Here is the short finale of the story where you learn about how and why Rachel took her own life and her reunion with Finn.
Chapter 4: Reunited.
Rachel's POV. (Set that morning.)
After Kurt and Santana left, I just sit on my bed and just sit outside the window. I look outside at the busy streets and just think about what has happened over the last couple of days. I wasn't ready to face everyone and go back home. It hurts too much and right now, I feel that I am lost.
I lie backwards and just cry about everything that I have lost. Finn was my everything and now he has gone. I don't know how I am ever going to continue living after him. All I want is for him to be with me and no matter how much I want that to be true, it will never happen. He is gone. I keep crying tears that I didn't know that I had. Why did he want to go back anyway? Had I really neglected him that much that he felt that he had to put his life on the line for him to feel worth something?
They say that there are 5 stages of grief. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. I just feel that the first four are on top of me all at once. No-one would ever understand my love for Finn Hudson. He put me on that train because he loved me and wanted me to achieve my dreams. I tried to reason with him but now I realise what is achieving dreams when you don't have those people that you love to achieve them with?
The entire day seems to drag on and I'm crying tears that I don't even know that I have. My phone is just blowing up but I don't have the strength to answer the calls. I am shouting at the walls desperate for an answer.
Rachel: "Where are you? Please come back. I'll do anything."
But of course there is no answer. There never will be again. I guess this is life's revenge for when I broke up with him when I had cheated on him with Brody. I abused the fact that I had him and now I don't and I never will have him again.
It was always my dream to be on Broadway. To become a star. My dads always pushed me to become a star. They even threatened to pull the plug on my almost wedding just so I could have my Broadway dreams come true. But now, too late I realise that no matter how rich or famous or successful I become, it isn't the same as coming home to the one I love and later on in life, my children. Finn stole my heart back when we meet in Glee during sophomore year and he never gave it back. I am forever his. And now that he is gone, I don't feel that I could ever live the life that I want to live anymore.
I reach for my draw where I find my handgun. Ever since Finn was in the army, he had a gun at home if needed in self-defence. When he came here, it got me a firearm's license in the use of self-defence from terrorists. I know it is strange but war can affect your mind badly and Finn's mind was that he wanted everyone he knew to have some form of defence. I hope he isn't angry with me when I get to him.
I take the gun to my chest and find the trigger. One shot and it is all over. The world around me goes black.
I wake up and see someone very familiar standing right in front of me facing away from me. I walk up to him and he turns around and pulls me into a hug.
Finn: "Didn't expect to see you this soon. You were very stupid you know."
Rachel: "I know. I was just so depressed that I had lost you and you know, I couldn't live without you."
Finn: "Rachel, you had just gotten your dream role. Everything you wanted was right there for you."
Rachel: "Finn. Yes I got the role of Fanny in Funny Girl but what would it be if I didn't have the man I love waiting for me after every performance. After I lost you I realised that love is more important than my career."
Finn: "It was still silly what you did."
Rachel: "Grief affects everyone differently and it affected me to the point of suicide. I guess this is heaven is it?"
Finn: "Yes it is. Let me show you around."
He takes my hand after the sweetest kiss of all and leads me around. He is mine and I am his. We are together until the very end and nothing can separate us apart.
Not even death could separate us.
End.
That is the end. A bittersweet ending. It proves that sometimes love overcomes all hurdles even death. Reviews are welcome if you wish to review this story.