A/N.: Edit 17/08/2014

Chapter 10 – I wasn't expecting it so early in the day.

It wasn't hard to find this Tina girl. Rachel obviously talked with Coach Sylvester before going after the girl since the woman would be supervising her. After that she had an easy time looking for the Goth.

"I'm kinda surprised that Kurt and Mercedes were right about you coming after me." The Goth girl said right after Rachel introduced herself to her. "Sorry about them by the way."

"Oh, yeah… they can be a little too much…" Rachel said with a pensive frown.

"They can… but they're nice people, just… gossip monsters. They were running out of things to talk about and then you came and already had the attention of all the popular folk." Tina defended her friends. "Though, stalking you guys on the mall was really over the top. Is it true by the way?"

"What?" the kitty girl asks

"About you and Quinn?" Tina says getting a little nervous "I-I mean… the whole school is talking about it. T-that you two were dating… I mean t-that Saturday w-was a date." Dammit her habit of faking stuttering. She wanted to sound and look more confident than she felt, but the big expressive eyes of the kitty girl weren't helping.

"Yeah… but the whole school?" Rachel says not fazed by the girl's anxiety. "I know Quinn is popular since she is the head cheerleader, but really?"

"You may be the new kid, but you are kind of popular too, you know… You got everyone's attention and now you're a cheerleader too…" Tina tries to clarify her point.

"I was kind of forced into it… Anyway, are you up to help me?" The kitty girl ask urging to finish the conversation

"With what?" The girl asks confused.

"With the Small Magic classes I'll be giving. Your help would be appreciated. Are you a witch or a sorceress?" the cheerio says all at once leaving the Goth girl with a frown

"A sorceress. But… Small Magic…? Oh… you mean De Ser?" Tina asks really curious now.

"De Ser?" Rachel says showing her confusion.

"Yeah. To be one with your environment. De Ser. Some time ago a Portuguese wizard discovered that not only us could do magic but all the other creatures too. We call it De Ser. It's primal and very simple most of the times. And Small Magic may be the popular name, but it's kind of rude." The Goth girl told her.

"You could tell everyone that if you were to help me. You would get extra credits..." Rachel bargained showing her shining little fang with a side smile.

"I say yes." Tina answered quickly making the kitty girl smile even more.

"Wonderful. The classes start Thursday on the free period. How about… We meet on Wednesday to organize the material and schedule?" Rachel suggested and Tina just nodded as an answer.

The kitty girl quickly went away. She really wanted to talk with Quinn and she had only 7 minutes before the first class. Luckily for her Quinn was still by her locker getting her books.

Rachel went behind her a little to her right side and used her tail to caress the blonde's left cheek, successfully startling the girl. Quinn made an almost 360° turn to came face to face with the girl.

"Rachel!" the lion girl squeaked holding her caressed cheek with her hand

"Hi Quinn." The kitty girl smiled getting closer. "I just wanted to say to you that you don't need to feel bad about Saturday. I was really embarrassed, sure… but because I felt like I was losing to my instincts. I'm really attracted to you… since the first day. Even though I felt so overwhelmed by you, I couldn't stop thinking about eating you up too…"

"Ra-rachel!" Quinn stuttered looking shocked and slightly turned on.

The girl was never so thankful that her heat was still far away.

"Haha. Sorry." The brunette giggled, her tail hanging low and relaxed. "Santana suggested that I made a more aggressive approach. But I really just wanted to clear the things between us. You see, even though we were okay, I felt you were a little distant and lost in thoughts. When I asked Santana she said you were worried that you crossed the line."

"Man… I'm gonna kill S…" Quinn mumbled blushing hard.

"Please don't, she just wanted to help. Even though she took the opportunity to tease you a little." Rachel said with a kind smile and swinging her tail very slowly. "Seriously Quinn. Don't worry. I feel exactly the same way. And who knows? Maybe we will get there sooner then we think."

And with these last words Rachel placed a kiss on Quinn's cheek turned around and left for her class. It was funny how the blonde just noticed that the bell was ringing when Rachel disappeared from her sight. Santana sure thought so as she made her way to her own class.

