Ficlet; Doll Parts [Glee, Rachel/Quinn]
Title: Doll Parts.
Pairing: Rachel/Quinn
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: None.
Summary: They swap stories and lies
Men are stupid. It's not like she's some prodigy or anything, but she knows that much. Yet, still, Quinn finds herself in a marriage that seems more one sided than anything. And while she settles her sick kid on her lap waiting for the pediatrician to come in the room she can't help but wonder where her husband is now. She imagines he must be giving some company to a fourty five year old cougar who likes men fit and young. And when she'll question him later, he'll use the same excuse he always does. "I just clean her pools, babe." And she's meant to buy that, so she does...each and every week.
Quinn is surprised to see man hands again, in that same doctor's office while waiting for her daughter's check up. She forces herself to give a strained smile, and as idle chit chat is made, she can't help but think that Rachel sees just how down trodden she has become. [Because high school was only the beginning]. Of course, Quinn knows her beauty has fallen down hill since the day she got knocked up. Her eyes droop into her skull and those bloody dark bags just won't go away. She's even forced to apply more make up to cover up the wrinkles that threaten to show. And god, she's so very tired.
Rachel looks far better, and just like back in Glee, she finds herself jealous. They swap stories and lies. Quinn knows how to weave together a believable tale so she does. She makes up a fabricated plot line of how things have been fabulous, of how Puck is far more loving than before---of how Riley is at the top school, and she's got herself a a loads decent office job. When only the opposite is true.
Man hands out does her, like she always does. The gab fest makes Quinn's stomach lurch in jealousy. But Berry doesn't seem to notice as she talks of meeting a man whose far better than Jessie or Finn. And of some blooming career in musicals. Which, Quinn's not all that surprised when Rachel relays her five year plan to make it to a massive broadway show. She doesn't care, but with manners intact, she listen's anyways.
Quinn Fabray is so thankful when the doctor decides to come out with his clip board, and her child. She breaks away from Berry, to talk to the professional, about how healthy her daughter was. [A relief as it was the only good news Quinn had for the past month.] Turning back into the waiting room to say her farewell, Quinn pursed her lips in thought. Not once had the blond considered why man hands had been in the same room, waiting. [Because a child wasn't brought up in her never ending story, and last Fabray knew Rachel Berry didn't get "sick".] It isn't until she's about to make an exit, when she sees Berry arms wrap around her doctors shoulders only to be smacked away. She watches the way man hands curls back in rejection and cowers.
And that's how she knows that Rachel Berry knows. Quinn and Rachel, they had the same understanding that men were stupid, and they'd always be. She doesn't need to know that Rachel has told just as many lies as her, that she get's abused at night, that she's become a regular April Rhodes down on her luck and making the best of what she doesn't have.
Yeah, Quinn Fabray thinks to herself as she buckles her child's seat belt. Men have always been stupid.
Pairing: Rachel/Quinn
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: None.
Summary: They swap stories and lies
Men are stupid. It's not like she's some prodigy or anything, but she knows that much. Yet, still, Quinn finds herself in a marriage that seems more one sided than anything. And while she settles her sick kid on her lap waiting for the pediatrician to come in the room she can't help but wonder where her husband is now. She imagines he must be giving some company to a fourty five year old cougar who likes men fit and young. And when she'll question him later, he'll use the same excuse he always does. "I just clean her pools, babe." And she's meant to buy that, so she does...each and every week.
Quinn is surprised to see man hands again, in that same doctor's office while waiting for her daughter's check up. She forces herself to give a strained smile, and as idle chit chat is made, she can't help but think that Rachel sees just how down trodden she has become. [Because high school was only the beginning]. Of course, Quinn knows her beauty has fallen down hill since the day she got knocked up. Her eyes droop into her skull and those bloody dark bags just won't go away. She's even forced to apply more make up to cover up the wrinkles that threaten to show. And god, she's so very tired.
Rachel looks far better, and just like back in Glee, she finds herself jealous. They swap stories and lies. Quinn knows how to weave together a believable tale so she does. She makes up a fabricated plot line of how things have been fabulous, of how Puck is far more loving than before---of how Riley is at the top school, and she's got herself a a loads decent office job. When only the opposite is true.
Man hands out does her, like she always does. The gab fest makes Quinn's stomach lurch in jealousy. But Berry doesn't seem to notice as she talks of meeting a man whose far better than Jessie or Finn. And of some blooming career in musicals. Which, Quinn's not all that surprised when Rachel relays her five year plan to make it to a massive broadway show. She doesn't care, but with manners intact, she listen's anyways.
Quinn Fabray is so thankful when the doctor decides to come out with his clip board, and her child. She breaks away from Berry, to talk to the professional, about how healthy her daughter was. [A relief as it was the only good news Quinn had for the past month.] Turning back into the waiting room to say her farewell, Quinn pursed her lips in thought. Not once had the blond considered why man hands had been in the same room, waiting. [Because a child wasn't brought up in her never ending story, and last Fabray knew Rachel Berry didn't get "sick".] It isn't until she's about to make an exit, when she sees Berry arms wrap around her doctors shoulders only to be smacked away. She watches the way man hands curls back in rejection and cowers.
And that's how she knows that Rachel Berry knows. Quinn and Rachel, they had the same understanding that men were stupid, and they'd always be. She doesn't need to know that Rachel has told just as many lies as her, that she get's abused at night, that she's become a regular April Rhodes down on her luck and making the best of what she doesn't have.
Yeah, Quinn Fabray thinks to herself as she buckles her child's seat belt. Men have always been stupid.