Dance With Somebody
Quinn wouldn't really consider herself to be an emotional person, but she will admit she does tear up a little bit during Mr. Schue's speech about them having to say goodbye in a few weeks.
Sam asks her if she wants to sing a duet with him after Glee club is over. He must sense her hesitation because he quickly starts begging her. "Come on Q, we haven't sung a duet together since last year. I'll even let you pick the song."
She laughs at how adorable he is being and tells him, "I always pick the song."
She watches his eyes light up. "So is that a yes? Please don't say it's a maybe again I don't have as much patience as I used too."
She rolls her eyes. "Fine." She laughs at his dorkiness when he twirls her wheelchair around.
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She appreciates Brittnay trying to get her to dance with the rest of them when she pulls her forward in her wheelchair, but it just makes her feel worse when Brittnay realizes that she can't.
She watches in envy as Santana and Brittnay dance across the auditorium stage. The one thing she misses more than walking? Is dancing. Especially with her best friends. She tries not to cry when Brittnay tells her that she is still dancing in her dreams, ignoring the flying and breathing fire part. She knows Sam is looking over at her from beside her to see her reaction, but she just wants to wallow in her feelings right now. She doesn't want him to cheer her up, but she realizes that she doesn't have a choice because she realizes that she's going to keep his help to get out of the auditorium.
"I really don't want to talk about it." He sighs, but nods. She knows that's all she's really been saying lately, but she just doesn't want to talk about it. She hates talking about her feelings in general, and talking about how she's stuck in this wheelchair? Reminds her of everything that she's lost and everything she's going to lose. How is she going to go to prom in a wheelchair? Or Yale?
"How about I go with you to PT today?" She was also hoping that Sam wouldn't bring this up either. He's been bugging her about wanting to go for weeks, but she doesn't want him to see her in that way. Her body is disgusting and she knows he's not going to want her anymore once he sees how truly broken it is.
"I picked a song." She tells him, hoping he'll let her change the subject. Thankfully he does.
"Oh yeah, which one?" He asks her after he's helped her up the stairs and begins rolling her out of the auditorium.
"Saving All My Love For You. It's not a duet, but I thought it would be cute for us to sing together." She can sense his giant grin radiating off of him.
"I love it, but what about what people are going to think?" The thought of everyone's reactions has crossed her mind, but she doesn't have enough energy to worry about what her and Sam singing a love song as a duet is going to look like.
"Let them think what they want to think." She tells him with a shrug as they head into the cafeteria.
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Joe asks her if she's okay while she's at her locker getting her binder for her next class. They haven't really spoken since Quinn asked him about joining the New Directions, but she does appreciate his concern, although she finds it a little odd. "You looked a little bummed back there."
She's confused as to why he was paying attention to her and not Santana and Brittnay's performance, but she let's it go. "I'm fine." She tells him, hoping he will get the hint that she kind of wants him to leave her alone.
But of course he doesn't and asks her more questions she doesn't want to answer. "How's your physical therapy going?" She assumes he's trying to be nice, but can he not tell that she clearly doesn't want to talk about it?
"I keep going, and nothing seems to be happening, so it's pretty depressing." She closes her locker and sighs as she starts to wheel away. If Joe hadn't gotten the hint before, he definitely will now.
But instead he follows her, asking, "well what if I went with you next time? That would definitely be less depressing."
She doesn't know what Joe's angle is here. Is he trying to be friends, is he trying to hit on her? Yeah she's kind of with Sam right now, but they've both decided to be subtle about it. Well at least she tries to be. She knows he tries to save all his PDA for their rides home together in his truck, but sometimes he'll give her a peck or give her a forehead kiss when they're together in the hallways or at lunch. But she guesses they must not be too obvious if Joe hasn't noticed.
She laughs and tells him, "you really don't have to go with me."
But he tells her sternly, "I want too." which takes her by surprise. She stops because she's super confused as to why he's being so persistent.
"You want to come with me? Why?"
He shrugs and says, "I care about you. And, to me, being a Christian isn't about talk. It's about actions."
