Note: this is some stuff I wrote ages ago. I might one day when I'm not busy come back and finish it but no-one get their hopes up.

A/N1 I really liked the idea of a St. Berry baby so I decided to do a future fic.

A/N2 The timeline is changed for this to work Jesse and Rachel did have sex in the Madonna episode and then Rachel still made the video in Bad Reputation and Jesse still egged her. He went to UCLA and did not flunk out. Which meant the events of Prom queen and Funeral and New York were affected in a big way.

A/N3 spoilers for season 1 and 2 read at your own risk

A/N4 I only really became a huge Broadway fan after watching glee, I knew a little about it coz I love funny girl so much before that but I haven't really seen most of the greats

Disclaimer: If I owned glee St. Berry would still be strong and it would be illegal for Jonathan Groff, Mark Sailing and Chord Overstreet and Harry Shum Jr. to put on a shirt.

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Rachel didn't know whether to laugh or cry. After a year of auditioning she'd finally been cast in her first big role. It wasn't her first Broadway role as she had been an understudy for 6 months in a production of Wicked and she'd loved it but this, this was a whole new thing all together. She had been cast as the lead of Spring Awakening. Which lead to her second dilemma when she went to the private cast party the director had introduced her to the lead that would play her Melchior. To say she had been surprised was an understatement she'd literally choked on her wine and taken 2 steps back falling into the waiter's arms. "Jesse!" she spluttered when they helped her get up. "Sorry about that I was just a little surprised" Jesse raised an eyebrow and she put her hand out "long time no see St. James" he took her hand a kissed her lightly. "Yes it has hasn't it"? Truly at this moment Rachel had wanted to die or have the ground swallow her up but she had acted great and pretended to catch up with Jesse but her mind was spinning and this was why that at 2 am she was pacing up and down her apartment with Kurt trying to calm her down. "Sweetie why are you so upset at seeing Jesse I mean it's been years since high school and I'm sure that you've both gotten over the egging"

"You don't understand Kurt I lied to you all I didn't get pregnant at a party after Jesse left me he's Rania's father!" Kurt stood there shocked and walked up to Rachel. "And you never thought to tell me this after all these years Rachel I thought we were best friends". He gave her a look of pure contempt "I'm so sorry but I knew that if I told you you'd make me tell him and look at him Kurt if I had told him do you think that he would be this famous it would have ruined his life" Kurt suddenly understood "you still love him don't you?" Rachel burst into tears and nodded. "You'll have to leave the production" Kurt said trying to reason with her

"no never this is too important for my career I'll lie, if he sees Rania I'll tell him that her father is un-present I can't tell him now it's too late!" she sniffled and wiped her eyes "it'll be easy you'll see" Kurt shook his head and knew that no voice of reason could argue with Rachel now.

Chapter 1

A/N5 Recently a teacher at my school made some homophobic comments about some students and I was inspired to write the plot of this chapter.

Rachel made her way to rehearsal. She was so excited it had been her 4th rehearsal in the week and she had successfully managed to avoid Jesse apart from when they needed to be together. In fact she had been almost child-like in her ways which included running into toilets, leaving through the back exit and quickly starting up conversations which other cast members. She knew he had noticed and was annoyed but she thought that it would be easier this way. Easier to have a clean break so soon as she left but what she was not ready for was for him to surprise her by waiting at the back entrance at the end of rehearsal. "Rachel is you avoiding me?" he asked almost amused. "Nope why would you think that?" she laughed but growing extremely uncomfortable. "Look let me buy you lunch" she hesitated but remembered that she didn't want him to suspect anything. "Ok but if you so much as say one repulsive word I'll walk!" Jesse winced and asked Rachel "do you really think that bad of me?" he asked "yeah and a bunch of dead baby chickens agree with me" he looked sad but he motioned to the door

"Ladies first" he flashed an award winning smile and she knew why all the women in New York were falling over him. They walked in silence and finally stopped outside a lovely Italian restaurant. "Hello Jesse you're back" the attractive hostess said flashing him a smile and giving Rachel a look of disdain. Rachel struggled to hold in a laugh. They sat down and the waitress who smiled at Jesse and Rachel began to feel uncomfortable. "Rachel what's wrong" Jesse asked.

"Have you slept with every women working at this restaurant?" Jesse took a deep breath in

"Why would you ask that?" he said

"because the hostess smiled at you and gave you this look and then the waitress knelt down clearly slipping something under your feet which I presume is her number" Jesse looked down and sure enough next to his feet was a napkin with the waitresses number on it and a note saying 'round 2' and he blushed sheepishly. "Yeah on second thought I shouldn't have brought you here but Rachel I really need to talk to you" Rachel nodded

"I need to talk to you too" she nodded

"I'm so sorry for what I did to you I was young and stupid and I really wanted the scholarship".

