Safe at Last

Rachel and Brittany were ushered to the hospital right away. They were met outside the building by the paramedics and driven straight to Lima's one and only hospital, where the entire glee club along with their teacher and Miss Pillsbury, were waiting for them. They were looked at by one of the doctors and then given a double room so that they wouldn't be alone. They were fine physically, but the doctors found that they were severely undernourished and were making them stay in the hospital for a few days until they were healthy again. 'Why did you do it Rachel?' Brittany asked, once the nurses had finished getting them settled in. 'Do what?'

'Why did you take me away from her?' Brittany was crying, upset about leaving Santana behind.

'Because she asked me to Brit, she needed you to be safe.'

'But, she was so hurt and Quinn, she…' Brittany looked at Rachel with wide blue eyes.

'I know, she's with her Brit. They have each other.' Rachel smiled, and then some visitors walked in.

'Hey guys,' Mr Schu greeted them, followed by the glee club. Rachel was actually surprised that all of them had been allowed in. 'Hey.' Rachel and Brittany responded in unison.

'Are your parents here yet?'

'Yeah, they came and saw us, but wanted to go get some things so they could stay the night with us.' Rachel informed them, and Mr Schu nodded. 'Are you alright?' Finn asked, putting his hand on Rachel's shoulder. 'Yeah,' she nodded, 'We're okay.' She looked over at Brittany, who still had tears in her eyes. 'So, Quinn and Santana?' Puck asked nervously.

'They, he… he, still has them.' Rachel said, looking down at the floor.

'What the hell happened guys?' Artie asked, wheeling in front of the two beds. The girls looked at each other once more, and Rachel told them all that had happened. From their car breaking down, to the guys that found them, and about Santana.

'What, she was, what?' Tina, and all of them, couldn't believe it.

'We think so. None of us saw what happened and she didn't want to talk about it. But,' Rachel started to cry, 'Mr Schu he kept hurting her, really badly.'

'Hey, it's okay,' Mr Schu said, sitting on the end of her bed. Mercedes had moved to sit next to Brittany and was holing her hand, whilst the guys had formed a semi-circle around them. 'Santana caused the distraction that allowed us to get out. She protected us Mr Schu.' He nodded.

'Okay, what about Quinn, is she alright?' Sam asked.

'Yeah, I think so. We all look like this though, lack of food and sleep and stuff, but he never physically hurt her.'

'She took all the hits for us Mr Schu, Santana, she took every single one.' Brittany finally spoke, 'and I just left her there with him.' None of them knew what to say to that, or had any idea really about how to comfort them. They had experienced something no one should have to experience. And if you add on the guilt of leaving friends behind, when you know that they will be hurt even more, makes it a whole lot worse. 'Hey, B, don't do that okay.' Rachel smiled at her. 'Santana told us to run, she wanted us to be safe and she wanted to help make us safe.'

'Yeah, but I want her to be safe too.' Brittany cried. 'I cant bare to think about what he's doing to her and Quinn now. I'm not even going to be able to hold her when she cries, and comfort her when he puts his filthy hands on her.' Tears were dripping off of her chin now, and the heart of the glee club was breaking. This just wasn't right, it wasn't normal. Out of the whole town, four of their own had to be submitted to this torture and they wanted to know why. What kind of sick individual would do something like this. 'It's alright Brittany, Quinn is still with her, they'll make it through together.'

'How do you know that Mr Schu? They could be dead already.' Brittany stated bluntly, her blue eyes locking on his. 'I know that's not true Brittany, and you don't believe it either.'

'Yeah come on, they're two of the strongest chicks around, they will make it through this.' Puck assured them. 'Definitely.' Mike agreed, with Kurt and Lauren nodding in agreement.

'I know, I just,' Brittany broke down again. 'I just want to hold her again.'

'You will Brittany, I promise.' And that was the last thing Mr Schu said before visiting hours came to an end, and he escorted the glee kids out of the hospital, praying that his promise to Brittany would come true.