This is a double shift day. There will be one more upload today: Technicolor Wishes & Hi-Def Dreams, chapter 3.

"Siren Call"

10. New Kids In Town

WORLD B

The minutes were dragging by, and Jesse and Quinn had yet to awaken. Rachel looked at the both of them, to Brittany who now was crouched next to her. Santana was on her other side, and like a few others, she was starting to talk about moving the pair of them somewhere else, to the nurse's office probably. But Rachel kept telling them to wait, that they would wake up shortly. Only then Mr. Schuester had arrived, and Coach Sylvester, and Rachel worried that they might find out something they weren't supposed to. She looked to Brittany, trying to signal to her to run interference, do something. It took a while but then the blonde had thankfully caught on, and she had moved to talk to the coach and the teacher, relaying the course of events to them as slowly and as detailed as possible.

"Come on, come on…" Rachel muttered under her breath.

"What the hell is going on?" Santana glared at her, confused about everything that had happened in the last five to ten minutes. Rachel didn't know what to tell her, searched for words…

But then with a great big gasp, Jesse and Quinn had awakened, causing an uproar from the onlookers.

"Hey, it's okay, you're alright," Rachel had told both of them. "You're home, you're safe," she told them, breathing out. Jesse was the first one to open his eyes, and when he did, he flinched, seeing so many people around him, so many people he didn't know.

"Where am I? Who the hell are you people?" he blurted out. Rachel stared at him. She had not seen this one coming.

"Jesse, relax, it's okay, you know us," she told him, nodding along.

"How do you know my name?" he still looked at her like she was a complete stranger.

"I will tell you everything you want to know, but right now you have to tell them you're fine so they'll leave us alone, do you understand? Both of you," she leaned in and whispered for him and Quinn to hear. The blonde had yet to open her eyes, but then…

"I'm fine, you can go…" she spoke, opening her eyes and staring up to the teachers. "Right?" she looked to Jesse at her side. He looked to Rachel, who gave a discreet nod.

"Yeah, I'm good," he looked up as well. It took a few seconds more, but finally they had gotten the crowd to start receding. "Alright, now they're gone, so tell me who are you and how did I get here?" he turned his eyes back to the brunette.

"Rachel?" She looked to the side, finding Santana was still there… of course she would be. She stared at her, asking herself how she could possibly get her to leave without telling her what was really going on, and without upsetting her to the point where she wouldn't speak to her again.

"Do you trust me?" she found herself asking, and Santana looked around, seeing who was around, who was within earshot.

"You know I do," she finally replied.

"I need to talk to talk to Quinn and Jesse alone," Rachel told her, and Santana hesitated. "Please? I'll tell you everything later, I promise." She meant it. As much as she didn't want to, she didn't think she really had a choice at this point.

"Okay. Just don't wait too long," Santana told her, and Rachel knew… this was a warning.

"I won't," Rachel promised, and Santana stood, walked off. Rachel sighed, but there was no time for waiting around. She had to play welcome wagon. "You might be a little shaky on your legs right now, so be careful in getting up," she instructed, helping the pair of them to stand. She led them into an empty classroom. "Okay…"

"Who…" Jesse started, and she groaned.

"My name is Rachel Berry, and you're not the Jesse I was expecting, but you're here now, so shut up and listen to me for a second. What about you?" she turned to Quinn. "Do you know who I am?"

"Of course, I do," Quinn blinked, and there was something in her eyes, something about the way she looked at her… This was not the Quinn she'd been expecting either, but she still knew her… and by the looks of it, she was thinking she knew her a lot more intimately than Rachel knew her.

"Right…" she breathed, "Way to complicate things for me." Now how was she going to explain that one to Santana? "Look, I can't have you messing things up over here, so I'm just going to give you the quick and dirty version of it right now. You've been transported into another world, I guess you could call it an alternate universe, a parallel world, whatever. You've taken the place of our Quinn and our Jesse, which means right about now they'll be traipsing through your lives, won't that be fun… You're going to think I'm crazy, but I'm telling you right now it's going to make things so much easier if you grasp on to the fact that I am telling you the truth right now. Let me ask you this, what happened before you woke up out there? Did you suddenly feel very tired, so tired that you couldn't keep yourself awake even if you tried, and all you really wanted to do was to sit and sleep, like your body was begging for it?" They looked at her, and she knew she had them. "Welcome to bizarro world. It's confusing at first, but I'll walk you through it, I've done it before," she told them.

Just then, she was distracted by noises in the hall, and she moved to open the door, grabbing a guy on the fly. "Hey…"

"Where are you going?" she asked him.

"I don't know, they said there's other people passed out over there," the boy pointed down the hall, and Rachel let him go, looking back to Jesse and Quinn.

"Great… just great… Now who did you bring along for the ride?"

THE END

A/N: End of the story, not the series, as you can probably guess ;) Prepare for the new world...