Hi gleeks! I'm so sorry you had to wait so long for this chapter, but school has been hitting me really hard. They've put in a new rule where teachers have to give us homework every lesson, so I've been doing homework every night for the past six weeks (groan) I'm on my half-term break now though, so I've got a whole week to relax and get some things sorted :)
This chapter is sort of a set-up for things that are going to happen in chapter 4. There isn't a song in this one (I figured there shouldn't be since not every scene in Glee has a song lol) And as you can already guess from the title of the chapter, the Glee Club are picking their costumes for Will and Emma's wedding! Which is a nice thing to write about with Halloween nearly here :) It was so much fun picking costumes for each character. Some are just based on how they look, some have stories behind them, for some I have ideas for how the characters make them their own, and for others, I have small one-liners of dialogue that are really great to put in there, that explain why they picked them :)
Like always, if you like what you read, please take a minute of your time to leave me a review. I really do appreciate them - getting a review means that my little idea of a story is coming to life in someone else's eyes! :)
A/N: Now that season 4 has started, not much of what I'm writing is canon anymore, so I'd like to emphasise that "Disney Week" takes place after the events of the Season 3 finale, so technically it's a Season 4 "episode". I call it an episode because even though I write it like a story, I try to describe everything how I imagine it'll look on screen if Glee ever did a Disney theme. Therefore, they'll be quite a few different storylines going on at once, like a real episode. I also try my absolute best to write as close to the characters' personalities/habits/quirks as I can, so when people read it, they can imagine it's actually happening.
Right, enough waffle - on with the fic! :D
-Sami
"I call this official McKinley High New Directions Schuester-Pillsbury wedding costume meeting to order," Rachel announced to her fellow Glee Club members, pounding a gavel she had somehow got a hold of. They were all gathered in an empty classroom and had rearranged the tables so it resembled that a conference room. Rachel was at the head of the table, while the rest of the glee club looked up at her. "Is there anyone here who'd like to suggest our first order of business?"
"Yeah, I've got one," said Santana, "How come when we've all graduated, you still insist you should be in charge?"
"I don't see anyone else planning a costume meeting." Rachel defended.
"Question - why do we need a costume meeting? I mean, what's there to discuss? We get a costume, we show up to the wedding. Simple."
"I think it'll help if we all know before the wedding which characters we want to go as, otherwise we might have more than one person going as the same character. The last thing we need is a room full of people watching an array of characters singing together at the ceremony and they notice that there are three Daisy Ducks. And it's not just for each other, we have to think about the bride and groom too. Now I've heard that because of Miss Pillsbury's song with the boys, she's gonna be Giselle from 'Enchanted', so Mr. Schuester's gonna be Prince Edward, which therefore means that none of us can be -"
"OK, we get the point, Berry! Just do whatever you want!" exclaimed Santana.
"Good," replied Rachel with a smile, resuming her original calm, perky self. "Now, I thought we could go round the room and asking everyone which character they were thinking of going to the wedding as and why. Any more questions before we start?"
The room fell silent; one or two people shrugged their shoulders as if to say "Whatever, go ahead".
"Fantastic. I'll start by getting me out of the way," she cleared her throat, "I've decided to go as Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast' because since before I can even remember, I've watched the movie every Christmas with my dads, and when I was seven they even took me to New York for the weekend, and we saw the musical three nights in a row. Belle quickly became one of my first inspirations.
Moving on quickly now - Blaine, you still want to be Prince Eric, right?" Rachel asked.
"Yes, Prince Eric from 'The Little Mermaid'," Blaine replied, smiling at the thought of him not wearing a bow tie, and instead in his favourite Disney character's clothes. The huge black boots, the bright blue trousers and the red sash around his waist, the baggy white shirt showing a rather large portion of his chest he wouldn't normally show. He was even smiling at him finally having a reason not to wear gel in his hair; Kurt had helped him learn to like his crazy poodle-hair curls. And they wouldn't be as wild as they were at Dinosaur Prom either; he had learnt how to tame them down into a style that brought out his inner goofiness, and still made Kurt think he was cute. But as he thought of Kurt again, Blaine's smile dropped when he realised his boyfriend wouldn't actually get to see him wearing his costume. Sure, he could put it on again and show him when they had their next Skype call, but it wouldn't be the same.
"OK, good," Rachel said, making a list of Glee Club members and their characters. "Who's next?" she continued, and Blaine snapped out of his daydreaming and returned to the meeting.
Tina raised her hand. "Mike and I are going as Mulan and Shang," she said.
"It didn't take us long to decide," Mike added, "You know, we're both Asian, so..."
The group laughed lightly at their 'logic', but Rachel quickly added, "Oh, remember guys - if someone's already claimed the character you want, change your minds immediately."
"I've already changed my mind, like, three times," Brittany said in her usual quiet voice, "but I've finally picked one, and I doubt anyone else will pick the one I want."
Rachel continued round the room to Brittany. "Who have you picked, Britt?"
"Dory from 'Finding Nemo'," she announced with a proud smile. The entire room stared at her in bewilderment.
"She's kind of like me. You know, she forgets stuff. Plus I've always wanted to know what it must feel like to be a fish," Brittany explained, clearly unaware how weird she must have sounded to the rest of the Glee Club, who continued to stare at her with even more confusion in the bending of their eyebrows.
"Who's next?" Rachel asked to the group, desperate to break the silence, quickly scribbling a question mark next to 'Dory' on her list. "Santana, you clearly had a lot to say at the beginning of the meeting. Who have you chosen?"
