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Rachel POV:
Seven days.
That's how long it's been since the accident. Six since we've initially been at the hospital. And two days since Quinn got released. You would think that was great news but with great news came a much greater pain.
I sat uncomfortable in the hospital chair, gripping tightly onto Cataleya's hand. While constantly glancing at the monitor beeping, I prayed I wouldn't see a flat line appear. One week. One long, tortuous week of waiting for her to wake up. When we first visited her, she looked like a broken toy abandoned by its owner. Now watching her, she looked so peaceful in her deep induced sleep. Her cuts were still visible but slowly healing. After many surgeries, they stopped the internal bleeding and removed pieces of glass from her eyes.
A nurse walked in, right on time, to monitor the machine. After a while of writing things down, she turned her head towards me. "You know it's great to talk to her. You'd be surprised how much it helps to hear the voice of love ones. It's been known to create miracles even," she suggested before she left.
"Thank you," I weakly voiced, giving off an equally weak smile, which quickly turned into a frown when I turned back to Cataleya. With one hand still clutching hers, I smoothed out invisible wrinkles of her sheets. "I'm new to this," I started with a humorless chuckle, expecting her to smile or laugh along but was meet with silence. "I'm so sorry Cat. I feel like if I didn't abandon you in your time of need, this wouldn't have happened. I know I can't turn back the time but I promise," I emphasized as I drew her lifeless hand closer towards me. "I will never let you down again just please don't give up. Everyone is waiting for you to wake up so we can all apologize properly. They've been here visiting along with your dad and mom but not as much as Finn and I. Sam hasn't been here since he first learned you were in a coma but I know he feels just as terrible as I do. I'm actually very worried about him because he hardly comes to Glee club nor speaks to anyone. Well if you count the occasional, yes, no, maybe or head nod." I heavily sighed. "I know he loves you no matter what he said or how he acted towards you. Just remember that ok? Sam loves you, everyone from Glee club loves you, Finn loves you and I love you...you're my best friend," I choked as tears cascaded down my face. I just laid there, continuing to sob into her side and let all my emotions that I've held go because I couldn't stay strong anymore.
Sam POV:
Two weeks passed but it seemed like just yesterday that everything great in my life took a turn for the worse. Just like those two weeks, today went by very fast. I even forgot how I got home. Finn, Rachel, Mr. Schue and my parents have tried talking to me but I just couldn't deal with everyone right now. They just want to talk about how I'm feeling, which is exactly what I don't want to do.
Emptiness. That's what I've been feeling ever since I saw Charlie laying in that hospital bed with thousands of tubes coming in and out of her body. When I walk the halls of school, I see nothing, hear nothing and feel nothing.
I stared at the ceiling as I heard a light knock on the door. Without answering, I heard the door creak open. "Sam," Rachel said in a small voice. I didn't answer but I felt her sit at the edge of the bed. She let out a heavy sigh. "Sam…you have to talk to me, your parents or anyone!" she raised her voice in frustration. She was met with even more silence as she sat there. After awhile, I heard her start to sniffle as she slouched, throwing her perfect posture out the door.I glanced over to see her silently crying. I frowned because I never liked it. I didn't mean to hurt her and make her cry. "So much has happened and…and I'm trying to stay strong for everyone but I can't anymore." Her silent tears turned into sobbing. She sighed again as she tried wiping her tears away. "Everyone is very worried about you," she paused as if she was thinking for a moment. "I…I just don't know what to do anymore."
"It's my fault," I finally spoke without glancing at her. She didn't say anything so I went on. "What happened to Charlie," I finished.
"You mean Cataleya?"
I internally rolled my eyes because Rachel knew who I was talking about, name or not. "Yeah I know her name isn't Charlie, Rachel but I've known her as that so that's what I call her." She nodded in understanding, gesturing me to continue. "Don't get me wrong. I'm still mad at her because she lied to me and everyone else but if I would've stopped people bullying her or stopped her from leaving Glee that day, she wouldn't be in a coma."
"You still love her," she commented more than asked.
I nodded. "Yeah I do," I said as I sat up, moving next to her. "I just don't know if my love for her can make me get over the fact that she lied to me. I was her boyfriend and she still felt like she couldn't be honest with me."
