A/N: Hi! A new update for everyone. The final chapter before epilogue. I can't believe I just finished another story.
Thank you everyone who reviewed, made me and this story their favorite, followed this story and me, and to those who send me private messages. Everything didn't turn to be what I expected for this sequel but that's okay. I'm just glad that some of you are still reading my stuff.
So, this one is short and I think a bit not what you will expect for an ending but I thought about how this sequel will end and figured this should end like this. There's still going to be an epilogue and there's a lot of happening there so please wait for it.
So again thanks for all of you did guys. I hope you will come back to read my next stories. I have three ideas in my head right now and I will tell you about it on the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything. Enjoy reading.
The staff brought Finn and Puck to a room where there are others that are also visiting their loved ones that are having the same problem as Rachel's dad. The staff leads them to a table and told them to sit down while they waited for Rachel's dad to appear. Puck looks around the room, feeling a bit out of place. It is making him uncomfortable seeing all those people living in the facility. He never did get addicted to anything but just looking at those people makes him want to change his lifestyle, at least for a while.
Finn, on the other hand, still feels a bit nervous. It's a big deal for him meeting Rachel's parent and it's not something he had done before. He had dated Quinn before but he never did experience like this when it comes to meeting her parents because their families had been friends since they were kids. Right now he feels like he's about to face a big challenge in his life that he never prepared for.
"Dude, you a'right?" Puck turns to him and asked.
Finn fidgets on his seat and takes a deep breath before looking at Puck. "I'm fine." He said calmly as he can.
"You look like you're about to get something out of your body or something."
Finn ignores him and decided to just sit back and focus on Rachel and why he is doing this. It would make Rachel happy and proud that he did such thing. Yeah, that would make him feel better.
"Look, I know what you're feeling, man. I mean I know what it's like meeting your girlfriend's parents. I did that with Quinn's and let me tell you, I was scared shitless. Her dad looks at me like he's planning to murder me in 15 different ways. But the good thing about it is that with that gesture, you made them see that what you're serious with your girlfriend. Well, mine didn't work out but still, I'm happy to do that for her. So, just relax, man. It's going to be fine. Just be yourself and don't let him intimidate you. Fathers tend to act like that especially if they're facing their daughter's boyfriend."
Finn just hummed and sighed. Puck may be a shitty friend to him but he still can give a damn good pep talk anytime he got serious.
"You uh, still love her?" Finn asked him hesitantly. He kind of needs some distraction with his thoughts right now and talking to Puck about something else is a good distraction for him, even if the topic he chose is somehow awkward to talk about.
Puck looks at him, deciding whether to tell him what he really feels for Quinn. If he's being honest with himself, his feelings for Quinn were never gone. He tried, he so damn tried to take it out of his system but nothing works. He's just telling everyone that it's gone and they were just friends now but the truth is, he wants to get back together with her so badly. And that's why he was so relieved when Quinn went to Paris. That's just a good thing for him to forget her for awhile. But fate really just want to fuck up with him because it keeps on making Quinn and him see each other and it sucks that he didn't have the kind of power on him to ask her for a second chance.
Puck then looks away, staring at the man and woman talking next to their table. He looks at the way they hold each other's hand while they look at each other. He wanted that so bad he just want to throw something at the couple and stormed out.
"I don't think I will ever stop." Puck finally spoke. "I know it's cheesy or whatever but it's the truth. I can't stop it and every time I see her, it just, I think it's just keep on growing much more. And it fucking sucks."
Finn smiled sadly at him. He never did see this side of Puck, being so truthful about his true feelings for someone. It made him disappointed that they never did talk about stuff like this when they were best of friends before. He snorted at that thought. He can't even think that the two of them will actually talk about stuff like this, for like, ever.
He looks at Puck for awhile, debating with himself if he should tell him what he read at Quinn's letter to Rachel. He was reading it next to Rachel so he knows what Quinn confessed to Rachel. Looking at Puck now makes him want to tell it so bad just so the two of them can just finally be together because they belong together. Like any other couple who love each other.
He sighed. Yeah, Rachel is going to hate him for this but hey, he doesn't have any choice now. Rachel would have done the same thing if she sees what Puck looks like now.
"She loves you … more than you'll ever know." Finn said to him.
"What?" Puck looks at him, confused.
Finn didn't get to answer him when the staff that brought them to the room came back with a man. He stands up quickly and waited until the two made it to their table. The man smiles at him, as if he knows him already. Finn looks at him and smiles back to the shorter man.
"Finn Hudson, it's really nice to finally meet you." The man said to him.
