Rachel Mickealson
Part 3
Niklaus was about to go to bed that night when he heard some sobs coming from his daughter's room. Everyone was still here after rescuing her from Katerina and he was the last one up, or so he thought. As he climbed the stairs in super vampire speed, he saw Damon behind the door, looking like he was hesitating between coming in or leaving the crying teenage girl alone.
"What going on mate?" Klaus asked the vampire with a tone that was a little accusatory.
"I don't know. I was just getting out of the shower when I heard her starting to sob, I dressed as fast as I could but I don't know if I should come in or not… I don't know her that well… All I know is that she's alone in there…" Damon told him, looking really worried.
"Well, why don't you go back to your room, I'll take care of this one." Klaus said.
"Okay, call me if there is anything I can do, okay?" Damon asked as he turned back to the room that had been given to him while Klaus nodded to him and opened the door.
Klaus rushed inside and saw that Rachel was curled up in her bed, holding her stuffed gold star close to her and with tears going down her cheeks.
"What's wrong honey?" He asked her in a gentle, caring tone.
"It hurts so much, daddy…" She managed to say between sobs.
"What hurts? I can heal you, I'll just give you blood baby…" he told her, panicking slightly. He didn't like seeing her like this.
"It's not really physical… It's in my heart…" She sobbed.
"I don't understand Rachel… What's happened?" He asked, sounding completely lost.
"Everything was normal… I woke up from my sleep with a very bad feeling a little while ago. I decided to push it aside and go back to sleep… I think I slept for about 2 hours… But I didn't sleep, I saw… It wasn't a nightmare daddy, trust me, it was a vision…" She said, trying to calm down as her father gently rubbed her back.
"I know baby, I trust you. Tell me what you saw." He asked, trying to remain calm at the idea that his angle was hurting.
"We were going to Mystic Falls, like we planed, but a woman was waiting for me there… She's planning to hurt me…" She sounded terrified.
"Who was she sweetheart?" Klaus asked her, already planning the woman's death.
"I don't know her name… I don't even know what she looks like… All I know is that Katerina set everything up in case she died… That woman will lure me in; make me trust her before she hurts me so much… She will betray me…my trust… All I know for sure is that she's already waiting for me in Mystic Falls when I arrive and that she's human…" she sobbed harder.
"It's okay baby… You're not alone… I will never let anyone hurt you and get away with it…" Klaus said.
"But she will be able to make me trust her… In the vision I was too young… too impressionable… I don't want to go to Mystic Falls yet daddy…" Rachel said as he hugged her close to his heart.
"Then we won't go baby… How would you like to go back to Lima for a year before we head to Virginia?" He asked her, desperate to get her to calm down.
"You would do that? But you really want to go back there…" She looked up at him.
"Rachel, from the moment I found you in that car and agreed to raise you, you became my number one priority." He told her with a smile, making her hug him tighter.
"What about the others? They might not want to come…" She said.
"How about this: we go back to Lima just the two of us. Kol, Rebecca and Stefan can go on with their lives and will join you in High school in Mystic Fall a year later… I know Elijah wants to go in Europe for some researches… Finn and Sage already planed to go somewhere else." He said.
"What about Damon?" She asked in a small voice that warmed Damon's heart (because, yes, he is listening from his bedroom that's not too far away.)
"Damon can do as he pleases, but he might want to spend some more time with Stefan… They are still mending things…" He said.
"You're right… Would the Martin's move with us?" She asked.
"No, they have to go there sooner than us, Doctor Martin found a job and he can't miss it. He said it was a once in a life time opportunity…"
"So I'll be all alone at school…"
"Are you forgetting about Noah? Whatever life decisions he's taken since you left, he will still be there for you, I know it." He said before kissing her in the forehead. Of course Noah would be there for his daughter, if he wasn't doing so willingly, all Klaus would have to do is compel him.
"Will you stay until I fall asleep daddy?" She asked her father.
"Of course baby Star." He sat by her side and watched as she slowly calmed down and fell asleep again.
When Rachel had been in a peaceful sleep for a while, Klaus left the room, ready to get some sleep before changing the moving arrangements. He was met in the corridor by Damon.
"So, you want me to go there and look into who that woman could be?" Damon asked.
"We don't know much about her… It could be anyone…" Klaus said in a 'don't worry about it now' tone.
"It's just… I don't like knowing someone will hurt her and not doing anything about it…" Damon said.
"I know… We have to be smart about this though… If Katerina contacted her, she might be supernatural…" Klaus said.
"I could always go back where we killed Katherine tomorrow and see if I can find anything… Traces of phone calls or email addresses…" Damon suggested.
"That's a good idea… Thanks mate." Klaus said as he turned around to go in bed (finally).
"Anything for her…" Damon whispered.
Klaus barely heard him and acted like he didn't. They both knew it wasn't time for the couple to be formed yet. Rachel needed to grow up some more before Damon could fully fall for the girl… Rachel herself needed to mature and have a little more experience before falling for Damon in something other than a "My hero, you save my life" crush.
The next morning, Klaus exposed the new plan to everyone. They understood and Stefan decided to spend some bonding time with his brother by going to investigate with him. Rebecca decided to separate herself from her mate for a while and to go to school in Lima. There was no way she was leaving her niece all alone. Kol agreed and decided to go too. Both Salvatore agreed to investigate and, if they ended up resolving the case before the end of the year, they would spend the time together, bonding, but would visit often.
When they told the Martins of the new plan, Lukas looked pissed but the other members of the family understood. They had to leave in less than a week and had a lot of preparing to do but they all joined to create for Klaus a necklace that would make him look older for the people that would remember him from back then. Kol and Rebecca would impersonate her cousins that live with her and both got necklaces too that made them look younger so they could be in the same year as Rachel. Rebecca would be the same age as Rachel while Kol would be a year older.
