Hi to all my readers and reviewers and welcome to chapter 13. This chapter is a bit of a filler chapter before the story once again starts moving along. We see some of the history of Finn and Puck's friendship in this chapter…as well as the emergence of Nurse Berry. FYI for everyone I added a bit about the show The Bachelor and as I don't watch that particular show or even know if it's still on air or been cancelled. I just made up names of characters that would be on that show, so if anyone who reads this is fans of The Bachelor I apologise in advance for being completely ignorant in regards to the show. Once again all the legal stuff belongs to Ryan Murphy & FOX except my characters. So please read, review, rewind, then read and review again…enjoy!
Rachel sat crossed legged on a small picnic blanket spread out on the soft grass. She ran her hand down smoothing out her simple sundress the one that Finn always told her she looked beautiful in. Rachel looked out across the expanse of park where she sat and saw Finn with a large beaming smile that showcased his dimples to full effect.
"Finn? What are you doing here? You just had surgery, you should be resting!" Rachel chastised her boyfriend, who just smiled at her and held out his hand for her to take. Rachel always loved the feel of her dainty hand wrapped securely in Finn's larger, manlier hand. It always made her feel safe and secure like she was wrapped in a protective cocoon where the outside world was non-existent.
After taking Finn's hand Rachel allowed him to lead her to a small playground not to far away from the blanket she had been sitting on. Finn let go of her hand and seemed to be calling out to someone. Just then from inside the playground came the most adorable little boy, Rachel had ever seen. As he ran towards where she was standing she could see he had a large lopsided smile on his face that showed off the most adorable dimples that you could just get lost in. She also noticed the sunlight dancing across the little boys amber coloured eyes; the very same eyes she had gotten lost in time and time again throughout her life with Finn.
She looked across at Finn just as the little boy jumped into his arms and gave Finn a big hug and said in a voice that instantly brought a huge smile to her face. "Yes Daddy!"
Daddy? When did Finn have a son? Rachel was confused and shocked! Had Finn been hiding a kid from her this entire time? The sound of the little boy reaching out for her to hold him brought her back to the moment; especially when the little boy started calling out, "Mummy!"
Finn noticing the shocked look on Rachel's face and hugged the little boy tighter and said. "I think mummy's still tired from her big show last night, huh!"
The little boy just started clapping and giggling which was like music to Rachel's ears. "Big show! Big Show! I go to Mummy's show, daddy?"
"Now remember what, mummy said about you going to one of her shows, Ollie?" Finn said ruffling the little boy's hair, and handing him over to Rachel. As soon as Rachel held the little boy in her arms she had a strong feeling of love and contentment come over her. She also felt like if anything ever happened to this little boy, that she would go up against God himself if it meant protecting this little boy.
"Mummy said I can go when I a big boy! But I am a big boy mummy…you said! I big boy just like daddy!" Ollie said while cupping his little hands on both sides of Rachel's face.
"You are a big boy, my darling little man! But you still have to grow a little bit more…okay!" Rachel answered back to her son that she just now realised she had. Ollie squirmed in her arms to be let down to which Rachel happily obliged and lowered him to the ground.
Ollie ran over and started tugging on Finn's arm, "Daddy can I get ice cream now, so I can grow to be a big boy?" Ollie asked his father, looking at him while making his eyes go as wide as possible and giving him that famous Hudson smirk.
Finn just laughed and told his son, "Oliver Christopher Hudson! Don't you know by now, that little cute act only works with your mother."
"Beep…beep…beep!" Rachel looked around, trying to find the source of that annoying beeping as it was ruining her precious family time. She spun around looking everywhere yet couldn't see anything. Yet all of a sudden there in the middle of the park was a hospital bed. Why the hell would a hospital bed be doing in the middle of a park, Rachel thought to herself. She looked around again and noticed the park now had four walls around it, and that beeping noise was back. Rachel looked up into the sky and saw everything was slowly going dark and disappearing.
She looked over at Finn and Oliver and saw them now standing far away waving goodbye to her. Rachel tried running over to them but was quickly swallowed by the enveloping darkness.
Rachel jerked awake and shouted, "FINN!" it was then she noticed that she was back a hospital room and the beeping noise was the machines. She must've fallen asleep and been dreaming. Even if it was just a dream it still made her smile wider then she had in a long time. As well as make her heart beat so hard at the thought of a little boy created by their mutual love that looked exactly like her gorgeous six foot four whiskey eyed man.
"I haven't seen that smile in a while, must've been a good dream!" Someone talking to her brought Rachel out of her thoughts. It was then Rachel realised she wasn't alone with Finn in the hospital room. She looked over and saw Noah Puckerman sitting alongside Finn's hospital bed.
