Hellouuu!
Sorry for the delay, i hope you had a wonderful christmas break, Happy New Year and all of that. Well, here are the next chapter, once again, sorry for the mistakes, and sadly I don't own neither characters and stories from Glee nor Moulin Rouge, I only own the crazy mind that put them together :D
After all this time, I never really knew what happened that day. Why she fell. What happened behind those curtains.
All I know is that that day, my heart felt so happy and the next minute felt so hopeless. I wanted to know how she was, I wanted to go behind there, I didn't knew why, but my heart only wanted to know if she was okay.
But all I could do that day was to wait, wait and hope she would be okay. That I could have the opportunity to see her again, and not only because the show of the bohemians, but because something inside me was telling she could change completely my world.
And she did.
- CHAPTER 3 -
A Poetry Reading
Quinn was still unconscious, lying on the bed when Emma Pillsbury came in. "Move please, quickly"
She passed a piece of cotton soaked in alcohol in front of Quinn's nose several times, after a few minutes Quinn finally woke up gasping and panting
"Oh, Emma" Quinn whispered "Oh, these silly costumes" she said panting.
"Just a little fainting spell" Emma said, giving some medicine to Quinn.
"Where the hell is William?!" Sue Sylvester entered the room yelling. "And why are too much people here? You all freak show babies go back there! All those men won't get thirsty by themselves!" A few dancers that were there went out right away, because if making Santana get mad was bad, making Sue angry was way worst.
"Is she dead?" Sue asked nodding towards Quinn.
"Nothing for you to be worrying about" Emma answered to her in a kind of defensive way.
"You know Q? You kind of remind me of a young Sue Sylvester, but if you think that that act was hard, then try to do a toe-touch jump with both ankles broken, that's hard!
"What do you want Sue?" Emma said exasperated, she hated the way Sue used to talk to the girls.
"From you Ginger? Not a thing, well yes, tell to Weepy the Vest Clown, that he better don't blow out this opportunity with the young Duke, that this is his last chance to get me my money, if he can't do it this time, then things will be at MY way, and trust me Emily-"
"It's Emma"
"Whatever, so far I have been really really gentle with all of you, you don't want to know my angry mood... did you understand?"
"Amm, yes Sue, I will tell him"
"Perfect, well... if nobody is dead, don't just stand around then! Move people! there is a lot of work tonight" the few people of the staff that were still there, also returned to their jobs. "You too Frankenteen" she said to the very tall boy before disappear.
Quinn was still panting and coughing, the boy looked back and forth between Quinn and Emma with a concerned look in his eyes. "She's going to be okay, you can go" Emma answered his unspoken question. He nodded and looked again towards Quinn who smiled at him and whispered "Thank you" he returned her smile with his own crooked smile before turning around and leave the room.
Emma held a tissue next to Quinn's mouth so she could cough into it, and to Emma's horror she saw blood in the tissue, blood which came from Quinn's mouth.
Out in the dance hall the REAL Duke was looking for Mr. Schue. "Find Schuester. The girl's waiting for me" he said to his bodyguard Dave.
Emma Pillsbury was fastening dressing a groaning Quinn in Quinn's dressing room.
"That twinkle-toes Duke has really taken the bait, girl. With a patron like him, you could be the next Sarah Bernhardt"
"Oh, Emma, do you really think I could be like the great Sarah?"
"Why not? You've got the talent. You hook that Duke, and you'll be lighting up the great stages of Europe"
"I'm going to be a real actress, Emma. A great actress. I'm gonna fly away from here" Quinn said looking at her pet bird. "Oh yes, we can fly, fly away from here!"
At that moment Mr. Schue entered. "Duckling, is everything all right?
"Oh yes, of course, William"
"Oh thank goodness. You certainly weaved your magic with that Duke on the dance floor"
"So, anything I should know about this Duke?
"Well… he is… a very special person I must say, he is not the typical tall, strong man, and he is very pretty, a little eccentric, kind of a diva with his attitude in fact… "
"A man being a diva?" Quinn asked confused "Are you sure he likes girls?" she snorted.
"If he is not, after a night with you, he certainly will!"
"Mmm… okay, one last question… How do I look?" Quinn asked turning around to face him and posing, showing off her red dress. He gasped "Smoldering temptress" he said grinning. "Oh, my little strawberry! How could he possibly resist from gobbling you up? Everything is going so well!"
