TW: everyone, if you still remember about this episode, you know there's mentions of s*icide, homophobic slurs and depression. Throughout the chapter I put "•" in the beginning and end of the parts that could possibly trigger you.
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This week couldn't get any worse. Sebastian decided to surprise Rachel with a so-called 'engagement gift' and gave the girl a badly photoshopped naked picture of Finn and told the girl not to perform at Regionals or the picture would be uploaded everywhere on the internet.
Rachel showed the New Directions the picture and Finn threatened that he was going to go after Sebastian.
The girl was quick to stop everyone from worrying, or so she thought, that they were going to beat them at Regionals with her by their side. Of course Finn, plus Kurt, Bea and Nathalie, were extremely upset about Rachel performing even if it meant that the picture would be uploaded and the boy walked out after Rachel told him that her future career depended on it.
So Nathalie decided to take matters into her own hands and decided to talk with Sebastian in the same desert parking lot that the boy threw the slushy at Blaine and almost blinded him.
Momo felt something shady from Nathalie and decided to follow her when she accidentally overheard Nathalie saying the words I'll see you in the parking lot. Don't be late.
Of course she was worried.
With her arms crossed and leaning against her car, Nathalie rolled her eyes as finally Sebastian showed up, "love to know that you have a great punctuality."
"It's hard to leave Dalton," the boy sassed and looked everywhere to see if anyone was sneakingly watching them, "what do you want?"
"I want you to delete all those photos of Finn."
Sebastian adjusted his jacket and stepped closer to the girl, giving her a sincere smile, "they're already destroyed. After what happened to Karofsky and how stupid I was with him, I decided to just try and be better. It's all fun and games, until it's not."
"That's a first," she rolled her eyes and stood still as she stilled continued Sebastian getting closer to her, "but... what happened to Karofsky?"
"You don't know?" the boy confusedly asked and Momo, with her eyebrows furrowed moved a little bit closer to listen them better and the next words she had heard made her extremely shocked.
"What?"
The shock in Nathalie's tone made Sebastian sure that the girl definitely didn't know what was going on and he could only sigh and try to place a hand on her shoulder, in which she didn't let him and stepped away from him, Nathalie definitely wanting someone that she cares and loves with her on that moment.
"I'm sorry to tell you the news like this," he sadly sighed and started walking away from her, "but I guarantee you that the pictures are deleted. I'm sorry for what I've done to your glee club."
Those were the last words the boy had said after Nathalie lost sight of him, the girl emotionless looking at the ground, waiting for someone to pop out from behind the car so closed to her.
"You can come out and hug me, please?"
And so Momo did after she sighed and cursed at herself for being caught, hugging the girl she likes tightly and comfortably, telling her comforting words as Nathalie whimpered in her arms.
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Mr. Schue had a jar of peanut butter as the glee club were all sat in a circle on the stage in silence, unsure of what the teacher wanted to do with them. And taking it upon herself, Mercedes shifted in her seat and gave the older man a confused look, "Mr. Schue, why do you have a jar of peanut butter with one spoon?"
"Yeah, there are seventeen of us here, and I'm only comfortable sharing a spoon with about half of you," Sugar spoke uncomfortably looking around at the ones she wanted to make sure knew she didn't want to share with them.
Noticing that Sugar was definitely looking at her, Bea could only roll her eyes, "don't worry. I don't want your germs."
"Well, it's come to my attention that our good friend Rory Flanagan has never tasted peanut butter," Mr. Schue explained, making all of the students burst out in disbelief. Getting up from the floor, Mr. Schue forced Rory to stand with him and passed over a spoonful of peanut butter.
"Rory, if you don't mind," Mr. Schue gave him to taste it. And, as everyone watched him in silence, the boy was literally in love with the fast and ate some more.
"Mr. Schuester, wow, that's incredibly moving," Kurt sarcastically spoke and rolled his eyes, "it's kind of been an emotional week for some of us."
"Yeah, Mr. Schue, what's the point of all this?" Bea asked.