"Noah? How long have you been here for?" Rachel asked her friend while stretching and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
"About half an hour. Everybody else went home, but I just couldn't leave Finn here in this place by himself. I know he has you, but I felt I needed to be here as well." Puck leaned back in his chair.
"You know you did the right thing by telling us all, right?"
Puck just looked across the room at Rachel and sighed. Rachel was surprised she had never seen Puck like this…so vulnerable, emotional and normal for lack of a better word. "If anything happened to him I don't know what I'd do with myself. Ever since I can remember it's always been Finn and Puck…Puck and Finn, two peas in a pod. Did Finn ever tell you about how he and I met?"
Rachel just silently shook her head no and motioned for Puck to continue with his story.
"Well I was about seven years old and I was there in my bedroom playing with my toys. I can remember my dad coming home from who knows where and instantly getting into an argument with my mother. To this day I don't know what they were arguing about but I do remember sitting there and listening to them shouting at each other. After having enough of listening to them shout and throw things at each other, I climbed out my bedroom window and ran to the park around the corner from my house.
I remember sitting in that park on the swings watching all the happy families out and about playing happily with their kids. I was so jealous watching those kids play in the park with their fathers, laughing and having fun. When all I had to look forward to was another round of witnessing my parent's shout at each other. When out of nowhere I feel this tug on my sleeve and when I turn around there's this little boy with his hair sticking up all over the place and looking at me with his amber coloured eyes. He looks at me and says, "Why are you so sad?"
I tried to protest and say that I wasn't sad but this little kid just wasn't having any of my bull. "I know your sad, because I sad too! But if we're friends then we wont be sad anymore."
I asked him why he was sad and he said, "Because he didn't have a dad to teach him stuff and to do fun things with. But he had a great mummy who tried to do a lot of those things with him anyway." I then remember him telling me that, "My mummy always told me if someone's sad than it is your duty to try and cheer them up!"
He told me his name was Finn Hudson and he was seven years old." Young Finn said while slowly trying to get the appropriate amount of fingers up on his little hands. I told him my name was Noah Puckerman and he told me my last name made me sound like a superhero…Puckerman! Considering we were kids we shortened it to Puck-man and Finn said my superpower could be that I throw hockey pucks at bad guys. Over the years it eventually turned into just Puck hence why I make everyone call me Puck, because Noah reminds me of that scared little kid sitting by himself back in that park. Whereas Puck reminds me I have friends and I have a best friend in Finn. Only three people ever call me Noah, you, Mamma Hudson and my mother.
Finn then took me over and introduced me to his mum and told her that I was his newest and best friend. I remember Carole looking at me with the kindest eyes; I think she knew right away I was from a troubled home because automatically she made me feel like I was family. Mamma H invited me over to have lunch with them and I was amazed because these people actually sat down with each other to eat. They actually wanted to spend time with each other, whereas what I was used to was the complete opposite. Carole drove me home and knocked on the door and to say Carole was shocked was the understatement of the century when my mum answers the door still drunk of her ass. She didn't even realise I had ever left the house and that's when Carole made me promise her if I ever feel unsafe or just need somewhere to be I was welcome in her home anytime I wanted.
So needless to say I started spending basically every waking moment over at the Hudson's and even the non-waking hours as well. Has Finn ever shown you that tree house we built down by the lake?"
Once again an emotional Rachel just shook her head no and waited for Noah to continue with his story.
"Well one summer Finn and I would ride our bikes down to the lake and we decided to build a tree house. Once it was done, it was the crappiest looking tree house you had ever seen, but us being only eight years old thought it was the best thing we had ever seen. We would sit for hours in that thing playing games and just talking as we looked out across the lake. That's where Finn found me the day my dad finally took off for good.
I remember sitting on the seat on my front porch one day, when my dad came out of the house with a suitcase. He just looked at me and I just looked at him and then he said, 'Don't get married Noah, or you'll turn out just like me'. I think somewhere in my young little mind I knew that was the last time I was going to see my father…and it was. So that's why Finn found me crying my little eyes out in the tree house.
To this day I still remembered what he said to me. First he just sat there and watched me cry as he put his arm around me. I asked him if he was going to say anything and you know what he said to me…" a crying Rachel just shook her head no, before Noah continued. "He said emotions are a lot like farts, Puck, there better out than in" at this statement both Rachel and Noah burst out laughing. Rachel could just picture a tiny Finn sitting there saying that, thinking he's sharing some deep words of wisdom.
Once the laughter had died down Noah looked back over and said I also remember him saying something else as well, something that has stuck with me to this very day. He said, 'don't be sad Puck! Now your not only my best friend but now we can be twins as well! I don't have a daddy…you don't have a daddy, see we can be twin best friends! But don't worry if you still feel sad I have the greatest mummy in the whole wide world and she loves me so, so much and I'll bet she has a whole heap left over that she can share with you…if ya want? To which I just nodded my little head and Finn just said, 'Cool! We can share my mummy and be friends forever!'.