As he passed the necklace on Klaus asked his daughter with a smile:
"So, do I still look hot?" She chuckled and said:
"Oh yes daddy you do. I'm sure Misses Hudson and Puckerman will be all over you again."
"Maybe they found someone since then…" He said in a hopeful tone.
"Nope, Noah assured me they were both still single." She said.
"Speaking of Noah, did you call him?" Her father asked.
"Yes I did. As soon as I woke up this morning I called him. I woke him up so he was a bit grumpy but as soon as I told him I was coming to live in Lima for a year he stopped being grumpy and told me he was happy and couldn't wait to see me again… He even said he would take me out and show me the town…" She said excitedly.
"You mean, take you out… Like a date?" Klaus asked as everyone else's listened in.
"I don't know, I haven't asked…maybe… I wouldn't mind I think… According to the pictures he's sent me he is rather good looking…" she said in a dreaming tone, making both Damon and Lukas jealous.
"Well, we'll see about that when we get there, will we?" Klaus said before going back to his study to call in Lima so the vampire he left there would get the house ready for them and take care of the paper work for Rebecca and Kol. He then called Rachel's school so they would transfer her file to Lima high school.
The Salvatore brothers decided to wait a couple of days before leaving. Damon spent a lot of this time with Kol while Stefan and Rebecca seamed to want catch up before they even separated.
On the day of their departure, everyone was a little tensed. Everyone wanted to protect Rachel but they all wondered who (and what) the mysterious woman could be.
In the afternoon, Rebecca and Stefan were done 'saying goodbye' and the Salvatore were ready to leave. Rachel didn't really understand why they were the ones going but Sage had told her it was because of the pull that linked her to Damon. She went to Damon while Stefan and Rebecca started making out in front of the door.
"I'm really grateful for what you're doing for me Damon." She said in a shy tone.
"Don't worry about it, beautiful. It gives me the opportunity to spend some time alone with my little brother... You know, without feeling like a third wheel or something!" He was trying to hide the fact that being away from her would be hard.
"I asked Rebecca to give me your cell phone number and she registered mine in you cell. This way we can stay in touch." She said matter of factly.
"Good idea. You can give me the names of all the guys that try to take advantage of you and I'll take care of the ones your father and uncle's will have let go." He said with a small smile. She blushed.
"Will you come back to visit me when I perform?" She asked him.
"Of course I will." He said, he wouldn't miss it even if his life depended on it. He knew he couldn't cause her disappointment without being hurt himself.
"Will you be careful not to get hurt?" She asked him.
"Don't worry, I'm tougher than I look." He reassured her, touched by the fact that she was worried for him.
"I got you something…" She said in a shy tone, looking at her feet; "I don't know if you'll want it…" She added.
"Whatever it is I'm sure I'll love it Rachel." Damon told her, wanted nothing more but to see her smile before he left but hoping it wasn't a fluffy pink thing.
Rachel then rushed to the side of the room and retrieved a small paper bag before handing it to him.
"I really wanted something for travelling and I thought this would suit you…" She added before he opened it.
He just smiled at her as he put his hand inside the bag and got a rectangular box out. Opening the box, he got out a thermos cup with a huge gold Star on one side and "I'm fang'tastic" written on the other.
"That's great Rachel, Thank you!" He said as he hugged her.
"I filled it with you favourite blood earlier…Daddy spiced it up with some old whiskey he said you loved…" She added as she blushed a deep red.
"Oh, you get a thermos mug that tells you that you're Fang'tastic and all I get is kisses… I'm jealous brother!" Stefan said in a mocking tone as everybody laughed.
When they finally got in the car, Damon could see a big smile on Rachel's face as she waved goodbye at him.
"Are you sure you don't want to go with them Rebecca?" Rachel asked, hating the idea that she was keeping her lovely aunt from the man she loved.
"Don't worry, I'm sure. I'll miss Stefan but they need to spend that time together alone to retrieve the brotherly bond they lost a long time ago because of Katherine." The blond woman answered her.
The next week, Rachel spent a lot of time with the Martin's before they had to go. She did also text a lot with Damon. He wouldn't tell her where he was or what he found but they would talk about their tastes, what they liked, where they wanted to go… Damon wanted to make sure he was on her mind as much as possible when he wasn't there. It might be selfish, but he didn't want Rachel to fall in love with anyone else until she could fall in love with him…
However, Rachel knew where the researches were leading them because his father told her. When they arrived in the house where they killed Katherine and her minions, the found easily her cell phone but they got less lucky when they realised she had 17 different numbers that she used it with. It took them a whole day to retrieve all the number the bitch had called during her last month. Even when concentrating on the numbers of women, they ended up with 268 women to check out.
Katherine had prepared her trick pretty well. All of these women turned out to be women who travelled regularly and crossed Virginia on a weekly basis. Rachel suggested that they just gave up but everyone else was against it. The brothers had decided to check the women out one by one, always staying together in case one of them ended up being dangerous. It was a long and boring task and Rachel was touched by the fact that they were willing to go through that for her.
In her apartment in New York, Shelby Corcoran was packing. She had paid a detective to tell her everything about the Mickealson's move to Mystic Falls. The man called her:
"They're not moving." The detective told her.
"What? Why?" Shelby asked.
"The Martins, their friends, moved in town and I heard them explaining to the mayor that Klaus Mickealson, Rachel's father, needed to go back to Ohio for a year and that they would move in town later." The detective said.
"Ohio you say?" Shelby asked.
