought you only did that when you were having rough sex…" the kitty girl commented looking at the two girls and interrupting their moment.

Santana, surprisingly enough, blushed so hard that it was obvious even with her tanned skin. Brittany just giggled once again nudging her suddenly shy girlfriend.

"Thank you, I thought I was going to get cavities because of them." Quinn teases making Santana glare at her.

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. They went to the park lot two times to leave bags before going back to buy more things. She still wanted to go to the music shop but she was so tired. She never had a first week of school so busy and eventful.

Not only she had to catch up, but she also needed to do her current homework. Plus the cheerios practices and now this Small Magic classes. And on top of all that she was still organizing her house and had to divas on her back wanting her on their club.

Sure she missed her dance and singing classes, but she was going to go back to them, she just wanted to finish moving in first, but that was apparently impossible with these guys.

Quinn was a good thing though. The blonde was beautiful and quite charming even with her somewhat overwhelming presence at times.

By Monday she was going to start learning the cheerios routines and would probably be placed as a flyer since she was so small. She always liked high places and being tossed in the air so it wasn't a problem. She also hopped that this Tina girl was really whiling to help her.

Other tem all that she just really hoped that the upcoming week would be calmer.