The girls all got together before class in the auditorium to open their letters from the Scouting auditions, Mercedes and Santana got through, then Rachel and Kurt came into the room saying they had been called back for NYADA and there was total joy in the place
"What does Jessie think about this Rachel?" Santana asked
"I haven't told him yet, he'll be fine" she replied
"I haven't said anything to Blaine yet either, I don't want to hurt his feelings, but I'm going and he can come or stay but it's my destiny" Kurt told everyone
"I haven't mentioned anything to Sam yet but he'll be fine with it, he wants for me what I want, we already talked about it" Mercy said
"Well Brittany won't be happy but she'll let me go"
"So you two have finally come out now then?" Mercy asked
"Well not come out but we aren't hiding it any more" Santana said
"How will we know that they'll let us go? Rachel asked nervously "I mean really let us go, If Jess will let me go?" hoping for an answer but got nothing
"I feel a song coming on" Kurt said looking at Mercy who just started singing "How Will I Know" almost immediately as they walked back through the school via the library and into the auditorium
"I got to go tell Sam I'll see you all later" she said walking away from the group
"I kind of wish I'd opened this with Blaine cause we'd be having our conversation already he'll feel like I've already constructed an argument as to why I should go now" Kurt said walking away from the group
Mercy took her phone out and started texting him but suddenly he was in front of her "Hey did you get it" he asked
"Yes I did" she said as flat as she could
"Are you not happy about it babe?"
"Yes but it changes our life doesn't it and that scares me"
"I thought we agreed change was good" he said laughing
"Will you promise me you'll come to LA with me babe please?"
"If I get into MARVEL I will, but if not I'm not going to LA just to watch you, I need to do something with my life to make money to keep you woman" he laughed "We're going to have to do some of that long distance stuff" he said getting more serious "did I just say that?" he said going into her face so they were forehead to forehead "If I did I'm lying to you babe, I couldn't cope with that"
"Come to club later I'll show you why I can't go to LA without you Mr. Evans" she kissed him and walked away to lesson
Later they sat in the choir room waiting for Mr. H when everyone received a text 'come to auditorium for performance now' from him
"What's happening?" everyone asked as they made their way to the auditorium but got no answers
"Sit down everyone and imagine this is a big like skating rink or something like that anywhere else except this place and picture someone famous just skating around just hanging" Mr. H said before nodding for the music to start and an older man and woman came out onto the stage singing "Fire" at first the old guy looked scared but then suddenly he was bringing it to miss thing and they were really good
"Yes thank you for that" Mr. H came out clapping as the oldies bowed
"This is Mr. Will Schuster his picture hangs in the auditorium as the founding father for the New Directions, which was what this group was called when I was a part of it back in the day, so its thanks to him we have this place to sing in and Miss Rhodes back in the day put her life savings into this very room so we could have this place forever to sing and dance in" Mr. H said, everyone started clapping and whopping.
"It's great to be back Finn, the place has changed but it hasn't, if you know what I mean" Mr. Schuster said
"Finn?" everyone said just learning their teacher's name
"Anyone fancy belting one out for the visitors?" Mr. H asked
"I was going to sing to Sam anyway today so I'm game Mr. H" Mercy said
"Come on up then Mercedes" he said as she left Sam's arms and went on stage, Sam followed her down and officially introduced her as she started singing "Ain't No Way" with the choir behind her, she'd just got into the second line when she looked up and saw Sam sitting with Santana with what looked like an arm around her she felt her blood boil, quickly telling herself it couldn't be anything because no way would he do that let alone in her face like that so she mentally told herself to calm down and focus on the song telling herself ain't no way and fanning the thought out of her mind
Sam was taking in everything Mercy was telling him in the song and was up and clapping as soon as the last note was out he was in awe of his girlfriend's voice "she's going all the way" he said to Santana sitting next to him because Brittany had taken against her when she announced she had been successful with her scouting audition. Once she was off stage and Mr. H had informed them that next week's lesson was around the film grease, they had to find songs to sing, Sam made his way down to back stage to see his girl.
"We're gonna to sing summer night's babe", he said when he got to her "For next week's assignment is that okay?" he asked and got an affirmative before waving at Puck indicating they were taking the song
"I'm buzzed babe I totally understood your song to me and I'm going to let you, and we are going past the under clothes but over underwear stage tonight are you ready?" he asked she looked at him smiled and nodded a yes. They jumped in the car and made their way over to her house
"Hi Mom, Dad they sung in unison as they passed the kitchen and study and started up the stairs
"Hey" Devon said halting them "You two come see me for a while" he said before lighting his pipe, they looked at each other before starting back down the stairs
"Yes Dad" Mercy said
"Dad" Sam said holding his hand out to shake
"Stop the crap man just come on in" Devon said laughing at Sam's actions
"Your Mom thought I needed to have a word, we know you don't intend on doing adult things until your married and everything but we're not naïve we know that young people want to experiment and everything I just need to make sure your being safe about that" he said looking up from his desk with a smile "if you know what I mean"
"No I don't actually Dad" she said Sam looking at her blankly for a second before looking at Devon with total embarrassment in his eyes
"No we don't but I'm sure there are things you can tell us about that we could maybe try out" he said to Devon trying to get across that he didn't need Mercy to be having any more thoughts than she was already having about sex she was already strides ahead of him on the need thing
"Well maybe you could look into the .."
