Chapter 4: 35 minutes ago
Everyone was waiting in the waiting room, when Quinn appeared, standing by the double doors the doctors and nurses were coming in and out of. She had no idea where she was or how she got there.
"What the…? Where am I?" Quinn asked no one in particular.
Quinn had walked in while Puck and Leroy were arguing. She didn't exactly know or hear what they were saying, she just know they were arguing.
Quinn saw that everyone was there, from her mom and dad to Brittany and Santana to Puck, Finn and Leroy. There was also someone else there hugging Leroy. The person was small, but she couldn't tell who it was. They were wearing a black and gray sweat suit that looked a little to big for them and were the other way that she couldn't see their face. She saw that everyone was here, except her. But why?
Oh duh that's cause you're standing right here dummy. She thought to herself. Maybe I had went to the bathroom. She thought to herself, but she couldn't remember going to the bathroom. Come to think of it, she couldn't really remember anything up in the past few hours. She also wonder 'why am I in a hospital?'
To get answers, she went to the first person she saw. Her dad.
She walked over to her dad "Hey dad, what's going on? Why is everybody here?" She asked, she didn't get an answer. Her dad didn't even move or acknowledge that she was there. "Hey dad? Ya-hoo." she waved her hand in front of his face, but he still didn't seem to notice her. "Ookay. That's weird."
She decided to try her mom. "Hey mom, what's up with dad? Is he like mad at me or something?" she asked her mom, but her mom didn't seem to notice her either. "Okay, what the hell is going on?" She looked up from her mom over to where Santana was cuddle up on Brittany.
"Yo Lopez." Quinn said walking over to Santana and Brittan. "Just cause you and my girl are best friends, that don't mean you can be all cuddled up with her in front of me." Quinn said. "And is she crying? What did you do to her?" Santana and Brittany, just like her mom and dad, didn't seem to notice. "Come to think of it…" Quinn trailed off looking around the room "Why is anyone crying?" she looked over at Puck and Finn who also seem to have tears in their eyes. "What the hell is going on here?"
Seeing as she wasn't going to get any answers here, Quinn decided to explore. "One of these guys has got to know what's going on." She said walking to the doors she was just standing by. Has she walk over to it, one doctor came out of it. "Or I can just ask him" She said to herself.
She walks over to the doctor, "Um excuse me, can you help me? See my family is here and I don't know why. I tried to ask them, but they just seem to be ignoring me. I was just wondering…" As Quinn to talked to him, he just walked pass her, looking at his notes. "Well that was rude." Quinn said, but he still seemed to not notice her like everybody else. "Okay, seriously what the hell is going on?"
Still not able to get her answers, she continued exploring, hoping to find her answers. She started with the doors the rude doctor just came out of.
"Jackpot." she said walking to the double doors. As she walked through the door, she saw a bunch of other doors. "Whoa that's a lot of doors." Nurses and doctors were walking in and out of the doors, all walking pass Quinn not noticing her. "Rude"
Quinn looked through all the rooms for a clue or something to help tell her what was going on. She saw one room that looked interesting and strangely familiar. On the other side of the door was a table with a bunch of doctor tools around it and a sheet covering it. "Whoa what's under there? I wonder if it's a dead body. Sweet I get to see some dead guy. Oh Puckerman is gonna be so jealous." Quinn said as she walked closer to the covered table and removed the sheet, and what she saw behind the sheet, she had never expected.
"Wh-what…no this can be…no." Quinn said a she backed away from the table, her back hit the wall and she slowly slide down. "This…this can't be…this can't be happening. I'm…I'm right… that's impossible. No…no…no…no" Quinn said over and over again with tears falling down her face. "NO! this can't be happening. I'm not dead. I'm not. I'm standing right here. I can't…I just can't be…" Quinn trailed of, not able to finish her sentence. She just sat on the floor crying.
7 minutes later, Quinn got up from the floor and walked out of the room without so much of a glance back at the body on the table.
She wander around the halls of the hospital, not knowing where to go and what to do. She was still distraught by what she saw in the examining room. She just couldn't believe that she could be dead. What were her parents or her friends going to do?
"This so isn't not happening. I mean how can…How can I be dead. I'm standing right here. I don't get it. God damnit, why can't remember what happened in the last few hours."
As Quinn continued to walk, an old man called out to her. "Hey there sweetie."
Quinn looked around not knowing if the man was talking to her. "Are you…are you talking to me?"
"Yea, who else would I be talking to, hehe."
"Sorry, I'm just not used to people talking to me, or seeing me for that matter." Quinn said sadly.
"Well why wouldn't I be able to see you?"
"I don't know, nobody else seems to see me. Wait so you can see me? Ho-how can you see me? How come no one else can see me? What the hell is going on that you can see me, but nobody else can?…"
"Whoa….whoa. Calm down there sweet cheek, breath okay. Breathe. In, out, in, out, okay. That's it." The old man helped Quinn a little from her slight panic attack. "Okay that's good. You need to calm down there Sweetie. You don't to choke and then die do you, hehe." the old man laughed.
Quinn didn't look amused. "That's not funny. Seriously how come you can see me?"
"Can't everyone else?" the old man asked with a serious expression on his face.
"No, and I don't know why. Well I think I do, but I just don't want to believe it." Quinn looked down.
The old man took a good look at Quinn. "You look lost sweetie."
