Olivia: Thank you Hun! :D hope you enjoy this chapter as well :D
A/N Ok hopefully Chapter 10 doesn't get eaten like 9 was, boy was that annoying! Anyway my lovely Beta has to go back to school and doesnt have any time to edit this for me anymore, so I am really sorry about any mistakes, I have read it through loads but like I said on my profile I'm better at arguing rather than writing :P
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO PrincessOnyx though for betaing the last nine chapters!
Disclaimed!
Aaron 10
"Hey" Puck greeted opening his front door on Saturday, "Come on in...uh Dave, everyone is in the back garden" he led the way through the house and out to the large back garden that was the pride and joy of Hannah, while the grill was they pride and joy of Leroy who wouldn't let anyone else near it "your dad is already here"
"Yeah him and Hiram play golf in the morning" Dave said as they came up on the team, who were all sitting around on the grass with Rachel and Aaron, while the surgeons all hung around the grill waiting and watching the food to cook.
"Dave!" Rachel said with a smile, looking up at her old best friend, the rest of the glee watched him a little more grumpily, seeing as David Karofsky had been one of the biggest bullies and tormentors of them all they couldn't really be blamed for the lukewarm hello.
"Hey Rach" Dave said sitting down next to her, inadvertently taking Puck's place on the grass, as he had claimed the spot next to his fiancée as they used the BBQ as a chance to celebrate it. Mike seeing the muscles in Puck's neck twitch moved over quickly, poking Matt over to create space on Rachel's right.
"Aaron baby come here" Rachel said to her son who was sitting in Brit's lap as they had an intent conversation about Dora the Explorer, helping her nephew to his feet and off her lap the little boy ambled over to his mom and clambered on to her lap as Puck took a seat next to her.
"Yes mommy?" Aaron asked looking up at her with a bright smile,
"I want you to meet another friend of mine, this is Dave"
"Hi Dave" Aaron said waving at the hockey player as he sat on his mom's lap.
"Hey buddy" Dave said with a smile sticking out his hand for Aaron to shake, Aarons tiny little hand barely wrapping around Dave's palm but still he shook it seriously smiling at the delightful little boy who was smiling broadly.
"Dave is a really old friend of mine, he's also the son of one of granddaddies friends" Rachel told her son "he's Zach's son"
"Oh I like Zach" Aaron said smiling broadly "mommy when are we eating? I'm hungry"
"Whenever your grandfathers stop fussing" Rachel said to everyone's amusement as she glanced over at the men who were fussing over the grill.
"Come on buddy let's get you a snack" Puck said getting up and picking his son up as he saw how raw the meat still looked, Rachel seeing what he was looking at rolled her eyes at her father's inability to just start cooking and got to her own feet.
"How about I grab us all some chips? It doesn't look like any of us will be eating soon" she asked with a laugh as everyone nodded and agreed, some asking for drinks as well. The family walked back into the house together, a perfect looking family unit as Puck held his son close and dropped a kiss onto Rachel's head.
"They look good together" Dave announced to the group as a whole, watching his old friend smile and laugh as Puck muttered something into her ear "she hasn't looked that happy in a very long time"
"You two were close?" asked Kurt for the group who hadn't heard the whole story, and had been begged by Rachel to not create a scene at the BBQ seeing as her father's didn't know about the bullying she had suffered at the hands of Karofsky and the rest of the school.
"Best friends" Dave admitted quietly "till I fucked it up" he threw the piece of grass he had been toying with away from him and sat back on his elbows, staring at the blue sky above him as the glee club looked at each stunned.
"What happened?" Kurt asked wanting the gossip
"I messed up" Dave answered gruffly "that's all that matters, she needed me and I pushed her away"
"Rachel doesn't need anyone" Artie protested
"Yeah well you didn't know her after she got raped, she fucking needed someone then, and I stuck around for a while, and then...well then I fucked up" Dave growled his voice angry at first filled with bitterness towards the end, his self-contempt evident in his voice, though no-one else knew it was at himself for not picking up Rachel in the first place.
