Here is the next chapter.
Also the disclaimer can be found in earlier chapters.
I hope this chapter is entertaining for you and gives more answers.
CHAPTER 14
Rachel's phone beeped as she was talking to Finn and she smiled. Quinn was on her way.
Quinn frowned as she drove behind the tractor. She was already running late. Her phone beeps and she looks at it before looking back at the road.
Rachel is pacing now.
Harmony watches her grandfathers. They don't seem to be as happy as they originally looked. Then again she did hear Grandpa Hiram going over the plan to kidnap Rachel and bring her to Broadway.
Aya looked at the clock on the dashboard of her Chevy Tahoe and huffed. She drove by the Fabray residence to check if Quinn hadn't left yet and when she noticed the absence of the red VW bug she headed toward the courthouse.
Aya hoped to the higher powers that she wouldn't get caught doing this. She floored it and took the turns like an expert. Artie told her the time.
4:57 was when the accident happens.
It was currently 4:23.
Rachel was pacing again.
Santana didn't want to say it. But someone had to. Why would Quinn come see the girl she loves marry someone else? "Face it. Quinn's not coming."
Santana felt a flicker of hope that this wedding wasn't going to happen when she heard the conviction in Rachel's voice.
"She'll be here. She told me she would."
4:40.
Aya was already going 80mph and she was having a hard time multi-tasking worrying, driving and looking out for cops. She should never have agreed to what Shelby was saying. It brought her more stress than what she was going through living with an alcoholic mother who brought home so many guys it was impossible to tell who the father of her three siblings were. There was only one that Aya liked. He tried to help her mother. He taught Aya how to assemble a motor and ride a bike. He taught her how to fix things and be independent.
Aya shook the happy memory from her head. She had to save Quinn. She was going to make sure Harmony had those kinds of happy memories with Quinn.
Harmony was trying not to cry and Sugar was there holding her hand. Rachel was marrying Finn. She was going to cease to exist. And where the hell was Quinn?
Aya was right behind Quinn. Practically tailgating her. She looked at the clock. She had one shot. God she hoped she wasn't wrong. She began to merge into the other lane so she could get in front of Quinn. She was about to speed up and cut in front of Quinn when she saw the blonde pick up her cell phone. She looked at the clock once more.
One minute.
She banged her fist onto the horn three times before slamming the breaks and merging back behind Quinn.
Quinn picked up her phone and began to type out a reply to Rachel when a horn honked behind her and she looked up and slammed the breaks at the sight of the red stop sign.
Aya saw the pick-up and grabbed her phone dialing Harmony.
"Hello?" Harmony asked and everyone turned to her.
Could it be Quinn?
"Aya, I don't understand what you're saying? What crash? Where's Quinn?" Then it dawns on her. The wreck that nearly paralyzed her mama. How could she forget that? She knew the answer. She was focused on the wedding and everything else that added to the pile of shit that was going on.
"Put her on speaker." Rachel ordered and Harmony did just that.
"Quinn's in…"
The sounds that followed blanketed the room in silence. The sound of tires screeching and the clatter of the phone clattering around before a muffled thump were heard before there was just silence.
Moments passed before Puck spoke up.
"We have to go."
"But the wedding." Finn whines.
"Can wait." Rachel says as she walks out with Puck. The others gradually follow.
Aya knew the breaks on a VW Bug were good and when she watched the car stop mere inches of getting hit she let out a relieved breath. She looked in front of her at Quinn's car. She noticed that Quinn turned on her hazard lights. Aya furrowed her brow before turning on her own and getting out.
Quinn saw Aya and got out. "Hey, that was you?" She asked.
"Yeah."
"Thanks."
"No problem." Aya says before pointing to Quinn's car. "Everything ok?"
"I think I broke something." Quinn said and Aya chuckled.
"I have a hitch on the back if you want I can hook it up." Aya said and Quinn smiled gratefully.
"The wedding!" She gets her phone and dials Rachel.
"I'll just…" Aya motions to the two vehicles and Quinn nods.
