What I could never tell you
Chapter 11
Sorry I know it's been a while my mind kind of shut down for a bit but it has since turned itself back on with ideas for the next like 3 chapters as well so they should be posted like weekly from now on if my mind doesn't leave me again any way enjoy. Oh and this chapter may be a bit boring but I feel if I didn't address these issues there would be a big hole in the plot somehow.
"Yea, I'm ok" Rachel squeaks before shutting the door a little louder than she intended when she sees that Mercedes car had disappeared around the corner, she takes a deep breath and turns around not entirely sure what she is expecting to see, but sees a much kinder looking Brittany than she heard few moments ago and Santana is trying to look indifferent not too far behind her.
"Are you sure?" Brittany asked her face morphing into a frown "did I scare you?" she seems saddened by this thought and before Rachel can respond in any way Brittany is firmly attached to her side wrapping her arms around Rachel's upper shoulders and leaning her head on top of the shorter girls own, though most of her sight was blocked by a mixture of red and white Rachel can still hear Santana snickering to her left.
Initially Rachel had tensed at the unexpected contact but relaxed when she noticed the blonde had firstly intentionally avoided her wounds and secondly wasn't sending her into a bone crushing hug (her dad tended to do that often without meaning to)
"It's ok Brittany really" she tries to sooth and is now attempting to wiggle her way out of the taller girls grasp but Brittany keeps a surprisingly strong hold on the shorter girl until she gives up any attempt to escape.
In time the taller girl dose let go after making sure in her own way that Rachel is true to her word and truly is ok, once she was free Rachel straightened out herself before addressing both girls before her, her demeanor changing
"Exactly how long were you two listening?" she asks slowly and cautiously not wishing to upset either of them further if they were still unhappy, she also wasn't sure of what they hear and what they assume she said about them either, when neither of them spoke she assumed they were still angry and begins rubbing her hands together nervously, her gaze shifts to the ground anticipating some kind of emotional explosion.
"Easy berry" Santana spoke taking mercy upon the shaking brunette who was shifting from foot to foot nervously "we were basically listening from the beginning" Rachel could hear the slight smirk in her voice but still doesn't look up, Brittany who is standing next to her shifts slightly and Rachel hears a slight slap than a hiss from Santana before she giving a slightly aggravated huff and corrects herself "fine… we were listening since Aretha mentioned our names."
The sincerity in her voice causes Rachel to look up almost as if to see for herself if she was actually lying by looking her in the eye. Santana has always had a problem with eye contact so she didn't hold Rachel's gaze for long but it was long enough for the singer to see what she needed before the Latina shifted her focus to dramatically rub her upper arm where Brittany hit her.
Brittany was about to add something her own self but at that moment Santana's phone started ringing, it was a common ring in fact it sounded like an old telephone, she took it out of wherever she kept it (to be honest Rachel wasn't really paying attention) and looked at her screen than back to Brittany who was looking at her curiously "its Judy" she said before answering it but instead of putting the phone to her ear she taped the screen a couple of times putting the older woman on speaker and signals for the others to be quite.
"Hello" it was not her normal greeting when answering her phone by any means but Judy was an elder and her upbringing taught her to always respect them so polite was necessary in this case,
"Santana, Thank goodness I caught you, I called your house but your mother said you weren't there and suggested I call Brittany's house but neither of you were their either, oh by the way Brittany's mother along with your own mother want you to call them they are a little worried that you did not come home or call at your usually time" Judy stopped to catch her breath she sounded a little panicked, but continuing on not giving Santana the opportunity to say anything "anyway I need your help."
Judy paused and waited for Santana to say yes or no, "and I thought I spoke fast" Rachel whispered to Brittany who is still standing next to her, before Santana finished weighing the options in her head and choose to answer,
"Anything for you Ms... I mean Judy, so what you need?" unconscious both Brittany and Rachel began to lean forward in anticipation of hearing what had the woman so frazzled
"I need you to come to the hospital as soon as you… hold on" she paused and put her hand over the mouth piece for a second and the three heard a muffled conversation on the other end as she talked to a few people next to or near her "sorry, as I was saying I need you to come down to the hospital as soon as you can about half of McKinley showed up about 5 minutes ago all asking if they could see Quinn, normally I wouldn't mind but I know the reputation that she has built up at that school and I am not sure who is actually concerned and who just wants to relish at her misfortune."
"Ok I don't see where I come into this" Santana spoke near the microphone giving Brittany a shrug
"I need you to come down here and tell me who is who, as little contact as you and Quinn have had recently I know you still look after her as much as you would deny it to everyone else you can fool me"
Santana flushes but sighs as much as she wanted to deny it there really wasn't much point in it Judy was right she had still had Quinn's back even when she was pregnant and at the beginning of the year when they were fighting she kept people from harassing her and what little grief she did get was always dealt with personally later, "Fine we are on our way just stall anyone from going to see her until I get there."
