Find Yourself:

Hello again. Fair warning that the next two chapters are going to span a lot of time and allot of things are going to happen so pay attention kiddos and let me know what you think…still don't own either fandom just my AU verse that I am having the pleasure of sucking you all into…

Thursday March 4th 2010

Sam looked out the window of her rental car toward McKinley High shaking her head. This was definitely a contrast from the prep school she had seen her kid sister attending back in Port Charles and yet at the same time she thought that for a public school it was a hell of a lot nicer then the dives that she was sent…when Cody McCall had decided to send her at all.

"So, this is McKinley," Kristina said with a smile on her face as she looked out the passenger window toward a beat up pick up truck where a young mohawked man stood leaning at it's side.

Sam caught her sister's gaze and motioned to the boy she was eyeing.

"I take it you know that boy."

Kristina nodded.

"That's Noah."

"The father."

Kristina nodded as Sam's car slid into a vacant space in the student parking lot.

Puck watched as the car stopped and made his way over to it as if in a way he were drawn to it somehow.

His eyes drifted to the driver and he couldn't help but blink a bit. No, it couldn't be…He watched Kristina step out of the passenger side and smile over to him before the driver exited.

"Yes Noah you are seeing who you think, that's Sam McCall, she's my sister."

Sam let out a laugh.

"I didn't know Everyday Heroes had been that big in Lima, Ohio. Guess I need to get out more huh."

Puck was still frozen as his eyes took in Sam's overall hotness while trying to mentally remind himself he was with Rachel. Shaking himself off he put his hand out for Sam to shake.

"Noah Puckerman," he spoke introducing himself formerly.

Sam just nodded.

"So…" Sam began, not really knowing how to word this, "I hear your looking for someone to adopt your child."

Puck just stood there nodding.

"I don't know how much Kristina has told you about me."

"Just that she had an older sister Sam who still lived in New York, she didn't tell me you were a celebrity or anything."

"Ex celebrity, I am a Private Investigator now but…" she paused remembering how Kristina mentioned her dumping Jason cause no kid deserved the mob lifestyle.

"Your interested in adopting the baby aren't you…"

"Well…"

"Well I want to be part of my girls life and if you adopted her and took her to New York…"

She laughed on the inside. Taking the baby to New York was the least of any worries.

"Can we talk about it Noah…you me and Quinn."

This was all to fast.

"As much as I'd love to ditch school like the bad ass I am, I'm going to keep with my resolution to put my grades on the up and up…midterms next week you understand."

Sam nodded telling her sister she'd see her after school.

--

"Do you really think your sister will move to Lima and adopt the baby?" Mercedes asked as Kristina told the gang about Sam.

Kristina simply shrugged.

"As much as I totally opened up a can of worms even bringing up the notion of Sam adopting it's…"

"Complicated," Kurt interjected, as he was the only other one to know about the mob at this moment in time.

"How so," Tina asked.

"Well for starters Sam has an established PI practice, I mean I'm sure they have just as many cheating spouses cases here in Lima but her and her partner are like a dream team."

"I take it her partner isn't her 'partner'" Artie said with a smile directed to his girlfriend.

"Spinelli… no. He's married…well 'almost' married…again you would have to be there…anyway he's a computer genius and he does all the tec stuff while Sam does the field work."

They talked a bit more about Sam and the baby but frankly they decided it wasn't their business to talk about and so they began to briefly talk about midterms before finally settling on the latest song they had been given to sing for glee.

--

The rest of the day passed by all too fast which people didn't know if they should consider it a blessing or a curse considering midterms were creeping up closer and closer. On the upside of things at least there was a half-day the following day followed by a teacher's workday the Monday immediately following the examinations.

Now in the choir room for their final glee rehearsal until the tests were done everyone seemed to be put in a happy place at least for the moment.

"Ok," Will spoke once everyone was situated, "let's begin with the new number I gave you Tuesday."

The group nodded as they thought of the song that he had assigned them. A song that was definitely different then the other songs they sang but it was a good kind of different and had parts for multiple students to sing.

He was pleased that no one argued when he had assigned who sang what and he could instantly tell that his student's heads were in it to win it.

Running through the new number vocally a few times the teacher made a comment about choreography in which Mike said he'd think something up between taking midterms.

The teacher appreciated that as they worked on that song as well as a few others for the rest of the time.

