George's POV

No- not my Teeghan. It was just a split second but it felt like hours before I hunched forward and ran over to the edge and leaned forward over the rail. Please- please- please don't let her be dead. Teeghan had gotten a grip of the lowest part of the bridge under me, and was now hanging there, screaming and crying.

I looked for somewhere for me to grab and climb down. But there was nothing to hold on to. More people had started gathering around me, someone was calling 911, but most of them just stood there.

"HELP" I shouted because I couldn't think of anything else to do. I looked around, a rope, a thread, just anything.

"DADDY." Teeghan shouted. "Daddy help me I don't wanna die." She hadn't called me Daddy for such a long time and now it broke my heart. I looked around just as a man came running with a rope, he tied it tightly around his waist, then did the same on a big- grown man to my right and told a couple of others to hold on to him. Then he slowly climbed over the rail and wired himself down. I ran over to the edge when they started pulling up.

"Daddy." Teeghan sobbed- I reached down to try to reach her hands. It felt like hours before I could reach her hands and pulled her up with such a power it knocked me off my feet. I soon laid on the ground with Teeghan in my arms, someone was helping the man over the rail as well. But right now what mattered to me was that I held my daughter in my arms- and she was safe.

"Sch." I comforted. She was crying more than ever before, and I was too. "Sch it's alright. You're alright. I've got you." Eventually I pulled myself into sitting position but still held Teeghan close as sirens were heard getting closer.

They wanted to take Teeghan to the hospital- just check everything- let her speak to a therapist or something. But I refused to let her go- and after loads of ifs and buts I was given the number to the hospital and was allowed to take her home.

Most of the people that had stopped when Teeghan was hanging from the bridge had left now. The guy with the rope still stood leaning against his car. I walked over to him with my arm around Teeghan.

"I can never thank you enough." I told him. "I… Can I have your number or something? I'll be in touch when things have calmed down." The man sighed.

"I haven't really got a phone, you can have my address if you want to keep in touch." I pulled up a paper and a pencil from my pocket and the man wrote down his address and gave it to me afterwards.

"My name is George Knight by the way. This is my daughter- Teeghan." I told him, he pulled a hand through his half- long curls.

"Aaron Jacoby. I have… I have to leave now." Aaron got in his car and drove away. I pulled a drag- rope between mine and Teeghan's car and then got into my car, Teeghan sat down in the passenger seat and I drove home.

I sat the whole night with Teeghan in my arms. We had compromised about my work- I'd work- but only between eight A.M. and four P.M. And I wouldn't do any work on evenings or weekends. Now when I saw everything so clear I didn't know how I could have been able to work so much the last ten years, searching for things I could or could not get, while I didn't see what I had right in front of me.

Teeghan had soon fallen asleep in my arms, but I stayed until she woke up in the morning. I wasn't going to force her to go to school today. But when she woke up she said there was something she had to do and left at Friday morning. I sat down and called back to Gus- I had decided to keep my promise with only working when Teeghan was at school.

I'd have to call Christina as well- Teeghan's mum worked in Maine for two months a time, was home for one, gone for two and so all year around. I hadn't told her about what happened on the bridge- but I would. Just… not now. After I had spoken to Gus I leaned my chair backwards and took a well- needed mid- day nap for the first time in God knows how many years.

Tyler POV

I walked out of the choir room where we had been for Mr. Schue to tell us about sectionals. It was afternoon- and I stood by my locker to get my jacket and go home when Mr. Schue caught up with me.

"Hey Ty. Have you been talking to Lex anything?" I shook my head and pulled my rain. Coat and converse- bag on. "I was wondering if you could bring these to her." He held up a plastic bag. "It's homework from the teachers, letter about sectionals and a get- well card from all of the New Directions as you know because you all signed it. I was going to bring it myself if I didn't have something I had to do…" He seemed to be wanting to say more when I interrupted.

"No it's fine. I'll bring it to her." I put it in my bag. "Have a good weekend Mr. Schue." I walked backwards to not be impolite and then turned around when he had greeted me good weekend back and then I walked out of the school building and walked down the road.

After about twenty minutes I stepped onto the porch steps of the Hudmel- house and knocked the door. Carole came and opened it for me, it was raining heavily so I must have looked quite miserable soaking wet with all my black hair dripping.

"Come in Tyler." She stepped to the side, I stepped over the threshold. "I'll get you a towel." I opened my mouth to protest but realized one- I needed one. Two- I knew Carole and she would get a towel no matter what I thought about it. I kept quiet and only half a minute later she came rushing with a towel.

