Hello again! This is a little shorter, but I promise to make it up to you next chapter!
The phone rang twice before Quinn was greeted by his voice.
"Hey there, how are you feeling?" Finn asked her in an almost concerned tone.
"Not to." Was all Quinn coughed out before setting the phone down to clear her throat, "Sorry," Finn chuckled, "Hey it's not funny!"
"Sorry, sorry." Finn quickly told her, "Here, let's go get a coffee, you sound like you could use one."
"That sounds wonderful." Quinn told him, letting a smile slip to her face.
"Okay, well I'm kind of already here." Finn said laughing once again.
"Well geeze, guess you already knew." Quinn told him giggling, "Well I'll be out in a sec." She told him closing her phone.
She quickly changed her clothes as she was still wearing her outfit from last night. She looked in the mirror to check her hair; she saw that it was a little out of shape, so she quickly grabbed a brush to smooth it out.
As she was about to apply make up, her phone vibrating caught her attention, it was a text from Finn.
From: Finn
You don't need makeup, you look great without it.
A simple statement made her heart smile and face light up.
She basically glided down the stairs as she reached the door. She was so happy and couldn't quite place her finger on why. She opened the door and sure enough, there was Finn's little red car.
"Hey Finn, thanks again." She told him as she got in.
"That's what friends do." Finn told her with a smile as he backed out.
"Yeah oh course." Quinn said slightly frowning at the friend's statement. "Well wait…"
"Yeah?"
"Well I don't want to ruin this mood or anything, but does this mean you forgive me?"
"I forgave you along time ago Quinn." Finn told her, "I just didn't know when the right time to tell you was."
"Along time ago would've been nice." Quinn muttered under her breath.
Finn must've heard it because he looked at her then smiled as they pulled into the coffee shop.
School that week was pretty rough, but seeing as it was Friday, Finn hoped that the game tonight would help clear his mind.
Not that the week had been bad or anything, but it had mostly been awkward. Quinn seemed to distance herself from Finn, even though he had told her of the kiss at the coffee shop; she still found it weird between them during school.
Finn pulled his red number 5 jersey over his pads than began his walk out of the locker room. He was the last one out as he had taken some extra time to get in the zone for the game. Unfortunately his junior season had not gone the way he had wished. McKinley had definitely improved, but at 5-6, Finn was looking to at least finish with an even record.
He was about to walk onto the field when a soft voice stopped him in his tracks.
"Good luck, Finn."
He turned around to see Quinn standing there in her cheerios uniform with a smile on her face.
"Um thanks Quinn." He told her as his goofy smile covered his face.
"I know you'll do great." She told him as she came up and kissed him on the cheek.
If that wasn't motivation, Finn didn't know what was. He smiled at Quinn one last time than turned to jog onto the field.
"Go gettem Finn!" He heard what he swore was Kurt yelling from the stands as he gave a fist pump.
Everything was going great for Finn, they were leading by 14 and he was on. Every pass he threw seem to find the receiver. For goodness sake he had just rushed for a touchdown; tall, lanky, awkward Finn rumbled 15 yards for a touchdown. What could go wrong?
Well that question was answered on the next possession. Finn got under center and called the cadence, before he called hike though, he looked to the cheerios to see Quinn smiling at him.
"Let's do this." Finn told himself as he yelled hike.
Finn took the ball and rolled out to the left, looking for anyone open down the field. He saw no one and looked for Puck to dump it off to.
"Where the fuck is Puck?" Finn thought to himself as he was not where he was supposed to be.
Finn gave up looking down field and turned to roll right, but as he turned he was greeted with the big defensive tackle who absolutely leveled him. Finn was thrown to the ground with all 290+ pounds of the tackle lying on top of him.
As the big guy rolled off, Finn struggled to his feet.
"You alright dude?" He heard Puck asking him.
"Where the hell were you?" Finn asked him ignoring his question.
"I got tripped up, my bad dude."
"Whatever." Finn said shaking his head as it pounded with pain.
"Finn, are you good to go?" He heard Coach Beiste yell from the sidelines, he gave her a thumbs up and heard the crowd react with a cheer.
"Alright, I25 blizzard sweep on 3." Finn told the huddle, "Ready break!"
They got up to the line and Finn once again called out the cadence. He looked at Quinn again and gave her a wink as his way of telling her, this was for her.
"Hike!" Finn yelled as he rolled to the left following his running back around the line. He could see the end zone a few yards away as he broke a tackle.
As he was about to reach it, the hole in front of him closed with a defensive back. Finn quickly stopped his momentum and juked right. What he didn't see was the All-State linebacker running across the field and lunging at him headfirst. The last thing Finn saw was the linebacker's helmet inches away from his.
As Finn lay motionless on the ground, the stadium quickly fell silent. Coach Beiste and the trainers ran onto the field to see if Finn was alright.
"Finn can you hear me?" They asked, but no answer was returned as Finn didn't even flinch.
"Alright call an ambulance, he's out cold." Coach Beiste told the trainers.
Finn's teammates were huddled around him on their knees with their helmets off. They weren't completely sure what was happening but something was obviously wrong.
The fans remained on their feet, silent looking at the field, as Finn's mom, Burt and Kurt all ran onto the field.
"Is he going to be okay?" Carole desperately asked the trainers as the ambulance drove onto the field.
"We don't know yet, but it shouldn't be too bad."
As the paramedics strapped Finn onto the backboard, Carole heard a quiet sob behind her. She turned to see Quinn with her hands over her mouth and tears falling down her face.
"Quinn you're going to come with us to the hospital, Finn will need you there." She told her.
Quinn just nodded although she wasn't sure why Mrs. Hudson had assumed Finn would need her there.
As the ambulance drove off, Carole told Quinn to come with them as they made their way to Burt's SUV.
The drive to the hospital was as uncomfortable as anyone could imagine. No one was truly sure what was wrong. Quinn couldn't stop crying, while Carole tried her best to fight back tears as she knew her son was unconscious.
When they arrived, they quickly ran to the front desk asking where they could go to see Finn. The nurse informed them that Finn was in the emergency room and they would have to wait in the waiting room.
Quinn sat in the chair with her face in her hands for what seemed like hours. Kurt merely paced the room texting, whom Quinn assumed to Blaine.
Finally, the doctor came out to inform them of Finn's situation.
"Well he's going to be fine, but he's still unconscious." He told them with a serious look on his face. "He has transient quadriplegia; he has a temporary loss of sensation and movement in his upper and lower extremities."
Quinn didn't fully understand what he was saying but she got the gist of it, "Will he be able to… Well walk again?"
"Yes, it will probably be a few days though." The doctor told them, "We'll know his full situation after he wakes up."
The doctor told them Finn's room number then left them as they got up to find it. When they reached it, they decided the Finn's mom and Burt would go first, then Quinn and Kurt.
After about an hour Carole and Burt came out and told Quinn she could go in as Kurt said it was too much and he couldn't be in there with Finn out cold.
Quinn cautiously walked into the room, not fully ready to see Finn like this. Once she saw him though, the tears began to fall again. "Why Finn?" Was all she could think to herself as she sat by him and took his hand.
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