Hey Everybody! I'm really excited for this chapter. It's the first time we get to see Liam with Finn and some of his students. It's also going to have some cute family moments. Proceed into the fluffiness with caution and enjoy!
Finn sits in the choir room, all forty of his show choir students quiet with nerves. Today is sectionals and they are all really excited. Finn is mostly excited because Rahel is bringing Liam to the competition, and all of his students get see him, which they all love. Finn misses his son so much. He too, is very nervous about the sectional competition so he finds himself staring at the big mass of pictures of Liam that are on his desk to assuage his nerves. They going to win, Finn tells himself, and Liam will be there to see it.
"Um Mr. Hudson?" Alexandria says, a very nervous look on her face.
"Yes Alexandria, What is it that I can do for you?" Finn asks her.
"I um, I can't do the solo, at least not at this competition."
"Why not? You're ready, and you sound really good."
"Because um my mom is coming to watch, and like I said, she really doesn't like the idea of me being a singer, she doesn't know about the solo."
"Well, do you want to do it?"
"Yeah."
"Then do it, because as far as I'm concerned, you should do what you want as long as it's not disrespectful, illegal or plain stupid."
Alexandria smiles. "Thank you Mr. Hudson.
"You're welcome, break a leg today, okay?"
They're all sitting nervously backstage when Rachel comes in with Liam. Finn is so happy to see his precious baby boy, he's missed him terribly this morning. He scoops the tiny boy out of Rachel's arms almost immediately.
"Hey Buddy, Daddy's missed you so much. You look fancy today, Mommy did a good job. Do you want to go say hi to my class? Come on Liam, they're going to be so excited to see you. They all like to see you."
"You guys, look who came to watch you all kick some major sectionals butt today?" Finn says
"Oh my goodness, he has gotten so big since the last time you brought him in." Alexandria says.
"Yeah, he really has. I think he's going to like our show. He likes Disney songs."
"Already, he's only like seven months old." One of the boys yeah.
"Yeah, we sing them a lot at our house. It's kind of a thing."
"Oh, so that's where you got the idea for our show's theme this year."
"Yeah, pretty much"
Then Liam starts to cry his little off. "Aww, Kiddo, what's the matter? Why are you so fussy?" Finn says ,trying to calm Liam down so he doesn't make a huge scene in front of all of his students.
"I'm sorry you guys, he's really fussy, he needs to eat soon."
Finn hands Liam back to Rachel so that he can be fed.
"I'm sorry, he was so cranky, he always gets like that when he's hungry."
"It's okay." The students all say.
Meanwhile, Rachel is in the hallway feeding Liam some applesauce. He was, very, very, hungry.
"You were hungry, weren't you Pumpkin?" Rachel coos. She feeds him the last few bites and he smiles at her."
"One more bite sweet boy, then it's all gone."
After feeding Liam, Rachel changes him and takes him to go sit with Kurt and Blaine."
"Did Finn give you any secrets about the show, Rachel?" Kurt asks
"Not really but it's Disney, and Finn came up with the entire thing himself so it has to be absolutely fantastic." Rachel says grinning. She is so proud of Finn.
Right before it is time for SopranYES to perform, Finn makes them huddle up into a show choir circle."
"Okay, you guys have all worked so hard on the show and I am really, really proud of you. No matter what place you guys come in, I'm going to be sure that you guys performed amazingly, but I do think that you guys are going to take home that first place trophy!" Finn tells the group proudly.
When it's all said and done everything is perfect, Finn knows that the kids all did fabulously, but he's a little concerned when Alexandria comes backstage after they've finished and she's crying."
"What's wrong?" he asks her with concern.
My, my, mom, she , she didn't show up and I was so excited that she was finally coming to hear me sing, and then she just bails on me, like always!" Alexandria says, she's crying and Finn feels awful for her.
"You know what? You were amazing. You have one of the best voices ever, and I'm really sorry that your mom didn't come today, but just remember that your talent is something, that no matter what, no one can take it away from you." Finn tells her.
After a while, it is announced that they won and everyone so proud, the students are proud of themselves, Finn's proud of them, and Rachel is proud of him..
"Hey, congratulations Baby, you really did put togetheran amazing show." Rachel says hugging Finn.
"Yeah, I guess so." Finn says.
"Oh Finn, please quit being so modest, you were really creative and it was very obvious that you taught the students well."
