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Rachel lay on her stomach on her bed as she ran her fingers delicately over Quinn's baby bump. "Have you thought of any names for her?" Rachel asked as she felt a kick against her fingers.
"Um...not really...is that bad?" Quinn asked suddenly feeling guilty.
Rachel sat up beside her girlfriend sensing Quinn's feelings and she smiled softly "No it isn't baby...so does that mean no Drizzle Fabray"
Rachel smirked and Quinn hit her with the closest pillow she could find.
"Definetly not!"
Rachel burst into giggles.
Quinn smiled at hearing Rachel's beautiful infectious laugh. "Have you got any ideas?" Quinn asked.
Rachel smiled "A few". She reached over and took out a folder from under her bed. Quinn smirked "Just a few, huh" Rachel elbowed her softly "Um, what about Barbara?"
"No"
"Okay...um, Celine?"
"No"
"Patty"
"No"
"Idina"
"Are all these names of Broadway singers?"
"No...Bette?"
Quinn smiled "I like the name Beth or Bethany."
"No just Bette like Bette Midler. Oh Quinn we have to tell dad and daddy to drive us out to see her in her show. What?"
Quinn was shaking her head at Rachel "Any other names in there?"
"Um, Charlotte"
"Awh she could be Charlie for short."
Rachel coughed the word "lesbian" and Quinn pushed her lately.
Quinn smiled "I have two names now "Beth and Charlie" to choose from, it's a start"
Rachel looked down at your nails. "You should probably talk to Puck about them...S-s-so he knows and can have input."
Quinn pouted "I suppose, but I am giving her up either way. She deserves the best."
Rachel whispered "You are the best" but she dropped the subject knowing how hard it is for Quinn to think about keeping her.
Rachel snuggled close to Quinn and yawned "Night Quinn" as she fell asleep.
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Quinn woke up early the next morning needing to pee, she woke Rachel up and Quinn lay in bed watching as Rachel used her eliptical with Rachel stage whispering "You are acting like a pedo Fabray"
They got a lift to school by Leroy claiming that it was not safe for Quinn to be driving in her trimester. Rachel said goodbye to Quinn in the carpark. And they made their separate way to class only Rachel wasn't going to class she was going to spy on Vocal Adrenaline. Quinn was in homeroom doodling love hearts while Rachel searched the Carmel High dumpsters for clues. She was too busy to realise that she was going to miss the start of Glee rehearsal.
At Glee club practice Tina came in dressed in grey sweats, everyone looked at her, feeling like they were seeing her naked without her usual gothed out gear. Quinn looked around for Rachel. She needed to kiss Rachel badly, her hormones were all over the place and her girlfriend had dissappeared. Artie peered at Tina and stated "This is so weird". Finn chimed in as he starred "This so isn't you."
"I feel like an asian branch dividian"
"Tina are there any other looks you can try?" Mr Shuester suggested trying to cheer up the girl.
The class started to give her their suggestions.
"Biker chick?" 'Rachel would look so hot as a biker chick, dressed in leather with some grease marks.'
"Cowgirl?" 'Rachel with jeans and her sexy ass and a cowboy hat, oh my god...'
"Hood rat?" 'They need to stop suggesting things before I implode'
"Computer programmer." Quinn added hoping people would stop with their suggestions after that.
"Country skier" 'Don't picture Rachel o her elipitical, sweat dripping down her chest...'
"Catholic school girl?" 'Oh, I would bend Rachel over my knee and...'
"Happy meal no onions or a chicken"
Tina shot them all down "Look I appreciate it guys but it just isn't me, I know who I am and I am not allowed to show it. It's like communism."
Mr Shuester was about to say something when Rachel stormed into the room.
'She looks so hot when she storms into rooms, her skirt always moves up more...'
"Guys! We have a serious problem. You know how I've been doing some deep background on Vocal Adrenialine."
Artie cut her off mid sentence. "Isn't that against the rules?"
"No not at all. Or Probably. Whatever. Anyway what I figured out. I rooted through the dumpsters behind the Carmel auditorium and I found 18 empty boxes of Christmas lights."
"Oh no"
"Which lead me to Joe all fabrics, I asked them about red chantily lace and they said they are were sold out."
"Oh sweet jesus"
"Oh my"
"What?"
