Ok new story. This one picks up middle of season 4 after Finn leaves MK and beats the crap out of Brody. From there I am changing things so this first scene would be right after Finn beats up Brody. I will tell you that a good portion of what happened in season 4 will happen but there are a few changes I have made. I am also going to say that in this story Finn doesn't die. There will be a few things that I disliked about season 4 and 5 (so far) that will be re-written.
Finn emerged from the wrecked hotel room. Santana was waiting for him down the hall. She already knew from all of the noise that Finn had given Brody what was coming to him. Finn had a look on his face that was pure fury.
"So did you take care of donkey face?" Santana asked
"I told him to stay away from my future wife. If fancy feet knows what's good for him he'll steer clear of Rachel." Finn said deadpan serious.
"Whoa that's some powerful stuff Finnocence. But I knew that you were the one to take care of it that's why I called." Santana said.
"Yeah now I need your help, I need you to keep Rachel from finding out for a few days that I am here. I need to take care of some things here before she knows I'm here. Watch her and if Brody comes anywhere near her, call me. I've got a hotel room and I just have to do a few things before I see Rachel. Can you do that for me?" Finn asked.
"Of course, you know as much as I hate to admit it Rachel and Kurt are family to me. I didn't realize until I got here how much I missed them both. I'd protect them both." Santana said.
"Good. Now if everything goes like I want it to I'll be there to see Rachel soon. Just don't tell her anything until I see her." Finn said
"So what is your plan? I mean I know you're up to something, you have that gassy baby look." Santana said.
"I don't want to jinx it, just know that if everything goes the way I want it to you're going to be seeing a lot more of me." Finn said
With that they went different ways, Santana went back to the apartment and Finn headed to the cheap hotel he had a room at. He didn't want to tell Santana his whole plan because if it didn't work out he didn't want her spilling it to Rachel and having her feel sorry for him. It had been a crazy day. He couldn't go back to McKinley and had just had a weird sort of musical fight with Mr. Shue. Oddly enough it was Marley who had finally pointed him in the direction he'd been looking for for a year, he was going to be a teacher. He could have gone to school back home and worked at the tire shop but he knew since the last time he'd been with Rachel that more than anything he had to be where she was. So he had called a couple of colleges in New York City to see what his chances are and in a folder he had his high school transcripts, his scores from the ASVAB test he'd taken when he went in the army and the SAT test his mother had made him take last year even. He had an appointment to talk to the admissions people at Bank Street College of Education. Finn Hudson was going to be a teacher. He was going to get into that school and then he was going to work his way back into Rachel's life.
The next morning Finn went to his meeting. The admissions team thought he had potential and told him he could start that week. He would just have to make up some assignments in some classes. He was elated. He had a focus finally. He wanted to call Rachel but he decided in the end to send Santana a text message.
"Hey, step one complete. Can you make sure Rachel is home tonight?-Finn"
His phone buzzed.
"No problem, she's down in the dumps over donkey face moving out without saying a word. He came today while she was in class and didn't tell her anything. She's not taking it well. I don't know how long I can keep the truth from her. I want her to just get over him already.-San"
"I'll be there about dinner time. Tell them you ordered dinner. I'll see you then.-Finn"
The next step of his plan was easy. He went to the hotel and changed into a nice suit, Rachel deserved a well dressed man. Then he ordered a couple of pizzas, a vegan one for Rachel and then a couple of others for Kurt, Santana and himself. He sure hoped pizza in New York City was better than Lima pizza. On his way to the pizza place he stopped at a florist and bought Rachel a huge bouquet of flowers, not roses but mixed flowers. With any luck seeing him at the door would make her forget Brody. Promptly at 5:30 he arrived at the loft. He could hear Rachel inside wondering aloud to Santana and Kurt why Brody wouldn't return her calls. Classic Rachel, she was analyzing it to figure out what went wrong. He knocked at the door.
"Finally that must be the food I ordered!" Santana said a little too dramatically.
"Yeah what did you order anyway?" Kurt said
"Oh don't worry Kurt, I know what you like. Rachel get the door, I need to go get cash for the delivery boy." Santana said. Finn could almost see the mischievous look on Santana's face.
"Fine. But hurry up, I don't think I'm that hungry." Rachel said as she slid the door open.
Rachel was dumbstruck at the sight waiting for her on the other side of the door. There was Finn wearing a nice suit and tie, holding a huge bouquet of flowers and three pizzas!
"Finn, wh-what are you doing here?!" The miserable look melted off her face and she instantly lit up seeing Finn. Kurt rushed over and took the flowers and pizzas from him so that Rachel wouldn't crush them as she crushed Finn into her arms. Finn winked at Kurt, he could tell that Santana had told Kurt but that was ok.
Finn pulled back from Rachel and looked down at her, "I'm moving in of course."
