A/N: Hello readers, here's an extra long chapter for the long wait. Much more Faberry this time unlike in previous chapters and much more to come and in response to a review, yes if people are still reading this fic and are giving me feedback then I do hope for it to be long enough to introduce Blaine and others. I hope you enjoy this chapter and sorry if there's any mistakes I've had no sleep but I didn't want to keep you guys waiting any longer.

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Chapter Five: A whole new world

"Good morning, Quinn." An enthusiastic voice came from above her.

The pregnant blonde reply was muffled by her pillow that she was face-planting, "I don't feel very well, I think It may be best for me to stay home today."

"Sure, okay well I'll go and bin the bacon that my dad made for you before he went to work then." Tina waited and counted to five before the older girl turned to face her with a pout, knowing that she would never choose to fake an illness over free bacon.

"No, I... I want the bacon." She murmured before climbing under her sheets, "I just don't want to go to school today."

"You have to get out of bed at some point or another." Tina said forcefully, refusing to give up so easily.

"I've been out of bed this weekend." Quinn huffed, remembering the family meals she's been made to join. They were lovely to her and they welcomed her with open arms but it was weird for her, previously when she'd sit around a table with her parents it was awkward and they always made her feel like an outsider of the family whereas Tina's family would make small talk with her and try to get her to interact. It was nice, it was different.

"Who is it you're avoiding?" Tina asked her quietly, she knew there wasn't much point in asking since each time she had brought up anything to do with the subject the girl would change the subject. Maybe she was too upset to answer but she wanted to help and the Goth hoped that soon Quinn would feel comfortable enough to talk to her about it.

Whereas that wasn't exactly the problem with the time traveler, obviously she was upset but a part of her just didn't want to accept that it had all happened again and she didn't do enough to stop it, which forced her to question whether she'd actually be able to change anything this time round or if she was just setting herself up for failure a second time.

"I'm not avoiding anyone." Quinn answered icily, hating that she had to lie to who was probably her best friend. She wanted to tell her, she really did but it hurt too much and she couldn't bare to explain it all again and so she took to use the old HBIC approach, to push everyone away because that was the only way she knew how to deal with things, to do it alone.

"Everyone's going to notice when you don't come to glee today, what do you want me to tell them?" The Gothic girl wanted to help, but she only had a theory to what'd happened to her friend and until it was proved right she couldn't act on it, so she would wait and hopefully she'd find the answer soon.

"Just say that I'm sick."

"What if they want to check up on you?"

"Let them, I don't mind." She told her sadly. It's not like anyone will want to see me anyway, not once Finn gets his giant paws into everyone and turn them against me... They're all going to hate me.

Tina paused and thought about what Quinn had just said, wondering why she was fine seeing everyone at the house but not at school. It was clear that she was trying to avoid someone, the only question was who. Both teenager girls eyes locked and a silent agreement was made not to talk anything more about it, so with a sigh Tina said her goodbyes and left the bedroom, telling her where the spare key was if she were to go anywhere.

The time-traveler knew she had to face the world sooner or later, and although she favoured the latter she chose that today she would face the world and sat up, dangling her feet off the side of the bed. She couldn't help but notice the slight swelling on her ankles, which caused her to hesitate for just a moment as she was about to stand up. Slowly Quinn moved her hand to rest her palm gently on her baby bump, her fingers grazing over her skin.

I forgot how much I missed her...

Quinn closed her eyes, feeling the tears that had pooled fall down her cheeks and land on the back of her hand. She remembered the drama with Shelby, how she messed up and lost Beth because of her own selfishness.

I don't want to let her go again...

Her bottom lip trembling as she held onto the memory of the tiny child in her arms for the first time, the only thing she could focus on was the fantasy of keeping her child and what that would do to her future, surely not Yale... And not Rachel.

oOo

Across town Tina and the rest of the Gleeks had just finished watching the Jane Adams Glee Club perform and each and every one of the New directions left the room with the solid feeling of doubt, all apart from Rachel.

