Two Lives, One Story - Chapter Nine
Title: Two Live, One Story - 10/11
Author: ElizaOlivia
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2100
Pairing: Rachel/Quinn, Dianna/Lea
Spoilers: Up to 2x06 - Furt
Summary: Quinn and Dianna switch worlds, now Lea and Rachel have to help them get back to the right one. Established Achele, definite future Faberry.
Disclaimers: Real person shipping. Be warned. And I obviously don't own any of the people in this, and I didn't get Dianna or Lea for Christmas.
A/N: This is the last chapter before the epilogue (which is a super short chapter). Tell me if there's anything you wanted to see in this story that you didn't, and I'll see if I can work it into the epilogue.
A/N 2: Also big thanks to flipflop555 for writing the last chapter
Prologue / Chapter One / Chapter Two / Chapter Three / Chapter Four / Chapter Five / Chapter Six / Chapter Seven / Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Rachel led them to the choir room set. She sat Quinn down on one of the chairs, then took a seat herself. "Okay, so what did you want to tell me?"
Quinn fidgeted in her seat. Suddenly her hands were the most interesting thing in the world. This had seemed a lot simpler in her mind. "Um, well, I just. I've had some time to...well, think these past weeks."
"Weeks!" The brunette gasped.
"Oh yeah. Different time speeds," the blonde muttered to herself. "While it was only a few days for you, it was a couple of weeks for me."
Rachel bit her lip, a gloomy expression overtaking her face. "Oh Quinn, I'm so sorry. I didn't know. It must have been really scary." She took the blonde's hand and started stroking soothing circles on the back.
Quinn absentmindedly nodded and continued. "Anyway. I had a lot of time to think about things. Like school, and Glee, and you, and me." Rachel listened eagerly. "And then I realized that maybe there was something, something between you and me." She nodded. "Something...more than, more than friends."
Rachel was confused. "Quinn, I don't think I quite know what you're saying. Perhaps if you could word it differently?"
Quinn started to worry her bottom lip and fiddle her thumbs together. "What I'm trying to say Rach is that I think I li-"
BANG!
The blonde's confession was interrupted by another blonde and brunette slamming through the set door.
"Ah ha!" The brunette exclaimed. "I told you they'd be on set somewhere. Didn't I tell you Di? But noooo, you thought they'd be in a trailer!" Dianna sulked, crossing her arms together. Lea kissed her soundly on the lips, knocking the blonde out of her pout. "Don't worry. I love you anyway," she whispered into her ear and Dianna's face lit up in a smile. "But you still owe me five bucks." Lea laughed and pulled away, earning a gasp from the girl.
Quinn cleared her throat, trying to get the attention of the two lovebirds.
"What? Oh sorry, were we interrupting something?" Lea asked, coming up behind her girlfriend and wrapping her arms around her.
"Yes actually," Quinn hissed. "So if you guys wouldn't mind fucking off."
Rachel gasped. "Quinn! You can't say things like that. It's not allowed!"
The blonde turned to her with a devilish grin. "No, Rach. Actually, you can here. I'll explain later. Right now I need to finish telling you something."
Lea came up behind her and whispered in Quinn ear, "Maybe you should sing her your song?"
She turned to her and retorted, "No. Not here. I don't even have music."
The brunette smiled and skipped over to her girlfriend. She muttered something in her ear. "Of course I know that song Lea. You made me learn all the Music Man songs when you were going through that Shirley Jones phase." Lea whispered something else. "Oh, you want me to play it. Um, sure. I think I can figure it out."
Dianna sat herself down in front of the grand piano and started testing out some notes and chords.
Quinn stepped over to Lea. "What the hell do you think you're doing!" She asked through gritted teeth.
"Now you've got music." She replied with a sweet and adorable grin. Quinn mumbled something under her breath, but eventually and reluctantly gave in in the end.
Lea sat down next to Rachel, who was watching all the action before her in stunned silence, a first for the brunette. "Hi, I'm Lea Michele." She said, holding her hand out for the other girl to shake.
"Rach, Rachel Berry." She spluttered, absolutely star struck. "I've heard so much about you." Then Quinn called to her and she return her attention to the front.