Aya gets in and closes her eyes. She takes a deep breath and releases it opening her eyes. She catches something in the corner of her eye and she looks at it.
It's the Ram and the driver is glaring at her. Aya glares back and he looks over at Quinn. Aya shakes her head and mouths. 'Like hell you're going to win.'
He grins. Smugly. 'I always get her back.' He mouths back and Aya gives him the finger before he drives off and she starts her car pulling in front of Quinn.
Aya gets the Beetle hooked up in no time and Quinn is talking to Rachel.
"I'm fine. I nearly ran a red light and crashed. I promise you everything is ok." Quinn looks over at Aya. Aya feels her gaze and looks at her. "She's like our personal guardian angel." Quinn says and Aya blushes. "What do you mean you can see me?" Quinn looks up the road and see's Puck, Rachel and Sam in Puck's truck coming towards them. "Your wedding…"
Puck parks on the side of the road across from them and rolls down his window.
"Wasn't going to happen without you." Rachel said and Quinn didn't know how she felt as she and Rachel hung up.
Sam was practically pushed out of the truck by Rachel.
Rachel sprinted over to Quinn and hugged her. "I was so worried. I thought something bad had happened. Aya called Harmony and they mentioned you." Rachel was sobbing now and Quinn tightened her hold.
"I'm fine. I'm right here." Quinn whispered.
Sam walked up to Aya. "What happened?" He asked.
"She wasn't paying attention. I honked my horn and she slammed her breaks." Aya said simply before being pulled into a tight hug.
"You are full of surprises." Sam says before releasing her. "Thank you." Sam said and Aya could see the many meanings behind it in his eyes.
"For what?" Aya asks. She wants at least one of those meanings out there.
"Giving Rachel a good reason to not marry Finn." Sam said and Aya shrugged.
"They aren't good for each other anyway." Aya says as Shelby pulls up in her Range Rover. Harmony, Rory and Sugar practically trip over each other trying to get to Aya.
Harmony runs over to hug Quinn and Rachel but Sugar pulls her back. The look in Sugar's eyes tells her everything.
'They don't know you're their daughter.'
Harmony nods and launches herself at Aya catching the girl off guard and nearly squeezing the life out of her.
"Harmony…air…needed." Aya groans as Harmony releases her.
"Thank you." Harmony says and Aya nods.
"Q!"
They look up to see Santana.
Future Artie's words rattle around Aya's head.
'Another attempt will be made and it will be a miss and it will be Santana who suffers.'
"Quinn! I am so glad you're ok!" Brittany shouts hugging Quinn and Subsequently Rachel who was still holding onto Quinn.
When the rest of the glee club and the parents arrive it looks like a roadside camp out. To anyone else it would look extremely weird since they are all dressed for a wedding.
Burt offers to look over Quinn's car when they get back and Aya agrees to drop it off.
Aya's phone rings as they figure out who is going back for the other cars at the court house and who is riding with who. Aya goes around to the passenger side and opens the door picking her phone off the floor. She answers. "Hello?"
"I am hoping you stopped the crash."
"TK, who gave you the house phone?"
Future Artie rolls his eyes. "I will take that as everyone is around you."
Aya resists the urge to roll her eyes. "Everything is as it should be TK. Check under your bed." Aya hopes he understands her.
Future Artie is confused. "The crash didn't happen?" He feels the upmost relief when she answers.
"Yes, it is, I'll see you soon."
Aya hangs up and smiles to the others. "My sister."
"I'll go with Aya." Quinn says. "She has my car."
"I'll go with you." Rachel nearly shouts and Harmony shoots her hand up.
"Shot gun!"
"I was going to call it!" Rory argues.
"I'm older!" Harmony grins.
Rory smirks. "Alright, Age before good looks." He runs a hand through his hair and Harmony gasps.
"You did not just call me old!"
"Children!" Quinn jokes but the looks on their faces is priceless. As if Quinn was actually their parent or something.
"I called it." Harmony said and Rory rolls his eyes.
"Fine baby." Rory sticks his tongue out.
