Just a short drabble that popped into my brain while listening to I Loved Her First by Heartland.
Hiram Berry was watching his daughter dance with her new husband. As he watched them, he realized that they wouldn't notice if everyone in the room suddenly disappeared.
He then thought back to a time when she hadn't needed anyone but him. Although he wasn't her biological father, he loved her like he was. Her biological father, LeRoy Corcoran, had dropped Rachel on Hiram's doorstep after her mother had taken off.
"Daddy!" Rachel called as she ran in the house. "Mercedes says her sister Sarah is getting married! She says she'll have to leave the family! Why would she do that to them?" She cried, crawling up on the couch with Hiram. Hiram sighed.
"Rachel, Princess, people get married. It's not a bad thing, honey. Sarah will have to move out of her mother's home, but I'm sure she'll stay near them. She isn't completely ditching her family." He said, comforting her.
"Daddy, I'm never, ever, getting married. I don't think I could stand moving away from you." She said. Hiram chuckled at his daughter. His thoughts traveled further down the line to when his precious daughter began dating Finn Hudson during her Sophomore year of high school. He had watched the two of them go back and forth for a year. He knew that although the two loved each other, they weren't in love.
A few months after Rachel moved to New York City, she called Hiram, and told him that when she came home for Christmas, she was bringing a friend. She called him "Noah" and when Hiram began the third degree, he didn't realize how right he was about his daughter's feelings for this stranger. When Hiram went to the airport to pick the two young adults up, he knew. The moment he saw Noah and Rachel together, he knew it was only a matter of time before the two were together, and possibly married.
Rachel Berry-Puckerman knew the look on her father's face, and when she broke away from her husband, gosh she loved that word...husband, she walked over to her dad.
"Daddy, are you alright?" She asked. Hiram nodded, wiping a tear from his eye. Rachel knew her father well enough to know that it was better to just believe him. So, she hugged him.
"It'll be alright, Daddy. I won't be gone forever. Noah and I are moving back here." She said, shocking her father. Hiram grinned and hugged his daughter harder. She squeezed him once and then walked back to Noah.
"What was that?" He asked, hugging his wife. She shrugged.
"I told him we were moving back here." She said. Noah gave his wife a questioning look.
"Rach, babe, you said we'd only do that if you got...pregnant." He said, slowly understanding. Rachel beamed at her new husband and nodded.
"I know." She said. Noah pulled his wife to him and crashed their lips together.
"I love you." He murmured against her lips.
Finish. Read and Review, please:) I know the ending kind of sucks... I got kind of stuck. But I wanted some actual Puckleberry, and not just implied Puckleberry. I love them:) I don't own Glee or anything recognized. The song I loved her first belongs to Heartland...Glee belongs to Ryan Murphy. If I owned Glee, there'd be way more Puckleberry and probably no Finchel...
