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storypaint ([personal profile] storypaint) wrote2010-10-12 08:28 pm

[Glee] very blue (Artie/Santana)

Title: very blue
Fandom: Glee
Length: 422 words
Prompt: Santana/Artie, falling for him for [livejournal.com profile] livmayette
Pairing: slight Santana/Artie; Brittany/Artie; Brittany/Santana
Other: AU for 2x04 Duets. As in, why did I write this from the preview, knowing it would be Jossed? Warning for slight language.

Excerpt: Brittany and Santana have the worst fight they have ever had when Brittany announces that she's dating Artie. Her declaration is just an aside as they walk between Glee and Cheerios practice.

Brittany and Santana have the worst fight they have ever had when Brittany announces that she's dating Artie. Her declaration is just an aside as they walk between Glee and Cheerios practice.

"Did you know Artie isn't a robot?" Brittany says, her eyes wide. Artie chuckles, somehow sounding flattered, or maybe that's just because she kisses him on the cheek before linking pinkies with Santana and hurrying down the hall with her.

"Of course I knew that, dumbass," Santana snaps. It just goes downhill from there. She's beaten other people up for insulting Brittany's intelligence (or sicced Sue on them, which is basically the same thing), but she pulls out all the stops, and when Beieste finds them clawing at each other in the hallway outside the gym, she pulls them apart and goes looking angrily for Sue.

Sue approves of fighting within the Cheerios as long as it doesn't weaken the pyramid. She explains to Beieste how the competition hones their talents while Brittany and Santana stand there not looking at each other. Santana refuses to stare at Brittany's confused face, instead studying her shoes and fighting back a wave of anger that makes her want to grab Brittany again.

They're sort-of-dating, but not exclusive. She doesn't care when Britt dallies with boys, so she can't tell you why this particular conquest pisses her off.

"S," Brittany whispers, "it's okay if you like him too. He's pretty funny and he has a big--"

"Shut up, Brittany," she growls under her breath.

"I like his glasses too," Brittany continues. "He lets me try them on and it makes my eyes all funny."

Santana does not like wheelchair kid like that, okay, but she's seized by a sudden vision of Artie without the thick black frames, and then she swallows. Okay. Maybe she does. How that happened - well, he has an incredible singing voice, and he might only been half as stupid as most of the boys she's dated. And his eyes are very blue.

"Do you think he'd let me try them?" Santana mumbles, trying not to attract Sue's and Beiste's attitude back to them. Sue has that sharp look in her eye that says she's about to bring up one of her better threats, and Santana is not going to be on the receiving end.

"I can ask," Brittany answers, and Santana's anger fades into amused relief. She reaches out and finds Brittany's hand without even having to look.

"It's okay," Brittany says to her non-apology, and Santana nods just a little.

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