The Lucky One
GLEE AU Fan Fiction
Chapter 1: New Beginnings

"She's gotta be Finn's sister." Ryder Lynn whispered.

He and the rest of the current New Directions were sitting in the choir room. It wasn't going to be their home away from home for much longer and they all wanted to enjoy every second they got to spend in the room before it was taken away from them forever.

Some of the older members who had already graduated had been dropping in and out to visit them, paying them their respects since the Glee Club was officially over, before hurrying off to find Mr. Schuester in his office.

The sophomore and senior members of the club knew that they should probably be with their director, but they couldn't help but think he was disappointed in them. When he had needed his students to be successful, more than he had ever needed them to be successful before, they had failed him. They had lost at Nationals and the club that he had put so much effort into-the club that had ended his first marriage and almost screwed up every relationship he'd had after that-the club that had been enough to make him give up on Broadway-was over and there was nothing he could do to save it.

Of course, there had been a saving grace that had entered all of their lives about an hour ago, before the first alumni had entered the school, explaining that her family was starting a Finn Hudson donation to the school, giving McKinley all the money it would need to maintain the glee club. This girl had already handed Mr. Shuester a check written out for more money than the Glee Club had ever had in their account before.

Still, nobody knew what Coach Sylvester was going to say on the subject, so the current members weren't getting their hopes up and Mr. Shuester wasn't going to say anything to anybody until he knew for sure that it was certain.

At this particular moment, the current Glee Club members were trying to figure out who this girl was, as she wondered the hallways with Emma Schuester, getting a tour of the school she would be attending the following school year.

"Finn didn't have a sister," Artie Abrams rolled his eyes. "Believe me-I'd know. I've had sleepovers with the kid and I was at his mom's wedding. I stood up in his mom's wedding," Artie insisted.

"Besides, with all the times one of us needed a date, don't you think he would have fixed one of us up with her?" Sam Evans asked, running a hand through his long, blonde hair.

Sam knew who this girl was, though. He was putting on an act that would impress anybody if they knew he was playing pretend. After all, the blonde had never claimed to be a fabulous actor with a flair for lying. It was a shock to even himself that he hadn't given everything away right then and there.

He was the most torn up about the events that had unfolded, because he viewed their loss as letting down not only Mr. Shuester, but Finn Hudson and by default, Rachel Berry. He had been chosen by Finn himself, meant to be his replacement, but he couldn't even lead his team to victory against a team of acrobats who couldn't barely hold their own vocally.

"Somehow, I doubt that Finn would want his little sister dating either of you two morons." Tina Cohen-Chang laughed, reaching out to slug both boys on the arm.

"I promise you that he didn't have a sister, though. Kurt didn't have a sister either, so it can't even be a step-sister. Besides, don't you three think she would have already been going to McKinley if she was Finn's sister?" Blaine Anderson spoke up, being the voice of reason as he always was. Of course, most of his sense was coming from the fact that he happened to know who this girl was. He was one of the few people who knew that she existed and her true identity.

"She doesn't even look like Finn. She doesn't have his eyes or his hair or his face. Nothing about her resembles him. She's too short to possibly be Finn's sister. Rachel's sister? Maybe, but definitely not Finn's sister," Kitty Wilde declared the possibility completely impossible as the pointed out what they all should have already realized.

"Well, we know she can't be Rachel's sister anyways," Jake Puckerman said with a nervous chuckle, reaching behind his back to scratch the nape of his neck. "She was an only child, remember? Her dad's were particular about their surrogate and Shelby couldn't have another kid after Rachel-Puck was telling me one day" he said, lowering his gaze from the group.

Marley Rose eyed him suspiciously from the corner of her eyes, trying to figure out what was going on with the boy. She had dated him, after all, and had learned his nervous ticks by that point in their time together. It was strange, knowing so much about somebody who now meant nothing to her, but she had the knowledge and she saw no point in acting as though she didn't have it, especially when it could be of use.

