AN: So there have been some requests for the parents' reactions, so here it is. I don't really know if it's all that good because it wasn't in my first idea of the story. Please don't hate me if this ruins the story for you all.
The police officers that found Santana's body didn't exactly know how to handle the situation. Getting a teen's broken body from the bottom of the quarry was not something they ever thought they'd have to do on the job.
After getting her body to the morgue, the officers worked on finding her parents and dealing with the obvious suicide notes she'd left.
Officer Harris was the one to open the note addressed to 'Whoever finds me' and read the last thing he expected.
I'm guessing whoever is reading this is a cop, considering I did just call to report my own death. I've also left five other notes. One for my parents and the others can go to Mr. Will Schuester at McKinley High. He'll get them to the people they need to get to. He's cool like that sometimes.
I don't know what your whole procedure is for suicides or anything, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't actually read the other notes. I guess if you have to make sure this is really a suicide and I wasn't murdered, I'll save you the trouble and tell you I jumped. My… my dad raped me for the past couple nights and I can't even imagine that I'll ever be okay. Even if I reported it and you guys arrested him, I'd still be fucked up inside. So yeah, I killed myself. Sorry you guys are the ones that have to clean it up.
Santana Lopez
Officer Parker Harris stared at the note in his hands. He'd been working in the department for almost 10 years and he'd dealt with rapes and he'd dealt with suicides, but he'd never had a case like this. Her bastard father raped her so she kills herself. That's the story they'll print. That's her story. This young girl who never got the chance to live and who probably never thought of dying so young was forced to die because she couldn't imagine a life where she wasn't a shattered shell of whoever she used to be. Parker suddenly had the urge to know who this girl was. He was snapped out of his trance when his partner approached.
"Harris, what'd the notes say?" Officer Jon Marrell asked, sitting at the desk across from Harris's.
"It was definitely suicide…" He was contemplating something new in his head and hoped that the lawyer could work it out.
"But? What are you getting at?" Marrell knew his partner and he knew there was something brewing in Parker's mind.
"It's her parent's fault… her dad... He'd been raping her and it drove her to kill herself… Can we charge him for the rape if she's dead?"
"Unfortunately no, not when the only evidence we have is a note from a dead girl." Marrell replied. He took the note from Parker and read it for himself. He wished they could have helped her before she died, but there was nothing they could do now.
It was late Sunday night when the police arrived to the Lopez residence. Harris and Marrell knocked on the door and waited to face the monster that drove his only daughter to suicide. When Mr. Lopez opened the door he frowned slightly, but then covered it with a smile.
"Officers, what can I do for you?"
"Andre Lopez?" Harris asked. When Mr. Lopez nodded, Harris continued. "It's about your daughter Santana, may we come in?"
"Of course, of course," Andre opened the door wider and stepped aside letting the officers in. "I haven't seen her all day though. She may be at a friend's house if you're looking for her."
"Is your wife at home Mr. Lopez?" Marrell asked, ignoring Andre's comment.
"Yeah, please, join us in the living room."
The three men walked into the living room. At the sight of the police officers in her home, Maria Lopez turned off the TV and looked at her husband cautiously.
"Andre… what's going on?" She asked nervously.
"Mr. and Mrs. Lopez, I'm afraid we have some… bad… news," Harris said taking a seat in the chair across from the couch that Andre and Maria now sat on.
"Your daughter Santana's body was found this afternoon at the bottom of the Lima quarry. We've ruled it a suicide."
Maria burst into tears and Andre just stared at the coffee table in front of them.
"That can't be true," Maria spoke through her sobs. "You must have the wrong girl. Santana is fine- I'll call her."
Marrell pulled the note for Santana's parents out of his pocket and handed it to her. "I'm so sorry, but she left you both this note."
Her body was shaking, but Maria took the note and unfolded it, reading it to herself before she would give it to her husband.
Mamma and Papi,
I'm so sorry I wasn't the daughter you wanted me to be. I tried so hard to like boys. I dated a lot of boys over the years, but I love Brittany. I've never felt so happy as when I'm with her. I know you guys probably don't care and don't love me anymore, but I've always loved you both. You were really good parents to grow up with. I'm gone now because I know that I'm broken. Papi, you tried to fix me when I wasn't broke. Instead you shattered everything that I was. You can't rape the lesbian out of me and I would rather jump off this cliff than go home and have you on top of me again. It's my birthday today Papi, and I didn't much like the present you gave me this morning.
Santana
"Andre! What have you done?!" Maria shouted as she finished the note. She threw the paper at her husband and sobbed louder than before.
He knew what she was talking about, but he read the note anyway.
"I…" He had no idea what to say. The police were sitting in front of him, his wife was hysterical, and he had driven his only daughter to suicide.
"She was MY baby Andre!" Maria began shouting again. She started slapping him anywhere she could but Officer Marrell pulled her off the couch and wrapped her in the comforting hug she didn't realize she desperately needed. She beat on his chest as she cried; realizing she'd lost her daughter and her husband.
"Mr. Lopez," Harris began, noticing that Andre had become nervous and had started to cry. "There is nothing we can do at this time about the allegations Santana made in her notes. However if you'll allow us, we'd like to search her room for anything else that may have led her to decision."
Andre didn't say anything. He couldn't figure out if he actually felt bad or relieved about his daughter's death. He was more angry at her than anything.
Maria lifted her head from Marrell's chest. "Yes, please. Her room is the second door on the right, down that hall."
Harris and Marrell left the living room and went to Santana's room to collect any evidence they could. They gathered her sheets and any clothes that were on the floor or in the hamper in the bathroom.
Once they had searched her room, the two men walked back to the living room only to find Mrs. Lopez sitting alone on the couch and crying.
"We're taking some of her belongings to have tested and see if we can figure out the timeline of Santana's morning. Are you going to be alright?" Marrell asked gently, realizing it was a stupid question. This woman would never be alright again.
"No. Just go. Take her things and find the evidence. I don't know where Andre went, but I told him not to come back here. He killed my baby and I want him gone." Maria said quietly.
The officers nodded and Harris left his card on the coffee table. "If you need anything or if he comes back to bother you, just call us anytime."
A year after Santana's death, Andre Lopez was found guilty of the rape of his daughter and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
It had been a tough case to build, but Parker Harris stuck with it. He spent his time finding out all he could about Santana. He quickly found that she had been an extraordinary young woman who could have done so many things with her life. After the fluids on her sheets and clothes came back a positive match for her father and the autopsy of Santana's body confirmed bruising and vaginal trauma that could not have been caused from her fall, Harris personally found and arrested Andre, hoping that wherever Santana was now, she was at peace.
So... hopefully this was okay with you guys. If not, you can just pretend you never read it and be cool with the ending I left. But there were some who wanted her parents' reactions and I just kind of made this up. Let me know, cause I don't know if I really like it all that much, but I never intended to keep adding things to this story...so yeah. Thanks for reading :)
