A/N: Yay for a long Chapter. I am not sure if I am 100% happy with how this turned out but this was one of the big scenes that popped into my head when I first thought this story up. I hope it's not too cheesy and I hope I did it justice. I heard nothing back for the last chapter so I hope that means that I did everything perfectly and you had nothing to fix me on. Hopefully it did not mean that you were bored with this. Once again any comments or fixes please let me know. Enjoy!

RM

DISCLAIMER: I do not own GLEE or BUFFY. Oh and I use a lot of language in this chapter so be forewarned!

Chapter 8

Alex realized at the end of the day that she should have stayed home. As she woke up her entire body felt sore from the night before and as she opened her eyes she couldn't shake the feeling from her stomach that today was going to be a bad day. As her brain slowly started functioning she remembered the fight that she had with the three vampires the night before, and getting the map. When she went to lift her body up from the bed she felt the sharp pain from her left arm and she then remembered getting bitten or scratched or whatever these two cuts in her left arm qualified as. Alex looked at her injury and groaned when she realized it was still bleeding. She had hoped that the speedy healing power that comes with being a slayer would have helped the gashes be almost completely gone, but there they were plain as day. It wasn't until she was looking at herself in the mirror brushing her teeth that she remembered why last night was really bad. Santana!

"Oh fuck! I ran into Santana last night." Alex didn't know why she felt the need to say it out loud but as the statement flew out of her mouth she realized that after school she was going to have to deal with a pissed off watcher. Liam had given her two cardinal rules when she had started patrolling in Lima. Rule number one was to not get injured. Rule number two was to not let Santana see her until they had told her everything. In one night Alex had managed to break both of them, and the only thing this realization did was make Alex dread her day even more. It also made the feeling in her stomach even worse.

As Alex made her way to her locker she tried to avoid Santana and Puck at all costs. She was already going to get a ton of questions from Liam later she didn't want to get the third degree from the people she had run into last night. Alex had no idea that Mr. Schuester had officially posted the final Glee Club list for the school. She had no idea what punishment lay in store for her for joining. Alex was just walking down the hall avoiding eye contact, lost in her own mind when Dave Karaofsky stepped in front of her. She just had enough time to realize who it was before she found herself getting slammed in the face with a red iceburg.

Well it was a slushie, but it felt like an iceburg none the less. "Enjoy being in Glee Club, Loser," she heard Dave and his buddies cackle as they walked down the hallway. Alex just stood there, frozen, eyes closed, not exactly sure what to do. She felt the slushie as it dripped off her face and down her body, and she heard all of the whispers and giggles around her.

Still in shock she finally felt someone grab her arm and a friendly voice say. "Don't open your eyes or it's going to sting like hell. Come on." As Alex felt herself being led down the hall (to the bathroom she presumed) she couldn't believe who was actually helping her.

Alex heard her guide open the door and yell 'Out' to the girls who were occupying it. Alex (still with her eyes closed) felt the girls as they passed and then her guide led her into the bathroom. She heard the water being turned on and paper towels being grabbed out of the machine. Within two seconds, Alex's guide was using the wet paper towels to wipe of her eyes so she could open them. When all of the slushie was off her eyelids, Alex finally opened her eyes and looked at who had helped her.

Santana was back at the sink getting more paper towel's ready for Alex to wipe off the mess. As she handed Alex her next batch of wipes Santana simply said, "Shirt" and as if on command Alex found herself whipping her shirt off and handing it to her. "It's better if you rinse your clothes out right away or the dye never comes out." Alex just nodded her head as she used the wet paper towels to wipe off her hair and the rest of her face. She then began working on her body. Alex was amazed that Santana was the one helping her out of all people. They continued on like this in silence not saying a word to each other.

When Alex felt like she had finally gotten all the slushie off (or at least to the point that she didn't feel sticky) she looked at Santana and realized sheepishly that she was standing there in her bra. As Alex crossed her arms over her chest she noticed Santana glance at her bandaged left arm, and as Alex glanced she noticed that the slushie had completely drenched it. "Fuck," Alex found herself muttering as she began to unwrap it.

