"I just really want to make everyone happy."

"Oh young love." Brittany sighed, as her and Blaine pushed their food round on their plates glumly, watching Jake and Marley start to flirt, unknowingly.
"Do you remember when you first started dating Santana and I started dating Kurt? Back before everyone was so busy and so far away." Blaine sighed, hopelessly, propping his head up on his hands.
"Everything was so much simpler." Brittany agreed with the same solemn expression as Blaine.
Overhearing their conversation from the next table, Katy and Sam grew worried.
"You think if we'd have stayed together when I went to Kentucky this would've happened to us?" He asked her, anxiously.
"I dunno maybe, I wasn't in the best place when you left, I was probably as mopey as Blaine and Britt are." Katy shrugged, "I don't want to remember a time when you weren't there though."
Sam took her hand and squeezed it, "we came back stronger than ever and yeah it was hard fighting the Kentucky girls off, but it felt worth it when I came back to you." He smiled, reassuringly.
"I thought you said the Kentucky girls weren't into Sammy Evans." Katy asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I may have lied about that, I just told them I had a girl back in Lima, they weren't cool like you." Sam admitted sheepishly, "they wouldn't have spoken Na'vi with me."
"Amateurs." Katy scoffed playfully.
"I feel for them though, just six months ago they were two of the strongest couples in McKinley, now they're falling apart." Sam sighed sympathetically.
"Are you worried that's what's gonna happen to us?" Katy asked quietly.
Sam shook his head, "no, are you?"
"No. I love your impressions too much." She giggled,
"Thank you very much." Sam replied, putting on his Elvis impression to make her laugh.
"I think we're bumming out Britt and Blaine." Katy whispered suddenly into Sam's side as he took a bite from Katy's cupcake.
"Whoops, quick impression of a non happy couple." Sam whispered back, putting her cupcake carefully back into Katy's hand regretfully so not to show off their relationship to the sad Blaine and Britt.

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Katy and Sam were sat together in Breadstix with Marley, Jake, Brittany and Santana, waiting for the left behind club to start.
"Psst Katy!" Santana gestured for Katy to come over and sit beside her whilst Brittany was in the bathroom.
"Tana I've missed you so much!" Katy sighed, hugging onto Santana's side, happily,
"And I've missed you Baby Puckerman!" She smiled back.
"I presume Britt dragged you here, Sam persuaded me to come, he said that he wants me to be completely ready if there was ever an alien invasion." Katy giggled slightly rolling his eyes at her boyfriend's worry, "I don't mind though, it means I can keep an eye on Kitty."
"Yeah, I was curious, this just all seems really strange, I wanted to see what's going on." Santana explained.
"I don't trust Kitty, yet." Katy admitted in a hushed tone, "she's a bit of a bitch, even compared to you, no offence."
"None taken, I'll take your word for it. I've never met her and she already seems insane to me." Santana nodded, leaning in for a gossip.
"I mean, she's like you with the volume turned way up, like this club is literally just here to scare people, it's cruel." Katy told her, shaking her head.
"It's so weird hearing you gossip, you're not usually that type." Santana laughed lightly.
"I'm gossiping to you, it's different. After you, Puck, Rachel and Finn left, I realised how safe and protected I felt just because I knew you had my back. I'm one of the older ones now, I'm gonna try my absolute hardest to make everyone feel as safe as I did, even if that means gossiping a bit to protect people like Marley from being abused by people like Kitty." Katy explained, shrugging her shoulders strongly.
"Right." Santana said thoughtfully, glaring at Kitty as she strutted in, announcing her presence with authority as soon as she arrived.
Katy quickly got up as Brittany came back, throwing the two of them a warm smile and ran back over to Sam before Kitty could torment her.
"Okay everyone listen up, y'all are sinners and you better get right with God toot sweet because Jesus just logged into orbitz and booked himself a plane ticket back to Earth. See he's got an awesome dad makes God who's throwing him a bitching party named Armageddon where he's gonna kick off his sandals, dance a little bit and judge the crap out of everyone." Kitty said, pacing the room confidently, striking fear into a few members of the club.
"hi I have a question. What the hell are you talking about?" Santana questioned sceptically, seeing exactly how Katy described Kitty to be correct.
"Um the rapture?" Kitty replied as if it was obvious, "when the end times come, the true believers in Christ will be lifted up, body and soul into heaven, leaving everyone else to duke it out."
Tina's assistant called Dottie Kazatori put her hand up tentatively and waited for Kitty to approve her speaking, "what about those of us who were still on the fence about all this?"
Kitty made a face that made Katy believe that Dottie had just made the wrong decision about speaking as she saw a plan brew in the blonde girl's mind.
"What is there to be on the fence about, Dottie?" She asked harshly, making Dottie slump back into her seat, "I just heard that there's an elderly Japanese woman who's fallen in the bathroom and doesn't speak any English and she needs your help."
"I'll be back!" Dottie announced, quickly rushing out of the room.
"Kitty." Katy warned the ringleader as Brittany pulled Santana up in hopes of helping a Japanese lady.
Suddenly, Kitty insisted everyone to get up, leaving some clothes on their chairs to make poor Dottie believe she'd been left behind.
"Come on Katy!" Sam said, trying to pull her from her seat,
"I'm not going Sam, it's cruel and Dottie's gonna be terrified!" Katy insisted stubbornly.
"Come on, it's fake rapture, she needs to be prepared." Sam persuaded, pulling on her hand, nervously watching everyone else file out.
"Sam this rapture crap isn't real, Kitty's made it up as a cruel joke to scare people. I'm not gonna sit here and let someone be terrified, you go though, it's fine." She told him, pulling her hand out of his.
"Katy, just come already, if it gets too far we can step in, but it's gonna be okay, honestly, I'm more worried about Kitty murdering you right now." Sam tried desperately to reassure her.
"You don't need to worry, I'll just get Coach Sue to make her bottom of the pyramid." Katy tried to reassure him back, insistent on doing the right thing in this situation.
"What the hell are you two doing? Get the hell out here!" Kitty shouted, frustrated.
"Please Katy." Sam pleaded, making Katy finally give in, following him out of Breadstix, reluctantly.
Almost as soon as they'd left, Dottie ran back in, her face falling immediately into panic as she saw the deserted restaurant and she fell to her knees, in a full on panic attack.
Katy instantly scowled, pushing past the crowd to try and reassure Dottie.
"I told you this was a bad idea. Someone get her a bottle of water." Katy sighed, before crouching down and trying to calm down the panicked freshman.
"Kitty! This has gone way too far okay?" Jake scolded Kitty, shaking his head at his girlfriend, who shrugged, unbothered.
"Britt can we go home now? I don't think this club is good for you." Santana exclaimed, worriedly.
"No I'm staying, being left behind sucks." Brittany insisted, passionately.
"It's just a stupid prank." Santana protested.
"You don't get it. You left me behind and it hurt." Brittany raised her voice slightly, before pointing over to where Dottie was hyperventilating, with Katy trying to calm her breaths, "that's exactly what it feels like. With Katy there too 'cause she was right there for me as well." She said before walking off to sit back down, leaving Santana to her thoughts.