"Rory, Harmony." Shelby warns and the two give it up.
Aya invited them all over for an impromptu barbeque/pool party at her place and they agreed to meet there.
Aya was weary of having Finn in her house and near her siblings but she let it go and drove Quinn home and waited with Rachel, Harmony and Rory.
"What is that smell?" Rory asks.
Aya sniffs the air and scrunches up her face. "That would be Garrett's baseball equipment and cleats." Aya answered reaching over to the glove box. She pulls out a bottle of Febreze and hands it to him. Harmony won and got shot gun leaving Rory in the back with Quinn and Rachel. Sugar was sprawled out on the third row of seats.
"Where is the bag?" Rory asks.
"The trunk." Aya says and Rory hands the bottle to Sugar who sprays over the back of the seat.
"What are your siblings like?" Rachel asks and Aya smiles fondly.
"They're polite and fun. I guess you really have to wait and meet them." Aya said as Quinn came out of her house and got back in the car.
They stopped at Rachel's next and then Shelby's and after Brittany's.
When they finally arrived at Aya's the glee club and the parents were on the porch listening to TK ramble about animatingly. Aya got out and Garrett stepped out holding Jack by the arm.
"I told them to stay inside but they wouldn't listen to me." Garrett said and Aya smiled at him softly.
Rachel watches Aya as she interacts with her siblings. She seems calm and at ease. Like she could relax and let her guard down but not enough that she stops paying attention to everything.
"That's fine Garrett, these are all friends." Aya tells him picking up Jack and kissing the top of Garrett's head.
"And then Aya got so scareded that she fell back tripping over a chair and landed in the pool." TK finished her story and the ones still listening laughed.
"What story are you telling munchkin?" Aya asked using her other arm to scoop the three year old up.
"The time Jack showed you the spider." TK grinned and Aya frowned.
"It was cool!" Jack defended himself.
"It was not." Aya said not raising her voice. "I tell you time and time again that spiders scare the living out of me." Aya says. She turns to the others. "Come on in and follow me to the backyard." Aya says.
"This sucks!" Finn says fifteen minutes later when Aya retreats inside.
"What are you talking about?" Sam asks sipping his soda. "This is cool."
"I should be married right now." Finn grumbles.
"Oh stop whining!" Santana groans. "You can get married whenever unless she realizes you aren't good enough for her and she dumps your ass." Santana says.
Brittany sees the impending fight and tugs on Santana's arm. "Come on San. I want to try out the slide some more." Santana obliges and follows Brittany.
Inside Aya is talking to Future Artie.
"No one is in the house. You can sneak out the front door." Aya says and Artie nods.
"You can't tell Harmony or Rory and Sugar." Future Artie pleads.
"Why?"
"Because Harmony thinks I'm in on the plot." Artie says and Aya furrows her brow.
"Ok. I won't. This double agent thing is tiring and I am going to go relax." Aya said as she led him to the front door and shut it behind him.
Aya joined the others and smirked seeing Quinn, Tina, Mercedes, Kurt and Rachel sat on the edge of the pool. "Rory, Puck, Sam, Mike. Can you guys come here for a second?" Aya called and the guys walked over.
"What are they talking about?" Rachel asked.
Harmony and Sugar looked over at the group and saw mischievous smiles. "Uh oh." They backed away towards the slide that Brittany and Santana had just come out of. Once in the safety of the other side of the pool Harmony and Sugar grabbed Santana and Brittany once they surfaced and pulled them into safety.
"Charge!" Puck, Sam and Mike shouted as they and the rest of the guys and Aya cannonballed into the pool. Aya and Puck hand in hand with matching smiles.
The girls on the side screamed in shock.
Jack and Garrett were laughing as they wiped the water from their faces.
TK was at the edge of the pool with her hands on her hips and her foot tapping. Once Aya surfaced with Puck and they shared a smile she began her rant. "Aya, that is not safe! You could have been seriously hurt. You jumped in with guys bigger than you and what you did to the girls were not nice!"
