A week later
I'm home when I hear the news says that there's a fire in the city, why didn't I know about it? I run to the den since Brianna is out with her car and my bike it's there. Once there I dress myself and drive to the place, meanwhile I call Bri.
"Hello?"
"Why didn't I know about the fire?!"
"'Cause you're not a fireman?!"
"I'm not a cop too but I still do something"
"San a fire is dangerous, it's different from fighting men or using guns"
"I'm here to help, I'm going there"
"What? You can't-"
"I have to hang up Bri I'm here"
I hang up and run to the fire, it's a mess, people are screaming, firemen are everywhere, ambulances and cops too trying to help. I hear them talk, it seems everything is under control so I start to walk away, when I hear a woman shout, her child is still inside, a man took her out while she passed out so she couldn't tell them about him.
The firemen says to her that they can't go back inside, the building it's gonna get down and there are lots of things that come on their way to go up, she cries, she even tries to get in on her own but they stop her.
"Ehy!" A cop shouts to me and he immediately points his gun to me, that gets the attention of everybody, my dad and Quinn's included.
I see my dad and some other cop get in action, Quinn stays there looking at me, she puts her hand on her gun but she did it slow on purpose. I run toward the building while they all yell at me to stop, I cover my face with my arm and start to go up.
It's hard, Bri was right this is different from what I usually do, I can't go on from inside, there's too much smoke and I can't breathe, I barely can see anything, I get on one balcony and I climb on the building from there. I hear people still shouting, the cops stopped yelling at me seeing what I'm doing.
"Are you crazy?" Bri says, I forget she can open the communication with the earphones.
"Shit you scared me!"
"Are you trying to kill yourself?! This why I didn't tell you"
"A kid is still inside, I can't leave him there burning alive, I have at least to try"
"You know what? I'll feel better when you get down from there and Quinn is gonna lecturing you and I'm gonna let her do it, she looks even more pissed than me"
I roll my eyes and keep going up, I start hearing the boy screaming, finally on the right floor I get inside, I can't even see the floor, I find him, I follow his voice, he's breathing funny and he's all dirty from the smoke. I take him on my arms and walk to the window again, I hold him tight and I start to climb down the building, it's hard using just one arm and the fire isn't helping.
Once down the mother and some fireman took the kid from my arms, I cough hard and I see Bri there, I can see she's scared and she wants to come to me but she knows she can't, I see Quinn, she has the same expression on her face, I shake my head to her, she can't come to me too, she turns and sees Brianna, before she could even take a step to her few cops approach me and she looks at us.
They want to arrest me, people around them start to shout them to let me go, I can barely breathe, my clothes are dirty and burned and so is some of my skin, something happen, something I didn't expect, a firemen and the mother of the kid come to me. She places herself in front of me and she thanks me for saving her son's life, the fireman gaves me oxygen, he place the mask in front of my mouth and I take it thanking him. They're on my side, I get emotional about it, I should be the one thanking them, the cops don't know what to do, they can't shoot them to get me, they walk me to my bike and I drive away.
Someone is calling me, I know it's not Bri 'cause I don't need to answer when she calls, so it can only be one person..
"Quinn?"
"Are you completely crazy?"
"Someone had to get that little boy, everything went fine"
"You could have died.. What's the damage?"
"I'm breathing again, but I think I burned my skin, a lot"
"I thought so, I'm at the pharmacy, I'm buying everything you need, come to my house and I'll help you. Before you can say no, it's not like you can go around and buy things if you're burned, it's gonna be suspicious"
"Shouldn't it be something you would wait for as a cop?"
"It should, so are you coming over?"
"Give me a minute"
"Ok, tell your friend it's fine, I just wanna help"
Obviously Bri isn't really happy about it, but she lets me do it since she wants Quinn to yell at me for what I've done, but she doesn't let me go until she reminds me to not do anything stupid. I drive to Quinn's house without even texting her back, no one is around so this time I use the stairs and I ring at her door, I'm exhausted.
"Shit" She said shocked, she looks around and she lets me enter "It's a first, lets go in my room" I look around, I don't even know what to do, she comes with a bag full of lotions and medical things "You burned your wig" She takes it away from my head, I have my hair tied in a loose tail.
She looks at me and I know it wasn't a good idea to come here, she ties my hair up on my head in a bun, then she slowly removes my jacket, it's burned, she removes my shirt too leaving me in my bra, my skin doesn't look great. I untied my pants and take them off, it seems my legs are fine, just some little damage.
"I should clean up before I put on some lotion" I go towards the bathroom.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm taking a shower"
"What? It's gonna hurt so much, I'm gonna help and clean you up spot to spot"
"It's gonna take forever, I'll be fine, really I can handle it, I just need a hand with my back" She doesn't say anything, she just follows me in the bathroom, should I take my underwear off or leave them? She opens the water and wait for me.
