You guys are seriously awesome I'm glad so many of you liked the story and to those of you that's worried about Sam and Rachel don't be they are just really close because of Rafe.
I was thinking of bringing Beth into this fic when I was planning it I'm still not sure how though I have an idea but I'm not sure if I want that to happen. (Shelby ends up in a coma so Rachel has to take care of Beth because Rachel is listed as her next of kin and Rachel and Beth is really close because Shelby and Beth also lived in New York) Give me some ideas and if I really like them I will use it. If there is more than one I like I will find a way to mash them together. While writing I came up with more ideas I'm going to open another poll so you guys can choose what you want to happen. I'm not too big on the idea that Shelby moves here a healthy person because Puck would then spend more time with Shelby instead of Rachel so yeah that really won't help the fic at all and I might be tempted to make Shelby and Puck end up together instead of Puck and Rachel.
Early warning for everyone this fic is not going to always be realistic it is fiction after all and all of the shit I got from people telling me that Fantastic in a sarcastic way is not realistic, it was not meant to be realistic and this one is not either. If you don't like my writing or whatever happens in the story don't read it. It's as simple as that thank you.
As for the rest of you thank you for reading I hope I can life up to expectations. So far all the reviews are good so once again thank you and you guys are AWESOME. :D
Let's just pretend that somewhere between Maybe now is not our time and this fic Artie got treatment and is able to walk and dance. Personally I think it is just wrong to hide that man's talent like that he is an awesome dancer.
I don't own Glee.
Chapter 2
"Noah?" How can he be the first person she sees on her first day in Lima? Why did it have to be him? She's not prepared for this and to make things worst the she runs into him while he is sucking face with another woman. The universe must be mad at her or something.
"Rachel how are you?" the tone he uses hurts her a little bit because when they were younger he only sounded that way when he was hurt.
She forces a polite smile. "I am quite well, thank you." There is an awkward silence. "How are you?"
"I'm great. I'm engaged now. This is my fiancée Nicole." He turns to her smiles and she gives him a passionate kiss.
Rachel looks at Sam with a sad smile and Sam gives her a sympathetic one. Puck was one of the reasons Rachel and Sam didn't work out. Rachel still had feelings for Puck and there was someone that Sam couldn't get out of his mind either.
"Eeeewwwww gross." Rafe said looking at the two adults kissing. "Momma tell 'em to stop." Rafe looked up at his mother. "Daddy stop 'em 'fore their faces breaks."
There was no one else that could make Rachel feel better the way Rafe does. She starts laughing at his comment. "Sweetie, who told you that?"
"Jake said if two growed ups kiss really really long then their faces will break." Rafe said seriously "Momma their faces gonna break!" he shouts at his mother.
"Ok guys please stop kissing you are freaking my son out." Rachel told the couple in front of her.
They stopped kissing and looked at her. Nicole gave Rafe an ugly look as if he threw up on her shoes or something like that.
"Can I introduce you to my son now?" Rachel asked. Puck nodded at her. "This is my son Raphael but we just call him Rafe. And his dad Sam." The last bit Rachel said mostly to Nicole.
"My momma and daddy call me Raphael when I'm in a little trouble and Raphael Samuel Evans when I'm in a lot of trouble." Rafe said as he looked up at Puck. "I'm only good when momma calls me Raphael Samuel Evans. I can still be a little bad when she calls me Raphael." Rafe said in an innocent child like way.
"Hello Rafe. I am Puck and this is my fiancée Nicole." Puck smiled at the little boy.
"Momma called you Noah." He said not believing that this man's name is Puck.
"That's my real name but people call me Puck only some people call me Noah." Puck answered him.
"Is that like when momma calls me Raphael when I'm in trouble?"
"Sorta like that." Puck answers the boy.
"Can I call you Noah?" Rafe asked with big eyes. They reminded him of Rachel so he couldn't say no.
"Sure kid. You can call me Noah." Puck said and watched as the little boy smiled at him. It reminded him of Rachel's smile when she received good news. The kid does have Sam's mouth but he has Rachel's smile.
"I like you, Noah. Will you be my friend?" Rafe asked with his big eyes.
