A/N: I've been stalking my own traffic on this story, and I know it's getting a few hits, so…I'm not going to be one of those annoying authors who holds chapters hostage for reviews, because that annoys me to no end, but if you have something to say – regardless of what it is (unless it's hate) – say it! I'd love to hear what you have to say, three readers, I really would :) Okay, here's number four.

P.S., a lot of the inspiration to write this came from jackiekennedy's story, Say A Little Prayer. I'm in love with it, so if you get a chance read it – you won't be sorry.

Title: Fleeting Moments
Rating: M
Author: sparklinglemonade
Summary: Noah Puckerman isn't a good person – he's an ass, a studly sex-shark – but when it comes to Quinn Fabray he tends to have his moments.
Genre: Angst/Drama
Chapter: Four

Fake

In the beginning, being fake towards Finn is hard – still easier than the consequences, but difficult. Eventually, though, it gets easier and easier to actually believe his façade. He starts to forget for fleeting moments that he ever had sex with Quinn Fabray, and subsequently impregnated her, or that he'd stopped sleeping with any hot girl that walked through the doors of McKinley.

He imagines that he's still Puck, the playboy, instead of Puck, the lying, backstabbing father-to-be. Then, Finn says something dumb about the baby, like that he suggested the name Drizzle to Quinn, and Puck feels awful again.

He doesn't get it – Noah Puckerman doesn't feel awful. Noah Puckerman doesn't usually feel. He thinks about it during football practice, while that little queen Kurt is prancing around the field trying not to stare at Finn's ass. Sure, Finn is his best friend, the only person he's ever talked to about what happened with his Dad because he's the only one he knows who can relate. Finn's a good guy, oblivious, sometimes and stupid, most all of the time, but he's never been anything than a good friend to Puck. He figures if he'd knocked up Karofsky's girlfriend it wouldn't have mattered much to him, but being fake to Finn is tough because Finn is the closest thing he's ever had to a best friend.

Finn, while still terrified at the thought, has come to like the idea of being a father. He doesn't want to take that away from him, even when he so desperately wants to claim the baby for his own, he doesn't want to do that to Finn. He wants Finn to get the chance to right his father's wrongs – but he wants to do the same thing. He wants to be the dad that he never had, and that's where he's torn. Does he do what he wants, or what she wants? Does he do the right or the wrong?

To be honest - to him which is wrong and which is right is the better question.

He isn't quite sure, but until he finds out he decides to go day by day lying; being fake to the one person who isn't morally obligated to love him but does (in a bro kind of way), to the one he knows he shouldn't be lying to.

In time, though, being fake to Finn is easier than he ever expected.