A/N: As promised:) Big Shout to John thanks dude. To all the readers thanks much you guys, it's kind off amazing that you guys sorta kind off like the story!
Chapter 6
Quinn waited but still there was no Rachel, she doesn't even know what happened to her girlfriend. She's dead worried but she doesn't want to show it to Matthew and Lucas. She knew the couple was worried too, but they never discussed it; the last time they heard from Rachel was three weeks ago and the brunette did not say anything about going home which made her dads worry more. They tried to contact her but to no avail they can't get through; they can't call the school because they knew Rachel went with Louella to Austria for a few days.
Quinn woke to a familiar voice but she wanted to make sure that she wasn't dreaming. She slowly stood up from her bed and walked towards the nursery room. When she entered the room her heart filled with emotion; seeing the brunette holding her daughter is the most amazing feeling that she has ever experienced. Quinn tried not to make any noise and sat near Rachel while she eyed the two curiously.
Rachel felt mixed emotions seeing Isabella for the first time and when her fathers opened the door earlier she immediately dropped her luggage, hugged them and asked where the baby was. Before she went directly to the baby girl's room she said to her fathers "I will explain later" and ascended to her destination. When she entered the room she saw the object of her affection lying in the bed sleeping soundly. She gave Quinn an affectionate look and went inside the nursery. Isabella was awake and she carried her out from the crib, she looked at the time and it was 7:30 am. Rachel make a quick calculation on how she was going to budget her time; for the last 5 days all she wanted to do was crawl in her bed and sleep. She looked the baby in her arms and Bella smiled at her. Rachel's heart's melted when she saw the baby smiling at her.
For all the months since she left McKinley she never sang any songs at all and she wanted to sing for the baby to lull her back to sleep. Rachel started humming 'Mary had a little lamb'; after a few minutes Isabella fell back asleep. When she's sure that the baby was asleep she turned around to face Quinn who's sitting on the couch. She already felt Quinn's presence earlier but she didn't bother to look because she wanted to give her full attention to Bella.
"Hi" Rachel said while walking towards the blonde and sat beside her.
"Hey" Quinn said while looking at Rachel's eyes.
Before Quinn could say something else Rachel pulled her into a very searing yet passionate kiss. Quinn was caught off guard but was able to regain her composure right away; she responded to the kiss in a more intense manner. Rachel bit her lower lip and the brunette's tongue was trying to make an entrance that Quinn gladly accepted. For another minute there was a collision of tongues. Both girl's heads were spinning with intense passion and love for each other. Rachel pulled away to gasp some air and Quinn did the same.
"I miss you" Rachel broke her silence and nuzzled her head to Quinn's neck, pressing a gentle kiss on the blonde's delicate skin.
Quinn adjusted her position to be more comfortable, wrapped her arms around Rachel and placed a wet kiss on her cheek.
"I thought you were not coming home."
"Almost not" Rachel said tiredly.
Quinn felt Rachel's tired body against her and she looked at the brunette, her eyes looking gloomy.
Rachel tried to talk but she didn't have enough energy to do so. She looked at Quinn who's intently looking back at her and she just said "I love you."
"I love you too" Quinn replied. "You need to sleep Rach, you looked so tired."
"Will you be here when I wake up? "
"I'm not going anywhere; we need to transfer to my bed so you can sleep comfortably."
Quinn just received a slight nod from Rachel and helped her girlfriend to stand up. When Rachel felt the bed she immediately collapsed and brought Quinn on top of her. She let out a small giggle and said "As much I want to do this, I just can't. Let me take a rest for while" she placed a chaste kiss on Quinn's lips and dropped off to sleep.
Quinn tucked Rachel in, when she's sure that the brunette was comfortable she placed a soft kiss on her lips and left quietly to help Matthew and Lucas. Quinn went to the nursery room first before heading downstairs. She made sure that her daughter was sleeping soundly; she went back to her own room to get the baby alarm. Quinn glanced at her sleeping girlfriend, placed a gentle kiss on the brunette's cheek and left the room silently.
Quinn didn't notice that she was smiling all throughout until she reached the quite big kitchen and heard Matthew and Lucas' voice talking about Rachel.
"She's sleeping" she said. The couple looked at her worriedly.
"Is there something wrong?" she asked.
"We don't know yet" Lucas told her.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, Rachel doesn't look good at all" Matthew said with a worried tone.
