A/N: Welcome to the second of three installments! Please let me know what you think! Reviews are lovely, just like you all!
Chapter One:
Softly running over Chris' feature his face was soft and finally calm. He's been home for two days from the hospital, not sleeping through the night at all. In fact he seemed to sleep during the day the most and some during the night. Which was not doing us well with our finals this week, but after them we should be doing much better. Carole had stayed to help the first night home with everything that I needed to be repeated to us. Kurt wasn't much help, basically cooing over Christopher when he wasn't crying and shopping in town when he was. This would be our first night home doing things strictly on our own since Carole left this morning. Everything was going okay, Chris was asleep and not crying so this was a good sign.
Finn opened the bathroom door coming out in his pajama's and glasses on his face. He didn't wear them often only when his eyes hurt, from serious lack of sleep. Putting a finger to my lips I told him to be quiet for as I just got him to go to sleep, definitely didn't want him waking up anytime soon. Leaning my head against the headboard dreading getting up to put him in his crib, Finn climbed into his side taking his glasses off.
Chris was freshly changed, just fed and burped which means he should sleep for a while if we were lucky. Slowly getting up from the bed, I tip toed over to the crib pulling all the unnecessary things out from there. Brushing my lips against his forehead I gently set him in there without as much as a stir. Wanting to jump for joy I walked to turn the lights off and curled myself into bed. Snuggling close to Finn's side, finally being able to enjoy the feeling of being close to him again without a belly in the way. Mumbling in his sleep he turned draping an arm around my waist, he breathed deeply. I could feel myself falling asleep just as quickly.
THUMP!
Knocking me right out of my sleep I listened for the noise again, that came right after that one. Finn jumped up out of bed, both thinking that it was Chris who'd fallen out of the crib. Turning the light on, we both saw that Chris was still fast asleep in his bed. Finns eyes were bloodshot as he ran the palms of his hands over them. Turning out the lights again we shuffled our way back to bed trying to get comfortable once more.
THUMP!
THUMP!
"What the hell is that?" Finn groaned sitting up looking at me as a million things ran through my mind, all bad.
"Do you think someone is in the house?" I whispered worried of an intruder or someone trying to harm us. Barging into our rooms murdering each of us. Pushing Finn out of the bed, I whisper frantically "Go get Noah to check it out."
Finn grumbled getting out from under the covers.
THUMP!
Getting up as well, Finn opened the door to the dark hallway. Hearing the thumping getting louder I was worried that Chris was going to be woken up with all this noise. Going to shut the door just in case there was an intruder, Chris had awoken. Hurrying over there I bundled him into my arms rocking him back and forth trying to get him to go back to sleep, but he had other plans.
"What the hell!" Finn was yelling from down the hall, going out into the hallway where I saw him shielding his eyes. Still he wasyelling into Quinn and Pucks room. "That's is disgusting I don't want to see any of that, cover up! Keep it down next time, no in fact go to the basement. You two woke Chris up, I appreciate it!"
Finn slammed the door shut storming down the hallway making Chris cry louder. Holding him closer to me I tried to calm him down, to show him that everything was okay.
"You don't even want to know, my eyes are burning!" Finn was grumpy but his face softened running a hand over Chris' back. "Here, I'll take him while you get some sleep."
"No" Turning back into the bedroom "You have to study for your finals tomorrow, I'll stay up with him."
"Rachel..." Finn went to talk but I turned the light off to hush him
"Go to sleep I will be up later, I'll just go downstairs to try and feed him again to see if he goes to sleep."
Closing the door behind me I walked down the steps turning on the kitchen light to shine into the living room. Settling down on the couch I lay him on my chest slightly rocking him until after much time he had finally calmed himself down enough to take the ninny in his mouth. His breathing was becoming calmer until his eyes drooped until his breathing became slower, that's when I knew when he was in a sleep.
Closing my eyes to back to sleep for a little. Footsteps could be heard coming down the steps, I almost thought they were Finns but they were too light. The floor creaked just a little, it was Quinn. Coming into the living room in one of Noah's old football shirts and shorts. Her short blonde hair was all over the place as she sat down in on the reclining chair.
"I thought you and Noah weren't like that?" I mumbled running my fingers through Chris' thick black hair
"We weren't... we aren't."
"So you two are sleeping around with each other? I mean it was only a matter of time before you two got together, you share the same bedroom and bed."
"We're friends who have gone through a lot with each other. I know we'll never truly be together the way I would want us to because..."
"It's not the same as before."
"Exactly we're too much alike and it's been too long Rachel. Puck isn't into me like that, I love our friendship way too much to want to get into something deep."
"Sex is deep Quinn." Hissing softly careful not to wake the baby or involve the whole house in our conversation "Not just something you should do occasionally with someone you sort of have feeling for. Your only going to screw up your friendship even more."
"Sex with Puck is like something I will never experience again. We both know we're beyond what we were a few years ago. We love each other, not strings attached, we aren't in love with each other. I know what I'm doing."
"I just don't want to see you get hurt."
"I'm not, I won't let myself."
"Please promise me that you won't." Staring at her though the little light coming through to the living room.
"Promise."
Another pair of footsteps made their way to the bottom of the stairs. Coming in Noah was shirtless as he stopped, Quinn stood up pulling her shirt down. Looking between the two, I could literally cut the tension in half.
"I'll see you tomorrow." Quinn smiled kissing Chris' head than giving me a small smile. Guiding Noah to the basement door, I watched as they slipped behind it going down. Getting off the couch I made my way up to my own room away from them two. I truly knew what they were doing was wrong but there was no stopping them. Choosing to ignore them for the rest of the night, I just wanted to get some sleep.
Wishing the little boy good night once more time I placed him back down and climbed into bed.
Waking up in the morning I reached over sleepily for Finn but patting the bed he wasn't there. Opening an eye I peeked around the whole room, he wasn't anywhere to be found. Finding the alarm clock the red letters read '10:58'. Rushing up, I went over to the crib to see Chris out of there. Putting a sweatshirt over my pajama shirt I rushed downstairs to see Finn laying on the couch, a sleeping Chris on his chest with a book hovering over both of them as he read.
"Hey baby" Finn smiled whispering, going over to them I kissed Finn's cheek "I figured I'd let you sleep for a little bit, I gave Chris a bottle and he went right out again."
"Oh good, you'll get some studying done."
"You to, you have finals you need to study for."
"Yeah but I've been prepared for months." Sitting at the end of the couch "Do you want something to eat?'
"Quinn made pancakes this morning before leaving for the library." Widening my eyes I remember what happened the night before. Curling up at the end of his feet, I leaned on his knees looking at him.
"Can you believe that?"
"Uh... don't want to remember." His face scrunched up in disgust "In fact I want to forget last night ever happened."
"They went down to the basement like you said, Quinn and Noah are making a huge mistake!"
"It's none of our business, Rach. We can't tell them it's wrong I mean this is Puck and Quinn we're talking about."
"It's wrong Finn!" Pressing down on his knees, I was so frustrated "We have to live with them, if they get upset with each other we will have to deal with them! You and I both know how angry they can get!"
"It's not our problem." Finn reminded me "Stop worrying about them."
"I'm trying, I really am." Biting on my nail, Finn went back to reading his book to study for later today. I really hope that things don't get weird or awkward in the house. But I needed to just take Finns advice and not worry about it, or at least try. He's right, it's not our problem.
But I don't think it would hurt to keep them apart or try to get Quinn interested in someone more healthy for her.