Chapter 1 – The Accident and A Car
As the music ended I knew that would happen. We lost Nationals. I meant part of me knew we weren't ready to actually win Nationals, we lack practice but this time I knew it. We lost it big.
"Rachel." Finn calls me but I ignore him walking to the closer bathroom as I look at my reflection on the mirror.
Finn had kissed me. Better, Finn kissed me in a Nationals competition making us lose Nationals.
After all the: I like Quinn, I like you Rachel. Quinn is pregnant I need to be with her. I like you. I can't be in a relationship right now. I want you back. I love you. I think I still have felling for Quinn. Yes Santana and I slept together. I can't believe you kissed Puck. Quinn and I are together. She and I broke up and I want you back.
All this to have him kissing me. I hear the bathroom door knocking and I ignore it.
"You know what. I know you are there Berry." Quinn voice comes and she enters in the division.
"What is it?" I ask her a little rough.
"I expect two things: you crying or you doing the happy dance. Not you angry."
"We just lost Nationals Quinn. I have worked my butt off, I even lost height from all the dancing. I have the right to be angry."
"But you got Finn. You won."
"This isn't a competition Quinn, at least not for me, at least not anymore."
"I don't understand you. Finn just kissed you in front of an audience."
"Exactly. Finn kissed me in front of an audience making it cost Nationals and a lot of hard work when he could perfectly do it after our performance. He should perfectly know that for me this isn't romantic."
"I think I can see your point of view. But you still are going back to him."
"I really don't need to tell you anything. Where is everyone?"
Quinn and I walk to the room where we hear screams and we enter the see the 3rd World War in the inside.
"Here is she. You man hands cause us our title." Santana screams that and other Spanish worlds that I am not going to translate.
"Ok enough." Quinn screams and everyone stares at her. "Did anyone seen Rachel tell Finn to kiss her and give him a sign to do it. I didn't so shut up." I stare at the blonde shocked because she just defended me but I recover and turn back to the group as I look at Kurt not being sure of what side he is going to take
"I'm with Quinn. Come on Diva I need to talk to you." Kurt tells me pulling me out of the room.
"Thank you Kurt." I tell him hugging him.
"It's fine Princess. Now about the talk we had yesterday when you told me that I this city, Broadway as my love. I told Finn that. I am tired of all the high school drama."
"So you aren't going back to Finn."
"No. He was my first love that it." He gives me a huge smile and I blink not understanding.
"I am proud of you. I really am."
Everything when back to normal as the last days of school arrived and everyone was making their summer plans.
"Rachel don't you forget to come meet me at the Lima Beans."
"I know Kurt, I will be there at six I just need to finish some things in the auditorium."
Kurt and Blaine both waited for Rachel who as late which never happens. But Rachel has lived between dance classes and the auditorium in the last two weeks.
"She should be here already 30 minutes ago. I am starting to get a bad feeling Blaine."
"She probably found someone and its talking to them. There is your glee friend." Blaine points it out to a running and worry Mike as he approaches the group.
"Guys something happen." He say between breaths. It was obviously anything that had to go with that has Rachel in it so the two boys got up as soon as possible and run after Mike.
They stop at the school where there was a huge group of people, police and the fire department was also there and you could see smoke coming from the school.
"Mike what is going on?" Blaine asks as the approach the small glee group and Mercedes hugged Kurt.
"Thank god you are here. You scared me."
"Mercedes why is everyone so nervous?" Kurt asks and then looks at the specific place where the fire came from. "That's the auditorium." He screams so loud that everyone turns to him. "No. No. No." He screams and Blaine tried to call him down. "Rachel is in there."
"What?" Quinn says socked and they realize that she was the only member who wasn't there.
"She had something to practice for some dancing audition or something she should have met us half an hour ago."
"Rachel is inside?" Tina says holding to Mike as Kurt runs to the fireman.
"What is it, kid?"
"My best friend is in there." He says getting now the attention of the entire group. "She was practicing in the auditorium, she never came out."
"Guys, there is a girl inside." One of them man screams at the phone.
Everyone went very slowly, Rachel's dads came as soon as possible but no one has hear from her yet. Kurt and Tina where both holding into they boyfriends when a loud nice came from inside making them jump.
"What was that?" Mike asks and they see more fire man running to the place as one come to meet the group.
"There fireman were able to get to the auditorium but it is all destroyed."
"Then where is my daughter?" Leroy asks scared.
"She must be under the wreckage." He says giving everyone a sad smile as both parents have tears in their eyes and Kurt and Tina also cry.
"Guys." Mike screams minutes after and they see Rachel in a medical bed sleeping and they went running in her direction.
