Find Yourself:

April 10th 2010:

Danielle Beth Puckerman-McCall at less then a day old already had more people who loved her then you could count on both hands.

In the hours since her birth the rest of the glee club along with Alexis, Burt, and Molly had made there presence known and at present time the whole family had been in the hospital room along with proud parentals Quinn and Puck.

Kurt, who had changed from his suit into a simplistic (well simplistic for Kurt) polo shirt and jeans thanks to his dad was now the one fortunate to hold the little girl and he didn't want to let go.

"Ok DB," he spoke in a soft murmur, "Uncle Kurt loves you and he plans on making you the most fashionable tot in Lima but you need to do one thing in return ok."

"You know she doesn't understand you dude," Puck spoke to def ears and Kurt continued to ramble on in his singsong tone.

"Never and I mean never spit up on Uncle Kurt's Gucci ok."

The other occupants couldn't help but laugh though they just didn't get it. He took his couture collection seriously and spit up was a bitch to get out.

"So," Burt asked changing the subject as he looked over to Sam, "how did you guys come up with the name?"

Sam, Puck, and Quinn's eyes looked from one person to another as to silently ask who would be the one to answer the babies… well they guessed grandfather-figure.

"Before Sam knew Alexis was her mother she had a brother named Danny," Quinn said.

"And I just thought Beth would be a sweet name for my daughter… you know like the song."

Burt just nodded.

That was reasonable enough in his mind as he watched his own son hand off the little girl to Molly while explaining like a pro how to hold her.

"So," Kristina asked, "when can the others come in to see her…I know Tina, Artie, Finn, and Rachel have been waiting up with us all night and the others got here as fast as they could when we called them."

Quinn mentally counted how many people were waiting in the lobby and although she knew the nurses would be pissed off she was ready to defend her choice after all the nurses didn't go through hours of labor pains like she had.

"Send them in… send them all in."

Kristina smiled as she stepped out into the lobby.

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Artie was the first person to walk, or in his case wheel over to her as she exited room 212 with a smile glued to his lips despite the fact that gone was that sexy blue dress of hers and in it's place jeans and a novelty T-shirt with a picture of Johnny Depp in one of his iconic character rolls looking back at him.

He didn't have to say a word for her to read his mind.

"She is amazing."

"So," Mercedes said as she and Tina strolled up behind where Artie was, the former all rested and dressed in one of her insanely fabulous creations while the latter was still clad in her dress from the evening before but what they had on wasn't what was important, what was important was what her friend said next. "So, question of the hour… was the baby born with a Mohawk or not?"

Kristina let out a small laugh thinking that the rest of the glee members had far too much time on their hands.

Simply shaking her head she let her perma-grin shine through.

"You can see for yourselves," looking over to Finn and Rachel (also in last nights cloths like Tina and Artie were) as well and Mike, Matt, Brittany, and Santana, "you can too…all of you."

Brittany and Santana instantly ran to Quinn's bedside giving her hugs.

Santana who thanks to Glee was quick to forgive Quinn for sleeping with Puck while they were together had been asking the blonde if she had been drugged up while Brittany looked from Quinn's stomach to the Pink bundle that now rested in Sam's arms.

"Did that come out of you?" she asked.

Quinn nodded.

Brittany was fascinated.

"So did you throw it up like when you eat bad shrimp or something?" she asked.

"Or something," Quinn said.

"I'll tell you how it came out later ok Britt," Santana said.

"Ok San," she said linking her pinky with the other girl as she all too often did.

Looking from the two Cheerios to her boyfriend who was pretty much the man of the hour Rachel couldn't help but smile.

"So what's her name?"

"Danielle Beth Puckerman-McCall," Puck said with a sense of pride in his voice as he looked over to his little girl in Sam's arms thinking about how lucky he was that he could in fact have it both ways, to be an active father in his little girls life and at the same time be able to give her away to someone who was more emotionally mature then two sixteen year olds.

A half smile crossed Finn's lips as he looked from his on again off again currently on again best friend to the baby to the blonde in the bed before making his way to Kurt's side taking the young mans hand.

Finn in the back of his mind would still always think of this girl as his Drizzle after all for the first five months of Quinn's pregnancy he did think the girl was his.

