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"Oh my God, what did you do?!"
Rushing over to where Jacob had fallen Rachel placed a hand on the side of his neck. His pulse was strong, but he was very clearly unconscious. He had taken a hard hit. His forehead had a gash in it from where he had hit the ledge, and Rachel had to turn away from the blood oozing out.
"I, I didn't mean to Rachel, I was just trying to get him to stop."
"Get him to stop what Finn? All he was trying to do was help me! I can't believe you would do this!"
"I'm so sorry Rachel, I'm so sorry." Finn stepped closer to her, causing her to shrink back away from him.
How could he do this? She had seen Finn get upset and knock over countless chairs or random pieces of furniture, she'd even seen him get into a fight with Puck once, but she'd never seen Finn behave the way that he just had. There was pure rage in his eyes when he rushed Jacob, rage and panic.
Jacob's words came rushing back to her as she looked down at him, he wouldn't let me anywhere near you, I know what's been happening to you...I saw him.
It all made sense now; Finn acting so strange lately, disappearing at school right before she received the picture of Blaine, his insistence that she not be anywhere near Jacob.
It was Finn, Jacob had been warning her about Finn.
"You did it, didn't you?" she gasped out.
Finn looked at her, looked her right in the eyes and dropped his head.
"Rachel, I-"
"No, stop! How could you? I trusted you!"
She couldn't stand to look at him, how could he do this to her? To their team?
"I know Rachel, but you have to listen to me, hear me out" he pleaded, grabbing her elbow.
Shaking his hand off of her, she pushed him forward, clearing enough space for her to rush past him and back inside the house.
Locking all of the locks Rachel grabbed the umbrella from the stand by the door to use as a weapon, just in case. She had just seen up close what Finn was capable of, and she was terrified of what he would do now that she knew the truth. Fearing for Jacob, who in her haste, she'd forgotten about and left outside, she pulled out her cell phone dialing 911.
Finn banged on her door, begging over and over for her to come out or to let him in. Clutching the umbrella tighter in her hands, she fell to the ground, scooting as far from the door as she could, ignoring his pleas.
After Rachel had given her information and hung up the phone, she realized that the beating on her door had stopped. Fearing that Finn might have went around the house to crawl up the tree she took off up the stairs, rushing into her bedroom. The window was securely shut, which made her feel better for about five seconds before she felt her phone vibrate.
Picking up the phone, she saw a new message waiting in her inbox, from an unknown number. Her stomach began to sink as she opened it.
Thanks for getting rid of him before I had to.
Attached to the words were three pictures that chilled her blood. They were photos of her and Finn from last night, laying in her bed together. They were naked, completely vulnerable making love unaware of the camera.
How could these pictures have been taken though? Finn obviously couldn't have taken them, he was in the pictures. They weren't taken from the direction that her window was in either, it was like the camera was in the room with them.
Getting up to investigate the area that it seemed the photos had been taken from, she started rummaging in her bookshelf. Throwing things to the floor in her hurried search. Finally, she found it near the top, a small, barely visible camera, blinking red.
Holy Barbara, they'd had access to her in her most personal space all of this time, and she had no idea.
The sirens finally registered in her ears, and she took off at a sprint down the stairs.
Swinging her door open, she was just in time to see Jacob being loaded into the back of an ambulance, while a handcuffed Finn was having his head shoved down to be seated in the back of the police car.
The police questioned Rachel for a while, but finally they'd gotten all of the information that they were going to get from her. She wanted more than anything to tell the police about what had been happening to her, but she couldn't do it. She was no closer to knowing who was doing all of this to her than she ever had been, if anything she was just more confused.
She wasn't sure how much she could trust Finn, he was clearly hiding something from her, something that was important enough to fly into a rage and hurt another person, but she didn't know what that was. The only person who knew anything, the only person that it seemed could possibly help her was laying in a hospital bed unconscious.
Jacob still hadn't regained consciousness from his altercation with Finn, and it was really worrying her. Not just because he held information that she very much needed, but because she didn't want him to be seriously hurt or anything. She would feel terrible, and Finn would probably end up in jail for good. The list of people that she felt responsible for their pain was just piling up.
She had gathered that Finn was going to be kept in a holding cell for a while, until they figured out how to deal with what happened. It was hard to picture, Finn sitting in a jail cell, probably scared out of his mind. She hated to think of him that way, especially when he might not even deserve it, but she couldn't deny that something was wrong there.
Walking out of the police station and into the brisk air, Rachel wrapped her arms around her, holding herself together. She didn't know what to do now, but she knew that she couldn't go home. Whoever was watching her had been inside her house, they'd been in her bedroom. They had gotten so close to her, slipping into her room unnoticed. Her fathers still weren't home from their trip yet, and the one boy that she felt the safest with was locked up in a holding cell. She couldn't go stay with Kurt; after Blaine and now what had happened with Finn she wasn't sure how she could face him. With no options left to her, she called the only other person she could think of that would be able to help her.
"Mr. Hudson, you're free to go."
Looking up from his corner Finn shot to his feet.
"Excuse me?"
"Mr. Israel has finally woken up, and he has chosen not to press charges. You're getting off with a warning young man, another slip like this one and you might not wind up so lucky, understood?"
"Yes sir. So, he's okay? Jacob?" he stuttered, hastily jumping to his feet and walking towards the officer.
"Mr. Israel is still at the hospital but his condition isn't as bad as it looked at first. He's asking to see you. I'd make amends with him if I was you son, he could have had your balls."
"Yes sir, thank you sir."
Finn grabbed his things from the box in the station, jumped into his car and sped off towards the hospital.
"Hey dude, how are you doing?"
Jacob turned his head at the sound of Finn's voice, exposing the huge knot on the side of his forehead.
"I've been better" he croaked.
Rubbing the back of his neck Finn stepped further into the room, closing the hospital room door behind him.
"Look, I'm sorry man I didn't mean to-"
"I know why you did it, you were trying to protect her, which is exactly what I was trying to do."
"How was that protecting her, telling her that? You told me you wouldn't do it, that you would keep it to yourself. I haven't slushied you or any of your friends, and I've even been keeping Puck off of your back but you had to go and tell her that. You know I love her, I love her more than I've ever loved anything in my life. What happened is in the past, before we were even together. She's so fragile, telling her that was only going to hurt her and you know it, I can't even think about how she must be feeling right now."
"Finn, this isn't about you sleeping with Santana, I wasn't going to tell her that, but right now that's the least of your problems."
"Wait, what do you mean?"
"Rachel is in trouble, big trouble, and we have to help her."
We're at the end guys! Thanks for sticking with me this far, I probably won't be able to update until tomorrow or so, but the conclusion is coming, don't worry! Read and Review!