A/N.: The biggest reason i haven't posted anything all this time would be because i brought a new game way back on the black Friday and got sucked into it. when i wasn't in class i was playing it. i noticed that i can get addict to things very easily and my focus is extremely selective. well i'm moving forward little by little the plot of the story even if for now it doesn't seem to make much sense. next chapter i hope will be a little more on the fluffy side, but i can't promise it because it can change anytime. oh god. although i do have the story planned how i write it is a completely different thing.

sorry for the long wait and i hope you like this chapter... x.x

Chapter 20 - The fragrant predicament

Rachel really shouldn't be surprised by the lack of research material in the school library. It was a cursed town after all. She knew that the curse affected their perception of the world and many other things. They had a totally different mentality. About magic and the world species… She also knew that there was something she was missing. Something she was overlooking. She felt like it was a very obvious thing and yet she felt like she couldn't notice or recognize what it was. Maybe it was part of the curse, like a mechanism to protect itself.

Rachel wondered if she should ask Tina for help. She wondered if Tina would believe in her theories. If she did she would be a great source of help.

The kitty girl was turning a corner after leaving the library when Quinn appeared in front of her beaming and slightly out of breath.

"What is the matter, Quinn?" the short brunette asked enjoying her girlfriend's excitement.

"You are the most delicious person I ever met!" The lion girl says bluntly.

"What?" Rachel asks confused.

"I said…"

"I heard you Quinn… it was just a little unexpected I guess... You're acting odd-…" Rachel, however, is interrupted.

As if she couldn't hold herself anymore, Quinn jumps on Rachel hugging her and trapping her against the hallway wall. Her breath was labored and she nuzzled against Rachel's neck as if she couldn't get enough of the shorter girl's smell. Rachel momentarily wondered if she was on heat and missed that. But if that was the case anyone who smelled her would try to court and mate with her.

"Quinn what are you trying to do?" Rachel squealed.

"You smell so good." The blonde mumbled against her girlfriend's neck.

"Quinn, hold back a little. We're in public!" Rachel meowed trying to push the taller girl away.

The lion girl was starting to lick the other girl neck when she was suddenly pulled away from her by two pair of arms. Quinn tried to shake herself free, not caring if she would hurt or not the people who were holding her away from the delicious smell of Rachel Berry.

And before Rachel could even process what was happening one of her saviors graciously held a piece of cloth over her girlfriends snout causing her to pass away.

"Is that chloroform?" Rachel asked incredously.

"Uh…"

"Santana." Rachel warned.

"Er..."

"Take that of her nose for god's sake you're going to kill her!" the kitty shrieked Holding her hand over her own nose. "It's making me dizzy from here!" she adds grasping Santana hands away from Quinn's face and making a throwing move with it.

"Oi, oi don't rip my arm off, Hell-o Kitty!" Santana yelped

"That one was really bad." Santana's accomplice says still holding the lion girl who now was passed out a limp against them. "You're losing your touch, Satan."

"Puck!" the gorgon cried indignantly

"Let go of my girlfriend, Noah" Rachel hissed stepping in their direction.

The boy acts fast in passing Quinn to Rachel's arms. "What they did to you..?" the girl quietly worried, cradling the blonde against her.

"It was an experiment, for class, with pheromones and stuff…" Santana started to explain rushing after Rachel who just started to walk down the hall. "Hey, where are you going?"

"I'm taking her to the infirmary. Who knows what stuffing chloroform over her nose and mouth like that might do to her." The kitty girl growled. "We're felines, we have sensitive snouts. I though Noah at least could relate to it."

"I didn't stop to think about it…" Puck says in a small voice following after them. "It's dry tho, it wasn't damp with the thing. She runs pretty fast when she wants to."

"It still can be dangerous." Rachel whispers almost to herself.

The red macaw is surprised to see the kitty girl enter the infirmary carrying the head cheerleader in her arms. She knew that size didn't mean much to them, felines, in term of strength. Not necessarily when it came to their half animal form at least, but it was still odd seeing such a small girl carrying another one with apparently no problem.

"What happened?"

"They tried to poison my girlfriend." Rachel answered putting Quinn in one of the beds. "Twice!"

"Hey, we didn't try to poison her!" Noah protested.

"It was a class assignment." Santana added.

"How so?" The macaw woman said looking at Quinn. "You need to explain better so I can actually treat her. She is passed out so she can't explain it herself." She added as a matter of fact.

"We were experimenting with pheromones. Quinn got wild, went after Rachel and we put her down with chloroforms before she defiled the hallway." Santana abridged the fact.

"That's dangerous!" The nurse screeched. "Putting such a strong smell so close to her nose. There isn't much that I can do here it would probably be better to take her to the hospital maybe… I-" she is interrupted by a weak whimper.

At the sound Rachel is quickly at her girlfriend side, not that she was too far from her to begin with. The kitty girl just quietly strokes the blonde's hair keeping it away from her face. And with that Quinn slowly starts to raise.