Aya rolled her eyes and swam over to her little sister standing up in the four foot water and threw the four year old over her shoulder. "Rawr!" she shouted as TK squealed and held on to Aya tightly.
"Aya! Put me down!"
"Puck, catch the midget!" Aya laughed tossing her sister to Puck who caught her effortlessly.
"AAHHH!" TK screamed as Puck caught her. "AYA!"
Aya laughed as she walked over to where Puck was standing and took TK from him.
"Yes princess?"
"Don't do that!"
"Fine party pooper." Aya smirked tickling TK's sides.
"Aya be nice to your sister."
Aya's face lit up like a Christmas tree as she scampered to the stairs and ran up to her father hugging him.
"AYA!" Max Joelson cried at the cold water seeping through his clothes.
"You haven't been home for three days. Let me have this." Aya grumbled, her voice muffled from her face being pressed into her father's chest.
"This one time." He smiled at TK who was still in Aya's arms. "Hey princess." He smiled kissing her temple.
"Hi daddy." TK grinned. TK was only four months old when their mother passed away. She grew up believing Aya's father is hers. They'd tell her the truth if she ever asked. But other than that they would take that piece of knowledge to their graves.
"Dad!" Jack and Garrett joined the hug.
When they pulled away the majority of Max's clothes were wet.
"Ok you four, I have to go change now." Max laughed as the three younger ones ran back to the pool. "Who are your friends?" Max asked and Aya looked down.
"I tried calling…" she trailed off as her father began to chuckle.
"I was messing with you Aya." He said and Aya blushed, embarrassed.
"This is the glee club, Burt from the tire shop, he is Kurt's dad and Finn's step-dad. Carole is his wife and these are the Berry men, Rachel's fathers and Shelby, her mother. And the others are the glee club." Aya said. "Oh and Mr. Schue and Ms. Pillsbury."
Max shook the adult's hands. "Nice to meet you."
"Likewise."
Max turned to Aya. "There was something I wanted to ask you about young lady." Max said and Aya tried sidling away.
"Uh oh. The 'Aya did something' look." Garrett joked.
"Whatever it was or is, I didn't do it." Aya said as Jack, Garrett and TK laughed.
"So you weren't the one who replaced your cousin Sebastian's hairspray with red hair dye?" Max asked and Aya rolled her eyes.
"I'm not going to lie about that one." Aya said.
"Of course not." Max said. "You're proud that it worked."
"Oh dad, three years and you know me so well." Aya smiled.
"You have to call your aunt and explain why though." Max said as Aya grumbled.
"Fine, he should just be glad it was temporary."
"You and Sebastian are family Aya, treat each other as such." Max said as Aya scoffed.
"I don't like his face."
"Aya…"
"Fine I call her later and apologize." Aya gave in.
"Sebastian Smythe?" Kurt asked and Max nodded.
"You know him?"
The glee club narrowed their eyes at Aya.
"Yeah, he is on our rival glee club." Kurt said.
"You didn't tell us he was your cousin." Harmony said giving her a pointed look.
"You didn't ask and it never came up." Aya said.
"He slushied me." Santana said.
"He nearly blinded me!" Blaine shouted.
"He photo shopped those photos of me!" Finn shouted and snickers were heard. Aya turned her head to cover her smile and coughed when she composed herself.
"Well he is my cousin and the evil genius runs in the family." Aya shrugged it off.
"Genius?" They shouted.
"Oh my god! Leave it alone! Just be glad I'm on your side!" Aya shouts.
"How do we know you're on our side?" Finn shouted. "You keep insulting me and bringing me down. You've been doing it since you joined New Directions!"
Hiram and LeRoy exchanged a glance. Maybe they can recruit her into getting them to postpone the wedding to a very later date.
"You don't deserve her!" Aya shouts.
"And you do? Is that it? You have a big lesbo crush on her?" Finn shouted causing everyone to freeze and stare at him in shock.
Puck came out of his shock first and charged Finn tackling him and continued carrying him on his shoulder till they reached the pool and fell in. They began throwing hits until Sam and Mike jumped in and pulled them apart.