"They are doing Gaga" Quinn shook her head 'Ugh I need to kiss her and now she will be in panicked Glee mode'
"Oh that's it, it's over"
"Exactly" Rachel said feeling like they already lost.
Quinn rolled head bored and frustrated
"We should have guessed it they are going for full out theatricality. They know it is the easiest way to beat us, damn them!"
"What is up with this Gaga dude? He just like dresses weird, right? like Bowie?" Puck asked honestly confused.
Rachel scoffs at his ineptitude to soon to be iconic singers while Quinn rolled her eyes.
"Lady Gaga is not a dude! She is the biggest pop act to come along in decades. She is boundary pushing. The most theatrical performer of our generation. And she changes her look faster than Brit changes sexual partners."
"That's true." Brittany said quietly.
"It makes sense Vocal Adrenialine would pay homage. It is a perfect fit for them."
"Hold on a second, we might be able to kill two birds with one stone here, we can help Tina find a new look and find a competive number for Regionals, This week you assignment...Gaga"
Everyone looked at him shocked including Quinn. Quinn's mind started racing. Thoughts of Rachel singing about poker faces and sex and wearing almost revealing clothes.
"Pens, I need pens, my ideas just come to me, brainstorming"
"My office"
After Glee rehearsal was over Quinn almost grabbed Rachel and whispered "Bathroom now"
Quinn walked ahead and stormed into the abandoned bathroom and waited for Rachel. Rachel walked in and locked the door and said "Hi Qui-" but was cut off by Quinn's lips crashing against hers.
Quinn moved her hands under Rachel's top as she kissed her girlfriend against the bathroom tiles. Quinn moved her hands down to Rachel's skirt and began moving her fingers up Rachel's thighs before pulling down Rachel's panties.
Rachel gasped as she felt Quinn's fingers move their experiened way against her skin. Rachel broke the kiss and moaned loudly as Quinn began to thrust her fingers into Rachel.
Brittany who was on her way to Algebra but had gotten lost jumped as she passed the bathroom, sure that there was ghosts haunting that particular room from the loud moans they made.
Quinn smirked as Rachel came unraveled and she kissed Rachel's cheek "I have wanted to do that since this morning."
Rachel stuttered as she tried to focus "I-i-i would have skipped my investi-investigation if I had known that...wow...that, that was the alt-alternative"
Quinn smirked "Rooting in dumpsters is investigating?"
Rachel pouted "They lock their auditorium."
Rachel pulled up her panties and fixed her hair and makeup as Quinn did the same "I think I have an idea but we may need Mercedes."
The girls fixed their clothes and made their way out of the ladies bathroom in search of Ms. Jones.
Mercedes helped them break into the auditorium and the three girls snuck in at the upper left balcony of the Carmel Auditorium to watch their opposition perform.
"You think they can see us?" Mercedes asked a bit scared that she had gone along with the girls' plan but more scared to be in the same space as the two "enemies"
"If they catch us, can they throw us in jail?" Quinn asked as she snuck into her seat.
"Stealing their ideas is not a crime" Rachel said as she squeezed Quinn's hand lightly.
They watched as Vocal Adrenaline dressed head to toe in red lace went through a routine with Shelby Corcoran counting them in.
"They look amazing" Rachel whispered.
"Enough...you guys aren't getting it." Shelby told her club "You are letting the costumes do all the work. Theatricallity isn't about crazy outfits. It is not enough to dose yourself in gasoline, you have to light yourselves on fire and make it work."
Rachel watched in awe "God she's good." Quinn smiled as she seen the resemblance Rachel had to the woman.
"Being theatrical doesn't mean you have to be a nueclear explosion, it can be like a quiet storm. You just have to radiate emotion. Express what's deep inside you. That's what theatricallity is truly about. Do I have to demonstrate? Funny Girl in E flat."
"Exactly what I would have done." Rachel tells Quinn. "Barbara, I could do it in my sleep."
Shelby starts singing. Quinn starts to smile she feels the baby stop kicking like it does when Rachel sings. But Rachel however hears something familar, too familar. The voice she had heard every night for the past week as she went to bed, the voice that haunted her.
She stood up and Quinn looked at her "Get back her!" she hissed hoping Rachel would hear the seriousness in her voice and not get them caught but Rachel's legs moved on their own accord. She walked down the balcony steps and towards the stage and she spoke as though her mind couldn't stop her.