"Dad I think we'd prefer to come back for this chat when temptation befalls us" Sam said side looking at Mercy trying again to get some sort of signal to Devon to stop
"Cedes will you go see what your Mom's cooking please I feel suddenly hungry" Devon said
"You mean you want to man talk with Sam"
"I mean mind your business" her Dad said sternly and she left the room as Sam looked on
"What's up Sam?" Devon asked
"I'm not being disrespectful Sir but I don't need Mercy's mind to be any more on sex than it is right now, she's putting me under so much pressure right now I'm like fit to burst every night if you know what I mean I really don't want her thinking anything is safe to do as I'm not totally in control of myself yet"
"Oh thanks for letting me know that Sam, I'll try to be careful with what I say to her and I'll tell her Mom" Devon said getting up and walking Sam to the door, "I think out instead of in might be welcome now then Sam" he said pushing him towards the kitchen
Sam put his head round the kitchen door "Hi Mom, Mercy I'll see you tomorrow" he said flatly without going in for a kiss, Mercy went running after him a bit concerned.
"Sam" she called after him as he made for the front door "Sam stop" he stopped walking waiting for her to make her way to him, she stood in front of him, hands on hip asking "What's up? What did Dad say to you? What have I done?" all together
"I think I went too far with the conversation with your Dad"
"Unless you told him we were going to have actual sex, you didn't go too far believe me" she said giggling
"Babe I almost called you a nymphomaniac saying you were thinking about sex too much and I didn't need extra lessons on what to do instead because I couldn't control myself" he rambled as she started laughing and pulled him into the games room "What's so funny?"
"They've been talking"
"Who?"
"My parents" she replied "Last night I had a conversation with my Mom told her I felt like a bitch on heat around you I asked her how she managed to keep off Dad until they got married and she said she'd need to talk to my Dad before she could pass that information on, so I suppose the talk ended with him wanting to do that"
"Oh"
"So Mom was just telling me that Dad is going to mess it up because his Dad did and all she could say was they made a promise to each other to be strong when the other couldn't be and because of that promise they helped each other, took it in turns to be strong"
"So all we need to do is make a promise to each other?"
"Well yeah apparently and you know how we are with promises"
"So Mercy I promise to respect you in the bedroom before and after marriage and I promise to always know when to stop and exercise our right to be virgins at marriage"
"Sam I promise to respect you in the bedroom before marriage and I promise to always know when to stop and exercise our right to be virgins at marriage" Mercy said with a grin
"So you're not respecting me sexually after marriage?" he asked with a smirk
"After that cherry is busted I really don't know what I'll like maybe I won't always want to respect you, a little S&M goes a long way" she said with a cheeky grin
"Peaked" he said making them laugh at the Kurt of it all
"Don't ever feel like you can't talk to me about things Sam it tugs at my heart" she said hugging him
"I just let shame get in the way of communication" he said hugging her back "But I'm still not going upstairs after that talk" he said as they both laughed
"Blockers" she said to his surprise
"You need blockers" he said kissing her on the lips
They settled in the Games room for the rest of the evening playing games, talking, kissing and going a bit further at times until it was time for him to leave, they were both at busting stage "I need some phone sex babe I'm busting" he let her know as he left the house
"You know what no it's not happening tonight, we need to get our mac on and us not doing that for a while will force us into taking the next step, we've established we're not talking sex so we need to move it up a notch, and my lady parts are constantly fit for busting" she told him, he stepped back towards her
"No joint decision making process then?"
"Babe we, sorry you decided it before we came into the house this afternoon, we're still no further forward someone needs to bite the bullet"
"I was right wasn't I Nymph" he said going in for another longer kiss "You called it so it's going to happen" he said giving his lop sided grin as he walked away "Goodnight babe I love you" he shouted before he got to the end of the drive
"Goodnight babe I love you more" she shouted waiting for him to disappear and just before he did he turned round and waves and did a fist punch in the air
The next week they sat in the choir room watching as everyone looked into songs for Mr. H's proposal to Miss Pillsbury. He just burst into the Choir room saying he was going to propose to her and everything else went out the window Rachel and Jessie suggested 'Listen to You Heart' which was nice but too dreary, at the end of the day Sam finally put Miss P's OCD together with romance and came up with 'We Found Love' in the school pool, everyone was stoked when Miss P said yes, at club while veryone sat around doing nothing because Mr H was too loved up, Sam said to Mercy "We didn't get to do our song this final week Mercy and we spent so much time on it"
"We can sing it to each other later tonight" she smiled, he smiled with a blush, she'd said that in front of everyone and he knew exactly where her mind was, she'd starved him of touch for nearly a week and he couldn't lie he was at breaking point
Tina piped up, breaking their stare "Mercedes what's the deal with you and Sam… "And then everyone started acting out the scene to "Summer Nights" as they took the main song
"That was brilliant I wish we had done the whole play" Jessie said
"You can always suggest it Jess for like next year" Rachel said
"What's happening for summer folks?" Artie asked
