A/N: I've decided to end this story once and for all. I thank SteppdOnUrCorns on Twitter for kicking my ass and pressuring me to finish this fic in less than 140 characters.
If you had to reread the whole entire thing to remember what the fuck had even happened, I apologize, and hope it was worth it.
I truly hope you enjoy this ending and if not well, too bad.
:)
Who would have thought that walking a cute dog through the park would be such a chick magnet? Quinn would say at least 5 cute girls had come up to her and Chomper. They all seemed completely smitten by the damn dog and he was thriving in all the attention. He got most of the touching but she got the numbers, but as soon as she would see a trash can, she would throw them away. Her mind set only on one girl.
She was currently sitting under a tree on a blanket playing catch with Chomper with a tennis ball. She laughed at how crazy her dog went chasing the ball and bringing it back for her to throw again. She gave him a treat every time he sat waiting patiently for her to throw the ball. It went back and forth like that until she accidentally threw it too hard and too far away causing Chomper to take off in a run. She watched as he caught the ball but dropped it and started to chase after a woman who had been jogging along the paved pathway.
"Chomper come back here!" Quinn yelled scrambling to get up after her dog before he did something insane.
The woman had knelt down next to the dog, giggling as he licked her arm, his tail wagging furiously in joy.
Quinn caught up to the pair.
"I'm so sorry Miss. I don't know what got into him," she apologized
"Don't worry about it, he's lucky he's adorable and that I'm not allergic to dogs," the woman spoke finally making eye contact with, "Quinn?"
"Rachel? W-what are you doing here?"
"I was jogging until this little furry monster attacked me," Rachel responded scratching behind Chomper's ear whose hind leg thudded against the grass at the action, "I didn't know you had a dog."
Quinn's breath caught in her throat as Rachel rose to her feet. She was wearing the skimpiest running shorts Quinn had ever did seen, showing off a sinful amount of toned, tanned, impossibly long-for-Rachel's-height legs. Her breast encased in a tight tank top, drops of sweat drawing enticingly down the valley of her heaving breasts.
Quinn licked her lips.
Rachel cleared her throat snapping the blond off her reverie. inwardly enjoying the blush suffusing the blonde's pale cheeks.
"I just got him actually" she said, scuffing her shoe into the ground, remembering exactly why she had gotten the dog in the first place.
"Oh, adopted?"
Quinn nodded.
"That's great," she said, letting silence settle over them, "I, uh, I should get going," Rachel said pointing her thumb behind her.
"Yeah, I guess, um," Quinn started to say but was interrupted by a playful bark.
Both women looked down to see that Chomper had placed the tennis ball next to Rachel's feet and was pushing it with his snout towards her.
"I think he wants you to play with him," Quinn commented, "I mean you don't have to..."
"I think I..."
Chomper whimpered, his instinct telling him the brunette was going to say no.
"Look at that face, I really can't deny him now can I? Mind if I join you for just a little while?"
"I don't mind at all! Stay as long as you please," Quinn answered, mentally thanking her dog and keeping in mind to give him extra food when they got home.
The women made their way to the blanket sitting down and continued to play with the dog. They laughed at his shenanigans and enjoyed light conversation. Quinn's heart was on high-speed through out the whole ordeal. Whatever had happened nights ago was momentarily ignored.
"So how are the auditions coming out?"
"Pretty good actually! I had a call back a while back for an off-Broadway musical. I guess the producers liked my song since I had extra feelings swirling around me at the time" she said, mournfully
"Rachel I..."
"Quinn, don't. I just- I have feelings for you and being away from you has proven to me that these feelings run deep within me, and I figured out that I need you to let me be"
Quinn's eyes welled up and turned to the side unwilling to show her weakness in front of her love.
"Listen to me," Rachel said, scooting closer to the blonde, grasping her face "I want you to let me be for just a bit, ok? I'm breaking up with Jesse, Quinn. I'm choosing you because I love you too much to let what we've had go away. I love Jesse, but I can't get him trapped forever into a marriage where my heart belongs to another. I'm gonna need time to mend three broken hearts. Give me time."
Quinn nodded and bit her lip as her emotions ran all over the place as she tried to raine them in and not explode in public.
"All I need is time and I'll be yours, I promise," Rachel said leaning her forehead against Quinn's relishing the contact.
She inhaled deeply in surprise as Quinn attacked her with a passionate yet desperate kiss.
"I'll wait for you," Quinn said breathlessly as she kissed the woman she loved again.
Unbeknownst to the departing couple, someone had stopped in their path not believing what they were seeing.
It was a little past 11pm when Rachel arrived at her apartment. It had been a productive day at rehearsal and she was exhausted physically, emotionally, and mentally. After a tearful departure from Quinn and her pet she continued jogging home in hopes of finding her best friend but had no such luck.
"I know why you've been so upset," Jesse's disembodied voice could be heard in the darkness of the room.
"Jesse, jeez! You gave me quite a scare!" Rachel shrilled, her hand placed on her chest as she tried to regulate her heart and breathing.
"Sorry," he said monotonously, turning the lamp beside him on, "sit down," he said, patting the cushion next to him.
Rachel's heart pumped even faster unusure as to what Jesse's vague facial expression was about.
"The cast and I were talking about how hard we've been working when someone suggested we go to the park, you know, because it's almost around the corner from the theatre"
"Jesse..." Rachel whimpered, her stomach plummeting, having a feeling as to where this was going now.
