Well I did promise you guys this would be up by Saturday so here it is. The big huge conflict of Sectionals: Finn finds out about the baby. Hope you like it! :D

Quinn peered around the corner, waiting for Rachel to leave Puck's locker. A smile touched her lips as she kissed him briefly before heading off to her class. Quinn took a deep breath before walking over to Puck.

"Can I talk to you?" she asked quietly. He frowned as he closed his locker but nodded. They headed to an empty classroom.

"What's up?" he asked. "Something wrong with-"

"The baby's fine," said Quinn. But then she fell silent. He frowned again.

"Then what's up?"

"Last night… Finn was telling me how he thinks if we win Sectionals he thinks everything will be okay. I know it sounds like nothing but I just can't take it anymore. I know it doesn't make sense…" Puck sighed.

"It does to me. Hiding the truth starts to weigh on you and once you reach your limit you can't help but to tell, no matter the consequences." Quinn nodded before lowering her head.

"This is the selfish part…"

"You want me to tell him."

"I can't do it," said Quinn, shaking her head crying silently. "I tried to tell him last night… I'm just not brave enough… I know it's selfish…" Puck sighed again before putting a hand on Quinn's shoulder in comfort.

"I'll do it. It's been bothering me that Finn and I are starting to be cool again. I'll do it before Glee today."

"Thank you," breathed Quinn, completely grateful. "Thank you… I'll tell everyone to avoid the choir room early."

"Not Rachel," said Puck sternly. "She can't know about this. She'll try and stop me because she knows how Finn'll react." Quinn nodded.

"Thank you," she said again.

"We're both part of this," said Puck before leaving.

The end of the day began to creep up. Everyone except Rachel knew by now what was going to go down in the choir room. Any questions at the timing of this were silenced by the look on Quinn's face. She had told them all yesterday how much she loved Finn. She had been lying to the person she loved for months now and they all understood she just couldn't take it anymore. As Puck walked up to Finn, he wished he could have just said no to Quinn. He wished he could have just made her tell Finn. But he just hadn't been able to say it. He had betrayed Finn as much as she had.

"Hey man," said Puck to Finn. "Can I talk to you?" Finn nodded, confused but followed Puck to the choir room. Puck sighed.

"I need to tell you something…"

"Dude are you gonna break up with Rachel?"

"What? No! Why the hell would you? No. Just no dude." Finn looked sheepish.

"Sorry." Puck sighed and ran a hand over his Mohawk.

"Okay look. I know we've been a little better lately but there's something you need to know before we're back to being best buds."

"Just spit it out. What is it?" asked Finn.

"It's not your baby," said Puck. Finn froze, his eyes going wide and his jaw dropping slightly.

"It's mine," finished Puck. Silence rang in the choir room for a moment. Then Puck saw the anger spark to life and he braced himself for what was to come. Finn's fists flew and Puck didn't fight back. He was backed up against a wall and Finn just kept punching him. He felt his lip split open. Finn had got in a good shot at his nose but it didn't feel broken.

"Noah!" His eyes flew open. Why was she here? And there she was putting herself between him and Finn and he saw Finn slowly lower his fists.

"Get out of the way Rachel. It's… It's not my baby!"

"That is no reason to beat Noah to a pulp!" Puck saw a flash of realization in Finn's eyes before the anger came back.

"You knew?" he thundered, clenching his fists. In a split second Puck had moved, putting himself in front of Rachel and slamming his fist into Finn's face.

"Don't you ever yell at her like that!" he roared. "I'll take the shit you're going to deal out cause I fucked up. I told Rachel and she accepts it but don't you dare take it out on her!" He could feel Rachel tugging at the back of his shirt, most likely trying to get him to calm down, but there was no fucking way that was happening any time soon. Finn had yelled loud enough to make Rachel take a step back. He had scared her. Was he overreacting? Maybe. Probably. But yelling at his girl like that, when she was only protecting him, was enough to majorly piss. Him. Off.

"You know I wasn't the only one participating that night!" he continued. "We may have been drunk but Quinn wanted it you know!" Finn's fist flew out of nowhere. Faster and harder than any of the others. Puck took a step back and his feet tangled with Rachel's. He felt himself falling and his head hit the floor. His vision went fuzzy and he was having trouble telling his body what to do. He saw Rachel over him, the worry huge in her eyes. He cursed as he saw the tears getting closer to falling. He couldn't stand when she cried. Then he saw her look away. He was aware Finn was yelling something and she had placed her small body between him and Finn. His eyes darted to Finn's fists. They were still clenched and he was getting closer to Rachel. The fear came out of nowhere, decking him like Finn's punch had.

He wouldn't. He can't.

