ETHEREAL - glee!

one.one

delilah sat in between quinn and brittany, head resting on britt's shoulder, tiredness getting the better of her. "ballad,from middle english, balade,who knows what this word means?"mr schue and brittany rose her hand, making delilah groan as her head was poked by her shoulder. "it's a male duck," she said. "no britts," delilah said as she burried her face into her shoulder.

"a ballad is a love song," kurt answered, correctly. "sometimes, but they don't always express love, ballads are stories set to music which is why they're the perfect storm of self-expression," mr schue explained. "why is her so loud," delilah mumbled to quinn and brittany. brittany was comfortable, but she wasn't santana. "looks like my weekly letter to the ohio show choir committee finally paid off!" she heard rachel yell, making her wince.

"shut up, manhands, she's teird," santana said to which rachel rolled her eyes. "she can't sleep in a glee club, we need to project and show my talent i-" rachel began before santana cut her off. "she can sleep if i say she can," she groaned and rachel knew it was best to leave it there, santana's glare being very evident.

"okay, so here's our assignment for the week: i'm going to pair you off, and i want you to pick a ballad to sing to your partner," he said. delilah thought to herself, she sort of wanted santana to pick her, they could sing a song together. santana knew that she wanted to sing with, or too, delilah. "look them right in the eye, find the emotion you want to express, and make them feel it," mr schue said.

"i pick quinn," finn said, immedietly with a dopey smile. "no, no, no. too easy, your partners will be chosen by fate," he said as soon as he said, delilah though that it was all over, her and santana would be together, everything was too against them.

"yeah, i put all your names in this hat, whoever you choose is your partner," mr schue said. "i bet the ducks in the hat," britt said as delilah laughed. "that would be cool, quack," delilah mumbled, trying to close her eyes. "why're you so tierd today, hun?" quinn asked her best friend, pulling some hair behind her ear. "couldn't sleep," she mumbled, keeping the 'i keep having bad dreams about the accident and santana isn't there for me' part to herself. "sometimes, i stay up because i'm scared that lord tubbington's gang is going to try and steal my things,"

"but matt's out sick today, he had to go to the hospital, 'cause they found a spider in his ear," santana spoke, causing everyone to grimace. "i hate spiders," delilah whispered. that ment that there was exactly puck goes up and get mercedes and then finn gets kurt. he whispered to mr schue as the glee club laugh quietly at who got it.

"other asian," tina said confused before sitting back down. santana makes her way over too the hat. delilah felt herself waking up slightly more, not knowing whether she wanted to pray that the paper would read 'delilah' or something completely different. she walked over and gasped "delilah," she said as mr shue whispered a "how fitting,"

"no way, yay for you!" brittany yelled before, quinn got up and picked her paper. it read 'delilah' and just locked eyes with santana, that sneaky little- "artie," she said, she might be pissed at the latina but she loved delilah with all her heart, anyone could see she was better with santana.

the rest of glee club was paired up, "looks like i've got you, mr schue," rachel said, seeming slightly 'too' excited, causing mr schue to look uneasy and suggest waiting for matt to come back. "the fates talked, mr. schue," finn laughed. "would you mind clarifying what kinds of songs you want us to sing?" artie giggled as rachel decided to sing 'endless love' with mr schue claiming it was the 'perfect ballard'.

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"so, our ballard, do you want to sing," santana asked delilah and she just sighed. "san, i don't like this," delilah sighed making santana's face drop. "i'm sorry, i didn't mean to, i-" she stuttered, thinking she had messed everything up with the only person she cared about.

"delilah, i love you, i don't want to ruin my reputation, i don't want you to get hurt, i don't want us to get hurt, but most importantly, i don't want to be without you, i don't care what you think but i've been through hell and back without you, i know you have too, please i'm sorry, i need my priorities, your my priority, you and your happiness, delilah rae acosta, i'm so sorry," she said before being cut off by the blonde embracing her into a hug.

"i was gonna say, i don't like being away from you, i just can't do it anymore," she cried, as the brunette held her close. "i love you, it's okay," santana said, "the song," she started, "i bet you could do it," santana said, but delilah shook her head. "maybe, just maybe," she sighed, lying on santana's bed. "beauty and the beast?" she asked, clicking onto the film as delilah melted into santana's arms.

she still didn't know exactly what they were, she didn't know santana's sexuallity, or understood hers herself fully yet, but she knew she had her santana back and that was all that mattered, of course, it would take time for her to trust her again, but she was getting there. as delilah slowly fell asleep, santana could help but think two things: 'thank god fabray,' and 'i'm the luckiest girl in the world'.

delilah shot up in santana's arms, small sobs escapaing as she clasped her hand of her mouth shakily, not wanting to wake anyone. her white, shaking hands whiped small beads of sweat off her forehead, trying to steady her breathing as santana mumbled something inaudibly and pulling her closer. "i got you, i'll keep you safe," she said, playing with delilah's hair until she fell back to sleep.

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"quinn, what, calm down," delilah said, to her sobbing best friend, as she explained that her parents kicked her out of the house after finn told them about the baby. "i fucked it up, he fucked it up, they don't want me," she said, breathlessly in between sobs. "where are you, you can stay at mine," delilah answered. "elodiey, quinn's coming," she yelled. "im at finn's, his mom said i can stay there," she said but delilah mulled over the idea, not thinking it was the best thing, considering the child wasn't his. "quinn, i'll elodiey to come pick you up," she said and quinn just mumbled an okay.

as the sister got to the hudson house, delilah's heart broke as her blonde best friend's tear-stained eyes met her bright blue ones. she couldn't help but feel bad, as her life was slowly getting better, bit by bit, quinn's was falling apart. "q," elodiey sighed, taking the girls hand and squeezing it reassuringly, "you can stay with us for as long as you want, hun," she said as delilah tightly hugged the breaking down blonde

"i've got you," she whispered, "quinnie, just breathe,"