Previously...

The drive home was lively with jokes and banter between the three gleeks and also friendly talk of fellow glee clubbers "Artie was very quiet today, I wonder what was up with him" said Finn with a hint of concern

"you mean apart from Rachel constantly talking about what solos she's going to sing?" Mercedes laughed causing the other two to chuckle a little.

Finally they Reached Finn's house and Sam grabbed everything he had at Finns which, coincidentally was all he currently possessed as it was all he could grab before he left his parents house for good. And it wasn't much. It was the clothes he had on the day before and a bag which contained a half eaten sandwich in. Mercedes took it, looked at it and said "well that's going in the bin" joking around.

"ha ha give it here" Finn said, unimpressed and blushing again. He couldn't understand why he was blushing, but he did notice that it happened every time he looked at Sam. but even if it meant he liked Sam more than a friend nothing could happen he thought 'he's straight…isn't he?'

CHAPTER 3: The Phone Call

Finn was laying on his bed that night just thinking 'I cant be gay, I've dated Quinn and Rachel even slept with Santana…but Santana is now a lesbian…..Oh god am I falling for Sam? I look at his face, I smile and get butterflies in my stomach. If I am gay then I have let Dad down, Mom down, Burt down, Oh poor Burt, his two boys gay. I cant be, no I'm not, I Finn Hudson am straight, but Sam's so cute, no! Stop these thoughts'.

Finn had Sam round the next night because they were doing a science project together, and he couldn't stop looking at him, was he falling for Sam Evans? Sam snapped him out of his thoughts when he asked with a smile "so are we going to get this done or just sit around?" he had noticed the looks but wasn't bothered as long as it was Finn. At this point in his life Sam really needed love, but he was scared to have any physical contact and has been since he was ten years old, his father made sure of that.

"uh, yeah sorry, I was just erm, thinking" Finn replied whilst he got off his bed and moved to sit next to Sam. As he sat down the boys' hands accidentally touched, causing them both to get the same tingly feeling and gaze at each other for a few seconds "erm I need a drink, do you want one?" Finn said as he got up as fast as he could.

"um sure" Sam replied, confused and Finn left the room as soon as Sam answered so he could hide the fact he was blushing and getting some kind of feelings for Sam. Feelings that go further then a bromance. Sam knew why Finn was leaving the room so fast, he wasn't stupid, well not when it came to guys, he'd learnt a lot over the years.

TLPPSE

Will was finished for the day and was sitting in Emma office patiently waiting for her finish. "Emma" he said as if he was about to ask a question

"hmm" she replied, still looking at the bin she was currently cleaning with a toothbrush.

"How would I go about adopting Sam?" he randomly asked as he had been thinking about it for a couple of days

"What? Adopting Sam? As in Sam Evans from glee?" Emma replied still cleaning her rubbish bin out.

"yeah…he's currently staying at different glee club kids houses because he has nowhere to call home since he left the Evans' and if we adopt him, he'll be a great addition to the family, he can help around the house and I'll know that he wont be hungry or homeless and we can protect him" Will explained and as soon as Will mentioned that he was homeless Emma looked up and saw the passion in his eyes and how much he wanted this and was hooked on the idea too.

"hang on!" she proclaimed as she sifted through all of her pamphlets until she found the one she was looking for "here it is" and she handed him pamphlet about adoption with the title 'so you're thinking about adopting a student' which Will looked at in awe, she seemed to have a pamphlet for everything.

"it says here that we need to ask his Parents and the Court" Will said while searching for Sam Evans on the school systems, "here we go Mary Evans, I'll call her now" the phone rang but there was no answer so Will tried again, he wasn't going to give up that easily and this time a man answered it, who he assumed to be Sam's father.

"What!"

"Um hello, can I speak to Mrs Evans please? It's Will" he asked, slightly scared of the voice on the other end.

"Yeah, hang on I'll get her" his voice sounded similar to Sam's but was also gruff and sounded permanently angry "HEY! MARY! PHONE!" there was a brief pause "YOU DEAF? GET YOUR ASS TO THE PHONE, NOW!" he continued down the phone so loud Will had to take the phone away from his ear which caused Emma to give him a cute look of confusion.

"Hello" She said confused and her voice shaking with fear

"Hi my name is Will Schuester I'm Sam's Spanish teacher and glee coach" he explained

"oh my god is he ok?" she asked frantically but in a quiet voice so no-one but Will would hear "I love him so much, I've been so worried I just want him safe in a warm house" she continued to say, this made Will very happy.