"I'm off with my Dad's to Italy again for four weeks, different this time because Jess will be there for two weeks so I'm buzzed" Rachel said
"I'm going to Washington DC with Dad and Mom he's going for Congress again this year I think it's his final term so I'm good, shopping and Blaine's coming too" Kurt said hugging into Blaine
"We're spending every day together; on holiday, conference, church everywhere" Sam said hugging into Mercy
"I'm in New England this time with Dad he's a bit fucked up since the Beth thing never really lets me free" Quinn said
"I'm in Sugar" Artie said laughing
"We're going on a cruise with my parents 21 days on water" Brittany said
"I can't wait" Santana said hugging her in
"Nothing" Puck said
"We'll meet up Dude" Mike and Artie said at the same time
"Okay" Puck said
Too soon Prom was over, test results were in and they were into another summer holiday, they done the usual family holidays and Sam and Mercy spent time together and with the club kids, they had somehow mastered the art of reading each other's minds at times. Sam had finally shown Mercy his drawings and to his surprise she had some to show him too not as good as his mainly replica's but he had new action hero's still to be brought alive by comic and they were both excited about that. Mercy had received a good review from the scouting group and seemed like she was on her way up, she was waiting for news of the next level
Year 3
Too soon they were back in class doing History a lesson they'd never done together throughout school and they hated it 'I wonder what we'll be doing tonight' she texted him during her lesson 'surprise me' he replied 'young brat's in the class, have to go sing speak soon' Sam wrote
The lesson had taken an unexpected turn, in that, the topic had been things that reminded the students of something in their past, Sam had found the perfect opportunity to mix one of his loves with his hate and produce a song for the occasion, they'd been joined by some underclass students who were above their average core group in the lesson 'sing what' she wrote 'the song I was made to' he wrote back'cry cry' she wrote back making him laugh as he was getting up to tell the class how he was made to this song according to his parents before starting to play an acoustic version of 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
They met in their usual place when the class finished, at her locker "God class was heavy today Ryder made some confession about being abused right after singing his memory song it was so sad and everyone was affected I don't think I'll ever look at him the same again"
"Poor guy" she echoed
"But the plus side is I think I got Unique, Marley and Kitty interested and they said they were going to bring Jake; that's Marley's boyfriend, and Ryder of course so we'll see in a bit
"Sam I need to speak to you about something urgently"
"How's something urgent come up in like an hour?"
"Because Mom's just sent me the text" she said rolling her eyes and pulling him to a quiet corner "And don't kick off" she warned
"What's happened?" he said pulling away from her hold to turn to look at her
"I've got my..." she looking at him for a second before continuing "I've got my audition for Studio in LA but they want me up this week for prep and stuff before the actual audition, so I need to be in LA for like 4 days" she finished before looking up at him for a response
"That's the start of our dream isn't it?" he said elated "We always knew this was going to happen, we can work with it no problem congratulations" he said picking her up, hugging her
"Sam!" she shouted because she was scared for being off the ground
"I've got you" he said putting her down a bit closer to the ground before kissing her "So you're leaving me for the week then?" he asked with a sad face
"That's the down side and the way things are looking there's more long distance stuff to deal with"
"We'll deal with it, if this is what you really want"
"It is but Sam I never want to have to choose between you and this because I know you'll hate me but I'd choose you every time"
"Babe I promise I'll never make you have to make that choice, I'm behind you all the way in whatever you want to do" he told her with a kiss before putting her back on the ground "So next step sex can wait until you get back because once that starts, I know you"
"Any excuse" she laughed
"God send" he said laughing harder "When are you going to LA then" he asked
"Tomorrow morning" she said making him stop laughing
"Seriously when are you going?"
"Seriously Sam tomorrow morning" she told him, the blood draining from her face as she saw panic in his face "You okay Sam?" she asked grabbing his T-Shirt and pulling him towards her
"Yeah" he said wrapping his arms around her, resting his chin on top of her head "I miss you already"
"Let's go to club before we start crying in the corridors" she said, they both giggled slightly before walking off towards the choir room
"What's up with you two?" Santana asked as they walked into the room
"Nothing except we're in love" he said, Mercy looked at him before smiling "And we have some new people that want to join coming in about a minutes" he said looking up at the clock
"Yeah sure" Santana replied just before Marley & Jake walked into the room
"Everyone this is Jake and Marley" he said, looking behind them to see another one entering so he continued "And Kitty and they are all interested in joining club" he finished
"Can you sing? Mr. H asked
"I think so" Marley said
"Let's hear you all then, who's first" Mr. H asked
"I'll go first" Kitty said going to the stage to sing her version of 'Signed, Sealed Delivered'
"And you are?" Mr. H asked
"Jake" he said taking the stage to sing a brilliant cover of 'Let Me Love You'
"Great, and you?" Mr. H asked
"Marley" she smiled getting on the stage to sing 'Every Time' they noticed when Unique came into the room during her performance
"Thanks Marley" Mr H said "And you are?"
