Gemma and The Hallway Hands (Part 7 of ?)
Title: Gemma and The Hallway Hands (Part 7 of ?)
Author:emo_chick_87
Pairing,Character(s): Kurt/Puck, Finn/Mercedes, Will/Gemma (OC)
Rating: PG-13 (this part)
Word Count: 1877 words
Spoilers: Season One.
Genre: Romance/Slight Angst/Dashes of Fluff
Warnings: het romance (see parings)
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee. Don't rub it in okay. I'm still in the depression stage.
Summary: McKinley High gets a new school nurse and she takes special notice of one Noah Puckerman... Get your mind out of the gutter... not that kind of notice.
Authors Note: The song used in this chapter is Asia's epic Heat Of The Moment
Previously on GATHH: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
After Kurt had spent a good half hour tending to his wounds and another ten minutes wrapped in Gemma's strong warm arms, the bell rang.
Drawing a shaky breath Gemma watched in awe as Kurt pulled himself back together. Except for the rapidly healing split lip he looked as poised as he always had. She had to marvel at that much strength. She kissed his forehead and sent him on his way to glee. Promising that she was right behind him, a small smile playing on her lips.
Kurt was heading to the ramshackle art wing. A true testament to the budget cuts. Peeling paint, easels empty of art work, band rooms missing saxophones. He had almost reached the music room when a tight grip wrapped around his wrist and pulled him into the empty art room. Ice blue met warm brown and Kurt gasped.
“Noah, what do you think you're doing?”
“I needed to talk to you about something.”
“So you thought it was okay to accost me? You could have just asked.”
“Sorry. I guess I'm not used to this kind of thing.”
“What kind of thing?”
“I dunno. This feelings thing.”
Kurt took a quick survey of his surroundings. Saw Noah's earnest eyes. Saw the look he had always thought he'd imagined, etched clearly on Noah's face. The air suddenly seemed too heavy and he started backing towards the counter. Shaking his head the entire way.
“No....no...no...no. You don't get to just spring this on me.”
“What, that I have feelings for you? That I want you? I thought that was pretty obvious by now.” Noah started advancing on him and it wasn't long before the hard edge of the counter was pressing against the horizontal bruise along Kurt's back.
“No. You can't. It's impossible.” Kurt's voice was a fervent whisper and he raised his hand to push Noah away. Instead his hand collided with the hard plane of Noah's chest and stayed there. Pressed against the steady thump of Noah's heart. “You haven't said more than two words to me in years. It's doesn't make sense.”
Noah kept quiet. He leaned forward slightly and rested his forehead in the crook of Kurt's neck. He took a deep breath in before he whispered against Kurt's skin. "I talk to you all the time in my head."
Kurt's gasp made Noah's brow rock against his clavicle. Kurt felt the heart beneath his hand speed up as Noah pressed a chaste kiss on the curve of his neck. Kurt's eyes drifted closed at the sensation and when he finally had the courage to open them again Noah was gone.
When Kurt walked into glee five minutes later he had a red blush staining his cheeks. He's grateful for it because it hides the pink burn, left by the fresh growth on Noah's head.
**
When Gemma finally made it to the music room she noticed a few key things.
Noah was absently strumming a tune she'd never heard before. Kurt was sitting across the room from him apparently trying to communicate with Noah's back through a series of Morse Code-like eyelash flutters. He was also twirling something between his fingers.
Finn's eyes were much brighter than the last time she had seen him and he was trading sneaking glances with a beautiful girl when they both thought the other wasn't looking. The red tips of Finn's ears told her that this was probably the famous Mercedes.
But most importantly she noticed that, for the first time she'd started sitting in on these glee sessions, no one was sitting at the piano. She laced her fingers together and waited for her favorite crush-worthy teacher to walk through the door.
When Will walked into glee the breath caught in his throat. She was here again. He'd spent the last few practices going back and forth between wishing she was there and the anxious I don't want to fuck this up of hoping she wasn't. The bright smile that spread across her face when he walked in made him very happy she was.
“Okay guys, listen up. It looks like Brad isn't going to be in today. He has a funeral in Mercer. We're just gonna have to make due without the piano for now. But we're going to mix it up a bit today.”
Mr Schue started to hand out the sheet music. “ I made this song a duet. Finn, this song is soft rock so it's right up your alley. I want you on the male lead and Mercedes, I want you on the female lead. You both think you can handle it?”
When Rachel opened her mouth to object, her voice was cut off by a sharp tug on her hair. She spun around and met the glare Santana usually saved for when people were mean to Brittney. Her jaw slammed shut with the audible pop of her teeth clacking together.
While the pair was getting situated in front of the room, Gemma borrowed Kurt's sheet music and went to sit unnoticed in front of the piano.