"The point is Rory just had a brand-new experience, something as simple as peanut butter," the teacher answered and looked at his students, "you guys are young. I want you to promise me that, no matter how depressed you get, no matter how hopeless or alone you feel, you'll try your best to imagine all of the amazing experiences you have ahead of you."
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"Mr. Schue, look, I know we're a little dramatic sometimes, but I don't think anyone will ever consider taking their own life," Mercedes spoke and Nathalie uncomfortably cleared her throat as Quinn placed her hand on top of Nathalie's and looked at her worriedly.
"I did." Mr. Schue confessed and the students looked at him confused, "junior year. That was a tough year," he chuckled, "I, uh, I cheated on my math midterm. Peeked at the answers of the guy next to me and... the teacher saw me do it."
"Just 'cause you got caught cheating? I get caught cheating all the time," Puck scoffed and Mr. Schue ignored him.
"They called my dad at his office, and he was coming to pick me up," the teacher sighed, "how was I supposed to look him in the eye? I just kept... picturing my dad so disappointed in me. So... I walked up to the roof. I went right to the edge. One step and all the pain and humiliation would be over. That day, I promise you, it felt like it was the end of the world. But you know what? It wasn't," he shook his head, "you know, for some of you, getting caught cheating isn't a big deal. But there's something... everyone has something that might take them up to that edge."
There was an uncomfortable silence in the room after Mr. Schue's confession and both Quinn and Santana kept looking towards Nathalie's way, trying to figure out if her discomfort was because of what Mr. Schue had said or because she was remembering what she had tried to do a few years ago.
"I tried. Once."
Those words that left her mouth made everyone around her shocked. Because, they wouldn't have thought that the Nathalie Hummel, one of the most feared girls of the school had thought of taking her own life.
"Before I became a Cheerio, I was an insecure little girl who was being bullied by two boys and a girl. They sometimes used to tell me to 'kill myself' and 'burn in hell', just because they saw me kissing a girl," Nathalie gave Santana a sneaky look and she could see the latter look at her guilty about the past events, "as you guys know, I suffer anxiety. So, one day, I brought all of my pills and some alcohol to school."
"Oh, god, no..." Kurt mumbled and grabbed Bea's hands, the girl with tears in her eyes as she now realized that she missed what was happening in front of her eyes; her sister screaming for help and no one helped her.
"I locked myself in the girl's bathroom. And as I was about to put the pills on my mouth... someone tried to open the door," the girl sighed, "and this girl was persistent. She really wanted to use the bathroom," Nathalie tried to lighten up the mood but she was faced with a long silence and the girl cleared her throat uncomfortably, "so, I opened the door. When she got in, she asked me if I was okay. But then she looked at everything that was out of my bag. She knew that I was about to do something with myself."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Kurt asked while wiping his tears as he guilty looked at her for not noticing anything.
"I didn't want to scare you. Only Quinn and Santana know about this."
"Santana?"
"She was the one who saved me," Nathalie confessed and almost instantly, Kurt and Bea were the firsts getting up from the floor to hug Santana, both thanking her for saving their most precious person they have.
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After everyone hugged Nathalie and thanked Santana for what she did, and the latter telling them not to thank her, Mr. Schue looked at every single one of his students and gave them a smile, "so, right now, I want you all to think of something that you're looking forward to."
"Someday, I want to earn enough money to buy my folks a new place, so they don't ever have to go through losing their home again," Sam dreamingly spoke and Bea rested her hand on her ex-boyfriend's shoulder.
"I'm most looking forward to meeting Rachel Berry's children," Mercedes spoke in a serious tone yet lighting up the mood instantly as they all laughed.
"I want to be there to see my kid's first steps," Artie smiled.
"I want to be there to see Sex and the City Part III." Sugar admitted, not really taking anyone by surprise as Momo gave a questionable look towards Tina and Nathalie.
"I'm sort of embarrassed to admit it, but I really do want to graduate high school," Puck shyly spoke and Bea gave him a thumbs up, making the boy more confident about his dream.