Rachel was standing in the elephant red room. The famous elephant red room. She was a little nervous, this girl makes her nervous, and she wasn't even there yet!
The bohemians were standing below the elephant, looking up. "Unbelievable! Straight to the elephant!" Blaine said.
"Told you all, I knew she could help us convincing Quinn, I heard one time that she liked girls more" Tina said.
"Wait, but Quinn knows she is a girl? She is still wearing that fake beard, Tina did you specifically told Quinn she was meeting a girl tonight, right?" Kurt asked worried.
"Ummm… maybe… maybe not, I'm not really sure" Tina answered with a guilty smile.
"Oh God! I hope she is that good with words then, our show depends on her" Blaine said looking at the window of the red room.
Rachel, scratched her cheek, this fake beard was really uncomfortable, and it make her itchy and… wait! Fake beard? Why she was still wearing this?… She suddenly felt a wave of fear, what if Quinn thought she was a guy? Tina didn't tell her? And what if she finds out she is a girl? She would feel fooled? Rachel was basically freaking out when she heard the sound of the door being open.
She wanted to turn around and look at the girl, she was dying to see her again, but she was a little nervous of how the dancer/singer would react when she discover the possible misunderstood. She took off the fake beard, she could do this, she was an artist after all, she just have to improvise and make Quinn to listen to her, and then the poetry would do the rest.
"This is a wonderful place for a poetry reading don't you think?" Quinn said closing the door behind her.
-oh God, that voice- Rachel thought, she was so so tempted to turn around and see her.
"Hmm? 'Poetic' enough for you?" Quinn asked at the figure that was backwards at her.
Rachel slightly turned her face to see her and froze, she was wearing a black penoir, walking in as sexily as she can, Rachel looking at her in amazement just could answer. "Yes."
Quinn walked over to a small table full of food. "A little, uh, supper? Maybe some champagne?" she offered.
"I'd rather just, um, get it over and done with" Rachel said, she was still backwards at her, because if she looked at her again she would get so distracted that she would lost track of her thoughts, and Rachel Berry Never fails any kind of artistic performance.
Quinn set down the champagne, which crashed into the ice bucket. "Oh" said turning around, she raised an eyebrow and smiled, in a very sexy way. "Very well. Then why don't you… come down here" Quinn said laying on the bed. "Let's get it over and done with".
Rachel closed her eyes, she was getting more nervous. "I-I prefer to do it standing"
Quinn looked at 'him' surprised, but she quickly recovered. "Oh" she said starting to get up.
"You don't have to stand. I mean, it's quite long and I'd like you to be comfortable" Rachel said without seeing the surprised look in the other girl "it's quite modern what I do, and it may feel a little strange at first, but I think if you're open, then you might enjoy it." Rachel finished, slightly turning around to smile cutely at the other girl.
Quinn didn't recovered from being surprised, yet. She was used to talk directly at men, to not be shy, but she wasn't sure why, but this person, his way of talk and that smile that was giving her, made her blush, 'he' was very pretty indeed, wait... He didn't had a beard when they were dancing before? Well… maybe 'he' shaved for her, and now 'he' looked… almost like a girl… at least she had never seen a beauty like that in a men before. Quinn shakes her head ignoring her thoughts, she was a professional, she couldn't lose concentration now, she needed his money. "I'm sure I will" she said.
"Excuse me…" Rachel walked a little off to the side, turning her back on Quinn again. "The sky- the sky is- is-" she stopped; she was getting distracted because the other girl had begun to moan on the bed, why was she moaning? She was trying to seduce her?, because it was working! "-with the bluebirds" her body was becoming warmer with every moan that was coming from the other girl mouth, and she wasn't even looking at her! She had never met someone that could affect her this way before.
Quinn was getting a little impatient. She stopped moaning and sat on the edge of the bed. "Um, is everything all right?"
"Yes, I'm just a little nervous. It's just sometimes it takes a while for… you know, inspiration to come" Rachel answered.
