Okay, longest chapter definitely by far this time. This is the big moment in the series. Lots of awkward moments and irony built in here. See what happens with Finn and David. See what goes down, and make sure to see the second part of this. It is a major change in plot. Anyway, sorry it's been a few days. I was hanging out with my friends or doing things around town. Haven't been at my computer too much, but I'm here now. So read this story, I love it. Unedited it's about 3,500 words exactly. So Good readings and review, don't just read, please, it helps. Hope you love irony.

Rachel hadn't calm down yet. She kept hugging Quinn telling her sorry for what she did.

"It's okay Rachel. Shhh, calm down." Quinn responded sincerely.

Puck was pacing back and forth trying to come up with something. No doubt an idea on how to pretend nothing happened.

"Okay." He said. "What to do. What to do."

"I screwed up." Rachel insisted with tears in her eyes.

"Yeah? No shit Sherlock. If it wasn't for what you did, we wouldn't be here." He backlashed.

Rachel started crying again.

"Even so. What has happened happened." Quinn reassured. "We can't change the past. Regardless, we need to deal with this appropriately."

"Yeah, and how the hell do we do that?" Puck challenged with anger still.

"We don't tell him." Quinn said.

"Right, because not telling Finn what's going on has worked so many times. Hello McFly, anyone home? Remember Beth? Not telling Finn worked out well." He shot.

"Yeah, well if your ass didn't tell Mercedes who told everyone else, then he wouldn't have known!" Quinn shouted in a snotty tone.

Rachel couldn't see her only friends fight. "Stop it." She intervened. "I am going to tell him the truth."

Quinn had a look of shock on her face. "Are you insane? He will have a heart attack. Getting this news only hours after being shot. It'll kill him! Rachel, he loves you, telling him the truth will devastate him! Please think about this."

"I am." Rachel said. "I promised Finn when I went out with him that I would be honest with him, and he agreed as well."

"Whatever Rachel." Quinn said in a your-an-idiot voice. "That's for 'Oh, I was looking at his but' or 'I was just staring at her butt' moments or whatever. Not for 'I have been sleeping with somebody while you were fighting a war' moments. Get a grip Rach."

Rachel started crying again and moved from her.

"Ah great Q, you made her cry. Well that's just great." He said hugging and comforting her.

Quinn calmed down. They were all quite stressed as to how on Earth they could handle this.

Quinn stood up and said. "I am going to go get Breakfast before we have to be at the hospital. If you need me, I'll be at the Starbucks on the corner." She said while grabbing her purse and leaving.

Puck stared at Rachel, he wanted to make her feel better, but that wasn't cutting it. There was nothing he could do. She needed to see Finn, but oh how awkward that scenario would be. He would wake up and start saying all these things about how he loved her, and then Rachel spill her guts. That moment would be more awkward than The Majestic with Jim Carrey. Jesus was that movie awkward as hell. It would be worse than that.

Rachel told Puck something that no one, not even Finn knew. "I never wanted to go to NYADA." She whispered. Puck looked at her absurdly. She continued: "Ever since Finn asked me to marry him, I have wanted this life less and less. I realize fame is nothing unless you have someone to truly love you like Finn. Once he told me to go on with my life, I didn't want it at all, but I knew he would be disappointed if I didn't make it to my dreams like I said I wanted. I finally figured my real dream after having all of this, is to truly be with Finn."

Puck cut her off there. "Even while with David?"

"I never really loved him, let alone truly liked him. I figure he was to fill a gap in my life that was opened by Finn's separation. Finn opened a hole however, that was so big, no one but him could refill it. I didn't fully come to realize that until just now." She finished.

"Yeah, I think we all realize that finally. Come on let us go get Quinn, grab a bite and go get Finn." Puck announced.

Rachel walked with him towards Starbucks at four in the morning. They walked two blocks to the Starbucks on 34th and Broadway (Yeah I know NYADA isn't really in the heart of the city, nor does it exist, but play along in this story) and started talking; small talk really.

"So..." Puck began. "How have you been?" He said to ease up the tension and the awkward silence brought on earlier.

