The doctors told Will to stay in the hospital for a few more days but Will didn't listen. He had things to do, a life to catch up on. He changed out of his hospital gown into the same button-down shirt, pair of brown pants, and vest that he had been wearing on the day he was admitted to the hospital. It was a good thing his fashion sense had stayed the same over the past three years. Luckily for Will, Lima wasn't a big town, and the hospital was fairly close to William McKinley High School, and definitely within walking distance.
Will walked through the doors of McKinley, and it was like he had never left. The smell of slushies, the cheerleaders who wore their uniforms all day, even the smaller kids getting slammed into lockers by jocks was a familiar sight. Will Schuester was home.
"Excuse me, sir. Do you have a visitor's pass?"
Will whirled around. It was Sam Evans, the blond kid who sang in the glee club. He was carrying a mop and a bucket.
"Sam! How's it going?"
"Do I know you?"
It hit Will like a ton of bricks. Sam had never met him. Will had remembered Sam transferring at the beginning of the second year that he taught glee club. But that was all in Will's head. When Sam had transferred to McKinley, Will was lying in a hospital bed.
"No. No, you don't know me. My name is Will Schuester."
"Well, Mr. Schuester, you had better get a visitor's pass, or I'll have to ask you to leave."
"You'll have to ask me to leave? You can't do that! You're just a student!"
"How many students do you know that carry around a mop and a bucket?"
"You're a janitor?"
"That's right. I used to be a student here, but my dad lost his job and I had to drop out of school and take up this job to support my family. I couldn't even afford to buy my own clothes."
"I thought the glee club helped you out. Kurt brought you clothes…and-"
"Who's Kurt? And I was never in the glee club!"
"But I thought Finn recruited you!"
"Finn Hudson? We used to play football together. He never mentioned glee club to me. I think you have me confused with somebody else."
"Finn…never mentioned glee club? But-"
And then another ton of bricks hit him. Finn joined the glee club because Will had blackmailed him into it. But Will wasn't there to blackmail him because he was in a coma. And if Finn didn't join, Quinn wouldn't have joined. And if Quinn didn't join, neither would Santana or Brittany. Or Puck, or Mike Chang, or Matt Rutherford, or...
Will started running.
Sam shouted after him. "Hey! Come back here!"
But Will didn't stop. He kept running until he got to the choir room.