Glee | LATGHAOT They Are Desires | Multiship (13 of 20)
Started my daily ficlets to make the hiatus pass, then decided to keep going with a 2nd cycle and then a 3rd, all through to a 22nd. Now cycle 23!
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LOVE & THE GENTLE HEART ARE ONE THING - [For the full explanation, please refer to Chapter 1
Chapter 13 of 20 They Are Desires
"LOVE & THE GENTLE HEART ARE ONE THING
13. THEY ARE DESIRES"
Multiship
After she’d watched Puck pick his song, she remembered she had one more task to achieve in his crazy scheme. So she cut back across the gym to find Tina trying to hop to the ice and napkins in order to get a new ice pack for her ankle. “Hey, hey, easy,” Santana ran up to get a hold of her before she fell. “Sit back down, I’ll get it for you,” she almost sounded like her mother did when she was sick… She got Tina back to the chairs before taking care of the ice. Once she brought it back, she saw the frown on her face, which she’d missed before. “Are you okay?” Santana asked. “I mean besides the…”
“This sucks. I wanted to dance with Mike, and I can’t do that. I wanted to go and sing up on the stage, and I can’t do that…” she shook her head.
“Wait, the dancing part I get, but why can’t you sing? Just get a stool,” she shrugged. Tina was quiet for a moment.
“Well, yeah…” she spoke softly.
“Stay right here, I’ll get you a song,” Santana got up and ran off before Tina could say a word. This was actually working out a lot easier than she could have hoped for.
“Wouldn’t Tina be perfect for it?”
That was what Puck had whispered to her. It had taken her a moment to connect the dots as to what ‘it’ was, but then she remembered what she’d told him, before he’d had his supposed brilliant idea. She’d told him how, when she’d been frustrated with him, and she’d gone in for a solo, she had picked the song she’d ended up singing, yes. But as she was getting it, she’d briefly seen another title, on one of the remaining cards. It was just a split second, but her brain had immediately thought ‘Brittany loves that one.’ And right after that she had thought how she wished she could be there with her when it came out in the draw… but she probably wouldn’t. She’d told Puck what the song was, and he was right… Tina would be perfect for it.
“Mr. Schuester,” she reached him, again sitting with Ms. Holiday. “Tina would like to go next, and she sent me to pick up a song for her,” she nodded with every bit of honesty she had.
“Good thinking,” he gave an approving smile, and she obliged in returning it before dipping her hand in the bowl he offered. She just had to pick the right one. She tried to remember if there was any bit of identifying mark as far as she remembered… there were fewer cards now, so it wouldn’t so hard to spot if… There it was, she was sure of it. She pulled her hand back, trying not to look too focused as she opened it… But still she smiled when she saw the title right under her eyes.
“I’ll… I’ll bring it to her,” Santana nodded.
“Are you okay?” Holly asked, seeing right through her.
“Perfect,” she promised before returning to Tina. She held out the card to her.
“Oh, I love it,” Tina smiled instantly when she read it. Santana nodded along.
“Come on, I’ll help you over there.” She very carefully helped her fellow Glee Club member hop her way to the stage, leaving her in Mr. Schuester’s care; she needed to find Brittany before she left the dance floor. If she let her go, then she’d be back with Artie again and she would have missed her opportunity. But as she made it through the crowd, she saw the blonde standing there, all on her own now that Mike had left. She was about to leave… but she caught her hand. It wasn’t like they never saw each other anymore, they were in Glee Club, Cheerios, and classes together, but even then… Seeing that smile, it was like Brittany knew… of course she would.
“Santana!” she reacted with surprise. “I love your dress,” she stepped up, touching the material at her shoulder. Santana looked down at herself, up to Brittany, within reach.
“It’s not as good as yours,” she promised her, and Brittany grinned. Looking to the stage, Santana saw Brad walk over to Tina, who now sat on a stool facing the microphone stand, and take the card from her. With a ‘sixteen’ to the band, he got back to the piano… They were going to start… Just a couple more seconds… When the music started, Brittany’s face explode with joy, and Santana laughed. She held out her hand, and the blonde took it.