Noah turned to Rachel and through his own tears said, "Can you believe a little eight year old boy telling his best friend, 'don't be sad you can share my mummy because she has a whole heap of love?"
"Finn's always had an uncanny ability to notice when someone is upset or feeling down, there's just something in his nature that makes him want to help those people. That's also one of the million reasons why I love him so much and even with our breakups I never thought they were malicious they were always just him trying to help in the best way he knew how. It may not of been the best way…but it was still Finn trying to make sure everybody around him was happy even if he wasn't himself." An emotional Rachel answered back to Noah.
"We would sit there in that tree and talk about what life was going to be like when we were old. I remember telling Finn that I was going to open my own dojo and be Lima, Ohio's first ever black belt ninja master with my own nunchucks." Once again Noah and Rachel both burst out laughing at the inner workings of a young Noah Puckerman. "Hey! Hey! Don't laugh this was around the time Finn and I were obsessed with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Carole even had this little Chihuahua that we made play the part of Splinter!" which made Rachel laugh even harder because Finn still had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle boxers.
"Anyway Finn would always sit there in that tree and say Puck! When I'm older and I'm rich I'm going to buy this land and build a house for me and my family to stay in when were in Lima. When I asked him what about me he said, don't worry he'll just build a granny flat on the side for me to stay in." Puck continued once he had recovered from laughing so hard.
Rachel peeked up at this bit of news and asked Puck where exactly this piece of land was, which he told her. Noah looked at the tiny brunette as she had a weird smirk on her face as though she was scheming about something. If she was, Puck didn't want any part of it, because he knew better than to get in the middle of Rachel Berry and her scheming. But something told him it would include him and more importantly everyone else as well. As they watched over Finn the two friends continued there sharing of important Finn milestones throughout their lives.
Finn wondered why everything was so black and foggy. It felt like his head weighed a tonne and was also extremely sore. I wonder if I'm still experiencing that out of body thing, Finn thought to himself. Maybe I'll get to see my dad again. But much to Finn's disappointment his dad was nowhere to be found, just like when I was going through puberty, Finn thought to himself; Finn groaned at the memory of having to talk to Carole about the weird hair he found on his balls. Saying that was one hell of an awkward talk, would be the understatement of the century, especially with Carole being a nurse. Don't even get him started on, how it was asking a young Noah Puckerman about the situation. Finn now knew more information than he'd care to admit. Which freaked a younger Finn out immensely especially when your mother explains things to you with the help of props as visual aids. A younger Finn was left so traumatised he walked around for a week and a half mumbling, 'your pee-pee has to go in…where?'
Fat lot of good all that information did, when Quinn was lying to him about Beth being his kid. He wasn't an idiot, he knew the odds of him fathering a kid through a hot tub were about the same as if Darth Vader turned out to be his real dad. Which just for the record would be freaking awesome! But his trait to always see the best in people made him believe his girlfriend was pregnant and needed his help. Never in a million years did he think he was being conned and his best friend was really the father. What's that famous line from that movie his mum likes…oh yeah! 'At least we'll always have Paris'; well even though he'd long moved on from Quinn Fabray, I guess he could say; we'll always have that hot tub!
Focusing back on the task at hand, found Finn still surrounded by darkness. Finn tried to look for a point of reference so he could figure out where he was. He couldn't see anything so he thought to himself, I'll see if I can hear anything. Everything was silent as Finn strained to find a sound until he heard it.
"I can't believe Ryan gave a rose to Samantha! That girl should've gone home weeks ago."
Who the hell were Ryan and Samantha? Finn tried to think if he knew anyone called those names, but he couldn't think of anyone. But something Finn did recognise was the person the voice belongs to. The unseen voice sounded a lot like Kurt.
"KURT! KURT!" Finn tried calling out to his brother, but all he got back was silence. If this was some joke his brother was playing it wasn't funny. The fog still hadn't lifted from his head but the darkness had slightly gotten a bit lighter. That's when he heard it again but this time from someone different.
"Tell me about it! Why give a rose to Samantha and not to Jade? I mean Jade was the nice down to earth girl who would've fit nicely into Ryan's lifestyle."
Once again with these Ryan and Samantha people and now some other chick called Jade. Holy Crap! I better not be living some Freaky Friday bullshit where I've been implanted into someone else's body; so I can learn how great life is or whatever message that movie was selling. In truth he only watched it because the modern remake had Lindsey Lohan in it and for like two seconds he had a crush on her. This was all before she went batshit crazy and reminded him of Quinn Fabray. Which then sent him into a week of depression where he thought he was destined to be attracted to psychos.
