AN – Bold Words are from people on the other end of the phone line not in the same room.
The sun was coming into the hospital room around 8:00 am the next morning and Beth started to stir in bassinet. Jesse starts to get out of bed to check on her.
"What's going on?" Quinn asked half asleep.
"Beth is awake I am going to check on her go back to sleep." Jesse tells her. Judy is asleep on the chair across the room.
"Hi there Beth, its your Uncle Jesse." Jesse says in a low voice as he picks her up. Beth continues to cry so Jesse decides to start rocking her and then begins to sing.
When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary; You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.
As Jesse was singing Judy awoke and sat there ever so quite. She wanted to take it all in. Watching and listening as Jesse sang to her crying granddaughter.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains; You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains; You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains; You raise me up... To more than I can be.
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.
By the time Jesse was done signing the song Beth had fallen back to sleep and so did Quinn.
Judy got up from her chair and came to put an arm around Jesse. He looks over his shoulder but says nothing. They stand there in silence for a bit.
Then Judy speaks up "watching you with my granddaughter brings all these emotions back. It reminds me of when Quinn was a baby."
"All I want to do is help Quinn; she is going to need it." Jesse says has Quinn's phone goes off. "Can you take her, I should get Quinn's phone before it wake her up." He goes on.
"Ya sure!" Jesse carefully passes Beth, then grabs Quinn's bag and get her phone out.
"Quinn's phone Jesse St. James speaking, how may I help you?" He says into the phone
" Jesse St. James what are you doing with Quinn's phone?" is shouted at him.
" I didn't want to wake her so I did the noble thing and answered it for her." Jesse says back "By the way Mercedes what can I do for you?"
" Me and the others wanted to know if we could come by and see them today?" She tells him. "Oh and another thing why are you with Quinn this early in the morning it is not like you are anything special."
"You and the others can come by later on this afternoon as for why I am her with Quinn that is up to her to tell you so ya you will have to wait till you come and see her then you may ask." Jesse replies
"Are you going to be there?" Mercedes asks
" That is up to her, if she wants alone time with her friends I will leave otherwise I am going to stay with her." He tells her kind of getting annoyed with all the questions.
" Whatever, just tell Quinn we will all stop by later today." She is not impressed to her Jesse.
" I will do, you have yourself a good day and I will talk to ya later." Jesse says
" Don't count on it" she says
" Whatyou having a good day or talking to me later." Jesse says with sarcasm
"Talking to you."
"Well I'll let you think whatever.
"Goodbye Jesse" Mercedes says in an unpleasant tone and hangs up.
"Who was that?" Judy asked as Jesse got off the phone.
"It was Mercedes, she wanted to know if they guys could come visit today." Jesse replies
"What did you say" Judy questioned
"I told her it was fine if she and the others came by this afternoon." he told her.
Judy sits down still holding Beth in her arms. Jesse starts to pace the room.
"Slow down you are going to were a hole in the floor" Judy tells him
"Sorry, I have a lot on my mind" he replies
"What is it, you can tell me" she says.
"Well, I was thinking about Quinn. I was hoping that she will like the nursery we are having made for her." He tell Quinn's mom
"I am sure whatever Caroline comes up with Quinn will love it. I know she will because you went to the effort to get Caroline to design the room and she is the best designer in all of this side of the state." Judy tries to make Jesse feel better.
"Thanks that makes me feel a little better" He says
"Here you should sit down for a bit you need to rest, I'll but Beth back in her bassinet and run out to get us all food I know Quinn will be hungry when she wakes up and you have not eaten since last night. I don't want you to faint and end up in one of these hospital beds. One kid in the hospital is enough for me to handle." Judy says
"Yes Mother" He says with sarcasm "I feel like one of your kids!"
"Well if you hang around enough I am going to treat you like I would my own child."
"Well at least that makes me feel wanted."
"I am glad. By the way what are your plans for the summer?" Judy asks
"Well besides being at your house all the time not too much. My parents are vacationing in Spain for the summer they won't be back till October, long after I am gone to UCLA." He tells her.
