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The Other Team (Rachel/Quinn)
Title: The Other Team
Fandom: Glee
Length: 738 words
Prompt: Glee Fic!Battle: Rachel/Quinn: All the girls Finn's been into "turn" gay like Finn is a lesbian starter kit, Any
Pairing: Rachel/Quinn from Finn's point-of-view; past Finn/Quinn; Will/Emma mentioned; Kurt/Finn mentioned
Other: A slight AU post-Sectionals; the Will/Emma kiss never happened.
Excerpt: All the girls Finn's been into "turn" gay, like Finn is a lesbian starter kit. At least, he's beginning to think so as he looks at Rachel and Quinn, walking hand in hand down the hallway as if this isn't Lima, as if they are the only two people in the world.
All the girls Finn's been into "turn" gay, like Finn is a lesbian starter kit. At least, he's beginning to think so as he looks at Rachel and Quinn, walking hand in hand down the hallway as if this isn't Lima, as if they are the only two people in the world. There is a sparkle in Quinn's eyes that has been absent for a long time. No wonder she's broken it off with him. And Rachel, well, Rachel always looks as if someone has either given her a puppy or killed one, and she might as well have received a whole litter as far as Quinn is concerned.
Finn's hands tighten around his slush cup, but he has no desire to either throw it or drink it. He has no idea why he bothered buying one; any rage he has been feeling dissolved as soon as he saw the way they look at each other. Jacob ben Israel is hovering in the background; Santana is snickering by the lockers; but all Quinn sees is Rachel, and all Rachel sees is Quinn.
Finn slips into Miss Pillsbury's office, where she's carefully sanitizing the new pamphlets she's gotten this week, pulling them one by one from the box and spritzing them with the caution of someone for whom a stray thumbprint is a disaster. He wonders in the back of his mind how many times a day she cleans the glass walls of this office. Mike attempted to find out once but after second period she made him talk to her about his delinquent brother and sent him to class.
"Finn, it's nice to see you," she says, and she sounds so kind, she always does, and he feels a lump rising in his throat. These days, his emotions are not his own; he's felt out of sorts ever since he found out about the baby's real father. He has a thought of Rachel's hand on Quinn's stomach, and are they going to raise his (not) daughter to be a Jew? Puck is Jewish too... And that thought flips him over into a sort of depressed rage again. When Miss Pillsbury offers him a seat, he sinks into it and squeezes the metal bars like a lifeline.
"I realize you've been going through some difficult times lately," Miss Pillsbury says, sympathy warm in her bright eyes.
He blurts out, "Do I make girls gay? Is it my fault?"
It seems like the least of his problems in some ways, and the greater part of them in others.
"Oh, no, no, no," Miss Pillsbury answers, setting the newly sanitized pamphlets into their waiting plastic holder and picking out another one from the set behind her. She hands it across her desk to Finn and he contemplates So Your Friend Has a Gay Crush on You for a moment before she takes it back.
"Kurt hasn't, uh," she begins, before biting her lip and giving him another one instead. This one says PFLAG on it-- Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
"I don't really--"
"I know it probably doesn't make much sense to you right now, but sometimes we fall in love with someone unexpected. Someone we're not supposed to. These people might be able to help you. There's a phone number on the back," she says.
He thinks that she's talking about Mr. Schuester again, because her voice almost broke on "supposed to," but she is trying to help, which is more than anyone else has tried to do. Mr. Schue continues to make him sing lead with his ex-girlfriend's new girlfriend, and Puck just makes up lewd stories about what happens when Quinn goes home with Rachel, and even Kurt, who he thought might be good at this, just wants to say, "Girls. They're useless little creatures, aren't they?" That just makes him feel worse, like he shouldn't be upset about this, and Finn is still upset.
He shoves the pamphlet in his pocket and thanks Miss Pillsbury for her time, shuffling back out into the hallway. Rachel and Quinn are almost out of sight, but he can see Quinn lean over and kiss Rachel's earlobe sweetly, before disappearing into her classroom.
He can't help but smile, the tiniest bit, at the soft look of joy that spreads across Rachel's face. After school, he calls the number.