"Is she?" Hiram asks one of the man.
"She is unconscious but alive."
"Thank god." Kurt says.
Zoe P.O.V.
I walk out of the hospital facing the streets of New York. I left Bluebell two weeks ago and all I could think as Wade. Maybe I should go back, that's it I am returning and tell him how I feel. My phone ring so I pick it without seeing how was.
"This is Zoe Hart."
"Zoe, it uncle Hiram." He says and the girl smiles.
"Uncle Hiram. how are you? Is everything ok?" Hiram is my mother's older and only brother. Zoe remember when she would go to Ohio when she was younger and had a great time. Or even at family meeting.
"It's Rachel, there was a huge fire at the school and she was inside, she needs a surgery, please can you come?"
"I am on my way." She said as faster as possible as she got to the train station.
Rachel, who is the only cousin Zoe has, always been close to her when they were younger. Rachel is 10 years younger than Zoe but they always play well with one another. They were very similar girls .
The next morning Zoe had arrive to the Lima Hospital as she walk and saw her uncle and his husband and she hug them both, it was obviously they were both into a deep sadness.
"How is she?" She asks softly.
"She is going into a surgery tonight, she was a concussion."
"What happened?"
"There was a fire who started in a class, apparently someone let some mashing turned on in the physics class, that was close to the auditorium and it start to burn. Rachel was the only student at that side of the school. Then the top part of the stage felt." Hiram says and started to cry again. It was obvious to Zoe that Rachel is in that place.
To the surgery Rachel has transfer to Chicago and Zoe followed the girl's parents to the Chicago Hospital. Unfortunately Zoe wasn't allowed to be in the operation room but she stayed all the time outside and went over and over in the medical file of her cousin.
The surgery took 100 minutes but Rachel was responding in a good way even if she was in coma.
The first Rachel woke up her parents and Zoe where in the room; the poor girl had no idea of what happen because of the contusion she suffered but Zoe explain to her that memories would come at pieces in the next couple of weeks. It was also the doctor who first told her that she would be in a wheelchair for at least 3 months and she had to do therapy because of her broken left leg. The young girl also had some minor bruises on her forehead but that was easily covered with her bangs. The others where in her right part of her body which as the most damaged. She had even a burn bruise in her right shoulder and leg.
Zoe pushed Rachel wheelchair as her parents took the bags as they all get inside of her house. It was the twelve of July when Rachel was discharged from hospital and could come back home. The memories of the event were also coming at pieces just like Zoe told her.
"Welcomed back." Kurt screams has the glee club members receive Rachel with smiles.
"Thank you everyone." Rachel says with a true smile that no one had seen in a while. In Chicago, Rachel got visits from Kurt, Blaine, Tina, Mike even Noah and to her surprise Quinn who brought Santana and Brittany once. Artie also helped her adjust to her new condition and Rachel had some nice moments. Unfortunately she couldn't go in the sun or pool because of her burns.
Zoe came into Rachel room as the teenage look at her computer with sadness. The doctor sit next to her and notice that Rachel was reading about the fire in her school and had tears in her eyes.
"Am I being a diva when I say I don't want to go back there?"
"It's perfectly normal in your conditions Rach. The memories of that moment have not just caused you physical pain but also mentally. Maybe you could ask your parents to transfer you."
"You know I love my dads but they are so busy with the jobs I know all this time out they are having is going to face them. I just don't want to be alone."
"Why don't you move in with me?" Zoe ask and the petite girl smiled.
"Are you sure? To where, that town?"
"I left Bluebell I told you." To keep Rachel entertained Zoe told her all the stories about her year in that small town in Alabama and Rachel even shared some of her life too.
"But you still like Wade." It was true even if her main priory was Rachel, Wade would come in her thoughts once she was alone.
"You know that Bluebell is a small town right?"
"Yes but I can't see myself leaving in New York in my conditions but only if you want." Zoe thinks for some seconds and then smiles nodding.
"Let's go."
"Are you sure about this Zoe?"
"Uncle Hiram, Rachel talk to me about it, she doesn't fell good in Lima. She said she could come to support her friends but that is it. I have a practice there I can make sure she had the right treatment. I already talk to Brick and he is more than happy to have me back. I think it will be good for Rachel."
"The town is 10 hours from here." Leroy says but then thinks for a bit. "Maybe it will be good for her, she can go as an experience if she is happy in New Years she can stay the rest of the year if not, she comes back."
"I think it's far."
"So what do you need?" Rachel asks her cousin as they both start to pack.
"A Car." She says and Rachel looks at her with a confuse expression. "Don't ask."