"that's what I wanted to talk to you about actually, my fiancé and I have been thinking and talking, and with yours and the Courts permission, we can adopt Sam, so you will the know he's safe and know he's eating properly and has somewhere to sleep at night" he explained, hopeful that she would agree.

TLPPSE

Finn returned to the room still slightly red, from blushing, "here you go um, I got you some cola" Finn said while giving Sam the cup, "erm Sam" he began, but couldn't bring himself to finish the sentence so just said "actually no, it doesn't matter" awkwardly wishing he hadn't said anything and quickly changed the subject "right we better get on with this"

"what were you going to say?" Sam asked, hoping that Finn was going to confess his feelings for him. Finn shifted his feet awkwardly and moved over to sit on the bed.

"well er if er" he cleared his throat "say for example…..actually no, it doesn't matter what's the assignment again?"

"dude come on its me" Sam said in another attempt to get Finn to say what was on his mind "what's up?" he asked innocently looking at Finn in a way he found incredibly cute which made him blush, again.

"I gotta go to the bathroom" Finn announced before running out of the room. Sam watched him leave with a look of disappointment on his face 'why wont he just tell me' he thought and waited in silence for what seemed like forever. He knew Finn was just using the bathroom as an excuse to avoid the situation which hurt him in a way because Finn was always open and honest with him and he'd hoped for the day that Finn would confess his feelings for him ever since he'd realised his own feelings but it looked like he'd have to wait a little longer.

Finn came out of the bathroom after five minutes of thinking and clearing his head and breathed a sigh of relief when he heard keys in the front door and immediately ran downstairs to greet Carole. "hey Mom you're back early" he stated in confusion. Carole worked in the local elementary school and was supposed to have a faculty meeting right now.

"yeah the meeting was cancelled, the principal had to deal with child protective services, a kid in the 3rd grade came in with questionable bruises" she said with a look of sadness and all of a sudden the two Hudson-Hummel's heard thunderous footsteps running down the stairs.

"please tell me it wasn't Stevie" Sam practically shouted at Carole, with a look of worry and panic on his face. There were so many children in the 3rd grade that Carole hadn't thought that it could be Stevie and the feeling of worry suddenly washed over her.

"I-I'm sorry I don't know, I don't work with the 3rd grade" Sam flew into a state of distress and crouched down holding his knees and began to rock and chant

"can't happen again, can't happen again, can't happen again, not Stevie, not him, please don't let it be him"

Finn and Carole looked on in shock. Finn was the first to snap out of it and ran to Sam crouching down and grabbing a hold of his shoulders "dude, dude calm down, look at me" Sam didn't respond "Look. At me" this time Sam did respond and looked up at him with red tear-filled eyes. "it might not be Stevie but Mom is going to find out ok?" Sam nodded "and if it is him we will do something about it! I promise you ok?" Finn then pulled him into a hug and kissed the top of his head and looked up to the ceiling as if he was waiting for answers from a God of some kind.

TLPPSE

Will waited nervously for a reply and heard sniffles down the other line "wi-will I ever see him if you do this?" she asked feebly

"of course! We would never take away that right from you but I don't think it would be best if Mr Evans came near him" suddenly will heard the mans voice in the background.

"what is taking you so long on that phone? It better not be Stevie's teacher again or so help me god STEVIE! GET HERE NOW"

"daddy please, I didn't do it" Will heard Stevie beg before hearing a cringe worthy slap and the child crying and then four more after that, one right after the other. Will cringed and closed his eyes, jumping at each one as if it was him being hit.

"erm no honey it's, it's my cousin from Aunt Julie's side" she replied, hoping that he'll believe her.

"you and your damn family, you better not talk long" he threatened. Will was gob smacked at the aggressiveness this man was using on his own family.

"Mrs Evans are you ok? Are the children ok?" he asked incredibly worried

"yes, yes we're fine please don't call anyone" she pleaded, lowering her voice so Dwight wouldn't hear. "listen, I cant talk long can we meet somewhere say, Saturday?" she asked desperately, voice still low. Will knew Regionals was Saturday but right now Sam's safety was more important.

"erm we have Regionals on Saturday but I'm sure I can arrange another member of the faculty to go in my place. Where can we meet?" he asked in desperation. Dwight was now giving her a threatening and questioning/paranoid look as he'd noticed he couldn't hear what she was saying and she noticed this so replied in a way her husband wouldn't know she would be meeting up with Will in fear of his reaction if he knew.