Now this new voice, Finn didn't have any trouble knowing whom this voice belonged to. It was a voice, if he was truly being honest; he fell in love with long before he fell in love with its owner. It was the voice of an angel. An Angel who looked smoking hot in reindeer sweaters, knee-highs and penny loafers, all wrapped up in the delectable package of a five foot two brunette pixie with killer vocals. That voice…that beautiful voice belong to Rachel Berry, his beautiful girlfriend; there's no way she'd let him down and for sure she would tell him what's going on.
"RACH! RACH! BABY IT'S ME FINN! RACHEL!" Finn called and called but just like last time received no answer. Finn was starting to get desperate! Why wasn't anyone acknowledging him? He tried looking around at his surroundings again to see if he could establish where he was. Still feeling incredibly confused, Finn looked around and noticed weird rectangular objects that looked to be fixed to some weird grey or beige sky. He also could just make out weird blob like creatures surrounding him on both sides. Okay! Now he was officially freaking out! He'd seen all those alien abduction TV shows and videos. It was just my luck thought Finn, I survive a fucking Brain tumour and then I get abducted by aliens and get my butt probed all in the name of intergalactic science. An interesting thought just ran through his head. If he's on some weird alien spaceship does that mean his dad was an alien?
Holy Crap! He could be like superman, and have some awesome superpowers. Finn was excited, let's see what powers I have. Finn tried to focus his eyes to see if he had heat vision like superman or laser beams that shot out of his eyes like Cyclops from the x-men, but nothing. Maybe I can fly so he tried to fly and nothing. After a few moments of trying to see if he had different superpowers and coming up empty, Finn decided that he didn't have any superpowers. I guess I'm just one of those normal average aliens like Alf or Mork from Mork and Mindy or Gonzo from the Muppets.
"Who cares who Ryan picks it's not going to last anyway! All that shows good for is getting to watch that hunk Ryan for an hour!"
Oh My God! That was my mother! Calling this Ryan dude hot. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. So that means my mum, Kurt and Rachel are somewhere near me because I can hear them…but why wont they answer me? The blob like shapes were starting to become clearer and clearer and now they actually looked like silhouetted people; and it had also become light enough for Finn to realise he was in some type of white room, so much for his Alien Abduction and superpower theory.
"Mum! Your married remember!" Finn heard Kurt admonish Carole jokingly.
"So what! It's not like I'm going to leave your father, fly to Hollywood, and jump Ryan's bones! I don't care how deep blue his eyes are, and how tight that arse of his is!" Finn heard his mum answer back, even though being her son he wished he hadn't. He also heard the three of them laughing at the antics of his mother which soothed his soul. Especially the sound of his mother and Rachel laughing, if there was one thing he could do for the rest of his life it would be to try his hardest to make those two laugh as often as possible.
"Yeah Kurt! There's nothing wrong with a little window-shopping as long as you're not intending to buy anything. I mean you all know how much I love Finn, but even I'm not blind to an attractive male and Ryan's just that an absolute hottie. Haven't you ever heard the saying, 'It doesn't matter where you get your appetite from as long as you eat at home'?" Rachel told Carole and Kurt.
Kurt just started laughing, "God! Rachel you've been spending too much time around Santana! I'm glad Finn can't hear what your saying!"
But I can hear what you are all saying Kurt! Who the hell was this Ryan punk, huh? I just got rid of that tool Brody, so I'm not about to let some douche with the lame ass name of Ryan take Rachel away from me. You hear me Rachel and the world! I'm Finn Hudson and not being all cavemen or anything but Rachel Berry is tethered to me. So hear that Ryan or whatever the hell your name is stay the hell away from my future wife!
"Mmm mmmh hmhm!"
Kurt almost dropped the magazine he was skimming through because it sounded like he heard a murmur or a moan and he was pretty sure it was coming from Finn. "Quiet!" Both Rachel and Carole dropped what they were doing and looked at Kurt. There it was again. "Did you hear that? I think Finn's trying to murmur something."
Carole and Rachel both rushed to Finn's side and checked him over from head to toe. Putting her nursing training to good use, Carole gave her son the once over and found nothing.
"Are you sure you heard something Kurt? I mean maybe it's wishful thinking, we all want Finn to wake up!" Rachel said soothingly to her best friend.
"I'm sure I heard, what I heard! It sounded like…" Kurt stopped mid sentence as he saw Finn's hand twitching. "Look! Finn's hand's moving!" this time both Carole and Rachel both saw Finn's hand twitching.
Carole went into overprotective mother mode, while Rachel went into worried girlfriend mode. Both of them started fussing over Finn, puffing up his pillows and smoothing down his hair. While speaking to him, "Come on baby wake up! It's me Rachel, come towards the sound of my voice."