"Oh" Quinn said, getting off the bed and walking up to 'him'. "Oh yes, yes. Let Mummy help, hmm?" she moved closer to the other girl who was still backwards, she snaked her arms through her sides and reached down to grab 'his' crotch; Rachel gasped at the feeling; "Does that inspire you?" Quinn said, throwing her onto the bed and straddling her "Let's make love"
"Make love?" Rachel was equally excited, surprised and scared.
"You want to, don't you?"
"Well, I came to-"
"No, tell the truth. Can't you feel the poetry?" Quinn said and from her position begun to undoing 'his' shirt.
"Wait, wait" Rachel tried to stop her, but the other girl only stopped, -froze in fact- when she saw Rachel's cleavage.
"What the…" the girl was shocked.
"Don't freak out, please, I can explain-" Rachel begged.
Quinn didn't say anything else, her head was working so hard in trying to understand the situation to not lose control of it, she slowly removed the hat that apparently was glued to the head of the person below of her -because it didn't fall with all these movements- and when she did it, a wave on brown hair fell in the other girl's shoulders, filling the room with a scent of vanilla… a girl… she looked down to the girl, her hair, her eyes, her lips, everything… and then the words of Mr. Shue replayed in her mind… 'He is not the typical tall, strong man'… 'He is very pretty'… 'A little eccentric'… 'Kind of a diva in fact'… and then the realization hit her, maybe she was one of those person who are 'caught' in a wrong body, she had heard about that before. Over thinking about it, it had more sense to her, also this explain why she was so pretty, and why she felt so attracted for her, so, she composed herself and resume with her original plan.
"-and that's how I ended up here" Rachel said, without noticing that Quinn hadn't hear her at all.
"What? No, you don't have to explain, it's okay, I get it" Quinn continued to remove her shirt, but this time slower and sexier and looking directly at the other girl's eyes with a playful smile on her face.
"What-What are y-you doing?" Rachel was lost in that beautiful hazel eyes that was looking at her, but the wild beat of her heart was alerting her of what was happening.
"Oh come on, you want this as much as I do, I can feel it" Quinn said making the other girl blush.
"Oh" that was all Rachel could said, where was her ability of speak when she needed it? But, with these view and the feeling of her hands on her, her brain was off of service.
When Quinn finished unbuttoning the other girl's shirt and opened it wide, she was amazed, the almost bare chest of the other girl was exposed, she could see the form of her breasts, her tanned skin, the way her chest moved up and down with every breathe "Oh God you are so beautiful" she whispered making the other girl blushed deeper, and then she felt it, she felt a wave of desire she had never felt before, usually she had to fake it, no matter how handsome the client was, she never really felt it, so, she had become an expert in faking. But this was real, she really wanted to touch that perfect skin, and wanted to taste every inch of it. "I need your poetry NOW" Quinn said with a husky voice, lowering her lips to touch that desired skin.
"Poetry?" Rachel's mind finally reacted and made her go back to reality "Yes poetry! All right" she struggled to get out from under Quinn, who gasped. Rachel got off the bed, crawling a little bit before finally standing up. "It's a little bit funny…"
"What?" Quinn said, she was frustrated.
"This f-feeling inside. I'm not one of those who can- who can easily hide. Is this— is this okay? Is this want you want?" Rachel asked.
"Oh poetry, yes, yes, this is what I want, naughty words" Quinn said erotically rolling around the bed.
"I-I don't have much money, but, if I did- I'd buy a big house where we both could live…"
"Oh, I love them, Oh it's so good!" the star of the Moulin rouge was moaning, distracting Rachel again.
"I know it's not much… but it's the best I can do…"
"Oh naughty! Don't stop! Yes, yes!"
Rachel was at a loss of words as Quinn continued rolling around erotically on the bed, what's wrong with this girl? She thought, it looked like she was determinate to melt her brain. How she saw that at this pace, words wouldn't going to work, she decided to do what she does best… sing.
"MY GIFT IS MY SONG! AND THIS ONE IS FOR YOU…"
Quinn stopped rolling and moaning and froze again, hearing that powerful and beautiful voice.
