Aren't you guys lucky, two updates in one day, I'm about to start writing chapter 8, the Glee club's first day back at school. Will Mr Schue be there and will Blaine have convinced his parents to let him transfer? Or would you rather he stay at Dalton Academy for a while? Enjoy :)
Chapter 7
Rachel sighed blissfully as the hot water from the shower cascaded down her back, it felt so good to have a few moments peace before her busy day began; she had lots of baking to do, cleaning to do and a dinner party to prepare for. She was just thinking about the main course when she heard the bathroom door open and smiled as she felt a familiar pair of strong arms encircle her.
"You should still be in bed, you need your rest." The husky voice of Noah floated through the bathroom and he kissed her neck.
"I was until someone decided that they wanted Puckerman pancakes." She smiled and looked down to her swollen belly lovingly.
"What can I say, you've improved ma's recipe, if that was even possible." her husband bent down and kissed her belly. "You have to let mommy sleep you know, I know you're a growing boy but you're mommy's tired." He told her belly, even though he and she knew their son could hear him.
"Momma. Daddy." They heard a little girl's voice coming from the hallway.
"Ok, the day's officially begun." Noah laughed. "You get back into bed, I'll get Ava and we'll all have pancakes in bed and watch cartoons."
"I love you Noah, but sometimes I have to wonder whether the cartoons are for Ava or for you." She smiled. Life was perfect.
Of course the cartoons are for me." he laughed. "I love you too Rach, don't forget that Sam and Quinn are coming by later, they have an announcement." He left.
'Quinn? But she's in Juvie. And who in the name of Barbara is Sam?' Rachel panicked at the thought of Quinn coming by and slipped hitting her head on the tiles. She closed her eyes and when she opened them again she was laying in her bed in her room, a teenage Noah looking over her worriedly.
"You ok babe? You hit your head pretty hard."
'Another dream of our future, Ava and a son on the way.' She mused with a small smile, she liked the name Ava. "Yeah, just a dream."
"Care to share?"
"Well I was in the shower, it was pretty early, and my husband walked in behind me and told me that I should be resting but our unborn son wanted pancakes, and then our daughter Ava called for us, he left to see to her and make Puckerman pancakes."
"Son? Ava?" Noah was bright eyed. 'I get a son and a daughter.' "Sounds like a good dream to me, so why'd you hit your head?"
"Well you told me that Quinn and Sam were coming by for dinner, that they had an announcement, I panicked and slipped in the shower."
"Ok, a. I would never invite Quinn into our home. And b. who in the name of football is Sam?"
"I don't know."
"Noah. Rachel it's time to get up. Shelby will be here within the hour." Leroy called through the door.
Noah rolled off the bed and helped Rachel to her feet, having had the cast taken off, but not before everyone copied their messages and made a collage out of them, Rachel wasn't as steady on her feet as she was before, she had to use the crutches for a little while before her doctor let her use her cane again but it was only for a week or two. She went into her bathroom to shower and forty-five minutes later they were both showered and dressed and downstairs.
"Aw so cute." Hiram smiled. "Leroy they match, remember when we used to match?"
Rachel and Noah looked at each other before smiling goofily; they were both wearing blue and white, Rachel had a blue blouse and her white jeans while Noah had a white polo shirt and his favourite blue jeans, surprisingly these were the ones he took care of the most. They sat down to breakfast and waited for Shelby to arrive with her parents.
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"So what were they like?" Santana asked the next night as she painted Rachel's toenails.
The girls and Kurt were having a sleep over at Rachel's while the boys were over at Artie's playing video games.
"They were nice, they got me tickets to go and see Wicked in New York before school starts up, and yes Kurt you're invited, Noah loves me but my Broadway is a little too much sometimes." She laughed.
"I had no doubt in my mind but thank you Rachel. We shall take over New York." He applied night cream to Brittany. "Brittany my darling you have perfect skin, almost as perfect as mine."
