Don't miss your life.
"Don't let such precious moments pass. We all know time goes way too fast. Hold on tight 'cause it don't happen twice" Phill Vassair
Finn Hudson has a successful life as as business man to his father's company a somewhat exhausting demanding job which requires him to be away a lot. One day he gets the chance to realize his job isn't as important as missing on his own life.
I adore the song by Phil Vassar and I thought I'd write a short fic, maybe not more than 5 chapters. I don't know if I will expand it. I do hope you enjoy!
There's some of the kids from various of my fics but this is an independent story from the others even though the background is similar. For example Cory but you don't need to read my other ones to understand it.
I own nothing.
Chapter 1: One
Finn Hudson looked down at his watch as he waited for his flight to be called, apparently it had been delayed. Again. He could swear the world didn't want him to get to Los Angeles in time. He'd had a similar experience just a few weeks ago. Suddenly his phone buzzed in his pocket.
"Hello there beautiful." He said with an evident slime.
"Hi. How did you know it was me?"
"I have my ways." Finn said sweetly. "What's up?"
"I just wanted to make sure you were okay. Did you arrive to Los Angeles already?"
"No, my flight was delayed. I've been siting here for about an hour now." He could listen to her scuff on the side.
"Baby, I'm sorry."
"It's fine, I was trying to kill off some soldiers or something on my phone . I've just realized I pretty much suck." He breathed out, the rush of people coming and going had quieted down for a moment. Finn heard a thud behind him but quickly realized it had come from her end as well. "Rachel? Everything okay?"
"Yes. It's just the kids watching a movie with Kurt."
"Is he watching Lawrence of Arabia again?"
"How did you know?" She heard laughter behind her.
"Is that Dad? Can I talk to him now?"
"Rachel! A little help here!" Finn heard Kurt shriek.
"Babe, I'll be right back, here's Cory."
"Hey Dad."
Finn smiled widely. "Hey buddy, how's it going? Are you helping mom with the babies?"
"Yes, yes he's been very helpful." Finn heard the voice of Rachel's best friend chipping in. "When are you coming back?" His son asked clearly trying to avoid having Kurt taking the phone from him.
"Soon bud, it's just a couple of days, no biggie okay?" Finn knew he couldn't fool his kid so he heard him scuff.
"You always say that and then something comes up." Cory said.
"I... I don't, not all the time anyways."
"You're such a bad liar dad." Cory sighed on the other line. "Listen I've got to go, diner is almost ready..."
"Yeah well, who's the one telling lies?" Finn tried to sound cool.
"I'll record Matt's game for you okay?"
"That'd be great bud, thanks."
"Don't mention it." Cory said sadly. "I really have to go now, mom's coming back."
"Alright Cor, take care, I'll talk to you soon... I love you."
"Love you too."
There was a moment of silence on the line. "I'm back." Rachel chipped in. "Miss me?"
Finn's mouth crooked. "Always do, specially at night, hotels somehow seem extremely cold,"
"Really?" Rachel said huskily. "You don't say? Maybe next time I should slip into your bag...just to make sure you're warm enough." Finn chuckled.
"I'm pretty sure you'd fit Rach, but then who would take care of the kids. Kurt and Santana are a liability." Rachel's smile almost crept into his phone. "Although I'd love to have you all for myself."
"So you can have your way with me?" She told him innocently.
"Maybe..." Finn whispered.
He heard another thud coming from Rachel's line. Silence, "baby, I have to go.."
Face falling Finn adjusted his jacket. "Right, duty calls."
"It does." She said slowly, "and there's only you to blame for that."
He frowned. "I don't think you got anatomy class right missy, I didn't make those kids alone." He swore he could picture her blush and roll her eyes at the same time.
"We'll have a serious telk about that when we see each other Finn Hudson." He froze. "I really do have to take care of this baby, just call me to let me know what's happening okay? You know I worry too much." Finn laughed softly.
"That you do, I'll see you soon babe,love you"
"I do too." And then she hung up. Finn let go of the phone and moved his fingers trough his hair. Letting go of long sigh,
"Aren't you too young to be doing that?" He heard a voice say. He had not noticed the man next to him.
"I'm sorry?" Finn frowned.
"You look beyond exhausted for your age kid, although I suppose that's part of life nowadays, always worried, always in a hurry." Finn smiled.
"I guess you're right." Finn said politely taking his hand out of his pocket, "Finn Hudson."
"Richard Stone," the man said shaking his hand. "Where are you off to Finn?"
"Los Angeles." Finn smiled tiredly.
"Ah yes, entertainment capital, are you in the business or something?"
"Not really," He admitted. "Although sports it's my thing, I kind of run my dads company,"
The man stared at him for a moment. "So you are in the business, or you inherited it anyways." Finn laughed.
"I guess that's true. I used to play football but now I spend my life at the sidelines." There was some bitterness in his voice.
"What happened?" the man asked kindly and truly curious. "If I may ask."
Finn leaned forward to face the man. "College. I was out to be quite promising, or so the coaches said, until I got knocked down on my second year. Busted my knee." The man smiled kindly. "So that's that, my wife never did like me playing either way so I guess she was happy for a while until I got into business with my old man. She didn't like that much either." Finn chuckled shyly.
"The wife has the last word huh?" Richard mocked. "Yes, I relate kid. Trust me. I've got a wife, 5 kids and seven grand-kids, so... Yes, they say they don't mean to call the shots, and then subtly, they somehow, do run the show... but eventually you'll be grateful for all the does."
"To be honest, I already am.. I mean she does everything...it's crazy, but yes they love to be the boss...specially Rachel, she likes to call the shots for sure."
"Right. So how long have you been married?"
"It'll be nine years this summer." Finn said rolling his wedding band softly with his finger. Richard's face transformed.
"Where you two in diapers or something?" the man asked with a fun sight to his voice. Then Finn explained a bit of his history with Rachel and becoming parents at a very young age. "That's quite the story kid. I know now why she loves theater so much. She seems to have quite a play right there herself in real life."
Finn dropped his bag on the bed tiredly. His flight had been canceled until the next day. He'd barely make it to his meeting if the plane did take off in time. He sat on the bed to get out of his clothes. His phone buzzed with a text from Rachel wishing him goodnight and remind him to call her before he got on the plane. He had barely moved his phone to the nightstand after setting up his alarm, when his eyes closed slowly, drifting to sleep.
so guys! What did you think? I really do hope you like it and you should listen to the song.. it's so great... I'll be on exams this whole week so I won't have time to update any of my stories soon and I apologize for that.. but I do hope you enjoy this! Thank you for reading! please review if you can :)