So guys, I decided to upload this earlier than planned, :) I hope to have some epic chapter on November 11th :) I hope you guys like this and it won't be too sappy between Finn and Rachel until midway through.

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WAIT FOR ME

Glee Fan-Fiction #8

Military Based – Uploading day October 31st of November 11th 2010

Summary: After graduation Finn joined the army and asked Rachel to wait for him, after his first tour he was scared to find her, now married with a son and still in the army Finn hits a hard time in his life with problems at home, can Rachel help when she turns up again in his life?

Wait For Me- Chapter One: Will You Wait For Me?

Graduation Night 2010 – William McKinley High School

"Can you believe it? We're done here." Mercedes sighed as the group of friends walked down the hallways to the choir room one last time.

"I know right? We're all going our own ways now, next thing you know Finn and Rachel will be married with a hundred kids." Puck laughed as he pushed Artie into the choir room to find Mr. Schuester stood with a confused look on his face.

"What's this I hear about Finn, Rachel and a hundred kids?" he asked looking at Finn and Rachel as Finn's arm wrapped tightly around her shoulders as they talked to one another, sort of like they were in their own little world.

"Oh, nothing Mr. Schue, I'm just making predictions, I'm kind of psychic." Puck replied as everyone laughed and sat down. "Oh! And before you start Mr. S I'd just like to ask the group a question, y'all still in for my bonfire tonight?"

"Yeah, we're all in, but my mom says to just watch what Kurt drinks, a bit too much may make tonight a disaster, like World War II but worse." Finn answered making everyone but Kurt laugh, even Will joined in.

"Okay guys calm down, picking on Kurt is not the only productive thing you can do tonight. Anyways, for my final lecture to you guys…

Finn and Rachel had left the party at eleven to go for a walk together. They were laughing and talking swinging their arms between them as they walked and held hands. Tonight was the start of their last summer before university; they would be making it the best one yet.

"You haven't told me yet Finn, which university have you chosen to attend? I need to know so we can plan when and where to meet up during spring and summer breaks." Rachel said making Finn's heart stop beating; he wasn't going to university or any kind of school after the summer, but he didn't know how to tell her.

"I-I'm not exactly going t-to a university Rach, I-I don't know how to tell you, I mean it's hard because now I don't really want to go but, do you remember how I told you all those stories about me dad? The stories my mom used to tell me?" he replied pulling her closer to his side, scared that she would leave before he had the chance to say what he needed to.

"About how they met and the years they struggled to keep their relationship going? Both romantic and tragic at the same time?"

"Yeah… those ones, I'm asking because I need to know that when I tell you what I'm about to say that you won't leave, that you'll stick with me no matter what my decisions."

"I'll stick with you forever Finn as long as these decisions don't put you at risk, if they do I can't stick around knowing I did nothing to make you stay, that I couldn't convince you to change your mind. I love you more than anything Finn, I can't lose you."

"I can't back out of it now Rach or I would… I joined the army, but I can't lose you to this Rachel, I love you and I promise that when I get home I'll come find you I'll resign after my first tour and you and I can get married I'll come watch you on Broadway and we'll be happy together." Finn stopped and stepped in front of Rachel, his hands taking hers. "Please Rach… stay with me…"

"Finn… the army? You could die, I can't stay knowing that at any moment after days and days of worrying I might get a call from your mom saying you've been killed… Finn I can't."

"Then wait for me… I'll come back and find you, wait for me because I know for a fact, that even though I'm bad with all this love stuff, I know that I'll never love someone like I love you, never."

"I'll wait, but Finn… I can't wait forever you do know that right?"

"I know, I know, but thank you. I love you." He pulled her against his chest and held her tightly, he knew that once he got to fighting in the war that he would put his heart and soul into his job there and getting back to Rachel.

"I love you too."

Summer had gone by quickly and the group truly had made it one to remember. The second to last week of summer Finn left for training and conditioning before his first tour, when he left Rachel had become a shell of a person and hardly spoke. In the last week of summer she and Kurt moved to New York and rented apartments right next to each other, it seemed impossible but slowly they began to be close friends.

Finn could feel what he knew slipping away from him, like water escaping through his fingers, he missed the normality of home, he missed his mom, he missed Rachel, hell he even missed Burt and Kurt like crazy. He couldn't wait for his service to just be over already so he could go be with Rachel in New York.

Even though both of them wanted to be together life had other plans and the months apart turned into years and the years kept building and they never found each other again.

November 9th 2022 – Ten Years Later

"Rachel don't go, I might get an evil neighbour! Or worse, an alien from the planet 'Badly Dressed'! You can't go and leave me here alone, I might die!" Kurt exclaimed as he watched Rachel roll her eyes and lift the final box into the back of the minivan before helping Jennifer into the car.

"Kurt, you're being a bit over dramatic don't you think? I'm just getting out of here for a change in scenery, Michael dying really took a lot out of me, I just think that Jen and I need a change, a second chance at a new beginning." She replied as she looked to Kurt as she shut the car door. "And I'm sure your new neighbours will be fine."

"But Rachel! You can't move back to Lima, I need you here, who else will I boss around and criticize? You're like the sister I always wanted but never got, please, please, please, please, I'm begging you stay here."