"So, what did everyone think?" The Jewish diva asked, taking the place at the front of the room as the rest of the students took a seat's on the risers. They'd all returned to the choir room quickly after the performance, wanting to discuss the obvious problem of the lack of hairography in their own dance routines.

"They were really good." Finn shrugged, not knowing what more he could say to describe it.

The boy had returned to glee that day with a feeling that his ex-girlfriend wouldn't show, his feeling had been right and he felt a sense of pride when he's noticed her absence.

"They have so much hair." Brittany commented, more to herself than anyone in particular.

Rachel nodded, her eyes scanning over everyone and saw the same disheartened look on each of their faces, "Look, we all just have to step it up."

"What's your plan, Berry?" Santana asked snidely, leaning back in her chair and lifting her leg's so they were resting on top of Brittany's lap.

"I-I don't have one perfected quite yet..." Rachel trailed off, moving her hands to entwine them behind her back.

"We're doomed." Kurt sighed dramatically, saying exactly what everyone was thinking.

"Not yet, we all just need to come together." The tiny girl said, trying to lift all their spirits.

A few minutes later they were all still waiting for Mr. Schue to return from talking to Miss Pillsbury and Rachel found it to be the perfect moment to snap her fingers and call Tina over to sit with her. The other girl wasn't exactly happy to be pulled away from her conversation with Matt and Mike but she knew Quinn had a new-found soft spot on her and if Quinn could learn to like her then she surely could.

"What is it Rachel?" Tina asked as politely as she could.

"I was just wondering where Quinn was today?" Her tone full of worry made the other glee member question her motives but didn't have time to ask since the moment she opened her mouth Finn chose to interrupt.

"Why should you guys care?" He snapped, causing everyone's attention turn to him. "She's just going to use you like she did me."

"She's our friend." Tina said, her voice wavering slightly, a little afraid of the tall Jock.

"Since when?" He retorted, glaring at the Goth which in return earned him a piercing look from both Matt and Mike, who were on the edge of their seats ready to take down their football captain if he took anything too far, "She's only being nice to any of you because she's lost all of her other friend and you guys are the only people nice enough to give her a chance."

"I have to say, Quinn has become friendlier since the pregnancy but I am a little wary of whether she's just going to go straight back to bullying each of us once the babygate period is through." Kurt said carefully, he wasn't taking sides (even if his crush on the tall boy was telling him to do so) but the girls new behaviour was completely out of the blue and made him cautious of the future.

"We could say that about any of the Jock's though, the cheerio's too." Mercedes joined in, "Each of you have either thrown a slushie, called us names or at the very least for Mike and Matt you guys never stopped this either."

"Preach." Artie raised his hand.

"You guys are losers, not my fault I speak the truth." Santana said bluntly, but everyone ignored her comment since they were used to her attitude.

"Quinn's changed," Tina said loudly, her eyes flickering to Rachel for reassurance to see the girl send her a firm nod to continue and with a deep breath she did, "she's my friend and she's really been trying with all of you, so stop thinking the worst of her and realise that she's going through a really bad time right now and she needs friends by her side helping her through it, not enemies."

"She's right, as much as I hate to agree with Tina, she has a point." Santana added, "Q's not the same old bitch we all knew and loved."

Rachel grinned to herself glad that the message was getting across to her fellow glee clubbers, "Exactly, Quinn has lost everyone and she needs us now more than ever."

"This is bullshit, why are you all taking her side, I thought you were my friends." Finn whined, folding his arms in a huff.

"We're not taking sides, Finn." Rachel told him with a small smile, "Your issues with Quinn are yours, there not for us to get involved in."

He grumbled something under his breath before agreeing reluctantly to make Rachel happy, but he knew once Quinn was back at McKinley he wouldn't be so quick to give in.

oOo

Quinn was lounging on the sofa on the second floor of The Open Book where Peter had allowed her to hide out if she promised to return to work the following day, she'd been lay their for most of the day and she could safely say she was thankful for the time to herself that was away from anyone with questions for her, until she heard a familiar voice call her name.