"Unique Sir, I'm Unique" he smiled as he took the stage to sing 'If I Were A Boy'
Ryder sort of chickened out at the last minute but Mercy vouched for him as Sam had said he was good in the history class and sort of promised she'd speak to him and get him to come in for the next class. That over with her mind was back on Sam, he'd been a while, and she'd sat waiting for as long as she could but now she was just concerned, she made her excuses ad went in search of her man, Blaine followed her out "What's up Mercedes?" he asked
"Just Sam didn't come back to class, but I'll find him" she said as she carried on walking. she ended up on the car park after searching the school, went to get in the car to check the lake to find him and see what was going on for him, it wasn't like him to just walk away like that without saying anything but to not answer his phone to her she was past worried. As she went to get into her car she just happened to look back towards the car park door to see his frame standing in the doorway "Sam!" she shouted walking back towards him fast "Where the hell have you been?" she shouted when she got to him, hugging him
"I lied Mercy I lied to you"
"About what?" she asked unsure if she wanted to hear the explanation
"I'm totally out of my comfort zone with you leaving, I expected it but I didn't not yet anyway, I'm totally gutted, that doesn't mean I don't want you to go, it just means it's real now, babe all the talking in the world couldn't have prepared me for how I feel right now"
"Sam"
"I know I'm being totally fucked up about this, it's not about me it's your big break and I really don't want it to be about me at all and oh shit" he said as tears involuntarily came, he fell into her arms
"Babe you're panicking I did the same and living just for a day without you after nearly three years of together is like unthinkable, the way you reacted I thought I was being clingy so I held it in, but I wanted to cry too, for leaving you that is, for four damn days it's going to kill me I wanted to say I choose you but you stopped me, but I do, I don't want to go"
"You have to go babe you have to it's what you've worked for all these years, it's not right that you don't even go just try it, I'll hate myself and worse you'll end up hating me for taking away something you never tried, we'll work it all out babe we will but you have to go"
She clung to him as he tried to pull away, she feared seeing the disappointment on his face "Babe" he said in another attempt to pull away "Babe" he said pulling a bit harder "this is the hardest it's ever going to be" he said "and I know we only made this promise about sex but I think it's going to apply to all areas of our lives because I'm going to be the strong one now and insist that you go to the audition it's not a definite yes yet and even when it is we'll deal with it, and I'm not promising no more melt downs just that we'll find a way to cope"
"I thought you said we were endgame how are you telling me to leave now?" she asked pulling away but he held on to her
"Babe you know we're endgame but that doesn't mean excluding life, you need to be who your meant to be Miss Mercedes Jones-Evans with Grammy's, fans and hit after hit you know we dreamt it" he reminded her, trying to encouraging her to go "I'll be right here waiting for you to come back with good news, with God and luck on our side I'll get into MARVEL and then we can be together"
"But you'll call every day twice a day at least and skype yeah"
"You know I will" he said hugging her again
"I have to go pack" she looked up at him saying
"Need some company?"
"Yes forever, come with me"
"Mercy you know that's not going to happen" he told her just as his phone rang "It's Mom" he said flicking the receiver up
"Mom what's up?" he asked "On my way to Mercy's she's going away tomorrow" "Why" "MARVEL!" he shouted "Open it Mom I want to be here with Mercy when I hear" he said going up to her to share the phone as his Mom opened the letter "So what are they saying Mom have I got an interview?" he asked looking at Mercy as he spoke "Don't joke Mom" he said as Mercy was already jumping about making screams without noise "I am, I am Internship" his voice up an octave as she spoke on the phone "Mom are you happy? I got to go, Mercy's going to hurt herself, tell Dad for me" he said putting the mobile on the top of the car punching the air and grabbing Mercy who by now had added volume to her scream "Time for our dreams to become our reality" he said kissing her again "I'm going to do this" he shouted
"I'm going to kill my audition" she screamed
"Goes without say you don't do hurt, your cream rising to the top Miss Jones"
"And you're the biggest tatoe tot I'm ever going to eat"
"Get this conversation back in the car park" he laughed, he loved the way she always made everything about sex, kept him on a high "Let's go I need to help you pack, then go home and read that letter properly" he said opening the car door for her. So they got to her house packed had their meal and talked before she walked him to the door spent a while saying goodbye and he was gone, he didn't look back as he left, it was too hard "I'll call" was all he called to her as he drove off, later that night he sent the usual texts goodnight and good morning
The next day Sam took some ribbing in class because people noticed she wasn't attached, he got a bit angry at first but then thought the laugh was on them because they didn't know where she was or that he was going to MARVEL after he finished school for a guaranteed year and the hope that he'd impress them so much they'd employ him at the end of it
In club that day Mr. H put them in twos and asked them to sing allocated duet's Sam was put with Brittany and given 'More than words' to sing he protested telling Mr. H that he had asked not to sing with the girls but Mr. H wasn't having it "And make it real" Mr. H instructed "Come on you're up Sam Brittany, the songs a classic here are the words" he said passing the sheets to them as the music started
Sam felt lucky that Brittany went off to sing to her cat, laughing inside all through the song looking around at the others, but afterwards he felt guilty for not taking things serious enough, as soon as the performance finished he felt guilt for actually singing with Brittany without telling Mercy about it first, he called to tell her before anyone else told her a cold story, but he got no answer "Sam" someone interrupted his thoughts shouting "Can I have a word please?" Rachel asked "I've asked Jessie permission, he's taken down with Laryngitis will you sing with me tomorrow please nothing untoward Jessie will be there?"
"If Jess is okay with it, I'll do it yeah" he told her, not having a problem helping his Bro out
Later that evening he tried Mercy again but still no answer 'someone has gotten to her already' he knew that, she'd never left it this long before talking, just being in Lima let alone all the way in LA. An hour later he'd gone past she might know through she does know and straight down to is she still alive when 10pm came and he hadn't heard anything from her. He called her parents they hadn't heard from her either "it's still early, she might just be coming in" Devon had told him to calm him down "And she's going to text not phone anyway, hold up" Devon said leaving the phone for a minute before he came back to say "Marcia just had a text from her about 5 minutes ago so she may be trying to contact you" Devon said "I'll get off your phone bye"
"Bye Dad" he said hanging up the phone, he fell asleep waiting.