"Well we can't all have a daily and nightly facial routine." Mercedes teased as she looked through Rachel's closet. "I still can't believe Tina and Artie broke up, thank heavens it was a mutual one."
"I think Tina likes Mike." Brittany smiled.
Tina and Mike were both at Asian camp for two weeks as councillors, as Mercedes had said the break up had been mutual but it still surprised everyone, Artie was now dating Brittany and there was no tension between the two girls, Tina and Mike seem to be getting along well judging by the letters they send to the group and Mercedes was giving Azimio a chance. Rachel felt bad for Santana who had to hide her feelings for Brittany but had faith that everything would work out eventually.
"Speaking of couples." Santana sent an evil smile to Kurt. "What's going on with you and Blaine?"
Kurt blushed and cleared his throat. "We're friends but the chemistry is there. Rachel tell us more about you and Puckerman."
"Nice try, everyone knows they'll be married in ten years and living in New York." Mercedes smiled. "But I would like to know the scoop on Jess and Karofsky."
"David plans on joining Noah and myself when we go to visit for thanksgiving and they talk every day on skype or the phone but they're taking things slowly, their relationship is still so new to them neither one of them wants to ruin it by jumping guns."
"It certainly explains why Karofsky bullied me, I can't believe how much he's changed, it's remarkable." Kurt shuddered at the memory of being shoved into lockers every day. "Even though it's been months he's still apologising."
"Well of course he is." Brittany smiled. "He probably felt terrible and wanted to talk to you but the pressure of being the popular jock and bully made it impossible for him to do so."
"You know sometimes it scares me how smart you are Britt." Rachel smiled. "You took the words right out of my mouth."
"Well enough with the past, we can only move forward." Santana finished Rachel's nails and put the bottle back on the dresser before reaching for one of the cookies Rachel had made. "My God Rach, these are so good. Are they normal or vegan?"
"Vegan, grandpa taught me how to make them so that everyone likes them, grandma's a vegan too."
"My compliments to the chef." Santana smiled and took another one.
They ate all the cookies and started on the popcorn before Kurt popped '27 Dresses' into the DVD player.
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"Dude, you've been really spacey all night." Finn waved his hand in front of Noah's face.
"And yet, I'm still beating you." He smirked.
"Seriously, what's got you thinking so much?" Artie asked from his computer.
"Something Rach's grandma said yesterday."
"Which is?" Pressed Blaine.
"How adorable mine and Rachel's kids are going to be."
"You're thinking about kids now?" Azimio asked.
"Not yet no, not until after we're married, so about ten years."
"But Rachel wants to be on Broadway, it's all she ever talks about." Finn didn't like the idea of Rachel getting married to Noah, Rachel Hudson sound a lot better to him but he knew she'd choose Noah. 'Everyone chooses Puckerman.' He thought bitterly.
"Yeah, we got time. We'll graduate, go to New York, go to school there, get jobs, Rachel will get onto Broadway, win Tony's, then we'll get married when we're stable and have kids." Noah hated the way Finn would look at Rachel these days. 'He's got no chance stealing my girl.' He knew that Finn harboured feelings for Rachel, everyone knew, it was probably one of the reasons why Quinn resented her, luckily though Rachel knew and never reciprocated those feelings.
"Well it's good you're planning ahead, Jesse and I don't know what to do after Christmas." Karofsky said.
"That's easy my friend," Blaine smiled. "You go to college, you both move to New York or wherever you want to go, but it' probably going to be New York, he goes onto Broadway with Rachel, you become a sports consultant or lawyer, get married, adopt a baby or have a surrogate and become Puck and Rachel's kid's favourite uncles."
"When you put it like that it sounds wonderful." Karofsky smiled.
"I'm off to DC for college." Artie announced.
"New York for me too." Blaine added.
"LA for me." Azimio finished.
"Why does every one want to leave Lima?" Finn asked.
