gleeverse challenge 26 - prompt table
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catchmelikeAngst Finn/Rachel Prompt Table
1 sentence - Star
Rachel knows she’s going to be a star.
6 words - Reality
Reality says he won’t leave Lima.
Drabble - Silence
Rachel stands in line at security, watching him watch her go. The ride to the airport was filled with silence. Neither of them really knew what to say. Goodbye makes it seem like forever, and Rachel wants to believe that it’s not forever. She’s past the metal detectors, and she turns to watch him as he walks out of the airport. She hopes it won’t be forever, but she’s afraid that all of the convincing she’s done to herself that she wouldn’t have to choose has been in vain. She does have to choose. She has chosen. She chose stardom.
Poem - Air
She’s high in the sky
Flying through air on a plane
Wanting home again
Ficlet - Years
It’s been two years since Rachel has been back in Lima, Ohio. She’s seen Kurt and Blaine, and even a few other members of New Directions. Her dads had come to see her in a few off-Broadway plays, along with Mercedes and even Tina and Artie. The only person she hasn’t spoken to that matters is Finn. She doesn’t know why they haven’t kept in contact. They had exchanged a few awkward phone calls and promises to visit in the first few months, but she was busy and he was busy and nothing ever came of it. She hadn’t even gotten home for the holidays in the last couple of years.
She’s walking through the halls at the school where it all began, going to visit the current New Directions, wondering if her first stop should have been Burt’s tire shop to see Finn. She wants to see him, but she doesn’t know the words to say. She doesn’t know if Finn will look the same. Kurt tells her that he’s single, that he’s dated a couple of people but nothing serious.
She knows she’ll go to see him someday. She just isn’t sure today is that day.
Free - Spring
Another spring comes and goes, and it fades back into summer. Rachel hasn’t had a job in a couple of months, and she’s longing for the days of competitions and her biggest worry being whether or not she’ll get the solo at Sectionals. She’s got a quirky little apartment in New York that she shares with Kurt now that Blaine is off in L.A. recording for some new cartoon or movie musical or whatever he’s doing this week.
Kurt talks to Finn twice a week to catch up on his dad and Carole, and every time he asks her if she wants to Finn. Every time she says no. She isn’t even sure she knows how to talk to Finn anymore, since it’s been more time than she can keep up with since they’ve spoken a word. It isn’t that she doesn’t want to talk to him. She does. She wants to ask him to come and see her, to tell him that she thinks, really thinks, that she can have both her career and him.
She wants to ask him to come to New York to visit, to stay, anything. She’s not sure how to bridge the conversation though, and for now, she thinks it’s easier to just speak via Kurt. Maybe some day. Maybe another spring won’t pass without seeing him.
Maybe.
Free - Spinning
Everything is spinning so fast. She can feel her heart pounding and she can see time passing fast as she hears Kurt say the words again. "There’s been an accident. Finn. We have to go."
Free - Diamond
She won’t stay in Lima. She goes for long enough to make sure that Finn is okay, and then she’s back on a plane and back on stage to sing her way through a two month stint in Chicago. She loves Finn, but she loves this too, and she doesn’t know how to balance the two. So she does what has always been easiest and gets back on stage. Singing along to one of her favorite musicals, pretending to be someone else, pretending she’s as confident as the diva everyone thinks she is, that’s what she’s good at. Loving and being loved and letting herself be vulnerable isn’t, and she’s never lied about that.
She goes to wash off her make up and hears someone calling her name. She turns to see Finn, standing just down the hall, Kurt beside him grinning, and it makes him look sixteen again. Finn is still on crutches from the accident, and Rachel’s heart races in a way that it hasn’t since the night she got the call about the accident.
She runs down the hall and wraps her arms around him, happy to see him but scared about what it means, scared he’s going to ask her to go back to Lima, to make another choice that she doesn’t want to make. It was hard enough walking away from him the first time and the second time, and she doesn’t think she can do it again.
He takes her outside and pulls out a small box, opening it to reveal a small diamond ring, and she gasps. The word “no” is playing at her lips and Finn says, “I’m not asking you to come home with me. I’m asking if I can still come here with you.”