The family exited then, Aaron running up to Mike and waving his peanut butter and jelly sandwich in his face "haha I got food" the little boy taunted at the perpetually hungry Asian, who groaned at him and scowled before grabbing the sandwich and running off. Aaron stomping his foot in frustration and running after his uncle, as Matt dove for him and picked him flying him towards Mike, everyone laughed at the antics of the two utterly devoted uncles who gladly gave away their free time to play with the little boy.
"He got that foot stomping thing from you" Puck moaned at Rachel, as he sat down the tray of sodas and waters he had brought out before taking out of her hands the bowls of chips she had prepared inside and putting them down. Sitting down he pulled her onto his lap and held her left hand, studying the ring that rested on the ring finger, and thinking back to the confrontation with his mother two days before, after her ultimatum he had just looked at her and turned around leading Rachel up to his room, pulling out every bag he could find he packed his life up and placed it all in his truck before driving away. The Berry's had simply opened the door and helped him carry it all in as Rachel fussed over him, trying to get him to talk about it, while all he did was hold Aaron close and helped him through some basic exercises that he had been assigned.
"Oh well" Rachel said breezily as she cuddled back into his lap, watching her son laugh and giggle as he was swept around like superman in Matt's arms, racing after Mike who kept dodging the two of them pretending to munch the sandwich.
Dave grinned as Matt put Aaron down and suddenly declared he was going to help Mike, leaving the little boy alone. Aaron ran up to Dave and grabbed his arm "help me?" he begged "I'm really hungry", smirking Dave lowered his ear to Aaron's ear and whispered a plan in his ear.
Everyone laughed as less than ten seconds later Mike was on the floor with Aaron on top of him tickling as Dave circled them keeping Matt away as he tried to dart in and help Mike, grinning in victory as Mike surrendered and gave back the sandwich Aaron stuck his tongue out at his uncle and ran over to his parents collapsing next them as he ate his sandwich.
"Dude you lost to a three year old!" Finn laughed rolling in laughter, everyone in stitches as they laughed at the grumpy Asian, who broke into a smile as Aaron finished his sandwich and launched himself at his uncle hugging him tightly.
"Daddy I'm bored" moaned Aaron a little while later as they still waited for the food to be cooked
"But you got all those nice new toys to play with" Puck objected, smiling as his son pouted and glared at, at least in his mind, the adults who were sitting around talking, the boys having an in depth discussion about the coming baseball season, the girls about glee. "Ok then sport what do you want to do?"
"Can we play a game?" Aaron begged
Puck pretended to think about it, his forehead creased in concentration his tongue slightly poking out the side of his mouth, scowling Aaron jumped into his lap, bouncing up and down "pleaseeeeeee daddyyyyyy"
"Oh ok then" Puck agreed laughing "what game?"
"Hide and seek?" Aaron suggested happily
"Only if you ask everyone else to play, we need more than us two"
"Ok" Aaron said jumping off his dads lap and landing on his mom's who jumped at the sudden weight "mommy can we play hide and seek? Daddy said we can"
"Of course darling" Rachel agreed brushing back his hair and knowing that he was bored "let me take the tray in and you can ask everyone else, but you have to stay in the house and the garden ok?"
Aaron nodded happily and went to beg his uncles as his mother took the tray in and come back in clearing the large lawn for the game which everyone but Kurt and Mercedes had agreed to play, Mercedes because she was bad at the game and Kurt because he refused to allow any damage to his designer clothes.
"Ok I'll be It" Mike said smiling "you got one minute, hide!" everyone split off quickly, Puck and Rachel hurrying Aaron along into the house before leaving him to his own devices to find a hiding space, trusting everyone to keep an eye out on him, right now surrounded by his family he was safe.
Gleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Santana idly kicked the booth opposite her as she swung her legs annoyingly; Quinn bit her lip and restrained herself from yelling at the angry Latino who hadn't stopped bitching since she had had it out with Puck.