"My head hurts…" Quinn mumbled just before scrunching her nose and a disgusted frown. "What's this smell…? It's awful. It's like I won't be able to smell anything else ever again…"

"You can blame your best friend and Noah for that later." Rachel comments given a quick glare in said teenagers' direction before giving all her attention to her girlfriend again. "But other than that how do you feel?"

"My head hurts…" the lion mumbles.

"It seems like the worse didn't happen" The nurse says contently. "But I beg for you to stay a little longer Ms. Fabray. And you Ms. Berry can go back to your duties. Your next period is just about to begin anyway."

Rachel only sees Quinn again later that day. Apparently the headache wouldn't go away and the nurse said she should just rest. Mrs. Fabray was informed that her daughter ended up on the infirmary, but wasn't able to come get her until the end of the school day. Since Quinn was all better and walking around again they called her mother again and said she would be going to her other classes.

This time is it's the Kitty girl who jumps on the lioness. Not as sexually or as aggressive as Quinn had though.

"I have a theory! I didn't find anything on the school library but I have a theory!" Rachel grinned.

"Really?"

"Yes, but let's not talk about that right now." The short brunet kept hugging her girlfriend close. "It might be scary, but I think we may be mates…" Rachel mumbles.

"What do you mean?" Quinn frowns a little lost.

"I know I know… it's not really usual for felines to have mates, as our species is not the most monogamous, but…"

"No… wait… what?" Quinn says pulling away and looking completely lost at Rachel. "I'm really confused right now…"

"You… don't know what mates are?"

"Hm… no?"

"Holly Barbra… This place has it worse than I thought. It's like you're all… humans… like the legends portray them… literally!"

"You've said something like that before but we're not that ignorant… we know to transform and we know that magic exists… and stuff." Quinn says with a frown.

"Yet at the same time it doesn't look like that. You know of things you live with on your day to day life. The rest you don't or you simply can't make sense of it. You're not completely isolated from the world. You have TV and the internet. But I don't think you guys can really notice things. It's like you see them but you don't register them."

"Why I register when it comes to you then? Because we're… mates?" the blonde asks making her way with Rachel to glee their last activity for the day.

"Maybe… but it wouldn't explain why the others can register the things I bring upon them too. Like my classes." Rachel muses… "Maybe because it comes from a direct source, rather than through a TV or a computer screen. Maybe because I'm here before you guys."

"Maybe…" Quinn teases.

"You know… if it's really a curse made by this wizard we heard about I don't think it will needed to be done something dangerous or really a grandiose to break it…"

"Wait. What wizard?" Quinn asked confused

"Well… you know, the one San talked about. The one who cursed her papá." Rachel sighed noticing they were about to enter the choir room. "Tina said something about a wizard who cursed a bunch of people and then: poof, good as gone! I think they might be the same person."

"After glee we can get everyone together and talk about it then. If we can break the town's curse we may be able to break S's daddy curse too." Quinn frowned than with a hand on the door handle. "I'm still mad at her though."

Once again they were at Rachel's house. Her dads weren't back from work yet and this time Shelby wasn't around. Probably at work too.

Brittany bounced into the house dragging Santana with her. Quinn followed and behind her stood a very awkward looking Tina and a curious looking Mike.

"I really don't know why foxy and the witch had to came too!" Santana yelled from the den, making Mike and Tina frown.

"She is a sorceress and that's exactly why I called her." Rachel scolded the gorgon "Mike was invited too so she wouldn't feel out of place. Thanks Santana, for making sure that she did nonetheless."

"My pleasure." Santana yelled again.

"You really do get used to her…" Rachel tries…

"Well, I know. I mean we're in glee together for some time now, but… yeah." Tina mumbled holding tighter on her boyfriend's hand and finally entering the house.

"More bark than bite?" Mike says with a side grin. He was actually quite charming.

"Oh I can bite all right!" Santana said appearing from the den with a scowl. "Weren't you going to call fish lips too? Since you two are such good friends?" Santana said Rachel this time.

"He will be getting here soon enough he has to take care of his siblings you know?" Rachel mumbled finally getting into the den and sitting close to Quinn who were quietly telling something to Brittany.

"Why you're doing this, Rachel?" Tina asked sitting as far away from Santana as she could.

"Because I have a theory and I really think I got some part of it down." The kitty girl says holding Quinn hands.

"Are we ever going to talk about this mate thing?" the blonde mumbled in her girlfriend's ear.

"Later…" Rachel answered as quietly "Anyway…" she said rising her voice again this time being interrupted by the doorbell.

This time it was Sam… who brought Puck with him because the dog boy was trying to avoid Finn and his plans to woo Rachel out of her relationship with Quinn. Rachel's ears are pulled back and there is a snarl hidden in her lips when she sees the football player and scowls in Sam's direction.