Disclaimer: Glee is the property of Ryan Murphy and FOX. I don't own the characters, but most of the storyline is mine and mine only.

Author's Note: This is the prequel to "A Beautiful Somewhere", you don't have to have read that story to know what this is about. Future!Finchel.

They've been in New York for less than a month and Rachel's already dragging Finn back to Lima. It's almost like she can't wait to be back home. He knows why they're going back though, it's not like he hasn't been planning his life around this weekend home, but he still just wants to stay in New York. He likes it in the big city, even if work is crazy and he sees Rachel for about an hour every day. It bothers him that he can't spend time with her, but whatever time they get together, they cherish it. The sex has reduced and they spend all their time talking, because that is the one thing that they need to do. If they don't, it feels like they're not part of each other's lives as much. So they collapse into bed, fully clothed after their long day, and cuddle while they take turns talking about what their day was like. Finn knows that their sex life has to take a break at some point and that maybe this is a good thing because talking with your bodies instead of your mouth isn't the best way to go through a relationship. And when Finn and Rachel start talking, they usually get completely carried away because they like being totally involved in each other's lives. He likes listening to her and watching her talk about the show, the way her face lights up and her hands flail all over the place and the sound of her giggling and the way she presses herself against him when she gets really excited. Finn is surprised by himself for not wanting sex like he usually does. Just being close to her is enough. That and the fact that he's too tired after work to really even think about sex. But they do bring it up once in a while and the few times that they do let themselves strip each other naked, the sex is slow and not as fun. There's slow and wonderful sex – this is all Rachel talking after they're done – and then there's awkwardly slow sex, which is what they've been having. They both climax, which is a shock really, but it's not the same thing. They're trying to make love, but they're doing everything but. So Finn believes that maybe the trip home will be a good idea. Maybe it'll help them revisit their old haunts and revive the sex drive. Or not have any sex at all because Rachel has this itinerary that they have to follow and given that they're going home for a wedding, they can't really mess around with the list that Rachel has emailed him after editing it twice. And he notices that sex features on the list three times, using their secret code of gold stars – which is actually a gold star.

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Rachel left for Lima the day before Finn, taking Thursday and Friday off so that she could be a good and helpful maid of honor and also so that Quinn can relax while Rachel runs around like a headless chicken. It's not exactly the worst thing in the world and while she's not particularly good with stress, Rachel knows that someone has to keep the bride busy while everything falls apart if it decides to happen. And as Quinn's best friend and maid of honor, that is her job. She would rather have Finn there with her, doing all the heavy lifting and the bossing around, but he had to work. And while she had to work as well, the director let her take the long weekend off because she explained to him how important all of this was to her. sometimes even she couldn't believe how far they'd come. A few years ago Finn and Quinn were dating, then Finn was with Rachel and then Finn was with Quinn again and then he finally came back to Rachel and Quinn finally went back to Puck. The four of them had in some way or the other gotten together with each other and now they were best friends and getting married and perfectly fitting into the coupling that should have been the deal all those years ago. She still couldn't get over the fact that she and Quinn were best friends when there was a time when Quinn hated Rachel and a time when the only friend Rachel had was Finn. Things had changed and they had gotten older and they were all happy this way. She was the maid of honor for the Fabray-Puckerman wedding and Finn was the best man and in a few months, Quinn and Puck would be returning the favor and all would be right in the world.

Sleeping had become a luxury for them, one they didn't have, so getting Friday morning to just stay in bed and do nothing meant that Rachel was going to take it for granted. She was curled up in her old bed, wearing one of Finn's McKinley High t-shirts, not bothered about the world. She had worked till four am the night before and while it was well on its way to being time for lunch, Rachel couldn't get herself out of bed. The old Rachel would have been up at 6am for a quick elliptical run before eating breakfast and continuing on with her day like she wasn't exhausted from the night before. But the new Rachel was lazy and loved staying in bed. She blamed Finn for turning her into a slot. They spent so much time in bed during the weekends that Rachel forgot what it was like to be up at unearthly hour. Stirring as she felt the covers being pulled from her body, Rachel whimpered softly and blindly reached for the sheets and came up with nothing. Opening her eyes slowly, Rachel turned onto her back and squealed loudly as Finn's face appeared in front of hers. It took her a few minutes of blinking and looking down to make sure she wasn't imagining him there, "This is one helluva dream if you're dreaming, huh?"

