During the entire week of Hanukkah while Rachel and Puck were busy Quinn was spending more and more time alone with Sam like Rachel had advised. Then Sunday they met for lunch at Breadstix to discuss Quinn's plan. "I got a few football players who owe me a favor to help us. They'll show up after ballet practice (Quinn had started taking classes to get better at dance.) and pretend to harass us, I'll text Sam and Finn will be with Puck when he comes to pick us up." Rachel broke a breadstick in half and ate it. "So, you want to see who'd save you in that situation? What if they both show up at the same time?" She asked and Quinn shook her head. "All week while I was with Sam I noticed he was texting someone a lot, I figured it might've been his friends or parents. I have a feeling it's a girl though." Quinn frowned and Rachel raised an eyebrow. "That is so not right Quinn, Sam doesn't seem like the cheating type so if he is all my perceptions about him were wrong." Quinn sighed. "He's a guy, we've been going out for months now and I haven't slept with him at all...I don't blame him if he's cheating." Rachel gasped and grabbed her hands. "Quinn don't say that, you're not obligated to give him anything you don't want to. He should respect your wishes, and if he loved you he would respect you. I mean just look at Noah, he was so in love with me he didn't sleep with anyone else even when we weren't dating." Quinn's jaw dropped in surprise. "Puck? The same guy that considers sex a way of life? He really must be in love with you." She smiled and Rachel giggled blushing a bit. "Yeah, he is."
Rachel's birthday was a few days away and Puck talked with Her dads, he wanted to make sure it would be ok for him to take her out of town for the night. "Noah we trust you, I mean there were a few unsavory moments during Rachel's sophomore year where we wanted to strangle you.." Hiram chuckled and LeRoy took over. "But other than that you've always been very protective of her so we know you won't let anything happen to her." Hiram spoke up once again. "Just promise you won't knock her up until she's at least won a Tony." He teased and Puck blushed. "I won't sir, I promise. Thanks for
helping me out with this, I'm going to go pick her up form ballet and tell her." He waved goodbye and left the Berry residence.
Rachel was waiting for him outside talking to Quinn when a car full of hockey players rolled up. Rachel looked at Quinn worriedly and whispered. "I thought you said it'd be boys from the football team..." Quinn frowned. "I did, I don't know what these jerks are doing here." She had already texted Sam to give him time to get there but at this point she didn't care who showed up as long as someone did. "Yo Fabray, Berry looking good." One of them smirked menacingly and Quinn rolled her eyes stepping in front of Rachel. "What do you trolls want? We're busy..." The boys started to climb out of the car and walk towards them. "We were just wondering why you ladies want idiots like Evans and Puckerman when you could be with somebody like us." One said, he was tall and ugly. Quinn gagged and Rachel hoped Puck was on his way. "You Neanderthals should really leave now before you regret it." Quinn said just as another one grabbed her wrist. Rachel kneed him in the balls and pulled Quinn back. "You little bitch!" He gasped out and hunched over. Another one tried to grab at them when he was stopped by Finn who punched him in the face followed by Puck. "Get to my truck babe, don't argue just go." Quinn screamed when another guy tried to grab her but Finn tackled him and Rachel got her to Pucks truck knowing it would do no good to argue with Puck. She was very worried though, it was two against six. Her Noah was strong but he couldn't take on six hockey players with only Finn as backup. Luckily for them the football players Quinn had asked to help showed up and got the hockey jerks out of there. Rachel and Quinn quickly ran towards the boys. "Noah! Noah baby are you ok?!" She helped him off of the ground while Quinn cradled Finns head in her lap. "Babe I'm fine." He rubbed his bruised cheek and winced when she dabbed at his bloody nose with a tissue. She sighed and shook her head. "You're not fine and Finn can't even get up." She turned to the football players for help. "If you boys wouldn't mind could you get Finn into the back of Noah's truck?"
