Title: One Hand, One Heart

Rating: T

Warning- indirect mention of rape.

Summary: Rachel Berry never saw it coming. But then it happened. Now, alone and frightened she tries to continue with normal life. Then she meets a certain, curly haired boy. And everything changes.

Disclaimer: Obviously I do not own Glee, if I did Jesse would still be there and St. Berry would be alive and kicking. But he isn't. From this we can conclude that I don't own Glee.

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Prologue

This was a side of town that he wasn't familiar with. He lived on the West Side and preferred to stay around that area. But they had only stocked the Rolling Stones Classics, book of piano music at this shop and it would have cost twice as much to have it shipped over from Canada.

Now, however, he found himself hopelessly lost in the twisting maze of back streets. Seeing the promise of streetlights at the other end of an alley, he made his way quickly down it. The sounds of shouts from the street he had just come from, made him hurry his pace, walking quickly across the slippery cobble stones.

Something caught his eye as he walked and he stopped, turning to see a figure slumped between two garbage bins. Moving forward quickly, he recognised the figure as female, although her slender body was covered in a thick black coat, the only colour obvious was a bright, canary yellow sweater that shone from underneath- what caught his eyes originally.

Leaning down, he brushed the dark hair from her face and cringed at the sight of her.

She was deathly pale and completely frozen, despite the coat. He hesitated for a few moments debating the decision for a moment before pulling her up into his arms. She was light and his strong dancer's arms held her up easily as he hurried towards his car, which was parked on the other side of the road in a public car park.

Sliding her into one arm and balancing her carefully with the grace of years training, he gently placed her into the passenger seat, before slamming the passenger door and hurrying towards the driver's seat.

Clambering in, he suddenly had a thought, and placed his two fingers against her throat gently. The faint, yet steady beat beneath his fingers made him slump in relief.

"Thank God." He muttered, fumbling as he started his car, screeching out into the road.

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This is kind of an apology to the readers of my other St Berry fic 'Intoxication'. I haven't written in ages because I caught flu very badly. My doctor says I have to stay in bed and rest, she gave me pills to take and I HATE taking pills so :( - I still have it now :( and my HP Laptop has decided to break. I plug it in and it sometimes says it's charging, sometimes it isn't. It's a common problem and I think it's to do with the plug socket- it's too fragile.

But what do I know?

Should have an 'Intoxication' update soon.

Okay, please be nice :)

The next chapter should be straight up and updates should be pretty regular I think.

Please review- reviews inspire me!

Ray x