She's hesitant because she already knows how Sam is going to react. She won't allow him to go, but she's letting Joe who she barely talks to accompany her? Yeah, Sam is not going to be pleased. But she can't tell Joe the reason why he can't come with her is because she's with Sam.
But he doesn't let her say no. He just walks away after telling her, "I'll let you hold one of my dreads for luck." Like she even knows what that means.
xxx
She meets up with Kurt in the hallway so they can head to study hall together. Once they get there they spend the first ten minutes gossiping, and then they start working. He's trying to explain this Algebra lesson that she has not been getting when his phone goes off indicating he's received a text message. And then it goes off again. And then again. And she can ignore it without questioning it the first few times but twelve messages within two minutes? It's a bit much.
So she grabs his phone and presses one of the messages, telling him "I'm just going to tell Blaine whatever he needs is going to have to wait because you're trying to help me pass math right now."
Except it isn't Blaine, and the way Kurt is looking at her when she turns to him shocked indicates that he already knew that. "Kurt! Who is Chandler?"
Kurt snatches his phone away from her and tells her it's no one. She gives him a look and he rolls his eyes. "Seriously Quinn! He's just some guy I met at Sheets And Things. He's planning to go to NYU so we've just been talking."
She bites her lip because she doesn't know how to word what she wants to say without making Kurt look like he's in the wrong because she knows Kurt, he's going to think she misunderstands the whole situation and won't listen to anything she's saying. "Kurt, those text messages are not 'just talking.' He's flirting with you."
He rolls his eyes and places his phone on the table faced down. "They're just compliments. They make me feel good."
She knows how this starts. First it's the flirty little compliments, and then it turns into making out in secret corners behind your boyfriends back. "Blaine is supposed to make you feel good."
She doesn't know how one can look annoyed but guilty at the same time, but she guesses it's possible because that is how Kurt is looking at her right now. "Does Sam send you cute text messages every day?"
She nods, not understanding what Kurt is trying to get at. Even though she tells Sam that they are annoying, she loves waking up to a good morning princess or falling asleep to the words sweet dreams beautiful. "Does he compliment you?" She nods again. Every day Sam wolf whistles at her when he goes to pick her up for school. She rolls her eyes every time even though it gives her confidence to go on with the rest of her day. But it's not always about her looks, sometimes she catches him staring at her palm in hand while she's trying to tutor him, telling her that she's one of the smartest people he knows. A day doesn't go by without him telling her how strong and inspiring she is. "Constantly trying to get in your pants?" She giggles at that question. Sam has been dropping little suggestions that the two of them should have sex again since they already have before, and it's not that she doesn't want too, she trusts Sam. She just doesn't want to while she's in her chair. She's afraid he won't think of her as perfect or beautiful anymore.
She responds back to his last question with, "well he is a 17-year-old boy." When Kurt looks down she finally understands what he means. Blaine doesn't do that stuff for him. She feels bad for Kurt, but she still doesn't think he should be looking for these things from somebody else.
"You and Sam aren't even dating Quinn and he does all that for you." She feels guilty for being so judgemental of Kurt and not asking him for the full story first. "Have you ever heard of lesbian bed death?" She looks at him confused and shakes her head. "I read about it online. It's when two lesbians date long enough they become like sisters. And Blaine and I are like an old married couple, a fabulous old married couple, like Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. But I don't think we've had an unscheduled makeout in like a month."
"You schedule makeout sessions?!" She kind of shouts and blushes when Kurt shushes her and a few nearby students look at them weirdly.
"The point is, I love Blaine and Blaine loves me, but he doesn't exactly make me blush with his texts right now. What's the harm of someone making me feel special if it's all innocent?" She's really concerned that Kurt doesn't see the issue of what he's doing with the Chandler guy. She thought he would know better, especially since he's best friends with her.
She sighs knowing even if she tells Kurt what he's doing isn't really fair to Blaine, their conversation will go nowhere. "Look Kurt, you're one of my best friends so you know I'm never going to judge you. But I am always going to be honest with you, this is coming from a cheater Kurt, if Blaine sees those text messages he's going to be hurt."