"Do you know something we don't know?" She asked him, leaning forward slightly with her hands folded in her lap.

"Of course he doesn't know anything, Marley-don't be stupid. He's just pointing out some things we should all already know," Unique Adams-technically Wade-replied.

"I'm gonna go take a walk. Maybe I'll find Puck-we haven't talked in a while and I could use some brotherly advice," He shook his head, shooting Unique a thankful smile that he was sure she wouldn't understand.

He stood up and made his way from the choir room, trying to act casual as he really just wanted to freak out. Because he did know something they didn't know. He knew exactly who that girl was, but he also knew that he wasn't supposed to tell anybody, because it had been kept a secret for so long. Besides, he also knew that she didn't want to be treated any differently because of who she was.

Jake had tried to make her see that one day, everybody would know who she was, but she just didn't want to admit it. She was happier believing that she could keep the secret, not wanting to learn a lesson from what Jake had had to go through. But, as her best friend, he was going to just let it all go.

No, he had known Naomi Berry for a long time and he had always considered her to be his best friend. She was the only one to know his secret, and he was the only one to know all of her secrets.


Flashback: Sophomore Year:

Naomi Berry sat in her bedroom on her white, cushioned platform bed. The thirteen year old girl had finally gotten her room designed the way she had always pictured it being, with a purple quilted comforter covering her bed with a slightly lighter shade for the sheets. A black and white Victoria's Secret body pillow and a purple body pillow leaned against her headboard with a purple pillow case covering it, layering four pillows over those. She had a large collection of black and white throw pillows lining her bed to add an even thicker layer of pillows against her bed, taking up half of the length of her queen sized bed.

Her bed was positioned in the middle of her room, the door to the right with a purple painted nigh stand in between the bed and the door. On top of the table was her black, round alarm clock and her purple lamp. Across from her bed was her black desk with the purple desk chair, pushed all the way in. Her purple macbook air was resting half over on the desk with her purple desk lamp leaning over it. On one side of the desk was her tall, black wooden wardrobe with a purple dresser on the other side of the desk.

In her secluded little section of the room sat her black vanity, designed to look like it belonged on a movie set with her own director's chair pushed all the way in. A purple guitar stood on its stand by her bed, barely used since she still didn't know how to play the instrument. On her walls were a clutter of picture frames, all capable of holding multiple pictures and on her dresser was a purple iHome, styled to look like an old fashioned boom box.

Each and every one of her pictures was a shot of either herself, Rachel Berry, Noah Puckerman, Jake Puckerman, their half sister Ayla, or their mother Barbra or her fathers, Hiram and LeRoy.

Sometimes it was weird to have the pictures of Jake up, especially so close to the ones of Noah, but Naomi had gotten good at playing dumb when it came to their similar appearances. Because while Jake was aware that he and Noah shared a father, Noah and Ayla had no idea that the baby who had finally caused their father to walk out on their mother was not only living in Lima, but very close friends with a family friend of their own.

And since the Puckerman clan-including Jake-worked very hard to make sure that nobody ever learned the truth about Rachel and Naomi's situation, Naomi wasn't going to go and betray her best friend and his trust.

Of course, that didn't mean that absolutely nobody knew about the situation with the Puckerman brothers, because at that particular moment in time, Naomi was sitting on her bed with her legs crossed pretzel style in front of her while Rachel sat with her legs folded beneath her, across from her sister.

"Naomi, you know we have to tell Noah. It isn't fair to him to keep this a secret and how do you expect me to tell him that he and his family aren't welcome at your Bat Mitzvah? Especially without a reason? That's incredible rude and you know it. Please just think about what you're asking me to do here. You know that I'd do anything for you, but I can't do this to Noah. He's my best friend!" A sixteen year old Rachel Berry shook her head in shock at the very thought of doing such a thing to her best friend.