"I am dreaming, aren't I?"

"I'm not sure. If you were dreaming, would you be able to feel this?" Rachel bit down on her lip as Finn's hand slipped between her legs and cupped her through her thin cotton panties. Her eyes fluttered shut as she moved her hips against his hand, holding back the moan that was threatening to escape her lips.

"Hi, baby."

"Hey yourself," Finn pressed his lips against the corner of her mouth before pulling his hand away to lie down beside her. Rachel turned onto her side and smiled, pushing her hair behind her ear with one hand as she reached out to touch him with the other, just making sure that she wasn't imagining this, "You're really here."

"I made up some big story about my brother getting married in two days and how as his best man I had to be here for it and my editor told me that I can work from Lima if anything suddenly happens."

"Noah is sort of like your brother," Rachel pointed out as she scooted closer to him, her fingers carefully unbuttoning his shirt as she smiled, "Even if Kurt would not appreciate getting replaced by Noah."

"Yeah," Finn dropped his eyes to her hands and smiled as he looked back at her, "Let's not tell Kurt that Puck is more of a brother, because that would just not go over so well."

"Kurt's an amazing brother."

"Kurt is a pretty awesome brother; I think I'm lucky to have a brother like him."

"When he gets married, you better have some fancy speech prepared."

"I like how you think he's going to ask me to be his best man."

"You're his brother."

"Burt could be his best man," Finn raised an eyebrow as Rachel sighed in defeat and ran her hands down his bare chest, "You okay, Rach?"

"I just missed you."

"It was one day, babe."

"I know and I was busy all of yesterday, but being back here without you was so weird."

"I'm here now."

"And you're going to be here for the next three days."

"Two."

"What?"

"I have to be back on Monday morning, unlike originally planned."

"Finn!"

"I got today off, so my editor wants me back at work on Monday."

"Honey," Rachel sighed, trying to keep the annoyance from being evident in her voice, "You're leaving as soon as they leave. I thought we'd get a day together in Lima before we went back."

"I know, baby, but I can't skip out on work so much. I'm still the new guy and it's kinda strange that I'm already taking a day off."

"What will I do the last day alone?"

"Spend it with your dads; go visit my mom and Burt."

"But I made plans for us."

"Can't we do them today? I promise I'm all yours today. Your dads are the only ones who know I'm here."

"I guess we can."

Rachel pouted as she uncurled herself and moved closer to Finn, leaving absolutely no gap between their bodies. She heard his breath hitch as she pressed her lips to his chest before tilting his head to trail her lips up his neck. Smiling against his skin as his arm moved around his waist, Rachel carefully lifted a leg and hooked it around his hip and rolled her hips against his gently, nipping at his skin at the nose that escaped his lips. Pressing herself against him gently, Rachel pushed him onto his back and straddled his hips, pulling her lips away from his neck as she licked her lips and sat up straight. Smiling down at him, Rachel worked his belt off fast and undid the button and zipper on his jeans before lifting herself to push them off. She could see Finn itching to grab her hips and help her take her clothes off, but she locked eyes with him and hope he got the message that she was in charge. Most of the time she let him do whatever he wanted, but now she was going to do all the work and she wanted him to just enjoy it. Of course things would turn around just as she would be getting to the good part and she wouldn't complain, because once Finn was buried deep inside her, it didn't matter how they conducted their business. Rachel shifted on his lap, sliding her hands past the waistband of his boxers and carefully tugged them off, all the while keeping her eyes locked on his. Finn had once told her that one of the hottest things about sex with her was the way she kept her eyes locked with his. The only time that their eyes weren't connected was when they were kissing, or his face was buried in her neck or she was tumbling over the edge. She was going to keep this eye contact going as long as she could and it was almost such a treat watching him struggle to keep his eyes open as her tiny hands found their way around his erection. Rachel licked her lips, smiling as he mimicked her actions, and wrapped her fingers around his length, moving her hand in long slow strokes as he growled, keeping his eyes on her. she brushed her thumb over his tip as his hips bucked into her hand and Finn's head tilted back, breaking their eye contact. Biting down on her bottom lip Rachel moved her hand faster as he hardened in her hand and rocked her hips against his slightly. When his hand moved up her thigh and slipped under her shirt, Rachel's eyes fluttered shut and she didn't even fight him off as he hooked his finger into the waistband of her panties and tugged on them. Lifting herself off of him, Rachel used her free hand to help him get her panties off. A strangled moan escaped her lips as Finn slipped a hand between her legs and teased her clit slowly, shifting the pressure of his finger against her. she matched his movements by moving her hand as fast as he moved his finger and felt her clit harden under his touch. Arching her back, Rachel rolled her hips down into his touch and bit back a loud moan as his finger slipped into her, "Baby…"

