"She knows." Rachel said firmly as she and Quinn entered the empty choir room.
"You are being paranoid" Quinn calmly said as they stood in front of the big piano. Rachel was holding both her hands as she went on another rant.
"I am not! Every time she passes by me in the hallways she looks at me with the most intense look, and the most sly grin I have ever seen in her face. Santana knows Quinn. Oh god! She is going to blackmail us into being hers and Brittany's slaves and..."
Quinn kissed her at mid-freak out, she knew that once Rachel got into her lengthy rants, there was nothing anyone can do to stop her, and she looked really cute all worked up.
Quinn knew Santana knew about them. She has been friends with the Latina since she could remember, she could read her like an open book. She also knew that Santana wasn't going to do anything that would harm them in any way. Rachel did not know that, hence the freak out.
"Hey," Quinn said after they pulled apart from the kiss, the brunette had yet to open her eyes. "Santana is not going to do anything, okay?"
Rachel sighed as she leaned on Quinn's forehead with her own. "It's just that I don't want to give people in this school another reason to pick on me" She looked into the blonde's eyes "not that I am ashamed of you, because I'm not," another sigh "look at what they have done to Kurt...I...If they do anything to you, to us..."
And Quinn kissed her again, this time because those big brown eyes were looking at her with something she had never seen before. Love. No one has ever looked at her like that. She knew she loved Rachel even before they started to officially go out, and to see that same love reflected back to her was breathtaking.
"I love you"
Rachel abruptly held her breath, looking deeply into Quinn's eyes as if searching for something. Finally finding what she was looking for, she smiled shyly at the blonde and softly kissed her, "I love you too."
"You know, I once asked Finn what it was like to kiss you."
"Yeah?" asked the blonde with a curious look.
"Yeah" Rachel confirmed, "He said it felt like fireworks, which is funny because I feel the complete opposite. There are no fireworks; when you kiss me, I feel completely at peace, every sound disappears, and there is only you, us."
Quinn smiled and kissed her forehead, "I love that I'm the only one that gets to see this side of you" she kissed her again, "I wish I could stop time and stay here forever, like this, with you"
"Oh boy! Aren't we romantic this morning?" they both laughed, successfully braking the spell they were in just seconds ago.
"Let's go to class, we are going to be late!" said Quinn straightening up her clothes.
"Are you sure Santana is not going to say anything?"
"Positive" the ex-cheerleader said as she fixed her lipstick "she knows not to mess with me and what's mine."
"Hey!" Rachel exclaimed indignantly, "I'll let you know that Rachel Barbra Berry is nobody's property!"
"Rachel Barbra Berry is totally Quinn Fabray's property. Come on, we are going to be late for first period and we don't want Santana to have a field day with that one."
Rachel huffed and followed Quinn, a discrete smile making her way up to her lips as she walked behind the blonde through McKinley's hallways.
"Hey Q, Rachel's dads are back" the Latina gently shook the blonde out of her last memory with Rachel.
Quinn looked up to see Rachel's dads walking towards them, unreadable expressions matching their faces.
"They couldn't find anything worth investigating, not a single thing." Leroy said in a huff, "They said that they will collect all the security camera footage to see if they can find something there." He told them before they had the chance to ask.
Just as Quinn was about to say something, a nurse and Dr. Lopez came out of Rachel's room wheeling the girl out with them. "We are going to get a couple of scans and depending on the results we will either operate tonight or wait until tomorrow." He took a moment to look at Hiram, "I'm really sorry about this."
"I really appreciate it, Dan. Can we go with you to the radiology ward.
"Of course" Dr. Lopez responded "You girls can wait for us in Rachel's room or the waiting room. I don't want you wandering around the hospital by yourselves" he said looking at Santana.
"Okay, we will wait for you guys in her room then" the Latina responded.
He nodded and walked out with Rachel and her dads. Quinn could not take her eyes off the diva until they disappeared around the corner of the hallway.
"We have to get the cheerios back." Santana looked at Quinn oddly.
"What?"
