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Chapter Ten: Miracle

"Come on you guys, we need to get pumped! Ya hear me pumped! Tonight is the night." Finn exclaimed standing on the piano bench as the kids looked on in amusement and Will laughed from the side lines.

"Mr. Hudson?" a voice called from the back row of seats.

"Yeah Mike?" Finn replied still stood in his revolutionary pose, his left hand on his hip and right in the air.

"Tonight's only Invitationals. If tonight is the night, if we make it to Regionals what would that be?" The boy questioned causing everyone to laugh and Finn jump down.

"It would be the night after tonight that is the night, I don't know, but you get my point." Finn laughed as he sat down next to some of the kids. "But you listen to me, go out there and have fun, in the end that's all that matters right? Just have fun and make Mr. Schue and I proud."

"Okay guys lets go get lined up." Mr. Schue smiled as all the kids stood up and filed out of the door high fiving he and Finn.

Finn and Will walk into the auditorium and saw every seat filled as they took their seats at the desk part way into the seats. Finn looked around and saw Rachel and Melanie, he smiled wide and waved as Rachel got Melanie's attention before they waved. As he spun back around to face the stage the lights shut off before the opening notes began. The stage lights flashed on and the faces of twenty kids were illuminated as they opened their mouths to sing.

Listen up, little one
We're already ahead of the game
Hurry now, make me proud
I'm still finding the strength to say
Say goodbye, there's no time
Make it worth every minute
And never forget every day

Hey little girl you're on top of the world
You're all that I wanted to know
Never look back, you're much stronger than that
And nobody knows where to go
When they come to a fork in the road

Shout it out, make it loud
What's the best we could make of today?
Wave goodbye, jump in line
Cause it's worth every moment
You'll never forget every day

Hey little girl, you're on top of the world
You're all that I wanted to know
Never look back, you're much stronger than that
And nobody knows where to go
Going home

All the world is so broken
Now that there is no time
All words left unspoken
I'll leave them burning inside
We'll be fine

Hey little girl you're on top of the world
You're all that I wanted to know
Never look back you're much stronger than that
And nobody knows where to go
Going home

No one really knows because
No one really knows because
(Please don't cry. I'm on your side)
No one really know where to go
Going home
No one really knows because
No one really knows because
(Wave goodbye. You'll be alright)
No one really know where to go
When they come to a fork in the road

When the kids finished the song they got a standing ovation from every single being in the room, the applause thundering. Finn turned around to see Rachel smiling, wiping away tears, he knew the song hit her, she'd been at many forks in the road before, he wanted to fix that, he had a plan.

The show finished at nine thirty and the kids left, Rachel and Will were talking in Will's office and Finn was sat at the piano with Melanie. He'd learnt to play one summer with Kurt before they graduated and hadn't dropped it since. Melanie took his music book and turned to a familiar page pointing to the song, Finn smiled and played the song once over before she tapped the page again, only this time around it was different. She opened her mouth and sang the chorus as fluently as a five year old can.

Don't stop believin'
Hold on to the feelin'
Streetlights, people

Three lines from a five year old normally wouldn't be so important, but from Melanie it opened up a world of possibilities, Finn had worked with her daily for a month, and it had paid off. He cut of the music as Rachel and Will rand out from Will's office. Rachel had tears building up in her eyes because for the first time in five years, she'd heard her daughter's voice. Finn had pulled Melanie to him and had his head by her ear.

"My girl, if you never say a word to a person, never stop singing. Never." He whispered as he released Melanie so she could go hug Rachel. Will stood at his office door smiling at Finn as they watched the scene before them. "I figured, if music can relate to people who speak a different language, it could work for my girl. She has a voice in her, we just had to find it." Finn explained as he stood up from the piano. He looked to Rachel who was smiling at him, a watery smile but a smile none the less, he held up his hand to sign 'I love you' with a smile.

Melanie was Rachel's miracle, and Finn's world, hearing words come from her was a miracle and changed so much. Finn had hopes for her, but it didn't matter to him, or Rachel if those were the only words they would ever hear from Melanie, they'd heard her voice, and she took after her mother. Rachel and Finn were proud of her, as proud as any parent would be, if not more.

Rachel hadn't spoken a word since Melanie had sang, Finn drove home in silence with her before he lifted a sleeping Melanie out of the backseat. The two of them walked into the house and Finn headed straight to Melanie's room to put her to bed, he got her changed after waking her up to have her cooperate. When she climbed into bed Finn sat on the floor beside her and stroked her hair out of her face.

"You made your mommy so proud tonight princess, so proud. And you made me so proud too, if you keep singing, who knows Mel, you could be unstoppable." He whispered as she fell asleep, as he stood up to leave he kissed her forehead carefully before turning to see Rachel at the door. "Can you not speak Rachel? Because that's new you normally can't be quiet."

"I'm speechless Finn, you have worked with her every day every weekend and it worked. I heard my daughter's voice… you don't know how long I have dreamt of that." She said quietly as they walked towards Finn's room, the both got changed quickly before laying on the bed.

"She has her mom's voice." Finn smiled, wrapping an arm around Rachel.

"Do you think it'll happen again?" she asked almost a whisper, looking up into his face searching for an answer.

"I think so, but I'm biased." He smiled placing a small kiss on her lips, she leaned into him when he pulled away.

"Biased, how?"

"She's my daughter, how could I not be?" he told her, no thought behind that, it was the first time Rachel had heard Finn refer to Melanie as his daughter, and it made her heart swell for this man, he loved her daughter like his own and had given her what she had never had; a father. That's when she broke down in tears again and burying her head in his chest. "Did I say something wrong…?"

"No Finn the complete opposite, you said everything right. Do you really think of Melanie as you're daughter?"

"Of course I do, she's amazing and she never fails to make me smile if I'm stressed, Rach, I don't care if she can talk or not, if she and I aren't blood related, she's my daughter. And her mom is the woman I want to spend forever with if I'm given the chance."

Rachel stayed silent after that, replaying those words in her head as Finn fell asleep. Finn had proven to her in the past months that miracles do happen, sometimes you just have to keep trying, until it happens, and he may not know it, but Rachel wanted to spend forever with him too, if given the chance.

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The song used for this chapter was 'Fork in the Road' by The Latency

Shanny