To Finn it felt like he was being jostled around in a big black vacuum. All he could hear was Rachel calling out for him to come towards the sound of her voice. What the hell did she think he had been trying to do all this time…learn the fucking Macarena! Anyway the more he tried to focus on Rachel's voice the clearer the outside world seems to get. Even though Finn promised himself the moment he's out of this damn hospital he's going to track this Ryan guy down and give him a piece of his mind. Because they were Finchel, dammit! What the hell would there couple name be anyway…Rychel. Fuck that! Rychel sounded like some type of drug they give you when you've got an STD.
"Sorry son! But it appears you've got the Clap!"
"Oh No! Doc whatever shall I do?"
"Don't worry son! Just take some Rychel two times a day and that Clap should clear right up!"
"Wow! Thanks doc!"
"You were lucky this time kid, but for next time remember no glove…no love!"
"Sure thing, Doc!"
"Now get out of here ya little scamp!"
Carole and Rachel continued trying everything they could think of to get Finn to wake up, when suddenly Finn opened his eyes and yelled out. "Damn you Ryan!"
Carole quickly turned to a bewildered Kurt and told him to go fetch the doctor. Kurt ran out the door in pursuit of the first doctor he could find. Meanwhile Finn looked around the room now that things were becoming clearer to him. He couldn't help but smile, as Rachel hadn't stopped kissing any piece of exposed skin she could find, now that he had woken up.
"Oh Finn! I'm so glad your awake baby!" Rachel managed to get out amongst the numerous kisses she was bestowing upon him.
"Welcome back, baby boy!" Carole told her son affectionately as she smoothed his hair down.
Just then the door opened and in came Kurt followed by a young good-looking doctor. The doctor at first didn't say anything he just picked up Finn's chart and skimmed through it before turning and facing Finn.
"Ahh! Mr Hudson it's good to see you awake! I'm doctor Griffith. How are you feeling?" the young doctor asked Finn
"Everything's still a bit cloudy doc!" Finn answered back.
The doctor just nodded and wrote some notes down, "Don't worry Finn, that's to be expected after the surgery you just had. Now I need to ask you some questions to test your cognitive response, okay!"
"Sure thing doc!"
"Okay first can you tell me your name?" the doctor quizzed Finn.
"Finn Hudson"
"Correct! Do you know what year it is?"
"2015"
"Correct again! Just one more Finn; can you tell me who the president is?"
"Barack Obama"
"Brilliant! By the looks of things it doesn't appear there's any residual damage from the surgery; and from what I've read on your chart the surgery was a success and they managed to remove the whole tumour."
"When could he possibly go home?" Carole asked knowing full well that was really the only question Finn wanted answered at the moment.
"Well we'd like you to stay in the hospital for at least a week and then after that if everything comes back great with your tests, you can go home. Once your home you'll have to monitor your health, and any lingering headaches or anything like that come straight in and we'll check you out. Also you'll need to come in for a half yearly, yearly and five yearly check-up just to make sure the tumour hasn't come back and everything's on track." The doctor explained to the group.
"Thanks so much Doctor!" Rachel said to the doctor as she held Finn's hand tightly.
"Excuse me! I don't really do this sort of thing, but are you Rachel Berry from Funny Girl?" the young handsome doctor asked Rachel while giving her a flirtatious smile that Finn didn't like one bit.
Rachel let out a nervous giggle before answering the doctor, "Yes! I am Rachel Berry." Those giggles of Rachel's made Finn's green-eyed jealousy monster even angrier.
"Can I just say that you were absolutely amazing as Fanny Brice! Also I don't want to embarrass you or anything but I don't remember Fanny being so beautiful." Which caused Rachel to blush and look down. That's it Finn had, enough. You must be a fool doc! Because you just poked the Giant, now you got to pay the consequence.
"Hey Doctor Hard-on! I think I heard one of those young nurses calling out for a doctor, to give them a hands on tutorial on how to give sponge baths." Snapped Finn at the smarmy doctor.
"Actually my name's Doctor Griffith!" the young doctor answered back.
"Yeah! I didn't care the first time and I still don't care now! Thanks for the update doc! But since I've just woken up after major surgery, I'd like to spend some quality time with my family and stunningly gorgeous girlfriend! So I'd like you to exit my room, unless something really did happen to me during the surgery on my brain; and you somehow managed to be in one of those two groups I mentioned." Finn snapped back making sure the doctor saw Finn and Rachel holding hands.
"Okay! Just buzz if you need anything and one of the nurses will come and help you." The doctor said as he started to walk out of the room.
Just before the doctor left the room, Finn called out. "Hey Doc! Your name wouldn't possibly be Ryan would it?"