"Sure kid." He likes the little boy to. It must be because the kid reminds him of Rachel. He was completely surprised when the kid embraced his legs looked up at him and smiled.
"Thank you, Noah."
Rachel and Sam looked at their son and smiled glad that he was adjusting to their new lives here. Sam put one of his arms around Rachel to pull her closer. "Looks like he would be a good step-dad to Rafe." He whispered in her ear.
"Don't start Sam he is taken." Rachel told him.
The moment between Puck and Rafe was interrupted when Nicole's cell phone started ringing. She walked to one side to get it.
"So are you an Evans now?" Puck asked Rachel. "I don't see a ring."
"That's because there never was. I'm still a Berry. Sam and I are raising Rafe together we are not together as a couple." Rachel told him honestly and for some reason he felt relieved that she is not in a relationship with Evans. "How are the others?" she asked wanting to get away from the subject she felt like she would tell him at any moment that she is single because her feelings for him grew stronger that night after they snuck away from prom and broke into the dance studio.
"Well Santana is a lawyer she is quite busy she just opened her own firm." He told her proud of his best friend.
"That is so great. Amazing." Rachel said really happy for Santana.
"Yeah it is. Brittany is a little freaked out because she is struggling to find a job." He told her sadly.
"Really?" Rachel asked sadly.
"Yeah. Finn is in the army now. He says it's the only thing he has done right."
"Baby. That was my agent he says that I have to attend an emergency shoot and I have to go now or they are going to give it to someone else." Nicole says coming up to him. "See you tonight." She gave him a long kiss looking at Rachel through her one eye like she is marking her territory.
"Urg I forgot that I have to see the real estate agent to talk about a place." Sam lied as soon as he saw Nicole's car disappear. "Would you mind taking Rachel and Rafe home Puck. I have to go to the fire department as soon as I am done with the agent."
"Sure." Puck answers wanting to spend sometime with Rachel.
Sam bends down to give Rafe a hug. "Be nice ok big guy." He gives his son a kiss on the forehead. He walks over to Rachel gives her a hug "You however don't have to be." He tells Rachel suggestively. Making her blush. "Take what belongs to you."
"He doesn't belong to me." She pulled away from him.
"Momma, can we eat now? I'm hungry." Rafe asked his mother.
She looked over to where they had set up only to discover that someone dog had eaten all of their food. "Great."
"Looks like someone else wanted your food badly." Puck said with a smirk.
"Momma…"
"I know munchkin. I will give you something at home." Rachel told her son.
"But I'm hungry now." Rafe whined at looking at his mother with big eyes. She looked at those eyes and had the sudden urge to give him what he wanted.
"Raphael I know you are hungry but you have to be patient ok boy." She told him wanting to make him happy.
"Are we still going to the mall?" Rafe asked his mother. "You promised that you would buy me new clothes and shoes and toys today."
"I thought you where hungry." Rachel told her son.
"I want toys too momma."
"Rachel I can take you to the mall." Puck told her. He turned to look at Rafe. "And I will buy my new buddy over here a pizza or a burger." He looked up at Rachel. "And his mom anything she wants."
"Noah we can't possibly…"
"Rachel please let me buy you lunch to welcome you back to Lima." Puck said.
"Yeah Momma, please." Rafe looked at his mother.
Rachel looked at her son and back up at Puck. She got lost in his eyes she closed her eyes and took a breath. "Fine. Only if you are buying."
He smiled at her and her heart skipped a beat. Calm down Rachel he is taken and you have a son..
"My car is over there." He points towards his car and Rafe starts running to it.
"So you two didn't come here together?" Rachel asked surprised. When she and Noah came to the park they would always take his car.
"Nope. Nicole doesn't like my car. Her taste in cars is more for the show. And my motto for cars have always been as lo-"
"As long as it gets you there fast it's perfect. I remember." She smiled at him. "You were always a reckless driver." She looked over at her son who reached the car and was waiting for them. "Please take my son into consideration and drive safe."
"Don't worry I will." Puck told her and unlocked the car. She helped Rafe in the car and buckled the seatbelt. Then she took her seat next to Puck.
"So you and Evans got busy."
