"Watch it fag!" Rachel turned around, she had been standing with her locker changing her books out. She had come in early trying to do some homework before school started, when she heard a girl yell. She closed her locker door and went around the corner where she had heard the voice, just as she came around, she saw a cheerio bumping her shoulder inn to Kurt to move him out of the way.

"Hey!" Rachel yelled at her. "What do you think you doing?" Rachel quickly moved towards Kurt, "are you ok?" she asked putting her hand on his shoulder. Kurt just nodded. Rachel looked back at the cheerio with angry eyes.

"He was in my way" the cheerio said. "And that gives you the excuse to call him a fag and push him? I don't know if you've noticed but this is a bully free school." Rachel said pointing at a sign hanging on the wall.

The cheerio started to get angry and was about to say something, but Rachel cut her off. "Whatever you are going to say, I suggest you think about the consequences" she said and looked at her cheerio uniform. The cheerio took her point, huffed and walked away.

"Thank you, Rachel" Kurt said looking relieved and smiled at her. "No problem Kurt, if anyone gives you trouble just come to me" Rachel said smiling back at him.

"This is actually the first time this has happened this year." Kurt said a little astounded. "Yeah, but there is always someone trying to show dominance and wanting to push other people down, I just hope there wont be any more trouble from her." Rachel said looking back to where the cheerio had stormed off.

"Anyway, what are you doing here so early? I thought I was the only one sick enough to come to school without absolutely having to" Rachel said laughing.

"I was rehearsing some songs in the auditorium, I like being there alone just singing" Kurt said with a shy smile. They stood there talking and laughing together when suddenly everything went dark for Rachel and she could here Kurt scream her name, and she heard Santana's voice in the distance.


Rachel was sitting in a hospital bed looking at the three doctors two of whom were her dady Hiram and her papi Carlos, the third one was doctor Summers who had been her doctor for four years. They were standing at the foot of her bed in front of some MR pictures of her head, talking to her, Maribel, Leroy and Santana.

"So, the conclusion is that nothing has changed much, she still has a small bleeding but there is nothing we can do yet, these things take time, and to be honest the fact that Rachel hasn't had any seizures in five months is a good sign." Doctor Summers said looking at everyone, his eyes meeting Rachel's and smiled. Rachel smiled back and nodded releasing a small breath of relief for herself.

"As long as you are not overdoing anything Rachel you will be fine, and I'll see you next month for your appointment and we'll take it from there ok?" He smiled at her and got ready to walk out when Rachel nodded in agreement. She was used to this, she had had seizures for four years, she knew what was happening, she had been at the hospital monthly for almost four years so that the doctors could keep an eye on her brain. She needed surgery, but they didn't want to do it until something changed and Rachel didn't want to do it in the middle of a school year.

"What do you mean overdoing it? What does that mean?" Santana asked looking up at doctor Summers. "We have been working out a lot and Rachel has been pushing herself lately, and I haven't stopped her." Santana said and looked down on Rachel's pillow not meeting anyone's eyes, she had been staring at the same spot since Rachel had gotten in the room.

"When I say overdoing it, I mean taking steroids, drugs, drinking, that kind of stuff. I don't think working out made her have a seizure, if anything it might be the reason the seizures have been so far apart. And besides I think Hiram and Carlos would have stopped you if they thought it would be bad for Rachel." Doctor Summers said with a reassuring smile at Santana who just nodded not looking up.

"I'll get the discharge papers, if the parent's want to follow me you can ask me the questions you are wondering, and Rachel can get ready to leave." He smiled at Rachel who beamed back at him, he knew she didn't want to hear the same questions they always asked him.

When they all had left, Rachel looked at Santana who was still looking at the same spot, she had her arms wrapped around herself and she looked deep in thought.

"Hey" Rachel voice was soft, trying to gently get Santana's attention. Santana didn't move.

"Hey, Santana" Still no reaction. Rachel moved to sit in an Indian style. Looking at her sister, she knew what she was doing, Santana was closing herself off.

"Hey! Santana! Stop it!" Santana looked up her finally, her face was blank. "Come sit with me." Rachel said patting her hand on the empty space next to her on the bed. Santana didn't move.

"Move your fucking ass S" Rachel said in a stern voice, Santana moved slowly towards her and sat down. Rachel turned her body so that all of her was facing Santana.

"I'm fine, look at me S, I'm fine." Rachel said trying to reassure Santana, but Santana didn't look at her. "San, this was not your fault, you heard doctor Summers, he said that the workouts probably helped keeping the seizures away." Rachel said.

"Come on, don't shut down, not now." Rachel took Santana's hand. "I am fine" Rachel squeezed Santana's hand and Santana turned around and hugged Rachel and started to cry. "You scared me!" she managed to get out. "I know." Rachel brushed her hair trying to soothe her. She knew Santana was scared, it was almost always Santana who got her to the hospital when she had the seizures and every time she would try and build a wall around her hart and close everyone out. But every time Rachel would tear down that wall.

