I do not own Glee and all mistakes are my own.


Rachel's fathers die and she has trouble coping with it. Jesse and Rachel are the same age in this story.

It's For The Right Reasons

She's sitting on her front porch steps and she can literally feel the depression taking over every part of her body. Both her parents are dead and she doesn't quite know what to do with herself any more. She literally shakes with tears that haven't come out yet.

All the Glee club turned up for her father's wake although she doesn't want to be around any of them. She can't muster up the energy to confront any of them. Rachel anticipates that they all realise it because none of them have even tried to come near her.

Jesse walked towards his girlfriend, dressed in a brand new, crisp tux he'd brought especially for the occasion; the Berry men deserved the best, from inside the house. "Do you want to see me?" he asked.

Rachel swirled round and saw him. She smiled happily. "You're the only one I want to be around today." She told him sadly.

"That's good, because I'm not going anywhere." he told her as he sat down next to her on the porch. Rachel stared straight ahead in front of her. Jesse pulled his girlfriend closer to his body and rested his chin on her head. "Talk to me baby." He said softly.

Rachel started to shake and Jesse knew she was crying. "They're both dead Jesse. My dads are dead." She sobbed. "My life is never going to be the same again."

"You're right, it's never going to be the same again and for a long time, it's going to ache. But one day, it might take a while, but one day, you'll be able to breathe again."

"I don't see that happening any time soon." Rachel muttered bitterly through her tears.

"Maybe not but it will happen one day. And I'm going to be here for you every step of the way."

She turned to look up at him. "You are?" she asked brightly.

He smiled warmly. "Of course I am, I am your boyfriend remember." He asked rhetorically.


Rachel took it upon herself to have a couple of days off from school. She couldn't handle seeing everyone's pitying faces. She couldn't handle their tone of voice as they said sorry to her for something they didn't even do in the first place.

Since Rachel was now eighteen years of age, she was legal to live on her own so she had to live in her childhood home without her fathers, pacing the halls of the home where her fathers no longer lived and never would again. She didn't know how to handle that fact.

Jesse came over every day after school to keep her company. He was just what she needed considering she spent most of her time in bed, still in pyjamas and listening to Broadway music, only resurfacing if she needed to get food or go to the bathroom.

He spent his time trying to cheer her up. He read to her, sang to her and brought her homework to her. After all, she was graduating this year and she still needed to maintain her GPA. Nothing ever seemed to work. She didn't talk a lot so he just did his thing and left at the end of the day before coming over the next day and repeating his cycle over again.


When she did finally go back to school, everything that she though would happen, happened. She spent the whole day dodging her friends because she couldn't bear to see the look on their faces. Even her best friends, Kurt and Blaine, looked at her in a way that best friends shouldn't.

When it finally came to Glee club at the end of the day, Rachel just sat there. Not talking and definitely not singing. Mr. Schuester asked her but she just shook her head.

Everyone was becoming increasingly worried for her.


As the months passed, and with her friend's and Jesse's help, Rachel began to feel better. Sure, she still had her down days where she wouldn't talk or sing but she tried to save them for the days when she didn't have Glee club. When she did have Glee club, she usually tried to find a sad song to go for any assignment. It helped her, otherwise she'd be still be crying.


It hit her hard again when it came to one of her dad's birthday. Jesse was worried that she's go back to a state of depression and tried to do as much as he could to get her out of the house. He knew he couldn't keep her dads off her mind but he didn't want her cooped up in the house. It worked, to a certain extent. Jesse didn't mention her dads to Rachel all day but she knew that he knew that she was thinking about him.

Since it was a weekend, he took her out of town, he took her to the cinema and took her to a music store, telling her to pick out any manuscript she wanted. He took her shopping, even though she insisted that she didn't want or need any clothes, and finally, as the sun started to set, he took her to get some ice cream. On the way back to Lima, he drove to his house rather than hers so she could spend the night with him.

"Thank you Jess." She told him as they say in his room that night.

"What for?" he asked.

"For the perfect day. It might not have taken my mind off of them but it was for the right reasons." She told him with confidence.

He smiled at her and kissed her softly. "I just want to make you happy Rachel. You deserve it after the last couple of months you've had."

Rachel avoided his eyes. "Yeah well…" she trailed off.


Jesse was sitting in his room, listening to music and reading when there was a knock at his door. Since his parents had gone out of town, it was down to him to answer the door.

He found Rachel standing on the other side of the door.

"I'm going to see my dad's." She announced.

Jesse was shocked. While Rachel had gone to see her dad's she'd not gone often, always telling everyone that it upset her too much. "Do you want me to come with you?" he asked.

She shook her head. "I need to do this on my own. I need them to know some things that I need to say on my own."

He smiled at her. "I'm so proud of you." He told her honestly.

She rushed to hug him. "It took almost a year and a lot of patience from you but I finally feel like I am getting back to my normal self, and it because of you. Thank you Jesse." She said, kissing him on the lips. A heated kiss that was filled with passion and love for her boyfriend. When she pulled away, she looked him in the eye. "I love you Jesse."

It was the first time in almost a year that she'd said it.

"I love you too Rachel." He told her without any hesitation.

"I'm going to go now but can I come over after?" she asked. "We can go and get some ice cream or something." She suggested.

"Definitely. I definitely want you to come over afterwards." He told her instantly.

She beamed. "Ok." She said happily before bounding out of his house. She got back into her car and she drove off.

Rachel Berry was finally going to be ok.


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