what was this, I thought, that struck me?
what kind of weapons have they got?
the softest bullet ever shot...

the spark that bled / flaming lips

This is the Table of Contents of all the random Rachel/Quinn drabbles my little mind will come up with.

There will be a summary of the story (vague, since I am obnoxious and like it that way), details (for the 99% of you that hate vagueness), and any inspirations I used while working on the piece: discography (music I listened to), filmography (clips from movies or on YouTube), bibliography (books I skimmed/read for research); the latter are applied as necessary. Miscellaneous notes will be tacked on the end.

1. uneasy lies the head

summary: Quinn realizes her own American dream: long live the queen.
details: serialkiller!promqueen!Quinn. she insisted on being the bastard lovechild of Dexter Morgan and Patrick Bateman. see if you can spot the gratuitous I Am Number Four easter egg.
discography: 'In The Hall of the Mountain King' – Edvard Greig, as covered by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The Social Network soundtrack. 'Opposites Attract' – Clint Mansell. Black Swan soundtrack. 'A New Temptation' – Trevor Morris. The Tudors: Season Three soundtrack.
filmography: 'Morning Routine.' American Psycho, 2000.
misc. The title is from Shakespeare's Henry IV: 'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'

2. (the ballad of) Rachel Berry

summary: they're buryin' Rachel Berry in the mornin'.
details: a completely bastardized pseudo-ballad about love and loss. what? I told you guys I go all over the place. the only rhyme scheme this pseudo-ballad has are eight syllables during the 'speech' parts. please tell me you can figure out who the two speakers are.
discography: 'A Howling Wilderness/The Death of Jane Seymour' - Trevor Morris. The Tudors - Season Three soundtrack.
bibliography: Inspired by (and heavily borrowing from) Rudyard Kipling's "Danny Deever."
misc.Inspired by (and heavily borrowing from) Rudyard Kipling's "Danny Deever." is it wrong that he is one of my favorite authors even though he is racist and imperialist? probably. also, it is my fondest hope that one day thousands of sullen schoolchildren will have to tear this apart and analyze it line by line.

3. where never lark or even eagle flew

summary: oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth / and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
details: repressed!General's Daughter!Quinn and awesome!fighterpilot!Rachel. no, I have no idea where this came from, either. hell, every other AU exists out there, why not write about one I am vaguely familiar with?
discography: 'Personal Jesus' - Depeche Mode
bibliography: reference 'High Flight' by John Gillespie Magee Jr.
misc. dunno why I stopped it where I did. maybe I'll pick it up and make it a longer... thing... in the future. really, this touches Quinn's issues with religion more than anything else and simply uses the military as a vehicle for discussion. (see: song choice. also, I am a horrible person and I am completely okay with that.)