A/N: At the moment, I have a lot of things going on, but this story along with many others are continuously wafting around my brain and I figured I needed to get them out. I've decided to take two of my favorite shows and put them as one story which is what this is now. I love Glee and I love One Tree Hill so I figured why not create a story.
I'm actually kind of nervous about this because I'm not sure if my OTH lovers like Glee or if my Glee lovers also like OTH, but hopefully everything will be okay.
BRAVE
PART ONE: Sophomore Year
Ch. 1: Intro to Tree Hill
Julian Baker looked at the clock in the kitchen while his wife, Brooke, poured a bowl of cereal for their daughter, Samantha, who hasn't woken up yet.
"When do you think Sam is going to get up?"
Brooke grinned and raised an eyebrow. It was hard to tell with Sam most days. There were times when the teen would wake up early or there were other times when Sam would sleep late. Sam's explanation of her earliness was because she couldn't sleep. It was a result of Sam's experience in foster care before being placed in Julian and Brooke's home two years ago.
"If she's still sleeping now than that means she had a good night's sleep which is always a welcome."
A door opens and the girl in question walks out of her bedroom with a yawn.
"No questions. I'm fine. I slept well. I'm hungry and I would really like it if you let me stay home from school," Sam stated before she took a seat at the table.
"Nice try kiddo. Not going to happen," Julian stated before opening up his laptop.
"When's your next trip?" Sam asks before taking a bite of her cereal.
Julian Baker is a producer and sometimes director that lives in Tree Hill which isn't a key location to produce or direct movies. Every so often Julian makes a trip to California if a potential job comes up and he was interested in it, he tries to set up a schedule so he can do the job, but still be around his family.
"Not for a while," Julian says knowing he was easing some of Sam's fears of abandonment even after two years of being adopted. Sam smiled and went back to eating.
Brooke loved the relationship that Julian and Sam had together. When Sam first came to stay with them it had been Julian to get Sam out of her shell with the common interests of writing and movies. It took a little longer for Sam to warm up to her but when she did, Brooke witnessed Sam's smile a whole lot more.
"Alright my family," Julian and Sam look at Brooke. "I have a meeting tonight with a potential investor so I will be home late tonight. You two will have to fend for yourselves."
Julian and Sam lock eyes and say the first thing that comes to mind.
"Pizza!"
Brooke nods her head. It figures. Brooke kisses her husband on the lips quickly before kissing the top of Sam's head.
"Have a good day at work and you missy have a great first day at school."
"I hate school," Sam mutters before taking her bowl to the sink. Brooke just smiles and heads out the door. Julian looks at the clock and winces.
"Samson, you have about a half hour before school starts so you better get dressed."
*Brave*
In the teacher's lounge of Tree Hill High, 3 colleagues, Will Schuester, Emma Pillsbury, and Haley James Scott sat at one of the tables drinking coffee and talking.
"Haley, I'd like to ask your opinion about something," Will states with a smile. Haley looked up from the table and nodded.
"Sure."
"I'm thinking about starting a Glee Club here. Do you think anyone would be interested in it?"
"From my knowledge there hasn't ever been a glee club at Tree Hill High or at any other school in Tree Hill to tell you the truth. I wish I had something like that in school."
Will smiles.
"Then I think I'll do that."
"I think it's a great idea Will," Emma says with a grin.
Emma and Will began talking about Will's idea of a Glee Club while Haley sat and hoped her nerves would go away. Today marked the first day that Haley would teach classes by herself. Last year, she had been a Student Teacher and this year she's a teacher. She had met Emma and Will last year while she student taught and they formed a friendship.
"You should speak with Principal Turner about that. I think he'd agree," Haley stated with a grin.
"Look at what we have here. We've got curly cue, Ginger Spice, and Tree Hill's own Kelly Clarkson," Sue Sylvester said with a grin.
Haley rolled her eyes. The Kelly Clarkson line was getting really old.
"What do you want Sue?" Will asks. It was the start of the New Year and already he was annoyed with her.
"I overheard you saying you wanted to start a glee club and I'm telling you that it's a big mistake."
"Why is that?" Haley asks. She was a little intimidated by Sue Sylvester even after three years.
