Rachel Berry (
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Broadway Baby
Rachel's packing when the phone rings. It's not a ringtone she immediately recognizes (Don't Rain on My Parade, her general one) as belonging to one particular person, but when she looks down at the number she contemplates not answering at all. It's the casting director for Spring Awakening, that much she's sure of. And since it'd be rude to not answer, she picks up the phone, all the while preparing herself for the worst.
"Rachel Berry speaking!" The girls' got a game face if nothing else. "Yes, yes, of course I remember!...O-oh?....Oh. Oh my God, oh my-yes. Yes, yes of course! I'd be honored! Thank you so much!" The next 5 minutes of the conversation goes that way. Oh my God and Thank you so much and This means so much and a million other exclamations intended to keep her from crying on the phone with her -- her -- casting director. "Thank you. Thank you so much. I'll see you soon, then!" She finally hangs up after a few more thanks yous, dropping her phone on the bed and turning to bolt into the living room.
Of course, she manages to stop herself halfway down the hall. Be cool, Berry. After a few deep breaths, she manages to cool her jets and stride into the living room instead. Noah's watching some silly game and she knows he hates it when she gets in front of the tv, but she's going to do it anyway. Crossing in front of him, she pulls his ankle down from where it's resting on the opposite thigh and takes a seat right in his lap. After prying his beer out of his hands and wrapping her arms around his neck she leans in, kissing a slow trail up his neck to his ear.
"Have you ever made love to a Broadway Starlet, Mr. Puckerman?"
"Rachel Berry speaking!" The girls' got a game face if nothing else. "Yes, yes, of course I remember!...O-oh?....Oh. Oh my God, oh my-yes. Yes, yes of course! I'd be honored! Thank you so much!" The next 5 minutes of the conversation goes that way. Oh my God and Thank you so much and This means so much and a million other exclamations intended to keep her from crying on the phone with her -- her -- casting director. "Thank you. Thank you so much. I'll see you soon, then!" She finally hangs up after a few more thanks yous, dropping her phone on the bed and turning to bolt into the living room.
Of course, she manages to stop herself halfway down the hall. Be cool, Berry. After a few deep breaths, she manages to cool her jets and stride into the living room instead. Noah's watching some silly game and she knows he hates it when she gets in front of the tv, but she's going to do it anyway. Crossing in front of him, she pulls his ankle down from where it's resting on the opposite thigh and takes a seat right in his lap. After prying his beer out of his hands and wrapping her arms around his neck she leans in, kissing a slow trail up his neck to his ear.
"Have you ever made love to a Broadway Starlet, Mr. Puckerman?"
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With a groan of mock irritation, he steps away from Rachel, crosses his arms over his chest, and grasps the hem of his shirt; pulling his arms upward and uncrossing them as he does so, he teasingly tosses his shirt at her, his muscles rippling. "Fuck, I hope I still look this good in five years. I hope you got a belly that's round as fuck, though. I wanna see that. You know how hot that sounds?"
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"Shut it, Puckerman." She raises on eyebrow in response to the groan, zooming the camera in and getting a slow pan of his chest. "Note to Rachel: Help him keep his figure, kay?" Zooming out again, she turns the camera on herself, lifting her shirt to show her flat, toned stomach. "Look at this, Rachel. Look. It's gone now, isn't it? It's all Noah's fault. Hit him. And then let him knock you up again. Pregnant is okay. Fat is not."
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"But you're Rachel fucking Puckerman and you're gonna be hot no matter what," he reassures her, reaching out with gentle fingertips to nudge her shirt up over her ribs, his thumb lightly twirling around the circular rim of her bellybutton. "You finished talking yet, babe?"
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"That's entirely untrue." She hands over the camera, tugging her shirt over her head. "Oh, I'm never done talking." Leaning up, she pecks his lips, sinking her teeth into the bottom one. "But that's okay. You like it when I make noise."