"I'm gonna petition the Army to change my dad's dishonorable discharge status to an honorable one," Finn grinned.
"I'm looking forward to graduating from Yale at the top of my class," Quinn spoke as Nathalie looked at the girl with a small smile and eyes sparkling at the thought of her girlfriend kicking ass in college.
"I'm looking forward to kick people's ass in New York," Bea spoke and earned a high five from Momo.
"I'm looking forward to the day when my grandmother loves me again," Santana spoke through a forced smile.
"I'm looking forward to the day my parents acknowledge my existence and accept for who I am," Momo spoke and looked towards Nathalie's way without getting noticed by everyone but Nathalie, "and finally have my shot."
"I want Lord Tubbington to kick his Ecstasy addiction," Brittany spoke and that lighten up the mood.
"I am looking forward to marriage equality in all 50 states," Blaine added and the group of five all nodded in agreement.
"I'm looking forward to the first time I dance at Carnegie Hall," Mike grinned, leaning across the circle just to high five both Brittany and Bea.
"I just want a song," Tina joked and they all laughed.
"I'm looking forward to watching my dad make a difference in Congress," Kurt gushed and the two sisters definitely nodded, already planning on having a party after their dad start making everything better and help everyone.
"I'm looking forward to be able to raise a family with my loved one," Nathalie confessed as everyone awed after Quinn wrapped her arms around her and kissed her cheek, whispering that she definitely wants to do that with Nathalie.
Clearing her throat, Rachel gathered the attention, "I'm looking forward to being friends with all of you for the rest of my life."
That's such a lie, Bea thought and decided not to speak up because she didn't want to ruin the mood.
Swallowing another spoonful of peanut butter, Rory was the last person to say what he looked forward the most, "I know this sounds silly, and the peanut butter really is amazing, Mr. Schue, but do you know what I'm looking forward to? Winning at Regionals."
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Regionals day and surprisingly everyone was calmed except for Puck. After he watched the Warblers and the Golden Goblet madrigal singers performances, he looked at everyone with a sorrow look, "those Golden Goblet madrigal singers were way better than I thought they'd be."
"Are you high? I couldn't hear their instruments at all," Brittany scoffed and Bea chuckled as she put Tina's makeup on.
Rushing into the room, Mr. Schue climbed right onto the piano bench to make sure that all eyes were on him, "all right, guys, listen up! Don't let them get into your heads, okay? Stay focused on what we do best!"
"I loved the High School Musical reference," Nathalie whispered to Quinn, who ended up laughing and getting some attention to her, in which she only shrugged and gave everyone a glare to stop looking at her.
The bell rang signaling they had two minutes until they had to go onstage and, wheeling himself to the middle of the room, Artie gestured everyone to follow his lead, "show circle time, come on, let's huddle up!"
The group of five bounced their way towards the group, all wrapping their arms around each other.
"Okay, uh – Oh, Finn, you wanted to start us off?" Mr. Schue asked.
"Yeah," Finn nodded his head, he glanced around the group that had all eyes on him, "I know it's kind of short notice, but after the competition, Rachel and I are going to get married," pausing, he let Bea stare at him in horror before Rachel continuing on, "at the Justice of the Peace at the Lima Municipal Center. There will be some light refreshments afterwards, my dad's and I were rolling finger sandwiches all night long," the girl spoke with a bright smile on her face.
"With everything that's happened lately, we thought a lot about what Mr. Schue said. We didn't want to wait anymore. We just want to live every day like it's our last. So, we wanted to thank a lot of you guys that were supportive of our decision to get married." Finn explained and Rachel gripped their hands together, "and for those of you who maybe weren't the biggest fans of our impending nuptials, we thank you also. So after we win, we would really love it if all of you would come to our wedding."
With the few scattered applause from those that were openly supportive, Mr. Schue was the first to place his hand in the middle of the group. Gathering closer around, everyone piled their hands in, already celebrating their inevitable win, "come on, bring it in! Aaaaaaamazing!"