--

Minutes passed and for the most part the members of New Directions trickled out of the choir room to go their own ways. And soon there were only five people present, Kristina, Artie, Rachel, Puck and Quinn. Kristina and Artie were sitting on one side while the trio of Puck his girlfriend and his baby mama sat on the other end. It was then that Sam entered the room and unlike Puck and Quinn had when they first laid eyes on the petit brunette, Artie and Rachel didn't seem fazed one bit.

Sam first approached her sister who was sitting beside the young boy she had seen in the photograph the day before.

"You must be Artie I take it," Sam spoke as she made her way to her sister.

The young man smiled as he shook her hand.

"You must be Sam I take it."

The young man shook her hand and talked with her for a bit before excusing himself to meet his ride, kissing Kristina goodbye and telling Sam one more time how nice it was to meet her.

"I like him," Sam said when Artie had fully wheeled himself out. And yes she definitely meant it with the utmost honesty. He seemed genuine not at all like the low life sheep in an Ivy League wolf's clothing like Kiefer had turned out to be.

Kristina looked over to the trio. Rachel and Puck, once entwined in one another had separated and Rachel was now heading for the door.

"I should go," Kristina, said, "I'll be in the parking lot while you go talk to them."

Sam nodded as Kristina caught up to Rachel who it turned out had only left the choir room so that her boyfriend could talk baby things out.

"For once in my life I'm not going to meddle," Rachel had concluded before talk changed to more important things like midterms and Regionals.

Sam and Puck headed out shortly after (Quinn had went to the counselors office to wait for her ride)

--

Sam was soon introduced to Rachel Berry and unlike when she met Artie she really couldn't judge the girl. She seemed nice but at the same time the fire in her eyes kind of freaked her out a bit.

She was Pucks girlfriend however so if she was in it then this Rachel girl was to be part of the package and she would have to learn to accept it.

"See you tomorrow," Sam said after the introduction.

"Quinn and I are going to the Davis's to further discuss matters."

"Does it look good?" Rachel asked.

Puck smiled over to Sam.

"So far it's the best offer we've had."

Rachel grinned and soon everyone had gone his or her own ways.

--

The rest of the evening kind of felt like old times as it was just Alexis and her three girls together in the house.

They talked about their days and even baked cookies together. It was definitely a blast though they knew it couldn't last forever as Sam was only in town through the weekend, for now.

-

School the next day, well it breezed by as everyone's minds were on exams.

It was Puck who drove her home that day, Quinn also riding with them in his truck.

The trio hopped out at the Davis home and spotted Sam seated in the living room waiting for the teens. Molly still at school and Alexis at the office.

Kristina excused herself to her room and the conversation began.

"We…"Puck began as he looked to Quinn who shook her head, "well I at least want to be a part of my daughter's life."

Sam nodded.

"I understand which is why if you let me adopt her I will be relocating myself to Lima."

"Just like that?," Quinn asked.

Sam smiled. Sure she had her PI business but she had no doubt in her mind that Spinelli could carry it on his own. Though she knew Spinelli as well as others wouldn't see it that way.

"So it would just be you raising her?" Quinn asked.

Sam nodded thinking that the blonde was full of questions but then again she was the child's mother so it wasn't odd for her to be inquisitive. This was also where she would have to mention Jason and the business wondering what Kristina told her friends of her former life.

"Well me as well as Puck," Sam said as she tossed a wink over to the father to be.

"I mean you don't have a husband, boyfriend, fiancé, anything."

Yep Jason would definitely be brought up.

"Ok, so I don't want to lie about things, and I don't want this to hurt my chances of finally being a mom but I do have a boyfriend, I mean we don't do labels but let's be frank that's what Jason Morgan is to me…"

"Jason Morgan," Puck said, "as in gangster Jason Morgan!"

Sam just nodded.

His face lit up, like the idea of a mob moll as his baby's adoptive mother was kick ass while the blonde crossed her arms and rolled her eyes.

"You might think it's kick ass," Sam said reading Puck's mind, "but it's not. I mean Kristina may look good on the outside but on the inside she's been through allot in her short sixteen years and she and I do not want to wish that on your little girl."

"What does Kristina have to do with any of this…"

Sam bit her lip knowing Kristina would probably kill her for saying about Sonny but it was too late now.

She briefly told them about Sonny being Kristina's dad but stopped short telling them it was more of Kristina's business to tell then hers.

"Anyways, like I said, I really want to be a mom and I am a hundred percent ready to leave that whole life behind."