Rachel sighed "You know I'm not going to leave you." She said, her hand moving down to Santana's back and rubbed it. "You can't promise that" Santana said finally calming down. "Try me! I'm not leaving you until we're two old ladies at the nursing home annoying the nurses because neither of us is willing to die before the other." Rachel said with a small smile as she heard Santana chuckle.

Rachel pulled Santana away from her body so that she could look her in the eyes. "I'm ok. We just got lulled into a false sense of security because it had been five months since the last time. We dared to breath" Rachel said. Santana nodded.

"And hey, look at the positive side, we'll most likely get the rest of the day off, let's go to the arcade!" Rachel said beaming at Santana who laughed at her sister shaking her head.

Rachel got dressed and they left the room and saw their parents talking amongst each other, doctor Summers had probably gone to check on the rest of his patients. Once Maribel saw them, she went over to Santana and hugged her, she looked over at Rachel and gave her a grateful smile, Rachel just smiled and nodded back at her.

"Rachel your father called the school and told them that you're not coming in today." Hiram said as he walked up and hugged her. "Now I have to go back to work, I'll see you at dinner." He said and kissed Rachel's head. As he walked away, he passed Leroy "and let our daughter be, she is not a baby she knows where her limits are" Hiram smiled back at Rachel and winked.

Leroy rolled his eyes at his husband but didn't say anything. "I called the school as well mija. You and Rachel have the rest of the day to relax." Maribel said smiling at both Rachel and Santana.

"Yes! Come on San!" Rachel took Santana's hand and started to drag her to the exit. "Thanks, mami" was all she could say before getting dragged away. Leroy was about to say something, but Carlos laid a hand on his shoulder and said, "Hiram is right Leroy, she will be fine and she has Santana to look after her." He patted his shoulder.

"I have to go back to work too, see you at dinner" he went over to Maribel and kissed her before leaving.

Maribel walked over to Leroy and linked their arms. "Come on Leroy, let's go get some coffee" Leroy sighed in defeat and gave Maribel a small smile and nodded.

Santana parked in front of the arcaded. "Hold up, I just need to text Britt what's going on, she's been really worried about you" Santana said as she took her phone. "Oh shit! Who saw? Did Quinn see?" Rachel freaked out, even though people knew she sometimes get seizures, she didn't like that they saw her having them.

"Relax, it was only Kurt, Britt and me. We came walking in when we saw you fall. Quinn was parking her car when the ambulance drove out of the parking lot, but she saw me driving after so she might know that something is up."

Rachel pulled out her phone and texted Quinn 'Hey, just wanted to let you know I'm fine, San and I got the rest of the day off so we're going to hang out at the arcade.'-R

'Oh thank god. Brittany told me you fainted, what happened?'-Q

Rachel smiled, Brittany always had her back, they had agreed on telling people that she just fainted if they didn't see or knew about Rachel having seizures.

'Yeah, didn't drink enough water, pretty stupid of me. Anyway, just wanted to let you know that I'm ok and I'll see you tomorrow.'-R

'Thank you for letting me know, do you want me to bring your stuff over after school?'-Q

'That would be great Quinn, I will probably be at Santana's'-R

Rachel and Santana spent the rest of their day at the arcade playing and messing around. They drove home to the Lopez's house and helped Maribel finishing dinner.


They were all sitting around the dinner table when Santana put down her fork and knife and looked at Rachel with a smirk. "So, Rachel. Are you going to tell us why you've not talked about Quinn today and smiled every time you've looked at your phone and read her texts?" Santana leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms as she looks at the blush forming on Rachel's face.

The parents looked up curiously "what's this?" Maribel asked. Lately all Rachel could talk about was this new girl at school.

Rachel stared down on her plate "I might have asked her out on a date..." she said quietly, but not quiet enough, the was an uproar at the table Santana was yelling "Yes finally!" Maribel and Leroy got up from their chair, Maribel ran to Rachel and hugged her "oooh honey!" Hiram and Carlos sat back in their chair and laughed at their family and Leroy was just standing there looking strict.

"Who is this girl?" Leroy asked, "What do you know about her, have you met her parents, you are not going out with her until we get to meet her or her parents, what are her grades like?" He was about to ask more questions, but Hiram stopped him by putting his hand on Leroy's arm.

Santana smiled from ear to ear, she had been waiting for Rachel to get the same reaction she got when she first started to date. "Don't listen to your father sweetie" Hiram said and smiled at Rachel.

"Now wait a minute Hiram, Leroy has a point, we need to know who this girl is, for all we know she could be a serial killer" Maribel said, and Leroy threw up his arms towards Maribel.