"Rachel, you're asking me to compromise the trust of my best friend for the boy who has been tossing slushies into your face for the past two years. Noah might have been your best friend once, but the two of you have drifted. I'm not trying to be hurtful or anything, but you came to me in tears when he told you that you had never been friends after the break up," Naomi sighed, running a hand through her dark hair.

She had been at a dead end when it came to what she was supposed to do in regards to her Bat Mitzvah. She wanted Jake to be there-she needed to have her best friend by her side. But there was no way she could keep the secret in the bag any longer if he was there with Noah. They looked too much alike and Jake resembled their father even more than Noah did. It would be far too obvious and cause a large disruption at her party.

It was, after all, their similar appearances that had brought Jake to Naomi's attention in the first place. She had spotted him standing at the back of the Synagogue one week and had slipped away from her family to go and introduce herself to him. When she had asked his name, he had only given her a first name. She had foolishly asked if he was related o Noah, being naive to think he'd be willing to admit such a thing. And then he had given her the whole story-obviously relieved to finally have somebody to talk to about it.

Regardless of his feelings on the subject, she agreed not to tell anybody when he asked her not to, promising him that she would keep his secret. She agreed to just play dumb and act as though she had never noticed their similarities before.

"Can't you just play dumb, the way you did with dad, daddy and I?" Rachel asked with a sigh, cutting into the younger girl's thoughts.

"They're going to be near each other, possibly even right besides one another or face to face! How can I hide it then? Before, it was simple because they couldn't see each other and nobody was comparing them side by side. That won't be the case anymore," Naomi insisted.

"Alright, fine-I'll figure something out, but you owe me big time. It's not right that I'm keeping this secret from him, because it's about him and involves him just as much as it involves Jake," Rachel narrowed her eyes at her sister.

"It's not my secret to tell. It's Jake's secret and when he's ready to come out and tell people, I'll be by his side and make sure he tells Noah before anybody else. And I will make sure Noah never knows that you knew this whole time. But I'm going to be keeping Jake's secret the same way you've always kept Noah's secrets," Naomi replied, sounding much more mature than a simple thirteen year old girl.

"I keep Noah's secrets because he's been there for me since we were in pre school, Naomi. It's a much different circumstance," Rachel said softly, rising to her feet as she slowly crawled off of the bed.

"When are you going to admit that you're in love with him?" She asked, her voice calling out loudly with a teasing tone as she leaned back against her thick stack of pillows.

Rachel passed in the doorway, her hand resting on the doorknob as she tilted her head to the side in thought. Without looking back, she opened the door, giving her reply as she pulled the door open.

"I'll admit it when you admit that you're in love with Jake," Rachel said seriously, that same thoughtful, mature and soft tone to her voice as she walked from the room, closing the door behind her to leave Naomi to wonder what her sister could possibly be talking about.


"Naomi! I need to talk to you right now. You will never guess what's happened. It's the absolute worst thing ever." Rachel said with a voice of distraught as she hurried into her younger sister's room a year after the Bat Mitzvah conversation.

Naomi was going to be fourteen soon and she was lying on her bed, laughing as Jake Puckerman straddled her, tickling her sides to cause her to burst into a round of hysterics. But, with the distress in Rachel's tone, Jake immediately rolled off of Carmela and she shot into an upright position.

"What's going on? Is Noah alright? Did Finn do something to hurt you? Are you finally breaking up with him for good?" Naomi asked, eyes locked on her sister who was almost in tears.

"That isn't funny," Rachel snapped, turning to glare at her younger sister. "Finn is a wonderful boyfriend and he cares about me. Besides, this has nothing to do with him. It's about Noah. Cara, he's been arrested. They're sending him to juvenile hall. He backed his mother's car into a gas station and drove off with the ATM in the trunk," Rachel said, dropping down onto her sister's bed and curling up into a ball.

"Can't dad and daddy do anything?" Naomi asked.

"No-the idiot that he is thought it would be wise to confess! He pleaded guilty!" Rachel said with a look of disgust taking over her face.

"He's in jail?" Jake asked softly, eyes ripening at the idea that his half-brother who still didn't know he even existed as now in juvie.