"The only groups that are important at Tree Hill High are the Tree Hill Raven's basketball team and my girls, The Tree Hill High's cheerleaders, but you should know that Haley you were a part of it even while you were pregnant," Will and Emma looked at Haley with surprise. They hadn't known that about her or the fact that she had been married in high school either. "The glee club will be at the bottom of the totem pole."
"Give it a rest Sue," Will says, "I was in glee club at my high school."
Sue looks at Will from head to toe.
"I rest my case, but that's not why I came in here. I wanted to speak with Haley about Samantha baker. I want her on the team and I need your help doing so."
Haley shakes her head. She remembered what it felt like being on the Ravens cheerleading team and it sucked.
"Leave Sam alone, Sue, She doesn't need you in her life."
"We will see about that," were Sue's parting words.
"That woman scares me," Emma admits.
Haley looks at the closed door with a sigh.
"That woman scares us all."
*Brave*
Kurt Hummel and Rachel Berry stood against the lockers in the hallway and watched as students trickled in albeit slowly.
Kurt had a passion for fashion. He always wore designer clothes and his favorite designer by far was Brooke Baker.
Rachel Corcoran had the fashion sense of a Nat which was basically nothing. She stood next to Kurt in penny loafers, knee socks and wearing a headband. No one wanted to comment on the awful argyle she was wearing.
"This is high school Kurt. We need more than just each other. We need to find friends and boyfriends," Rachel states as she watches the crowd trying to see who they can include in their group of two.
Kurt sighs softly. Rachel was right. He needed a boyfriend.
"What about her?" Rachel posed the question.
Kurt followed her gaze and spotted a teenage girl wearing too much eyeliner and dressing punkish.
"I don't know Rachel."
"I'm going to go introduce myself," Rachel states while walking toward the girl.
*Brave*
Sam placed a book in her locker and shuts it and jumped when she was face to face with a girl who was smiling brightly.
"Dude!" Sam yells once she gets her barring straight.
"Hi, my name is Rachel Corcoran and I'd like to be your friend."
Sam raises an eyebrow and answers quickly.
"No."
Rachel's smile falls off her face.
"How come?"
"For starters, you don't walk up to a random person and say you want to be their friend. Someone would say you're a molester. That's not good. And second, you don't even know my name," Sam starts walking away, but Rachel follows her.
"You can tell me your name," Rachel suggests.
Sam chuckled and rolled her eyes.
"I could, but I'm not going to."
"Hey Sam!" a voice yells out.
Sam looks up and grins at her summer friend. Rachel frowns when she spots her brother "high-fiving" her new "hopefully" friend.
"What's up Noah?"
Noah nods his head.
"Nothing much," Noah pulls off his hat from his head and Rachel gasps at her brother. "How do you like the hawk?"
"Noah, mom's going to kill you!" Rachel shrieked.
Sam's grin widened.
"Rachel's your sister?"
Noah just nods his head. He had met Sam early in the summer at the local skate shop. They quickly hit it off as friends and Noah came to see Sam as a very important part of his life just like his mother and his sister.
"Yeah, so be her friend," he gave Rachel a wink. "I know that's the reason why she's bugging you."
"That is not the only reason!" Rachel demanded as she stomped her foot. Sam and Noah stare at Rachel who blushed and looked at the ground. "Well, not the only reason," she responds softly.
Sam looked at her friend who shrugged his shoulders. There were times in his life where he had no idea why his sister did the things that she did.
Sam stuck out her hand and held it in front of Rachel. Rachel shakes it with a grin.
"My name is Samantha Baker, but everyone calls me Sam. It's nice to meet you Rachel."
Rachel smiled brightly.
"I've got to go back to Kurt, but maybe we can hang out soon."
Sam shrugs her shoulders.
"Sure."
"Bye Noah, bye Sam."
Rachel takes off down the hallway to meet back up with Kurt.
"That's the sister you are always talking about?" Sam asks.
Noah nods his head. "Yeah."
"I like her," Sam says with a grin. "Not too fond of the hawk though," Sam says as she runs her hand over his head.
Noah smiles at the action.
Near the end of the hallway a brown eyed Latina narrowed her eyes at the affection that Sam and Noah were giving each other.
*Brave*
"Stop frowning, I don't think she likes him as much as he likes her." Brittany Pierce says to her best friend, Santana Lopez.
