This is my first story. I liked the show for years and really liked the way it ended. I was listening to my Ipod and this song came up and this story came to my head. I do not own the song Faithfully by Journey or the characters.

She hears the intro starting to play as she waits in the back of the auditorium. She has no idea why she agreed to sing this song. Her friends had begged her and she had repeatedly said no, knowing that she couldn't get through the song without breaking down, without remembering him. It had been years but even now, hearing that song, caused a familiar pain in her chest.

It isn't until he talks to her that she agrees to it.

They are here honoring him, a bit more than ten years since the glee club began, since he helped convince Mr. Schue to stay. They are renaming the auditorium after him and are planning to do a group number with everyone in the club but first they're singing songs that were close to him, songs he sang or that he loved. Everyone wanted her to do this song, to recall the relationship that they had but she refused. Remembering her past, remembering him, made her feel like she was hurting her present.

They had talked about that day, what it felt to watch her sing that song with him. And she knows that it was painful to watch, to see her sing about loving him, to see her move on so quickly after they had ended, the entire time wishing she was singing with him instead. So when her friends request that she sing that song she refuses, she won't make him suffer through that again. He has already done so much for her, has accepted so much of her past, that she can't put him in a situation where he could believe the fears that she has been trying to dissipate for years. The fears that he isn't enough, that he was just a backup, a consolation prize, a place holder because he wasn't around anymore.

It isn't until he talks to her that she agrees to it.

He lets her know that he knows now that she loves him, that she has chosen him to be her present and her future. He tells her that he has come to terms with the fact that a part of her will always love him, that he was her past and that he couldn't do anything to change it. He even agreed to help her get through the second half of the song.

So here she was now hearing the intro piano notes to the song. She recalls telling them both to break a leg and hearing them both respond with "I love you", right before disappearing to take their positions. As she waits he hears his voice sing the first familiar lines.

"Highway run. Into the midnight sun. Wheels go round and round. You're on my mind."

"Restless hearts. Sleep alone tonight. Sending all my love. Along the wire" she hears her younger self sing in her first regionals competition.

He had described it as being masochistic, keeping a recording of the performance to watch her sing, to remind himself of what he had lost. He offers it to Artie so that he can project it for the audience during performance.

"And they say that the road ain't no place to start a family. But, right down the line it's been you and me. And loving a music man ain't always what it's supposed to be"

She hears their voice melding together. She remembers the emotions she felt and how well they sounded together. She remembers seeing his face as she made her way down towards him, the smile he gave her, the love she felt from him through the lyrics.

"Oh boy, you stand by me," she hears herself sing to him, knowing how much she meant those words and the words that followed.

"I'm forever yours. Faithfully," she hears how the video softly dies down and the band starts playing live.

She knows that her queue is coming up. She reminds herself that when she starts to make her way down the steps a different man was going to be there singing with her, smiling at her, pouring his love through the lyrics. A different man, yes, but one that loved her just as much or possibly more than the last.

"Circus life. Under the big top world," she sings out looking to her right. She watches as he also enters the auditorium down the opposite steps. She sees the soft smile he has on his face and the understanding in his eyes.

"We all need the clowns to make us smile," they both sing together. She marvels on how amazing they sound together. He once said that they make beautiful music together, that they always had, and she couldn't agree more.

"Oh! Through space and time," she sings on.

"Through space and time," he sings back to her as they make their way to the stage.

As she remembers the next lyrics, she realizes how well they fit with them. Their situation. They connect with these lyrics in a way that she never had with him.

"Always another show." Eight shows a week is not something easy to work with but they manage to do so every day.

"Wondering where I am, lost without you." He had always told her how lost he felt the years that they had not been together. And she told him how lost she had felt after NYADA, Funny Girl, That's So Rachel… It wasn't until he came back into her life that she managed to find her path with his help.

"And being apart ain't easy on this love affair." It really wasn't. Neither one of them could stand being apart from each other for more than a few hours. When his production went on tour and they were away from each other it was unbearable for her.

"Two strangers learned to fall again. I got the joy of rediscovering you"

They really did.

The two small lyric changes were her idea. She wanted to express how true those lyrics were to them. To show that they really had fallen in love again, after everything that had happened between them, after everything she went through, all the pain, all the sorrow. Everything had once again brought them together. They got to know each other again, got to see the adults that they had become and finally got a real chance at a relationship, with nothing and no one standing in their way. She is brought out of her musings by his voice.

"Oh girl, you stand by me." He sings to her with all the love that she knows he has for her. She sings the next lyric knowing that even though it's a different man she's singing with, she means it just as much as she did when she sang it before.

"I'm forever your, Faithfully."

They make their way onto the stage. The video to the first regionals competition comes back on and all four of their voices come together.

"Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh oh oh...!" she reaches center stage with him and listens to the two men of her life sing the next word with all the truth and love that they both felt for her.

"Faithfully." The rest of the original New Directions appear behind them and join in singing

"Faithfully. I'm still yours," she sings with her younger self. The younger singing to her past and her singing to her present and future. As they harmonize with the rest of the choir he makes his way to her and holds her, placing his hand on where their future is growing. "I'm still yours!" she sings to him. Finally as the song is coming to an end the video once again ends representing her letting go of her past, letting go of him, to focus on her present and on their growing future.

"I'm still yours! Faithfully…"