"Really that is how you are bringing up the subject of me and Sam sharing a son?" She asked him. "Sam and I lived together for about a year and we were really close friends and one day we decided to try a relationship because it seemed right. We were able to fool ourselves for two years and a few months. But we broke up a mutual decision because there were things that we could no longer deny. A month or so after we broke up I found out I was expecting my wonderful gift." She smiled and turned to her son who was staring out the window.
"So there is nothing between you and Sam?" Puck asked wanting to sound casual.
"Nothing. Sam and I are just really good friends as I said before. I love him he is my best friend besides Kurt and Blaine. I love him even more for giving me this amazing little boy even if he is a handful at times."
They arrived at the mall and all Rafe wanted to do was run around. Rachel hated when he did that so whenever he pulled away her grip on him tightened. They went to get food at the McDonalds because Rafe wanted a happy meal. Rachel decided that they had to sit close to the play pen so that she could keep an eye on him.
"Why are you so stressed out?" Puck asked when Rachel strained her neck to get another look at her son.
"I took him shopping once." She told him and he waited for more. "He had been screaming 'Dada' so I pointed to where Sam was and when he got there I went back to looking for clothes. Ten minutes later Sam comes up to me without Rafe. Sam thought he was with me I thought he was with Sam. I nearly went insane. I started screaming for Rafe and nobody is helping me at all. The security guard said that he didn't see anything. I swear my world came crashing down."
"How did you find him?"
"He took a detour when he saw my mom. I came out of the shop and there he was sharing an ice cream with Beth while Shelby waited for me to come out of the store. It was the worst day of my life and now he has the habit of hiding behind clothes when we go to the shops. After that day I make him carry around my number as well as Sam's. That was the worst day of my life I never want to experience it again."
"I can only imagine." He said. And then he remembered that she said he was sharing an ice cream with Beth. Rachel saw the change in his mood and knew that he probably wanted to know how Beth is.
"She's happy. Beth, she's happy. She is in a good school. Her grades are great." After a pause Rachel added "She also knows that she was adopted."
"How did she take that info?" Puck asked not knowing how to feel what if his daughter though that he didn't want her?
"At first she was upset." Rachel told him honestly. "She thought that her birth parents didn't want her but I told her how hard it was for you two to give her up and how you only wanted what was best for her and that you guys believed that Shelby would be able to give her the love and attention she deserves."
"She thought I didn't want her." He looked at Rachel hurt and she reached across the table to put her hand on his sending shock waves through their bodies, both ignoring it.
"She understands now. She also knows that you and Quinn love her very much. Quinn met her. Beth doesn't know that Quinn is her mother but she met her."
"Why?" he asked how can Quinn meet their daughter and he not be allowed the privilege? He has the right to meet her just as much as Quinn does.
"Quinn is Rafe's godmother. I never lost contact with her. So at anything Rafe related Quinn and Beth would be there." She could see that his anger is rising. "She asked me if her biological parents would want to meet her one day if she's ready. I told her yes. I knew that you would want to meet her and be something in her life even if it is not her father but someone that she goes to for help when she needs it." She told him and he softens a bit. "She is a very smart girl. She's very mature for a nine year old."
"How does she look?" he asked wanting to hear more about his daughter.
Rachel smiled. "You know me and Shelby? How we look so much like each other?"
"Yeah."
"Imagine Quinn as a nine year old with your eyes."
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"Telling me about my daughter."
"It's impossible to shut up about her." She smiled at him and he smiled back. Grateful that she told him about his little girl, she may not be his legally but in his heart she will always be his. She pulled her hand from his but he turned his hand palm facing up and gripped hers and the shock wave increase to a jolt of electricity running through both their bodies. The shock of the effect of their hands was too strong to ignore and Puck has no idea when it happened but suddenly her was next to Rachel. There was a tiny strand of hair that escaped from her ponytail during the course of their impromptu lunch. With his free hand he wiped from her face slowly and with every millimeter the strand moves the chemistry grows stronger and it was like a magnetic force pulled them to each other. Slowly his face inched closer to hers and hers closers to his. But the universe did not seem to want their kiss to happen…
"Momma can we go buy my toy now?" Rafe asked unaware of what was just about to happen between his mom and the man she has been in love with since their teen years.