"Um... Quinn is that you?" The voice sounded unsure since the girl's face was covered by the book she'd fallen asleep reading.

"Puckerman?" She yawned, moving her copy of The Time Travellers wife onto the coffee table, making sure to slot In her bookmark to save her page, "What the hell are you doing here?"

"I came to check out the comics and saw this book-" He tossed it to her, and she read over the cover with a broken smile, "and I figured I'd steal it for you, y'no in case you change your mind and decide you want to keep the baby."

Quinn could almost feel the boys nervousness around the topic, "How to raise a baby on five dollars a day." She hummed, "Well I'm earning more than that at the moment, but this is really sweet."

"You've got a job?" He arched his eyebrow, "Is that safe? You know... For the baby?"

"Yes it's safe. I work here stacking the shelves, doing the inventory and working the till sometimes so it's not much effort." She said looking over the book in her hand again, "You do realise you can't steal from here again? You're going to have to buy them."

"Can't you just turn your back for a minute?" He chuckled, wiggling his eyebrows.

"No." She dead-panned.

"Fine," He nodded, "It's cool that you're working, do you need the money or something?"

"Yes, I have medical bills to pay." She rolled her eyes at his idiocy.

"Oh yeah, well I can get you a bit of cash next week." He told her, and then felt a twinge of hope as he watched the blonde stroke over her belly without even realising she was doing so, "Are you thinking about keeping it or something?"

"I don't know, my mind is pretty messed up right now-" She shook her head, inhaling slowly.

"Well whatever you decide," He grinned and then added, "no pressure."

Quinn recalled babysitting for Terri's nephews with Puck last time, luckily she hadn't been bothered by the woman after she called her saying the deal was off. Since then she'd only received a bunch of texts telling her to take her time and think it through but she would be making a mistake. Whether I keep Beth or not, that crazy Woman is not going anywhere near my child!

"So, you gonna tell me why you ditched school today?" Puck shouted from the corner of the room, flicking through some comic books to see if there was any worth stealing when Quinn wasn't working there but the blonde was thinking along the same lines.

If he tried to steal anything, I'm going to kick his ass. I don't care If I'm pregnant, I could take him... Or at least get Matt and Mike to rough him up a bit.

"I wasn't feeling very well." She told him, praying that Tina hadn't blabbed. There was no way she could tell Puck about what'd happened with Finn, she just knew that he'd make a big deal about it and all she wanted to do was forget.

"Right," He drawled out, taking a seat on the opposite sofa, "I'm going to pretend I believe you because I'm tired and In the need of a nap but you know if you need me to beat on someone I'd do it for my baby momma."

"Shut up." She rolled her eyes with a small laugh, his teasing only reminded her of the Puck she's left behind, the older and more lovable one. Quinn knew he had a kind heart and she did want a friendship with the boy and hopefully if she tried hard enough she'd be able to help him get over his crush so they could do that.

The two of them stayed like that for another hour or so before Tina text her to inform her that dinner would be ready soon. Puck drove her back to Tina's believing that she was there for a movie night, Quinn thought about telling him the truth and then he went and asked her is she wanted a one night stand and she thought again but the truth was, something was finally going right.

It's a whole new world you're living in Quinn, She thought to herself, you just have to make it yours.

oOo

The next morning, Quinn was awake before anyone else in the house, greeting Tina with what seemed to be the first real smile since arriving there that weekend. For the first time in the last couple of days the ex-cheerleader was in a good mood, at least one that was willing her to go to school.

"Everything okay?" The Gothicly dressed teen went to steal a piece of bacon from the blonde's plate but when she saw the death glare she being sent, she thought twice and took one from her father's instead who willingly let her after he'd witnessed Quinn's obsession with the meat and didn't want any drama before he headed off to work.