"Yes, Lima, Ohio." The man said before Shelby replied:
Okay, Thank you. That will be all." She hung up and called the school that had contacted her previously, hoping to get her as a vocal coach for their Glee club.
Less than one hour later, she changed her plans and got a job at Carmel High school. She would be able to see her daughter after all.
The Mickealson's had just arrived in their new home in Lima. Klaus never sold the old house and all they had to do was change a few things to feel like home.
Rachel was now in her room. She had a pink 'princess' queen sized bed and she loved it. She also had a small sofa and a big TV. One of the movers brought her last box in the room. It was her musical collection…DVDs and CDs of all her favourite musicals. She spent hours organising her room when she got a text from Noah. He was asking her if she needed help, she told him she was managing and told him he could come over the next day. He told her he would be there without a doubt.
When she was done, she went to check on Kol and Rebecca. They were both done and enjoying the quiet and calm of the small town.
"How about we order some pizza tonight?" Klaus asked as they all got down for dinner.
"Sure, that would be a nice change!" Rachel said. The maid wouldn't come until the next day and they needed to eat, so why not have pizza for once?
"Have you made plans with Noah yet Rachel?" Klaus asked his daughter.
"Yes, I did. He is coming over tomorrow afternoon. I don't know what we will do yet." She answered him.
They had only one week left until school started again and Rachel was excited. She really hoped she would be able to make friends here, but even if she didn't, she would always have her aunt and uncle.
The next day arrived fast and soon, it was the afternoon and Rachel was at the door, greeting Noah.
"Rachel, it's good to see you!" he said as he hugged her tight.
"It's good to see you too Noah. I've missed you!" she smiled at him.
"Your father isn't here?" The mohawked boy asked her.
"Daddy went shopping for food with Kol and Rebecca." Rachel answered.
"Oh, your cousins right?" He asked.
"Kol is more like a big brother but yes, they are my cousins." She answered him as they went up to her room.
"Your father won't mind that you have a boy in your bedroom?" he asked her, knowing any other girl wouldn't be allowed to have him in her bedroom if the parents weren't there.
"Daddy trusts me." She simply said as they both sat on her small sofa.
"You know you're the only one with my mother that is allowed to call me Noah right?" he told her in a warning tone.
"I don't understand why that is… Noah is such a beautiful name!" She exclaimed.
"Puck just sound more badass." He answered as she laughed.
They talked for a few more minutes until the front door opened. Klaus was back. Rachel grabbed Puck's hand and pulled him behind her as she rushed to introduce him to Kol and Rebecca.
"Daddy, look, Noah is here." She said with a big smile on her face.
"How are you doing son?" Klaus asked as he shook the boy's hand.
"It's nice to see you again mister Mickealson." Puck said as politely as he could, he wanted to make the best impression possible on the man.
"Call me Klaus son." The father said with a smile.
"If you call me Puck!" Noah said with a smile Klaus liked. The boy reminded him of himself at his age.
"Noah, this is Kol and Rebecca." Rachel said as she turned him towards the two other originals.
"How're you doing mate?" Kol said as Rebecca simply nodded her head in his direction while sexting Stefan.
"So, what are your plans for today?" Klaus asked Puck.
"Well, my mom reminded me to invite you guys for dinner this week." Puck said with an amused smirk.
"Oh…Hum… Sure… I guess if we all go…" Klaus answered.
"I was wondering if you would mind me taking Rachel out this afternoon. I would drop her of before 10:30." Noah asked the most scared vampire of the country.
"Sure, go out, have fun." Klaus said before going to his study.
"Do you want to come?" Puck asked Kol and Rebecca.
"Thanks for the invite but I think I'm going to play some Wii." Kol said.
"No thanks, I think I'll call Stefan." Rebecca said before smiling mischievously toward Rachel and said:
"I'll tell Damon you say Hi Rachel!" Rachel blushed and Puck noticed it. Whoever this Damon was, he was a threat to his plan to show Rachel to school as his girlfriend.
"So, who is that Damon guy?" He asked her later as they sat at Breadsticks waiting for their meal.
"He is the big brother of Rebecca's boyfriend. He is a good friend of the family." She answered him before letting her eyes wonder on his muscled arms. Seeing this inflated Puck's ego and stopped him from asking any more questions about Damon.
"Noah, there is a girl glaring daggers at us. Do you know her?" Rachel asked as she pointed toward another seat were 2 blonds and a brunette were eating.
"That's Santana…You know I told you about her. The blond sharing her seat is Brittany and the other one is Quinn." He told her.
"Is Quinn still trying to come at you when Finn isn't around?" Rachel asked him.
"She did a few times but I think she got tired of it. I saw her hooking up with another football player at last week's party."
"What about Finn?" Rachel asked shocked.
"He wasn't there… he doesn't know." Puck said as the waitress brought them their plates of pasta.
As they finished their plates, the three cheerleaders came over to see if they could steal Puck away from the new girl.
"Hey there Puck. Who's your new friend? You know you don't have to pay ME dinner if you want some private play time." Santana said with a smirk.
"Satan, this is Rachel Mickealson, I'm sure you remember her from Elementary school. She just moved back here. Rachel this is Santana and I'm sure you remember Brittany, you two had dance classes together. This is Quinn, Finn's girlfriend." Noah introduced.
Brittany immediately smiled at Rachel. The two of them had been great friends back then. Rachel invited the girls to sit with them to have desert and they did only because Brittany wanted to. Rachel immediately noticed that Santana was in love with Brittany and promised herself that she would help them accept it and be together before she had to leave at the end of the year.