"You don't talk to my girl like that!" Puck shouts trying to get out of Sam's hold.
"Your girl is a bitch!"
"Finn!" Carole shouted and just like that everyone remembered that the adults were there. Puck and Finn stopped fighting in their friends' grips and stood still.
Aya stepped up. "I'll answer your questions Finn." Aya said emotionlessly. "I don't deserve Rachel; no one will ever deserve a great woman like her. And whoever she gives her love to is a very lucky bastard. Which is why I have been trying to make her see that you don't deserve her or the love she is giving her. You're making her choose between marrying you and her dreams of ruling Broadway." Rachel looked down and as if she just realized what was going on. "I will not deny that Rachel is a very attractive woman and I am very comfortable with my bisexuality. But if you talk like that in front of my siblings or scare them as much as you just have today I will make you regret it." Aya promised.
Carole and Burt turned to Max.
"I am so sorry about my son." Carole says and Max holds up his hand.
"You don't have to apologize for your son Carol. He should be the one to apologize and only when he means it." Max says giving Burt and Carol soft smiles.
"It was nice meeting you, but we have to go. I have to have a talk with my son." Carole said and Max nodded.
"Of course."
"Come on Finn!" Burt called and he turned to Kurt. "You can stay if you like."
"Thanks dad." Kurt said hugging his father.
Rachel was surprisingly quiet and Quinn noticed this. She placed her hand on Rachel's shoulder rousing her from her daze.
"Are you ok?" Quinn asked and Rachel smiled at her softly.
Aya took a step forward. "I'm sorry if I over stepped a line."
Rachel smiled at her. "You didn't. You were right. He was the one who wanted me. He always took me back after everything and I felt as if he was the only one who would take me as I am." Rachel said and it broke the hearts of those listening. Her fathers, Shelby and Quinn mostly.
"Rachel you are loved. By all of us here." Quinn says and Rachel smiles.
"I know that. But I don't want to feel alone and be alone for the rest of my life." Rachel said.
"You have a lot of time before you should worry about spending the rest of your life alone Rach." Quinn said taking Rachel's hand and intertwining their fingers. "But I'm promising you right now that I will always be by your side no matter what. Even if we are miles apart at different schools." Quinn swore and Harmony felt as if her heart cold burst. She was going to exist and Sugar hasn't had any more flashes.
Rachel beamed a full on Rachel Berry megawatt smile and nodded. "Thank you Quinn."
"You're welcome." Quinn beamed.
"Anyone hungry?" Aya asked motioning to the grill. Everyone's hands went up.
"I'll go change and get grilling." Max said.
And just like that everyone was back in the pool party mood.
Aya was in the kitchen getting more drinks when Rachel appeared next to her.
"Thank you." Rachel says and Aya scrunches up one side of her face in confusion. "You made me see that Finn isn't the one who deserves my love. And thank you for all the nice things you said." Rachel said. "I'm going to hug you now." Aya nods and Rachel hugs her.
"Quinn is very lucky." Aya whispers and Rachel freezes.
"How?"
"It's in the eyes."Aya answers walking out.
Harmony and Sugar walk over to her. "Shelby played her wild card and that is exactly what you are." Harmony says. "But you were a great move."
"And by that you mean?" Aya asked.
"You're amazing." Sugar says and Aya smiles.
"Thanks, now go have fun."
Puck walked up looking sheepishly and rubbing the back of his neck. "I uh, I don't know how much of that you heard…umf." Aya grabbed the back of his neck and brought their lips together. Before Puck could respond to the kiss Aya pulled away.
"Your girl huh?" Puck looked sheepish.
"If you want. I mean I like you and…" Aya cut him off with a sweet kiss that he did respond to and kissed back.
"I'd love to be your girl. As long as you're my man." Aya smiled and Puck grinned wrapping his arms around her and kissing her deeply.
Cat calls and wolf whistles came from their friends as they pulled apart. Aya was blushing and Puck was grinning.
"Eww!" TK cringed causing everyone to laugh.
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