Glee - Puck/Quinn - I Love to Watch You Walk Away
medium: television
fandom: glee
subject: noah ‘puck’ puckerman / quinn fabray
title: i love to watch you walk away
notes: spoilers for up to 1.4, “preggers”.
01| counting crows - american girls
she waits another week to fall apart / she couldn’t make another day / i wish it was anyone but me / i could have been anyone you see / she had something breakable just under her skin
Puck started watching Quinn freshman year after Finn told him that the cheerleader had captured his eye; at first, she was everything that seemed to be - a cold hard bitch, a beautiful girl. But the more Puck watched her, the more he was convinced that this wasn’t so; that she was so much more. Watching her became something less he did for Finn, and more for himself.
02| maroon 5 - infatuation
not seeing you the rest of you / is getting the best of me / … / i’m touching your skin / if it’s only a fantasy, then why is it killing me / i guess this must be infatuation
Finn was his best friend and he loved the dude, but Puck realized a little too late that he was totally lusting after his best friend’s girl, and that maybe lust wasn’t everything. The worst part was, he knew that Quinn knew - or at least, was beginning to suspect - the way he felt, and that just left him dangling at the end of her string. He wanted her more than anything.
03| matt nathanson - princess
oh princess you act like an answer / with your hands all over me / promising to be here when the world comes down / … / i don’t mind baby / just spill your secrets on me
Quinn got tired of no one understanding her and frankly, so did Puck; one night Finn was getting tutored by Mr. Schu, and she called Puck to ask him to meet her in the park.
“It’s just-”
“I know,” he said, and his hands framed her face as he kissed her.
They were gone.
04| keane - we might as well be strangers
i don’t know your face no more / or feel the touch that i adore / … / we might as well be living in a different world
She said it was a mistake and he was fine with that, he really was - Quinn was Finn’s girl, after all. She said that she didn’t want to talk to him ever again and that he didn’t know anything about her, not really. She called him a loser. Puck hated all of the hurtful things Quinn said, but he knew her, so he knew that she didn’t really mean them; she was trying to distance herself before things got too heated. It was far too late for that, though.
They couldn’t even look at each other anymore without wanting each other and feeling guilty.
05| low millions - 100 blouses
so tired of not having you in my arms / i’ll take a friend of yours out to dinner / then i’ll take off all her clothes / and look for you in her
He moved on to her friends. Every cheerleader, every blonde girl that looked like she could sock you one in the balls with a single word, every mom whose pool he cleaned - it was all Quinn. He knew that he was getting this reputation, and he knew that she knew why he was doing it. But he had to rid himself of her somehow.
06| dishwalla - every little thing
i wish i could be / every little thing you wanted this time / but i get the strangest feeling that you’ve gone away
What Puck wanted more than anything was to be good enough for Quinn. He wanted to be the all-American boy like Finn, with classic good looks and a good future. He wanted to be like Mr. Schuester, a man devoted to his family and the people close to him. He wanted to be anything that Quinn wanted because then maybe he wouldn’t be a loser and maybe then he wouldn’t feel like everything he could be was draining away with every step she took in the opposite direction.
07| goo goo dolls - black balloon
a thousand other boys could never reach you / how could i have been the one / i saw the world spin beneath you / … / and i’ll become what you became to me
Puck realized one day while he was fucking the mom who had the kid with Star Wars sheets that basically, he didn’t want the sex and he didn’t want the status, he just wanted Quinn - just her. And that Finn didn’t know what he had. So he would do whatever he had to do to make her his, because he really cared about her, and he would become what she became to him.
08| delta goodrem - lost without you
how am i ever gonna get rid of these blues / baby i’m so lonely all the time / … / i keep trying to find my way / but i’m lost without you
Quinn never tried to examine her feelings for Puck in any detail, because that was just asking for a whole lot of trouble she could never possibly want. But as the weeks passed, she felt like she was suffocating under this charade of being the perfect cheerleader and the perfect girlfriend. She couldn’t slip up, not once, because she was Quinn Fabray and she was just perfect. Puck knew better, she realized one day as she was crying in the bathroom. He knew and he didn’t care. And she realized that she wanted that more than anything.
