This chapter is super short, and bad because I am ill. So ill. So I apologise. The word count without this Authors Note is 666 tho, lol.
But I will be back with a bigger and better and hopefully much more interesting chapter when I'm back to not throwing up every 5 minutes.
Love all o' y'all.
We move to the boat deck soon after, and shortly after that, they start calling for women and children. My thoughts are on Brittany, and I hope that she's safe. The ships already sunk enough the water is lapping over the bow.
"Will the life boats be seated according to class?" I snap then, my mother really has no idea of the magnitude of the situation. "I hope they're not too crowded."
"Oh, Judy, shut up!" I yell, "Don't you understand? The water is freezing, and there aren't enough boats. Not enough by half. Half the people on this ship are going to die."
"Not the better half" that remark comes from Finn, and it makes me realise something. I don't want to get off this boat if I'm not with Brittany. "You know, it's a pity I didn't keep that drawing, it'll be worth a lot more by morning."
"You unimaginable bastard." I stare at him, and I know what he's done.
"Come on Quinn, there's plenty of room." I can hear Holly calling me, but I realise that I can't get in that boat. Not without her.
My mother's reaching her arm out for me. "Come into the boat, Quinn."
I look at her for a second, as though she's a stranger. "Goodbye Mother."
I turn and walk away from the lifeboat. I have to find her.
Finn grabs me. "Where are you going?" He shakes me. "To her? What, to be a whore to a homosexual freak?"
"I'd rather be her whore than your wife." I spit into his face, thankful for a second that Britt taught me to do that, and run.
"Mr Schuester?" I run through the boat, trying to find him, I know he will help me. "Mr Schuester?" I see him in a corridor and turn. "Thank god! Where would the master-at-arms take someone under arrest."
"What? You have to get to a boat, right away." He looks at me as though I'm insane, and I feel it a little.
"No! I'm doing this with or without your help, sir. But without will take longer." He considers this for a moment before giving me directions, and I run to where Brittany is without thinking. I climb into an elevator, instructing the controller to take me down, but when the lift fills with water, he panics. I climb out before he can stop me, and he goes back up without a second thought.
There's more water than I thought, and for a second I thank my mother for making me learn to swim when I was younger.
I run through the corridors, yelling for Britt, when I hear a voice come back.
"Quinn?" She sounds relieved, then starts yelling. "Quinn! Quinn, I'm over here!" I hear the clanking of metal on metal as I run towards the sound of her voice.
I run down the water filled corridor until I reach the door she's behind, and when I open it, she's trying to stay out of the water, handcuffed to pipe.
"Quinn, I'm so sorry." I kiss her "I'm so, so sorry."
"That Figgins guy put it there!" She tells me.
"I know, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." I pull her to me.
"You need to get a key. It's a little silver one" She tells me, and I look around before seeing a key cabinet and running over to it through the water that was rising in the room.
"These are all brass." She looks confused. "None of them are silver!"
"Try over here" She motions at the desk with her foot.
I riffle through a drawer as well, but there's no key.
"Quinn?" I turn to look at Brittany, who's staring at me. "How did you find out I didn't do it?"
"I didn't." I smile at her slightly. "I just realised that I already knew."
We smile at each other for a second. "Keep looking!" She reminds me, and I start to look through the desk again.