[T] “I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me / I'm beggin' you to beg me / I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me”
Maybe she didn’t know to recognize it, or to say it in so many words, but Brittany felt a different breath in her lungs right then, dancing without much aim. It was something they’d done so many times, and after a while she’d gone and started missing it. It just wasn’t fair… Why couldn’t she have them both? She had fun with Artie, and she genuinely felt for him, but Santana… Santana was Santana… her one and only best friend. No one had ever surpassed her in her eyes, and no one ever could.
She’d been hurt though… when she’d suddenly said no to her, refused to do the duet with her. She had never expected that kind of thing from Santana of all people, so she’d gone after Artie… She hadn’t expected anything at first, not really… But then there it was, and now… now she was torn. It was all so much for her mind, already working overtime to understand certain things, so asking her to put a definitive cross on either of them was just cruel punishment she couldn’t bring herself to address. Couldn’t she just dance? Couldn’t they all just dance?
[T] “I'll shine up my old brown shoes / Put on a brand new shirt / Get home early from work / If you say that you love me
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin' / Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin' / Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying / Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'”
Santana had spent the whole evening so far, basically trying to ignore how unhappy she was about being there, the way she was there, every bit of it being what she didn’t want of this dance, and then trying not to get her hopes up when she and Puck had implemented ‘the plan.’ But now at last, this felt like the dance she’d wanted, and her energy had come in all at once like a well placed shot of adrenaline. Maybe this was all the happiness this night would bring her, but right then and there she did not care at all.
She also knew she’d start asking herself the same questions now… What did she expect, what did she want? She kept telling herself she knew, but anytime she came up to the moment where she could choose, where she could take that step, she just… she panicked and she retreated. There was no going back, once she moved… It was her one nightmare, over and over, standing on a ledge with everyone, looking at a platform below. What if they jumped down, the two of them? Everyone else would stare at them from above, and they could never climb back…
[T] “I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me / I'm beggin' you to beg me”
But she knew she wasn’t wrong about this; that was the big problem. She knew it was what she wanted, she really did. She didn’t want to be taken for a joke though. She knew what they’d do, everyone there at McKinley… They’d see her and Brittany, and they’d get all leery about it, like it meant nothing more than a couple of hot girls making out… She wouldn’t say that it shouldn’t bother her, because actually it really did. And most of all she hated that she let herself listen to it.
[T] “I'll shine up my old brown shoes / Put on a brand new shirt / Get home early from work / If you say that you love me
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin' / Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin' / Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying / Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin' / Hey!”
They weren’t going to get this from her, from them. If it was going to be just one moment, then she wasn’t going to let them tarnish it like they’d done the rest. She was going to have her dance, after she - and Puck - had worked so hard to get it, and seeing how into it Brittany was getting… just like she knew she would. She wasn’t expecting her to walk out of that gym with her, like they’d ride off into the sunset. But maybe they could at the very least they could start working their way back to the place they’d lost…
[T] “Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying / Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me / I'm beggin' you to beg me
I want you to want me / I want you to want me / I want you to want me / I want you to want me”
When the song ended, Brittany was still laughing, unable to be held down on her own two feet. “Come on, come with us,” she told Santana, indicating behind herself. Even without seeing, Santana knew what she meant by us - her and Artie. But it was okay… it was just as she’d told herself… and out of nowhere Santana had found patience in herself.
“It’s alright. You go. I’ve got something I need to take care of, but… I might join you later,” she nodded.
“Are you sure?” Brittany asked, still holding on to her hand. ‘Like I could answer that,’ Santana thought, but what she said was…
“I’m sure.” Brittany nodded, and she hugged her. Santana hugged back… so very much.
Up on the stage, Tina had finished her song, only to spot Mike standing there, right below. She smiled as he applauded her. “Help me down?” she begged. He hoisted himself up on the stage, then with a thought, he turned and offered his back.