Giving a quick look at the sheet music Gemma could see that this was the song Noah was working on when she had first come in. Acoustic guitar blended with Finn's voice and Gemma finally started to see why everyone liked that Finn kid so much.
I never meant to be so bad to you.
One thing I said that I would never do.
A look from you and I would fall from grace
And that would wipe the smile right from my face
Mercedes hesitated the moment she was supposed to come in and Finn gave her a lopsided smile. Her gaze quickly dropped to her feet and a small smile played on her lips as she started to sing.
Do you remember when we used to dance?
And incidents arose from circumstance.
One thing led to another, we were young
And we would scream together songs unsung.
Noah's guitar, Finn's soft breathy voice and Mercedes' shy whisper was joined by the crescendo of Gemma's fingers striking the piano keys as the chorus started.
It was the heat of the moment
Telling me what my heart meant
The heat of the moment showed in your eyes
Finn's voice started to gain confidence. The strong sound bouncing off the walls and stunning the rest of the club into silence. Finn had never sounded so good.
And now you find yourself in '82
The disco hot spots hold no charm for you
You can concern yourself with bigger things
You catch a pearl and ride the dragon's wings
Mercedes took her cues from Finn and put everything she had into her singing.
'Cause it's the heat of the moment
The heat of the moment
The heat of the moment showed in your eyes
Mercedes felt the room fall away. All she knew was music, Finn and everything she had put on hold for so long.
And when your looks are gone and you're alone
How many nights you sit beside the phone
What were the things you wanted for yourself
Teenage ambitions you remember well
Both of their voices rose together as they finished out the song.
It was the heat of the moment
Telling me what your heart meant
The heat of the moment showed in your eyes
It was the heat of the moment
The heat of the moment
The heat of the moment showed in your eyes
When they finished, they were standing facing each other, flushed and breathing heavy. Thundering applause made them break their stare. Mercedes saw Kurt's eyes full of tears and Finn saw the wide smile on Noah's face. They both saw Rachel's silent fuming.
“Very nice guys. With a little work, I think we have our opening number for Regionals.”
Without even thinking about it, Mercedes wrapped Finn in a tight hug and smiled into his chest.
**
After glee, Finn and Mercedes decided to run through their new number a few more times in the auditorium. It seemed that with every pass things got more heated. Glances got longer. Bodies pressed closer together.
Until the third time when, Finn slammed his lips against Mercedes'. Her arms circled his neck and she rose on her tiptoes. She felt him hard against the soft underside of her breasts and gasped. Finn slid his tongue into her mouth and she tasted like peaches.
Mercedes felt him go rigid and pull away quickly. Leaving her cross eyed and panting. She saw him try and turn away from her. She just fists the front of his t-shirt, keeping him in place.
“Where do you think you're going?”
Finn's face flushed with shame and his eyes fell to the ground. That's when she saw the growing wet spot on the front of his jeans. A wave of feminine pride flooded her and she smiled.
“Damn, baby. That's hot.” She pulled him down to kiss her again and he paused right before they met again. He whispered Mercy against her lips before smiling into their kiss.
**
After glee Kurt followed Noah to the parking lot. Cool paper and wax were warming in his hand. Noah had just opened the door of his pickup when Kurt called out to him.
“Noah, wait.”
“Kurt, what...” His voice was cut off by Kurt pressing something into the palm of his hand.
“I talk to you all the time in my head, too.”
Kurt pressed a kiss against the hand cradled in his and turned to walk away. Noah watched him get into his Navigator and drive away before he looked in his hand. He couldn't help but smile.
Kurt had given him a yellow crayon.
**
After glee, Will waited until all the kids had filtered out of the room before he approached Gemma. She was lost in thought and running her long fingers along the white keys of the piano. He eased himself down beside her.
“When did you learn to play?”
“Piano, I think I was thirteen. The guitar was fifteen. The flute was twelve. So yeah, thirteen.”
“Three instruments. I'm impressed.”
“Yeah, well extracurriculars were pretty much mandatory when I was growing up.”
“Ahh, you had those kind of parents.”
Gemma's voice got quiet. “Not really. They just always went until about five. That meant that my dad could pick me up after he got off work. It was more of a survival technique. Saved me from getting my ass kicked after school.”
She was quiet for a moment and they just sat there sharing the silence. Something seemed to break her out of it and she jumped up from her seat.
“Anyway, thanks for letting me play. It's been awhile.”
“Yeah, any time.”
She was halfway to the door when she realized she'd forgotten to do something. She skipped back to him and smoothed down the collar of his dress shirt. Letting her hands linger on his neck.
“Don't pop your collar. You're not the Fonz.”