Quinn looked at the old man, who seemed shorter than her. "I'm not lost. At least I don't think am. Look I just really don't feel like talking about it."
"Okay, well are you sure no one else, but me can see you?" the old man
"Are you serious? I just told you that no one else could see."
"Can you prove it?"
"What?" Quinn said not believing the nerve of this man. The old man just shrugged his shoulders slightly amused. "Okay. Fine" Quinn said walking to a nearby nurse. She tried to walk in front of her to get her attention, but the nurse just walked pass her without so much as a twitch of showing that she saw Quinn standing in front of her. Quinn walked back to the old man. "See?"
The old man rubbed his chin as if he were really thinking of some thinking. "Well then, that only really explains one thing."
Quinn up at him in both interest and fear of what the old man might say.
"It's obvious that you did some sort of really cool magic trick that made yourself invisible for everyone but me, hehe." the old man laughed enjoying the raise that he could get out of Quinn. "Thank you sweetie, I feel so special."
"Are you serious?' Quinn said in a huff and raised her hands over her head. "That just sounds ridiculous."
"Yes, but a cool ridiculous." the old man laughed
Quinn just shook her head and sat down on the nearby bench, and put her head in her hands.
The old man look at Quinn and saw that she was really unhappy. He took the seat next to her, and put his hand over hers.
"Look, I know you said that you that you didn't feel like talking, but the way I see it. If you talk about it, then it might make you feel little bit better." Old man said with a sad smile.
Quinn looked up at him and sighed, "Honestly I really don't know what to talk about. I just don't know what's going on. I tried asking people, but no one seems to see me or even hear me. Well except you maybe, that just makes it even more weird. Plus I just saw something back there that really freaked me out."
"Well, what was it.?"
Quinn looked at the old man unsure of how to answer that question without freaking out and crying again. "I…I saw something or somebody back there who looked like me. It…she was dead." Quinn finished with tears in her eyes
"What so you never seen a dead body before? Wuss." The old man joked trying to lighten up the mood a little, but from the look on Quinn's face, it didn't work at all.
"Shut up. And no that's not it. It's just that…that's impossible. I mean how can that be. I mean I'm standing right here. That just can't be." Quinn cried
"Well maybe it just means that you had a long lost twin out there somewhere, and she died. And I really wouldn't put it you with the whole magic trick thing." the old man ended with a small smile making Quinn show a small teary smile, too.
"You're crazy old man." she said with a sad laugh.
"That's what my wife used to tell me." The old man laughed. "What's ya name kiddo?"
Quinn looked at the old man "Quinn"
The old man held out his hand "Nice to meet you Quinn, the names Cooper." Quinn took his hand shook it.
"Nice to meet you to Cooper." They were quiet for a moment, until Copper broke the silence.
"You do know that seeing your dead body only means one thing, right?" Quinn looked at him waiting for his answer.
"What?"
"You're dead kid." Cooper shrugged his shoulders
"Gee thanks, as if I didn't know that." Quinn exclaimed
"What I was just trying to help you out."
"You're crazy old man."
"I try my best." he laughed.
"But I don't get it. If I'm dead and no one can see me how come you can?" Quinn asks
"Well I'm dead too." Cooper said. Quinn looked shocked. How could he sound so okay with it. "Died a few hours ago actually. Thought I'd hang back. See the view."
Quinn at looked him before shaking her head and laughing at him. "Okay well if I'm dead, why am I still here. Aren't I suppose to walk into the light or some shit like that?" Quinn asked him.
"I don't know. Maybe it's some kind of affirmative action thing." Cooper jokes. Quinn once again did not look amused. "Or maybe you have something you need to do. Say maybe there's been something on your mind that you might want to fix before you leave. " Cooper told her.
"Like what?" Quinn asked
"How should I know, I'm not you. I can't tell what's in your head, but you can. Just think of something that's been nagging you. Something that has happen and you felt like it was your fault and you wanted to fix it but you just didn't know how. Just think. You'll figure it out." Cooper said
"Wait…but how do I fix it…" Quinn asked looking around for Cooper, but saw that he was gone. "Cooper? Cooper?" Quinn looked around and found no sign of him. "Where the hell did he go?" Quinn said to no one in particular.
Quinn got up from her seat and saw that she was right back at the door that she had come in from.
When she walked out, she saw her family talking to a doctor who she recognized as Dr. Lopez, Santana's dad. No doubt about it that he was telling them the news. Just then she saw her mom yell and hit the floor with her dad holding her crying. Yep he told them. She watched as all of he friends cry over a lost. She even saw Puck, Finn and Santana cry. Two people she knows would deny ever crying in front of people. It was hard to watch without crying herself. Cause not only did they lose someone they loved, but Quinn also lost them. She'll never get to be talk to or be with them again.
Just as she was about to turn away she heard something that caught her ears.
"Rachel…Rachel wait!"
Rachel? Why would Rachel be here and when did she get there? That when Quinn remembered the small body hugging Leroy, black and gray sweats little to big for her, she had come accustomed to wearing baggy clothes for awhile now, facing the opposite way from Quinn.
"Rachel" Quinn said. "Rachel…"
Then as if some sort of acknowledgement or idea had struck in Quinn's head, she ran off to find Rachel.
"Oh my god that's it!"
End of Chapter 4
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