Sorry I have been gone. I have been dealing with preparing my book to be published. If you follow me on tumblr you'd know I have been in shock the past few days. And then my computer started giving me trouble so I finally got a new laptop today. Anyway...many of you thought the last chapter was the ending...and I really could have left it like that but I wanted to add this chapter for no reason other than to add where they are now. This picks up where they left off though.

Shout out-

Lamimi- after Sue pissed me off on Glee I knew I had to make her pay some way.

KrazyKay-I am happy you loved it.

Triple- yeah it was hard to write them argue cuz i was like noooo my babies lol

Miz- Red Light will make em stop lol

Dayja- you've been here from the start lol I enjoyed writing black Finn

Juju- u want that info released huh lol

Kayah wants Samcex...smh what happened to your innocence lol

Chordover-don't be crying in school reading fanfic lol

zeejack- omg u so mean lol

Alright I would love to comment on every one of you but u didn't come for that. I wanna thank all the reviewers, naysayers, ghost readers, followers and favoriters. This will be my last samcedes story FOR REAL. I really gotta focus on my books that will be published and available on amazon next month. Look out for Mango.

Song used- Thru the fire- Chaka Kahn and Katy Perry Unconditionally

Sam remembered walking back out with Mercedes on his arms was the highlight of the evening for Sam. He couldn't put into words how happy he was seeing the smile on his mother's face as she watched him guide Mercedes to the dance area. Mercedes placed her hands around his neck and then smiled over at his mother and gave her a wink before resting her head on his chest. Sam remembered dancing with Mercedes as her best friend Unique was on stage singing a song that definitely felt as if it were written for the two of them.

"I look in your eyes and I can see…we've loved so dangerously…you're not trusting your heart to anyone." Sam held her close as he thought about the conversation they just had back in his room that said just this. They promised each other that they would always discuss anything that would jeopardize them being together. "You tell me you're gonna play it smart…we're thru before we start…" Mercedes looked up at Sam and smiled as she listened to Unique sing. She was definitely singing about them. "But I believe that we've only just begun…when it's this good, there's no saying no…I want you so, I'm ready to go…" Unique smiled over and nodded at Joan as she walked up and down the stage singing about her best friend and the man she knew was meant for her.

"Through the fire…to the limit…to the wall…for a chance to be with you…I'd gladly risk it all." Unique smiled and walked through singing for each of the couples that were dancing. "Through the fire…through whatever…come what may…for a chance at loving you…I'd take it all the way…" she walked over to Ryder and Stacy and then over to Stevie and Dani. "Right down to the wire…even through the fire." She left their side and made her way over to Mercedes and Sam. She smiled sung around them as they continued to dance.

"I know you're afraid of what you feel…you still need time to heal…and I can help if you'll only let me try…you touch me and something in me knew…what I could have with you…well I'm not ready to kiss that dream goodbye." Unique gave Sam and Mercedes a pat as she walked back towards the stage. "When it's this sweet…there's no saying no….I need you so…I'm ready to go…" she turned to face the crowd and sang the last notes. "Thru the fire…thru the limit…to the wall…for a chance to be with you…I'd gladly risk it all. Thru the fire…thru whatever come what may…for a chance at loving you…I'd take it all the way…right down to the wire…even thru the fire."

"So, Sylvester huh?" Sam chuckled as he snuggled close to Mercedes from behind later that evening. If anyone had told him that make up sex would have been as good as it was he would have been mad at her before.

"Sylvester Sims." She replied rubbing on his arms as she giggled. . He laughed when Mercedes told him what she did to get out of the contract she had with Finn. Sam thought of all the times he'd thought of seeing Sue naked and shook his head.

"Wait…does that mean that I'm…"

"No Sam, that doesn't make you gay at all." She laughed already knowing where his thoughts were going. She turned to face him and touched his face softly. "I was already sickened by the fact that you found her attractive at all. She's old enough to be your grandmother." Mercedes exaggerated.

"I should not be held accountable for my actions BM." He replied smiling and kissing her before climbing on top of her and parting her legs with his.

"BM?" she asked trying to figure out what he was referring to as she felt him insert himself inside of her once again.

"Before…" he lowered his head to kiss as he began to stroke. "Mercedes." She smiled and bit her bottom lip as he filled her up. Everything changed the moment Sam met her. He didn't believe or understood love and now that's all he felt when he looked at her or thought of her. She showed him how to surrender his heart in the hands of someone else and to trust it with them. She couldn't believe how happy she was at that very moment. She couldn't believe she almost lost it all out of fear that Sue would ruin his and her life when if she had continued with it that would have been exactly what would have happened.

