Sorry guys for the long wait for this chapter, but moving and job hunting has taken so much of my time. But now here is the next chapter. It is not what any of you are expecting but it was needed for the next ones. Homophobia exists everywhere today. In our schools, in malls, in restaurants, and our own neighborhoods. And it doesn't matter if you are a boy or a girl, pregnant or not.

Sometimes it is always darkest before the light can really shine and chase away all the demons/shadows.

Please let me know what you think as always. And I will be back to posting more regularly now. I love Southern Florida and the beach that is minutes from my home. Peace my friends and as always LOVE! Hemmy

Chapter 14

Destruction and Rebirth

The next few weeks are spent with Noah becoming acquainted with the porcelain god know as RALF, to say he hated throwing up every morning was an understatement. It was happening in the mornings, at lunch, dinner and even in the middle of the night. Dr. Joe told him that it was different with each pregnancy and really different with a MALE pregnancy.

Dr. Joe personally wrote and signed the letter to the school himself so that it could be in Noah's record in case anyone tried to say anything about preferential treatment. The teachers were told very little details of Noah's condition, only that his stomach was having bacterial issues and that he should be allowed to exit the classroom at any given time.

Most of the time it was Finn that would sit/stand beside Noah as he emptied his stomach in the white porcelain basin. The tall jock would drape a cold cloth across Noah's tanned neck to try and comfort the heaving jock. Words of love soothingly whispered in the stall of the boy's restroom were barely audible from the loving boyfriend. They were meant for the dark teen's ears only.

Other times it was Dave that would stay with Noah doing the same thing as Finn.

The students only concern was whether Noah was contagious or not. They really didn't care what was going on with him as long as it didn't involve them or make them sick. To them Noah was simply battling a bug that was causing him to lose weight. The baggy clothes he wore to hide the beginnings of the baby bump were a size too big and hung off of him.

The shrink that Miss Pillsbury recommended had help tremendously with getting Noah to talk about what had happened to him and about the consequences of keeping the baby. Finn had even started going to sessions with the therapist to help him cope with Noah's moods and to help him deal with loving a child that was conceived through violence.

Burt had taken Noah under his wing and kept a watchful eye on the pregnant teen. There were arguments, some loud at times, but Noah would always listen to Burt in the end. It seemed that Noah found the father figure he needed in his life, the rock solid wall to head butt when need be. Burt would catch him doing something that he wasn't suppose to be doing, like lifting boxes of parts, and the older man would simply raise his eyes brows at the tanned father to be and watch as Noah would stop; going back to sit behind the counter or sweep the already clean floor.

Everything was going great until Noah received a note in his locker before lunch. It simply stated 'meet me in the locker room at lunch, Dave'. He looked around but he could not find Finn to let him know where he was going, so he simply sent a text message to the tall teen saying he was meeting Dave in the locker room and to save him some lunch. He slipped his phone in his pocket as he walked out of the main school building to the sports wing.

He never saw it coming when he walked in through the locker room door. A large, black fist connected with his jaw and he went stumbling sideways toward a row of lockers. The hit stunned him for a moment allowing Azimio to hit him once again in the face. Noah wrapped his arms around his stomach to protect the baby and tried to curl into a ball on the floor.

"Grab him guys, it's time for the Fag to learn a lesson from a real man." Azimio yelled at the other football players that he had talked into helping him bring Puckerman down a few notches.

The other three players grabbed Noah's arms and legs opening him up for Azimio to punch again.

Noah was struggling, trying desperately to get away from the larger jocks. He was screaming at them to let him go, to leave him alone. He pleaded with Azimio not to hit him in the stomach, but the dark skinned jock just sneered at him. His heart was racing and his breathing was becoming more ragged as he felt the walls closing in on him. It was just like that night, he couldn't fight back. He couldn't stop what was about to happen to him. The next blow makes him scream so loudly that it echoed off the concrete walls.

"You think I can just let it go that you turned my best friend gay? That I can just ignore that shit? YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A WORTHLESS BAG OF SHIT PUCKERMAN! A FUCKING QUEER!" Azimio screams the last part at the terrified jock before hitting him in the ribs hard enough to a cracking noise.

"Look at that boys the fucking FAIRY is crying now!" The laughter of the jocks begin to drown out the hoarse screams and the broken words from the dark wounded jock. "We are just getting started HOMO! I thought you wanted guys touching you! Don't you like it up the ass FAGGOT?"