"I want you too, Rach," Finn pulled his finger out of her slowly as she twisted her hand along his length, brushing her core along his length as she dug her knees into the bed, lining them up before lowering herself onto him slowly, letting her body adjust. Rachel leaned forward slightly and rested her hands on his chest as she lowered herself more, pressing her eyes shut as his hips moved up to meet hers, filling her completely. Scraping her nails down his chest slowly, Rachel moved her hips against his slowly, trying to find a steady rhythm as Finn moved under her slowly, his hips moving in the opposite direction.

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Finn knew the minute that he got to Lima Rachel would tell him exactly how to do things. And he also knew that waking her up would lead them to getting naked and comfortable between the sheets. And he was more than happy about that because it meant that he got to get what they had been depriving themselves of for so long. His fingers dug into her hips as she found a steady pace, moving her hips along his length, her back arching as she scraped her nails along his torso, his name falling from her lips like a chant. Finn bucked his hips up into hers, causing her to dig her nails into his sides. The pain could be ignored for now, but in a few hours, he'd be wincing every time someone touched or hugged him and as far as Finn could remember Rachel's itinerary, they were going to be hugging a lot of people. Growling happily as she moved her hands away from his stomach to wrap her fingers around his wrists, Finn opened his eyes and watched her ride him, her head thrown back and her perfect for his hand boobs bouncing as she moved. There were so many things he wanted to do, tasting her was at the top of his list, but for now, he'd have to deal with what he had. And he wasn't complaining, because this was amazing. But he really wanted to taste her, feel her fingers in his hair as he took his time letting his tongue do all the work. Finn bit down on his bottom lip as she pressed her thighs against his side, clenching around him as she dropped her head slightly, her eyes opening enough for him to see that they were glazed over. Smiling to himself, Finn pushed his hips up against hers gently, sliding an arm around her waist as he used the other to balance himself and flipped them over so that she was under him. shifting as he pulled out of her slightly, Finn watched Rachel's body arch for the contact again. That small action alone made him smile and pushing his hands into the mattress on either side of her, Finn thrust back into her. he knew almost as soon as he inside her again, that pinning her hands above her head was the right thing to do, but Finn was so caught up in the way her body buzzed for his that he didn't think of the consequences of her nails on his back.

Burying his face in her neck, Finn found a steady rhythm as he thrust into her, not wanting to rush it and miss everything. One hand settled on her hip as she moved with him, her hips meeting his with every thrust. Finn groaned loudly as she dug her nails deeper into his back, dragging one hand along his shoulder and into his hair. Sucking on her neck as her fingers threaded through his hair, Finn shifted slightly and thrust deeper and faster into her. Rachel wrapped her legs around his hips, digging the heel of her foot into his butt and urged him deeper. Finn scraped his teeth along her skin as he pushed deeper, growling as Rachel moved her hips up into his in sloppy circles, guiding him along her walls as she clenched and unclenched around him randomly. They'd been having so much sex since that first time, Finn was sure that nothing would surprise him anymore, but Rachel found a way to surprise him every single time. And if he let her take charge, Finn was sure that he'd be learning something new right then, but he wasn't looking for new, he just wanted her. all of her. grunting as she pushed her hips up against his hard, Finn thrust against her spot, producing a strangled moan from her. she tugged on his hair and he bit down on her neck as she tightened around him, whispering something into his ear that Finn did not care for. All he knew was that she was close and so was he and in that moment, words did not matter, just what they both wanted. Pushing into her harder as she mewled against his shoulder, Finn felt Rachel's walls suck on him hard as she shuddered under him as she came, the happy moan falling from her lips sending him over the edge as he hardened and released into her, her body jolting against his before collapsing onto the bed. Finn rested his forehead on her shoulder, his eyes closed as he worked on his breathing, the sound of their in sync breathing and the silent hum coming from the two of them being the only thing Finn could hear for miles. Her fingers brushed over his back, carefully soothing the spots where she cut him. Finn was sure he was bleeding, but he couldn't be concerned about that when he was more interested in the way her hips slowly moved against his, like she was gunning for a second round. Knowing Rachel, she could go for a second and third without thinking about it. But he was in pain and he didn't want to say no, but he knew that if Rachel pushed up against him, there would be very little he could do to stop himself from wanting it as well. But the movements of her hips stilled and Rachel unwrapped her legs from around him, which was his cue to pull out and move so they could snuggle till they fell asleep.

