"I think I'm going to stay here with Quinn." A tall figure beams down at her with a frown and places his hand on her shoulder. She suddenly feels like Finn is anchoring down. That if he is here she can't fully process what she is feeling right now.
"Are you sure I.." She cuts him off and brushes his hand off of her. "Alone," she whimpers under her breathe but the tree sways with the order.
They remain silent and Rachel breaks down crying softly as Finn pulls her closer. "This whole thing is entirely my fault." He kneads her shoulders as she continues to gaze at her dear friend in the hospital bed. "Hey it's going to be okay." He said with a reassuring face hugging her tightly. She doesn't lift an eye off of Quinn and settles her head on his chest. For some reason his hug didn't make her feel even a wince better.
He awkwardly nestles his head into her shoulder and whispers into her ear. "I know this isn't the right time but you look beautiful and- " She cut him off once again not wanting to hear another word because she knew he wanted to talk about. Rescheduling the wedding.
"We will talk about this later," she speaks hesitantly as she pushes him towards the door. She wanted him gone. She needed time alone with Quinn.
His frown deepens and he looks disturbed at Quinn. "You sure you don't want me to stay?" She only nods and he glances at Quinn before giving her a light smooch on her cheek. "Bye Rach. Make sure to call me if anything goes wrong."
He is one foot out of the door smiling and brings no effort in closing the door gently. In result the door closes making an echoing pound against the wall. He reopens the door slightly poking his head through a crack of the door, whispering sorry with a dopey smile on his face.
She knew he wanted to see if she was truly okay. To see her once more. To somehow make her crack a smile. To get rid of the cold serpent like expression on her pale face. She knew this but his goofiness wasn't helping either. It was because she didn't want to be happy not until Quinn had awoken. Not till she knew she was okay. Not till she could hear her voice again.
In response she clenches the hem of her white wedding dress and yells his name at the top of her lungs. She covered her mouth instantly realizing what she had done. He smiles smugly because he successfully got her to scream his name audibly with anger and emotion. Not because he liked her yelling at him but because ever since she found out about Quinn she would talk monotonously and expressionless but the Rachel he knew and loved had returned. Momentarily. He then mouths the words, I love you too and shuts the door slightly. He then taps the window and smiles brightly.
"Goodbye Finn." She shuts the blinds reflecting his expression but the moment Finn is out of sight she returns to her original state.
Rachel?
I swear I just heard an annoying voice. It had to be Berry's. Quinn's eyes slowly opens her eyes having difficulty keeping them open. She scans the room for the girl but she's nowhere in sight. In every corner was a display of get well soon balloons but no Berry. Hanging over her was a big banner saying, Get well Q!, that hung across the room. Still no Berry.
A slight cry bears out across the room and Quinn looks into the direction of the sound. "Rachel is that you?"
The girl doesn't seem to hear her and remains slumped on the floor. Knees to her chest and arms coiled around her head. "Rachel what's wrong?"
"Ray-chel.." Quinn's voice is weak, strained by the pain in her throat. It was as if a cord was wrapped around her neck. She repeated her name several times but the same hoarse sound came out of her mouth.
The blonde attempts to clear her throat and call the girl's name again but fails. Tears stream down her face in frustration and she can't breathe. Quinn searches the room with her eyes to find something to get the girls attention when she spots it. She shakes uncontrollably as she places her hand around a phone cord and drags it down. She stares at her arm as burns begging in agony for the object to tip over soon. To hope to God that it will catch Rachel's attention. A slight thud hits the ground.
Rachel gasps and slightly whispers her name. "Quinn is that you?" The brunette stands up stumbling onto her two feet.
Quinn is unable to respond and rapidly blinks her eyes to signal the girl towards her. The tiny brunette notices and practically dances over to her side with a smile that could be seen a mile away. She never knew she could make her smile so widely, especially when she had Finn who just made her so happy.
There she was in her wedding gown. Beautiful, stunning, gorgeous. Of course her initial reaction was her undeniable attraction to the girl but as she thought more she began to come back to reality.
Where was she? What had happened? But most of all what about the wedding? Rachel was supposed to get married and all she could think about was if she had missed it.
It was like she just woke up from an everlasting sleep, her body stiff and sore because she hadn't moved an inch in ages. But right at this moment she was captivated by Rachel's beauty. What seemed to make the pain feel so good because she was staring at her and only her.
The diva blind by tears wipes it and notices the glossy layer over the blonde's as well. Instantly she knew what shit load of a mess was running through the blonde's mind and places her hand on hers. Her face turns bleak and she squeezes her hand harder.
Quinn once again clears her throat. She needed to reassure the girl that she was ok. Confused but ok. "Rach," she almost but whispers and the girl looks at her with deep concern.
"Oh my God, is something wrong? I'll get the nurse right now!" Rachel's eyes alarm in panic and she turns around about to head the door when Quinn grabs her by the arm. She takes her hand in hers to calm the girl. At the same time the girl is trying to keep composure because she forgot how much it hurt to move.
