Quinn Fabray seems to have her life back on track. Though everything changes when a disastrous event happens; but in the end is the change good or bad? All she knows is the last thing she remembers when she blacks out is flashbacks/memories/dreams of none other than Rachel Berry.

In the spirit of my favorite holiday I've decided to post up a new story. If you were followers from my story 'I Feel Pretty When You're Around' you will have already been told of my plans for this story.

I want to thank my Beta, achelefan24, I suggest you go check out her profile because she has written one fabulous story and is currently in the process of writing another one… She is one of my favorite authors on FF, you won't be wasting your time.

Anyways, have a wonderful Christmas and I hope you enjoy the first two installments of this story!

I do not own any Glee.

Prologue: Crossroads

Jon M. Nelson wrote a Poem called 'Life's Journey'

As we journey through our lives,
We all take separate paths.
Sometimes they're filled with sorrow,
Other times they're full of laughs.

There's no exact destination,
We just follow where it goes.
We travel until our journey ends,
When that is, nobody knows.

We all make big decisions,
As to different roads we'll take.
We all learn from accomplishments,
And mistakes that we will make.

What will lie ahead of us?
No one can make that call.
But we all need someone with us,
To pick us up, after we fall.

In life our paths will cross,
We won't always be alone.
We've seen what's behind us,
But our future remains unknown.

Have you ever taken the time to look into your future? Have you ever stood and imagined looking out at a place that showed paths to different destinations? That these destinations hold your various futures? That you're able to choose a path to walk on?

Once you choose a path you may think you have chosen the right crossroad, that you have chosen the right path. Your life gets back on track and you feel happy again after everything that you have been through. All the heartache, all the pain, all the sorrow you faced is no longer attached to you; everything has turned around. The path you have chosen has made you be a better person, a person that is nicer, that treats people the way they should be treated. You're the person you always wanted to be and you're not ashamed to be that person. You're the person who you were born to be. You don't care about the criticisms or the judgments anymore because you are finally being yourself.

That sounds like the perfect path to choose at a crossroad. You think that you made the right decision when you stepped up to that crossroad. But what happens if at that crossroad, you accidentally take one small step to the right or the left of that perfect path, you forget to hold onto a road map and your mind leads you astray and your perfect path is gone? Is this new path, that you subconsciously chose, a path that could hold a secret? It holds a bit of your personality, a bit of who you really want to be… an appendage that maybe you never thought you had, that the so-called perfect crossroad would have made you hide.

Yet, because you don't know that you wavered off the path you really wanted, you keep walking. You may start to realize that something doesn't feel right and maybe you realize that it actually wasn't the path you really wanted to take, but you're too afraid to walk back and pull out your map to get on your original intended path. So you keep on walking… you keep on searching… you keep your head held high… because that's what Fabray's do.

But as you keep walking down this path, did you ever think that this path you chose, that this path could be the path that is life threatening, a path that could change your life forever? Did you ever think that because you didn't go back, because you chose the easy way out, that it could be the most life threatening crossroad you have ever and will ever experience?

Although in the end, without you even knowing it, it actually does help turn your life around and may be the actual path you should have chosen to take at that crossroad in the first place... because the end result is better than anything you could have ever imagined, that this path is actually the right path for you, even if this unexpected life threatening experience is the first obstacle in this crossroad...

This is Quinn Lucy Fabray, a Senior at William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. A girl who has been faced with travesty after travesty. First, she makes one mistake that changes her life completely. She gets drunk and sleeps with her boyfriend's best friend and actually believes the boy when he says, "trust me" for contraception, which results in a pregnancy – pregnant at 16. Oh, she's also from a Christian home. Yeah, not the best of luck for Quinn Fabray.

The stunningly beautiful blonde gets kicked out of her house, dropped from her captaincy of McKinley's national winning cheerleading team, Cheerios, and has no choice but to live in her boyfriend, Finn Hudson's, house… The not-really-her-baby-daddy baby daddy. This doesn't last long for the ex-cheerleader, though, because rumors start to spread throughout McKinley and everyone finds out who the real father of the blonde's child is. So Finn dumps her and she's thrown out of yet another house.

She moves into the house of the soon-to-be father of her child, but hates it. She tries to look forward; she tries to look after her unborn child but struggles. All her so-called friends ditched her after her popularity dropped from the top to the bottom of the social pyramid. Her so-called Glee Club friends don't really take notice of her. They did try, though. They sung her a few songs. Some even say that they're there for her, but it feels more superficial then genuine... until she reaches out to a girl in Glee Club who is struggling herself... Mercedes Jones.

Mercedes steps up and becomes a real friend that Quinn so desperately needs, the black girl insisting she comes and lives with her. Quinn moves in with her new Glee friend and she soon goes into labor... But not until after her mother, who threw her out, shows up at one of her Glee Club competitions and insists that Quinn comes back home.

Quinn has her little baby girl Beth, and makes one of the bravest decisions anyone could make and gives her baby up, but she doesn't just give her baby up for adoption to some random person. No, she gives it up to Shelby Corcoran, the long lost mother of her frienemy Rachel Berry – the girl who stole her boyfriend – the girl who is labeled as one of the geekyist people in all of McKinley. The girl with multiple nicknames like RuPaul, Man-Hands and Treasure Trail to name a few. You may ask why she would do such a thing. No-one knows, really. Was it to get back at Rachel because Quinn knew Shelby didn't want anything to do with Rachel and she wanted to rub it in the girl's face that she wasn't even loved by her mother? Or was it because she really thought Shelby was perfect for Beth? Or was it for some other reason?

