A/N: This is about a week after the last chapter. Enjoy!

Mr. Schue's POV:

I walked into the choir room out of habit. It was the end of the school year, we'd made it through Nationals and the final glee meeting wasn't until the next day, but something drew me there. When I walked in I was shocked to see the original New Directions seated in various locations around the room. Kurt, Mercedes and Quinn were animatedly chatting by the piano, Santana, Brittany, Mike and Matt were talking in the corner and in the center of the room, Tina was seated firmly on Artie's lap kissing him passionately. Though the missing three members were evident, it still felt like the good old days.

I was so proud of all of my kids. After the horrific events of the day which was, I realized exactly a year ago, Finn had gone to Principal Figgins and informed him that he would not be graduating until those taken had returned. After pressure by Finn and his friends and their parents, especially Burt Hummel, Figgins had agreed to delay graduation for any of those who wished. He promised to make sure that those seniors chosen colleges would delay their admission as well. I could not believe it at the time but all 10 of the glee kids chose to delay their graduations. They all refused to graduate until Puck and Rachel could walk with them and I was more proud of them in that moment than I was when they first won Nationals. Now as I stood in the choir room watching them I was puzzled as to why they were all the.

"Ahem. What's going on guys?"

"Mr. Schuester!" 9 delighted cries echoed throughout the room. After an awkward moment during which they all looked around at each other, Quinn explained,

"Figgins called all of us and told us that there was a dinner for all of the delayed graduates tonight. And he said we were wanted in the choir room before it. We figured that you asked for us." Why, after a year did I still expect Rachel to jump up and answer my questions eagerly and with much more information than was necessary? Judging by the silence before Quinn's explanation I was not alone in this expectation. Suddenly I heard footsteps outside the choir room. A gloriously familiar but at the same time horrifically changed voice whispered.

"I can't do this." The door opened and we could all see Finn standing there. He waved at us awkwardly the turned to someone behind him.

"Come on!"

"Well, nice of you to finally show up Finn." Kurt's sarcastic comment got no reply as Finn walked in the room because he was followed by a gaunt Puck who looked like he had aged a hundred years and seen a million deaths since I had last seen him. My attention was quickly drawn away from Puck though to the shaking girl in his arms who looked as if the slightest loosening of his grip would cause her to fall over. Rachel looked, if possible, even worse than Puck. She had never been a large girl but now she was so skinny that she looked as if she would disappear if she turned sideways. Despite the heat of the day, she was dressed in jeans and an oversized McKinley sweatshirt that said Hudson on the back in block letters. She'd "borrowed" that sweatshirt from Finn, geez could it be almost three years ago, to wear to his football games, but as far as I could remember she'd never worn it to school before, that just wasn't her style. But the most changed thing about our former star was her eyes, sunken in her bruised face, they looked like she had been to hell and back, and she didn't meet any of our looks.

"Puck? Rachel?" Mercedes found her voice first, and it carried only disbelief that these two starved, bruised strangers could actually be the badass and future star that had left WMHS so long ago. "It's so great to see you!" She started towards them as if to give them a hug, but stopped awkwardly as Rachel shrank back. "Aren't you hot? It's like a hundred degrees in here!"

"I'm freezing actually." She muttered, I noticed for the first time that all of her shaking wasn't from nerves.

"Rachel, no offense but you look like crap!" Kurt said mischievously, walking towards her.

"Being essentially kidnapped for a year, without adequate nutrition or opportunity for proper hygiene will do that to a person!" She retorted.

"And Rachel's back!" Kurt declared and he closed the distance between them and hugged her tight. "I've missed you, diva." She smiled at him, though it still didn't reach her eyes.

"I've missed you too."

The next few minutes were filled with hugs for Rachel and Puck, as well as all of the gossip they'd missed. After everyone had settled down, Puck led Rachel to the front of the room gently. I noticed that Finn was sitting in a corner glaring at them with his arms crossed. That was odd; Finn should be overjoyed to have his best friend, and especially his girlfriend back with him. Puck was leaning down to whisper something in Rachel's ear; she looked up at him and smiled then whispered something back. If it was possible, it looked like he hugged her tighter.

