DISCLAIMER: I neither own Glee nor the characters. They are the property of Ryan Murphy and FOX. This is purely for fun. Enjoy :)

A/N: Me Voila! The Minsk here with the first installment of the sequel to The Blizzard of 2010. I know you all have high expectations for this story, so I hope I deliver the goods. Takes place 10 years from where we left the girls, and they are now 18 and Seniors in High School. Flashbacks are to the Senior Year of the Gleeks, in 2012.

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Chapter One: London Calling

February 2040 - New York City

Melody Hudson pedaled harder and faster on the elliptical in the Hudson family living room. She was having a bad day; she pitched a double-header yesterday and her shoulders were sore and achy. And it was almost noon and her phone hadn't rung all morning. Sweat poured down her face while she wondered how much time Teddy actually spent in the libraries studying. She missed him terribly.

When they were kids, the two year age difference never bothered her at all. They were inseparable throughout their entire adolescence. But when she got to middle school, thats where things started to get tricky. Teddy was smart, like, super, ultra smart. When he had reached 8th grade at the Friends Academy, he took the Bedford-Stuyvesant exam and was accepted to Brooklyn Tech, one of the best High Schools in the Five Boroughs of New York City. So she spent the next two years balancing softball and school and managed to get in as well. When she was a Sophomore however, he was a Senior. He had applied to every Ivy League School there was and was accepted to almost all of them. But he wasn't interested in going to any of them because of the field he wanted to study.

He wanted to Major in International Business. So he went to a University in London. King's College of London, to be exact.

She was more than crushed, her whole world revolved around Teddy. They were the best of friends until they started dating as teenagers. He promised her that he would never break up with her; that they would stay together and have a long-distance relationship. She trusted him, more than anything, but it was still hard to say goodbye. But he came home three times a year; Winter Holidays, Spring Break and Summer. They spoke everyday, and their relationship was stronger than ever, almost a whole two years after he left.

Now it was her turn to be looking for colleges. She had already been accepted to Ithaca on a Softball scholarship, and her parents were ecstatic. But her parents didn't know that she had applied to King's College as well, to follow Teddy. The only one who knew about it was Teddy.

She turned off the elliptical and stepped off, heading to the bathroom to take a shower when she heard her phone ring. She sprinted to it and recognized the foreign number. She picked up quickly, breathing heavily from her workout.

"Hey Teddy Bear!' She heard his husky chuckle and pictured him in his dorm room, 5,000 miles away.

"Well if it isn't my beautiful Melody. How is your arm today darling?"

"Sore, but I only allowed three runs in two games, so it's a happy pain."

"Have you mailed in your application yet? I'm looking into apartments in the London area for us so you don't have to suffer in the dorm's like I've been doing for the past four semesters. One of them overlooks the River Thames."

"Yes sir, mailed in it last Monday."

"Have you told Mommy and Daddy yet?" she groaned. They both knew how overprotective her parents were. It was funny when they were younger pre-teens, but it got worse and worse as the girls got older. They barely let them out of their sight and they were 18 year old girls living in New York. It was embarrassing.

"No and I am not really looking forward to that conversation either, thank you very much. Have you been studying all day?"

"Yes, dear. Just because It's a Saturday it doesn't mean I don't still have to know International Trade Agreements like the back of my hand!" She was amazed at how intelligent he was. She was smart too, but he took it to another level. She just wanted to study the classics until she found her niche. He was dedicated to his field.

She heard her front door open, meaning that her parents were back from their brunch with the director of Rachel's new show. She didn't want them to overhear her talking more about London, so she begrudgingly cut their phone call short.

"Hey my parents are home, are you going to stay up late tonight?" The five hour time difference was the biggest obstacle their relationship had.

"Yeah I'll call you later tonight. Love you Mel."

"Love you too Teddy bear." She hung up the phone and went into the kitchen to see her parents.

Melody adored her parents. They were the happiest, most loving people she knew. Their relationship was worthy of hero worship. They never fought and they never yelled. They had been together since high school and they still looked at each other with all the love and warmth of the world in their eyes. Some of her friends had more than one step-parent in their lives, but Melody's parents were still happily married. She wanted to be like them one day.

However, it was hard when you had a father who was as over-protective as Finn Hudson. He had explicitly strict rules about boys in the house, and he was not to be trifled with. Her and Harmony even had Eleven o'clock curfews. Half of her friends parties didn't even start until Midnight!

She had to admit though, She was a Daddy's girl to the core. Her father coached her Softball team until she got into High School and he was involved in everything she and her sister did. He still called her his "little girl" even though she was far from little anymore. He never yelled at his daughters, except once. She could remember the one and only time she ever saw her Father yell at her, like it was yesterday. . . .