"Besides the whole David thing, all right." It's been awhile since either of them have talked. It was already early December. They haven't talked once since early June, and that didn't go over to well.

"How have you been?" She asked.

"Well, as you might have figured with me and Quinn together, we have been dating for months. She's not ready to even marry, yet she wants another kid. I guess the loss of Beth, and her maturity lately has really resulted in her wanting another."

"How's that working out?" Rachel asked.

"Not well." Puck admitted. "She has wanted too much, she hasn't seen the big picture. I told her no. At least we won't try until after she graduates Yale. I don't want her risking throwing it all away like she almost did at McKinley."

Rachel just kind of nodded her head at his response as they entered Starbucks. They sat down and ordered some coffee and a pastry. Puck got a doughnut, and Rachel got a scone. They sat down next to Quinn while she just sat and drank her coffee in silence really upset about what happened earlier still.

"I'm sorry about what happened earlier Q." Rachel said. Quinn replied with nothing.

"Come on Q, she said she was sorry." Puck said. Quinn didn't respond still. She took a deep breath and sighed.

"You know..."Quinn started. "I should be sorry Rachel. I snapped. I don't know what Finn would say if you told him the truth. It would be the correct thing to do. I was just worried about him. But you're right. Keeping lies from him does no good. I should know, I needed to learn from it." And then she became quiet afterwards.

Rachel sat in disbelief, and then yawned and realized how tired she was and took another sip. She was a vegan drinking coffee, but she was too tired or too upset to notice. Her beliefs weren't a priority at the moment. Finn was.

"Come on guys." Puck led. "We need to get to the hospital."

They all got up and left. They took the 6 Train up four or five stations and walked east towards the Hospital. The hospital was called New York-Presbyterian University Hospital. Nonetheless by the fact it was a university, Rachel still felt comfortable with Finn being kept there. After much time getting there, with little conversation along the way, they finally made it. It was nearly 6:00 am, and Finn had made it finally. The group walked to the check-in area to see the status about Finn.

"Last name of the patient?" The nurse asked.

"Hudson." Rachel said. "First name Christopher." She clarified, feeling weird saying Finn's real first name.

"Hold on." The nurse replied. "Let me go in and see."

They sat there for a minute and waited, anxious to hear the news.

The nurse replied with a concerned look.

"Let me be very honest here." She declared. "Your friend was shot at the bottom of his left lung, barely missing his heart. He couldn't breathe, and has been hooked up to pure oxygen for hours. He was also shot in a critical artery down in his thigh, and he's lost lots of blood. We have the blood for him and we are transfusing it into as we speak. He is undergoing surgery to remove both bullets and repair the lung tissue and lower artery tissue, to ensure full recovery. However, because he was shipped so long overseas, and hasn't had any major medical treatment in numerous hours, if at all. It looks bleak for him. His heart is giving out, and the doctors can't work magic." She explained.

Rachel was crying more than she ever has. That was a lot to take in all at once. She wanted to know Finn's chances. "Nurse, how much of a chance does he have now?"

"If he got it four hours ago, maybe one in two. Since he has been without attention for so long, the odds are less than 1 in 5. He has about a 20% chance to live. I am so sorry. We will update you every 20 minutes on his condition, and we will let you know how surgery goes, whether it be successful or not."

"Thank you nurse." Quinn said.

They all went to sit down. Rachel went to go lie down though. She was tired, but refused to sleep in case Finn's condition changed and she didn't want to be the second to know. Quinn went to go call Finn's parents. Rachel would do it, but she was so out of it. Puck sat next to her, and soothed her, as Finn would do, and did so as a protector-like figure.

One hour passed, two, three, and then four. They had regular updates and were told nothing new happened. They were all tired as hell and wished that this wasn't happening. Puck looked on a brighter note. He bent over to Rachel's ear.

"Hey Rachel, the good thing about all this, is that Finn won't have to stay in for three more years." He hoped that Rachel would cheer up a little. She did. He was glad to see her a little happy until an uninvited guest walked in the lobby of the hospital.

"David!" Rachel said in shock. "What are you doing here."

