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I'm a little bit disappointed with the hits on this fic. It's not that I need the feedback, (read: I need the feedback) but I really thought that this would be a hit. Me and my friend wanted to do a fic with all of our favorite characters, adding a lot of music to the mix, and hoped that a little more than a few would find it interesting. We can always change the rating and add some smut if that's what it takes? Drugs? Murder? ….Beastialities... no I think not... There will be sex, but we didn't plan to be very graphic about it. We can easily change our minds. Help!

Brothers in arms

Dean had turned the volume up high and sang along with Robert Plant as he strummed the guitar. He was lying flat on the floor with the instrument on his belly. Their next door neighbor had a client at the moment, and Dean did his best to drown the sounds coming from behind the wall.

Rita was fairly good at faking it, and this time she took it to a whole new level. It was obviously a well paying john in there, so she probably gave him a special performance.

When they first moved in, Dean found it quite arousing to eavesdrop, but it soon became a drag. If they could have afforded something else, he would have moved out in a heartbeat, but the checks from his dad came infrequent and even if he sometimes sent a decent amount, Dean could never know when the next one would arrive.

Over the summer, their father had been lucky, and he had enough money to pay the rent for five months. Dean just hoped that the man would manage to cough up enough before the new year so he and Sam wouldn't have to sleep in the car the next semester. A bad apartment was always better than no apartment.

"...and she's buying a Stairway to heaven."

Dean realized that he had to get up and turn the record if he wanted to hear the rest of the album. It was a little more clumsy with the LP's than it would have been with a CD, but he kind of like the sound of the vinyl.

He put the guitar on the floor and rolled over to his stomach before he crawled over to the turntable. As he was about to flip the LP over, he realized that the house was quiet. It was rarely this quiet, so Dean wondered if something was up.

It lasted only a few minutes before he again could hear the familiar sounds of chatter from downstairs and footsteps in the hall. Distantly, he could also hear music coming from somewhere in the building, and he relaxed.

He always worried. The police could show up at any time to raid the house, It hadn't happened since they moved in, but the other residents had told him all about it. Even if Dean had shared a joint with a couple of them, he made sure that his and Sam's room was clean. He didn't want to risk it all for a high.

-o-o-o-o-o-o-

Sam came home late that Sunday, and he was a little bit flustered as he came in. "You just have to join the Glee-club Dean. It's… I'm sure you'll like it." He threw his bag on the couch and went over to the kitchenette. "I'm sorry I'm late. Is there any food?" He opened the small fridge and grabbed a take-away box from the Chinese place. After sticking his nose in it and inhaling, he nodded and grabbed a fork from the drawer. "I can't sing. You know I can't, but you can." He lifted the fork loaded with noodles to his mouth as he stared at his brother.

Dean had dozed off and was still not quite awake, so it took a little while before he understood what Sam was talking about. "Me? In Glee-club? Yeah right, I wouldn't hear the end of it." He would really like to join, but it was a bit risky if he wanted to stay high on the popularity scale.

"Some of my teammates call it the Gay-club, and I think I might ruin my image if I join." He sat up and yawned as he stretched out a little. Sam stared at him. "What do you mean? Gay-club. They are just...students. Normal students. And why do you care?"

Dean looked at his brother and shook his head. "Haven't you seen it?" He rolled his eyes. "There's one crossdresser, and then you have the blonde guy with the funky jacket. If they're not gay…" Sam was about to say something, but Dean continued. "And then it's that cute blue-eyed boy. He seems a little dodgy as well."

Sam slumped his head down and chuckled. "Does it really matter?" Maybe it didn't, but Dean was on a roll. "And you know those two girls you hang out with at lunch. They seemed awfully cozy with each other as they left school on Friday. Not to mention that guy Mason. He's as camp as a row of tents."

That part about Mason was slightly exaggerated, Sam did not look at the guy as particularly camp. Dean had to draw his breath, and that gave Sam an opportunity to get a word or two in. "Why. Does. It. Matter?" Sam could obviously not help himself, because he kept going. "And you, my dear brother, you aren't too picky either. I have seen how you stare at the cute boys."

Enough was enough. Dean got up from the couch as he clenched his fists. "Fuck you. You know nothing." He wanted to punch his brother, but headed for the bathroom instead. "Go to bed, we have school tomorrow." He slammed the door behind him before he sat down on the toilet seat and covered his face with his hands.