Kurt scoffs and Quinn takes the hint to let it go, changing the subject back to math, even though deep down she knows it's only time before all of this blows up in Kurt's face.
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She twiddles her thumbs together as Sam sets up in her living room so they can rehearse their duet. She knows she needs to tell him that Joe went with her to her physical therapy session yesterday, she just doesn't know how to bring it up.
"Sam I need to tell you something." He stops and turns around. She hates how nervous he looks. She can see it all over his face, that his initial thought was that she cheated on him. So she quickly blurts out "I didn't make out with anyone!"
He chuckles and takes a seat in front of her, looking into her eyes. "Okay. What is it?"
She scrunches her eyes shut and just says it. "Joe went with me to my PT yesterday." She can't read his reaction. She doesn't know if he's hurt or mad or he doesn't really care and it's making her panic so she starts rambling. "He cornered my at my locker after Santana and Brittnay's performance and asked me if I was okay and then asked me how it was going and I told him it was depressing and he asked if he could go and he didn't even give me the chance to say no, and I know I should have told you, but I didn't know how and I'm-"
He cuts her off by kissing her. And it's not like one of those pecks he usually gives her, it's a full blown long kiss that takes her breath away. "-sorry." She finishes breathlessly as soon as they pull away.
He chuckles. "Quinn I'm not mad. I just don't want you to feel like you can't tell me things okay?" She nods her head and hugs him, sighing in relief. "Now let's rehearse." he tells her as soon as she releases him. "Oh and just so you know, this means I'm coming to every one of your sessions now."
The idea of it doesn't seem to bug her as much as it used too.
The nerves of knowing she has to perform today return as soon as she wakes up. Sam must sense them in the car because throws an arm around her shoulders quickly when they reach a stop sign. "You're going to be great Q, don't stress."
She nods and smiles even though her stomach is still doing flips. And unfortunately those flips stay until Glee club.
She doesn't head to the front like she normally does when she's going to participate in the week's assignment, she just waits for Sam to tell Mr. Schue that the two of them have a Whitney song prepared.
Mr. Schue looks surprised, but of course Sam doesn't notice. And he adds in "just a disclaimer that this song doesn't really help with the goodbye." to get a few laughs in beforehand while he goes and gets a guitar and she smiles because she knows he does it to help calm her down.
She knows her face is probably as red as a tomato because she knows what everyone else is going to be thinking after their performance. She tries not to look at any of them as she sings, trying to focus on how Sam wheels over to her in a chair and winks at her while he sings to her, but she catches the looks Rachel and Finn give each other, and the smirks Santana and Kurt are wearing on their faces.
She smiles as he kneels down in front of her, focusing solely on him as everyone else fades into the background. She breaks out of her trance when everyone starts clapping after the music stops.
Rachel asks her "what was that?" with her eyebrows raised after Quinn wheels herself back next to her and Finn.
Quinn tells her nothing, even though she's pretty sure her cheeks are telling a different story.
xxx
A duet between Santana and Rachel? Not something she was expecting. She's surprised Santana hadn't told her about it. She looks over at Sam during their performance and laughs to herself when she sees him looking at Kurt's phone. He's assuming Kurt is probably showing him some of the text messages between him and Chandler judging by the way Sam's eyebrows shoot up.
She asks him about it after Mr. Schue dismisses them all. "I don't know Q. I know Kurt is our friend and everything, but I kind of feel bad for Blaine." She nods. She was guessing that was how Sam was going to feel about it, he does have the biggest heart out of the three of them.
"I tried to tell him it was wrong, but he didn't want to hear it." She tells him as soon as they head into the cafeteria for lunch. He puts her beside Tina at the table the Glee club is sitting at before he goes to grab their lunches.
She opens her mouth to tell him what she wants but he doesn't let her. "I know, your usual salad." She smiles and nods a little embarrassed. "I'll get you the salad, but I'm adding a side of fries. You don't eat enough."