Will heard her giggle all the way down the hallway.
Author:emo_chick_87
Pairing,Character(s): Kurt/Puck, Finn/Mercedes, Will/Gemma (OC)
Rating: PG-13 (this part)
Word Count: 1877 words
Spoilers: Season One.
Genre: Romance/Slight Angst/Dashes of Fluff
Warnings: het romance (see parings)
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee. Don't rub it in okay. I'm still in the depression stage.
Summary: McKinley High gets a new school nurse and she takes special notice of one Noah Puckerman... Get your mind out of the gutter... not that kind of notice.
Authors Note: The song used in this chapter is Asia's epic Heat Of The Moment
Previously on GATHH: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
After Kurt had spent a good half hour tending to his wounds and another ten minutes wrapped in Gemma's strong warm arms, the bell rang.
Drawing a shaky breath Gemma watched in awe as Kurt pulled himself back together. Except for the rapidly healing split lip he looked as poised as he always had. She had to marvel at that much strength. She kissed his forehead and sent him on his way to glee. Promising that she was right behind him, a small smile playing on her lips.
Kurt was heading to the ramshackle art wing. A true testament to the budget cuts. Peeling paint, easels empty of art work, band rooms missing saxophones. He had almost reached the music room when a tight grip wrapped around his wrist and pulled him into the empty art room. Ice blue met warm brown and Kurt gasped.
“Noah, what do you think you're doing?”
“I needed to talk to you about something.”
“So you thought it was okay to accost me? You could have just asked.”
“Sorry. I guess I'm not used to this kind of thing.”
“What kind of thing?”
“I dunno. This feelings thing.”
Kurt took a quick survey of his surroundings. Saw Noah's earnest eyes. Saw the look he had always thought he'd imagined, etched clearly on Noah's face. The air suddenly seemed too heavy and he started backing towards the counter. Shaking his head the entire way.
“No....no...no...no. You don't get to just spring this on me.”
“What, that I have feelings for you? That I want you? I thought that was pretty obvious by now.” Noah started advancing on him and it wasn't long before the hard edge of the counter was pressing against the horizontal bruise along Kurt's back.
“No. You can't. It's impossible.” Kurt's voice was a fervent whisper and he raised his hand to push Noah away. Instead his hand collided with the hard plane of Noah's chest and stayed there. Pressed against the steady thump of Noah's heart. “You haven't said more than two words to me in years. It's doesn't make sense.”
Noah kept quiet. He leaned forward slightly and rested his forehead in the crook of Kurt's neck. He took a deep breath in before he whispered against Kurt's skin. "I talk to you all the time in my head."
Kurt's gasp made Noah's brow rock against his clavicle. Kurt felt the heart beneath his hand speed up as Noah pressed a chaste kiss on the curve of his neck. Kurt's eyes drifted closed at the sensation and when he finally had the courage to open them again Noah was gone.
When Kurt walked into glee five minutes later he had a red blush staining his cheeks. He's grateful for it because it hides the pink burn, left by the fresh growth on Noah's head.
**
When Gemma finally made it to the music room she noticed a few key things.
Noah was absently strumming a tune she'd never heard before. Kurt was sitting across the room from him apparently trying to communicate with Noah's back through a series of Morse Code-like eyelash flutters. He was also twirling something between his fingers.
Finn's eyes were much brighter than the last time she had seen him and he was trading sneaking glances with a beautiful girl when they both thought the other wasn't looking. The red tips of Finn's ears told her that this was probably the famous Mercedes.
But most importantly she noticed that, for the first time she'd started sitting in on these glee sessions, no one was sitting at the piano. She laced her fingers together and waited for her favorite crush-worthy teacher to walk through the door.
When Will walked into glee the breath caught in his throat. She was here again. He'd spent the last few practices going back and forth between wishing she was there and the anxious I don't want to fuck this up of hoping she wasn't. The bright smile that spread across her face when he walked in made him very happy she was.
“Okay guys, listen up. It looks like Brad isn't going to be in today. He has a funeral in Mercer. We're just gonna have to make due without the piano for now. But we're going to mix it up a bit today.”
Mr Schue started to hand out the sheet music. “ I made this song a duet. Finn, this song is soft rock so it's right up your alley. I want you on the male lead and Mercedes, I want you on the female lead. You both think you can handle it?”
When Rachel opened her mouth to object, her voice was cut off by a sharp tug on her hair. She spun around and met the glare Santana usually saved for when people were mean to Brittney. Her jaw slammed shut with the audible pop of her teeth clacking together.
While the pair was getting situated in front of the room, Gemma borrowed Kurt's sheet music and went to sit unnoticed in front of the piano.
