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storypaint) wrote2010-01-05 01:44 pm
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[Glee] Stepping Backward (Puck and Rachel gen)
Title: Stepping Backward
Fandom: Glee
Length: 188 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Glee, Rachel & Puck, friendship
Pairing: past Puck/Rachel; Puck/Rachel friendship
Other: Speculation post-Sectionals.
Excerpt: They probably should have tried being friends first, but both of them were too bad at establishing the right boundaries.
They probably should have tried being friends first, but both of them were too bad at establishing the right boundaries; one thing they had in common was ambition, even if Puck's tended toward sexual conquests and Rachel's toward living forever on Broadway.
But finally listening to "Sweet Caroline" stops making Puck feel sick in the pit of his stomach (with manly annoyance, he'd swear), and Rachel stops looking at him with that ridiculous pity because she knows how much he wants to be a part of his baby's life (that takes much, much longer; the baby is long gone by then into the arms of a family who won't, Puck is sure, tell their daughter just how badass her real dad is, and what a waste).
When she starts acting like herself again around him, all misdirected enthusiasm and irritating cheer, he cuffs her gently on the shoulder like she's one of the guys and tells her to chill out, and her eyes widen, and then she smiles like he's given her the Emmy or something, and they become friends, which is how this whole thing should have started, really.
Fandom: Glee
Length: 188 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Glee, Rachel & Puck, friendship
Pairing: past Puck/Rachel; Puck/Rachel friendship
Other: Speculation post-Sectionals.
Excerpt: They probably should have tried being friends first, but both of them were too bad at establishing the right boundaries.
They probably should have tried being friends first, but both of them were too bad at establishing the right boundaries; one thing they had in common was ambition, even if Puck's tended toward sexual conquests and Rachel's toward living forever on Broadway.
But finally listening to "Sweet Caroline" stops making Puck feel sick in the pit of his stomach (with manly annoyance, he'd swear), and Rachel stops looking at him with that ridiculous pity because she knows how much he wants to be a part of his baby's life (that takes much, much longer; the baby is long gone by then into the arms of a family who won't, Puck is sure, tell their daughter just how badass her real dad is, and what a waste).
When she starts acting like herself again around him, all misdirected enthusiasm and irritating cheer, he cuffs her gently on the shoulder like she's one of the guys and tells her to chill out, and her eyes widen, and then she smiles like he's given her the Emmy or something, and they become friends, which is how this whole thing should have started, really.