[SO I had this cool idea of doing stories like Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the beast. I thought it would be fun to put the Glee Characters in these spots. I picked out all the characters on February 19th with the excitement of a giddy child I picked Quinn and Rachel for Sleeping Beauty. I had planned on Quinn going into a coma after a nasty crash (after Nationals!) and have Rachel vist her day after day, well as we all witnessed on the terrible Tuesday of February 21st Quinn Fabray was in a fucking car accident! So without further rant I give you Sleeping Beauty!]
Rachel gripped her phone, she wanted Quinn to be there. She just couldn't start without her it wouldn't be right. "Rachel...Honey...Um...maybe.." Rachel turn to look at her dad who seemed to be struggling with words.
"Rachel, we have to go Quinn is just not coming." Finn shrugged grabbing his future wife hand. "Come on."
"Wait." Hirman had to do something quick, and seeing the longing on his baby's face he looked her straight in the eyes. "Maybe you should call her...Maybe she's close, or she got a flat." Burt caught on to Hirmans tactics and nodded.
"Your dads right, I mean it's not uncommon and I'm sure we can get another slot real quick Finn you can go get the slot traded with some other couple or something...right." he said motioning towards the fellow parents. They all nodded, even if they weren't right it would post pone this wedding for a bit longer.
Kurt sighed, he really didn't want to do this, but Rachel is his best friend and Finn is his brother and as much as he was against the whole inter wedding... Maybe if her hurried he could get there before the 'I dos' and stop Rachel. He's no Barbra but he could try. He was a few miles way when her spotted the mess before him. A car crash? As far as he could tell it was just two cars, a truck and...a..red...bug? "Quinn." He stepped on the gas and sped forwards. His car slid to a stop and moved side ways like in the movies. He couldn't think of what he was suppose to do. He moved towards the smashed red bug. "Quinn!" He yelled a little sobbed, "Quinn?" The sound of the little bugs horn was stuck and beaming through the empty street.
"That girl alright?" Kurt jumped Turing around to find what must have been the driver of the truck. He had some blood on the side of his face and was leaning on his truck. "Son?" He tried moving closer. "I done called the hospital." He motion towards the phone Kurt held in his hand. The boy didn't even know he'd pulled it out of his sweater pocket. "You can call um too, helps make um come faster..but I think we should check the girl first." Kurt shoved the phone back in his pocket and faced the bug again. It didn't take a genius to see the drivers door was definitely smashed shut. So he moved the the passengers side and pulled open the door. There sat Quinn Fabray laying on the steering wheel in her pink Bridesmaid dress.
"Quinn.."He said unsure. No response came from the blonde. He moved in a little more, Don't move her. He remembered that much in case something was broken he shouldn't move her. Unless the car was going to explode witch at the moment didn't seem so. He spotted breath, yes breathing! Quinn's voice was definitely moving as she took in air. "Okay, Quinn sweeties don't you worry okay, because the other driver he called the ambulance okay? He called so, so you...you're going to be just fine, alright." He pushed the blondes hair out of her face, by sight her back don't look broken and her face had blonde on it but nothing looked disfigured. "You're going to be okay." He said again already sobbing. He'd be the first to admit that Quinn and him were not best friends but they had grown close as a family all of them. He and Mercedes and Quinn of course. He needed her to be okay and he couldn't explain why. He heard a light buzz, and he started to think something was going to explode. That was until he spotted the light glow from the floor. He looked over at the blonde, she didn't move didn't speak but her could feel her need to answer the phone on the floor. "I'll get Quinn."
Rachel paced as the phone rang on the other line. "Answer Quinn, answer." She heard the click of the phone being answered and jumped into talking. "Oh thank God, I was starting to think something happened, or that you'd changed your mind about coming. Where are how close?" Rachel asked excited that Quinn had answered.
"Rachel..." There's no way to explain the throbbing ache of pain Rachel felt hearing Kurt Hummel's voice, sobbing on the other line.
"Kurt?" She asked confused an panicked. "Where are you what's wrong, where's Quinn are you two alright!"
"Rachel...Quinn...She...we're down the road sweetie but, but...I have to go the ambulance is here and I don't wanna... I don't want them taking her without me knowing where she's going...I'll call you later...okay" With that the phone clicked and the hysterical voice of Kurt was gone leaving Rachel, confused and scared.
