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A/N Huh, was not expecting to update this again next. Most of this was written when I posted the last chapter but I was going to update Def Not a Flour Baby next. That one is being worked on but I'm finding it harder to get into it again. This story is silly and quite short so it's easier to just bang out.

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Chapter Five

"I'm very relieved that you're feeling better, Noah." Rachel said. He glanced away from the road and nodded at her.

"You too, Berry." He caught her smile before turning his eyes back to the wheel.

"You really should have borrowed a spare pair of trousers from one of my Dads instead of going home with those wet ones on; they wouldn't have minded." Rachel told him for the millionth time but he just shrugged. He totally would have changed his sodden, frozen jeans for some warm, dry ones (even if they had belonged to a homo) but Rachel had told him that her Dads would be home soon and Puck didn't do meeting chicks' Dads. Especially when there were two of them, so he'd bolted, freezing jeans and all.

He doubted that changing his pants would've stopped him from getting sick though. The next day he'd come down with a flu type thing. He'd had to take the rest of the week off school, which didn't particularly suck because it meant that he could just sleep, play on the Xbox and eat whatever he liked. He also didn't have to be Quinn's bitch for a few days which was fucking awesome and his Mom and his sister were actually nice to him for a change.

Rachel got sick too but she couldn't have been as bad as him because she said she only had a cold and she missed just one day of school. She popped round a couple of times and gave him soup and cookies (which didn't exactly help his sore throat but whatever, they tasted awesome) and she made sure he was taking medication. It was kinda weird that she was taking care of him but also kinda nice cos his mom was too busy with work and his sister was eight and didn't really know what she was doing. He was glad he'd decided to hook up with Rachel over any of the other chicks in school; he doubted whether any of them would bother trying to make him feel better (even if it was her cat's fault that he was ill in the first place). When she'd visited he'd considered trying to get her to make out with him but they were both coughing and sneezing a lot and the thought kinda grossed him out. Can you imagine if he'd sneezed into her mouth or vice versa? Like he said, fucking gross.

On the days when she hadn't come to see him they texted each other a lot. It wasn't sexting and it could only be called mild flirting at the most. She kept him entertained though and told him about the shit that was going on in school.

"Did the Olbas Oil I gave you help you to sleep better?" Rachel enquired.

"Yeah, I slept like an absolute baby last night, thanks, babe." He told her as he pulled the car over to park. "It smelt like lavender." Don't ask him how he knows the word lavender or what it smells like. He's not sure where that came from either.

"It was eucalyptus," Rachel corrected him. Oh, see, he didn't really know what shit he was talking about after all.

It had been a week since they'd gone trekking through the snow to look for Mist and Puck had resorted to somewhat desperate measures to make sure that the cat didn't ruin his time with Rachel again.

He'd taken Rachel back to his house.

It may sound stupid but this was a big fucking deal. He didn't bring girls back to his house. Okay, so Rachel had already been there a couple of times but that was only because she'd promised to bring soup and cookies. And Quinn came over every now and then but that was different because she was preggo with his child and he wasn't trying to get it on with her anymore.

Rachel probably didn't realise that she was being treated as a special case and if she did then she didn't let on. And to be honest it wasn't anything about her personally (even if the crazy chick had grown on him recently) it was because he couldn't stand being around her cat. The only things he had to worry about here were his mom and sister but they wouldn't be back for a while because Abi had dance class.

Rachel grabbed her crap and jumped down from her seat and he followed suit so that she wasn't left standing in the cold.

"I'm glad that you agreed to partner me for our latest glee assignment, Noah. I think that we'll definitely combine to make the strongest pairing out of the whole group." Rachel told him as he unlocked the front door.

"Well, that's gonna be because of you, not me." Puck said, dutifully paying her singing voice a compliment. He wasn't stupid, he knew she totally digged the praise.