"Yeah, are you ready to go?" Quinn asked cheerfully, lifting her messenger bag onto her shoulder. She'd spent the night before going over the last week in her head and concluded that she just had to put on a brave face and pretend like nothing was wrong, it's what she did best.

"Mhmm, Kurt's outside waiting for us now." She nodded, giving the girl a strange look, still wondering what had put her friend in such a mood.

"Oh okay, let's go then." Quinn pulled her friend by the hand towards the front of the house, laughing as she did.

"You're acting weird." Tina stated bluntly.

"No I'm not." Quinn argued, knowing that her friend meant well and was worried about her.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm just-I'm happy." The time traveler gave her a crooked smile, "Me and Puck talked yesterday and I think we're moving forward."

After that no more was said about the matter, Tina agreed although she made a note to watch out for Quinn that day seeing as though she'd been through a lot and it would probably only take something small to make her crack and send her back to bed for another few days.

Thankfully Kurt was a good distraction for Quinn, he was eager to tell them about a surprise creation that they were sure to appreciate. Little did she know that Kurt had been approached by Rachel the day before asking for his help to get the pregnant girls attention.

The rest of the car journey she tried to think back to her previous life but was unable to remember what the surprise was, but she didn't have to wait very long before she walked right into it.

"Holy crap, I'm so sorry!" The pregnant girl exclaimed, having shoulder barged Rachel almost immediately upon entering the school.

"That's okay, Quinn." The diva waved away the apology with the flick of her wrist, then moved said hand to her hip. "So?"

"So what?" Quinn shook her head, not understanding with the girl was trying to get at.

"Do you like my new look." Then she noticed, oh did she notice. Rachel smirked as Quinn's eyes roamed over her body, her cheeks bright pink and mouth slightly open.

"My god," The ex-skank whispered, "you look amazing."

"Wh-what?" Rachel asked quickly, not hearing the last part of the sentence but was desperate to do so.

"Nothing!" The other girl's eyes snapped up to Rachel's, her face burning with embarrassment, "I d-didn't say anything."

"Yes, you did." The brunette told her sharply.

"I think you're hearing things, I didn't speak." With that Quinn pushed past her and rushed down the hall to her locker, she was sure she'd been heading somewhere before she'd bumped into Rachel but now she was completely at a loss of where.

Damn her and her impossibly long legs distracting me!

"Take it you like Kurt's masterpiece then?" Tina joined her in her fast paced walk to the Choir room, giggling at how flustered her friend looked. "I had my suspensions after she basically sang that ballad to you instead of Mr. Schue last week and you've just completely proved them right."

"Stop it," Quinn demanded but there was no bite behind her words any more, not when she was talking to Tina.

"Just admit that you like her new look." The girl pushed her on her arm, urging her to give up since she knew the truth already.

"...You know I do." Quinn blushed.

"See, that wasn't so hard was it?"

"Please stop talking."

"But this is so much fun." Tina laughed, uncertain of how she missed seeing the girls attraction to Rachel before, it was so obvious.

"You're a terrible friend."

"I'm a fantastic friend." The girl retorted, pushing open the door to the classroom.

"Then stop teasing me." Quinn huffed, sitting down in one of the two empty seats beside Mike and Tina took her other one.

"Fine, but we have to talk about this soon." Tina lowered her voice so only they could hear.

"There's nothing to-" The blonde stopped mid sentence as Finn entered the room, she didn't know what to say as he took a seat just a few chairs down from her. Is he being serious? He's just going to act like nothings wrong! But before she could say or do anything Mr. Schue walked in, late as usual with determination written across his face.

"Alright guys," The man cleared his throat to get everyone's attention, "I did some thinking last night and I'm sure I've found our new number for sectionals. We're going to do the title song from Hair, now this show, it started a revolution."

"Did they have Mohawks back then?" Puck asked, pondering how exactly he could take part with his hairstyle, "Like in the twenties or whatever."