"Um, Mr. Berry, it's nice to finally meet you, too. But how – "
"You're Finn Hudson, son. Of course I know who you are." Leroy grinned. The staff left them and Puck stands up to introduce himself too before leaving to be somewhere as he said. Both of them sat and Finn felt a bit relieved when he finds out that Rachel's dad is not really scary but still looked intimidating. His eyes though they're kind, they also seem guarded for some reason. As if he's still trying to figure Finn out.
"So, Finn, what brings you here?" Leroy leans back on his chair and clasps his hands on the table.
"Well, Mr. Berry, I want to talk to you about your daughter since we're really are together right now and I'm not planning on doing anything again to break us up. I just want to really meet you and – "
"You're gonna propose to my daughter?" he asks Finn as he leans back from his chair and narrowed his eyes at Finn.
"Um, yes, someday." Finn answered quickly. "You know, we still have a lot of things on our hands right now and I know your daughter. She doesn't want to have this kind of commitment right now."
Leroy smirked. "You're good for her, let me tell you that, Finn Hudson. And I agree, you should take a lot of time to get to know more each other. And from what I'm seeing, I think you two will end up with each other. I never seen my baby girl that happy since you came into his life, well not this past few years but, I think she deserves a guy like you."
Finn smiled at him. It made him happy to hear something like that from someone who Rachel really value in her life.
"And um, I actually also went here for something. I already talk to the people in here before I came so all I need now is your approval."
"Okay," Leroy said slowly. "What is it?"
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Rachel's day had been so busy, to say the least. Her shift at the diner was exhausting she barely even had the time to take a seat or even had a drink. Rehearsal isn't that different too. Their director had been so adamant on getting their acting perfect that he criticizes every mistake that the cast made and made everyone start from the beginning. She almost gave up and stormed out but she's glad with herself that she didn't. She wanted this job for so long now and she doesn't want to be known as a failure to anyone. Even Finn supported her on every decision she made in her life including this one and she don't want to disappoint him at some point.
And now as she leaves the theater, exhausted and very much famished, her mind wanders back to his boyfriend. She had been busy throughout the day that she didn't notice that her phone was silent for the whole day. There are no missed calls or texts from Finn and that's unusual for her. She knows her boyfriend and he never did forget a day without calling Rachel or even sending her text messages. She looks at her phone, checking if it's on and working. She just got a text from Blaine, saying that they need to see each other and catch up. So her phone it's not broken. Finn just didn't check up on her. Maybe he's just busy and he didn't have time to call her or something. Yeah, that must be the reason. She decided to just call him and ask what he was doing.
But before she can call him, a very familiar black car came into view. She smiled and put her phone back to her bag before walking towards the car where Thomas was waiting patiently for her.
"Hey, Thomas," she greeted him. Thomas just nodded and smile before opening the back door for her.
Inside there is Finn, who greeted him with a kiss and a tight hug that made her giggle.
"Hi," she says when she finally frees her lip from his.
"Hi." He smiles softly at her. "How was your day?" he seeks for her hand, holds it and kisses her knuckles before putting it on his lap.
"Tiring but fun to say the least," she shrugs. "How about you? I didn't hear from you all day."
"Well, I was busy with a lot of work today. Catching up with a lot of stuff since I've been dodging it away for too long now. Lucky for me, I still manage to get things going. Never did have a time to check up on you though." He lied, sighing in relief when Rachel didn't ask anything further. Yeah, it sucks for him that he did it but he need to at least be sure that his plan will work so he needed to it. He'll explain it to her later.
Rachel leans her head on his shoulder and sighed. "It's fine. I'm just glad that you're with me now."
He kisses her head. "Me too, baby."
The two of them became silent as Thomas drive them home, contented enough to be with each other as they rest back from what the day brought them today.
Thomas eventually stops the car and both of them lazily got out of the car. Rachel has a confused look on her face when she saw where Thomas took them.
"I thought we're going to your place?" she turns to Finn and asks.
"Well, I figured since we're going in to my place many times now, I would really like to sleep on your bed tonight." He shrugs. "That okay?"
"Yeah, of course. I just thought you love your place, that's all."
"I love it but sometimes I want to be on yours, too."
"Okay," she said slowly. "Well, I haven't had any food prepared so I guess I have to cook for both of us. Or you know we can just order."
"Whatever you want is fine, baby. As long as I'm with you." she smiles at him as the two of them went inside the building.
When they finally outside Rachel's apartment, Rachel let go of his hand to get her keys from her bag. Finn waits for her and is actually a bit nervous all of a sudden. He doesn't know if Rachel will be happy with what he did but there's a big chance that she will, at least somehow.
Rachel finally took out her keys and unlocks the door. Finn let her enter first before him, taking a deep breath once he closes the door.
Rachel stops mid-step, shocked to see her dad sitting on the couch and obviously waiting for her to arrive.