Fandom: Glee
Length: 738 words
Prompt: Glee Fic!Battle: Rachel/Quinn: All the girls Finn's been into "turn" gay like Finn is a lesbian starter kit, Any
Pairing: Rachel/Quinn from Finn's point-of-view; past Finn/Quinn; Will/Emma mentioned; Kurt/Finn mentioned
Other: A slight AU post-Sectionals; the Will/Emma kiss never happened.
Excerpt: All the girls Finn's been into "turn" gay, like Finn is a lesbian starter kit. At least, he's beginning to think so as he looks at Rachel and Quinn, walking hand in hand down the hallway as if this isn't Lima, as if they are the only two people in the world.
All the girls Finn's been into "turn" gay, like Finn is a lesbian starter kit. At least, he's beginning to think so as he looks at Rachel and Quinn, walking hand in hand down the hallway as if this isn't Lima, as if they are the only two people in the world. There is a sparkle in Quinn's eyes that has been absent for a long time. No wonder she's broken it off with him. And Rachel, well, Rachel always looks as if someone has either given her a puppy or killed one, and she might as well have received a whole litter as far as Quinn is concerned.
Finn's hands tighten around his slush cup, but he has no desire to either throw it or drink it. He has no idea why he bothered buying one; any rage he has been feeling dissolved as soon as he saw the way they look at each other. Jacob ben Israel is hovering in the background; Santana is snickering by the lockers; but all Quinn sees is Rachel, and all Rachel sees is Quinn.
Finn slips into Miss Pillsbury's office, where she's carefully sanitizing the new pamphlets she's gotten this week, pulling them one by one from the box and spritzing them with the caution of someone for whom a stray thumbprint is a disaster. He wonders in the back of his mind how many times a day she cleans the glass walls of this office. Mike attempted to find out once but after second period she made him talk to her about his delinquent brother and sent him to class.
"Finn, it's nice to see you," she says, and she sounds so kind, she always does, and he feels a lump rising in his throat. These days, his emotions are not his own; he's felt out of sorts ever since he found out about the baby's real father. He has a thought of Rachel's hand on Quinn's stomach, and are they going to raise his (not) daughter to be a Jew? Puck is Jewish too... And that thought flips him over into a sort of depressed rage again. When Miss Pillsbury offers him a seat, he sinks into it and squeezes the metal bars like a lifeline.
"I realize you've been going through some difficult times lately," Miss Pillsbury says, sympathy warm in her bright eyes.
He blurts out, "Do I make girls gay? Is it my fault?"
It seems like the least of his problems in some ways, and the greater part of them in others.
"Oh, no, no, no," Miss Pillsbury answers, setting the newly sanitized pamphlets into their waiting plastic holder and picking out another one from the set behind her. She hands it across her desk to Finn and he contemplates So Your Friend Has a Gay Crush on You for a moment before she takes it back.
"Kurt hasn't, uh," she begins, before biting her lip and giving him another one instead. This one says PFLAG on it-- Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
"I don't really--"
"I know it probably doesn't make much sense to you right now, but sometimes we fall in love with someone unexpected. Someone we're not supposed to. These people might be able to help you. There's a phone number on the back," she says.
He thinks that she's talking about Mr. Schuester again, because her voice almost broke on "supposed to," but she is trying to help, which is more than anyone else has tried to do. Mr. Schue continues to make him sing lead with his ex-girlfriend's new girlfriend, and Puck just makes up lewd stories about what happens when Quinn goes home with Rachel, and even Kurt, who he thought might be good at this, just wants to say, "Girls. They're useless little creatures, aren't they?" That just makes him feel worse, like he shouldn't be upset about this, and Finn is still upset.
He shoves the pamphlet in his pocket and thanks Miss Pillsbury for her time, shuffling back out into the hallway. Rachel and Quinn are almost out of sight, but he can see Quinn lean over and kiss Rachel's earlobe sweetly, before disappearing into her classroom.
He can't help but smile, the tiniest bit, at the soft look of joy that spreads across Rachel's face. After school, he calls the number.