Finn and Rachel are reconnecting, but Finn's increasing entrenchment in Lima threatens their future and reasserted bond. She needs him to join her, but how and why he does turns out to be just as important as whether he does. Post-S4. Continuing.

"How is it somehow so wrong for me to wait a year for him, but he can give up his whole life for me?" Post-S3. After Finn's "surrender" blindside at the train station devastates Rachel, Finn is convinced to try his luck in New York. But they have a hard road back, for Rachel to trust Finn again and for Finn to build a life that's truly his.