But his damn body wouldn't listen to him. He saw Finn take a hold of Rachel's shoulders. Saw him shake her a little. Saw her trying to pull away but he wouldn't let go. And the anger overtook the fear and his body began to move. Everything was still slightly fuzzy but it didn't matter. He had hurt her. Nobody hurt her anymore. Nobody. But the fear came roaring back… He… He couldn't get up. He couldn't help her. Then a blur flashed by his vision and barreled into Finn. Rachel backed away and he could see her shaking.

"Rachel!" he called, trying to push himself up into a sitting position then cursing as he couldn't. She turned and knelt by him. He could tell she was trying to hide many things. Her fear, her pain, her worry for him. All he wanted to do was hold her in his arms but his damn body still wasn't completely listening. He was able to raise a hand and press it to her cheek. She smiled placing hers over it. He looked over to Finn. The blur had been Mike and he was on top of Finn, yelling something, punctuating some words with a punch. Finn pushed him off and got up, looking like he was ready to charge at Puck again, when something caught his eye. Puck looked to see Quinn standing in the doorway… and by the look in her eyes she knew all of what Finn had done… Quinn looked at Finn, the shock huge in her eyes, tears there too.

"I'm done with you…" he said angrily. "I'm done with all of you!" He brushed by Quinn and out of the room. Puck could hear Mike still ranting angrily in the corner. A large bang signaled he had just punched something. A wall maybe? Quinn slowly walked over and kneeled next to Rachel, also looking at Puck.

"Rachel… I…" she began. Puck felt his heart swell in pride as he watched his girlfriend hug the blonde.

"It's ok Quinn. I realize that you must have asked Noah to tell Finn about the baby but in the end Finn did this," said Rachel.

"I should beat the shit out of him," said Puck, finally sitting up.

"You will do no such thing!" cried Rachel. "You can barely move and you hit your head! What if you have a concussion?" Puck shook his head, his body now responding normally.

"I'm feeling better now."

"You were out of it for minutes Noah! Please! Don't push yourself!" He felt himself crumble seeing how upset she was to see him like this.

"Ok ok," he said taking her hand and smiling slightly. She smiled back.

"I'll be right back Noah. Ok?" she asked. He nodded though he was confused. Then everything was cleared up as she walked over to Mike and gave him a hug. It was just like her. He saw Mike go from raging to calm in a matter of seconds and he hugged her back. He was surprised to find that he wasn't jealous. But then again Mike had proven time and time again to be a true friend to both him and Rachel. He let out a huge sigh realizing how much he owed Mike. For stepping in. Rachel pulled away smiling at him.

"Thanks Mike," she said before looking over at Puck. She was pleased to see no sign of jealousy in his eyes. Mike looked over too.

"Is he ok?" he asked. Puck felt Quinn's eyes on him.

"You didn't fight back," she said. He shook his head.

"Well I punched him once. He got angry at Rachel and…" Quinn's eyes watered.

"How could he?" she asked, her voice wavering. There was silence in the room at her words. Everyone was shocked at how Finn had reacted. Rachel kneeled down by Puck again, and Mike gently took Quinn's hand to pull her up into a much needed embrace. They heard footsteps racing down the hallway and Kurt and Tina burst into the room.

"Oh god," said Tina, looking at Puck.

"What did he do?" demanded Kurt, his eyes fixated Rachel. She looked away.

"He was shaking her," said Mike angrily.

"He what?" Kurt said in shock. Rachel nodded. Matt and Artie were the next to push open the choir room door.

"We just saw Finn. Are we going after him?" demanded Artie.

"No," said Puck and Mike, their voices hard. Tina looked over at Artie and he quickly rolled over to her, worried by the shock in her eyes.

"He hurt Rachel," she said to him before sinking onto his lap. Both Artie's and Matt's eyes widened and moved directly to Rachel.

"He just shook me," said Rachel. "He didn't hurt me."

"But you were afraid he was going to," accused Noah. She paused before nodding ever so slightly. It wasn't long after that until Mercedes along with Santana and Brittany ran in. Matt was still staring at Rachel, while Artie had shifted his focus to calming Tina down. Mercedes took one look around the room. She saw Matt and followed his gaze to Rachel. Her eyes widened as she saw Rachel's hands shaking and all the anger she had before turned into shock and disbelief.

"Finn…" was all she could get out.

"Yes," said Matt finally tearing his eyes away from Rachel. He was immediately worried by how fragile Mercedes looked, the shock and disbelief not sitting well on her face. He wrapped an arm around her shoulders, giving her the support she needed. Brittany had broken down into tears the minute she had seen Puck and Santana took her over to the chairs to try and calm her down. Kurt had gone over to Rachel but jumped as he felt his phone buzz. He pulled it out to see a text from Nate. Kurt began thinking quickly. He could just tell Nate exactly what happened over the text, but if he knew Nate well enough, hearing that Finn had hurt Rachel would send him after Finn looking for blood. He decided to just reply with Get to the choir room now. Kurt's mind continued to race as he thought about how Nate would react. He moved towards the door. Nate burst in soon afterwards. Kurt quietly closed the choir room door behind him and leaned against it.

