'The only thing Quinn Fabray wears with more loveliness than sadness is joy' this is simultaneously 1) rachel's reaction to when quinn tried to commit suicide, & 2) how they get engaged like 8-ish years later. so, yeah, angst with such a fluffy ending for your valentine's days! (trigger warning)

'"I didn't mean for this to be such a terrible date," she says, fighting a smile. You kiss her breastbone and close your eyes and laugh, tell her, "You know what? I'm here with you, so—it's really not the worst date I've ever been on."' or, three times rachel goes on a terrible date & one time she doesn't. definite angst but ending with faberry fluff. suicide tw.

'You look over and see your Metamodern Performance Studies professor, Dr. Quinn Fabray—twenty-eight years old, published poet, already regarded as one of the most formative theorists in metamodern performativity—looking like she's on the verge of just about sex on the dance floor.' One of Quinn's students runs into Quinn & Rachel at a club. Faberry fluff, headcanon drabble.

'You are always scared, always fractured, always broken and this is beautiful but you are also entirely convinced, at this point, of sutures, because your chest is held together by their remnants and your lungs are constantly cracking around the lack.' or, five times quinn's heart breaks (& one time it doesn't). faberry headcanon drabble.

"Quinn's hands are graceful. But one day you notice a black bruise blooming across the back of her hand, skating blue around the edges. It's a lake, and you wonder what monsters are hiding in that contained flood. You don't know why the bruises are happening. You want to ask but you have never been that brave." or, ten times rachel notices quinn's hands. current headcanon drabble.

"It's intoxicating, the way this relentless optimism fills her, and it always has been to you. She smells nice, like grapefruit and jasmine, when her arm brushes against yours." or, three times quinn falls in love with rachel (even more). a little angst, a lot of fluff.

or, five times quinn doesn't ask to be held but rachel holds her anyway. 'You drape an arm over her ribs, splay your fingers across her stomach, and breathe in the smell of her shampoo, the softness of her hair along the back of her neck. Her breath rattles around, but she's alive and for this very brief moment, it almost feels like she's yours.' faberry fluff & angst.

'You pause behind the tall bar at the edge of the room and frown—with a bit of relief—when you see your mom, tangled and curled brown hair, tired eyes, wearing a Columbia English Department t-shirt and boxers, curling up on the couch with what you know is a cup of chamomile tea.' Fababies, Faberry Week Day Seven: Nightmares.

['She'd taken a role in a brilliant, absolutely profound film about two women who fall in love in a concentration camp. You'd imagined, when she told you, all of this happening, even before she'd managed to come to grips with it herself.' Rachel is shooting a really emotionally draining film, Quinn & others are there to support her. Features fababies, Santana, Kurt, angst & fluff.

"It's always been one of your favorite sights: Quinn (Lucy), small and beautiful and brave, folded up and lost in some other world. There's always been something so gentle about it, about your daughter and the way she exists in the world, even when she was all facade, all ripped and rough edges." just a little quinn/judy future oneshot, talking about fluffy faberry things.

'You shake your head and kiss her once more, because you don't want to hear the conclusion of that sentence.' or, three times quinn gets the last word. fluff, angst.

'You're back in New York after having just just finished your penultimate term at Yale, and it's winter break, and you've very much missed your moms.' fababies: just a little drabble about Nora (& Oliver) coming home from university. lots of fluff.

'She smiles against you before tracing her tongue across the back of your teeth, fingernails digging into your back. Even though this, you know in some always-esoteric part of your brain, is fucking, it's never just fucking with Rachel; you are hers for the rest of your life: you would never know how not to be.' Strap-on smut; Faberry Week Day 3: Hickeys.

'You plan to take her to brunch, apologize, spend the day touching her gently, roughly, making up for lost time. You knock on her door and wait (somewhat impatiently) for a minute or two before it swings open, and there's blonde hair and pale skin and thin shoulders but definitely not Quinn.' Faberry Week Day Two: Meeting Frannie.

"'The grief of hurting is its own burden,' she says, and she takes your hand and guides it under her shirt to her ribs. You trace the thick rope of skin there, and then she leans down and kisses you. It's your first kiss, this silent thing, and you don't think you've ever felt such sorrow before in someone else's body." Faberry Week Day 1: Scars.

"Quinn glances up, then smiles drunkenly, genuinely. Her hair is gotten longer since you saw her over spring break, and it's summer so there's a few freckles spread across her nose. 'Hey Rachel,' she says." something like: or, 3 times rachel comes to terms with dark things about quinn (on the couch). angsty, fluffy, gentle current universe drabble.

'"For someone who apologizes all the time, you're still sort of an asshole," you say, and immediately watch her face fall, her shoulders slip, with some sort of terrible satisfaction.' or, 3 times rachel gets (irrationally) angry at quinn & proceeds to apologize. angsty but fluffy drabble.

'You start to cry then, silently and without motion—you remember thinking she was going to die; she is your best friend, and you just slept with her, and you love her, and you are fucked.' quinntana 4x14 & AU aftermath.

'My grandmother died," she whispers roughly, and you hug her to you tightly and then back up again so you can see her face. She tries to calm down, you can tell, because she steels herself, but it's not convincing in the slightest.' Megan takes care of Santana when they go back to Lima for her grandmother's funeral. lots of faberry as well.

[or, three times quinn takes care of rachel. faberry drabble, fluffy future stuff.]