"Did you happen to bring any extra bandage for that?" Alex looked at Santana, surprised that she would actually ask her a question.

"Yeah it's in my bag."

"Should I grab it for you?"

Alex quickly though back to what she had packed in there this morning and when she remembered there was nothing incriminating, "Yeah that's fine."

Alex winced as she finally peeled the rest of the bandage off and when Santana looked up she frowned a bit. "I thought you said last night you were going to get that checked out."

"Yeah well excuse me for not liking doctors," Alex shot back. Santana rolled her eyes and it was at this moment that Brittany decided to bust into the bathroom. Brittany took a second to catch her breath and then fully comprehended what she was seeing in front of her.

"Alex why are you not wearing a shirt? San told me they were required at school." Alex immediately became self conscious and as she crossed her arms again Brittany noticed the other unusual thing about Alex that day. "Alex what happened to you arm?"

Santana quickly jumped in, "She got slushied Britt. Can you go get my extra shirt from my locker for me? The combination's your birthday."

"Yeah be right back San," and Brittany quickly exited the bathroom to head down the hallway. Alex let out the breath she didn't realize she was holding.

Santana just grabbed Alex's arm and as she placed the bandage over the cuts she quickly said, "Let's just get this bandaged up before you have the whole school wondering what you did."

"What are you going to tell them?" Alex couldn't help herself. She knew she had blown it last night. She wasn't sure what Santana had seen, what Santana had figured out and it scared her. She was afraid that she had blown this whole assignment before it had really begun.

Santana just finished wrapping her arm up and for the first time since Alex had arrived made eye contact with her by choice. She just sighed, "Look Alex, I have no idea what you were doing last night in the cemetery. But considering that I find myself there more often then I would like I am not allowed to judge, nor am I going to spread any stories about you around. So you can breathe OK? Until you decide to tell me, whether you ever do or not, I got your back."

Santana went back to the sink to get Alex's shirt out of the water. The silence was no longer awkward, but there was still an air of questions that needed to be answered. Finally Alex leaned against the wall and looked at the girl that had been blocking her out since she showed up, and had to break the silence. "Why are you helping me Santana? I thought you hated me."

Santana smiled as she turned and handed Alex back her now soaked shirt. "I never hated you Alex." Alex scoffed a bit and raised her eye brow. "OK maybe I acted like I hated you, but I never have. I just," Alex watched as Santana seemed to struggle with the words, "I have had a lot of stuff happen to me the last year. I have developed major trust issues. Quinn and Brittany and Puck, and Rachel even, helped me so much but they were already there. I have issues letting others in but I realized that if I keep doing that I will never get out of my group, and it is unfair of me to only depend on them. Sometimes it's good to hear a new voice in my head."

Alex couldn't believe her ears. On the day that she felt she had fucked everything up Santana had actually decided to befriend her and not ask questions. "Thank you Santana." It was simple but both girls felt like all the tension and distrust that had been there was released.

"No problem, Alex." At that moment two blonds and a brunette burst back into the bathroom. Brittany ran in followed quickly by Quinn and Lindsay of all people.

"Alex, I saw the slushie remains and I just heard. Are you ok? I can't believe Karofsky started that already." Quinn seemed pissed.

That was when Alex and Lindsay both caught on to her words. "What do you mean started already?" Both girls spoke in unison and Alex blushed a bit when they made eye contact right after.

Santana, Brittany and Quinn looked at each other and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry about that," Santana spoke up. "Ummm… Slushies are the jocks way of welcoming you to loserville."

"As since Glee Club is this schools definition of loserville, you might want to get ready for a few more of those," Quinn finished.

Alex looked between the three of them. "Wow thanks for the heads up guys. I've been hanging with you for how long?"

