A Life Changing Journey
By CollegeStar20!
This is a story about how Rachel and Victorie met each other and how Rachel became her mother. It will be in Victorie's and Rachel's POV at times.
Enjoy and it will keep up with when Rachel sees her daughter again so Finn and others will be in the story at some point.
At McKinley A Week later.
Quinn Fabray told her boyfriend Noah Puckerman about what was going on with Rachel Berry and he said he wouldn't tell but he thought it would be best that Quinn just leave her alone about it. Rachel and Crista walked down the hallway ignoring Quinn as she stared at them sadly and Quinn just wanted to be their friend.
"Yo Tubbers I see that the identical yentls are ignoring you, did you admit you have a crush on Rachel or something?" Santana Lopez said walking up to her while wearing normal clothes.
"You know what we use to be best friends until you became a bitch in 8th grade, I miss my best friend so until then don't talk to me." Quinn said walking off.
Santana stood there with Brittany next to her and sighs rolling her eyes and stook her pinkie out and Brittany linked hers with Santana's and they walk off to class.
With Quinn and Rachel in the choir room.
Quinn walked into the choir room and just sits in the chair thinking about her daughter Beth and wondering how Shelby is taking care of her. Rachel said good bye to Crista and walked down the hallway when she saw Quinn sitting in one of the chairs and she knocked on the door making Quinn stare at her.
"Hey what are you doing here and not in class?" Rachel asked awkwardly walking in more and Quinn gets up holding her bag.
"I was just thinking about my daughter, you know?" Quinn said giving her a hint to talk about her own family problems but Rachel just frowns shaking her head hating that Quinn is bringing that up.
"Okay I guess I will be leaving, see you around Quinn." Rachel said turning around about to leave. Quinn frowns seeing that hurtful look in Rachel's eyes when she said that and walked over to her grabbing her hand.
"Rachel I'm sorry for bringing that up." Rachel stiffs up feeling Quinn's hand on hers and she turns around staring at their hands.
"You really want to know what's going on with me?" Quinn nods awkwardly and Rachel asked if the band and Brad could leave and they do closing the door behind them.
They both sit down and Quinn looks at Rachel wondering what she's going to say.
"You promise you won't tell about what I'm about to tell you?" Rachel asked softly looking at her soft of friend.
"I promise I won't tell about what's going on, I want you to trust me please." Rachel nods and starts telling her her life story.
Flashback.
She walked to her favorite park and smiled loving Central park. She walks around then she spots some girl on the park bench sleeping. She walked over to her and frowns seeing how she cried herself to sleep. "Sweetie wake up your going to get sick out here!" Rachel softly shook her and the wakes up and saw her.
"Hey there what are you doing out at almost 4:00 in the morning?" Rachel asked worried about her and she sits up hugging her sobbing now throwing Rachel off but she relaxed and hugs her back.
"Shh it's alright talk to me, where are your parents?" She asked the little girl and she pulls back.
"They don't want me and they never loved me, I don't belong in the Miller family, can I come home with you?" Victorie asked wiping her tears.
"Yes I wasn't going to leave you out here in the cold, I'm Rachel Barbra Berry and what's your name?" She sighs hating that she has to use her last name.
"I'm Victorie Annabelle Miller but I don't want to be a Miller anymore!" Rachel nods and helps her up. They both take a bag and Victorie grabs her teddy bear and they walk to Rachel's house. When they get to the house Rachel saw that nobody was awake so she brought Victorie to her room and closed the door.
"How about we give you nice hot bath and then we can give you some clean and warm PJs alright?" Rachel says softly and Victorie nods looking around the room.
Rachel walks into her bathroom and turns on the water and turn so it's a bath and she puts in bubbles for Victorie. She gets it ready and turns off the water!
"Victorie the bath is ready for you!" Rachel yelled softly and walked back to her room to see Victorie sleeping on the bed. She smiles and placed her hand on her forehead and saw that she warm. She becomes worried and wakes her up.
"Victorie wake up, your bath is ready but if your too tired then we will just change your clothes and are you feeling alright honey?" Victorie mumbles that she's been sick for a few days now and her parents wouldnt take her to the doctors. Rachel felt bad for poor Victorie but she waso going to get this little better.