The next morning Sam checked his phone but no call from Mercy, he was met in the Corridor by Santana "What the fuck Sam what was that with Britt yesterday?" she asked
"What was what, we had an assignment and we did it, what do you mean me and Brittany there's nothing going on, I'm with Mercy everyone knows that" he told her dismissing her question
"I asked Mr. H if I could do my song with you it's a fuck off song really but I feel if I don't say anything this thing could get bigger"
"What thing, there is nothing going on with Brittany and me" he said following Santana to wherever she was going
"Well this is to make sure" Santana said nodding to the musicians to start as she sang "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" Sam laughed to himself at the silliness of this girl singing to him about her female partner and thought it was a joke, he sung anyway. At some point through the song he felt the conversation was serious but being innocent he pushed through to the end after which Santana made some wack statement
"What did she tell you went on between us Santana?" he shouted after her
"That is none of your concern all you need to know is it stops now" Santana said walking away from him "And this is your only warning"
"Warning for ..." he went to ask but his phone rang he looked to see it was Marcia and rushed to answer "Sam, Mercy just asked us to keep trying you she's been trying to get hold of you this morning before class but you're not picking up you two arguing?" Marcia asked
"No Mom I've been waiting for her to call since yesterday and I haven't been able to get in contact is she alright?"
"Yeah she's fine but she's in the studio all day again today and just wanted to hear your voice I think before her day started try and get her call in the morning"
"In the morning? Isn't she going to call again today?"
"She might but she mentioned the morning to me" Marcia said
"Bye Sam"
"Bye Mom" he said turning to carry on his conversation with Santana to find she'd gone "What the fuck" he said turning back round thinking 'what am I doing, if Mercy was here I'd have never agreed to doing all this why am I doing all this' he questioned. 'Is it something I've always wanted to do deep inside or what? he stood for a short while looking into himself before concluding it was Mr. H's game, he'd always wanted to hear him sing with the others he'd just never done it, honouring my request, and now he'd found his perfect opportunity to bully him into doing these duets so that he'd feel in control and the girls would at least get a song. 'He's playing a dangerous game with my life' he thought 'They don't know Mercy not really she will kill me first and then them in that order, and the joke is even with knowing this about your lady you still chose to do the damn songs Evans' he walked off shaking his head at himself
He went through morning classes and spoke to Jessie about doing the song with Rachel surprised she was right Jessie had asked her to speak to him, he said he trusted him, so that afternoon he performed Rachel and Jessie's song "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" with Rachel
"What the fuck was that" he thought as he walked away from her at the end of the song, seriously dude you are missing Mercy because you don't even like that chatty bitch much less her attitude and you're giving her the eye please, Mercy would say hot mess, he thought and Jessie would fuck you up.
"Thanks Dude a second rate performance, but she got what she wanted out of it" Jessie told him laughing, his voice sounded alright too
"What did she want?" Sam asked
"To perform of course" Jessie told
They were on day three and still no contact from Mercy, she was due back on Friday he was fuming why hadn't she called him or answered his calls, replied to his texts surely she would know he was totally stressing out about this, everyone in club knew he wasn't in a good place right now and they all knew it was down to Mercy
"Has your girl left you high and dry?" Puck asked him on Thursday at practice
"Dude are you surprised" Blaine asked him as Sam's head spun round to look t him
"Dude you need to get a coat of armour for tomorrow everyone is going to be around for this smack down" Mike told him, his not impressed look on
"Why, what's going on, what smack down" he asked
"Dude come on you must know your dreamy songs with Brittany asking her to love you, fighting over Brittany with Santana in another song that look that you and Berry shared at the end of that falling in love song went viral Mercy must be spewing blood my friend I know T would be" Mike said
"What do you mean viral?" he jumped up asking looking at everyone as he spoke
"Go on YouTube man have a look at how many hits you've had" Jessie said
Sam went straight onto his phone to check it out and found all three songs were linked up with captions of love lust and sex in them along with the songs with some actions being photo shopped "Who did this?" he asked jumping back up
"I did" Santana said standing up proud "That will teach you to say no to me" she said looking smug
"And Me?" Brittany got up saying looking at Santana
"Okay you got me" he laughed "I'll take whatever is coming from Mercy because I was stupid enough to fall for your crap but if she leaves me I swear on everything about her that I am coming for you" he said pointing at Santana "And you" pointing at Brittany "And you two" he said looking at Rachel and Jessie "And that's a threat"
It was maybe at this point that Santana thought maybe they had gone a tad too far, Sam's eyes had changed to an unnerving shade of green that definitely spelt evil, but obviously it was already too late "Will he carry that out?" she looked around the room asking "Blaine" she shouted when no one answered
"Mercy's his calm, his end game, if you guys have messed that up for him I'm guessing there's no calm and obviously no end game, what will he have to lose?" Blaine replied as everyone looked at Rachel
"If it comes, shit is coming straight back to you" Santana told her
"I spoke to Tania his ex from Texas a while back, it was only for an afternoon but I got the feeling, he wasn't one to be messed with" Quinn told them smiling
So Friday and Mercy was due back Sam didn't know what time because she hadn't been in touch but he knew she wouldn't be in any mood for talking and if he did talk she'd suffer no bull shit so come clean with the truth and then deal with whatever shit she threw. He left school and went home initially to speak to his Dad about the situation, he told him he was a bit naïve for walking into those situations after all these years but understood his side of the story and felt Mercy would too once she calmed down
He went round to her house after calling her again only to get no answer "Hi Mom, Dad" he said as he walked into the house noticing that Mercy's car wasn't on the drive "Cedes hasn't come back yet then" he asked
"Yes Cedes came back at about 3 this afternoon, she didn't even ask about you, what's going on Sam" Marcia asked
"Nothing much nothing I can't sort out once I've seen her"
"I think she went to meet Kurt and Tina at the Diner" Marcia said
"Oh not the Lima Bean?" he asked
"No that's why I remember because she said that one instead of the one you two usually go to" Marcia said followed by "Are you sure you two are alright"
"Yeah just not used to the distance thing yet" he said making his exit "See you later" closing the door on his way out
He drove to the Diner and saw Mercy's car parked so he parked as close to her driver side as he could, just in case, so she couldn't get in and went into the Diner, as he neared their booth she looked up "You need to step the fuck away from me we're done" she told him her eyes red with crying, Tina rubbing her back and Kurt sitting with a sad face
"Are you going to let me explain myself?"
