March 9, 2016
"Noah, you can't come here drunk," Rachel scolded him, seeing him walk into the choir room. It was obvious. Plus, it seemed like whenever she saw him, he was always drunk.
"Can you just shut up, Berry," he grumbled, picking up the guitar as he sat on the stool in the choir room before singing No Surrender. Everyone watched his emotional performance, nobody daring say anything. Tears came for some, others just looked on. But there for sure wasn't one person who couldn't feel how much Puck missed his friend.
"Finn was the one who kept me in line, and...I figured if he isn't there, I'll need an army," he told the group.
"The army? Are you insane?" Rachel exclaimed as she stood. "That's what got us in this situation to begin with Noah!" Will had to shush her, getting her to sit back down.
"Let him talk and explain," Blaine then added.
"I know your concerns. But I've been floating through the past four years without a purpose, something missing from my life. He was my brother, and it had always been us against the world. He asked me to join with him, but I was too scared. I might have been able to save him if I had. Plus, it's the air force. I'm gonna be a top gunner," he continued with a smile. Rachel knew that was his and Finn's favorite movie to watch.
"I'm pretty sure those were naval aviators in that movie," Sam then said. Puck just shrugged.
Rachel couldn't believe this was actually happening. Sure, her and Puck hadn't seen eye to eye on much throughout the years, but the two things they had in common were their religion and Finn. He'd been the one to convince her to go back to NYADA, who'd told her to audition and sing and keep living her life. Kurt and Santana hadn't been able to get through to her. Puck just knew how to play his cards right, and the card up his sleeve was always, "Is this what Finn would want? Because I know it's not." She was losing another thing that kept Finn tied to her.