Hi so here is another chapter and again this one is small and short so again forgive me.
This story will contain the endgame of Ryder/Marley and there will be a few chapters coming up which address that. Jake and Kitty right now I don't know about so stay tuned.
I am going back to school so updates might be a bit short.
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Next Chapter-4x06-Glease-As the club preform Grease, Rachel and Kurt come back home, Ryder grows concerned about Marley and Sam once again finds himself in the middle of the drama between Rachel and Finn.
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Chapter 50-4x05-The Role You Were Born To Play
In which Sam gets a role in the school play, friends come back home and Sam finds himself in a bizarre three way living situation now that Carole and Burt are in Washington with his son, Blaine and Finn.
The following week Blaine practically moved in. His relationship with his father was civil but not warm and the break up with Kurt (and yeah they were officially calling it that now) had only put more strain of the relationship. Carole (who loved Blaine like her fifth son, if you counted, Finn, Kurt, Sam and Puck) had been straight on the phone instructing him that it was perfectly all right for him to stay and then when Blaine broke down sobbing spent the next three hours telling him that it was alright to cry and that people made mistakes and that Blaine was always, always welcome to stay at the Hummel-Hudson house.
Therefore the three of them and Ethan settled down into a pattern. Finn went to work in Burt's shop and Blaine and Sam dropped Ethan off at day care and then went on to school. If Sam hadn't been living in the house with Finn and Blaine's dejected expressions every day he would have thought that they were doing fine.
And it was that time again for the school musical. The drama that had come with West Side Story was fresh in everyone's mind especially because Mercedes and Mike were back the latter seemingly avoiding Tina like the plague.
The second musical was coming up. This time Artie who was once again directing (and had hopefully learned from his mistakes from West Side Story when it came to the casting) had chosen Grease for the musical and while Sam had been in school had bunked the afternoon off and found Finn.
So now, Finn, Mercedes and Mike were all roped into the rehearsals. Finn had gone and found another kid, a boy called Ryder who was the new player on the football team.
Sam who had decided against going back to the team after the last three years hadn't seen the kid up close but he knew that he danced a lot during the matches which didn't do much for the team but did a lot for crowd control.
When he did meet Ryder Lynn he revisited the urge to smirk and roll his eyes all at the same time. The kid was tiny. He was as skinny as fuck and was just as mouthy, he had talent to but there was something about him that made Sam want to press a sandwich and a coffee in his hands and ask him how his day was.
There was something about the way he was with Marley Rose that was so utterly endearing, it wasn't in your face like Rachel and Finn had been, it was sweet and utterly adorable and they were so shy around each other. It didn't help Sam thought sarcastically, that Puck's brother had no taken notice of her as well.
Ryder Lynn and Jake Puckerman were up for the role of Danny. Blaine had point blank refused to do it claiming with all that was going on with Kurt he wouldn't be able to sing more than one song without being choked to death on stage and Sam had grabbed the role of Kenickie with open hands because when he had watched Grease (and living in a house with Kurt you did watch any musicals and all the musicals there) that was the one part he had imagined himself playing.
And the songs were as catchy as hell.
The entire debate swirled around these two candidates. Mercedes comment about 'Just like Maria can't be black' made it very clear that the entire debacle last year wasn't forgotten. Sam was more inclined to go for Ryder than Jake not only because he liked the guy on instinct but also because he knew Puck's brother was unreliable on instinct and also had a short fuse.
They were too much alike in that instance and everyone including the two brothers (that hadn't even known the other one existed) were beginning to know it.
The only candidate for Sandy if they were being honest with each other was Marley Rose. Kitty Wilde was auditioning for it, but it was the general consensus of the alumni, Artie and Sam that Marley had the upper hand by a good mile. Finn was battling a war on two fronts with Sue and the establishment to get Wade Adams the role of Rizzo and the rest of the club were getting lower key parts with Sam grabbing Blaine's ask for the angel and the one song that came with it.
Finally there was a decision made. Ryder Lynn would get the role of Danny and they'd put Jake Puckerman as the understudy and Kitty Wilde as the understudy for Marley. Why they needed a fourteen hour meeting or near about to finalise a decision they were had all decided on from the beginning Sam didn't know and didn't think Artie's temper was up for another debate.
There was something else brewing on the horizon. Sam and Finn knew that a confrontation was coming with Mr Shue. There was too many rumours building about the teacher leaving. Sam thought that it was just their luck that with half of the club graduating the previous year and new members that were still so unsure about their place in the club and a musical in the background that Shue was throwing them under a bus, but was careful not to say anything to Finn who practically hero worshiped Shue and was now locked in silent conversations with his former teacher which probably didn't mean well.
Sam had gotten home that Friday after a rehearsal to find that Finn had picked up Ethan. "Hey Daddy" Ethan said waving when he came in.
"Hey Monkey" Sam said waving at his son who was already sorting out his sums in his book. He smiled at Finn who was sat cradling a mug of cocoa in his hands and was looking decidedly more cheerful than he'd been over the last few days.
"Mr Shue is leaving on a break to go to Washington for an education meeting" he said as soon as Sam shut the door separating them from Ethan.
Sam paused dumping his bag on the floor and running a hand through his hair.
"So who's getting the Club?" he asked focusing on the more important factor of that sentence while reaching for the cupboard that held the glasses and filling one with water from the fridge.
"I am" Finn said quietly though there was a faint note of pride in his voice when he said it.
Sam nearly dropped the glass. He set it back down on the counter and turned to face Finn in shock.
"You?" he asked careful to keep his voice down and the shock to a polite bare minimum.
"Yeah" Finn said still in that stunned tone. "I think I might be good at it" he said it with a kind of confidence that Sam had never heard from him before at least not in the past year and Sam was glad to realise that Finn was back in his stride.
"I think you'd be great at it" Sam said and he meant it.
Finn he thought later that night in bed while Ethan was asleep the next room over, Blaine had finally gone home and Finn was for once asleep in the next room, would make a great teacher.
And on that note let me know what you think.