"I love you so much." She stated softly as they gazed into each other's eyes. He's grown so much since the first time they had sex. Now he was attentive and he was awesome with foreplay. Instead of kissing her on the lips, he kissed her forehead and then placed his on hers, staring into her eyes as he delivered stroke after stroke. Each time they made love she felt connected to him in ways no one could ever understand or explain. She'd forget about everything because at that moment he was everything to her and she was everything to him.

Sam rolled over allowing her to ride him so that he can enjoy the beautiful look on her face when she has complete control. She sat up and ran her hands through her hair causing her breast to perk up. He smiled as he reached up and grabbed one softly pinching the nipple. She bit her lip as she rose up and drop down grinding as she went down. She looked down at him and smiled causing his heart to skip a beat. He paused and stared at her. Everything he ever wanted in a woman was right there before him. Despite all his flaws she still loved him and was willing to risk it all for him. She noticed the pensive look on his face and lowered herself to kiss him. He held on to her as if he were afraid to let go as he deepened the kiss. Placing one of his hands on her ass he pushed her down as he pushed up deep inside of her. She moan and gasped for air as he continued to thrust upwards. She clinched a pillow and placed her head between his neck and shoulders trying not to scream. She pushed up and finally regained control placing her hand on his chest to hold him down as she rode him. He still had that pensive look on his face, so she clenched her walls around him till she felt him throbbing inside of her. She continued to grind till she finally felt her orgasm drain her body of its energy, she closed her eyes and fell on his chest.

"Marry me." Sam stated as she rested on his chest and he wrapped his arms around her. Mercedes opened her eyes in shock and debated on what to say. Mercedes wasn't sure she heard him correctly so she didn't respond until he said her name. "Mercedes…"

"Sam?" she sat up and looked at him. He still had that same expression on his face as he repeated it once more.

"Marry me." He looked at her as if his life depended on her saying that she would marry him. "Will you marry me?" he asked again. She thought about all that she just went thru with him and how they hadn't been together long enough for him to want that then she thought of everything they did go thru. His mother was right that love didn't care about time spent. She was with Finn 3 years and didn't know him as much as she knew Sam in the short time they were together. The way she connected with Sam was on another level and the relationship with Finn could never compare to it. She had to admit again that his mother was right, time showed no love. The 3 years with Finn was not due to love but more so to obligation. She stayed with him because the relationship with him was all she knew. "I know it's all of a sudden and you might think this has something to do with me seeing my baby sister getting married, but I was just thinking…"

"Sam," she cut him off placing a finger on his lips and then smiled at him before nodding. "I'll marry you!" she replied shocking him. He stared at her for a moment and then pulled her down to him hugging her tight.

"I love you…"

Mercedes cried as tears fell down her face. She'd never felt a pain like this before and at that moment she never wanted to feel it again. She squeezed her eyes shut and looked over to Unique and her mother as they held her hand trying to soothe her. She wanted to die as she cried and begged for someone to stop the pain.

"Baby, just calm down." Her mother stated as she rubbed her hand. Mercedes glared at her and then groaned as another pain ripped thru her.

"Don't tell me to calm down! Do you know what I'm going through right now?" she asked looking at her mother as she clinched her teeth.

"Mercedes, I'm going to let your attitude slide because I understand but you got one more time to talk to me like you're crazy." Her mother explained. "I know exactly what you are going through, remember?"

"I'm sorry, Mama." Mercedes replied once the pain went away. She looked up at Unique and smiled. Mercedes could tell she was terrified and hoped the smile would help make her feel better.

"Let me go see where those dumb ass doctors are!" Unique turned away wiping the tears that fell from her eyes. This was her first time seeing a woman giving birth and it was too much to take seeing her in so much pain when she could do nothing to help relieve it.

"Where's that husband of yours, Mercedes? You said he was on his way." Mercedes mother asked. She was still bitter over the fact that she chose to leave Finn for Sam but Mercedes didn't care. She was going to have to get over it because Sam was her husband and about to be the father of her grandchild.

"He's on his way mom. He was out of town on a business trip."