"I came to check on you. I got back early from the trip cause I wanted to see you. I noticed you missing from your room so early; I went to ask the security guard. He said he saw you leaving and asked you. You told him the hospital. And I came to this one. I freaked out thinking you were hurt or something, but I can see you're not. Who are you here for?"

"David it's a long story. I can't explain it all right now..." Rachel was cut off as the nurse had announced that the surgery for "Christopher F. Hudson" had been complete and he was transferred to the ICU.

"I have to go see my fiancée. I can't explain it to you to well. I was engaged once to my boyfriend from Ohio, but he sort of broke it off, and joined the military. I came here as part of the original plan, and I met you. You swept me off my feet so to say, but really I have been just trying to fill the gap that he left. He needs me right now and I can't explain in detail any further. I paid some people in the lobby at NYADA this morning to move my stuff back into my old dorm." She thrusted out into his ears. "I'm sorry, but I don't want him to ever know of this mistake that I made." She said.

David stood there in shock and awe. Rachel looked at him with the look of mistake in her eyes.

"I'm sorry. Goodbye David." She choked out.

She ran to catch up with Quinn and Puck not daring to look in her past that she had just left behind.

Finn was barely alive, but he pulled it through against the odds.

Quinn let Rachel through. She hugged Finn softly, making sure not to injure him any further, and then kissed him slowly on the lips.

"I have missed you for what feels like my entire life." said Finn. Rachel wiped a tear away from her face. She was happy, truly, again.

"I love you." she said. Finn responded with the same thing. She was so happy words were not in the dictionary to describe it.

They all sat there quietly and just enjoyed each other's company. Finn was weak, but yet somehow still strong. He asked Rachel to lay next to him. Rachel jumped up onto the bed with him and just lay there. She turned to face him, and he smiled his famous half-smile just the same as he used to, which she figured took tons of energy from him to do so. He took his hand to move past her face so he could stare into those beautiful brown eyes. They just sat there for what felt like hours, but turned out to be only forty minutes.

Rachel needed to get up and use the bathroom, but really just need an excuse to let all of the buildup lies out. She huffed and puffed (but alas, didn't blow a freaking thing down). She was mad at herself for keeping secrets from Finn. She walked back in there to catch him sleeping; no doubt he was tired. She crawled back into bed with him, and he said: "sing me a song."

Imagine me and you, I do

I think about you day and night, it's only right

To think about the girl you love, and hold her tight

So happy together

If I should call you up, invest a dime

And you say you belong to me, and ease my mind

Imagine how the world could be, so very fine

So happy together

I can't see me lovin' nobody but you, for all my life

When you're with me baby the skies will be blue, for all my life

Me and you and you and me

No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be

The only one for me is you and you for me

So happy together

I can't see me lovin' nobody but you, for all my life

When you're with me baby the skies will be blue, for all my life

Me and you and you and me

No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be

The only one for me is you and you for me

So happy together

I can't see me lovin' nobody but you, for all my life

When you're with me baby the skies will be blue, for all my life

So happy together

So happy together

(Seriously people. Any irony here?)

When Rachel finished, she looked at Finn's eyes and saw him crying. She leaned in and kissed him, knowing everything'll be alright. (Hopefully!)

Finn was released that afternoon after the doctor was amazed to see a full recovery so quickly. He complemented Rachel on her fiancée of choice seeing as Finn was stronger than a bull. He let Finn go seeing that Rachel looked like a person that could take care of him. Finn refused to be pushed. He wanted to walk and hold Rachel's hand. Puck and Quinn left Rachel and Finn for the night knowing they needed catching up. Finn walked with Rachel and took the subway with her back to her NYADA dorm. There he lay down on the bed, and he pulled her down with him to kiss her more. After that, they had a romantic evening with one another going to Sardi's because it was their restaurant since Nationals, for special occasions in NYC. After they were down. Finn took her back yet again and they did the deed for the first time in what was close to a year. Rachel was so glad that he was back with her.