"Why did he do it? Did he need money or something? I thought Babs got that promotion. Isn't his pool cleaning business going so well he needed to hire some employees?" Naomi asked, focusing on her sister.

Noah was, after all, like a brother to the younger Berry sister. She had always been one to try and make him improve as a person, working her hardest to convince him to do the right thing and make good choices. And he usually obeyed her, not wanting to let her down and see that sad, disappointed pout that she and Rachel made whenever he had proven them wrong in all of their high expectations about the person he was.

"I don't know! It's probably got something to do with the fact that Quinn decided to give the baby up for adoption-to Shelby, no less! And she didn't even consult with him on the subject. Besides, now she's dumped him and he's absolutely heartbroken. Or, I would assume so. He hasn't mentioned anything to me and I doubt he'd talk to Finn about his feigns towards Quinn after all that happened between them," Rachel sighed, running a hand through her hair.

"His dad walked out on them around this time of year," Jake spoke up softly, as if the idea were only just occurring to him. "It's probably too much for him to deal with, on top of the pain of that Quinn chick breaking up with him and losing his daughter. That actually probably makes it worse on him, because now he feels like he's acting exactly like his dad," Jake observed.

"How could I forget that? I am a horrible best friend." Rachel moaned, completely disgusted with herself for forgetting about the one thing that could truly bring Noah Puckerman to tears that weren't from anger.

Noah was an extremely private individual, especially when it came to his private life. He only ever allowed Rachel to know what was going on in his life. Every now and then, he would go her fathers for help when it came to needing a male influence, and on even rarer occasions, he would check in with Naomi and talk to her about what was going on in both of their lives.

Naomi sighed as Rachel stood up and hurried from the room, muttering something about needing to go and see Noah immediately. The younger shook girl her head, leaning back against Jake as she cuddled up to him, allowing him to wrap his arms around her as she buried her head in his chest. He started to rub slow, careful circles around her back and tightened his grip on her, humming softly under his breath, the way he always had whenever she was upset.

She loves that he knew her so well that he could always provide whatever sort of comfort that she needed. She was pretty sure that every girl needed a Jake Puckerman and she was glad her sister got the closest thing with Noah Puckerman.

"Promise me you won't ever do something so stupid like that," She sighed, not really considering how muffled her words must be. She knew that he would understand her no matter what happened.

"I'm not going to go leaving you on your own. You'd turn into a cat lady without me. A crazy one," He chuckled.

"You are such an idiot!" She giggled, leaning away to slap his arm.

"True-but I'm your idiot," he beamed down at her with a stupid grin.

They were quiet for a little while, returning to their cuddling position on the bed as Carmela thought about all that was going on in her life at the moment, knowing it all stemmed back to the fact that her sister was in love with Noah Puckerman, whether he wanted to admit it or not. She knew that the love stemmed both back and was breaking both of their hearts. And it killed her to know that.

"Jake, can you promise me something?"

"Anything, you know that."

"Promise that you'll never fall in love with me? Rachel and Noah are so in love with one another that they're afraid to admit it. Hiding it is breaking their hearts and ruining their relationship. I don't want that for us," She sighed.

"I'm already in love with you Carmela. It's a little late for that," He rolled his eyes.

"I meant in love where we belong together and have all that boyfriend-girlfriend romance kind of stuff. I don't want us to be so in love with each other that we have all these feelings we aren't sure what to do with," She sighed.

"I promise to never want to be your boyfriend. God, you seriously ask me to do the weirdest things," Jake teased her.

"Doesn't that encourage you to never fall in love with me?" She flashed him a goofy grin.

"Actually, it would make me want to fall in love with you. That is, if I didn't know that you just get weirder every day. It's a good thing I know you so well or I'd be making a dangerous promise," He told her.

"So we're good? No feelings or relationships or romance?" She asked him softly.

"None of that," he assured her, trying his best to hide the fact that he was already breaking that promise and would be breaking it more with every passing day.


