This is a cute one-shot that I wrote a long time ago. I've been thinking a lot about the Glee-kids future and how it would look and this is how I imagine it. I imagine Beth being very close to everyone and I'm not sure if she has been raised by Quinn and Puck or if she has been raised by Shelby like in the series but anyways they are very close to eachother. I also feel like it's up to everyone who reads it to kind of decide that by themselves.
"Is this Finn?" Beth asks Kurt. She shows him the graduation picture of himself and Finn. The past 3 hours she has gone through all of Kurt and Blaine's stuff while kurt has been sitting on the floor, sorting out old clothes. "Yeah"he says with a smile and nods.
She knocked on the door earlier this morning, she told Kurt that she needed something to do and someone to be with so he let her in. He knew Blaine was gone for a couple hours because he was with Sam. Their 4 year old daughter Tracy and their 2 year old son Spencer was with Carole and Burt, so Kurt thought it was a perfect opportunity to ask if Beth could help him clean the house.
"Well" she looks at Kurt and smiles and then looks at the picture again. "He was a handsome boy" she says after a while. Kurt snorts and smile while he's looking down on the pile of clothes.
"Yeah, he was" he looks out of the window. "Always" he says and gets a sad look on his face. "I'm sorry, I know he meant so much to you, I shouldn't have done that", Beth says and put the picture back where she took it. "Done what?" Kurt says and looks up at her.
"Talk about him, I can see how much you miss him and how hard it is for you". "I've neve.. I mean... I don't know" he sighs. "It's just.. I have never actually talked about him a lot" Beth nods and walks towards Kurt, she sits down next to him.
Beth turned 16 a few days ago and everybody was there. Sam and Mercedes, Santana and Brittany, Rachel, Jessie and their 2 year old son Liam, Artie and Tina, Mike and his girlfriend Sarah, Kurt and Blaine with Tracy and Spencer and of course Puck and Quinn with their almost newborn twins. They all gave Beth lots of presents and spoiled her, almost to much.
"Does she still love him?" She says and looks at him. "What?" Kurt looks at her with confused eyes. "Rachel, I mean, I've never heard her mention his name and.. She doesn't have any pictures of him".
"Well" Kurt says and then takes a pause, trying to figure out what to say. "When you love someone that much as he loved her and she loved him, you don't actually ever stop loving them" another pause and he looks up at her. "She was destroyed by her love for him after he passed and I think she made herself a promise to move on and try to live a good life and by happy, she knew that's what Finn wanted for her". "But I know that she has a box in her closet where she has all the memories of him.. She told me about that ones" Kurt sighs. "And I also know that she has pictures of him in her desk" "But why in the desk, why can't she have it out?" Beth looks at Kurt, trying to understand.
"I mean it's almost like she's embarrassed of him", she says after a while. "What? no, she's not" Kurt looks at Beth in surprise and can't help but let out a little laugh because of the ridiculous thing she said. "I know for sure that she's not embarrassed about him, she doesn't regret anything in her past and absolutely not Finn" he tells Beth and smiles a little. "But why do you ask me about this stuff? it's better to talk to Rachel about Finn, I mean you're not very shy so it can't be that hard to ask her". "I know, but I see how you react and I don't want to make her sad" Beth says. "Oh, darling" Kurt wraps his arms around Beth and smiles. "She would love to talk about it and especially with you, she loves you as her own daughter and she loves Finn. Finn is a big part of her life...And we both know Rachel loves to talk about her life" he says and smiles even bigger, making Beth giggles.
"Do you still miss him?" Beth says and looks into Kurt's eyes. "Is there ever some days when… I mean, when you don't think about him?... What does it feel like?" Beth says and looks at Kurt. "Wow. A lot of questions" Kurt says and smiles. "A lot of hard questions. I don't really know.. It's hard to explain" he takes a pause and looks around the house. "Sometimes it just feels so unreal, like, what happened?... you know?" He looks at the younger girl.
"Yeah" she says, although she could never really understand that feeling. "You know, sometimes I wonder if this is all a dream, if he was all a dream, I mean It's sometimes so hard to believe that he's been alive. He's not here now and he haven't been here for 13 years...So it's sometimes hard to remember him" he pauses and think. "No.. It's not hard to remember him..It's just hard to imagine the time when he was here, with us" he looks at Beth for a while. "I haven't spoken to him in a long time, I haven't seen his face or heard his laugh or felt his hugs... And the worse thing is that it's hard to imagine how it was when he was alive" he says and looks down at his wedding ring.