She rolls her eyes and mumbles "you're one to talk" under her breath. She ignores the look Tina gives her when she turns around to ask her if she's planning to perform a number this week.
xxx
The glee girls have decided to have a once a week washroom break together so they can have one last little tradition before the year ends and most of them graduate. She's reapplying her lipstick in the hand drier when Rachel says to her, "Quinn when you sang Saving All My Love For You with Sam yesterday it sure felt like you meant it."
She freezes and looks at Mercedes in the reflection trying to get her reaction. Tina joins in on the teasing by adding, "you guys seemed a lot more than just singing partners."
"That's because we're best friends." She tells them while turning herself around. "Nothing else is going to happen. I graduate in a few weeks." She says it more for Mercedes sake although after she says it out loud she realizes how much it's true. What is going to happen after they graduate?
She puts her lipstick back in her makeup bag after the warning bell rings. She's about to follow Brittnay out the door when Mercedes asks her, "hey Quinn can I talk to you for a second?"
She braces herself for the speech of betrayal. This is why she didn't want to tell Mercedes, for this moment. She knows they haven't been close in a while, but she still values their friendship. But Mercedes doesn't start yelling at her like Quinn thought she would, or calling her awful names. Instead she says, "look I know something's going on between you and Sam." Just before she can start pouring the excuses out of her mouth Mercedes continues. "And it's okay. Really Quinn, I don't mind. You guys have always been good together. Ken and Barbie. You're like soulmates."
She likes the idea of her and Sam being soulmates, but she loves that Mercedes isn't upset with her so much more. She gives Mercedes a soft smile and says, "thank you."
xxx
He's curling weights in the weight room when Joe walks in. He has a good idea of what, or who Joe wants to talk about. But he still asks Joe, "you want to lift?" when he gets to him.
"I actually want to talk to you about Quinn." He was waiting for this. For Joe to admit to someone that he's into Quinn. He doesn't know why Quinn is always going on about how he can never see all the girls that are attracted to him when she can't tell that most of the male student body is into her.
He sees the looks Joe gives to her during their God Squad meetings or while they're in Glee club, what he doesn't understand is how she doesn't. And he won't lie, he was kind of pissed that Joe asked to go with her to PT. Sam's a clever guy, he knows she wants them to be subtle, but he plays it smart. He gives her just enough small pecks and cheek kisses for all the other guys to realize she's off the market but not enough for people to start asking questions, but for some reason, Joe didn't seem to get the hint.
He knows Quinn will have his head if he tells Joe to fuck off and that Quinn is with him, so he grins and says "you dig her. Yeah I can tell. Everyone can." everyone except for my girlfriend. He thinks to himself, but he isn't worried about Joe. He has a plan. "So what's up?"
He's going to scare Joe off and the one way to do that? Is to talk about sex. "I know you used to date her, and when you dated her, how do you handle your..feelings?" Joe asks him while taking a seat next to him on the bench.
He knows exactly what Joe is talking about, but he wants him to elaborate. He wants to make Joe feel as uncomfortable as possible. "Here's the thing about me: I can be super helpful, but when you ask me stuff, you have to be real specific."
He would rather not hear about the sexual urges Joe is having towards his girlfriend, but in order for his plan to work he needs Joe to talk about it.
"When I was with Quinn at her rehab, I was having..feelings." He really hopes the anger he is feeling is not showing on his face. This is why Sam wanted to be the only one to go to physical therapy with Quinn, this is why he wants to be the only guy around her at all times. Quinn is the most gorgeous girl at McKinley, he knows that, but he wishes every other guy didn't notice too.
"You mean like 'in your pants feelings'?" He asks Joe, teasing him a little bit even though he wants to rip his head off. Joe of course laughs which just makes Sam angrier. He wonders if it will really be that bad if he tells Joe that he needs to take his feelings somewhere else because he has Quinn, sucks for him.
"I've been homeschooled my whole life, it was a lot easier to resist temptation when there were no girls around." Didn't this guy ever leave his house? How does he act like he's never had any contact with a female other than his mom before?
