A/N: Okay, I've been on an emotion roller coaster since last night's episode. I can't believe RIB did this to us. Quinn realizing she was in love with Rachel and then involving her in a car crash? And a seven-week-long hiatus?

I know Quinn's condition in this fic would be a lot worse in real life considering how violent the crash really was. But anyway, for the sake of the story, I chose not to put her life in real danger.

Anyway, this story will be around seven chapters (one chapter each week to get us through the hiatus) and an epilogue. How does that sound?

I hope you enjoy this.

"I can't believe she would do this! Tell me she was coming to the wedding and then bailing on me?"

A petite brunette dressed in a long white dress shouted as she pulled the doors open, followed by her bridesmaids.

Apparently fury had taken human form in her.

"Calm down, Berry. There wasn't even an actual wedding. It's postponed to a million years away," Santana said while rolling her eyes, crossing her arms over her chest. The phone that was in her hand began to ring and she was surprised to see it was Quinn. "Speaking of the devil..."

She excused herself and went to take the call in another room.

"Wh-what if something happened to her?" Rachel asked, worry itching her face. She was pacing around the small coffee table when Santana joined them. Her face had been drained from all colours and she stood there as if she had seen a ghost, while the phone slipped from her hand and crashed onto the floor near her feet.

"San, baby?" Brittany asked worriedly as she approached her girlfriend, as did everyone girl, except for Rachel who was still pacing around the coffee table.

"I-it was Quinn's mom on the-on the phone. Q was in a c-car accident." The shaking latina managed to say, tears rapidly forming in her eyes before there were too many and they spilled from her eyes and down her cheeks.

"Oh my God," Tina exclaimed, covering her mouth with her hand. She turned around and tried to control her emotions. "Rachel.."

The former bride turned around, her veil flowing around her in a halo. She frowned upon hearing Tina's quivering voice. "What's going on?"

"Quinn's mother called... She got hit by a car on her way here."

Rachel blinked several times, water flooding her eyes in a matter of seconds. Then the doors swung open, her dads stepping in and rushing to her.

"We're so sorry baby girl, but it was the right thing to do. You and Finn can get married in a couple of years once you're certain about this." said Leroy, laying a comforting hand on his daughter's back.

"I-I..." Rachel stammered, before a sob ripped from her throat and her knees quivered beneath her weight. Hiram caught her and brought her against his chest, hoisting her up.

"Sweetheart..." Both men then noticed the other crying girls in the room and looked at each other in worry. They certainly didn't think postponing the wedding would create such a reaction from friends of Finn and Rachel's. Unless... "Can someone tell us what's going on?"

"It's Quinn," His daughter's voice vibrated against his sternum and looked down. "We-we need to go to the hospital."

A tight knot had been in her stomach ever since Quinn hadn't answered her phone. Rachel paced in the hospital waiting room, along with the glee kids who were all sat, watching the young woman go from left to right. Tina had her head resting on Mike's shoulder, so had Santana on Brittany's. The latina had been a crying mess since they were told the news. Leroy and Hiram were talking with Judy Fabray, who was pale as a sheet, and trying to get her to rest for a little while. Mercedes and Sugar were staring off into space while all the boys sat there as well, fingers crossed and waited.

Finn was the only one standing, trying to get his girlfriend to calm down. "Rachel...Can you please sit or something... You're giving me a headache."

"I'm extremely sorry Finn if I'm giving you a headache which seems to be minimal to what Quinn's going through right now," she shouted, drawing everyone's attention to her. "This is all my fault. I shouldn't have texted her."

"You don't know that. Maybe she wasn't even texting you back when it happened." Finn tried. Rachel gave him a death glare that had him crawl back to his seat with his tail between his legs.

"Baby girl," Hiram whispered as he made his way to his daughter. "You're not blaming yourself for this, you hear me? This is not your fault, this is nobody's fault. Now we are going to sit down and calm ourselves and wish for Quinn to be okay. This is all we can do at the moment, alright?"

Rachel nodded and let her father wipe away the tears that had fallen down her cheeks. "Okay."

"All right."

A few hours later, the glee kids had gone home under their parents order. Only remained Mr. Schue and Emma, Judy and Rachel and her fathers, the girl threatening her fathers to go on hunger strike if they didn't let her stay. She had later soon fallen asleep curled up in Leroy's side, exhaustion finally catching up.

"Quinn Fabray?" A middle aged looking doctor asked as he walked into the room. Judy rose from her seat and took quick strides toward him.

"I'm Judy Fabray, her mother."

"Follow me, please."

When Judy came back a few minutes later, Rachel had awoken and rushed to her. "How's Quinn, is she okay?"

"Her life is no longer in jeopardy. The doctor said they managed to control the internal bleeding and she's now out of danger. But he also said that the shock was extremely violent and that..." Judy paused as her sobs became too hard to contain. "her spinal chord has been damaged. She lost complete function of her legs."

Rachel gasped and felt water once again blur her vision. She opened her mouth to say something but all that came out was heart ripping sob that echoed throughout the room.