She smiled at him and shrugged. "While my vocal talent is obviously superior to yours, you shouldn't be dismissive of your own abilities, Noah. You have a good chance of living out a career in music, should you so choose." Honesty. That's what you got from Rachel Berry and he was actually quite grateful for it given most of the shit other teenaged girls spouted at him. But Rachel said he was a good singer and she didn't exactly give out compliments if you didn't deserve them so he felt pretty fucking good about himself.

He started walking up the stairs. "Come on, my guitar's in my room."

He was under no illusion that they would actually have to do some rehearsing of their song for glee rather than make out the entire time; Rachel took this glee shit ridiculously seriously but he knew how music got her hot so he figured that making out was bound to happen at some point that afternoon.

"I think that we should take it easy in our rehearsal today," Rachel told him as she took out the sheet music. "We're both still suffering slightly with the aftereffects of our illness and we shouldn't push ourselves too far. I hope you don't feel discouraged should we not sound as vocally excellent as we would under normal circumstances. I'm sure that when we perform this at the end of the week we will be back to our optimum."

Puck wasn't sure what she meant – it sounded like she was talking about Transformers, so he just grabbed his guitar and started testing out the chords in their song while Rachel warmed up her voice.

"I'm very glad that we picked this song, Noah." Rachel said when she'd deemed herself vocally warmed up. "Pete Shelley wrote this song after hearing the line, 'Have you ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have' from the musical Guys and Dolls. I love it when Broadway inspires new music, don't you?"

"Totally, babe." He was keeping her happy, remember? And it was almost cute that shit like that genuinely made her happy.

They practiced the different ways they could perform the song, dividing out the lyrics and testing out harmonies. Puck thought they sounded pretty good but he knew that they'd sound totally fucking awesome when they were completely better and had the back-up of the band in the choir room.

Rachel looked super sexy dancing and twirling around his room, giving him little smiles as she sang the song. He was enjoying singing with her but he hoped they'd stop soon so they could make out and stuff.

"You sounded amazing, Rach," he said when they'd finished their first full run through of the song. "We make an awesome pairing – our musical chemistry is like, off the fucking scale."

It seemed that she agreed with him because she practically pounced on him and started trying to kiss his face off. He only just had time to put his guitar on the ground before they fell on the bed together.

Puck seriously loved making out with Rachel (even if he'd yet to properly touch her boobs). He had no idea how long they kept this up but he relaxed at the knowledge that there was no way her devil-cat could fuck things up for him this time.

"Noah! There's a kitty on our porch!"

Puck pulled away at the sound of his sister screeching up the stairs. Woah, he must've been too busy with Rachel to notice that his Mom and Abi were back. Shit. He didn't particularly want them to meet each other like this, or at all really. He and Rachel were only hooking up – nothing serious was going on between them and he didn't want Rachel or his mom to get the wrong idea. He'd managed to schedule Rachel's visits so that she'd come round his house when his mom and sister were out. How the hell was he supposed to play this so that Rachel didn't get pissed if he had to say that she wasn't his girlfriend and so that his mom didn't freak that he was risking getting someone else pregnant with a random hookup?

And then his brain processed what Abi had yelled and a feeling of dread and disbelief settled within him. There was no fucking way…

The sound of feet pounding on the stairs made him spring into action and he quickly climbed off the bed, giving Rachel a hand to get up. No sooner were they both on their feet then the door was flung open to reveal his stupid kid sister looking like she might wet herself, she was so excited.

"For fuck's sake, Abi, how many times do I have to tell you not to come into my room?" Puck growled at her but his sister's attention had been caught by the brunette standing next to him.

"Who are you?" Abi asked bluntly.

"None of your business, twerp," Puck said, moving forwards to push her out of the room.

"Mom!" Abi yelled and Puck nearly covered his ears because his sister had reached a pitch that was totally not good for people's hearing. "Noah's got a girl in his room!"

"Little brat," he spat at her before grabbing Rachel and heading downstairs to face his mom. But half way down he heard a sound that made him freeze.

Mrroww.

Rachel gasped. "Mr Mistoffelees!" She hurried past him and Puck followed her stiffly to see that the impossible had happened:

Mr Mistoffelees was sat outside his front door.

