Chasing Lights

chapter 15

Tuesday, December 14th 2010

Puck gasped and covered his mouth.

Mercedes, Quinn and Santana started crying.

Finn started sobbing. He fell backwards on the staircase and screamed. "Oh God! No!"

They were to shocked to move. It was almost like they were frozen. On the basement floor they saw Rachel's lifeless body. Her hands were tied behind her back and her ankles were tied together. There was a piece of tape over her mouth and a blindfold covered her eyes.

Puck quickly ran down the staircase and over to Rachel.

"Is she dead?" Quinn sobbed.

Puck carefully put his hand on Rachel's arm. "Her skin is freezing."

"Oh God!" Santana cried. "She's gone."

Finn was a crying mess on the staircase.

Mercedes was a trying to control her tears. "We should go upstairs."

Mercedes started walking up the staircase. Puck put one arm around Quinn and the other arm around Santana. He helped them walked up the stairs as both girls sobbed.

He looked back at Finn. "Are you coming?"

Finn shook his head. "I want to stay with her."

Puck nodded and took Quinn and Santana upstairs.

Finn slowly walked over to Rachel's body. He kneeled down beside her and looked at her. She was wearing the dress and tights she wore the night she went missing. Only now they were now torn and dirty. Her arms were covered bruises and cuts. She had a nasty cut on the side of her forehead. He couldn't see all of Rachel's face due to the blindfold and tape. The parts of her face he could see had small scratches and dry blood. Finn ran his fingers through Rachel's tangled hair.

"Oh Rachel." Finn said. "What have they done to you?"

"Rachel, I'm so so sorry." Finn said while tearing up. "I never meant to leave you there. I promise I did go back to look for you. I never wanted you to get hurt. I was meant to look after you and I let you down. I'm sorry Rachel. Now your gone forever."

Finn let out a sob. He knew the most important thing at a crime scene was not to move the body, but Finn didn't care. All he wanted to do was hold Rachel in his arms. He carefully lifted Rachel into his arms and rocked her back and forth.

"I love you so much, Rachel." Finn sobbed as he held Rachel close.

Rachel's face was against Finn's neck. He held her like that for a minute until he noticed something on his neck.

He quickly lay Rachel back down on the floor. He put his hand under Rachel's nose. He gasped when he felt Rachel breathing.

"Rachel?" Finn said as he quickly took off the blindfold. Rachel's eyes were closed. "Rachel? Can you hear me? Can you open your eyes?"

Nothing happened.

"Rachel?" Finn said again as he gently shook Rachel. "C'mon Rachel. Open your eyes. You can do it. I know you can."

Finn held breath for a moment. He gasped when he saw Rachel's eyes slowly open.

Rachel tried to say Finn's name but she couldn't cause of the tape on her mouth.

"Rachel. Thank God" Finn said as he kissed Rachel on the cheek. "I'll be right back."

Finn quickly ran upstairs.