"She looked exhausted, that's why I let her sleep first."
"That's one, but my gut is telling me something happened" the lawyer said.
Quinn looked at the couple and revisited her earlier vision. Well, Rachel looked really tired and sad but she thought it's only because of jetlag. She tried to ignore the nasty things running inside her head.
"We know Rachel, I'm sure everything is fine" Quinn said eventually.
Quinn and the Berry's tried everything to avoid the topic; every now and then one of the three went up to check on the sleeping brunette and Quinn's baby. No one bothered to wake up Rachel for lunch; they decided that the girl needed sleep more than food.
Around 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon while everyone was in the living room playing with Bella they heard someone rang the doorbell. The three adults looked at each other confusedly. They didn't expect any visitors at this time, for they never invited anyone to join them.
Lucas stood up to open the door but before he did so he looked thru the peephole and was surprised to see who was behind the door. Lucas opened the door and greeted the unexpected visitor.
"Good Afternoon" Lucas said.
"Good Afternoon, Mr. Berry?" the tall guy said.
"Yes I am, Lucas Berry" Lucas shook the hands of the two officers.
"Can we come in Mr. Berry?"
"Of course" Lucas fully opened the door and let them in.
Matthew stood up to greet their visitors and looked at his husband curiously when he saw the FBI agents walking inside.
"Is there something wrong?" Matthew asked.
"I'm not sure" Lucas said.
"My name is Matthew Berry" Matthew introduced himself.
"My name is Alyssa Duval. This is my partner Zandro Allister and we are from the FBI."
Quinn looked at the FBI agents, first with the girl who introduced herself as Alyssa then Zandro. She couldn't tell for sure what these people wanted with them. She picked up Bella and excused herself to go up stairs to let Bella sleep. Quinn also wanted to check on how Rachel was doing.
Lucas motioned the two to sit down on the love seat.
"What can we do for you?" Lucas said with his lawyer kind of voice.
"We are here for your daughter, Rachel Samantha Berry" Alyssa said.
Alyssa looked at the couple across from them. When they rescued Berry the girl never said anything, but they found out that the brunette's parents were hot shot personalities, as it was not that hard to find out.
"What about our daughter?" Matthew asked, trying to cool himself down.
"Listen, we know that she just arrived this morning after two weeks of no communication" Zandro said.
"How would you know that?" Lucas asked in a very formal voice.
"We brought her here this morning Dr. Berry" Alyssa said.
Matthew and Lucas looked at each other and said nothing.
"I'm quite sure you don't yet know what happened to her" Zandro instigated.
"What do you mean? Happened to her?" it was Quinn.
Right after she put Bella to sleep she just stayed at Rachel's side for a few minutes and decided to go downstairs when she heard her girlfriend's name. She couldn't help but to get curious.
"I'm sorry, it should be family members only" Zandro implied.
"No she can stay, she's our daughter's girlfriend" Matthew insisted.
"Okay then" Quinn sat beside Lucas and Matthew.
"When is the last time you talked to your daughter?" Alyssa asks.
"About a couple week ago" Matthew said.
"And what did she tell you then?"
"That she's with Louella. At that time they were heading to Austria, and then the phone was cut off."
"Did you try to talk to her again?"
"We tried but to no avail. We couldn't get through to her" Lucas said.
"And then what happened?" Zandro asks.
"We received a message from her saying that she will be home soon, that we don't have to worry about anything, and that everything is fine" Matthew said while looking at Quinn. They never said a word to Quinn due to Rachel's request.
"That was last week and now she's here, she arrived early this morning with her luggage. She told us she will explain later." Matthew said.
"I see" Alyssa said.
"Dr. Berry, Atty. Berry and…" Alyssa looked at the blonde because she wasn't able to remember her name.
"It's Quinn" the blonde said softly.
"We found Rachel and Louella in Morocco last week" Alyssa said. There was no easy way to break it to the brunette's parents.
"What? Wh—at do you mean in Morocco? My daughter's never been there. She went with her friend to Austria before she headed back here" Lucas said in a very calm voice. He needs to be strong, whatever that is.
Quinn gasped with the information and looked at Matthew who looked flabbergasted himself.
"We are aware of that Mr. Berry. When Rachel and her friend made it to Vienna they stumbled into something. Your daughter and her friend have good hearts; they helped someone that they thought needed their help but it was a trap. This time of the year white slavery is on the move. They are targeting students who are going back to their hometown and sell them to the highest bidder." Alyssa said.