His mom was holding the door open, looking bemused, even more so when she saw Rachel rush forward to retrieve her cat. "Mist what are you doing here?" Rachel asked, looking at the cat in shock. "What a clever boy for being able to track me this far away!"

His mother turned to him with a frown. "Do you want to tell me what's going on, Noah?"

"Er," he started but Rachel cut him off.

"I do apologise for not introducing myself, Mrs Puckerman; I'm Rachel Berry. Noah and I have been working on a song for glee club." His mom gave her an appraising look but Rachel carried on regardless. "And for some reason my cat has tracked me over here. Goodness knows how he's managed it – I doubt he's ever travelled this far before." Mist meowed and starting purring in her arms and Puck saw his mom's face soften.

"Did you say his name was Mist?" his mom asked and Puck figured that it would be best for him to sorta fade into the background. If Rachel and his mom had forgotten he was there then they couldn't yell at him for some reason or other.

Rachel nodded. "Yes, it's short for Mr Mistoffelees."

"Like from the musical?" his mom asked.

"What musical?" Abi enquired, elbowing Puck as she walked past to look at the cat. He would've retaliated because the little sneak totally fucking deserved it but he was still hoping he wouldn't get in trouble.

"It's called 'Cats' and it's by Andrew Lloyd Webber." Rachel told her.

"So is it about a load of cats?" Abi asked tentatively, putting a hand forward to stroke Mist.

Puck zoned them out because he didn't particularly want to listen to him mom and sister talk with Berry about fucking musicals. However, he did note that Mist was purring and fucking lapping up the attention they were giving him. It totally sucked.

His ears pricked up though when his mom said, "I'm sure I recognise you from somewhere, Rachel."

"Oh, it's probably from temple, Mrs Puckerman."

Oh fuck, Puck thought, seeing the look on him mom's face when she recognised the Jewish girl.

"Yes, that's definitely where I remember you from. How are your fathers, Rachel?"

His mom was looking entirely too happy but when the minutes ticked by and he still hadn't been shouted at he figured that as far as his mom was concerned, he wasn't in a load of shit. Perhaps him hooking up with Jewish girls was okay with his mom? That theory definitely needed to be tested (cos then he could tell his mom he was with a Jewish girl even when he wasn't and she wouldn't hate his guts for it.). Or maybe his mom was buying all the glee stuff Rahel was telling her – yes, they had been practising 'Ever Fallen in Love' but it wasn't all that they had been doing…

His eyes turned to the fleabag being worshipped by Rachel, Abi and his mom. He still couldn't believe that that cat had managed to find his house. It was fucking ridiculous! He lived at least a mile from Rachel's house and that was a long way for a cat to go. And it would've had to cross a load of roads. The stupid thing was lucky it hadn't got hit by a car. Damn it.

It looked like bringing Rachel round to his house wasn't going to get him away from Mist after all. Normally that would piss him the hell off and if it happened again he'd want to give that fucking cat a piece of his mind. But he couldn't help but notice that he hadn't been shouted at, like at all, and he was pretty sure that if Mist hadn't been here then his mom would've been so pissed to discover a chick in his room that she wouldn't have let Rachel hang around to find out that she was Jewish. And, you know, his mom would've legit killed him.

So, this time (and this time only) he was going to let the furball off and not hate the living guts out of him.

Tomorrow, the war would recommence.

A/N The song that Puck and Rachel are preparing for glee is 'Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've' originally by Buzzcocks but I know it best from the Shrek 2 soundtrack!

The Olbas Oil is something my mum always recommends I put on a tissue under my pillow for when I have a cold. I thought it smelt like lavender but my mum says it eucalyptus, so obviously I don't have a very keen sense of smell!

I was very relieved that we got new glee again – it felt like way longer than two weeks since the last one.

Anyway, I'm rambling now. Please let me know what you thought of the chapter!

Lots of love,

Lil Drop of Magic

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