Rachel came storming into Naomi's room over a year later, dropping down onto the younger girls' bed with a breath of annoyance. Naomi turned away from her desk, where she had been working on homework and raised an eyebrow in confusion at her sister's actions. Before she was able to question the situation at hand, an angry looking Noah Puckerman came storming into the room, already in the middle of a rant that was completely uncharacteristic for him.

Uncharacteristic when heard by anybody other than the berry sisters, of course. They were always allowed to see the softer and sweeter side of the residential bad ass of Lima, Ohio. They were two of the only people allowed to see that side of him.

"-completely irresponsible and ridiculous. You are throwing your life away to be with some lying, cheating, immature boy who doesn't even know how he really feels. He's only trying to keep you here. He's using you to build up his own confidence because he's an insecure mother fucker-sorry for searing Naomi-and he doesn't deserve a girl as talented, smart, sweet, loving and gorgeous as you. Will you just stop and think about what you're doing for a second? This is just-"

"OH MY GOD! Will you just shut up already? Noah, this if my life and I'm going to do what I want to do with it, alright? Get over it. I didn't like that you were having a baby with Quinn, but I don't recall giving you a long lecture about how stupid and irresponsible you were being while throwing your life away. Do you remember me behaving that way?" She asked, sitting up on the bed and flashing a glare at him.

"That was completely different. I made a mistake. What was I going to do? Turn around and tell Quinn to get an abortion or something? I had to deal with it because it couldn't be fixed. You can fix your god damn mistake," Puck snapped at her, something that he rarely ever did.

"Who are you to give me a lecture on responsibility?" Rachel asked harshly, crossing her arms over her chest.

"The fact that you need a lecture on responsibility fro me should be enough to prove that I'm right," He glared right back at her.

"You're being ridiculous. This is your best friend that we're talking about. I don't see what the problem is, actually. Shouldn't you be happy for me for a change? Just let me live a little," She asked, expressing softening for a moment.

"No, I can't. Rachel, you've got a bright future ahead of you and you're going to be on Broadway. You're going to New York City. He''s not heading out that way. What would he even do there? Take a couple of classes for a job he doesn't really want to have? He's going to be miserable and he's going to make you miserable right along with him," Puck said, still angry and bitter as he moved to sit down besides her.

"What the hell is going on right now?" Naomi shrieked, jumping to her feet. "Are you pregnant or something, because I think dad and daddy should have been informed before you ran off and told the entire Glee club, which always results in the entire school knowing either immediately before or immediately after," She tried to lighten to mood, hating to see the pair fight. Of course, she was always curious as to what was going on and annoyed it was now taking place in her room.

"She sure as hell better now be pregnant or I'll have to go and beat Finn-o-cence's ass for a second time today. God, Naomi, why the hell did you have to put that idea in my head? God, the mental image here-oh my god, I need to go and flush my brain out or something. It's bad enough just knowing that they had sex and now I have to deal with this? And you know what? That just reminds me of something else. The guy forgot that you were a vegan. Do you remember me holding your hair back because he fed you god damn meat?" Puck asked, anger growing once more as he turned his attention back onto Rachel.

"I'm not pregnant, Naomi. Finn proposed and I said yes. We're going to get married, whether Noah likes this sudden turn of events or not. That is completely irrelevant because he seems to be forgetting that this is my life and not his own, meaning he doesn't really get to have a say in my life choices. That is what we are fighting about, because he thinks we are too young and it's an irresponsibly decision on my part," Rachel said, rolling her eyes as she ignored her best friend's most recent outburst.

She went on, still talking, but Naomi had completely tuned her out as she tried to process what was going on. How on earth had her brilliant older sister who was always so level-headed and made sure to think everything through before speaking and making an action, ended up engaged when she was only eighteen and still in high school? Rachel hadn't even been accepted to college yet.

