Her black hair flicked as she walked side to side, her arms folded across the cheerleader's uniform as she looked around school. Tina was ready for the battle. She walked around the corridors and she saw the blonde hair she knew too well. She rushed up to Quinn pulling her around viciously. 'Hey, what was that for?' Quinn shouted at him as she was dragged away from her corridor.

'Like you don't know!' Tina spat at her, it hit Quinn's face and Rachel just walked around the corner.

'What's going on?' She said looking at the two and Quinn glared at Tina.

Tina looked at Rachel smiling. 'Eww, it looks like you've got something on your face.' She said turning back to Quinn. 'Should go wash it off.' She turned to leave and Quinn lunged at her pinning her up again the lockers on the other side of the corridor. Everyone stopped and stared at them as Rachel tried to drag Quinn back.

'You back off!' She shouted at Tina.

'Make me!'

Quinn slammed her against the lockers again and Tina winced. 'You don't come near me! Or my friends. Got that?' She screamed 'Or next time you will be dead.' She chucked Tina to the floor walking off. Rachel walked after Quinn as Tina sat on the floor laughing to herself.

*l

Santana pulled the chair out from her desk in the lone classroom. Something fell to the floor as she picked it up she knew she'd regret it. 'I have a gift for you. Q' Santana looked down at the note confused and scared. She sat down as the bell rang the room seemed suddenly full.

'Hey, San.' The familiar Irish accent sounded next to her.

She took a deep breath turning to him and smiling. 'Hello, Rory.'

He sat down next to her as she opened her book. Santana never knew why but she always hated Spanish, but she was dreading it more for how weird Mr Schue was acting the other day. She looked up as he walked in. 'Feet off the desk, Finn.' He said pointing to a tall guy in the corner. Santana's desk sat in the middle at the back off the class like she liked it, able to hide away. 'Put you're books away guys!' He said smiling around at the class before writing on the bored 'Pop quiz'

'Well this should be fun.' Rory smiled at Santana. She smiled too as she chucked her book in her bag, as she opened her bag a picture flashed out of it. She went to pick it up and she saw it was of Quinn. She tucked the photo away quickly zipping her bag up. She sat up looking around as she brushed the strand of hair which always liked to attach itself to her mouth.

'Ok, let's start.' He said looking at the class and lifted up his hands indicating the two sides of the room would be on different teams and one person from each team would go up and have to beat the other to guess the meaning of the word correctly. 'Ok, Finn and … Mel.' He said as they sat at the desk opposite each other. 'Ok what does … Amor mean?'

Mel was quick to thrust her hand up but Santana thought it was a bit easy. 'To love!' She shouted excitedly and Santana rolled her eyes.

'Correct! One point to your team.' He smiled at them. Finn joined Santana's team again as Mel joined the opposite side. 'Chrissie and Tom.' Mr Schue said from the front of the classroom. Santana glanced over and caught his eye he smiled at her slightly before she looked away. 'The meaning of Cocinar?' He said in what was supposed to be a mischievous tone.

'To cook?' Chrissie asked.

'Correct!' He shouted again. 'Drawing so far.' He said smiling, Santana thought she was the only one who thought this was such a pointless class when her name was called. She sat down at the front desk not bothering to listen to Mr Schue when she found herself face to face with Tina.

-l

Rachel sat on the table in the courtyard marking pages in her book getting ready for her exams. She smiled to herself as she listened to her iPod, not seeing as Brittany appeared in front of her. Rachel looked up worried realising it was Brittany she relaxed taking her headphones out and pausing the music. 'Hey, Britt.'

'Hey, what you listening to?' She said sitting down opposite her.

Rachel smiled down at the iPod. ' 'The Time of My Life' I swear Quinn and I watched that film a hundred times one summer.' She looked up smiling at her.

Brittany smiled. 'Speaking of Quinn get any messages from our friend 'Q''

'I wouldn't call them that,' Rachel said putting her book away. 'But no I haven't, have you?'

'Not yet.' She said looking down at her hands. 'Santana told me Mr Schue asked her if she wanted to talk about Quinn.'

'Mr Schue? As in the Spanish teacher?' Rachel said looking confused.

'Yeah him.'

'Did they even know each other?' Rachel said wrapping the headphones around her iPod.

'Apparently so, he asked her to go out and talk about her. She said she'll take me along.' She smiled.

Rachel smiled too. 'Well it might be a good thing, talk about feelings.' She laughed as did Brittany.

-l

'Ok, girls…. The meaning of mortar.' Mr Schue said looking at them. They just stared each other in the eyes and Tina's mouth formed as smile as she said.

'To kill.' She laughed slightly as she said it doing her irritating innocent act. Santana stared wide eyed at her and then she got up sitting with her team again. She looked over to Tina who smiled at her again.