Quinn stood up and said "you're not telling us that Rachel was there, no, no you must be mistaken" again Quinn looked at Alyssa and saw the agent's apologetic look. Quinn felt her world sink down; the mere thought of Rachel fighting for her life with those minions already felt like being stabbed by a dagger.
Matthew stood up to calm the blonde down, what's important was Rachel is with them right now. That was all that mattered now.
"Please continue" Lucas instructed the two agents.
"Louella and Rachel were being transported to the group safe house when it was safe to travel. They made a lot of stops; they stopped in the country and collected more girls until we tracked them down with the help of local police and Interpol. In Casablanca we had a nasty encounter with the group. We were able to save most of the girls but some of them were able to escape and the others remained abducted." Zandro looked at the 3 pairs of critical eyes before he continued. "Two of the other girls were your daughter and Louella. We lost track of them until last week. Rachel was able to contact the emergency number 177 and it's a good thing your daughter knew how to speak French and clearly understand everything that the police said."
Lucas touched his forehead, for it felt as if it would explode. He couldn't imagine how their daughter made it but he was very much grateful she did. Matthew eyes formed in tears, he felt the arm of his husband on his shoulder and silently squeezed it with his own. Though Quinn looked flustered, she didn't even know what to say; clearly she expected the worst but it seemed that Rachel made it, but they are not sure not until Rachel woke up.
"How did you know all this?" Quinn asks inquisitively.
"We have one undercover agent within their group". Zandro said.
"When we reached their hideout, we already heard various gunshots and loud screaming inside. We already expected the worst, but just as we were about to open the door we heard running footsteps. It was the remaining girls with your daughter and her friend; they were covered in blood and had guns in their hands. When they realized who we were they looked at us and threw throw the guns down. Your daughter said "they are all up on the second landing". Your daughter seldom talked to anyone; she only talked with Louella when they were being brought to the hospital. They stayed at the general hospital in Morocco and they were transported back to Vienna per your daughter's request." Alyssa said eyeing the brunette's parents.
"What happened to Louella?" Quinn asked.
"Louella was the same as Rachel; they only talked to each other when we reached Vienna. One of our agents escorted Louella to her home in Sussex but Rachel wanted to make sure that her friend was safe, so she decided to travel to England also. Rachel and Louella are the only two people who weren't afraid. If you could just see the other girls, all of them are experiencing trauma. They will be big witnesses in this case. That's why we are here; we need to get her statement. We thought that since she's home now she'll probably tell us what really happened during their abduction." Alyssa said hopeful.
"Agent Alyssa, you just told us that our only daughter got kidnapped and you guys were able to rescue them and you want our daughter's statement for that matter. If our daughter wanted to talk about it she would've the first time she got a chance but if she didn't say anything to you guys it only means one thing. She doesn't want to talk about it" Lucas said while getting up from his chair.
"I believe we are through here, I don't want to be rude but it would be better if you would leave now" Quinn said irately.
"You don't understand we need your daughter's statement to finish this case. Rachel and Louella are the only persons who can help us, we already have some statements but we need your daughter's statement to solidify everything. Mr. Berry, I know you understand what we need and I may not know exactly how you feel right now but we need your daughter's help to put those bastards behind bars. Rachel isn't 18 yet and she can't decide on her own right now but we need to put an end to this, we don't want other girls to experience what your daughter experienced in the hands of those devils." Alyssa said.
Quinn looked at Alyssa. The lady was about 5'8 tall and had a very athletic body with a very prominent feature. She's not pure American though it seems she's like Ameriasian; her presence was very commanding. On the other hand Zandro looked like a boxer with a happy face.
Matthew, Lucas and Quinn looked at each other and all nodded silently.
"We will try to talk to her, but if our daughter does not want to talk about it we are not pushing her, understood?" Matthew asked the two agents.
"Fair enough," Alyssa said and continued "you can contact me at this number." She handed over her card "are you still going to send your daughter to TASIS after this tragedy?" Alyssa momentarily.
"We don't know yet, we will let her decide. Why did you ask?" Lucas said eventually.
"Just if she decided to go back we will need to contact the school to double up their security. Most of the Americans who have money to send their daughter somewhere always choose that school." Zandro said.
