somethingspecial | 24 [Accidental Video]

[Rachel is on stage, pacing in agitation. She looks positively exhausted -- there are circles underneath her eyes and her hair is pulled back instead of hanging loose around her shoulders, like it normally is. The music following her is quiet, at least -- but soon, drums are heard -- a guitar, and Rachel stops in her tracks, in the dead center of the stage, before she closes her eyes.

And finally decides to give into the event and sing.

She does the choreography perfectly -- the voices heard alongside hers are exactly as Rachel remembers them -- the music is perfect -- and the event purposefully leaves out Rachel's voice, in the 'recording', so that she can sing along. When she gets to the end, she's grinning, and she stops on the edge of the stage, a hand outstretched to the audience, before she begins to speak:]

If we sing that every single week before Nationals, it would help our morale enormously -- because the most important thing, fellow Glee club-bers, is that we remember precisely where we came from. That is our true strength --

[She clasps her hands together.]

I really think we have a shot at beating Vocal Adrenaline, but Finn, you need to project mo --

[But as Rachel looks up, to her right, she stops speaking abruptly. Because there isn't anyone there.

Her shoulders slump slightly as she presses a hand to her forehead, sighing to herself shakily as she turns back towards the curtains.

Someone hates this event way more than she thought she would.]

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[he's just, ignoring it >.>]

I'm guessing you either won, or will win it.

[That -- brings out a small smile.]

We won with resounding applause.

[ah ha! success]

Colour me shocked-

We were up against very fierce competition.

[Pause.]

-- well, the Warblers were excellent, Aural Intensity was just atrocious.

[...]

Your competition's name was Aural Intensity?

Yes. Isn't that atrocious?

I thought Vocal Adrenaline was bad, but at least that holds weight.

Frankly, both sound horrible to me but at least Vocal Adrenaline doesn't paint a picture. Are you sure you should be calling them competition?

[That gets a laugh.]

That's what Noah said, when we heard we were facing against them the first time. It's a disgusting name, isn't it?

And -- well, as I said, we won, didn't we? Hardly competition if they couldn't even place against us.

[Though Vocal Adrenaline is still something to be defeated.]

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It really is. [nod nod] I don't think a lot of people could call themselves competition against you anyway, you sound professional.

I try to be.

I'm no expert, but you sounds like you succeed to me. It's the best thing I've heard today by far. [so.sick.of the spy music]

[ghklfg]

Well -- I want to be on Broadway. I've been in training for singing and the performance arts since I was a baby.

Wow- that long? That's impressive dedication. I don't really know musicals, I've seen one on West End when I was about 10 but, I remember the singers were very impressive.

[MAGIC. WORDS.]

West -- What did you see?

The Lion King [laughs a little, what he was ten]

Oh, but that's a brilliant production!

I don't remember much of it really.

It isn't my favorite, but it is still a masterpiece.

What's your favorite?

Evita, Oklahoma, and Funny Girl.

[Without hesitation, but oh, Rachel is not done:]

Those are the three I must star in before I am twenty-five. I also adore Wicked, and The Phantom of the Opera -- and Les Miserables, of course, is one of my absolute favorites --

[he'll just...nod? and let her talk, he's seen signs for most of those, but he doesn't really know them]

[She'll just go on at length about why they're her favorites -- the role of Elphaba, the musical prowess of Evita, the fact that she has had Don't Rain On My Parade in her back pocket since she was four --

Obsessive, maybe, but dedicated? Yea,h definitely.]