A/N: So i know it's been awhile since i've written for this, i have an excuse lol. College and family. But i have this to give you all. If i am lucky i might upload another chapter before the week is up.

A/N2: I own nothing but my mistakes and Alex. The song is an old classic and is not mine and the show belongs to RIB, including the characters within. Enjoy. ^^

Watching her mother run around with her younger self looked like she was watching old home movies. The moment her mother stopped and looked at her with a smile, Mack new she WAS watching a home video. Her surroundings changed from being outside to being inside and in a dark room with just the TV on.

"Mackenzie, come say hi to your daddy," the older woman had said with her arms out opened just as the little girl ran into them and hugged her mother. They both looked into the recorder, as if looking at Mack herself, and smiled.

"Hi papa, I miss you,"

Mack felt the tears stream down her cheeks before she could stop them, her father had passed away a year after this video was made. He had a heart attack at work and they couldn't get him to the hospital in time. Gasping, the young girl wiped at her face with her hands, wanting nothing more than to wipe the sadness away.

She didn't understand why she was watching this video; she hadn't seen this video in years. All of a sudden the video changed to one of her mother smiling weakly at her from a hospital bed.

"Hi my baby girl, if you are watching this then it means that I didn't make it, of course you are too young to know what this means but you won't see this till you are ready and if you are watching this then it means your new family deemed you ready," Mack's mothers voice was so shallow and tiny, the ache in her chest grew, "I know you will be a strong young woman and you will meet the love of your life may it be with a man or a woman I will still be extremely proud of you,"

Her mother died of cancer two years after her father died, she was only seven.

"Be careful out there baby girl, make mommy and daddy proud and we will meet up again as soon as we can, I love you Mackenzie,"

Mack let her sobs fill the silent room once the video cut out and darkened the place. She was fostered after that and began to live the life of a rebel, she knew if her parents seen her now they would be disappointed.

"Mack..?"

Hearing her name by the sweetest voice, the girl looked up from her hands and saw the most beautiful girl alive, "…Rachel..?"

The diva smiled gently, placing a hand on her damp cheek, "Wake up Mack,"

Shooting up, Mack began to breathe quickly like her lungs had been constricted. Her body was drenched, causing her tank top to stick to her torso. When she looked next to her she saw Rachel curled in a ball next to her, sleeping peacefully. She blinked a few times; making sure this was real only to smile at the light snoring coming from the tiny girl.

"Don't ever tell her she snores,"

Mack raised her eyes to see Alex standing there, a smile on her lips.

"She'll deny it to her dying days," said the older girl, her shoulder pressed up against the side of the opening entrance.

The Skanks leader looked back down to the girl next to her and stroked the side of her cheek gently, pulling back just as Rachel shivered then sighed and relaxed.

Alex walked into the room, letting the cover fall back that held as a door, and kneeled on Rachel's side to look at Mack, "You wanna go grab a cig?" Mack looked into sky blue eyes and nodded.

Once Mack slipped on a pair of jeans, Alex led them both towards the top of the building, being able to see everything from miles away. There were a few guys on watch but Alex told them they could take a break and eat. After they left the two girls alone, Alex pulled out two cigs, lighting them and handing one to Mack who took a long drag.

She let it out slowly, loving the way the tobacco gave her a tiny rush. Alex leaned on the railing, her cig in her mouth.

"Rachel is too good for me," Mack began once she had taken a few more drags and focused her attention on the night covered land. It looked like a desert of waste; sand and rocks everywhere, broken down buildings in all different spots and dead bodies around the area, it was just plain upsetting.

"I'd say you're better for her then Finn is," stated Alex after a drag, "He's a good guy but doesn't know what he wants in life and with you, you may seem broken and shattered at times but so is Rachel, she just doesn't show it,"

Mack listened to the older girl's words carefully.

"Rachel has been through a lot, and by the looks of it so have you," she continued. Mack didn't say anything, just let her mind reel at how right Alex was being.

They both stayed quite for some time, the night sky slowly earning some color from the rising sun. When Mack felt like she could talk she looked to where Alex stayed leaned over the railing.

"When my mother passed away she left me a video, I watched it not too long ago and before the video ended she told me that I would find the love of my life, may it be a guy or girl," Mack swallowed thickly, feeling the tears well up, "she then quoted one of her favorite songs in the end,"

Alex waited for the younger girl to finish, her eyes still on the horizon.

"'There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure, cause you know sometimes words have two meanings,'" Mack stopped, feeling her chest tighten but stayed strong to finish, "'In the tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings, sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven,'"

The silence between them was filled with the cooling breeze of the fall wind.

"I have no idea what she meant when she said them but for some reason I feel like she was telling me that I would be with Rachel,"

"How do you figure?" asked Alex.

Mack sighed and leaned on the railing beside the older girl, "'Sometimes words have two meanings?' I feel like when she told me that I would find the love of my life, guy or girl, that she was for shadowing me being with a girl,"

That actually made sense to Alex, so she gave a nod.

"'There's a songbird who sings?'" Mack stated, "Rachel sings and she's tiny, birds are tiny,"

"Rachel is your songbird!" Alex exclaimed as she looked at Mack with a grin, "Oh god I just got the chills,"

Mack laughed and gave a nod, "That's what I thought too,"

"Your mother was very wise," Alex complimented. Mack just looked down and smiled.

Once they sobered down, Alex deemed tiredness and went to bed. Mack stayed on the roof top as she watched the sun rise. She looked up at the sky and smiled as a lone tear trailed down her cheek and fell.