Santana could swear that in the moment she heard Brittany and Quinn yell her name while she was getting ready to kill the guy who had slushied Rachel, her heart stopped beating and she stopped breathing. Something about the tones of their voices and the situation they were currently in made her know what was about she was about to see. She turned around with her eyes closed. As she slowly opened them, she saw what she was expecting, but that didn't scare her any less. She saw Melody openly crying, Brittany (unsuccessfully) attempting to hold back tears, and Quinn with tears streaming down her face with an extremely worried and extremely angry expression. Then she saw Rachel. Her front covered with slushie, she looked frightened. For a second, Santana hoped, believed that Rachel was ok. At least, until her eyes dropped down for a second and saw a red puddle. She tried to pretend that it was slushie, but it was hard, especially when the front of Rachel's shirt was stained blue. Suddenly, everything that had happened connected in Santana's mind. Santana ran down the hall to her sister, running faster than she had ever run before in her entire life. Even during the soccer game when Melody sprained her neck and was unconscious. At least then, there hadn't been any blood. When Santana reached the group, Quinn gently pulled Rachel off of the wall, revealing an extremely sharp chip in the wall where Rachel had hit her head when she was pushed into the wall. The puddle on the floor at Rachel's feet was slowly enlarging and when Santana took a closer look, most of the puddle was behind Rachel, which worried Santana. She took a look at the back of Rachel's head. What she saw made her want to throw up. There was a lot of blood clogged up at the wound. Melody took off her jacket for Santana to cover the open wound on Rachel's head with. Santana screamed at Puck to call 911. As his friend made the call, Finn punched Eric in the face, causing the boy to grab his nose and scream in pain. After Puck hung up, he and Puck ran over to the girls. Santana was sitting on the ground holding a now unconscious Rachel, sobbing, begging her to wake up. Melody was next to her. Brittany was no longer trying to hide her tears and so was Quinn, who was bending down to brush some hair out was Santana's face. At that moment, Santana broke down, crying for the first time. Quinn pulled the sobbing girl into a hug, as much of a hug as could occur without Santana losing her hold on Rachel. It was enough to make Quinn cry, if she hadn't already been. She'd been friends with Santana since the two of them had been in day care together, and she had only seen the girl cry once, when they were little and Rachel had gotten extremely sick and was in the hospital for weeks and, at one point, the doctors had given up hope completely. But Santana never cried. She just didn't. She got angry, mad, furious. She yelled at people and hit them and tormented people who hurt the ones she cared about. But she never cried. That wasn't how Santana Lopez did things. To Santana, crying was weak. That was why she never did it. Santana knew she was a lot of things, but weak wasn't one of them. If she started to tear up, she would mentally chastise herself for almost allowing that to happen. But right now, Santana did not appear to care about all that. Not that anyone was going to remind Santana Lopez that she thought crying was weak. Even Eric was not that stupid. She was the Santana Lopez, after all. When she was done crying, she'd make your life so miserable, you would be bawling and wondering what on Earth had possessed you to say that to her. In the back of her mind, Santana was hoping Eric would say something about it, just to have yet another reason to torment him. Not that the reason in front of wasn't enough. It was definitely enough. Nobody hurts Santana's friends and family and gets away with it. And especially not her sisters. If people thought she was protective over Melody, she was even more protective of Rachel. Thinking about it, she found it quite odd that that's how it was, considering she hid Rachel from most of her friends for fourteen years. Suddenly, Santana could not wait for all this to be over, but not just so that Rachel would be okay. She wanted to have some peace and quiet to figure out what she was going to do to Eric for causing this.

"Tiny! Please wake up! Please just do this one thing for me. If you wake up everything will be fine, I promise. You just have to wake up! Come on, Rach! Please! It will all be over after you wake up! That is all you have to do, baby." Santana cried to her unconscious baby sister. If she was not so scared, Santana would have been shaking with anger. Finn sat down behind his girlfriend with his arms wrapped protectively around her shoulders, probably in attempt to make her feel better, even though he knew that was not a possibility right now. Not until Rachel was okay. Finn did notice, however, she did relax very slightly under his touch. So slight that he almost did not notice. Puck sat on Quinn's other side, doing the same. Both guys were trying to appear tough by not crying, but when they made eye contact with each other, they both silently agreed that it was proving to be an impossible task. Puck was the first to break down, quickly followed by Finn. Brittany was on Melody's other side, attempting to hold the girl back from running towards Eric, who was still at the other end of the hall clutching his nose.