"Um, so Lea and I prepared a song, and I was going to sing it to you in Glee club, but I suppose now would be as good a time as any." Her smile was awkward but genuine. "I mean, we're still technically in the choir room."
Rachel smiled reassuringly, and Quinn signaled to Dianna to start playing. Rachel knew what it was after two notes and her face lit up in anticipation.
Quinn cleared her throat, looking up from her shoes and into those brown orbs. The newfound confidence she received from the gaze was intoxicating, and so she began.
There were bells on the hill
But I never heard them ringing.
No I never heard them at all.
Till there was you
There were birds in the sky
But I never saw them winging.
No I never saw them at all.
Till there was you.
And there was music.
And there were wonderful roses.
They tell me,
In sweet fragrant meadows of dawn and dew.
There was love all around
But I never heard it singing.
No I never heard it at all.
Till there was you.
Quinn pulled Rachel up at this point to sing directly to her. The brunette's hands in hers and their gaze never wavering.
There was love all around
But I never heard it singing.
No I never heard it at all.
Till there was you.
Dianna finished out the improvised piano part while Quinn gathered the nerves to ask what she had been meaning and waiting to. "Rachel," she practically panted out, and the brunette nodded nervously. "Rachel," pause, "what I've been trying to say. I mean, what I wanted to ask you was. Well." A deep breath. "Will you go out with me?"
The whole room was silent now. Lea and Dianna waited on baited breath, while Quinn twisted her foot nervously as her gaze constantly shifted away from the girl before her. Rachel just smiled and pulled the blonde down for a kiss. She felt Quinn's mouth break into a grin against her lips and she whispered "yes," just in case there was any doubt.
Lea let out a cheer and Dianna whistled her approval. They pulled apart, though Quinn still had her arms firmly around Rachel's waist, with the brunette's arms around her neck. They both started laughed, shooting each other knowing looks, speaking with only their eyes.
"Took you two long enough," Lea joked, coming over to congratulate them. Dianna slapped her on the shoulder, joining her girlfriend.
"Oh yeah?" Quinn replied. "I'm not the one who's been dancing around the issue of marriage. Hmm, Lea?" The last part was whispered.
The brunette smiled. "Yeah, you're right. Speaking of which." Lea skipped over to Dianna, who was currently encircling Rachel in a tight congratulatory hug. "Di, can I talk to you for a second?" Lea asked, tapping her shoulder.
The blonde broke away and turned to her girlfriend. "Yeah. Sure. What's up Lee?"
"Well," Lea began, pulling a small black box out of her pocket. Rachel squealed, drawing Quinn to her. "These past two weeks I've had a lot of time to think about what you mean to me Di, and I started to realize that you're easily the most important person in my life. I don't know what I'd do without you. Probably go crazy, and I nearly did while you were gone." Quinn nodded her agreement. "But the point is, I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. And maybe, I'm hoping, you want to spend the rest of your life with me too."
With that, Lea slowly lowered herself on one knee and Dianna gasped, her eyes starting to water. Lea took her hand in hers, while opening the box with the other. "Dianna. Baby. I know this isn't the most romantic set up and all, but, um, will you marry me?"
Dianna looked around the room, seeing the smiling faces of Rachel and Quinn. Quinn had her arms around the brunette, her head resting on the girl's shoulder. Rachel shot her a thumbs up and the blonde behind her kissed her check. Dianna turned back to Lea, her bottom lip held firmly between her teeth. A single tear broke free and launched itself down her face as she bobbed her head up and down. "Yes Lea. Yes. Of course I want to marry you."
The tears were freely flowing now as Lea shot up and kissed her once on the lips. She then pulled out the ring, sliding it onto Dianna's finger. A perfect fit. They looked at it for a moment, awed by how right it looked before capturing each others' lips again.
This time the hoots and hollers were coming from a different blonde and brunette. Dianna turned away from her fiancée - woah, Lea was her fiancée - to smile bashfully at their guests. She pulled the brunette into the air, spinning her around before dropping her and sealing everything with one more kiss. They then broke apart to go receive their congratulations.
"When'd you get the ring?" Quinn asked, whispering into Lea's ear as she hugged the girl.
"Two days before that conversation with my mom," Lea replied with a smile. Quinn laughed and let her go.
