A/N so some of you guessed correctly! lol it was one or the other, either it was pretty obvious...so enjoy. i wont be updating quite so often as before because of school... :P yuck 11th grade...

Disclaimer: I dont own glee

Shelby had been enjoying some good old pointless television while feeding Beth when she heard a knock at her door.

Hang on I'm coming, she staid to no one in particular as she lay Beth down in her crib.

The knocking grew more insistent, then as she was about to answer, it slowed down as if the person had lost hope.

She opened the door and saw the person beginning to leave turn around and look at her with pitiful eyes.

"Rachel?" she hardly recognized her. The usually confident girl looked so broken and defeated.

Rachel tried to put a show face on, but failed. "Shelby. I am in need of a place to rest for the night. I would be gone by morning. Would I be too big an inconvenience?"

Shelby took in the sight before her. Rachel was soaking wet and carrying a backpack with her. It looked like it had been packed hastily. I wonder what happened? Is she alright...? She looks

so...desperate... Shelby snapped herself out of her thoughts and went into the "mom mode" she had developed while caring for Beth.

"Rachel get inside you must be freezing!" indeed, she was shivering in her wet clothes. "Come on, you've got to get a warm shower. I'll dry your clothes and give you some of mine. Something old might fit you

if it's got a drawstring..." she said almost to herself.

She showed Rachel the shower, then rushed around finding things for her. She settled on an old t-shirt and sweatpants with drawstrings, and dropped them off to Rachel who was just finishing her shower.

Beth started crying, so Shelby rushed to get her, and then ran and got Rachel's clothes and threw them in the wash.

She looked up to see Rachel watching her with a sad look on her face. "You're really good with her," she said indicating Beth.

"Yes, well it was definitely not easy at first, nor is it now for that matter!" she said trying to lift the tension. Rachels expression didn't change.

Changing the subject swiftly, Shelby asked "Rachel will you get any wet clothes out of your backpack so I can dry them? Then we need to talk." she added.

Something told her this was far more serious than she had originally thought.

Once all the clothes were in the dryer and Beth was back asleep, Shelby sat down on the couch and indicated for Rachel to do the same. Rachel sat awkwardly. She had expected to be able to just go to sleep,

and leave in the morning. She didn't expect Shelby to actually care what was going on.

"Alright, Rachel, you need to explain to me what is going on. Do your fathers know where you are?"

"No."

"Would you like to call them?"

"No."

"Can I call them and tell them you're safe?"

"Go ahead, it's not like they'll care though." Rachel said beginning to cry.

"Baby" Shelby said as she moved closer to Rachel, "you need to tell me what's going on. Did you and your dads have an argument?"

"You could say that."

"About...?" Shelby prompted gently.

Suddenly, Rachel seemed to find her voice. "About whether or not I should keep my baby! They want me to abort it like its not even alive!" she began to cry, "but it is! It's a new little life inside me and they don't

care!" she was full out sobbing now.

Shelby held Rachel, her baby. She took in what she was saying and gently asked "your baby?"

"Yes" was all Rachel could get out.

"Rachel who is the father? Its not Jesse is it?" I will kill that kid if it is.

"No I don't know who it is. I decided on saving myself after nearly giving it up to Jesse but..."

"Wait you and Jesse almost...?" she shouted outraged, "no, never mind i don't want to know. How do you not know who the father is?"

"I...I was..." Rachel broke down into more tears.

"You were what honey?" Shelby said, thinking 'oh she was drunk and she's afraid to tell me.'

"Raped." Rachel whispered.

Shelby was shell shocked. Her baby. Someone had hurt her baby in the worst way possible. She held on to Rachel as she shook with sobs.

Shelby rocked her baby to sleep laying down on the couch with her. When Beth cried, Shelby ran to grab her, then went back to the living room.

Rachel had stirred when she got up and was now shaking with a terrified look on her face as though suffering from a nightmare.

Shelby reached her and held her murmuring in her ears, "Shhh baby it's alright momma's here" as she often did when Beth was upset.

Her voice seemed to sooth Rachel, and she lay back down next to her holding both her babies, Rachel and Beth.

"Don't worry." she whispered into the dark. "Momma's here and she's never gonna let you go."

The next morning Shelby woke up early to a hungry Beth.

She hurried out of the living room so as not to wake Rachel. She grabbed a bottle for Beth, the phone book and her cell. She called the Berrys and started in on a long heated discussion.

Rachel woke up alone in an unfamiliar place.

As she got up, she began to remember the night before.

Her head pounded as she stood.

She looked around cautiously. There was shouts coming from the general direction to her right so she followed them. She opened a door to find Shelby shouting into the phone while bouncing Beth on her knee.

"I will call you!" Shelby shouted as she hung up.

She turned and saw Rachel. Her expression turned to one of sympathy. "Hey baby. How are you?" she asked softly.

"Alright" Rachel replied honestly.

"How about some breakfast? I know you're a vegan, but I have some cereal and fruit you could eat, as well as some juice."

"I'll just have juice." Rachel replied quietly.

"Rach you need to eat healthily for the baby, if not for you."

"Who were you talking to?" Rachel asked changing the subject.

"Your fathers."

"I told you they wouldn't care." she said regretfully.

"You were right, they didn't" Shelby agreed sympathetically, "but I have convinced them to give up parental rights."

"What does that mean?" Rachel asked.

"Well, it means you could, if you'd like, live with me?" Shelby asked uncertainly. She knows Rachel still feels hurt by her actions, but she truly believed that Rachel had been getting the best life possible with

her fathers. If she had known the situation then...she was so angry at herself for not noticing that Rachel really needed her.

"I'm sorry." Rachel replied, "i really didn't mean to be a bother by coming here."

"Rachel you are my daughter. You are absolutely not a bother."

"But you don't want me in your life. It's ok, really" Rachel said beginning to cry.

"Oh baby, no. I have always wanted you in my life! I only stayed away because of the contract! And I only left you again because I truly believed you were living the life you deserved! If I had known how bad

it was..."

"Really?" Rachel replied through her tears.

"Yes really." Shelby said as she pulled Rachel into an embrace.