09| sia - breathe me
be my friend / hold me, wrap me up / unfold me / i am small, and needy / warm me up and breathe me
She explained all of this to Puck, and since this was something that he had wanted for so long, he wasn’t entirely sure how to feel. She did say that she had to ease into the break-up with Finn, which he understood - Finn was a sensitive dude with a heart of gold, and he wouldn’t get it, not right away. But she kissed him and made him promises, and he remembered going home for the first time in a long time feeling like everything would be okay; he should have known it was too good to be true.
10| bird york - in the deep
thought you had all the answers / to rest your heart up on / but something happens / don’t see it coming / now you can’t stop yourself
It was the pregnancy that did them both in. He knew he could be a good dad, he would try his hardest, but she called him Lima’s resident loser and she chose Finn, and that crushed him in a way he didn’t even known could be done. Those weeks were the worst. It ached to see her, and his best friend.
Then Finn found out. There were tears and yelling and Mr. Schu tried to make everything okay but it wouldn’t be, not ever.
11| midnight hour - running away
don’t lie and say that it’s okay / it’s alright yeah there’s nothing more to say / so i’m running away, i’m leaving this place
Puck had to get out of this podunk town. He had to get away from Finn and Quinn and glee. He couldn’t stay when everyone knew what he had done. He bought a one-way bus ticket to Cleveland, and he left, but when he got off the bus hours later, Quinn was waiting for him.
“What are you doing here, Fabray?”
“I came to bring you home, Noah. Because that’s what you do, when you love someone. It is, isn’t it?”
She looked at him, and he understood that what she was saying was that she was choosing him for real this time, that it was them against the world, and he didn’t even hesitate. He hefted his bag over his shoulder, and he smiled when Quinn squeezed his hand quickly before they got into a car driven by Mr. Schuester, of all people.
He was going home.
12| the fray - never say never
picture you’re the queen of everything / far as the eye can see under your command / i will be your guardian when all is crumbling / i will steady your hand / … / don’t let me go
He didn’t know what came next. But that was okay. And for the first time, even if past experience had taught him to do otherwise--he really believed it.
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fandom: glee
subject: noah ‘puck’ puckerman / quinn fabray
title: i love to watch you walk away
notes: spoilers for up to 1.4, “preggers”.
01| counting crows - american girls
she waits another week to fall apart / she couldn’t make another day / i wish it was anyone but me / i could have been anyone you see / she had something breakable just under her skin
Puck started watching Quinn freshman year after Finn told him that the cheerleader had captured his eye; at first, she was everything that seemed to be - a cold hard bitch, a beautiful girl. But the more Puck watched her, the more he was convinced that this wasn’t so; that she was so much more. Watching her became something less he did for Finn, and more for himself.
02| maroon 5 - infatuation
not seeing you the rest of you / is getting the best of me / … / i’m touching your skin / if it’s only a fantasy, then why is it killing me / i guess this must be infatuation
Finn was his best friend and he loved the dude, but Puck realized a little too late that he was totally lusting after his best friend’s girl, and that maybe lust wasn’t everything. The worst part was, he knew that Quinn knew - or at least, was beginning to suspect - the way he felt, and that just left him dangling at the end of her string. He wanted her more than anything.
03| matt nathanson - princess
oh princess you act like an answer / with your hands all over me / promising to be here when the world comes down / … / i don’t mind baby / just spill your secrets on me
Quinn got tired of no one understanding her and frankly, so did Puck; one night Finn was getting tutored by Mr. Schu, and she called Puck to ask him to meet her in the park.
“It’s just-”
“I know,” he said, and his hands framed her face as he kissed her.
They were gone.
04| keane - we might as well be strangers
i don’t know your face no more / or feel the touch that i adore / … / we might as well be living in a different world
She said it was a mistake and he was fine with that, he really was - Quinn was Finn’s girl, after all. She said that she didn’t want to talk to him ever again and that he didn’t know anything about her, not really. She called him a loser. Puck hated all of the hurtful things Quinn said, but he knew her, so he knew that she didn’t really mean them; she was trying to distance herself before things got too heated. It was far too late for that, though.
They couldn’t even look at each other anymore without wanting each other and feeling guilty.
