A/N Ok this is set in my Fast Car universe, I wrote it because of some odd dream that Kimmy_77 had and well I'm still avoiding my paper :D
Anyway if you haven't read Fast Car the basic premise is Rachel and Puck ran away to New York and live together :P
Surprise!
Puck kicked open the door to the apartment he and Rachel had been sharing for just over a year, juggling the bag of groceries Rachel had texted him to pick up on his way home from work and her dress for her Broadway opening next week he called for his girlfriend "Rach get your butt over here and help me"
"Noah...I uh can't" Rachel replied from the sofa "come here when you can though please" as he entered the kitchen through the side door, and placed the grocery bag on the side swiftly unpacking everything and placing it in the fridge and cupboards swiftly.
"That anxious for some Puckerone sexi..."
"Noah!" Rachel screamed from the living room before he could finish his sentence
"Christ what?" Puck yelled as he leaned back to look into the living room and dropping the jar he was carrying in shock at the sight he saw. Rachel was holding onto a sobbing Santana Lopez, both of them sitting sideways on the sofa Rachel looking at her boyfriend of just over a year quizzically as Santana sobbed into her shoulder. "Lopez?" He asked stunned walking into the small living room and sitting down behind his girlfriend "what the hell are you doing here?"
It was a fair question seeing as they hadn't seen Santana Lopez since they had run away from Lima a little over a year ago, they also hadn't heard from her, or anyone from glee for that matter. Now they had both earned the GED's, Puck was halfway through his application to the New York Fire Department while still working at the coffee shop until he turned eighteen and could officially join in January, while Rachel after her rousing success at a few off Broadway plays had her opening her first Broadway play next week as a secondary lead in Chicago and Velma's understudy.
"I...I...I" Santana stammered looking up at Puck with tears running down her face, her complexion splotchy, seeing Puck's both concerned and slightly disgusted face she fell back into Rachel's shoulder and began to cry again.
Rachel looked at Puck in shock as she held Santana close, rubbing soothing circles into her back as she cried herself into exhaustion.
"Ok...I'm going to go cook dinner" Puck said awkwardly, he hated girls crying, he only stood Rachel crying because he loved her, leaving his ex in the hands of his current girlfriend reluctantly he went to the kitchen and let the girls talk.
"Santana?" Rachel asked hesitantly sitting back and looking down at the crying girl "can you tell me why you are here now?" she asked gently. About half an hour ago she had opened her front door expecting to see Puck weighed down with groceries, instead a sobbing Santana had thrown herself into Rachel's arms and hadn't stopped since, only letting herself be manoeuvred onto the sofa before clinging to Rachel again.
Santana shook her head and leant back onto Rachel still crying hysterically, Puck glanced back out of the kitchen door, with a what the fuck expression on his face but he met his girlfriends confused expression, her shrugging one of her shoulders at him.
"Ok then Sweetie, so why don't you get some sleep, because quite frankly you look exhausted and everything will be better in the morning and I have a day off and I can show you New York and you can tell me everything ok?"
Santana dumbly nodded her head and sat back as Rachel gently pushed her away and got up walking into her and Puck's room to find a blankets and pillows for their sudden guest, glad it was only October and not to cold yet she grabbed two blankets for the sad Latina and carried them out to the living room with a towel.
"Ok Sweetie, here are some clothes to get into why don't you go grab a shower while I set up your bed"
Santana nodded and reluctantly got up, picking up her small bag and Rachel's offered clothes to shuffle into the bathroom.
"What the hell is she doing here!" Puck whispered shouted as the water turned on and Rachel appeared in the doorway.
"I don't know, she just turned up!" Rachel said in shock boosting herself up on the counter next to him, leaning over to steal a kiss and a some carrot from the chopping board "but she seems really beaten up and in considerable emotional distress"
"I never thought I would see the day Lopez crying" Puck agreed as the water shut off and the door opened, Santana rubbing at her hair with a towel covered in one of Rachel's large t-shirts and a pair of pyjama trousers. "Lopez you want some food?" Puck asked poking his head out of the kitchen at the Latina who was shivering a little at the window.