"A picture says a thousand word Sam bye" she said getting up but he stood in front of her
"Look at me Mercy please, just look at me"
"I can't Sam I'm too angry to look at you, the hate you'll see in my eyes for you will hurt you so don't make me look in your eyes"
"Look at me Mercy please"
"Sam move" she said looking but not looking at him "I said move" she said again pushing him out the way, he moved. When she got outside she saw she wasn't able to get into her car because of how he'd parked "Is this funny to you why have you done that, move it" she turned round shouting at him
"Can we at least talk please?"
"I don't want to talk to you, which part of that sentence don't you understand? fuck off, fuck off" she said through her teeth frustrated for having to deal with this situation just now
"Okay listen to me then"
"Are you going to move this car?"
"No"
"Last chance are you going to move this car?"
"No" he answered to the sound of scratching metal, as Kurt stood there saying "Mercy what have you done" over and over again until she was satisfied with the scratching and turned to Sam, a smirk on her face as she sung 'Bust Your Windows' and then proceeded to smash his side mirror, he got a bit worried when she actually stood on the car bonnet, and he was seriously hurt at the fact that she was doing this, but he sucked it up, he had a lot more to lose here
It was Kurt that spoke when she finally came to rest in front of Sam looking like a satisfied cat "You know he doesn't like any of them, why would you do that to a man's ride Mercy? this is so wrong" he shouted
"Kurt" she shouted back "He knows they fucking like him, he also knows how I feel about that and he knows me and he's supposed to love me enough not to hurt me like this, he promised he wouldn't hurt me like this" she turned to look at him saying "You promised you wouldn't hurt me" she shouted at him "Oh god I hurt so fucking much I want to die" she said bursting into tears, he grabbed hold of her and put her into his damaged car
"She'll be fine with me guys, T will you bring her car home for me please and leave the keys in it for her to get in, thanks" Sam said as he slid her to the other side of his car making sure she was in properly and her belongings were safe before he got in and drove off, with Kurt and Tina watching
"I suppose we'd better get her car home then?" Tina asked a bit shaken for the scene they'd just witnessed
"Do you think she's safe?" Kurt asked
"I think I'm more worried about Sam's safety at this point" Tina said spinning round to go grab her things from inside to do as she had been asked, no instructed she thought
They drove to their place at the Lake, he got out of the car and went to her side opening the door and looked at her for a while, she made no move to get out "Mercy look at me" he asked as calm as he ever was and waited for her to react to his request, it was a while before he saw her head start to raise to look at him. When she finally did his heart broke for the pain in her eyes "Mercy you know me, you know us" he said staring back at her with tears in his eyes "I know I did this but I didn't know I was doing it, Brittany and I were assigned to sing by Mr. H, then Satan comes at me with that leave my girl alone song and yeah I sung it because well I don't know I just didn't want her telling me anything and so I told her back and then Berry, Jessie actually asked me to sing that song with her because he had laryngitis, can you believe that? even he was against me for what reason I don't know" he said stopping to get some response but she didn't
"Mercy I really don't know why they hate me like this or if it's you or us they hate, but they are really trying to get us split up, and I for one refuse to let them win. I know I don't need to do this because I never lie to you, but I swear nothing happened or was ever intended to and I am innocent in all this"
"You know how my mind works Sam, why did you get yourself in this situation?" she finally turned to look at him saying
"Babe I didn't even realise it was a situation until yesterday when Mike told me in front of all the club kids, and I was super pissed, then I understood what was going on with the silent treatment thing. I've got 3 weeks left at school and in that I've got National, Prom and maybe valentines to get over and then I'm sorry but I'm done with most of those people, they will never mean us any good and I don't see the point in having negative people around us"
"You say that like there's still an us"
"There's an end game Mercy and who's include in that?" he asked, she looked up at him again making him smile "Who's included in that?" he asked again
"We are" she finally replied "But this is so frigging hard Sam I want to kill you I want to kill those bitches but I don't want to become like them and I'm not fighting them for anything, I know that because we already belong to each other. I guess I'm just pissed cos they tried to get in-between us"
"Did they though do they know about any of this?" he asked looking at his car
"Well they already know about the dented car and you're probably somewhere beating me for it right now" she said bringing a smile to his face
"Babe you know I love you don't you?"