Santana acted nicer to Rachel when she learned her father was loaded and that she had sung with a star. She could feel that being close to the brunette was a good move. She asked her if she would join cheerleading and Rachel answered truthfully that it was more her cousin's Rebecca's thing. Rachel confessed she would be more the Glee club kind of girl. Quinn smirked and told her "good luck with that". Noah then explained that it wasn't very popular at McKinley but that if she were to join, he would join with her. She kissed him on the cheek and he blushed. The 3 popular girls understood that Noah was serious about Rachel and while Brittany was happy for him, Quinn was overtaken with jealousy. Santana wanted to please Brittany so she decided to be happy for Puck and to help him into his new romance.
When they finally got out of the restaurant, Rachel felt like Quinn would be a problem once in school but she was glad that Santana had stopped glaring at her.
"Let's get you home now, we still have 30 minutes before it's time." Puck said.
"I actually don't have a curfew; you're the one that shortened our time together by giving daddy a time." Rachel said, smiling at him.
"And here I was trying to make a good impression…I'll remember not to say anything for next time!" he laughed.
"Next time?" Rachel asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes… I was wondering if you would like to go to Brittany's party with me tomorrow night…you know…as my girlfriend…" He said with a slight blush on his cheeks.
"Really? I would love to!" Rachel answered him a smile that made him feel like he was the super prize to some national lottery and she had won it.
When they arrived in front of her house, she asked him if he wanted to come in but he told her he needed to get home to look after his little sister while his mother worked the night-shift.
When she entered her house, Klaus, Kol and Rebecca were in front of her in a second. She told what had happened and that he has asked her out the next day to go to a party. Klaus was happy for her and she kissed him good night before dancing her way upstairs.
The next day went by fine. She texted Damon to tell him how excited she was about her date with her new boyfriend. His answer was that he was happy for her and wished her a good evening.
In reality, Damon finished the night drinking his ass off in a bar before taking to bed one of the women they were investigating. If his Rachel was dating, he didn't see why he should stop himself from getting some release. However, when he woke up the next morning, he was taken over by remorse and decided not to do it again anytime soon. He really hoped Rachel would hold on to her virginity until she met him… He couldn't believe it… He was jealous of some 16 years old boy because he was dating the girl he wanted… How pathetic was that?
While Damon was trying harder than ever to find the woman that wanted to hurt Rachel, the girl was enjoying the last week of summer vacation with her new boyfriend (and first boyfriend too). At the party, she met a lot of his friends and they seamed nice enough. Some remembered her from elementary school and other didn't. Finn couldn't keep his eyes off of her and she found it quite irritating and creepy, especially since he had a girlfriend (who seemed to be very clingy lately).
When school started again, everyone was surprised to see that Noah Puckerman was going to all of his classes seriously. To be with his new girlfriend, he even joined the glee club. It surprised the new glee advisor, Will Schuster, but the young man dragged with him some other football players and a few cheerios. With this new school year, Puck was a new man and he surprised everyone by his new attitude. Of course, when Jacob Ben Israel started to creep Rachel out, Puck threw him in the dumpster before Kol could even decide what to do with the boy.
Kol had joined the football team and was pretty popular with the girls. Puck and he were getting along well and they soon became good friend. Rebecca had joined the cheerleaders and made sure everyone knew she was taken. None of them had joined the glee club. Singing wasn't their passion and they didn't want Rachel to think they were spying on her by being with her all the time. They already were in some of her classes and they didn't want her to think they didn't trust her. They knew she could be just fine without them.
Rachel's talent was like a breath of fresh hair in Glee. She was the most talented singer in the club and even if she had to fight for solos, she was happy to be part of something important. Whenever she didn't get the solo she wanted, she had her boyfriend to tell her she totally deserved it and would get it next time. She still texted Damon on a regular basis but never around Puck. The young man was, somehow, jealous of Damon without ever meeting him. She told him it was ridiculous but even her father found it funny.
That day, about 2 months after the beginning of the year, Rachel went to the bathroom after lunch to brush her teeth when she saw Quinn crying in front of the mirror. Even if the blond cheerios had never been nice to her, Rachel decided to play nice.
"Quinn, what's wrong?" Rachel's eyes immediately went on the counter near the sink were she saw a pregnancy test.
"Is that a…" She started to ask but when Quinn cried harder, Rachel got her answer. As someone was about to enter the bathroom, Rachel pushed her out and blocked the door so nobody else could enter.
"Why do you care? I've never been nice to you!" Quinn asked in a harsh tone as Rachel gave her some paper towels.
"Because you're not nice to me doesn't mean I can't be nice to you when you obviously need someone… Is it positive then?" Rachel asked in a hesitant tone.
"Yes, it is… Funny isn't it… Quinn Fabray, head cheerleader and president of the celibacy club is pregnant!" Quinn said in a bitter tone.
"If you don't want to be you can always get an abortion… or take this medicine… I think it's called RU486… it terminates pregnancies…" Rachel told her as Quinn let her head fall on Rachel's shoulder.
"I can't… I'm catholic…It would be murder…I have to keep it…"
"Have you told Finn of your suspicions?" Rachel asked her.
"No… We never had sex… He is dumb enough that if I told him it happen while he ejaculated in thee Jacuzzi he would believe it but…" Quinn stopped there and started sobbing again.
"Can I ask who the father is?" Rachel's tone was quiet and hesitant.
"It's Karovsky… I don't know what to do…"
"What will your parents say when you tell them?" Rachel asked the blond.
"They would disown me…They would throw me out…" Quinn cried even harder and Rachel just held her.
When the bell rang, they stayed in the bathroom. After 15 minutes, Rachel got a text message from both Puck and Rebecca asking her if everything was okay. They were both in her next class and noticed she wasn't here. She simply answered them she was helping a friend and would explain later.
"You're missing class…" Quinn said.
