Hi! I kinda took a message break from my fanfiction, but a few weeks ago I was looking through limadesigns on Tumblr and I saw on the 'Somebody Fic This' section the idea for this fanfic, so that's exactly what I did :) I'm planning on this being a multichapter fanfic, however I currently on have chapter 1 xD So, I hope you enjoy! :D
It had been two weeks, and Quinn was beginning to give up hope on her girlfriend waking up, nothing had changed ever since that first terrible day where Quinn had found out Rachel had been involved in a car accident and was in hospital in a coma.
She hadn't slept in at least 48 hours, and because of that she couldnt really cope with anything, but how was someone supposed to sleep in a situation like this? She'd only slept a couple of times since she'd been here, and she hated doing it incase Rachel woke up and needed her whilst she was asleep, that would be terrible. Therefore, sleep was kept at a minimum. And so was eating, despite everyone's comments in how she needs to eat more, she felt sick after she just had a few bites of her salad, she couldn't stop thinking and worrying about Rachel. That was why Quinn thought she was hallucinating when she swore she felt a tiny twitch in Rachel's hand just as Quinn was about to fall into a deep slumber once again. She wasn't hallucinating, the twitch was 100% real. Rachel's hand moved. Nothing else did though, just her hand, but it filled Quinn with so much happiness and joy she couldn't contain herself.
"She's awake! She's awake! She's gonna be fine! SHES AWAKE!"
Quinn at first thought to herself, but it turned into an out loud scream as Quinn got halfway through her thought. She'd never been so happy in her life, ever. She wasn't going to loose her girlfriend, life was perfect again. Well as perfect as it could be consisting the fact that Rachel was still in hospital, and would probably be here a while, but at least nothing worse happened. Quinn let out an ecstatic scream, that she was pretty sure the whole hospital would be able to hear, and she wasn't even the loud one!
"SHE'S AWAKE! SHES AWAAAAKEEE! SHES AWAKE!"
Quinn's screams of incredible joy were heard by several doctors who immediately rushed over to Rachel, checking her stats and her blood pressure and a whole load of other things that Quinn didn't understand one bit.
After a few minutes, Quinn was once again left alone with Rachel, only this time she looked less broken then she had done before, which was a wonderful sight for Quinn. Rachel was trying to sit up, but was loosing the battle. Rachel was still very pale, but to Quinn's happiness her skin had regained much more of its full colour than it had had earlier that day, and the days before. Her hair was all sweaty and stuck together which was gross, but it was Rachel, she was still so beautiful. She had stitches across her face from her forehead curving round past her eye and down to the bottom of her left cheek, and more on the other side but just across her forehead. She still had several IV's in her, one for fluids, one for medicine and one Quinn didn't understand what the heck it was for. A pump monitored her blood pressure, and there was gauze around her head, and heavily around both her wrists, one of which was also in a cast. There was a machine helping her to breathe, which clearly Rachel hadn't noticed yet, but she was just coming around, the doctor said she'd probably have trouble with things like that for a little while. The worst of Rachel's injuries could not be seem, and at that current time couldnt be felt by Rachel due to the high dose of morphine she was on for the pain. The doctor had mentioned something about a damaged lung which was why she couldn't breathe properly, her back was broken in several places and she'd suffered quite a blow to the head, but there didn't seem to be any obvious damage, which was great. Despite all the gauze and bandages and injuries she had, she still managed to look like the most beautiful girl in the world to Quinn.
Rachel had no idea what was going on. She was so tired and really wanted to drift off to sleep, but the doctors had ruined that when they decided to stick her with several needles right when she woke up. It hurt! Everything was a blur, and Rachel couldn't process anything properly. Was this a dream? There was no way it could be real life, real life just wasn't as... hazy, as everything around Rachel currently was. She couldn't work out where she was, let alone why she was there, and who that blurry figure when Rachel turned her head to the right was. It wasn't until she faintly heard a few words coming out of the blurry figures mouth, as Rachel felt someone take hold of her hand, assuming that was also the blurry figure right next to her.
"Rach, it's okay. You're safe now. I'm here."
