AN: This one is Keep The Faith by Bon Jovi.

Set in randomly in Season Five or Six – sometime when Rory and Logan are together, but before London.

I don't own the song or the show.


Everybody needs somebody to love – Bon Jovi

He slicked his hair back, and unbuttoned the top two buttons of his shirt. He added a flashy belt to his designer jeans and slid his bare feet into some comfortable Italian leather loafers. Finn was nothing if not eccentric, he loved keeping his friends, and their fans, on their toes, and then claiming it was all because he was exotic. He headed into the bathroom to splash on some cologne and check himself out in the full length mirror.

He stood in front of the mirror trying to get his hair exactly the way he wanted, and trying to decide if he wanted to add any accessories. Depending on his mood he might throw on a crucifix – it was always useful for inspiration if he decided to reenact The Passion of The Christ, or an earring – it made him look dangerous, or his shark tooth necklace – always a good conversation starter and it accented his exoticness. Tonight however, he decided to go au natural, just a splash of Bvlgari BLV and his wolfish smile.

A pounding on the door jarred him out of his self-admiration. "Finn, hurry up! Logan's waiting for us at the bar!" Colin yelled.

"Hold your pants on Mate, one should never hurry a lady!" Finn retorted.

"Finn you're not a lady."

"Fine, then one should never hurry an Aussie! It takes work to make me look this good," he said flinging open the door to make a dramatic entrance into the hallway. "How do I look?" he asked.

"You look fine," Colin replied.

"You didn't even look!"

Colin sighed and looked at Finn, "Honestly Finn, not even Stephanie gets so worked up about how she looks when she goes out. You look fine. Great. Marvelous. You'll be the bell of the ball."

"Thank you. Now was that so hard?"

"Can we go already?" Colin asked clearly annoyed.

"Yes Mate, we can go now." Finn grabbed a fitted brown leather jacket from the closet and followed Colin out the door.


The bar was loud, and crowded, when they arrived. As Colin said, Logan was already there, along with his girl friend, and Stephanie and several other LDBers. Finn exhaled sharply as he surveyed the bar. He couldn't believe Huntzberger had a girlfriend. Huntz was his best wingman, and now he was off the market. Colin was too conservative to be a really great wingman, besides he was in love with Stephanie. So now he was all alone, trying to navigate the high sea of babes.

"Finn, Colin!" a voice shouted from the corner. Finn turned to look for the voice. "We've got tables over here!"

Finn saw Robert wave and dragged Colin over to the table.

"Hello all!" Finn said by way of greeting.

"Hey man," Logan said back, engaging him in one of those complicated handshakes. "How's it going tonight?"

"Terrible," Finn responded sarcastically.

"What? Why?" Logan asked with some amount of concern. Man having a girlfriend was making him soft.

"There's an utter lack of redheads in this establishment tonight. Who picked this place?" he shouted.

"Seth did," Logan told him.

"Seth!" Finn shouted, and Seth looked over at him quizzically. "Did you or did you not consider my needs when you picked this bar?"

"Shut up Finn," Seth responded without even batting an eye.

"Hey," a cute blonde cooed as she sidled up beside him.

"I'm sorry love, a blonde just won't do tonight. If you have a redheaded friend though please send her my way," Finn told the girl dismissively. She thrust out her lower lip in a pout and stalked off.

"That's hair-ist Finn," Rory scolded him. "Not all of us can be exotic red heads."

"I would make an exception for you love," he told her as he wrapped his arm around her and kissed the top of her head.

"Thanks Finny."

"Hands off my girl, Finn," Logan warned.


A few drinks later Finn had finally settled into his groove. The whiskey mellowed him, and an influx of women into the bar helped to ease the initial sting of the lack of redheads.

"So I think the next 'trip' should be out West," Colin said. They were having an impromptu Life and Death Brigade meeting because someone (Robert) was complaining about the time between events, and therefore in their various stages of drunkenness they decided to plan an event.

"Do you want to be a cowboy baby?" Finn asked, drawling out the word 'baby' like Kid Rock did.

"Yes Finn. That's exactly it, I want to be a cowboy."

"To each his own mate," Finn replied.

"I'm okay with California, it's been eons since I've been to Rodeo Drive," one of the girls added.

"The Pacific Ocean is much better for surfing," Logan added.

"Surfing?" Finn asked suddenly interested in the conversation.

"You know, boards, wet suits, shark attacks."

"I know what it is Mate. In fact I've done it with you before. I was just thinking that it's been a long time, and that would be fun."

"Glad we could be of some interest to you Finn," Colin said sarcastically.

"I could use another drink," Finn said to the group.

"Me too," Logan added.

"Me three," Rory chimed in.

He looked around the bar, at all the new people before deciding to order more drinks, carefully taking in his environment.

"Bartender, another round!" the Australian called out.

"Make mine a double," Colin yelled.

"So which of these lovely ladies should I take home tonight?" Finn asked no one in specific.

"What makes you think any of those girls will go home with you?" Logan asked teasing his friend.

"Yeah Finn, there are only a few redheads here, what if none of them are interested?" Rory added.

"You've gotta keep the faith, love," Finn told her. "And there goes my future wife." He left his friends to follow a tall redhead across the room.

"Finn," Logan called after him, "we're in the middle of something over here!"

"Whatever you decide is fine with me," he answered distractedly, not taking his eyes off the redhead in the short blue dress. If all went well Finn wouldn't have a care in the world for the next few hours, especially not where the next LDB trip took him. "Excuse me Love," he said to the redhead when he finally reached her, "did it hurt?"

"Did what hurt?" she asked.

"When you fell from Heaven." He could hear his friends laughing at his cheesy pickup line.

"Does that line usually work for you?" she asked.

"Yep. That and my exotic charms," he smiled at her.

She laughed a deep throaty laugh, and he expected her to walk away, but instead, she took his hand and pulled him out onto the dance floor behind her. "Maybe you can buy me a drink to ease the pain of my fall," she whispered huskily in his ear.

"Anything for you Love."


AN: Here's just a bit of Finn for you. I hope you enjoyed it. Let me know what or who you'd like to see next.

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