It was a Saturday night and her parents were going to a fancy fund-raiser. Harmony was at a sleepover and Melody sneaked Teddy into the apartment. She was sixteen and he was almost eighteen. They had been officially dating for over a year and their hormones were in a teenage frenzy. They didn't even do anything wrong, he took off her shirt and her bra and they were playing around in her room when her father and mother came home because Finn had forgotten the tickets to the Gala. When he noticed the extra pair of shoes in the hallway he stormed into his daughter's bedroom, only to find Teddy and her, topless and under the covers of her bed.

The look of unadulterated fury in his eyes scared her to no end. He walked up to the bed and pulled Teddy out of it by his neck and practically dragged him into the living room. She wrapped her sheet around her chest and followed him, screaming "No! Daddy Stop!" She was mortified not only for herself, but for her poor boyfriend who was being dragged through her house like a rag doll.

When she got into the living room she saw her mother by the kitchen entrance, shocked to no end. Rachel was sympathetic for the kids, but she knew the wrath of her husband. She had seen it only a few times, but she knew how volatile he could be before he had a second to calm down. Finn stood Teddy up straight but held him by the shoulders. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. When he opened them, they were still fierce but his voice was steady.

"If it wasn't for the fact that I love you like a son and I coached your little league team to the State Championships, you would be out on your ass, Teddy Thomas. You are to go home now and you can see Melody at school on Monday. But If I ever see you in my home when I am not here to supervise again, you are unwelcome here. Do you understand?" Teddy nodded and said "Yes, sir" before Finn handed him his shoes and opened the door for him to leave. Melody just stood there, crying, topless and embarrassed in her living room. Finn turned to her when he closed the door. He had tears in his eyes and Melody had never seen her father cry before, ever.

"And you Little Girl! I don't know what you thought you were doing in there but you know the rules. NO BOYS in the house when I am not here! " He bent his head down and pinched the bridge of his nose while he wiped away the errant tears. He raised his head and she had never seen her father, her strong, loving, patient father, in such an emotional state. "If anything ever happened to you Melody. . . If you and Teddy were ever to get into trouble. . ." he didn't have to define 'trouble' she knew it meant 'pregnant' ". . .It would kill me. Please, baby girl, please, I am not asking you to understand me, I am just asking you to be smart. Now go and get some clothes on." He turned around and went into his room and slammed the door. Rachel took her crying daughter into her bedroom and held her while she sobbed. That was the night Rachel told her daughter the story of Quinn and Puck. She understood her father a lot better after that.

So she was loathe to discuss the prospect of moving to London to go to school with Teddy because she knew how sensitive they were. Well, how sensitive her Dad was. She needed help. Her parents had moved from Ohio to New York City, which is just as drastic a change as New York to London. If she could figure out how they made it work, maybe she could make it work for her and Teddy. She needed to know another part of their story.

She went into the kitchen to find only her mother. "Hey Mom, where's Dad?" Her Mom smiled as she put her left-overs in the fridge, "He forgot he had a Dentist's appointment and he had to run downtown for a few hours, he's getting a tooth pulled. Is anything wrong."

"Well I kind of wanted to ask you something. I don't want Dad to know though." Rachel eyed her daughter, something was up.

"Oh yeah, about what?" Melody took a deep breath. If she couldn't trust her mother to keep this between them, she was in deep trouble.

"I want to know the story of how Dad followed you to New York." Rachel raised her eyebrow. She had a feeling she knew what this was about.

"This wouldn't have anything to do with the King's College Brochure you've been hiding in your sock drawer, does it?" Melody stood there, stunned. "I found it when I put away your laundry last week. And NO your Father does not know yet." She smiled at her daughter. "OK come here. Its a LONG story though." Melody huffed.

"All your stories are long!"

"I know, we had a dramatic life!" They shared a laugh and Rachel tried to bring up all of her most cherished memories of Senior year and the beginning of college. "Well I guess it all started in February of 2012. Your father and I had already been together for two years and Glee club was headed to Nationals for the second year in a row. . ."

February 2012- Lima, Ohio

Rachel and Finn held hands as they walked to Miss Pillsbury's office. Rachel had made an appointment with her to discuss her future options. Finn was going along for moral support.

"Good Morning Rachel, Finn, have a seat." She pulled up Rachel's Academic Profile on her computer and turned to the students."Well What would you like to discuss today Rachel?" She stood up straight in her seat.

"Well as you may know Miss Pillsbury, I have applied to Northwestern University and NYU and I haven't heard back from either of them. I am starting to worry that I might have missed the deadline." Miss Pillsbury typed away at her computer and looked back up, "I don't think so Rachel, my records show that we mailed out all your material with plenty of time for consideration. Wait a few more days to see if you receive anything in the mail. I'm sure everything will be fine." She turned to Finn. "What about you Finn? Have you heard back from Ohio State yet?" He shrugged. He had applied to the Akron campus just to make Rachel, his mom and the school administration happy. Deep down he knew where he wanted to go, but Rachel hadn't been accepted to NYU yet. And if she goes to Northwestern, then he'll have no other option, so U Akron seemed a safe choice. "No, but it's still early, I barely handed my application in on time." They talked more about future options until the bell rang.