"So are you…" Rachel said with a small smile.
"Yes, but I'm use to it, you never miss class…" Quinn insisted.
"My daddy says that breaking the rules once in a while is an obligation in the life of a teenager and that I don't break them enough!" Rachel answered.
"You're lucky Rachel… I don't know what I'm going to do…" Quinn said.
"You need to tell Finn the truth now, and the sooner you deal with your parents the easier it will be… If they really throw you out, I'm sure we will find you some place to stay. Technically, David Karovsky should offer to care for you and the child, if he doesn't, we'll talk to his parents into doing the right thing… If this doesn't work, then you'll stay with on of us…" Rachel said, making decisions.
They stayed together, making plans, for the rest of the afternoon and when it was time for Glee club, Rachel helped Quinn up and gave her a courage hug for her talk with Finn.
When she got in the room, Rebecca was there, waiting for her with Puck and Kol. Rachel pulled the three of them out of the room and told them what happened. Quinn had allowed her to tell them about the baby and while Kol was thinking of compelling Karovsky and his parents to welcome the blond in their home, Rebecca was feeling for what the girl was about to do. Noah was just sad his best friend had been cheated on. However, they were all proud of the way Rachel handled things.
Kol and Rebecca were about to leave when they heard Finn yell. Quinn and he were in front of the other door that leads to the choir room and he was really mad. Puck and Kol rushed to him and took him away. Finn was yelling things like "Cheating whore", "I loved you" or again "How could you do this to me?". All Quinn said was "Sorry" all over again.
"I don't think we'll be in Glee today babe. I'll see you later." Noah told Rachel as both he and Kol pulled Finn away. Quinn had tears in her eyes and every gleeks was staring.
Rebecca and Rachel lead the pregnant teen to a chair in the room as Mister Schuster entered.
"What's going on? Where are Puck and Finn?"
"You tell them Rachel please…" Quinn whispered to the brunette.
Rachel then explained quickly what happened and the teacher decided not to have glee today. Only Santana and Brittany stayed behind to comfort their friend. Rachel chuckled when Kurt rushed to comfort Finn…
Rachel called her father while Mister Schuster asked Emma Pillsbury to call the Fabray's. They arrived at the same time and everyone met in the choir room. Santana left to get coach Sylvester. Klaus was proud of his daughter and hugged her for standing up and helping her friend (and in his head for not being the pregnant one). The Fabray acted exactly like Quinn said they would. They left telling her that her things would be in the front yard later for her to pick up.
"We need to find her a place to stay… Staying at friend's houses will do for a few days but she's pregnant, she needs a stable place to live!" Emma said.
"Well, the Karovsky's will just have to take her in. It was after all their son's mistake!" Will said.
"I don't think it would be wise mister Schu… They are very strict and would only push her into aborting…" Brittany said.
"She could stay with us, right daddy?" Rachel proposed. Klaus knew it would be hard to host another human teenager but was about to agree, to please his daughter when Sue Sylvester said:
"That's nice of you Miss Mickealson but there is no need. Quinn is my head cheerleader… She reminds me of a younger version of myself… She will stay with me! I have a spare room and everything will be fine." Everyone was shocked but they agreed. Quinn was touched by the number of people willing to help her.
Later that day, Rachel went along with Quinn, Kol, her father and Puck to go pick Quinn's stuff in her parent's front' yard. Everything was there and it was a good thing they took two pick up truck.
While they carried the boxes, Puck told them how Finn punched Karovsky earlier and told him what happened. The teenage boy hadn't even tried to punch Finn back and later he had texted Quinn that he wanted nothing to do with 'it'. Finn had gone home after that and nobody had heard from him since.
After they settled Quinn in her new room, they stayed to have dinner with Coach Sylvester who was trying to flirt with Klaus. The hybrid didn't know how to answer without hurting the woman's feelings and decided to pretend to have a phone conference waiting for him at home so he could leave faster. After he was gone they all laughed, even Sue who had done it on purpose.
When they left to go home, Puck kissed Rachel before he drove Kol and her back home. He didn't come in but told Rachel he would pick her up the next morning for school. When he thought about it, Rachel made him a better man. He was going to his classes, did his homework, and had a job he liked… Of course, the fact that Rachel didn't want to have sex was a bit frustrating but he managed. Making out with her was almost as good. On top of that, his mother actually liked Rachel, even if she wasn't Jewish. Of course, that changed when Klaus explained that Rachel's real parents (that were now dead) had been Jewish. Now Puck was pretty sure his mother was praying for him not to screw things up and to keep Rachel by his side so he could marry her later.
When he thought about it, Puck couldn't help to notice that there was something strange about Rachel's family. He could feel they had some kind of secret and he was thinking about asking her about it, but he didn't want to lose her. For the first time in his life, he had a girlfriend that he loved and loved him back, she made him feel good about himself and he didn't want to risk loosing her.
The next day, Rachel and Rebecca met up with Quinn, Santana and Brittany. The five of them spent the whole lunch period making plans. Rachel would go with Quinn to her doctor appointment after school and after cheerleading practice, the other would join them for some shopping.
"So, how was your first night with Coach Sylvester?" Rebecca asked the pregnant teen.
"Not that bad actually. She's very kind when she lets herself be. We went to visit her sister… She handicapped and in a special institution…She's nice. When we got home we talked a lot… I think she likes that I trusted her enough to move in with her." Quinn said, trying to ignore Karovsky's constant staring.
Both Rebecca and Santana were trying to resist the urge to go and kick his ass for his text message and he wasn't making their control easy with his constant looking at Quinn.
"If he doesn't stop I swear I'm going to go all Lima height on his sorry ass!" Santana said.
