Glee One-Shots

In my veins (Brochel)

The fact that Finn had let her go over four months ago doesn't register in her mind (the fact that he broke up with her officially over the phone a month ago does). It's a classy Finn move, she realises. Once he get's bored, he shoves aside.

It's from Kurt that she hears about Finn meeting someone when he goes back to Lima. Apparently she's a clone of (old) Quinn. Very blonde and very pretty.

For days, Rachel would go through her routines in a daze, never really noticing anything or anyone. When Cassie had expressed her worry after Rachel dislocating her hip, she finally snapped out of her zombie state.

After another two weeks of intense training, Cassie had torn her apart from her Tango partner and told her to sit out and take a break.

(It really surprised her, as her dance teacher was as rough as sandpaper.)

She's sitting on a park bench when her vision blurs again. She wants to scream, to yell (to call Finn and curse his very existence for causing her pain) but she doesn't. Instead, she sniffs and takes the agonizing pain, vowing to get over him as soon as she can.

When Brody doesn't pick up his phone, she knows that she made a mistake. Sure, he was respecting her boundaries but it's been a week since she's seen him and she really missed him. She didn't want to hurt him when he tried to kiss her, so she stepped away. For the first time in her life, she wasn't being selfish and now she's being punished?

(It doesn't surprise her. Things never go her way.)

She realises that she's used to the pain now.

"You miss him."

It's the first thing Kurt had said to her in days. Her best gay knew that she didn't want to talk to anyone, so he's been keeping quiet, scared that him talking might set her off to the deep end again.

When she faces him, she wants to sigh in relief. She's missed her best friend even though they've lived in close proximity for nearly two months now. "Who?"

Kurt smiles slightly and then comes to sit next to her on the wooden floor. (Usually, he'd tell her to get off the floor because she might get splinters 'in her ass' but he makes the small sacrifice to make his friend happy.)

"Brody, silly."

He wants to talk more about the mysterious, sexy stranger (to him, of course) but he sees the way her bottom lip wobbles and stops himself. Kurt knows that Brody's been ignoring her for over a week now and she seems more affected by it than she was when Finn broke up with her.

"He was my first friend here and he turned his back on me. I wish I kissed him that night just so he would still be my friend," she whispers instead.

Kurt's heart breaks in two. Never (in the whole three year's he's known her) had Rachel sounded more heartbroken than now. He can her her pain and anguish just by looking into her dark eyes.

"What if he moved on? I know it's stupid to wish he hadn't but it's been five weeks."

The boy sighs and swallows the bile of annoyance (at Brody, and even more-so at Finn) and intertwines their fingers together.

"Don't worry, Rach. He'll come back, begging for forgiveness on his knees, I promise."

(He doesn't like breaking his promises.)

Kurt takes her out to have a vegan cheesecake the next night. When his friend woke up that morning, she looked happy and determined. She then proceeded to spam Brody with voice-mails until he finally answered. The guy had apologised for ignoring her and promised to meet her in Tibideaux' class again on Monday.