Rachel cleared her throat and smiled totally uncomfortable she was about to kiss a man who was in a committed relationship. "Sure baby." Ignoring the look Puck was giving her.
They ignored what happened as they were walking through the toy store. Rafe pointing at every Superman and Spiderman toy he saw. "I want that one. It's just like the one daddy drives." It was a red fire engine he idolizes his dad.
"Sure baby." Rachel smiled at him and took the toy.
Rachel felt awkward the entire car ride home she had told Puck where she lived and was too preoccupied by what happened in McDonalds that she didn't even see that he wasn't heading to her house. She only realized this when he stopped in front of the house she used to consider her second home.
"Noah, what are we doing here?" she asked him.
"Ma would kill me if she knew you were here and I didn't tell her about it." He answered her simply.
"Noah, bringing me to your mother and telling her about me are two different things." She said seriously. It's not that she didn't want to see Deborah it was more like she was afraid to see Deborah. The woman was like her mother to her and she never wanted to disappoint the woman and she wasn't sure how she would react to Rafe.
"Rach, my ma is going to love seeing you and she will be crazy about Rafe." Puck told her knowing that she is freaking about his mother's reaction to Rafe.
"How did you…"
"I know you." He answered before she could finish her question.
She finally climbed out of the car and helped Rafe out of his seat. She bends down so that she was at his level. "Rafe, baby, I need you to be on your best behavior ok?" she told her son.
He looked up at his mother and saw that she was worried so he gave her a kiss and hug. "Okay momma. Can I bring my truck?" he already opened it, the box it came in is in pieces in the back of Puck's car.
"Sure baby." She picked up her son and walked to the front door where Puck was waiting for her.
He walked into the house. "Hey crazy." He greeted his mother.
"Noah, is that anyway to greet the woman that raised you for eighteen years of your life, loved you for twenty five and worried about you for twenty five years and nine months?" Deborah asked her son.
"Only a crazy person would ask that question in that way." He told his mother
"I have a surprise for you.
"Put it on the counter."
"I can't it's kind of heavy."
"Noah, what are you… TALKING ABOUT!" she yelled out the last two words as Puck moved out of the way to reveal Rachel Berry with a little boy in her arms. "Rachel!" she hugged the girls that was always like a daughter to her.
"Hello Mrs. Puckerman." Rachel said with a smile.
"Rachel it has always been my dream for you to call me 'Ma' or 'Mom' one day. And Noah marrying that" she paused trying to find a name for Nicole "…that has killed it. So please make an old woman happy and call me one of those two."
"You are insane woman." Puck told his mother and when he said this Rachel went into teenage Rachel mode where she would say things and agree with Deborah just to get him angry.
Rachel smiled at Deborah "I'll go with 'Ma' 'Mom' is for Shelby when I want something from her."
"Who is this beautiful little guy?"
"Ma," Rachel said and Deborah smiled "this is my son, Raphael."
"He is so gorgeous." Deborah smiled at him and Rachel looked at her son proudly she loved when people went on about her baby boy. "And motherhood seems to go well with you."
"You mean you're not disappointed in me?" Rachel asked hopeful.
"No I am happy for you. In fact the only thing that would have made me any happier is if he was Noah's." Deborah said honestly. Rachel's eyes grew bigger at the comment.
"MA!" Noah exclaimed his mother never liked Nicole and the feeling was mutual neither of the two hid or even tried to hide it.
"Maybe then he would leave the Devil in Prada, who if she had her way would never give me beautiful Jewish grandbabies because she doesn't want children," she looked angrily at Puck "and marry you." She turned to Rachel "You are still single correct." Rachel smiled at her uncomfortable and nodded. "See Noah?" she looked back at Puck. "She could give me beautiful grandbabies."
Rafe wiggled out of his mother's arms and walked over to Deborah. He tugged on her pants. She looked at the little boy in front of her. "I got three grandpas but only two grandmas. If you wanna you can be my other grandma." He said to Deborah. "I'm Jewish." He added like it was the selling point.
Deborah smiled at the little boy. "Would you like me to be your grandma?"
