With Rachel and company 33 hours missing
"Dammit where is she?" Rachel murmured, everyone has been silent during the whole search walking awkwardly. The tension between Quinn and Brittany consumed the area they walked, Sam stayed behind them wondering why Brittany was so made, while Rachel really is the only one actually looking. Letting out a frustrated sigh she turned and faced them, all of them stopped in their tracks and looked at her.
"Look, I get you guys are angry and confused right now, but you have to let it go," Rachel said to them.
"Why should I Quinn is supposed to be my friend, Santana was supposed to be my best friend and they sleep together? It's just not okay," Brittany said angrily.
"I don't see why it's not right, you were broken up and you're dating Sam so you reason isn't a good one," Quinn snapped.
"Okay enough now, Santana I out here somewhere in this big city, hurt and cold, or scared or dead… yeah that's right DEAD, and all you can think of is this stupid mistake she made instead of looking for your friend and your best friend," Rachel growled out.
"But-"
"No buts Brittany. What's the last thing you three said to Santana… hmmm?" Rachel asked them.
"I said that Brittany is with me now… and that she should just let it go," Sam said smiling at his victory over getting Brittany.
"I don't know… I yelled at her for letting me sleep with her," Quinn said looking away ashamed.
"And I…. I t-told her to leave and that I chose Sam over her. I told her to move here," Brittany said looking down, a tear running down her face.
"And now think, those are the last words Santana has to hold on to, if she's dead those are the last words she'll remember her friends saying to her," Rachel said and watched them all, Sam looked across the street with slight guilt melting through him, Quinn brought her had up to her mouth while tears streamed down her face at the realization. Brittany squeezed her eyes together tightly not wanting it to be true. she didn't want Santana to die thinking that she loved Sam more than her. Santana was Brittany's love, the love of her life and told her those things because she wanted what was best from Santana. And now here they are, Santana missing in New York because Brittany lied and told her to come here.
"Good, now maybe you'll actually start looking for her I for one want to apologize for what I said," Rachel said and turned back around and started to walk again. They all nodded to themselves and started looking hard for their friend.
40 hours missing
After hours of looking the group was sat at a bench rubbing their sore feet and trying to keep themselves awake.
"Where could have she gone?" Quinn sighed and leaned back.
"I don't know, we checked all of her usual hangout areas and she wasn't there," Rachel replied leaning her head on Quinns shoulder.
"I think it's time to… give up you guys, she obviously doesn't want to be found," Sam said.
"No, we are going to keep looking till out feet fall off," Brittany said stubbornly, she was standing and pacing, still pumped with energy and determination to find her love.
"Britt, I know you care about her, but at some point we have to let go," Sam said.
"I'll never let go of Santana, she never gave up on me why should I?" Brittany said. They jumped when Rachel's phone rang. Rachel picked it up and looked at the number, her brows furrowed in confusion and she answered.
"Hello?" Rachel asked.
"Hello, are you Ms. Rachel Berry?" a male voice said on the other line.
"Yes, I am may I ask who you are?" Rachel replied.
"I'm Officer Nelson of the NYPD, earlier this morning a woman named Santana Lopez was found,"
"Oh my God you found her, thank God, where is she?" Rachel exclaimed, Quinn's, Brittany's and Sam's head shot up and looked at Rachel with smiles growing on their faces.
"Well Ms. Berry, we found her floating in a river, we pulled her out and performed emergency CPR,"
"IS she okay? Please tell me she's okay," Rachel pleaded tears running down her eyes.
"We did get to her in time, she is now in the hospital being treated for hypothermia and ammonia," Officer Nelson replied. Rachel released a shaky relieved breath.
"Which hospital?" Rachel asked, Quinn's and Brittany's eyes widened and they got closer to Rachel.
"Bellevue Hospital Center, in the ICU," He answered.
"Thank you, I'll be there shortly," Rachel hung up the phone and took a deep breath.
"Hospital?" Quinn questioned grabbing Rachels arm.
"She… they found her in a river, she is in the hospital being treated for hypothermia and ammonia," Rachel said.
"She's alive… she's alive," Brittany repeated to herself as relief set in her body. She suddenly felt the exhaustion of the day hit her; she sat on the bench and stared at the ground.
"Yeah, she is, come on let's call the others and head over there," Rachel said standing.
Hospital 0 hours missing
"Um I'm Rachel Berry, Officer Nelson told me that my friend was here," Rachel said to the desk clerk, the whole group was behind her. The woman looked up and her eyes went wide as she saw the mass of people.
"Of course, um name?" she asked.
"Santana Lopez," Rachel replied.
"Ah yes, just take a seat over there and I'll grab the officer and the doctor," she said standing up. Rachel nodded gratefully and went to sit with the rest. After a few minutes waiting the officer and doctor came up.
"Rachel Berry?" Officer Nelson asked the group of people, Rachel stood up and walked over to him.
"Hello, Ms. Berry I'm Dr. Woods, I'm taking care of Ms. Lopez while she's here," Dr. Woods said introducing himself.
"Hello," Rachel said taking his hand.
"You are Ms. Lopez's emergency contact correct?" Woods asked looking at her.
"Yes, we made this decision when she moved here just in case anything like this happened," Rachel answered.
"Has something like this happen before?" Nelson asked taking out a note pad and pen.
"What do you mean?" Rachel asked confused.
"Has Ms. Lopez ever tried committing suicide before?" Nelson elaborated. A collection of gasps came from the group and Rachel.
"NO! Never Santana was never one to resort to such a thing," Rachel said.