After Quinn gives up her child, she tries to get everything back to the way it was before. She moves back in with her mother, her father no longer being there because he couldn't keep it in his pants, the last straw that gave her mom the strength to kick him out. The blonde rejoins the Cheerios and starts dating the new boy in school, who had just become the quarterback, Sam Evans. Quinn makes some silly mistakes after Sue Sylvester gave her, Santana and Brittany an ultimatum between the Cheerios and Glee. In the end, with Finn's help, they choose Glee. Quinn, overcome with what Finn did for her, cheats on her boyfriend and ends up dating Finn Hudson again. Finn, replaced Sam as the quarterback, and scored the last try in the championship game that made the Titans win the championship. Oh, Finn had just previously broken up with Rachel Berry, Quinn's frienemy, too.

As Quinn is no longer a Cheerio, she's in search to reinstate her popularity. The blonde continues to strive to climb up the social pyramid, and Finn being Finn, wants that as well. So they campaign together for Prom King and Queen, but again, luck didn't find its way to Quinn Fabray and someone attempted to demolish the blonde's chances to get the crown. Lauren Zizes, a champion on the wrestling team, dug up some dirty secrets from Quinn's past. The pretty blonde wasn't always pretty or even blonde; she was an overweight brunette, with a big nose and glasses… oh, and her name isn't Quinn... it's Lucy Quinn Fabray... known by all her bullies as Lucy Caboosey.

Deep down love trumps popularity and Quinn sees this before Finn does. She tries everything she can to make Finn stay with her, even confronting Rachel Berry, but once Finn realizes what he wants, he breaks up with Quinn and tries to get Rachel back.

If you thought the girl had been through enough already, you were wrong. Just before the end of Junior year, she cuts her hair in search of a new girl, a new Quinn while in New York. During the summer break she even dates a 40 year old skateboarder.

Once Senior year starts, she comes back in search of her real identity, giving up on boys and working on caring about herself. She walks down the halls of McKinley with a new look, still wearing her short hair... but it's been dyed pink. She wears a black punk style outfit and sports a tattoo of Ryan Seacrest, tramp stamp style. She joins a group of rebel girls called "The Shanks" and chooses to smoke under the bleachers than attend her classes.

But things get even worst for the pink haired punk girl. Shelby Corcoran – aka Beth's (Quinn's daughter) adopted mother, and also birth mother of Rachel Berry – comes back to Lima. And she didn't just come back to visit, she starts teaching at William McKinley High School of all places. Of course Quinn wants to meet her daughter, so she confronts Shelby asking if she could see Beth, but Shelby refuses basically saying she wants Quinn to get her crap together before she lets her see Beth.

So what does Quinn do? She dyes her hair blonde. Changes her clothes. Puts on a pretty smile. But deep inside, she is still the lost girl who she doesn't know. Shelby lets Quinn finally meet Beth, and once the blonde locks eyes with her daughter, she feels like she finally has meaning in her life. She wants to be a mother.

The blonde does everything she can to get Beth back; she even tries calling Child Services stating that Shelby was an unfit mother. Meanwhile, in her need to be a mother, she even tries to throw herself onto Puck, but he obviously refuses, and the blonde soon finds out why – he's secretly dating Shelby. She tries to destroy Shelby's career after finding out this secret, but Rachel Berry confronts her, telling her that telling on Shelby is not only wrong, but will also hurt Shelby and Beth. She realizes all she wants is for Beth to be happy and safe, so she gives up on trying to get Beth back because she knows Shelby is the best mother for Beth.

Life starts to pick back up for Quinn. She starts to rebuild and make new friendships. One new friendship she makes, surprisingly, is with her frienemy, Rachel Berry. She applies to Yale. She even steps out and helps out friends in need, in a way she wished people would have done for her.

Luck finally finds Quinn and she gets into Yale. Quinn returns to her faith, strengthens her friendships, and regains her once-revered position on the Cheerios. Quinn chooses to bury her past when it comes to Rachel Berry dating her ex-boyfriend, Finn. As the couple recently got engaged, Quinn didn't think it was the right path for the brunette, and as a friend, she confronted the diva and told her as much. Rachel hears her out, but decides to only push her wedding plans sooner. As any good friend would do, Quinn accepts Rachel's wishes and supports the brunette's choice.

It looks like Quinn has gotten through everything. After all the humiliation and loneliness she faced for nearly two years, her life seems to be where she's always wanted it to be. It's like she finally chose the right crossroad in her life for once.

But no-one expects her life to get thrown an even worse curveball than she's ever faced. On the way to Rachel's wedding she quickly shot the brunette a text:

Ran home to get my bridesmaid's dress. Be there soon.

She starts driving, fixing up her makeup. She receives a text, ignoring it, but then another one comes through, so Quinn leans over and reads them. They were both from Rachel, the first one, reading:

HURRY

The second one reading:

WHERE ARE YOU?

She quickly texts out a reply:

ON MY WAY

As she clicks send, what she doesn't see is the truck to her left, speeding towards the cross sections in the road. He honks his horn, but it's too late. Her Red Beetle collides with the truck...

The collision shocks the blonde, for a microsecond adrenaline shoots through her body, but then her body can't take it and shuts down. She closes her eyes as she's about to pass out, expecting to find all black, but the last thing she remembers seeing in her mind was someone she didn't expect to see... Rachel Berry.

Then everything went black.

The Crossroads,

by Joshua Mehigan

This is the place it happened. It was here.

You might not know it was unless you knew.

All day the cars blow past and disappear.

This is the place it happened. It was here.

Look at the sparkling dust, the oily smear.

Look at the highway marker, still askew.

This is the place it happened. It was here.

You might not know it unless you knew.