Present Day
Quinn sighed closing her locker door behind her and pulling at her cheerio's skirt she felt ill, last night she had a terrible nightmare causing her to wake thick with sweat and screaming out loud. She couldn't shake the feeling off so as she entered school this morning she had a quick word with Korofsky and his mates and ordered a triple slushy attack on Rachel. She always felt bad about these attacks but like Santana always said:
"She has caused you endless pain you need to get your own back".
She turned around to see Finn walking towards her and she huffed. Her and Finn had been dating for nearly a year and Quinn found it tiring both physically and mentally he was the most annoying childish stupid guy she had ever met and she tried to avoid him at any possible cost. She only started dating him after Santana had pointed out Rachel staring wistfully after them every time they hung out with him.
"Hey Quinn" Finn smiled at her and Quinn felt like being sick that look he always gave her like a child who had been allowed three scoops of ice cream at dinner instead of two.
"Hey Finn" Quinn put on her best fake smile and sugary sweet voice.
She could see Rachel coming down the hall she was trying hard not to stare at them but it was blatantly obvious she was pining after Finn. Suddenly Quinn grabbed Finn's face locking lips with him; Finn was caught off guard but soon melted happily into the kiss. Quinn checked out of the corner of her eye to make sure Rachel had seen and Quinn smirked happily when she saw Rachel sighing her eyes losing their usual brightness for a second. Quinn watched Rachel turn off into the choir room then let go off Finn turning and wiping her mouth on the edge of her cheerio's sleeve.
"Umm that was nice" mumbled Finn "See you later?"
Quinn nodded at him then made her way to the girl's bathroom to try and get rid of the horrible taste of Finn Hudson from her mouth.
Quinn walked sullenly towards the playing fields. She knew she would be in terrible trouble with Coach Sylvester since as head cheerleader she was supposed to be first there to help set up but today she didn't really care for cheerleading.
That dream had terrified her out and even though she had the joy of witnessing Rachel being slushied 3 times in a row it still hadn't caused her to feel better, instead it had just made her feel sick to the stomach and she had to go throw up in the girls bathroom.
When she finally reached the other cheerio's they had already finished the warm up and were on to practising the routine. When coach Sylvester saw her she looked incredibly angry shouting down her mega phone to the other girls to take a break then turning to Quinn shouting:
"I hope you have an immensely good reason why you are late to my practise young lady"
Quinn shrugged and mumbled something incoherent and meaning less.
"100 laps of the field" cried Sylvester.
As she was about to start she noticed Santana
"Where have you been" she mouthed but Quinn just shrugged and started running.
To be honest she was thankful for these laps at least when she was running she only needed to concentrate on where her feet were taking her and not the mass of other problems circling her mind. She had reached what she deemed to be 100 and looked over to Sylvester to confirm, she nodded at her and Quinn walked over to the rest wiping sweat from her forehead as she went. As she positioned herself for the beginning of the routine she looked over at Santana who gave her a sympathetic look she smiled as best as she could back to her to show that she was ok then the music started and she lost herself in the routine.
Last night
She had been walking care free in a field not really making note of her surroundings just glad that she felt happy for once when she heard a voice.
"Quinn, Quinn is anybody there?" She turned in the direction of the voice and came face to face with Rachel, she suddenly felt worried.
"Rachel what are you doing her you cant be here" she uttered hurriedly.
"Of course I can who do you think brought you here"? Giggled Rachel
"You brought me here"? Quinn sounded astonished then happy "You brought me here Rachel,"
"Yes of course I did where else would I take my beautiful girlfriend on our anniversary then the place you took me on our first date?
" This then made Quinn really look around, the field was filled with beautiful flowers of all sorts Daisy's, sunflowers beautiful pink roses. She looked up to the trees they were old and gnarled their branches leaning over with age. Quinn felt a panicky feeling in her stomach she definitely knew this place.
"Here we are" chirped Rachel excitedly "the exact spot we went on our first date".
When Quinn saw it she did a double take she was now in a more woody area were the tree's were even more gnarled and bent and they were surrounded by thick fern and bracken. A little stream rushed past them and Quinn could see tiny fish jumping from the stream every so often.
"It's so lovely just how I remembered" stated Rachel in a dreamy way.
Quinn nodded there was something not quite right about this that Quinn could not quite place her finger on.
"Come one Quinny" Rachel cried grabbing her hand and pulling her forwards further into the woods. Quinn ran behind trying to catch up with Rachel who had let go of her wrist and was racing ahead.
The girls came to a halt by the most beautiful thing Quinn had ever seen a large waterfall was cascading down the bank, the source to the little stream that they had stopped by earlier.
"Do you remember this Quinn"? Asked Rachel excitedly "Do you remember me finding it and telling you how beautiful it was and one day we are going to live here in our own special den"?
