A/N: What did that episode do to me? Glee 3x14 'On My Way'. Instead of going to bed, like I meant to, this poured out.
I'LL WAIT FOR YOU
When Quinn opens her eyes again she's in a darkened room with a sheet pulled up to her waist. The room is plain from what she can tell and it's quiet. So quiet, in fact, that under the steady beep of her heart monitor she can hear the soft puffs of breath coming from another person in the room.
Her hand twitches as she turns her head to find the source of that breathing. Her movements rouse the dozing person.
Her breath hitches when she realizes who it is. Rachel.
She watches brown eyes blink open and slowly focus on Quinn's now intently squeezing hand.
"Rachel? What are you-" it's then she notices Rachel is still in her wedding dress and can't stop herself from saying, "you look beautiful." Then, because her mouth is on a roll, "Finn's a lucky guy."
Rachel shrugs, "I didn't go through with it."
"What? Why not?"
Rachel squeezes her hand, licks her lips, and looking bold and bashful at the same time as she meets Quinn's eyes she speaks as earnestly as Quinn's ever heard her, "Because while I was waiting for you to get there I realized that you were the only person I really wanted there. And that meant the wrong person was waiting for me at the altar. And I wasn't where I needed to be."
"You mean-?" Quinn can't finish the question, the words lodged tight in her throat, but she knows Rachel reads the rest of it in her eyes when she nods.
Quinn takes a shaky breath, her eyes filling with happy tears for once in her life, and gives Rachel a watery smile. She gestures limply at her lower half, "Looks like it'll be a while before I can walk down the aisle with you, Rachel."
Rachel shakes her head fondly, a gentle smile hovering on her lips, and kisses the back of Quinn's hand. "I'll wait for you. We've got all the time in the world."