"Jealousy isn't good on you San," Quinn Fabray stated with a grin.
Brittany Pierce, Santana Lopez, and Quinn Fabray stood and watched the interaction between Noah Corcoran and currently an unnamed girl, at least to them.
Brittany, Santana, and Quinn have been best friends since they were little. They always did everything together. Entering high school wasn't going to change that. The three girls spent their summer getting ready for the cheerleading season. All three had made it to the varsity team run by Sue Sylvester. Quinn became the second sophomore to become Captain of the Ravens Cheer team; Brooke Davis had been the first.
Brittany and Quinn knew about Santana's appreciation of the female form. Quinn couldn't understand why she would chose punk rock girl over anybody else, but she wasn't going to complain. Brittany just wanted Santana to be happy.
"I'm not jealous. I don't even know the girl," Santana states trying to avoid the topic of her feelings.
"You totally want sexy times with her though."
Santana blushes and looks towards the ground. Quinn rolls her eyes before searching the hallway for her boyfriend, Finn Hudson.
"Let's talk about something else, shall we?" Santana suggests.
"Coach wants to see us during lunch. Apparently, she has an assignment for us."
"I'm starting to regret taking apart of the cheerleading team. Sylvester is one crazy woman," Santana says as she starts walking down the hallway.
"Come on Santana, you knew you wanted to be a cheerleader ever since we saw the cheerleaders when we were six."
Brittany grins at the memory. It had been the first time she got to see her brother Jake play basketball.
"Yeah San, remember when Jake had us meet Brooke Davis. That was really cool."
Santana throws Brittany a grin before interlocking their pinkies.
"I wonder what happened to everyone that we met back then," Quinn pondered out loud.
"I know where Jake is. He wished me luck this morning," Brittany stated.
Quinn, Santana, and Brittany walk into their first class and take a seat in the back.
"I'm sorry Brittany. I know you miss Jake," Quinn apologized.
"And Jenny," Brittany says solemnly. She missed her brother and her niece more than anything. She still had her parents, but her brother was her best friend.
"Oh my god."
Quinn and Brittany glance at Santana who was staring at the door. Santana's crush had just walked through the door with Noah. Quinn snickers. This year was going to be very interesting.
*Brave*
Sam looked at the note in her hand and frowned. Sue Sylvester wanted to speak with her and it was important. For what? She had no idea. Sam knocks on Sue's door before getting the okay to enter.
"Let's get down to business, Baker."
Sam takes a seat across from Sue. Sue pushes over a box.
"Open it up," Sue watches Sam open the box where a cheerleading outfit resided. "I expect you at practice tomorrow."
Sam looked at the uniform in confusion. For one thing, she had no intention of ever joining the cheerleading team and for another thing, Sam didn't want to be brought onto a team without having tried out. So Sam said the one word Sue Sylvester never wanted to hear.
"No."
"Excuse me?"
Sam places the box on Sylvester's desk.
"I don't want to be on the team."
"You're a Davis," Sue stated plainly.
Sam shook her head.
"Technically, I'm a Baker, but I was Davis before. It doesn't change the fact that I don't want to be a cheerleader."
"Your mother was one."
Sam stands up from her chair with a sigh. She fixes the shoulder strap of her bag and looks at Sue once more.
"There is a lot about my mom's high school experience that I don't want to follow. Cheerleading being one of them. Thanks for the offer coach, but I have to decline," Sam stated before walking out of the office.
Sue looks at the closed door in surprise. Not once in all her years of being a cheerleading coach had someone turned her down. The only person who had come close was Haley James-Scott, but her head cheerleader handled that problem. Unfortunately, now she had to deal with an ex head cheerleader's daughter and it wasn't going to be easy.
"You have just made an enemy, Samantha Baker."
*Brave*
Brooke sat down next to her husband with a grin. She grabbed a French fry from his plate and ate it quickly.
"How do you think Sam is handling high school?"
"Better than I did, I hope."
Brooke snorts.
"You were a nerd in high school."
"Exactly," Julian deadpans.
"Honey, Sam will be fine. She has a tough head on her shoulders, plus Haley just texted me and told me that Sue Sylvester wants Sam to be a cheerleader. If she can survive Sue Sylvester than Sam can get through high school."