"Did she answer?" Rachel spun around to see Santana in her pink dress leaning against the wall.
"No." Rachel said quietly. The uncertainty didn't go unnoticed by the Latina.
"Than, who..were you talking to?" Santana raised an eyebrow.
"Kurt." Rachel said meekly.
"Am, I missing something I thought we were waiting for Q?" Santana moved off the wall and tried to look the now shaken diva in the eyes. "Rachel? What the hells going on?"
"Kurt, he...he said something about...about an ambulance...and...he answered Quinn's phone, I...I don't.." Santana didn't anymore information, she panicked a little and she need to see a blonde, she spun around the corner and head back into the waiting room. Brittany stood up without hesitation.
"San?" She moved over the latina.
"Grab your coat we're leaving." Santana said incisively she grabbed her hoodie and car keys.
"Whats going on?" Tina asked confused. Brittany listened to her girlfriend's command and grabbed her coat moving fast towards the Latina and the door way.
"Santana, Kurt said he doesn't know where they're going. He said he'd call when he can." Rachel said following in.
"I don't care, call us when he calls you, until than, we're going to check every hospital in the fucking area." Santana snapped. Brittany grabbed Santana's hand giving it a squeeze, she hated seeing tears in the latina's eyes.
"Santana.." Rachel tried to get the Latina, to not be so hasty.
"She's our best friend. We may not get along sometimes, but Lucy!...Quinn." Santana took in a deep breath "She's our best friend and I'm sure as hell not going to sit here so Finn can complain about the two of you not being married already while she is hurt somewhere. So Brittany and I are going!" Santana spun on her heels and Brittany followed not letting go of her lovers hand.
Kurt paced the waiting room floor. "Hummel!" He nearly dropped hearing the incisive voice of Santana Lopez. He opened his mouth to say something anything but nothing seemed to escape his dry throat. Brittany let go of Santana's hand and rushed the to give the boy a monster hug. He hugged back, he needed. He was panicking and feeling the warmth of another human meant that all that worried and fear didn't have to rest on his lonesome shoulders.
"They, haven't said anything." Santana nodded hearing the worry in his voice.
"Is um..does Blaine?" She asked slowly.
"I didn't.. I haven't called him." Kurt was still trying not to cry and Brittany wasn't letting him go, he assumed she need to hug someone two, Quinn was close to the duo and Kurt couldn't imagine what the girls where feeling.
"Willison." Santana moved away from her friends and towards a tall middle aged man.
"Oh, Santana? I didn't know your father was bringing you into day." The man said kindly.
"He didn't." Santana said trying to hide her emotion. "A, a friend of mine she was brought in, Qui...Lucy, Fabray I-i think she.. she came in a couple times with Brittany an me."
"Oh the short blonde." The man said remembering Quinn from a past encounter.
"Yeah, yes..um you haven't seen her or..."
"Santana?" Santana spun on her heels hearing her fathers voice.
"Papi." The older man looked at his daughter in confusion and the sadness on her face scared him.
"Is Brittany?" He was cut off as the blonde he'd thought brought his daughter to the hospital wrapped her long pale arms around him. He sighed with relief and hugged her back. "What are you girls doing here?" He asked confused.
"Papi have you seen Quinn?" Santana asked trying to hold back the tears.
"Santana, you know I only do surgery." He smiled but the smile fadded as he realized why his daughter(s) were asking if he'd seen the last third of the trio. "When did she come in?" He asked worried.
"About an hour ago." Kurt cut into the conversation.
"Oh...I am actually on my way down, to operation, for a girl that was brought in an hour ago."
Rachel couldn't wait for Kurt's call any longer she stood up from the couch they we're all attempting to sit on. "Rachel we're up." Finn said walking into the room, it'd taken him almost an hour but he'd got them a later slot and it was later.
"We're aren't getting married." She snapped. "We have to.."
"We can't wait for Quinn anymore." He almost yelled cutting Rachel off.
"She was in a car accident." Blaine's melancholy voice broke the tension that build almost instantly between the couple.
"What?" Finn looked at the boy confused. Rachel had already put the facts together but hearing conformation it just...
"Kurt called me." Blaine said smoothly. "She's in a hospital a few miles from here. They can't get a hold of her mother so they called the Jones family." Mercedes jerked up. "Your mother was still on her emergency contacts, and the Lopez house hold but Santana and Brittany got there a few minutes after Kurt."
