I DO NOT OWN ANY PART OF GLEE

RATED M FOR LANGUAGE AND SEXUAL CONTENT, THERE IS NO SMUT.

Rachel was finding it hard to sleep, she couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was about to happen. Earlier in the night she had gone out for Italian with her parents, something they did at least once a week. Tonight, as they sat at the booth she saw a group of men staring at them. She thought it was simply her imagination and she was being paranoid so she let it go as she ate her vegetarian lasagna. She never noticed the look of hate from the group as her fathers stood up and held hands following Rachel out of the restaurant. She never noticed the black SUV following them home, and she never noticed they were parked across the street waiting for the right time to strike.

Thankfully, she got a text from Finn –Hey, you up? Rachel wasted no time in calling him back and slipping down to the basement so she wouldn't wake her parents. Although they still weren't together, they had a deep friendship. Right now with fear consuming her, she wanted her best friend.

Rachel made herself comfortable on the couch, "Hey, yes I'm awake. Finn, have you ever had a feeling something bad was going to happen?"

"Well yeah, I mean every time I take a chemistry test I know I'm going to fail."

"No, no I mean a feeling you can't shake, like your life depends on it."

"Rach, you're scaring me, what happened?"

"Well, my dads and I went to dinner tonight and" ….BOOM, BOOM gunshots pierced the air.

"Rach! What was that? RACHEL!"

"Oh my god Finn, someone is in the house."

"Rachel, get out of there."

She could hear loud thuds followed by a man screaming "WHO ELSE IS IN THE HOUSE?"

She could hear her Dad's voice shaking "No one, it's just us."

She heard a crash "YOU'RE LYING, YOUR DAUGHTER, WE SAW HER, WHERE IS SHE?"

Her Daddy spoke up assertively "HE TOLD YOU SHE'S NOT HERE" BOOM a single gunshot was heard.

She heard Leroy scream "OH MY GOD HIRAM!"

The door to the basement was hit hard by something "ARE YOU GOING TO TELL ME WHERE SHE IS OR DO YOU DIE TOO?"

Rachel put her hand over her mouth to stop from crying. Finn was equally as silent on the other end not knowing what to do. For once he was the logical one, "Rach, you're downstairs right?"

She whispered, 'yes"

He breathed deep, "Ok, climb into that cubby hole next to the stairs and stay there. I'm going to call 911 okay?"

"No, Finn please don't hang up."

"I'm not going to hang up, I'm going to call on the house phone."

Finn called 911 then heard the men getting closer to Rachel. "I'M TELLING YOU WE HAVE TO FIND HER. SHE WAS LOOKING RIGHT AT ME."

Finn heard the door slam open as Rachel gasped.

"Rach, you have to stay quiet baby, stay quiet."

The man she locked eyes with at the restaurant was right in front of her, but failed to see her as she was deep into the cubby hole as Finn instructed.

A blonde, shorter man nudged the elbow of the brown haired man who Rachel would swear could see her "I'll be damned, homo was telling the truth. Oh well let's take care of the other one and get out of here."

Finn drove over to Rachel's expecting to see the police. They still weren't there. He used his phone to call 911 again, "Did you guys not understand my girl—my friend's fathers may be dead!" "Sir, we understand, but all main roads are shut down due to a fifteen car accident, we're doing everything we can to get there." Finn in frustration threw the phone in the passenger seat and drove by Rachel's, no one was there. He parked one street over from Rachel's house and cut through the yard to the back door, which at some point Rachel had unlocked. "Rach?"

Rachel crawled out and into Finn's arms. "Oh my god Finn. What is happening?" Before Finn could get a grip on Rachel she ran up the stairs to her parents. She opened the door but Finn caught up to her and put his large hand over her eyes before she could see her Daddy lying still in a pool of blood and her Dad lying unconscious against the wall. He couldn't believe what he was seeing as he voiced his horror, "Oh my god." Rachel reached up to take away Finn's hand, he pulled her towards his chest still shielding her eyes, "Rach, trust me. Don't look please, I don't want you to remember them this way." She began to cry harder.

His intention was to walk up to her room, grab some things for the night and take her back to his house. His back was towards the door as Rachel hugged him, she heard a car pull up, but still no sirens. Obeying Finn, and not looking to her left she looked straight ahead to see the man coming back for her. "FINN IT'S HIM!"

Finn lunged his back into the door and locked it in time. "Rachel, don't look you keep your eyes shut! Do you understand me?"

He could hear her crying, the banging from the other side of the door, the pounding of his own heart. Where were the police? We needed attention. Think Finn think, okay you've seen movies like this, what should you do? Suddenly he remembered Rachel lived in a really nice neighborhood with a low tolerance for any kind of noise. He grabbed the stereo and tv remotes turning them up as loud as possible. He heard the man on the other side with some sort of accent, "WE WILL FIND YOU LITTLE GIRL, YOU'VE SEEN OUR FACES AND WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF YOU HERE. THE NEXT TIME WE SEE YOU, YOU ARE DEAD!"

Then without warning a bottle with a lighted rag flew through the window as the living room went up in flames. Finally the noise had dogs barking and people shouting that the Berry house was on fire. Finn jumped up and grabbed Rachel as they fled out the back door and across the yard to the safety of his car. Finally he saw the police coming but didn't want to turn back, Rachel didn't need to see her house, her fathers, her world going up in flames.

Finn didn't know if they were following him but he'd seen enough movies to know he should go somewhere public. He took what cash he had and went to a hotel on one of the backroads of Lima. Rachel lied down to try and get some sleep as Finn picked up the phone to call the police.

He cleared his throat and kept his voice low, "Hello, I'm calling about the Berry murders tonight."

The dispatcher was stunned, "I'm sorry, do you mean the fire at the Berry house?

"No, I mean the murders. I'm a friend of their daughter and I was on the phone with her when the men came in."

"Sir, please hold on."

Finn looked over to see Rachel sleeping, he rubbed her back while he sat on hold.

"FBI agent Reynolds, you are on a secured line, please state your name."

"Uhhhh Finn. Finn Hudson."

"Mr. Hudson, I understand you were on the phone with Miss Berry?"

"Yes, I was."

"What did you hear, do you know where we can find her?"

"She's here with me and…."

"She's there, she's alive?"

"Yes, of course she's alive."

"Did she see the men?"

"Yes, they know she saw them. First at the restaurant, and then later when they came back to the house."

"Mr. Hudson, listen very closely. The men who did this have a history of ruthless hate crimes, we believe they targeted the Berrys for their homosexuality. You are not to leave that hotel room under any circumstances. They are watching you, I have no doubt. They have never left a witness."

Finn interrupted, "T-t-they said they had taken a photo of her and would kill her the next time they saw her. Wait how do you know we're in a hotel?"

Agent Reynolds continued, "Do not open that door until the FBI gets there do you understand me?"

"y-y-yes I understand."

Finn hung up the phone shakily and looked at Rachel. He would do anything to protect her.

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