If You Need Me Now, I'll be There for You
When a a new kid named Finn Hudson moves to Lima in search of a new beginning his life changes completely when he meets a girl named Rachel Berry, what Rachel doesn't know it's that Finn has a big secret? What will it be? And will they love grow?
A/N: So I was listening to Foreigner and finally decided to put this idea down into a story. I do hope you like it! I am still writiing Finchel stories because it's been so therapeutic with everything that happened with Cory and I've heard from some other people this has helped them too so as long as we want to keep Finn and somehow Cory, through words, I think we should do it. Enjoy and please leave reviews if you can :) thanks for reading!
I don't own Glee!
Chapter 1: Day one.
Finn slammed his alarm off with a groan. He didn't want to get up. Today was the first day he'd be going to a new school. It was so weird he was transfered in the middle of the semester. He'd be a pariah for sure.
"Finn?" Carole knocked on the door. "Are you up? You don't want to be late to your first day!"
"Good morning" He said opening the door, his mom stood there with a laundry basket under her arm, Finn handed her his dirty clothes.
"Hi mom" He offered her a weary smile. He had barely been able to sleep the night before. "Do you need some help?"
"No, I'm fine sweetheart, just go get some breakfast before you go please." And so he did. His mom had made toast for him, with tons of Nutella, the way he liked it. He made it back upstairs to take a fast shower before he checked the clock. Crap, there was no way he'd be getting to school in time.
He drove there like crazy. His truck being pushed to the limit. The first class he had was Spanish. "Hello there, you must be Finn, I'm Will Shuester." Everyone was staring at him.
"Hi, sorry I'm late sir,"
"No problem, listen guys, this is Finn, he just transferred to McKinley so I expect all of you to make him feel welcome." He eyed a guy with a Mohawk who glared at Finn. The class went by without a hitch, he didn't really talked to anyone and tried not to make fun of the fact that Will had clear lack of knowledge of the language. He was nice enough though.
"Hey listen Finn..?" Shue told him after class. "If you need anything you tell me okay? I know it must be really hard for you to start the year here like this, so I would like to help you."
"Wow thanks." He said playing with the straps of his bag pack. "You're cool Mr. Shue."
He sat alone in the bleachers at lunch. He couldn't really afford lunch, he had other things to buy, so he settled on his jam sandwich. He would watch the kid with the Mohawk, practicing. Oh how he missed football. He was sure no one would let him join at this stage of the game. For now, he would settle on watching.
"Mind if I sit?" Someone said. Finn looked up to see a girl. He remembered her from math class. He didn't remember her name though.
"Sure." Finn said kindly.
"So you're the newbie, huh?" Finn nodded. "Who in their right minds would come to the school like this? What they kicked you out?"
"Oh well, not really, my mom got this new job here and we had to move. She told me I could start school in the summer and all but I didn't want to. I'm not the greatest student, but I really want to graduate in time." The girl just smiled.
"I'm Mercedes Jones." The girl offered her hand. "Nice to meet you Finn?"
"Hudson, Yeah." He smiled.
"Cute, I like it." Mercedes offered him a grin. "You play football?"
"Played." Finn said bitterly. "I was quarterback."
"And so you like to torture yourself watching them? You could ask coach Beiste to let you join. She's pretty cool."
"Umm... I don't know... Wait the coach is a girl?"
"Yeah, she's amazing. We used to lose all the games before she came along. She made my boyfriend the guy he is today, I'm sure next year he'll be drafted for Ohio State, I could put a good word for you."
"Why would you?" Finn asked kindly. "You don't even know me."
"Well, you seem like a nice enough guy, let me know then." Finn wasn't sure if he could manage joining the team and keeping up with school. At least not right now.
"I'll keep you posted, thanks anyway," Finn said With a smile.
"No problem." They just sat there in silence for a moment. "We should probably get back to class."
"Yeah, sure." Mercedes seemed nice and Finn was glad someone had actually talked to him. Once school was over, He walked Mercedes to her last class. Glee Club. oddly enough Mr. Shue taught this one too. "Hey Finn, come to check out the arts?" The man said with a wide smile. Finn spotted some of his other classmates, including the guy he had now learned they called Puck. Plus some of the cheerleaders.
"Who? Me? No that's okay Mr. Shue. I was just walking Mercedes."
"Well are you any good because lord knows we could use more boys." The others glared at her. He noticed a short and pretty girl staring at him.
"I sure need someone other than Blaine to keep up with my challenging voice. No offense anyone." They all whispered stuff around and one guy seemed particularly hurt, Finn figured that was Blaine. The girl stood up and walked towards him. "Lets see it then."
"Umm... I don't know.. I'm not really good..."
"I'll tell you if you're are not, I believe in brutal honesty."
"She means it." Mercedes told him.
"Rachel Berry," oh right that was her name. "If you're trying to be included into somewhere this is the place to be."
"I guess I could try." Finn swallowed.
"Good," Shue said sitting in the back. Finn moved to the center of the room trying not to make eye contact with anyone, Mercedes smirked at him. "The floor is yours Finn."
