Suzy Pepper surveyed the room around her and wondered why nobody had warned her about the downside of being a guardian angel. Howard, Josh and Matt had made the entire process seem like one big love explosion. Instead she was at Lima General, watching Rachel Berry get torn a new one by Santana Lopez.
"I fucking swear to you Berry if she doesn't come out of this I will make you suffer" Santana seethed, her eyes slightly crazed looking, her skin unnaturally pale.
Rachel was sobbing uncontrollably while her giant, lug of a boyfriend held on to her. The rest of the glee club were in various states of shock, anger and grief.
Mercedes Jones was quietly reassuring Brittany Pierce that that their friend wasn't dead, just hurt. Quinn Fabray and another blonde boy with lips the size of a small throw cushion were cuddled in a corner, both in tears and refusing to touch each other. Kurt Hummel sat ram rod straight in the plastic chair, guilt clearly written on his face.
Mike Chang had to be the saddest sight of them all. He was slumped in his seat, as though he couldn't be bothered holding himself up as silent tears ran down his face periodically. It was a sad, pathetic sight.
She walked past the chaos and walked into the room of her charge for the day.
Tina Cohen-Chang was lying in a hospital bed with her mother on the left side of the bed clutching her hand and her father on the right stroking her head.
While Tina's body was hooked on various machines and had wires poking out of her veins, her spirit stood by the window frowning and glaring at her unconscious body.
"You know glaring isn't going to make a difference"
Tina jerked her head up and stared at Suzy in shock.
"You can see me?"
Suzy nodded and walked over to where Tina was standing.
"I'm your guardian angel, here to help you see the light" she announced, smiling happily.
"Weren't you sent to a nunnery in Switzerland after stealing Mr Schue's garbage?"
"Yes but while I was there I had the misfortune of standing under the church bell"
"Why was it a misfortune?"
"Because it fell on me and I got stuck with this job"
Tina blushed before mumbling an apology "I'm sorry you died..."
"Don't mention it, it was painless and I like my job"
Tina turned her head and stated to frown harder when she saw the tears running down her parents face.
"They seem really upset about this" she said, sounding both surprised and sad.
"Well you are their kid, at the very lead they poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into you, so I'm betting this is sort of like a failed investment" she paused for a moment, allowing Tina to watch as her mother quickly wiped her tears and began fixing the bed sheets and smoothing the hair out of her face, kissing her forehead, before continuing. "Or, maybe, they love you and can't stand to think of you getting hurt"
Tina snorted, glaring at her herself in the bed.
"I'm probably the most forgettable person on the planet, and when I am noticed it's either because I'm overly emotional or I've done something stupid" she turned and stared out the window, "The world would probably have been a better place without me here to take up precious air"
"See that is where you're wrong" Suzy announced "and I'm here to show you just how much you have touched people's lives"
Tina giggled "Seriously? Look Pepper this isn't some sort of bad self esteem issue, I'm just irrelevant and I have decided to come to peace with that"
"Now that you're about to die?"
"I'm dying?" Tina asked, looking stricken.
"Well yeah, I mean you suffered serious head trauma and internal bleeding" Suzy waved a hand towards her battered body, "Your hanging on by a thread here and it a pretty damn thin thread"
"How long" Tina asked quietly
Suddenly the machines hooked up to her began to beep like crazy, and her body began to convulse. Doctors and nurses swarmed in, with the Cohen-Chang's being shuffled firmly out the door. Her body was clearly going downhill fast.
"As of now you got 12 hours till you join me upstairs with the big guy" Said Suzy casually
"Well" said Tina "I had a good run, at least I didn't die a virgin"
"That's it?" exclaimed Suzy, sounding stunned "By now most people would be begging for another shot at life!"
"You just told me I was going to drop dead by midnight" Tina pointed out
"You're dying because you don't have any real will to live" said Suzy irritably "You body's giving up because you decided that there no point to fighting"
"Ok so what now" asked Tina, as she strolled casually through a wall "You going to show me the ghosts of the pa..." she halted to a stop by the waiting room, clearly stunned by the sight before her.
While Santana might have been threatening Rachel before, she was now attempting to kill her. The only thing stopping her was thee security guards. She was dragged down the hall way, still screaming out incoherent Spanish. Rachel was beyond hysterics now and was being sedated by a doctor as one of her father's held her down. Tina's mother was screaming at the other father while he attempted to beg for forgiveness and try to defend his daughter. The rest of the club were in tears and trying to consol each other. Kurt and Mike had disappeared, and it was at that exact moment that two tall, handsome Asian men walked into the door looking frantic and enraged.
"Where is she" demanded the one in a business suite. The other one, who was dressed casually in jeans and a t-shirt, was looking around the room, glaring at the crowd. "Who is the one who ran her over" he asked voice low and dangerous.
"Oh god" whispered Tina
"You know these men I'm assuming?" Asked Suzy, checking them out.
"The one in the suite is Graham and that's his twin brother Grayson, my brothers"
"They seem worried"
Tina snorted "they have no right to be I haven't seen them in over two years"
Ok so Suzy had dealt with a lot of difficult patients, but Tina was starting to get on her nerves. How could one person think that nobody seriously cared about them? She had a freaking room full of people who loved her.
"Ok, I see this is going to take a little more effort than I thought" said Suzy, grabbing Tina's wrist.
"You know Pepper, so far all you've done is tell me I'm as good as dead and say a whole load of cryptic crap" Tina snapped, attempting to tug her hand out of Suzy's death grip. "Is there some sort of reason you here?"
"Yeah, I'm here to do this"
Tina screamed as Suzy flung her through a wall and into her bedroom. She had a feeling she was going to have to start at the beginning in order to make Tina understand just how badly the world needed her.
A/N – Ok so I just watched "It's a wonderful life" and Tina reminded me of George Bailey for some reason so I came up with this. Let me know what you think!