Epilogue:

Two months after the plane crash, Rachel and Santana were sprawled out in Rachel's bed, after a truly amazing date. They were tangled together; certain important articles of clothing pushed up or pulled off. They were kissing, trying to be quiet. Rachel's dads didn't mind if Santana stayed over (probably since there was no fear of her getting Rachel preggers, not that she was complaining), but they didn't want to push the rules by being noisy.

Rachel's arm was still a bit stiff, but there were no other after affects from her infection or injury. Puck was on the mend as well, although, he'd never be allowed to play contact sports again. He was just glad he was alive. Brittany had eventually woken up from her coma. She was a bit slower these days, but still her usual sunny self, so no one who loved her paid any attention to the fact that she couldn't remember the date or her phone number. It wasn't a very large change from before anyways. Finn's arm had been wrecked in the crash, so he would never throw another football again. Other than that, the Glee club was recovering from the mental affects of being in a traumatizing event such as a plane crash.

After they got out of the hospital and were back home in Lima; Rachel, Santana and Puck learned the events from the other half of the plane. The front end, still being attached to the wings, had managed to skim over another mountain and end up on another side of the mountain range completely. Which was why it took so long for Search and Rescue to find the tail, because it was farther away than they thought possible give where the front end landed. The pilot was the only casualty of the crash, when his head slammed against the glass of the front window upon the first impact that separated the plane in two. The co-pilot managed to guide the rest of the plane down into a glade, and then radioed for help. The Glee club had been fortunate that rescue had come only hours after the crash. They'd then spent the next 5 days praying and hoping that the three in the back had survived what the S&R team called a brutal impact. But eventually someone had seen the smoke and the trio had been picked up.

Santana and Rachel had taken time when they got home to get to know each other, without the stress of survival weighing them down. As time passed, they fell more and more in love with each other the more they discovered. It turns out, Santana is the master of handling Rachel's crazy, and Rachel had a way of evening out Santana's rougher side, making the taller girl more fun to be around. Which made Glee even more dynamic.

Rachel couldn't wait to use that new dynamic to "kick ass" at Regional's next month, as her girlfriend and best friend were fond of saying.