"Miss Corcoran. I'm Rachel Berry. I'm your daughter."
Quinn watched in the same spot completely frozen while the Vocal Adrenaline team had been dismissed by Shelby to leave.
Rachel sat a row in front of her mother. Not even looking at her. Too shocked. They had sat in silence for almost ten minutes. Neither sure on what to say. Finally Rachel spoke.
"Did you ever regret it?"
"Yes. Then no. Then so much."
"When did you realise it was the right time for me to find you?"
"I saw you sing at sectionals. You were extraordinary. You were me."
Quinn watched it unfold wondering if her child would ever find her.
"Was it hard for you to not become a star? Not have your dreams come true?"
"It felt like a broken promise, like the fisherking's wound. It never heals."
Quinn held her stomach and felt a shiver run down her spine. The woman was Rachel Berry...what if her daughter was like her this much. Quinn began to tear up at the idea as Mercedes paid no attention to her as she texted Kurt while she watched Rachel.
"Wow, genetics really are amazing. You see the world with the same fierce theatricallity as I do. Even the way we are sitting right now, it is so dramatic and yet we feel so comfortable with it."
"I've missed so much" Shelby uncrossed her legs and leaned forward to her daughter "How do you feel?"
Quinn sat up straight and looked down at Rachel hoping she was okay.
"Thirsty. When I was little and I use to get sad my dads would get me a glass of water. It got so I couldn't tell if I was sad or just thirsty."
Quinn smiled softly "That explains so much" she whispered low enough for only herself to hear.
Shelby teared up and sat back "I shouldn't have done this" She stood up to leave "This was supposed to feel good, we were supposed to have some slow motion run into each other's arms, this is all wrong"
Rachel's tried to keep the tears inside that were threathening to fall.
"Maybe we could go to dinner or something maybe just to get over the intial shock."
"I am so sorry Rachel, ugh...I'll, I'll call you"
Rachel watched as Shelby walked away and sat back in her seat and started to cry. Mercedes and Quinn ran down from their hiding spots to comfort Rachel. Rachel was bent over crying almost hysterically. Quinn told Mercedes to get the car and she did as she was told.
"She-she doesn't want me...because I am a loser." Rachel cried into Quinn's shoulder.
Quinn cupped her face "Baby, look at me, you are not a loser. You heard her, you are extraordinary. She is just scared that she is not parent material, your dad's are your parents...she probably just realised that she messed with that...baby, trust me."
Rachel sniffed and wiped her eyes "T-t-thank you baby, I know you don't want to keep your baby but if she ever found you will you promise to be kind to her."
Quinn nodded with tears in her eyes. "I promise...but for now let's go home."
Rachel took Quinn's hand and they walked to the car. Mercedes drove them back to the school.
"Hey Rach, are you sure you don't want me to drive you home?"
Rachel just nodded at Mercedes. Quinn smiled "You can let me out here too, I have to get a book from my locker."
Both girls got out and waited for Mercedes to drive off before walking back to Rachel's together.
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Santana text Quinn as she lay in a roll out bed in Puck's basement
*Hey Q, my abuela's making gaga costumes for Brits & I want in?*
Quinn smiled and text back/
*Thanks San, sure, can it be pink with stars?*
*No probs!*
She knew how much Rachel loved pink and how stars were her methaphor for her being a star. Quinn wanted to do anything to make Rachel smile after everything she went through.
The next day Quinn found Puck after taking his daily nap in the nurses office. She caught up to him in the hall "Hey Puck wait up" Puck waited and smiled "What's up baby mama?"
Quinn scowled at the name but tried to brush it off "I picked two baby names for us to chose from; Beth or Charlie...what do you think?"
Puck shook his head "They are lame! I have the perfect name 'Jack Daniels'"
Quinn stormed past him "That is a terrible name" she told him as she opened her locker and gathered her books trying to remain calm.
"You're wrong, it is a really good name It is a rockstar name." Puck said defending the name.
"You want to name our daughter; Jack Daniels, she is a girl."
"Okay, Fine, whatever, Jackie Daniels."
Quinn had reached boiling point and just got frustrated that he was not the guy she dreamed of as the father of one of her children, because until two years ago she never really thought that her child may have no father but instead two mothers. That was until Rachel came into her life.
"The name is not the point. I told you this. I am giving up the baby so I don't have to do this with you. This is good for you. Now you can go off, be a rockstar youself."
