So I don't own Glee. This is Fiction. I don't know anything about adoption, so i'm sorry if i offend anyone or get stuff completely wrong.
It wasn't that hard to figure out who the "father" is, but i have some good ideas for how its going to come out in the story.
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Cheers.
Sometimes Jesse curses the fact that he can sing so well. Mostly on days when Shelby drills the team over and over and berates their performances, while simultaneously praising Jesse. Those days his team mates hate him; they whisper (not always) insults, they glare at him and more than once he has found his clothes in a pile under a running shower. On those days, just for a brief moment, he wishes he was just an average kid whose main goal was to graduate. Those are also the days he thinks about his biological father.
William Schuester, Jesse Schuester. Jesse thinks the name of his father and what his name might be on those bad days. It's the kind of plain name he would have had if he wasn't destined to become a star. Because Jesse Schuester didn't roll off the tongue like Jesse St. James, nor did it have the same kind of star quality. Along with his potential name he thinks about Will Schuester the former McKinley male soloist and the current Spanish teacher. He thinks how his father could have made it to Broadway if he had been a little more popular, selfish and driven, rather than settle for his popular, cheerleading high school sweetheart and being a teacher. It's when these thoughts cross his mind that Jesse attempts to drive over to McKinley and work up the nerve to find Will Schuester and tell him the truth. He never makes it, so like always he finds himself in a book store specializing in all things music, movies, TV and Broadway.
That's where Jesse St. James is when the wheels are set in motion for his life to change.
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Jesse is flipping through a Beatles biography in the book store. He's in the middle of reading a paragraph on the way George and John would sometimes play the media to their advantage, when the bell above the door takes his focus. He glances up and sees Rachel Berry enter and walk over to a pile of music books. Jesse remembers her from her beautiful, but slightly lacking performance at sectionals. That's the only thing he really remembers from that day. He had been so nervous sitting in that crowd, looking through the audience for one glimpse of the man who created him that he zoned out most of the other performances, until Rachel's voice broke through the back of the auditorium and his focus from then was solely on her. He knows that he has to meet her, if not for her talent but for her connection to his father.
Jesse walks over and surprises Rachel, who is speechless that the star of Vocal Adrenalin is willingly talking to her. The image of Rachel, someone with powerful stage presence, so nervous around Jesse burns into his mind and he knows that if he and Rachel were to ever have any kind of relationship this first meeting would make an excellent story. Jesse gives Rachel one of his reasons for why he goes to the book store, he couldn't tell her the real reason why it's that particular store and not the one in his district, and Rachel smiles understandingly like she sometimes does the same thing in her spare time.
After his first slightly insulting comment he thought that if he really is going to judge her performances he should hear another so he glances at the piano and then Rachel before saying,
"What d'you say we take it for a spin."
"Here? N-nn I'm kind of nervous." Rachel stammers out and Jesse stops himself from letting out a chuckle.
"I remember when I used to get nervous." Jesse says with false bravado because he got nervous that after noon on the way to her school, for what would be one of the big moments of his life.
"Come on I do this all the time." He encourages her. Rachel gives him a slight nod and Jesse starts playing.
His voice breaks through the din of the store and soon the only sound is the piano and his singing. That's something Jesse prides himself on; he can silence a room with the tiniest hint of a song. Rachel's sees the confidence in Jesse and throws her voice into the mix. Rachel wasn't nervous because she would be performing in front of strangers, with all her years of being in dancing recitals and plays she was used to public performance. Her nerves were only because she would be performing with the most naturally talented teenager in the state and his approval would mean more to her than any applause.
Jesse's eyes seem to convey the smile that he isn't showing as he sings; he knows this because Rachel gives him a grin in return as she waits to sing again. Their two voices coming together just seem natural as if they had been waiting for each other to sing with. The song ends too quickly for both of them and they are met with a round of applause. Both teens smile at the customers and before Jesse can censor his thoughts he asks Rachel out.
"We should do this more often. How's Friday night?"
Rachel gives him a coy smile and nods her head. She is still too stunned to speak. If anyone from the glee club had seen her this way they would have thought that she lost her voice or her soul had been replaced by some mute being, because normally it was impossible to get Rachel Berry to stop talking. Rachel pushes the thoughts of what others think of her out of her head and finds a voice to finally say something.
"That was amazing and really freeing. I've never really thought of doing that just randomly."
"Well you should do it more often because you do have the voice for it." Jesse compliments Rachel as they leave the store. She completely forgot her reason for being there anyways.
"Thanks. So Friday night?"
"Yeah, can I get your address so I can pick you up?"
"Sure," Rachel says pulling out a scrap of paper from her purse and writing down the address "What are we going to be doing? Just so I don't over dress or under dress."
Jesse looks at he reddish-brown skirt and black bow print t-shirt, it's cute if a little childish, though the skirt is very short showing off toned legs. "Similar to what you're wearing now would be fine."
Jesse helps Rachel into her car and offers a wave as she pulls away from him. The smile on his face is genuine and he was right that she does have talent and maybe working with him he can give her some of the emotional depth that she had been lacking. Jesse thinks that maybe chickening out and not going to McKinley was fate or maybe Jesse should succumb to his nerves more often because this time it paid off.