A/N: This is the penultimate chapter! Nothing happens that will move the plot forward so I apologise which is why I will be uploading the final chapter pretty soon (either later today or tomorrow) Thank you very much for the reviews :)
Chapter 26: What would have been?
Emma Pillsbury and Will Schuester got married in 2011 in a small church in Lima. All twelve members of New Directions showed up to the wedding and even performed for their teachers. They sang a mash up of the couple's favourite songs. Bust a move and I could have danced all night. Three years later and they had twins, Alice and Alfie. Will left McKinley the same year as New Directions graduated and moved to another school in the local district. Emma stayed at McKinley for six years subsequent to Will's resignation and then left to become a house wife and stay at home mum.
Mercedes Jones moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to study Law at Harvard University. She then became a highly sought after lawyer and during one case she met her future husband Dylan Westwood. Together they started a big family of seven children, five girls and two boys.
Tina studied chemistry and human biology at university and then went on to become a forensic scienctist. Her boyfriend Artie Abrams spent his life trying to find a way to cure paralysis. They spent their whole lives happily together but never got married or had any children.
It took Rachel Berry all of seven years after graduation to make her debut in Broadway. After attending numerous auditions and playing small ensemble parts she was finally cast as the lead in Wicked, Elphaba. Finn, Tina, Artie, Will and Emma all attended her opening night and she stayed at the show for just under three years. In her time on the show her on stage love interest Fiyero became her off stage husband David Forrester. They produced five little Broadway babies all of which started vocal, dance and acting classes at the age of two. After thirty years on Broadway Rachel finally got an award that meant more to her than anything else. The award she had wanted since she was just a child. She received a Special Tony Award for Life time achievement in the theatre and all eleven of her high school friends were there cheering her on from the audience as she collected it.
Kurt Hummel unsurprisingly made it into the world of fashion. At first he tried his hand at designing but ended up working in fashion journalism. For one particular report he was writing he had been invited to attend New York fashion week where he had first laid eyes on a male model named Blaine Anderson. The two became an exclusive couple a little under a year later and although they never married they maintained a long term relationship.
In 2010 Quinn Fabray gave birth to Beth Puckerman. She had wanted to put her up for adoption but Puck was adamant about keeping her. For the first year of her life, Beth was raised by both Quinn and Puck but when their relationship ended Puck became Beth's full time guardian. To earn a living he taught one to one guitar lessons in his house. When Beth was old enough to go to school Puck decided to home school her so that she didn't end up bumping into anyone who acted like he did in school.
Quinn joined the William McKinley faculty in 2019 as the new Cheerio's coach. She led them to twelve National wins before retirement and was happily married to her colleague (a gym teacher) Mr Evans. They had one daughter together called Jenna.
Finn Hudson had moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Straight after graduation he completed a football scholarship he had been selected for. His family, friends and football coach all managed to persuade him to try out for the Cleveland Browns football team and he became their star quarterback. He played for eight years and then retired for another eight before returning back to the team and becoming their coach.
Six years after graduation Santana Lopez became Santana Rutherford. She and Matt had three children, all boys whom they called Jay, Nathan and Lewis. Santana quit her office job to become a stay at home mum whilst Matt earned the money. He opened up a small dance studio where he and his best friend Mike Chang taught dance classes. Not long after he graduated Mike moved to LA when given an opportunity to make it as a dancer but just a short year later he returned to Lima. He had missed his family and his friends too much and that was he and Matt decided to open up the studio.
Brittany Pierce graduated and became a kindergarten teacher at a local school in Lima. Mike Chang finally admitted his feelings to Brittany three years after graduation and the pair went travelling around the world together.
If it wasn't for Brittany this would've happened. This would be their reality but Brittany came and she killed and now this is what would've been, what should've been and what never will be.