"Is she going to be okay?" Rachel asked.
"Ah, they don't." He shook his head. "They don't know yet, uh Kurt said Santana's dad was going to to do the surgery but..." Everyone looked at the boy worry feeling every set of eyes. "Ah, they said it was to personal of a, he can't they have to have someone else." Blaine seemed overly shaken.
"You okay Blaine?" placed a hand on the boy's shoulder.
"Yes, i just." He looked down again. "I'm fine." He looked up at his teacher and smiled the best he could.
"We should all go." Tina said standing up.
"I'll drove my truck here I can fit at least six of us." Puck said already in his coat and halfway out the door. "I'm going right now so" He motioned for anyone ready to leave to follow.
"Puck maybe we shouldn't rush over." Finn said concerned.
"Screw that man. Quinn means something to me, she gave birth to the only thing I've ever been proud of..." He tried not to show the tears that wanted to come through with his words. "I should went with Brittany and Santana, I should have been one of the first ones down there." Finn leaned over to reach a hand out to his friend. "I'm not staying and I'm not wasting anymore time." He started walking out the door.
"Noah, wait for me." Rachel called after him and grabbed her jacket.
"Rachel." Finn reached out for his girlfriend.
"I'll meet you there." She called not staying long enough to look back.
Kurt and Santana couldn't take their eye's off the clock. Brittany couldn't take their worried glances. She was use to handling Santana, being there to comfort her girlfriend when needed, but adding Kurt and herself was a little out of her ball game. "Have they said anything? Is she going to be okay?" Rachel rushed over to the trio in the waiting room, with Puckerman at her heels. Kurt shook his head.
"We don't know anything yet." He said softly. As if the three shared a secret language Santana and Brittany stood and wrapped Noah in a much need hug.
"I should have went back with her." He said his arms around both girls and his head on Santana's shoulder. Brittany squeezed him harder imagining both of Puck and Quinn in the car. "She asked me to go back with her, but I was to busy hitting on some stupid bimbo from some other reception." He sobbed in the arms of friends. Both girls hugged him harder and both without knowledge that the other was planning it, planted a kiss on his cheek and told them they loved him.
"We couldn't see you hurt too." Brittany cried lightly into him.
"We'd have to kick your ass." Santana sniffed. Rachel watched the friends and it only made her heart ache more.
"She's going to make." Santana knew that terrifying voice anywhere and should couldn't be more glade to hear it. She let go of Puckerman and rushed into the arms of her coach, Brittany followed not a second after her. Sue embraced both girls wholly as if trying to pull the life out of them. "After all she is Q." Brittany nodded not letting go of the older women."And my Cherrio's don't let something like a truck keep them down." Santana looked at her coach confused. "The man at the desk told me." She said pointing to the short pudgy nurse at the front desk. Santana shrugged and hugged her coach. Blaine appeared a few minutes later with Tina and Mike. He rushed to his lover and hugged him tightly. Mike and Tina hugged Santana and Brittany and took seats in the waiting room. Rory and Sugar showed up, than Shuester and the parents.
After hours and minutes, cups of coffee and juice, sleep and inpatient waiting the doctor came down the hall, Santana and Rachel the only two glee clubbers still awake. His, greenish blue scrubs had blood and Santana slowly lifted Brittany's head off her lap and rested it on her coat, and Rachel jumped to her feet along with Miss Jones. They rushed over to meet the doctor. "How is she." Miss Jones asked panicked.
"There were some complications, some clotting, both of legs were injured in the crash and one's broken, one's fractured in several places" Santana could hear bad new and bad news but her would have stopped at complications and clotting if she wasn't going to make it. Rachel wasn't watching the doctors face, instead she watched Santana's the girl had grown up with medicine and could prosses it all faster than the doctor spit it out.
"What does that mean?" Miss Jones asked after a few seconds.
"Miss Jones she's going to be fine but.."
"But." Santana snapped. Rachel felt her stomach drop.
"No, no, no. No buts' please, she's going to be okay." Rachel said not ready to hear whatever it was that he was going to say.
"Mat what do you mean but." Santana hissed, tears forming in her eyes.
"Girls." Miss Jones begged sweetly.