"I doubt Quinn is a serial killer Maribel" Carlos said laughing. Maribel was about to say something more, but she was interrupted by the doorbell. "I'll get it!" both Santana and Rachel yelled, and they raced to the front door. Santana got to the door fist only because she had been sitting closer to the living room.

She pulled her tong out at Rachel while opening the door. "Britt!" she said the moment she saw her girlfriend. "Hey babe, I just wanted to see how you and Rach was" Brittany smiled and gave Santana a kiss. Santana smiled at her and took her hand and dragged her inside to the stairs.

As Brittany got dragged away, she revealed another blond behind her. "Oh, hi Quinn!" Santana yelled loud enough for the parents to hear as she and Brittany was on their way up stairs. They could hear chairs being moved and Maribel yelled "door open!"

Rachel just shook her head and smiled at Quinn. "Hi" she said a little shyly. "Uhm hi" Quinn said and looked past Rachel's shoulder with a questioning look. Rachel turned around and saw four heads quickly moving inn to the kitchen again. "Ookay, maybe we can talk outside." Rachel said as she closed the door behind her.

"Sorry about that, they are crazy" Rachel laughed while rubbing her neck. Quinn smiled at her, she always though Rachel were so cute when she did that. "It's ok, they just care about you. I just wanted to see how you were and to give you your stuff and homework." She gave Rachel her backpack. "And, I just wanted to check if we are still going out on Saturday." Quinn bit her lower lip and looked down while pushing some hair behind her ear.

"Of course, we are Quinn. I wouldn't miss it." Rachel said taking a step closer to Quinn. Quinn smiled up at Rachel "good, well I guess I'll leave you to it. It looks like someone is waiting for you" Rachel looked at Quinn with a raised eyebrow and Quinn nodded towards the window next to the front door. Rachel turned around and saw Leroy, Hiram and Maribel all waving at them. Rachel groaned in annoyance. Quinn laughed.

"I'll see you tomorrow Rach" She said and kissed Rachel's cheek. Rachel just stood there stunned watching Quinn get in to her car. "yeah, see you" Rachel said long after Quinn had driven away.

She turned around with a big smile on her face, then she saw her parent again and scowled at them.

Santana and Brittany were in Santana's bedroom. Brittany looked at Santana. "How are you?" Santana sighed and sat down on her bed. "I'm fine I guess" Brittany moved and sat beside her girlfriend.

"San…" Santana fell down on her bed, Brittany could see tears in her eyes. "I'm scared Britt! And I can't do anything to help her. And the surgeons can't do anything yet. It is taking so fuckin long!" Santana was getting angry. Brittany laid beside her and took her hand.

"And even though they could do something now, Rachel would have said no, because she is so fucking stubborn!" Santana yelled the last two words, tears falling down from her eyes.

Brittany rubbed her arms, she knew Santana needed to get all of this out. She always played tough, she always wanted to be the person people could lean on, but when it came to her sister she struggled. She felt like she couldn't let her parents or sister know what she was feeling, because it was so much worse for them and they already had a full plate with Rachel. Brittany knew all this, that was why every time Rachel had been in the hospital, she would seek out Santana and just let her spill out her feelings.

Santana started to cry even more, and Brittany moved closer and embraced her. They laid there until they heard Rachel yelling downstairs.

"It was so embarrassing! You could at least let us be alone outside!" Santana and Brittany came downstairs to four laughing parents and a fuming Rachel.

"What's up Rach?" Santana asked with a small smile on her face. She had a feeling she knew. When she had started to date her parents didn't leave her alone with a girl until it had gone a month and they loved teasing her about it, except maybe Maribel and Leroy. They were more serious, trying to interrogate every girl she went on a date with.

"These so called "parents" kept starring at Quinn until she felt so uncomfortable that she had to leave!" Rachel yelled and stared angrily at Hiram, Leroy and Maribel.

"She wasn't that uncomfortable, she did give you a kiss on the cheek" Hiram pointed out. Carlos whistled, he was seating in an armchair enjoying the show.

"Apparently she hasn't been learned about consent" Leroy huffed crossing his arm. "Really?!" Rachel face was getting red. "I'm staying here tonight! At least papi know how to act like a person" She yelled and started to stomp up the stairs past a laughing Santana and a giggling Brittany. Rachel sent them an angry look.

"What about your school things?" Leroy yelled after her.

"Quinn brought them with her!" Rachel screamed down and they could hear her slam the door.

"Good first effort guys" Santana said as she clapped her hands. "I think you can do better though" She said as she followed Brittany to the door, she kissed her girlfriend goodbye and whispered a thank you, Brittany smiled back at her before she turned and left.

"Well, I'm off trying to calm the diva down, see you guys tomorrow." Santana said as she moved and gave everyone a kiss on the cheek.

"Good luck honey and good night" Hiram laughed.