THE BEAST OF LIMA

Disclaimer: I own nothing except this Storyline and plot. Glee (TV Series), Beauty and the Beast (Movie), Glee Fan Trailers on Youtube, All Music mentioned all belong to their respective labels and what not.

Rating: M

Warning: Scenes of Violence, Bullying, and Language. Do Not Read if you're easily offended.

Genre: Drama, Supernatural, Angst

Era: AU WMHS – Post WMHS

Notes: Beth doesn't exist in this story. Quinn never cheated on Finn with Puck, but she almost did.
Also, I'm making Quinn's parents nice and good people. So no bad Russel in this one.

Ships: Quinn/Rachel, Brittany/Santana

AN: Hello everyone, I must say that I'm quite stuck in a rut with writer's block (sort of) with regards to my other four stories and for that I apologise I know quite a few of you are anxious to see where the tales are going next, but I don't want to write a new chapter for any stories if it means it won't meet my own standards of being good enough because you all deserve better than that; so to those who are following the other tales that still need to be completed I ask for your patience and I thank you for it.
For now though, I hope you'll enjoy the start of this new story.

Enjoy.

Chapter 1: The Prologue in the End...

Dying at such a young age was not something that Rachel Barbra Berry ever thought would happen to her, then again she never thought that she'd be the victim of a curse gone wrong.

As she lay in the shallow puddle with the night sky clearing away the rain clouds from earlier to reveal the stars she let out a sigh as she felt her breath become slower.

She was going to die and there was no one to save her.

She supposed that at least this way she went out with a bang, she went out saving someone she loved whom she knew never really loved her back at all; but that still gave her some peace in the lonely world that she had found herself thrown in because she figured that even if she wasn't loved back, she had enough love to help someone else even if it was at the expense of her own life.

Like you read, Rachel was the victim of a curse, oh yes, a curse. The witch had been aiming her spell at Quinn and got distracted and the spell had hit Rachel instead. Unfortunately once the curse was cast it could not be reversed and Rachel was given a rose that wouldn't bloom until her twenty-first birthday; once she turned twenty-one she was told that the petals of the rose would start to fall. If she didn't find love before the last petal dropped she would be doomed to be as hideous on the outside as Quinn was on the inside forever.

She knew that she should have tried better but deep down she felt, no, knew that it was pointless. Her fathers had abandoned her when they saw the scarred figure that she had become, they wanted to give her plastic surgery, make her beautiful; but the surgeon had told them that doing so would risk her life. They wanted to do it anyway but Rachel refused as did the doctor. Angered by what they called her selfish personal choice, her fathers bought her an apartment for her to be on her own in Lima Heights, no Adjacent was at the end of that name. This was an area of Lima that no one wanted to be in, it was bad and it was nasty and if someone died, well, it was a norm for everyone anyway.
Her parents had told her that for her best interest she should stay in that apartment and never leave. But she didn't want that. She didn't want to give in just yet, she wanted to live free of a cage that they had wanted to put her in.

So they left her, telling her that she could do whatever the hell she wanted but they didn't want a part of it, they'd send her money of course, keep some sort of appearance and all that but they didn't want to be a part of her life in great detail. They also did the one thing that they could think of to make her realise her selfish mistake, made her sign papers to become an emancipated minor, but hey at least they sent money to her they had said.

Rachel had internally scoffed at that, they were never really a part of her life anyway when they learnt of her treatment at McKinley High.

See her Daddies were winners, they were both former jocks, and as life went on they became pretty wealthy and powerful; so powerful in fact that no one dared cross them when they became official with their relationship because in the end money always talks and drones only cared about the dollar they could make from having influential friends.

School was no better for her, before the curse she had been bullied, after the curse, she was still bullied even worse if her memory was correct as her life began to flash before her eyes. It was a lonely life mostly, even after school had ended and she went to college, life was still lonely. Sure she eventually had some friends in the form of Tina, Mike, Sam, and Brittany, but they appeared later on in her life and they didn't always have a chance to be around her, lord knows she knew that they needed a life away from her, a life away from the beast.

'The Beast of Lima', Santana had called her, 'A creature that terrified everyone because she was too ugly,'

It wasn't like that statement wasn't true, the first time Rachel had tried to go anywhere, children had started to cry as they pointed and stared at her. Mothers had pulled their children away from her as they themselves looked scared that the brunette would try and do something to harm their children. Of course Rachel knew that in the world as it was and always is, beauty on the surface always won because people never see beyond the cover, they never look beyond the front of a book. She knew that she was doomed from the moment she was cursed that she would never find love, never find the type of love she craved so much since the day she understood what it meant to be hugged and loved purely because she was who she was.

She let out a deep sigh as her memories took her to Quinn, another sigh, she loved Quinn, she really did. She remembered the girl that Quinn was in High School, and she thought about the woman that she had become now. The Cruel Quinn of High School had disappeared over time, the Ice Queen was no more and was replaced with someone more caring, more loving. That thought made Rachel laugh bitterly as she reminiscent that Quinn would never fully understand how much she had meant to the dying brunette, how she would never realise how much Rachel had wanted to be the one who would hold her hand and tell her with no fear how much she loved her, but Quinn didn't love her, she knew that.

And as she sighed and looked into the night sky she wondered, reflected, 'Why? Why was she always alone? Why did no one love her? Why? What had she done to deserve such a fate?'

"I suppose it doesn't matter," she said to herself, "Even if someone tried it wouldn't have worked because let's face it, no one could ever learn to love a beast,"

And with that she sighed as she closed her eyes and felt her heart beat slower.

AN 2: And there you have it, the next chapter will go back to the start of the tale. Until next time team.