Julian raises an eyebrow at his wife. He had heard the horror stories of one Sue Sylvester. He's glad he has never had the chance to meet her, but he knew that Brooke spent three years with the woman.
"Sam better be fine."
"You worry too much."
Julian sips his soda and leans back in his chair.
"I'm her father, I worry."
"I worry too Julian, but Sam has been through some pretty rough times before she came to us. She can handle her first day in high school, but enough about that. We will be talking about it more when Sam gets homes. Let's talk about something else."
Julian pushes his plate away.
"I've been looking into some small projects in the area that I can work on. I may have found some in Charlotte, but I'm hesitant."
"You have a good eye when you see a well written script. If it's poorly written you try and see if it can be salvaged and you work with the writer to make it happen. Trust your gut. You don't have to be a big time director or producer in order to have a steady career."
Julian slowly let's a smile appear on his face.
"You tell me that all the time."
"I know. It's because I'm right," Brooke gives Julian a wink.
"How did your meeting go?" Julian asks after the waitress picks up his plate.
Brooke sighs.
"They would like a new line. They're giving me three months to try and get it completed. At least sketch wise."
"At least you have some time, right?"
Brooke nods her head.
"True, but I haven't come up with any ideas since the beginning of summer. I just don't know if three months is going to cut it."
"Maybe Sam will get into some trouble and you'll get inspired," Julian stated with a smirk.
"I should've never told you that story."
Julian chuckles.
"I actually like that story."
Brooke rolls her eyes and she and Julian discuss plans for the rest of the week.
*Brave*
"You wanted to see us coach?"
Quinn, Brittany, and Santana all walk into the office and grab chairs in front of Sue's desk.
"A recruit refuses to join and I need your help to make her join the team. Normally, I would handle this myself, but I have to stop Will Schuester from trying to start a Glee club."
"What's Glee?" Brittany asks with interest.
Sue just stares at the girl.
"Who is the recruit?" Quinn asks.
"Brooke Davis' daughter…well Baker now."
All three cheerleaders' eyes widen in surprise.
"Brooke Davis is a mother?" Quinn asks.
"Adopted daughter, but still I want her daughter on the team."
Sue hands Quinn the folder.
"It may be tough, but I don't want intimidation. She's been through enough."
Quinn looks at the photo and looks at Santana from the corner of her eye. Santana sat frozen I her seat as she stares at the picture.
"Why can't we use intimidation?" Quinn asks.
Santana throws Quinn a glare.
"You don't need to know why. Just follow my orders and Santana, why don't you have you try flirting with her. That may influence her to join the team. Now you have your assignment. Get out of my office."
The girls walk out of the office.
"San?" Brittany calls out.
Santana just keeps walking.
"Santana!" Quinn yells.
Santana turns to her friends.
"I don't know what I'm going to do. I like her and I've never even met her. I don't think I can do this."
Quinn gripped onto Santana's shoulders.
"Then don't trick her. Be honest and then get to know her. Maybe she'll like you, too."
Santana shakes her head.
"Noah likes her," Santana responds.
Quinn rolls her eyes.
"You're Santana Diabla Lopez and you kick ass. Win over your girl so that we don't see you mope around all the time."
Quinn drops her hands.
"I don't know," Santana whispers.
"What's glee club?" Brittany asks breaking the tension.
Quinn turns to her friend to answer her question.
"It's a club where you sing and dance."
Brittany's eyes light up.
"I want to join. I love dancing. Santana join with me. You're a really good singer."
"I don't know if Sue will like that B," Santana says hoping not to crush the girl's spirit.
"Well we can pretend to be spies," Brittany says with an even bigger grin.
Both Quinn and Santana laugh.
"We will see Britt, but right now we need to head to English."
*Brave*
Haley stood in front of her class with a small smile on her face. Her students were talking quietly to themselves and Haley decided to see who she would be teaching for the next year. Near the back were three girls who were chatting softly to each other. The two blondes were talking more than the Latina because it seemed that the Latina was watching something else. She spotted Sam right away and was happy to see that she had found some friends. She wasn't so sure about the boy with a Mohawk being Sam's friend, but they were talking along with another girl who wore a headband.
Haley looked at the clock and knew it was time to start the class.
