Hey, so this is my first fan fic :) I honestly do not have a clue whether it's any good or not, so that is what you guys are for :) Pretty please with sugar on top leave me a review letting me know what you thought :)
"Daddy! Please, don't do this!"
They could hear Rachels screams from the other side of the door.
This had been going on for years. Hiram and Leroy would choose one of their kids each day, and take them into the tiny bathroom locking the door behind them. The boys would bang on the door and try to barge it open while the girls would sob and beg for their fathers to leave whichever sibling they had at the time alone. Hiram and Leroy Berry had adopted the twins, Rachel and Noah from a woman named Shelby Corcoran when they were born, a year later, they adopted the triplets, Quinn, Brittany and Sam, also at birth, from a woman named Susan Peirce. Rachel and Noah, or 'Puck' as he preferred to be called due to his high records on the hockey team in middle school, were 16 years old, Quinn, Brittany and Sam were 15. The abuse from their fathers had been going on for just over six years. The teenagers were so terrified of their fathers that they had never told any one about the abuse, so it continued happening. They hated having to hear what was happening to their siblings, but they always remained outside the bathroom door until their fathers had finished so that they could be there for one another.
Rachel could hear her brothers and sisters outside the bathroom, yelling and banging on the door. She always tried her very best to remain quite as she didn't want her siblings to have to hear what was happening to her. However, this time, when her dad, Leroy, pushed himself inside her, she couldn't hold in her screams. Her daddy, Hiram, watched in amusement, waiting not so patiently for his turn with his daughter. Outside the bathroom, Noah and Sam banged harder on the door, trying their best to get into the room and protect their sister. Quinn and Brittany sobbed harder, huddled together in a heap beside the bathroom door. After 30 more minutes, Hiram and Leroy left the bathroom holding hands, and glared at their children, who were shooting them stares that could kill. Quinn and Brittany rushed to their sisters side, who was laying on the cold tiles, beaten, bruised, bloody and violated. They pulled her into their arms and the three of them clung to one another with everything they had, sobbing more than ever. Noah and Sam stood outside the door for a minute before slowly following their sisters into the bathroom. Seeing their sister like this broke all their hearts. The boys joined in on their sisters hug. After what seemed like hours of sitting together in silence, Noah got up from his spot, locked the bathroom door and returned to sit beside his siblings before speaking.
"Sam and i were talking, and we think that this has gone on long enough, what Hiram and Leroy are doing to us isn't right, we all know that, we need to speak up. There must be someone out there who can help us...Someone who wont think we're weak." He finished softly.
His sisters just looked at him, fear evident in their eyes, Sam nodded, agreeing with his brother. Rachel spoke up, in a weak shattered voice.
"We have no one to tell, Noah. And even if we did, you know what Daddy and dad said, if we ever tell, they'll kill us...i don't want my brothers and sisters dead. The only person we have in this whole world is Santana. And she has enough going on in her life without us unloading all our burdens on her. We're alone in this world, no one cares."
Their fathers had always drilled into their heads that they were worthless and that they had no one. And needless to say, they believed it. They acted so closed off from everyone except their best friend, and Rachels girlfriend, Santana, that no one bothered to talk to them or associate with them. Sure, they were the attractive, popular kids, but being popular didn't mean that you had people you could rely on. The boys frowned and looked at their sisters, who were nodding in agreeance with Rachel.
"There has to be someone out there who can help us, and no matter what it takes, im going to find them. I'm not letting this go on any more. To any of you. We're all the family each other has, and im not going to allow my family to get hurt anymore. End of topic, lets go to bed, we have school tomorrow."
They all silently made their way into the girls room where they all got into the King sized bed they shared and curled up in each others arms, a place that never failed to make them feel safe. None of them could sleep alone anymore. They would wake up endlessly throughout the night due to nightmares, so they had always shared the girls bed.
The next day whilst Rachel, Quinn and Brittany were changing after cheerios practice in the locker rooms, Santana rushed in swearing in Spanish.
"No puedo creer que se perdió el entrenamiento otra vez! Coach Sue va a matarme! ¡Mierda! Yo soy un huevón de mierda! alguien me maten antes de que el entrenador consigue sus manos en mí!" (AN-translation-i cannot believe that i missed practice again! Coach Sue is going to murder me! Fuck! I am a fucking dickhead! Someone kill me before Coach gets her hands on me!) The girls looked at her and laughed, they all took Mr Schues Spanish class, so they knew exactly what she had just said.
" Baby, shes not going to kill you, she values your talent too much." The girls all laughed softly and Santana wrapped her arms tightly around her tiny girlfriend. Rachel stiffened and the Latina looked at her confused before removing her arms.
"Sorry san, im just kinda sore from practice, Coach pushed us really hard today." Rachel said glancing at her sisters who knew she was lying. Quinn and Brittany shared a concerned glance before turning back to their sister and best friend.
"I'm so sorry Estrella!" Santana exclaimed, upset that she had hurt her girlfriend. The smaller brunette smiled softly at her girlfriend and shrugged.
