The next few days passed by quickly for the princess and Quinn. Rachel had been assigned to help out Tina in the medic hut; the princess had gained useful knowledge for this task due to her teachings in biology and anatomy with the palace tutors. She liked the work and she didn't mind Tina's company either.

Although the tribeswomen still had some trouble treating Rachel like she was one of them and not royalty, upon Rachel's own insistence, she was starting to become familiar with most of the women. She would spend her days with Tina in the medic hut and have chit chat with any of the tribeswomen coming through, many of whom were Worrios with scratches and bruises from the days training.

During lunch her and Tina would sit with Mercedes and Rachel would listen as the two told her gossip from around the village. She had learnt that Brittany and Santana often snuck off to the lake to go skinny-dipping during Warrio training when Sue wasn't watching. She learnt that a few others of the tribe's women would sneak to the city once a month, get into townspeople clothes and have some fun. She also heard that Quinn had a bit of a reputation as a seducer, but was resisting choosing a woman to become her wife, a role many of the tribeswomen were vying for. Rachel figured Quinn was lucky, even if she couldn't chose when she married at least she could chose who she married.

Rachel felt an odd dull pain in the pit of her stomach when she heard these stories of Quinn, she didn't like thinking of Quinn being clawed at by these women who only wanted her for the position she held. Although, Rachel also knew these women would probably want Quinn anyway as she was beautiful, kind and smart.

Rachel was getting to know Quinn quite well. Even though the two did not have much time to spend together during the day Quinn would always come find her in the evening and ask her to go on a walk or to sit by the camp fire with her. They would spend hours each night talking about what had happened to them that day, and then they would talk more generally about their lives and how they felt about their futures. Considering their rocky start most of the tribeswomen, especially Judy, were surprised at how the pair had become friends. Some of the women who had had their eye on Quinn for some time didn't like how well the two were getting along.

The two women were sitting by the large campfire one night, on the other side to where most of the other women were sitting. Rachel could see across the fire, a pretty redhead was looking longingly at Quinn.

"What about her" Rachel subtly nodded her head towards the redhead.

"What? Oh Amy, yeah she's OK" Quinn answered nonchalantly.

"I mean what about her for your wife, it looks like she's kind of into you" Rachel whispered.

Quinn was taken aback; Rachel and her had never spoken about Quinn's impending obligation to marry. It was the one subject they had managed to steer clear of and Quinn had hoped to keep it that way. Not only was it her least favorite topic of to speak of but she was also developing feelings for the princess which made it all the more painful to think about her looming marriage to someone who was not Rachel.

Further more, Rachel's suggestion of a woman for Quinn to marry further solidified in the blondes mind that Rachel did not share her feelings. This caused her to sigh, which Rachel took as Quinn's disapproval of the red head woman.

"OK, not her then" Rachel said cheerily, scanning the crowd for someone else.

"Princess I have no interest in marrying any of these women, I have no interest in marriage at all" Quinn said dejectedly.

"Well from what I hear that hasn't stopped you from trying out some willing candidates" Rachel said rather pointedly.

The brunette had no idea why she had said this, it was almost as though she was jealous. But she shrugged it off as just being frustrated with Quinn's attitude.

Quinn was also surprised by Rachel's statement.

"Excuse me?" she said as she put her hand to her chest looking offended, in an over the top half joking manner.

"Oh nothing, I mean I just heard that you date sometimes…" Rachel tried to back pedal.

Quinn rolled her eyes. She hated the village gossip and she hated even more that Rachel was taking part in it.

"Listen, Rachel I'm not a saint. Yeah I've been with some women, but I mean, I'm going to be married off to someone I probably won't even love when I'm 18 years old. From then on it's over for me. You have no idea what that pressure feels like" Quinn said softly.

Rachel wanted to respond and tell Quinn she knew exactly what she felt like, that she had a boy she didn't love she would have to marry when she was 18 also. She knew exactly how Quinn felt. But something stopped her, she didn't want to tell Quinn about Finn, for whatever reason she just couldn't bring herself to bring him up. So instead she put her head on Quinn's shoulder and wrapped her arm around the blonde girls back and said, "I'm sorry Quinn, that must be really hard for you."

And that was the end of that conversation. They didn't even notice the redhead glaring at Rachel now.

It was during a routine Warrio training exercise that Quinn hurt her knee. She had a bad knee since she fell out of a tree when she was 12 and it was not the first time this had happened.

"Alright S and B, you know the drill. Get Q to the medic then get back here stat!" Sue barked as she looked down at the injured Warrio clutching her leg on the ground, trying not to scream.

