Hey readers, Hope everyone is doing great. Here is a psuedo-new story. I have adopted another story from ddh1973. Originally posted January 2011 and Last updated January 2014.

MEDAL OF HONOR: Rachel's grandfather, James Berry, Ret. General US Marine Corp, comes to Lima for a Medal of Honor ceremony for his actions in Desert Storm. He lays down the law regarding bullying his granddaughter, all the while his co-conspirators and he are plotting to reunite Finchel He is tied to more than one of our band misfits.

Chapter 1

Three months had passed since Sectionals and Rachel was sitting in the choir room beside Mercedes, with whom she had struck up a friendship with. Kurt had brought them together and the three of them had become inseparable, well as much as they could with Kurt two hours away at Dalton Academy.

It was everything she could do not to stare longingly at Finn, who was sitting with Quinn, holding her hand the way they used to. It had hurt so much when the news of him renewing his relationship with ex had reached her. The knowledge that he could forgive Quinn for having sex with Puck because she felt fat and was drunk, while she had only kissed Puck in a moment of stupidity caused by Santana's taunts in the hallway broke her heart. Sometimes it was everything she could do not to march over to him, slap his face and call him a hypocrite. It was only her friendship with Mercedes that kept her from completely losing it.

A noise at the door caused everybody to look up at it and Mr. Schuester to stop speaking about this week's assignment to see a handsome six foot tall African American male in his mid-sixties, wearing the uniform of a General in the Marine Corp, stepping into the room. He glanced around the room until a brilliant smile came across his handsome face as Rachel jumped up out of her chair and rushed to his now open arms.

"Grandpa," Rachel exclaimed joyfully as she hugged him tightly.

There were tears and laughter coming from them both as grandfather and granddaughter talked to each other and ignored everybody else in the room. Her teammates and teacher watched in awe as Rachel and her grandfather had their reunion.

Finn couldn't stop staring at her as he noticed that the traces of sadness his ex-girlfriend had been carrying around with her was now gone. He could feel Quinn stiffen beside him and her gaze burned into his skin but he didn't care. The only reason he had agreed to jumpd into a relationship with her again was to hurt Rachel after her duet with Puck before the championship game for the football team a month and a half ago. He still couldn't listen to Lady Antebellum's 'Need You Now', without wanting to throw something in anger or beat the hell out of her former best friend.

"Huh, who would thought the dwarf tranny actually has a family member that loves her. I thought they hated her as much as the rest of us do," Santana said, hatefully. She didn't realize what a mistake that was until it was way too late to save her.

Rachel pulled away from her grandfather a look of raw pain in her dark eyes as she turned to face Santana. Before she could open her mouth to say anything, her grandfather stepped away from her and marched over to where Mr. Schuester was standing by the piano, not saying a word to reprimand Santana.

Finn bristled at Santana's word he began to speak "Shut..." But was cut off when Quinn dug her nails into his hand and Rachel's granddad bellowing to Mr. Shue.

"Son, are you the teacher of this classroom?"

Will stood up straight, instantly intimidated by the presence of the man standing before him. .

"You are useless! What's your name?"

"W...Will...William S...Schuester, sir.

"James Berry retired General of the United States Marine Corp. If you can't enforce some discipline then let me show you how it's done, young man." He started to stammer and stutter as the man then gave him a look of pure disgust before waking over to face Santana, who was sitting in her usual spot in the back row.

James stormed over to face the seat where Santana was sitting in the back row. His face was set in a stern manner that made Santana's classmates actually feel sorry for what was about to happen. "Young lady, what's your name?" His stance was one he had used over the years when addressing his troops and even bitchy Santana Lopez wasn't immune to it.

"S…San…Santana L…Lopez."

"Oh, I've heard of you," James stated, his voice dripping in disdain. "Carlos and Marcela's daughter, the one who can't tell the boys no and sleeps with everybody in town. The one who caused my granddaughter to lose her boyfriend by taunting her to the point she gave into a moment of pure idiocy that caused him to break up with her."

A look of shock and shame came over Santana's face at General Berry's words. She could feel Finn glaring at her after he had realized that it had been her who had pushed Rachel into Puck's arms.

"I wonder what your parent's would say if I informed them of what you just said about my granddaughter in front of me. They know my reputation and would believe every word I told them" Icy anger came into his dark eyes as he continued his lecture, pointing over at Rachel, who was being comforted by Mercedes at the door. "I'll have you know, that child is a little girl because I changed her diapers when she was a baby. I also don't know where you get off putting my grandchild down when it is fairly obvious that you have had some work done to your chest. I don't know what Carlos was thinking but if his father, your grandfather, was here and seen how you were acting, Hector would be very disappointed in your behavior. If Rachel acted like that, she would be in so much trouble with me but my angel girl knows I don't tolerate disrespect and you are a rude, disrespectful disgrace."

James marched back over to Rachel, smiled gently at Mercedes and held his sobbing granddaughter in his arms. He glared at everybody in the room before leading Rachel out, cradling her to his chest.

It was now after school and Finn was leaving, trying to avoid Quinn and the other members of New Directions. Anger filled him as he thought about what General Berry had said about Santana taunting Rachel to make her do what she did with Puck; so he had talked to his former best friend, who had told him about the incident in the hallway where Santana had walked past him and was flirting. He had glanced at her but hadn't thought much about it and to know that Rachel had seen it and that Lopez had taunted her as she went by her, telling her some bullshit about taking her to dinner after having sex with her, leaving his self-conscious then girlfriend vulnerable to Puck and his games. It pissed him off to know that other people had been so bored with their own miserable lives that they had taken pleasure in destroying him and Rachel.

He was pulled out of his thoughts as the voice of James Berry carried over to him, calling his name. The man didn't sound happy and right now, Finn didn't blame him. After hearing the whole story about how Rachel had actually ended up kissing Puck, he was pissed off.

Finn stopped and turned to face the man walking up to him. He might have been taller but the older man was scary and looked ready to kill him.

"You and I need to talk; my son's house, six thirty. Be there or I inform your mother that you ignored the request of the man who held your father as he lay dying in the desert. Am I understood?"

Finn gaped at Mr. Berry before slowly nodding his head to say yes.

"Don't nod at me, boy. I don't respond to nods, use the voice God gave you."

"Yes sir."

"Good. Rachel is going out with your step brother and their friend Mercedes so she won't be there and my son and his partner are going out of town on business, so there will be no one else there to interrupt our conversation."

James Berry stalked off, marching down the hall as Finn shook in fear at the meeting that was to come. His night was going to be pure hell.