"When they brought her in the ambulance she wasn't awake, and before, surgery she was in and out but..." He could tell by the girls faces they didn't want more bad news."She's drifted into a coma. There's no telling if or when she'll wake." He said looking them each in the eyes. "I'm very sorry, that's..it's all we can tell you." He turned to walk away. Rachel felt a pain in her stomach she couldn't describe as his words settled. Miss Jones moved her hand to cover her mouth. Everything seemed to move into slow motion as Rachel watched the women shack her head. She watched Santana's emotionless face turn to pure sorrow as she turn around seeing Brittany who'd only caught the doctor saying 'I`m sorry.' She watched as everyone's faces went from sleep to utter confusion and hurt.
DAY 1
Rachel walked into Quinn's room slowly looking around. She hadn't been told that Judy had come she smiled weakly as the older blonde looked up disgracefully. She watched the women's brow nite in confusion. "Are you one of her little Glee friends?" She asked softly, as if speaking louder would awake Quinn. Rachel nodded. "You've all been coming in to see her, but..." Rachel watched the older women's sad eyes. "I've never met any of you...right?" he eye's shot from her daughters face to Rachel's. "We haven't met?" She asked for reassurance. Rachel nodded again.
"I don't believe we have." She said softly. "I'm Rachel." She walked over to the women slowly extending her hand for greeting.
"Judy." She said smoothly. "You didn't bring flowers." She said looking Rachel over. Rachel felt a little shocked and she didn't know why.
"Um, no...I-I well I was just hoping I could sit with her for a little." Rachel said looking over at one of the empty chairs in the room. Judy nodded taking her attention back to her little girl. She just wanted Quinn to wake up, it would mean more than the world to see her little Quinny's eyes again. She stayed for as long as she could and when the clock hit two p.m. she looked over at the little brunette that had come in earlier.
"I have to go." she said calmly. "I have a meeting at work, I'll be back. Santana and Brittany are coming back later, I'm sure they told you." She said assuming that the girl was also friends with the duo. Rachel watched as Quinn's mother just walked out of the room. She didn't looked back, she didn't tell Quinn goodbye or see you later. The diva waited for a moment before she got up and moved to the chair that Judy had been seated in. She sat next to the blonde as sighed reaching out and taking her hand.
"Hello Quinn." She said softly. "It's Rachel." The blonde was still and the ICU beeped steady with her heart beat."I...I was going to stay yesterday, with Santana and Brittany but...I was still in my dress." She looked down than back at the blonde. "You didn't want to go did you?" Rachel had read somewhere that they can hear you. People that ended up in coma somehow they can hear you. Or maybe she couldn't and it was pointless to try. "I
t doesn't matter I guess. Quinn...you... You have to wake up. You have to because, because of Yale...you have to go. You have to graduate at the top of you class. So you, you have to get up okay?" The blonde didn't respond. "Okay." Rachel answered for her letting her hand go and moving back to her original seat.
DAY 2
Santana slide silently back into Quinn's room with two cups of coffee. She shook her head seeing Rachel still curled in a ball on the chair in the corner of the room. Brittany was asleep near Quinn's bed holding on to the other blondes hand. She set the coffee down and moved towards the bed herself. "Look what your doing to us here Luc. She pushed a little of the blondes hair out of her face. "You've even got Rachel crashing here." Brittany began to stir and Santana moved to the left side of the bed with her.
"Is Rachel still here?" Brittany asked pushing sleep out of her eyes. Santana grabbed one of the coffees and handed to her with a smile and a nod.
"Still sleeping in the corner." She said softly. "Your mom called while I was in the hall, I think she want's you home." Brittany nodded taking as sip of the coffee and than handing the coffee back to Santana.
"Yours." She said scrunching up her nose.
"Oh," She took the coffee and set it back down grabbing one of the others. "Sorry." She handed the other coffee to Brittany. "Do you wanna go?" She asked grabbing her coffee and taking a sip. Brittany shook her head.
"But we probably should. I mean as long as Rachel is still here, I don't wanna leave her alone." She said looking over at Rachel. Santana nodded.
"We'll be back Luc." Santana leaned over the blonde and gave a her a light kiss on the for head.
