LOVE WILL FIND A WAY…
I'm BACK, I shouldn't have an excuse for long lingering lapses in updates as the only other fic I have in progress at the moment is a drabble series set in this verse over at a forum but you know there is so much of this verse my brain can take. That being said thanks to everyone at the unconventional GH forum for voting me best crossover writer….anyway hope you all like it, drop me a line so I know that more people then Katy are reading this fic here on ….
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"Artie?" Puck asked.
Artie reached up and upon noticing his mask was removed simply nodded.
"Yea Puck, it's me."
"You.., you're walking."
"Thanks for stating the obvious."
Puck simply shook his head.
"I mean when, how, because when I saw you last spring you….."
"Were sitting down at a table in a restaurant," Artie said with a smile causing Puck to stare at him, "yea, I've been walking now for just under a year and a half."
"Well, that explains the when, but what about the HOW."
"Well," Artie began when Tina's voice filled the air.
"Oh my god….ARTIE!" she exclaimed making her way onto the scene and tossing her arms around her friend.
"Wow dude," Finn said, "I didn't know you were so tall."
Artie let out a little laugh at Finn's height comment.
"Anyway, like I was explaining to Puck just now, I was in a small coffee shop minding my own business when this doctor approaches me about my condition and well….ta da."
"Ta da," Tina said rolling her eyes, "you're walking now after being paralyzed for roughly ten years and all you can say is 'ta da'."
"Well what do you expect me to say T?" he asked his friend using his old nick name for her and flashing her an adorable grin like he used to flash back in the day.
Tina was about to say something when another voice from one of their friends began to fill the air.
"I don't meant to come off as rude seeing as how your mother is in labor," Rachel said, "but Milo and I are thinking of trying to get a launch and head to Kelly's for a late night…"
As she spoke her eyes were trained on her former friend trying to figure out why he sent her vibes of déjà vu when it hit her.
"….I'm sorry if I come off as rude but you look like someone so familiar to me. Were you in that company that did Hamlet last week?"
"No, but you may of seen me in another group, does New Directions ring a bell."
Rachel paused to look the young man over one more time, watching as his hand gently slipped around Kristina's waste while a smile crossed his lips.
"Artie," Rachel said with a smile as he nodded.
Rachel turned her head to look up into Milo's eyes.
"Coffee can wait; I don't think Kelly's has that organic stuff we like anyway."
Milo just nodded.
He'd only heard the name Artie in passing but he knew that this reunion was big and so he took a step back as he watched the group reunite.
The mini reunion that Artie was now having with Puck, Tina, Finn, and Rachel lasted a good five minutes before a scream filled the air.
"My mom," Kristina said being snapped back to reality for a moment just as Quinn walked into the room.
"Kristina, if you can break away from being the center of attention for a second," she began as her eyes instantly locked on Artie's, "well this is definitely a twist."
A smile crossed her lips as she looked now back to Kristina.
"when you told me that you and Artie were back together why didn't you tell me he was walking, why did you make me think you were cheating on him with some random you picked up in the student union?"
"Because Artie wanted to surprise everyone."
"Well I'm surprised," Quinn said as she turned back to Artie briefly, "you look great by the way."
"Thanks," Artie replied as once again Quinn shifted her gaze to Kristina.
"Great now I almost forgot why I came over here," she sucked in a breath before she continued, "Nik called the chopper and it's on its way but your mother really wants you by her side."
"go," Artie said, "your mom is about to pop after all, I can fend for myself in telling everyone my story."
Kristina simply nodded before leaning in and giving Artie a sweet kiss on his cheek not caring that her friends were watching as god knew they'd seen she and Artie do much more intense PDA back in High School.
"I'll be back soon," she whispered.
"Tell your mother I said hi," he replied before Kristina followed Quinn to the room where Alexis was being attended to at the moment.
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"So is there going to be a wedding?" Brittney said with an innocent air, "or did I sleep through it…."
"No Brit," Santana said, "there wasn't a wedding."
"Was it because your feet got cold Mike because you can use my shawl as a blanket."
Mike let out a laugh.
"Thanks for the offer Brittney but it wasn't because I had cold feet, I didn't even know what was going on until the music started."
"That happens to me all the time," Brit said with a smile as Santana placed a gentle hand on her shoulder.
"No," Mercedes said, "there is no wedding because Mrs. Hummel's baby decided to steal our thunder.
"but wouldn't thunder give the baby a shock and I didn't even hear a stork."
"Brittney," Santana said, "I thought we went over this back in High School babies don't come from storks."
"Right….I forgot….it's just hard to picture Kurt's dad and Kristina's mom having sex, I mean they are ancient like older then Mr. Schue."
The trio surrounding the blonde just nodded as Mercedes simply clapped her hands.
"It's alright, while this impromptu wedding was an ingenious idea drawn up by my boy Kurt for god knows what reason…."
"I call he had throw a party in a lavish castle on his bucket list," Santana interjected as her friend just nodded.