"Yeah I gave up on that. I had sex last year." He doesn't say the person he had sex with was Quinn because Joe doesn't need to know that. "I mean I was working in a strip club so," he says to throw Joe off and not have him think he did lose it to Quinn. Which is what he would rather have, but he knows Quinn would rip his balls off if Joe asked her if she's had sex with Sam.
"But it's a sin. We're supposed to wait until we're married." He laughs a bit because there's no way this guy would ever be able to handle Quinn, even if Sam wasn't currently dating her. He loves Quinn, but she can be a lot to handle. She doesn't like to tell you what's wrong, she expects you to figure it out yourself (although she is working on that), she does not see herself the way everyone else does so you need to constantly reassure her that she is nothing less than perfect, and she doesn't open up easily. You need to pay attention to her. Quinn never told Sam she was a Disney princess freak, he picked up on it when she would hum all the songs without realizing it, or that she secretly loves eating cheeseburgers from McDonalds, he realized eventually from all the times she would stare at his while picking at one of her disgusting salads.
"And we're not supposed to get tattoos, Leviticus. Look, when the Bible was written, things were easier. I mean there was no internet, chicks didn't wear short skirts or anything. I'm a good Christian, but there's no way a dude's gonna be able to resist. I say, let's be a new kind of Christian, one that prays and does right by people but understands that some of those rules are kind of old school."
The horrified look on Joe's face indicates to Sam that his plan is working. "The sex rule makes sense." Bingo, that's exactly what Sam wanted to hear. "It's about respecting your body, putting the spiritual over the physical so you can feel closer to God."
He gets up because he seriously can't listen to this guy anymore, he's starting to give Sam a headache. He wants to date Quinn but wants no physical contact with her? He knows Quinn, and although she pretends like she hates it, he knows how much she likes the physical connection. He knows she used to love every time he would come up behind her and spin her around by the way she would laugh. He notices the way she snuggles up closer to him whenever they're watching a movie. Or the way she absentmindedly plays with his fingers while driving in his truck.
He sighs and tells Joe while putting his weights away, "all I know is, Quinn's a great girl, but you're going to have to decide if you want to get closer to God or closer to her." Judging by the look on Joe's face, Quinn was not his answer.
xxx
She gets a call from Kurt later on that evening when she's watching one of the last Star Wars movies with Sam. She sends it to voicemail because she's hoping Kurt will get the hint that she's busy and text her instead. But he doesn't, he calls her again.
Sam looks over at her and she shrugs her shoulders, asking him to pause the movie. She accepts Kurts call and says, "hey Kurt, what's up?"
Her heart drops when she hears him sniffling on the other side of the line. She doesn't ask him what it's about because she already has a good idea. "Oh Kurt, how did he react?"
Sam looks at her shocked and moves closer to her so he can listen in on the conversation. She rolls her eyes and pushes him away, which pretty much does nothing since he's obviously much stronger than her.
"He was upset. He thought it was cheating." Which I told you already she thinks to herself, but doesn't say out loud because she knows it will just make everything worse.
"Okay, so what happened?"
"I told him I was upset with how he hasn't been giving me attention and he told me I should have talked to him about it and then left." She doesn't really know what to say. She feels for Kurt, and she wants to help him, but she's only ever been in his position before. Then she gets an idea.
"Hey Kurt, Sam is here too. I think he might be able to help more than me. Is it okay if I put you on speaker?" She gets a sad okay back and does exactly that.
"Hey buddy, how are you doing?" Sam asks him and she glares at him. Really Sam? How is he doing?
"I just don't know what to do. I feel awful. I'm scared I've messed everything up."
She brings her phone up to Sam's mouth as he starts giving Kurt advice. "I think you should just give him some space for now Kurt, give him time to cool off. He won't want to listen to you while he's mad."
"Okay. Thanks guys. Rachel and Mercedes are here now, but I really appreciate the advice." They say goodbye to Kurt and Quinn tells him to call her if he needs anything else.