They helped the girls out and got them to Rachel's house where they laid Finn on the couch before leaving. Sam had never shown up which upset Quinn, if it hadn't been for Finn and Puck she and Rachel could've been in serious trouble. Rachel ran to get the first aid kit so they could tend to the boys wounds. "Noah don't scare me like that..." She frowned while cleaning the scratches and cuts he'd gotten. "Don't worry babe I can take a hit." He tried to reassure her and Rachel sighed. "That's not the point Noah...Quinn how's Finn doing?" Quinn had Finns head elevated on her lap while she held a towel to his nose. "I'm worried Rachel he's really dizzy." Rachel stood up to get her phone and call Deborah. "Noah's mom Is a nurse, she'll help and don't argue Noah. You two got beat up pretty bad and Finn could have a concussion."
Deborah came over to the Berry residence and tended to the boys with Rachel's help while Quinn was on the phone with Sam explaining where she was. "Finn will be fine now that his nose stopped bleeding, he doesn't have a concussion thank goodness." Deborah explained while bandaging the boys. "Noah normally I'd be upset with you but under the circumstances I'm just glad you're ok." His mom kissed the top of his head and left the house after telling them to take some aspirin for their headaches. Sam showed up at Rachel's and got angry when he saw Finns head on Quinn's lap, not taking into account the fact that he was bandaged up and half conscious. "Santana was right, you are cheating on me!" Quinn's jaw dropped and puck rolled his eyes. "Evans I like you but you can be really stupid sometimes." Sam clenched his fists. "Stay out of this Puck, I'm just trying to figure out why my girlfriends ex is laying on her lap." Quinn frowned and spoke up. "First of all after what Puck did to him Finn would never do that to another guy because he knows how it feels." She gave Puck and apologetic look before continuing. "Secondly, Finns head is in my lap because he's suffering from injuries he got protecting me and Rachel from a group of hockey players along with Puck. If you would've shown up when I called you I wouldn't have been in that dangerous situation. I'm assuming because you mentioned Santana you were with her right?" Quinn glared at him and Sam got nervous. "Well I...um..." Quinn just shook her head and glanced over at Rachel and Puck. "It's fine Sam, but we're over." Sam tried to protest but Quinn shook her head. "Go Sam."
Rachel sat on Pucks lap running her fingers through his Mohawk on the recliner while Quinn sat on the couch with Finns head still in her lap. He looked up at her. "Hey Quinn...sorry about Sam, I know you really liked him." Quinn looked down at him with a reassuring smile. "I'm fine Finn it's ok, just give me a little time and then maybe we could give us another shot." She wanted to be with Finn but she did love Sam and she felt like she needed a little time to herself before jumping into another relationship so soon. Finn nodded smiling a little bit. "I'm just glad Puck and I got there when we did, who knows what those jerks would've done." Rachel shuddered and Puck wrapped his arms around her protectively. "I don't even want to think about what might've happened, I'm just glad you guys showed up." She rested her head against Pucks. "Noah, what was it you wanted to ask me by the way?" Her dads had been in the phone all afternoon tracking down the parents of the hockey idiots and threatening legal action along with Quinn's mother who kept coming upstairs to check and make sure the teens were still ok. "Yes mother nothing has changed." Quinn smiled at her mom, she doted on her way more ever since she kicked her father out. Puck chuckled at the situation before answering Rachel's question. "I wanted to know if you wanted to go out of town with me for your birthday, I already talked it over with your dads and they said they were cool with it so its up to you." Rachel smiled excitedly. "Where are we going?" She bounced on his lap a little causing him to groan inwardly feeling slightly aroused. "That's a surprise babe." He smirked when she pouted. "Don't worry Rach, it's worth the wait." She kissed him softly and laid her head on his chest. "Alright Noah, I trust you." Puck smiled and rubbed her back. "That's all I needed to hear babe."
I don't hate Sam I swear lol he's not going to be a bad person in this story and Santana will be nice to Rachel later, I'm trying to follow the episodes so right now it's after the Christmas episode but before the super bowl episode. Hanukkah in 2010 was December 1st through the 9th and Rachel's Birthday is the 18th in case anybody was wondering. Sorry for the mistakes and please review they fuel me to write lol but I'll write anyway.