"Well then you are coming to stay with us. We could always use an extra set of hand helping with Beth and I know you are going to be staying over till the wee hours of the night so I might as well let you stay, you'll even have your own room. Plus no one should stay at a house alone all summer especially not when it is their last summer in town before going off to college." Judy says to him
"Well I don't know what to say" Jesse replies
"Say yes!" Judy says with a bit of enthusiasm in her voice
"Of course yes I would love to!" Jesse says with joy in his voice. "One thing I ask."
"What is it?"
"I don't want you to tell Quinn. I want it to be a surprise when Quinn gets out of the hospital."
"I can do that" Judy tells him "Ok, now I am going to go and get us all some food."
Judy walk out into the hall and pulls her phone out. By the time she reached the door of the hospital exit she had dialled the number.
"Hi, Caroline speaking, how can I help you?" Caroline says when she answered her phone
"Caroline, Hi it is Judy, Quinn's mom." Judy says
"Hi what do I owe this phone call to are you checking up on me?" Caroline asked half joking.
"Well I want to ask how thing are going, but that is not the main reason why I am calling. I want to say that Jesse is going to be moving in for the summer." Judy says
"Well that is nice, but I still don't understand why you call." Caroline replies
"Well you know that room across the hall from the bathroom, I was wondering if you could do something with it so Jesse feel like he belongs to the family." Judy tells her.
" Sure I think I can do something with that. All it need is some paint a few accessories and new manly bedding. I am sure I can come up with something before you can say Christmas 5 times fast." Caroline replies.
"Thanks, also can you keep it a secret I want it to be a surprise. Monday night I want to show him. I want him to see it before Quinn comes home. Thought since he is going to be home helping with the furniture for the nursery you could show it to him then." Judy says
"That can work for me. Well if I am going to get this all done in a two days I better get back to work I will talk to ya later." Caroline inform Judy
" Ok I'll let you go bye" Judy replies
"Bye" and with that both Caroline and Judy hang up the phone.
Then Judy head off to get the gang some food. She is sure that Quinn will be waking up soon and knows she will be looking for something to eat. She mustn't be long doesn't want Quinn to end up eating hospital food she knows how bad that can taste.
Back in the hospital room Quinn is starting to wake up.
"Had a good sleep there Quinn" Jesse asks when he see her waking up.
"Ya, it was really nice" She tells him. "Could I see Beth now please?"
"Sure I will bring her over for you." He says. Then Jesse gets Beth from the Bassinet and come over to the bed.
"Are you ready mom?" He asks her.
"yes" Quinn replies back. Then Jesse carefully lays Beth in Quinn's arms.
After a few seconds Jesse has an idea and goes to Quinn's bag. From the bag her grabs a camera.
"Smile over here" He says and snaps a picture as Kendra there nurse walks in.
"Good Morning" Kendra says when she gets in the room " How is everyone today?"
" Good!" Both Quinn and Jesse say at the same time.
"Jesse pass me the camera and go sit on the bed beside Quinn." Kendra tells him. The Jesse gives her the camera and head to sit beside Quinn.
"On the count of 3 say baby" Kendra say "1,2,3"
"Baby" Quinn and Jesse say right before the camera flashes.
"Perfect" Kendra informs them after seeing the picture on the screen. She then passes the camera back to Jesse.
"Well you look good so I am going to leave to alone, I will be back later to see if you need anything. If something comes up before that have me paged." Kendra tells them heading for the door. Just as she leave Judy is coming back in with food. Jesse jumps off the bed when he notices her hands are full.
"Let me help you there mom" Jesse says taking some of the food form her hands.
"Mom!" Quinn says kind of confused by why Jesse would call her mom mom.
"It's nothing, your mom was just reminding me of my mom earlier so I told her from now on I was going to call her mom. If it is a problem for you I will stop." Jesse informs her.
"No I kind of like it, it make me feel like you are really part of my family." Quinn tells her with a huge smile on her face.
"Thanks" He says " Oh by the way Mercedes called this morning when you were sleeping. She asked if the guys could come and visit you and Beth. I told them it would be alright if they came this afternoon."
"Great I would love to see them." She says.
"Guy we better eat this food before it gets cold." Judy interrupts them.
" Good Idea I am really hungry anyway." Quinn says.