"Thank you Santana I knew I could count on you" from the other end the girls heard yelling and cussing from various younger sounding voices before a very attitude filed voice retaliated "sorry I got to go see you soon, goodbye… Frannie" they heard her yell before ending the line went dead,
"Yay, Frannie is in town!" Brittany clapped and jumped up and down a bit, "yea and sounds like she is already getting herself into trouble" Santana chuckled
"Um who is Frannie?" Rachel asked she got that this Frannie person was at the least an acquaintance of the Fabray's along with Santana and Brittany but that is as far as she got in her own mind.
"Frannie is Quinn's older sister, they are about 5 years apart and at the end of our sophomore year she moved to Chicago to go to college, they were both really close and they still e-mail each other often… or that's what Quinn tells us, we all use to hang out a lot freshman year" Santana explains as Brittany has already skipped into the living room most likely to grab her candy in anticipation of the car ride,
She reappeared a moment later carrying an arm full of goodies that not only included her own candy but what Santana and Rachel were munching on earlier as well "ready to go?" it came out as a statement and a question mixed in, with some kind of grunt at the end as she was trying to keep everything in her arms.
Santana rushes to help her before sending a glare to Rachel to do the same and each grabs their respective snacks,
After making a quick round with Brittany through the house to make sure she wasn't forgetting to turn off, close or lock anything Rachel deemed the house fit to leave alone at least until her father's arrived fallowing their respective work.
Santana was already waiting the car with it started up and the music clearly blaring at nearly its highest volume as both girls saw and heard as they exited the house, Brittany rushed to the car and jumped in the front seat, leaned over and kissed her on the cheek while turning down the volume with her right hand and sits back as she motioned for Rachel to hurry as she was a bit behind having to lock the front door but soon enough is in with the other two and the moment her car door was closed they take off.
Rachel had never feared so much for her life as she did in this particular moment, currently Santana's car was speeding down the highway at around 90 miles an hour 'it figures Santana would be a reckless driver' Rachel thinks to herself 'she is going to kill us' she barely manages to think just as said girl weaves in between two SUV's,
Before cutting in front of large Ford Truck that blares his horn he had double back tires and was jacked up off of the ground a good few feet, Rachel just managed to see the Texas license plate and the crude gestured directed Santana's way, afore they switched lanes again this time placing them in between two 18 wheelers one of which was in the process of getting into the lane they themselves were currently in, and he had to swerve in order to avoid an accident he also used the same gesture the man in the truck used.
By chance Rachel looked to Brittany as Santana cuts across 3 lanes of traffic without so much as a turn signal and discovers her sitting calmly in the passenger's seat, she continues to watch as the car is jerked to one side or the other or even on occasion when Santana would use her breaks it didn't really seem to affect her at all she just leaned to one side or the other accounting for the shift before righting her posture again.
"Brittany how are you doing that?" she gasps as the wind is slightly taken out of her lungs as Santana brakes hard to avoid hitting the back of a Nissan something or other before she guns it and is back to weaving in between traffic
"Doing what?" she really did not have a clue as to what Rachel was taking about,
"How are you so calm and taking Santana's maniac driving as if it was nothing?" she rephrases
"Watch it Berry, I can still hear you" Santana throws in before cutting in between a bus full of what looked like middle school kids and another 18 wheeler carrying some kind of liquid, meanwhile Brittany laughs "I guess I'm just got used to it" she replies before taking one of Santana's hands in her own.
That was the end of that topic and they were still about 45 minutes away; the highway became desolate within about 5 more minutes or so and Rachel was able to relax a little and get lost in her own mind, or as much as he could with the radio blasting at a fairly high volume thanks to Brittany and Santana would occasional came across a unexciting driver and felt the need to make them regret ever coming on the highway,
Despite that there was one topic her mind kept going back to it was a point Mercedes had made earlier 'why were they helping me today?' it really hadn't really occurred to her before Mercedes had brought it up but the more she thought about it the more she wondered.
It took a while but she finally got the courage to voice her concern when they were about 20 minutes from the hospital, she took her opportunity when the current song playing ended leaving it quite enough to be heard for the moment "IF YOU…" Brittany heard Rachel a second before the first note of the next song started and turned the radio down so Rachel could continue at a normal volume which she did
"… Don't mind me asking, why you two helped me out today?" the question hung in the air for a few moments both girls in the front seat were engaging in some kind of hushed conversation she couldn't quite understand, apparently it was some kind of argument and by the looks of it Brittany just won.
"That's what friends do Rachel" Brittany supplied, this took Rachel slightly aback
"No offence, but neither of you have been exactly friendly to me in the past"
"Look we know we haven't exactly had sleep overs, braded each other's hair or sung Kumbaya by a campfire or anything, but think about it aside from a few minor insults have we really ever done anything to harm you? And this includes Quinn here" Santana asks.