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As he balances the camera with one hand, his free hand moves to cup her breast, rolling her nipple between two fingers. "Fuckin' love it when you make noise. You gonna scream when you come for me, baby? Tell the neighbors who's making you come? S'me. S'always gonna be me. You're gonna miss me tomorrow, baby. You're gonna miss me so fucking much when you're at Coco's and I'm not there to make you feel good. Tell me, baby. Tell me how you're gonna have to lock yourself in Coco's bathroom and get yourself off with your fingers to my voice 'cause you're gonna miss me so much. Tell me. 'Cause I'm gonna be in bed with you on the phone getting off, too."
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She arches into his hands, stretching her arms above her head to show off for the camera. Reaching back down, she cups one hand around his and leans up to kiss his jaw, her other hand popping up the button on his jeans and slipping her hand inside. "I am. I'm going to miss you so much...I won't be able to sleep. All that adrenaline and excitement and no way to get rid of it. And the bed won't smell like you and I won't be able to hear you singing in the shower at 5 in the morning..." It's not all about the sex, after all.
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"Think about how good it's gonna be when we're together again," he promises. "We're gonna go and get our ink done and be all badass together, babe, and then come back here... I swear I'll have the place clean and everything. S'gonna be so good when you come back, baby." He gasps out the last word as she squeezes him, and he arches into her grasp. "Fuck, Rach," his fingers move, hands cupping and kneading at her breasts once more, "I don't want you to go."
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She nods, pressing her face against his neck. "Don't care if it's clean. Not leaving the bed for a couple days anyway." Neither of them have obligations for the next few days. Until they get really married, it's as good as a honeymoon as they're gonna get. And maybe they'll decide to get up and go to Coney or have a picnic in Central Park or just hop in his truck and see where they end up. But first, they're going to come back here and do exactly what they're doing right now. But as husband and wife. "I don't want to go." Her fingers curl around him, her stroke firm as they reapproach the bed. "But tradition...just..." She whimpers, arching into his hands. "Next time we're here, I'll be your wife..."
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He's been living with her since they left Lima and practically glued to her since midway through their senior year; he doesn't trust himself when left to his own devices with a television and a refrigerator, without Rachel as inspiration to keep the house clean. [He likes his shit to be tidy. He likes to be able to find what he wants when he wants it. He really likes that a clean house means Rachel's more in the mood for sex, 'cause dirty shit or dishes that aren't washed just makes her bitchy. He gets it.] He needs to just make sure, dammit, that their home is clean. No pizza boxes lying around, no beer bottles, no Newlywed Hideaway turned into Renegade Bachelor Pad overnight. "Don't want you to go, either," he murmurs, reaching out to set the camera [at least temporarily] on the bedside table. "We can say fuck tradition and do the tradition thing for the big wedding. Wanna... wanna call Coco and say you're staying?"
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boyfriendfiance on.Rachel trusts him plenty. They're both actually surprisingly (at least on Noah's part) tidy people and they've spent enough time living on two totally separate schedules that sometimes it's like they're living alone anyway. "Or. You could fuck me now and take comfort in the fact that the anticipation that will grow over the next few days will make our wedding night explosive." Not that it isn't always, but still. Sex between them is always on a whole other level when they've been separated for a few days. And with the whole...getting married and getting tattoos of each others fingerprints thing, she can only guess that everything will be ten times stronger.
Once the camera is gone, she pulls him back down, cupping his jaw so she can take her time kissing him.
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"Or we could just fuck the whole time and make it really fucking explosive anyway," he breathes, his voice shuddering as he drops kisses over her collarbone. "We could fuck so hard that you can't fucking walk when we get married, I gotta carry you in. Make you come so hard you're dripping so fucking full, baby. You know I wanna do that. Wanna fill you up." He can't explain how badly he wants to possess her. It seems silly [sounds silly, stupid and anti-feminist] but he's all about these sweet kisses, brushes of his stubble against the smooth skin of her neck, and he wants to mark her [that fucking tattoo, it's going to turn him on for years, even just thinking of it] because he's about to lose her for 24 - 48 hours and he doesn't want to let her go, even if it'll be so worth it when he's finally got her back in his arms.