Quinn smiled at Rachel nodding her head but she was getting even more worried now those words sounded familiar but they didn't sound like Rachel Berry's.
Rachel scooped some water from the lake and they watched it drizzle down through her fingers.
"Come on Quinn lets go swimming" Rachel called happily pulling her dress over her head to reveal a red swimming costume.
"What do you think" chirped Rachel I got it brand new yesterday."
Quinn smiled at this to but still knew those words were familiar. She to pulled her dress over her head to reveal a pink bikini and she waded hand in hand into the water with Rachel.
They swam around together splashing each other happily and swimming back and forth in the water. When Quinn spotted something out of the corner of her eye it looked like a young girl coming through the waterfall.
"Rachel what is that"? Quinn asked looking over her shoulder to Rachel.
Rachel suddenly stood up and made her way over towards Quinn. "That is Delilah" said Rachel a smile plastered on her face.
"Delilah" Quinn gasped and she swam as fast as she could over to the girl who was making her way slowly out of the waterfall. When she reached her Quinn made a move to hug her but Delilah stopped her.
"Delilah is it really you"? Quinn giggled "you are really here aren't you"? She smiled happily.
"Quinn what are you doing here" Delilah asked solemnly. Causing Quinn's smile to falter.
"I'm on a dateā¦" Quinn didn't finish her sentence as she realised this place the field the stream the waterfall it was familiar but this wasn't something she shared with Rachel this was something her and Delilah shared. She looked over to Rachel whose face was blankly staring at her.
"Delilah I'm sorry Rachel was here she said that it was our thing I" Quinn didn't get to finish as Delilah cut in
"Quinn I can't believe you this was our place have you forgotten that we are engaged? Just because I am dead you think that you can just date another girl"!
Quinn felt tears spilling down her cheeks "No I'm sorry Liliah forgive me please it wasn't me it was Rachel" cried Quinn.
"Now you are blaming it on poor innocent Rachel" asked Delilah reaching round to put her arm round Rachel.
"Yes Quinn you are the one who fell in love with me when you already had someone, you are the one who started to feel for another". Rachel stared hard at Quinn.
"YOU ARE A TRAITOR QUINN FABRAY YOU PROMISED TO NEVER LOVE AGAIN! Yelled Delilah. Quinn turned around tears pooling down her cheeks she tried to swim away but both Delilah and Rachel had her clamped in their grasp.
Quinn turned around looking pleadingly at Delilah.
"No Quinn" called Rachel solemnly "Traitors don't deserve to get away" Both Rachel and Delilah were pulling her under now.
Quinn tried to swim to the top but she felt all her muscles clamp and suddenly go numb. She called out instead swallowing water and she felt herself choking as she became shrouded by darkness and she found herself going further and further down.
This is where she had woken up screaming. Her mother had come rushing in the room calling her name and Quinn fell on her tears pouring from her cheeks as she tried to gulp for air.
"Hush Quinny its going to be ok" her mother comforted stroking her long blonde hair and holding her close.
This nightmare was not a once off she had been having these nightmares ever since she had started mckinley and Judy had often wondered what caused these awful dreams. Whenever she asked Quinn always mumbled something about Delilah an answer Judy always accepted but she always wondered why they hadn't started sooner and perhaps ended by now. The lose of a loved one was always hard but Judy thought that by now she would have gotten over it. She pulled Quinn away and looked into her daughter's eyes.
"Are you ok now Quinn?" she asked locking eyes with her daughter.
Quinn nodded she was still shaking terribly but she felt better after her mother holding her.
"Would you like me to stay with you till you fall asleep again dear"? Asked Judy kissing her daughter gently on the forehead.
"No thank you mum, I will be alright" answered Quinn the truth was she wasn't going to go back to sleep, as always after a nightmare she sat up in bed sometimes reading doing homework or just counting the hours down to till a time her parents deemed acceptable to be awake then she would get up and go out jogging.
Judy smiled a sad sort of smile at her daughter before kissing her and getting up to leave the room. Quinn lay down and heard her mothers sigh before she crept quietly out of the door and back to her own room. The fact that her mother knew there was something wrong with her made her feel so terrible it was obvious that it pained her to have a daughter who had some sort of problem and she really didn't like to see her Mother worry over her as it angered her Father so.
He would never admit to the fact that Quinn needed help forever telling Judy it was a kids thing and that she would get over it sooner or later and plus what does it matter Quinn is perfectly normal she is head cheerleader one of the most popular girls in the whole school and she has a lovely boyfriend who Is captain of the football team. What can be wrong with her?
"Boy if only her Father knew" thought Quinn as she reached over for her book and turned to the first page.