"If momma is gonna call you 'Ma' then I wanna call you 'Nana'" he answered.
"Okay sweetie, I would love that."
Rafe smiled at her and started playing with his toy fire engine and Puck joined him.
"You are coming with me to the kitchen." Deborah told Rachel.
They spend hours talking and catching up. When Rachel heard someone call from the living room. "Hey Mrs. P I think your son stole a little boy." Santana said loudly towards the kitchen.
Deborah walked out of the kitchen to the living room where Puck is playing with Rafe. "No it's fine Santana if I had my way years ago that boy would have been my grandson." Deborah never hid the fact that she wanted Puck to end up with Rachel. She has mentioned this many times in front of Nicole and this is the reason Santana immediately knows that it's Rachel's son.
"Wait this is Rach's boy?" Santana asked. Smiling knowingly at Puck. "Is she here?"
"Yup I'm here." Rachel answered coming out of the kitchen. "Hi Santana." Rachel greeted Santana.
"Hi Berry. It is still Berry right?" Santana asked. Rachel nodded. "The kid has some giant lips. Looks like Trouty mouth's lips."
"Sam is his father."
"You are shitting me!" Santana said loudly.
"Santana! Watch your language around my son please."
"I'm sorry." She said remembering that it is not only grown ups in the room. "Rafe come here there's someone I want you to meet." Rafe walked over to his mom. "Rafe this is Santana. Santana this is my baby boy Rafe."
"Momma no!" Rafe scolded his mother.
"What now?"
"She's pretty don't call me 'baby boy'." He turned towards Santana. "Officer Raphael Samuel Evans, not 'baby boy' ma'am" he stuck out his hands to greet her.
She laughed at his reaction the entire room was smiling at this little boy. "Well it is nice to meet you, Officer." She decided that she liked this little boy and whether his mother liked it or not she is going to be this kid's aunt. "You can call me aunty 'Tana." She took his hand.
"Can't I just call you Tana? You're too pretty to be aunty." He asked her and she smiled at him he remembered the old black and white movies his mom makes him watch and mimicking those movies her kisses her hand.
They laugh at how cute the little boy is. "Rach are you sure you and Puckerman didn't hook up around the time this kid was conceived." Santana jokingly.
"What's con-con-consteceive?" Rafe asked looking at his mom curiously.
"I will tell you when you're older." Rachel answered.
Santana dragged Rachel out to the porch so they could have some catch up time.
"Rach, the Officer fell asleep about half an hour ago." Puck said sticking his head out he didn't want her to go home but he wanted to make sure that Rafe sleeps in his own bed so that he won't be sore tomorrow.
"I should get him home." She told Santana. The two exchanged numbers and Puck carried Rafe out to the car. When they got back home Rachel showed Puck Rafe's room and he place the boy on his bed. Rachel tucked him in.
She walked Puck to the door. "Thank you." She said once they were outside. "For today, and for taking me to your mom."
"No problem." They were silent for a while. "Rach, I want us to go back to the way we were before you left."
"I don't think that's possible Noah." She told him.
"Why not?"
"Because, Noah, before I left we were two in love teenagers. That changed. I am a mother whose son will always come first and you are engaged to be married. To a woman none of your friends seems to like but you seem to love. We can go back to being friends but not to the type of friends we were seven years ago."
"Why not? What are you afraid of?"
"I am afraid of what happened today at McDonalds. If Rafe didn't come and stop whatever was about to happen I know I wouldn't have been able to stop it. You are taken Noah and I don't fall in love easily but with you it could happen in ten seconds. Goodnight Noah." She went back into the house and closed the door behind her. "It happened the second my eyes connected with yours." She whispered to the empty house.
There we go all done. Now that my exams are over and the problems with my internet started I don't know when I will be able to update again let's hope it's soon. I can still check the reviews and stuff on my cell phone so I'll be doing that. I think I should get a phone with office so I can do this all on the phone and not worry about stupid internet connections and only worry about airtime that would be easier.
Until next time. Review please. The last reviews made me so happy I had a crap day and when I read them my just went so much better.
I will have another poll for you guys. All about Sam and love interest.