He moves easily, drawing her toward the bed, nudging her hips in encouragement to climb up onto the mattress. "Lie down," he murmurs, hurried even against the slow brushes of her mouth against his own, even as she tries to take things slowly, savoring them [he wants more, he wants fast]. "Want you, Rach. Can't wait for the slow shit. Need you fucking now and then more."
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When he nudges her back, she takes his wrist and sits down on the bed, sliding back until she's stretched along the length of the mattress and pulling him down on top of her. "Yes." She agrees, spreading her legs around him and finding his lips again as soon as he's close enough. "Yes. Now. Pin me down?"
A couple of times, he's held her wrists up above her head or laced their fingers together and pressed their joined hands to the mattress that way. And it's rare, but occasionally, it's something she'll ask for. To be completely at his mercy for a little bit. To be his.
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He carefully arranges his body, legs spread on either sides of her hips, knees digging into the mattress as his hips press gently against hers. Her heels rest against the backs of his thighs, his long fingers wrapped around her wrists only to tighten at her request and hold her more firmly to the mattress. "M'right here," he tells her softly, his hazel gaze locked on hers. They've made it this far and they're about to take a fucking huge step in their relationship, and - strangely - he isn't afraid. Before Rachel, commitment would have had him running for the nearest exit; this only makes him lean in and kiss her more, rolling his hips against hers, his teeth nipping lightly at her lips between kisses.
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She spreads her legs around him, knees bent over the hard muscle of his thighs. Everything feels so slow, suddenly, the deliberation of his movements betraying his earlier eagerness. He holds her tight, not enough to hurt (never enough to hurt) but the feeling of her wrist bones pressed tight to his palms makes her gasp. "I know." She breathes, rolling her hips up to meet his, her breath shallow, needy against his lips as they kiss and she tries to work herself down onto his cock the way they were both so desperate for a moment ago.
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and Rachel, he wants it to be a good thing. To be happy, wanted, excited. He wantsRachelhis woman to pee on that fucking stick not scared, but happy, excited. He wants her to be happy at the thought that she might be having his kid, with him. He wants her to want him there. He wants to know that he'll be there, that moment until the end, instead of finding out the way he found out about Beth.Right now's not the right time for them, and he knows it.
If it happens accidentally, because sometimes shit just happens and there's nothing you can do about it because it happens when you don't expect it [like falling in love with Rachel], then he's just gonna hold his woman and tell her he loves her and that they'll do this and be a family. He's thought a lot about it, what would happen if it happened. You think about those things when it's already happened to you. When life fucks you over once, you come up with a contingency plan if it decides to fuck you over again. And then you grab life by the balls and tell it that it won't fuck you over again. When life fucks you, you tell it to go to hell, and you go and be happy with your woman and your kid.
He didn't exactly factor Broadway into the mess of things, but... Idina's a fucking superstar, and she's got a kid. Barbra has one kid, and she's fucking Josh Brolin's stepmother. (Dude is a BAMF. No Country for Old Man? That was the shit.) Eventually... it wouldn't be the end of their lives, right? He's had so much time to think about things in the time between Coco's party and now that now when she wriggles down against his hips, slick and hot and muscled thighs, he swallows his groan and goes with it. He won't challenge what she wants because it's been, from the beginning of this, what he's wanted, too. "M'right here," he repeats, rolling his hips harder, sheathing himself inside her smoothly [she's so fucking wet and practically made for him; it's easy]. "I love you. Love you, Rach."