The wedding his brother never got to witness.
"That doesn't make any sense, does it?... It's complicated" he says after a while and looks up at Beth with a little smile on his face. "Well… I guess we can say that death is a very complicated thing" Beth says making Kurt smile a little more. He can't help but feel very proud of her, the girl that now has become all grown up, so smart and beautiful. The girl that caused so much drama at McKinley.
"Thank you so much for wanting to talk to me Kurt" she smiles and hugs him. "No, thank YOU for asking me honey" he says and hugs her even tighter. "And by the way give me that picture" Beth stands up and gives him the picture. "Ah" he says and smiles. "Look at him, he was so happy" A lonely tear falls down his chin while he's studying the picture of his brother. "No, I promised myself to not cry over him" he wipes the tears of with his hand. "Let's put this one somewhere, a pretty face like that has to have an audience" he says and smiles. Kurt put the picture of Finn on the shelf above the fireplace.
They both stand beside each other just watching that beautiful young man looking back at them.
"You know he cared about you, he loved you like you where his daughter" Kurt says after a while. "Really?" Beth says, a bit surprised. "Let me show you something, stay here" he says and walks into his and Blaine's bedroom. She sits down in the sofa and hear him looking through Blaine's and his stuff, trying to find the thing he wants to show her. "There it is" he says after a while and comes out to her. He is holding a picture in his right hand and he gives it to her.
It's a picture of a girl, holding a man's hand. The photo is taken from behind so you can only see their backs. The girl has blonde hair and she is looking up at the man with a big smile. She knows that the girl is her. "Is that dad?" Beth asks Kurt and points at the man she is holding hand with. "No, that is Finn" Kurt says with a smile.
"Oh" she says a little bit confused. "We look so happy.. It's a beautiful picture". "Yeah... This picture was taken a month before he died, It was beautiful weather that day and you had just turned 3" he smiles when he think about it. "Such a cute girl, everybody wanted you.. Especially Finn" he sighs. "I don't know why, but he loved you so much... And you loved him, it was like you two had a special language, no one could deny the love between you...You had two dads" he says after a while and smiles. "Wow...It's so weird when you say it like that, how much I meant to him and how much he meant to me" she's still looking at the picture, it's like she's trying to take in every detail in the picture and copy it into her mind. "Because, I can't remember him" they both become quiet. She sits and looks at the picture for awhile.
"Wait, what's the clock?"She says after a while and looks at her phone. "I think I have to go now" she says. "Mom wants me to come home" she smiles. "Oh, yeah, right" Kurt says and nods. "And by the way, you told me that I had two dads, It's not very true" she says. "Oh, sorry, I shouldn't have said that, I know that Puck is your fathe…". "I have 8" Beth interrupts him. "You, Blaine, Sam, Mike, Artie, even Jessie, my own dad and Finn" Beth says. "You all raised me and took care of me". "Well, you were our first daughter" Kurt says and smiles.
Beth stands up and gives Kurt a big hug, she takes her jacket from the couch where she threw it and walks towards the door. Before she can reach the door Blaine comes in with their two kids.
"Helloo!" Blaine says with a big smile and gives Kurt a kiss on the lips. "Dad!" Tracy and Spencer shout, they both run to Kurt and gives him a big hug. After a while they notice that Beth is there, they then run to her and gives her a big hug too. She's lifting them up and play with them like they're her own siblings. "Why are you here?" Blaine ask Beth after a while and gives her a hug. "Well I... Actually don't know, I just wanted to be here" she says and smile. "Oh, Okay" Blaine says and looks at his husband and then back at Beth. "But I'm on my way out from this house now, so I'm gonna leave you alone" she says. "Oh you don't have too, we love to have you here" Blaine says and looks at Kurt. "Absolutely" Kurt says with a smile. "Well I love to be here too, but I really have to go" Beth says and smiles back at them.
She's walking out from the door but stops and freeze in a step.
"I'll stand by you" she says and turn to face Kurt. "What?" He says and laugh a bit confused. "Now I remember, Finn used to sing "I'll stand by you" to me" Then she walks out from the door.
She leaves Kurt with a big smile on his face.