"What man leaves his pregnant wife and goes across the country? He must have a woman on the side. Finn would have been here! You know that he was kept on that reality show and he brought in that Berry girl with him. Mercedes, why didn't you tell me Finn was black?" Mercedes rolled her eyes and clenched her teeth again as another pain soared thru her. Her mother held her hand and allowed Mercedes to squeeze it. Mercedes squeezed it extra hard mainly because this was the only way she can take out her frustration without her mom feeling disrespected. "Breathe thru the pain baby." If only she knew that she was the pain.

"Mom stop!" she shouted through the pain. "He's on his way!" Mercedes needed Sam to hurry up before she killed her mother. She always knew how to get under her skin. She was always trying to insinuate that Sam was cheating on her but not so long ago she was telling her that wasn't a problem if Finn was cheating. And if she mentioned Finn one more time she would definitely need her mother to be escorted out of here.

Sam hated that he was in Los Angeles the moment he received the call that Mercedes was going into labor. He knew he should have stayed but he also needed to be there to open up the new office where he brother his brother Stevie and Dani to run the LA office. Mercedes insisted for him to go since her mother was in town and already driving the both of them crazy. She made it her duty to compare everything he did to Finn and Sam tried his best to get her to like him. Finally, he realized that she was never going to accept that he was married to her daughter. Sam thought back to their wedding day and she almost wrecked everything.

First she wanted Mercedes to wear white and Mercedes had decided already on a gold dress and then she refused to wear the dress Mercedes bought her. Then she pretended to have gotten lost the day of the wedding causing the wedding to be delayed. She was even more upset when she found out that Mercedes was pregnant and started shouting scriptures during the reception. Sam remembered having to hold his mother back a couple of times.

"How did a witch like that give birth to such an angel?" Joan had asked Sam as she fixed his bowtie. "If Mercedes wasn't your soul mate I would do whatever to stop this wedding but I don't think we should let her win, Sammy."

"I'm never letting her go, mom!" Sam remembered he responded as his mother smiled. No matter what she tried she couldn't stop the wedding.

Now he was on a flight back to Ohio and knew he was going to have to hear her incessant whining and griping over things she felt Finn would have done better. He didn't want to focus on that. He obviously couldn't win her over and he was done trying at this point. He was going to meet his first born in the next few hours and he wasn't going to let anything or anyone keep him away from that. He smiled as the plane began to land and prayed that the baby didn't come before he got there.

Sam got to the hospital and rushed in trying to find the maternity location. He remembered when they went thru the walked thru that it was near the pediatrics location but he was so nervous he went the opposite way and bumped into a nurse.

"Sir, you can't just run thru here like that. What if I was a patient?" she asked with a smile. He smiled and looked at her badge noticing she had a sticker covering the picture on it. "Now, if you need help just let me guide you." She stated smiling.

"Okay I am Sam Evans and my wife is having our baby right now and I really need to get in there before her mom calls me an unfit dad." Sam rambled.

"Okay, Sam, follow me and calm down…if you can't calm down I do have some vitamins you can take that will calm you down." She smiled rummaging thru her pocket and taking out a box handing it over to him.

"Terri! Didn't we fire you yesterday?" a doctor stated. Sam watched as she snatched the box out of his hand and ran the opposite the direction. "Uh…I'm sorry about that…I'm Dr. Hummel…we've been trying to get rid of her for a while." He explained shaking his head. "You didn't take any of those vitamins, did you?"

"No…but I am in a hurry. You see, my wife is giving birth and I have no idea how to find my way back to the maternity ward." Sam explained. Burt smiled and placed his hand on Sam's shoulder giving him a pat.

"Congratulation, let me take you over there." Dr. Burt stated as they walked through a double door. Sam made sure to look at his badge before he continued following him in.

Sam smiled and hugged his parents who sat in the waiting area with his sister Stacy and Ryder. Sam was happy they made it but he needed to see his wife. He walked down the hall to another set of double doors before reaching the area Mercedes was in. Sam reached the room just in time to see Mercedes begging for drugs thru the window. He smiled grateful that she didn't have the baby yet then sighed when he noticed her mother standing next to her. He hugged Unique just as she walked out of the room before making his way over to Mercedes.

"Boy am I happy you're here!" Unique exclaimed. "That woman is driving us up the wall." Unique stated softly. Sam laughed and then walked into the room. She smiled the moment she saw him walk into the room.

"I got here as fast as I could. How are you feeling, baby?" he asked kissing her on the forehead. "Thanks for being here, Mrs. Jones."