She knew that voice, but couldn't quite place it to a name or a face, but she knew that voice was incredibly familiar, and that it was one of a girl. Rachel didn't move, it didn't hurt because of the medication, but it was extremely physically hard for Rachel to even move her hand, something must be wrong. The girl spoke again, this time she was gently caressing Rachel's forehead with her thumb, trying not to touch her stitches in the process.
"Can you hear me Rach? It's okay, it's only me, Quinn. Open your eyes a little more Rach, then you'll see me"
The girl said with a warm, comforting smile on her face, and Rachel obeyed, but her vision wasn't that much clearer even if she opened her eyes more, everything was still in a haze. Then suddenly she knew the voice, the face, the name, everything about this girl. She was Quinn Fabray, head cheerleader, major popular, and not to mention beautiful. What on earth was she doing? She didn't care about Rachel, if she remembered right, Quinn was usually the one to insult her and she used to throw freezing cold slushies in her face on an almost daily basis, things had got better since Quinn had joined glee club, but they still weren't on a high enough relationship level that she has any reason for being here, they still didn't get along, and the thought of this made Rachel sort of terrified. She reached as far as she could and started to touch the 'nurse' button beside her bed, however she didn't actually push it before Quinn stopped her, causing Rachel to freeze in terror. It was really hard for Rachel to get out the words she wanted to say, it was like her brain had all of a sudden turned to mush, but she needed to stop Quinn before she hurted her, she could just see that coming. After a few tries with just spluttering and silence coming out, Rachel finally managed words.
"D-Don't h-hurt me Quinn... I-I think I'm already in enough pain... But I'm not sure... P-Please..."
It was incredibly creepy that Quinn was showing such signs of affection towards Rachel, since when did she care? Maybe she was at fault for whatever happened, that was to most logical explanation, and those beautiful, what Rachel had now worked out to be, flowers on the table were an apology gift, or maybe she'd just changed all of a sudden, weird but also possible.
What was Rachel thinking? Why would Quinn hurt her? Answer to that, she never would! But why on earth would Rachel ever think that? Quinn was so confused. This was her girlfriend lying in that bed in front of her, but she didn't at all seem like her girlfriend, what was going on?
"Rach, I love you, why would I hurt you? I could never hurt you!"
Quinn said gently, again taking hold of Rachel's hand and stroking her forehead softly.
But unfortunately this just made Rachel more scared and confused than before. Of course Quinn would hurt her, she did it all the time and they hate eachother because of it, even if it wasn't physically hurting, which it mostly wasn't, it was emotional and verbal. Why on earth was Quinn saying she wouldn't? Had she changed overnight or something? Because Rachel was sure that wasn't possible. Everything was getting much clearer than it had been, it was like Rachel's brain was finally figuring out the puzzle that had been a jumble since she had woken up. She could now see that yes, she was in a hospital, however she didn't know why, and worry began to work it's way through her body. Especially when she began to notice all her visible injuries, despite not being able to feel the pain coming from them, looking at them made it also seem like Rachel could feel them. She had no time for worrying about herself though, she had this whole Quinn mess to figure out since she had already started, there was no way she was stopping until she completely understood. She could see Quinn clearly now, and yes that was Quinn Fabray alright, minus the Cheerio's uniform and the pony tail and added a blue sundress and White cardigan in it's place, but that was definitely her.
"W-What are you doing here? If you've not come to hurt me even more than I currently am, I see no reason for you being here"
Quinn could feel her heart breaking as Rachel spoke, this couldn't be happening. She had to remember. It had taken them so long to actually become girlfriend and girlfriend, and for Rachel to realise she was really in love with Quinn, now back to square one? The worst thing was, she hated seeing Rachel unhappy, and once they had started dating, Rachel was truly happy for the first time in such a long time Quinn couldn't even begin to track it anymore. Now she wasn't going to be happy anymore, and Quinn no longer had a girlfriend. But no matter what, no matter how much it hurt, Quinn had to be there for Rachel because even though she was different, she was still Rachel, the love of Quinn's life. Quinn didn't even have the slightest clue on how to tell her, but luckily she didn't need to think of a conversation starter when Rachel found her locket still around her neck.
