Title: sin tetas, no hay paraiso
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Rachel/Puck
Categories: Humor, Romance
Length: Medium (~9,000 words)
Warnings: Noah Puckerman is not a nice person. Baby-mama drama. Implied mother-fucking.

Author on LJ: ohladybegood
Website: Works on FF.net

Summary: "He wonders when she became someone in his life that he actually cared about, and how the hell he can reverse the process." Or, Puck and Rachel watch Telenovelas, try to kill each other with words, and then make out.

Review:
This is probably the best season one Puck characterization I've ever read. He's smart, savvy, and on a good day he's about as sympathetic as a puppy-kicking tax collector. But underneath is a small kernel of good that he tries to listen to, but only when it serves his interests. ohladybegood really captures the complexity and confusion of being a teenager, as Puck and Rachel stumble into something that resembles a relationship after Rachel asks Puck to tutor her in Spanish. I really enjoyed that it isn't all declarations of mutual attraction and sweet nothings whispered into each other's ear, that Rachel and Puck need to navigate being friends/non-enemies before they can truly be 'in a relationship'. While a lot of the Rachel/Puck fics I've read tend to hand-wave away the Finn-Quinn-Puck-baby situation, ohladybegood takes the time to deal with the whole mess, and while it's messy and kind of depressing, it made the emotional payoff all the better in the end. And on a related note, Quinn is kind of badass in this fic, which makes for a pleasant change from all the crying she did in s1.

sin tetas, no hay paraiso