Turn To Stone Chapter 17 Beautiful soul, a glee fanfic

Disclaimer : I do not own Glee.

When I arrived on stage, people stopped clapping in order for me to be able to talk. "I'd like to sing this some for someone special. And I'd also like to thank her for giving me a chance to show her that she's everything for me. I've always been in love with her, and this is me, singing a song to tell her about my feelings." I said, talking into the microphone.

I made the most of the silence to quickly add something before I started singing. "I'd just like to add that Rachel Berry is beautiful, no matter what" I said, looking directly at her and then giving her a smile, waiting for the guitar player to start playing.

(Quinn|Background singers|Quinn and background singers)

"I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul
You're the one I want to chase
You're the one I want to hold
I won't let another minute go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul"

That's how to song started. And I have to admit, I'm quite proud of myself. I thought that I was going to have stage fright, you know, this being the first time that I'm actually singing for someone, alone on stage. I'm also quite satisfied with the look on Rachel's face. She seems to be having fun, and she has that smile on her face, the one that I love. I continued singing...

"I know, that you
Are something special
To you, I'd be
Always faithful
I want, to be
What you always needed
Then I hope you see the heart in me

I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul
You're the one I want to chase
You're the one I want to hold
I won't let another minute go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul
Your beautiful soul... Yeah"

Now everyone was up and clapping to the songs, swaying to the music. Sometimes at the end of one of the lines, I ended up letting out a chuckle, which was for Rachel, quite unprofessional, but she laughed anyway.

"You might, need time
To think it over
But I'm, just fine
Moving forward
I'll ease, your mind
If you give the chance
I will never make you cry
Come on let's try

That's when I rolled off stage and over to Rachel, who was watching every move that I was making. Everyone cheered when I got off stage and started making my way over to the petite brunette who held an obvious look of embarrassment on her face, but it was cute, the way she brought her hand up to cover her eyes and giggled helplessly was adorable. I could have just filmed that moment. The background singers started singing the last part for me, and that's when I arrived right in front of her.

"Am I crazy for wanting you?
Maybe do you think you could want me too?
I don't want to waste your time
Do you see things the way I do?
I just want to know that you feel it too
There is nothing left to hide"

I was looking right into her eyes, and my hands had somehow managed to slip themselves into hers. I swayed my arms so that they were swaying to the tune of the song. I then let go of one of her hands and lead her to the stage. She helped me push my wheelchair onto the elevated platform since I couldn't handle moving a wheelchair with only one hand.

When the background singers had ended their part, we were now on stage and Rachel was looking at me with her big brown eyes. I could have just died, right there, right now, because everything seemed so perfect. The last part that I sang alone wasn't accompanied by music, only by the clapping of the audience. But I felt like Rachel and I were all alone, alone against the world. Because that's how I felt when our hands were intertwined together.

Then all of the background singers started singing with me, as well as all the guitar players who were strumming their guitars all together. The clients were swaying and singing to the last chorus of the song and I was just singing along with them, all of that while I was smiling effortlessly at Rachel.

"I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul
You're the one I want to chase
You're the one I want to hold
I won't let another minute go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul

Oh... Your beautiful soul."

When the song was over, there was a split second of silence, and then the whole audience began clapping madly. It was overwhelming. But the thing that was even ore overwhelming, was the fact that Rachel was looking at me with tears in her eyes. And I didn't hesitate one second to pull her onto my lap, and wrap my arms around her, whispering something into her ear, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you cry"

She shuffled a little and turned her head to look at me, "I'm just so happy... No one has ever done this for me, not even Finn. I'm in a music cafe and you sang a song to me. It's just perfect" Rachel said. She lifted her head to see that everyone was looking at us, "You guys are all so perfect. Thank you for making this date even better than it already was" she said, talking into the microphone that she had quickly taken out of my hand. Everyone applauded and I finally rolled off stage, with Rachel still on my lap.

When we had reached our table, I finally realized. And I have no idea how I didn't realize this before. It was probably because I was so caught up in the moment, that I didn't feel anything else but my love for Rachel.

"Rachel, my legs are hurting" I stated.

She immediately jumped off me and apologized, "Oh, I'm so sorry!" she said. But when realization hit her, Rachel's eyes grew wide in shock, "Y-You can... You can feel y-your legs?" the beautiful brunette stuttered.

I nodded and tears immediately went running down my cheeks. "I-I mean, I can't fully feel them, but I can feel them aching right now" I said, rubbing my thighs, trying to feel as much as possible. This is incredible. I knew that this moment would eventually happen, but I didn't know that the moment would be right here, right now. "Rach... I can feel my legs!" I said, beaming at her.

Rachel nodded a few times and was beaming with me. Her cheeks had become slightly pinker and she still had tears in her eyes. "Thank you for the song" she said, "Really. What I said up there was true, no one has ever done that for me and i'm feeling extremely overwhelmed right now. Sorry if I look ridiculous, or like an emotional mess, but it's just..." she trailed off.