Quinn's hazel eyes stare at Rachel demanding her to stay. Eyes flickering like a wave crashing into her yet at the same time there was such calmness in her eyes as the waves brush softly and unexpectedly into her. It pulled her in along with her voice. She was drowning into the blonde and fast.
"No Rach." The blonde searches her hazily and completes her sentence, "you look..beautiful." Rachel takes a step back from the amount of fluttering peeking from her stomach. Why did her heart just flutter? Usually it would twist in assorted knots when Quinn spoke but that was when she terrorized her in the halls of McKinley. Was this any different?
The blonde looks down shyly. Quinn had changed so much over the years. But she never thought she'd be so straight forward when she was usually so stubble. You half expectantly thought that she would get a concussion and return to her original ways. She places her eyes back on her friend and smiles, "Quinn you get in a car accident and that's the first thing you say?"
Car accident?
Rachel's face completely turns back to its original color and the heat in her face turns from below zero degrees to a hundred in seconds. Was she blushing? Just a moment ago Finn had said the same thing and here is Quinn making her blush.
The blonde didn't bother masking her feelings because what she said was true and no one could deny how heaven like the diva was right now. "You're just so beautiful Rach." They keep eye contact. Rachel speechless and Quinn lost in her beauty. All this beauty belonged to Finn and yet she couldn't help but think part of it was hers. "Truly beautiful," she repeats as she rubs Rachel's hand with her thumb but stops when she feels a slight emptiness on Rachel's index finger.
She was so caught up in Rachel that she had forgotten her thought. The brunette notices the confusion in her eyes and tears building upon it.
Quinn a girl, who changed from hating her to being one of her friends. Heck her best friend even though they didn't label it that way. Quinn was always there for her and she did everything at her whim. A girl who rejected the idea of the wedding but willingly changed her mind to make the girl happy in the end. How she unselfishly put her feet in Rachael's shoes, and realized that Rachel loved Finn and that no matter what she said they were going to get married and yet despite her effort she still ruined it. "Quinn you-"
The door suddenly opens and the doctor taps on the window to get the girl's attention, "You should have told us that Ms. Fabray had woken up." Rachel turns her head somewhat upsettingly. "I'm sorry I was just caught up in the moment." She wipes a falling tear and he sighs but smiles understandingly. "I'm glad you're awake Ms. Fabray. I'll be a nurse to check up on you."
"Thank you." Quinn replies. "Oh and Ms. Berry there is a room where visitors sleep if that's what you want." She shakes her head, "No thank you… I'm perfectly comfortable right here next to Ms. Fabray."
"Ok well have fun ladies."
Quinn furrows her eyebrows. "What?" The girl laughs. "You saying Ms. Fabray sounds so weird. I think it's the way you pronounce it." Rachel laughs and she joins with her.
"Oh by the way this is from everyone." Rachel runs over to the couch and places a birthday card in between her hands. In big black font, was the tittle So, you reached the age of 50.
"I know it's not your birthday but they ran out of get well soon cards at the hospital's gift store. Can you believe that I mean it is a hospital and people come here because they get injured or something and you'd expect them to always be in stock but- It's just plain out ridiculous and the prices of these cards don't get me started. "
"Rachel shut up already its perfect. I swear once you talk it's hard for you stop." She knew she was kidding but it sort of hurt. Yet Rachel refused to think of herself and let it slide. She smiled and poked the card. "Well open it already."
The blonde opens the card and reads the bold font "Congratulations! Your now apart of the oldie club!" Below the heading was a picture of three old people playing bingo. Arrows pointed to who each old person represented. Sue looked exactly like the image of the short haired blonde who still had all her hair and was wearing a red track suit. Mr. Schuester was there to. He was the old man who was balding and had a sweater vest on and there was Quinn, who was supposedly the old lady with black sunglasses who fell asleep and was drooling on her bingo board.
Quinn began to laugh. "I wake up from sleeping and now I'm 50. How long have I been sleeping."
"Um..well according to my calculations you are 18 yes..so you slept 32 years."
I can't believe she just said that. Can she get anymore cute?
The blonde glances at the sugar packet glued in the middle of the dang card with hearts around them. Of course Sugar would do something ridiculously cute like this.
Quinn! I hope you get better. I can't wait to see you rock that cheerleading outfit on the field, even if you end up in a wheel chair like Artie. I'll buy the whole dang school if Coach Sue doesn't let you cheer.
"Do you think she'd actually buy McKinley?" Rachel laughs again.
"I'm pretty sure she would I mean considering the fact that she did buy Breadsticks and named it after herself."
At the glimpse she catches black cursive slim writing. Sue's handwriting. She couldn't believe she had wrote in it.
