A/N: Sorry for the delay, I seem to be failing at updating two stories simultaneously. I'll try to do better, but not promising anything…

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BPOV:

Finn had pulled me into his lap again as soon as I walked into the room Rachel had directed me to. Some people might have argued that thirteen was too old to sit on someone's lap but we both needed it. Shortly after I'd got there, Rachel walked into the room, tugging on Noah, my father's hand. He looked at me slowly and smiled gently. I felt Finn tighten his grip and saw Noah's eyes shift up and his expression harden as he met Finn's eyes.

"So." Rachel said uneasily.

"Why?" I asked, the question I'd been holding in finally bursting out. "Why have you all hidden it so long?"

"Because we were afraid." I looked to the doorway to see Quinn standing there, Mom behind her.

"What were you afraid of? That I'd love any of you less?" I looked at Finn accusingly. "That Noelle would love you less?" He looked away.

"Yes. Beth, I'm sorry, I never should have lied to you, but I was afraid that. I wanted you to be mine so badly." Mom spoke up. I stood up and walked over to her.

"Mommy." I felt like a little kid, all I wanted was for my mom to make everything okay. She pulled me in for a hug.

"I love you more than you will ever know baby."

"I know. I love you Mom."

"So where do we go from here?" She asked the room at large.

"I don't know." Rachel said softly. "Should we tell Noelle?"

"Yes." I said firmly, just as Finn jumped up.

"No way! You are not going to do that to me!"

"Finn stop being so selfish!" Quinn snapped. "I think we should tell her."

"Oh now that your secret's out, it's ok for everyone else to get slapped in the face!" Finn yelled at her.

"Okay, you two are no longer allowed to speak to each other." Rachel said sharply. "You obviously have some issues that you can work out later, but they are not helping this debate move along."

"I think you should tell her." Shelby said quietly. "What do you think Rachel? You're the one who matters."

"I don't know." Her eyes flitted to me, then Finn, and then landed on Noah.

"You know what I want." He said quietly, meeting her gaze.

"What you fucking want doesn't matter!" Finn yelled at him. He turned to Rachel. "What he wants shouldn't fucking matter."

"Why?" I asked before Rachel could start sobbing again, because it looked like that was where this was headed.

"Because he left, Beth." Finn told me urgently, I could tell he was hoping to get me on his side. " He should have had as big a part in your life as Quinn; he could have been part of Noelle's life but he left, he walked away, like a dirty coward!"

"Finn." Rachel said softly. "That isn't exactly…" Before she could finish, Noah cut her off.

"Stop it Rachel." He turned and walked toward me reaching a hand gently out to touch my face. I looked into his eyes slowly. "That's exactly what happened Beth. Finn's right, I'm a dirty coward and I don't deserve you or Noelle." He tore his eyes away from mine to glare at Finn. "But I'm trying to grow up and make up for my mistakes, unlike some people."

"What the fuck is that supposed to mean?" Finn stepped toward Noah threateningly. I gasped, it looked like he was going to hit him or something.

"Guys! Stop please!" Rachel yelled at them. "This is again, irrelevant to the discussion. How about we compromise. We can tell Noelle once she turns sixteen or twenty or something. She is pretty young to understand."

"I don't think that's a good idea." I said softly, but no one seemed to hear me. The rest of them seemed to be somewhat in agreement. Noah looked angry, Finn looked smug, and Rachel just looked worried.

"Beth. You can't tell her okay?" Rachel said to me suddenly. "We will tell her someday but we need to be the ones to do it. Okay?"

"I guess." I felt like a coward, taking the easy way out, but I didn't want any more fighting.

"Hello." A doctor poked his head in the room. "She's awake."

"Noelle!" Rachel rushed out the door, Finn and Quinn both followed her quickly. My mom held out her hand to me and I started to leave with her, but I noticed the one person who wasn't hurrying to her side, probably because he was afraid to.

"I'll be right there Mom." I turned and walked back to sit by Noah as she nodded slowly and left the room.

"Why don't you go and see her? I'm sure you're more than ready to." He asked me quietly.

"Because no one will be able to get past Rachel for about an hour anyway." He laughed softly.

"That's true."

"But why don't you?" He looked at me sadly.

"I don't think I'm allowed to." I was shocked to see tears actually beginning to run down his face. He'd seemed like the kind of guy who would never let anyone see him weak. I slipped an arm around him to hug him gently.

"I'm sorry."

"Why are you sorry Beth? It's my own fault. All of it."

"Was I a mistake?" I couldn't resist the question, I'd wanted to know since they told me I was adopted and somehow I felt that he might be the only one who wouldn't be angry at the question.

"No, and yes. Beth, I was an idiot in high school okay. And Quinn was dating Finn and believe it or not, he actually used to be my best friend." I couldn't resist a laugh at that. I wouldn't have guessed that at all. "And I was a stupid idiot and slept with her, and she got pregnant. But Beth, I wanted you and I loved her, truly I did. I would have kept you if I could. But your, Quinn, she was always smarter than me and she knew that the two of us couldn't raise a baby. All I ever wanted was for you to be happy, and I think you have been, right?"

"Yes. I have been." I said softly. "What about Noelle?"

"Gah. This is the hard one, the one I'm going to get killed if I tell you the wrong way or tell you too much. Have they told you, any of them told you about, well the deathcamp?"

"A little. My mom did, when I asked why there were so many pictures from when I was two and three that she wasn't in."

"Okay, well then you know that it sucked. Rach and I were there together, that was when we actually became friends, and we became best friends. Those seriously fu- messed up people forced us to have sex. It was that or die, and I would have died but I couldn't watch them kill her. And she got pregnant."

"Wow, that's awful."

"Tell me about it kid." We sat there quietly for a few minutes, he'd grabbed my hand and was holding it tightly. "So tell me about you Beth?"

"What do you want to know?"

"Anything. Everything."

"My favorite color is green. I don't know why, it's just an awesome color. I really want to get my hair cut really super short but Mom won't let me. I love Super Mario Brothers, Finn taught me to play as soon as I could hold the controller. I hate lemonade but I love plain lemons, just sucking on them. I can't think of anything else."

"That's funny. I love green. I had a Mohawk all through high school and college. I was the one who taught Finn to play Super Mario Brothers. I'm the same with lemons." I smiled at him, my dad, that's where I got all those random traits. "Did you know I named you?" He asked, smiling. I shook my head.

"No, I didn't."

"I told Quinn she should name you Jackie Daniels originally, don't ask. We had a glee assignment on Theatricality, the girls and Kurt did Lady Gaga, the rest of us guys did KISS, and I found the song Beth. I sang it for Quinn in glee club, and well, the rest is history."

"Aww, so wait, the other night when we were at that karaoke place, that was for me and Noelle wasn't it."

"Yes. I had to tell my girls how much I love them, even if they didn't understand." I just looked at him, shocked by his love. My father's love.

"Noah? Could I, would you mind if I, can I call you Dad? Just when we're alone of course, but I just, I'd really like to." I stopped talking, It was a stupid idea.

"Beth, I would love for you to call me Dad." He pulled me in for a tight hug, I could feel tears falling from his eyes into my hair, and my tears staining his shirt. "Now let's go see how the patient's doing shall we?"

"Sounds Good Dad."

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