"How's Lex?" I asked, and pulled the towel through my hair. Carole frowned- Lex had told me about the DVD:s the day she watched the first of them- over the phone. "She told me about those DVD:s." Carole nodded.

"Well she's… she's doing…" Carole turned her head to look into the living room. Her hesitating was enough for me to understand. "She's doing alright." Suddenly there was a high- pitched sound- somewhere in between a scream and a moan coming from the living room and I recognized Lex's voice. Carole sighed and started to turn around I stopped her.

"No- no, I'll take it." I rushed into the living room. Lex was laying in the sofa. She was sleeping, tossing back and forth and her sounds got louder and more high- pitched for every time. I kneeled down and started stroking her hair.

Lex POV

Brian seemed to grow bigger when I and Maddie looked up at him from our spot on the hard ground. I wrapped my arms around Maddie and tried to stand in front of her but Brian pulled me away. Pushed me down and then took Maddie. He lifted her up, Maddie looked to me and her eyes were so scared- so begging- and her mouth opened.

"Lexie help me." She shouted. "Help me! Don't let this happen to me. Lex why are you letting him hurt me?" Brian threw Maddie onto the ground kneeled down and then pulled his arm backwards to take the first blow.

"NO." my eyes shot open as I flew up in sitting position. Caught by a pair of arms, that held me close to his chest. I looked up to see Tyler there, as I later pressed my head towards his chest- his shirt was wet of rain- water but it couldn't have bothered me less as I cried towards his chest.

"Sch." He comforted. "It's okay. You're okay. It was just a dream." I curled up the fabric of Tyler's shirt in my fists so hard it was as if my life was depending on it. It was as if I needed to hold on just to make sure he wouldn't just disappear. It took me a while to get a hang of breathing again, at last I had calmed down enough to stop crying but I continued holding to Tyler.

I had barely slept since Wednesday, every time I fell asleep I had nightmares so I kept myself busy through the nights. Slept during the days when mum was there- dad too when he wasn't at work. I didn't want to bother them like this but- it was better than waking them up several times a night.

I sat like that with Tyler for God knows how long. He didn't want to let go he said, at last he called his mum and asked her to bring some of his things over. He'd stay the night here. I fell asleep early in the evening and slept a few hours, I fell asleep in Tyler's arms and it's where I woke up. I did not have any nightmares during those few hours and when I did wake up Tyler had fallen asleep. I turned around, careful not to wake him up then laid down in his arms again, and fell asleep to sleep calmly through the whole night.

Leah POV

I had made up my mind- during the whole Saturday I wasn't going to sit down in the wheelchair once during the whole Saturday. If it worked well enough I wasn't going to be doing that on Sunday either. Moving around with crutches and of course sitting down when I needed to- though I was going to move around on my feet and not in a chair. There was only one problem.

"No Leah- you're not ready to do that yet." Mum half shouted half complained as I told her on Saturday morning after using the crutches from my room to the kitchen. I protested.

"Yes I am- and it's my choice." Dad looked up, shook his head and sighed.

"You're not ready yet- you were hit by a car." I sighed.

"Oh was I? I did not know that." I said ironically. "And yes mum I am."

"Actually…" Jonah began. "I think Leah's right, and it's her choice. And we all want her to be able to walk again as soon as possible so the sooner she does it the sooner she'll be able to- it heals better the more she moves you know."

"Exactly." I said. Mum opened her mouth to protest again but before she had the time dad spoke up.

"The children are right Edna. It is Leah's choice." Mum closed her mouth again. Hesitated for a moment and then smiled slightly before answering.

"Okay… but if your back's hurting or anything you tell me straight away okay?" I nodded and high fived with Jonah, and mum had to admit she was wrong from the start that night when I laid in the sofa with my Saturday- snack, and had only fallen once- because of the stupid threshold then. I thought about Monday and school- but decided to take that fight with mum at Sunday evening instead.

I loved my parents, I knew they loved me too. I cared about them, and I knew they cared about me- sometimes the problem just was- I felt as if they cared a bit too much- and because of that holding me back. Dad wasn't too bad, mum though- like this morning- would hold me back from things I really wanted- things I knew they wanted too and that would be good for me- because she was afraid I would get hurt.

I knew I was going to get hurt. I knew I was going to fall. But I knew I was going to stand up again, fight the pain and keep on walking to reach my goal. And this time- it was learning to walk again.