"Way to pull a Santana Finn, where on earth do you think you're going to sleep?" Kurt asked.
"Well I figured that if nothing else you might be able to make room for me little brother." Finn said. He didn't want to assume that he would be in Rachel's room right away, they had a ways to go before they would be at that point. But he looked at Rachel anyhow.
"Well of course we'll make room for you." Rachel had almost thought that he would want to share her room, which in her mind was where he belonged but she didn't want to push him there either.
"Well for tonight I am afraid you'll have to take the sofa. Not enough beds in my room at the moment but maybe we can get a roll away until we find something more suitable." Kurt said.
They all enjoyed the pizza and after Kurt went to bed and Santana went to work he was left alone with Rachel. She had popped in a dvd of "Funny Girl" so that she could study how Barbara Streisand played Fanny Brice. There was a revival starting and Rachel of course wanted to be Fanny. A few minutes in she hit pause and turned to Finn.
"So what's next Finn? I mean we were at this point the last time you were here. What are you going to do now?" Rachel asked
"Well I found some direction. A new direction you might say. I loved taking Mr. Shue's place at the school and leading the glee club it just felt so right to be there. After my big sing-off with Mr. Shue-it was pretty cool I wish you'd seen it-I was talking to Marley, one of the new girls, and she pretty much asked me the same thing. It was then that I came to the conclusion that I want to be a teacher like Mr. Shue. To do that I need to go to school. So I sat down and looked at colleges and found out there is one right here in the city, the Bank Street College of Education. And it was about the time I found that school and was booking a flight to New York when I got a call from Santana-"Finn started.
"Wait, so Santana asked you to come?" Rachel asked confused.
"Well this is where it gets kind of complicated. I need you to listen to what I'm going to tell you and please, please don't think badly of me. Santana called me because she dug up some dirt on Brody," Finn could see Rachel starting to get angry "now ease up no crazy Rachel ok? Anyway she called to tell me what she found out. Rachel I know this is going to be hard to hear but Brody is a male escort, women pay him for sex. So I was furious, all I could see in my mind was him playing you and keeping what he really was doing for money from you and I knew he was living here with you and I was just so ANGRY. I told Santana to book him and have him meet her in a room where she would confront him with this. Santana met me at the airport and we went to the hotel, I hid in the bathroom while she confronted him and then when she told him there was someone else he was going to have to answer to I came out and, well I'm not exactly proud to say this but I pretty much trashed the room and messed his face up."
Rachel sat stunned, on the one hand she was mad at Finn for doing that because she hated violence but on the other hand she was proud of him for defending her honor knowing that she wouldn't be ok with dating a man who was sleeping with other women for money. She thought very carefully and decided she wasn't mad at Finn who was staring down at his hands wondering what her next move would be. She moved closer to him and kissed him on the cheek.
"Thank you. You could see what he was and I couldn't and like always you came to my defense." Rachel said
"Now Rach that doesn't mean I think we're getting back together or anything. I know that we have a kind of complicated past and you've got your dreams and now I have mine-"Finn said
"No, this doesn't change anything Finn. I've known since the first time that we kissed that I was head over heels in love with you and that has never gone away. I do still love you. But I agree that it doesn't mean we're getting back together. What it does mean is that we need to really see if this works for us. But I suppose that all depends on if you get into that school and then we can take it from there. Maybe take a step back and see where things lead us if we're in the same city again." Rachel said.
"Oh I got in. You're looking at a college man." Finn said with that goofy half grin of his.
Rachel's face exploded into a huge grin. This meant that the man she loved was going to be here with her in New York! She couldn't have dreamed it any better than this.
"So maybe instead of keeping the couch warm tonight you'd like to maybe spend the night in my room? We don't have to do anything, just be close to each other?" Rachel suggested.
"Yeah, I'd like that. But just sleep, I'm exhausted. And in the morning I have to go get my stuff from the hotel. And I have to call my mom and Burt, I kind of left with no real explanation, just packed a bag and came here. I should probably have them sell my truck so I have some money and I need to find a part time job, I mean I have some money saved up, my mom has been putting away half of my dad's social security for years. She got social security payments from the time he died until I turned 18, it's something they do when a parent dies and leaves behind a kid. And I get financial aide for school and my mom and Burt said they would help but I don't want them doing it all, it's going to be tough on them with two kids in college so I want to help out." Finn said.
"Then it's settled. Let's watch Funny Girl and then go to bed." Rachel said.
They watched the movie and then went and cuddled up in Rachel's bed. And slept. When Santana came home she saw that Finn wasn't on the couch and peeked into Rachel's room, saw the two of them cuddled up and smiled.
"One down. Now to get Kurt and Blaine back together." She thought to herself as she made her way to her room and bed.