Title:Winter Wonderland

Pairing:Quinn/Rachel

Disclaimer:I own nothing!

Summary: Rachel and Finn are on vacation in Aspen and Rachel wants to learn how to ski. Finn's not patient enough, so he hires a skiing instructor, not knowing that is Quinn Fabray. So while Finn's enjoying his vacation, Quinn tries to teach Rachel to ski and falls madly in love with her.

A/N: My mother language is not english, so please be kind :) and have fun reading.

Prologue

"You really don't want to come with us? Aspen is wonderful this time of the year." Rachel was still trying to get Kurt and Blaine to go with them for a winter vacation in Aspen.

Kurt laughed. "Darling, it's a little to late to ask again, you're just seconds away from checking in."

Rachel sighed. "I just wanted to make sure."

"You just don't want to be alone with Finn."

"Why wouldn't I want to be alone with Finn? He's my boyfriend."

"Whose rhetorical skills are limited to computer games." Kurt laid one hand on Rachel's shoulder. "It won't be that bad. You'll just have to teach him to speak about other things than computer games. It can't be that hard, right?"

Blaine rolled his eyes. Teaching Finn to talk about something other than computer games, was like trying to get Rachel to eat meat. "Kurt, say goodbye to Rachel and then let's go."

"Don't you want to say goodbye to Finn?"

"No."

"Are you still mad at him for ruining your sweater?"

"It was the new Dolce and it was my favorite!" Kurt started to pout.

"It was a mistake. Could have happened to anyone."

"Everyone knows that you don't wash a Dolce sweater with 90°C, it's bound to shrink!" Blaine sighed and wound one arm around Kurt's waist.

"I'm sure Finn is sorry, where is that boy actually?" Blaine looked around and then he spotted the tall young man at the check-in. "Still checking in?"

"The line was long." Rachel defendet her sometimes, slow boyfriend. "See, here he comes. Everything alright?"

"Yeah, yeah!" He grinned down at her and gave her her boarding ticket. "I can't wait, it's been I while that I've been skiing."

"Skiing? I thought we wanted to have a romantic getaway?"

Finn's face fell. Hadn't he made it clear that it was a sports-vacation? "Oh, I … I am sure we have enough time for that too. It's just, I really, really want to ski again. I had so much fun last year when Burt and Kurt took me to ski for the first time." He lit up like a christmas tree. "Remember Kurt?" He looked at his step-brother.

"Yeah, all that cold snow and yeah the cold."

"I didn't know you can ski, Kurt." Blaine looked in wonder at this boyfriend.

"I can't. While dad and Finn were skiing, I was getting a manicure and massage."

Rachel smiled. That was something she could live with. "Oh, nice. I'll do that."

Finn immediately started to protest: "But Rachel, I thought we would do this together."

"But Finn, I can't ski. Do you think you can teach me?" Kurt snorted.

"Rachel, babe, you know that I'm not a good teacher. I'm a great leader, yeah, but I'm a really bad teacher. We'll just get you a skiing instructor and when you're good enough you can ski with me, alright?" He smiled down at her.

"Yeah, sure." Rachel mumbled.

"Great! So let's go! I can't wait. I'm so happy that your fathers gave us this trip as a present for Christmas." Else they wouldn't have been able to afford even one day at Aspen.

"I'm still wondering why they send you off to Aspen, I mean it's not really cheap, right?" Kurt wondered.

"It's to celebrate me going to New York next year." Rachel said, as if it was explanation enough. Kurt nodded. "Okay, guess we really have to go now."

"Have fun in Aspen Rachel!" Kurt nodded curtly at his brother and turned around, pulling Blaine with him, not even giving him boyfriend a chance to say goodbye to the other couple.

"He still mad at me for shrinking his sweater?" Finn asked his girlfriend, while walking with her to their boarding gate.

"Yes. But he'll get over it." They reached their gate and sat down in the waiting room. There was still time, their boarding wasn't scheduled for another forty minutes. Finn instantly launched into a speech about the newest X-Box game, that he had got from his mother. After a few minutes Rachel started to blend Finn's voice out and thought about new songs she could sing in Glee Club next year.

"Rachel? Are you even listening to me?"

"What? Hmm … yeah … sorry, I was a little distracted. What were you saying?"

"Just wondering what the hotel's going to be like in Aspen. Do you think they'll have a gaming room?"

"I thought you wanted to ski?"

"Of course, but I need something to do in the evening." Finn grinned his dopey little smile and kissed Rachel's temple.

The brunette was disappointed. The start of her vacation, was not the one she had been looking for.

A few hours later

"Hey Rachel, have you seen our bathroom? I think that's a whirlpool. Isn't that cool?" Finn was smiling like a little boy. "And have you seen the beds? They're huge!"

Rachel's dad's had invested in a little two-bedroom suite, because really, wasn't it enough, that they allowed their daughter to go on a vacation with her boyfriend? They needn't share a bed on top of that and Rachel was sure that her fathers would know if she shared a bed with Finn. They had eyes and ears everywhere.

"Don't you want to unpack?" Rachel asked the darkhaired boy.

"Not now, come on let's ask the receptionist about a good skiing instructor for you!" Finn took the hand of his girlfriend and literally pulled her with him.

"Hi! My girlfriend wants to learn to ski and she needs a good instructor. Can you recommend someone?"

The receptionist looked at the tall boy and his sparkling eyes and his dopey grin and immediately thought that he must have smoked something to look that high. She would have to keep an eye on him. "Sure, just give me a minute and I'll make a call. She's our best instructor, really nice and very good with children, although, you're not a child, right dear?" She looked at Rachel, who shook her head no. "When do you want to start?"

Before Rachel could even think of an answer, Finn said: "Tomorrow. As soon as possible. You know, she has to learn to ski so that we can go together."

"Okay, tomorrow. Nine o'clock?"

"Yeah, that would be fine, right Rachel?"

"Okay, one second." The receptionist phoned said skiing instructor. "No, I don't think that she has any equipment. Okay, I'll tell her. Yes, she's a newbie." The young receptionist laughed softly into the phone. "Okay, goodbye." Then she looked at Rachel and said: "You'll meet her tomorrow nine o'clock in our hotel's own equipment store."

"What's her name? How will I know whom to speak to?"

"Her name's Lucy. Blonde hair, probably your age. You won't miss each other, there are not many people in our equipment store, not at nine o'clock anyway." She winked at Rachel, nodded at Finn and with that the two young people were dismissed.

"Oh Rachel, that's going to be so great. I can't wait to hit the ski slope. I'm so excited." A little bit more excited and he would probably leave a puddle on the floor.

"You'll escort me to the equipment store right?"

Finn started to whine. "But I wanted to hit the slope at eight o'clock sharp. Rachel, you needn't be scared, I'm sure your instructor is a really nice person, so you won't really need your big, bad boyfriend to escort you, right?"

Nice vacation. No romantic getaway, but Rachel learning how to ski and Finn doing his own things, who doesn't wish for such a vacation?