The one where Quinn just wants wants a bubble bath
Fandom: Glee
Characters: Quinn/Rachel
Summary: After a day of saving cities and kicking ass, Quinn likes to come home and forget she's a spy
Originally Posted on: FF.net and my tumblr 06.22.2012
It's been a long day for Quinn.
Between saving Beverly Hills - of all places - from Will's neverending doom, dealing with the rich and spoiled for destroying their homes (without one thank you for saving the damn city), almost watching the team getting crushed by a building, Quinn really wants nothing more but a hot bubble bath to fall asleep in.
When the team arrives home - Rachel making a call to HQ saying that things are fine, Kurt and Blaine retreating to their room, Finn descending into the basement to go through their food stash (again), Mike and Tina lounging in the living room, Santana and Brittany heading to the pool, and Puck not even coming home at all - Quinn immediately calls dibs on the first shower. None of them mind, which is a saving grace because showers are both rare and difficult to claim in a full house like theirs. (Adding the fact everyone has a super power to their advantage creates the chaos that's always associated with the team.)
Quinn fills up the giant tub (Thank god Kurt has the money and taste for a tub like this, he thinks) and adds her favourite vanilla and cinnamon bubble bath into the warm water. The smell is therapeutic enough that by the time she strips out of her super gear, her senses are mostly down and her limbs are loose.
Settling into a warm bath is always Quinn's favourite part. The hot water taking out the knots in her muscles from hours of crime fighting, the smell of vanilla and cinnamon the only thing on her mind. It's mostly enough for her to forget that she's an international spy, and the best one of her lot. She's so at ease that she almost doesn't hear the door opening silently.
(She does hear it, of course. Quinn's the greatest spy the team has - she'd know who was creeping into her room even if she was in a deep sleep.)
"Hello, Rachel," Quinn mumbles, clearing her throat when she hears how rough it sounds. Baths like these always make her s sleepy.
Rachel replies with a soft giggle before saying, "Hey, Quinn." Quinn hears her girlfriend padding over to the tub and sitting next to it, and before long Quinn feels Rachel's soft fingers threading through her wet hair.
"Mmm," she moans, delighted and oh so relaxed, "feels good."
"That's the point, honey," Rachel replies quietly, her fingers scratching at Quinn's scalp. It's not hard enough to hurt, but it's also not light enough for Quinn to not feel. It's perfect.
"You always loved long baths after missions," Rachel comments softly, but Quinn can hear the smile in her voice.
"Yes," she agreed, "but I love it even more when my girlfriend is in the tub to join me." Quinn smiles cheekily, tilting her head up to look pointedly at her girlfriend. Rachel's face is upside down from this view, but Quinn still thinks she's looks ever beautiful when she tosses her head back to laugh.
Still, it's even better when Rachel strips her super gear off too, sliding into the tub with Quinn and lying by her girlfriend until the water goes cold and their fingers start to prune.