"Shit man," said Nate looking at Puck. Then he felt the tension in the room and his face started to fall as his eyes swept all the shell shocked Glee members. He almost swept past Rachel but looked back to her because she hadn't met his eyes. He began to tremble as he jumped to a conclusion why everyone wasn't speaking.

"He hurt you?" asked Nate and when Rachel didn't answer he whirled around. Everyone's eyes widened. They had forgotten how protective he was of Rachel. Nate jumped slightly seeing Kurt at the door.

"Move Kurt." Kurt crossed his arms.

"No. We don't need you running after Finn."

"Besides he's mine," growled Puck.

"Get out of the way Kurt," repeated Nate, ignoring Puck.

"I'm not going to. The only way you're going to get out is to move me and I know you well enough to know you wouldn't do that."

"Dammit Kurt! Get out of the way!" yelled Nate advancing on the soprano. Mike and Matt's heads snapped up and they went to move. Kurt just stepped forward and wrapped his arms around Nate who immediately deflated, hugging Kurt back. Matt and Mike relaxed turning back to the girls they were trying to comfort.

"Dammit Kurt. You really do know me too well," he said softly. Kurt just smiled and let him go.

"You okay?" Nate nodded. Silence fell for a while.

"You weren't supposed to be there," a voice finally came and everyone turned to see Noah talking to Rachel. "You weren't supposed to be that early." His voice was wavering.

"Noah, you can't blame yourself," started Rachel and Noah jumped to his feet, his eyes flashing dangerously.

"Not my fault?" he repeated softly. Everyone tensed at his tone, the boys more so. "All I could fucking do was lay there on the goddamn floor and watch you put yourself between him and me when I deserved every fucking damn thing he dealed out to me. Could just lay there and not even think because I was so fucking afraid and I can't even get up. I have to watch," he hissed advancing on her and the boys began to move ever so closer to him. "Have to fucking watch as he lays his hands on my girl. If Mike hadn't shown up how much further would he had gone and I couldn't get off my goddamn ass. So just keep standing there and saying it's not my fault."

"That's enough!" The commanding voice had Noah whipping his head around to focus, surprisingly on Quinn, who had stepped closer to him.

"Don't you dare say one more word," she threatened. "I am pregnant, I am upset, and I am pissed." Noah's mouth clamped shut.

"You think you can fool us, fool Rachel. Yes you're angry. Angry at yourself, angry at Finn, probably even a little angry at Rachel for intervening. But to go on that kind of rant I know what you're really feeling and even so that is no reason to take it all out on Rachel. She was scared for you. I bet she would tell you that she would do it again to, just to stop Finn from hurting you, even if you think you deserve it." She paused to take a breath and Noah opened his mouth.

"Shut it," she snapped. "I'm not done." She shifted her weight, a subtle move but made Noah move his gaze slightly and on the edge of his vision, he saw his girlfriend with shock and hurt on her face. He winced, knowing most of that was caused by him.

"Exactly," whipped out Quinn, in her iciest voice. "You may have admitted you were afraid, but you're not angry because of that. You're angry because you want to hide what you really feel and if you haven't grown up enough to trust us to see that you aren't just a jock then I don't know what more we can do." She paused once again and Noah didn't try to talk.

"You're terrified," said Quinn her voice softening. She saw the plea flash in his eyes but ignored it. "You're still terrified. You had to watch Rachel get hurt while protecting you. I know you Puck. You may not even know it yourself but you made a promise when you saved Rachel from the hockey team that day. That no one else would ever hurt her again, that you would always protect her. You probably even made some smaller promise like that to her." Her voice softened even more. "You're terrified because you had to watch as that promise got torn to shreds. Had to watch as you couldn't protect her. I bet you're terrified she still may be hurt because you don't think you're good enough."

Noah broke. Massive sobs wracked his body. He wanted to hold Rachel so bad, but was scared that she didn't want to be near him after he had gone off on her, but then she was there in his arms and he was sobbing into her hair. He fell to his knees and Rachel went with him.

"I'm sorry," he sobbed. "I'm sorry I let you get hurt. I'm sorry I couldn't protect you. I'm sorry."

"Shhh," murmured Rachel, tears falling from her eyes as well. "It's ok. It's ok. Oh it's ok Noah." Quinn moved closer and wrapped her arms around Noah as well, hugging him from the back.

