Hello Readers! I want to apologize for the length of this opening chapter. I wanted to start with the hospital scene but the next chapter will begin earlier in the day that this happened.

I haven't written in a lonnnnng ass time so I apologize for any errors that occur in here.

In this story, Shelby did not adopt Beth. I feel that RM completely screwed up by doing that and I hate it. So we are just going to pretend that she never did.

Also, this is going to be about Rachel/Shelby's mother/daughter relationship as well as a friendship/romance between Rachel and Santana(I'm a huge Pezberry shipper).

Glee doesn't belong to me :( If it did, things would be a lot better.

Nothing could ever have prepared Shelby Corcoran for what she was seeing in front of her. Absolutely nothing. It made her heart clench and her eyes water. That was her baby. The one she had turned away only a few short months before.

This was definitely not what Shelby had planned to see while sitting in the Lima Memorial Hospital emergency room. The tall brunette had cut her palm on some glass that she was picking up from her kitchen and it was bad enough that Shelby knew she needed a few stitches.

While sitting on an examining table, she heard the sound of the ambulance bay doors rush open and a huge commotion enter the emergency department. It was loud enough to peek the woman's interest so Shelby listened intently to the incoming paramedics and tried to sneak a peek at the incoming patient.

"I have a sixteen year old female. Victim of a sexual assault. Vitals have dropped since we picked her up ten minutes ago. I controlled the bleeding the best I could but the damage is significant. Put her on some oxygen and treated her for shock. Do you need anything else from me, Doc?" Ben, the lead paramedic, asked the receiving doctor.

"Not at this time, Ben. Thank you. If I need anything further, I will page you straight away," replied the doctor. Dr. Martin Lopez to be exact.

"You got it, Doc. Call if you need me," Ben called as he walked out of the trauma bay.

Shelby had caught sight of gurney as it barreled past her room. Though she couldn't see the girls face or know her name, the girl on the gurney looked to be small. It brought her mind immediately to her child and how she would feel if it were ever Rachel in that situation. The thought alone brought tears to Shelby's eyes. Every day for the past sixteen years Shelby had thought about Rachel. She missed her daughter more than the tiny brunette would ever know.

It wasn't easy to turn Rachel away. In fact, it had been quite the opposite. It literally killed Shelby to walk away and it had most definitely not been her choice. Rachel's fathers, Hiram and Leroy Berry, had found out through the young singer that she had met Shelby and wanted to seek out a relationship with her mother if it was possible. The men were infuriated and made the decision to make it known to the woman that she was notwelcome in Rachel's life and needed to back off. Much to Shelby's dismay and Rachel's heartbreak, the older woman left her daughters life. That day would forever be etched into Shelby's mind as the worst day of her life.

Needing to use the restroom, Shelby left her room and walked down the hall. On her way, Shelby could hear the doctor talking to the nurse about the young patient brought in by ambulance. But when she heard two important words it made the woman's blood run cold.

"I know that young girl, Kim. She is very good friends with San. Her name is Rachel Berry," Dr. Lopez stated.

Shelby cried loudly and fell to her knees on the white, tiled floor. All anyone could hear was the scream of a woman with words of devastation and pain flowing from her heart.

"Oh Rachel! No. Not my baby. No!"