She quickly looked at me then back at her dress, nodding. This time I waited for her to give me her input. She finally spoke for what felt like hours of waiting. "I understand where you're coming from but we've all lied to the ones we love before. If Finn never forgave me for cheating on him, we would never be together now and visa versa with him and his lies about not sleeping with Santana. Same with Quinn being forgiven by Finn about the baby debacle or Santana, who stopped lying to herself about being gay and hurting Britany in the process or Artie forgiving Tina for dumping hom for Mike and so on. Not everyone is perfect Sam. You know that better than anyone and I'm sorry to say that I'm a little disappointed in you."
She looked at me, giving me a small smile then left the room. Great leave it to her to make me feel worse than before.
Finn POV:
It's weird how much could happen in three weeks. School started up again. I found out who my father really was. Mr. Schue did this awesome proposal to Ms. Pillsbury that included us. Joe, the new kid who has dread locks, wears scandals all the time and always has a guitar strapped to his back, joined Glee club. Sam is slowly becoming himself again but really none of us could be until Cat wakes up. Oh did I forget to mention, I proposed to Rachel last week? She didn't say yes but she didn't say no either. She said with everything going on, I should give her some time to think.
I know what you're thinking. I'm crazy because we're so young but I can't help the way I feel about her. Whenever I see her, I see my future. She's like a beacon of light, guiding me through all the bad stuff. When everyone else wrote me off as a loser, she still stuck by me, cheering me on.
When I turned the corner, I smiled at the sight of her, wearing her cute white kneehighs with a pretty blue dress and her hair up in a tight ponytail, switching books from her locker. She turned her head and brightly smiled at me as I walked up to her.
"Ready?" I asked her.
She nodded, closed her locker then slipped her hand in mine. "Hey," she cheerfully said.
I chuckled while we walked down the hall. "You seem really happy today."
She smiled then hid her face in my arm. "You. You make me happy," she told me with confidence.
I flashed her my lopsided grin. "So does this mean you have an answer for me?"
Her smile dropped as she looked at the floor. "Finn…" she started but I spoke before she could.
"I know, no pressure Rach. I promise." She stood on her tiptoes and kissed my cheek. "What was that for?" I asked, surprised.
She shook her head before talking. "Nothing I just love you."
I searched her eyes to see she was telling the truth as I held the door open for her and we left to visit Cataleya.
Glee!
Rachel and I walked into the hospital and said hello to the familiar nurses and doctors as we went to Cat's room. Almost everyday both or one of us would sit and watch over her because her own family didn't have the time. When we walked in, Dr. Wilson and Cataleya's father were in the middle of a conversation.
"Oh hello Mr. Garcia," Rachel greeted in surprise. He vleared his throat and said a quiet hello. Mr. Garcia's face looked stone and his jaw line was tight while Dr. Wilson had a worried, tired out facial expression.
I felt like something was wrong and could tell by the way Rachel gripped my arm, she did too. "What's going on here?" I asked with a look of confusion.
Mr. Garcia gave us a stern look as his arms crossed to his chest. He stayed silent while Dr. Wilson answered instead. "Nothing you kids have to worry about," he stated lightly but we weren't buying it.
Anger boiled inside me at that point. I hated the way he was talking to us, like we couldn't understand. I mean come on how old do they think we are? Twelve? "We're not kids. We've been here almost everyday and earned the right to know about our friend," I said defensively.
Rachel looked up at me with a small careful smile, trying to calm me down then patted my chest lightly, telling me to let her talk. "What my boyfriend means is we don't mean to be rude but we're the ones who are mainly here, which means we have earned the respect and would greatly appreciate it if there was good or bad news to share."
The doctor and Cat's father exchanged glances until Mr. Garcia nodded his head towards the doctor then stared at his daughter's lifeless body. "We were just discussing the matter of what would happen if Cataleya doesn't wake up," Dr. Wilson explained.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"I've asked Mr. Garcia if by the end of the month he would consider taking her off life support."
"You mean let her die?" Rachel choked. My neck snapped as I looked from her tear stained face to the doctor, finally understanding what he meant.
"What? Sir you can't do that," I pleaded with Mr. Garcia.
He just stood there watching Cataleya in a deep sleep. "I'll make the decision of what I can and can't do for my daughter," he said in a monotone.
"You have to understand that if Cataleya doesn't wake up by the end of this month, she could risk having traumatic brain injuries," the doctor inputted.
"What does that mean?" I asked again, not understanding some of the hospital terms.