05| low millions - 100 blouses
so tired of not having you in my arms / i’ll take a friend of yours out to dinner / then i’ll take off all her clothes / and look for you in her
He moved on to her friends. Every cheerleader, every blonde girl that looked like she could sock you one in the balls with a single word, every mom whose pool he cleaned - it was all Quinn. He knew that he was getting this reputation, and he knew that she knew why he was doing it. But he had to rid himself of her somehow.
06| dishwalla - every little thing
i wish i could be / every little thing you wanted this time / but i get the strangest feeling that you’ve gone away
What Puck wanted more than anything was to be good enough for Quinn. He wanted to be the all-American boy like Finn, with classic good looks and a good future. He wanted to be like Mr. Schuester, a man devoted to his family and the people close to him. He wanted to be anything that Quinn wanted because then maybe he wouldn’t be a loser and maybe then he wouldn’t feel like everything he could be was draining away with every step she took in the opposite direction.
07| goo goo dolls - black balloon
a thousand other boys could never reach you / how could i have been the one / i saw the world spin beneath you / … / and i’ll become what you became to me
Puck realized one day while he was fucking the mom who had the kid with Star Wars sheets that basically, he didn’t want the sex and he didn’t want the status, he just wanted Quinn - just her. And that Finn didn’t know what he had. So he would do whatever he had to do to make her his, because he really cared about her, and he would become what she became to him.
08| delta goodrem - lost without you
how am i ever gonna get rid of these blues / baby i’m so lonely all the time / … / i keep trying to find my way / but i’m lost without you
Quinn never tried to examine her feelings for Puck in any detail, because that was just asking for a whole lot of trouble she could never possibly want. But as the weeks passed, she felt like she was suffocating under this charade of being the perfect cheerleader and the perfect girlfriend. She couldn’t slip up, not once, because she was Quinn Fabray and she was just perfect. Puck knew better, she realized one day as she was crying in the bathroom. He knew and he didn’t care. And she realized that she wanted that more than anything.
09| sia - breathe me
be my friend / hold me, wrap me up / unfold me / i am small, and needy / warm me up and breathe me
She explained all of this to Puck, and since this was something that he had wanted for so long, he wasn’t entirely sure how to feel. She did say that she had to ease into the break-up with Finn, which he understood - Finn was a sensitive dude with a heart of gold, and he wouldn’t get it, not right away. But she kissed him and made him promises, and he remembered going home for the first time in a long time feeling like everything would be okay; he should have known it was too good to be true.
10| bird york - in the deep
thought you had all the answers / to rest your heart up on / but something happens / don’t see it coming / now you can’t stop yourself
It was the pregnancy that did them both in. He knew he could be a good dad, he would try his hardest, but she called him Lima’s resident loser and she chose Finn, and that crushed him in a way he didn’t even known could be done. Those weeks were the worst. It ached to see her, and his best friend.
Then Finn found out. There were tears and yelling and Mr. Schu tried to make everything okay but it wouldn’t be, not ever.
11| midnight hour - running away
don’t lie and say that it’s okay / it’s alright yeah there’s nothing more to say / so i’m running away, i’m leaving this place
Puck had to get out of this podunk town. He had to get away from Finn and Quinn and glee. He couldn’t stay when everyone knew what he had done. He bought a one-way bus ticket to Cleveland, and he left, but when he got off the bus hours later, Quinn was waiting for him.
“What are you doing here, Fabray?”
“I came to bring you home, Noah. Because that’s what you do, when you love someone. It is, isn’t it?”
She looked at him, and he understood that what she was saying was that she was choosing him for real this time, that it was them against the world, and he didn’t even hesitate. He hefted his bag over his shoulder, and he smiled when Quinn squeezed his hand quickly before they got into a car driven by Mr. Schuester, of all people.
He was going home.
12| the fray - never say never
picture you’re the queen of everything / far as the eye can see under your command / i will be your guardian when all is crumbling / i will steady your hand / … / don’t let me go
He didn’t know what came next. But that was okay. And for the first time, even if past experience had taught him to do otherwise--he really believed it.
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&! artwork by the lovely ladyoffire0666