"Do you want the bath or should I let the water out?" She wondered and Victorie says that she's too tired to take a bath and Rachel nods leaving the room and lets the water out. She walks back into her room and takes a shirt for Victorie it was kind of big but it would be warm for her. She hands it to her.
"Thank you!" Victorie replied tiredly and took off her cold clothes and put on the huge shirt but she was now warm.
"Come sweetie let's get you to bed since it's almost 5 in the morning and it's saturday!" Rachel says smiling at and lifts Victorie into her bed puts the covers over her.
"Are you going to take me back to the bench tomorrow?" Rachel felt like crying hearing that question.
"No Victorie I'm not leaving you on that cold bench ever, your going to stay with me!" Victorie nods and felt the darkness take over her body. Rachel stared at Victorie as she slept and knew that she had to do whatever she could to make Victorie safe. She took off her shoes and got into the bed and closed her eyes but smiled when she felt Victorie cuddling up to her and she held her close falling asleep.
"Mom and dad I found her on a park bench looking like she was going to die, her parents aren't the best parents and I don't want her to go back there!"
"Good morning Victorie how are you feeling?" Rachel walks over to her and feels her head. She sighs.
"Alright how about we get you something for you to eat then we can call my doctor and give you a home visit alright?" Victorie nod slightly and start coughing.
"Mom or dad can you call the doctor so they can check her out?" They nod and Rachel picks her up and brings Victorie into the living room.
"You know Victorie is a pretty name, did your parents name you that?" Rachel's dad asked.
"My older sister Mira named me!" He nods.
"I'm Mr. Berry but if you want to call me Leroy you can!" Victorie nod tiredly.
"Do you want anything to drink Victorie?" I say juice or water. He gets up.
"Mom what's going on here?" Rachel heard her sisters say before staring at the little girl in their living room looking sick.
"Crista and Averilyn this is Victorie and she's going to be staying here until we figure something out!" Rachel's mom said and Victorie freaks out and rushed over to Rachel who looked worried then Victorie starts crying and Rachel picked her up since she was so light.
"Shh sweetie what's wrong?" Victorie shake her head resting her head on her shoulder.
"Please don't send me off somewhere I don't want to leave you ever!" Rachel stared at her parents before holding Victorie close.
More Flashbacks.
With Rachel in her POV two days later.
Victorie has been at my side since my parents scared her into thinking she was going to go to a foster home or back on that park bench. The doctor came over and talked with Victorie and it seems that she has a just a bad cold and will need to rest for a few days. I asked what her school was so we could call them and tell them that she won't be in for awhile because we need to figure this whole thing out. Victorie slept peacefully that day.
I clap for her softly and she smiles slightly before wiping her tears and stands up. "I'm sorry if I was bugging you!" She mumbled looking down.
"Hey come here, listen your not bugging me at all or my family alright!" She nods and hugs me and I hug her back.
"I wish I never had those kind of parents that treated me badly!" I frown hating that she has to deal with that.
"How about you and I go shopping when your much better and we get anything you want, does that sound good?" Her piercing hazel green eyes widen in shock and she nods sitting on my lap and I smile rubbing her back.
"Thank you for taking care of me Rachel!" I smile at her loving that she's so sweet with me and I tell her that I would do anything for her.
Rachel goes to her parents room and knocked on the door. Her dad opens the door and she walks in and Leroy closed the door.
"Mom and dad I need to ask you a very serious question!" Rachel says staring at them with a serious look on her face.
"What is it Rach?" Her mom asked looking at her daughter wondering what she wants.
"I want to adopt Victorie as my own and I know with your word that I became her foster mother but I think I'm ready for more then that!" They are at her surprised.
"Rachel we knew this was coming and we have been talking to the case worker and she agreed with us aswell and we think you should adopt Victorie but were still working on that with Debby and you have been doing with the parent classes and she has been doing home visits and your passing everything!"
She smiles really glad that she was passing with flying colors but she needed for then that. She wanted to be Victorie's mother because she already loved her.
"We know you can be her mother sweetheart but we need to go to court now since we recorded on the progress you've made and we also need to know that Victorie is sure about this aswell, so come talk to us in a couple a days and if you really want this then we will start this whole thing alright?" Her dad says smiling.