Giving a quick look at the sheet music Gemma could see that this was the song Noah was working on when she had first come in. Acoustic guitar blended with Finn's voice and Gemma finally started to see why everyone liked that Finn kid so much.
I never meant to be so bad to you.
One thing I said that I would never do.
A look from you and I would fall from grace
And that would wipe the smile right from my face
Mercedes hesitated the moment she was supposed to come in and Finn gave her a lopsided smile. Her gaze quickly dropped to her feet and a small smile played on her lips as she started to sing.
Do you remember when we used to dance?
And incidents arose from circumstance.
One thing led to another, we were young
And we would scream together songs unsung.
Noah's guitar, Finn's soft breathy voice and Mercedes' shy whisper was joined by the crescendo of Gemma's fingers striking the piano keys as the chorus started.
It was the heat of the moment
Telling me what my heart meant
The heat of the moment showed in your eyes
Finn's voice started to gain confidence. The strong sound bouncing off the walls and stunning the rest of the club into silence. Finn had never sounded so good.
And now you find yourself in '82
The disco hot spots hold no charm for you
You can concern yourself with bigger things
You catch a pearl and ride the dragon's wings
Mercedes took her cues from Finn and put everything she had into her singing.
'Cause it's the heat of the moment
The heat of the moment
The heat of the moment showed in your eyes
Mercedes felt the room fall away. All she knew was music, Finn and everything she had put on hold for so long.
And when your looks are gone and you're alone
How many nights you sit beside the phone
What were the things you wanted for yourself
Teenage ambitions you remember well
Both of their voices rose together as they finished out the song.
It was the heat of the moment
Telling me what your heart meant
The heat of the moment showed in your eyes
It was the heat of the moment
The heat of the moment
The heat of the moment showed in your eyes
When they finished, they were standing facing each other, flushed and breathing heavy. Thundering applause made them break their stare. Mercedes saw Kurt's eyes full of tears and Finn saw the wide smile on Noah's face. They both saw Rachel's silent fuming.
“Very nice guys. With a little work, I think we have our opening number for Regionals.”
Without even thinking about it, Mercedes wrapped Finn in a tight hug and smiled into his chest.
**
After glee, Finn and Mercedes decided to run through their new number a few more times in the auditorium. It seemed that with every pass things got more heated. Glances got longer. Bodies pressed closer together.
Until the third time when, Finn slammed his lips against Mercedes'. Her arms circled his neck and she rose on her tiptoes. She felt him hard against the soft underside of her breasts and gasped. Finn slid his tongue into her mouth and she tasted like peaches.
Mercedes felt him go rigid and pull away quickly. Leaving her cross eyed and panting. She saw him try and turn away from her. She just fists the front of his t-shirt, keeping him in place.
“Where do you think you're going?”
Finn's face flushed with shame and his eyes fell to the ground. That's when she saw the growing wet spot on the front of his jeans. A wave of feminine pride flooded her and she smiled.
“Damn, baby. That's hot.” She pulled him down to kiss her again and he paused right before they met again. He whispered Mercy against her lips before smiling into their kiss.
**
After glee Kurt followed Noah to the parking lot. Cool paper and wax were warming in his hand. Noah had just opened the door of his pickup when Kurt called out to him.
“Noah, wait.”
“Kurt, what...” His voice was cut off by Kurt pressing something into the palm of his hand.
“I talk to you all the time in my head, too.”
Kurt pressed a kiss against the hand cradled in his and turned to walk away. Noah watched him get into his Navigator and drive away before he looked in his hand. He couldn't help but smile.
Kurt had given him a yellow crayon.
**
After glee, Will waited until all the kids had filtered out of the room before he approached Gemma. She was lost in thought and running her long fingers along the white keys of the piano. He eased himself down beside her.
“When did you learn to play?”
“Piano, I think I was thirteen. The guitar was fifteen. The flute was twelve. So yeah, thirteen.”
“Three instruments. I'm impressed.”
“Yeah, well extracurriculars were pretty much mandatory when I was growing up.”
“Ahh, you had those kind of parents.”
Gemma's voice got quiet. “Not really. They just always went until about five. That meant that my dad could pick me up after he got off work. It was more of a survival technique. Saved me from getting my ass kicked after school.”
She was quiet for a moment and they just sat there sharing the silence. Something seemed to break her out of it and she jumped up from her seat.
“Anyway, thanks for letting me play. It's been awhile.”
“Yeah, any time.”
She was halfway to the door when she realized she'd forgotten to do something. She skipped back to him and smoothed down the collar of his dress shirt. Letting her hands linger on his neck.
“Don't pop your collar. You're not the Fonz.”
Will heard her giggle all the way down the hallway.