"Its nothing babe, just a few sore muscles. I'm fine i promise. You on the other hand, may not be, Coach Sue wants to see you. I'll wait for you by your locker before class. Don't let her be too harsh on you." Santana pressed a quick kiss to her girlfriend lips and waved to her other two best friends before running out onto the field where a sure to be angry Sue Sylvester was awaiting her.
Once Santana had left the locker room, Brittany and Quinn turned to Rachel with concerned looks.
" Can i have a look at your back please Rach?" Quinn asked softly and Rachel nodded, turning around and lifting her shirt up to expose the gashes that went from her shoulders to just above her butt.
The girls both gasped in shock at the sight of their sister back.
"They've never done it this bad Rachie. Your back is covered in gashes." Brittany said before pulling her sisters shirt down and hugging her gently.
Quinn joined her sisters hug and sighed.
"They boys were right...this can't go on. We have to find someone who can help us."
Little did the girls know, they weren't alone in the locker room. In the stall closest to the door, another cheerio named Tina had heard the entire conversation and was already on her way to Emma Pillsbury's office to report what she had found out.
Later that day Rachel was sitting next to Santana in Spanish, her second last class of the day, daydreaming while she gazed lovingly at her beautiful girlfriend. She loved this girl so much, she knew that Santana was the one for her, no one could ever take her place in Rachels heart. The small brunette was in the middle of daydreaming about hers and Santana's wedding, when she heard her name called from the front of the class. She shook her head to shake away the image of the Latina walking down the aisle, and looked towards Mr Schue.
"Rachel, Ms Pillsbury needs to see you in her office, it's really important."
She looked over to the door where the schools guidance councillor, Emma Pillsbury was standing with her brothers and sisters, she looked to them to find out what was going on, however they seemed as clueless as her. She nodded at Mr Schue and began to pack her bag before turning to her girlfriend.
"If im not in History, I'll see you in glee club.." She said before leaning over to kiss the latinas cheek. Santana looked just as confused as Rachel felt.
"What's going on baby? Why do you have to see the guidance councillor?" She replied, kissing her girlfriends cheek in return.
Rachel simply shrugged and promised she would text her as soon as she found out before leaving the room to join her siblings and Ms Pillsbury.
When they got to the guidance councillors office, the doe eyed woman, Noah and Sam left the room to get three more chairs, leaving the girls alone for a couple of minutes. They just sat in silence, all of them thinking the same thing, but no one willing to say it out loud.
'She knows'
Finally, after minutes of silence, the boys and Ms Pillsbury came back into the room with extra chairs and they all took a seat.
"Why are we here Ms P?" Noah said, looking worriedly at his siblings.
"Theres no easy way to start this so im just going to come out with it...I received a report earlier today that Rachel had been abused. Apparently a fellow student heard you three girls talking about it in the locker room, and they saw your back which was covered in terrible gashes. I need to know if this information is true. Rachel, has somebody abused you?" The girls were in tears and the boys looked close to it. That was all the conformation Emma needed. She looked to the five of them, all of them looked hurt and upset by the topic.
"Who was it?" The guidance councillor asked softly, looking at Rachel. The tiny brunette looked towards her brothers and sisters, they all nodded, signalling for her to say. This was what they had all decided on, they needed to tell someone, and that someone was finally there. After six years of abuse, they would finally be able to be set free.
Quinn and Brittany took each of Rachels hands into their own, Sam and Noah moved closer to their sisters. They were in this together, they always had been, they had to support one another and be there no matter what. Rachel opened her mouth, but no words came out. She was terrified of her fathers, terrified of what they would do to her when they found out she told, what they would do to them. She shut her mouth and shook her head, tears pouring down her face. Noah went to his sister and wrapped his arms around her, pulling her to his chest before lifting her up and sitting in her seat with his twin curled up in his lap. Lucky she was so tiny.
"Our dads." He muttered so quiet it was almost impossible to hear. Emma looked at him, asking him with her eyes to continue. He looked at each of his siblings, he was the oldest, yeah maybe only by two minutes, but he was still the oldest, it was his responsibility to keep them safe. He had failed for the previous six years. It was time for him to start protecting them.
"It started six years ago...
A ten year old Noah was playing in the back yard with his twin sister and his nine year old sisters and brother, Quinn, Sam and Brittany. Their lives were carefree. Perfect. They had loving dads who dotted on each of them. They had everything they could ever dream of. They were happy children, but that day, it all changed.
"Hey kids, come inside please, it's starting to get late and it's time for your baths." The kids stopped their game of hide and seek, groaning and complaining because they had to give away their hiding spots, and went inside to their dads, who were running a bath for them.
"Girls, you're first in the bath, boys you can wait in your room for your turn." They all looked at one another questioningly. They had stopped bathing together years ago, and their dads certainly didn't help them in the bath anymore. However, it was just their dads, so they thought nothing of it. Their Daddy stayed in the bathroom with the girls and their dad went back down to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
Noah and Sam sat in their bedroom playing with their toy cars while they waited for their turn to have a bath. When their daddy called them into the bathroom, they gathered their towels and packed away their cars before going. The girls passed them on the way, They weren't talking like they usually were and they looked confused and scared. Sam and Noah shared a look of concern but shrugged it off and reached the bathroom, getting into the tub where their father proceeded to help them wash themselves. Halfway through that bath, Hirams hands started to wonder and soon he began to touch the boys in spots that they had been told were private areas. The bath seemed to take forever and when they got out they quickly wrapped themselves in their towels and went into their room, shutting the door behind them. That night, Sam and Noah slept in their sisters room, where they spoke to their sisters about their bath time. The girls had told them that the same thing had happened to them. They all fell asleep late that night, confused, scared and worried about what their daddy had done.
