Not All Dreams Come True
A Glee Fan-Fiction
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or any of it's Characters. They are the property of Ryan Murphy and FOX.
Chapter One: One More Lima Loser
"Puck, hand me the wrench, would ya?" Finn Hudson's voiced floated from under the car, his feet poking out and his hand feeling for the tool he'd asked for. It was just another day in the workshop for Finn, another day covered from head to toe in grease and oil, another day where he was left wondering what his life would have been like if he had left Lima. He was just one more Lima loser.
"So, I was thinking, we should go to the bar tonight, fries and a beer or something?" Pucks voice asked as he cleaned parts and put them to one side before turning around and leaning on the counter. Finn rolled out from under the car, his face smeared with oil and his hair a mess on his head, he sat up and put his head in his hands.
"I thought Quinn wanted you at home? You have a wife and a kid Puck." Finn replied looking up at his friend before standing up and sighing. His friend had it all in Finn's opinion, but all Puck really wanted to do was go to the bar every weekend.
"Well I know that, but I like a night to myself now and then." Puck mumbled, he knew how much Finn envied him, he knew all too well what being alone did to Finn.
"Maybe you should have thought about that in high school? But wait, you never did think did you? Damn it you don't know how lucky you are!" Finn exploded, his wrench flying across the room and the door slamming as he walked into the staff room. Finn broke down his tears streaking the oil on his face, he was sick and tired of his life here in Lima. He could have gotten out years ago, now he was almost thirty and wasting his life. Puck had it all the way Finn saw it.
"Finn, look I'm sorry okay? I'll stay home with my girls tonight, just take care and remember to lock up." Puck said from the other side of the door, Finn took a shaky breath.
"Okay, tell Quinn I said hey." Puck mumbled an okay before Finn was left alone. He was always alone.
He went and turned on the radio, the music resonating all around the auto shop as Finn finished up around the shop. His body was under the car working on an engine when a small voice echoed over the music.
"… hello? Is anyone here?" the voice asked, Finn sighed and shuffled out from under the car.
"Can I help you?" He asked wiping his hands down the front of his coveralls. He heard a gasp and he looked up. Looked up at none other than Rachel Berry.
"F-finn? Is that really you?" she asked, looking at him as her hand tightened around a young girls, Finn guessed she was no older than five or six. Of course she was married with a kid.
"It's me. Are you in town visiting or something?" he asked in a monotone turning and putting his tools down before turning to face Rachel and her daughter again. "Is there something I can help you with Rachel?"
"Well my car broke down a block down, I don't know what to do, or what's wrong with it." She sighed, looking down at the young girl. Finn felt bad for her, so he gestured for her to lead him to her car.
"I'll take a quick look, I'm not in a rush." He sighed, following the two down the sidewalk. "So what brings you back here?" he asked her, popping the hood of her small car smoke pouring out of it, into his face. He started looking around at the engine and checked the oil.
"The hardships of life and realizing that not all dreams come true." Rachel answered from the sidewalk looking at Finn, he looked so much older, he had a small beard growing and his hair was long and scruffy. He wasn't the man she knew once that's for sure.
"Well that's for sure, but seems you did okay on the family side of it." Finn stated looking over at the young girl and smiling, a genuine smile for once in a long time.
"Um, yeah." Rachel replied looking down at her daughter, a tear coming to her eye. Finn pulled out a wrench and some bolts and went to work on the engine, leaving Rachel looking everywhere but him.
"So what's your name miss?" Finn asked, looking at the girl who just smiled at him, not speaking. "I take it you're shy? That's okay." He checked the water and coolant and frowned. "You got any water in this car Rachel? A bit of that and you should be good to get home."
"Yeah I'll get it for you. Melanie, don't move." Rachel told the young girl who nodded at her mother before turning to look at Finn.
"Melanie, that's a pretty name you got there, suits you too. So how old are you Melanie?" Finn questioned the young girl as he leaned against the front end of the car, the girl thought for a moment before holding five fingers up. "Five? What a big girl, I'm thirty that means I'm old." The girl laughed at Finn who was smiling at her waiting for Rachel. She handed him a liter bottle of water when she came to stand with Melanie again, he turned and leant over the car again, pouring the water into the radiator.
"I really appreciate this Finn." Rachel said quietly, as Finn closed the hood and stepped back from the car.
"It's nothing Rachel, well I'll let you two ladies be on your way." Finn smiled, waving at the little girl as he walked back towards the auto shop, she waved back with a grin on her face. Rachel wanted to stop him but she couldn't find the words before he was gone. He sat in the office at the shop and wondered why he couldn't have a life with a family, like Rachel had.
He stood up and walked out to his car to drive home. When he arrived home he walked inside and upstairs to get washed and changed. It was Friday, he'd walk into town and to the bar for a drink, he'd basically waste his life.
"Finn, how are you son?" the barkeeper asked as Finn sat down at the bar and ordered his usual.
"Same as always Ted, same as always." He replied looking around the bar, the same usual people were there, all of them stuck in this town with nothing to go for. He didn't have classes tonight but at least Finn was trying to change his life, unlike half the people in here.
"Well I'm sorry to hear that my boy, it's a shame, I always thought you'd be living the dream." Ted said sadly as he handed Finn his drink, Finn shrugged and took a long drink, letting the alcohol drip into his system, before it crashed over him like a wave.
"Yeah, well life isn't always like that, I used to think I'd be happy, you know a family, a decent job, but it hasn't happened." Finn sighed and shook his head. "It doesn't matter though, I have a roof over my head and food in my fridge, that's enough I suppose."
"Don't kid yourself Finn. You can't do this just because you had a bad relationship that ended months ago." Ted moved to the other end of the bar and left Finn to think. His previous relationship was with a woman with a son, the woman treated him like crap but Finn had taken the boy in as if he was his own, only to have that taken away two years later. Finn couldn't bring himself to truly get over that, it hurt too much.
Finn sat at the bar for an hour before he left on a walk, he didn't need to drink he was only wasting his time. He walked for hours, thinking to himself, singing quietly to songs that played in his head. Tomorrow he'd start a new, he'd shave and get a haircut for starters to clean himself up, he'd find a girl someday but for now he was finding himself in the mess that was his life.
When Finn went to work on Monday Puck did a double take, Finn looked like the Finn he knew, not the stranger that had been there for months.
"Wow, hey Finn." He said watching his friend put on his coveralls and drinking a coffee. "Whats with the new look going on?"
"I needed a change, get over all the crap that happened in the past and just live in the now. I'm changing Puck, and it feels good." Finn replied as he shuffled under a car to get to work. He was right, from now on the past was the past and didn't matter. Finn Hudson was going to be a new man and grow up, and try get a better job when he got out of night school. It all started now.
A/N: Chapter one of my new story :) It won't be as happy as my last one until the end so, stick with me. Please read and review and if you have ideas let me know :) Thanks.