She kept on rambling and I was just sitting in my wheelchair, gazing into her eyes. I was listening, but at the same time, I wasn't. I just felt so lucky to her her here right this moment. Especially when I'm starting to feel my legs again. There's no other person that I would rather be with at this moment. And Rachel is perfect. Even wearing jeans and a shirt, she's just perfect. To me, the most perfect things in the world are her and Beth. "Quinn, you're staring again" was the sentence that knocked me out of my trance and pulled me back into reality.

"S-Sorry" I blushed, covering my face so that she won't see my slightly red cheeks. "You're just perfect to me" I stated. I hadn't actually realized that I just said that until I focused on Rachel's face instead of gazing at a random glass that was set on the table. Her mouth was open, and her lips formed an 'O' possibly indication that she was in shock. "Sorry if I'm trying to push you. That's not my intention at all. I just want you to understand that I'll wait for you forever, because you're the one that I want to be with" I shrugged, trying to do as well as I could with my explanation.

Rachel just nodded with a cute smile and we drank our drinks, then preparing to leave. But when the waiter came and gave us the pay bill, Rachel tried paying. I just had to protest, I invited her out on this date, so I had to pay. "Rachel, there's no way that you're paying." I said, pushing her hand and the money that she held to the waiter, shoving some money into his hand as well as a five dollar tip. The man chuckled and then walked off.

The petite brunette glared at me "There's no point in glaring, Rachel. I asked you out, so I'm the one who had to pay" I smirked, looking at her in the corner of my eye. She held up this adorable pout so I just shook my head at her, letting out a soft chuckle.

She wasn't really sulking, though. Rachel was just playing. And that was the proof that she's a great actress, she knows how to do all face expressions without people knowing that she was pretending, and that took me by surprise at times.

Once we were outside, Puck was still there, sitting in his car and reading some magazine. I didn't even want to know what he was 'reading' or maybe more precisely 'looking at', so I just knocked on the window and his head shot up to look at us. It was dark outside so I saw his eyes narrow so that he could see us properly. Once he did, he immediately came out of the car and walked up to us. "So, how was dinner, ladies?" he asked.

Rachel beamed and talked first, "Dinner was great. Quinn is one of the rare people who remembered that I'm vegan, so the cafe choice was well chosen. She also sang a song to me, and then she payed the bill. How romantic." she rambled on, earning an eye-roll from Noah.

"Your date is about to get a hell of a lot better, Berry" he said, shooting a glance to me before he turned to his car behind him. "Well, we better get going before it's too late. We don't want the Berry dads to worry about their daughter here, do we?" he laughed, opening the car door and then picking me up from my wheelchair, carrying me into the backseats.

When we were all set to go, he started the engine and started driving. He drove for quite a while until he reached to a stop, practically in the middle of nowhere. But I knew this place well. It was the place I went to whenever something went wrong at home and I just needed to evacuate all of the stress that I had been keeping inside of me.

Puck carried me out and set me into my wheelchair so that I could roll around, looking for the exact place. He then waddled off to his car while I took Rachel by the hand and led her to the place that I wanted to be. There was a bench so that she could be at the same height as me, even though that she could have sat on my knees, that wouldn't have been a problem to me.

"Here we are" I smiled, giggling when I saw an expression of confusion cross her face. "Just wait a few minutes, Rachel" I chuckled, slowly shaking my head.

"What are we waiting for, exactly?" she asked, truly curious.

"Just wait, Miss Impatient!" I huffed ironically. Looking at her. I couldn't see much, though, the only thing that I could see was the twinkle in her eyes thanks to the light of the moon. But the darkness soon disappeared when what we were waiting for finally arrived.

Hundreds of fireflies came flying around us, forming some kind of light clouds. It was an amazing thing to look at, and also very peaceful. What's also amazing is the fact that if you look closely, you can see every single firefly. And not just one big mass of them. They were so tiny but yet so unique. Every one of them had it's personal light, and it's personal sound that their wings were making when they flew around us.

"T-This is amazing, Quinn!" she exclaimed, looking around her, with wide eyes.

"I know" I stated, also looking around at the bugs that were flying around everywhere. "I always come here when I've had enough of everything, you know. It's one of the places where I can be alone and just think about things without getting disturbed. It's quite a personal place, so you should consider yourself lucky that I brought you here" I joked.

"Well I am lucky to be here. Especially with you. After a great musical dinner. I'm really happy to be here to spend this moment with you, Quinn. I honestly thing that this the best date ever" she admitted, with a nod of her head.

"I'm the lucky one, that you accepted to go on this date with me. You're given me so many chances to be your friend, yet I've just blown all of them away. I've been so mean to you during these past few years, and you're always giving me second chances. You didn't have to accept this date, yet you did, and I'm highly appreciative of that." I explained.

During the time that we had began talking, and now, we had somehow managed to intertwine our fingers together, and we were now holding hands. This was also the best date ever. The feeling of Rachel's hand in mine was just the most incredibly feeling ever. But what came after felt even better.

"I don't know what it is with you, that just makes me feel special. I'm sure you've had that feeling before, when another person makes you swoon. That's happening to me right now. Being with you here, hand in hand feels magical to me" Rachel said.

