9/17/12 CH 12
A/N: sorry for the long delay. Life just keeps getting in the way. So here is a fluff chapter. Not too much going on, just moving the story along
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Taylor
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Quinn waited impatiently walking back and forth waiting for Beth and Shelby to depart from the plane. Britt and Santana had waited in the car, not wanting to take away or make the reunion awkward.
"Quinn!" came a squeal, that was the only warning that she was given before Beth launched herself into her arms.
"Hey Bug! So happy to see you." she hugged her little mini me with a fierceness that only a parent understands. Doing the quick once over noticing the different length in her hair, and height. The way that the girl was a pound heavier then the last time she saw her. How her face was loosing some of the baby fat that she adored so much. Her baby was growing up!
"Hello Quinn, you look very good all things considered." Shelby said quietly smiling at the two hugging figures.
"Thank you Shelby. Thank you so much for brining Beth up to see me."
"Well Rachel was fairly convincing and graciously paid for the trip, making it very difficult to refuse. " Shelby smiled looking around. "Where is she?"
"She had to fly out to LA," Quinn noticed the look of disappointment cross Shelby's face before she schooled her face again with a smile.
"I would have liked to have seen her to thank her in person." Shelby finally said when there was too much quiet between them.
"I am sure Rachel would have liked to see you as well." Quinn lied knowing that Rachel wasn't here because she was avoiding the woman like the plague, among other things.
"I was looking forward to seeing Rachel." Beth pouted pulling away from Quinn's neck. "She promised to sing for me."
Shelby wasn't able to hide the shock on her face. "What?"
"Rachel promised to sing to me, if I stopped giving you such a hard time about coming up to see Quinn during the week, rather then Friday." Beth admitted.
"When did you talk to Rachel? How do you even know about Rachel?" Shelby demanded.
"When you were in the shower, and Rachel and I go way back." Beth stated leaning her head on Quinn's shoulder. "I hope she comes back before I leave, a promise is a promise."
"If she promised, then she'll keep it." Quinn said patting her daughter's back glancing worriedly at Shelby to gage her reaction to this bit of news.
"We can talk about this later Beth." Shelby nodded and grabbed their large suitcase and began rolling it towards the exit of the airport. Quinn just followed after her keeping Beth snug in her arms.
"I don't think Rachel wanted mom to know that we talked. Do you think she will me angry at me?"
"For telling the truth?" Quinn laughed. "No I don't think Rachel will hold that against you." Quinn hugged the girl tighter.
"Good cause she's my idol, if she hated me I would be crushed!" the girl flailed dramatically.
"Drama Queen," Quinn muttered grinning.
"Why thank you," Beth said with identical grin, making their way to the waiting limo parked at the pick up area.
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"Rachel! Look over here!"
"Emily! Over here!"
Rachel and Emily exited the airport in LA hand in hand smiling for the camera as they flashed non stop. Em pulled Rachel into her arms and kissed her quickly on the lips as they had planned. The camera's caught even more of the couple as they laughed and then ran with their protection detail the rest of the way to the limo waiting for them. It took a police detail for them to finally be able to leave the airport, as once the girls were in the limo they were swarmed just as they had predicted.
"Well that could have been worse." Emily finally stated as they finally cleared the airport.
Mary nodded having slipped into the Limo before the girls had even gotten off the plane. Rachel had wanted to make sure that no one had hurt the older woman. "You're like a circus." Mary muttered while she tapped out emails from her iphone.
"I know.' Rachel laughed. Turning her phone back on, as she relaxed back into her seat.
Beth n Cruilla have landed. Beth let the cat out of bag, and little B is pissed your not here to sing ~ Y
Rachel groaned and laughed at the same time. "Looks like I will be heading back tomorrow night. Beth is holding me to that deal breaker it appears."
"I don't understand why you hid knowing the kid from Quinn or Shelby. " Emily shrugged , scrolling through something on her cell phone.
"I didn't want to come off like a stalker, and me befriending my biological mother's daughter , who happens to be the girl that tormented me through high school's biological daughter…just seemed wrong to admit to. " Rachel huffed.
"Stalker!" Emily laughed, ducking when Rachel tossed the pen from her purse at her,
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The interviews on Friday evening had gone quickly, The girls met up with Mercedes for a late dinner. Emily and Mercedes hitting it off right away. Rachel liked Danny, the new man in Mercedes life. By the time Rachel and Emily made it back to the hotel it was close to midnight LA time and 3 am NY time.
"I'm Exhausted Babs. See you in the morning," Emily kissed her on the cheek and took off towards her bedroom .