"Don't you go waking up without us Quinn." Brittany smiled kissing the blonde on the cheek. "We'll see you after we check in with mom and LT you know how he gets worried." Santana smiled taking Brittany's hand in her own. "Later Rachel." Brittany looked over at Santana and the Latina waved at the sleeping brunette along with her lover.
When Rachel woke up it was just her and Quinn, she rubbed sleep out of her eyes and moved towards the blonde. She looked at the clock on the wall and sighed, it was 8:00 a.m. She wasn't even suppose to be staying, she's not family and only one person is aloud to stay the night with Quinn, but shes small enough to ball up in the corner and not be noticed. There was a note and a coffee sitting on the night stand in Santana's hand writing.
'The coffee's for you if you don't want it, don't drink it! Anyway Britt's and I had to head home, Judy should be coming back around lunch time and she'll stay the night. Look Brittany and I we don't want her on her own, don't leave her alone okay, please don't leave until someone else come. Or I'll have to kick you hobbit ass.
Santana'
Rachel smiled and grabbed the still warm coffee off the table. "It's still warm." She said looking over at Quinn. "You know, for a while I didn't get it. I thought there's no way they're all friends, Brittany's too kind and Santana such an bitch and you, well...it be more than honest, I really thought of you as a back stabber." Rachel looked down. "Only because well... I don't know..." Rachel looked back up. "I guess I just jumped to that assumption. It's quite ironic huh? I've been judged by my looks since forever and there I was doing the same to the three of you. Glee clubs change that I guess, I've learned that Santana can be sweet." She took a sip of the coffee. "And that Brittany can be quite scary if you say the wrong thing to Santana." She smiled think of Brittany defending her girlfriend. "but, I also learned that you aren't who I thought either. I mean we had our rough start, fighting over Finn and all the slushies, but... We've become friends... I'm so sorry Quinn...Everyone kept telling me you weren't coming and, I started think they were right, I mean Kurt is my very best friend he wasn't going to come. I keep feeling like if I would have... I'm sorry Quinn, I didn't mean for this. " Rachel could feel the tears already flowing. "Maybe this was a sign... I think the universe is trying to tell me something." She said wiping tears. A light knock on the door made the diva jump and face the door.
"I'm sorry, I the day nurse this week, I just.." She motioned towards Quinn sweetly. "I have to check her fluids." She said kindly. Rachel nodded.
"Of course." Rachel smiled taking in a deep breathe.
"Your friends?" The nurse asked kindly. Rachel nodded. "Yeah, when I was sixteen, my dad got me a brand new car, my brother borrowed it one, I got grounded for sneaking out and he was going to this killer party we'd both heard about..." She looked down than back up at Rachel. "He didn't come home. I cried for years thinking I was suppose to be the one in that car, I should have... After a whole lot of therapy I realized. It wasn't suppose to be me, my big brother was just doing what all big brothers do, he was warning me. Keeping me away from the danger and giving me a reason. I started med-school a year later and now I get to help kids like your friend." She clicked her pen and placed it in her pocket. "I guess what I'm saying is, nothing happens without reason, and you can never blame yourself." She smiled lightly and headed for the didn't know whether to thank her or be angry that she'd been ease dropping. Either way she sat there staring off towards the door.
DAY 7
Finn walked down the halls of the hospital a little lost. He spotted the nurses counter and took some longer strides over. "Hello." He said kindly. The little lady on the other side looked up at him.
"Can I help you?" She said with out real concern.
"Um I'm looking for my friends room, Quinn Fabray." He said kindly. She nodded typing something into the computer.
"She's in room 337." She said and than went back to her work without a sound. He turned around a looked at the room across the hall. 334. He started walking around looking for Quinn's room. He rounded a corner after a few rooms and found 337. He pushed open the door slowly the hand that didn't hold a bundle of flowers. The room was empty except for Quinn and her walked in quietly. He set the flowers down took a seat.
"Hi." He said mono toned. "I came because, because you need to wake up...I haven't seen Rachel in a week, everyone's super sad and I think Santana called me Sweetie the other day. The worlds getting all up side down and I think it's kinda selfish of you to be doing this to all of us." He stood up and dusted his pants. "I mean I know you weren't a go for me and Rachel getting married but your just gonna have to face it, we are getting married and we really want you there so...So you going to have to wake up." He said assertively. "That, and I really miss the way you would yell at me and stuff, it always kind of reminded me that I'm suppose to be with Rachel and we're suppose to be friends you know." With that the boy turned and walked out of the room. He took a last look back at the blonde and turned to leave. "Rachel." He perked seeing the diva coming down the hall way.