And then there was the confession that Noah was making by his mere actions. He was letting Naomi and Rachel both know that he was in love with Rachel, without saying the words. But his words were confirming that Rachel had hooked up with Finn Hudson and had actually had sex with the guy-something she swore she would save for marriage because it was sacred.

"What the hell were you thinking?" Naomi blurted out.

She must have not heard the fight resume, because once she had had her outburst, both teenagers turned around to stare at her in wide eyed amazement. They had confusion written all over their faces, jaws dropped and eyebrows furrowed together.

"Why would you have sex with Finn Hudson, for starters? You don't really love him and you know that. We just had this conversation together and now you're suddenly rushing off to marry him? God, Rachel, how could you be so stupid? I mean, I love you and all, but you're being an idiot," Naomi ran a hand through her hair in frustration and annoyance.

"Oh, I should have known better than to come in here. You're just like Noah-no better than him. You hate Finn and you've hated him since the day you met him," Rachel glared at her, arms crossed firmly over her chest.

"I don't hate Finn and you know that. I think that he's a wonderful guy and he's very sweet. But he'll always have a soft spot for Quinn and you know that almost as well as I do. You don't really love him-he was just a challenge, something you had to win. Well, you got him now and you've proven that you could get him. I think it's time you set him free and allowed the both of you to be happy," Naomi insisted, her tone soft and accepting as she sat down besides her sister, wrapping her in a hug.

"Do you seriously think I'm making a big mistake?" Rachel asked.

"Yes," Puck blurted out.

"Shut up, Noah!" The girls shorted out together.

"Yes, Rachel, I do. I think you need to think this through a little bit more. If you're going to make a decision like this, a decision to be with him for the rest of your life, you should be able to think it through and wait until you're sure. But, Rachel, the only guys that you've ever dated have been Finn, Jesse and Noah. And Noah was only for a week. Jesse was for about three months. Regardless of it being on and off, the other three years since you started dating have been with Finn." Naomi reminded her.

"Alright-I'll think about it. Does that make you happy?" Rachel turned around and asked Puck with a small smile on her face.

"Yes," He grunted, showing that it was only starting to make him happy.

He got up and left, Rachel standing up to follow after him. She stopped at the doorway and turned back around to look at her sister.

"What's up?" Naomi asked.

"I shouldn't have come in here. It wasn't fair to drag you into this argument," Rachel apologized in her typical fashion.

"It's fine, Rachel. Now I just know what not to do," Naomi smirked.

"You are such a little brat," Rachel gasped, laughing at her sister's words.

"You're the one who came storming into my room. Now go and talk to Noah," Naomi rolled her eyes, standing up and walking back to her desk.

"I'm not in love with him," Rachel stomped her foot, pouting at what her sister had said and what she was sure she was implying.

"I never said you were. I said to talk to him. I was actually saying it because he's downstairs waiting for you and I had homework to do," Naomi shrugged, dropping down into her desk chair. "But, I mean-if you're in love with him, now's as good a time as any to admit it," Naomi called over her shoulder as Rachel stormed away.

"BRAT!" She called back towards her sister, both Berry girls laughing at their antics.


"Are you sure you can't come back?" Naomi sighed into the phone. She hated that she was never going to be able to get to say a proper goodbye to her sister.

Finn had called off the wedding and sent Rachel on a train to New York City. She was gone, to the city of her dreams, all on her own. She had been there for a few weeks now, living in a hotel that the girls' fathers had gotten for her. She'd toured her future school and was hunting for a job. She was enjoying her sudden change of pace.

Meanwhile, Naomi was alone in Lima, hating every second of it as she tried to deal with the after mass of her own Glee Club, over at Carmel, having lost at Nationals to the New Directions.

"I'm sorry, Naomi. I'd come back if I could, but I just don't think that I could come back. It won't be good for me. I'll go back to Lima and I'll see him again and I just won't be able to bring myself to leave." Rachel sighed into the phone.

Naomi knew that she was right, and she knew that Rachel needed to move on. After all, everybody else that she had graduated with was moving on.