"Can I just say that due to my viewpoint on the idea of a costume meeting, I didn't pick one until about a minute ago - Esmeralda from 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'. She's like a cartoon version of me, you know, she's hot."
"I wish you'd put more thought into your costumes, guys. Don't just pick a character simply because you think you resemble their appearance," Rachel persisted.
"Oh, come on Rachel, don't say that!" exclaimed Joe, "I really wanted to be Tarzan!"
The rest of the Glee Club burst out laughing, even Quinn, who was sitting next to Joe, holding his hand under the table, had to let go to cover her mouth from her giggles.
"Hey, I wanted to use my dreads for part of my costume, I pick Tarzan!" he defended to his friends.
Rachel, trying her best to resist the hilarity, replied to Joe in between laughs, "OK, Joe, you can be Tarzan, purely because it makes us all laugh."
Quinn was finally able to calm down due to a thought that struck her. She leaned into Joe and murmured to him, "You do know Tarzan only wears a loincloth, don't you? Doesn't your religion have boundaries on how much of your body you can expose?"
"Don't worry," he replied, "I'm gonna buy the cover-all costume, my chest won't be on show. Who are you going as?"
"No idea. I want a costume that makes me feel beautiful. The last time I felt beautiful was Junior Prom," she said.
"What colour was your dress?" Joe asked, intrigued.
"Light blue, with sparkles all over it," she answered cutely. Then it clicked in her head. "I get it," she said with a smile.
"So... you gonna do it?"
"Yeah, I'm gonna do it," she said excitedly, and she raised her voice above the noise of the Glee Club, who were still laughing with each other, "Rach, I would like to claim Cinderella."
"Oh, good one, Quinn! You're gonna look amazing," replied Rachel.
Quinn was beaming now. She turned back to Joe and said simply, "Thank you."
Joe's face lit up as she took his hand again and he replied "My pleasure," Quinn gazed at him, thinking he was a true gentleman... who would be exposing half his body for a wedding.
"Sugar?" Rachel called, continuing around the room.
"Jessie from 'Toy Story'," said Sugar proudly. At the sound of her voice saying which character she'd chosen, both Artie and Rory looked at her.
"OK, another great costume," Rachel said to herself, writing it down on her list, when Rory and Artie rose in their seats and shouted suddenly at the same time:
"I wanna be Woody!"
"I wanna be Buzz!"
Rachel's face lit up in excitement. "Oh wow, a group costume, good idea, guys!" As she added Rory and Artie's characters down on the list, the two boys leaned into each other, exchanging nasty glares.
"What are you doing, Abrams?" whispered Rory.
"Lemme break it down for you, Flanagan," Artie replied, in a tone just as bitchy. "You got to be Sugar's date for her Sugar Shack party on Valentine's Day. This time it's my turn, and she'll like me more than you."
"Oh really? And what makes you think that?"
"For starters, I'm honest, unlike someone who had to lie about being deported in order to win her heart. Too bad you weren't telling the truth, my job would be so much easier with you not around."
Rory could feel the gloves coming off. "Well two can play at that game. Once Sugar sees me at the wedding dressed as Woody, she'll forget about what I did and she'll wanna be with me the entire night just 'cause I'll be her cowboy."
"Excuse me? Did you watch Toy Story 3? Jessie and Buzz got together in the end! I'll get Sugar, you can be sure of that," said Artie.
"In that case, may the best toy win," Rory replied, wishing to play the game fairly, even though he knew Artie was about to get really competitive.
"Oh I plan to."
Artie and Rory continued to stare at each other evilly, both thinking the same thing: this was war.
"Sam?" Rachel continued in the meeting, just as they had finished smack-talking.
"Hercules, baby!" he shouted, lifting his arms in the air in a victorious manner. Some of the boys cheered along with him, while others either laughed lightly or smiled and rolled their eyes at him.
Rachel jotted "Hercules" down on her list while the noise died down. "OK... and Mercedes?"
"Just Rafiki for me, since I'm singing the lead on 'Circle of Life'," she said simply, as though that was all she wanted to say on the matter. While Rachel wrote that down also, Sam looked at Mercedes sitting next to him; she looked a bit down about something. Did she not want to be Rafiki? Did she want to be another character, but wasn't sure if she could make it work? Or maybe it was something else? Whatever it was, Sam wanted to make her feel better; seeing Mercedes sad only made him feel the same way. He decided he would talk to her later that day, hoping he'd be able to do something about it.
There were only two people left in the group - Finn and Puck.
"Your character, Noah?" Rachel asked, fidgeting with her pen waiting to write it down so they could finally finish the meeting. Everyone else was also beginning to feel slightly agitated by how long it was taking.
"Aladdin," he quickly replied, sitting up in his seat ready to leave the room, "Finn?" he spurred on the pace of the meeting.
"I... honestly don't know..."
The entire room groaned.
"What? All the good ones are taken! And I don't wanna be someone boring like Prince Charming. What does he do anyway? He just goes around to all the princesses, kisses them and they get married the next day -"
"Finn, please, just pick someone, so we can go!" cried Mike.
"I literally have no idea! Can't I just decide on someone when we go to the costume place after school today?"
"Fine, you can do that," Rachel said impatiently, and added quickly, "So after last period today we'll all meet in the school courtyard and catch the bus together into town and each of us finds an outfit for our character in the costume department of the Disney Store. Agreed?"
Everyone nodded and hummed tones of approval.
"And with that, I call this official McKinley High New Directions Schuester-Pillsbury wedding costume meeting adjourned," Rachel ended, pounding her gavel on the table once more.
