Title: Return to The Past

Author: Debra

Rating: Teen

Summary: A time travel story. Future versions of Puck, Rachel and eventually Quinn, come back ten years to 2011 to stop a tragic event that destroyed their lives. How will they interact with their younger selves and the rest of New Directions? Will they succeed in saving someone close to them? Finchel, Quick.

AN: This is being reposted after I have made some changes and fixed grammar and spelling mistakes that were in the original story. I am hoping to get some work done on this story and another one that I have been working on, Medal of Honor, which will also be taken down and reposted after I fixed grammar and spelling errors when I finish with reposting the chapters that have already been written for this story.

I apologize for not updating my stories in a long time; I have been in school for two years now and haven't had the time. I am taking a ten week break from my school work and want to finally get back into writing again after taking a creative writing course last semester.

February 14th, 2021

Lima Ohio

Twenty six year old Rachel Berry stood in the town's only graveyard staring at a headstone that had faded in the ten years that it had been standing there. Tears filled her eyes as she took in the name on the stone.

Finn Christopher Hudson

1994-2011

Beloved son, brother and friend

The day he had been taken from all of them played over and over in her mind as the former members of New Directions, including Matt Rutherford, Will Schuester and his wife, Emma and Finn's mother Carole and her husband, Burt all stood beside her. The sobs coming from all of them carried across the cemetery as the pain of Finn's death was just as strong as it had been the day he had been so horribly taken from them.

When everybody else had left, Rachel was still standing there with Noah Puckerman and his wife, Quinn. That day had brought them back together as they had both banded together to keep Rachel from slowly killing herself in an effort to join the boy she had still loved with everything inside of her. They never had gotten back together after their horrible breakup because she cheated on him with Puck just to hurt him for lying about sleeping with Santana. They had never had the chance because three and a half months later, Finn had been taken from her. Trying to save her from being killed herself in a horrible accident caused by the actions of the one person she hadn't been able to forgive in close to ten years.

It was Noah and Quinn's exclamations of anger that drew Rachel back to reality and she turned to see Jacob Ben Israel walking towards them. He was wearing jeans and a polo shirt, his Jewfro long cut off into a more stylish manner.

"What the hell are you doing here, Ben Israel? You are the reason he's lying in the ground! Leave!" Rachel was hysterical as she told off the man who had been the cause of Finn being taken from them. It was everything Quinn and Puck could do to keep her from going for Jacob's throat.

"Wait! Hear me out! I can fix this! We can save him!"

"You heard her, Jewfro, leave or we will let her hurt you,' Quinn shot back at him nastily. She hated Jacob herself because her feelings for Finn had never died and they had been close to getting back together the day he died. She had since admitted to herself that it would have never worked because Finn had still been hurting over Rachel kissing Puck; especially when he had died saving Rachel from a falling light in the auditorium that Jacob had accidently sent falling to the stage in his quest to stalk Rachel.

The love between Finn and Rachel had been more powerful than anything she had ever seen because Rachel had stayed single for ten years. None of the guys that the rest of them, including Finn's mother, had set her up had been good enough for her. All she wanted was Finn back, so Rachel merely existed, because instead of going to Julliard or another performing arts college, Rachel had changed her career path to working towards a career in medicine. Where she was due to graduate from medical school and starts her internship in five months here in Lima. Without him, the loud and arrogant girl had become an emotionally shattered woman who quit New Directions that very day, vowing to never sing again.

"I have a way to go back and save Finn. To make right what my selfish actions caused. Please hear me out and then if you don't believe what I am telling you then I will let Puckerman hit me because I deserve it, "Jacob begged, falling to his knees with tears falling from his eyes.

"Get up." Rachel's voice was harsh as she spoke to him. "You have five minutes and after that, you are leaving, even if Noah has to drag you out of here."

"What I caused to happen to Finn has stayed with me for ten years and five years ago, I met a man named Dr. Jace McKenzie. He was working on a machine that could take a person back to a certain place in time."

"Get the fuck out of here, Jacob! Time travel isn't real!" Noah was furious and ready to kill the man who had taken his best friend away from him.

"Yes it is! I have tried it, Puck. The only catch is it takes you back to three months before the event you want to stop happens and you can't use the button that brings you back until you have done what you set out to do." Jacob turned to face Rachel, who was staring at him in disbelief. "I wouldn't lie about this, Rachel. You can go back and save him. You could even prevent the events that led to your break up and make things right with him. It works and Dr. McKenzie is waiting for you and whoever you choose to take with you because the machine only fits two people."

"Fine, take me to meet this doctor."

"Rachel, please don't tell me that you believe this shit!"

"Noah, I want Finn back and if Jacob's doctor can bring him back to us, I want to try and if die then I will be with Finn again either way. I am doing this."

Rachel turned and followed Jacob out the graveyard while Quinn and Puck exchanged a look of disbelief.

"Go with her, Puck and if Jacob is right and that machine works, she is going to need you to keep her from doing something stupid."

Puck kissed his wife gently on the lips, savoring her touch because he had a feeling it would be awhile before he saw her again. He then followed Rachel to Jacob's car, hoping that this quest wouldn't cause his friend more than she had already suffered.

November 14 2010

Right before the events of The Substitute

Finn Hudson was walking down the hall of McKinley high school, going to the locker of his girlfriend, Rachel. He could see her standing there looking beautiful in a red dress that looked amazing on her. But before he could get over to where she was standing, somebody shoved him into an empty classroom and slammed the door closed behind him.

When he finally got over the shock of being pushed into the room, Finn noticed the person standing beside the door. It was his friend, Puck but something wasn't right with him, even as slow as he could be, it was clear that something was wrong with his friend.

Movements in the corner of the room made him turn his head to face a young woman stepping out of the darkened corner of the classroom. He felt himself go pale in shock as the face of the girl he loved stood before him but this wasn't his Rachel. She was out in the hall, waiting for him by his locker. He was losing his mind and seeing the girl he loved in this beautiful woman in front of him. He was going to go with that but then the woman opened her mouth to speak.

"You aren't going crazy, Finn. It's me, Rachel just not yours. I'm from the future."

At that moment, Finn Hudson passed out onto the floor, hitting his head on a chair on the way down.