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In the end the Glee club won Regionals and everyone decided to go to Finchel's wedding.
Unfortunately, Bea, Nathalie and Quinn had to go back and dress up properly for the ceremony.
The couple was already dressed up and waiting for Bea, who was really taking her time on her dress and make up.
"Oh my god," Nathalie groaned in frustration and rested her head on Quinn's shoulder, "where is she and what is she doing?"
"She's just getting dress," Quinn tried to calm her girlfriend down, "she'll be here in no time-"
"Looking like a motherfucking snack!" Bea cut off Quinn, showing off her red velvet dress to the couple, "I look pretty, don't I?"
"You really do," Nathalie praised her sister and gave her a twirl, "please, you've got to lend me this dress."
"Anytime," Bea gave her a wink and the three of them walked towards Nathalie's car, Bea asking if she could be the one driving and Nathalie didn't see any problem because she trusts her sister with her own life.
But, well, Nathalie does not trust the other drivers.
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Everything happened too fast.
In a moment, the three girls were laughing, and in another moment they were hit by a drunk driver and Nathalie's car was rolling over the road and the three girls passed out on a scene.
The police and ambulances were called and the girls, plus the drunk driver, were rushed into the hospital to see the damages.
Quinn and Bea were the first ones to wake up. Fortunately, since she was sat in the backseat, Quinn just had a few scratches; but Bea, since she was behind the wheel and was hit from her side, had a broken leg, sprained her wrists and had scratches all over her body.
Nathalie was set to wake up soon, in Momo's mom words. The girl only had sprained her ankle but she had to put stitches, since she hit her head on the concrete floor, ending up opening a bit of her head.
Tina, Bea, Quinn, Momo, Kurt, Burt and Momo's mom, aka Nathalie's doctor, were all sat in silence, all excitedly waiting for the girl to wake up. Quinn was by her girlfriend's side, running her had through the girl's locks and adjusting her blanket, when she felt Nathalie stirred up, making her gasp and get everyone's attention.
"She's waking up!" Quinn exclaimed as Nathalie tried to open her eyes, but unfortunately because of the light she couldn't.
"Nat, honey. Are you okay?" Nathalie managed to hear Tina's voice and, before she could even answer, she heard her brother groan.
"Yes, Tina, of course she's fine! She just suffered an accident and she's ready to go do some bungee jumping!"
Nathalie started giggling but suddenly stopped when she realized how many people were in the hospital room and wondered how did she got there.
Momo moved towards the bed and kissed her forehead as Nathalie looked around, confused, "you're in the hospital, Nattie."
"I know, Mo," Nathalie replied with a small smile, "I don't have amnesia."
"Thank God," Tina sighed in relief, "imagine having to teach you the alphabet and stuff again, total nightmare."
Momo's mom furrowed her eyebrows and chuckled while she made a check up on the girl, "not really how amnesia works, Tina."
"What I was gonna say was," Nathalie furrowed her eyebrows, looking at her girlfriend for back up, "what happened?"
"Wait," Bea frowned, "so you do have amnesia?"
"She does not," Momo's mom answered and gestured her daughter to step back so that the woman could seat down, "you, your sister, and girlfriend were hit by a drunk driver. You were sent out of the car but luckily you only had a concussion and had to put some stitches. As you can see, your sister broke her leg," Bea made sure to try and show her broken leg but groan in pain and Tina shook her head in disapproval at her, "and Quinn had a few scratches."
"At least we're not that bad," Nathalie smiled in relief and then turned to her dad, "and my car?"
"Completely destroyed," Burt answered and Nathalie looked at him sadly, like her baby was taking away from her and she couldn't do anything about it.
"Don't worry, we'll get a new car," Burt reassured her, "now, the most important thing is that you three get better, ok?"
Nathalie nodded and smiled, happy that she had a great support system that has her back.
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Yes, I decided not to use the storyline that definitely made Quinn's character go downhill because it was a horrible storyline and should've never happened on the show