"You're kidding right?" Azimio turned to Finn. "Yeah Lima's a good place to live for a while but everyone wants to get out of here, the biggest problem is actually doing it."
"But this place is perfect for raising a family." 'Mr and Mrs Finn Hudson and their three sons Jeremy, Stephen and James.' He thought blissfully.
"You can raise a family anywhere as long as you have mutual love, respect and teamwork." Blaine explained.
'I'll be the football or the glee coach at the school while Rachel stays home with our sons, maybe we'll even have a little girl, Lucy I think, I like the name Lucy.' Finn was off in his own little world.
"I think we lost him." Azimio announced.
"I don't think we ever had him." Artie was worried about his friend, he was going to get himself into trouble if he continued throwing longing gazes at Rachel. 'I really wish he'd just get over her, the only time he wants her is when he can't have her it's childish and sad, if she's not careful she could get caught in his trap and lose Puck, thank God she's smarter than the average girl.'
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The summer was almost at an end, Tina and Mike came back as a couple and the group couldn't be happier for them. Rachel, Kurt and Shelby went to New York for a couple of days to see Wicked and when they came back they threw themselves into college prospects, NYADA was a favourite but Tisch and Julliard were close too, especially for Rachel as Noah could attend the latter two and get his business degree. With Matt's birthday coming up the glee club decided to pre-record a birthday celebration and send it to him so he could open it on his actual birthday.
But while the others were having fun and enjoying the time of freedom they had left, Quinn was miserable and scared. Juvie was always rumoured to be a horrible place but now that she was there it only intensified the rumours and once word got out that she had killed her baby and tried to kill a girl because she hated her she was a prime target for the teenage mothers who had their babies taken away from them or had to give them up and the teenagers who had lost family and friends in vehicular deaths. She was too scared to sleep through the whole night, she'd given up trying to eat a lot, this place made your appetite vanish and she was constantly tripped up in the mess hall so what was left of her food went flying everywhere and started food fights, this got her into trouble with the guards and the kitchen staff as the other inmates had turned the finger onto her and she had to clean the mess hall and the kitchen on more than one occasion. She had no one, the daily letters from her father brought her comfort but very little, she wanted to be held by her daddy, for him to tell her that everything would be alright and that she'd be going home the next day, she refused to open the letters from her mother as she felt it was her fault she was in the horrible place and refused her phone calls and visit requests. "You're going to be here a long time Fabray." One of the guards had said. "You'll need someone."
'I don't need anyone. I shouldn't even be here, places like this are for people like Puckerman, real criminals, not good girls like me.' She tried to be brave and only allowed herself to cry silently in the safety of her own room when the door was locked. 'Oh daddy what would you do? What are you doing right now?'
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Mr Fabray wasn't fairing any better than his daughter, so far he'd been beaten by the gang members he had turned in, his photos of Quinn had been shredded when they heard what she had done had beaten him some more. There was a man in the by the name of Evan Blue who had lost his own sixteen year old daughter to a hit and run almost ten years ago, he was serving time for murdering the an who drove the car, Evan Blue especially hated Mr Fabray and his daughter.
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"But I don't want to leave." Noah pouted.
"You have to Noah, you haven't been home properly for almost the whole summer and I don't want to wake you up with my early morning routine, I know how cranky you get if you're woken before 7am." Rachel reasoned but held onto her boyfriend.
"Fine, I don't like it but I know you're right. Just know that I sleep better when I'm near you so I'm taking this with me." He held up her teddy bear. "And I'm picking you up for school in the morning."
"I wouldn't have it any other way, and if you're taking Streisand, I'm keeping your shirt you slept in."
"Deal." He kissed her. "Mm I love you Rach."
"I love you too Noah. See you tomorrow." She watched as Noah got into his truck and drove home, she'd miss him but she'd see him tomorrow. 'I sleep better with him close too.' She sniffed the shirt he'd left and got ready for bed.