"Finn." She said surprised.
"Rachel where have you been?" He said pulling her in a hug. "I've been worried sick and I've been looking every where for you." He said concerned.
"I've been here Finn, I haven't gone anywhere." He looked confused. "I've been with Quinn. Her mother hasn't come in a while and Santana and Brittany come as much as they can, but I don't want her to be alone." She informed leading him back into Quinn's room.
"I was just in here and you weren't.."
"I had to use the rest room. I'm back Quinn." She sat down and smiled Finn.
"Rachel I haven't seen you all week, this can't be healthy, okay just come on home with me and we'll come see Quinn tomorrow for a bit."
"Finn if we leave no one will be here with her." Rachel said reaching out and grabbing Quinn's hand.
"Rachel."
"I'm staying."
DAY 15
Santana walked into Quinn's room carrying some take out and a salad. "Figured you'd still be here." She said looking at Rachel. "Go home and shower hobbit you smell like a rotten avocado." She said setting the food down.
"I do not." Rachel defended.
"I've got Quinn watch covered okay, I'll stay with her till her mom comes back." Santana smiled handing Rachel the salad. "Don't eat and drive." She said as Rachel took the salad and grabbed her keys. The tone that set in when the latina locked eye's on the keys stiffened Rachel.
"Of course." She said setting the Salad down. "I'll be back for it." Santana nodded and Rachel turned to walk out. "If it looks like she's looking around with her eye's closed, they say she's dreaming, they said that's good." Rachel informed before leaving.
DAY 24
Mercedes smiled as Rachel walked into Quinn's room. "Hi." she said looking over at the brunette.
"Any news?" Rachel said setting her keys in there normal spot. Mercedes shook her head.
"Nothing we didn't already know. Her vitals are fine, she's stopped dreaming... They don't know they don't know." She said standing up. Rachel nodded. "Well I gotta go, I'll see you two later." she smiled at both the girls and headed out.
"I think they just don't want to tell us anything yet." Rachel sighed pushing her hand through Quinn's hair. "Well, Finn broke up with me." She said looking over the blondes pale face. "He said I was spending to much unhealthy time in here." She smiled. "Maybe he's right. Noah's seeing a therapist, Santana scared of how sad Brittany gets every time they leave here...I don't think they'll becoming by as often anymore. You shouldn't blame yourself though... I don't blame you." Rachel leaned down and kissed the blondes forehand.
DAY 32
Rachel waited the entire day before heading back to the hospital, it was the first day in a month that she didn't spend at Quinn's bedside. She headed down the hall and walked into the blondes room. Judy had showed up a few days ago and the doctors had suggested pulling the plug. Quinn's body had began shutting down and they weren't sure how much longer she was going to make it by herself, they only thing they can do is hook up wires and the michens would be the only thing tying her to earth. Judy, told them when the time came, 'God was going to take her baby' and she was going to let him. Rachel walked into the blondes empty room and sat down.
"Hello Quinn." She didn't bother looking around she just stared at the blonde. "So yesterday...when I said...what I said... I wasn't...I miss you Quinn. I miss seeing you green eyes, and the way you smile... I miss that smug grin and the way you laugh... I don't want them to take you away... So what I said yesterday, what I told you before I left... I meant it... I think...no.. no I did I meant it. I'm in love with Quinn...I just didn't know it when it counted. I hope you understand that I can't come back tomorrow, or stay to night... I just, I had to tell you." She leaned over and kissed the blonde. She had to, or she'd regret it for the rest of her life. "Goodbye Quinn." With that she walked out.
DAY 33
"Miss. Fabray." Judy smiled weekly seeing the doctor at her daughters door.
"Hello." she said kindly. The smile on his face irritated the women the nerve of this man, her daughter was dying and he had the happiest smile in the world.
"Miss, Fabray we have some amazing news for you today." She looked at him confused.
"Mom?" She looked passed the doctor into Quinn's room to see her baby's green eyes staring right at her.
"Quinny?"
[Well hope you like it, you wanna know what happens next I guess your going to have to read the next chapter, but be warned it may not star this couple.. :) ]