Lindsay seemed just as upset. "You mean I have one of those to look forward to as well?" When all three girls nodded their heads Lindsay just looked down at the floor to process what she had been told. She moved away from the closed door behind her and leaned against the sink. All five of the girls just sat there quietly in the bathroom until Lindsay looked up at Alex and seemed to finally register what was off with the picture. "Ummm, not to be awkward, and not that I don't appreciate the view, but Alex why do you not have a shirt on?"

It took a second for Alex to comprehend what she had said. Then she remembered was still standing there in her bra. In front of her friends. "Oh Shit," Alex exclaimed as once again her arms flew to cross against her chest.

Santana laughed but covered for her, "It was covered in slushie. Brit give her the shirt."

"Oh right, here Alex." Brittany handed her a black v-neck and as she got it on she immediately felt better dressed for the situation she was in. Note to Self Try not to be stuck in a bra in front of your friends, Alex!

"So," Lindsay once again broke the silence. "Is a slushie in the face really what I have to look forward to this week?"

"Let's just put it this way Lindsay," Quinn answered as the five of them slowly made their way out the door to head to their first class, "you aren't officially a member of Glee club until you get slushied in the face."

Alex noticed Lindsay's disheartened expression but had to smile when she heard Brittany pipe in, "Hear that Alex. You are now officially one of us." Considering the conversation she and Santana had just had in the bathroom, for the first time since she started at McKinley, Alex agreed with that statement.

Alex had waited for school to end and the hallways to clear out before she went to the bathroom to change into her workout clothes for her training with Liam. She had brought grey yoga pants that she ad modified by cutting the legs off just below her knees and she had a very loose fitting shirt (that she had made sure covered her left bicep hoping that it would hide the cuts from Liam) and a black sports bra underneath.

As Alex headed up the stairs to the second floor she could hear the whistle's being blown out on the field for the football and Cheerios practice. She wished that she was on her way to a normal after school activity, not for a training session from hell where she would probably get the shit kicked out of her (both literally and figuratively). The halls were completely deserted, so as Alex made her way into the Library she locked the door behind her and then made her way behind the desk, through the reference stacks and opened the door to the dojo.

What surprised her was that the dojo was completely dark. No lights were turned on, and everything was completely quiet. Alex slowly walked into the room as she set her gym bag down by the door, her senses fully alert and on edge. And then she sensed it, something moving just beyond the light of the door. Alex turned her body, ready to attack, when the body she sensed lunged at her. It was Liam wielding a sword and Alex had just enough time to get her senses together and dodge it before Liam would've killed her. As he lifted his sword up for another attack the lights in the dojo had shifted on and Alex's training session had begun.

The training had been going really well. After the surprise attack from Liam they had focused on her sword and weapon work. It was when Liam started to work on her hand to hand combat that Alex had gotten into trouble. She had done so well hiding the pain in her arm. Every time her arm was hit she was able to swallow the groan of pain and stop the grimace from hitting her face. She had learned to work through the pain, and training was no different. Plus Alex was still hoping that she could get through this session without her Watcher finding out about her rule breaking.

Liam had her working on her punches and blocking (which the refresher would have come in handy before last night) when she lost focus for one second and blocked his hit with her bicep instead of her forearm. Liam had been hitting at her so fast and with surprising strength that his fingers somehow dug into the cut and that was when Alex lost it. She pulled back immediately from the exercise narrowly avoiding a hit to her head, and as she grabbed her arm and hissed in pain, the tears automatically sprung up in her eyes.

"Well that was a new tactic." Liam was confused, because in his mind that hit should not have hurt her. Alex was on the ground now and as she moved her hand Liam saw the blood that was beginning to lightly seep through the sleeve of her workout shirt. He immediately knelt down toward his slayer and Alex, knowing that she was caught just acquiesced and let him look at her arm. She felt like a kid caught with his had in a cookie jar. There was no way she would be able to get out of this mess now.

Liam unwrapped the bandage from Alex's arm and as soon as he saw the cuts he knows what caused them. "How did the vampire bite you?"