She says yes.
Fic - Never
Finn comes to New York a few weeks later with everything he owns. She moves out of her small apartment with Kurt and into something a little bigger and a little cheaper with Finn. He gets a job at a small car shop where someone knows someone who knows someone who knows Burt and gives Finn a chance, even though there’s not a lot of work to be had. Rachel can tell it’s not really what he wants to be doing, but she tries not to say anything.
They try to plan a wedding, but Rachel isn’t home much. There are rehearsals and press and evening shows along with the matinees. She’s got auditions coming up on top of that, and she’s got so much preparation to do that even when she’s home she’s not really available. She’s getting offers for tv and movies, offers to fly her to the UK and to LA and to everywhere in between, and she’s not telling Finn about any of it.
He hasn’t been here six months. It’s been such a short time since he gave up a future in possible ownership of Burt’s garage to drop everything in his life to come here to be with her, to marry her. But everything is already so much more demanding, and she knew, even then, that she should have said no, but Rachel has always been selfish about the things that she wants. And she’s always wanted Finn.
She knows it in her heart already that she’s going to have to make another choice. She’s tired of choosing between her love life and her career, and she had always had this hope that one day she wouldn’t have to anymore. One day she could have a successful career in show business and still have Finn.
She’s starting to think that’s never going to happen. She’s starting to think all of the people who told her that she was going to have to get used to loneliness because it’s lonely at the top were right. Finn seems determined though, determined to stay with her, despite losing his own happiness, but Rachel can’t be okay knowing that he’s not happy, that he doesn’t have the life he wants.
Just because of her. She needs to tell him that it’s over, that they’re never going to be married or have kids or a life together. She needs to tell him they’re better off apart, that he’ll find someone else, that he can have the life he wants, the life she can’t give him, without her. But she tries and she doesn’t.
She’s starting to think she’ll never will.
Rachel’s always been selfish about the things that she wants.
And she’s always wanted Finn.
| Years | Spinning | Star |
| Never | Spring | Reality |
| Silence | Diamond | Air |
1 sentence - Star
Rachel knows she’s going to be a star.
6 words - Reality
Reality says he won’t leave Lima.
Drabble - Silence
Rachel stands in line at security, watching him watch her go. The ride to the airport was filled with silence. Neither of them really knew what to say. Goodbye makes it seem like forever, and Rachel wants to believe that it’s not forever. She’s past the metal detectors, and she turns to watch him as he walks out of the airport. She hopes it won’t be forever, but she’s afraid that all of the convincing she’s done to herself that she wouldn’t have to choose has been in vain. She does have to choose. She has chosen. She chose stardom.
Poem - Air
She’s high in the sky
Flying through air on a plane
Wanting home again
Ficlet - Years
It’s been two years since Rachel has been back in Lima, Ohio. She’s seen Kurt and Blaine, and even a few other members of New Directions. Her dads had come to see her in a few off-Broadway plays, along with Mercedes and even Tina and Artie. The only person she hasn’t spoken to that matters is Finn. She doesn’t know why they haven’t kept in contact. They had exchanged a few awkward phone calls and promises to visit in the first few months, but she was busy and he was busy and nothing ever came of it. She hadn’t even gotten home for the holidays in the last couple of years.
She’s walking through the halls at the school where it all began, going to visit the current New Directions, wondering if her first stop should have been Burt’s tire shop to see Finn. She wants to see him, but she doesn’t know the words to say. She doesn’t know if Finn will look the same. Kurt tells her that he’s single, that he’s dated a couple of people but nothing serious.
She knows she’ll go to see him someday. She just isn’t sure today is that day.
Free - Spring
Another spring comes and goes, and it fades back into summer. Rachel hasn’t had a job in a couple of months, and she’s longing for the days of competitions and her biggest worry being whether or not she’ll get the solo at Sectionals. She’s got a quirky little apartment in New York that she shares with Kurt now that Blaine is off in L.A. recording for some new cartoon or movie musical or whatever he’s doing this week.