Nearly a week goes by and all is good. Finn was asked by Rachel to go down the hall and check the mail. Rachel was getting ready for a night on the town with Finn, since it was Saturday night once again, exactly one week since Finn got back. Luckily no word from David. Finn opened the mail box and found a letter saying that he needed to go to the front desk. He walked up there and gave the lobby attendant the notice. She in turn gave Finn the big stack of envelopes. Finn picked them up and started reading them down the hall heartbroken. She had never gotten the envelopes!

Finn slammed the door walking in.

Rachel asked anxiously: "What is it honey...honey." she looked around the bathroom door and walked out. Finn was motionless, breathing real hard but slowly.

"What is..." She started, but then noticed the letters.

"How come you did not get these?" Finn asked.

"The uh, post office, uh, must have never sent them or something." Rachel said with anxiety.

"What are you talking about?" Finn snapped sharply. "It says clearly on them 'addressee address is vacant' clearly on them."

"Finn I..." She said as he asked in anger.

"That means you moved out, and then moved back in. Why did you move out, and then move back in?" He asked with real anger in his voice.

"Finn I..." Rachel tried to defend, until a knock came at the door.

Finn didn't bother to let Rachel answer it. He had a feeling for what was coming. He yanked open the door to see another tall, young, good-looking man to be standing there. He was somewhere around Finn's age.

"What do you want?" Finn asked the man rudely.

"I came here to see Rachel." He responded.

"Yeah, well, you must have the wrong Rachel or something." Finn interjected.

"Look pal, I don't mean to be rude, but before your ass showed up, me and Rachel were dating." He added in a "so-what-were-you-saying" kind of tone.

Finn stood in disbelief and had an expression of fear and shock. He looked at Rachel and said to her: "Tell me this guy is joking."

Rachel stood there, not wanting to talk.

Finn walked over and asked her: "Tell me it's not true Rachel?" This time with tears in his eyes.

"I'm sorry Finn." She replied, guilty to her accusations; tears rolling down her eyes.

"Oh no, baby. Please oh please, let me be imagining this." He begged. "Tell me please." He said grasping her shoulders and looking into her eyes. "Did you ever sleep with him?"

She stared blankly into his eyes. Lying was dumb, Finn always saw right through that.

"Yes." and that was all that she said.

Finn stared at her, and said with many tears rolling down his eyes. "Yeah, well, I hope you're happy." He said nothing more, and instead stormed out of the room.

Rachel chased after him to the door, not paying any attention to David. "Finn! Please Finn come back!" She cried with so many tears, her pristine voice sounded like chards of glass.

Finn walked down the hall, and that was it.

Finn knocked on the door. Quinn opened it up to her hotel room. She and Puck were staying nearby in a hotel to be with him and Rachel to make sure he was good after his return home. Today was their last day until they go back to Hartford again. Finn walked to the bed and sat on the end of it.

Quinn came over to sit next to him while Puck sat on his other side just sympathizing with Finn. "Finn what's wrong." Quinn asked concerned.

"I should have known, Rachel cheated on me while I was gone. And not just going out to movies with someone seeing, that I could probably handle, but moving in and sleeping with someone else? I can't believe Rachel in a million years would ever do such a thing. I love her, and she broke my heart." He paused. "I knew that I should have just called or something. When I kept sending those letters and nothing came in return, at first I thought it wouldn't go through because I am in the middle of nowhere. But knowing Rachel, she would have found a way. But after six months, nothing came, and I grew worried. It all adds up now."

Puck came in. "So I assume you got the letters today."

"Yeah, but not only that, Rachel's boyfriend or whoever came by today to try and get her back after he knew I returned." Finn replied.

"Ugh, David, that is so typical of him. He is the biggest jerk in the world." Quinn said.

Finn was taken aback. "You knew? You knew this whole time, and you didn't tell me?" Finn shouted.

"Finn, what would give you that idea?' Puck said.

"You knew his name. I didn't." Finn retorted.

Puck and Quinn knew that there hole was impossible to dig out of.

"Finn bro, calm down." Puck intervened.

"No I'm not going to calm down!" Finn snapped. "I can't believe this shit is happening, and after all I've done for everybody!" Finn shouted as he ran out.

Puck and Quinn didn't even have enough time to stop him, as he ran out of the door and didn't look back at Puck nor Quinn.