The Running Back

Rachel awoke in Quinn's arms. The two of them had walked to Rachel's house after Noah had seemingly abandoned them. In reality, he was only waiting outside... for pretty much nothing because long before they went outside, Quinn and Rachel had already decided that they wanted some alone time. Noah groaned as he walked away, muttering some sort of complaint under his breath. "Sorry Noah," Rachel apologized as she walked off in the opposite direction with Quinn on her arm.

He waved them off without looking back. "Don't worry about it." And for a moment Rachel did, but a kiss on the cheek from Quinn was enough to have her forget about that. They wandered a bit, taking comfort in each other's presence and warmth and eventually made their way to Rachel's house. Quinn stayed over since it was late and they quickly fell asleep together on Rachel's bed.

Rachel woke the following morning, Quinn's fingers lightly dancing upon her midsection. She placed her hand over Quinn's, interlacing their fingers and then she felt Quinn's lips upon her neck. Quinn trailed barely there kisses down to Rachel's collarbone. "Morning," she whispered before nuzzling into her hair. "I've been waiting for you to get up."

"Yeah?" Rachel question as she nuzzled back into Quinn.

"Yeah, you want to grab some breakfast or maybe we should cuddle some more?"

"I'm fine with lying here for a bit," Rachel admitted. "But don't you have Cheerios practice?"

Quinn groaned lightly. "Don't remind me. I so wish that Sue would have given me a few extra days off to make sure you're all right."

"Don't worry about me, I'm fine," Rachel assured as she rolled over to face her girlfriend. "And I think that you were lucky enough to have Sue give you some time off at all. How exactly did you pull that off in the first place anyway?"

Quinn smirked and answered with a simple, "I have my ways."

The two of them stayed in bed just a little longer before heading downstairs and having some breakfast with Rachel's dads. Quinn had to head off soon after and though she told Rachel that she didn't need to come along, Rachel did so anyway. She wanted to make sure that Rachel was able to get some adequate rest. Of course any argument with her girlfriend was doomed for failure and so, after a quick trip to Quinn's house to pick up her Cheerios uniform, they left for McKinley together.

When they got there they were forced to split up. Quinn had to have a little talk with Sue and so Rachel went to find herself a nice seat up on the bleachers. But before that she walked onto the field, lightly kicking the grass. Rachel had missed only one game thus far and yet it felt like so much more. As odd as it sounded, she missed it. She did a little spin and let herself fall down with a soft thud. She could see the Cheerios doing some stretches while Quinn and Sue had their chat.

She had no way of knowing what they were saying to one another, but perhaps that was a good thing. At the very least she knew that Sue wasn't yelling at her girlfriend. Rachel pushed herself up and got off the field. She had seen enough Cheerios practices on know that they'd use it until the football team showed up later on in the day. Rachel went for her seat but along the way someone caught her eye. She stopped and waved at her. Gabrielle froze momentarily before waving back. "Hey," Rachel said as she approached her. "I have seen you in a while." While not exactly true, it had been a while since Rachel had last spoken to Gabrielle.

"Oh, yeah," Gabrielle shrugged. "I've been busy," she explained unconvincingly as she passed a glance in Quinn's direction. "Okay, yeah. That's a big lie. I've actually been avoiding you. No, I've actually been avoiding Quinn which is pretty much the same thing as avoiding you since the two of you are pretty much attached at the hip." She promptly face-palmed after speaking. "I did not mean to say all that. Oh jeez..." She let out a sigh. "It's just, I made a complete fool of myself."