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"I'm sorry for making you come to that stupid club yesterday." Sam apologised, approaching Katy at her locker, the next day.
"It's all good, I'm sorry too, I was harsh on you, I just wanted to make sure everyone was okay, I hated seeing Dottie and Marley and all that so distressed by it and the feeling that I could do anything about it drove me crazy, I'm sorry." Katy gave him a small smile, rubbing her hand on her eyes as she sighed.
"Are you okay? You know you can talk to me, right?" Sam asked her worriedly, trying to look her straight in the eye.
"I'm okay, I just wish there was something I could've done and I wish I had the guts to do it." Katy explained, biting the inside of her cheek.
"You did great, okay? You were the only person to try and stay to support Dottie, you did everything you could've done to help, Katy." Sam reassured her, pulling her close to him and planting a kiss on her forehead.
"I just really want to make everyone happy." Katy sighed, sadly.
"And you do, especially me, okay? Sometimes you have to make yourself happy though." Sam replied, his bottom lip curling into a pout.
"You make me happy." She told him,
"I hope I do, I try." He smiled.
"You do a great job of it."
"I may be not be a smart man but I know what love is." Sam said, doing his Forrest Gump impression for her, watching delighted as her mouth grew into a wide smile.
The two giggling seniors made their way to the choir room hand in hand and were pleasantly surprised with who they saw sat in the back row, having a clearly awkward conversation with Blaine.
"Finn! Dude what's up!" Sam grinned, opening his arms for a bro hug.
Katy quickly pushed her boyfriend out of the way to be the first to hug Finn, beaming uncontrollably.
"Get out of the way loser, I want the first hug!"
She wrapped her arms around Finn, embracing him tightly, full of excitement at the sight of him, letting Sam into the hug as well.
"You look so good Finnocence! Ugh I've missed you! Please tell me Mike's here too." Katy burst out, her excitement taking control of her rational emotions.
"Nope, no Mike." Finn chuckled, his smile widening further as more and more people entered the room and embraced him welcomingly.
Noticing Jake and Marley's visible confusion and awkwardness, Katy ran over and grabbed their hands, pulling them over to meet Finn.
"Finn, this is Jake, my brother." She said proudly, "and Marley, my new best friend."
"Nice to meet you, it's Finn." Finn smiled at them, making the pair seem a bit let uncomfortable and out of the circle.
"I thought you joined the army?" Tina questioned, happily.
"I-I did, but..."
"But things don't always work out the way you planned them to." Mr Schue interrupted, gesturing for the glee club to take their seats and listen to one of his many speeches, "and I said to Finn the same thing I say to everyone who comes through this glee club, we are a family and you're always welcome here. Even if you just need to take a break and think things through. In any case, we have a lot to do today, first order of business, deciding what the fall musical is going to be."
Katy skimmed her eyes down the list of musical suggestions Mr Schue had passed out, deciding to speak her opinion, like the rest of the class were doing.
"Mr Schue I'm begging you, I just want to do mamma Mia, is that too much to ask? I'd literally do anything." She pleaded, dramatically.
"Anything?" Artie asked, his mind whirling with ideas.
"I kid you not Artie Abrams I would even sell my highlighters."
"That serious huh?" Jake joked, knowing Katy's devotion to her highlighters.
"Maybe not the pink one." Katy mumbled in slight defeat as the group laughed at her.
"You should do grease." Finn suggested, out of nowhere.
"That's my second favourite musical I'm down." Katy smiled approvingly.
"Grease?" Mr Schue questioned, gesturing for Finn to explain his logic.
"Yeah, guys like it, girls like it, people like my mom like it. It's about high school and growing up and being true to yourself, plus the songs rock!" Finn explained, with a full team of new directions completely backing him and his idea up.
"The wisdom of Solomon." Artie sighed, nodding at him with an approving smile that reminded Finn of how great it always used to feel when he was king of glee club, having his ideas recommended left, right and centre, when everything in his eyes was simpler.

