Author's Note: Chapter One is Finchel, in case you're wondering.

Disclaimer: I do not own Glee.

Friday, April 15th, 2022

Dear Future Baby Hudson,

Your uncle Kurt told me to start writing these letters to you. He said it would help you out later in life, when you're an adult and need fatherly advice. He thinks it will be a good way for you to remember me a long time from now when I'm not around anymore.

You're not even born yet and Mommy, Uncle Kurt, Uncle Blaine and I already love you. That's why I agreed to do this. I'm not known for having a way with words, but you're my kid, and I will do anything to help you.

Your mom and I have been trying for a long time, almost three years, and we're so happy that you're on the way. I remember when we found out. It was last Thursday actually, the 7th of April. I remember coming home to find that your mother had already made us dinner, hung a "congratulations" banner and was playing tapes of us singing in our high school glee club (something she really likes to do, so get used to it). When she told me, I remember picking her up and twirling her around. She was crying tears of joy and I felt like I was going to cry too (but I didn't). I'm just so thrilled that in less than nine months I'm going to have a baby, I'm going to have you, with the woman I love most in the world. I couldn't be happier.

Obviously, Uncle Kurt and Uncle Blaine know about you. Mommy and Uncle Kurt are very good friends, so she never would've kept you a secret from him (Uncle Kurt does not like having secrets kept from him, even happy ones). Your mom in fact said Uncle Kurt knew she was pregnant before she did. Apparently he heard a few of her symptoms and demanded she take a pregnancy test, ASAP. Uncle Kurt wasn't there when your mom took the test (thank God), but he called up right after I found out, demanding to know the results. When we told him, he immediately made plans to take us baby shopping and sign us up for birthing classes and told us to go buy baby name books. Uncle Kurt also suggested that we write letters to you.

"Then, when your son or daughter is older they can look at them and remember you, get some advice for when they reach the same milestones you're reaching." He explained. I think it makes sense.

I have so many things I want to say to you, so many stories I want you to hear. I think it would be best to describe to you what's going on now, before you arrive, since you'll never get to see this yourself. At least, it won't be exactly the same.

First off, I just love the way your mother keeps her hands on her stomach and how she says "we're pregnant" and not "I'm pregnant", it makes it sound like we're in this together, which we are. It's true that women just glow when they're pregnant, I don't know why it is but there is just something about your mom right now that makes my heart melt whenever I see her beautiful face. I mean she's carrying you, and I love her a hundred times more for it. In less than nine months, there will be a mini-us. Writing these letters makes it feel so much more real.

I'm sure that by the time you're reading this you'll know who the New Directions are, and if you don't they were the glee club Mommy and I were co-captains of in high school. Uncle Kurt and Uncle Blaine were in it with us, as well as Uncle Puck and Aunt Quinn, Uncle Mike and Aunt Tina, Uncle Sam and Aunt Mercedes, Uncle Artie, and Aunt Santana and Aunt Brittany. There's also Mr. Schue, who was our glee club director, and the school guidance counselor Miss Pillsbury, now Mrs. Schuester. Well, tomorrow Mommy and I are going to tell them all about you. I can't wait to see their faces, hear their reactions. They're all trying to have kids themselves but none of them do yet, so maybe someday soon you'll have a couple of cousins to play with. I can't wait until you're here, I can't wait to be your father. I just hope I can wait for the next nine months.

Love,

Your dad, Finn Hudson