"Anyway," Mercedes continued, "since this wedding didn't happen now it frees me up to plan the perfect wedding and while I'm still a college student this diva fully plans to be a bridzilla."
"That's raciest, or is it because your fiancé is Asian?"
Mike couldn't help but let out a chuckle while Santana smiled opening her mouth to explain to her girlfriend what the term actually meant.
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Matt stood outside of the room with Kurt, Blaine and Molly as Kristina and Quinn approached.
"How is she?" Kristina asked fearing the worst not just because of her mother's age but because she risked travel in her delicate condition.
"Depends," Kurt began, "if you're wondering how she is doing as far as getting our little brother out then she's physically fine."
"But."
"But she's freaking out that the EMT's haven't arrived yet," Blaine said, "and that she'll have to have the delivery here."
"There are worse places to give birth," Molly said causing the three older teens eyes to look at her.
"I'm talking about the fact that my mom had me in the wreckage of a train crash…."
"…she almost had me outside in the snow," Kristina replied.
"And Sam?" Matt asked casually.
Kristina and Molly both shrugged as the means of Sam's birth and her biological father always were a mystery.
Suddenly Carly's head peaked out of the room as her eyes fell on Kristina.
"Good, Quinn told me you were here Kristina."
There was a silent moment before the older blonde made a hand gesture signaling that she wanted Alexis's middle daughter to enter the room.
"I told you it was a bad idea to come to this party."
"I know sweetie and I should have listened to you and Burt but I figured that I had time."
Kristina remembered the conversation she had with her mother that one afternoon shortly after Charlie was born.
"You said you had over a month to go and that was only a few weeks ago."
"I may have exaggerated with my math," Alexis said with a smile, "it was a nice wedding though, considering….. when you see Mike and Mercedes tell them I'm sorry."
"I think your step son is the one that you need to apologize more to as he was the one who planed everything."
"Kurt planed all this."
"That's what I said."
Alexis simply nodded as she winced.
"Are you ok Lexie?" Burt inquired.
"I'm fine…I'm fine….so what am I missing, did Mike and Mercedes say there I do's?"
Kristina shook her head, wondering if she should tell her mom and Burt about Artie now seeing as how Quinn and Carly were in the room. However Quinn had already seen Artie for herself and Carly…well Carly saw first-hand how crazy she'd been when she thought she lost Artie in the past so why the heck not tell her about his triumphant return right?
"No, but there is something you need to know and better you hear it from me now then see it at the hospital and think you're having hallucinations."
"This sounds serious," Burt said.
Kristina nodded.
"I've been seeing someone since June, someone you know all too well..."
"It's not that Aussie that dated your friend Tina back in High School is it?" Burt began, "because he seemed kind of shady."
"That Aussie is my cousin," Carly exclaimed glaring at Burt who flashed the blonde an apologetic look.
"Before you guys fight and because my mother unneeded stress I'm not dating Ethan."
"Well then, who is it sweetheart?"
"Artie," Kristina replied.
"Artie, as in Abrams, as in the guy that wheeled over your heart," Burt said in full on papa bear mode, "no absolutely not, no child of mine should be with a person who breaks up with them in a letter."
"Burt, he had good reason."
"Well unless that reason is that he was dying and couldn't face you in person which obviously isn't the case if he's back in your life now…."
"He broke up with me because he was about to go experimental surgery, he didn't know if he'd live or die or become a quadruped and he didn't want me to witness things if it came to the latter options."
"What kind of surgery?"
"Spinal."
"Well then I guess things turned out for the better since he's back in your life."
"Well if you call the fact that my previously paraplegic boyfriend is walking for the good then yea, I guess they did Burt…by the way he told me to tell you hi mom."
Alexis opened her mouth about to respond to her daughter's news when Nikolas entered the room with a pair of EMT's trailing behind them.
"So," Alexis said, "are we ready to go?"
The man and woman dressed in blue looked toward one another before looking at Alexis.
"That depends, can we ask you a few questions first."
Alexis nodded and engaged in a question and answer session with the EMT's before the female looked at her.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Hummel," the female said, "we can't airlift you as your too far along in your labor however we can wait here until baby arrives and then take you over to General."
Alexis's face turned sheet white and it was hard to tell if something was complicating her pregnancy or if it was pure nerve.
Thankfully it was the latter as the next half hour was all a blur. Carly took charge in calling out a list of medical supplies and common household items she'd need to make herself into an impromptu midwife and deliver the baby while Quinn spoke calming words to the older woman and Burt nervously paced the floor wearing out the oriental rug.
However it was all worth it as in that time, amongst all the chaos Holden Clark Hummel was brought into the world with ten fingers, ten toes, and no complications whatsoever.
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TBC
So I'm not a medical expert so I took creative liberties. In the time span that I wrote this tons has happened, Funeral aired, Bob Guza got FIRED!, and I listened to the covers of For Good and Bella Notte. If the zombie apocalypse or writers block doesn't kill me expect an update next week.