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"Go away," I reply, again, to the person knocking on the shed door. Apparently the people in the other end are hell bent on not listening to me though because they continue to knock. "I'm serious you're wasting your time cause I'm not letting you in."

"Rachel please open the door," Quinn's voice pleads from the other side, and I immediately jump from my place in the boat to open the door for her. I smile a small smile when I catch sight of Beth, who's squirming in Quinn's arms and reaching for me.

"Why didn't you say it was you in the first place?" I ask Quinn quietly as I take Beth and walk back into the shed.

"Honestly, I was afraid that you still wouldn't open it if you knew it was me," she tells me with a frown as she climbs into the boat and sits beside me. I wrap one of my arms around her shoulders and pull her into my side. She goes willingly and snuggles into my chest with a smile.

We just sit together in the silence for about fifteen minutes. I know Quinn wants to know what's going on in my head, and at the same time I'm trying to sort it out myself so I don't burden her with my problems. Part of me knows that Will dying wasn't my fault, but there's also another part that's trying to take over and tell me that it is, and that everyone blames me and they're going to want a new leader. Not that I'd blame them.

"Will you tell me what's wrong please?" Quinn finally asks, breaking the slightly tense, although still comfortable, silence.

"I'd rather not," I tell her, burying my face into Beth's blonde curls.

"Baby," Quinn half whines. I chuckle at her cuteness for a second before taking a deep breath and looking into her eyes.

"It's my fault," I manage to choke out around the lump in my throat. I feel the tears beginning to form in my eyes, and I make no move to try and hold them back.

"Oh baby no," Quinn quickly rushes out, reversing our positions to where she's the one holding me now, instead of me holding her. I cry into her chest for a few minutes, Beth looking at me with a heartbreaking expression on her face and whimpering.

I finally pull myself together as Beth starts shedding her own tears and cradle her into my chest. "Shh Bethy. It's ok sweetie. I'm ok. I promise. Please don't cry baby. I'm sorry for upsetting you," I coo to her. It only takes about another minute before she finally calms down as well.

"I love you," Quinn whispers to me. My heart stops and then seems to beat faster than ever. There's also a big ass grin on my face now that's not going away anytime soon. I wrap one of my arms around her neck and pull her into a searing kiss, which we only break because of the squirming baby in my arms.

"I love you too," I mumble against her lips before finally pulling completely away. She just matches my grin and wraps me up in her arms again.

"You do know that nothing that happened today was your fault right?" she asks me a couple of minutes later. I sigh before looking down at a now sleeping Beth in my arms. I study her for a few moments before something in my brain clicks into place.

That part of my me that was trying to take over and make me believe that yes, it is my fault that Will's dead is now silenced. I now realize that even if I could do this day over again I wouldn't change anything. Would I try and keep Will from dying again? Of course. But I'd still do the day the same way. Why? Because I have a family that needs to be taken care of. They come first and if there's something that's trying to threaten them and mess with their lives then it needs to be dealt with. I knew that Will and Finn always questioning me was going to end badly one of these days, hence why this day happened in the first place.

"Baby?" Quinn asks hesitantly. I finally look away from Beth and into her beautiful hazel eyes and smile.

"Yeah I know," I tell her. She looks at me in confusion so I decide to share my little epiphany with her. "The reason I even agreed with the plan for today was because I needed to keep my family and the others safe."

"What do you mean safe?" Quinn questions quickly before I can get to far into explaining.

"Will would have eventually gotten tired of taking orders from a bunch of kids baby. And when that point finally came, sooner then some would think, I have no idea what he would've done. I wasn't going to risk it. I couldn't," I explain.

"That makes sense," she says with a small smile before making a hand gesture telling me to continue.

"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted," I joke, causing her to laugh quietly, "was that I agreed with this whole thing to keep you guys safe. Does it suck that Will ended up dying? Yeah it really does, but I just realized that if that's the price to pay to keep you, Beth, and the others safe...then I'm willing to pay it," I tell her, my voice trailing into a whisper at the end. She smiles softly at me before leaning down and capturing my lips in a sweet kiss for a few moments.

"Are you finally ready to head inside then?" Quinn questions quietly after we break our kiss. I give her a small smile before standing carefully, not wanting to wake Beth. I pass the baby off to Quinn and then hop out of the boat before taking her back, and then helping Quinn down. "Oh and also," Quinn says from behind me, grabbing my attention and stopping me just before I head out of the shed.

"Yes?" I question, turning around to face her.

"No one blames you," she tells me, catching the tears that have formed in my eyes before they can fall.

"Thank you," I whisper to her with a watery smile.

"There's no need to thank me," she replies before taking my hand and pulling me out of the shed and towards the house.

"Let me take her," Quinn says quietly, stopping me on the porch. I look at her quizzically and she explains. "I'm sure Sarah's awake and she's going to jump you as soon as you walk in."

"Oh! Yeah most likely," I say, gently passing Beth to Quinn.

I take a deep breath before opening the door and having the wind knocked out of me by a tiny body colliding with my stomach. Sarah doesn't say anything, she just squeezes me with all of her might. I pick her up and hug her back before officially making my way into my house. Everyone's in the living room, including Finn, and they all stare at me cautiously.

"I'm fine," I tell them with a small smile. As soon as I say that Jake, Kelly, Noah, and Brittany are all hugging me at once. I just laugh and hug them back the best I can with Sarah still in my arms.

"Thank god," Santana says somewhere off to my right.

"Didn't know you cared Satan," I joke.

"Yeah well...Britts was sad," she says lamely. I just chuckle at her excuse.
After a few more moments of being hugged the group finally disperses. Noah and Britt stand in front of me and just stare, trying to find out if I'm truly ok or if I'm bluffing. I let them do their little investigation and a few moments later they beam, nod to eachother, and go sit back down with the others.

I feel arms wrap themselves around my waist from behind and lean into the familiar embrace. We just stand quietly and watch as our family and friends interact with eachother, everyone including everyone, including Finn. I know that things aren't going to be easy from here, hell they haven't even been easy up until this point, but I know that as long as we have eachother everything will be ok. I have my brother, my daughter, my girl, the rest of my family, and my friends. We're all safe, happy, and healthy at the moment, and that's all I need.

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