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hello icon!! do you have any other songs you’d like to hear tina sing :DDD

Hi Ana!

So, I was thinking about this ask, and my post about Tina singing Video Games, and what you said about Tina totally being a Lana stan, and somehow my response turned into a 1500 word Tina/Quinn/Rachel love triangle au, featuring a bunch of songs which would actually be my answers to your question lmao.

So I’m imagining Rachel goes over to Tina’s house with a plate of I’m Sorry cookies after she’s a bitch to her about the Tonight solo, Tina isn’t really sure what to make of that but season 1 Tina is so damn polite so she invites Rachel in. They end up in her room, and Rachel sees a Lana poster on her wall and they end up getting into a conversation about it, because Rachel loves how theatrical her music is, and Tina loves how vibey it is, and in the midst of their rambling conversation (in which Tina totally forgot to stutter, something that she only realised after), Rachel accidentally lets slip that Video Games makes her think about Quinn sometimes, because even though it has masculine pronouns, it mentions a sundress and how could she not, and then she stops talking very suddenly and turns bright red and Tina takes a second to process and then just asks Rach if she wants to do Born To Die in glee next week, and Rachel immediately says yes, because she does love that song, and it’d suit them well, and she’s always been one to seal a make-up with a duet, and she really just wants to talk about anything to move past what she accidentally just revealed, so they do. The club loves it, and they sexy it up a bit, and Finn and Artie (and, Tina can’t help but notice, Quinn) can’t keep their eyes off the performance.

They don’t really talk about it again, and time moves on. Tina gets with Artie, and the Quinn baby drama blows up in everyone’s faces, and Rachel and Quinn seem to be maybe becoming friends until they aren’t. In Dream On, Tina and Artie sing A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman because even though they agree that the movie is kind of terrible they both like the song and it suits their voices and fits the assignment. After the drama that episode and Artie decides to be a filmmaker, Tina thinks about their life together in the future as a celebrity couple, and she sings Without You even though it’s kind of depressing because she’s still a Lana stan and she loves that song.

That summer, she and Artie break up, because, well, season one Artie is kind of a jerk. She starts hanging out with Quinn. She’s been sworn to secrecy, but she actually knew Quinn when she was Lucy. They were friends. So much has changed since then, and Tina sings Ribs by Lorde, because they used to be friends, and because Quinn has been through so much, and god, it really is scary getting old.

They hang out as a group, too, and she tries to ignore the way Quinn and Rachel look at each other. And the way she feels when she looks at Quinn. And the way she feels when she walks in on Quinn and Rachel making out against that Lana Del Rey poster in her room.

The new school year kicks off, and Tina can tell Quinn is in full denial mode, ignoring both her and Rachel like the plague and dating a whole string of boys she doesn’t care about. There’s Sam, and while Tina can admit he’s cute and seems like a decent guy, he and Quinn seem more like siblings than anything else, and he’s so obviously into Kurt that it’s honestly a surprise nothing has happened there yet. Then there’s Finn, who’s never had chemistry with anyone. Eventually, Tina pulls Quinn into the choir room and just sits down at the piano and sings Girl by Tori Amos, because Tina’s always seen her as the queen of Sad Girl Indie Pop whose crown Lana inherited, and because she’s been everybody else’s girl, maybe one day she’ll be her own. Quinn has tears in her eyes, and she gets up and leaves without a word.

She breaks up with Finn the next day.

Tina is dating Mike now, but she can’t seem to escape the feeling she get around Quinn. She sings She by dodie. It doesn’t help.

She catches Quinn and Rachel again, in the bathroom at prom.

Quinn has her breakdown in New York, and cuts her hair. Two days after school lets out for summer, Quinn shows up at Tina’s house and asks her for help dyeing her hair.

