Finn walked into the choir room late. He scanned the room, everyone was there, except Rachel and Puck. He wondered where they were, but figured that if they were both away they were probably together, and Finn didn't like the idea of Rachel being alone. As he sat, Mr. Schue turned around from the whiteboard. "Finn," he said as when he saw him "Do you have any idea where Rachel is?" Finn wasn't surprised he didn't ask about Puck. Puck was anything but punctual.

"Um, no."

"What about Puck?"

"I don't know."

"Rachel had a tough morning, I was with her. The last time I saw her she was with Puck." Quinn spoke up. "I wouldn't be surprised if he took her home."

"What happened this morning?" Finn asked, turning around to face Quinn.

"In the cafeteria. Didn't you see?" Mercedes asked.

"No. I wasn't in the cafeteria this morning." Finn answered.

"Well, Karofsky and those jerks tripped her over and they were all laughing. Puck went off at Karofsky," Sam said "Quinn went over and helped her." he added proudly.

"Was she okay?" Finn asked quickly.

"A little shaken and embarrassed, not hurt or anything. I lent her some of my clothes and helped her clean up. Then the bell rang and Puck came up to us and I left." Quinn told them.

"I had no idea that had happened." Mr. Schue said "First thing tomorrow I'm going to get those kids into the principals office. Didn't any teachers see?"

"Yeah, but they didn't care." Artie piped up. "They just thought it was another footballer fight."

"I'll call Rachel, see where she is." Finn said getting his phone out of his pocket and leaving the room.

They were lying on her bed now, in the most innocent way possible. Puck had put the liquor away. He didn't want them to be drunk, just relaxed. He achieved that. Both of them were staring at the ceiling again. They were talking. Just talking. Puck opened up about how he felt about Beth, Rachel opened up about how she felt after the miscarriage. This is what she needed, to just talk for a while, for no reason. The alcohol made her open up. Their conversation was interrupted when Rachel's phone rang from her desk. She got up and looked at the screen 'Finn'. She sighed and picked up the phone, she didn't want to not answer and have a repeat of last time she didn't answer.

"Yes?" she answered.

"Rachel? Where are you? Are you okay?"

"I'm at home, and I'm fine. Look, I can't deal with Glee, not today."

"Is Puck with you?" Finn asked.

"Yes." Rachel hesitated before answering.

"So you're not alone?" Finn asked.

"That's what I just said." Rachel replied.

"Okay, well, I was just seeing why you weren't here."

"If you're okay, then..." Finn said awkwardly.

"Yeah."

"Okay." With that Finn hung up and walked back into the choir room. "She's at home with Puck, she said she didn't feel up to Glee today."

"Did she sound alright?" Quinn asked.

"Yeah. Better than she has been." Finn answered.

"Okay. Even without Rachel here, we still need to rehearse for Regionals." Mr. Schue said and the club stopped talking about Rachel and got to work.

"Thanks...for everything." Rachel said to Puck as he left her house that evening.

"See you tomorrow?" Puck asked before he stood outside the door.

"Yeah." Rachel replied. "See you tomorrow." After he left Rachel had a shower and got into her pyjamas, once she was lying in her bed her phone rang, he picked it up, please god don't let it be Finn again, she thought. Another awkward conversation with him was the last thing she wanted. She looked at the screen and saw it said 'Kurt' she sighed with relief and answered.

"Hello."

"Hi. How was school? Finn said something about an incident in the cafeteria." Kurt said, he sounded worried.

"Yeah, Karofsky tripped me. Food went in my face, they were all laughing. It was terrible."

"Are you alright?" Kurt asked.

"Yes. Quinn helped me up and lent me some clothes and helped me clean up. Puck got into a fight with them and then took me home."

"You're lucky you have such good friends. The Karofsky guy, argh. I can't even explain my anger towards him."

"I know." Rachel said "He's the biggest asshole in the school."

"You can say that again."

Rachel walked to school again. She could've got the bus, but she preferred not to. She listened to the music on her iPod as she walked. She got a fright when a car pulled up next to her. She turned to see it was Puck. She pulled out her headphones. "Do you want a lift?" he asked. She smiled.

"Sure." Rachel said as she got into the passenger side. "What are you doing here?"

"What do you mean? I'm going to school." Puck asked defensively.

"You live on the other side of town. You don't come to school this way."

"Would you believe I decided to go the long way for no reason other than I felt like it?" he asked with a smile.

"No. I wouldn't." Rachel laughed.

"Fine. You got me."

They walked into the packed halls of McKinley together, then towards Rachel's locker. She put a spare set of clothes into it and looked around for Quinn, whose locker was just down the hall from hers. She spotted her talking to Sam and walked towards her, with Puck following closely behind. "Quinn?" Rachel said to get her attention. Quinn turned around. She smiled.

"Oh, hi Rachel. How are you?"

"I'm okay." Rachel replied "I have your clothes. I washed them last night." She handed the folded dress to Quinn. Quinn took it and put it in her locker. "Thanks for letting me borrow them."

"That's alright. Anytime." Quinn said. Rachel looked up to see Karofsky walking down the hallway. He had a horrible looking black eye, she assumed that was Puck's doing.

"Dammit." Puck said "I thought that asshole was getting suspended."

"No such luck." Karofsky said as he approached Puck. "Turns out they can't suspend me because some careless bitch wasn't looking where she was going."

"Oi!" Puck yelled as she slammed Karofsky into the lockers, students cleared the area. "You really are a heartless son of a bitch." Puck practically spat into his face. Karofsky pushed Puck away from him and threw him onto the ground. He was a lot bigger than Puck. Students were gathering to watch the fight. Puck tried to push Karofsky off him but he was too big. Finn heard the commotion and ran to see what was happening. Karofsky had Puck pinned on the floor and was punching him over and over. Finn ran up and pulled Karofsky off Puck and pushed him against a locker, holding his collar and punched him square in the nose.

"You already drove Kurt out of this place. You aren't driving anyone else out!" Finn yelled them punched him in the stomach. Karofsky held his nose and fell to the ground. Finn turned around and saw Rachel holding a handkerchief up to Puck's face, it was soaked in blood. Puck's face was covered in blood. Finn grabbed Pucks outstretched hand and helped him up. "You alright?"

"Yeah. Hurts though."

"You shouldn't have done that." Rachel said to Puck, handing him the handkerchief. Puck took it and held it up to his bleeding nose.

"The bastard deserves what's coming to him." Puck said. "Also, who the hell owns a handkerchief?" Puck asked Rachel.

"Shut up, Puck." Rachel responded.

"Let's get your face to the office Puck. We'll get him expelled." Finn said, Puck nodded and the three of them headed to the office.

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