The light of her world
Title: The light of her world
Pairing, Character(s): Rachel Berry/Quinn Fabray
Rating: PG
Length: 1,136
Spoilers: None.
Summary: Accompanying Keeping you in the dark but it's not necessary to read that; how exactly Rachel and Quinn's relationship worked, only they knew.
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It starts with their parents forcing them on each other. Where it changed… well, she can’t remember.
It seems that Judy Fabray and the Berry men have known each other for quite some time; being with Russel Fabray would have never approved of, what seems to be, their friendship. Quinn didn’t know any of it, apparently.
But when they meet at Breadstix, the blonde never knowing who they’re going with, she sees that Rachel is just as much surprised as herself. Arranged marriage, that’s her first thought.
Well, she isn’t too far from the truth. Apparently, their parents want them to date. It’s silly, really, and Quinn tries to convince Judy that she’s definitely not gay; too bad she never believed her. So they’re left alone at the restaurant soon enough, and the silence takes over their table. It was uncomfortable for quite some time while they ate; or at least until Rachel started speaking.
“I think we should date,” she says, holding up a finger to silence the blonde that wanted to add something in. “It’d be for the best. I mean, what would we need to do? Be on friendly terms in school, come over to each other’s houses and then sit there ignoring each other, maybe a kiss goodbye at Glee club rehearsal and an occasional date. But I get to focus on my singing more and my fathers leave me alone in the boyfriend slash girlfriend department. I imagine your mother would, as well, leave you be after you tell her.”
It’s lengthy and Quinn gets lost somewhere in the middle, around the kiss; she is not kissing Rachel manhands Berry. But then, when she finally tunes in at the last sentence, she has to think it over. “O- okay,” the blonde answers, nodding her head and shocking herself into silence. Waving for their waitress, they both get their wallets, but Quinn pays the check. “I guess if this is a ‘date’,” she air quotes, “then I should pay.” Rachel doesn’t fight her, and they leave with her mother’s car because it’s what their parents left them.
She walks Rachel to her porch hand in hand, and their first kiss happens that same night. She could lie and say that it was good, but in all truth, there was plenty of awkwardness involved.
Still, she likes it, and manages to convince herself that she won’t actually mind doing it in the future.
So they kiss every day after Glee. And yes, they sit apart, and no, they don’t talk during school, but they think they’re doing a pretty good job of convincing the others that they are in a real relationship.
Rachel charmed her mother in every sense, and Judy always asks Quinn why she doesn’t come more often. The younger blonde constantly complains about it to Rachel when they meet. On the other side, Rachel’s dads have grown to love her, and she likes them, too. At least the first fifteen minutes of an evening spent at her ‘girlfriend’s’ house are interesting.
The thing is, after two months of pretending, something abruptly changes. Rachel seems more interested in her, and it’s freaking her out a little bit. She plays along, though, and definitely gets to know her better in a short period of time. Turns out, she’s not as dull as Quinn had previously thought; her world doesn’t really revolve around Broadway and the stage in general.
And after the first day of getting to know each other, they never stop.
First it’s talking, mostly, sometimes singing. Quinn enjoys everything all too much and she looks into her mirror, wide-eyed, when she realizes that. That can’t be true; she wasn’t supposed to take a liking to Rachel, that was not part of their plan. Especially not if Rachel won’t return her feelings.
Second stage in their relationship is exploring each other; literally. Rachel kisses her first, and she returns it, not wanting to stop as soon as she tasted Rachel’s vanilla lip balsam. It turns out into a full make out session that gets out of control. Rachel is shirtless at the end, with her hand on Quinn’s bare breast. They don’t talk anymore, just kiss.
Another one of Rachel’s ideas is to actually start dating. It’s crazy when Quinn accepts when she takes her out, but she doesn’t mind being crazy at that moment. And it’s right before Regionals, so it can only work in her favor; she doesn’t know how, though.
Quinn doesn’t want to talk about it with Mike on their game days, because she doesn’t want to ruin it. Somewhere along the way, she started truly caring about Rachel, and that meant no talking about the relationship for her. Every one she had until then she did talk about and now it’s ruined; it wouldn’t hurt if she tried a different tactic.
She’s the first one to tell her ‘I love you’, but not the only one. Seven month since the start of their, at first fake, relationship, and she is head over heels with Rachel; it took her long enough. So when she spontaneously spits the words out of her mouth during sex, that’s not the biggest surprise that day. Rachel telling them back, now that’s a shock for her. And she didn’t even wait a whole two seconds to say it.
So now their goodbye is with those three words, too.
College was easy enough for both of them; for their relationship, actually, because she worked her ass off at getting her degree, and Rachel did, too. When she watches Rachel’s school musical in their sophomore year, she doesn’t know how she could ever think that they aren’t for each other.
She’s known all along that Rachel plans to get married at twenty-five, but she’d bought the ring a long time before that. Passing by Tiffany’s, she could not resist buying it. Yes, it was a little too much money for a junior in college, but damn was it worth it. She had it all saved up from her job as a waitress and if there was one thing she wanted to spend it on, it was that exact ring.
And when they’re both twenty-five and happily in love, she whips out the ring before Rachel. It’s done imprudently, because neither her nor Mike had any idea how to do it by Rachel Berry standards. Rachel seems to love it, though, and that’s all she needs as an approval.
Standing in the church with all of their closest friends at her wedding day, Quinn is thankful that their parents insisted on them going out together. And she listens to Rachel’s vow intently, a smile never leaving her face, and knows that she is the girl of her dreams and she couldn’t be happier about it.
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