"I ran into three last night on patrol. They were looking at a map and the minute they saw me two attacked and the third tried to run away. After I got the first two, I chased after the third and when I tackled him we tumbled and I couldn't hold us apart correctly so he got me." Alex felt ashamed. She knew that she had done everything by the book last night but the fact that she had gotten bit by a dumb vamp bugged her.

Liam seemed disappointed too. "I thought we agreed that you would do extra training if you got hurt."

"We did."

"And you were trying to hide this from me on purpose?"

"Yes." There was no used denying it.

"Where is this map?" Alex looked at Liam amazed that he would remember that part of her report. Of course that was the type of brain her watcher had.

"It's in my bag." Alex remained on the floor while Liam went over to where Alex had dropped the bad by the door and quickly found the remainder of the map which had charred marks all over what was left and was incredibly crumpled up.

"What happened to it?" Liam looked a bit heart broken and disgusted that something as important as this document seemed to be so badly maltreated.

"Hey it's not all my fault. The vamp that ran set fire to it so you are lucky I got anything at all, and then I had to hide it quick because I couldn't let-"

Alex didn't even let herself finish that statement because she knew she had just fucked up. Liam stopped looking at the map sensing that his slayer had stopped for a reason and was trying to hide something from him. "Alex who were you hiding the map from?"

Shit, Shit, Shit! Was the only thought going through Alex's mind. Damn the Scoobies for giving me a watcher who was extremely smart and perceptive. Alex tried to defiantly look at her watcher but when she realized her was glaring at her with laser beam eyes she realized she should just suck it up and accept her punishment.

"I may have, accidentally, ran into Santana as I was in the cemetery last night."

There was no other word for it, Alex was hobbling. Her body had never hurt this bad in her life. She felt like someone had repeatedly ran over her with a cement roller and then bashed her with a wrecking ball. Liam had not been pleased and had put her through the most rigorous training for the last three hours. It was almost 8pm and Alex was thankful that Tuesday was her parent's late night at work or they would definitely question why she was not at home.

Alex had decided as she hobbled out of the library that what she needed before patrol tonight was an ice bath. She was hoping that it would give her muscles the stimulation she needed to get them to start healing so she wouldn't have to feel horrible in the morning. Since it was 8, and all the after school activities were gone for the day, Alex headed towards the Cheerios locker room. She had found her first night of training that they had everything she needed for after training recovery so she made a habit of breaking in every night. Thank God Sue Sylvester had yet to notice.

As Alex filled the bath with cold water and ice to the brim, she peeled her blood and sweat stained shirt off her body, and pulled off her yoga pants. She then turned to look at herself in the mirror. She stood there in her sports bra and boy shorts and examined her exhausted body. The workout had not only made her glisten with sweat but she, unfortunately in her mind, had that after workout ripped look about her. Then she saw the bruises that were sprouting up on her arms, stomach, and her thigh. Fuck you Liam, she thought, and then she slowly turned towards her bath, lifted her body over it and lowered herself in.

At first the ice was a complete shock to her system, forcing her to shiver uncontrollably and wince as the pain throughout her body momentarily got worse. Then the pain lessened and for the first time since Liam had found out about everything she relaxed. She felt every muscle release the tension it had been holding since her fight last night, and she felt all the bruises stop their expansion. Alex sighed into the feeling of peace that she was finally getting and then the exhaustion hit her. She knew she shouldn't sleep, especially when she was in an ice bath, but her mind couldn't help itself. Alex leaned her head back and allowed her body to start healing and her mind to shut off for a few minutes.

Alex didn't hear when someone else came into the locker room. She wasn't woken up until she heard the sound of equipment hit the floor followed by a familiar shocked voice exclaiming, "Alex! What the fuck? What are you doing in here? You scared the shit out of me."