She pleaded her case and both teens could tell she was serious and in turn they were serious to still consider Sam McCall as their number one option.

Exchanging information Quinn decided to head outside leaving Puck in the house to have a run in with Kristina.

"I thought we were honest with each other Kristina…I thought we were friends."

"We are friends Noah."

"Why did you leave out who your father is."

"Because it's no big deal."

"No big deal that one of the biggest crime bosses on the eastern sea board is your father."

"Please don't judge me, that's why I left out that detail…I don't want anyone to judge. The only thing we have in common is blood and cooking skills…THAT'S IT."

Puck sensed she was pissed.

"Sam told you didn't she," tears welling up in her eyes, "she told you…"

"Cause she wanted to make sure we knew what we'd be doing in giving her our baby. Kris, Quinn and I don't care about Sonny or Jason or the past…the past is the past."

Kristina smiled.

"We promise not to tell anyone else," he said as he embraced her.

"Kurt knows," she said in a whisper before silence fell upon the moment.

--

Time was an odd thing.

In moments it would drag out at a snails pace while at others it would zip by faster then the speed of light. Really she couldn't tell what was worse however after the scene on Friday afternoon where Puck confronted her about finding out about Sonny being her father only two other moments during that one weekend stood out as she sat in the front seat of Kurt's car on Monday morning bracing herself for midterms and the crazy revised schedule that was being put into effect because of this.

The first of these two memorable moments was actually the second to occur and took place the day before.

"Do you have a photographic memory," Artie asked as they sat at the Abrams's kitchen table going over History flash cards. Though they were in different periods they both took Honors History.

She recalled grinning her bright smile to him.

"I'm just in the zone that's all."

"And it's going to be that zone that is going to take you places Yale."

"And you'll be right there by my side right Wheels?" she asked realizing how cheesy that sounded. He realized too and they both cracked up.

"We've been together less then a month and are already one of those couples aren't we?" Artie asked, "not that I mind…"

"I don't mind either."

He sensed a look in her eyes.

"I sense a but coming…"

"But…this next week…midterms…I want you to know that I'm not intentionally going to try to freeze you it's just that when I get in the zone sometimes I forget everything else around me."

"I totally understand."

-

That moment with Artie just sent a chill down her spine each time she played it over in her mind as she wondered how she was blessed with finding a guy who was so sweet, so understanding, so tapped into the same wavelength she was on.

The other event was much more intense and as she looked over to Kurt in the drivers seat she felt the urge to spill it all to him despite the promise she made.

--

Finn had showed up at the Davis house frozen in place as Sam answered the door though quickly shaking it off as he saw Kristina.

"Finn!" she said, "why are you here? Need last minute tutoring."

"No…why. Would you…no."

Kristina shook her head as Finn told her that she was the only one he trusted with this information.

She definitely had to admit that Finn Hudson had this quality about him that made it a no brainier as to why Kurt was so smitten with him. However the tone in his voice definitely had a vein of seriousness to it.

"Would you like anything…my sister's and I baked cookies yesterday."

Finn shook his head telling her thanks anyway as they headed upstairs to Kristina's room for privacy.

"Kristina, your friends with Kurt."

"Yes."

"God I was stupid to come here."

He stood up as she followed him to her doorway.

"Don't say that, you came here so there must be something going on."

Finn swallowed.

"I dated Quinn, had a thing for Rachel…I think your sister is smoking hot….please don't repeat the last part."

"I promise."

"Anyway I like girls…and yet lately when I see Kurt…there is just something and."

"And you think you might be…"

"I don't know…can you help me."

"If this is you asking me to make out with you to see if you feel sparks I'm not going to do it."

"I am not asking you to cheat on Artie…"

"Are you asking me if Kurt is seeing someone then?"

"No…well is he?"

"He has a crush on someone (she omitted Finn's name) but anyway back to you, this seems like something you should be talking about with your mom or Miss Pillsbury not me."

Finn paused thinking Kristina was right in that and made her swear not to tell anyone especially Kurt what he was rambling to her.

"I promise."

He smiled.

"How about one of those cookies," he said as he placed a gentle hand on her shoulder.

--

And that was that. Flashing back to real time now she felt Kurt's hand on her shoulder, a smile on his face.

"We're so going to ace these tests."

Kristina just smiled back to him as she let everything non academic to fall into a locked box in the back of her mind for a hopefully drama free week.

--

TBC

I know I went on some rambly tangents and could have down more or less on some scenes. I hope you still like this…feedback loved.