AN: Okay, here we are. The chapter where the New Directions crew officially meet "Baby" Rachel. Originally it was going to be in the last chapter but I felt it would have been far too long.
Enjoy. This is a fluff chapter...mostly.

Chapter 7:

After the fiasco with Bree was over, Brittany had taken Rachel to the auditorium to play. The blonde was having a good time watching the little brunette pretend to be Fanny Brice as Rachel started to sing 'Don't Rain on my Parade' in acapella. For a small four year old she wasn't too bad, she still sounded like a usual child, but she was pretty good in Brittany's opinion.

"I'm going to be a Broadway Star," Rachel said proudly.

"I know you will be," Brittany said proudly.

The two were currently unaware of a dark figure that was watching them from the corner of the darkness.

As the rest of the day started to go by, people were only partially wondering why Bree looked like she was crying but they ignored her, after all she was supposed to be a badass; but it may have had something to do with Santana randomly popping up in her space at any given moment to make her do a massive workout; in either case, most of the students seemed a bit more intrigued with the existence of Rachel but the Unholy Trinity, really not wanting to interact with the Glee Club or anyone else just yet, sat at the Cheerios table so that they'd be left alone.

Jacob ben Israel kept staring at them suspiciously but it took one glare from Santana and a trip to Coach Sue that not only made him wet his pants, but made him back off, a lot.

As the school day drew to an end, it finally was time for Glee, everyone was staring curiously at them, minus Tina and Mike, as Mr Schuester entered the room then looked bewildered when he couldn't see Finn or Rachel.

"Where are Finn and Rachel?" Mr Schuester asked, looking around.

"Finn, no idea, Rachel's here," Quinn said as she pointed to the little girl sitting on Brittany's lap.

"Uh, girls?"

"Trust me, that's Berry, we kinda, accidentally cast a spell, I know it sounds far-fetched, but trust me, it's Berry," Santana said.

Everyone just looked at them before looking at the child.

"You're kidding us, right? I mean sure she's wearing all that argyle, but no way," Kurt started.

"Darling, what's your name?" Mercedes asked as she looked at Rachel.

"I'm Rachel," Rachel replied.

"Your full name?"

"Rachel Barbara Berry,"

"Okay, and can you tell us something about yourself?"

"Like what?"

"Like, what you want to be when you're older, who's your Mommy and Daddy, what do you like?"

"Oh, okay, I want to be on Broadway and sing like Barbra Streisand, and I love gold stars, they're a metaphor, because one day, I'll be a big star too, and I don't have a Mommy, she gave me away, I have two Daddies, and I love singing and dancing, but, everyone makes fun of me because I like it, but that's okay, when I'm a big star, they'll feel bad that they were mean to me,"

"If that's not Berry, I'm not sure who is," Puck said as he looked at the child.

"Noah?" Rachel said as she looked at him.

"Hey Jew Babe,"

"What's a Jew Babe?"

"Uh, well, you're Jewish, and you're a Babe,"

"I don't get it,"

"Babe means good looking, it's the nickname I gave you,"

"Oh, but, Noah, why are you so old?"

That made everyone laugh.

"I'm not old Jew Babe," Puck said turning slightly red.

"But you're so big, and old, and tall, you're not small like me," Rachel said then asked worriedly, "What happened to you? Did the boogey man get you?"

"Um, well, magic, it made you small again, I'm the right age,"

"It did?"

"Yeah,"

"But, I don't get it,"

"It doesn't matter,"

Rachel just looked at him and then shrugged before she jumped off Brittany's lap and skipped up to Puck who picked her up as he stroked her hair as she snuggled into him. He put a protective arm around her as he stroked her back and let her play with his fingers.

Rachel pushed herself up so that she was standing on his lap as she gave him a big hug around his neck and kissed his cheek. Puck laughed and made a silly noise at her, puckered his lips at her as he kissed her cheek back. Rachel let out a loud childish laugh as she hugged him tighter around his neck.

"Hey, watch it," Quinn shot at him.