Alex's eyes shot open and she felt her body go on full alert. She looked at who had spoken and saw a very freaked out Quinn. It looked like she had dropped everything she was carrying when she saw Alex. Brittany walked in soon after and paused when she saw what Quinn was looking at. "Alex?"

Alex quickly lifted herself out of the bath and threw on her yoga pants over her soaked body. She looked up at her friends, and ironically realized that twice in the same day she was standing in front of them with a bra on. "Sorry for scaring you Quinn. I thought all practices were done for the day."

"They were," were Quinn stammered. "Coach Sylvester asked Brittany and me to stay behind for a bit."

Alex felt her face pale a bit. Coach Sylvester was still on campus, and here she was sneaking into the Cheerios locker room. On top of that she was one of Santana's watchers. Alex needed to get out of here fast. "Oh ok, I'll just go then. Sorry about scaring you Q." Alex tried to grab her shirt and bag real quick but she knew Quinn was not going to let her off that easily. Unfortunately it was Brittany who grasped the situation first.

"Alex you never told me what happened to your arm this morning?"

"I fell during my workout today. I took it a bit to far so I snuck in here to try and recover. It won't happen again I swear."

Quinn looked like she was going to say something. Brittany sat there processing what Alex had just said, and then Alex heard the one person she had been hoping to avoid from behind the door she was about to escape out of. "So you are the mysterious Alex Heart."

Alex had faced vampires and werewolves, demons and zombies, she had feared for her life on countless occasions, yet as she looked at Sue Sylvester walking into the locker room she wondered if she would ever be more scared then she was at this moment. Coach Sylvester commanded fear, and the look of pure distrust and suspicion that she had on her face right now made Alex want to cringe and hide. Fuck, Fuck Fuck, Alex knew she was caught. She was never going to get out of this.

Then Sue took it a step further, and pulled out a loaded crossbow and pointed it right at Alex's chest. Alex felt her eyes bug out of her head and she heard Quinn and Brittany gasp from where they were by the lockers. They had no idea why the tension in the room had just shot up a thousand fold, or why their coach would be pointing a loaded weapon at their friend. Brittany just began whimpering, when Quinn finally spoke, "Coach what the hell are you doing? Alex is just a student here. She was using the ice bath, that's it."

"Really?" Coach Sylvester snapped back. She hadn't taken her eyes of Alex since she had stepped into the room. Alex just slowly felt her slayer senses take over, felt her body become more in-tune with her surroundings. More importantly Alex felt her body train its senses on the woman with the loaded weapon pointed at her. "Why don't you ask your friend then Q how she got that vampire bite on her arm?"

Quinn looked like she had been punched in the gut, and looked closely at Alex, as if looking at the cuts again, as if looking at her body would give her the answers to make this whole scene less bizarre. Alex just kept her mouth shut. She still couldn't believe this situation was happening, and despite the fact that she knew no matter what she did the truth was about to get out, she desperately hoped if she kept her mouth shut it would all just disappear. Then Brittany spoke up, "Alex what were you doing in the cemetery last night?"

All three people snapped their heads at Brittany. Sue and Quinn looked confused, but Alex felt like she had just been stabbed in the gut and tried to give Brittany a look to tell her to stop talking. Sue spoke up, "What are you talking about Brittany?"

"When Santana came back last night, she said she had run into Alex." Brittany looked at Alex again and as Alex's face fell, she saw Brittany realize she had just said too much.

Sue snapped her head back towards Alex, "You spying on my slayer new girl?" Alex tried to make her face look confused. She tried to make all three woman in the room see with her face that she had no clue what Sue was talking about. She was acting it up as much as she possibly could but when she saw the look of pure hatred flash across Sue's face, and Sue's finger move to place itself squarely on the trigger Alex realized if she wanted to get out of this alive she was going to need to start talking.

"Answer me!" Sue looked like she was about to lose it. Alex chanced a glance and Quinn and Brittany hoping that what she was about to say would not make them hate her. Finally she looked Sue straight in the eye.

