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[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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[Being careful with the cups, he slowly makes his way over and offers it to her when he reaches her.]

Um, I'm Hanna by the way!

[Rachel smiles a little as she takes it.]

I'm Rachel.

Nice to meet you! Uh, are you feeling a little better?

[Sitting down, he's sure she does look a least a little better than she had. Not close to tears, anyways.]

A little -- thank you, for this.

[He shakes his head, sipping at his cocoa. He kind of needed to get out of the house anyways, he could only take so much of Ludo when the lyrics were taunting him every time he was in the room with a certain someone.]

No problem. I mean, we're all stuck here, that sucks enough, you don't need to be upset on top of that.

I haven't had a very good couple of days.

[She sips at the cocoa tentatively -- but it tastes good, so all is well.]

I suppose I let this place get to me too easily.

Well, its not really a situation people are used to, its easy to get upset when you're like, facing something unknown without the people who are usually there to back you up, yanno?

... I have some of my friends here, like Kurt, and Blaine. And -- and Jesse, though I hadn't seen him for a very long time before coming here.

[It's just very hard without Finn and Mercedes.]

Yeah, but still. I mean, I can get upset and the only person I have as a friend is here with me. It just happens.

[Rachel blinks at that and looks over at Hanna before grinning a little and extending her hand, for a shake.]

Well, now you have another one.

[Hanna hadn't really worded that well, he had meant that Galahad was his only friend in his own universe, but the sentiment was touching regardless. He gives her a smile back, taking her hand to shake it.]

heh, thanks. I appreciate it really.

[Seriously, his ego just got a boost. Girls generally don't like him.]

Anytime.

[Rachel has a tendency to make friends with anyone who is kind to her.]

[Hanna tries to make friends with everyone he meets, though most of the time it just doesn't go over well.]

So, um. You sing, right? You sounded pretty good.

I do, I sing professionally.

That's so cool! I love to sing, but I'm not very good at it.

It's my entire life passion.

Mine is detective work! Like, paranormal investigating. Though it kind of sucks because its not very good for supporting yourself financially.

I guess the department store I work at isn't so bad...but it still blows.

Paranormal investigating... like the Ghostbusters?

[It's said tentatively -- because Finn made Rachel watch that movie, like, once, and Rachel only remembers the theme song.]

Uh, kind of? Though without the slime, and retarded vacuums. I mean, I use magic and stuff, and I don't kill things either, I kind of, negotiate.

[Regardless, that is an awesome movie and Hanna wants to watch it again now. Show it to Galahad, or something. Too bad they don't have televisions.]

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