"Kurt, you're visiting in December remember? Calm down and breath, we'll call you when we get there."

"Oh fine! Do I at least get a hug?" Kurt's arms wrapped tightly around Rachel when she stepped forward. "You're still going to call on the eleventh right?"

"I said I would did I not?" Rachel laughed as Kurt tightened his grip on her. "I'm still leaving you know."

"It was worth a try, will you say hey to my dad and Carole at some point when you get the chance?" he asked as he pulled away and Rachel stepped towards the car door.

"Of course I will, now I really have to get going. I'll miss you."
"I'll miss you too Rach, remember to call me when you get there, I need to know you two are safe."

"Okay Kurt, see you later, be nice to your new neighbours… or at least give it a try."

Rachel and Jennifer arrived in Lima, Ohio eleven hours later; it hadn't changed since she lived here ten years ago. When she pulled up onto the driveway of the small house she was renting she sighed; she was never supposed to move back here but here she was, as a single mom and no job yet. Tomorrow she was enrolling Jennifer in school and job hunting, then returning to unpack boxes and organize the house. It was eight pm when they had arrived so Rachel sent Jennifer into the house to go watch TV while she unloaded the boxes from the car.

Jennifer was six, Rachel and Michael – Jennifer's father – had met when they were working on a musical together, and they'd gotten married when Jennifer was one. By then Rachel had been waiting for Finn for four years and he had never come, she had told him she wouldn't wait forever and she couldn't when Michael came along she needed someone to love her and he did it well enough, he made her happy. Kurt had occasionally told Rachel about what he'd heard from Finn but Rachel hadn't really listened, she stopped and prayed for Finn's safety every Remembrance Day but that was about it, she'd truly given up on him once Michael came along.

She was on her second trip to the car when another car pulled into the driveway of the house next to hers, she'd hoped for quiet neighbours but it hadn't happened.

"Quinn! Come and help me with this box would you, it isn't light you know, it's freaking heavy and I know I'm strong and all but this just, holy, no way to even describe it." A voice yelled, Rachel almost dropped the box she was holding when she realized she knew the voice; Noah Puckerman. She now lived next to Noah Puckerman and Quinn Fabray, one of the two was one of the loudest people she'd ever met. She wanted to dig a hole and bury herself in it. "Oh! New neighbours are here, damn I was yelling. Sorry!"

"Puck, shush, if you're going to apologize for being loud go talk to them. Don't scare them off."Quinn replied, Rachel knew Quinn and Puck were engaged and lived together, they'd lived together for six years and had been engaged five years, Kurt had told her. Next thing she knew Puck was walking towards her running his hands over his shaved head.

"Hey, I'm sorry for making a bunch of noise; I'm not the quietest person around. You need a hand with that?" he asked before doing a double take when he saw who he was talking to. "Rachel Berry? Well I'll be damned! Quinn! Come over here, you will never guess who our new neighbour is, I mean never."

"Noah Puckerman there is no need for you to be this loud." Quinn sighed and walked over to where Puck was stood with Rachel. "Rachel? What are you doing here in Lima?"

"New York wasn't all it's cracked up to be after a while, at least not for me. It was just time to get a change in scenery." Rachel replied hugging Quinn quickly, even Puck grinned and picked her up in a crushing hug. Quinn sat and talked with Jennifer for the next two hours while Puck helped Rachel move boxes and everything that needed doing. Moving back to Lima wasn't as bad as she thought it would be, in fact she had the feeling with Puck and Quinn as neighbours she might actually enjoy it.

"… and tomorrows father son day at school dad and you're not here! You're never here!" Finn sat on his squeaky bunk with his left hand knotted in his short hair and his right hand holding the phone to his ear. He was on the phone with his seven year old son and felt so bad for not being at home and letting him down.

"Ben, son I'm sorry, I can't be there even though I want to be, I'm sorry bud but my job needs me here." He replied as his hand moved quickly to cover the cut on his chest hoping to stop the sting of the wound there.

"And hockey starting soon and you won't be here for that either, dad all my friends' dads are going to be there and you won't be why don't you just quit your job and come be with me and mom? Sometimes I wish I had a different dad!" Finn opened his mouth to reply but when he tried his son had already passed the phone back to his wife.

"Honey, I'm going to have to go, Ben's pretty upset, I'll write to you soon, stay safe okay? I love you." She said with a sigh.

"Okay Laura, I love you too." With that the phone went dead and Finn laid down on the bed and covered his head with the pillow. At first he and Ben had been having a good conversation, Ben had told him about school and football and even about his new friend at school; Jennifer was her name, she was smart and ahead a grade, she was only six, she even played hockey even though her mom wasn't a fan.

Finn hated himself, he'd hurt so many people in the past ten years; he couldn't get the guts to go find Rachel again once his first tour so he didn't leave the army, when he'd met Laura he still didn't quit, they'd gotten married on his one month leave the second time, Benjamin was born nine months later while Finn was overseas. Seven years later he was still in the army, still running from his past. He was always running.

Okay guys, this is just chapter one I hope to make it one of my best stories yet so please please REVIEW the more reviews I get the quicker I'll update because after tomorrow for chapter two there won't be another update until Wednesday October. 27th :) unless you review then I'll update on Friday or Monday