Rachel's POV

Rachel was at home writing in her very thorough diary when she felt her stomach sink and a single tear fell down on the page. She felt like something was ripped out of her life. She leaned her elbows on the desk while burying her head into her hands. She ran her hands through her hair a few times and tried to calm herself down. She didn't know why this suddenly happened but she couldn't shake the feeling as if something went horribly wrong in her life. Little did she know that hours later she would receive the call that would make her chest feel like it caved in and give her the worst panic attack of her life.

After she got the call, Rachel rushed to the hospital hoping the call was a mistake, but she sees Santana, Brittany and Finn sitting together in the waiting room with Quinn's parents.

Santana looked up from in Brittany's arms and said, "What the hell is she doing here?" with a venomous tone.

"Cool it Santana, I called her over here for emotional support." Finn reached over to Rachel and hugged her in a tight embrace.

He sat her down and looked at his hands while talking, "She got hit at an intersection on her way home from school. It's still touch and go but they said she's fighting and things look like they're going in our favor." Rachel nodded her head and had a worried expression on her face.

"I knew I shouldn't have let her leave in such a rush after cheerios practice..", Santana managed to choke out under her breath. She had a lump in her throat that had her cry every time she wanted to speak, "She's a ruthless bitch but she's our best friend."

Santana went to full blown crying and couldn't stop the hiccups coming out. Brittany sat quietly and kept consoling her while staring blankly at the floor in front of her.

Rachel couldn't believe what was happening. Quinn Fabray, the girl who had it all, could leave this world any minute now. It wasn't how things in life were supposed to go. She was supposed to be the girl that everyone looked back on and envied for having such a perfect life. Rachel didn't want Quinn hurt. She just wanted everything to be okay and have all this be a nightmare. The doctor came in and asked for Quinn's parents. Rachel finally looked over at them for the first time and saw an older lady who looked like an older Quinn but with bloodshot eyes and a tissue in hand. Then she looked at Quinn's father who was more than emotionless, but maybe a little bored and aggravated. They got up and Mr. Fabray fixed his shirt while approaching the doctor. The mom listened to the doctor's words as if her whole world was at stake, which it was. She first sighed in relief then a few seconds later all the color from her face flushed out. Quinn's father said thank you and returned to his seat with his arms crossed and an annoyed expression crossed his face as he watched his wife have an episode.

Finn went to go talk to Quinn's mother as he too got pale and hugged her. He slowly came over to the group of girls and said as if he ran out of oxygen, "She's okay. She went through surgery fine and she woke up without an issue."

Santana had a little wave of relief wash over her before Finn finished his sentence, "But, she can't remember anything after her eighth grade summer. She doesn't remember any of us except Santana since they grew up together and me since we had some of the same classes together before then. She's very confused and scared about everything."

Everyone was completely silent in the room. Rachel didn't know what to feel. Quinn Fabray, the girl who tormented her through high school, the beautiful head cheerleader that was going to grow up and make something of herself rather than be a "Lima-loser", couldn't remember the past 4 years of her life. Couldn't remember the girl she picked on every day since the beginning of freshman year.

Rachel got up with tears threatening to spill over her eyes and announced, "I really don't think I should be here. Quinn hates me and I just... I can't deal with this. Please let me know if she's okay. But... this is really something only family and friends should be dealing with right now."

Santana looked over at Rachel with a venomous stare, "Good. You get that no one wants you here, now leave!"

Rachel left crying and the tears didn't stop for weeks to come.

During the rest of the year and summer Finn would update her about Quinn's rehabilitation and how she is going through a great recovery. Rachel tried to be strong. She didn't understand why this affected her so much and why the color drained out of her life the day Quinn Fabray got into a life-threatening car accident.

Quinn's POV

Quinn woke up in a state of panic, looking around her and not knowing what was going on. Why was she hooked up to monitors? What was going on? Her doctors ordered the team out of the room once they did a quick exam over her so he could talk to her alone. She started crying out of fear of being in this unknown room.