"We have to get back in the cheerios. We have to run the school again." Quinn answered, a look of anger and determination adorning her features, the HBIC was back.
"But why? The fundings for the cheerios got cut" maybe the blonde was going into shock, Santana thought.
"Because that's the only way I have to find out who did this. We'll ask Schuester to share part of Glee's funding with Sue, I'll talk to Sue and Figgins myself."
"That's crazy Q! We don't even know if it was someone from school who did this!"
"Who else would it be? Are you going to help me or not?" the blonde asked, becoming agitated. A couple of nurses disapprovingly glanced at their direction. Santana noticed and took Quinn by her arm dragging her into Rachel's room, Brittany following quietly behind.
"Quinn! You know I'll help you with whatever you need!" Santana told her once they were in the room, "This is serious! We are not detectives Q!"
"You think I don't know that? You think I just want to play detective because I'm bored?" the blonde asked incredulously, "You heard them! They didn't find anything! What makes you think they are going to find something tomorrow?"
The Latina just stared at her, not knowing what to say. Brittany was quietly watching their interaction by the now empty bed.
"I'm sure it was someone from school, and I just want to find out who it was" the ex-cheerio said quietly.
"How would you know though? A lot of people don't like Rachel" Brittany asked quietly, speaking for the first time since they went inside the room.
"I don't know B, that's why we need to be back on the cheerios, we need to be back on top, in control" Quinn said, looking directly at Santana.
"How is that going to solve anything?" Santana asked her, not getting her point.
"Whoever was involved in this is not going to talk to the police. If there is anything that McKinley feeds off though is gossip, and with the right timing and pressure, someone is bound let something slip, and whenever there is gossip circulating, who always hears it first?"
"Us" a look of recognition passed through the Latina's face. Silence overcame the room as they quietly thought about what the blonde said. "I'm in."
"Me too, I just want Rachel to sing again" Brittany said.
Quinn looked at them, her eyes watering "I want Rachel to sing again too, B. Thank you guys, really. You don't even know how much this means to me..."
Santana moved quickly towards the girl and enveloped her in a hug, this time though, the blonde accepted it without a question. This time, the Latina dropped her cold facade and allowed her to freely cry. Brittany came from behind and hugged both of them in a group hug.
"Rachel is gonna be okay, you'll see" Brittany told them as she hugged them both.
"I hope so" Quinn said as they pulled apart, "we need to tell the rest of glee club, we are going to need their help."
"Can we just tell Kurt, Mercedes, Puck, and Tina?" Santana said after a thought, "I just don't trust anybody else with this."
"That's a good idea, the less people that knows the better" the ex-cheerio said while she nodded.
Santana was about to say something when the door suddenly opened and a two nurses came wheeling Rachel in. They loaded the small girl effortlessly into the bed and hooked her up to the machines in the room.
"The Doctor and the Berry's will be here in a sec" one of the nurses said before they exited the room.
Quinn quickly went to the brunette's side and took her hand, "Hey, you are back!" she told the unconscious girl. She gently kissed her knuckles as her eyes teared up a little bit "Your hand is so cold" she said as she blew warm air into it.
Santana couldn't take her eyes off the scene in front of her. This was the first time she took a really good look at the small brunette. Her naturally tan skin looked sickly pale, her usually long hair was covered by bandages, but what shocked her the most was the quietness. Usually whenever Rachel was in a room, 85 percent of the time was the diva yapping away and the other 15 percent was her telling her to shut up. Now the girl couldn't even breathe on her own, and it made her feel weird, a bizarre feeling was building slowly in her stomach, she needed to find whoever did this and beat the crap out of them. All the doubts she was having about Quinn's little plan faded away in an instant, because she knew that if that was Brittany laying in that bed, she would want nothing more than to find whoever did it and kill him with her bare hands.
She slowly made her way to the other side of the bed, "Hey Berry, I think this is a little bit too dramatic, even for you." She gave a half smile to the girl in the be before locking eyes with Quinn "we are going to find whoever did this to you," she told her, never taking her eyes off the blonde "I promise."
Sorry for the delay! College.
Any thoughts? :)