A few hours go by were they all just hang out together. Then a knock comes to the door.
"Come In" Quinn yells over to the door.
"Hi is this a good time?" Tina asks as she Artie, Mike, and Matt enter the room.
"No this is perfect timing we were just think when you guys would start to visit. Where is everyone else?"
"They are going to stop by later" Mike informs them.
"Can I ask about him?" Mike asks in a whisper as he points over towards Jesse.
"You can, you guys might as well know." Quinn says. "Puck is the only one who knows this. When he came by yesterday to be with me during labour, I kind of just told him. So here is the Quick version of it. Me and Jesse are dating have been for the past month."
"Are you sure about this?" Artie asks.
'I haven't been more sure about anything in my whole entire life. He make me feel so special. I have never been more happy. Jesse is my rock he is the most consent thing in my life. I love him more than all my other boyfriends combine, more than I have loved anything."
"LOVE HIM!" they all say surprise she would feel that strongly.
"yes I am totally madly insanely in love with Jesse St. James." Quinn tells them having the biggest smile on her face ever.
"Well the congratulation are in order there to the both of you" Matt say and pulls Jesse in for a hug.
"Thanks, so does that make you guys less angry at me for what happened with Rachel?"
"Well we still feel bad for Rach but that is in our past, so we are letting it go, you are now official one of use. But if anything happens to Quinn or Beth and Quinn's heart get broken. I will personally hunt you down and kill you with my bare hands." Matt threatens him
"Is that a threat Matt?" Jesse asks
"Think of it as more of a promise. I don't make threats I only make promise. Quinn has been my best friend since kindergarten. We don't hang out that much around school we each have our own group of friends, but we always make time for each other. So I would hate for anything negative to happen. If her heart is broken mine is broken too." Matt tells Jesse.
"You have my word nothing is going to happen to Quinn or Beth. I love her more than any of the girls I have ever known. She is my entire world. Without her I feel there is no reason to live. I would give up going to UCLA and being the lead on Broadway if it meant being with Quinn. I can't see my future without her in it. Last night I was picturing what my life would be like 5 to 10 year from now. Quinn and I are living in New York, we are married. I am now raising Beth as if she as my daughter. We also have at least one more child. But when I try to think about what my life would be like if she was not part of it, well that is just too hard. I don't even thing it is possible because I hope to never let that happen." Jess says with a twinkle in his eye that shows he really means everything he is conveying to the group.
" You really mean that, you can't see a future without Beth and me?" Quinn questioned him.
" With every fibre in my body!" He replies to her.
"Jesse, if I my say something" Artie speaks up.
"shout what is it?" Jesse say
"On behalf of us here today I would like to say we hope to have you as one of our friends for a very very long time. So Welcome to the group." Artie says
"You all agree with that" Jesse says looking around as everyone nods their head.
" Thanks!" he says almost going to cry.
"You guys are amazing. I never thought you guy would feel this good about my relationship with Jesse. I am very pleased you are being so grateful in accepting him as a member of our group. I was thinking it was going to take much more convincing." Quinn says.
" As long as you are happy we are going to make this work. We love you like a member of our family. We are all one big happy and now that Jesse and you are dating he is again a member of our family." Matt tells her.
"Yes family, I want you all to know that as my family you are able to come by and visit me and Beth anytime you like within reason. Oh and remember family members always offers to babysit."
"Trying get us to babysit already so you can have a night out with Jesse and you are not even out of this hospital." Tina says with a chuckle.
"It that a problem?" Quinn asks also giving a chuckle.
" No just thought it was funny" Tina replies.
"Well we better get going we all have homework to get done. I am also sure the others will be by soon so take care of yourself for a few day. Let us know when you get out of the hospital and we will come by your house and visit." Mike says before the gang heads to the door. When they reach the door they turn around and wave goodbye, then they are gone.
"It was nice to see them" Quinn says when they are gone.
"Ya and it went very well. I thought they would of had more negative things to say about us being together." Jesse speaks up.
"Well I am glad they are happy for us." Quinn says then starts to yawn.
"Quinn you should get some rest. When the others come to see you I can wake you. I will take care of Beth if she needs anything just close your eyes please." Jesse says. With that Quinn drifts off to sleep.