The Doctor sat on the chair next to the bed, "Do you know your name?"

"Lucy Quinn Fabray"

"Okay good, Do you know who your parent's are?"

"Russel and Judy Fabray.. What's happening? Why am I here?" Quinn started sobbing at the end of her question. Why couldn't she go home?

"Quinn, I'm afraid that you've been a really terrible accident. You were driving and you got hit by another car-"

"No that's not possible."

"Why not?"

Quinn shook her head, "Because I can't drive. I'm barely going to become a freshman in high school."

The doctor looked at her with sympathetic eyes and left the room without saying anything else. Quinn didn't want to be here. She tried getting up but when she moved everything hurt at once. Her head, her leg, her arm, and her hips. She took a look at herself and found a broken leg, a fractured arm, and her hips looked more than bruised. She reached up to touch her head and felt stitches making an arch behind her ear. This was some kind of nightmare. She started sobbing harder and didn't want to feel anything more. She wanted to be put out of this life she woke up in. A nurse came in and helped her relax by giving her some medicine to knock her out for now.

Quinn's dreams were scattered with glimpses of memories. She saw Santana messing around with her, Finn being a doofus, and someone else. She kept seeing images of this girl smiling. Whoever she was it made her glad that she was dreaming of her.

It was a routine for a few weeks of Quinn's life after that. She would wake up, eat, go to physical therapy, regular therapy, eat again, then she would get drugged back into her sleep coma where she would see that beautiful girl's smile again only to have it be foggy and erased when she woke up.

Things started to get better after awhile. Her leg got better over time. She had a slight limp that would soon go away, her hair grew back around where her stitches were and decided to even her hair out and have one of the nurses cut it neck length. Her memory was foggy but she could remember glimpses of the past few years of her life.

She finally left the hospital in the middle of summer and went to her strange "new" home that she didn't remember moving into. Her mom pulled up to the house and helped Quinn out of the car. She got shown to her room and was left alone for a bit. She looked around trying to figure out who exactly she was now. She saw a lot of cheerleading stuff around the room and a closet full of the most perfect wardrobe. She passed by the mirror without looking at herself at first. She stopped and turned slowly to her reflection. She hasn't seen a reflection of herself at all in the hospital. Things looked different to her. She remembers herself being overweight and not at all what she sees in the mirror. She obviously knew she had lost weight and knew she had lost the braces and acne but this was too strange for her. She looked closer and saw a different nose than she remembered. She can honestly say even looking like she just came out of the hospital, she looked a lot better than she used to. She laid down on her bed and pretended that she knew exactly what her life was like.

Her mom came in after a while looking almost awkward, "Quinnie, I'm going to give you your cell phone to maybe help jog some memories okay?"

Quinn sat up and nodded her head. Once her mom left the room she turned on the phone wondering what it would show her. It started buzzing uncontrollably for a few seconds and she saw that she had a few too many text messages. She closed the messages folder and came to see a background of her, Santana Lopez, and a tall blonde girl all smiling together on a football field. It was nice to know she still had Santana as a friend. She didn't want anyone visiting her at the hospital, not knowing who would have came. She finally started looking at her text messages and they were all mostly from random numbers telling her to get better and so on. Once she went through all of those she saw Santana's text messages that made her throat clasp tight.

-Please get better Q.

-I need you to be here so we can grow old together and be besties for life

-Brittany told me to tell you she misses you and that she found a cat food that could cure your memory loss.

-I miss you terribly Quinn. Cheerios isn't the same without you

-Hopefully things can get back to how they used to be soon..

She Figured Brittany was the other girl in the picture she saw. Quinn slowly opened up a new text and tried her best to text something back to her friend. But what do you say after you haven't had any contact with your closest friend for what seemed like forever. The only thing she could think of was-

-I miss you too San.. Who am I now?

She shut her phone and took a deep breath before laying down and tried to go to sleep without any help from her meds this time.