"Thank you Agent Duval and Agent Allister" the Berrys said.
"Happy Holidays" the two agents said.
"Happy Holidays" the Berry and Quinn said in unison.
Lucas and Matthew walked the two agents to their door and one more time said their goodbyes.
The couple reclaimed their previous position and Quinn sat down across from them.
"We will wait until Rachel tells us about this; we are not going to pressure her regarding this issue. I've asked Agent Duval to send us Rachel's medical test results. I want to make sure that she's okay." Matthew said.
Lucas looked at Quinn who's very much silent; Quinn felt the gaze of Lucas and looked at him.
'You know that she's okay right?" Lucas assured her.
"Yeah I know it's just that why does she experience these things? It's our entire fault. If only all of us in Glee were nice to her she would not have decided to leave in the first place" Quinn said sadly.
"Oh honey, it isn't anyone's fault. Things happen because they do, there are reasons for everything. All we have to do now is to be strong for Rachel, especially you sweetie. Bella is there, she can easily cope for sure."
"What about the agents?" Quinn asked.
"We will get there, one step at a time." Matthew and Lucas stood up and hugged her.
"We love you Quinn, you know that right?"
"Yes, I love you too; you guys were more than a father than my own father."
Quinn went back up stairs to check on her two ladies. When she reached her room and found an empty bed she almost panicked. She went immediately to the nursery room and to her relief she saw Rachel and her daughter playing on the bed beside the crib. Quinn walked to the bed, sat down beside the brunette and kissed her which the brunette responded immediately.
"Hi."
"Hello."
"Aren't you hungry? You've been sleeping for more than 10 hours."
"I'm aware" Rachel just glanced at Quinn and gave her full attention to the little blonde in her arms.
"She has Puck's eyes, but she looks like you."
"Yeah, Rach are you okay?"
Rachel stiffened at the question but she remained calm, she didn't want the blonde to get worried.
"I'm just tired" she smiled weakly.
"So I need to feed you then you can go back to sleep."
"What about Bella?"
"Puck will be here any minute, today is Friday. This is his time for his daughter."
"I see" she gave Bella to Quinn and stood up.
"I'll just take a shower and I'll go down."
Rachel eyed Quinn while the blonde was changing her daughter. When Quinn put Bella down in her crib she's about to turn around when she felt two strong arms around her waist.
"I miss you Quinn."
Quinn turned around and looked at Rachel. Rachel's eyes were sad, the bubbly brunette whose eyes are always smiling is long gone, since this morning she can't see that look in her girlfriend's eyes anymore.
"I miss you too" she placed a soft kiss to the brunette lips but the soft kiss goes deeper, Quinn pulled Rachel closer so she could have a proper access to the brunette. Rachel's right hands were touching Quinn's lower body while the other was tracing her jaw line. Quinn felt that she's going to explode but it's not the right time to do this, she can't be weak right now. Before she can even pull away Rachel already did to breathe some air and placed a chaste kiss on her lips.
"I love you, but I need to take that shower" Quinn was already laughing when Rachel left the nursery room; she knew that her girlfriend felt the same need that she felt.
Rachel looked at herself in her bathroom mirror and said to herself "everything will be okay, I'm home now". When she entered the shower she was already crying, she felt all her energy leave her body. She doesn't even know how she did it; if it weren't for Monica, both of them would be already dead. If Louella and Monica weren't there she didn't even know if she could made it to this day seeing Isabella, Quinn and her fathers. She stayed alive because of them; she didn't want to die without seeing Isabella. She saw what happened to the other girls and she said to herself that she'd rather die than be used by those bastards. Rachel didn't notice that she'd been punching the wall with her clenched fist until she saw a red liquid dripping from her hands, she silently cursed herself.
Rachel stayed for a little while more under the shower until she heard her lover's voice outside the door.
"Just a sec."
Quinn was waiting patiently outside the door, Puck already picked up Bella so that's why she decided to check on Rachel.
When Rachel opened the door Quinn was leaning against the wall.
When Quinn saw Rachel in her bathrobe she scanned the brunette and saw that the brunette was crying due to her puffy eyes and hoarse voice. Rachel looked at her and gave her a weak smile; Quinn looked at Rachel's hand and saw it was covered by a towel. Unconsciously she grabbed Rachel's hand and looked at it.