He thought really hard about what song to do. He always loved eitherJourney or REO Speedwagon so he figured he could do any of them. Then he smiled. He had the perfect song. He moved to whisper to the band and they smiled. Everyone was watching him, he took a deep breath and began to sing:
Oh, why you look so sad?
Tears are in your eyes
Come on and come to me now
Don't be ashamed to cry
Let me see you through
'cause I've seen the dark side too
When the night falls on you
You don't know what to do
Nothing you confess
Could make me love you less
I'll stand by you
I'll stand by you
Won't let nobody hurt you
I'll stand by you
So if you're mad, get mad
Don't hold it all inside
Come on and talk to me now
Hey, what you got to hide?
I get angry too
Well I'm a lot like you
When you're standing at the crossroads
And don't know which path to choose
Let me come along
'cause even if you're wrong
I'll stand by you
I'll stand by you
Won't let nobody hurt you
I'll stand by you
Take me in, into your darkest hour
And I'll never desert you
I'll stand by you
And when...
When the night falls on you, baby
You're feeling all alone
You won't be on your own
I'll stand by you
I'll stand by you
Won't let nobody hurt you
I'll stand by you
Take me in, into your darkest hour
And I'll never desert you
I'll stand by you
I'll stand by you
Won't let nobody hurt you
I'll stand by you
Won't let nobody hurt you
I'll stand by you
He closed his eyes during the last verse fighting the urge to cry, he wasn't ready for people to see that side of him yet.
"Man!" Artie, a kid in a wheelchair smiled widely "you're really good Finn."
"Great job Finn." Mr. Shue began clapping and the others joined in, specially Mercedes and Rachel who seemed most shocked. "And that is how blow a song out of the water guys."
"I didn't know you had in in you, Justin Timberlake." Mercedes went to pat him on the arm. "That was a beautiful song. And it felt like you were really singing it to someone in particular. A girl maybe? Someone back at home?" Finn smiled.
"Something like that." He said shyly as Rachel walked up to him again.
"You're incredibly talented Finn, I do hope you join us."
"Thanks but I have to think about it. Is that okay Mr. Shue?"
"Of course Finn, but promise to tell me as soon as you make up your mind, you'll be an excellent addition to New Directions."
Wow. Well he never thought about joining Glee Club. Even back at home, everyone except for the weird ones were in Glee, but Finn figured that since he was the newbie he fell into that as well and Mr. Shue was so nice, plus his new friend Mercedes seemed so sure about him.
"Oh good you're home" Carole was storming out of the house as soon as he got there. "Casey is got a class and I need you to please take my car to the tire shop."
"Umm sure, no problem." Finn smiled at the look on his moms face.
"Here's is a card they gave me at work. They say its a good place. Is your truck clean?"
"I guess." Finn said taking the card.
"Oh sorry honey how was your first day? I'm such an idiot." Finn saw the guilt in his moms eyes.
"It was fine mom, I'll tell you later okay?" He smirked handing her the keys. "Here."
"Casey! Come on, I'm gonna be late!" Finn could listen to Casey's heavy heels down the stairs.
"Oh hey Frankenteen," she said with a smile. "How was school?"
"It was fine." Finn smiled at her. Casey had blonde hair and eyes like his, she was short but but as much as Carole, specially when she wore heels. "Good luck today."
"Thanks, she's sleeping by the way, just feed her so you have a couple hours left of freedom, just don't wake her up before time or she'll go nuts."
"Got it Case, I know how to take care of her remember?"
"Sometimes I tend to forget." She smirked at him. "Have fun then cuz."
"Finn? Don't forget about my car?"
"I won't." And with that, both women were out the door. He sighed. It was so crazy living with both of them. He walked to the fridge and took out a can of soda. And then he heard her. Bawling her lungs out.
He made it upstairs to the small room that was her nursery. It literally had room for the crib, a changer and a rocking chair. Finn moved up to the small crib and picked the baby up. She wasn't crying as hard now.
"Hey Gracie, don't cry, daddy is here" he totted her slowly and moved to the rocking chair. "So how was your day huh? Did you drive auntie Casey nuts?" The baby was now staring back at him with her matching amber like eyes.
"I had a pretty crazy day, man I don't think I'll be able to do it all, I mean I really want to graduate and show mom that I can do this but.." Gracie is listening to him attentively. "And I really do want to be on Glee Club, I know it sounds lame and all but, you always like the way I sing right?" The baby gurgled and he took it as a yes. "The only thing is that, I'm not ready for people to know about you just yet, no offense kiddo."
So there is Finn's big secret! We know but the others don't so what will they think? What did you think? Do you like the name? Just to let you know, Finn is 17 when this story begins which means all of the cannon about the competitions already happen, except Quinn being pregnant with Beth storyline. Blaine is already on a relationship with Kurt, Mercedes is with Shane earlier than in the show. We'll see more of all of them as the story develops but the heart of this sort of is Finchel. I do hope you liked it, and any guesses on Gracie's second name? Please review if you can, I really would love to hear what you think of this one.