"You know I love you more right so I hurt more okay?" she said back smiling "I have a song for them, but I need a kiss from my man first" she said getting out of the car and walking towards him to settle into his arms "This is home babe it's been the longest week"
"Yeah" he said moving her off him so he could see her face "How did that go?"
"Need you ask I got the contract I just need the letter from UCLA now and we are both going north" she replied
"Are we okay?" he asked after a long while of just standing holding each other
"Babe I blow off sometimes and that was a drama level situation, but I think you need to worry when I don't bring it, we're okay" she replied hugging him again
"So you're fine now yeah?"
"Yeah"
"Now I'm home" he said kissing her forehead
On Monday everyone was on edge waiting for the fall out waiting around the corridors and outside classroom doors not wanting the comeback to happen without them.
The big talk was about the face off between Santana and Rachel, apparently Brittany had gone off big time on Santana about her supporting Rachel in messing with Sam and Mercy accused her of all sorts and Santana had gone to Rachel and they'd had a dispute singing I'll be Watching You' Rachel got really scared about it, and the word was she was going to get jumped, if anyone get hurt in Mercedes come back
"Mercy" Santana said as she walked to her locker "I just want you to know I was given the wrong information too, I was the one that put that video on You Tube because I thought Sam was after Britt, I got that information from Rachel I am so sorry about what I've done, I can vouch for Sam he really didn't know what was happening, that said I'll take whatever you see fit as punishment for my part in this" she finished as Brittany came to join them
"Mercy" Brittany said "I was genuinely singing to my cat I didn't know what Berry was doing I was so mad at Santana and her the other night because of this, Mr. H gave us the assignment and we both sucked it up even though Sam did try to get out of it so I know he didn't mean whatever she said he did"
"So it seems my beef is with Berry then" Mercy said thanking the girls for coming forward with their explanations before walking away making her way to the choir room
"Berry I know you want me to sink to your level but that's not going to happen I don't know what it is that Sam or I have done to you but we are not interested in playing your damn game and I would thank you and Jessie for keeping your nose out of my life"
"If this is going to be a fight remember the rules and sing it out please" Mr. H shouted as he watched the two girls in their dispute with Jessie and Sam standing close by
"Okay Mr. H I'll do it your way but if it doesn't get rid of this anger I'm sorry for Berry" Mercy said
"Mercy play nice" he whispered happy she'd chosen that route for her fight "I'm going to sit up the back with Quinn, Joe's off on some crusade with his folks and she's feeling a bit lonely, I said she could hang with us tonight is that okay?"
"Yeah that's fine, for a while" she half meant making him smile because he knew what the other half of that meant, she was absolutely sex driven and it was killing him
"Okay folks another head to head from the Diva and the Bitc...I mean two Divas, so hold onto your seats for this one I think there'll be a vote" Mr. H announced
"No vote Mr. H just right out slap with song" Mercy informed him
"You'll get the sla.."Rachel went to say but Mercy burst in with
"Hit it" and the music started to "Take Me or Leave Me" Rachel was the first to start the singing, the ended the song hugging, there was never a question about the appreciation they had for each other's talent
"That was great" Jessie said hugging Rachel as she left the front
"Are you kidding she was way better than me" Rachel told him, shrugging his arm off her shoulder, he said nothing because he knew she was right
"Rachel" Mercy shouted after her "Did you get the message?"
"What message" she asked
"When it comes to singing and Sam I'm better than you and I'll always be better than you in his eyes so now it's time to leave it alone" she told her as everyone's gasps at the humiliation of it all. Sam sat in the back watching everything that went on, he was pleased with the way Mercy chose to deal with things.
They had valentines, and sung a version of 'Stereo Hearts' with Joe and Quinn fast becoming a serious couple, Prom which was great Sam sung a very sexy version of 'That's What Makes You Beautiful' to her along with the rest of the guys, and the only thing he was in control of this year was her, they had a good time. They won Nationals with 'Edge of Glory and 'Paradise by the Dashboard' and said goodbye with a show stopping rendition of 'Don't stop Believing' which everyone joined in, then school was over
Year 4 - 7
6 weeks after they'd left school a text arrived from Rachel telling everyone she had a call back for Fanny and needed a song to sing that would blow their socks off, everyone sent in their thoughts but Mercy called her "Rachel I know everyone would be calling you telling you to do re-runs but girl you need a fresh grown up sound so go for something grown up like Celine, test yourself like 'To Love You More' and sing the difficult bit not the first bit just train yourself belt it out and show them your versatile, like you are"
"Do you think I can pull that off?"