Jake Davis one of the biggest linebackers on the team grabs Noah around the waist pulling the smaller body back against his crotch grinding his half hard erection into Noah's ass. "Just think Puckerman, I could spread your legs like a girl and make you beg for it just like I did with that dumb Cheerio last night. Pussy is pussy right? Since you like being fucked that means you are just a pussy too. How does it feel knowing you are not the top dog anymore?"

"PL-PLEASE! ST-STOP!" Noah is gasping for air now, he almost to the point of hyperventilating from the fear and pain coursing through his body. "NOT…A-AGAIN! TH-THE B-BABY! PL-PLEASE D-DON'T HUR-HURT IT!"

The footballers all look at each other in confusion at Noah's broken words. They are brought out of their thoughts as a blur of red and white letterman jacket is running straight into Adams sending him crashing into a row of lockers.

Finn had run into Dave in the cafeteria and asked him what he wanted with Noah in the locker room. When Dave responded that he had no idea what Finn was talking about; the boys along with Santana and the rest of their friends went to find Noah to make sure he was alright. Everyone had a sense of foreboding before entering the sports annex. Everyone reacted on instinct at the sight in front of them.

Dave headed straight for Adams letting his speed and weight send the dark jock hurling into the lockers. He continued to pound on Azimio after landing on top of him. Azimio could not fight back and tried desperately to block the punches from his best friend. But Dave continued to hit Adams until his face looked like one big purple bloody bruise.

Mike and Sam take out the two jocks holding Noah's arms ,while Finn went after Jake. Noah stumbles from the jerking motion of the three being pulled off of him. Mike and Sam eliminate their opponents with several punches to startled jocks faces and ribs. Finn had heard what Jake was saying to Noah as they walked in the door and in a blind rage was beating the teen to a nasty bloody pulp.

The girls; Mercedes, Tina, Santana, and Brittany catch Noah in their arms gently lowering him to the cold floor. Santana sends Brittany after a blanket and Mercedes after a water bottle as she clutches Noah to her chest. His breathing is rapid and jagged, body shivering from the pain and the cold of the floor.

"Baby I need you to breath for me. I know it hurts but you need to try and keep it under control. Remember ET, you got to do this for her. In and out, slowly." Santana tries to get Noah to listen to her. It isn't working as Noah keeps watching Finn and Dave beat his attackers senseless.

"San… make them… stop! Please… they are… going to…to kill them!" Noah's breathing becoming more labored with each word. He wraps his arms tighter around his baby as he feels a wave of pain course through his abdomen. "THE BABY! PLEASE! DON'T WANT TO LOSE IT!" He screams out before passing out in the dark Latina's arms.

"ARTIE CALL 911 NOW! TELL THEM TO SEND AN ABULANCE AND THEN CALL MY DAD! TELL HIM TO MEET US AT ER! NOW WHEELS!" Santana screams at Artie. She is holding Noah's still form in her arms, tears running down her cheeks. "FINN! DAVE! STOP! SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH NOAH! PLEASE STOP AND HELP ME!"

Artie is on the phone with 911 personnel telling them what he knows and that they NEED TO GET THERE LIKE FUCKING NOW! He is still reeling from the information that his brain is trying to process. Noah is pregnant? How? Who? Suddenly all of the actions of the four newly formed group made some sense. The four of them knew and they knew more than even this. Artie looks at the two teens whose fists are bloody from beating their opponents senseless.

Artie then takes the offered cell from Santana calling her father and telling him what was going on, the outraged and distraught Doctor told them he would get Noah to the ER ASAP that he would be waiting for them with a team.

Finn and Dave rush to be by Noah's side as Jake and Azimio are left moaning and crying from pain. Finn looks at Brittany and tells her to go get Coach Sylvester and Miss Pillsbury. He kneels down by his boyfriend and grabbing his hand, "Noah please wake up!", the pale Frankenteen pleads. Dave starts crying as he strokes the dark stripe of hair, "Noah don't do this, hold on to the baby, don't let go!"

Coach Sylvester and Miss Pillsbury appear with Principal Figgins following behind them. They all take in the scene in front of them. Miss Pillsbury calmly asks if anyone has called the parents yet and Santana informs her that Artie called her father telling him to meet them at the ER. Sue takes her phone out calling Burt Hummel and explaining the situation to him asks him to inform the other adults.