"You have no idea what that meant to me. Rachel, you mean everything to me" I told her. I knew that she wasn't going to say it back, I just wanted to let her know that. Because it's true, this girl means everything to me, it's crazy. "And you're beautiful" I whispered, shivering at the coolness of the air that just swiped my cheek.

I adjusted the way I was sitting, and Rachel turned her body so that we were now facing each other, looking into each other's eyes. Rachel's are so beautiful, and the way that they twinkle in the moonlight is a sight that will stay into my memory forever.

"You're the beautiful one" she whispered back, bringing her hand up to cup my cheek. Just the skin contact made a shiver run down my spine.

"Thank you. But you are too" I said, as softly as I could because our faces were now incredibly close that I could feel her warm breath on my skin. I wasn't scared or what was going to happen, but my breath had become slightly shaky while our faces were getting closer and closer by the second.

Then I saw them. You know, some people say that they see fireworks whenever they kiss someone? Well I saw them, and I felt them, too. Even though it sounded cliché, I really did see them. It was one of the most incredibly moments of my life. And all of this happened in one day. All of this happened here, in a park, with fireflies flying around us.

Our lips were gently pressed together, nothing was rushed at all. On the contrary, I think that we're talking it quite slow. She only swiped her tongue along my bottom lip after what seemed like the fifteen best seconds of my life. They did a slow dance, our tongues, as I said, nothing was rushed. We took our time and when it sadly came to an end, I was left breathless and Rachel was seemingly out of breath, too. During the next couple of seconds, or minutes, we looked into each other's eyes, as if we were looking into our souls.

"Are you ready to go?" I whispered softly, still recovering from what just happened.

"I guess so" she smiled. "I didn't think that it would be weird, you know, since stars are kind of my thing, but I can actually see stars right now. And it's not because it's dark, and night, it's because the moment was so perfect." Rachel explained.

"The moment was perfect because you're in it" I pointed out, earning a chuckle from the beautiful girl in front of me. "We should get going now. I don't want you to catch a cold of something." I said, taking her hand and leading her to Pucks car where he was waiting.

When we reached her house, I wanted to get out of the car to 'walk' her to her door, but I obviously wasn't able to do that so she just told me to stay in the car, and that I should call her when I get back home.

Once I got home, I forgot to text Rachel and went directly into the spare room downstairs, pushing myself out of my wheelchair and collapsing onto my bed. My legs were aching like mad and I couldn't stop the pain. Actually, I didn't really want to stop it, because it meant that I could feel my legs again. So i curled into a ball and drifted off to sleep.

And into another nightmare...

I was running as fast as I could, trying to escape the giant mass of insects that were following me. But I reached a halt when I felt right into Rachel's arms.

"Rach ! You have to help me run from those things ! Quick, move faster !" I exclaimed, trying to get her to run with me, but she didn't move one bit, and the bugs were now growing closer to us by the second. "Rachel ! Move !" I shouted, tugging her arm as strong as I could.

"No, I'm staying here" she stated, looking right at me, planting her eye vision on my eyes. "Y-You hurt me arm" she whined, rubbing the arm that I was holding so tightly, once I had loosened my grip on her.

"I'm so sorry, Rachel. I'm so sorry" I repeated, trying to puller close into my arms, but she wouldn't move from the spot where she was standing. I felt like she was trying to separate us two. "I understand that you're mad, but please Rachel, we have to move. The insects are getting closer !" I pleader for her to move, just one meter or so. But nothing.

Not knowing what thoughts were on her mind, I looked at her, confused. "What are you doing? This is dangerous, we could get killed." I asked. I was speaking the truth, and only the truth. The mass of insects was at least as big as my house, and I didn't even know what sort of bugs there were in there.

"Do you think I'm trying to get us killed?" she asked. I could see the look of pure sadness on her face, and it broke my heart. What did I do? I should never have said that.

"No. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have even thought that" I told her, trying to apologize the best I could. I looked down at my feet in embarrassed.

"Well you're wrong" Rachel stated.

My head shot up to look at her with wide eyes. "What?" I asked, in total shock. The bugs were only a few meters from us, and they were approaching with such speed.

And then there they were. Covering our bodies and crawling up into out clothes and in our hair. I was left standing there, still looking at Rachel with that same look of confusion held upon my face.

"You tried, Quinn. But you can never have me" she smirked evilly, until the bugs surrounded her whole face and scattered around all over her body.

I couldn't see anything anymore. My vision was blocked by black insects, and my arms were trapped, I couldn't even feel them or move them at that very moment. I felt my mouth open and insects rush inside. I tried screaming but it was no use... "A-Arg..." was all I could manage.

I woke up in a jump. Panting loudly like the last time that this had happened to me. Looking around, all I could see was a plain room. The spare room of my house. No bugs, no gigantic mas of insects. Just the spare bedroom with a bed that I was laying on.

Looking at the alarm clock, I realized that it had only been one hour since I came back from Rachel and I's date. I was still breathing heavily when I picked up my phone from the bedside table and clicked on Rachel's number, typing in a message.

Quinn : Are you alright?

When I hit send, I felt something bad and I had no idea what it was. Maybe it was just because I had woken up from one of my worst nightmares ever, or maybe there was something bad that just happened.