Quinn walked away leaving Puck at her locker and going in search of Santana.
She found her in the carpark taking 3 dresses out of the trunk of her car.
"Hi Quinn, thought you had forgot...oh my Aubulito made you this star thing in his workshop be careful though it could kill someone." Santana said as she handed Quinn the spiked star carefully.
The three headed down the halls. Santana smiled "I know an abandoned ladies room we can get changed in." Brittany stopped outside the door and whispered "But the ghosts?"
The girls changed and Quinn put in fake eyelashes and smiled "Britt you look awesome" Santana smiled at Brittany's megawatt smile.
They made their way to Glee club.
At Glee club all the girls and Kurt dressed in their Gaga attire.
Mr Schuester stood in front of the class "Little Monster's take a bow."
"Ladies, Kurt. I am really impressed and each one of your costumes shows of a different aspect of your personalities."
"Wait, where's Rachel? I mean I only notice because like 5 minutes have gone by without her saying something totally obnoxious." Puck said looking around. Quinn shot him an evil look but she was worried about the same thing.
"Rachel kinda got some intense news yesterday" a purple haired Mercedes announced to the class. Quinn jumped in hoping she could make up a lie about something they found out about Regionals and not Rachel.
"We were spying on Vocal Adrenaline and" Quinn was interupted before she could finish by Mr Schue. "You guys that is not fair, you gotta stop doing that...but uh, what did you find out?"
"Y'all ready, Ms. Corcoran; their coach, she is Rachel's mom"
Quinn looked down at her star with sad eyes.
"Are you serious?"
"Way to bury the lead Mercedes"
"We are screwed, Rachel is gonna jump ship over to Vocal Adrenaline."
"Never"
Quinn smiled as she saw Rachel in the doorway but frowned at her costume.
"I really don't wanna talk about I am still processing the news and my dad's are moving our therapist to our spare room later this afternoon. A-a-all I know is that I am not going anywhere. I chose the Lady Gaga look that expresses the longing for a childhood I was deprived off."
"You look terrible , I look awesome"
"I think it is the kermit the frog look"
A frog stuffed animal fell to the floor
"And we have a jumper"
Quinn pouted as she noticed her lame stuffed animal on Rachel's headband.
"My dad's can't sew so these are just stapled on"
"Guys why don't we worry about this later and maybe try to focus on the song."
"I couldn't agree with you more"
The girls and Kurt sang Bad Romance with dance routines added in but in the end the boys barely clapped.
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Quinn tried to talk to Rachel at lunch but she couldn't find her.
Rachel had snuck into the Carmel High auditorium as their Glee club performed a number in their red lace costumes. Rachel waited until Shelby sent her club on a break before approaching her.
"Mom" she said scared
"Honey, you gotta stop sneaking into these rehearsals"
"It's kinda important"
Rachel showed Shelby her Lady Gaga dress.
"Oh dear god!"
"My dad's can't sew. I really need a mom right now. Do you think you can help?"
Shelby took Rachel to the Carmel High home economics room and took her daughter's measurements.
"You are very beautiful." Shelby said softly as she began to sew fabric together. Rachel blushed and looked down "Thank you, so are you, Quinn, my friend, pointed it out yesterday how much you look like a broadway singer I love."
"Idina Menzel" Shelby said bored "I was a look a like in New York for a while but the work dried up when she left Wicked, do you like wicked?"
Rachel held her heart "I love it!"
"Me too..." They smiled awkwardly at the moment.
Time passed as Shelby worked in silence.
It was broken by Rachel asking "Are you married?"
Shelby blew a hair off her face "I was always too busy."
Rachel let out a low "Oh..."
Shelby smiled lightly "So what about you?"
Rachel looked at her confused "I am too young to get married."
Shelby shook her head. "Are you seeing someone?"
Rachel looked down "Kinda" she said softly.
Shelby knew Jessie was fake dating her but she wanted to make sure it hadn't gotten too serious.
"Um, can I tell you a secret?"
Shelby nodded "Sure"
Rachel exhaled "You know that blonde girl that was here yesterday."
"Yeah, you lot really gotta work on your spying."
Rachel smiled softly "She is..is my, my girlfriend."
Shelby gasped and took a moment to let it all in.
"Are you okay with that?"