Kurt talks to Finn twice a week to catch up on his dad and Carole, and every time he asks her if she wants to Finn. Every time she says no. She isn’t even sure she knows how to talk to Finn anymore, since it’s been more time than she can keep up with since they’ve spoken a word. It isn’t that she doesn’t want to talk to him. She does. She wants to ask him to come and see her, to tell him that she thinks, really thinks, that she can have both her career and him.
She wants to ask him to come to New York to visit, to stay, anything. She’s not sure how to bridge the conversation though, and for now, she thinks it’s easier to just speak via Kurt. Maybe some day. Maybe another spring won’t pass without seeing him.
Maybe.
Free - Spinning
Everything is spinning so fast. She can feel her heart pounding and she can see time passing fast as she hears Kurt say the words again. "There’s been an accident. Finn. We have to go."
Free - Diamond
She won’t stay in Lima. She goes for long enough to make sure that Finn is okay, and then she’s back on a plane and back on stage to sing her way through a two month stint in Chicago. She loves Finn, but she loves this too, and she doesn’t know how to balance the two. So she does what has always been easiest and gets back on stage. Singing along to one of her favorite musicals, pretending to be someone else, pretending she’s as confident as the diva everyone thinks she is, that’s what she’s good at. Loving and being loved and letting herself be vulnerable isn’t, and she’s never lied about that.
She goes to wash off her make up and hears someone calling her name. She turns to see Finn, standing just down the hall, Kurt beside him grinning, and it makes him look sixteen again. Finn is still on crutches from the accident, and Rachel’s heart races in a way that it hasn’t since the night she got the call about the accident.
She runs down the hall and wraps her arms around him, happy to see him but scared about what it means, scared he’s going to ask her to go back to Lima, to make another choice that she doesn’t want to make. It was hard enough walking away from him the first time and the second time, and she doesn’t think she can do it again.
He takes her outside and pulls out a small box, opening it to reveal a small diamond ring, and she gasps. The word “no” is playing at her lips and Finn says, “I’m not asking you to come home with me. I’m asking if I can still come here with you.”
She says yes.
Fic - Never
Finn comes to New York a few weeks later with everything he owns. She moves out of her small apartment with Kurt and into something a little bigger and a little cheaper with Finn. He gets a job at a small car shop where someone knows someone who knows someone who knows Burt and gives Finn a chance, even though there’s not a lot of work to be had. Rachel can tell it’s not really what he wants to be doing, but she tries not to say anything.
They try to plan a wedding, but Rachel isn’t home much. There are rehearsals and press and evening shows along with the matinees. She’s got auditions coming up on top of that, and she’s got so much preparation to do that even when she’s home she’s not really available. She’s getting offers for tv and movies, offers to fly her to the UK and to LA and to everywhere in between, and she’s not telling Finn about any of it.
He hasn’t been here six months. It’s been such a short time since he gave up a future in possible ownership of Burt’s garage to drop everything in his life to come here to be with her, to marry her. But everything is already so much more demanding, and she knew, even then, that she should have said no, but Rachel has always been selfish about the things that she wants. And she’s always wanted Finn.
She knows it in her heart already that she’s going to have to make another choice. She’s tired of choosing between her love life and her career, and she had always had this hope that one day she wouldn’t have to anymore. One day she could have a successful career in show business and still have Finn.
She’s starting to think that’s never going to happen. She’s starting to think all of the people who told her that she was going to have to get used to loneliness because it’s lonely at the top were right. Finn seems determined though, determined to stay with her, despite losing his own happiness, but Rachel can’t be okay knowing that he’s not happy, that he doesn’t have the life he wants.
Just because of her. She needs to tell him that it’s over, that they’re never going to be married or have kids or a life together. She needs to tell him they’re better off apart, that he’ll find someone else, that he can have the life he wants, the life she can’t give him, without her. But she tries and she doesn’t.
She’s starting to think she’ll never will.
Rachel’s always been selfish about the things that she wants.
And she’s always wanted Finn.
