Rachel stared in awe of the giant pile of rubble and dirt in front of her. It must have weighed a tone. And sitting next to it laid a single shovel.

"You want me to shovel all this dirt from here to there" Rachel pointed 100 meters down the path.

Quinn picked up the shovel and handed it to Rachel.

"Yup" Quinn stated

"Think you can handle that princess"

Rachel, put on her best fake confident face and said "Not a problem"

It was a rigged task. Quinn knew Rachel couldn't shovel all that dirt by herself, hell she couldn't even do it all by herself. But this was the task the tribe gave any girl who wanted to join the tribe, to teach them a lesson on authority and discipline. It was like a rite of passage, but Rachel didn't know that. Also, Quinn's mother had not approved of the princess being put through this test but Quinn just couldn't resist.

"See you in a few hours princess" Quinn said with a smirk and she swiftly left Rachel to go join the afternoon of Warrios' training.

Rachel looked at the pile and then at her shovel.

"You can do this," she said to no one in particular.

With that she got to work.

It was ok at first. She was doing pretty well at the start. But then after an hour or so her back started hurting. Then after an hour more her hands became raw and her knees got weak. After the third and fourth hour passed she started breaking down physically and emotionally. Her mind began wondering:

Why am I here?

I am a princess; I should be in my palace with my fathers

Oh god I miss my fathers and Kurt

I can't believe I'm stuck here for god knows how long with that crazy person Quinn Fabray…. I hate Quinn Fabray!

I hate this place!

I want to go home!

Then she felt it, big thick drops of rain began falling on her head and before she knew it there was a down poor. In way she was thankful, the rain was hiding the tears now streaming from her face. The dirt turned to mud and became almost impossible to move, but for some reason she just became more determined, she felt like the only thing she could control was moving this mud and so she would, she would move it all.

Then she heard someone yelling out her name. It was Quinn. Rachel didn't even look up. She just kept moving the mud.

Quinn looked across at Rachel, soaked trough and covered in mud. She looked at the work she had done and was actually impressed with how much the girl had gotten through and that she was still going through this storm.

"Rachel!" she yelled over the pounding of the rain.

"Rachel come on, leave it! That's enough!"

Rachel kept ignoring her, she couldn't stop, and if she stopped Quinn would see the tears streaming down her face, if she stopped Quinn would see how she had broken her. She just kept digging.

"Rachel, OK you've proven your point! Come back to the huts now, you need to get out of this storm!" Quinn continued to yell through the rain but Rachel just kept going.

Seeing no other option Quinn walked up to the shorter girl and pulled the shovel out of her hands.

"Rachel I said that's enough"

Now Quinn stood face to face with Rachel, both soaking wet staring at one another. For the first time Quinn could see that Rachel was crying.

"Hey are you OK?" She asked sincerely

"What do you think?!" Rachel snapped back.

Quinn opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out.

"You think I want to be here, you think I wanted to leave my family and come to this place and hide?!" Rachel spat out.

"I don't like this any more than you Quinn!" the shorter girl continued, she was now visibly shaking.

Quinn was speechless, she could feel the raw emotion in Rachel's voice and she knew she had pushed the girl to far. She hadn't even taken into account what Rachel must have been going through having to leave her family and come here.

Then the most surprising thing happened, Rachel lent forward and placed her head to the taller girls chest. Quinn was shocked, wasn't she upset with her; maybe she just needs comfort Quinn thought.

Comfort giving was not Quinn's forte but she had to do something so she awkwardly began patting the smaller girls head. Rachel just kept crying on her shoulder and eventually Quinn eased into a kind of hug…that slowly became a real hug.

So there they were, a Princess and A Warrior hugging in the rain.