Puck's POV
I get off the phone with the lawyer and sit back down on the couch with Quinn "He said he would be over in 15 minutes"
"He will bring all the paperwork?"
"Yeah" we are really going to do this, were going to be Beth's parents again
"Do you think she will ever remember Shelby?"
"I honestly don't know, I don't know how old kids are when they remember things"
"So your saying we might be the only parents she ever knows?"
"Yeah, I guess so" I think about it in my head, Beth might never remember who Shebly was, the person who raised her for the first year and a half of her life will just be gone, as she died all traces of her impact on Beth's life will go with it. I know about Quinn's history with Shelby and I don't know if Quinn will ever want Beth to know who she was, would we ever talk about her again once this is all over? We just sit there together for a while, I notice how Quinn doesn't keep her eyes off Beth, she is sleeping soundly in her crib and just this little moment would be one that a week ago we would have missed, now these everyday moments will be ours to share with our daughter for the rest of our lives. Soon there was a knock on the door and Quinn gets up and answers it, I hear her greeting Shelby's lawyer and then see them walking into the kitchen, I take one last look at Beth to make sure she is still sleeping and then I follow behind them. Quinn and I both sit down at the table across from him and watch as he pulls out papers out of his briefcase
"Here we have just some basic documents that state that you will be Beth Corcoran's legal guardians and will be her providers"
"So it is like we are adopting her?"
"In a way yes, it will be more of a fast adoption considering the child no longer has a mother and you will get to keep the child in your custody during the whole process"
"Will we be able to change her last name?" this question from Quinn surprises me, maybe she really was trying to erase Shelby from Beth's life, and if it is possible for her to get her last name changed would she get my last name? Or Quinn's?
"That will be possible but you will need to get the right paperwork first, would you like me to get you the documents needed?"
"Yeah, I would like that, thank you" he sets the documents in front of us
"Now before you sign these I need to tell you that by signing these it means that the next step is to go in front of a judge to insure this appeal is accepted and then you will have three home visits by a social worker who will check in with you and Beth to insure she is adjusting well and you two are also adjusting to being parents, this is all happening in the state of Ohio so you are needed to stay here during this whole process"
"Excuse me?"
"It is required that at least one of you is here to go through the process, it would also be in best interest of the child not to be taken out of the environment that she is most comfortable with during this change in her life"
"So basically you are saying that we have to stay here, in this house to raise our daughter"
"For around a year yes, after everything in the legal system is taken care of you two are free to move wherever you choose"
"But I am currently enrolled at Yale, I am missing classes as we speak"
"Can we have a moment to speak, we will be right back" I take Quinn's hand and lead her into another room "What the hell was that about?"
"Puck I am going to Yale university, I can't just uproot my life like this"
"I have to leave everything behind too"
"Yeah, your pool cleaning business"
"It's a legit business"
"I'm not saying that it isn't"
"Your just saying that your life is more important, same old Quinn, always putting herself over everyone and everything"
"Do not pull that with me"
"It's true though, you put yourself before Beth years ago and your doing it again now"
"Do not ever say that I put myself before my daughter, everything I did, putting her up for adoption was all for her"
"Then be here for her now, besides what is the big deal, we never decided that we were going to move back with you, where would me and Beth stay anyway?"
"We could have gotten a house, I don't know but we could have figured it out, make it work"
"Oh so you were supposed to carry on with your life and I was left to watch her all day, leaving everything behind in the process"
"It wasn't like that"
"Like it or not but we had this baby together and now we need to stick together now to raise her"
"Your right, I'm sorry. This is about Beth" we both walk back into the kitchen and I hope he hasn't heard us arguing
"Is everything figured out?"
"Yeah, were going to sign the papers"
"Great! I'm going to need you two to sign it as your legal names to insure the documents are binding and legal" I watch as Quinn signs on the dotted lines as 'Lucy Fabray' a name I have never heard or seen her acknowledge as her real name. When the time come she passes the papers and the pen over to me and I sign as 'Noah Puckerman'
"Okay, congratulations" he smiles at us and gets up to leave "I will call you with the court date"
"Okay thank you" he lets himself out leaving Quinn, me and our daughter, after all this time things are now official.