Sam resumes the movie, but she can't focus on it. She's taken back to last year when she cheated on him. How can he trust her after what she did to him? Or maybe he doesn't trust her, maybe that's why his initial thought was that she cheated on him when she said she had to tell him something the day she told him about Joe going to her PT.
"Hey, I know where you're going in that cute little blonde head of yours, stop it." She breaks away from her thoughts to look up at him to see that he's already looking at her.
"My biggest regret is cheating on you Sam." He shakes his head and brings a finger up to her lips.
"I know Q. I don't want to relive that time okay? We're different people now, and we've found our way back to each other. That's all that matters."
She nods her head with his finger still on her lips and then cuddles into his chest as soon as he removes it. She falls asleep with her head on his shoulder listening to the sounds of his breathing and Yoda.
xxx
The next day at school Kurt is miserable. She tries cheering him up whenever she's with him by distracting him, but nothing seems to work.
Things only seem to get worse when Blaine announces he has a number prepared in Glee club. "This song is for anyone that's ever been cheated on."
She flinches and looks back at Sam who seems to have the same worried look on his face. She looks over at Kurt whose jaw is pretty much on the floor. She doesn't know what to think, the Glee club is pretty much always in the loop of everyone's personal drama, but they've never had to listen to a performance about it. She does think Blaine is being a tad bit overdramatic, they were just text messages.
She snorts when she turns back and sees Sam jamming out to the song, of course he doesn't see how tense and awkward everything is. There's scattered applause after Blaine finishes performing. She looks over Kurt and feels awful as she sees the tears fall down his cheeks.
She gives Blaine a look during Kurt's performance hoping it will help him forgive Kurt, although she's not sure it will after the look Blaine gives to Mike. She doesn't know what it is about Kurt's performance, but it makes her super emotional. Her eyes fill up with tears as she looks back at Sam who is looking right back at her. He mouths to her, I love you. She doesn't care that Tina and Mike will probably be able to see her. She doesn't care if anyone else finds out, she mouths back, I love you too.
xxx
She kind of lied to Sam. She told him the reason why she didn't want her going to her PT was because she didn't want him to see her like that, but half of the reason is because she doesn't know how she's going to react with his hands all over her, especially on her upper thighs where she can actually feel them. She's a good girl, but she's not going to pretend like she doesn't have urges. She's already had sex with Sam, and his hands all over her? Is definitely going to remind her of it and how good it felt and how much she wants to do it again.
But she guesses that she isn't the only one with that problem when she feels something poking into her leg. "Is that, uhm..?" She asks awkwardly hoping he'll get what she's referring to.
"Shit Q I'm so sorry." He says embarrassed as he puts her leg down. She giggles at how red his face is and reaches over to grab his hand.
"It's okay. It happens." She tells him while laughing and he glares at her.
Eventually his embarrassment subsides and his cockiness kicks in. "Well I can't help it that my girlfriend is smokin'." She rolls her eyes, but doesn't correct him when he says girlfriend the way she normally does. She's kind of gotten used to it, and she really likes hearing it, but obviously she's not going to tell him that.
"I'm sure it's just the close proximity." He mirrors her in rolling his eyes.
"Don't do that. Don't find ways to run yourself down. You're perfect Q."
She sighs and blinks fast a couple of times as her ears fill up with tears. "I guess I have been doing that a lot lately. It's just hard not to focus on what I've lost."
"Well don't." He tells her, grabbing her hand and squeezing it. "Think about everything you've gained." He leans forward and kisses her, telling her "including me" in between kisses.
"I knew you would somehow turn this around and make it about you." She says while laughing after they break apart again.
"Nah," he tells her, leaning down again "this was just an excuse to kiss you." he says and does exactly that.
"So what do you wanna do now? Grab food or something?" He asks her as soon as they get into his truck.
She shakes her head. "I want to go to Glee practice."
He looks at her confused. "Today's rehearsal is optional, we don't have to go."
"I know, but I still want to go. I only have so many left with everyone and I want to go to as many as I can. Plus Kurt and Blaine made up so this one won't be as awkward."