Dr. Wilson sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose tiredly. "Meaning she won't be the same girl you knew. She'll have to have a different lifestyle that doesn't consist of living here in Lima. She would need better care and a more resourceful hospital."
Rachel let go of me and walked up to Mr. Garcia. "Please don't do that. I just know she's going to wake up and she'll be the same."
"From what I see right now, my daughter is suffering and if she was here right now she would want me to end her pain," he finished sadly, leaving without another look at us.
The doctor frowned and started leaving before stopping at the door. "I'm sorry," he quietly whispered then left the room.
"Oh Finn!" Rachel cried out, running into my arms and heavily sobbed. I stoked her hair, trying to soothe her while I tried not to cry myself.
No One's POV:
The scene flashed to a six-year-old Cataleya, who had pigtails with red ribbons in her hair, playing at the park with her father then it flashed to her and her mother playing dress up with matching smiles as they posed in the mirror.
When she was just a girl,
She expected the world.
The scene flashed to Cataleya at nine-yeas-old, holding her fathers hand as they watched her mother get buried. She let go of the rose and watched it fall gently on top of her mother's coffin. The scene cuts to a miserable eleven-year-old Cataleya getting introduced to her father's new wife, Carmen.
But it flew away from her reach,
So she ran away in her sleep.
Another scene where Cataleya was being treated badly by Carmen then to a scene where she's in her secret hideout, crying. She cried so much that she fell asleep, hugging a photo of her mother close to her heart. Finn continued to sing as he watched past events of Cataleya's life.
And dreamed of
Para-para-paradise,
Para-para-paradise,
Para-para-paradise.
Every time she closed her eyes.
The scene flashed to Rachel at home, telling Sam what Mr. Garcia had decided to do with Cataleya. Sam left in anger, rushing out the house.
When she was just a girl,
She expected the world.
The next day, the whole gang was in the hospital, hearing the news for the first time. Most of them started crying as Sam just watched Cataleya sleep from behind her hospital room window.
But it flew away from her reach
And the bullets catch in her teeth.
Later that night when everyone was gone, Mr. Garcia cried by Cataleya's bedside while holding her hand.
Life goes on, it gets so heavy.
The wheel breaks the butterfly.
The month was over and Mr. Garcia decided to pull the plug instead of wondering if Cataleya would ever wake up as his little girl again.
Every tear a waterfall,
In the night the stormy night, she'll close her eyes.
In the night the stormy night, away she'd fly.
Everyone dressed in black as they gathered around the bed, saying their last goodbyes before Dr. Wilson turned off all the monitors. Tina was bursting with tears the most as Mike held her. Brittany cried the least out of the girls because she didn't understand exactly what was going on. Quinn stood there in shock, thinking this was all her fault. Artie reached over, grabbed Quinn's hand and gave her a small smile, trying to comfort her. Rachel gripped onto Finn's arm, silently crying as he continued to sing the last verses of the song.
And dreams of
Para-para-paradise,
Para-para-paradise,
Para-para-paradise.
Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh
Before Dr. Wilson could pull any plugs, Sam came running into the room, screaming stop. He shook Cataleya vigorously, trying to wake her.
"Wake up!" he cried. "You have to wake up. You can't die on us! How selfish is that!" He kept screaming, pushing Puck, who attempted to pull him back, off. He stopped shaking her and clasped on her chest, completely sobbing. "If you die, my heart will die too and I don't think I can survive from that," he said exhausted. He looked up at her to see if she would wake up but was met by nothing.
Puck helped Sam off and led him out of the room as the doctor pulled off her support systems.
This could be
Para-para-paradise,
Para-para-paradise,
Para-para-paradise.
The last two things heard was the sound of the flatline on the monitor and crys from everyone in the room.
Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh
Cataleya POV:
I violently sucked in a breathe of air as I shot up from laying down. It felt like forever that I've been underwater, drowning and screaming for help but no one could hear me. Eventually, I saw a light at the surface and fought to reach it until finally coming up for air.
I felt someone hold me as I struggled to get out of their grip. "Cataleya please relax. You're ok," the man said.
Everything was too dark as I continued to struggle out of fear because I didn't know what was going on. When I couldn't get out of his grasp, I calmed down. "Am I dead?" I asked no one in particular.
He sighed. "No you're very much alive," he stated.
I nodded. "Then why can't I see?" I asked, feeling around my eyes to see if something was covering them.
There was a long pause and just then I knew that I was blind.
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