"Oh God. This can't be h-happening. Q-Quinn can't be paralyzed."

Leroy hugged her and sighed. "At least her life is in no danger. From what we heard the crash was very violent, she's lucky she's even still here."

"C-could I see her?" Rachel asked, her eyes flicking up to meet Judy's.

Judy nodded, claiming she wasn't quite ready to see her daughter in such a state yet. Rachel found a nurse to show her Quinn's room and with a shaking hand, pushed the door open.

The beeping sound of the heart monitor made her nauseous and the sight of the young blonde lying on the hospital bed while looking at the window made her heart break. She didn't think Quinn would be awake, but now when she comes to think about it, they've been there for fifteen hours and the sun is starting to rise.

"Hey," Rachel said softly, silently cursing her voice for breaking. Quinn's head turned the slightest, limited by the collar around her neck. Cuts and bruises covered the left side of her face, and her left arm was kept in a sprain. Rachel couldn't hold back a gasp and approached the bed with hesitant steps, going around it so she could hold Quinn's healthy hand.

The blonde attempted a small smile but the stitches on her cheek made her wince. "Congratulations."

Rachel almost burst into tears right there and then. The girl just got into a car accident and the first thing she thought about was to congratulate her for a wedding that hadn't even happened. If anyone ever said Quinn Fabray was a selfish person again, Rachel Berry would smack them down.

"It didn't happen. It was a stupid decision to get married now."

"Oh. I guess I'll be able to be there the next time."

Rachel nodded ad tried to ignore the loud thumping of her heart that vibrated through her ears. "Yeah, I'd like that."

Quinn wet her lips and her lids dropped shut as Rachel slid her small hand in hers and gave it a gentle squeeze. Silent tears began to race down the cheerleader's face and she turned her head to the side as best as she could, away from Rachel's eyes.

"Quinn..."

"I-I can't move my legs, Rach," A strangled, broken voice filled the room. "I might never be able to move them ever again."

Rachel didn't know what to say or do, so she settled by placing a kiss on Quinn's knuckles. "Medecine progresses every day. They'll find a solution."

"I-I won't be able to cheer at Nationals... How am I going to make it to Yale and be on my own when I can't even dress myself? This fucking car accident has made my life a mess. More than it already was," she whispered. "My goal was to forget the past and start a future. But what do I do when the past is stuck with me?"

"I..I- We'll find a solution, I promise. You might not cheer at Nationals b-but you'll get into Yale no matter what and we'll get through this."

Quinn laughed bitterly. "I'm going to Yale, you're going to New York, how is a 'we' going to work?"

"At least until graduation. I'll help you get back on tracks, all right? Artie will give you tips with the wheelchair and I'll take your homework while you're not here and...We'll make it work."

Quinn gives her a small, shy smile. "Thank you. Can-could you maybe lie here with me for a while?"

Fuck, yeah.

Rachel blinked and nodded hesitantly. "O-of course. I don't want to hurt you though."

"You won't, I promise."

"Okay," Rachel pulled down the bar of the bed with some struggling that had Quinn giggle, then she was able to climb on the bed next to her friend. She took her hand and ran her thumb over her knuckled back and forth. "I was so scared."

"I'm okay." She was not. "I promise."

She couldn't. Because herself she didn't know if she would ever be okay if Rachel stayed with Finn.

"Rachel?" The brunette looked up. "I hope you don't blame yourself for this."

"I was the one texting you."

Quinn shook her head as best as she could. "And I was the one stubborn enough to try to answer and drive at the same time. I'm the stupid one, I should have thought twice before doing it. It's not your fault, you hear me?"

"Yes."

No. But she didn't have strength to argue with Quinn right now.

"Good. I'm sorry about the wedding."

Rachel chuckled. "No you're not. You thought it was a bad idea to do it now."

"Yeah, I did. A part of me is glad that you didn't do it."

"I know that," Rachel murmured. "And a part of me thought you were right but the other part of me was just so excited to get married."

"You actually had thoughts about not doing it?"

"Yeah, kind of. Especially when you didn't show up." She admitted.

The two girls fell silent and the only thing that could be heard was a the steady rhythm of Quinn's heartbeat on the machine and the distant voices outside the hospital room. Rachel cradled herself closer to Quinn and draped and arm over the blonde's midsection, only to pull it back and sit up when Quinn winced in pain.

"I'm so sorry, Quinn, are you okay?" she asked frantically, her eyes as wide as saucers.

"Yeah," Quinn smile reassuringly. "I just have a bruise because of the seatbelt." She took Rachel's arm and placed it a little bit higher on her stomach. "Here is fine."

"I'm sorry." Rachel apologized once again and laid back down on the bed, resting her head onto Quinn's shoulder.

"Stop apologizing."

There was a few minutes of complete silent an Quinn was nearly sleeping when Rachel's voice brought her back into consciousness.

"Quinn?"

"Mhm?"

"I'm going to do everything that I can to fix you."

"I know."

"I care a lot about you, you know."

I know. And I love you. I am in love with Rachel Berry and she doesn't have a clue.

Shall I keep going? Let me know!