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JuliardNYADA. In school, she'd star or support in every play they put on and when she graduated, she would live off of her trust fund (of course, with scholarships and her father's support, not to mention voice tutoring students who wanted to broaden their talents, she wouldn't need it while she studied) for the 6 months, tops, that it would take her to land a Broadway or Off-Broadway role. By 25, she'd have a Tony and after she won that, love would be easy. She'd never have to compete with girls like Santana and Quinn (in Rachel's dream world, a stripper and a disillusioned housewife by now) again. She would be pick of the litter. She'd be the one who turned heads as she strolled down the street, decked out in whatever designer duds her personal designer (Kurt Hummel, of course) dressed her in. She'd be grown up, beautiful, experienced, perfect, and men would flock to her. She'd have her pick, and only the smartest, most attractive, most talented (in his field and out) would be given her time.And when she felt ready, when she knew he was the one, she'd give herself over to him and it would be as perfect as the rest of her life. Passionate and amazing and all the things the movies say that losing your virginity can't be. Soon afterwards, they'd have a perfect, lavish wedding in Central Park (also planned and designed by Kurt Hummel) and after honeymooning (she could never decide on Paris or Italy), they'd return home and after two years, she'd retire from her show (or if her show came to an end soon before that, she'd stop auditioning) and they'd plan a family. As much as she'd loved growing up an only child, she'd always wanted more than one child of her own. More than two. Once plans were solidified, they'd settle down and have children.
All of this, she'd written down and revised, over and over, for 6 years. And the day she left for New York, she'd stood in her room and poured over it. All these hopes and dreams that seemed so far away, so impossible now, and she'd been near tears when there'd been a knock on her door jamb. When she turned, she'd come face to face with Noah, who'd only smiled and nodded to the picnic basket in the corner. Food for the ride. Grab your shit, Berry. We're gettin' the fuck outta here. is all he'd said before he headed down the stairs to the truck idling outside.
And when she pitches the notebook into the wastebasket near her bed, she thinks maybe, the part about that amazing, talented boy who loves her, who makes her feel more perfect and beautiful than Santana and Quinn will ever be, is the only part that matters. That it's the only part she got right.
Maybe 2 or 3 months ago, if they'd slipped up, embracing their mistake would have been easier. Sure, there probably would have been anger. Fear. But coming to terms with what they'd done, getting excited, would have been infinitely easier. But now? She'll have to back away from her dream job, give up everything she's worked so hard for and the fear that she'd resent Noah and/or the baby is worse than the thought of having to give up Wendla. Because she loves him. She knows that he's an amazing father and that she could never ask for anything better for her child. And she can't do that to him again. She can't be the one who makes him feel like he's not. Like he can't be. Like he's not good enough all over again. Thankfully, they both agree that now's not the right time and he's agreed to be as careful as she wants to be.
Not that that matters, right now.
"I know." Her voice gives out, turns to nothing but air as he drops his hips down and slips inside, so easy, as if he's made to be there (maybe he is). Her nails dig into the palm of her hand and she whimpers, chasing his lips for more of those soft, lingering kisses. "I love you. I love you so much. So much."
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"Rach," he murmurs, his eyes dark and voice low. "Ever think we'd - like, be here? Together?" Sometimes their lovemaking is full of laughter, tickles [his ribs particularly], grinning and giggling and rolling around until they dislodge on the bed and have to manage to still themselves for long enough to actually make love again [he tries to pin her down so she won't tickle him, but it usually doesn't work]. Other times, they're silent, or harsh, or frantic. Times like now, they're slow and whispering, back and forth as they move the same, as he sets the pace from his position atop her and his fingers pushing the backs of her hands and her wrists harder into their mattress.