Rachel turned to Quinn. "Do you think we'll get married one day?" The blonde turned instantly pale, gulping for air. Rachel poked her in the side. "I'm just kidding. We haven't even gone on a date yet!" Quinn sighed and kissed the girl. Dianna laughed as she pulled Lea to her.
"We'd better get you back then so you two can go on that date," Dianna said, nuzzling her head into Lea's neck. "The science room set is only a couple of rows over."
Rachel and Quinn nodded, a bit reluctant to leave.
"Oh, wait!" Rachel remembered. She turned to Lea, clearly nervous. "Um, I was kind of wondering if I could maybe get your autograph? I've always wanted to a meet a real life Broadway star and well..."
Lea blushed, clearly taken aback. "What? Oh yeah, of course! Wait, one second. I have an idea." With that, she sprinted off to some unknown location. Two minutes later she reappeared with a small poster for Spring Awakening. "It was in the Rachel's bedroom set," she explained.
Dianna went into the office to find a sharpie.
"That's odd," Rachel replied. "I don't think that musical actually even exists in our world."
"Well, that makes sense. I don't exist in your world. Or Jonathan, I presume."
"Who?" Rachel asked.
"Bingo!" Dianna cried out, returning with a silver sharpie and handing it to Lea. She signed the poster in a flash and handed it to Rachel. The girl held it to her chest and thanked her doppelganger for the exceptional present.
Quinn looked down at it and then whispered in the girl's ear. "Rach, isn't that Jesse St. James?" The girl shrugged, too excited to care. "Why is he, what are you two..."
"Right!" Lea exclaimed, cutting Quinn off. "Back to your world then. The both of you. We don't want Glee to collapse without you. After all, you're the stars." She sang the last part.
They agreed and made their way to the set they needed. Dianna had her arm around Lea. "You know, we'll have to come up with some other story for how we got engaged. It's not like we can tell them that the fictional characters we play on TV prompted it."
Dianna agreed. "Okay, but I get to be the one who proposed in the story." And then she ran ahead.
"Wait, what? Di, I did not agree to that! Di! Get back here!" She called out as she sprinted after the girl. Lea realized that these were the kind of moments she was going to get for the rest of her life. And she couldn't be any happier at the prospect.
Epilogue
Author: ElizaOlivia
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2100
Pairing: Rachel/Quinn, Dianna/Lea
Spoilers: Up to 2x06 - Furt
Summary: Quinn and Dianna switch worlds, now Lea and Rachel have to help them get back to the right one. Established Achele, definite future Faberry.
Disclaimers: Real person shipping. Be warned. And I obviously don't own any of the people in this, and I didn't get Dianna or Lea for Christmas.
A/N: This is the last chapter before the epilogue (which is a super short chapter). Tell me if there's anything you wanted to see in this story that you didn't, and I'll see if I can work it into the epilogue.
A/N 2: Also big thanks to flipflop555 for writing the last chapter
Prologue / Chapter One / Chapter Two / Chapter Three / Chapter Four / Chapter Five / Chapter Six / Chapter Seven / Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Rachel led them to the choir room set. She sat Quinn down on one of the chairs, then took a seat herself. "Okay, so what did you want to tell me?"
Quinn fidgeted in her seat. Suddenly her hands were the most interesting thing in the world. This had seemed a lot simpler in her mind. "Um, well, I just. I've had some time to...well, think these past weeks."
"Weeks!" The brunette gasped.
"Oh yeah. Different time speeds," the blonde muttered to herself. "While it was only a few days for you, it was a couple of weeks for me."
Rachel bit her lip, a gloomy expression overtaking her face. "Oh Quinn, I'm so sorry. I didn't know. It must have been really scary." She took the blonde's hand and started stroking soothing circles on the back.
Quinn absentmindedly nodded and continued. "Anyway. I had a lot of time to think about things. Like school, and Glee, and you, and me." Rachel listened eagerly. "And then I realized that maybe there was something, something between you and me." She nodded. "Something...more than, more than friends."
Rachel was confused. "Quinn, I don't think I quite know what you're saying. Perhaps if you could word it differently?"
Quinn started to worry her bottom lip and fiddle her thumbs together. "What I'm trying to say Rach is that I think I li-"
BANG!
The blonde's confession was interrupted by another blonde and brunette slamming through the set door.