Finn had joined the army, Mercedes had taken the first flight to LA to start working on her album. Quinn was getting ready to leave for Yale and Santana was already shopping for her dorm at her own college. Mike and his family had taken off to get him settled in Joffrey, over in Chicago.

Sam was still in Lima, but he was preparing for his senior year along with Blaine, Tina and Artie. And then there was Brittany, forcing herself to adjust to the fact that she was a second year senior and going to have to do it all over again.

She could stick around with Kurt, that much was true, but it would only be a reminder to her best friend that he didn't have the option to take off for New York. He hadn't gotten into NYADA and there was nothing for him outside of Lima. It would only cause bitterness and a fight between the two of them and Naomi wouldn't ask her sister to cause a fight between her and her best friend, causing Rachel to lose Kurt.

And then there was Noah, but as soon as Rachel's train was gone, and after he'd tackled Finn to the ground in a terrible fight that had had to be broken up by Mike, Sam, Blaine and Mr, Shuester, he had driven to the airport and bought a ticket on the first flight to LA, leaving even sooner than Mercedes. He'd stopped by the Berry household to say goodbye to Naomi and the two Mr. Berry's and dropped by his house to grab his already packed back, kissing his mother and sister goodbye.

The only thing that he had left behind, was his beloved truck which he had given Naomi strict orders to give to somebody worthy of its beauty. And she had followed those orders, bestowing both that and his motorcycle-which he wanted gone along with the truck-to his half-brother, Jake Puckerman. She hadn't sold it for much-still more than Puck had told her to sell it for-and she'd dropped the money off to his mother's house, knowing things might be tough for a little while without the income from Puck's pool cleaning business coming in on top of her salary.

"Will you come visit though, soon?" Naomi asked.

"Maybe you and dad and daddy could all come visit me sometime? I'm just not sure I can be in Lima anytime soon. There are too many bad memories," Rachel sighed, her voice soft.

"Yeahthat's fine. We can see a Broadway show or something," Naomi said, forcing a smile he sister would never see onto her face.


"Finn's dead," Rachel said, collapsing into her sister's arms as soon as she arrived in Lima.

Naomi and her fathers had just gotten back from yet another memorial service for Rachel's late-boyfriend, and the eighteen year old Broadway queen had just arrived back home, in time to spend a week saying goodbye to him at their old high school.

"He was supposed to take over the Glee club. He was going to take over the club whenever Mr. Shuester decided to retire and then, one day, after I was done with Broadway and had won a Tony or two, I would show up at the choir room and he'd turn around and ask me what I was doing there and I'd tell him that I came home. Then we'd have our happily ever after. Naomi, don't you see? Finn was my person," Rachel sobbed, burying her face in her sister's shoulder.

"I know, Rae, I know," Naomi sighed, whispering the words into her sister's hair. "But it's going to be okay. I promise you, it's all going to be okay," Naomi promised.

"Dad and daddy have agreed to form a Finn Hudson Grant. It's going to go towards the music program at McKinley in a time of need." Rachel said, forcing a smile onto her face that didn't reach her eyes as she sat down on the couch.

"I know, Rae, I was there when you asked them on the phone," Naomi said, flashing her sister a small smile as she sat down besides her.

"I just don't understand how this happened…"Rachel sighed, shaking her head.

"You can't concern yourself in how it happened or why. All you can do is accept the fact that he's gone and remember all of the memories that you have with him," Naomi explained.

"I know-and I only have happy memories with Finn. Those are the only ones I'm even going to bother to remember, because most of my memories with him are happy." Rachel assured her sister with that confident air to her eyes once again.

Naomi hadn't seen that look in her sister's eyes since her sister had come home, bragging about their win at Nationals and the fact that Carmen had shown up to give her a second chance at an audition to her dream school. It was a look that Naomi missed, because it defined who her sister was.