Rubbing at her arms Santana turned to him with a slight smile "yes please" she said quietly "didn't know you can cook" she said, surprisingly not maliciously, coming to join the couple.
"Had to learn" Puck shrugged "when you are living on your own you have to"
"You just left, you were there until lunch and then you were gone, before we knew it months had passed and no one had heard from you"
"We had to leave" Rachel said swinging her legs and stealing another vegetable, laughing at Puck tapped her with the edge of his knife and scowled playfully at her, leaning over she stole another kiss and sat back "so we did, and we don't regret it"
"Nope" Puck said popping the p, "not at all, we are all good" he smiled at Rachel "so why you hear Lopez?" he asked putting the casserole in the oven and turning back to Santana who was sitting on the small table Rachel had put in the corner. Puck twisted the oven timer and moved in between Rachel's legs his back to her, both of them looking at Santana.
"I'm pregnant" she breathed out in a whoosh, her face falling in relief at finally telling her secret to someone.
"What?" Puck said in shock, knowing how careful Santana was about birth control.
"No darling that is the wrong question" Rachel shook her head "who's the father?"
"Finn" Santana whispered again before bursting into tears again, Rachel slipping off the counter hurried to her side, as Puck blanched in surprise "for the last year he keeps...he keeps coming to me every time he and Quinn have a problem...and he always says that he will choose me this time...b...b..."
"But he runs back to Quinn" Rachel said gently, hugging her around her shoulders and accepting the towel Puck was handing to her for Santana to blot her eyes.
"I just thought...the one person who always knew how to deal with everything was you Rachel, and as much as I didn't respect it then...when I have my own problem I just needed you to help me...and...and...and I know I don't deserve it but please..."
"Of course we will help you" Rachel assured her "as long as you need to you have a place here, tomorrow we will start making a plan ok?"
Santana nodded in relief and clung to her lifeline in Rachel, thankful that she hadn't been wrong in her snap decision to come to New York, with nothing but her school backpack, after dinner and setting Santana up on the sofa the couple retired to their room.
"Do we seriously have Santana Lopez sleeping on our couch?" Puck asked as he rolled over and wrapped an arm around Rachel's waist.
"Apparently" Rachel said leaning over to turn off the light "but she needs us, when you were in the bathroom she told me that she was three months and still hasn't been to the doctors"
"Fuck..." Puck breathed "ok we'll help her" he pressed a kiss to her neck "or rather you will cos I have work all day"
"Nice excuse" Rachel laughed.
Gleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
"Hey Lopez" Puck greeted as he opened the door a week later.
"Hi Puck" Santana replied wailing a little from the sofa where she was crying into a tub of ice cream
"Uh what's wrong?" he asked hesitantly, seeing as Santana had been the one crying on and off for the last seven days.
"I'm fat and I'm pregnant and I'm..." Santana sobbed
"Lopez can I ask a blunt question?" Puck said perching on the coffee table, waiting for her to nod "does Finn know?"
Santana nodded again taking another bite of her ice cream and staring to cry again.
Pissed at his ex best friend for once again Puck got to his feet and grabbed Santana's phone from the side table and marched into his bedroom, scrolling through the contacts to Finn and pressing call.
"San why are you calling me? You know I'm with Quinn" Finn snapped as he answered.
"Hudson in No..Puck" Puck yelled "and I don't give a flying fuck that you are with Quinn, you were an idiot for taking her back again anyway"
"Puck? Dude I haven't heard from you in over a year"
"Yeah and there is a reason for that" Puck snapped "mind telling me why I have a pregnant Santana Lopez sleeping on my couch?"
"What?"
"Yep I got a preggers Santana on my couch and you are the baby daddy this time so you better fucking step up and get your arse here to New York now!" Puck ordered down the phone "and if you so much as say one thing about Quinn I swear to god..."
Rachel walked in as he was yelling at Finn and snatched the phone out of his hand "Finn if you do not come to New York within the next three weeks I will be informing the courts that you are derelict father and therefore the police will be after you for monetary compensation" she snapped before tossing the phone back to Puck who was looking at her with pride.
"Get your arse here Hudson" he ordered one more time before hanging up.