"Ah ha!" The brunette exclaimed. "I told you they'd be on set somewhere. Didn't I tell you Di? But noooo, you thought they'd be in a trailer!" Dianna sulked, crossing her arms together. Lea kissed her soundly on the lips, knocking the blonde out of her pout. "Don't worry. I love you anyway," she whispered into her ear and Dianna's face lit up in a smile. "But you still owe me five bucks." Lea laughed and pulled away, earning a gasp from the girl.
Quinn cleared her throat, trying to get the attention of the two lovebirds.
"What? Oh sorry, were we interrupting something?" Lea asked, coming up behind her girlfriend and wrapping her arms around her.
"Yes actually," Quinn hissed. "So if you guys wouldn't mind fucking off."
Rachel gasped. "Quinn! You can't say things like that. It's not allowed!"
The blonde turned to her with a devilish grin. "No, Rach. Actually, you can here. I'll explain later. Right now I need to finish telling you something."
Lea came up behind her and whispered in Quinn ear, "Maybe you should sing her your song?"
She turned to her and retorted, "No. Not here. I don't even have music."
The brunette smiled and skipped over to her girlfriend. She muttered something in her ear. "Of course I know that song Lea. You made me learn all the Music Man songs when you were going through that Shirley Jones phase." Lea whispered something else. "Oh, you want me to play it. Um, sure. I think I can figure it out."
Dianna sat herself down in front of the grand piano and started testing out some notes and chords.
Quinn stepped over to Lea. "What the hell do you think you're doing!" She asked through gritted teeth.
"Now you've got music." She replied with a sweet and adorable grin. Quinn mumbled something under her breath, but eventually and reluctantly gave in in the end.
Lea sat down next to Rachel, who was watching all the action before her in stunned silence, a first for the brunette. "Hi, I'm Lea Michele." She said, holding her hand out for the other girl to shake.
"Rach, Rachel Berry." She spluttered, absolutely star struck. "I've heard so much about you." Then Quinn called to her and she return her attention to the front.
"Um, so Lea and I prepared a song, and I was going to sing it to you in Glee club, but I suppose now would be as good a time as any." Her smile was awkward but genuine. "I mean, we're still technically in the choir room."
Rachel smiled reassuringly, and Quinn signaled to Dianna to start playing. Rachel knew what it was after two notes and her face lit up in anticipation.
Quinn cleared her throat, looking up from her shoes and into those brown orbs. The newfound confidence she received from the gaze was intoxicating, and so she began.
There were bells on the hill
But I never heard them ringing.
No I never heard them at all.
Till there was you
There were birds in the sky
But I never saw them winging.
No I never saw them at all.
Till there was you.
And there was music.
And there were wonderful roses.
They tell me,
In sweet fragrant meadows of dawn and dew.
There was love all around
But I never heard it singing.
No I never heard it at all.
Till there was you.
Quinn pulled Rachel up at this point to sing directly to her. The brunette's hands in hers and their gaze never wavering.
There was love all around
But I never heard it singing.
No I never heard it at all.
Till there was you.
Dianna finished out the improvised piano part while Quinn gathered the nerves to ask what she had been meaning and waiting to. "Rachel," she practically panted out, and the brunette nodded nervously. "Rachel," pause, "what I've been trying to say. I mean, what I wanted to ask you was. Well." A deep breath. "Will you go out with me?"
The whole room was silent now. Lea and Dianna waited on baited breath, while Quinn twisted her foot nervously as her gaze constantly shifted away from the girl before her. Rachel just smiled and pulled the blonde down for a kiss. She felt Quinn's mouth break into a grin against her lips and she whispered "yes," just in case there was any doubt.
Lea let out a cheer and Dianna whistled her approval. They pulled apart, though Quinn still had her arms firmly around Rachel's waist, with the brunette's arms around her neck. They both started laughed, shooting each other knowing looks, speaking with only their eyes.
"Took you two long enough," Lea joked, coming over to congratulate them. Dianna slapped her on the shoulder, joining her girlfriend.
"Oh yeah?" Quinn replied. "I'm not the one who's been dancing around the issue of marriage. Hmm, Lea?" The last part was whispered.
