Puckurt #1

This story has been in my head for awhile so I just had to try to put to paper. I'm not the greatest writer in the world, but I hope I can convey the essence of Puckurt properly.

Disclaimer: Characters not mine, plot is.

Ch: 1

Summary: Noah Puckerman moves to Lima for senior year. He's only got 5 months until his 18th birthday which means full custody of his sister. He cannot mess up and Kurt is being damn distracting.

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August 4th dawned bright and sunny. Puck yawned as he woke, just looking out the window he could see it was going to be a really hot day. He glanced around the small room he was in, at all the unpacked boxes and sighed. He moved into the adjacent kitchenette and flicked the on switch to the coffee machine. He had a really long day today. He had to drop his 8 year old sister Sarah off to camp, unpack the last of the boxes from the move, go to the police station to finish filling out papers as well as to the bank to finish setting up the transfer of accounts and at 3pm he had a job interview that he really really wanted at the local supermarket. To top it off, he was still jet lagged and Sarah was so whiny when she was tired.

He sat at the table sipping his black coffee that was too weak and pulled the pad of paper of his to-do-list toward him to go over all his responsibilities again. He'd been planning for this moment since he was 15 years old and his mother had first been abusive towards him. When he had been 10 years old, his dad had walked out on them. It would be an understatement to say his mother had not taken it very well. Ruth Puckerman had given birth to Sarah mere months later before diving into the bottle and never looking back. It hadn't been so bad for the first couple years. She still worked as a nurse and made most of her shifts so they had enough money to live, though they had had to downsize to a smaller place. At 14, he got a job and worked about 15 hours a week to help pay for things for Sarah, and for food. His mom was so drunk by that point she didn't even notice. She was put on forced medical leave by the hospital and they barely got enough money to pay rent and to up keep her habit.

Things got rough when Puck turned 15. Ruth would yell that he looked too much like his father and began to hit him. At the beginning it wasn't more than a slap, or she'd throw her empty bottles at his head when he'd walk by her. Puck was really freakin smart and knew if he had any chance in hell of getting his sister away from his mother he needed to have a perfect record. As much as he wanted to beat the shit out of kids at school when they teased him, he kept it to small schoolyard scuffles that would often go unnoticed. He worked really hard to save money and to try and shield Sarah from all the shit that went down in their home. As soon as his mom had become abusive, he had started taking pictures as evidence and would write down everything that happened in a journal. He'd long given up thinking of Ruth as his mom and he'd be damned if when he left, she'd start taking her misery out on Sarah.

By 17 he had a lot of ammunition but the icing on the cake was when she's actually tried to stab him! Ruth had caught him in the shoulder and that was that. As soon as he was out of the hospital, he applied for emancipation and full custody of Sarah. Things dragged as they always do in bureaucracy but by the beginning of the summer he was given probationary approval and he immediately packed up their shit and put it in storage.