"Girl with our gift we can pull anything off just practice, if it doesn't work for you have a backup right, I know you"she told her "I have to go I'm at the studio bye"
"Bye Mercedes and thanks" she said closing her the call, as advised she practised and ended up singing the song Mercedes suggested and did it justice, she called Mercy as soon as she got the news "Mercedes I got it, thank you so much for your help, I don't deserve it I know, but for some reason you helped me and I'm so grateful"
Mercedes listened to the rant on for a bit before closing the conversation down "Sam's just come in Rachel I have to go I'll speak to you soon and keep up the good work think Tony" she giggled "bye"
"Bye Mercedes and say hi to Sam for us see you at Christmas"
"Who was that?" he asked as he walked in the room to hear her closing down a call
"Rachel Berry I gave her some advice about her Fanny Brice audition and she got the part using it she was just saying thanks"
"Okay good one; Hi Babe you had a good day?" she followed him around the room with her eyes as he spoke putting his things away
"Not so good but I hope the evening is going to make up for it" she said laughing into the kiss Sam gave her "Promising" she said once he let up
"Babe" he said rolling his eyes "You know I'm struggling right now and then you choose to sit about the house like that come on" he said looking at her sitting cross legged on the sofa in just his jock shirt and panties
"I have socks on" she said laughing and wiggling her toes
"Massive turn off" he said rolling his eyes again and laughing
"Do you want something to eat babe?"
"Yeah let's go see what we can make" he replied putting his bag down as he made for the kitchen "So what happened today then?"
"Oh we spent the whole day trying to decide on a song for the album and then they went with the one I wasn't feeling so of course no soul and then they moaned, I've got till Friday to get it right, I can but I'm just protesting" she said looking naughty
"I know you can babe and stop playing games the more work they have to put in the less they'll use you"
"True future husband; how was your day?"
"Good I drew some sketches for the next edition and at least they're looking at them this month but don't hold your breath. Pete is encouraging though he's a good man I think he watches out for me so that's good"
"That's good though that they're at least looking at your ideas, just keep pushing"
"Yeah I will and of course I'm still in love with a girl that loves me back" he said looking at her questioningly
"You sure are only she loves you more" she told him, giving him a kiss
"I'm glad because we have visitors tonight only for one night though and they didn't give a days' notice so don't shoot me and you need to go get dressed before they get here"
"What's wrong with what I have on? Who is it? What time are they coming? Babe forget all that we're eating out so you get dressed as well"
"We're in the kitchen, just about to cook what do you mean going out?"
"Babe if we have friends coming I want to catch up not be in and out the kitchen all night please lets go out"
"I suppose they are staying here tonight, so it'll be fine, yeah let's go out"
"Thanks babe you are so sweet, I could do you right now if we had the time" she said looking over her shoulder playfully walking towards the bedroom and taking his top off as she said it to reveal her naked top half
"Mercy you are so crazy you know what you're doing stop it we don't have time" he laughed following her into the bedroom
"You better make time for me if you don't want me carrying on all night, and you know I scream" she said as he walked into the bedroom to see her standing naked "Isn't it great not being interrupted" she said throwing her panties at him
"Get on the bed" he told her, while he took his clothes off to join her. Afterwards thy lay on the bed for a long while before he jumped up "We need to get dressed I'll need to help Artie up when he gets here"
"Artie who's he with Sugar?"
"No some girl from his college called Julie nice girl he says"
"Come on shower let's get dressed" he jumping off the bed saying while dragging her with him to the bathroom.
They washed and dressed and were sitting waiting for about 10 minutes when the door knocked and Artie arrived with his new girlfriend.
A nice plain Jane type girl with knitted tights, reminded Mercy of Rachel in the early days, and a warm coat, they went out for a meal and Artie very unprofessionally told Julie he wasn't ready for sex in front of them Mercy felt so awkward for them she started talking about their relationship to cover for Artie's fuck up and upset Sam in the process "What's up babe" she asked when she turned to him for confirmation about something she'd said and saw his face
"Nothing"
"Something's up" she told him as they left the restaurant "tell me otherwise we won't go home you know how I feel about carrying arguments into our home"
"It's just that when you were talking to Julie earlier it sounded like you were gearing up never to have sex and you were just stringing me along, I know we agreed we didn't want sex until we were married but that comment was a bit extreme"
"Babe you know how I feel about sex even more than you, I was just trying to make Julie feel better, I swear it was never to do with us, you know me" she turning to him saying
"You were convincing Mercy and it doesn't feel nice"
"I'm sorry babe I truly am, I apologise" Sam nodded but was still quiet
On the way home they sang in the streets which in any other situation might have been embarrassing and maybe it was a first but, she was recording in the studio so her voice couldn't be that bad, Artie was mega hot on the vocals no question and Sam and even Julie joined in in the end as they sung 'Let's Wait Awhile' she loved hearing him sing, he had a way of finding middle ground and bringing in that sexy sound that sent chills down her spine, she loved her man, she looked up at him as he joined in smiling with pride
"Babe I'm really sorry for making you feel that way I promise to never do that again" she said giving him her forgive me eyes making him laugh
Seriously don't say that again it's not nice"
"I won't babe can I have a hug" she said going to him, he pulled her to him and kissed her head as he hugged her
"Hey you two we're going over to the park we'll get a taxi back" Artie said as he and Julie walked off obviously to have a talk about the topic over dinner
"Pick me up at the church across here on your way back" Mercy shouted pointing to the church across the square
"Will do" Artie shouted back "I'll sap you"
"Sam I just need a few minutes, I'll be home soon"
"Okay be safe, light a candle for me, do you need me to come back for you?"
"No, I just told Artie to pick me up in his taxi" she said as they walked over to the church, Sam kissed her before she went in