Chapter 13

"Quinn if you don't start talking right now…" Santana barks from the passenger seat of Rachel's car.

After Santana had exposed a nasty bruise on Quinn's wrist, the blonde had stomped out of the store. Quinn knew that Santana had no problems with getting loud and embarrassing the group of friends in public. Santana's done it plenty of times before.

"San…you need to calm down." Rachel says from the driver's seat. Santana sends Rachel a glare and turns back ground to Quinn in the backseat.

"Quinn."

"It's nothing Santana." Quinn finally breaks her silence. "It was an accident. Can we go home now?"Quinn looks at Rachel, so she'll get the hint to start the car. It's pointless because originally Santana drove Rachel's car to the store and she still has the keys in her pocket.

"Quinn…that's not nothing. You have a nasty bruise on your wrist and you've been acting weird all day." Tina joins in, moving closer to the girl in the backseat. "We just want to help."

"I want to go home."

"Quin…"

"Santana…you guys need to back off and give her some time." Rachel cuts Santana off. "Give me my keys so I can take her home." Santana just stares at Rachel's outstretched hand for a minute before digging the keys out of her pocket and handing them over.

The car ride back to Quinn's and Santana's apartment is silent. Tina is in the back seat with Quinn's head resting on her shoulder, and Santana is gazing out of the window trying to calm down.

Santana has a feeling she knows what happened. Tyler. Santana has always thought the boy could be too aggressive some time. Hell Santana is even aggressive. But she uses her words. Even when she's super pissed she never kicks things or feel need to harm someone else. She knows when enough is enough. From the look at Quinn's wrist it seems like Tyler doesn't feel the same.

Santana doesn't even know what's going on between the boy and her best friend. Quinn didn't say that they got back together but Quinn has been spending a lot of her time in her ex boyfriends company.

As soon as they pull up into a parking spot outside their building Quinn jumps out of the car. Tina looks at Santana and they both start to follow Quinn.

"Wait." Rachel reaches out to stop Santana from living the car.

"What?" Santana barks.

"First, lose the attitude and don't raise your voice to me again." Rachel says calmly. "Calm. Down."

"Sorry." Santana relaxes back into her seat.

"Quinn is obvious not okay. We all know that San. But she's not going to tell us anything if you keep being all demanding. She needs you to be her friend. She needs us to be patient and to listen when she's ready to speak."

"I know. Okay."

"Okay."

Santana walks into Quinn's room to see the blonde sitting on the floor in her empty bedroom with her head resting on Tina's shoulder. Quinn roll her eyes when she see's Santana has entered her room.

Santana doesn't say anything, which surprises Quinn. She just walks over to the other two girls and sits on the other side of Quinn. Santana grabs Quinn's hand and squeezes and rests her body back against the wall. Rachel disappears out of the door and then returns pulling Santana's blown up air mattress into Quinn's room. The other three girls watch as she gets it into the room and set up right in front of them.

"What? The floor is hard." Rachel says to their questioning faces.

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They have been sitting in Quinn's new bed room for an hour now. Santana might be being quiet right now but she's really on fire with anger. But she defiantly doesn't plan on leaving Quinn's side until she knows what happened to the other girl.

Tina is now lying on the air mattress, half asleep, next to Rachel and Santana is holding Quinn against her body, still on the floor.

"We were about to have sex," Quinn voice starts off so quietly that if Santana wasn't sitting right next to her, she might not have heard. "But I stopped him and told him that he needed to put on protection."

"Tyler, right?" Tina asks. None of the girls know what is going on with Quinn and Tyler. Quinn hasn't brought him around like she usually does when the two is dating, so the girls don't know if she's really talking to Tyler or someone else. Quinn nods and continues.

"I told him that I've been kind of busy with finals and moving this week and missed taking a couple of my birth control pills, so using protection would be the responsible thing to do. He…" Quinn tries to move even closer to Santana. "He just kept on insisting…saying he'd make sure to pull out. I said no. Use protection or we won't be having sex. I said Tyler I don't want another pregnancy scare." Tina and Rachel both sit up in bed when pregnancy scare leaves Quinn's mouth.

Quinn had told Santana that she didn't want to share that information with everyone else. Quinn hadn't even told her other best friend, Mike, about it.

"And…what did he say?" Santana probs. She doesn't want Rachel and Tina to start in on the questions about the pregnancy scare.

"We got into a big argument. I mean…we never really talked about what would have happened if I had been pregnant. When I told him about the scare, we just agreed to be more careful and use protection when and if we slept together again." Quinn shakes her head. "He is such an asshole." She cries. Santana just squeezes Quinn tighter.

"It's okay."

"He was just saying all this…it was total bullshit and he was making it seem like I was trying to get pregnant to trap him or something."

"What the fuck?" Santana can't believe the nerve of this guy.