"I'm a whore? I am whore? What the hell does that make him? You know what is going to happen? He's going to cheat on Rachel and then everyone is going to hate him and he'll come crawling back to me because I tried to stop him, I sat there and I tried to stop him, if only he would listen to me"
Quinn bit her lip and rolled her eyes again, having heard the same argument for the last five days, neither of them noticed the man sitting in the booth behind them who had been listening intently from the minute Santana had sat down and cursed Rachel.
"You know what they are doing today? Having a family BBQ! My god how gay can you get it, the perfect little family, makes me sick. She stole him from me, that little bitch is going to get what's coming to her, her and that precious little son of hers" Santana sniped stirring her milkshake completely oblivious to Quinn's own anger rising, after hearing Rachel's story she had renewed respect for the small brunette
"God I hate little Miss I was Raped" Santana snapped
"San just shut up" Quinn finally snapped, pulling herself out of the booth and putting her hands on her hips "look I'm the last person to want to defend Rachel, but the truth is she went through hell and back and you just cannot get over the fact that Puck choose her, well news flash you were never anything more than a whore to him and everyone has known it for a lot longer than just the last week when he finally told you"
Turning on her heel Quinn marched out, finally having had enough with the angry teenager she got into her car and headed home, making herself the promise that as soon as she could she would make amends with Rachel and the rest of the glee club, especially if it would get Finn back for her.
Sitting in shock Santana sniffed angrily and tossed her hair over one shoulder, jumping as a guy slipped into the booth opposite her "hey you ok? That was rough" he said a charming smile on his face.
"I know right?" Santana snapped a little, a flirtatious smile on her lips she was used to strange men coming up to flirt with her, while this one was a bit more forward then most he was attractive in a classic way, but what made him alluring was his charisma that flowed in his movements and his smile.
"Want to talk about it?" he asked with a grin "I got about half an hour before I got to be in work..."
Feeling completely at ease about talking to this stranger, Santana smiled and wrapped her lips around her straw before flipping her hair back and telling him everything.
Gleeeeeeeeeeeee
An hour later Rachel gave in on the now mammoth game of hide and seek even the adults now dragged in as Leroy finally started cooking; collapsing in the grass of her lawn next to Kurt and Mercedes they waited for the last round to finish before they would eat.
Puck making his way into 'home' as he evaded Matt who was seeking at the moment collapsed next to Rachel and kissed her waiting for the others to return which they did in dribs and drabs as Matt either found them or they made their way home until only Brit and Aaron were left hiding.
Swallowing her irrational fear Rachel hugged Puck a little tighter watching intently for her son to return, getting up she circled the house to the front garden, moving through the locked gate to make sure that the front door was still locked. Watching her with worry as he didn't know what she was doing Puck hopped up to follow her "baby?" he asked as she rattled the front door "he knows he's only allowed in the house and garden, and the front door is locked he couldn't have got out anyway"
"No...Noah something is wrong" Rachel insisted breaking into a run and going back into the garden where Brit was now sitting on the lawn disgruntled that Matt had found her, pelting into the house Rachel called for Matt.
"Matt! Matt have you found him?" she cried running upstairs, finding the teenager looking confused and shaking his head.
"No I can't find him anywhere, and I have been calling him saying he has won"
"He would never pass up rubbing it in Mike's face that he won" Puck objected "Aaron! Aaron" he cried running through the rooms, Rachel doing the same, Matt running downstairs to recheck every where he had already looked.
Panicking now Rachel ran into the garden "Aaron! Baby where are you?"
"Rachel what's wrong?" Hiram asked as his daughter headed towards the pool where the adults were sitting
"Aaron!" Rachel screamed again ignoring her father, looking desperately for her son, everyone realising this wasn't a game anymore.
"We can't find him" Matt panted as Puck still searched the house, everyone jumped to their feet and hurriedly began looking for the little boy, as Rachel's phone went off, snatching it up and seeing an unknown number Rachel almost ignored it, but Puck appearing at her side stopped her and pressed the green button turning on the speaker phone. A bad feeling spreading through his stomach as he quietly said hello.
"Thank you for looking after my son Rachel, he's all mine now"