Sitting down on the bed puck caught Rachel to him and tugged her in between his legs, pulling her down to perch on one of his knees "I miss having this place to ourselves"
"She needs us" Rachel smoothed a hand over his shaven head "but Liz is coming over to take her out because I have to sleep before my opening on Saturday"
"Sleep?" he smirked
"Well I need to be relaxed first" Rachel smiled at him as someone knocked on the front door and Santana greet Liz before leaving with a shouted goodbye.
"Relaxing I can do" Puck smirked pulling her over his lap and rolling them back "plus annoying the neighbours"
Gleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
A week later, after rave reviews for Rachel's portrayal of the murderous Velma Kelly, after opening day reviews had made the original actress leave in a huff, being snapped up for Mamma Mia instead, the three of them were celebrating on Rachel's one day off with all of their friends, when Santana's phone went off.
"Finn just texted me" she squeaked, her face paling as much as it could considering her colouring, Dean knowing about her pregnancy slipped an arm around her and eased her down into a bench in Central park where they were walking.
"Where is he hun?" Dean asked gently
"Grand Central, he wants to know where we are" she replied numbly, only just accepting her pregnancy she didn't know how to handle seeing the baby father who had walked away when she told him.
"Tell him on the lawn in Central park, he can use a little intelligence and finds us on his own" Rachel said sitting down next to Santana on her other side "we are here for you, all you need to tell Finn is that he has to help you with the baby and that if he expects a part in its life he needs to grow up that is all"
"Right that is all" Santana echoed "just telling him he has to help and then I can go home and deal with my parents in person"
"Right..." Rachel said with a grimace at everyone, remembering the anxious phone call home that Santana had made her second day in New York "ok so they weren't thrilled but they do care enough to want you home and to look after you"
"You will stay in touch this time right?" Santana asked grabbing Rachel's hand and squeezing tight her eyes filling with tears again.
"Only with you" she cautioned "but yes I will stay in touch with you" Rachel hugged her friend as they waited for Finn who arrived a little while later, coming up to the group shuffling awkwardly.
"Hey Rachel, hey Puck"
"And oh I don't know hello Santana, I'm so sorry that I left you alone to deal with my child that is causing you to throw up multiple time a day and that I have messed you about so much in my love life that you felt the need to run away to New York to find people I haven't talked to in a year" Rachel snapped holding Santana who was crying at her lack of hello.
"Yeah, uh hi San" Finn said awkwardly "how...how are you?" he refused to look at Santana, who's whimpered and buried her head into Rachel's shoulder crying again.
Pissed Puck grabbed Finn's arm and towed him away, before slapping him around the head "what the fuck is wrong with you man?" he screamed "you fucked up now step up an accept it"
"I don't want this, I didn't want this last time, I don't know" Finn moaned
"Should have thought of that before you had sex!"
"Like you are one to talk" Finn scoffed "you stick it in to anything that moves"
"Not anymore, one women kind of guy" Puck said with pride glancing over at Rachel "ad I stepped up and accepted my mis...my daughter, you need to do the same. And quite frankly I want Rachel's arms around me not Santana"
"I don't know if I want to be with her, things with Quinn are good right now"
"Yeah and? Give it a few days and it will be bad again...look dude you don't have to be with Santana to support her, trust me I know that, but you need to stop being a dick and actually treat her with respect, because right now she is carrying your child"
Finn nodded reluctantly and walked back to the group to pull Santana away and have a quiet conversation, his entire profile showing that he was apologising to the pregnant teenager. The two came back a little later and Santana immediately ran into Rachel's arms "thank you" she whispered.
"You're welcome" Rachel said with a smile, as Puck pulled Finn aside again
"Dude, you fuck up and I swear I will kill you" he muttered "and don't think just cos you heard from me and Rachel that you can run home and tell everyone where we are, we don't want anyone here ok?"
"Dude, you and Rachel are serious?" asked Finn with unsurprising jealousy
"Yep, she's mine, now go home and look after Santana because I will find out if you don't"
"I will" Finn promised "look after Rachel"
"Dude I have been for a year already, so stop trying to make me feel bad, now if you don't mind I'm going to go and reclaim my successful on Broadway, hot as fuck girlfriend and take her home, to annoy the neighbours and make her scream my name"