"Why Jesse I know I screwed up but throwing eggs at me? There were other ways better ways to resolve conflict! I stopped being vegan ages ago I'm pretty much vegetarian now but I just can't bring myself to eat eggs" she was getting really angry he thought that with just an apology he could sort it out? "I didn't know Rachel, that day I really thought that we were just there to funkify you and trash your choir room and then one of the team said I should text you so I could talk to you, dump you" she winced "then they just started throwing eggs at you! I couldn't stop it if I tried and then when the ultimate test came to prove my loyalty to the team I had to do it you of all people knows how important it is for a team to be united I needed to do it Rachel you've got to understand" suddenly Rachel's eyes filled with tears

"and Shelby?" he looked shocked "what did you not think I'd make the connection? I did Jesse and it hurt it still does to think that she used you to get close to me and then when you left threw me away like a ragdoll, it was worse than Barbra's heartbreak in the way we were" he chuckled at the use of that old line then his face turned completely serious "I knew that it was going to hurt Rach but I thought she would help you get over it I never thought that..." Rachel laughed

"That what she wouldn't want me that's your problem Jesse you don't think and some of us are still living with the consequences" suddenly Rachel's phone rang and she picked it up she looked frantic. "I'm so sorry Jesse but my daughter had an accident at school I really need you to give me a ride" it was Jesse's turn to look shocked "you're daughter wait you're with someone?"

She gave him an angry look "none of your business look Jesse is you going to give me a ride or will I take a cab" he ran his fingers through his hair. "Don't worry about it of course I'll give you a ride" they drove in silence to the school and when they arrived Rachel practically sprinted out of the car and to the office. He laughed he'd always expected Rachel to be an over-protective mother. He followed Rachel to the first aid room where she saw her tightly hugging a young girl. "What happened?" she practically screamed "momma they were saying mean things about Uncle Kurt" tears fell down the girls face from her almond brown eyes. She looked so much like Rachel apart from that she didn't have her nose and her hair was light brown and curly kind of like his. The thought popped into his head out of nowhere when suddenly a very stern looking women came in and said "are you Rania's mom?" Rachel nodded and she and Rania walked into the women's office and Jesse decided to follow.

The women looked at Rania with disdain "Rania I want you to tell me what happened exactly how" Rania nodded through her tears. "Momma some girls came up to me and they started saying mean things about Uncle Kurt and Uncle Blaine" Rachel was puzzled.

"Like what honey?" she asked

"They said he was a faggot and that he sucked..." Rachel gasped and her hand flew to her mouth. "Sweetie enough what did you do?"

"Well momma you always told me to defend what you love and I love Uncle Kurt and Blaine so I punched her" Rania said simply and Jesse could not believe how brave this girl was. "Rania you know that violence is un-acceptable so I am going to have to exclude you for a few days"

"But she was just defending her uncles" Jesse said out of nowhere. "Are you her father?" the women asked.

"No he's just a friend Rania's dad is out of the picture" Jesse raised his eyebrows, what did she mean out of the picture? The women looked at Rachel disapprovingly "you're what 25 if Rania is 10 then you had her when you were 16?" Rachel nodded but looked at the women harshly. "Yes I don't understand why this is relevant" the women looked at Rachel like she was dirt. "you mean to say that because I had Rania when I was young I didn't raise her right" the women dismissed Rachel "I meant nothing but maybe you shouldn't let her spend so much time around Uncle Kurt and Blaine it seems like they're the bad influences"

"Because their gay" Jesse asked.

"I said no such thing don't you dare accuse me of that" but the look on the women's face told a different story. Rachel and Jesse got up and gave the women an extremely disgusted look. Suddenly they were next to the car and Jesse knelt down to Rania's level "hi I'm your mums friend uncle Jesse, you know violence is never the way to solve things right now your momma is very upset promise that you won't ever get into another fight even if they say mean things just tell the teacher" Rania nodded and said carefully "promise" Jesse smiled and put up his little finger "how about a pinkie promise" Rania giggled. "Okay" she smiled. As they drove on the way back Rachel thought that she may had underestimated Jesse he seemed good with kids. Maybe she should have given him a chance. Meanwhile Jesse was becoming more and more perplexed as to who the father was. He wondered if it was his but he realised that Rachel would never tell him. She went all crazy defence modes. No he'd work it out by himself. "Is she Finn's" he blurted out so much for working it out by himself. "Even though it really isn't any of your business no she isn't Finns" for some reason Jesse was calmed by this thought that Rachel hadn't moved on as soon as he left. Especially after that night. He called it the night of no regrets but she probably had a thousand regrets about that night. "Rachel I know that you have to go now but I promise I will do everything in my power to gain back your trust" she smiled

"And I'll try to Jesse and I won't avoid you anymore" he laughed.

"So you where avoiding me" Rachel frowned

"I thought we established that"

"No but it was nice to know I wasn't being paranoid" she laughed "bye Jesse" as she came out of the car with Rania. Rania's eyes lingered on him a second longer and he felt something. He didn't know what it was but he felt something. So even though the rational side of his body was screaming out in pain he knew that he had to find out who this little girl's father was.

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