Title: I Run To You

Rating: T

Pairing: Rachel x Puck (Noah)

Summary: When everything goes wrong I run to you.

Disclaimer: I don't own Glee or any of the music

A/N ~ Thanks for all the reviews. And I'd just like to clear some stuff up. I'm from Australia so yes some of the words in here are going to have a different spelling to what some of you are used to. And I totally know that some words are just spelled completely wrong but it was like close to midnight when I started writing the passed three chaps and I was dead tired, so I'm sorry 4 that.


Chap 4 ~ I Love You

Pain it was something she was familiar with having felt it time and time again after none other than Finn Hudson inflicted it upon her. But it wasn't until now did she know what it truly felt like to be in pain. Unbearable, heartbreaking pain.

She had given up on checking her phone hours ago and eventually turned it off knowing there was already probably twenty missed calls from Puck and probably another ten from all the other Glee members.

Through the rest of the day she didn't wait for him to walk her to classes, at lunch she hid by herself in the auditorium, and finally after school she was glad that they didn't have Glee so she didn't have to see him.

She wasn't sure how this could have happened. Puck wasn't like that anymore, he didn't have random hook ups with chicks who were willing to put themselves out there for any guy. He even stopped offering certain other services with his pool cleaning business and now simply cleaned pools and that was it.

But it was only now she realised something… Puck wasn't… well he wasn't Puck anymore. She was sure that others had noticed it as well. She wasn't sure when it had happened but all she knew was it had and somewhere along the way he had stopped being Puck and started being Noah… her Noah.

Her Noah went to every one of his classes and had started getting great grades.

Her Noah started to take his music seriously and had progressed a great deal.

Her Noah walked her to classes.

Her Noah drove her to and from school.

Her Noah brought her Graph Slushies every Saturday before they went to Glee practise.

Her Noah was just that… Noah.

Puck wouldn't do any of these things on his own free will but Noah would and that's about when she realised that love is unconditional but it can also be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable, and strangely easy to mistake as loathing.

And truthfully she couldn't believe she was about to think this but… She was in love with Noah… not Puck… but Noah.

Just as she was about to be plummeted into more depressing thoughts of how it no longer mattered if she loved him or not because he had chosen who he wanted, a loud voice yelled out to her.

"BERRY! WAIT UP! BERRY STOP"

Snapping out of her thoughts she turned from where she had been walking through the school parking lot about to start her long walk home. Who she saw wasn't very surprising because of two reasons, 1) they had called her Berry and 2) because she was sure they would try and find her sooner or later.

"What do you want Santana?" Rachel asked her voice dull and broken, no longer even feeling the need to use her explicit vocabulary

"Berry you have to listen to me" Santana said quickly slightly out of breath from running to get to her "It's not what it looks like ok"

"It's alright Santana I understand" Rachel cut her off by holding up a hand

"But" Santana said but was cut off again

"You simply got the guy first… I cant be angry at you for that" Rachel said with an attempt of a smile

"What? No Berry you don't understand" Santana said but Rachel had already turned and walked away from the dark skinned girl

"RACHEL ITS NOT WHAT YOU THINK!" Those words were yelled through the parking lot but Rachel didn't turn she just kept walking knowing only more pain would could from talking to Santana.

She hadn't even walked more than twenty steps when she saw the one person she desperately hoped she would be able to avoid. Their eyes locked and the next thing she knew he was walking towards her… and fast. Today seriously wasn't her day was it?

And then her mind screamed one word.

RUN!

So that's what she did turning away from him she started running hoping to put some distance between them. She didn't even notice when it started to rain until she felt her clothes become drenched.

"RACHEL" Her name was yelled but she didn't stop this time

'Why does the parking lot have to be so huge' she thought as she continued to run but only making it halfway through it before a hand grabbed onto her wrist and pulled her around causing her body to slam into a hard chest.

"Rachel stop" He was looking down at her and she saw that the pain that she had been feeling all day was written on his face

"Let go of me" She pleaded as she struggled to get out of his hold

"Rachel, Santana tried to tell you but you wouldn't listen. That photo was from months ago and I can prove it" Noah said as he held her tighter against his chest

"How" Rachel spat glaring up at him

"What shirt was I wearing in that picture Rachel?" He asked raising an eyebrow

He was right she knew what shirt he had been wearing in the picture. She had studied that picture over and over wanting to make sure that it was really him. But she didn't understand what this had to do with him proving the photo wasn't take recently.

Then it hit her.

The shirt he had been wearing in the picture was one of his oldest ones, it was warn and had a permanent smell of his after shave mixed in with the smell of his deodorant and then also something that she couldn't name because it was purely Noah.

And the thing was… he no longer had that shirt. He had given it to her the first time she had come running to him for comfort which had been a week after he joined Glee and the reason he had given her his shirt to wear was because she was drenched in five different colours of slushie and the worst part about it was that Finn had been talking to her at the time and just let it happen.

She had never given that shirt back him telling her she could keep it. And now it had become what she slept in every night.

"Oh my god" Rachel's mouth fell open as her eyes went wide for the second time that day

"Exactly" Noah said knowing she had finally remembered and put the pieces together

"Noah… I'm… I… I'm so… sorry" She was stuttering and her eyes were filling with tears

"Don't be sorry Its not your fault… this is all Jacob Israel fault and the bloody creep is going to pay for this" Noah said as he reached out and whipped a tear away realising she was crying even though it was raining hard and rain drops also stained her face

"Noah?" Rachel said looking up at him but he just placed a finger on her lips to silence her

"But for now I want to make one thing clear" He said and it was only then she realised his face was inches from hers

"I want you to know that you will always be the only girl I want to be with" Noah said their noses now nearly touching

"Do you mean?" Rachel whispered only just loud enough for him to hear

"I love you Rachel Berry" Those words spilled from his mouth seconds before he crashed his lips onto hers

It was one thing to act like a couple but it was another thing to actually be a couple.

So they stood there holding each other like they did that day in the cafeteria but this time was different. This time they gave into their true feelings. The rain beat down on them as their lips glided against each others, eyes shut tight and hands holding on for dear life. And in both their minds they remembered the song that Noah had wrote for her and played in front of the whole Glee club without even realising it.

'It's all for you

It's all for you

I'm letting go

I'm letting go'

To feel love and to be loved they both realised was the most wonderful feeling either had ever experienced. And they were finally home in each others arms.