“Climb on,” he told her, and he heard her burst out laughing. Once she’d grabbed on, he made sure he had good hold of her and he carried her off.
When Santana found Puck, he was sitting back on the chairs, waiting for her. He had that little smirk on his face, and she shook her head. “You’re going to make me say it, aren’t you?” she asked, and he looked up, innocent. She frowned, but then the smile slowly started to win, and she conceded. “Thank you,” she bowed her head. She wasn’t going to leave him the satisfaction of that smirk for much longer though, and she gave his leg a quick little kick. He looked at her. “Right… So let’s see about you.” Now it was his turn to have that uncertain hope.
TO BE CONTINUED (TOMORROW)
* IN CONSTRUCTION! *
PREVIOUS DAYS
[Cycle 01] [Cycle 02] [Cycle 03] [Cycle 04] [Cycle 05]
[Cycle 06] [Cycle 07] [Cycle 08] [Cycle 09] [Cycle 10]
[Cycle 11] [Cycle 12] [Cycle 13] [Cycle 14] [Cycle 15]
[Cycle 16] [Cycle 17] [Cycle 18] [Cycle 19] [Cycle 20]
[Cycle 21] [Cycle 22]
[Cycle 23]
[463] [464] [465] [466] [467]
[468] [469] [470] [471] [472]
[473] [474]
Suggestion Drop Off
Title: "Love & the Gentle Heart Are One Thing: 13. They Are Desires"
Pairing: [Capitalized = in this chapter] Carl/Emma, Finn/Rachel, Kurt/Blaine, ARTIE/BRITTANY, MIKE/TINA, Sam/Quinn, PUCK/SANTANA, Anthony/Mercedes, Will/Holly, Puck/Quinn, Will/Emma, Burt/Carole, BRITTANY/SANTANA, Artie/Tina, Mike/Brittany and more to come!
Rating: G
Summary: Valentine's Day is coming, and it's shaping up to be a very Glee kind of dance...
Spoilers: Through 210 A Very Glee Christmas
if you have things you would like to see get written, pleeease drop by the suggestion box. The link is further down!
LOVE & THE GENTLE HEART ARE ONE THING - [For the full explanation, please refer to Chapter 1
Chapter 13 of 20 They Are Desires
"LOVE & THE GENTLE HEART ARE ONE THING
13. THEY ARE DESIRES"
Multiship
After she’d watched Puck pick his song, she remembered she had one more task to achieve in his crazy scheme. So she cut back across the gym to find Tina trying to hop to the ice and napkins in order to get a new ice pack for her ankle. “Hey, hey, easy,” Santana ran up to get a hold of her before she fell. “Sit back down, I’ll get it for you,” she almost sounded like her mother did when she was sick… She got Tina back to the chairs before taking care of the ice. Once she brought it back, she saw the frown on her face, which she’d missed before. “Are you okay?” Santana asked. “I mean besides the…”
“This sucks. I wanted to dance with Mike, and I can’t do that. I wanted to go and sing up on the stage, and I can’t do that…” she shook her head.
“Wait, the dancing part I get, but why can’t you sing? Just get a stool,” she shrugged. Tina was quiet for a moment.
“Well, yeah…” she spoke softly.
“Stay right here, I’ll get you a song,” Santana got up and ran off before Tina could say a word. This was actually working out a lot easier than she could have hoped for.
“Wouldn’t Tina be perfect for it?”
That was what Puck had whispered to her. It had taken her a moment to connect the dots as to what ‘it’ was, but then she remembered what she’d told him, before he’d had his supposed brilliant idea. She’d told him how, when she’d been frustrated with him, and she’d gone in for a solo, she had picked the song she’d ended up singing, yes. But as she was getting it, she’d briefly seen another title, on one of the remaining cards. It was just a split second, but her brain had immediately thought ‘Brittany loves that one.’ And right after that she had thought how she wished she could be there with her when it came out in the draw… but she probably wouldn’t. She’d told Puck what the song was, and he was right… Tina would be perfect for it.