"Rachel, Finn's never going to leave you. Remember, you have that star and it's always going to be looking down on you, because Finn's always been looking after you," Naomi said softly, squeezing her sister's shoulder.

"I can't see it from New York," Rachel admitted.

"That's okay. You know that it's there and that's all that you need to know. He's always going to be there, Rae, even if you can't always tell that he's looking out for you. He's always going to be your person," Naomi flashed her that grin that had never failed to get her sister to cheer up.

And sure enough, even at a time like that moment, it got Rachel to smile. Some things would never change, and for that, both Berry sisters were glad that they had each other and that their relationship was never going to change.


"You have to join the Glee club," Rachel said as she arrived home. She was only dropping her bags off and then would be heading towards McKinley, but she had stopped by her sister's room to give her a quick command.

"Rae, the club is over," Naomi rolled her eyes. "Sue cancelled it because you lost at Nationals," She reminded her sister.

"Dad and Daddy talked to the school board and they can give the donation in Finn's name to the school, but they can't do it unless they have a child in the school. And the Glee Club isn't going to mean anything with only Ryder, Jake, Marley, Kitty and Unique in it for the upcoming school year," Rachel rolled her eyes, leaning against the doorframe with her arms crossed over her chest.

"You're asking me to transfer schools, Rachel," Naomi sighed.

"I know I'm asking for a lot, but this is important to me. When that Glee Club is gone for good, the last part of him is going to be leaving McKinley and I just can't see that happen. It's going to be like losing him all over again," Rachel said, her voice breaking towards the end of the sentence.

"Rachel," She sighed.

"Please?" She asked, tears starting to fill her eyes. "Naomi, just do this one thing for me? Please?" She begged.

"Don't cry, Rae-I'll do it, okay? I promise," She said, throwing her book aside and climbing to her feet. "Let's go and get this all figured out, okay? Get Dad and Daddy and I'll go and do whatever it takes to start at McKinley in the fall," she flashed her sister a reassuring grin.

And when Rachel broke out into a complete grin, Naomi was ready to slap both herself and her sister. She should have known Rachel was acting so sad to get her way. But, of course, she had fallen for it and now there was no way out.


And that brings everything full circle, back to the current Gleeks discussing the mysterious girl who was promising to save their Glee Club and make sure that the New Directions were not a legacy that died with that year's seniors.

"Something's up with Jake," Marley frowned.

"And you're not chasing after him? Wow, maybe you really are over him," Kitty rolled her eyes, a sarcastic tone to her voice as she spoke.

"Lay off, Kitty-you only have to be nice for one more week. I think even you can handle that one," Unique said, flashing a warning glare at the blonde cheerleader.

"I'm so tired of you all thinking I'm nothing more than a heartless bitch. I didn't catfish Ryder and I didn't go out with Ryder as soon as I broke up with Jake nor did I start dating Jake immediately after I went out with Ryder a few times!" Kitty snapped, jumping to her feet. "In fact, when Ryder was moping because nobody understood his pain when he shared about his childhood and that demented babysitter, I took him out to dinner and I shared a story of my own with him!" Kitty stomped her foot before turning on her heel and storming from the room.

"She's got a point, you know. I was a bigger bitch this year than she was before she joined the club, and you've always been nicer to me than her," Tina spoke up softly.

"Kitty's not that bad-you need to realize how self conscious she is. She's jealous of you, Marley, and she's not going to admit it, but she's never not going to be," Ryder shook his head.

Artie didn't say anything. He just immediately started rolling from the room, chasing after his girlfriend as quickly as he could while confined to his wheelchair.

"In a lot of ways, I'm glad that I'm not in this club anymore. I don't have to deal with this drama anymore," Sam Evans admitted.

"And she doesn't have one more week to be nice. She's always going to defend you, Unique and she's always going to consider you a friend, Marley. And if there is a club next year, I promise that she's going to be one of the first names signed up on that list. So don't act like she's only nice to be in this club, because if she didn't like us, she wouldn't be here in the first place," Ryder ran a hand through his hair.