"Well, it seems things changed," Nelson said.
"You mean she… she put herself into the water?" Rachel asked.
"Witnesses say that they saw a girl putting something into a sandwich bag and jumping from a bridge, that happened to be over the river that she was found," Nelson said.
"I.. can't believe that…" Rachel said looking back at the group who had the same shocked expression.
"Can you possibly tell us why she would want to take her own life?" Nelson asked. Rachel sighed.. she was worried that Santana might have tried but she never thought that Santana would actually go through with it.
"Um, she been really depressed for the past month that I've seen. We had an argument and she just broke down say that she's been so depressed since she went to college and since she broke up with her girlfriend and just ran out of our apartment saying she was done with everything," Rachel said. Nelson nodded writing down the information.
"So when did Ms. Lopez head to college?" he asked.
"Um, end of July," Rachel said.
"And when did she break up with her girlfriend?" he asked. Rachel was stumped, she knew it was around the same time she broke up with Finn, but she wasn't sure.
"A couple weeks before Thanksgiving," Rachel answered.
"Were you and Ms. Lopez in a relationship?" Nelson asked, Rachel's eyes went wide.
"OH no we're just friends, I'm straight," Rachel replied.
"Sorry, I'm just trying to get as much as information as possible, did she have any relations with anyone else that you know of?" he asked. Rachel looked over at Quinn. Quinn sighed and stood up.
"Yeah me," Quinn said, Nelson looked at her and nodded.
"Your name miss?"
"Quinn Fabray," she replied.
"Alright by chance is the ex-girlfriend in here?" he asked. Brittany stood and walked over.
"I am," Brittany answered.
"And your name?"
"Brittany Peirce," she replied.
"Alright Ms. Fabray did you and Santana have a close relationship?"
"Um, we're best friends since freshman year of high school, but not a romantic relationship. We got really drunk on Valentine's Day and we hooked up," she said.
"Alright, I'm sorry if I'm intruding but are you also gay?" he asked.
"No, I was drunk and she got me into bed, I yelled at her the next morning for it," Quinn sighed embarrassed.
"So you two had a falling out then?" Nelson asked.
"Yeah, we didn't talk after that," Quinn answered.
"Thank you, now Ms. Peirce how long did you date?"
"Um summer after junior year to a few weeks before last Thanksgiving," Brittany replied.
"That is a long time, did she show any sign of depression while you were with her? Lack of eating, social contact, mood swings?" Woods asked cutting into the conversation.
"No," Brittany said.
"Why?" Rachel asked.
"Well, from what we've seen Ms. Lopez has had a long history of depression," Woods replied.
"After your break up were there any words exchanged?" Nelson, bringing back the attention to him.
"Uh, she said she loved me the most and then left, I didn't see her till out production of Grease at school," Brittany said.
"What about there? Anyone say anything to her?"
"No," Brittany said.
"Can you think of anything that could have pushed Santana to trying to commit suicide?" Nelson said trying to get to the point.
"Me choosing Sam over her?" Brittany said in a question looking to Rachel.
"I would agree, but I think her breaking up with Brittany is when everything really started, at least that's what she told me, the events after that added up I guess," Rachel said.
"And what event might that be?" Nelson asked.
"Um, Brittany telling her to move to New York and choosing Sam, dropping out of college, tricking Quinn into sleeping with her, and my pushing her to get a job," Rachel elaborated.
"Right thank you, for your time," Nelson said closing his notepad.
"Um, how you so sure that she tried to commit suicide? Other than the witnesses," Quinn asked.
"We found her suicide not typed up on her very damaged phone," he responded before leaving.
"Well, now that's done I'm sure you would like to hear the condition Ms. Lopez is in," Woods said to Rachel, she nodded and brought her full attention to him. "Well, she is suffering from hypothermia, but that should go away quite easily after a while, what I'm concerned about is her ammonia. She had quite a bit of cold water enterher body, and the lack of oxygen is also a worry. She could suffer from memory loss, shot term or long term we can't be too positive, but after the intake of water and the state of the water at that, could leave her lungs permanently damaged. She fell into the water from around sixty feet, and in turn hitting the water broke a few ribs from how she landed. We have put her into a coma to increase healing process of the ammonia and hypothermia. Hopefully keeping her asleep will also help the brain recover. We have put her on a life support ventilator to increase oxygen flow and we are not positive if her lungs would be able to work on their own at the moment anyways. When she jumped I'm sure she didn't really want to die, due to the fact that she actually fought off long enough and that it was a miracle that she was brought back, we'll keep you posted, and no more than three visitors at a time please," he said.
"Thank you," Rachel said absently taking in what he told her. He nodded and walked away.
"This is my fault," Brittany murmured.
"What?" Quinn asked shocked.
"If I would have just done what my heart told me and accepted her love again instead of telling her to go and moved to New York she would have never had come here and she would have never felt the way she did," Brittany explained.
"No Brittany, this isn't your fault, if anything it's mine, if I didn't push her so much she would have never ran out," Rachel said.
"Okay enough," Ms. Pillsbury said, everyone looked at her.
"This is no one's fault, you heard the doctor, she's had a case of depression for a long while, so no matter what anyone did it would not have changed anything and sooner or later the way she felt would have gotten to her without counseling, so stop the blame game," Ms. Pillsbury said. Everyone nodded and sat silently.
"Can we go see her?" Brittany asked.
"Yeah come on, you me and Rachel," Quinn said standing up, she grabbed Brittany and Rachels hand. They walked silently till they reached Santana door. Quinn took a deep breath and turned the handle.