"It's ok Noah," the blonde said, using his given name for the first and probably last time. The rest of the Glee club slowly approached, all crying unashamedly. Nate, Matt, and Mike came together, placing supporting hands on Noah's and Rachel's shoulders. Then surprisingly, Santana, sitting down next to Rachel and putting a comforting hand on her lower leg, since her shoulder was occupied. Slowly the whole Glee club joined together, in silent support of both Rachel and Noah and what had just happened. After a long while the Glee club slowly separated, leaving Rachel and Noah.

"Don't leave," whispered Noah to her.

"Never," she whispered back fiercely.

"Go home," said Kurt. "We'll stay and tell Miss Pillsbury what happened." Everyone nodded. Rachel smiled at them and stood up. Noah followed, his hand tight around hers.

"Thank you," she said to everyone. They all smiled.

The walk to Noah's truck and the subsequent ride to Rachel's house was silent but Noah never let go of Rachel's hand. The silence lasted until she sat him down on her couch.

"You did protect me," she said. He scoffed.

"You did," she insisted, putting a gentle hand on his cheek. "Everyone else knew why you were beat up when they got to the room. Which means you and Quinn told everyone but me in an effort to protect me because you knew I would try and stop you or interfere somehow."

"That doesn't change the fact that-"

"You protected me," she repeated. "The only time you fought back was when Finn yelled at me."

"He shook you!" yelled Noah tearing away and standing up. "I broke my promise and you got hurt and I didn't protect you!"

"Wrong!" yelled Rachel back as she rose to follow him. "You never broke your promise! Even when you had hit your head the only thought in your mind was to get back up to protect me! I know that! You would have pushed yourself back up even with a possible concussion and taken whatever else Finn was going to do because you didn't care what happened to you, you wanted to protect me so much! How is that breaking your promise?"

"But you still got hurt…" said Noah shaking his head. She just smiled at him and approached him.

"People aren't perfect Noah. Finn shook me, yes, but the fact that you did everything in your power to protect me fulfills your promise and is more than I could ever ask for. But what you need to focus on is that Finn shook me. It wasn't your fault and I'll never think that it was." A smile finally tugged at his lips.

"I don't deserve you, you know." She moved forward and kissed his cheek since his lip had been split in the fight.

"And I don't deserve you. Guess we're a perfect fit." He smiled before wincing as his lip began bleeding again.

"Sit down," she said before running to get her first aid kit.

"I can't believe you aren't mad at me or Quinn," he said as she began treating his face.

"As I said before, I find the fact you didn't tell me what you were going to do as a way of protecting me. As for Quinn… I realize from what she's said before that keeping this from Finn is very stressful on her. I understand why she asked you and I'm not angry at her but I can't help but wish she would have told Finn herself. You wouldn't be hurt that way."

"Finn would have come after me even if she had told him," said Noah. "Besides it was as much my fault as it was hers." Rachel nodded.

"I understand." She paused. "Quinn will need a place to live won't she?" Noah cursed in realization.

"I'm sure the others will have that all under control tonight," assured Rachel.

"Yeah I'll talk to her tomorrow about moving in to my place," he replied.

"Not necessary," said Rachel. "Your mom has enough stress as it is. Quinn will live here with me. We have the room."

"You would do that? Won't it be awkward?"

"Because it's your baby? Yes I suppose it could," said Rachel thoughtfully. "But I know that Quinn loves Finn. And I've accepted what happened between you two. After all, it's in the past. Quinn and I are… Well I guess we are friends," said Rachel with a smile.

"You are an amazing person," said Noah, taking her hand and squeezing it. "Thank you."

"Anyone would do it," she replied. He just shook his head.

"No they wouldn't." Rachel just smiled as she finished up treating his face.

"Now, as I said before, you might have received a concussion when your head hit the floor."

"My head feels fine," he replied.

"Well," said Rachel looking at him disbelievingly, "To be sure, I'll be waking you up every hour tonight." He gaped at her.

"It's standard to make sure nothing serious develops," she replied. He sighed.

"Fine. Whatever." She just smiled before offering him the tv remote and before long they were in a familiar spot on the couch as they watched the tv.

So I think the next chapter should wrap up Sectionals and then we're heading on to the second half of season 1. I have decided to keep most of the couples intact as opposed to the show. This will take away storylines such as Brittany/Artie or Lauren/Puck but I decided I want to write my own story that loosely follows the canon storyline. I still have yet to decide on Matt. I'm still going back and forth about whether he should move or not. As for the Jesse storyline in the upcoming episodes, he's still going to play a huge part and something's going to happen that I think all of you are going to hate but trust me when I say as in the show: Everything works out in the end. Hope you liked this chapter and I will try to keep another two months from going by before the next update :P