He nods and starts the car. "As you wish your highness." She laughs and slaps his arm and gets back a hey! No abusing the driver.
She looks over at him while he drives them back to school. He's bopping his head to the music and mouthing the words to the songs he knows. She watches as he taps his fingers along the steering wheel every time they stop and laughs to herself at how he shouts at the other drivers even though they can't hear him every time they piss him off. She might have lost a lot, but she wouldn't trade him for any of it back.
She's a little sad to see she's missed a little bit of the group performance, but laughs as Sam runs into the auditorium and rolls her beside Artie. She hugs Brittnay and Santana and winks back and Tina when she raises an eyebrow at her and Sam's joined hands. She looks around at the group while she sings along to Your Love Is My Love realizing just how much she's going to miss everyone.
Choke
She has to miss the next couple of days of school because she's regained a lot of feeling back in her legs so her doctor wants her to stay at the hospital for the rest of the week so she can practice walking.
Don't get her wrong, she's been on cloud nine ever since her doctors have been saying it's only time until she'll be walking again. But she only has so many days left until graduation, so she's upset she has to miss even a few. And she's going to miss Sam like crazy, he can't accompany her to any of these sessions because her doctor doesn't want any distractions.
Kurt has been sending her updates on how his preparation for his NYADA audition is going, sending her a new picture every half an hour of the more candles he's added to his performance. She giggles and sends him back a thumbs up every time from beside her hospital bed.
She Facetimes Sam every evening when her sessions are done for the day. It's not too boring this time. She has her own tv and she's allowed to get out of bed. He updates her on all the things that she's missing, like how Mike had told him that the girls were given an assignment about domestic abuse against women because Santana made some lame joke about Cooter hitting Beiste. She rolls her eyes, of course Santana did.
He also tells her about how Finn is super worried that Puck isn't going to graduate. He had spoken to all the guys about it in the weight room, that he wants them all to help him.
He asks her how she feels about it and she tells him she doesn't mind. She's never going to tell Sam who he can and cannot talk too. She knows that Sam and Puck are friends.
She personally does not like Puck, he called her fat a bunch of times when she was pregnant and then completely abandoned her after she gave birth and he told her that he loved her, but she appreciated how he tried to help her while she was pregnant with Beth, and she knows how good he is to other members like Finn and Rachel.
But then her therapist made her sort of realize what happened between the two of them, maybe something she wasn't totally okay with by asking her questions like Do you remember saying yes? And If he hadn't gotten you drunk would you have consented to having sex with him?
But still, she wants Puck to graduate, it would make her sad to see any one of them fall behind.
xxx
She gets a snapchat from Santana of her Brittnay, Tina, Sugar, and Mercedes in their outfits for their Glee assignment. She's a little confused, how does this show empowerment?
She snaps Santana back asking her what song they chose to sing. She gets one back two minutes later saying Cell Block Tango.
Oh God, she can't wait to hear about how Sue reacts to this one.
She sends Kurt a good luck paragraph the day of his audition. She hates that she can't be sitting in the auditorium seats with Blaine and Rachel. She hates that she can't help him sing backup for him like Tina, Mercedes and Brittnay.
She waits patiently for Blaine's Facetime call so she can watch Kurt's audition. She squeals when she gets the call and immediately mutes herself so the lady Kurt is auditioning for doesn't hear any of her hospital background noise.
She brings her palms to cover her mouth when she hears Carmen she thinks her name is, tell Kurt Hugh Jackman would have been impressed with his performance. Blaine and Rachel then say goodbye to her after wishing her good luck with her physical therapy and she immediately sends a video of herself with tears in her eyes congratulating her and telling him how proud she is of him.
Sam tells her he and the glee guys are planning to stay at school overnight to help tutor Puck and asks her if she has any good tips. Mr. Schue had asked Figgins if they could and he had okayed it saying he would make sure he would have the overnight janitor make routine check ups on them. She suggests flashcards are always good. She uses rewards to help Sam, giving him a kiss every time he gets a question right, but she assumes that's not the kind of tip he and the guys are looking for.