Rachel just met them again by lunch time. She graciously made her way to the cheerleaders table and sat down beside Quinn while facing Santana.

As soon as the small brunette sat down the gorgon put her hands up for a high five.

"Berry, points for you! You got Q squirming in her sit all the way until last period. I don't know if she is calmer now cuz she knew she was gonna see you or if it's cuz she rubbed one in the bathroom." The latina said laughing enjoying the flushed pissed look in Quinn's face.

Rachel did indulge in Santana's display of fellowship before she opened her mouth to add these words, but now she was sporting a very pointed frown.

"The last part was hardly necessary, Santana." Rachel called the other girl out "Only I should be making Quinn uncomfortable." She then adds with a side smile making Santana laugh all over again.

"You can only demand that when you two are officially an item." The gorgon said between her laughs.

"Maybe I should hurry with that then…" Rachel countered, giving the lion girl a wink.

"Oh, you two stop that or Quinn will burst." Brittany scolded then looking apologetically at Quinn.

"It's okay, Britt…" Quinn gave the nymph a small smile while still trying to tone down the blush that colored her cheeks "But seriously what was that?" She asked Rachel with an arched eyebrow and an almost stern face.

"Santana bet me that I couldn't pull it off. I should've known that she would go too far…" Rachel mumbled finally feeling a little embarrassed with her stunt. "I hope I didn't scare you away, I'm quite serious about how I feel about you…"

"I am used to Santana, you know…? I was just wondering why you were acting like her." Quinn said putting a reassuring hand on the girl's arm.

Quinn, apparently, was going to say something more, but is interrupted by Sam who sits on Rachel's other side. The boy was smiling showing his small and sharp teeth. He looked at her expectantly as if waiting for her to notice something.

And that's when she sees it. He is wearing a letterman!

"You're out of the bench!" Rachel squeals "You made it!" she jumps on him full of excitement.

"I made it" He says hugging her back "Coach said if I keep going the way I am, I may become the new QB!"

"Oh, my…!" Rachel began before being interrupted by Quinn who was frowning.

"Isn't Finn the QB?"

"Yeah, but coach says he is lazy. If he doesn't step up his game he is going to be cut off from the first team." The lizard boy answers with a shrug not noticing the lioness' jealously.

"Isn't that wonderful, Quinn?" Rachel added also not noticing the looks Quinn was sending their way. "You better practice hard Evans, we're cheering for you after all!"

Quinn just grunted, not really that pleased. Rachel kept talking with Sam in a very excited tone, not really noticing the bad mood that the lion girl at her side was getting into. It took an under the table kick from Santana to take Rachel's attention away from the lizard boy.

The little kitty girl just looked really annoyed at her gorgon… friend… as if asking what all that was about. When the latina sent her a pointed look and a quick motion towards Quinn she understood.

"Quinn…" Rachel carefully called the girl.

"What?" Quinn asked shortly, her tail and ears showing her obvious contempt

"We went on a date." Rachel says with a calm voice. "Sam knows that. And he also knows I'm gay."

"I know that too." The lioness protested frowning.

"It sure doesn't look like you do." Rachel sighed. "You suffered with my teasing the whole morning. I thought I made it clear what I feel for you. Sam is just the first friend I made here."

Quinn just munched on her food for some time making Rachel sigh again as if the brunette was disappointed. But it wasn't Quinn fault if she was jealous or if she was a little possessive. These are things she learned to be with her previous relationship.

Anyone or anything could take your significant other away from you at any moment. No matter how much they say they want you, or even love you. That's what she learned.

She didn't want for other people to take Rachel away from her. And she could see that Sam finds Rachel pretty. And she knows that because she got so much attention from Finn and Puck and because she was a cheerio that a whole bunch of people wanted Rachel.

How could she be sure that Rachel would stay with her when she too notices that?

Lunch didn't get much better than that. Quinn was sulking, Rachel had lost her appetite and was just politely answering whatever questions was sent her way and Santana looked very pissed. Mostly with Quinn.

Rachel didn't say goodbye or until later to Quinn. She didn't even wait for the other girl to finish her lunch. She just left. And that's when the blonde started to feel dread take over her. She was doing everything wrong. She finally managed to get something good and she was messing everything up. She was such a Fabray.