"I'll help you!" Rebecca said with a smile. Both girls had the same kind of temper and they got along very well since the first day they met.
"Kol said he would talk to him about taking his responsibilities seriously…" Rachel said.
"Kol was busy kicking Jacob Ben Israel's ass this morning." Rebecca answered.
"Why would he do that?" Brittany asked before adding "His hair is like a giant Jewish cloud."
"Well, the giant Jewish cloud was threatening me to spread the rumours of Quinn's pregnancy being the result of a four some with Rachel and Puck if I didn't show him my underwear… He just got lucky that Kol got to him before I did." Rebecca explained as Rachel paled.
"Will he do it? I mean, it's not even fair, I've never had sex…" Rachel said in a small panicky voice.
"Don't worry Rach, he won't do it if he knows what's good for him!" Santana said in a kind voice. She couldn't get over the surprise that not only Puck wasn't having sex with his girlfriend but he wasn't cheating on her either… That was love!
Then Puck and Kol joined them as the bell rang. They had been spending lunch with Finn so the boy didn't feel left out.
After school, Rachel and Quinn went quickly to Coach Sylvester's office because she had asked them to.
"Ah Quinn, here you are. I just wanted you to take this card. I called my insurance company and now you're covered along with me and my sister." Sue said in her usual every day voice.
"Thank you so much!" Quinn said with tears in her eyes. She really was thankful for everything the woman was doing for her. She went to hug her tight before they left.
The appointment went well and as they got out, getting ready to meet the girls at the mall, a woman approached them. Rachel was ready to defend them with a vervain- pepper spray thinking it was a vampire but the woman introduced herself:
"I'm Terry Schuster. My husband is your Glee club teacher. He told me the delicate situation you find yourself in Quinn and I really feel for you. I just want you to know I want to adopt your child. I want it to be a surprise for my husband so don't you go telling him anything. Here is my cell phone number, call me when you know the sex and the delivery date." After a nod from the blond teen, she left.
Still shocked the girls went to the mall and told the three girls what had happened. They were shocked but were glad that Quinn had an option. However, when they got to the maternity section of the store to find clothes for their friend and saw Terry Schuster steeling a fake belly they grew suspicious. They discreetly followed her and her sister and Rebecca told then she could read lips (she wasn't about to admit she was a vampire with super hearing). She confirmed that the woman was faking her pregnancy.
"That's horrible!" Rachel said as they sat with a milkshake in the food section.
"How can somebody do that to someone they say they love?" Brittany asked.
"I don't know what to do…" Quinn said.
"I think you should tell Mister Schuster what happened!" Rebecca suggested gently. The others nodded their agreement.
"If you want to put the baby up for adoption later, you can always look for another family… you have time, you're only starting your third month…" Rachel said.
"You girls are right; I think he needs to know the truth… Let's go back to Coach's place and we'll ask her to call him over." Quinn said, wanting to prove to the woman that helped her so much that she really trusted her.
When they arrived, they explained what happened to Sue and the woman made the call. She just told him to come over if he didn't want her to find a way to get him fired. 20 minutes later he was coming in the apartment.
"What's going on Sue?" he asked in a tired voice.
"Something happened while Quinn was out today; we think you need to know. I'll leave the girls to tell you." She said before going to the kitchen.
"Mister Schu…Your wife cornered Rachel and I after the doctor's appointment… It looked like she was waiting for us." Quinn started.
"Why… What did she want?" He asked, looking confused.
"She said she wanted to adopt Quinn's baby and not to tell you because she wanted it to be a surprise but later we went shopping at the mall and saw her and another woman, her sister apparently, and your wife was steeling a fake belly and they were thinking of ways to keep you from finding out she wasn't pregnant…" Rachel said in one breath when she realised Quinn was still looking for words.
"I… Are you sure?" he asked in a small voice.
"I'm sorry Mister Schuster, but we thought you needed to know…. Making you think she was pregnant while she wasn't is just cruel." Santana said.
He quietly thanked the girls before he left the apartment.
The next day, the news that Mister Schuster was getting a divorce was all over Jacob's blog. The next few months went by smoothly.
When they competed for sectionals, they had to come up with a new set list at the last minute because Jacob Ben Israel had given their songs to the other teams. Thankfully, Rachel stunned everyone with her "Don't rain on my parade" and they won. Klaus had offered to have a celebratory barbecue at his house for the glee club and their family.
As promised, every member of the Mickealson family was there to see Rachel sing. Stefan and Damon had also come and Rebecca didn't leave her mate's arms during the whole day. Sage and Finn had to leave immediately after the competition (not before they congratulated their niece).
Puck finally got to meet Damon and Rachel had to admit that it was a pretty tense moment filled with testosterone. She felt like she was watching two alpha males fighting over a female. She didn't really understand why Damon was so overprotective of her but she let it go and sat back on Noah's knees.
"So this is your boyfriend…" Damon said as Puck was improvising a game of football in the backyard with Kol, Finn, Matt, Mike and Stefan.
"Yes. Noah is very nice with me." Rachel said.
"He better be." Damon muttered.
"Why don't you like him?" Rachel asked.
"I never said I didn't like him." The vampire defended himself.
"Your actions speak for themselves. He's a very nice boy you know. Daddy likes him too. And he is a very good friend to Kol." Rachel said as if it was reason enough to date him.
"Do you love him though?" Damon asked her.
"I like him a lot..;"
"I didn't ask if you liked him Rach…"
"Why is it so important to you? We're good together…" She said.
"Yeah, I've seen you around him and the reason your father likes him is because the two of you look more like best friends than anything else…" he said.
"We make out…" Rachel said in a defensive tone.
