Okay I am sorry that I have been away for a while but I had exams to prepare for but I am back now and I am here for the summer. So this story's plot has been done several times but I wanted to take my own spin on the story. It is set at the end of Season 3 whereby Finn leaves Rachel to go to New York to realise her dreams. But when she arrives there she discovers a secret about herself that she hides from Finn. What happens when he discovers this secret over a year later when he returns. (A/N: Finn doesn't die in this story.) Enjoy.

A New Dream

Plot: Set in the episode "Goodbye" after Finn sets Rachel free to go to New York instead of marrying her and goes to the army. One past altercation leads to an unexpected surprise when she gets there. What happens when Finn returns 18 months later?

Chapter 1: Letting Go (Prologue).

Rachel's POV

I can't believe it. My Fiancé on the day that we were meant to get married instead sends me on my way to New York. I had it all planned out, we would get married go to New York and live together and make it together. Instead he tells me that he has joined the army because he doesn't believe in himself. He could have made it as a football player, he still can. Just because he was rejected at 18 doesn't mean that he couldn't make it at 25, 26. Why didn't he just come with me?

I cry the entire way on the train. I take one last look at Lima before heading off towards New York. One last look at home, maybe never to return. When I get there, I feel extremely dizzy and get to my place on where I'm going to stay and straight away feel like I'm going to be sick. Homesickness I hope. But I keep throwing up. This is weird.

I get up with a fever and the urge to throw up again. This is getting seriously scary. This might be because I am feeling heartbroken that I have just got into a massive state. But then I realise that I haven't had my period. Maybe it is late, I open up my calendar and realise that I am more than a week late. Now I am worried, I call the only person who would know about this, Quinn.

Quinn: "(Confused) Rachel why are you calling me?"

Rachel: "Quinn, I arrived here in New York and I felt something which makes feel worried. I have been sick even since I got here."

Quinn: "Have you had your period?"

Rachel: "No."

Quinn: "Does your breasts feel sore and tender?"

Rachel: "Yes."

Quinn: "Rachel, be honest, have you had sex recently?"

What do I say? This can't be what she is thinking? This is what I feared.

Rachel: "Yes, after Nationals."

Quinn: "Rachel, you know what I think you are don't you?"

Rachel: "What? (Trying to play dumb.)

Quinn: "Rachel, I think that you are pregnant."

Pregnant. No, I can't be pregnant. I have nowhere to go. I have to make it onto Broadway and through NYADA. No-one is going to give me anything if I am pregnant.

I know who the baby's daddy is. It is Finn. He is the only man that I have slept with. I know which night it happened as well.

It happened after we won Nationals and achieved the dream and completed a journey that started back in an auditorium just three years ago. We finally went back to school as champions even though we were only there for a few days after being crowned champions, at least we experienced what it was like to be champions and be respected by our peers. Finn and Kurt's parents allowed them to host a party to celebrate and all our friends came over and started partying. We all got so drunk and we ended up in bed together once everyone had gone home and the next thing I remember was waking up with the biggest ever hangover I have ever had naked on Finn's chest. (Though to be fair, I had only one hangover in my life before that.)

I am snapped out of my thoughts by Quinn.

Quinn: "Rachel, are you still there? Can you hear me?"

Rachel: "Yes Quinn, I'm still here. What am I to do?"

Quinn: "I will come over tomorrow and I will buy a pregnancy test and then we will see what it says and then we will go from there."

Rachel: "Thanks Quinn. At least I have someone who knows what it is like to go through and what I can do to help myself through this. See you tomorrow."

Quinn: "See you tomorrow."

I go to sleep and then think about what would happen if I find out that I'm pregnant. I won't tell Finn, I can't let him complete his dreams if he finds out about this baby. He set me free so I have to do the same.

The next morning, I get a call from Quinn saying that she is in New York and is on my way to my dorm where I am living after I have given her the address. I hear a knock on the door and I see Quinn standing there with a pregnancy test in hand.

Quinn: "(Gives her a hug). I hope that you are okay. Let's sort this out first and then we see where we can go from here."

Rachel: "Okay. I don't know what I will do if I'm pregnant. I'm not telling Finn until I see him in person."

Quinn: "Why?"

Rachel: "It is too big an event to not talk about in person."

Quinn nods and I take the test. I sit in the bathroom with one hand on the test and the other in Quinn's. After 15 minutes, I look down and see the result. Two lines, a small pink plus. I cry into Quinn's shoulder as this test confirms one thing.

I'm pregnant with Finn Hudson's baby.

So Rachel is pregnant with Finn's baby. What do you think she is pregnant with? A boy, a girl, twins. Put your guesses in a review and if you are right, I will give you a shoutout in the next chapter.