Chapter 6
An hour after the New Directions began cleaning and rehearsing Mr Schue received a phone call from none other than Sue Sylvester, while Noah got a call from Rachel, he was the only one of the Glee club to have her new number, the message was to meet back in the auditorium for another surprise.
When they got there Vocal Adrenaline were sitting in the back rows, Ms Pillsbury, Coach Sylvester and Shelby were setting up an overhead projector, Karofsky and Azimio were attaching wires from a laptop to the projector and Rachel was typing on the laptop.
"What's going on Sue?" Mr Schue asked. "Emma?"
"Take a seat Will, we're just waiting on a few more people." Ms Pillsbury explained.
Soon more seats were filled, this time by the parents of the Glee club, principle Figgins and the doctor who treated Quinn in the hospital.
"I've prepared an educational video and have asked Dr Lang to come and answer any questions you all might have." Coach Sylvester explained. "I believe this bullying has gone on long enough and will stop now."
'Rachel's gone too far this time, what is she up to?' Mr Schue glared at the girl. She shrank a little at the awful gaze which Ms Pillsbury and Shelby noticed.
"Will don't look at her like that, she didn't want to do this today but she's not happy and at serious risk. Something needs to be done and you need to know the truth." Ms Pillsbury scolded. "We're ready whenever you are Rachel."
"Remember Berry, you're doing the right thing here."
"And remember what I told you." Shelby hugged her daughter.
"You are kind, you are smart, you are important and you are loved." Rachel recounted.
'What is this crap? I want to get out of here.' Quinn was bored. She shared an eye roll with Santana before looking back onto the stage.
Rachel pressed a few keys before One Republic's 'Apologise' came quietly through the speakers. Various pictures came onto the large screen, all were of a pregnant Quinn all dressed up for a party along with several other Cheerios.
"Hey that's my party a month ago." Santana blurted. "How did you get these RuPaul? You weren't invited."
"Hush little girl." Shelby snapped.
The slides continued with Quinn getting more and more drunk in each picture, she was hanging all over boys and girls alike, drinking beers, wine coolers and even shots.
Noah looked at Quinn. "Are you serious? You drank while you were pregnant?" She ignored him, her face getting whiter and whiter. 'How did she get these photos, Ben Israel promised that no one would know what happened at the party.' She panicked.
"These photos have obviously been altered to make it look like Quinn." Mr Schue had had enough. "Come on guys it's time to go."
"Hold your horses William, there's more." Coach Sylvester said.
A video played of the party, Quinn was doing body shots off of some football player's body and screaming. "I never wanted this stupid baby, it's ruining my life." A slightly less drunk Cheerio came over to her and told her to stop but Quinn shoved her away. "I'm the Queen Bitch here Kathy, I don't want this baby, it's all Manhands' fault I'm even pregnant. She flaunted herself at my boyfriend so I'm going to ruin her life. I want her as miserable as I am. I want her to suffer. I want her out of that God awful club then Figgins has no choice but to shut the joke down. I want her out of the school, out of this town, heck off of this planet. Fuck Rachel Berry and her I'm going to be a big Broadway star shit, fuck this stupid baby, I'd rather die than have Puckeman's baby." The other Cheerio told her to calm down or she could hurt the baby. "Don't you get it Kathy, I. Don't. Want. This. Stupid. Thing. I'm getting rid of it and I'm making Berry take the fall. Puckerman would've been a deadbeat dad anyway, just like his old man." A designated driver came over and took the bottle out of her hands. "That's enough Fabray, Kathy's right you need to stop and think about the baby, yeah it sucks that you're a pregnant teen but don't bring Puck's name through the mud like that, it's not his fault his dad left."
'Where was I for all of this? I could've said something from the start.' Santana was beginning to feel so much guilt for the bullying Rachel had been through and it wasn't even her fault.
'I knew she didn't want to keep the baby but she was willing to kill it and blame Rachel?' Artie looked at the shaking girl. 'That's messed up.'
'If Rachel knew about this all this time then why didn't she say something before? Why did she put up with all the bullying?' Tina had tears in her eyes. She had caused her friend unnecessary pain.
The video continued. It showed more footage of Quinn dancing on tables and drinking more alcohol, the New Directions could see Karofsky and Azimio in the background and it made sense why they protected Rachel. By the time the video ended not only were the New Directions furious with Quinn, but the parents were too. They all stared at the sobbing girl.
"That party was three days before Fabray fell in Glee club." Coach Sylvester looked to the doctor. "Dr Lang would you please explain to these stupid children and their single minded teacher what you found."