"You did this to her! You hurt Rachel!" Melody yelled. Brittany almost lost her hold on the girl, which in turn caused Eric to run. When Melody got angry, you could see where living with Santana her entire life had rubbed off. She was downright terrifying. Some might even say more terrifying than Santana at times. "You coward! There is no point in running! You cannot hide forever!" she yelled, once more attempting to get out of Brittany's hold before giving in and collapsing into the blonde's hug, sobbing.

"The ambulance is on its way, San." Puck said softly while trying to stop crying. The girl simply nodded in response, the only acknowledgement that she'd heard him.

"Tiny. Please. Come on Rach. Wake up." She whispered. She looked at Quinn, who could see the worry in her eyes. Gone was the anger towards Eric. While Quinn knew it would return, she knew that the only thing on Santana's mind was Rachel.

"S! Q! B! I heard screaming and crying, which means pain, which means entertainment for me. I hope I have not missed anything." Coach Sylvester walked towards them. When her eyes saw Rachel, she immediately softened. "Has someone called an ambulance for her?"

Santana nodded.

"Who is this girl?" Sue could see a tiny resemblance between Santana and the girl.

"My sister." Santana whispered. Sue remembered hearing about Santana's warning from lunch.

Sue started to ask who was responsible, when suddenly they heard sirens. "I will go tell them where you are." Sue said, running off to the parking lot. Soon the hallway was filled with paramedics. Santana allowed separation from Rachel long enough for them to put her on the stretcher then she was right back at her side. When they got to the ambulance, they were told only one could ride with her. It was unnecessary to talk about it. Santana was going to be the one riding in the ambulance with Rachel. Quinn would drive Brittany and Melody in her car, Puck (who usually rode in with Quinn and Brittany since they all lived next door to each other) would drive Santana's car, with Finn following in his own car. Right before the paramedics moved to lift the stretcher into the ambulance, Santana thought she saw the small girl move.

"Rachel?" Santana stopped the paramedics and looked at her sister. "Tiny, if you can hear me, please squeeze my hand. Come on estrella!" Santana suddenly felt a very distinct squeeze. "I "Oh my god…I think…She's…Oh my god…I think….I think she's awake! She squeezed my hand! Munchkin, come on! Rachel, please if you can hear me say something!"

"San?" Rachel was barely able to get it out.

"We need to get her to the hospital now." One of the paramedics said.

Santana nodded. "Rach, baby, we are gonna take you to the doctor now, ok? You will feel better soon, I promise."

Rachel attempted to nod as the paramedics put her into the ambulance.

"We will meet you there, S." Quinn said as Santana got into the ambulance. Santana nodded.

"Thanks Q."

The ride to the hospital was very emotional. While Santana was happy her sister was awake, alive, it also meant that she had to feel the pain from the injury, pain she did not have to feel if she was unconscious. She started crying from the pain, which caused Santana to almost cry. But she did not because she wanted to be strong for Rachel. As they took her baby sister into the operating room, Santana crashed into one of the highly uncomfortable chairs in the waiting room. She had been sitting all of thirty seconds before she heard her name. She looked up to see Dr. Lopez.

"Robert!"

Her stepfather looked extremely worried as he looked at her clothing. Santana looked down to see her Cheerios uniform covered in blood.

"That is not mine." Santana said.

"Ok. That is a relief, I suppose. But whose is it?" her stepfather asked.

"Rachel's. She's hurt, Robert. Really bad." Santana began to cry again.

Dr. Lopez turned to the nearest nurse. "Page Dr. Leroy Berry. Now. Tell him to come find me ASAP."

A few minutes passed before Santana saw her dad. He did not see her at first, since he was looking at papers.

"Robert, did you need me?" Leroy looked up to see his oldest daughter. "Santana? What happened? Are you alright? Why are you covered in blood?"

"Dad, I am fine. But Rachel is not." Santana began to launch into the whole story, watching her father and step-father's reactions go bounce from worried to angry every five seconds. When she had finished, Robert looked at Leroy. "I will call Mary and tell her to come to the hospital. She can bring Hiram with her. I do not think he should drive after hearing that story. I would not be able to. But he should know why he is being called to the hospital." Leroy was only able to nod before attempting to go to the operating room.

"Leroy, we will just have to wait. It should not be too much longer of a wait." Robert said before asking where Melody was. Santana opened her mouth to tell him that Melody, along with Quinn, Brittany, Puck, and Finn, were on the way to the hospital when the group walked in, along with something nobody expected. Sue Sylvester entered the hospital clearly still worried. Will Schuester, the Glee Club coach soon followed. They both immediately asked about Rachel and her condition. Sue informed the group that Eric was found and was being dealt with by both the principal and the police. That piece of information really shocked everyone. Robert checked on Melody, said hello to the others, before excusing himself to call his wife. Shortly after, he came back.

"Mary and Hiram are on their way." He said. Everyone sat down to wait.