You Got It// Puckleberry
They had just gotten back from the funeral and the wake, and Rachel was now convincing her fathers that she was stable enough to handle the rest of the night alone. “Actually not alone. Noah’s here.” Which honestly? Could be worse than being alone but she’d be damned if she let her concerned parents know that. Hiram and Leroy Berry absolutely insisted on babysitting Sofia today, and they were a huge help to the both of them, but that didn’t make them unable to fry Rachel’s every last one nerves.
Finally, they had left and Rachel was able to appreciate to fully appreciate the clean kitchen. The rest of the house however, was still full of her and Puck’s moving boxes. She hated this. Making this house her own wasn’t right, and she sensed that Puck felt the same way, seeing as his boxes were collecting the same amount of dust as hers. She couldn’t remember the last time she was alone like this. Puck made some comment about changing and she made some comment about him being allergic to nice clothes and bottom line was that he was now upstairs changing.
It wouldn’t be long until Sofia woke up from her slumber and they were thrust back into chaos, but right now Rachel was soaking in the peace and quiet “IF YOU WANT BLOOD YOU GOT IT!” Her brown orbs shot open, full of fury and rage as the lead singer of AC/DC’s voice essentially tore through Rachel’s nerves. Puckerman. The roaring wasn’t at a volume high enough to wake Sofia up in her one-way soundproofed nursery, but it was definitely loud enough to tear Rachel out of whatever serenity she had managed to achieve. What was wrong with him? He didn’t cry, he drank. He didn’t weep, he played video games. He didn’t mourn, he played trash metal or whatever it was call. Rachel herself cried all she could today, also making a rule not to do so in front of Puck, and now she was ready for screaming.
The tiny brunette whizzed down the hall, grabbing onto the bannister and swinging her tiny body around to the first step of the stairs. Rachel sped up to Noah’s door, banging her tiny little fists against it. Giving up on that, she swung open only to come face to face with Puck…. in his boxers.
Puck had to admit that he was a lot more tired than he was letting on. The funeral must have taken years off of his life, and Rachel had cried herself dry while they were there, on their way to her fathers’ house, and then all the way home. Somehow, her makeup remained unsmudged. The force had let him take a few weeks off in order to get adjusted to his ‘new living style’ and he could come back whenever he felt ready, but in his mind, he was almost ready to go back just so that he didn’t have to spend his whole day in a house with his dead best friend’s stuff in it. Cringing, Puck stripped off his shirt, humming one of his favorite ACDC songs. Rachel was more bearable today, he thought, even with the non-stop crying, but it was most likely because they had spent much of their morning and after-the-funeral with the Berry parents. Seeing her really interact in her family setting only proved further than Rachel Berry was definitely an only child.
After humming the second verse, Puck said fuck it and hit the switch on his boombox. The thing was old, and dusty, but it still worked as well as it did when he was in 7th grade. With a smile, he skipped to the track stuck in his head all day and began to sing along and play imaginary drums to the baseline. “IF YOU WANT BLOOD, YOU GOT IT! BLOOD ON THE STREETS, BLOOD ON THE ROCKS--”
Obnoxiously small wrists banged on the wood of his door, and he quirked his eyebrow. Rachel was already lonely? They had literally just gotten home! Ignoring her, Puck shucked off his stuffy dress pants. Admittedly, Puck had been kind of thoughtful toward her for the past few days, trying to spend time with her despite how much she grated on her nerves, making sure she wasn’t alone too long, making sure that he argued with her for some sense of normalcy and some time to not think about Quinn. She probably didn’t notice (it figured), but Puck had been trying his (honest) hardest. Even with Sofia, he made sure to take his fair load in baby-watching abilities. Growing up a baby-sitter, Puck didn’t really need any guidance on how to take care of a child, but if he was even more honest, he hadn’t paid much attention when Sarah was born, so he still made quite a few rookie mistakes. Like: never let the baby have metal forks, never let the baby play with an open bottle of water, don’t forget to burp the baby or she’ll throw up on Rachel, never feed the baby potato chips.
Turning toward the door, after Rachel seemed to not be going away, Puck moved to open it, when Rachel burst through the wooden barrier. Never one to be body-shy, Puck just crossed his arms over his chest and raised his other eyebrow further in greeting. Her face was an angry pink, and she had obviously poised herself up enough to come and scream at him that she looked a little bit lost when she didn’t. Instead, she stared at him.
While her looking definitely wasn’t unwelcome (c’mon, he knew he looked great) it was still a bit annoying when all he wanted was a nice shower. ACDC still played loudly behind him, but he didn’t turn to lower the volume, expecting Rachel to yell at him no matter what he did. “You can take a picture, princess, it’ll last longer.” He snorted, walking a step closer, “Unless you wanna cop a feel first?” Wiggling his eyebrows, Puck reached a hand behind him to hit the off button on the small metal box. “But you’d better hurry ‘cos I want a shower.”
