Santana showed her annoyance with Quinn with a very colorful vocabulary. Quinn wasn't sure if she ever had heard so many curse words together in the same line. She couldn't tell who exactly the gorgon was trying to help and protect. Probably both. Even though it was Quinn who was her best friend, she was defending Rachel too.

"I don't want to fuck this up." The lion girl confess, her ears retracted and her tail hanging low and limp.

"Then don't." Santana huffs. "And get your tail up, this floor is flighty." She adds with a disgusted frown.

Oddly, Quinn obeys and goes after Rachel. She hopped she would still able to fix things.

When she finds Rachel she is with Mercedes and Kurt and they didn't look happy, while Rachel just appeared confused. She had a small and cute frown in her face, head tilted to the side and her tail up.

Rachel was so gracious with her tail and so fidgety. It was always moving or up. Quinn usually just lifted her tail enough so it wouldn't touch the ground. As Santana had said the school floor was flighty most of the time.

Rachel's easily showed her emotion. So it was easy to see the slight annoyance under the confusion. And that's why Quinn moved ready to interrupt them.

"Why would they give it to you? You're a cat!" Kurt asks frowning

"A kitty! I was the one supposed to do this this time! You're stealing all the spot light." Mercedes accused.

"I really don't know what you two are talking about." Rachel answers for the nth time.

The duo was about to say something more, probably discrediting her when one of Sue's minions appear beside them. More precisely, Becky, the light elf.

"Coach says she wants to speak with you." The girl says with a smile. She seemed to like Rachel enough, but not as much as she liked Brittany. "Now. In her office." She adds showing that Rachel was supposed to follow her.

"I bet Ms. Sylvester is pissed because of what she did." Mercedes says to Kurt

"Yes. I bet Ms. Sylvester will tell her to forget it." Kurt agreed.

"What are you two talking about?" Quinn asks scaring the duo "Tell me!" she growled.

"Uh. Rachel managed to make Figgins put her to sing the Anthem for the first game." Kurt supplied the blonde.

"Yeah. I bet she can't even really sing… she probably made up this rumor that she can sing. I can't believe we fell for it and invited her to Glee." Mercedes added

Quinn didn't stay much long to hear anything more. She ignored the bell signaling the start of her next class and went after Rachel and Becky. When she reached them they were already inside the cheerleader coach office and she could hear nothing.

Because almost everyone in the school had good hearing Sue made sure to soundproof her room, as well as her girl's locker room and the lounge. She didn't understand very much the reasons for the locker room to be soundproofed, but she did like the privacy.

She wanted to know what was happening inside there and she couldn't. Damn Sue Sylvester. That crazed woman! Quinn would bet that half the things she did were illegal. But who cared? No one, apparently. She had Figgins in the palm of her hand! The little wimp. If he was so scared of the whole school population why the hell he was still the principal?

In the meantime Rachel was sitting right in front of the woman still trying to understand what she was saying.

"What?" Rachel asks again disbelieving.

"I thought you were smarter than that… or that you at least had a good hearing." Sue Sylvester drones looking very comfortable in her big leather chair. "You're going to sing the anthem on the first game of the season!"

"Isn't it the obligation of this glee club?" Rachel retorted

"These things should be left for the sport clubs… and not this so called glee club." Sue said the name with disgust.

"Okay, but aren't Quinn, Santana and Brittany also in this glee club? This mean they can sing. And they're also in a sport club so why not them?" the kitty girl mumbled "I mean they're kinda annoying me… And how they got to know I was singing the anthem even before me?"

"These little gossipers…. It was supposed to be a surprise at the day." The human muttered irritated "Schuester got the upper hand last time saying that my girls where already too busy with cheering the crowd, so one of his misfits should sing instead. But I did my research on you missy. And it says you used to sing for your school. I told Figgins it would be a good welcome to you to let you sing this time. And you better know how to sing Kitty. Sue Sylvester will not be humiliated." The woman added with a huff. "You can go now."

And simply being handed a hallway pass she was dismissed.