"Oh my god, Dad!" she drops her bag to the floor and ran to him, pulling him into a tight hug. Her dad stood up and caught her and laughs when she started crying.
"You're making it look like that I just got out of prison, sweetie." He chuckles.
"Oh, dad!" she leans back from him. "I missed you so much. But h-how did you – "
"Well, let's just say that someone didn't want to see my baby girl sad about it." her father said and turned to look at Finn, who is actually satisfied from what he is seeing right now.
Rachel turns to him as well and Finn just shrugs.
"Your dad was right. I don't want to see you unhappy because of it so I thought you know, maybe I could do something about it."
"For how long?"
"For as long as you want it, Rach."
"Wait, you mean – " she turns to her dad.
"I'm going back to this apartment full time. All I need to do now is attend group therapy every week, stay out of any bar and alcohol, and I'm good." He smiles at his daughter when she squeals and ran to Finn to kiss him.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you! I love you so much baby!" she kisses his entire face and hugs him tight.
"I love you too," he smiles at her. Rachel tore herself from Finn and stops when she notices some bags on the floor with stuff with it.
"Wait, why are my things packed?" she looks at her dad and Finn.
"That's the other thing, baby." He takes a deep breath. "I want you to move in with me."
Rachel blinks a few times at him, as if not getting what he just said.
"I guess it's time for me to unpack my things now," Rachel's father says lowly. "Excuse me." He leaves the two alone as he enters his bedroom.
"Okay, before you say anything, I just," Finn says, stopping Rachel when she tries to speak. "I know it's a big step and I know you don't want that but all I want here is to just you being in my place every day and we don't have to go back here every morning whenever you stay over at my place just so you can get your stuff. I asked your dad about this and he said it's really up to you but he's fine with it. I love you, Rachel and I know deep down in my heart that we're going to end up to each other. I just want to make it more real for us. So, please, just say yes about this. Please." Finn holds her hands after he rambles.
Rachel stares at him for a moment, but then sighed.
"Well, you really had me with the I love you." she shrugs and smiles.
"Is that a – "
"Yes, I'll move in with you."
Finn hugs her, lifting her up as he smiles with glee. He never actually thought that Rachel will just agree on it without fighting so he was nervous but thank god his words make her say yes.
"Dad, you can come out now." Rachel calls out her dad. "I'm just going to prepare us some dinner before going back to your place." Rachel said to Finn before turning to go to the kitchen.
Finn smiles as he looks at her then texted Thomas to go fetch Rachel's stuff from the apartment. Everything is going in places now and he couldn't get any happier.
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Puck decided to give Rachel a visit at the diner. What Finn said to him yesterday stuck in his mind and he didn't sleep that well last night. He needs to know what it is and he knows that if Finn knows it, then there's a big chance that Rachel knows it too.
He saw her wiping the counter when he enters.
"Hey, Noah," she greeted him when she saw him enter. "What brings you here?"
He sat on one of the stools at the counter across from her. "I wanted to talk to you actually. You busy or something?"
"Well, as you can see, we only have few customers as of right now so yeah, I can manage a small talk. What'd you want?" she put the rag away and fills a cup with coffee before handing it to Puck.
"This is fine." He lifted up his cup before sipping.
"So, what's up?" she leaned her upper body on the counter and folded her hands.
"It's about Quinn, actually."
"Oh." Rachel's eyebrows rose. "What about her?"
"Well, Finn told me something yesterday and – " he saw Rachel closed her eyes and groans. "So you knew something about it." he pointed out.
Rachel sighed. "Yes, Noah. I knew something about it and I'm not going to say anything about it."
"Oh, come on, princess. If this is something about me and her, I need to know it."
"I can't! She told me not to say anything. I know we're not really that friends but this is something I can't tell you. It's not my place to say anything."
Puck rolled his eyes. "So what? You just said that you and her are really not that friends. I'm sure she's not going to grudge you for it."
"No," she said simply.
Puck sighs and think of other ways to made Rachel tell him. Then a brilliant idea comes into his mind.
"Fine, don't tell me. I'm just going to finish this coffee and wallow about how my love life will not be as happy as you and Finn have. It's okay. As if I did help you two get back together at some point, especially you when you asked me a favor back then to come with me to Ohio. It's fine, Rachel. I understand." He shrugs.
"Oh come on, Noah. Don't play guilt card on me right now."
"No, it's fine. I get it. I don't deserve something like you and Finn has right?" he sighs, making his acting more believable.
Rachel groans. Of course she doesn't Puck to be like this knowing he and Quinn deserve to be together. She's really going to kill Finn when they see each other later.
"Ugh, fine. Quinn wrote me a letter a few days ago saying she dated someone in Paris. She told me the guy really looks like you but they didn't work out at all because he's not you, Noah. She thought before that she's not over Finn but she realized now that you're the one she's not over with. Happy?"