"Rachel & Quinn forever"
Rachel read out, she didn't understand, not even a single bit of it. They weren't even friends as far as Rachel was concerned, but why would she own a locket saying 'Rach & Q forever' if they werent friends, or... something more. She looked up at Quinn, as to say 'tell me everything' she knew there was something she was missing, but had no idea what on earth it was.
Quinn cleared her throat, whilst sitting down on the edge of the bed and cupping Rachel's non injured hand with both of hers, staring into her chocolate brown eyes and tearing up a bit.
"Y-You're my girlfriend."
Quinn said with a slight stutter in her voice from nerves. Rachel's face changed from pure confusion, to slight terror. 'This is either true love, or an elaborate prank' Rachel thought to herself, and she was 99.99% sure that it was the latter. Of course it wasn't true, Quinn was just playing her, she knew she'd come to hurt her. But for some reason, Quinn's face seemed to be saying something different. When Rachel looked at Quinn's face, she saw heartbreak in her eyes, and tears were rolling swiftly down her cheeks. This was not the face of someone who was playing a prank on you, or maybe Quinn was just an incredible actress, but as more and more tears rolled down Quinn's cheeks, Rachel began to doubt.
"No! This can't be happening... I'm not even gay! I'm dating Finn remember? And I-I love him..."
The doctor had said there should not be any brain damage, however it seemed that they hadn't got their facts right, as this clearly was. She couldn't remember the last year of her life! Quinn didn't know what to feel, she was mad at the doctors for saying there wasn't anything wrong, as now clearly there is something really wrong with her girlfriend because she can't remember the last year of her life! The most amazing year Quinn had ever lived, and now all down the drain, literally like it never happened, because in Rachel's point of view, it never did happen. She knew what she had to do, remind Rachel of everything that had happened in that last year 'that would work right?' Quinn thought to herself, she had to at least try, she needed get girlfriend back. ASAP.
"Finn broke up with you last year, you were so devastated you came to your friend for help, and a shoulder to cry on, and then... Love happened..."
Rachel gave Quinn the same devastated look she'd given her a year ago when she turned up on Quinn's doorstep after her terrible breakup with Finn. It was like history was repeating itself, and Quinn wished she could rewind time to when her and Rachel were happily in a relationship, everything was perfect, and no one had got in a serrious car crash.
No one talked for an hour after that. Rachel spent the hour looking around the room and trying to figure out what on earth was going on, and Quinn was looking down at the floor, she just wanted her girlfriend back.
"S-So we're together..."
Rachel quietly and nervously spoke up after the hour had passed. She still was in so much confusion, and also anger because she couldn't even remember one single thing about her and Quinn's relationship, no matter how hard she tried.
Quinn still couldn't speak, so she just nodded in Rachel's direction. She didn't know what to say or do now, she didn't think she could do this anymore, she couldn't explain to Rachel everything that had happened between them, on her own, without breaking down. She wasn't going anywhere, because Rachel needed her more than ever, and she cared and loved Rachel more than she ever had anyone else, she couldn't leave her no matter what, she just needed help.
"I-I'll be right back, I just need to call someone..."
Santana and Brittany. She knew Britt would definitely help, and Santana was always there for Quinn, but still rather disliked Rachel, it'd take some persuading but it would work.
An hour later, the room was all of a sudden filled with people, and noise and talking and laughter, which was really great for Quinn who hadn't felt that way in quite sometime, and it really brought up the atmosphere in the room, everyone was happier.
Brittany was pearched on the edge of Rachel's bed, holding a photo album and trying her best to explain the photos to Rachel, with the help of Santana who was sitting in the chair besides the bed, with Quinn a little in front of her, also helping when needed, but Britt loved the job, therefore they let her do the majority. Despite the fact that she had often shown dislike towards Rachel, she did care about her very much, and wanted to do everything she could to make sure she got better.
At first, Santana didn't intend on coming. Firstly because 'It's only Berry' and she had a strong dislike of 'Berry'. But glee club had become much more like a family lately, and even though she would make sure your life was hell if you told anyone, she did actually care about 'Berry', depsite how annoying she was, and also she couldn't stand to see her best friend so upset. She was always there for Quinn, no matter what, therefore, she came. Britt's adorable pouty face was a large factor as well. It was irresistible.