“Mr. Schuester,” she reached him, again sitting with Ms. Holiday. “Tina would like to go next, and she sent me to pick up a song for her,” she nodded with every bit of honesty she had.
“Good thinking,” he gave an approving smile, and she obliged in returning it before dipping her hand in the bowl he offered. She just had to pick the right one. She tried to remember if there was any bit of identifying mark as far as she remembered… there were fewer cards now, so it wouldn’t so hard to spot if… There it was, she was sure of it. She pulled her hand back, trying not to look too focused as she opened it… But still she smiled when she saw the title right under her eyes.
“I’ll… I’ll bring it to her,” Santana nodded.
“Are you okay?” Holly asked, seeing right through her.
“Perfect,” she promised before returning to Tina. She held out the card to her.
“Oh, I love it,” Tina smiled instantly when she read it. Santana nodded along.
“Come on, I’ll help you over there.” She very carefully helped her fellow Glee Club member hop her way to the stage, leaving her in Mr. Schuester’s care; she needed to find Brittany before she left the dance floor. If she let her go, then she’d be back with Artie again and she would have missed her opportunity. But as she made it through the crowd, she saw the blonde standing there, all on her own now that Mike had left. She was about to leave… but she caught her hand. It wasn’t like they never saw each other anymore, they were in Glee Club, Cheerios, and classes together, but even then… Seeing that smile, it was like Brittany knew… of course she would.
“Santana!” she reacted with surprise. “I love your dress,” she stepped up, touching the material at her shoulder. Santana looked down at herself, up to Brittany, within reach.
“It’s not as good as yours,” she promised her, and Brittany grinned. Looking to the stage, Santana saw Brad walk over to Tina, who now sat on a stool facing the microphone stand, and take the card from her. With a ‘sixteen’ to the band, he got back to the piano… They were going to start… Just a couple more seconds… When the music started, Brittany’s face explode with joy, and Santana laughed. She held out her hand, and the blonde took it.
[T] “I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me / I'm beggin' you to beg me / I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me”
Maybe she didn’t know to recognize it, or to say it in so many words, but Brittany felt a different breath in her lungs right then, dancing without much aim. It was something they’d done so many times, and after a while she’d gone and started missing it. It just wasn’t fair… Why couldn’t she have them both? She had fun with Artie, and she genuinely felt for him, but Santana… Santana was Santana… her one and only best friend. No one had ever surpassed her in her eyes, and no one ever could.
She’d been hurt though… when she’d suddenly said no to her, refused to do the duet with her. She had never expected that kind of thing from Santana of all people, so she’d gone after Artie… She hadn’t expected anything at first, not really… But then there it was, and now… now she was torn. It was all so much for her mind, already working overtime to understand certain things, so asking her to put a definitive cross on either of them was just cruel punishment she couldn’t bring herself to address. Couldn’t she just dance? Couldn’t they all just dance?
[T] “I'll shine up my old brown shoes / Put on a brand new shirt / Get home early from work / If you say that you love me
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin' / Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin' / Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying / Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'”
Santana had spent the whole evening so far, basically trying to ignore how unhappy she was about being there, the way she was there, every bit of it being what she didn’t want of this dance, and then trying not to get her hopes up when she and Puck had implemented ‘the plan.’ But now at last, this felt like the dance she’d wanted, and her energy had come in all at once like a well placed shot of adrenaline. Maybe this was all the happiness this night would bring her, but right then and there she did not care at all.