The red light of the video camera is steady as it records them, and the slow motions of their bodies in the room's light; they'll watch this in five years and marvel at how much has changed, and how little has changed that matters. They'll still be together, still in love, only louder and prouder and more public than ever. They'll be bigger, and have more, and be more. These times, though, and this year, it's chilly outside and it's just the two of them in some of the best days of their lives, and although they know that there is so much more to come, maybe this quiet is preferable, right now. Who knows if they'll have the luxury and spontaneity of these moments in five years? Who knows if they'll begin before the interruption of a baby's cry, or morning sickness, or they'll work overlapping shifts for a time, or if he'll be injured in the line of duty, or worse? Nobody knows. In this moment, he has her, and she him. No one else knows, and nothing else matters. She was never in his plan, and he didn't realize that he needed her until she was in his bedroom, barging into his house the way that she barged into his life - uninvited, but the best thing that ever happened to him, on both counts.
"M'so proud of you for this," he murmurs on one deep thrust, meeting her lips with his own in a slow kiss.
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She's talking about the second time that night, after they'd fucked frantically against the goalpost on the football field. After they'd gone back to her empty house and stood at the end of her bed in her dim room and undressed each other in silence, too busy pressing sweet, lingering kisses to each other's lips to speak. And then he'd pressed her into her mattress and they just rocked, slow, against each other, nothing but soft gasps and kisses and whispers of each other's names passing their lips. Until she came, slow like everything else, clinging to him and exploding from the inside out. And maybe, at the time, it hadn't struck her as odd. But then he fell asleep, and she realized as she drifted off after him, that something had shifted and she didn't even notice. Also, he was spooning her. They'd cuddled, but spooning was a new one.
"Just. Figured out I wasn't-..." She whines, fluttering around him and trying to get him to go a little faster. "Alone. Noah. Baby. Please." She's not above begging at this point. They have all night to go slow and savor what'll be the last time until after they're married. But right now, she wants.
"'M proud of you. For everything." Not everything, of course, but. He's been working so hard and doing so well, proving that everything everyone back in Lima said about him was wrong. That he was more than a Lima Loser. She kisses him back, but it breaks apart as she has to gasp for air. "There."
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"Never alone," he pants, the words a soft exhale of breath before he drops another kiss on her lips. "Never fucking - alone again, baby." She's got him and she's got Beth, if she never has anybody else in her life. Beth calls her Mommy these days, natural and easy, and he can't help but smile at his girls when they're out on a crisp afternoon and do his best to spoil them when his Rachel is clasping his arm and his - their - daughter is skipping in front of them, at their sides, alternating between holding Daddy's hand and Mommy's hand, twirling like a princess and roaring like a dinosaur. She's a Puckerman, even if it will be a few days before she has a legal right to the name.
At her begging, the raking of his hips grows harsher, more intense; he knows what he wants and precisely how to take it from her body, how to give her the pleasure she seeks [quickly, in all the right places, with all the love he can make her feel]. His fingers tighten in rhythms against her wrists, her toes wiggling against his calves as her feet arch in pleasure with every hard thrust.
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She's trying to speak, his name, encouragements, pleas but all she can really do is work her throat around the words and try to get in enough air to get them out. Her hips are moving without her permission, bones grinding together and she knows the next time they make love, they'll have to be wary of the tattoo on her hip, only a few hours old and starting to sting less and less with every touch from her
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Rachel's lips ghost over his collarbone, and his find her forehead, skimming over strands of hair stuck sweaty to her temple. "So fucking beautiful," he barely whispers, his eyes half-lidded with lust and pleasure and love [and exhaustion, 'cause he'd be fucking lying if he didn't add that last one in there; he'd finally met someone who was his match in every way, except for the ways in which she complemented him, balancing him out in the ways he needed balancing. "S'dumb," to say now, when we're lying here like this, "but you're a good mom to Beth," and I know you're gonna be a great mom when we finally make it happen. "M'lucky I got you'n'we're here in New York. Making our shit real." The place of lights and dreams, where he gets to be a father and a husband and a real man, saving the world and packing heat, and she gets to have her name in lights, performing onstage the way she'd always known she would, even in the face of adversity and people telling her that it wouldn't happen. A smile quirks lightly over his lips, his eyes still half-closed. "I just fucked a Broadway star and I got the movie to prove it. The guys are never gonna believe this shit."