"AND YOU CAN TELL EVERYBODY, THAT THIS IS YOUR SONG,
IT MAY BE QUITE SIMPLE BUT, NOW THAT IS DONE,
I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND, I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND,
THAT I PUT DOWN IN WORDS…
HOW WONDERFUL LIFE IS, NOW YOU'RE IN THE WORLD"
As she continued singing Quinn standed up, and walked toward her, and she felt another new sensation, but this time it wasn't desire or anything carnal, it was her heart, her heart was beating fast, excited, happy, that was very new for her too, she never, ever lose control of her heart, In fact she used to think that she had it closed in a box where only she had the key… but, it could be possibly that this girl in front of her could use her voice like another way to set free her heart?. They were now facing each other, standing close.
"SO EXCUSE ME FORGETTING, BUT THESE THINGS I DO,
YOU SEE I'VE FORGOTTEN IF THEY'RE GREEN OR THEY'RE BLUE,
ANYWAY THE THING IS, WHAT I REALLY MEAN,
YOURS ARE THE SWEETEST EYES I EVER SEEN…"
They start dancing and they felt how if they were lifted into the air by some sort of magical mist. Even the moon was singing for them. They continued dancing while Rachel sung.
"AND YOU CAN TELL EVERYBODY,
THAT THIS IS YOUR SONG,
IT MAY BE QUITE SIMPLE BUT,
NOW THAT IS DONE,
I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND,
I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND,
THAT I PUT DOWN IN WORDS,
HOW WONDERFUL LIFE IS…"
Rachel twirled Quinn around, as they return to the elephant from the somewhere magical where the magic of Rachel's voice took them.
"…NOW YOU'RE IN THE WORLD" Rachel hold Quinn back as she hold the note on 'world'.
"Oh, I can't believe it. I'm in love. I'm in love with a young, beautiful, talented Duke" Quinn said giggling.
"A Duke?" Rachel asked confused.
"Well, a Duchess, not that the title's important, of course."
"I'm not a Duke or Duchess"
"You are not?"
"No, I'm a writer, and singer"
"No!"
"You talked with Tina, she told you about me, right?"
"Tina? Oh, no. You're not another of Tina's oh-so-talented, charmingly bohemian, tragically impoverished protégés?"
"You might say that, yes"
Quinn clapped her hand over her mouth. "Oh, no! I'm going to kill her! I swear I'm gonna kill her!"
"Well, we almost did it" Tina said, she was spying on them from the top of the elephant.
Quinn ran to her door, Rachel after her.
"Tina told me—" Rachel begun
"What about the Duke?" Quinn interrupted her. She opened her door and to her horror, she saw Mr. Schue outside of it talking with the Duke. "My Dear Duke!" she heard Mr. Schue saying.
"The Duke!" Quinn gasped closing the door.
"The Duke?" Rachel was still confused.
"Hide! Out the back!" Quinn ordered, but unfortunately Mr. Schue opened the door in that moment, Quinn trying to think fast raised her (see-through) robe up, trying to hide Rachel, luckily she was a tiny girl. Rachel ducked behind Quinn's legs.
"My Dear, are you decent for the Duke?" Mr, Schue said smiling.
Quinn carefully turned around to face Mr. Schue, still hiding Rachel behind.
"Where were you?" Mr. Schue asked.
"Mmm… I-uh…" She moved carefully over to the refreshments table, allowing Rachel to hide behind it. "… I was waiting." She answered.
"Dearest Duke. Allow me to introduce Mademoiselle Quinn."
Quinn moved her hand across her leg, seductively "Mmm… Monsieur, how wonderful of you to take the time out of your busy schedule to visit"
"The pleasure, I fear, will be entirely mine, my dear." Jesse said with a smirk.
Rachel peeked from behind the table to see what's going on.
"I'll leave you two squirrels to get better acquainted. Ta-da" Mr. Schue said before leaving the room.
Jesse leaned down to kiss Quinn's hand. " A kiss on the hand may be quite continental—"
"But Diamonds are the girl's best friend" Quinn finished the sentence chuckling.
"Oh, well. After tonight's pretty exertions on the stage, you must surely be in need of refreshment, my dear" Jesse walked closer to the table (which Rachel was still hiding behind) to get some champagne.
"Don't!…" Quinn practically yelled "…You… just… love the view, hmm?"
"Charming" he said, reaching out for the champagne again.
Quinn squealed "Oh! Oh. I feel like dancing! Whoo-whooo!" she started to Trill.