Finn and Rachel were maybe the most infamous students in McKinely High history. The Blizzard of 2010 became a legend in their town, and people still stopped them on the street or in the mall to ask if they were the kids who were trapped in the school during the Blizzard. They always respond with a nod and a smile, and sometimes a kiss to prove they were still together after all this time. They enjoyed the minor celebrity of it all. School had become their own personal kingdom, after suffering through countless slushies in their sophomore year, the attacks stopped once the majority of their tormentors graduated and after they placed higher and higher in glee competitions. Last year they had won Nationals for the first time since 1993 when Mr. Schuester won, and they might as well have been voted King and Queen of the school.

And they were, at this years Homecoming Celebration.

If anyone had told Rachel Berry that she would one day be voted Homecoming Queen over Santana Lopez, she would have laughed in their faces.

Glee was better than ever before. They recruited 6 new members at the beginning of the year because all twelve original members would be graduating in June. They had a total of 18 kids and they never sounded more powerful. Rachel and Finn had been voted captains year after year and they were ready to pass Glee along to a new generation of singers. More tryouts would be held after Nationals to fill the last 6 positions. One of the new recruits worshiped Rachel like a goddess; her name was Sarah Daisy, she was a freshman and she followed Rachel around like a shadow. She met up with them on their way into Glee, talking a mile a minute.

"Good Afternoon Captains," she only called them captains, she said that to call them by their names would be disrespectful to the team, "I heard that Mr. Schuester had some amazing news to tell us at Glee this afternoon regarding Nationals. Is there anything you need? Water? Tea with Lemon? Homework you need written?" Rachel and Finn shared a look and Rachel said politely, "No thanks Sarah. We're good." She nodded her head enthusiastically and took a seat. Rachel and Finn followed suit.

Mr. Schuester came in and smiled warmly at his students. "I got some great news regarding Nationals this year. The date is going to be Saturday, March 31 2012. And the location is going to be in New York City!" The group cheered, most of them had never been to New York before. "I know that Nationals was in Minneapolis last year, but this year the Nationals competition will be in Radio City Music Hall, and I couldn't be more prouder to take us all to rock the socks off the Big Apple!"

Rachel was more than stunned. It had been one of her life goals to perform at Radio City and she always loved an opportunity to go to New York. Her fathers took her there every summer. They did nothing but eat pizza and see Broadway shows the whole time. He squeezed Finn hands and he smiled. He was ecstatic, he had never even been to New York before!

After the news of the date for Nationals, the group practiced until 6 o'clock. They had a little over a month to practice and they knew they had to be perfect to win back-to-back National Show Choir Championships.

Finn drove Rachel home that evening, still buzzed off the excitement of going to New York. She kissed him deeply when he dropped her off, and she promised to call him later that night.

She entered her house and the first thing she saw was her Father in the foyer, waiting for her to come home. The house was decorated, there were banners all along the walls of the dining room that said CONGRATUALTIONS! in yellow foil. "Dad, what's going on, where's Daddy?" her father crushed her in a strong hug.

"He ran out to get some sparkling cider! We have reason to celebrate." With that he pulled out a large, thick envelope with the NYU insignia on the front. Her heart stopped beating in her chest.

"Oh my god are you serious?!" She grabbed the envelope and tore it open. She read the paper out loud to her father,

"Dear Ms. Berry,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to New York University. Enclosed you will find the supplemental information necessary for living arrangements. However, in order to gain admittance to the Tisch School of Drama, you must audition on the enclosed date and time. No rescheduling is allowed. If you cannot attend, you forfeit your right to attend the School of Drama for the 2012-2013 Academic Year. Best Wishes, The NYU Provost."

She looked at her appointment and swore in front of her father.

It was Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 3 pm.

The same day as Nationals.

"So your father didn't know I had been accepted yet, and Nationals was the same day as my audition for Tisch Drama School. I was a mess and I was afraid to tell your father. How was I to choose? I was stuck."

Melody heard keys jingle in the door and her Father entered the house, holding a cotton ball in his mouth. He kissed his wife on the cheek and gave his daughter a high five. He pointed to his bedroom and went in, probably loopy from painkillers.

"I should go and help him, he looks like he's in pain. Go take your shower Melody. We'll continue later."

Melody nodded and went into her bedroom to get ready for her shower. She sat down on her bed and pulled the brochure for King's College out of her drawer. She stared at it then put it away. As she left her room, she noticed her two stuffed animals from her childhood on her windowsill. Mr. Mistoffelees and Teddy Bear were old and dusty, but at least they could be together when she and Teddy could not.

She spent almost an hour under the hot water, soaking her sore shoulder and thinking about drinking tea with Teddy on the River Thames.

Salut mes amis!

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The Minsk