Figgins is trying to listen to Mike and Sam while keeping an eye on the rest of the group. He is told about the note that Azimio put in Noah's locker pretending to be Dave and asking Noah to meet him in the locker room during lunch. Sam tells in detail what they heard Jake and Azimio say as they were entering the locker room. Mike tells Figgins about the two other jocks holding on to Noah while Jake was…threatening to rape Noah. The words were hard for Mike to say, they made him want to throw up.

Figgins stares at the four boys in question not really comprehending the situation until he hears Sue on the phone. She is explaining the situation to a friend of hers in the Justice Department, it seems the terrifying Coach really was a member of the CIA among other things. After her brief phone conversation she turns to the short Indian and calmly talks to him.

"This is what is going to happen Figgy. You are going to take these four useless pieces of garbage to your office and wait for the proper authorities to arrive. They will be from the FBI, since this is a hate crime. They will take the garbage into their custody and their parents will informed by them what is going to happen to the miscreants. YOU ARE NOT TO CALL ANYONE UNTIL THEY ARRIVE IS THAT UNDERSTOOD? FAILURE TO LISTEN TO ME WILL RESULT IN YOU BEING CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTION TO JUSTICE!" Sue yells at the shaking Principal.

"Ginger and I will follow the ambulance with the rest of this band of misfits so they can keep an eye on their friend. You will excuse each one of them from their classes for the rest of the day. You allowed this to happen in our school Figgins! YOU! You never took what these kids said or did seriously and now this kid could die because of it!" Sue looks at Emma for confirmation of what she just said to the terrified man. She watches as Emma stands from where she was kneeling by Noah and nods her head at the fuming Coach.

"You can't prove I did anything! It's their word against ours! And who do think the cops are going to believe? A bunch of FAGS or a bunch of football players?" Azimio croaks out from between his busted lips. "The school cameras don't work and nobody saw me."

"That's where you are WRONG scumbag! There is a camera in the locker across from Puckerman's. I know because I helped set it up and it works just fine! We knew someone was terrorizing the kid so we, his family and I, took action! So if I were you I would start thinking about a good lawyer and a good excuse for your parents, cause dumbass the government doesn't play by anyone's rules but their own!" Sue's face is red from anger and her body is shaking. She is fighting every urge in herself not to start punching the ignorant bully in front of her. "And that goes for the rest of you too. Your families are going to need to find all of you extremely good lawyers. Think about that as you go to Figgins' office."

Azimio pales at the thought of being caught and the rest of the jocks begin to confess that it was all his idea to begin with, to teach Puckerman a lesson. He turns to Dave looking at his former best friend tears slipping down his cheeks as he sees the tenderness Dave is showing to Noah. "Why? How could you let him turn you gay?"

"You dumb stupid son of a bitch! He didn't turn me gay! I have always been GAY! I just never wanted to admit it! I bullied Kurt all those years because he had more guts than I did! I have loved Noah for a long time! But he was never interested in me! He was only my friend! AND YOU DID THIS TO HIM! YOU HURT HIM BECAUSE YOU WERE JEALOUS OF THE TIME I SPENT WITH HIM! DO YOU KNOW WHY I SPENT SO MUCH TIME WITH HIM? DID YOU EVEN CARE ENOUGH TO ASK? NO!

LET ME TELL YOU WHY I HAVE SPENT SO MUCH TIME WITH NOAH! HE WAS RAPED AT A PARTY BY ANOTHER GUY! DID YOU KNOW THAT JAKE? DID YOU EVEN CARE AS YOU WERE THREATENING HIM? WHEN HE WAS BEGGING YOU TO STOP, DID YOU EVEN BOTHER TO CONSIDER THERE WAS A REASON HE WASN'T FIGHTING BACK?" Dave looks from the two jocks back at the fallen teen he was in love with.

"Dave don't! Please don't say anymore!" Finn pleads with the large angry jock beside him. He knows that Noah doesn't want anyone else to know about the baby.

"NO! ITS TIME THEY KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE DONE! NOAH WAS RAPED AT A PARTY A FEW MONTHS AGO! HE WAS PASSED OUT AND SOME BASTARD JUST LIKE THE FOUR OF YOU, WANTED TO GET EVEN WITH HIM SO HE DID THE WORST THING HE COULD THINK OF, HE RAPED HIM!" Dave looks at the shocked faces of the four jocks. The two that had been holding Noah were starting to cry. "NOAH CARRIES THE GENE THAT ALLOWS MEN TO GET PREGNANT! HE IS PREGNANT BY HIS RAPIST! THERE IS A BABY GROWING INSIDE OF HIM AND YOU MAY HAVE KILLED HER AND HIM! ARE YOU GUYS FUCKING HAPPY WITH YOURSELVES? I HOPE YOU ENOY YOUR TIME IN PRISON, THAT YOU FIND OUT WHAT HE HAS BEEN GOING THROUGH FOR THE LAST FEW OF MONTHS!"