"Night Em." Rachel called after her and leaned back into the sofa and sighed. She missed Quinn, but annoyed that she was missing something that she had no right to. Taking out her cell phone she looked to see if there was any missed calls or text messages, there was nothing. Pouting she fiddled with the phone.
I know your sleeping. I just wanted to say night, talk to you tomorrow. ~ R she hovered over the send button wondering if she should send the message. Rolling her eyes at her stupidness she tapped the send button and bit her lip.
She was shocked when her phone rang two minutes later.
"Hello?"
"Are you texting me at 3 am Berry?"
"Hello Quinn, I didn't mean to wake you." Rachel sighed in content.
"I wasn't asleep yet. Beth insisted on watching Marley & Me tonight. San and I just finally calmed Britt down enough to go to bed." Quinn sighed. "She was a bit upset about the end of the movie."
Rachel nodded then realized that Quinn wasn't able to see that.
"Yes, I cried for an hour after I saw it. Poor Brittany. Is she ok now?"
"Yes we had to promise to go and feed the ducks tomorrow, but yeah she finally stopped crying and went to sleep. Beth took it like a trooper."
"It's the Puck in her, she is tough."
"Yeah about that," Quinn laughed. "Seems that Beth was keeping a secret that she knew this world famous Broadway singer from small town Lima, Ohio."
"Yeah about that…" Rachel muttered. "I should have told you, but I didn't want you to feel weird about it, or worse tell me that I shouldn't keep in contact with her. I have a feeling that Shelby is going to ask me to. I just liked having her in my life."
"she is a pretty amazing kid. Why don't you explain how it all happened?" Quinn said softly.
Rachel looked around the now quiet room and sighed. How could she explain things without giving too much information away? "I don't know what to say Quinn. She is you, she is little a little piece of you. She was a connection to you, she was someone I could quietly be friends with who had a piece of you , and to be honest a piece of Shelby. Through her I could see that Shelby wasn't the beast that I though and through her I got a reminder of that brief friendship we had in high school that wasn't tainted by the past. But that was the reason in the beginning, now I just…I can't explain in, but I care so deeply for her.. She is a part of my every day life now. I'm sorry for having not been honest about it with you, but please don't ask me to cut my ties with her."
"Rachel, I would never ask you that. I was… am surprised that you to are so attached is all. I understand better then anyone how amazing she can be. I am just surprised that there is this hidden relationship that I was clueless about. " Quinn's voice was calm and sweet through the phone.
Rachel rolled her eyes at the words that Quinn choose, thinking to herself if she only knew. "How did Shelby take it?" Rachel asked quietly
"Better then you expected, I'm sure." Quinn laughed. "She was disappointed not to see you when she arrived."
"Weird." Rachel muttered snuggling further into the sofa. "Well I did promise Beth a private concert, so I will be flying back tomorrow night."
"Oh she would really love that." Quinn sighed with a smile. "She was talking about you nonstop most of today. You have quite the fan."
"She is so sweet." Rachel sighed the line became quite between them. "I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"For hiding things from you. I should have been honest with you. You're right I should let you make up your own mind. I just care so much about you and our… friendship." Rachel stumbled over the word as it cut her like a knife. "I just want to protect you as much I can. I guess I was just afraid that I would loose you now that I just got you back."
"I except your apology and I realize now that you were doing what you thought was best, ok so Brittany was the one that made me realize it." Quinn sighed. "I guess I just went a little crazy and time warped back to my childhood, so I am sorry too."
"Sometimes, people fall back into the roles they played in high school unintentionally. I didn't mean to revert back to Scary Berry."
"And I'm sorry I was Ice Queen Fabray." they both laughed. "I wish you didn't have to go on tour, I wish you were back home and we can go back to the way it was before you left, before the RI trip." Quinn admitted.
"Really? You still want to be around me after all the crap I put you through?" Rachel shock was evident as she sat straight up in her seat again.
"Yeah, glutton for punishment I guess." Quinn
"Very funny Fabray!" Rachel laughed. "Well I'll be home early Sunday morning before Beth leaves, we can talk more then. Maybe I won't need to do an extended tour like I planned. Maybe I can tour weekends only."
"That would be nice." Quinn admitted Rachel could hear the smile in her tone.
" We could still work on the project, and without the world watching" Rachel muttered, then scowled when Quinn chuckled. "You are in over your head Fabray, you have no idea what this madness is like on a daily basis."
"But its my choice, Rachel." Quinn clicked her tongue in a mocking noise. "You should get some rest. I'll see you on Sunday. Try to stay out of trouble until then."
"I'll see what I can do." Rachel muttered back in annoyance. "What with me being such a trouble maker."
"Well admitting it is the first step!"
"Fabray!"
"Night Berry."
"Night Fabray, sweet dreams."
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