-o-o-o-o-o-o-

Sam was thoroughly pissed off at his brother for being such a wimp. He knew for sure that Dean would fit into the Glee-club, and he was determined to make him join. It was sad that he himself wasn't able to carry a tune that well, but if he could be part of it through Dean it would be awesome.

Kevin was his friend, but that friendship had it's limitations. Kevin was a nerd and he wasn't good enough to be a lead singer. Dean definitely had the potential, and hanging with the kids in the club, Sam knew they needed someone like him.

Being the brother of the hot lead, could possibly help him achieve his goal. So far he was just the nerdy friend of a nerdy member of the choir.

The director didn't mind him sitting in when they had a performance, and Sam had gotten to know a few of the other guys. He was technically not listening as much as he was watching. He kept a keen eye at Jo, and hoped that she at one time would return his smile.

She was so great, but she had a major flaw. She had a crush on somebody else.

At rehearsals she appeared tough and she was also a little bit of a hothead. At lunch, when she sat with Sam and Kevin and sometimes Gwen, she spoke dreamingly about the hot guys at school. She didn't look much at the guys in New Directions until John was considered as the male lead. After that she didn't talk about anybody else.

Sam didn't worry so much about that. He agreed with his brother when Dean believed that the guy was gay, but Sam realized that he needed some leverage if he wanted to catch this girl's attention. Dean was his leverage. He just had to hope that Dean would understand.

-o-o-o-o-o-o-

The kids in The New Directions were going to have their first performance in front of an audience. It wasn't announced so much, but a few students with time off entered the auditorium. They were scattered around so for the guys on stage it most likely didn't look like much.

Sam picked a front row seat and threw a quick glance behind him before he sat down. He wasn't quite sure, but the guy all the way back in the darkness had a distinct likeness to his brother. He chose not to check at this point, because he was afraid he'd walk away if he knew he was spotted.

The twins were up first. Madison and Mason came out with a couple of dancers dressed up like trees. There was also a cardboard forest in the background.

"You've changed.

You're daring.

You're different in the woods.

More sure.

More sharing…

They did good, although Sam wasn't overly impressed by their choice of song. He found it kind of boring and the performers didn't put much enthusiasm in it. It was probably tough going first, but he'd expected a little bit more from them. They had done this before.

When they were done with the song from 'Into the woods', the applause was limited. Even if the performance wasn't the best, the small and scattered audience didn't do them justice.

Gwen and Jo was up next, and the crowd laughed out loud when they entered the stage. Jo was dressed in a big feathery blue coat, while Gwen had green tights and a ball-shaped thingy covering her torso. Even if everybody could see that it had initially been a pumpkin costume, it was now painted bright green and had a big eye glued to the front, and it wasn't hard to see who she was depicting.

With only the band in the background and no stage decoration, they two of them did an hilarious rendition of 'If I didn't have you' from Monster's Inc and received standing ovations from the handful of students in there.

Sam's friends and Jane had the next spot. He knew what was coming because he'd been with them on their final rehearsal last night. There weren't much space in Kevin's room to dance so much, but the three of them had still managed to put up quite a show for Sam.

A big bed got rolled out on stage. Jane was sitting in the middle of it flanked by Garth and Kevin. Someone backstage was holding a spotlight and aimed it at the bed to try to resemble the morning sun hitting the singers.

"Good morning…" Jane got to her feet, and stood up on the bed.

"Good morning…" Garth followed suit

"We've talked the whole night through…" Kevin stepped out of the bed and ran around to the back of it, as the three of them continued the song.

Kevin pushed the bed to the front of the stage with the two others onboard.

They didn't do the whole song, and they skipped most of the elaborate tap-dancing routine, but Garth and Jane gave it go at the end. Sam knew that Kevin wasn't much of a dancer, and he sat in the middle of the bed as the two others danced around pushing and pulling it.

The applause was surprisingly loud, and Sam had to turn around and look at the audience. Quite a few more students had found their way into the auditorium and even if it still was kind of barren the number of viewers had tripled since the show started.

As soon as the props from 'Good Morning' were removed, the stage went completely dark. A few seconds later a spot went on revealing a lonely girl on a long gown.

"I pray you'll be our eyes

And watch us where we go

And help us to be wise

In times when we don't know…"

More lights came on, and Sam could see the band in the background. They were enforced with a string quartet, and it sounded beautiful. As the girl continued, a boy walked up next to her. Sam had been around the Glee-club enough to remember that the guy's name was Jim.

"La luce che tu dai…"

Sam wasn't very good at languages, but he knew that the boy sang in Italian.