Finn looked to the teacher, thinking along the same lines as his team-mate, "Yeah, If we're going to do a song about hair, then shouldn't we have more hair?"

"I'm one step ahead of you, here are your wigs." Mr. Schue beamed, throwing the bag in his hand to Finn.

"Mr. Schuester," Rachel was up on her feet before he could say anything more, she pulled him to the side, "what are you doing? We're fine as we are, we don't need hairography, it's just a distraction."

The Spanish teacher lowered his voice, "Look I have to be honest... Those Jane Adams girls did freak me out a little and I'm worried for our chances at sectionals, we have to pull out all the stops if we wanna win."

"Sorry Mr. Schue but Rachel's right, this isn't our thing." Quinn spoke up, last time, they completely humiliated themselves in front of Haverbrook Deaf Choir and she couldn't let it happen again, at least that could be something she'd changed for the better, "We can win without all this, it's just a distraction from the fact that we have what they don't and that's talent."

"You weren't even there, how do you know?" Finn spat, scowling angrily at his ex.

"Tina filled me in." Was Quinn's reply, she didn't hesitate as she lied, knowing that her friend would back her up if she needed her to, "Look, we just need something different."

"Since when did you even care about glee?" Finn again snapped at her, he didn't really care all too much about it either but he took the cheep shot, making it clear that he was going to do nothing but challenge Quinn for the rest of the meeting.

"Like you can say anything about caring, you hypocrite!" She yelled, finally breaking. "You ruined everything for me, I've lost everything." Whether it was her hormones or just the bitchy comments she couldn't take another minute of his attitude and cracked. Why does he always have to be the good guy? It's not fair.

"What is she talking about, Finn?" Rachel asked looking down at the boy with confusion.

"Nothing-It's nothing just a little misunderstanding." His eyes flashing back and forth between the girls, if Quinn told the truth there's no doubt Rachel would be mad at him and then there was no way he'd stand a chance and he knew this.

"What did he do?" Rachel's faint voice came from beside her, her hand reaching out for Quinn's arm. The girls soft tone made the pregnant teenager's insides melt and with the combination of that and Rachel's thumb running ever so slightly over the back of her arm, her mind could only focus on the girl beside her who was standing on her tip toes and moving closer to Quinn. It wasn't until she felt the hot breath on her ear did she completely crumble, "Tell me what happened, please."

Why can I never say no to Rachel? "My parents-He told my parents about the pregnancy."

"He did what!" Jaw dropped and eyes narrowed, Rachel pulled away from Quinn and headed straight towards the Jock, stabbing her index finger into his chest. "Finn Hudson, I am appalled, how could you do that to your friend? Whether or not she hurt you does not give you the right to do something so mean right back," The diva turned around, her blazing eyes locked onto Quinn's hazel ones, "how did they take it?"

The blonde bit her lip, unsure of whether to tell her.

"Quinn, It's okay." Tina's soothing voice called from one side of the room, urging her friend to talk.

"They completely disowned me," She sniffed, trying hard not to blink so the tears forming wouldn't fall, "and kicked me out so I'm staying with Tina for the moment."

The Goth being mentioned was furious, finally being given the truth to why her friend showed up at her door breaking down in her arms. Instead of doing what she really wanted which was kicking Finn in the crotch, she walked down the risers and wrapped one of her arms around Quinn's side, just to let her know she was there and would protect her if anything happened.

"Oh Quinn, I'm so sorry." Rachel wanted to say more but felt as if it weren't her place, the two weren't close enough yet whereas some of the other glee members were.

"Hey, alright I'm sorry but she deserved it, she cheated on me." Finn pouted, feeling guilt build in the pit of his stomach, he didn't want to upset Rachel but his outburst only did the opposite.