"What?" Puck asked.

"She's worried you're going to seduce the kid," Santana said.

"Uh, ew, she's a kid, besides, she's like a sister to me now, okay, I wouldn't do that, I respect my fellow Jew more than that," Puck answered.

Rachel not really understanding what was going on sat back down and continued playing with one of Puck's hands by drawing fingers in his palm and poking his fingers as he pretended to try and catch her fingers every so often, making her squeal with laughter.

Rachel had a big smile on her face as the rest of the group looked at her, finding her adorable.

"Noah, Noah, you're big now, you can carry me," Rachel said as she suddenly had an idea run through her head.

"You're still small as a teenager, I could still carry you," Puck answered back as the Club laughed, but the joke was lost on Rachel.

"So, carry me, let's play," Rachel said.

Puck couldn't say anything.

"We won't question your badassness," Brittany assured him.

Puck sighed as he looked at Rachel, "Okay," he said in defeat.

"Yay," Rachel said as Puck stood up and swung her up and onto his shoulders, making her laugh with glee.

Mr Schuester could only look on, he just didn't know what to say. He wanted to continue with the lesson, but he was enjoying watching the kids watch Rachel play with Puck.

Currently Rachel was pretending to be a lookout before Puck put her down and pretended to be a tickle monster trying to get her.

"I'm the tickle monster, I'm coming to get you, grr," Puck said as he raised his arms high and chased Rachel around the room.

"No, you're not a monster, no, don't tickle me," Rachel laughed as Puck caught her and tickled her. Her laughter was infectious as the Club looked on.

"She's so cute" Mercedes said, "Why can't she be like that all the time?"

"Because kids grow up," Kurt answered, "But seeing her like this, she seems so carefree,"

"That's because she is, a child rarely worries about anything," Tina said as she looked at the two.

As the tickling continued, Rachel managed to finally struggle loose, as she landed on the ground she ran towards Artie and hid behind his chair.

"Hey, you ran to the cripple guy, that's not fair," Puck said.

"That's not a nice thing to say," Rachel said as she poked her head out from behind Artie with a cross look on her face, "You can't call people things like 'cripple' that's mean, you know better Noah,"

"Sorry,"

"Apologise to him Noah,"

"Sorry Artie for calling you a cripple,"

"S'all good," Artie said with a shrug.

"Good boy Noah, don't do it again,"

The other Glee club members burst out laughing at that as little Rachel had her hands on her hips in a very motherly way and Puck just looked slightly sheepish as he was staring at the ground and rubbing the back of his neck.

"Sorry I'm late, was held up by Coach Bieste about gameplay and stuff, and hey look, baby Rachel," Finn said as he walked into the room.

"I'm not a baby, I'm four," Rachel puffed, "And who are you?"

"I'm Finn, I'm Captain of the Football Team and co-captain of Glee Club," Finn answered.

"Hold up, you know that that's Rachel?" Santana asked.

"Yeah, I knew since I saw you guys with her yesterday, I was confused and I wanted to ask how the hell it happened but I couldn't really find you guys, plus I had gaming and football and work," Finn answered.

"You don't seem put off by it,"

"Why would I be? It's weird but weird stuff always happens in Lima, for me anyway,"

No one could really say anything to that.

Finn held out his arms for Rachel to come to him. The little girl was cautious as she looked up to Puck.

"He's safe, Finn's my boy," Puck said.

"But he's old like you, how is he your boy?" Rachel asked.

"We're not old, and not like that, he's my friend,"

"Oh, okay," Rachel answered as she walked up to Finn and let him pick her up.

"Hello Rachel, I'm Finn," Finn said.

"Nice to meet you," Rachel said with a smile as Finn held her close, "You have a goofy smile,"

"I do?"

"Yeah, it's kinda sideways,"

"Hey,"

"And you're tall like a tree,"

That made the other members snicker.

"But that's good right?" Finn asked.