She also knew she’d start asking herself the same questions now… What did she expect, what did she want? She kept telling herself she knew, but anytime she came up to the moment where she could choose, where she could take that step, she just… she panicked and she retreated. There was no going back, once she moved… It was her one nightmare, over and over, standing on a ledge with everyone, looking at a platform below. What if they jumped down, the two of them? Everyone else would stare at them from above, and they could never climb back…
[T] “I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me / I'm beggin' you to beg me”
But she knew she wasn’t wrong about this; that was the big problem. She knew it was what she wanted, she really did. She didn’t want to be taken for a joke though. She knew what they’d do, everyone there at McKinley… They’d see her and Brittany, and they’d get all leery about it, like it meant nothing more than a couple of hot girls making out… She wouldn’t say that it shouldn’t bother her, because actually it really did. And most of all she hated that she let herself listen to it.
[T] “I'll shine up my old brown shoes / Put on a brand new shirt / Get home early from work / If you say that you love me
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin' / Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin' / Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying / Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin' / Hey!”
They weren’t going to get this from her, from them. If it was going to be just one moment, then she wasn’t going to let them tarnish it like they’d done the rest. She was going to have her dance, after she - and Puck - had worked so hard to get it, and seeing how into it Brittany was getting… just like she knew she would. She wasn’t expecting her to walk out of that gym with her, like they’d ride off into the sunset. But maybe they could at the very least they could start working their way back to the place they’d lost…
[T] “Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying / Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me / I'm beggin' you to beg me
I want you to want me / I want you to want me / I want you to want me / I want you to want me”
When the song ended, Brittany was still laughing, unable to be held down on her own two feet. “Come on, come with us,” she told Santana, indicating behind herself. Even without seeing, Santana knew what she meant by us - her and Artie. But it was okay… it was just as she’d told herself… and out of nowhere Santana had found patience in herself.
“It’s alright. You go. I’ve got something I need to take care of, but… I might join you later,” she nodded.
“Are you sure?” Brittany asked, still holding on to her hand. ‘Like I could answer that,’ Santana thought, but what she said was…
“I’m sure.” Brittany nodded, and she hugged her. Santana hugged back… so very much.
Up on the stage, Tina had finished her song, only to spot Mike standing there, right below. She smiled as he applauded her. “Help me down?” she begged. He hoisted himself up on the stage, then with a thought, he turned and offered his back.
“Climb on,” he told her, and he heard her burst out laughing. Once she’d grabbed on, he made sure he had good hold of her and he carried her off.
When Santana found Puck, he was sitting back on the chairs, waiting for her. He had that little smirk on his face, and she shook her head. “You’re going to make me say it, aren’t you?” she asked, and he looked up, innocent. She frowned, but then the smile slowly started to win, and she conceded. “Thank you,” she bowed her head. She wasn’t going to leave him the satisfaction of that smirk for much longer though, and she gave his leg a quick little kick. He looked at her. “Right… So let’s see about you.” Now it was his turn to have that uncertain hope.
TO BE CONTINUED (TOMORROW)
* IN CONSTRUCTION! *
PREVIOUS DAYS
[Cycle 01] [Cycle 02] [Cycle 03] [Cycle 04] [Cycle 05]
[Cycle 06] [Cycle 07] [Cycle 08] [Cycle 09] [Cycle 10]
[Cycle 11] [Cycle 12] [Cycle 13] [Cycle 14] [Cycle 15]
[Cycle 16] [Cycle 17] [Cycle 18] [Cycle 19] [Cycle 20]
[Cycle 21] [Cycle 22]
[Cycle 23]
[463] [464] [465] [466] [467]
[468] [469] [470] [471] [472]
[473] [474]
Suggestion Drop Off
Title: "Love & the Gentle Heart Are One Thing: 13. They Are Desires"
Pairing: [Capitalized = in this chapter] Carl/Emma, Finn/Rachel, Kurt/Blaine, ARTIE/BRITTANY, MIKE/TINA, Sam/Quinn, PUCK/SANTANA, Anthony/Mercedes, Will/Holly, Puck/Quinn, Will/Emma, Burt/Carole, BRITTANY/SANTANA, Artie/Tina, Mike/Brittany and more to come!
Rating: G
Summary: Valentine's Day is coming, and it's shaping up to be a very Glee kind of dance...
Spoilers: Through 210 A Very Glee Christmas