"I like being modest, you know that."
"I know but just take a minute to be proud of yourself and all of your hard work, you are an absolutely amazing teacher in the world, there's no doubt in my mind about that."
"If I had a nickel for all the times you have told me that I would be about six hundred times richer."
"Now Honey, do you think I would tell you that so many times over it wasn't true."
"No, of course not, but I'm not that good."
Rachel laughs. "Oh, there you go again with that undying modesty of yours."
"Alright, alright, I'm done I promise, but can I please, please, please, have Liam now? Can't you tell he's been dying to hang out with me all day long?"
"Alright, here you go, here's your precious boy, I'm pretty sure he's missed you bunches and bunches today." Rachel says handing Liam over to Finn.
"Hey Buddy, I've missed you so much today, we won today, did you know that? It's probably cause I'm wearing the lion tie that you and Mommy got me for Father's day. I'm pretty sure it's my lucky tie. Finn says, kissing Liam on the forehead..
"Finn, hang on just a second, I have to get a picture of you and Liam before you go back to the school with your students." Rachel says, a bright smile on her face.
"Aww, baby, is that really necessary, I hate pictures." Finn whines.
"I know you do, but yes it's necessary. I need a good picture of you two together."
"But Rach, you already have like ten million pictures of the two of us. Do you really need more of them?"
"Yes Finn, I really do, you two are my two favorite boys in the whole world, I like to have plenty of pictures to look at while I am at work and I miss the two of you so badly."
Finn, frowns playfully in defeat. "Fine you can take a picture of us, but just one."
"Yay!"
"Come on Liam, let's smile for Mommy." Finn says.
Rachel takes the picture and smiles.
"Aww, look at how cute you two look. It's perfect."
"Hey Rachel, I almost forgot, I was going to show Liam the trophy, do you care if I take him for just a quick few minutes before you two leave?" Finn asks.
"Oh no, of course not go on ahead, I'll be here."
Finn takes Liam into the room where his choir had practiced, the students are all of running around getting snacks so it's just the two of them in there.
"This is our trophy, it's pretty big, isn't it?" I bet you are going to win a bunch of trophies when you get older, maybe some for glee, or drums,, or football. Would you like that?" Finn asks Liam, and the little boy just replies with a five-tooth, lopsided grin. Finn quickly takes Liam back to Rachel before he has to leave with his choir class.
"I'll be back home by four Honey, I love you. Bye Liam, Daddy loves you."
On the bus ride back the kids are all chattering away about their sectionals victory and it makes Finn smile because he is super proud of all of them."
"Alright guys, I want to start off by saying that I am super proud of how awesome of a job you guys did today. You guys made the show absolutely fantastic and I'm sure it will be even better by Regionals. And then we cruise on to national level and win for the third year in a row." Finn says and all of the students are smiling.
Bye the time Finn gets home, Liam is already down for his afternoon nap.
"Hey, I'm home, did you miss me?" Finn says.
"You were only away from me for an hour, silly, but yeah, of course I missed you." Rachel replies.
"Where's Liam?"
"I put him down for his nap as soon as we got home. He should be awake soon though."
"Must have been pretty tired out from being out that long."
"Yeah, he was getting sleepy in the car."
"Poor kid, so did you like the show? I know you thought I did a good job putting it together, bt do you think the kids sounded good?"
"Yeah they were super good, you've got quite the group of talented kids to teach."
"Yeah, they're pretty awesome. I felt bad though, Alexandria's mom didn't show up."
"Again, oh that poor girl."
"I know, she's really good, but her mom's not to fond of the idea of her being a performer."
"That's so unfair to her. I feel so bad."
"Yeah, but she got into Tisch, so I'm glad that I was able to write her letter of recommendation."
"I just am so glad you love your job so much."
"I do, I really do.
Liam wakes up a few minutes later and Finn goes to get him.
"Hi Little Man, did you have a good nap. Daddy missed you." Finn says scooping Liam out of his crib and kissing him on the forehead. He takes him to the living room and watches him crawl around on the floor for a bit.
"I can't believe how big he's gotten, it's crazy." Finn says just staring at Liam with pride
"I know he's almost 8 months old. I can't believe it." Rachel says.
"He will be walking and talking before we know it."
"Well, when you put it that way, he sounds way too grown up."
"Don't worry, we've still got a long time before he is all grown up." Finn says smiling.
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