"All right!" Finn said sharply. "As adorable as you two are, will you either say what you need to or go get a room!" Whoa! Something was definitely going on with those three judging by Rachel's guilty look and Puck's defiant one.

"Have I stepped into a parallel universe?" Kurt asked. Only he would get away with that I thought. "Rachel, Puck," he paused for a second. "Finn, what's going on?" Rachel looked at her friend sadly; she looked as if she could burst into tears at any second.

"I have to tell you all something. You are all the best friends, scratch that, the only friends I have ever had, and I want you all to hear this from me, now." She paused, searching for words. It broke my heart to look at Rachel, only a shell of her former self, searching desperately for the words that I had never seen elude her before. "I, I'm, I, Guys, I'm" Kurt gave her an encouraging smile, obviously trying to show her just how much he cared. "I'm pregnant." She finally whispered, immediately burying he face in Puck's arm.

With that whispered admission, it all clicked Finn's sullen demeanor, the baggy sweatshirt, the way she clung to Puck for support.

"It's Puck's?" Quinn questioned, looking apologetic but resigned to the necessary question. Puck nodded at her as Finn suddenly stood up.

"How can you look so fucking calm about it Puckerman?" He shouted. "Sure, let's just ruin Finn's life AGAIN! And then act like it's nothing! I don't matter at all I guess!" With that he turned to do a storm out that would have done Rachel proud aside from the fact that he didn't complete it due to Puck grabbing his arm.

"How many times do I have to explain that that's not how it happened!" He yelled. "Next time, how about you try standing there, with a gun held to your head and hers knowing that she's either going to die or you're going to betray your best friend again? Maybe it was foolish of me to think that you'd rather have the "love of your life" alive!" Everyone in the room gasped at his impassioned speech and again when Finn turned and punched Puck in the face. As Puck went down, obviously weaker than he normally would be, I ran to pull Finn off of him. Luckily, Mike and Matt had obviously had the same idea and between the three of us we managed to restrain the two.

I scanned the rest of the room quickly, Kurt had moved over to Rachel and was now supporting her as Puck had been earlier, the only difference was that she was facing him, hugging him tight, instead of turned towards the rest of the group.

As Mike, Matt and I forced Finn and Puck into chairs, I could see Kurt gently helping Rachel sit, sitting next to her and drawing her close.

"How far along are you Rachel?" Quinn asked, obviously trying to do anything to move everyone's attention away from the fight that had just occurred.

"Six months." Rachel replied shakily. "According to the ultrasound I had the other day, it's a girl." She smiled rather weakly. Kurt, Mercedes, Quinn, and Tina crowded around her with Brittany and Santana seated nearby and began to discuss names and clothes and all those sorts of things in ever increasing pitch. Mike and Artie drew Puck into some conversation about video games and Matt tried to talk to a sullen, angry Finn. I looked around happily, despite a fistfight, which was far from unheard of, and the fact that Rachel and Puck were obviously in poor condition, it almost felt like everything was back to normal.

"Guys." Quinn said, standing up. "We're all supposed to meet down in the gym in 5 minutes."

"What for?" Puck asked sharply.

"Well, everyone who delayed their graduation." Quinn was flailing under his intense and slightly angry gaze.

"What's the deal with that anyway?" Kurt stepped in probably to save Quinn from the steely glare of her ex-boyfriend.

"After, well, after, it, Figgins got forced to offer a delayed graduation for anyone who wanted it. He said he'd give us two years to wait for you all to come back."

"It was actually Finn's idea originally." I brought up. Puck glared at Finn even, more, Finn was staring at the ceiling, not acknowledging any of us but Rachel looked so impressed, she was looking at Finn her normal way again, like he was her hero.

"And you all waited?" She asked tentatively.

"It wouldn't be the same without you, diva." Kurt said softly as all of the others murmured agreement.

"I suppose the ceremony will be soon then." Quinn said practically. "That's probably why Figgins wanted everyone here. "

"We should head down there." Santana pointed out. "Or we're going to be late."

"Where?" Rachel asked.