"Well somebody had to be here for her since you couldn't." she replied under her breath. Mercedes and Sam pretended they didn't hear her as they both kissed each other.

"Baby, it hurts really bad and I want to push but they won't let me and they won't give me drugs." She whined. Along with the pain Mercedes was dealing with he knew she was also dealing with the pain in the neck called her mother.

"Back in my day, we did it naturally, none of this drugs and hollering!" her mother stated before slumping down on the chair.

"Mom, just shut up for once in your God damn life!" Mercedes shouted shocking Sam and her mother. "You have been nothing but negative energy and if you're going to continue to be this way you can go wait out in the waiting area."

"Are you kicking me out?"

"Mrs. Jones, you are not helping her by making her upset." Sam stated walking over to her mother trying to reason with her. Her mother was about to object then the monitor that was in the room began beeping. Sam turned to see Mercedes had fainted. "Call the doctor!" he shouted running back over to Mercedes. Her mother ran out of the room screaming for a doctor to come.

"My baby! My poor baby!" she cried out as the doctor and nurses ran into the room and started working on Mercedes. Within minutes they were rolling her out of the room and rushing her to the operating room. "Where are you all taking her?"

"Ma'am, please stay here!" a nurse stated before closing the door. Sam stood looking at the door in shock praying that she makes it through. He turned to see her mother in the corner crying and although he hated how she treated him he knew that this was her mother. He walked over and extended his hand to her till she walked in and hugged him back.

"It's my fault! It's my fault!" she kept saying over and over. "It all happened so fast!"

"Sam, what the hell happened?" Unique asked as she walked back in with coffee in hand to see them crying in a corner. "Where's Mercedes?" she asked and then started to cry. "No…no….Sam…you better not tell me…Sam…" Unique cried dropping the coffee down on the ground rushing over to the double doors. Sam ran over to Unique and held her away. "I left for a brief second and come back to this!"

"Unique…" Sam tried to console her but was stopped when one of the nurses came back out. "Mr. Evans, can you come with me?"

"Is my wife, okay?" Sam asked.

"What's wrong with my daughter?"

"Ma'am, she's fine! Her blood pressure was elevated which caused her to faint and now we just need to conduct an emergency C-section. We really need to go prep her husband."

"Can I come?" her mother asked. Looking over at Sam. He wanted to say no and was happy that the nurse stopped him before he could.

"Sorry, ma'am we can only have one person in there…and we need to go now." She insisted. Sam nodded and followed the nurse, thankful that he wouldn't have to bring her mom with him. He didn't want to be mean but he really felt that her angering Mercedes caused her to faint. And that was the last thing he wanted in the room as they tore open his wife.

In those forty five minutes, Sam was in awe of everything that took place. Mercedes was in and out as everything took place but he held her hand anyway. The emotions that ran thru him couldn't be described as the doctor pulled out his baby and then he heard the baby cry. The nurse lightly pushed him over to where the doctor clamped two sides of the umbilical cord and then handed Sam surgical scissor. Sam took the scissor smiling as he nervously cut the cord and then looked back at Mercedes, who was still out of it.

"It's a boy!" the nurse announced and they began shouting out stats and cleaning him up. Sam couldn't help but smile as he watched the baby wail and blink numerous times. He had her almond shaped hazel eyes and a head full of hair. Sam reach over to touch his finger as the nurse applied a gooey substance on his eyes. His fingers were long just like his. "Have you all decided on a name for the baby yet?" the nurse asked. Sam smiled as he thought about the numerous arguments they had over the name of the baby until they finally agreed on one for each gender since they didn't know which they were having.

"Yes, it's Kingsley! Kingsley Evans." He responded as his son stared at him and held on tight to his finger. Sam turned over to the Doctor and smiled. "How's Mercedes?"

"She's going to be okay but it will take a few minutes for the medication to subside. We will be wheeling her into the recovery room and for the next few days she will be on a low-sodium diet to get her blood pressure back down. It's a good thing we caught this when we did or she could have been worse than just pre-eclampsia, which could have caused loss of sight or life." The doctor explained. "She should be awake within the next few minutes and we'll bring her into the room with you and the baby in a little while." Sam smiled stroked Mercedes hair before planting a kiss on her forehead and watched the nurses roll her out of the room.

