Glee: "Idiosyncrasy" (1/ ?)
TITLE: Idiosyncrasy
SONG BASED OFF: 'Idiosyncrasy' by: Anthony Snape
TIME LINE: Future the girls are out of Lima, Ohio.
DEFININATION: 1.a characteristic,habit, mannerism,or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
2. the physical constitution peculiar to an individual.
3. a peculiarityof the physical or the mental constitution, esp. susceptibility toward drugs, food, etc. Compare allergy( def. 1 ) .
PRELUDE:
"Have you ever wanted to kiss your best friend?" Quinn asked turning with her right elbow against the small pier railing. The two young women were standing outside of their shared home that was set upon the small lake; that they simply had fallen in love with after deciding that they missed living in a house.
"No." Rachel simply said. "My best friends are my fathers. Although I only share DNA with one - it would be too weird to kiss a man that I regard as my father." Her left eye brow rose, "Whom did you want to kiss? Santana or Brittany? Or both separate or even together."
"I don't think of them in that way." Quinn snorted, "They are my close and personal friends, - but they aren't my best friends."
Rachel frowned in confusion, "Wait, you don't hang around with anyone but them mostly. They have your back whenever you need - oh," A light clicked, "It's Mercedes that you want to kiss. That makes sense. You two did grow closer when she took you in during the last stages of your pregnancy."
"Mercedes isn't my best friend." Quinn smiled.
"You want to kiss Kurt? Quinn, he's gay. He's not into kissing women. I heard that when Brittany planted some on him - he almost threw up in her mouth. Quinn, do you really want Kurt to barf inside your mouth? Have it running down your throat, and into your own stomach." Rachel's eyes bugged out of her head.
"Kurt is my best male friend. Actually with him being gay, I could say he's my best female friend." Quinn smirked.
Rachel's face fell. "Oh." She turned her eyes back to the small river that they were standing over. The moonlight shone upon the water. "I g-guess that Kurt's barf is a lot better then …." She stopped speaking.
"You and I got closer over the years, Rachel." Quinn said in a soft voice as she moved closer to the shorter brunette. "After I finally got over all the bull shit that I willing put myself in when we were children. I have finally grown into the woman that I was always meant to be. I have you and Beth to thank for that. Only you two saw the real me, neither of you had ever given up on me. Especially you." She placed her right arm around the slim waist of the Broadway Diva at her side. "Beth had no choice in the matter. She was growing inside me at the time. She was quite stuck to me for nine months. But you, you weren't connected too me what so ever by DNA. But you firmly stayed in my life. You refused to leave."
"You needed someone real, and whom would always support you." Rachel levelly said. Her eyes remained glued at the water. "No matter what." She whispered.
"We are friends." Quinn softly said. "Forever friends."
"Friends -" Rachel softly but firmly repeated. She swallowed around the lump in her throat, "Friends." She said in a hard voice.
"Rachel -" Quinn frowned.
Rachel shook herself as she pulled away from the warmth of Quinn's arm. "It's okay, Quinn. We are just friends. I understand where we stand. We don't have to have the talk that define what we are too one another. It's quite all right. We'll just go on as we have been going. You and I living together and raising Beth together." Tears sparkled in her eyes as she tried desperately to blink them back.
"Rachel …." Quinn tried to break in. Taking steps forward trying to reach out to touch Rachel, but the shorter and younger brunette kept moving backwards.
"Look Quinn, I know you have been overwhelmed with your new job and all. So how about you take a few days to yourself. Don't fret about Beth. I'm going to take a leave from the play. Give my understudy the break that she needs." Rachel laughed and shrugged, "Never know she'll probably be discovered, and she'll move onto something better then being my understudy."
Rachel laughed with an sob, "I mean really - who would want to be my understudy? She should be the star and I should be the understudy. Always the understudy. That's my rightful place." She whispered the last. Lowering her eyes because she didn't think she had any right to look Quinn in the eyes.
Quinn finally managed to wrap her arms around Rachel. "We are more then friends, Rachel. Ever so much more."
"We are house mates, Quinn." Rachel said looking up, then lowering her eyes quickly. "Soon you'll be married - then you and Beth will move into your proper and real home."
"I'm in love with my best friend." Quinn broke in. "She's all I want and more."
"I'm happy for you." Rachel backed away trying to free herself from Quinn's hands. "I'm in my proper and real home." She heard Quinn say in the mad rush of noise that had been feeling her head for the past few minutes. Her eyes slammed up quickly, "Oh I see. I'll be out of the house in the morning. Only, only promise that I get to spend some time with Beth. I just can't lose that little girl. I just can't." Her head bowed as she felt the tears roll freely down her cheeks. "But, I'll understand if you don't want or need me around any longer." She whispered the last.
Quinn pulled Rachel tightly against her. "You are my best friend." She whispered in the short Diva's ear. Rachel stiffened in her arms.
"You are just saying that, Quinn. Those are just words. Words that don't mean anything." Rachel tried desperately to gather her thoughts and her feelings together. But at those words she completely broke down. She rested her head against Quinn's heart and cried heartbreaking sobs.
Quinn just held Rachel tightly against her. She allowed the smaller girl to sob the pent up emotions that had been years, simply a lifetime in waiting. She made shushing noises into Rachel's brunette hair, and humming Beth's favorite lull bye. She was honestly quite shocked at how quietly Rachel was having her breakdown. Not a sole would have been able to hear her if they were out, and about this time of the night.
After what felt like a lifetime had passed, Quinn gently pried Rachel off of her chest. She wanted to look into the chocolate brown eyes as she spoke the truth. "You are my best friend, Rachel Berry. You are the love of my life. You are the my other and better half. I'm not even alive without you in my life. I thank God every day that he deemed me worthy to have you in my life."
"Rachel Barbara Berry will you do the honor of becoming my wife?" Quinn gently wiped the tear that was falling down her right cheek.
"Y-y-you don't have to do this, Quinn. You don't have to destroy not only your; but Beth's life being tied down the loser that is me. I won't allow it. I won't have it." Rachel chocked on the sobs that were trying to come out. "I'm quitting Broadway and moving somewhere that I won't hurt you or your daughter ever again, Quinn. I'll be safely out of your life by tomorrow I promise."
Quinn's grip on Rachel's arms tightened. She wasn't going to allow the shorter girl to remove herself from her. Not this time. Because in the state that Rachel was in - Quinn knew that if Rachel succeeded in running away; then Quinn would have lost her for good. Quinn Fabray wasn't going to allow that too happen. Not ever.
"You aren't going anywhere, baby. I won't allow it." Quinn sneered. "You belong here by my side. By Beth's side. Forever and ever. I'm not going to stand here and allow you to just walk away from everything we had built. I'm simply not going to allow you to wallow back into that place that I originally had put you in. Do you understand me Rachel!"
Rachel was so shocked, all she could do was silently nod her head. Her thoughts were running like a crazy kaleidoscope throughout her head. Quinn's words were swimming around in there also … fighting to win the battle against all the negativity that was swimming in what was Rachel Barbara Berry's head and soul. But all the years of simple and nothing but abuse was winning out once more.
END OF PRELUDE