Shelby smiled and held Rachel's hand "Yes honey." Shelby let go of her hand and held up the dress "What do you think?"
Rachel beamed and Shelby made her try it on.
"It needs one more thing." Shelby reached into her bag and gave Rachel her sunglasses. "Now you look like a star."
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"Sorry I'm late" Rachel said as she came into the auditorium in her new outfit.
"Woah looking good Rachel"
"Thanks my mom made it"
Rachel gave a small twirl for Quinn's benifit and nobody elses before she leaned against the small wall as the boys sang "Shout it" .
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Later that day Puck's mom had arranged for a shopping trip with her, Puck and Quinn for baby stuff. Even though Quinn insisted she was giving it up for adoption, Mrs. Puckerman kept saying that a few baby grows wouldn't hurt to pick up.
While at the mall Puck kept pestering Quinn to pick a rockstar name for their child like "Jackie Daniels", "Snapple" instead of apple driving Quinn insane. So much so that she walked off on him and his mom and walked back to their house and locked her bedroom door avoiding Puck and his family.
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Rachel was in Glee club the next day showing her glasses off to Mercedes when Puck came into the room.
"Mr Schue, there is something I want to say to Quinn and I want everybody to hear it."
"Alright."
"At first I didn't get this theatrical assingment being larger than life and putting it all out there because I am kinda like that all the time that's how my dad was too. He was too busy being all crazy and rock and roll to be there for his kid and you know what I didn't care that my dad was a badass...I just wanted him to be there and he never was...and then I learned all the Kiss stuff while Jackie Daniels is a good name for a like, a power boat, or something, it is not right for a baby girl."
"So if my Kiss mates will help me out, I got a better idea, grab a stool guys,"
The boys all took a chair and sang Kiss' song "Beth"
Quinn teared up and Rachel smiled softly at the name. Puck finished the song and stood before Quinn.
"I know you are giving her up, but I think you should name her Beth, If you let me, I'd really like to be there when she's born, I'd really like to meet her."
Quinn nodded at Puck as the bell rang. All went there separate way except for Quinn and Rachel. They headed for the bathroom.
Rachel helped Quinn fix her make up and Quinn held Rachel's hands "Baby, I don't want you there when the baby is born." Rachel looked at Quinn hurt.
"You will get attached and want to keep her and I need you tell me that I shouldn't, that I can't, I need you Rachel."
Rachel kissed Quinn's hands. "I promise."
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Quinn went to the nurse's office to take a nap while Rachel went to the auditorium to practice another song for Glee. She was by the piano when she heard a voice behind her ask
"How did your dad's come up with the name Rachel?"
She smiled softly "They were big Friend's fans...I know why you're here" She had seen the pain in Quinn's eyes today and she knew how hard it must have been for Shelby to give her up and how she was a reminder of that now.
"...to say goodbye" Rachel finished.
"I really wanted this to work...you what really turned me...that story you told me about your dads and how they would bring you water when you were sick...we are never gonna have anything like that, it is too late for us. I just think anything we share right now is gonna be confusing for you."
Rachel nodded knowing it was for the best "I just don't understand I feel awful right now, I should want to fall into your arms and let your rock me and let me know that everything is going to be fine but I just don't feel it."
"It's because I am your mother I am not your mom"
"So what do we just pretend we don't know each other now"
"That seems silly, lets just be grateful for one another, from afar, for a while. Don't think for a second, I'm going soft on you at regionals"
"Bring it" Rachel laughed lightly to ease the tension.
"Can I have a hug goodbye?"
"Sure"
They hugged and Rachel realised how heart wrenching it will be for Quinn.
"Can you do me one more favor, some time when you are thirsty. Can you get yourself something with this cup, gold stars are sorta my thing."
"Of Course...Shelby before you go, could you sing with me, just one time, it is sorta a fantasy of mine, it would really mean a lot to me."
"I would be honoured"
"Brad!...he is always just around."
Brad appeared and she sang Lady Gaga's poker face with her mother.
"You are really, really good" Shelby told her before cupping her face and leaving.
Rachel tried not to cry in front of Brad but that night she was snuggled into Quinn's arms crying her eyes out while Quinn just held her and ran her fingers through her hair.
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The next day at Glee club the club helped Kurt fight off Karofsky and Azimo realising that as freaks they had to stick together.
And that's what you MISSED last time on Glee.