Daddy's girl – Puck meets his daughter and wonders if Quinn's made the right decision.
Characters –Puck/Quinn [Some Will/Emma and random appearences fromother members of the glee club and their parents]
A/N Reviews/concrit/suggestions are always welcome. Oh, and I'm from the UK, so if there's anything American that's not quite right, please let me know and I'll change it.
"Could we have a word?" Quinn asked, poking her head around the door of Emma's office where she was eating lunch with Will. Emma nodded, and Will stood to give the some privacy, "No, no, we, erm, we'd like to speak to both of you."
"Okay" Emma was confused, but pulled out the chairs in the corner of her office, usually reserved for when she had parents and a student in her office.
"It's about Beth" Quinn explained, "you know we're bringing her up together?" Both adults nodded, knowing Quinn had moved in with Puck so they could raise Beth together "Well we've spoken a lot about how we want to bring her up and stuff, and obviously religion has been mentioned a few times, Puck was bought up Jewish, and I was bought up Catholic, and we've decided that Beth won't 'be' any religion, I'll take her to church, Puck or his mom will take her to services with them, and we'll all celebrate both sets of holidays, and when she's older if she decides she wants to be one religion or the other then that's her choice." Will and Emma nodded, it seemed like a logical thing to do. "So she won't be having a christening or a. . ."
"Brit Ha-Hayim" Puck finished her sentence.
"Right, but we want to have something for her, to sort of celebrate her birth, and we've been reading up on like non-religious naming ceremonies and things, and we got to talking about godparents or like life mentors or something, and we agreed that we'd like Beth to have someone there if she feels like she can't talk to us about anything or whatever. We thought about Rachel and Finn, but we thought that cos we're so young, it might be better to have someone a bit older, someone with more life experience, and obviously we both thought of you. You've been there for us through everything, and we would love for Beth to have that sort of love and support, but you can say no if you don't want to do it." Quinn finally stopped rambling.
"What she's trying to ask, is will you be Beth's godparents, but without all the god stuff?" Puck explained concisely.
Will glanced at Emma who seemed to be in a similar state of shock, "I, we. . .kids, I'm speechless"
"You don't have to" Quinn repeated, "We won't mind."
"Why, why us?" Emma asked.
"No one else has been there for us like you two have" Puck shrugged.
"You've been like parents to us" Quinn explained, "and you were so nearly Beth's dad" Quinn said sadly, turning her attention to Will, "we wanted to do something to show you how much we appreciate everything you've done for us."
"I can only speak for myself." Will spoke again, "but I would be honoured to be Beth's, non godly-god parent" .
"Yeah," Puck spoke again, "we need to work on a title or something" he laughed.
"What about it Em?" Will asked, "want to be Beth's fairy godmother?"
Quinn smiled, "with him as a father she'll need someone to teach her about good personal hygiene." She joked
Emma smiled and nodded, "I would love to."
Quinn and Puck smiled, "Thanks, we think we're probably going to have the party next weekend, just a barbeque in his back yard or something" Quinn explained, "but you'll get a proper invitation" she promised.
"Look who it is Drizzle" Finn had Beth in his arms as Will and Emma walked into Puck's yard, Emma held a small pink gift bag in her left hand, whilst Will carried a large, neatly wrapped box.
"Hey beautiful" Will cooed to the small baby in Finn's arms, "I'm going to give this to your mummy then I'll be right back for a cuddle."
"We said not to get her anything" Quinn scolded Will as he passed the large box to Puck.
"Don't" Emma sighed, "he won't listen."
"You're just as bad!" Quinn told her, holding the gift bag in her hand.
"Yes, well, erm, Will insisted on getting her that, and it's for 4 months plus, so I thought I'd get her something for now."
"Thanks" Puck said sincerely, "But you didn't have to, you've done enough."
Will laughed, "I'm gonna go and get a cuddle with my little lady before you start demanding I take it back." He grinned, leaving Emma to talk with Quinn and some of the other girls from Glee.
"Hello you" Will couldn't help but smile as he took Beth from Finn, laying her against his chest he allowed her to rest her chin on his shoulder, she was only 2 months old but she'd grown so much from the baby Will had taken back to the hospital after Puck had decided he couldn't let her go. "While you might look lovely" Will ran his hand over the dress Beth was wearing, brown with light pink spots, "you don't smell too great."
"Someone needs changing" Will announced, walking over to when Quinn was still talking to Emma and some other students Will recognised.
"Not again Will" Emma laughed,
"I meant Beth" he rolled his eyes.
"Here" Puck laughed, "I'll go change her."
"Where's Beth?" Quinn asked as he returned without their daughter.
"Mum took her to show her off to some women from work. Beer Mr S?"
Will shook his head, "No thanks, I'm good."
"Okay. I think Finn's about to blow up the barbeque, so we should have food soon, but I'll have 911 on standby" he joked, moving to get himself a drink.
"Quinny" The garden was silent as Quinn's mother walked across the grass. Puck handed Beth to Finn's mother before moving to stand beside Quinn, finding the rest of the glee club joining him protectively beside Quinn. "I, I don't want to start an argument Quinn, I just wanted you to know I've left your father, and to, to erm give you this." She pulled a small box from her pocket, "I want you to accept it, it's my way of apologising, for everything I've done, everything I've not done Quinn, and just because you accept it, it doesn't mean you need to have anything to do with me."
"It's erm. . ." Quinn was shocked as she found a house key and a scrap of paper with an address on in the box.
"It's an apartment" her mother explained, "for you and the baby, and, her father, I thought you might need your own space, I'll take care of the rent and the bills Quinny, please let me do this for you."
Quinn nodded, "okay"
Her mother smiled, "I'll, I'll let of enjoy the rest of your day." She said, turning to walk away.
"Mum" Quinn called softly, causing her mother to turn back to face her,
"We erm, we're making a wish box for Beth, we've asked everyone to write down a wish for her and put it in the box. It's on the table." Quinn's mother nodded and walked towards the table, running her hands over the small wooden box, the words 'Beth's wish box' painted on the top, the sides decorated with butterflies and flowers. She picked up a small piece of paper and a pen before quickly writing her message, folding up the paper and dropping it amongst all the other folded wishes, nodding to Quinn in acknowledgement as she left.
'Beth, My wish for you is that your parents treat you better than your mummy's parents ever treated her'
A/N: I think I'm going to continue ths as a series of randome one shots, set at important times in Beth's life. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see.
