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46- Love
"I love you." The words tumble from her mouth before she has a chance to stop them and her eyes widen in surprise. She hadn't expected that to come out. But it had, and now there was no taking it back. Ever.
She looks away quickly. It's too much for her to handle, too much for her to even think about.
"I'm thinking about going to school early, maybe even as soon as this summer." She knows its not the time to tell him that- she's not even sure if it's happening and she doesn't want him to worry about it, but there's nothing else she can think to say.
He doesn't say anything.
She bites her thumb nail, shredding her perfectly sculpted nail into a nub of its former self.
And still he says nothing.
Her anxiety quickly turns to anger and from there it escalates to ferocity. She's ferocious and then enraged and then she's standing and her knees pop from being jostled after sitting so long.
She takes one step, two, three and she's at the door. It swings open at her push and she's striding down the driveway towards her little black car parked near Jesse's range rover.
She can hear her named being called but she's so upset she can't make out anything else. The car door slams shut and her fingers jumble with the the keys- finally she gets them in the ignition and by then Jesse is at her window.
He's knocking on it and telling her to get out of the car but she doesn't care- she doesn't care at all because she just told him she loved him and all he did was stare.
She throws her car into reverse and nearly knocks down the St. Jame's trashcan.
"Rachel, I love you!" Jesse is yelling and she can just barely make it out. Her foot slips from the gas and hits the break and the car jerks to a stop.
She barely has the car in park before Jesse is throwing the door open and pulling her out of the car. He doesn't waste any time and his lips find hers in a matter of seconds.
And then the words are falling from his mouth, like little praises- "I love you." "I love you." "I'm so in love with you." "I love you."
47- New Years Eve
He's drunk. Sloshed. Hammered. Wasted.
Finn Hudson can barely stand, can barely even think. The room is crooked and there's an awful acidic taste in his mouth. He stumbles forward and hits something hard with his hip. It barely phases him.
People are yelling and shouting, it's new years eve and the chaos in the room is ear shattering. People push up against him and the room is hot and smells like liquor.
Someone calls him a cab and he falls into the back seat like dead weight. The sky is decorated with lights, bright explosions of fire and sparks.
He closes his eyes, his mind still reeling and he can feel his heart pump into overdrive.
Drunk out of his mind, he still only thinks about her.
Finn is deposited at his apartment in Manhattan. He followed her out here, to the far east of the country, to the place she'd always wanted to be.
He thinks that one day he'll run into her, one day he'll find her again... But it's unlikely.
Somehow he makes it up to his room, fumbling with his keys, and drops onto the sofa. He has a room mate, but he's not there at the moment. He drops into sleep, hoping that this year will be different.
48- Display
"That's Rachel Berry" a little girl squeals, pulling sharply on her mothers hand. Jesse looks up, surprised to hear that name.
"Who, sweetheart?" The mother asks, squinting her eyes to try and catch the sight of whoever her daughter mentioned.
"That one, the one on TV!" The girl jumps up and down and points toward the giant tv display in the window.
Jesse takes a step closer and inspects the screen. It's certainly Rachel Berry, but not one he's ever seen before.
This version is older, mature, beautiful and confident. There's no sound coming from the tv, but he can tell she's singing and it's beautiful.
"What do you know about Rachel Berry?" Jesse asks the little girl, making the mother a little nervous. Jesse is clean and handsome and looks rich, but one can never trust strangers in these days.
"She's only the most talented person ever!" She bounces, excited to share information about her favorite role model. "I love her, and I'm her biggest fan!"
"She sounds amazing."
The girl nods ecstatically in agreement.
"I would give anything to see her!" The girl's voice takes on an almost mournful tone, one that surprises Jesse.
But then again, he would too.
49- Musical note
The entire glee club is stunned when they catch sight of it. It was completely by accident, but it happened nevertheless. Rachel Berry had simply reached up to catch the paper ball Noah Puckerman threw, exposing a lot more skin than normal.
Kurt was the first one to notice, and then proceeded to grab Rachel by the hip to examine it more closely.
There were three music notes, rising from the beneath the waistband of her skirt, following the curve of her hips.
"When did you mutilate your body?" Kurt asked, rubbing at the black ink.
Rachel squirmed out of his reach, pulling her shirt down as far as it would go.
After several crude jokes, a few compliments, Santana calling her a whore and Brittney asking if they were birthmarks, Rachel finally escaped from the rehearsal.
Jesse was leaning against the hallway when she came out, embarrassed and frustrated with everyone's reaction to her tattoo's, beginning to regret ever having it done in the first place.
"I think it's sexy."
And just like that, all the regret was gone.
50- Congratulations Mr. James, You're a father.
All of their friends and family are sitting in the waiting room, anxiously awaiting for more news. Coffee is being passed around and balloons are crowding the ceiling. Even though this baby is two week early, everyone came fully prepared.
Rachel's fathers pace up and down the hall, too excited to sit down. Jesse is the same way in the delivery room, shifting on the balls of his feet. She's refused the epidural and now the pain is starting to make her cry.
The crying escalates to screaming and cursing and she's clenching his hand so tightly he thinks he'll never be able to use it again. But then the doctor is asking her to push and she's crying again and shaking and he peaks over her legs to get the first look of his child.
And he can see his head, and now his shoulders and then he's shocked that instead of a son, he has a beautiful baby girl.
Rachel is breathing raggedly and crying and the doctor is wrapping up his daughter and holding her out to them. Rachel immediately opens her arms towards their daughter and Jesse can't help the tears.
Rachel is crying, and the baby is crying and so is he. It's more than he could ever hope for, it's more than he could ever dream for because finally he has his family. Jesse has his perfect family and his heart is so full it's about to burst.
Holding his daughter feels like holding the key to every magical thing in the world. It's like an honor that he never deserved, and he thanks God, because how else did he get so extremely lucky?
He walks out with his daughter and the room explodes with cheers, it's a girl.
Rachel's fathers are the first ones to be allowed to hold her and Jesse hovers over them like a hawk. He stops breathing when she's passed into someone elses hands and only starts breathing again when he finally takes her back in his arms.
People congratulate him on being so lucky, on having such a wonderful wife- on having such a beautiful girl. He can barely acknowledge all of them, too enraptured with the perfect thing resting in the crook of his arm.
Later, when they are alone, Jesse climbs into the hospital bed with his wife, tucks his newborn daughter between them and holds the most important thing ever, in his life.
He holds his family.
Sorry for any errors, I know there are quite a few.