Last Night They Loved You

[nicalyse]

Title: Last Night They Loved You
Chapter: 1/1
Warnings: Mild language.
Character: Quinn. Canon Puck/Quinn with mentions of Finn/Quinn.
Word Count: 7,300
Summary: For all of the times she's been chosen first, she's never been chosen last.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
A/N: This is the third story in the Only Dots On a Line series, but stands alone. I forgot

Comments

[cassie_faith]

Okay, this was awesome! Our headcanons' for Quinn are almost identical! Great work, I really liked it. :)

[nicalyse]

Thank you so much!

[kimmi_watch]

My heart! This was a really beautiful insight into Quinn. She's not my favourite character, so far from my favourite character actually, but you always manage to write her in a way that makes me love her and feel for her. You show her vulnerabilities so well. And her relationship with Puck in this? I felt so much for the both of them because they're both so messed up. That line where she pointed out that Shelby didn't have a husband and then thought about how that meant their child wouldn't have a father made me almost cry because they both had fathers who ended up being disappointments so it was almost fitting that they gave their daughter to a single woman. Beautiful.

[nicalyse]

There are things about Quinn that I really enjoy exploring, like her self-destructive streak and what I see as a really obvious hit of self-loathing. Even though I forgot about it and didn't post it until now, this was the first Quinn piece I ever wrote; this is where I personally start from any time I write her.

And Puck and Quinn thinking about Beth not having a father basically broke my heart, and I wrote it. I'm glad you liked that bit.

[sneaker328]

Oh my God. We are like mind twins when it comes to head canons for Quinn, especially in Season 1. This was just amazing. it was everything I've thought about her put on paper using the absolute perfect words. Made me remember the time when I didn't necessarily find Quinn likable, but did find her interesting, and cared about her messed up dynamic with Puck.

I particularly love the ruthless way in which you indict both of them for their behavior. No sugarcoating here:

She was a conquest, the trophy that he knocked off the pedestal and shattered into a thousand pieces in his quest to possess it.

Jesus.

And then this:

She thinks that she probably hurt him most of all, made him feel used and worthless and like the failure that she knows now he was never going to be. She played his emotions, however unwittingly sometimes, and altered his relationships with nearly everyone that he knew.

He was the person that she'd come closest to loving in her life, and he was the one that she tore apart without mercy.

Damn, girl! I mean damn.

[nicalyse]

Not likeable, but interesting. Good job summing up exactly how I felt about Quinn for a very, very long time. (There are moments when I legitimately like her on the show, but they are few and far between.)

I think the pre-series Puck was far more careless with the people around him than he's become, and I think that, in a lot of ways, Quinn suffered the most for that. (Though it's possible that he hurt himself just as much or more than he hurt her.) Of course, that's something that they had in common.

Thank you so much for the comment, darling.