"Honey, what happened?" Quinn voiced out her concern. Quinn pulled Rachel towards the brunette's couch. She then grabbed the first aid kit inside the bathroom's medicine cabinet.
Rachel eyed Quinn's every movement and suddenly she asked the blonde "Do you love me Quinn?"
Quinn looked at Rachel, confused but she answered anyway "Yes Rachel, I love you more than you know."
"What if I was broken, would still love me?"
Quinn felt a surge of panic with their conversation but she would be patient. She continued to clean the wound while answering the brunette's question.
"Even if you're broken, even if you can't sing anymore, even you can't talk; I would still love you Rachel Berry."
"Why?"
"Because I was stupid not to know that I had feelings for you, and that's why I've been awful to you to cover it up." Quinn took Rachel's face in both hands and said "Look at me."
Rachel looked at Quinn and she saw the overwhelming emotion in the blonde's eyes.
"I love you, I'll be damned if I will lose you" Quinn place a reassuring kiss on the brunette's lips. She continued to dress Rachel's knuckles.
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"For loving me. Why don't you come with me to Switzerland?" Rachel asked eventually.
Quinn was surprised by the brunette's question, but she answered in a manner that Rachel would not feel disappointed.
"Baby, you know I want to be with you, right?" Rachel only nodded.
"But you also know that I can't" Rachel looked at Quinn's eyes.
"If you're thinking about the money, you don't have to worry about that."
"Rach, it's not about that. Your family has already given me a lot that I could wish for. I don't want to abuse your family's kindness over me."
"So what's the problem then?"
"I can't take away Bella from Puck, he's the father and I want Puck to be a part of Bella's life." Quinn looked at Rachel and saw the latter was about to cry. Quinn got up from the floor and sat beside Rachel. She took the diva's hands and interlaced their fingers together.
"Do you understand?"
Rachel looked at Quinn and she knew any moment she was about to cry but she tried not too, at least not in front of Quinn.
"Yeah I do, I think we need to go down now, I'll just change". Rachel looked at the back of her hands and it was neatly done. Before she stood up she looked at Quinn and placed a chaste kiss on blonde's lips.
Quinn eyed her girlfriend; she will be patient until the girl speaks up about what happened. When she was about to leave the room she heard the phone rang. It was a ring tone of Keep Holding On, the song that they used to sing before sectionals. Quinn was contemplating if she would answer it; her curiosity overpowered her and took the phone from Rachel's purse. She looked at the screen and saw Louella's name.
Quinn knocks on Rachel's bathroom door and said "Rach, Louella's on the phone? Shall I answer?"
"Go ahead; I'll be out in a few"
"Hello."
"Hi, is this Quinn?"
"Yeah"
"Oh thank God."
"Look Quinn, I've been trying to call Rachel since this morning and hoping you would answer" Louella said in her heavy British accent.
"Why?"
"I needed to talk to you about Rachel" Louella said worriedly.
"Is there any problem?"
"Well, it depends."
"Rachel is about to come out from her bathroom. I can't talk behind her back, you know that."
"Blimey! Does she tell you anything?"
"No, not yet"
"Okay, if she's still not talking by tomorrow I will talk on her behalf. She's been like that since….." Louella became silent.
"Since what?" Quinn asks worriedly.
"Never mind, can you do me a favor? Let me know if she tells you something."
"O—okay, I'll just give you a call" Quinn will find Louella's number when Rachel is asleep.
"Yeah."
Rachel came out from her bathroom wearing a pair of pajamas and a pink paper t-shirt and saw Quinn still talking on the phone. She felt disarray upon seeing her girlfriend having a bedazzled look all over her face.
"Louella, Rachel is here; I'll pass the phone to her."
"Okay, Bye Quinn."
"Bye." Quinn handed the phone to Rachel and said "I'll be right down" and kissed the brunette's cheek.
"Hey."
"Hi."
"How you been?"
"I didn't tell them anything yet."
"Why?"
"I don't know how to."
"It was self defense, Rach and you know that!" Louella said.
"It was, but I still feel his gaze."
"Rach, you have to tell them, you owe them that. If you can't do it, I'll go right there and tell them myself."
Rachel felt the determination in her friend's voice.
"No, I will tell them, I just don't how. What will I say, hey guys, I was kidnapped and was able to escape because I killed a man and the FBI says it was self defense because I was protecting myself and my friends. Everything is fine now; I just have to give my whole statement, so it will be fine." Rachel said dejectedly.