"Okay everyone it's time to start. The first day is always the worst day each class has a syllabus detailing what you'll be doing. This class isn't any different, but we will talk about the major papers that we will be doing and the books we will be reading. Any questions so far?
"How many tests will we have in class?" Noah asks.
"You will be tested on the books we read for sure. I'm not sure about specific things that we will learn outside of the books. Is there anything else?" Haley asks as she grabs a stack of papers from her desk. "Well if there are no questions then I'd like for you to read through it and let me now your thoughts. I'm going to start role call so when you hear your name, raise your hand."
As the students look over the syllabus Haley brings out her roster and beings to call out names.
"Adam Anders…Sam Baker…"
Sam raises a hand and continues to look through what she will be doing for the year. She will be reading books like Catcher in the Rye, Catch-22, To Kill a Mockingbird and a book of choice.
"Noah Corcoran…Rachel Corcoran…"
Sam looked around the room of her fellow classmates when her eyes locked with a Latina's in the back.
"Santana Lopez."
Sam watched the Latina raise her hand. The girl in question threw her a wink causing Sam to blush deeply before looking down at her paper. Noah caught the interaction and frowned deeply. He was going to have to step up his game.
"Oh my god S, that was brilliant. Sam blushed like crazy!" Quinn whispered.
Santana turns her head with a somewhat frightened look on her face.
"That was the scariest shit I've ever done in my life."
Quinn pats Santana's arm in sympathy.
*Brave*
Will and Emma stood in front of the sign-up sheet for glee club. Despite her best efforts Sue wasn't able to stop Principal Turner from forming a glee club.
"It looks great Will," Emma said with a grin.
"I just hope that people will sign up for it. We need at least 12 members."
"It may take a while but you'll find members. Tree Hill has a list of accomplished people in the city and most of them came out of this high school."
"I just hope there are enough people interested in joining."
Haley walks out of her classroom and spots her colleagues standing in front of the activities billboard.
"It looks great."
"How long do you think it will take for people to sign up?" Will asked.
"If we keep standing in front of it then it will take longer. Give it a week and I'd bet you'd get more than a few names."
Will looks at Haley unsure if what she is saying would come true. He hoped it would. Glee had changed his life when he was in school.
"Give it some time Will," Emma suggests.
Will nods his head and the three colleagues walk down the hallway. Will turns his head and sees a few people gathered around the billboard, pen in hand. He smiled and continued walking.
*Brave*
Kurt, Rachel, and Sam were walking home from school. Kurt and Rachel were, whereas Sam was heading to her mother's store. Sam had met Kurt briefly and when he started talking about fashion. Sam rolled her eyes and decided to kill two birds with one stone. Sam knew her mother wanted to meet her friends and at some point her friends were going to have to meet her parents. It was easier to get things done at once.
Sam stops walking and enters her mother's store. Kurt and Rachel turn to each other on the sidewalk.
"I didn't know we were shopping," Kurt says with a grin before walking into the store. Rachel following close behind.
"How come you didn't tell me that Sam knew Brooke Davis?"
Rachel looks at Kurt wide eyed.
"I didn't know," she responds.
They watch as Sam grabs Brooke's hand and drags her over to stand in front of them.
"Kurt, Rachel, this is my mom."
"Holy crap," Rachel and Kurt reply in unison.
Brooke smiles at the teens.
"Hey guys. You are more than welcome to stay at the house with Sam. I'm sure she'd like to hang out with you more."
"I can talk for myself," Sam butted in. "Is dad at home?"
Brooke turns away from the star struck teens to look at her daughter.
"He should be at home. I know there were some things he wanted you to do around the house, but I'm sure that it can wait. Do you have homework?"
"No, it's the first day of school."
"What about Haley's class?"
Sam rolls her eyes. "I'll do that later. Let's go guys."
Sam drags her friends out of the store and Brooke smiles. Sam had made it through her first day of school. Now she just needed to get through the rest of the year which might become problematic only time would tell.
A/N: I'm also going to be making a banner and hoping to create a trailer for this story…however, my time is severely lacking so if any of you readers out there would like to create a trailer or banner for this story just let me know.
Also, I can't promise constant updates or chapters as long as this, but I can try.
Also, tell me what storylines from both shows you would like to see incorporated into this story and I will see if I can make it work.