Puck looks up from the cup that he's nursing with a wicked smirk on his face. "Thanks, princess." He winks at her.
"I so hate you right now." she rolled her eyes.
"I know but you'll feel better when me and Quinn got back together." He grins. "I gotta go."
"Where?" she asks.
"Paris. Gotta get back with Quinn." He said simply as if it's that simple.
"Are you serious?"
"Dead serious. Look, I love her and I don't think there's a time that I didn't. I mean, I would do anything just so she can be mine again. So I'm going no matter what."
Rachel looks at him, happy that he said that. "Okay, fine. If you want to, who am I to question it, right? But how are you going to find her once you're there?"
"I don't know. I don't care."
"I can help you with that you know?" she put her hands on her hips and smiles. "You know Blaine? He's going to Paris tomorrow so you can come with him if you want and maybe you two can use Finn's private plane."
"You think Finn will let us?"
"Oh, I will let him. After what he just did, I will make sure he will."
Puck grins. "Thank you, princess. I really appreciate it."
"Go get her back, tiger." She smiles at Puck as he leaves the diner with determination.
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Finn's at his office, too busy looking over at the files he needs to finish reviewing before the end of the week comes. This day is the busiest day for him actually. The folders on his table are beginning to pile up and there are a lot of meetings he needs to attend to as well. But none of them even made him grumpy. He even thinks that nothing can even make his day worst right now. He got the girl and the life and that's all he ever wanted in his life so right now, he's just living it. The way it's supposed to be.
His phone buzzed inside his pocket. He took it out and found a text from Puck.
i've kinda forced Rachel to tell me about what u said yesterday. just giving u a heads up dude. sorry.
As if right on cue, his phone rings and Rachel's name flash on the screen. He closes his eyes and prays for the heavens above that she's not that angry at him.
"I can explain," he said to her immediately, already knowing why she called.
"Yeah, you should, Finn!" Rachel said. "I can't believe you told him!"
"But baby, you should have seen his face yesterday and I think if you were there, you won't help it too." He explains.
He heard her sigh and pause. "You should just be thankful that I'm so in love with you."
"I love you much, much more, baby." He smiled. "Forgive me?"
"Right after you allowed Noah and Blaine to use your plane."
"Okay, done." He answered immediately. "What else?"
"That's all. I need to go back to work now. See you later?"
"Of course."
"Okay, I love you"
"I love you too."
Rachel hangs up, leaving Finn smiling as he leaned back on his chair and stare at the ceiling. He knows Rachel already forgave him the minute she said that she's so in love with him. They have changed a lot and it was for the better. The only thing that is left right now is for him to ask her to marry him. It would all be perfect for them, living as husband and wife. He can already see it. Of course he still thinks it's too soon for that. They just got back together obviously and they still need to experience a lot of things, especially now that they're living together. It's a good start for what he is planning for their lives and if everything goes out as planned then he has nothing to worry about.
A/N: So what'd you guys think? Please please please review.
After this story I will be gone for a while but I will continue writing my new story until it's finish and ready to be post in here so you guys won't wait for me anymore.
There's three stories actually that I want to do but since I'm not that good at writing three stories at once, I will have to choose one for now. Of course it's still Finchel and I need you guys to help me decide.
Here's my ideas/plot for the three stories I had in mind:
- Rachel as Finn's secretary and Finn as a businessman, just like in here. Finn is very OOC. He's grumpy and always mad at everything, especially at his secretary. Rachel knows something about him that he doesn't actually remembers and it involves her. Kurt is Finn's younger brother and Rachel's best friend. Ryder is Rachel's coworker and has a crush on Rachel. No one knows what Rachel knows about Finn. It is the reason why she applies to his company as his secretary in the first place. This story is inspired from a book that I read.
- Rachel and Finn in fixed marriage made by their parents. Rachel is not happy about it. She don't know Finn at all. All she knows is that her parents and his parents had promised each other to make their children married when Finn saved her from accident when they were young. Finn agreed to the marriage. Rachel hates him and doesn't talk to him even when they started living together. Puck and Quinn are present in here as their best friends. Inspired again from a book.
- This one is dark and violent. Human trafficking and violence. All that stuff. Rachel as a slave and Burt is a doctor who is part of a mafia who had taken Rachel and makes her live with his family. Finn meets her when she first step into their house. Burt's family is rich and he is OOC in here. Will is the leader of the mafia and the reason why Rachel is a slave. He wants to make Finn join his organization but Finn doesn't want to. Inspired again from a book.
So that's it. I know it's still messy and all that. I'm sorting them out still so sorry about that. Anyways, let me know which one you would prefer and if you found the three uninteresting, let me know. I can think of other stories for you. Thanks :)