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Finn opened his eyes when the sound of a ringing phone woke him up. He had no idea where it was coming from, but it sounded like his phone. He was pretty sure that Rachel wouldn't be listening to Pantera, even if it would make him totally happy. But there was a problem. His phone was somewhere on the floor, probably in the pocket of his jeans, and Rachel was half on top of him. there was no way he was going to move without waking her up. They had gone another round after Finn had pulled out, but that had been slower and a lot more desperate. Rachel took charge and Finn didn't even fight it. But now he was in serious pain and he couldn't move for more than one reason. Closing his eyes briefly as his phone stopped ringing; Finn let his hand settle on Rachel's butt and settled back into the bed to sleep again. "Cowboys From Hell" started up again, filling up the room and before Finn could open his eyes, Rachel was sliding off of him to get his phone. Groaning as she tossed it at him, Finn blindly moved his hand along the bed and picked up the phone, answering it as he sat up, "This better be good."

"I'm getting married in two days and that's all you have to say?"

"I'm not sure what you want me to say."

"Good point," Puck grumbled on the other end of the phone and Finn rubbed his eyes as Rachel straddled his lap again, pressing soft kisses to the corner of his mouth before moving her lips down his jaw, "Are you in Lima yet?"

"Yeah, I got in a few hours ago," Finn closed his eyes, trying to keep his breathing steady as Rachel flicked her tongue out at his neck, "What's up?"

"You're planning my bachelor party, right?"

"Unless you have someone else who wants to do it."

"I wasn't really meaning to ask you, because you have got to do it."

"I guess I'm planning your bachelor party."

"Yeah, okay, don't."

"What?" Finn groaned both at the conversation and the feel of Rachel's hips rolling slowly into his as she sucked on his pulse point, "I'm confused now."

"Quinn just told me that if I have a bachelor party, she'll deprive me of sex for a few months."

"Dude," Finn bit back a groan as Rachel moved her lips along his jaw and sucked on his earlobe, "I have to go."

"What? No, fuck whatever you're doing and rescue me."

"Yeah, about that…" Finn licked his lips and opened his eyes as Rachel smiled, pushing one hand into his hair as the other reached for the phone, "Babe, wait…."

"We'll see you for lunch, Noah," Rachel hung up, turned the phone off and tossed it on the floor, pushing her other hand into his hair as she scrunched up her nose, "We should really not go without sex for this long ever again."

"You're telling me," Finn moved his hands to her back, shifting her on his lap carefully, "I'm the one with cuts and bruises on my back and I'm pretty sure my hair is going to come off in your hand this time."

"I'm sorry for wanting my fiancé so bad that I can't hold back."

"I'm not complaining, just stating the facts."

"Good, because I don't want to have to deprive you sex for the rest of the weekend."

"You wouldn't, not when I can feel just how badly you want me."

"Shut up," Rachel giggled and leaned in to kiss him as Finn pulled her against him, their chest pressed together as he hardened slightly, causing her to moan happily into the kiss. This wasn't a good idea, not when he was already in so much pain, but he knew that if he made enough noise about it, Rachel would make it up to him later. This weekend was about them and making up for what they hadn't had in a really long time.