Hours later, Sam was in the room with Mercedes after every one had finally left. She smiled up at him as she watched him sing to the baby and pace about the room. She couldn't believe that she was married to this man who about a year ago walked into her office thinking he'd never have what he had now. She promised him that he would one day have all of that but never in a million years thought she'd be the one he'd share it with. He looked over at her and smiled but continued to sing to the baby.

"Come just as you are to me…don't need apologies…know that you are worthy." He made the sound of drums causing Mercedes to giggle. He looked up and smiled at her and continued to sing. "I'll take your bad days with your good…walk through the storm I would…I do it all because I love you…I love you…" he smiled when Mercedes sung with him.

"Unconditional…" he walked over to her and sat next to her as they both sang to the baby. "Unconditionally…I will love you unconditionally…there is no fear now…let go and just be free…I will love you unconditionally…" Sam smiled and placed a kiss on Mercedes lips and then looked at Kingsley. "Now all we need is dog."

"Sam…" Mercedes said shaking her head before they both broke into a soft laughter. "Wait till the baby is a year old and then we can think about a dog."

"Whatever my queen says." He replied getting up and placing the baby down and heading over to the sofa that was in the room to lay down. He looked at her feeling grateful for what he had. "Mercedes…"

"Yes babe?" she looked over at him and he smiled at her causing her to smile as well. "Sam?"

"I love you." he fell asleep soon after.

"I love you too."

A year later-

Mercedes tapped her pen a couple times as she watched the man standing before her pace back and forth. It all seemed so familiar to her but instead this time the man was speaking. Unlike when Sam paced back and forth this man actually kept rambling. She smiled because nothing he was saying had anything to do with the reason that he was there but he decided that knowing about his back story would help her in helping him. So she listened and took notes as he went along.

"Alright so when I finally got to high school I became popular and joined the football team. Since I didn't have my dad around I had to get a side job to help my mom with the bills and became the neighborhood pool boy." He paused and looked at her before running his hand over his Mohawk. "It was fun at first because I got to see the neighborhood MILFS…" he paused and looked at her again. "You know what that is right?" she nodded and he smiled. "Sure you do, you look like one yourself." He added causing her to blush as he continued to pace. "Well I got to see them in their tiny bikinis and from that moment on I started having this crazy attraction to older women."

"Did any of the women touch you?" she asked suddenly becoming concerned. It was weird when men felt it wasn't molestation when a young man is touched by an older woman. She thought it was a serious offense and could have probably triggered the reason that he was there that day.

"Hell yeah! And it was a great thing too because I was dating a girl by the name of Santana off and on until recently I found out that she was gay and then I started messing with her friend and she ended up pregnant. I didn't really know she was pregnant for me until it was late." Mercedes paused as she couldn't believe she was meeting the missing link to the damn Finn/Quinn story. She tried not to make any expression that showed she knew what was going on. "Anyway, so I started sleeping with teachers and pretty much any old broad with a vagina."

"Do you feel this has lead you to have some problems in the bedroom?" she asked. He turned around as if she asked him if he wanted to cut off his penis.

"Hell no! When it comes to sex I am dick driller #1!" he boasted proudly. She wanted to roll her eyes but instead she listened anyway. "It's just that my excessive chase for old tail has caught up with me and I ended up in bed with something I don't think my brain can accept."

"What do you mean? Was she too wrinkly?" she asked and watched as he began to shake his head and rub it before sitting down.

"No…I found out…that…she used to be a…." he paused and whispered. "A man." Mercedes didn't hear him but she could have sworn he said man.

"Mr. Puckerman, did you say man?"

"Yeah man, a man!" he shook his head and sighed. "We didn't have sex but when she started to undress I noticed something and ran the hell out of there." He looked at her waiting for her to say something.

"That's it?"

"Yeah that's all of it!" he sighed and looked up at her again. "So…am I gay? 'Cause if I am…I'm going to kill her…him…it…whatever…" he paused then looked away. "I went home and looked her name up and found an article submitted by Unique Wade Adams or something like that stating that this woman name was Sylvester Sims before she changed up to all this."

"Uh…" Mercedes was shocked as she listened to him. "Do you have feelings for…"

"Don't play, doc! I just want you to fix me so that I can get back to giving the ladies what they want without seeing…that!" Mercedes looked at him and smiled then shook her head thinking about how much she loved her best friend. "Help me get back to lovin' the babes again."

"I will help you, Mr. Puckerman!" she replied with a smile. "I will help you learn how to love again."