"You can take them off, you can use something of mine, I swear I'm not gonna peek"
I enter the shower completely naked, well I still have my mask on, when the water hits my body I jump cause it hurts as fuck. Quinn noticed and clean all the fine skin fastily, I clench my teeth when she uses hydrogen peroxide to clean the damaged one, I know I'm crying but I still try not to and Quinn doesn't say anything. She puts a big towel around me and tell me she's gonna go get some underwear for me, meanwhile I should clean my face.
She gets out and I look at the door, should I lock it? No, Quinn already proved to me I can trust her, I take off the mask and I wash my face and I wash the mask too before I put it back. Once I put on some underwear and got dry I go back into the bedroom, she tells me to lie on my back since it's not damaged at all, she sits on the bed next to me and starts spreading some lotion where I got burned, it stings a lot.
"This is gonna help a lot and it should repair your skin so you're not gonna get scars" She says looking at my skin.
"Why are you taking care of me?"
"We're friends and what you did today.. You climbed a building on fire to get that kid, you're a hero and before you say no, you are so shut up"
"Thank you Quinn" She looks at me and smiles "Talk to me, this thing stings a lot, lets distract me"
Obviously of all the things she could say she talks about the dinner she had with Brianna, she tells me about this huge fight she had with Ethan, but that now he's getting better, he went to Brittany's grave and that he went to two meetings of the AA and it seems he wants to keep going.
He still doesn't want to go to my grave, she doesn't know why, he doesn't want to talk about me with anybody and she doesn't know what to do. I tell her to let it go, a human can only reach some point, maybe this is his, maybe he can't forgive me or just look at my grave, she has to get the other improvements.
"Ok, you should rest"
"I can't stay here"
"Why? Do you have better things to do?! I mean it, rest, I'm gonna be in the other room if you need anything"
"Stay" I look down at my body, she lies on the other side of the bed and turns on the tv. After awhile she asks me if I'm hungry and obviously I'm, she orders pizza and we eat together in her bed.
Bri calls me and I answer in front of Quinn, she already knows she exists so why hide it, I tell her I'm gonna stay here and that I'm fine, she isn't convinced about it but she doesn't ask me to come back. Quinn puts the lotion on me again before we have to go to sleep, I sleep in her bed while she insists to sleep on the couch, I tell her it would be fine to share, but she's scared that she could turn and touch me while she sleeps and hurt me so..
I wake up and my body feels bruised, I slowly sit up and even more slower I get up and go to the bathroom to wash my face, I put my mask back on and exit the room. Quinn's sleeping on the couch, I call Brianna and ask what I should do if leave or stay until she wakes up and since we are friends now I should stay and maybe do some breakfast to thank her. I make some coffee and some pancake and I wake her, I slowly shake her shoulder and she opens her eyes and she jumps when she sees me.
"Jesus! Don't get me wrong but your mask shouldn't be the first thing someone sees in the morning" She says sitting up.
"I made breakfast"
"Really? Thank you, you shouldn't have, how are you feeling?" She sits and start eating, I stay up and drink my coffee.
"Better thanks to you"
"Are you going, umh, home? Do you have a home?"
"Yes I have one, believe it or not I'm a normal girl"
"Yes of course" She rolls her eyes "Do you live with your friend? The one on the phone" I nod "Sweet.. Is she only a friend?"
"Eww, she's like my sister!" She nods "Anyway yes I should go, it's weird I slept here, isn't it? A sleepover"
"Normal girls have sleepovers" She says smirking to me.
"Don't be a smartass!"
"I didn't say anything, but have you noticed you're in underwear?" I look down, shit, I'm used to walk around like this with Brianna and then my skin feels better without anything on.
"You could have told me before!"
"I could have yes, but why? You're not that bad to look at!" She winks at me and puts her plate on the sink, I laugh 'cause she's so cute trying to flirt with me.
"Have you ever been with a girl?" She looks at me confused by my question.
"You mean sexually?" I nod "Yes, some year ago, before I met Ethan, why do you ask?"
"Well you seem pretty comfortable with me almost naked here and flirting with me"
"I just like you, I don't see the reason why I should hide it from you, I made it clear more the once so"
"Don't you feel bad? For Ethan I mean"
"I feel really bad and I don't know what to do about it, I feel like a really bad girlfriend because I like another person and I kissed another person. Sometimes I ask myself if I could love two people at the same time, but I just lie to myself, because I know I don't, I just know that I would leave him for you, but then I couldn't have you anyway, cause you can't, so I keep staying with him. Don't get me wrong I care about him, I even think I could love him, but it's different, I'm just stuck and you make me forget everything"
"I'm sorry"
"I think I should break up with him anyway, I cheated on him and it hurts me so much"
"Do what you feel, but if you feel good being with him and he feels the same why throwing that relationship away?"
"Maybe you're right, I'll see what to do.. This is weird, us talking as friends about my relationship and how I feel"
"This is what are friends for right?"
She lets me borrow something of hers and she spreads the lotion on me again before I have to leave, she gives me the bag so I can still put it at home, she walks me on the door and kisses me on my cheek and telling me that if I do something like that again she'll kill me.