"sorry I help with the kids drama group at the community centre from 11am until 12:30pm on Saturday's but I'm sure I could see you and Aunt Julie soon"

"11am at the community centre got it!" he said as he ripped the piece of paper he had just written on and handed it to Emma to put on the fridge so he wouldn't forget.

"ok Will bye, see you soon" and she hung up before hearing his reply.

"is everything ok? What did she say?" asked Emma with her big brown eyes staring at him in apprehension, Will sort of looked through her while processing all he just heard and rang the first person he thought could help.

TLPPSE

Sam and Finn were now on the couch with Sam now drinking a glass of water and Finn rubbing his back to comfort and calm him down while Carole was in the chair opposite looking on, worried and thinking in the back of her mind that it was Stevie and hoping she wasn't right. When the phone rang. "I'll get it" she announced as she got up from the chair and walked to the kitchen "hello?"

"hey, Carole it's Will, I have a problem"

"what's wrong?" she asked suddenly worried. Will never called unless it was something to do with Finn, Kurt and/or Glee

"well I just rang Sam's mom and-" he began before getting cut off mid sentence by a slightly angry Carole.

"wait you rang his mom, why? What were you thinking? hasn't he been through enough?"

"whoa whoa calm down I rang her to ask about adopting Sam" he blurted out before thinking. He didn't really want to tell anyone until everything was being processed and especially until he'd got consent from everyone, including Sam.

"adopting Sam? That's great news!" she said possibly a little too loud, which got Finn's attention, but he decided to listen before actually going to his Mom, and carried on focusing on Sam.

"yeah, thanks but that's not what I rang to talk to you about" he said in frustration with a little smile spreading across his face.

"what is it? What's wrong?" she asked, now getting back on track to the subject at hand, which she didn't yet know the full details of.

"while on the phone I heard him in the background shouting at her and at, at Stevie" he said with a hint of disgust in his tone and without knowing it he had now confirmed her's and Sam's fears. Dwight had now moved onto tormenting poor little Stevie.

"oh my god" she said in almost a whisper, her mouth agape

"that's not all, I think I heard him hit him, more than once and pretty hard too" her eyes widened in shock as he said all of this and she just stood there, shaking and speechless "Carole? Are you still there?" he asked worried that there was a problem with the line.

"yeah, sorry" she said snapping out of it "it's just a kid today in the 3rd grade came into school with bruises" she explained "I wasn't told who it was but when I told Finn about it Sam instantly knew it was Stevie and came rushing downstairs begging me to tell him it wasn't" she explained with tears now running silently down her face. Everything was slotting into place which wasn't good. Their worst fears had come true. Upon hearing this explanation Finn went to confront his mother.

"we need to do something, but I can't call the authorities Mary practically begged me not too, I don't want to make things worse for her or the kids"

"that may be too late"

"what do you mean?" he asked, slowly beginning to panic

"the principal cancelled a faculty meeting to speak to Child Protective Services about it" she managed to explain before Finn interrupted the conversation now as worried as his mother looked.

"Mom what's going on? What do you mean it may be too late?" all Carole could do was try and get him to return to the emotional wreck in the living room while she processed everything and finished talking to Will.

"Honey please go back to Sam and don't say anything to him, tell him it's Burt and I'll be back soon" Finn looked even more worried and didn't budge "Honey please, I'll tell you later, I promise"

"okay" he said in a huff. He didn't want to go back to Sam at this point in time, he wanted to know what was going on and what his mom knew, he wanted to know if Stevie was ok. But he obeyed and left it, for now.

"hey sorry, where were we?" she asked returning to her conversation with Will

"they called Child Protective Services?" Will all but shouted down the phone "ooh this is bad don't they know that this could make things worse?"

"it's an elementary school Will it's their job to report any signs of abuse" she said, trying to see it from a professional point of view too.

"I know but *sigh* what're we going to do? I want to get them all away from him but right now Emma and I only have room in our apartment for Sam and it'll take a while for us to find a bigger place" he explained, rubbing his face in frustration.

"I don't know, listen, can we talk later this is a lot to process and Sam is here, I don't want to worry him too much" Carole knew she couldn't talk much longer after Finn bursting in, it could be Sam next and she was far from ready to be dealing with him getting too distressed right now, especially after what she had just heard.

"ok I'll erm call you later" he agreed, still quite stressed.

"ok thanks, bye" she replied and hung up before returning to the two teenage boys in her living room.

A/N: well there it is, I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as Heaven91 and I loved writing it. Please review and give me your thoughts, criticisms and ideas :)