A/N

To all you Finn lovers, beware. This is my story, and I'm still mad at all the things he's done, so... Yeah, don't like him. But anyway, beware, and please don't judge me because I'm writing Finn as 'the bad guy'. :) R&R please ;)

Chapter 9: Confrontation

"F-Finn…" Rachel said in a gasp. Quinn spun her head to look in the direction where Rachel's eyes had frozen. There stood Finn, his eyes wide with surprise and his face pale at the sight of them.

"Rachel" he said, trying to gather his thoughts. "What're you doing here?"

"We were actually looking for you" Quinn said, scowling slightly.

"Whoa, what did I do?" he said defensively.

"Why I don't know, Finn" Rachel spat sarcastically. Beth looked from Finn to Quinn to Rachel and back again.

Finn's eyes fell to Beth and looked puzzled. He seemed to be solving a difficult math-problem. His eyes flickered from Beth to Quinn and then to the floor. He felt a jolt of regret when he realized why they had needed Puck. It was about Beth. Surely if Puck ever found out, he'd slaughter Finn. Finn had thought that maybe Rachel missed Puck, and had been driven only by jealousy.

"Quinn, I'm so sorry, I…" he began.

"Spare your breath, Finn. You are such a jerk!" Rachel's eyes flamed with a fury which Finn had only seen in Santana's eyes. He was truly frightened.

"but, Rach…"

"Don't call me that" Rachel scowled.

"Why didn't you tell us where he was? We needed to know" Quinn asked, laying a calming hand above Rachels shaking one. Her rage subsided slightly.

Finn stared at their hands for a second, and then looked at Rachel with regret.

"I don't know… I was mad, you know?"

"You have nothing to be mad about Finn. Nothing. You dumped me, remember?" Rachel spat.

Beth had been watching the three and now decided to cut in.

"Rachie, please be happy. Mr. Finn? Do you know where my dad is?" she asked with a sweet smile.

"Um…" Finn said nervously, watching the girls. "Yeah, I know where he is."

"Then why won't you tell mom where he is?" Finn suddenly felt stupid. The innocent logic of the little girl made everything seem so silly.

"I don't really know. Would you like me to tell?"

"Yes please" the girl chimed with a smile.

"Okay…" He looked at Quinn, firmly avoiding Rachel's scowl. "Well, he lives in LA… And um… well I don't know much about how he is like right now, but… Last I saw him, he was kind of just there. Happy, I guess. But he was down about me leaving. I think I have his address somewhere, if that'd help"

"It would" Rachel said coldly.

"O-kay…" Finn said, rummaging for his phone. He slid through his phone-book and found Noah's number. "Oh, here" he said, having found the address.

Rachel impatiently snatched the phone from his hands and started writing down the address.

"Look I know I was a jerk to you Rachel, but you don't have to be mean" he said. "How was I supposed to know that you needed him because of Beth? It's not really my first thought when Kurt calls me and says that YOU need Puck's address. I didn't think oh, Shelby must've died or something."

Beth looked up at Finn with grief painted in her eyes. Her lower lip trembled and she began to cry, clasping onto Rachel for comfort. Rachel lifted Beth and embraced her, while she cried into the brunettes shoulder.

"You're an ass, you know that?" Quinn said, walking over to rub soothing circles onto Beth's back. "Just go, will you?"

Finn made an attempt to apologize, but Quinn shoed him away. Beth continued to sob.

"I…" Finn started still conflicted between being mad at the girls and feeling sorry for Beth. "Beth, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have said that… I wasn't thinking"

"No you weren't. You never think. It's just like the time you didn't think to intervene with Kurt and Karofsky, and like you didn't think when you outed Santana. How about you just keep your mouth shut and leave, huh?" Quinn's eyes shot fire and her words were like poison

"You're seriously still holding me to that?" Finn said, forgetting once again about the sobbing girl on Rachel's lap.

"I think we're pretty much always going to hold you to that. You just have no idea how hard life can be. Beth lost her mom like a month ago, and you're pretty much using her death to defend yourself, in a joke. Okay, you didn't get the scholarship, you were a complete flunk but that's not her fault. Don't take this out on Beth" Quinn said.

"It, I… I wasn't trying to hurt her! I'd never do that!"

"Why not? You don't know her. But you knew Santana and Kurt, and you still hurt them" Rachel said.

"Stop… please" Beth whispered and hiccupped.

"Beth, this is an adult thing" Rachel tried to explain.

"No, this is childish… You hold a grudge… momma said never to do that, no matter how bad a person is. I don't know what he did… But it can't be that bad" Beth looked up at Quinn in a mute plead.

"It was… Beth, you don't understand" Quinn said.

"Yes I do. He did something bad, a long time ago, and you use it against him."

They all three looked down at Beth who wiped away her tears and looked at Finn with red eyes.

"I forgive you, Finn. Thank you for letting me to find my dad…"

Finn looked at his feet ashamed. Beth's words more than the insults he'd been given by his two ex-girlfriends made him ashamed.

"I-I'll let you two eat" He said mutely and walked out.

"No more bad mood" Beth said climbing off her seat to continue drawing.

The two girls looked at each other and then at Beth. How was a five year old more mature than those two? A loving smile spread across Quinn's lips as she looked down at Beth whose eyes were firmly focused on the unicorn.

"Beth, you know what you are?" Rachel asked. "A unicorn"

Outside the restaurant stood Finn his phone clasped in his hand. He had probably just blown every chance ever at getting Rachel back. How could he be so stupid? He thought about what Quinn said. He really didn't think. Perhaps he was to make an effort at that. But right now, he had to force himself to leave the mall, moving further away from Rachel. Just then, his phone buzzed and a text appeared.

Hi Finn, how are you? Just wondering if maybe you'd wanna meet up, I'm going back to my Ma in a few weeks. Haven't seen you in a while, bro – Puck

Ironic, Finn thought. He thought momentarily about walking back in to show the girls the text, but decided against it. They could call him themselves.

A/N

Thanks for reading! :D Btw, for those of you who've been waiting for a Beth/Quinn chapter, it's coming in the next chapter! Also, as a little teaser, I'm going to write something a little AU in terms of some recent ''goodbye'' spoilers, ponder about that! ;)

Please remember to review!

Oh, and I'm going for a family trip for the next three days, so I'll write a lot, but I don't have internet, so no more chapters until sunday! ;) See ya!