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After comforting Brittany about her break up with Santana, Katy was stood at her locker when she saw someone she recognised, storming out of the auditorium in a way only her best friend would.
"Rachel? Is that you? What are you doing here?" Katy blurted out, running over to see the girl who looked much older and more fashionable than she'd done in her Mckinley days.
Rachel found herself smiling at her best friend's excited tone and turned round, showing her her tear stained face with mascara dripping down her cheeks.
Furrowing her brow immediately, Katy opened her arms for a hug, letting Rachel sniffle into her shoulder.
"What's going on?" Katy asked, gently, stroking her newly fashioned hair.
"I ended things with Finn, for real." Rachel explained, sadly, nuzzling into Katy's shoulder for the same comfort that she always used to get from her best friend.
"Oh sweetie." Katy sympathised, hugging Rachel tighter, listening as she quickly explained what had happened between sad sniffles.
"I'm sorry Katz but I can't stay here any longer, I need to get back to New York." Rachel sighed, clearly overwhelmed.
"That's fine, just call me if you need me okay?" Katy smiled at her, giving her a quick squeeze before letting her go.
After her emotional encounter with Rachel, Katy decided to make sure Finn was alright and if he needed to talk to someone who wasn't a teacher for once.
She found him sat on the edge of the auditorium stage, just looking out onto the crowd, clearly in some sort of state of shock.
"Finn?"
Finn turned round, hearing her voice and gave her a small, sad smile, showing the visible tear stains on his cheeks.
"Do you need someone to talk to or would you rather be alone?" Katy asked tentatively, making sure she wasn't treading too far.
"I want someone to talk to." He replied, patting down on the stage next to him for Katy to go over and join him.
Katy nodded to him, to suggest that she was all ears to let Finn vent all of his feelings to her.
"I never thought it would've come to this. I thought that by now I'd be in the army, with a full feeling of redeeming my dad and Rachel by my side." Finn told her with a deep sigh, "and sitting in that choir room yesterday I felt so reassured and so calm but everything felt so different, like it was a real different energy in there. Still an amazing energy but like people like you and Sam and Tina have moved on to new friends and new clubs and all that, like youre head cheerleader now!"
"I know, I still don't know how I managed it." Katy laughed lightly, smoothing down her skirt, a bit self-consciously.
"I just really thought I'd be on track by now but I'm in the worst place I've ever been." Finn sighed.
Katy placed a comforting hand on his shoulder, "we were never like 'close close' Finn but I think it's about time we were, we're gonna get you through this, okay?"
"You'll be my new best friend?" Finn repeated, his mouth flickering into a smile.
"Yeah, I love you Finnocence."
"I love you too Kat."
"Do you wanna finish looking through your sheet music? Take your mind off it?" Katy suggested, trying to lift Finn's mood.
He nodded, and the pair shuffled across the floor over to Finn's music stand and began to sort through the sheets, talking all things grease.

a serious note:
our naya is missing.

i am completely speechless and heartbroken and shocked by this news.

please please please give your kindest thoughts, wishes and if you're religious, prayers to naya, her family and her beautiful son, it's the absolute least they deserve.

this is a deeply saddening and scary time and i urge you to respect everyone's privacies as the try to process this shocking news .

that being said, if this should teach us anything it's that we need to treasure every moment we have to spend with the people we love and so please support everyone who needs it. i am here to talk to anyone who feels they just need to get some feelings out.

naya, please be okay. we love you so much.
💔❤️💔