"Friends with benefits then…" Damon said. He watched as Rachel placed a pensive look on her face. He saw Klaus smirking at him, knowing what he did and why. He also noticed Stefan and Rebecca frowning his way… Well, he couldn't make everyone happy could he… As long as she wasn't in his arms anymore, he was happy.
Rachel was seating in a plastic chair, watching the boys play football when Quinn came to seat next to her.
"You okay Rachel?"
"I don't know… Damon said something that got me thinking…" She said.
"He's really hot…" Santana said as she came to seat with them.
"Yes, he is… and he knows it too." Rachel said.
"What did he tell you that got you so pensive?" Quinn asked.
"He said that Noah and I don't look like a couple but more like best friends and that the fact we make out doesn't change a thing… Is it bad that I like Noah without loving him?" She asked the two girls.
"We're too young to love Rachel… It's time for us to have fun, nothing else…" Santana said.
"Noah told me he loved me right before the show today…" Rachel said.
"What did you answer him?" Quinn asked.
"Thank you?" Rachel said, blushing as the two girls laughed. From where she was, she could see the vampires smirking and laughing quietly at her answer.
"How polite of you!" Santana said.
"What should I do?" she asked in a desperate tone.
"I think you need to speak with him and be honest… You're the one that taught me that honesty was important…" Quinn said.
"You're right, I'll talk to him when their game is over…" She said.
A few minutes later, the game was over and it looked like Puck was on the winning team. Rachel came over to him with a cold drink in her hand for him.
"Hey Rach, I like Rebecca's boyfriend… Guy is cool!" Puck said as he kissed her cheek before drinking the soda she brought him.
"Yes, Stefan and Damon are both very nice." She told him.
"You seamed very…pensive earlier… What's wrong?" He asked her.
"I was thinking about what you said before the show…" she said as she led the two of them toward an isolated area.
"You mean the thing you answered 'Thank you' to?" she said with an amused smirk.
"Yes… I'm sorry I couldn't say it back…" she said.
"Don't worry about it…" He said.
"You really don't mind that I can't honestly say that I love you?" She asked him. he looked at her in the eyes as he said:
"Rachel, I've been into you since the first time I saw you in kindergarten. You're like this perfect girl that a guy can only dream of meeting before he dies and I got lucky enough to meet you when we were kids and to date you now… It doesn't matter if you can't love me back… We're good together for now… I'm happy to have you my girlfriend for as long as it can last…"
"Really? That's… I don't know what to say…" Rachel was touched by his words and the way he saw her.
"Do you want us to break up? Do you like someone else?" Noah asked her.
"No, of course not!" She said.
"Then we're fine for now… How about we agree to break up without any hard feelings if one of us meets someone else?" he suggested. She nodded and they hugged.
Of course, every vampire in the yard heard what was going on and was touched by the way Noah spoke.
"That's why I let them be together. I like that he sees her like that." Klaus told Damon as the younger vampire was jealous to see them kissing again.
Elijah left after the last guest was gone and the Salvatore decided to stay the weekend so Stefan could spend more time with Rebecca.
Damon spent his time in Lima watching Noah Puckerman closely. He noticed that the boy really liked Rachel and wasn't cheating on her. He had to admit he was a bit disappointed but he realised it was wrong of him to hope the boy that dated HIS Rachel cheated… It would only hurt her, even after their conversation during the barbecue.
"Don't pout mate; you know your turn will come soon." Klaus told him as he stood looking at Rachel and Puck making out in front of a movie.
"I know…it just pisses me off to see them together…" Damon said truthfully.
"Come and have a real drink with me, this will change your mind!" Klaus invited Damon to join him on his little hunt.
The next few weeks flew by really fast. Rachel had met on several occasions a cute boy from Carmel high named Jessie St James and he was overly flirty with her but Rebecca found him to be suspicious. She let her aunt compel the guy and he admitted that he was flirting only so he could date her and break her heart before New Directions met Vocal Adrenaline at Regional's. Rachel got super mad when he confessed having planed to egg her in the middle of a parking lot. She decided to let it go and was now ignoring him whenever he was around her.
She and Noah were still dating and she had to say that she felt more attraction for him since the barbecue than before. She was pretty sure she was slowly falling for him and that scared her a little. What would she do if she fell in love with him before it was time for them to go to Mystic Falls? Of course, her father told her that if that was the case they would find a solution that would make her happy. Seriously, her father was the best.
On top of everything, she had to deal with Finn constant flirting with her to get back at Quinn. It didn't matter how many time she told him she wasn't interested, he kept on hitting on her, singing her cute songs and trying to show off when she was around. Puck and he had gotten into a big fight for this and now the two boys that had been friends since kindergarten weren't talking to each other.
Puck could feel that Rachel was more affectionate now than before and he could tell that she was falling for him. He liked it. Every time Rachel was in his arms, he felt a giant pride overcome him. He actually wasn't sure if he really was in love with her, but he felt like it was the right moment to say it. All he knew was that he couldn't stop thinking about her and that he loved making out with her, especially since she let him touch her boobs when he had a grade over B.
Shelby Corcoran had been spying on her daughter for a few months now and was getting frustrated. Her attempt at sending Jessie her way didn't work so now she needed to find another plan. She couldn't help but feel a bit of pride when Rachel marched into sectionals belting out "Don't rain on my parade" like she meant it, but it didn't change the fact that she had a mission to complete. Rachel needed to suffer and if possible before Regionals so she could bring her team to Nationals.