"No! It's actually Jonathan or Jon for short, so Jonathan Griffith!"
Finn just smirked at the doctor before saying, "Yeah! Sorry doc, but still don't care!" and with that the confused young doctor exited the room to continue his daily rounds.
As soon as the door closed Carole rounded on her son, "Finnegan Christopher Hudson! What on earth possessed you to be so rude to that young doctor?"
"If I wanted to watch someone drool all over Rachel I would've hung around in New York when she was with Brody!" Finn sulked.
"Finn, you don't have to worry about that doctor. Because I'm all yours, ya big lug!" Rachel said giving Finn a big kiss, which in typical Finchel fashion turned into a whole heap of more kisses.
"Oi! Break it up you two!" Kurt chastised Finn and Rachel as they separated with Finn having a huge goofy grin on his face and Rachel blushing profusely at having been caught making out with Finn by his mother and brother. "Finn who's this Ryan you keep going on about?"
"I wouldn't have a clue! I just heard my own mother and girlfriend fan-girling over some douchebag named Ryan!" Finn sulked again which turned to surprise when Kurt, Rachel and his mum burst out laughing. "What?" Finn asked.
"Oh Finn Baby! Ryan is the bachelor from the TV show The Bachelor. That's what we were talking about. Not some secret guy your mum and I have stashed somewhere!" Rachel placated her boyfriend.
Rachel, Carole and Kurt spent the next couple of hours filling Finn in on everything he had missed. As well as delivering the apologies of the others who couldn't be there, like Burt who was needed back for an urgent meeting of Congress. The group kept on conversing until they were interrupted by a nurse telling the group visiting hours were over and Finn needed his sleep. After promising to come visit him first thing tomorrow, the trio of Carole, Kurt and Rachel left Finn to get some much needed rest.
Finn stirred in his last vain efforts of getting a few more precious minutes of sleep. He slept well last night getting seven or so hours of sleep, but in Finn world that was like getting only half a nights sleep. His bed at home had those extremely comfy creases and dents that were perfectly moulded to his body, yet these hospital beds were so hard, you could bounce a quarter off them. Not to mention sleeping in these incredibly annoying gowns the hospital makes you wear. Why he couldn't just sleep in his trusty old boxers he usually does was beyond him. Also the sights and smells of a hospital kept him slightly awake as well. There's always an alarm going off or something beeping, people coming in and out of your room at odd hours. Not to mention the smell of hospital grade disinfectant everywhere.
But what was this? That aroma is definitely not disinfectant, but rather coffee. Great did one of those trainee nurses leave her coffee in his room again, I swear if it's that same nurse she's just doing it because she has a thing for him or something. He opened his eyes and was met not with the sight of a young flirty nurse but with the deepest, darkest chocolate orbs looking back at him. The beautiful Rachel Berry was sitting beside his bed sipping on a large coffee while skimming through the paper; as well as not so subtly checking him out every other moment or so.
"Stalker!" Finn blurted out while trying to pretend to be asleep, as well as trying not to laugh as he caught the shocked look on Rachel's face, having been caught ogling her supposedly fast asleep boyfriend.
"FINN! You scared me half to death!" Rachel jokingly chastised her boyfriend while she wacked him in the arm. Until straight after she realised she just punched someone who just had surgery on their brain. At her realisation Rachel jumped from her seat and began profusely apologising while checking Finn out for any sign of damage.
"Great! Not only do I have a stalker in my room watching me sleep, I now have an abusive one as well." Finn joked
Rachel just stood back and gave Finn a look, "Really Finn! So it's perfectly acceptable for you to watch me sleep, but the second I do it it's creepy!" Rachel stood there with her arms crossed challenging Finn with her eyes and posture.
"Yeah well! When you sleep you don't look like you just escaped from the set of The Walking Dead. You look beautiful like…um…Sleeping Beauty!" Finn tried his hardest to get back on Rachel's good side.
Rachel wasn't really mad at Finn; she just enjoyed watching him squirm every now and then. Like right now as he was trying to think of adequate compliments, she was trying her hardest not to crack and let out a smile. Which was incredibly difficult because Finn is so utterly adorable when trying to get back in her good graces.
"Nice save Hudson!" Rachel smirked at her boyfriend.
"Yeah well! I actually thought you were one of the nurse's coming in to flirt with me again." Finn realised what he actually said to his girlfriend all to late as he saw her playful demeanour morph into scary, pissed-off Rachel Berry demeanour.
Now the tables had turned. Just as Rachel found Finn extremely adorable when he was grovelling and trying to get back in her good graces. Finn found Rachel extremely cute when she was jealous and pissed-off. Maybe that's why Rachel and I were so hot and heavy in high school, because I was always grovelling and Rachel was always either jealous or pissed-off about something.