"I know, right? I'm like Tyler that's stupid…" Quinn starts up again. "I'm arguing with you to put on a condom, so please tell me how the hell I'm trying to trap you? He just got all loud and was saying more bullshit. I didn't want to put up with it so I tried to leave."

"Tried?" Rachel probes this time.

"Tyler…he grabbed my wrist and jerked me back. I fell on the bed." Quinn gets quiet again and wipes at her face. "I jumped up off the bed and he shoved me back down." The more Quinn talks the angrier Santana is becoming. She's a minute away from going to find Tyler and beating his ass.

"Did he…" Tina's voice shakes as she speaks. "Did he force himself on you?"

"No." Quinn shakes her head. "He just refused to let me leave the room. He would roughly grab me whenever I would try to leave. I evenly threaten to tell Puck and Mike that he keeps putting his hands on me. He said fuck you and told me to get out."

"Has he touched you before?" Rachel stands.

"He's never been this forceful…"

"Quinn!" Rachel cuts in. "It doesn't matter. He shouldn't put his hands on you at all."

"And why haven't you told us before?" Santana pulls away from Quinn. "Gosh…what if he would have seriously hurt you. And you keep messing with him? Damn Quinn." Santana's seeing red now.

"Santana…Tyler's…"

"A dumb ass!" Santana barks. "Look what he fucking did to your wrist, Quinn. He's not getting away with this shit." Santana stands real fast. Quinn is quick to get on her feet and follow the fuming girl out of the room.

"Santana…what are you doing?" Santana ignores Quinn and keeps on walking around the apartment, looking at box labels. She knows she has a pocket knife packed in one of these boxes.

"San…It's over. I'm not going around him again. Please calm down." Quinn begs. Rachel walks over to her angry girlfriend and rests her hand on Santana's lower back.

"Santana." She says quietly. "Remember Quinn needs you. Calm down." Instantly Santana relaxes. She's still pissed and is making plans in her head on how she's going to kill Tyler, but she's no longer about to run out the door and hunt the boy down. She'll wait until she can call the guys for back up.

"Come here." Santana opens her arms up for Quinn. Quinn walks over and breaks down into tears in Santana's arms.

#$%^&^

Santana is having a very emotional day today. First she finds out that her best friend has been in an abusive relationship on and off for years now. And now she finds herself standing in just a towel in the middle of her room crying.

Tina went home just before it got dark. Rachel is helping Quinn blow up her air mattress and Santana has just gotten out of the shower. She started to crying after getting out of the shower and walking into her bedroom. She looked at the empty walls and the queen sized air mattress and broke down.

This is her first apartment and her mom is not her to see it. Before everything with Quinn happened, Santana was thinking, as they walked around furniture stores, about how her mom would have loved to help pick out their furniture. Maria Lopez was like Quinn when she shopped. They both wanted to buy everything. That's another reason why Santana's mom and Quinn got along so well. Santana really wish her mom was here to give her decorating tips, but more importantly, give her advice on how to help her best friend.

Santana wipes her face and finishes getting dressed just before Rachel comes into the room. Rachel comes into the room, smiles over at Santana and grabs some stuff for her shower before leaving the room again.

"I stopped by Quinn's room. She's out like a light." Rachel says crawling onto the air mattress with Santana after her shower.

"Mmmm…thanks for staying again tonight." Santana turns over onto her back. "I know you're not fond of sleeping on this thing." She pats the air mattress. Rachel just gives Santana a small smile before dipping her head down for a kiss.

"So what's up?" Rachel pull back to look at Santana. "Why were you crying?" Santana eyes widen. She didn't think Rachel saw she had been crying. "Yeah…I saw your red eyes when I was getting ready for my shower. I was just trying to give you some time to collect yourself, that's why I waited until now to asks about it."

"I'm just having a real rough day." Santana admits. "I don't know what to do about Quinn. I mean…Rachel, she's my best friend. We've livedd together for three years now. How did I not know this guy had hit her before? I should have known."

"Don't." Rachel says sitting up when Santana does. "Don't beat yourself up over this. Quinn is great at hiding…closing herself off when she wants to. Remember I'm her friend too. None of us knew Tyler has violent tendencies."

"I just don't know what to do. Quinn's not going to just stop talking to him." Santana run her hands through her hair. "Tyler is like her real first love and…and Quinn has a history of letting guys and people in general manipulate her."

"We'll figure something out. Maybe we can get her someone to talk to. Like a professional. Or we cou…why are you smiling at me like that?" Rachel asks when she looks over, mid rant, to see Santana smiling at her.

"I'm just glad you're here." Santana puts her arm around Rachel's waist. "If my mom was here…she would say you are good for me." Rachel just smiles and kisses Santana's cheek.

"Let's get some rest so we can hopefully have a better tomorrow."

TBC