Since Rachel's boyfriend Puck had a pool cleaning business and used to "play" with cougars, Shelby rented a house with pool and decided to hire him and see if she could use him in any way. He was just a teenage boy after all and she was a woman of experience… she would be able to seduce him into being very public with her… Once he fell for her, she would bring him somewhere Rachel could spot them and that would be it…
Unfortunately, she didn't count on him being now a faithful boyfriend. She tried parading in her bikini in front of him, she trying innuendos; she tried getting him drunk… Nothing worked. The only time she managed to get him drunk he bolted out, saying he needed to see his Rachel before Damon, Finn or Jessie stole her away… Whoever they were…
That's when she got an idea that she thought to be simply brilliant. She paid a weird kid she found spying on Rachel to stand watch at her house and take picture of her and Puck when he is around. She put on her best bikini and modelled in front of the boy. Of course he looked, faithful didn't mean he didn't like to look at hot ladies right? Then she pretended she had something in her eye and got him to bend over to look in it. A little later, she tripped and he being a gentleman and all went to help her up. She hugged him close to thank him, letting a strap of her bikini fall.
When Puck left, Shelby had enough pictures to make it look like something really happened. She decided to pay someone to bring them to Rachel the next day when she's in Glee club.
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When Rachel woke up that morning, she realised that she hadn't drank her vervain the previous night. Even if it was cold, she drank it before realising that she had left her computer turned on. She went to turn it off before dressing up for what she felt would soon become an eventful day at school.
Puck had meant to tell Rachel about the weird woman that kept on trying to flirt with him. He wanted to tell her she was not that hot but seamed to think that she was. But he forgot all about it every time he saw her.
Rachel walked into Glee club like she owned it. Everything was doing fine in her life. Quinn wasn't mad at her for Finn's constant flirting, she had great friends, she had the perfect song ready for this week's assignment and life was great with both her family and her hot boyfriend. She sat down in her usual seat and watched as everyone else came in. Noah took his seat next to her and Will Schuster arrived. Just as he was about to close the door, a boy came in:
"I have to give this envelope to Rachel berry." He said. Rachel took it and he left without asking for anything else.
Wondering what this was about, and with everyone's eyes on her, she opened it and got a small pile of pictures out of it. She paled. She went through them all one by one as she let tears go down her cheeks. In none of the pictures you could see the woman's face, only here hair.
"Rach, what's wrong babe?" Noah said as he looked at her. She stood up with the pictures still in her hands and threw daggers at him with her eyes.
"Don't you call me babe you bastard!" Nobody understood what was going on, especially Noah. Quinn rushed to her side, followed by Santana and Brittany.
"I don't understand, what's going on? What did I do?" Noah asked as everyone else watched like it was the best TV show ever.
"How could you do this to her Puck? She trusted you! We thought you'd changed!" Quinn yelled after seeing the pictures.
"I didn't do anything I swear!" he said as Rachel was now crying on Brittany's shoulder. Santana grabbed the pictures and shoved them into his face. Noah watched them carefully before he said:
"I swear nothing happened. The bitch kept trying to come at me for the last month or something… I never gave in... She's not even that hot… She just hugged me because I helped her up, and there she had something in the eye and asked me to look if I could see something, here she said she hurt her ankle and needed me to carry her inside…" Puck was trying to justify himself.
Rachel looked up at him and through her tears she said:
"You're breaking my heart…" before she ran away.
Puck kept trying to explain himself and Santana believed him.
"I'll go get Rebecca and Kol, Rachel needs her family right now. I suggest you stay away for a while Puck." Quinn said before leaving the room. Brittany went with her because she thought it wasn't safe for a very pregnant Quinn to be all alone in the corridors of high school.
Rachel had been running for a while now and couldn't see were she was going. She fell down on some grass and decided to stay there. She didn't know how long she had been gone but in a second, she wasn't alone anymore and was in her father's loving arms.
He told her how Quinn found Rebecca and Kol and how they called him and told him what happened. He didn't try to defend Puck, even if he knew the boy was probably innocent. He let that thought go for now, there would be time to innocent the boy tomorrow, now his baby angel needed him. He took her home and stayed with her until she fell asleep. The next morning, he had her favourite breakfast ready. He told her to be brave and let Rebecca lead her away to school where she would have to face her heartbreak like a big girl.
Puck was mad. He went in his truck with Santana and Finn and drove to the bitch's house. When he arrived there, it was empty with a big "On sale" sign in the lawn. If she wasn't here, it meant there was no way of proving his innocence… He wouldn't be getting his Rachel back… He had lost her and he didn't even do anything wrong… he dropped Santana and Finn back in the parking lot before he took off toward the local bar. He got drunk like he never had before. He got so drunk that every woman he saw became Rachel. He got home because it hurt too much to see her everywhere when he couldn't have her. When his alarm clock rang the next morning, he was still drunk and showed up to school just as drunk as the previous night.
Puck saw Rachel coming to school with red eyes, hugged by Rebecca's arm and he went over to her, tried to explain himself. She didn't want to hear any of it. She simply ignored him and went away. He tried to get her attention to apologise all morning long and when lunch came, he was tired of it. He saw her getting out of the library with Rebecca, Quinn, Brittany and Santana.
"Rachel, please listen to me. I would never cheat on you, especially not with a woman that old and ugly… please…" she looked at him and shook her head.
"Fine, you think I cheated on you, I didn't but you know what, since you find me guilty anyway, why don't I show you what it looks like when I cheat on you?" After saying that, Noah grabbed a freshman girl that was walking by and kissed her. After releasing the unknown girl, he looked back at Rachel to see her crying.
"Now you have a reason to be mad at me!" he said before walking away from her and from the school to have some fun with one if those cougars that used to turn him on.
Rachel was on her knees, crying her eyes out… She had finally fallen in love, and like every time she fell, it hurt like hell and this time, her daddy's blood wouldn't be able to help her at all.
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