They start hanging out more. Just the two of them, or with Quinn’s new delinquent friends, who seem to think they’re dating for whatever reason. She tries to convince Quinn to hang out with the rest of the glee club, but she gets rebuffed every time. In mid July, they find themselves making out in Tina’s bed, and she’s so glad she broke up with Mike. Quinn looks up suddenly, at that goddamn poster, and pulls away. She mumbles out a sorry and leaves.

Tina doesn’t hear from her again for the rest of the summer. She sings Old Money, because Lana’s still her go-to for sad music after all this time. She thinks about Without You again.

By the time the new school year rolls around, they seem to have switched fashion sense. Tina has moved away from goth, and no longer has blue streaks in her hair. Quinn is dressing punk now, and her hair is bright pink, just like how Tina taught her to do it. When Rachel goes to try and convince Quinn to rejoin glee, Tina almost tells her not to bother, but she knows that Rachel can sometimes get through to Quinn in ways that even she can’t. It doesn’t work.

She goes over to Rachel’s house that night, and asks if she wants to sing Video Games with her in glee. Rachel chokes on nothing and gives her the strangest look, and then agrees. They sing the song the next day, and Finn gets the wrong idea and throws a tantrum.

The next day, Quinn is back in glee, her hair back to blonde (though she’s kept some pink streaks).

Quinn and Tina don’t kiss again. It’s increasingly obvious to Tina that Quinn wants to try with Rachel, but Rachel’s hesitant after everything. So Tina does what Tina does, she puts her own feelings aside, and decides to play matchmaker. She speaks to Quinn, and they sing California in glee. (As it turns out, Quinn got into Lana too after Tina and Rachel sang Born To Die two years earlier. She was very into the performance, but told herself it was because of the music, not because it was, like, really hot.) Quinn looks intensely at Rachel the whole time, and Tina really isn’t sure how nobody else has noticed yet.

After winter break, there’s a new girl in school and in glee. Her name is Dylan, and she has blue streaks in her hair. Tina hosts the next glee party at her house, and at some point Tina and Dylan end up in her room, and Dylan notices the Lana poster. Tina feels the strangest sense of deja vu, but this feels different from when Rachel pointed it out. Dylan says that it was Lana’s music that first got her into playing guitar, and wow, Tina is gone. She grabs Dylan by the lapel of her ridiculously sexy leather jacket and pulls her in for a kiss. Eventually, Quinn and Rachel walk in on them. Quinn just clears her throat and Rachel goes bright red. Tina just grins and says something about payback, before she takes Dylan’s hand and slip past them, whispering that they please not defile her bed.

The next week in glee, Dylan shows up with her guitar and sings Love Song for Tina before asking her to be her girlfriend. Tina says yes, and kisses her again, in front of everybody. Quinn and Rachel cheer the loudest.

After Tina’s dream in Props, she and Rachel have that argument about everything Rachel does in a day, but Tina cuts her off when she starts talking about Finn with a ‘cut the crap, Rachel’, because she knows who Rachel really wants to be with, and hearing her talk about satisfying Finn without even a thought given to her own pleasure is just too much. She knows from personal experience that Quinn is a surprisingly (or perhaps not) selfless lover, and she has been through too goddamn much with these two repressed idiots to see them just go their separate ways after graduation without something happening. She tells Rachel as such, who just stares at her, her mouth opening and closing. She walks off.

Two days later, she and Dylan catch Rachel and Quinn making out in the bathroom again.

They win nationals, and Quinn and Rachel and the other seniors graduate. At the very last glee meeting of the year, Rachel and Quinn sit on the two stools, in front of everyone, and sing Lucky Ones together. It’s one of Tina’s favourites, and she’s so fucking glad they finally worked their shit out. She cries a little when they kiss, softly and briefly, for the whole club to see, and she isn’t mad that Rachel once again got the last song of the year - a Lana song, no less - because as she turns and kisses her own girlfriend, she knows: next year? It’s gonna be her year.

#i guess this is what i decided to do with my day lmao #anyway hope you enjoy #glee #tina #rachel #quinn #faberry #quinntina #lana del rey #fic #yay an ask!#ana #long post

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