Doctor Lang stood and addressed the audience. "The baby was is full rigor which is why Miss Fabray found it difficult to deliver, a full blood count and a post-mortem showed incredibly high levels of alcohol and prescription drugs in the placenta and the baby's blood. Although there was blood when Miss Fabray fell there the baby had been dead for several days, my guess was that Miss Fabray continued drinking after the party, experienced stomach cramps which are normal for miscarriages and took prescription drugs to ease the pain. I did explain it to your mother Miss Fabray, did she not tell you?"
"Yes I did, I had no idea that she blamed your daughter Hiram and Leroy I am truly sorry. Ever since she got kicked off of the Cheerios for being pregnant and when her father kicked her out something inside her changed, she was raised to value life not to destroy it." Mrs Fabray explained.
"Oh do shut up mother, no one cares what you say." Quinn snapped and stood up. "That girl has ruined my life and I wanted her to pay, but I would never have thought she'd go as far to create fake photos and fake videos. Bravo RuPaul, you've really outdone yourself this time." She applauded.
"They're not fake." Santana announced.
"Shut up Lopez." Quinn looked at her warningly.
"No, you're not the boss of me. That was my party, I invited you because you told me you needed to de-stress and have a normal teenage night so I bought non-alcoholic drinks for you, I don't know what happened but I must've gotten so drunk and forgotten about it, I never even asked Jew Fro for the photos or the video." Santana stood up. "Mami I am so sorry."
"It's not me you need to apologise to mijah." Mrs Lopez explained.
"Your mom's right." Shelby spoke up. "You killed that baby, pinned the blame on my daughter and until Sue gave her the evidence she actually believed that she had caused your miscarriage. You kicked her out of a club that desperately needs her and you tortured her for something she didn't do."
"She's only just started singing, she's had two former bullies protect her from you and had to have weekly counselling to cope." Hiram was enraged at Mr Schuester. "You're supposed to be her teacher, she looked up to you, she always said that you were the one teacher to care about the welfare of these kids and there you were protecting a spoilt brat and not doing anything about the bullying."
"She lost so much weight an so much sleep." Leroy explained. "If Shelby, Karofsky and Azimio and Vocal Adrenaline hadn't been there she would've taken her own life. We would have lost our baby girl because you were blinded by a lie."
"Noah actually managed to get her to sing at the weekend." Mrs Puckerman explained. "He said that he apologised and that he was working on making it up to her."
"He did." Rachel spoke for the first time. "He's been wonderful."
There was a silence before Finn stood up. "Look, I know how we can fix this." He turned to face Rachel. "We're really sorry Rachel, please come back to Glee club. With you back on the team we can beat Vocal Adrenaline and you can be the lead again." he smiled thinking Rachel would run into his arms and agree.
"You Can't just ask her to do that after a half assed apology." Jesse stood up outraged.
"Oh please," Kurt scoffed. "Rachel lives for Glee, she'll come back."
"I don't want to." Rachel surprised them. She took a deep breath. "It's a team decision, either you all want me back or you don't and until you decide I can't give you an answer. I've been hurt by all of you and now I don't feel safe with you anymore. I'm sorry."
She ran off the stage and out of the auditorium, her parents and Vocal Adrenaline followed
Mr Schue sat stunned as the remaining parents and the doctor left. "William I expect to see you in my office tomorrow morning." principle Figgins said sternly before addressing Quinn. "Young lady you are in a world of trouble." he left.
'Emma was right; I've been so blinded by the betrayal of Terri that I made Rachel my scape-goat. I wouldn't be surprised if I lost my job because of this.'
"Nice going genius." Artie addressed Finn. "Real nice apology considering what we did to her."
"We need to fix this." Mercedes decided before turning to Quinn. "You've ruined everything, we could've won Regionals if we had Rachel and now she's not coming back to us."
"You bullied her too," Quinn defended herself. "You and Kurt were glad that she was gone, look at all of the solos you've been getting, look at how much fun we have without her."
"But she was the one to always remind us that we needed to practice too." Kurt said. "Yes it was nice and quiet with her gone but deep down we all missed her, I guess we got so protective of your baby and felt so sorry for you being kicked off of the Cheerios that we were blind sided by the fact that you lied to everyone about the baby in the first place."
"You didn't want me to be the father, you said that you'd rather go to your grave saying that she was Finn's, you called me a Lima Loser, if Rachel hadn't told Finn then I would've never been part of that baby's life."
"Actually Rachel didn't tell me." Finn confessed still stunned that his apology hadn't worked.
