A/N: NOT MINE, belongs to Ryan Murphy/Fox. Sorry for how long this took...I know it's not the longest but I think a lot happens in this chapter but please tell me what you think. Thank you for all the appreciation, it's been wonderful!


"Quinn! Wait up! Where are you going?" Brittany yelled running after Quinn. Quinn sped up at hearing Brittany's voice. She wasn't sure where she was going but she just knew she wanted to get the hell away from everyone.

"Go away!" Quinn yelled back and sped up. At seeing Quinn speeding up, Brittany sped up faster.

As the rest of the Cheerios watched the backs of the blondes speeding away, Santana caught their attention with a sly smile. "Hello ladies, now all of you grab a sack of potatoes and tie it to your backs and MUSH" Santana barked out.

In the mean time Brittany and Quinn kept running in their epic game of tag. They were both evenly matched physically considering Brittany was a delicious dancer and Quinn was ultimately the head cheerleader for Sue Sylvester, and that was a skill gained from being more physically dominant than the whole football team put together."Quinn just stop!" Brittany yelled before one of them passed out.

"Go away! Give up!" Quinn yelled back as she kept running furiously away from Brittany. At that, both girls kept running. The minutes ticked by and finally Quinn was limping away from a crawling Brittany who was getting closer to the ground with every step she took. Finally, Brittany collapsed and Quinn was about to speed away but her leg collapsed from under her as she got overexcited at the prospect of getting away. Brittany mustered up the little strength she had left and rolled over to Quinn's gasping body.

"Gotcha"

"Hey Noah, thank you for giving me a ride" Rachel said gratefully.

"Hey no problem! You're my J-Babe" Noah replied with a wink. "I can't believe you're staying at Quinn Fabray's. Now I know she's a bitch, but you can't deny her fox appeal. Yo, does she ever walk around in a wet tshirt...forget her clothes and towel..." Noah continued getting more and more excited.

"Such a pig!" Rachel outraged. While Quinn was a raging bitch, there was no need for Noah or anyone to objectify her. All of a sudden, Rachel remembered something she'd somehow forgotten, Quinn's boyfriend Finn. For some reason, at remembering the fact, Rachel had the need to find out as much as possible about that relationship. "Quinn's dating Finn right?"

"Yeah, god knows why. I mean she's had a taste of the Puckster but she's dating a dumbass like Finn. Honestly, boy's got no game at all and he's a douche." Puck answered with an eye roll.

"He's really stupid to and doesn't appreciate Quinn at all. I mean I don't like the girl but whenever she's not looking he tries setting up picnics in the auditorium and singing at me.." Racher murmured looking disgusted. All of a sudden a though dawned over her, something that Puck had said. "Quinn had a taste of the Puckster...?"

"Oh yeah..it was like a few weeks into the start of the year. Santana had a party at her place and Fabray totally blew me in the washroom." Puck announced chuckling with the memory as Rachel's face turned red and all of a sudden she wanted to shave Puck's mohawk with her nails.

"Oh...I see. Why didn't you pursue a relationship?" Rachel asked in a clipped tone that Puck totally missed.

"I don't know, she ignored me after whenever I tried talking to her" Puck answered with a shrug. "I mean she's hot but that was just cold."Although Rachel wanted to ask more, they'd arrived at the Fabray house.

"Thanks for the ride Noah."

"Anytime! Call me if you need anything." Puck said with a reassuring hug.

Rachel got out of the car and went inside and laying there was Quinn and Brittany with ice packs to all of their ligaments with Santana sitting in between them flipping through the channels. "Hey Berry" Santana called out.

"What..happened..?" Rachel asked almost afraid. "Shouldn't all of you be at Cheerios practise?" Rachel asked walking into the room.

"Santana had the group passing out and or puking so Sue told her she was proud and to take the day to reflect our feat" Quinn muttered wincing and trying to not move too much.

"What happened to you two? And why isn't Santana looking like that?"

"Because these two played tag while I told the Cheerios what to do. I haven't really done anything all day...how you feeling Brittany?" At which Brittany simply moans and gurgled a bit.

"Aw baby"...Santana went to Brittany and brushed her hair away from her face and tried comforting her girl while Rachel and Quinn awkwardly made eye contact and the pair's affection was overwhelming to be around.

"Right..so I guess you can't take me to the hospital Brittany?" Rachel asked earnestly. At hearing this, both Quinn and Brittany seemed to hit a patch of energy where they both took everything they had to scramble up and run towards Rachel, who just looked at the unfolding scene with fear. Sheer fear as the two seeming giants ran towards her at full speed and red faces while Santana watched the scene unfold in front of her with amusement.

