A/N: Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or any of its characters. Glee belongs to FOX and its creators.

Chapter 3;

She'd been finishing up her chemistry homework when Kelly Clarkson's "stronger" rang through the air. Absent mindedly she picked up her cell "Mercedes here."

"Miss Jones this is Dr. Forest." Her mind went blank for a moment at the sound of his voice. She'd talked to him more times than she ever cared for over the past three weeks. The worst being when he informed her after Quinn's spinal surgery that her friend for some reason had slipped into a coma. Originally the doctors had induced a coma to help Quinn heal from her vast and serious injuries, but they'd with drawn the medicine two days after the spinal surgery, that night Quinn had slipped into her own coma. The doctors weren't sure why, the dangerous swelling in her brain had disapated earlier in the week. The only guess Dr. Forest had was that Quinn's body needed to shut down to continue to heal. No one could predict if and when Quinn would wake up. Mercedes had prayed for the phone call that would tell her that Quinn was awake. Now that she heard Dr. Forest was actually calling she could only send up one more pray to God that this wasn't the phone call she feared most, that Quinn was gone forever.

"Yes, Dr. Forest can…can I help you?"

"Quinn is showing signs of waking up, her brain activity has increased over the last hour and she has actively responded to voices by squeezing her hands. We would appreciate it if you could come over and if you like inform Mrs. Fabray. Miss Lopez and Miss Pierce are already here."

Mercedes breathed a sigh of relief, Quinn was waking up,"Yes, I'll be right there, thank you for calling."

Once she hung up Mercedes was on auto pilot, she grabbed her keys, bag, and started to dial Mrs. Fabray's number.

"Mercedes where are you going it's almost time for dinner." Mercedes mom called from the kitchen.

"Quinn is waking up, I have to go." She barely heard the shattering of a dish and her mother gasp as she slammed the door shut.

Mrs. Fabray answered just as Mercedes pulled out of her drive way, her phone hooked into he handless device. No one in the Glee club and maybe even in the school would be talking one the phone or texting and driving anytime soon.

"Hello?"

"Mrs. Fabray its Mercedes. Quinn is waking up." There was silence and then a choked "I'm on my way."

Mercedes smiled, it anyone deserved a second, well third chance with there child it was Judy Fabray. Yes Judy had messed up, royally in Mercedes opinion, but Mrs. Fabray had spent the past two years trying to make up for all those past mistakes. She really did love Quinn and Quinn deserved the love that her mother was finally showing.

"See you there Mrs. Fabray."

Mercedes second call was to Puck, he had been one of the constants in Quinn's life since the accident. Mercedes knew that he like Santana and Brittany visited Quinn everyday. Mercedes had in the beginning but as the days passed she began to feel like she was intruding on something special. She loved Quinn with all her heart, they were sisters from a different mother, but she didn't have quiet the bond with her blonde sister that Puck, Santana, and Brittany did, so she slowly backed off, now visiting every other day instead, usually with Sam who felt the same as she. They both loved Quinn immensely but the spots right next to their recovering friend belong to three other people and she and Sam were more than happy to be the next line of comfort and support.

"Puckerman." Came the groff voice as Mercedes pulled into the hospital parking lot.

"Noah." She said gently. She'd never called him Noah before, but whenever she told him about Quinn she used his given name. It was an unconscious thing at first but when she'd noticed it she realized she did it because Quinn was so important to Noah and somehow referring to him as Puck was like talking to the badass man whore while calling him Noah was like talking to the father of Quinn's daughter, a man who loved Quinn more than anything but was to afraid or felt to unworthy to have her.

"Is she okay" his voice gentlier and somber. Clearly he'd noticed the difference in name use as well

"She's waking up"

There was a beat, "I have work I can't but what if…"

"Breath Noah, I don't think she'll be completely awake for awhile now, at least from the little I got from Dr. Forest. I am going to talk to him now, if he says different I'll call you. Finish your shift and then come over."

"Sure, okay, call me though."

"I will. She's coming back to us Noah."

"I know….Thanks Cedes, really just thank you." Mercedes knew he was thanking her for more than just this courtesy call. He was thanking her for making all the hard decisions regarding Quinn's health.

"No need for thanks, I love her too."

"Yeah, uh see you soon."

Mercedes was now walking into Dr. Forest office he was standing there looking at some charts. "Dr. Forest."

He looked up and smiled taking her hand in greeting. "Mercedes you got her fast."

"My house is just down the road. So how is she?"

"Everything is looking good. She is responding to external stimuli in her upper extremities, we haven't tested her legs as of yet, we just need to test for alertness. Her latest MRI and EGG are showing activity levels nearly to the normal conscious level. If she continues to progress we expect her to first open her eyes anywhere between five to 10 hours from me, but she'll be in can out of it for a few days. So don't expect her to be able to have an normal conversations for a few days, she may acknowledge people, may even ask or answer questions but she won't remember nor will it likely make sense."

Mercedes nodded being able to take in vast amounts of information given by the doctor quicker now. She actually understood him when he spoke to her.

"Brain damage?" She also had learned what and how to ask questions about the important things.

"We won't know anything for sure until she is awake and fully conscious. I am not expecting vast deficits but we may see amnesia surrounding the accident and maybe into a few days or weeks prior to it. There is the possibility for other memory deficits like working memory or short term, this could be permanent or temporary. She may also experience slurred speech, aphasia, or dysarthria, all speech deficits. Her scan show little damage but you never know with the brain so be prepared for the worst. I don't say that to be mean but I don't want you or anyone else expecting her to be back to normal after all this. She maybe the same she maybe different, personality and attitude changes are side effects of Traumatic Brain Injury. "

Mercedes rubbed her face, "I understand, I don't think any of us expect her to be the same old Quinn. We just want her back."

"Good. As for the paralysis, we will only be able to asses that completely when she is awake. But preliminary test from last week show boarder line nerve activity form her waist down. This could be do to that her muscels are weak from the coma, she hasn't really had a chance to use them. Do you understand?"

"You mean you still don't know if she'll be in the 80% or 20% chance of walking again."

"Exactly. I wish I had more for you." He truly did look like he could give Mercedes the news she wanted to hear, that Quinn would wake up laughing and joking with them and that she would stand and walk to them giving them all big hugs and apologizing for scaring them so bad.

"Thank you, you've been great, to all of us and we appreciate it." He smiled and issued her into Quinn's room where Santana and Brittany sat with Mrs. Fabray who looked like she just got there as she was taking off her coat. Mercedes thanked Dr. Forest before going to tell Quinn's loved ones all that she had been told. If she knew one thing, it was that the next 5 to 10 hours were going to tortuously long.

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