"Yes." Alex felt like she had just admitted defeat. All the work she had done the past two weeks just seemed worthless. She heard Brittany gasp and Quinn whisper 'No'.

Sylvester looked like she had just swallowed poison, and that was when Alex realized how bad what she had just said sounded. She was in the middle of stammering, "Wait that sounded wrong. It's not what you think!" When she heard the cross-bow go off.

There is a weird sensation that happens to a Slayer when she finds herself in danger. The whole point of being the chosen one, of being activated to help the Scoobies, was that all of your senses are automatically heightened. You become more in-tune with your body. The strength and the fast healing, the sensing danger, those had all been great perks when Alex had learned how to channel them but Alex had always appreciated the heightened senses the most. She loved being able to hear the softest sounds from far away, being able to see the tiniest ripple or movement, the heightened sense of touch or feel. It was these senses that she had developed in her training to help her survive.

But there was another part of being activated that no one told you about, and when it happened it was a truly scary sensation. This sensation was scary to Alex because when it happened it meant that she had no control. When any Slayer found herself in mortal danger, her body and senses would take over and the Slayer would almost have to watch as her body did the reactions for her. In this mindset the Slayer could move faster, harder and more accurately then she could when she had full control.

Unfortunately, it was this reaction that Alex found her body automatically switching too. The second Alex heard the arrow twang off the crossbow her senses took over and Alex found herself fighting for control. Coach was no more then 30 ft away from her yet Alex found herself easily avoiding the arrow and catching it with her right hand out of the air. She had practiced this skill at St. Genesius so many times, she knew she had the muscle memory for it. But had her senses not taken over she never would have been able to do it successfully at this distance.

It was the second part of the "senses" mode that scared Alex the most though. Alex felt her body automatically reacting to go for the kill. When a Slayer was in mortal danger there was only one way to get out of it; kill the attacker. The automatic reaction would be fine if Alex was facing a vampire, but she was being attacked by Sue Sylvester, a living, breathing human being, and Alex did not want Santana's watcher's blood on her hands. So she fought as she felt her body turn, using the velocity of the arrow in her hand for the next attack. She fought as she felt her shoulders flex with lightening speed behind her head. And she fought as she felt her arm and wrist whip the arrow back in her attacker's direction, throwing it back with just as much speed as the crossbow had done.

When the arrow dug itself into the doorpost next to Sue's head instead of Sue's brain however, Alex finally let out a sigh of relief realizing that she had been successful. She had stopped her body from killing the woman and she felt triumphant for a small moment. Then she remembered where she was. Alex looked at Sue's face and saw it frozen in a look of confusion, shock and fear. Alex finally felt her body relax again seeing that the immediate danger was gone and she waited for the other three in the room to wrap their brains around what just happened. After a few minutes of complete and awkward silence, (well awkward for Alex considering the other three were still in shock) Quinn was the first one to finally speak up.

"Alex, what are you? There is no way that is physically possible. What the fuck is going on here?"

Alex opened her mouth to speak, to finally tell the truth when she heard the answer come from the woman who had just attacked her. "She's a Slayer."

Brittany's head shot in Coach Sylvester's direction. Alex had noticed Brittany's confused expression the whole time. This was the first time her eyes showed complete understanding. "Wait, a Slayer like Santana is a Slayer? I thought Santana was the only one."

Better come out with it then, Alex thought and with a sigh she voiced what she had been hiding since she came to McKinley. "There are a lot more of us then you think actually. I was activated when I was five, but I didn't start training until I was twelve." She turned her head towards Sue who seemed to be appraising her. "I was assigned here to help Santana. The whole spying thing was my watcher's idea. I obviously suck at it."

Sue just nodded her head, reached into her pocket and pulled out… A cell phone? Alex looked at this woman with a raised eyebrow, but Sue very calmly and threatening said, "Call him."

Quinn and Brittany looked at Sue questioningly but Alex didn't need any clarification as to who Sue wanted to talk to. She dialed in the number she had been forced to memorize back in California, and waited until the familiar English accent answered. "Liam Cooper."

