AU for the end of season 2.

I realise that it's been a long time and to be honest, I didn't realise that it had been 3 years. It's crazy how fast the time has gone.

I don't own Glee and all mistakes are my own.


New York

After the absolute shambles that is Nationals, Rachel stood in a hotel room with chaos going on around her. Everyone was screaming and shouting about the 'kiss-that-missed' and how it had lost them the competition, and no one was asking how she even felt about the kiss.

After what felt like an eternity of shouting, Rachel left the hotel room and made her way to her own. What she didn't realise was that Finn was coming after her too.

"Rach, can we talk?" Finn asked as he barged into her room as she tried to close her door on him.

"Doesn't look like I have a choice." She said in huff once he'd barged in and sat on the bed next to hers. "What do you want to talk about?" she asked.

He looked at her like it was obvious. "That kiss. What do you think that kiss meant?" he asked dumbly.

She scoffed. "Really?" she asked. "You're asking me what the kiss meant when you initiated it? It meant nothing. We're going to pretend it never happened." Rachel said simply.

"No." Finn answered automatically, standing from the bed as he started pacing the room. "We need to get back together. We belong together."

Rachel shook her head. "I don't agree, and I think you should leave my room." She told him as calmly as she could.

"This is about Jesse isn't it?" he asked, starting to get angry, pointing a finger in her face. "I've seen you guys sneaking around since before the prom. You're going to betray the team again aren't you?" he said accusingly.

Rachel sighed. She couldn't believe she was through this again. "Technically it doesn't count as betraying the team anymore because he's not in an opposing team. Regardless of that, this has nothing to do with Jesse. I realise that we've been getting close but this still has nothing to do with him. We're not getting back together and we broke up for a reason."

"Yeah because you cheated on me."

"Exactly. I cheated on you. Ergo, we don't belong together." She told him. "I don't want to be with you."

Finn looked very confused.

"I'm sorry Finn, I think it's time for you to leave my room." She said again.

He then proceeded to start shouting and screaming at Rachel while she tried not to flinch at his loud voice. She wasn't intimidated by him in the slightest but that didn't mean she enjoyed being shouted at.

He was getting so loud that she couldn't understand why no-one else could hear him and just when she was about to finally start arguing back with him, her door opened and Jesse and Mr Schuester entered.

Finn huffed and threw his hands up into the air, annoyed that his love rival was now in the same room as the girl he loved.

"What the hell is going on in here?" Mr Schuester asked angrily. He looked at Finn and Rachel accusingly, waiting for one of them to answer.

"Finn was supposed to be leaving." Rachel answered.

Mr Schuester looked at Finn, waiting for an explanation. "Mr Schue, she's going to get back with Jesse instead of me and I was trying to tell her what an awful idea that was." Finn explained.

Rachel gasped as she looked around the room trying to figure out how Jesse and Mr Schuester felt about what had just been said. Jesse's eyes had widened and he also had a barely there smirk while Mr Schuester was looking at her waiting for her to explain.

"Finn is jumping to conclusions as usual. Just because I don't want to get back with him, he thinks I want to be with Jesse." Rachel explained.

"And do you?" Jesse asked.

Rachel immediately became flustered. "That's…that's not the point. Sir, Finn has no right to get into my business and I have asked him twice to leave my room and he's refused. I would like him to leave."

Mr Schuester sighed. "Come on Finn, Rachel's right. She's asked you to leave so you need to respect it." He said, trying to guide Finn out of the room.

"But what about her betraying the team again?" he asked desperately as his teacher led him from the room.

"What do you want Jesse?" she asked when it was only the two of them left in the room.

"Do you want to be with me?" He asked her.

"I'm not answering that." She told him.

"Because I want to be with you." He admitted to her. "I made a huge mistake last year when I egged you and I've been trying to get another chance with you since. Can we please start again?" he asked.

"I won't lie, I've been enjoying spending time with you over the last couple of weeks but I'm not sure us getting back together is a good idea. I think I need to spend my senior year on my own."

"I like you, Rachel. I've always liked you and if you're not ready now, that's fine but I'm going to keep trying." He told Rachel before he walked out of the room.

A few weeks later, during the middle of summer break, Jesse and Rachel were back together. Rachel realised that Jesse wasn't going to distract her in the same way Finn would have and he would encourage and support her.

They were the perfect couple.


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