*l

She could hear shouts coming from the corridor as she walked down the stairs. 'Get out you freak!' Quinn shouted as she slammed the door.

'Quinn, are you ok?' She looked at her seeing a small scratch on her cheek.

She smiled 'I'm fine, San. Nothing to worry about.'

'Who was that?' She said looking at the door.

'Who do you think? Wanted to crash the party didn't she. Stupid bitch.' She said angrily. 'But she's gone. So, time for some fun.' Quinn winked grabbing Santana's hand and pulling her back into the living room where the group were laughing and drinking. Santana sat down next to Brittany as she watched Quinn walk over to the blonde guy, Sam. She looked at him before leaning down and making out with him. Santana watched for a few seconds before looking away.

*l

'Do you think this is the best idea?' Sugar said as they all walked up the drive arm in arm.

'She practically invited me around the other day.' Rachel smiled. 'I don't think she wants to go through Quinn's stuff alone.'

Brittany looked at them. 'What makes you think I do?'

'Look there may be something in her room that could help us with this whole 'Q' thing and we may find out why Mr Schue and Tina are so interested in her.' Rachel said as she rang the door bell. They were only waiting about 10 seconds before Judy opened the door looking flustered but she smiled at them.

'Hello girls.' She said.

'Hi, we came to help with Quinn's room.' Rachel smiled at her.

Judy sighed. 'Of course, of course I completely forgot sorry. Come in, come in!' She said opening the door wider and letting the girls in. 'Nice seeing you again.' She said placing a hand on Brittany's shoulder.

'Can we go up then?' Rachel turned to her.

'Of course, you know where everything is.' She smiled at them and watched as they went up the stairs.

They walked up the stairs and into her room. It was as if she never left it the bed was still made with her favourite cushions surrounding her head board. 'What now?' Sugar said looking at the rest.

'We look through things, wardrobe, under the bed. Take stuff you want to remember her by too.' Rachel smiled at the girls. They began searching through things but with no avail. At one moment Santana thought she heard the door slam but then heard the TV on downstairs and dismissed it.

'Hey, guys!' Brittany said looking into the bin. She picked up a photo putting it on the bed. They all looked at it closely seeing Quinn standing rather closely to Mr Schue.

'They looked more than friends.' Santana said disgusted.

Rachel picked it up looking at it closely and could see that Mr Schue's hand was around Quinn's hips. 'Rachel …' Sugar said looking at the back of the picture. She turned it around reading the message on the back. Scrawled in red pen read: Die bitch, die. Rachel dropped the photo in shock looking down at the picture. She looked up at the rest of the group scared.

*l

Santana walked upstairs needing the toilet and wanting to escape the noise from the downstairs. As she passed Quinn's room she could hear someone crying. She paused by the door before deciding to go in. Sat on the bed was Rory. He looked up at Santana as she walked in and he brushed his eyes trying to remove the tears. 'Hey, San.' He said.

'Hey,' She said sitting next to him. 'What's wrong?' she said looking around the room which was completely overturned. Pillows lay scattered across the room and a mirror lay broken against the wall.

'Nothing…' He said and looked as Santana looked around the room. 'I … I found it like this, I dunno what happened.' He said sniffing slightly. 'You can go I'll be fine.' He said looking up at her.

She looked back down at him. 'Are you ok?'

'Yeah, I'm fine… and I know you need to go because you do that face every time in Spanish before you run out at the end and go to the restroom.' He laughed slightly and she laughed too.

'Fine, I'll go. Be careful ok.' She said smiling down at him.

'I will.' He smiled back.

*l

Santana stood up looking to the corner of the room she could still make out bits of glass scattered on the floor. 'You know that party Quinn had like two weeks before all this.' She said turning around to them and they all nodded. 'Well when I was going to the bathroom I heard Rory crying, he was in here and the room was a complete tip. I had no idea what happened and he said he found it like that.'

'Yeah?' Sugar said looking at her expectantly.

'After I walked back downstairs, Quinn was throwing someone out of her house…'

'Rory?' Brittany asked.

'… no Tina. Quinn said she had gate crashed. And she was calling her a freak and everything. I think Tina snuck into Quinn's room and then found this picture, she wrote on the back of it hating her already and tipped the room. Quinn finds her later and chucks her out of the house. Tina threatens Will … I mean, Mr Schue and he thinks Quinn told her.' Santana had started passing.

'But Mr Schue knew Quinn and Tina hated each other … everyone did.' Sugar said looking at her.

Santana fiddled with her fingers. 'What if like we said … they were more than friends. He could have thought Quinn was gloating to Tina and so Tina goes and tells him. And he goes and meets Quinn to make sure no one else finds out.' Santana said stopping and looking at the group.

'Santana, what are you saying?' Rachel looked up at her.

Santana sighed. 'Maybe we've been suspecting the wrong person. I think Mr Schue killed Quinn.'