The locker room door slams open as the EMTS rush in to take care of Noah. Dr. Joe had called a certain set of EMTS to go after Noah, explaining to them what the actual situation was and to drive like it was their own kid in the back of the ambulance, to get him there ASAP no matter what. They carefully placed Noah on the stretcher and loaded him into the waiting ambulance. "Who is Finn?" One of the techs asked the group as they were closing the doors. Seeing the tall crying teen walk towards them the tech tells Finn to climb in per Dr. Joe's orders. The ambulance tires peeling out of the school parking lot with sirens going full blast. Everyone else was left to follow in their cars.

Coach Beiste and Will arrive as the rest of the rag tag bunch is saying who is riding with who as the ambulance roars off with its sirens blaring a warning for everyone to get out of their way. Principal Figgins asks Shannon to help him get the boys to his office, he tells her will explain once they get there. Will looks at Emma but as he is about to speak, she does instead.

"Will I know you have a lot of questions but right now is not the time. I will explain everything to you later. Just help Figgins with those, those creeps please. And don't freak out when the FBI arrives to take them into custody." Emma quickly tells Will as she ushers Tina, Brittany, Sam and Mike to follow her to her little car.

Sue tells Dave to give her the keys to his truck, he is in no shape to drive. Santana, Artie, Mercedes and Dave ride with her; with Artie sitting in Mercedes lap. Santana and Dave ride in the back of the truck gripping the sides as Sue takes off out of the parking lot. Both holding each other's hands willing their friend to live and for the baby to live too. Neither one noticed the tears streaming down their faces.

The dark diva doesn't care how much she doesn't like Dave at the moment, she is truly scared for Puck/Noah as her mind reels from all the information she just received about the rape and the baby. She holds Artie's hand in her own seeing the smaller teen silently crying. She knows Artie and Puck's friendship had been going strong until a few months ago when this all this mess started happening. Now many things made sense to the dark diva.

Mike and Sam were quietly talking about the gene and what they heard Dave say about their friend. Raped and pregnant, the words echoing in their minds like a song. Mike has known Puck longer than Sam and he tries to explain to the blonde jock what he thinks will happen if Puck loses the baby. "Those four idiots better hope he doesn't lose the baby. Puck will kill them if he does. He gave up Beth after trying to fight for her, but Quinn wouldn't listen to him. So if he loses this one, he is going to go crazy and I mean really crazy." Sam nods his head at the words spoken by Mike. The pale quarterback could also see Puck committing suicide if he loses this baby too. The rest of the ride is quiet.

Tina and Brittany are quietly praying for Puck/Noah. Both girls love the dark jock in their own way. Tina can't help but wonder how the Jewish teen had made it this long without everyone knowing about it. But then she realizes that Finn, Dave and Santana had protected the teen for the last few months and Puck the badass had somewhat re-emerged at school. She knew there was more to the story but she had never expected it to be that he was pregnant or raped.

Brittany can't believe that someone would hurt her friend like that, rape. It was a nasty word that left a bitter taste in her mouth after she said it out loud. Noah was always so strong and so protective of her, she just couldn't understand how just one person was able to do that to him. If she ever found out who hurt her friend she vowed to hurt them just as bad.

Emma Pillsbury was also silently praying for the traumatized teen. She knew his mental state was so fragile that he would not, could not, withstand losing this baby. It would destroy him. She swallowed back her tears trying to remain calm as she drove behind Sue to the hospital.

Finn is clutching Noah's limp hand as the EMT works on his boyfriend. IV's are started in the other tanned arm, while a BP cuff is attached to the bicep. The EMT checks for a fetal heart beat with his stethoscope finding a faint rapid heart beat. He looks up at the crying teen pulling the ear pieces out and motioning for Finn to lean over Noah's body. Finn allows the tech to put the ear pieces in his ears and he hears the faint heart beat for himself.

"Noah I can her! I can hear her heartbeat! You can do this babe! Just hold on! Dr. Joe can fix both of you! Please hold on Noah, please hold on to the baby!" Finn cries to his boyfriend clutching the dark hand harder. "I can't lose you both!"