Rachel is about to respond yes but she stops herself when she realizes that Santana is right, none of the so called 'unholy trinity' has ever really done anything as bad as some of the other students at McKinley high had, however a thought occurred to her based off of something one of the jocks once told her
"But wasn't it you that called those awful slushies' to be thrown at me on a daily basis?" her voice was annoyed at best, mostly it was curious.
"That was coach; she always was and still is threatened by you for some reason" again the driving brunette supplies
"Why?"
"I don't know she never explained it to us, but as much as she insisted we torture you to our fullest extent; I never felt it worth my time, no offence, Brittany always liked you and wanted to be your friend more than your enemy and Quinn… well she never really gave us a valid reason as to why,
Anyway once we joined glee we did our best to quell your daily frozen bath in honor of us being team mates and all" this came as a shock to Rachel she had noticed that when some of the more popular people in school had joined the glee club her needing to change clothes went from a daily to a weekly thing but she always figured it was Finn that did it, however not that she thinks further she realizes this (in an odd way) makes more sense.
"I know why coach called the slushies'!" Brittany supplies wiggling in her seat as if she was a toddler sitting on a secret she could barely keep in,
"Why is that Britt-Britt?" Santana asks genuinely interested
"Because coach is mad at Rachel" she pauses a moment to let that information set in "yea she is mad because she knows it is Rachel's talent that keeps the glee club going, she also figures that if she tortured you enough that you would be searching for some way to stop it and she would than jump in and offer a solution."
"What kind of solution?" Rachel asks
"That if you join the cheerios it would make you popular whiles she secretly threating everyone and tell them herself that you were off limits in the harassment department, but she didn't figure that you had such a high tolerance and that just made her madder."
"Britt how do you know that?" this was entirely new information to Santana as well as Rachel
"I overheard her taking to her dairy one day"
"You mean diary, honey" Santana gently corrected
"That's what I said" they smile at each other and Rachel sits back for a bit until another thought comes to mind.
"Now that I think about it that brings up the question of why were you at school so early any way I thought was the only one that ever came to school that early besides a few of the teachers, if anything I would have expected to see you on the field running some kind of horrid morning 'work our' forced upon you all and not in a classroom"
"We usually get to the school about 5 to 10 minutes after you do" Brittany replied as if it was nothing leaving her answer at that.
"Why?" Rachel asks after waiting a few second to see if Brittany or Santana was going to add something else, they didn't
"That part is none of your business" Santana snapped and was about to go off on the rapidly shrinking girl in the back seat further until Brittany put a hand on her shoulder, she sighed her shoulders physically relaxing letting the tension in her body go "sorry that is Britt's thing so if she wishes to tell you that is her choice."
Rachel could tell she struck some kind of nerve, actually if after that outburst she couldn't tell she struck some kind of nerve than she might as well consider herself on the same level as Finn and that thought scared her just a bit, Rachel didn't ask Brittany or expect her to answer "sorry I didn't meant to pry on something that clearly was none of my business"
"No its ok you didn't know" Brittany reassures "As for why that is a story that can be saved for another time"
In the rearview mirror Santana manages to catch Rachel's attention for all of a second she sends her a glare that tells her to just accept the answer and just move on and she dose.
"So Brittany why didn't you tell me before that you liked musicals before?" immediately all is forgiven and the mood lightens considerably between the three and reach the hospital without any further incident.
Santana's parking Rachel finds out is much similar to her driving in the fact that she has a complete disregard for others, she actually cuts an old man and his wife off in an attempt to find a close space just so she doesn't have to walk, he dose honk but to be honest it do not do him any good and Rachel watches him drive away and park in a much further spot.
As enter the hospital and saw that Judy was right there were at least 150 or so people the three recognized from school, it ranged from cheerleaders to their fellow members, to jocks to nerds even Jacob Ben Israel has made and appearance.
It took a bit but they finally spotted Judy in almost the same spot they sat in yesterday, she had her arm around a slightly smaller and younger blonde woman however her face was hidden in the crook of Judy's neck so they could not tell who it was though Rachel was willing to bet anything that it was Frannie, and on her other side was a person who was holding her hand thou they could not see that person so clearly either.
Ok so I keep forgetting to do this but I must give a special thanks to Cyberbaby for giving me the idea that Santana and Brittany helping Rachel and a Special thanks to Mea the shipper for like reviewing for like almost every chapter. Also thank all of you who Review and alert and Favorite and Read and continue to read. Also in the next chapter Rachel meets Frannie and Charlie not sure of Charlie's gender if anyone has an opinion and a reason I'd like to know if not I guess I will just flip a coin.