"Liam," She heard Liam tense on the phone as he recognized her voice.

"Alex are you ok?" He seemed genuinely worried and despite the fact that she was still pissed at him for the training this afternoon she appreciated that he cared. She just hoped she wasn't about to piss him off.

"I'm fine but you have to promise you will not kill me when this phone call is done." She heard nothing but silence on the other end. Liam knew something was up, and Alex was hoping he would understand.

"Alex, what happened?"

It was this moment that Sue Sylvester took the phone back from Alex. "Hello this is Sue Sylvester. Am I talking to Alex Heart's Watcher?" Alex heard Liam answer but couldn't make out what it was. "Oh Liam the librarian yes. Your Slayer and I have had an interesting turn of events this evening." When Alex heard Liam respond again she decided she was just going to tune the rest of the conversation out. That was when she felt the hand on her shoulder. She turned around to see that Quinn had come over.

"So the new Librarian is your watcher?"

"Yes." Alex was wondering what Quinn was going to ask next hoping it wasn't going to get to personal.

"When did you know Santana was a Slayer?" Brittany's interest peaked at this point and she moved to hear the conversation as well. Sue and Liam were still in a heated discussion.

"Since before I moved here. Like in May."

"Were you using us to get close to her?" Alex's heart broke with this question.

"Initially yes." Brittany's face fell and Quinn's eyes became guarded. She knew that they were going to be hurt from this night. "The assignment was to befriend her using any means necessary so when I realized how guarded Santana was I knew her friends were the only way in. Especially when I picked up that the four of you knew that she was the Slayer." Quinn looked like she was about to slap Alex across the face and looking at Brittany made Alex feel like she had just beaten a puppy. "But not anymore. I realized that I was going to be here for the long run so I didn't want to shit on the friendships I was making, and just when I had given up on befriending Santana she came through."

The snap of the phone made her realize that the watchers had finished talking. "Alex," Sue barked. "I expect you in my office tomorrow at lunch. We will be having a discussion and I expect you and your watcher to tell me everything. Got it?"

"Yes, coach." Alex hung her head, knowing full well that everyone in this room was pissed at her.

Sue Sylvester began to walk out of the room then she saw the arrow still sticking out of the door frame. She tried to pry it out but couldn't so she just turned back to Alex, Quinn, and Brittany. "Alex get this out of the door frame before you leave. Next time you better not miss on purpose or you will get killed. Quinn! Brittany!" Both girls snapped to attention behind Alex surprised that coach remembered they were still there. "Do not tell Santana about anything that happened tonight until I tell you so." With that Sue walked out of the room.

Alex had expected all of the yelling to be done for the night but Quinn immediately stepped in front of her with her finger pointed right in Alex's face. "Brit and I will pick you up before our Cheerios practice tomorrow got it."

Alex looked at her in confusion, "Q that's really not necessary, I have my own-"

But Quinn cut her off. "You are going to tell us everything tomorrow. Answer every question, tell us every detail, because if I am going to have to lie to by best friend to cover your ass it better be for a legit reason. Got it."

Alex could stop the thoughts of a mini-Sue Sylvester standing in front of her as she nodded her head.

"Good now get your bag and let's go."

Alex grabbed her stuff and all three girls headed out of the locker room, Alex pausing to easily remove the arrow out of the door frame. That was when she looked over at Brittany, and saw her sad face. "I'm sorry I lied to you Brit. And I'm sorry you have to lie to Santana for me."

Brittany looked straight into her eyes. "You are here to help her right?"

Brittany looked so worried and so confused that Alex wondered if she was strong enough to fulfill the expectation that Brittany had for her right now. "I will help her in every way I know how Brit. I promise." With that the three girls headed to their cars and went home to process everything that had just happened.

DUN DUN DUN! People know! I hope this chapter wasn't too hard to muddle through and once again I am open to any comments and critiques. Happy writing everyone. RM