The ambulance ride is short due to the driver's ability to maneuver the few streets of Lima. He drove the ambulance just like Dr. Joe told him to like there was no tomorrow for his kid. The older man also knew that he could not discuss what was happening in the back of the van until both he and his partner were allowed to by the hospital. He was just having a hard time accepting the fact that there was a pregnant boy in the back instead of a pregnant girl. He said a silent prayer for the teen hoping for the best.

The younger EMT working on Noah feels the same as his older partner. He is doing everything he knows for a pregnant girl hoping it is the same for a pregnant boy. Hearing the heartbeat, the rapid flutter of a new life inside of the teen's abdomen was shocking but profound. The tech had heard of the gene but had never had the experience of knowing someone who carried it. He looks down at the limp teenager on the stretcher knowing the kid really didn't have much of a chance, neither one of them did.

The ambulance slowed down at the entrance of the hospital and made its way to the ER entrance. The driver didn't even take the time to back into the proper spot to unload the special cargo, he simply parked in front of the doors. He watches as Dr. Joe Lopez, Carole Hummel and Ruth Puckerman come running out the double doors with a trauma team in tow.

Sue and Emma park as close as possible to ER and everyone makes a heated run to the double doors where Noah and his entourage had disappeared through moments earlier. Sue was privately proud of the Ginger also know as Emma for being able to keep up with her driving. Sue was impressed and proud that the young woman was becoming stronger for herself and for the kids too.

As the group crashes through the doors they are greeted by Burt Hummel holding his wife and Ruth trying to keep them from going into the trauma room. Joe had asked Burt to make sure neither woman stepped foot in there, it was for Noah's sake as much as for their own. Joe had allowed Finn to be in the room as long as he stayed out of the way. The frantic doctor knew the Jewish teen would need someone strong with him.

The girls had immediately went to the two emotional mothers forming a protective circle around them as Sue and Emma pulled the women away from Burt so he could breathe. The boys did the same for Burt after Mike stole a wheelchair for Artie. It seems in their haste, Dave just picked up the small teen and carried him to the truck leaving Artie's wheels behind.

Burt asked Dave what happened and as the large jock explained the events, Sue explained to Carole and Ruth what she knew and how she had handled the situation. She assured the distraught mothers that the attackers would be spending a fair amount of time in jail. Emma smiled gently at the older woman when she saw the slight glistening of tears forming in Sue's eyes when she described what the one jock had threatened to do to Noah.

Once the adults were huddled together, Dave and Santana took their friends to the side to explain what had been happening with Noah. Dave did most of the talking as Santana kept breaking down in tears.

"Okay I need everyone to be quiet and to listen to me. Please don't interrupt me wait until I am finished before you start asking any questions. Okay?" Dave watched as the Gleeks nodded their heads.

"Noah was raped at the last party Santana had at her house. He was drunk and went upstairs to sleep part of it off before going home with Finn. He..He woke up in the dark room to someone raping him. He never saw who did, he only heard the guy's voice taunting him. Finn found him in the corner of the room crying and figured out what happened to him. San and I found the blood on the bed and Noah's letterman jacket on the floor.

We knew something had happened but we didn't know what until we confronted Finn later that night. We have protecting Puck at school, at least we were until today." Dave sees Mercedes about to interrupt and stops her.

"Not yet Mercedes. We found out a month ago that Noah is pregnant by the guy who raped him. He is a little over three months and we all have seen the baby that is growing inside of him.

When Noah found out he was pregnant, he tried to kill himself. He just wanted to stop hurting, to find peace. Mr. Hummel was the only one that Noah would listen to that night. Burt stopped Noah from pushing a butcher knife through his stomach." Dave cant continue as the tears from his hazel green eyes are blinding him.

Artie and Brittany are openly sobbing in each other's arms. Mike is throwing up in the waiting room trash can as Tina slides down to the floor wrapping her arms around herself. She knew that there had been more to the sudden friendship of the quad but she never expected to hear the mighty Puck had tried to commit suicide. Her thoughts are screaming NO! and her heart is breaking. Sam is trying to comfort Mercedes who keeps repeating "Sweet Jesus No!" over and over as her body jerks with sobs. Sam is simply just there, lost in his own thoughts of when he tried to commit the same violent act a little over a year ago.

Dave and Santana cling to each other, both frightened beyond words, beyond emotions. They had seen Noah hit rock bottom or so they thought until this happened, before this nightmare was added to the fragile jocks mental state. Both knew if he lost the baby that they would lose him too. And probably Finn as well.