The brunette smiled. "Yeah, you're right. Speaking of which." Lea skipped over to Dianna, who was currently encircling Rachel in a tight congratulatory hug. "Di, can I talk to you for a second?" Lea asked, tapping her shoulder.
The blonde broke away and turned to her girlfriend. "Yeah. Sure. What's up Lee?"
"Well," Lea began, pulling a small black box out of her pocket. Rachel squealed, drawing Quinn to her. "These past two weeks I've had a lot of time to think about what you mean to me Di, and I started to realize that you're easily the most important person in my life. I don't know what I'd do without you. Probably go crazy, and I nearly did while you were gone." Quinn nodded her agreement. "But the point is, I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. And maybe, I'm hoping, you want to spend the rest of your life with me too."
With that, Lea slowly lowered herself on one knee and Dianna gasped, her eyes starting to water. Lea took her hand in hers, while opening the box with the other. "Dianna. Baby. I know this isn't the most romantic set up and all, but, um, will you marry me?"
Dianna looked around the room, seeing the smiling faces of Rachel and Quinn. Quinn had her arms around the brunette, her head resting on the girl's shoulder. Rachel shot her a thumbs up and the blonde behind her kissed her check. Dianna turned back to Lea, her bottom lip held firmly between her teeth. A single tear broke free and launched itself down her face as she bobbed her head up and down. "Yes Lea. Yes. Of course I want to marry you."
The tears were freely flowing now as Lea shot up and kissed her once on the lips. She then pulled out the ring, sliding it onto Dianna's finger. A perfect fit. They looked at it for a moment, awed by how right it looked before capturing each others' lips again.
This time the hoots and hollers were coming from a different blonde and brunette. Dianna turned away from her fiancée - woah, Lea was her fiancée - to smile bashfully at their guests. She pulled the brunette into the air, spinning her around before dropping her and sealing everything with one more kiss. They then broke apart to go receive their congratulations.
"When'd you get the ring?" Quinn asked, whispering into Lea's ear as she hugged the girl.
"Two days before that conversation with my mom," Lea replied with a smile. Quinn laughed and let her go.
Rachel turned to Quinn. "Do you think we'll get married one day?" The blonde turned instantly pale, gulping for air. Rachel poked her in the side. "I'm just kidding. We haven't even gone on a date yet!" Quinn sighed and kissed the girl. Dianna laughed as she pulled Lea to her.
"We'd better get you back then so you two can go on that date," Dianna said, nuzzling her head into Lea's neck. "The science room set is only a couple of rows over."
Rachel and Quinn nodded, a bit reluctant to leave.
"Oh, wait!" Rachel remembered. She turned to Lea, clearly nervous. "Um, I was kind of wondering if I could maybe get your autograph? I've always wanted to a meet a real life Broadway star and well..."
Lea blushed, clearly taken aback. "What? Oh yeah, of course! Wait, one second. I have an idea." With that, she sprinted off to some unknown location. Two minutes later she reappeared with a small poster for Spring Awakening. "It was in the Rachel's bedroom set," she explained.
Dianna went into the office to find a sharpie.
"That's odd," Rachel replied. "I don't think that musical actually even exists in our world."
"Well, that makes sense. I don't exist in your world. Or Jonathan, I presume."
"Who?" Rachel asked.
"Bingo!" Dianna cried out, returning with a silver sharpie and handing it to Lea. She signed the poster in a flash and handed it to Rachel. The girl held it to her chest and thanked her doppelganger for the exceptional present.
Quinn looked down at it and then whispered in the girl's ear. "Rach, isn't that Jesse St. James?" The girl shrugged, too excited to care. "Why is he, what are you two..."
"Right!" Lea exclaimed, cutting Quinn off. "Back to your world then. The both of you. We don't want Glee to collapse without you. After all, you're the stars." She sang the last part.
They agreed and made their way to the set they needed. Dianna had her arm around Lea. "You know, we'll have to come up with some other story for how we got engaged. It's not like we can tell them that the fictional characters we play on TV prompted it."
Dianna agreed. "Okay, but I get to be the one who proposed in the story." And then she ran ahead.
"Wait, what? Di, I did not agree to that! Di! Get back here!" She called out as she sprinted after the girl. Lea realized that these were the kind of moments she was going to get for the rest of her life. And she couldn't be any happier at the prospect.
Epilogue