Later Santana, Brittany, Finn, Rachel and Puck come to visit. It goes pretty well. They were all shocked to find out Quinn was now dating Jesse except Puck who already knew. Rachel had a few mean things to say at first but quickly got over them. They didn't stay long but everyone had a good time catching up.
Now Mercedes and Kurt were visiting Quinn and Beth.
" She is so cute!" Kurt says pinching Beth's check. " She looks like you."
"Thanks" Quinn replies. She is sitting on the bed with Beth in her arms Kurt and Mercedes are standing on either side of the bed. Jesse is standing near the wall across from the bed were he can look directly at Quinn and Beth.
"So what have to decided about Beth?" Mercedes asks
" Oh you guys haven't heard yet" Quinn says. Both Mercedes and Kurt shake their heads. "Well, when I am allowed to leave this hospital Beth and I are going to be moving back in with my mom" she pauses look around and then says " Specking of my mom where is she?" looking right at Jesse.
"Your mom had to run some earns and wanted to give you time with your friends. She put me on Quinn and Beth duty, then told me she would be back around supper time with some food." Jesse answers her.
"Quinn and Beth Duty what is that suppose to me I can't take care of myself or my daughter." Quinn says because she is surprised her mom would say something like that.
"Your mom and I both know you are capable of taking care of both yourself and Beth. She just wanted me to get you any thing and everything you need and wanted. Make sure that you are never alone." Jesse informs her.
"Well if you put it like that it doesn't sound too bad." Quinn gives in allowing Jesse to stay on duty.
"Good then." Jesse replies.
" While we are on the subject of Jesse being her I would like to know what gives him reason for being her and I am not taking about him be on duty by order of your mom. I mean before that, yesterday, bringing you to the hospital and then staying after Puck shows up to be with you during delivery?" Mercedes asks.
"You might not like to hear what I am going to say but everyone else knows, so I might as well tell you guys too. Jesse and I are dating we have been for a month." Quinn replies.
"WHAT! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" Mercedes practically screams at Quinn.
"No I am 100% telling you the truth." Quinn say
"She is." Jesse chimes in.
"no one asked you." Mercedes snarls at him. Then he goes back to being quiet.
"Are you really sure about this? After what happened to Rachel you came home super upset. It seemed as if you took it harder than Rachel herself. You told me that you couldn't believe Jesse would be such a jerk and that you basically hated him. Then I asked you why this affected you so much and that is when you told me you had feels for him. Then you kept saying that you had feels, had feel meaning you no longer did. What changed?" Mercedes asks Quinn.
"I went over to Carmel High to yell and scream at Jesse and we talked. He told his reasoning for everything and that broke it off with Rachel because he liked someone else. Have any idea who that could be. Well you it was me. I know the way he went about things could have been different. He has made up with Rachel and they are now getting along again. I really hope you can find it in yourself to get past whatever problems you have against Jesse because I am hoping to keep him around for a long time." Quinn says Mercedes stays quite for a long time.
"Kurt you haven't said much how do feel about this?" Quinn asks him looking directly in Kurt's eyes.
"I am happy for you. When you said that you a Jesse were dating I could see it in your eyes that you were happy. Jesse listen here I just want to say that if you hurt Quinn the glee club will come after you and this time we will take you down. You would not get off as easy as you did with Rachel. We believe everyone should have a second chance and this is yours. But ya Congratulations are in order." Kurt responds
"Thanks and I wouldn't dare hurt Quinn because if she hurts I hurt." Jesse replies
" So Mercedes are you going to find it in you to forgive him." Quinn asks.
"Well if you are happy I will try my best to start putting the past behind us. I just know how upset he made you and hate to see that again." Mercedes tells her
"I understand that you are trying to protect me, but I truly feel everything is going to work out and if not I will be upset for a bit and then move on." Quinn says " I am glad that you will at least try that is all I can ask."
Kurt and Mercedes stay around for the next couple of hours. Their visit lasts the longest. It seems that the four of them cover every topic of conversation one could think of. They would of probably stayed longer bit Judy came back with food for Jesse and Quinn. That is when they realised they should be going.
- TBC -