Another few students had trickled into the auditorium, and when the song was over, the two singers received the best applause so far. Mostly because of the size of the audience, but Sam had to admit that they deserved it wholeheartedly.

It couldn't be easy for the last two members to follow their act. As the the two boys entered the stage, some kids in the audience were still cheering and a few of them were shouting for Unique and Castiel to come out again.

The director had to step up and ask them to be quiet. "You will get more than one chance to hear them again, but not today. Will you please welcome John and Ianto." He walked over to the side and jumped off stage as John and Ianto grabbed a microphone each.

As soon as the crowd had quieted down John signaled to the pianist and then he just started.

"Through the fisheye lense of tear stained eyes

I can barely define the shape of this moment in time…"

Sam got quite surprised. He didn't expect Pink Floyd.

As the rest of the band joined in, Ianto stepped forward.

"If you negotiate the minefield in the drive…"

The two boys harmonized perfectly. Even if Sam wasn't a singer himself, he wasn't tonedeaf. Most of the audience had probably never heard the song before, but for Sam it was a familiar tune. He rarely got to listen to Pink Floyd at home because Dean didn't care too much about that band, so this was a treat.

"There's a kid who had a big hallucination…"

Ianto was singing alone now. His voice was really good, and Sam had to reluctantly admit that the guy could definitely outsing Roger Waters.

It was John's turn with the mic. He grabbed Ianto's hand and looked into the his eyes.

"If I show you my dark side

Will you still hold me tonight?"

It wasn't hard to see that Ianto was blushing a little, but he stayed composed. That handholding was obviously not rehearsed.

After the guitar solo, they sang the rest of the song together. The audience that had gotten considerably bigger during their performance cheered and clapped loudly. Sam stood up and he noticed that a few others followed suit.

They really deserved that after the somewhat crappy reception when they first entered the stage.

All the kids that had performed came out, and after they've all received another round of applause, Mr Evans grabbed a microphone and stepped forward. "We have a little treat for you at the end. We have a guest performance. From New York. From Broadway. Please welcome Rachel Berry."

Sam didn't know who it was, but almost everybody else in there seemed to be familiar with that name. As she came out on stage the audience practically exploded. The guys in New Directions obviously didn't know about this, because all of them looked utterly surprised.

"Friends. Thank you for the warm welcome. I had a couple of days off, and couldn't think of anything better to do than to visit my old school and my good friends here at McKinley." She waved at someone backstage. "I found a young and very talented boy on my way over here, and we will do a number for you. Jack Harkness, everybody."

A dark-haired and very handsome guy joined her in front of the New Directions. He looked a little shy as he smiled and nodded at the audience, but when he turned and looked at Miss Berry it was with a good portion of confidence.

Without much more ado, the orchestra played up and the new guy started singing.

No more talk of darkness,

Forget these wide-eyed fears.

I'm here, nothing can harm you -

my words will warm and calm you.

Some of the kids in the audience started whooping and clapping, and it wasn't very surprising. That voice was worth a cheer. It was kind of obvious that Rachel hadn't just picked this guy up on the way. This was rehearsed very particularly. The two of them acted out the song as if they were part of the cast of 'Phantom of the opera'.

Towards the end of the song, a dancer with half his face covered with a mask appeared. He used the other kids on stage as props and danced around them as the final lyrics were sung.

"Love me - that's all I ask of you…"

The male singer leaned in and kissed Miss Berry on the mouth, and she reciprocated. It was a real kiss, not just a peck, and Sam wondered if the two of them were a couple. The boy looked a little young, but so what.

"Anywhere you go let me go too . . .

Love me - that's all I ask of you."

As he was about to get up from his seat to cheer, Sam felt a tap on his shoulder. Dean was standing next to him, smiling. "You really think I could be a part of that? They are very good."

Sam smiled back and nodded. "Sure you can." He didn't say more at that time; he was too busy applauding, but he was happy that his brother seriously seemed to consider joining the Glee-club.

Music in this chapter

It takes two - from Into the woods - Stephen Sondheim

If I didn't have you - from Monsters Inc. - Randy Newman

Good morning - from Singing in the rain - M: Nacio Herb Brown, L: Arthur Freed

The Prayer, by David Foster, Carole Bayer Sager, Alberto Testa, Tony Renis

The final cut - Pink Floyd - L/M: Roger Waters

All I ask of you - from The Phantom of the Opera - M: Andrew Lloyd Webber, L: Charles Hart (Richard Stilgoe)