"Yeah, because I can climb on you," Rachel said as she scrambled out of his arms and onto his shoulders, "See, wow, you're big,"

"Whoa, child," Finn laughed as he managed to pull Rachel off his shoulders and held onto her in his arms, "So Rachel, you know Quinn right?"

"Yes," Rachel said as she looked at Quinn.

"Isn't she pretty?"

"She's very pretty,"

"Do you think I can marry her when I'm older,"

"No,"

"Why?"

"Because I'm going to marry her,"

Glee Club again started to laugh at that as Quinn turned red.

"Are you sure?" Finn asked in a jest manner but pretended to be serious as he held Rachel out in front of him.

"Yes, because she's mine," Rachel said as she looked at Finn strongly and crossed her arms.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I can challenge you to it and I won't lose,"

"Really?"

"Yes,"

"So if I win, I get Quinn,"

"And if I win?"

"What do you want if you win?"

"An ice cream,"

"I see, you don't want Quinn?"

"No because she has to choose me,"

Finn smirked at that as he put Rachel down and looked at her. He looked like he was thinking about something and he got down on one knee and looked strongly at Rachel.

"There is no way in hell that I would win against you," he said, "So I guess I owe you an ice cream just because,"

"Really?" Rachel said with a sparkly look in her eye as Finn nodded, "Yay, Ice cream,"

"She's so cute," Kurt said as Finn walked to a chair with Rachel in his arms.

Puck sat down next to Finn as Rachel stood up on Finn's lap and then jumped over to Puck before climbing over Mike while messing a bit of Kurt's hair to get to Santana.

"Hey," Kurt said annoyed that his hair got messed up but didn't say anything else.

"Santana I get ice cream from Finn," Rachel said with a grin as she sat on the Latina's lap before she engaged in a small conversation with the Unholy Trinity.

"The purpose of asking her that was what?" Puck asked in a whisper.

"You know why bro," Finn said as he looked at Puck before stealing a quick glance at the child laughing, "Had to make sure Quinn heard her right, girl is as stubborn as an ox when it comes to feelings,"

"Why get Rachel to admit it?"

Finn shrugged before saying, "Because kids aren't afraid to admit their feelings, besides if Quinn finally has the sense knocked into her that Rachel may indeed like her back,"

"I see bro, you're trying to hook them up, that's complicated and weird,"

"Rachel won't be a kid forever bro, I may not be smart, but I know that for sure,"

"Thought you loved her,"

"Course I do, and I want her to be happy, her and Quinn, they'll work, I know it,"

"Whatever you say bro,"

"MIKE," Rachel yelled happily as she scrambled to the Asian boy, "You can do the pop and lock, can we dance together?"

"Sure, but maybe a bit after, we have a Glee lesson now," Mike said with a grin as Rachel huffed.

"Aww," she said.

"Rachel, get your little diva butt back here and sit down," Santana commanded as Rachel looked at her and went back to sit down on the Latina's lap.

But before anyone could say anything else, Mr Schue decided to carry on with the lesson as he motioned for everyone to sit down properly.

"Okay, well, I'm not sure what kind of crazy we got ourselves into, but, we have to start practicing for Sectionals, we want to get to Regionals then Nationals this year, so, how are we going to do this? Anyone?" Mr Schuester asked.

Everyone looked at Rachel, but the child was oblivious to people staring as she had started playing a game with Santana's fingers. The Latina didn't seem to care which was surprising for some people.

"Rachel, people are looking at you," Brittany said.

"Why?" Rachel asked as she looked up, "What did I do?"

"Nothing, they just want song ideas,"

"Why?"

"We're going to competition, and we need song ideas, if you were bigger, what would you sing?"

"I'd sing 'Don't Rain on My Parade', I love that song,"

"We did that last year,"

"Oh, who's your soloist?"

"Uh, well, normally, it's you, when you were bigger?"

"Me? But, I thought people hated me singing, why would I sing?"

"Because your voice is awesome when you're bigger,"

"Oh, so, you need me for my voice?"

Everyone cringed at that, coming from a child that sounded quite horrible to say actually.

"Something like that," Brittany said.