"The gym. Oh, shoot, will you?" Mike was unable to finish his question but we all knew what he meant. Finn had refused to go into the gym all year, and most of the rest were reluctant to.

"What? Oh. Don't worry; It doesn't even register as a traumatizing place." Rachel said matter of factly. It hurt to hear that. What had this poor girl seen that made the place where the worst experience of most of our lives had taken place, seeing two students killed and watching two friends be taken away, not even faze her?

As a group the kids moved out of the choir room, Rachel moving to Puck and checking him over for serious damage before they left.

"Finn!" I called as he stood up. "Can I talk to you for a second?" He gave me a look that said really Mr. Schue? But he walked over to where I stood. "Finn, I know this sucks. Really I do. But as someone a little more removed than you I wanted to tell you something I noticed."

"Okay." He said still slightly reluctant.

"The way Rachel looks at you hasn't changed, you realize that? She still looks at you as if you are the only one who exists in her world, her hero. And yeah I guess she might be closer to Puck now than before, but I don't think two people could go through what the two of them went through and not be much closer. But when she looks at him I just see friendship, and it's like he's a brother. Nothing more."

"I know Mr. Schue." He responded softly. 'I'm really not angry with her. But he has more than friendship in his eyes! And I look at her and I see that baby growing and I know it's his and it just infuriates me!" He yelled and then suddenly his anger seemed to break and he regained the scared, sad, lost look, I had seen him with all year. "I missed her Mr. Schue." He said brokenly. "I missed her so much that I didn't even want to live! And now she's back and I should be so happy. I should be making up for lost time and hugging her and telling her how much I love her and how much I missed her. Instead, he's there all the time. Mr. Schue, I'm so mad at him, but I missed him too. And part of me knows it's really not his fault! But the other part is so mad that I just want to kill him! Mr. Schue I'm so messed up!" With that he began to sob. I hugged him, not knowing what else to do or say.

"Finn?" An uncertain voice came from the doorway. I turned and saw Puck standing there with a foreign expression on his face. It was really weird to not see his usual smug arrogant grin, but then a lot of odd things were happening today.

"What do you want Puckerman?" Finn growled.

"To apologize. I think I might have stepped over the line a couple times with Rach-el." He added the last syllable of her name as an afterthought, obviously used to using the nickname. "I'm not sorry for doing it Finn. I'd do it again to save her life. I don't regret that part. But I'm sorry that it hurt you so much. And I'm… I'm just sorry for everything. Sorry that I didn't do a better job of keeping her safe, sorry that I couldn't stop it, any of it. And I'm sorry that I can't act like none of it happened. I can't act like she doesn't mean more to me than my whole life, and I'm sorry that it hurts you to see that." He looked like he was on the verge of tears as well. I stepped back so that they could work it out by themselves but I was still unwilling to leave in case Finn swung at Puck again.

"I know." Finn said quietly. "I'm sorry too. I don't think I've exactly been acting very mature about this have I?" Puck laughed humorlessly and shook his head. "I never thanked you, did I?"

"For what?"

"Protecting her. Rachel laid into me yesterday about how I should be grateful, and how much you've done for her. And she's completely right. I'm sorry and thank you."

"It was nothing you wouldn't have done. So we cool, dude?" Puck asked with an ironic tone to the question.

"We are most definitely cool." The guys hugged awkwardly. Both of them were trying to hide tears.

"Dude, why are we acting like fucking girls here?" Puck said suddenly.

"You started it. Sissy!"

"Moron!"

"Jackass!" I laughed, things were back to normal.

A/N: AWWWW I loved this chapter : ) I've been working on it on and off since September 5th so almost two weeks…so I hope you liked it

Okay, I think we are done with the Finn/Puck baby drama for now; I just had a need to write a fight and a cute making up scene.

First view of glee club and how Puck and Rachel seem to outsiders (meaning not themselves) what did you think? Next chapter will focus a lot on Rachel, and it'll be Kurt's POV

BABY NAME TIME! Eliza Noelle or Noelle Caroline (or an awesome original one) I'm leaning towards one of them but I want to know what you think! So tell me in your review please!

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