Don't worry Q your still part of the team. You scared the hormones out of me and that Q, is amazing..I just told Will Schuester a few seconds ago that he looked like a sad carnival monkey begging for money for his poor excuse of dancing but the instant I knew you just had some fractured bones and bruises new Sue came back. The moment I found out about the accident I couldn't imagine my little Sue not meeting her aunt Q, especially since she's going to be named after you. I know you will get better. You need to get better because we can't win Nationals without you. -As always, Coach Sue.
Quinn began to cry after the thought of Sue naming her child after her but it made sense because Quinn had changed and let's be honest Sue loved the girl.
"Aww Quinn you must be honored." Rach squeezes her hand. "You should be because you came from such a long way." The blonde began to cry harder. Rachel was right but that's when she just realized her has been pushed back to the bottom again and that once again she'd have to overcome another challenge.
She covered the eyes with her hands trying to avoid letting her tears smear the messages on birthday card. When stopped crying she found writing in all caps and bold with Santana Lopez written all over it.
"WTF QUINN! DRIVING WHILE TEXTING? SERIOUSLY? YOUR LUCKY YOUR ASS IS INJURED RIGHT NOW OR ELSE YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING DOWN. NOT TO BE A SORE THUMB BUT WE CAN'T WIN NATIONALS WITHOUT YOU. THAT'S RIGHT QUINN YOUR GOING GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER AND GOING TO NATIONALS EVEN IF YOUR ASS IS STUCK IN A WHEELCHAIR. SO YOU BETTER GET WELL ENOUGH TO MOVE THOSE ARMS OF YOURS."
Santana's message had done the trick. Once again she was laughing. She should be happy because right now was a time to celebrate and be happy that she was alive. She was going to get through this because she's hit rock bottom and overcame it before and that's what seemed impossible. There was no doubt that she was going to recover again.
Quinn then sees Brit's cute hand writing. "
"Don't mind Santana Q, she was just a wreck when she found out. She honestly thought you were turned back to the old you to ruin Berry's wedding. Oh by the way, Lord Tubbington said he is willing to give up smoking and considered losing weigh if there was any possible chance of you get better sooner. Well, I hope you get well Q. -Britney XOXO
Brit always made things humorous even when it wasn't funny. I mean just her funny drawings alone would make anyone smile.
It was so obvious who wrote in green pen. For god sakes it had a leprecon at the bottom of his message. I never really talked to you before but I honestly think you look hot. I know this may not be much but I think you need this more than me. Get well soon Quinn. A four leaf cover was placed with scotch tape in the leprecon's hand.
"God. Rach. Did you notice Rory checking me out before? He just called me hot." Rachel smiled at the comment.
"There's no need to check you out Quinn. Everyone knows your one of the hottest girls at school."
"Oh my god. I can only imagine what Puck is going to say."
"Read it already!"
Baby Mama! Your still looking hot in that polka dot, hospital gown of yours. I swear I didn't see your naked butt. Ok, maybe I did but that's only because you turned over and someone had to cover you up. Anyways, I told Shelby about the car accident and convinced her to bring Beth one day. I hope seeing her will make you happy. Get well soon so I don't have to worry about failing history class. - Love Puck
"What did he say Quinn?" She smiles at the thought and Rachel looks at her in eagerness.
"I get to see Beth soon."
"That's awesome Quinn. I bet she will be happy to see you." Her comment only brought tears to her eyes. She hadn't seen Beth in a while ever since the incident with Shelby.
Quinn continued to scan the card and frowned. "Rachel where is your message?" Quinn flipped through the card trying to find it.
"Oh I..um I forgot to mention I bought two cards. I was the first one to write and I ended up filling up the whole card-" Rachel covered her face in embarrassment.
Rachel Berry wrote a whole card full of warm affectionate heartwarming words for her? She damn right tortured the girl sophomore year and yet..a whole card full of Rachel Berry's warmth, affection and love. I mean sure they had their moments but to fill that card up with when she had barely began being nice to her.
"Wow." Her mouth hung so wide that flies could zip in and out and she wouldn't even notice.
"Yeah, Finn's eyes popped out of his face when he saw it. I'll let you read it later though. I'm pretty sure you're tired of reading and you just woke. We don't want you to get worse."
"No, I want to read it Rach." She began to fidget with her fingers still embarrassed.
"Sorry, I'm actually still writing so- I'll give it to you when it's complete."
"Ok Ms. Berry." Being in a car crash had to be the best thing that ever because Rachael was looking at her and only her.
The nurse finally arrived. "How are you doing Ms. Fabray?"
"I'm aching everywhere and I have a slight headache."
"Mk. Well I'm going to take your temperature and then your blood pressure. She placed a plastic cup in between the blonde's hands. "Oh and I will need you to pee in this cup."
Rachel giggles at the thought and Quinn rolled her eyes. "Ms. Berry I hope you will be of good assistance when helping Ms. Fabray to the bathroom."
"You hear that Berry. Assist not laugh." Quinn smirked and Rachel continued to giggle.