The Duke Jesse just chuckled nervous, while Rachel peeked out from the top of the table to see what's going on again. Quinn continued to make weird noises to keep the duke distracted and far from the table where Rachel was hidden.
"You see, I would like a glass of champagne" Jesse said a little annoyed by the interruptions.
"No!" Quinn yelled while Rachel ducked her head behind the table again. Jesse looked at her oddly. "It's — it's a little bit funny…"
The Duke Jesse still looking at Quinn, picked up the champagne from behind him. Rachel looked back up. "What is?" he asked.
"This…" Quinn begun. Rachel whispered very quietly to her -Feeling-
"Feeling…" now Rachel pointed to her stomach and whispered -Inside-
"Inside." Quinn finished the sentence.
Rachel whispered to Quinn the next part.
Quinn was trying to make out what she was saying. "I'm not one of those… who can easily…" Rachel hid behind her hands, came out, and hid again to try to get the next word to Quinn. "… Hide!"
When Rachel was going to hide behind the table again she accidentally knocked something over, causing it to crash, and she ducked her head behind the table as Jesse started to turn around.
"No!" Quinn ran over to the Duke, causing him to pay his attention on her, she kneeled down and hugged his legs. "I don't have much money, but if I did, oh, I'd buy a big house… where we both could live" she recited while opening the Duke's legs so she could see Rachel, and pointed to the door, indicating that she can leave through it. She closed the Duke's legs and exhale, getting ready to sing.
"I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND, I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND, THAT I PUT DOWN IN WORDS…" Quinn begun to sing as she slowly stand up and Rachel does too, but behind Jesse. "…HOW WONDERFUL LIFE IS, NOW YOU'RE IN THE WORLD."
The eyes of the Duke Jesse sparkled literally when she finished. "That's very beautiful" he said.
Quinn glanced at Rachel, then back at Jesse. "It's from Spectacular, Spectacular. Suddenly, with you here I finally understood the true meaning…" she put her arms around the Duke's neck and pointed Rachel to the door "…of those words. 'How wonderful life is now you're in the world'".
"What meaning is that, my Dear?" he asked.
Rachel opened the door and start to leave out it, but when she looked outside she saw David, Jesse's manservant, so, she slammed the door to close it.
Quinn trying to distract the Duke from the loud noise, she quickly lay on the bed and began to cries out, slamming her fists on the bed as she does. "No, no… Duke!" she pointed at the Duke, as if accusing him. "Don't you toy with my emotions. You— you must know the effect you have on women." She sobs while she stand up walking to the Duke and pulling him to the bed. "Let's make love!"
Rachel was hidden behind a curtain, which really wasn't hiding her at all.
"You want to make love don't you?" Quinn asked to the Duke.
"Make Love?" he said, he was pretty confused with Quinn's behavior.
Quinn sort of started to kiss him and looked at Rachel menacingly, gesturing for her to escape out the back of the room, Rachel did started to run to the back. "I knew you felt the same way! Oh, Oh, Duke!" Rachel stopped and turned to look pleadingly at Quinn. "Get out of here or he'll kill you" Quinn whispered to her.
"Yes, yes you're right. We should wait until opening night" she said to the Duke, giving Rachel an 'are-you-happy-now?' face, and waving her off. She nodded at her, pleased, and went to the back, where she hided.
"Wait, What?" the Duke Jesse said.
"There's a power in you that scares me. You should go"
"But I just got here"
"Yes, but we'll see each other every day during rehearsals. We-we must wait. We must wait until opening night. Get out." Quinn pushed him out of the room and shut the door. Rachel came out from hiding.
"Do you have any idea— any idea what would have happened if you were found—" Quinn didn't finished her sentence, she started to gasp and then faint. When she was starting to fall Rachel caught her.
That was the first time I held Quinn in my arms, it wasn't in the ideal circumstances, but it was the very first time.
Also was the first time I met the famous 'Duke' and the first time we fool him.
But what wasn't the first time, was seeing my Angel fall again.
Luckily I was there to catch her, and in that precise moment I promised to myself that I ALWAYS gonna be there, in case she could fall again.
I didn't knew how at that moment, but I had to be a part of her life, I needed to be a part of her heart, because she already was part of mine.
What I didn't knew was that she would become the owner of ALL my heart.
Literally.
- End of Chapter 3 -