"But, what if I don't get bigger in time, you need to pick someone else,"

"But who?"

Rachel looked around for a moment then pointed at Mercedes, "How about her?" she said.

"What would she sing?" Brittany asked.

"I don't know, I don't know old people music,"

People snickered at that since it was a bit of a fact that Rachel loved the Oldies more than anyone else in the room.

"Think, you can do it," Brittany encouraged as Rachel thought about it.

Rachel started to look frustrated because she was being made to think too much.

"B, I think we shouldn't ask her too much," Quinn said as she patted Rachel's back.

"Hey, c'mon Rachel," Mercedes started.

"I don't know," Rachel said getting frustrated and teary, her bottom lip started to quiver a bit.

"It's okay Tiny," Santana said as she comfortingly rubbed Rachel's back, "You don't have to do anything,"

Santana then glared at everyone else and said, "She's freaking four, the hell do you think she can come up with, she doesn't have all aspects of her older self, jeez, we can think it over, anyone remember what Berry mentioned about three weeks ago? I know she said something,"

"Originals," Finn said as everyone gaped, "What? I listen better than people think, she said originals was a good idea but I was too chicken to agree with her on that one,"

"You actually listened to that?" Santana asked what everyone else was thinking.

"Yeah,"

"You listened to me? Does that mean you actually like me?" Rachel asked as she looked at Finn curiously.

"Yeah, of course I do, you're a very good friend and you have good ideas,"

Rachel gave him a big grin before looking at Santana, "Santana I have a boyfriend,"

Quinn felt a bit jealous at that, which felt complicated and odd for her since of course it came out of the mouth of a four year old.

Mike just laughed as did Tina; this was soon followed by the others in Glee Club.

"What? What did I say?" Rachel asked bewildered, "He's a boy and he's my friend,"

"Boyfriend can also mean someone you want to marry," Brittany pointed out softly for her.

"EW!" Rachel said as she scrunched up her nose, "I like Quinn, I'm going to marry Quinn,"

"AWWWW!" Kurt squealed a bit too loudly before trying to regain some decorum as everyone snickered and looked at him for a split moment.

Quinn on the other hand a bit of a hard time trying to make up her mind to say anything. This didn't go unnoticed by Santana who nudged her friend in the arm and gave her a snickering grin.

"Ideas kids?" Mr Schuester asked, bringing them back into focus.

But no one could think of anything else. Because of this, Mr Schuester decided to say, "Guys, go home for the day and we can think it over,"

As everyone nodded and muttered about what to do, Mr Schuester quickly stopped them, "WAIT, wait, wait, I nearly forgot, information sheets and permission slips for your parents to sign, remember we're having our camping trip soon," he said.

"Are we going to be in tents?" Santana asked.

"No, we're going to be staying in cabins in the woods,"

"Scary," Brittany said.

"We'll be safe B," Quinn whispered, "We just need to remind our Moms of, well, you know, stuff,"

The taller blonde just nodded her head as everyone began to take the permission and information sheets before heading off home.

"Camping, camping, we're going camping, wait, did my Daddies say yes?" Rachel started to sing then asked as she looked up at Santana who had parked her car in the driveway of her home.

"I'm sure they won't mind you coming, besides I'm your babysitter, you go where I go," Santana said.

"Except if you have to go potty, ew,"

"Yeah, ew,"

"When are Quinn and Brittany and Tina coming to the house?"

"Soon, just be patient, okay?" Santana said as she opened the door to her house and entered it.

A growling sound was heard as the door slammed shut keeping Rachel outside and trapping Santana inside.

"I have you now...Latina," a grisly voice said.

"Oh SHIT!" was all Santana said as a claw came out of the darkness and slashed at her causing her to bleed.

AN 2: So, I decided to make Finn a nice guy in this fic because there are quite a few that always has him act like a jackass. And yes, we're ending it here. The roll I was on is unfortunately slowing down, so the chapters won't come out as quickly. But who knows, the roll might come back soon too. Until the next chapter team. :-)