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This one is Unholy Trinity centric, with a mention of Brittana
The Rise of The Three
They're called The Three. Once upon a time they used to be called The Unholy Trinity but that was just when they were high school bad girls, walking clichés of bitchy cheerleaders flinging out insults, cruel nicknames, and frozen corn syrup based drinks. That all changed the summer before their senior year when the head of the group, Quinn Fabray, dyed her hair pink, dropped out of society, and started hanging with a group of girls that called themselves The Skanks, a typical group of burnouts waiting until they were old enough to drop out of school. They weren't much more than Juvenal delinquents, truancy was their worst crime, but that was the beginnings of it.
Three months later Santana "Boss" Lopez was publically outed in the halls of McKinley High by Finn Hudson. Two days later Hudson's body was discovered in a field outside of Lima, Ohio apparently beaten to death with at least one baseball bat. Police recovered little in the way of forensic evidence but Quinn Fabray and The Skanks promptly disappeared. In the weeks that followed several banks were robbed in the West Central Ohio area, again, with little in the way of forensic evidence left behind.
Santana and her girlfriend Brittany Pierce quit the cheerleading squad. Santana started dressing in thousand dollar suits while Brittany developed an affinity for Pop Gangster clothes. Anyone giving either of them even the slightest trouble did so only once and could usually be found in the parking lot of local gas station, beaten, bloodied, and relieved of any valuables they had on their person. The cops investigated but none of the victims' descriptions of their assailants ever matched. Six weeks after the outing, Josh Coleman returned to McKinley in a wheelchair that he would be in for the rest of his life. Principal Figgins tried to tell them that they couldn't be affectionate in the hallways. He returned to work the next day with a cast on one arm and an ice pack on his crotch.
About a year later, Quinn Fabray and The Skanks resurfaced as a full-fledged, legit gang in Chicago where coincidentally Santana Lopez and Brittany Pierce now lived. Santana was attending Northwestern University with her eyes on law school. Brittany was a dancer who opened her own dance studio. Unknown to the world, was the fact that a lot of Skank money got laundered in that studio. Students who didn't exist paid monthly dues which were then paid out to dance instructors that didn't exist except on paper.
By the time Santana finished her undergrad degree in business, the studio wasn't big enough to wash all the money Quinn and The Skanks were bringing in, so Santana became the owner of her very own nightclub. They even brought on their old friend Mercedes Jones to perform nightly, although she wasn't aware of their extra-legal activities.
When Santana passed the bar and was officially the head of their legal team, Quinn decided it was time for her to step back from the street stuff and left the Skanks in the fully capable hands of her trusted lieutenant, The Mack. Quinn took over running the nightclub and all the years growing up in the Fabray household made her the ultimate hostess and soon Eclipse was Chicago's premier night spot and everyone who was anyone wanted to be there. It was so successful that they had to expand the building a couple of times, which they managed to do at a considerable discount thanks to their connections at the club, as well as Santana's efficiency in the courtroom, and The Mack's skills with a baseball bat.
Eventually Brittany's dance studio became a full fledged dance school, and rather well respected one at that with alumni of the school going on to be some of the most in demand dancers in the country and even around the world. Mike and Tina Chang eventually came to work for Brittany, and once again they remained unaware of the girls criminal activities.
The Three had their own dedicated FBI task force trying to bring them down before they were thirty, but Chicago was the kind of place that was wired for corruption and they already had their well manicured fingers too deep in. To the world, The Three were upstanding pillars of the community. They were untouchable.