"Bugger! Berry, listen to me, you've got to tell them! It will be easier; you don't have to carry that burden alone."
"Ell, how can I not carry that burden? The man that I shot, he had a family. He had two children whose ages are 8 and 10 who needed their father, but what did I do? I pulled the trigger, he shouldn't die. If only they made it to the hospital on time he would still be alive!" Rachel was already shouting.
"It will still be the same Rachel and you know that! If he survived that gun shot he'll end up in prison because of the ton of evidence against him. It's not your bloody fault, it was his time to die and you just saved his family from a prolonged misery if he ended up in prison for the rest of his good for nothing life! Now go talk to your family Rachel, you need them more than anything" Louella still tried to convince Rachel.
Rachel became silent after that long statement from her friend. Louella had a point, she always had a point and sometimes she hated it. She already proved that Louella is a very good friend who sticks to her no matter what, its friendship and Monica wherever she is, she knows she's happy now.
"Rach, are you still there?"
"Yeah, I just remember…"
"Monica" Ell cut her off.
"Yeah"
"Rach, Monica made a choice to save us all and it was very noble."
"I know. I wanted to visit her family in Indonesia. They deserved to know what happened to her."
"But I think the FBI will do that."
"Yes they will, but I think it would be better if I told them myself. For the last two weeks that we were there she became our friends Ell, I can't imagine that she'd been there for over a year and she survived those awful times."
"Rach, everyone had their own motivation why they wanted to stay alive considering the amount of cruelty that they were facing every time. For Monica it was her family, for you its Quinn, Bella and your fathers, you see Rach everyone has their own reason. Monica died a hero Rach and we will always remember her no matter what."
"The more I need to see her family to tell them that."
They fell both silent.
"Okay I'll go with you then."
"You sure?"
"Yeah, can we do this after the New Year?"
"Ell that's too long, two days from now it's already Christmas. We would have to wait one more week for that."
"So what do you suggest we do then?"
"The day after Christmas we'll go there, and then head back before New Year's Eve to be with our families."
"Okay, that makes sense. I'll just have to ask my parents to let me go."
"Okay, I need to do the same. I need to go down now; I'm kind of starving."
"You have very impeccable timing, Berry."
"I know" she said while smiling.
"Seriously Rach tell them, it will help you to cope."
"I will" she said finally.
"Good then, I'll keep you posted. Bye Berry and Happy Holidays."
"Happy Holidays McDermott."
When she tossed the phone on her bed she heard footsteps outside her door. The first person she could think of was Quinn, but shrugged off the idea of Quinn hearing the conversation, but it came back again when she saw the door was slightly open. Rachel took a deep breath and decided it's now or never.
When Rachel arrived on the first landing, she noticed that the whole house was decorated with Christmas adornments. It's been a tradition in their family to celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah. She heard her family's voices in the kitchen; she walked towards them and saw Quinn and her fathers discussing serious matters. She tried to make a sound to catch their attention.
Everyone looked in unison at Rachel. Matthew was able to recover first and pulled Rachel into a tight embrace and kissed her forehead, which Lucas did the same.
Quinn walked towards Rachel and gave her a kiss.
"Hi."
"Hi."
"So everyone is here, we can start our dinner then" Lucas announced.
Quinn and Rachel's fathers prepared the dining table, she tried to help but her father told her not to, she just sat on the high chair and eyed as everyone else moved. When everything was prepared Quinn called Rachel to come out from the kitchen. It wasn't a bad dinner at all, each one of them sharing their stories; she told them about Lacrosse, her new school and friends. Rachel has a gut feeling that her fathers and Quinn were waiting for some more, she tried to avoid the inevitable but she just can't. Louella was right, she needs to do this.
After they finished all the dishes, Rachel and Quinn walked hand in hand towards the living room and sat across Lucas and Mathew who were watching Moulin Rouge.
"Can we talk now?" Rachel said.
The three others looked at each other and smiled at Rachel. Lucas turned off the TV and settled comfortably beside Matthew while his husband's arm was placed around his shoulder.
Quinn did the same; she grabbed Rachel's hands and interlaced them together with hers. Rachel's hands were cold; Quinn tried to rub them to make some warmth.
"Okay baby, what do you want to talk about?" Matthew said patiently.
"I killed someone" Rachel finally said.