"GAAFAJFNEKFS" is what both Santana and Brittany heard when all of a sudden, Rachel was on the floor, layered with Quinn on top and finally Brittany. Brittany kept screaming random words that would've made sense had either Quinn or Rachel been listening. Quinn's hands had been placed onto Rachel's hips and because her shirt had ridden up, Quinn could feel the silky and soft skin underneath. Rachel looked back at Quinn not really realizing what was happening or why but the way Quinn seemed so concentrated on her..made her feel tingly and warm. Quinn couldn't seem to stop her hand from laying her hand flat against Rachel's abs slowly. Quinn couldn't get herself to stop from studying Rachel's heaving chest either till finally Rachel seemed to have snapped out of her own daze and was pulling away from Quinn as the situation had managed to catch up to her.

"I'm going to go to my room" Rachel stammered as she ran away and left Quinn laying on the ground, Santana gaping at her and Brittany shaking her head at Quinn in a mixture of amusement and shame.


Rachel got to her room and just sat there on her bed. She wasn't sure what had just happened but it was just so weird. Quinn's fingertips had been stroking her for what felt like both too long and not long enough. The uncomfortable part was that she felt...stuff. A soft tingle right between her legs the second Quinn Fabray was against her and that tingle only grew with Quinn's stroke.

Rachel got up and walked around the room to get dressed and then head over to see her dads. While she wasn't stupid, there was no way she wanted to delve into whatever it was she felt when her bully touched her. Rachel shook herself out of her thoughts and grabbed her clothes to start getting dressed. She was obviously lonely as she was undergoing a stressful and emotionally destructive event and this was making her crave human affection. There was no way Quinn Fabray turned her on.


It was quiet.

Completely quiet and if there's one thing about Santana Lopez, it's that she's never quiet.

It was completely quiet.

Quinn sat there looking as if her life was going to burst any second while Brittany and Santana just sat there. Quietly. Every so often, one of them would shoot a smirk at Quinn but that's all.

Quiet.

This went on for what felt like hours to Quinn till finally she snapped at her friends. "WHAT!"

"What? I didn't say anything. Did you B?" Santana asked innocently.

"Nope" Brittany responded with a smile.

"Don't fuck with me. You're NEVER quiet" Quinn screamed at Santana.

"Pshh alright! Let's tango baby! Enjoy feeling up Ber-" Santana started before she was elbowed hard in the gut by Brittany who frantically pointed to Rachel, in the stairs.

Both Rachel and Quinn turned bright red as they knew where Santana was leading with this. "Hey Britt, ready to go?" Rachel ignored the situation.

"Yeah let me just grab my coat and bag" as Brittany stood up and walked over to her things, Quinn rushed over to Rachel's side.

"Hey Rach!"

Rachel stared back at her in shock considering she was Manhands just a few hours ago.."Hello..."

"Brittany said to go wait for her in the car." Quinn said with a smile.

"No she didn't...I'm right here..." Rachel replied confused.

"No...she mentioned it...to me...go wait in the car.." Quinn persisted.

"No...she didn't."

"Yes she did! Now go sit in the car" Quinn yelled.

"No."

"Yes!"

"Um...what's up?" Brittany walked in and asking looking around at Quinn and Rachel, who, during their argument, had drifted closer together and now there was a little bit more than an inch between their noses.

"NOTHING! Let's go!" Rachel screamed grabbing Brittany and rushing out the door, but now without Quinn rapidly following the girls.

"I AM COMING, SANTANA LET'S GO!" Quinn screamed at Santana who looked at Quinn with disbelief. There was no way Santana Lopez was going to be Quinn's bitch and so, Santana answered with a simple eye roll and smirk and continued to watch the show.

"ONLY BRITTANY IS COMING WITH ME! FUCK OFF QUINN!" Rachel finally screamed and to everyone's surprise, Quinn didn't respond at all. Instead, she looked at Rachel and just quietly stared at her.

"Fine!" Quinn yelled with tears suddenly in her ears and proceeded to run upstairs while all three girls stopped and starred in astonishment as to seeing the HBIC reacting in such an emotional and strange way.

"You guys go, I'll see what crawled up her ass" Santana told Brittany and Rachel as she went upstairs to check on her.


Brittany and Rachel got into Brittany's car and headed to the hospital in silence. The scene they had left behind was haunting their thoughts. Rachel's thoughts, because she'd never seen Quinn react in such an emotional way and couldn't help feeling a bit guilty. Logically, she had every right to not want to bring Quinn and in fact, Rachel had no idea why she wanted to come so bad but the guilt came from seeing Quinn's tears. On the other hand, Brittany had every idea in the world why Quinn was reacting like this.