"Really?" Rachel asked Finn, stuck in her stereotypical Rachel Berry pose of her hands on her hips staring at Finn. "What was this nurses name? And what did she want?"
"She wanted to give me a sponge bath, and…no, I'm not telling you her name, as I don't want the poor girl to end up at some crack house!"
"Crack house…that was one time! And it wasn't even an active crack house, and hadn't been for months. It only had slight crack residue left and some crack paraphernalia." Rachel listed off, slightly pissed that she was still living that immature part of her life down. "SPONGE BATH! Like FUCK little Miss Nurse Trollop is going to give you a sponge bath! If anyone's going to give you a sponge bath, it's me Rachel Berry your girlfriend! Besides no one get's to see Finny Jnr but me!" vented Rachel unbeknownst to her is she just agreed to exactly what Finn wanted.
Finn couldn't help but let out a tiny victory smirk. "One thing about you sending Sunshine to a crack house that I never understood, was how the hell you even knew where a crack house in Lima was?"
"I knew because one of my daddies had the property case come across his desk. One of the former tenants was suing for vandalism and unpaid rent." Rachel answered back nonchalantly.
"As for the nurse, you can rest your beautiful, worried, little head as I rejected her offer of a sponge bath. I told her I already had the most beautiful, talented and extremely sexy girlfriend to give me a sponge bath." Finn smiled at the sight of Rachel demeanour visibly relaxing and a bright red blush forming on her cheeks. Finn loved that after all these years he could still get Rachel Berry to do something so simple…like blushing.
"I also told her that Finny Jnr is very shy and he only comes out to play when his Rachey is around!" Finn let out a groan as Rachel while giving Finn a big kiss, ran her hand down and squeezed Finny Jnr through Finn's paper-thin hospital gown.
It was Rachel's turn to let out a little victory smirk as she heard Finn's audible groan. It had been one of the most exciting and happiest days of Rachel's short life when she heard Finn moan over something she did. She felt like going to school the next day draped in a gigantic sandwich board. Enlightening everyone to the fact that the little, loser, outcast weird theatre freak got Finn Hudson the most popular guy in school and the quarterback to moan and sexually excited. Not the sexy and promiscuous Santana or the beautiful blonde Head Cheerleader Quinn Fabray, but little Rachel Berry who nobody looked twice at. SO FUCK YOU MCKINLEY HIGH BITCHES!"
"That's right Finny Jnr, you know what side your bread's buttered on…don't you?" Rachel cooed as she continued to fondle Finn's sizeable penis.
Finn decided it was time he reciprocated the pleasure Rachel was bestowing on him. So he ran his hand down Rachel's back until he came to her tight little arse, giving it a big squeeze. This time it was Rachel letting out a loud very audible moan as Finn continued to fondle her arse.
"Wait…wait!" Rachel managed to tell Finn as she somehow remembered through her hormone fogged brain what she wanted to tell Finn in the first place.
Managing to pry Finn's reluctant hands off her arse, Rachel began to speak. "Don't worry baby! I promise we'll finish our little activity a bit later." She told a pouting Finn and a quick pat to an extremely excited Finny Jnr, which caused Finn to let out a weird excited/frustrated combination groan.
"I wanted to show you my very first official Broadway review. I got our friends to read it for me as I wanted to put off reading it myself until I could read it with you. Our friends assure me that it's an extremely positive article. I just wanted something about my opening night to be exclusively just for us…you know, especially since circumstances outside our control prevented you from attending my opening night." Rambled Rachel.
"Calm down, Hummingbird! I think that idea is amazing, and once again you know how sorry I am, I couldn't be at your opening night." Finn tried to reassure his girlfriend.
"Oh Finny! You don't have to apologise. I know you would've been there if you could." Rachel told her boyfriend while lying down on the bed snuggled into his side, mindful of all the tubes and cords of the machines. "I can't do it! Even though they told me it's positive I can't read it…you read it to me Finn." Rachel thrust the paper into Finn's hands as she suddenly lost her nerve to be able to read the review.
"Okay…okay! Let's see here! Now where did I put my damn reading glasses?" Finn made a scene of looking for his glasses.
"You don't wear glasses, ya big goof! Now read the damn article!" an impatient Rachel told her boyfriend.
"Geez! One little joke and everyone's a critic!" jested Finn
"Finn! Come on I'm dying here! I've been waiting two and a half days to read this article!"
"Okay! I'm sorry, baby!" Finn apologised to Rachel before he started reading the review of Rachel Berry in Funny Girl.