"You have no right to say anything, not when you joined me on the stage in the Auditorium for a picnic a few weeks ago and we shared a kiss!" Rachel blurted and then gasped in horror at what she'd said, "Quinn, I'm so sorry, I realise how horrible it must be to hear that he cheated on you like this and I feel like I have been a terrible friend-"

"Stop, just stop Rachel." Quinn hushed her, "It's fine, I get it I really do."

"No you don't, I deeply regret what I did and-"

Quinn cut her off for a second time, "Then that's good enough for me."

"You're an ass, you have the nerve to do this to Quinn even after you betrayed her too." Puck snapped defensively, clenching his jaw and fighting off the urge to walk over to the boy and break his nose.

"Why do you even care so much?" The tall boy growled, everyone was turning on him and he didn't like it, not one bit.

"Because she's carrying my baby, you moron!" There it was, the truth everyone had been waiting to come out. Quinn flinched at the words and stumbled backwards and out of harms way, seeing the furious expression on Finn's face.

"What?" He screeched, jumping up from his seat with a death glare directed at Quinn.

"Back off man." Matt pushed him square in the chest, moving him away from the retreating blonde.

"Matt get Finn out of here before he does something stupid." Mr. Schue finally intervened, "Mike, can you help."

"Sure thing." The two boys caught either side of their football captain as he lunged for Puck, dragging him backwards as he threw threats at the Mohawk boy until they were out of the room. They didn't let him go until they were out by the back of the school, shoving him to the ground.

"What the hell?" He shouted as he hit the floor.

"Quinn's our friend, Finn." Mike said, standing over the now vulnerable looking boy.

Finn furrowed his brows in utter confusion, he just sat on the floor dumbfounded by the two Jocks towering over her. What exactly had changed with his ex-girlfriend he had no idea but something had changed, it was like she was a different girl all together and he didn't understand.

"Whatever," He muttered, looking down at his lap. "you two just want in her pants."

"Leave. Her. Alone." Matt growled through his teeth.

"Fine." Finn replied but it wasn't nearly convincing enough to stop the two other boys from their next move and hearing Puck's chuckle as he stalked out from the building and went to join in only urged them on. All three grabbed the now thrashing boy.

"Get off me!" He yelped, trying anything get out of their grip, but nothing worked and eventually they managed to drop him into the nearby dumpster.

"Don't mess with Quinn again." Puck said evenly, following his other team mates back into the school without another word. Himself and Finn had been friends for a long time and Finn knew that his threat wasn't empty so he didn't need to explain further.

Inside, Quinn had been taken to sit on the piano stool. The gleeks surrounded her and continually asked if she were okay, her reply each time was "Yes" even though she knew that she was far from okay.

"Can we please just focus on something else please?" Quinn practically begged, feeling uncomfortable with all the attention.

"Certainly." Rachel agreed, her hand touching the blondes back, trying to reassure her. "We can discuss the song choice, I really do think we should not go through with this number." The Tiny teenager ranted whilst moving her fingers to draw shapes that Quinn couldn't quite figure out.

"I don't know, Rachel-" Mr. Schue started.

"Can we just try another song and see whether you like it?" Quinn looked up to the teacher, "I have something we could do."

"Okay then, I don't see the harm in giving it a go." The man agreed unwillingly, but the pleading looks from his students changed his mind.

"So what song will I be singing, Quinn?" Rachel asked, jumping the gun.

"Actually, I was thinking you could maybe let Tina have this one?" The blonde waited for a Rachel Berry storm out as she demanded the number but none came, only a nod and a bright smile from the diva that caused he heart to flutter and her breath hitch.

I'm starting to like being given this second chance...

A/N: Finger's crossed you liked this, took a little longer to write since I found it more difficult than the rest. Let me know what you think so far, favourite friendships?

Next chapter: A geek-a-thon with Tina, Quinn, Matt and Mike. Some Brittana drama and the rest is a surprise but if you have any ideas feel free to tumblr me or something :)

*Rachel's special sugar cookies for anyone who reviews*