Brianna gives me hard time once at home, she wants to be sure nothing happened at Quinn's and it didn't, even if I have to admit it was worse, well better, it depends in which way you see it! Being there doing nothing but just be together, her taking care about me, talking as friends and watching some movie together, it was good, it was something I would do everyday.. Shit, I'm falling so hard for her..
Bri tells me that this time no one said bad things about me on the news , even the cops said that what I did was incredible, the photos of people standing out for me are amazing, I still can't believe it. Now everybody's question is am I a villain or a hero? A hero, I never thought someone could ever think about me that way, I know who I'm and certainly I'm not a hero but I like that they think I could be it, it means that I'm doing good things.
That evening someone rings at the door, it's probably Ethan, they still haven't talked about that dinner, I go into the hallway and she opens the door. It's not just about not being seen, I still don't want to see him, or front him so..
"Quinn" She says surprised and so I'm "I really didn't expect a visit"
"Yeah I'm sorry I didn't call you first but I was passing by" This is a private street out of the city, no one drives here if not to come here! Brianna lets her come in and they sit on the couch.
"So... How are you?" Bri asks not knowing what to say.
"I'm good, thank you and you? I saw you at the fired building? How come were you there? Were you inside of it?" Oh my good she doesn't waste time!
"Oh no, I was.. I was passing by when it happened" I smile 'cause Bri's something else!
"I wanted to be sure you were ok, I talked to Ethan, he wants to apologize to you"
"Good, but I don't wanna talk to him, he can come when he'll be ready to talk about Santana"
"Someone told me that we should accepts what he can give to us, small steps, he's not ready to face this Santana thing"
"Boo uh poor little Ethan his sister hurt his feelings and now she's dead"
"This is unproductive.. What's that?"
"What?.. Oh that, I burned myself yesterday an-and that helped a lot" Shit, shit, shit, that fucking lotion, we forgot to take it away. She knows, fuck, what now?
"I have to go" Quinn says.
"Umh-umh" Bri says slowly and scared and Quinn leaves.
"What are we gonna do now?" I ask.
"It doesn't mean she knows it San, it could have been a coincidence, she doesn't know"
"No no she came here just for that, she wanted to check the house, to see if there were proofs and I forgot the fucking lotion, the one she gave to me!"
"Do you think she did it on purpose? Give them to you so she could check if they were here?" She asks opening her laptop.
"I don't think so, she could have put something on my clothes or on me and track them before. What do we do now that she knows you're the one who helps me?"
"The real question is, what is she gonna do now that she knows? 'Cause she's going to the police station and she has the day off" She looks at me.
"Shit" I take my phone and call her.
"What are you doing? Stop it!" Bri says.
"Yes?" Quinn responds.
"We have to talk"
"About what?"
"She's at the station" Bri says.
"Quinn please don't, come back and we'll talk about it"
"About what?"
"You know about what"
"Tell me" I hear her car door close.
"Fine! About Brianna Pierce" Bri widens her eyes.
"I'm coming back and for your information I was bluffing, I would never say it to anyone, you're too easy"
I close the call and look at Bri, she heard it, she laughs so hard, how can she laughs right now? She could find out who I am, she could tell someone about us and if she does Bri is gonna end in prison. Fuck I'm so fucking worried and she's not, what are we gonna tell Quinn once she arrives here? I go upstairs and I put my mask on, Bri made me some more, I sit on the couch and wait.
Quinn arrives and she sits infront of me and Brianna, she looks at me and I know she's smirking inside. She must feel so pleased, she discovered who my friend is, she's a step closer to me, to get to me.
"Are you ever going to take that damn mask off?!" She says annoyed, but I don't move "So you are the one who's helping her" Bri nods "Why?"
"Umh, I believe in what she does"
"No, you two know eachother, she's worried about what are you gonna say to me and then you believe in what she does, so you must know what she does and why so you know her reasons, you know her"
"She's smart" Bri says and I look at her.
"Can you tell her this is serious, she could end in prison, what hell is wrong with you two? Stop playing with me and focus for once" I say losing patience.
"Jesus calm down, it's only me and I'm not gonna tell anyone, but yes Brianna you should be a little more concerned about it"
"I think I'm almost happy you figure out it, I like you Quinn and she needs someone else in this" I rolls my eyes, I give up, they're impossibile.
"I wanna be in this and I wanna help" Quinn says.
"What? No! You're a cop, they would fire you and Ethan already hates me- he hates the idea of me helping you"
"A. Ethan doesn't have a say in this, you're a friend and I can do watherver I want and B. it's my choice not yours, so why don't we start with your name? I can't keep going calling you masked girl"
"Masked girl is fine" She rolls her eyes.
We talked about our den at the restaurant, the eaephones, the cams and everything else we use, I know it's a risk but we trust her, she's not gonna say anything, she'll probably end in trouble for this instead! What a mess..
Busted! Quinn is part of the team now, how long until she finds out about Santana?
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