...It all escalated from that day. They soon began to beat us and molest us more and more. It got to the point where we all fought back too much when it happened, that they separated us when they did..things. We couldn't fight to protect each other anymore. All we could do was bang on the bathroom door and shout at our dads, begging them to stop..." He looked at his twin who looked so tiny and fragile, curled up against his chest.
"Last night was the worst they have ever gotten. I will never forgive myself for not being able to stop what they did to Rach, or any of us."
Emma sat staring at the sobbing children in front of her in shock. She had to call child protective services and get these children out of that house and those men arrested.
" I need to go make some phone calls...Can the five of you please stay here? I'll get you excused from your last class of the day and from glee." They all nodded and Emma left the room. First she called child protective services, then the police. Then she made her way to principal Figgins office to tell him what was going on and why CPS would be at his school in an hour.
Back in the Guidance councillors office, the Berry children sat in silence, just holding onto one another and crying. They were scared, and happy and worried. They were scared of what their fathers would do them for telling, happy that they had found someone willing to help them, and worried that Ms P wouldn't be able to do anything and they would be left with their fathers.
Rachel had turned her phone on silent and didn't hear the calls and texts from her worried girlfriend.
When Rachel, Quinn, Brittany, Noah and Sam hadn't turned up to glee that afternoon. Santana began to worry, well she continued to worry, since she hadn't heard a word from her girlfriend about what was going on. All through glee she had texted Rach asking what was going on, but she received no reply to any of them. She tried the others, but they didn't reply either. She was growing more worried by the second...what could be so bad that they would have to miss glee? Santana tried to focus on glee, but gave up after five minutes of trying. She zoned out for the rest of the lesson, wondering what could possibly be wrong with her girlfriend and her best friends. As soon as glee finished, Santana left the room and dialled her tiny girlfriends number, however she got no answer.
"Big surprise there." She muttered to herself as she hung up her phone and walked out to the parking lot, getting into her car and driving home. She decided to wait. She would eventually hear from one of her friends, she told herself she was probably stressing herself out over nothing as she pulled into her driveway.
Back at McKinley, Rachel, Quinn, Noah, Brittany and Sam had fallen asleep in the positions they were in hours ago. Sam woke up and looked around, trying to realise where he was. He looked to his left and saw his sister, Brittany, silently crying in her chair.
"Britt-Britt." He said softly to get her attention. Once she was looking at him, he continued.
"We're gonna be okay Britty. Our dads will never touch us again. They will go to prison for what they have done to us. We are safe now. I promise." Sam got up out of his seat and pulled his sister into a hug.
"Sammy, i know that we are safe from them now. But what's gonna happen now? Miss P said she had to make some calls, who do you suppose she called? What happens with us from here onwards?" Sam sighed and looked down into his sisters blue eyes that were an exact replica of his own.
" Who knows Britt. All i know is that the five of us have to stick together no matter what. We are family, and as long as we have each other, from now on we are going to be fine." Brittany nodded and wiped her eyes on her brothers McKinley sports T-shirt before sitting back down and curling up on the chair.
"Try to get some more sleep Sammy. Who knows how long we're going to be waiting here for."
Sam nodded and closed his eyes, trying to relax into his uncomfortable office chair.
Emma had been talking to people from child protection services for the past few hours. She had gone back to her office not long ago to check up on the kids and found them all asleep. She had filled CPS in on everything she had been told. The CPS officers were currently filling her in on what would happen from there onwards.
"First things first, we have to take these children to a doctors, they need to be tested, to find out the extent of then abuse. Then we will have to decide where to go from there based on the results from the tests. One thing that is for sure though, is that those children are not going back to that house, and those men are going to be put away for life."
Emma nodded, pleased to hear that the vile men would be locked away. The officers requested her to take them to her office so they could explain to the kids what was going to happen, then take them for their tests.
When they got to the womans office, they found the children all now awake and sitting together in silence, all with their hands linked between them. The kids were busy thinking of all the possibilities. What would happen to them when there fathers found out they had told? What if Ms Pillsbury cant help them and they get sent home? What would their dads do to them? They were all snapped out of their thoughts when they heard the door to the office open and saw the doe eyed woman enter the office with two men behind her.
After explaining to the Berry children what was going to happen, the officers told them they would have to be taken for tests. Once they reached the doctors surgery, they one by one went into the doctors office, each one coming out with the same results, major signs of physical abuse, old scarring showing it had been happening for a long time, signs of being molested and in the girls cases, raped. However, when it came to Rachels results, hers said one thing the others didn't. Two months pregnant...
So, thoughts? Good? Bad? Should i continue? Please review :)
xoxo Claudia :) 3