Santana and Brittany didn't hesitate. They helped Quinn to her feet, letting her wrap an arm around each of them and the three of them slowly moved towards the medic hut. They hobbled through the hut door to find Rachel folding bandages by herself. She turned when she heard the trio enter and immediately looked concerned.

"Quinn what happened" the shorter girl asked in a panic.

Quinn went to explain but was interrupted by Santana.

"Calm down Berry, she just needs her bad knee strapped."

Brittany and Santana lowered Quinn down onto a chair.

Rachel rolled her eyes at Santana's tone and went over to Quinn looking her in the eyes, "Are you OK Quinn" she asked stroking the girls arm.

"I'm fine, really, just strap me up and I'll be on my way" Quinn respond, trying to play down her injury.

Meanwhile Brittany and Santana took a seat on the nearby bed took this opportunity to make out. This made Rachel cringe at first but then she decided to ignore them and continued getting the strapping ready for Quinn. She kneeled down in front of Quinn's chair and took her smooth leg in her hands and delicately straightened the knee.

Quinn fidgeted under the girls touch, "Are you OK Quinn? Am I hurting you?" Rachel asked concerned.

"No it's fine, keep going" Quinn managed to get out.

The truth was it didn't hurt that bad at all, the girl touching her leg was just overwhelming Quinn, it was sending electricity shooting up her thigh. The blonde bit her lip trying to distract herself from these feelings. As Rachel started strapping her knee and her hand crept higher up the blondes leg and Quinn tried to hide her growing arousal.

Fortunately for Quinn the Rachel was so engrossed in her task she didn't appear to notice the effect she was having on the blonde. Unfortunately for Quinn two other people had noticed.

"OK all done, do you want to try and stand?" Rachel asked innocently, hands still sitting on top of Quinn's bare thigh just bellow the hem of her skirt.

Quinn nodded her head and Rachel stood up to help the taller girl. Once up and moving Quinn thanked Rachel with an awkward handshake and nearly ran out the door, which was more of a hobble really. Once outside Santana and Brittany who now both wore matching mischievous smiles followed her.

"Quinn's got a crush" Brittany sang to Quinn's horror.

"Brittany I what are you talking about" Quinn sputtered out.

"Oh don't even try it Q, we saw you all hot and heavy under Berry's touch. You totally want to hit that" Santana teased.

"God Santana I do not want to 'hit that', don't talk about Rachel that way!" Quinn stated in frustration, picking up her pace as best she could with her bad knee.

Santana looked at her friend in disbelief. She went to stand in front of the blonde so that she had to stop on the narrow path. Brittany joined Santana's side.

"Quinn Fabray, please do not tell me you are falling for the Princess of Lima" Santana said crossing her arms.

Quinn just huffed and looked to the side, anything to avoid looking into Santana's eyes. Santana knew Quinn's guilty look meant she was right.

"Quinn! You cannot be falling for her, she is the one person in this god damn place you just cannot end up with, so get whatever little fantasy you have in your head right out of there." Santana was now moving her arms wildly.

"God, you think I don't know that Santana!" Quinn said in frustration.

"I'm not going to do anything, it's just a stupid crush and I am going to ignore it. Anyway Rachel doesn't even think of me like that so you don't have to worry." Quinn said pushing past her friends to continue down the path.

Santana felt bad, she had never seen Quinn so torn up over a girl before. She walked after her friend nudging Brittany along.

"OK, so she is kind of hot" Santana stated.

"Excuse me?" Quinn looked at her friend like she had no idea what she was getting at.

"I'm just saying I would understand why you might like totally want to have her babies" Santana explained.

Brittany nodded her head in agreement and added, "plus she's a princess and that's totally cool."

Quinn still looked just as confused.

"All I'm saying is" Santana continued "even though you know your mother will burn you at the stake if you run away with the princess of lima, if you really like her Brits and I could maybe help you get some time alone with her"

Quinn smiled wide. She had the best friends in the world.

"Do you think I've got a shot?" Quinn asked hopefully "…even though it is a terrible idea" she added stern faced.

"Well, even though it is a totally bonkers idea" Santana said with an equally stern expression, "she did have her hand on your thigh a bit longer than necessary, right Brits?" Santana asked while breaking into a smirk.

"Oh she totally has love heart eyes for you Quinn" Brittany confirmed.

The three girls laughed together and made their way back towards the Warrio training.

Quinn knew her feelings for Rachel were wrong and they could never be together even if Rachel felt the same way but it was nice to know her friends loved her enough that they could ignore all these facts just to help her be happy.