She wakes up to a bunch of text messages Sam had sent her throughout the night about how Puck was not getting any of it. But alas as she looks at the messages from 3:36am onwards it shows that Puck is remembering some of the information after they made a song out of some of the questions.
He also tells her that Finn had told all of them that Rachel choked on her NYADA audition. She cringes at that one. She knows Rachel is probably devastated. She knows Rachel probably doesn't want to talk about it, but she still sends her a text message asking her how she's doing.
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He's talking with Mike at his locker when Tina walks up to them with tears streaming down her cheeks. Mike cuts himself off mid sentence as soon as he sees her, running up to her. "Tina?! What's wrong?"
Sam walks over to them concerned as well. Tina looks really upset. He knows Tina cries a lot, but she is sobbing, hyperventilating almost. "Mike?" She asks him, her voice raw and strained from the amount of crying she's been doing. "Would you ever hit me?"
Sam sees Mike turn white as a sheet and Sam freezes. Mike treats Tina better than he's seen anyone treat their girlfriend, why would she ever ask him that. So he asks her, "Tina what's going on?"
She tells them in between little hiccups due to how she had been sobbing, "Cooter..hit..Beiste."
Sam feels himself turn just as pale. He looks over at Mike who seems to be just as shocked as he is. "Tina, what? But you said Beiste said when Santana made that joke," Mike trails off hoping Tina will fill in the blanks.
"She lied. He hit her."
Sam doesn't know much about Cooter, but he always thought he was a decent guy. You don't hit women, especially your wife. It's supposed to be an unspoken rule. He still has two classes left, but he doesn't care. He starts walking down the hallway towards the parking lot. He hears Mike ask him where he's going, but he doesn't answer him.
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She isn't expecting anyone after school because she had been at the hospital for most of the day for physical therapy and different tests to check out the progress on her feeling in her legs. She's finally been released from the hospital, but hasn't had the chance to tell anyone yet. Her mom had left shortly after the two of them had returned home. She assumes her mom just forgot something, so she wheels herself towards the door and opens it. She was not expecting to see a crying Sam on the other side.
"Sam?" she asks, confused. Why is he crying? And how did he even know she was home, he had barely texted her all day.
"I would never hit you." What? She knows that, but it still makes her body shiver. Why would he say something like that?
"What do you mean? What's going on?" She opens the door so he can come inside. She waits for him to get settled in and calm down.
"Cooter hit coach Beiste."
Her blood runs cold. Coach Beiste's husband hit her? She doesn't know Coach Beiste very well, Cooter less than that, but the football coach is one of the nicest people she's ever met. How could he hit her?
"What?"
She thinks she might have understood him, or maybe he said it wrong. Her father would grab her mother sometimes, but he never hit her. Men aren't supposed to hit their wives.
"She lied to the girls about the punching bag, Cooter gave her the black eye." She has no idea what he's talking about. What punching bag? But she isn't focused on that right now, she's focused on the sobbing blonde in front of her.
She hates that she can't walk up to him and comfort him, but then she thinks maybe I can. So she grabs the end of the couch and uses it to pull herself up. Sam's jaw drops and she takes two small steps towards him and then falls beside him on the couch.
"Quinn!" He shouts and she jumps a little. "Did that really just happen? You walked!" He scoops her up into his arms and hugs her, placing her onto his lap.
She shrugs. "I've been walking a little bit in physical therapy, but not that much so don't get too excited. But let's not talk about that right now." She cups his cheek in her palm. "I know you would never hit me Sam. I don't ever want you to think that I would think any differently."
He nods his head and she runs her fingers through his hair whispering to him that everything is going to be okay as he cries into her chest.
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She waits anxiously by her phone the next day for Sam's message about whether or not Puck had passed his European Geography test. His teacher had said she would mark it right away so he would know if he would graduate or not.
She quickly picks up her phone as soon as she gets a notification of an incoming text. Her heart races as soon as she sees it's from Sam. He got a C! She breathes out a sigh of relief. All of them are going to graduate together.