They finally got to the hospital room and went to the Berry's room. Rachel burst into tears seeing her fathers. They just looked so hurt and damaged that for the first time in Rachel's life, she was worried that she'd be left alone and she couldn't fathom a life without her dads. "I can't believe this is happening to me" Rachel said.

"Oh Rachy.."Brittany pulled the shorter girl into her arms and let her fall apart.

After several minutes of Rachel crying in Brittany's arms and having comforting words being whispered into her ear, Dr. Fabray walked into the room. "Hey Rachel, Britt, how are you two doing?"

"Are they going to be okay?" Rachel asked with a scratchy voice.

"Yeah hon...they will be. It's just going to take some time and you know we're here for you. Brittany, Santana, Quinn...we're here for you. Have you eaten today?" Russell asked.

"Yeah I had some lunch.." Rachel responded.

"C'mon girls, lets get home. Judy's probably home and she's a fantastic cook."Russell said with a smile as Brittany shifted awkwardly.

"Oh I have plans with Santana tonight, but thanks Mr. Fabs" Brittany rejected the invitation quickly. "Maybe some other time."

At that, Russell, Rachel and Brittany headed back to the Fabray house. When they got there, Santana looked irritated and quickly left with Brittany in tow, but not before Brittany flashed her a sympathetic smile. Rachel, thinking it was about her dads', smiled back and walked into the house. After walking in, Rachel and Russell turned to find a blond woman who looked like an older Quinn asleep on the couch with a bottle of wine next to her. Rachel turned to look at Russell who smiled apologetically. "Poor girl, must've been a rough girls night. Why don't you go run up to Quinn and we can get started on dinner?"

"Sure." Rachel had no desire to deal with Quinn but her fathers taught her better than being rude to someone in their own house. Rachel headed to Quinn's room only to find the room empty...and while she was heading downstairs to tell Russell she couldn't find his daughter, she noticed there were sounds in the kitchen. Thinking that Judy was awake, Rachel decided to make her introduction and walked promptly into the kitchen only to find Quinn cooking what seemed to be a huge meal. "Hey..."

Unfortunately, Quinn wasn't expecting any company and reacted with a loud shout and bang. As Quinn frantically tried balancing everything, Rachel burst into a fit of giggles at watching the composed and serious girl react in such a clumsy manner. The sight of Rachel's giggle gave Quinn a flutter in her belly and she didn't care that someone dare laugh at her for that moment. "I'm glad you thought it was funny!" Quinn pretended to be outraged.

"Are you cooking dinner?" Rachel asked once she stopped the giggles.

"Yeah...don't worry I made black bean burgers for you. I made you guacamole and salsa from scratch to so tell me what you think."

"You didn't have to do that..a salad would've been sufficient." Rachel said, surprised that Quinn went through these measures.

"Nonsense. You need your protein." Quinn said with a small smile.

Rachel just stared at Quinn in response. She was having difficulty reconciling this Quinn with the bitch who harassed her for almost her whole life. "It's not laced with any laxatives is it?" Rachel said with a bitter laugh expecting Quinn to respond in her malicious way.

"No." Quinn said after a moment and turned back to her cooking effectively ending the conversation. At this response, Rachel walked away. Sure, she was appreciative to the Fabray family for their help but there was no way she was going to sit and feel bad if she embarrassed or made Quinn uncomfortable. This was the girl who soaked her with pop and slushies. This is the girl who broke into her locker and filled her locker with egg yolks. "There was no playing nice with Quinn Fabray", Rachel thought to herself as she walked out of the kitchen and into the living room where Russell and Judy were.

Rachel stopped when she heard hushed voices that sounded as though they were in the middle of an argument. "I wasn't implying anything! I just asked what you did last night!" Russell was arguing.

"That's bullshit Russell. Why don't you tell me where you were all day!" Judy argued getting louder.

"At work!" Russell finally yelled. "I don't understand why you always do this Jude. I love you but I'm not sure what's going on. Everything I do is wrong. Everything I say is suspicious. I can't even say I love you without you flying off the handle. What did I do to you?"

"Having fun?" Quinn asked out of nowhere startling Rachel.

"I didn't mean to eavesdrop...I'm so sorry." Rachel muttered.

This angered Quinn so much. She was not going to be pitied by anyone. "Fuck off. I will not be pitied by Rachel Berry. Your nothing. Do you know that? Literally nothing. Mention this to anyone and I will smash your nose in. Get it Berry?" Quinn aggressively ordered and then stalked off back to the kitchen, leaving Rachel standing with her eyes springing tears and watching the spot where the blonde was just standing.


A/N2: TILL NEXT TIME!