"No, let me finish. So we were walking when a pair of women caught my attention. I noticed it was you and the cute blonde that we met at Kurt and Blaine's party. I told my friends to go on ahead becase I was so happy to see my best friend. I was going to head on over with you to, you know, say hi, but then something stopped me. I don't know if it was the way she was looking at you or the way you looked at her, but it reminded me of how we used to look at each other. And then, you guys kissed, and I felt -heartbroken, you know? That I was standing in the way of your happiness with her and that I couldn't be the person you would stay with for life, and you know, I'll still love you, Rach."
Rachel cried as Jesse stood up, kissed her forehead and left their apartment.
Quinn sat silently in her couch absebtmindely scratching her snoring dog's head as she became completely engrossed in a mystery novel she was reading. She was startled as a a buzz to her elevator door went off. Quinn's imagination went into overdrive.
"Chomper, if it's the murderer you better hide. Your species tends to die first in horror stories"
She got up and cautiously headed to her intercom.
"Who is it?" She yelled into it looking at the video monitor but not getting a clear picture as to who it was.
At first she didn't hear nothing but a muffled response.
"Who?"
"Jesse. Jesse St. James. Rachel's fian- I mean friend. I came to speak to you."
Quinn's eyes became wide as saucers.
"Hold on a minute!" she said as she started pacing the floor, "Oh shit. Oh shit, shit, shit! He knows. He motherfuckin' knows!"
Taking a big breath she pressed the button again, "Come on up!"
She waited anxiously as she watched the numbers go up until it dinged at her number. She had only met him once but the well kept man she had met looked disheveled. His curls unruly and his eyes bloodshot like he had been crying.
"Hey, uh, can I come in?" He asked.
Quinn, speechless, signaled for him to come inside her home. He looked around, his eyes darting around and nodding his head slightly as if to give his approval of her place. His eyes finally landed on her hazel eyes imagining what thoughts were going on behind them.
After all he had seen those same eyes cry for a love from afar.
He shook his head, clearing his mind before reaching into his pocket. For a single moment, Quinn thought that he was going to slip out a balde and cut her in half for stealing his girl. I shouldn'd have been reading that book, she thought.
She let out a breath and looked at him questionably as he presented her with a key.
"It's the key to my apartment," he said, "I'm going to stay with a friend for a while. I want you to go see Rachel. She's hurting and I think what she needs is you right now. She'll be to stubborn to admit it but I know so."
He placed the key on Quinn's palm, folding her fingers over it and holding her hand for second.
"She's my best friend and I've known her since forever and all I've ever wanted for her was her happiness. And as much as it hurts me," he looked down to his feet to gather his emotions, "I've got to let her go in order for her to achieve that with you. The way she kissed you at the park, her thinking it was good-bye made me realize why she had become so distant from me."
"Take care of her and love her. And tell her I'll see her soon and that she's not getting rid of me just yet," he smiled at Quinn, and for once she could see why someone like Rachel could have married a man like Jesse. The world needed more men like him.
"I'll do that," she whsipered, "and I'm sorry-"
"Don't apologize," he interrupted, "just be there for her"
He let go of her hand and stepped into the elevator. He pressed the button for the lobby and as the door slid shut he reliazed this chapter of his life was over and the start of a new one began.
He hoped for the best for all three of them.
Quinn stood outside the apartment labeled 14D. She'd been standing there for approximately 13 minutes getting up the courage to insert the key into the knob. Once she finally did, she pusehd her way in and was suddenly engulfed in darkness.
"Rachel?" she called out, her voice weak sounding even to her own ears.
She worked her way through the darkness. A sliver of light coming from under a door caught her attention and she headed towards it. She twisted the knob and slowly pushed the door open. The sight that greeted her almost broke her heart again.
There was Rachel in her bed, curled up in the fetal position holding a Care Bear close to her chest. Spasming breaths were shuttering out her small body, and her cheeks were streaked with tears. Quinn took the empty side of the bed and wrapped her arms around Rachel's small and seemingly frail body.
Rachel felt relief for the first time and the sob that had been trapped in her throat for hours finally expelled. She turned and clutched to Quinn's body. The blonde held on tight as Rachel's body just gave in.
"It's gonna be OK, we'll all be OK."
Months Later
"I can't belive we're doing this"
"Blame Santana for giving me this idea a long time ago"
Rachel shook her head.
"Are you sure we'll get where ever we're going safely?"
"Yes, baby! How many times do I have to tell you I've been riding motorcycles since I was 16", Quinn exclaimed.
Rachel looked at her soon to be wife clad in red and black leather sitting on her crotch rocket with her blonde hair blowing gently. She bit her lip, thinking she'd never seen anything sexier.
"What?" Quinn husked, knowing that look on her girlfriends face.
"Nothing," she replied. Quinn smiled at her and pulled her in by her waist.
"I'll always keep you safe, you know that, right?"
The singer nodded and kissed her, still amazed that being kissed by Quinn still sent thrills throughout her body.
"So, hop on gorgeous!"
Rachel straddled the motorcycle, placed her helmet over her head and swung her arms tight around the cyclist's torso.
"Everyone is going to be so mad once they know you've kidnapped me to get eloped"
Quinn laughed in response, revved up the bike's engine, made sure her girl was OK and sped away towards their future.
This was my second adventure into the Faberry journey and it was a great ride. Thank you all for reading and hope you continue to follow me in my future endeavors. *LP*