"One might ask themselves why? Why revive Funny Girl? An iconic show with an iconic star. Why? When there are so many wonderful new playwrights, would Sidney Greene decide to dust off the tired, old girl of a play. Well frankly I can only come up with a single answer and it's Rachel Berry. It takes hoot-spa to be willing to step into the great one's knee-high, lace-ups and make Fanny your own, and Rachel has plenty of that clearly, but she also has something else in spades…TALENT! And mountains of it, I'm not talking about the Appalachian's, Berry is the Alps! I'm sure I could find fault in this green actresses performance, but shame on anyone who would have the audacity to criticise the bold mistakes of a supernova exploding before our eyes.
I just pray to God that no one saw me secretly wiping my tears during her show stopping, Who Are You Now. I don't know where inside that small frame, Berry went to find the emotion she delivered with that song, but she melted the icy heart of this reviewer. I hope this show runs for a long time not because anyone needs to see, Don't Rain On My Parade again or the producers run away to get a real talk about on stage. But because I want to have some time to enjoy Rachel Berry as she is now. I know I'll be going back for a second heaping full of Rachel Berry!"
Finn looked over at his beautiful girlfriend who had tears streaming down her face. "Oh My God! Baby, they love you! See I told you that you were destined to be a star. Now everyone's starting to see my wonderful, gorgeous, sexy, extremely talented girlfriend the same way I've seen her ever since the first time I heard her sing."
"Wow! I knew people must have been enjoying the show, because we've been sold out every night. But to hear…well see in writing, in print, what people think of your performance is well…well it's magical!" Rachel gushed as she snuggled herself further into the side of her loving boyfriend.
"I'm so proud of you, my little Hummingbird!"
"Thanks Finn! You were my inspiration, that night, you know. Just like you've been my inspiration since our very first meeting. I can't really explain it but you fuel something inside me. You make me want to be a better performer, a better girlfriend, a better friend…even a better person. I feel like I have an obligation to somehow live up to the same lofty heights as the ones I can see you have for me in your eyes." Rachel explained to Finn.
"Oh, baby girl! You don't have to live up to anything! Because your exactly who you should be and who I want you to be. I feel exactly the same way you do. Seeing you dream so big and work your arse off for those dreams and then to see you achieve those dreams, inspire me to do the same. All my life I thought my beginning and end was Lima, Ohio. But not till I met a precocious little brunette diva did I start believing there was a world for me outside of the small box society expected of me. You know what! Let's make a pact, right here, right now. That for evermore you and me will be the first people to read each others reviews of their opening nights, albums and concerts…deal!"
Rachel gave Finn a large beaming smile that could've put the lights of Times Square to shame. "You have yourself a deal, Mr Hudson."
Finn was confused as he noticed Rachel started crying again, "Baby! What's wrong?"
Rachel just wiped some of her tears away and gave Finn a large watery smile, "Don't worry Finn, there happy tears. I'm crying because we just made our first official New York Finchel tradition!"
Finn brushed a piece of Rachel's hair back, "Just the first of many, my precious Hummingbird."
Rachel made a show of sniffing the air in an exaggerated movement, "Wow! You stink!"
"Geez! Thanks Rach!" Finn said sarcastically as he attempted to smell himself.
"Yeah, that smell just wont do! You know how I hate bad smells Finn?" Rachel unbeknownst to Finn jokingly chastised.
"I'm sorry my aroma is so toxic to you, Rachel!"
"I guess where just going to have to start the sponge bath right now. So take those clothes off!" ordered a giggling Rachel as she saw the comical way Finn's eyes lit up at that realisation she was acting so she could give him a sponge bath.
Finn ripped his hospital gown off in such a rush that probably wasn't healthy for someone who just had major surgery. But that didn't seem to affect Finn as he stood proudly in front of Rachel in his birthday suit.
"I'm ready for my sponge bath, Rach!" Finn said excitedly and as anyone could plainly see so was Finny Jnr.
Rachel stood up to her full five foot two height to try and command as much authority as she could muster. "That's Nurse Berry to you mister!"
A dumbfounded Finn could only gape and nod as he followed a smirking Nurse Berry who was slowly undressing as she walked into the en suite of his private hospital room. Finn sent a silent thank you, to whom? He really didn't know. He was just thankful that somehow the universe had righted itself and positioned him and Rachel together once more, and this time he wasn't going to stuff it up. His attention was snapped back to the present by Nurse Berry calling out for him to hurry up or she was going to start without him.
"Coming, Nurse Berry!" Finn called out as he jogged the few remaining feet to the en suite before closing the door with the largest grin on his face at the thought of being attended to by the hot little Nurse Berry.
Hope everyone enjoyed this latest chapter and as I mentioned in the Author's note at the start of the chapter; we are now kicking off into the second half of the story. I finished this chapter and just before posting it I realised it had no music, which I think is a first for this story. But don't worry there will be plenty of music to come. Like always see you next time. Have a good one and don't do anything I wouldn't do.