"I'd like to thank all of my fans. I worked hard to get to this place right here tonight.
I'd like to thank my dads, my best friends Kurt and Santana for always pushing me
to be the diva they knew I was all along. This is such an honor."

Rachel was last to accept her Tony for the night. After she stepped off the stage she was met with hugs from her dads.

"We truly are so proud of you baby!" said Hiram.

Leroy embraced her in a hug with a huge smile on his face.

"Thank you guys. I wish you could stay longer and didn't have to leave tonight."

"You'll be home to visit us in a weeks still right?"

"Of course! I haven't been able to go to Lima for almost a year with being so busy."

"We will see you then honey."

Her fathers both gave her a hug and left.

Back at the apartment

Rachel made herself some hot tea and curled up on the couch in some comfy clothes to watch some TV since she wasn't tired yet.

"Hey Diva!" Kurt said walking through the door.

"Hi."

"What are you up for ? I figured you'd be sleeping after the long day."

"Just sitting here. Not tired yet."

"Is something wrong?"

"Not really."

"I'll go change and join you. Santana decided to go out with a few of her friends."

"Okay." She said with a smile.

Kurt came back and sat down beside her.

"I was expecting you to be more excited."

"I am excited."

"But he was suppose to be here."

"It's just he always promised and I just always pictured him there sitting with you guys"

"Carole and my dad keep telling me he sounds like he is doing well in his letters."

"Next week is his birthday."

"Yeah, wonder how he will celebrate his first legal drink?"

"I'm sure he has army buddies to celebrate." She tried to keep her smile

"Rachel I know it seems like a lifetime since he has talked to either of us but I know he misses you."

"I wish. But I am getting tired now. I need to start getting some sleep now that I can, with the show being over."

Kurt had talked to Finn a million times since he had been at Fort Bliss. He knew that Finn was in a bad place
in his life and really needed someone or something, but with Rachel having her show and even if she didn't want
to admit it, it did hurt her to think of how Finn wouldn't talk to her. He hadn't since he had left her that day at the train station.
So Kurt didn't tell her what he knew or even that he talked to Finn. He knew she probably knew and it went without saying.

Rachel had tried to keep in touch with him after she had gotten his address from one of Kurt's letters but they went unanswered.
Finn told Kurt in one of his first letters to take care of Rachel but that it was too hard for him to have to write her back.
He knew where Finn would be next week on his 21st birthday. He already got drunk calls at least once a week from Finn.
Now he would just have more of a reason. Kurt had tried to talk to him about it. But Finn always had the same excuse.

He needed it cause it was the only good thing in his life.

Kurt eventually just told him to be careful and dealt with the late night calls and covered for him with Carole and Burt
when they asked why Finn was always so off when they tried to reach him on the phone. There was nights that Kurt got the call
and thought he should some how talk Finn into talking to Rachel knowing that she might actually be able to talk some sense
into the boy he knew she loved in the back of her mind.

What he was dying to tell Rachel was that Finn was coming back to Lima with his discharge the day Rachel was going back to visit.