"Alright daddy and thank you for letting me be her foster mother!" She hugs them both and walks out of the room and stared at Victorie as she danced with Crista and Averilyn in the kitchen as they danced to the music and she smiles knowing that she was ready to take a huge step in her life.
"Mommy come dance with us!" She smiles hearing that soft voice of her foster child and nods grabbing Victorie's hand and dances with her.
"I wish Rachel would make me her daughter already because I love her so much!" Victorie thought as she danced with her giggling.
Crista and Averilyn stared at Rachel and Victorie and knew that they were already mother and daughter! They just needed to make it offical.
With Rachel in her POV.
Was it the best idea to change my life by planning an adopion? sure it was because I was giving up my whole teenage life to become a mom that I'm still not sure I can handle! But just hearing Victorie calling me mommy or mama makes my heart skip a beat once and awhile.
"Mom I want to go along with planning to adopt Victorie if that's alright with you!" My mom stares at me smiling sincerely.
"I'm glad you finally figured out that your ready to take that next step to legally became Victorie's mom, it's going to take alot of work but I think if we meet up wuth Debby she can tell us what we have to do next!" I nod smiling and she hugs me with tears coming down her face.
"I'm so proud of you Rachel, you know that it's not going to be easy but I'm going to help you and dad will do everything in his power to make sure you get her!" I nod.
"I just hope she agrees to becoming my daughter because I don't want to lose her ever in my life mom!" She nods holding me close.
"Grandma where is mommy?" We both hear Victorie from outside of the room and we will back smiling at each other.
"I think it's time you take another big step and ask my soon to be legally granddaughter that big question!" I frown freaking out a little.
Rachel held onto her little angel's hand as they walked to Central park but she felt Victorie's squirming hand as they walked to a bench but Victorie was pulling away from her squealing and Rachel was giving her a concern look.
"Baby girl stop this and tell me what's wrong!" She whimpers and points to the bench and Rachel's eyes widen remembering why she's so scared.
"Oh sweetie I'm not leaving you alone on any of these park benches alright,come on lets sit on the grass!" She nods and they walk to the grass and sit.
"Listen Victorie what happened in your past isn't going to happen again, so that bench is just a bench and it's where people sit, we will work on that but I need to ask you something really serious alright?" She nods staring at her foster mom wondering what she's going to ask.
"You know I became your foster mom and I love it very much but I was wondering if you thought about me legally becoming your mom!" Rachel says softly.
Victorie stared at her with tears in her eyes and Rachel was worried and wiped her tears away.
"Baby girl please tell me what's wrong!" Victorie jumped on Rachel making her laugh and Victorie holds onto her and Rachel giggles hugging her.
"I really want you to be my mom can you please do that mama?" Rachel felt tears forming in her eyes hearing that Victorie wants her to be her daughter.
"Alright I will do the best I can to make sure you become my daughter and we have to go to court alright, are you ready to talk to a judge infront of me and everybody else?" Victorie nods smiling brightly and hugs her and kisses her cheek. Rachel smiles loving her little girl.
More Flashbacks.
The Berry family and Victorie are sitting in Debby's office going over all the things they needed. Debby looks at Victorie as she sits with the youngest Berry child and she looked at Rachel who was writing her name on a few papers and she knew it was time to tell them the update.
"Well I got some updated news on Victorie's parents." They all stare at her waiting to hear it.
"It seems that her parents heard about this whole thing and were planning to fight for her but they were trying to seal drugs in the jail they are in and will not be coming out for a long time, if you want to go along with adopting Victorie this week Rachel, you can do it or you can wait until your date that it was planned!"
Rachel stared at Debby shocked and looked at Victorie who glanced at her with pleading eyes and she knew that Victorie wanted her as her mom.
"I think we should do it sometime this week, I'm ready and I can tell Victorie is ready aswell!" Debby smiles nodding and makes a phone call.
Victorie walks over to Rachel and sits on her lap. "I ready for this!" Rachel heard Victorie whisper against her shoulder and she holds her.
Rachel's sisters and her parents stared at the two as they held each other and knew it was time to do what they had to do.
End of Flashbacks.
"So you found Victorie on the bench in the middle of the night in New York, how old is she and did you adopt her?" Quinn asked worried about little Victorie and why she wasn't around.
Find out what happens next.