"So," Tina asked breaking a momentary silence as she looked over to the little girl who clearly was Mohawk-less with her small smattering of blonde locks like her mothers. Her eyes were closed at the moment but the young Asian as well as the others already knew they were Puck's eyes, "why the hyphenated last name."

She only thought to ask this considering her own hyphenated name brought on by a mom who thought of herself a 'feminist' and hadn't wanted to give up her maiden name in marriage leading to a parental compromise when she was born.

"Noah and I talked about it," Sam said smiling at Tina while addressing everyone in the moment, "and although I will be legally adopting Danielle we kind of thought it would be a good think to have her keep her father's name seeing as he's still technically going to be her father and have a strong presence in her life."

They all thought this was a sweet sentiment from all parties involved.

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The doctors still hadn't kicked them out as they were having a blast getting to know the newest member of their extended family when Finn asked an all to important question.

"So Puck dude have you thought about god parents yet?"

He bit his lip as he looked to the two girls.

"Well Rachel for god mama of course," he said winking to his girlfriend.

"Really Puck," Quinn said crossing her arms, "cause I was thinking Santana."

"And I was thinking Mercedes."

"Me?"

Sam smiled explaining that she felt bad that of Krissy's friends she regretted having to send the young women off the night before.

"Ok," Kristina said, "and I was pulling for Tina not that I had a say in matters but…"

"But," Kurt said, "I have a logical way to solve this."

Quinn looked at the young man with a smile. Kurt was smart and so she declared that whatever his method was she'd go with it.

Kurt nodded at her confidence as he looked to Molly.

"Ok ladies… Molly is thinking of a number between 1 and 20."

Puck rolled his eyes wondering if this was for real.

Quinn and Sam were just amused.

"So am I guessing too?" Brittany asked as of the girls in glee she was the only non-family member whose name wasn't tossed into the proverbial hat.

"Why not," Quinn said smiling at the blonde.

Brittany smiled electing herself to go first.

"It's 20 right…I mean that's Puck's number and he's the dad right?"

Brittany's words were most definitely true but that wasn't the number that Molly was thinking…or was it and she was just letting the other girls give a guess first.

"7," Rachel said thinking it was a lucky number.

"13," Tina said with a shrug.

"15," Mercedes suggested.

"5," Santana said with a wink thinking that this was Finn's number not that it meant anything.

Molly smiled.

"I can say that one of you actually got it right."

Her eyes drifted to her sister.

Kristina shrugged.

"How could it be me Molly, I'm her aunt I didn't even guess."

"I'm not saying it's you I'm saying it's who you were gunning for."

"Me?" Tina asked.

Molly nodded.

Puck smiled.

"Congratulations," he said.

"So," Molly said crossing her arms, "do I need to guess up a number for the prospective godfathers to guess.

The three parental figures looked at one another.

"I don't know," Quinn, said, "I think we have it just down between Finn and Artie right?"

Puck and Sam nodded as Finn looked to the young man in the wheelchair.

"Paper Rock Scissors?" he asked.

Taking off one of his gloves Artie smiled.

"Oh it's on."

SHOOT

Artie wins Rock crushes scissors

Kurt suggests best two out of three as he winks at Finn

SHOOT

Finns Paper wraps around Artie's rock and the jock wonders if Artie is a one trick pony.

SHOOT

Finn picked paper thinking Artie once more would choose rock…Artie however picked scissors that cut up Finn's paper this making him cast in the lifelong roll of Danielle's godfather.

It was in this moment the nurse showed up kicking the everyone out and by everyone she meant everyone that wasn't Sam, Puck, and Quinn. Some of the glee kids decided to go without another word until it was only Rachel, Kurt, Kristina, Artie and Finn left.

"Can't I just tell Noah goodbye?"

Alexis convinced Rachel that Puck would want her to go home and get some rest before looking to her own daughter and quasi step son as well as their respective partners, "in fact I think all of you should go home and get some rest."

There was no use in starting an argument with Alexis Davis and so the five teens headed out of the hospital though this wouldn't be the last time they would be there before school started up on Monday and the final stretch of the school year took place as they planed to spend as much time with little Danielle as they possibly could.

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TBC

I was going to add a bit of ArK fluff in the end but wanted to post this piece tonight. I hope you still like it…. God knows how long I'll make this… both in length and timeline…. Reviews are encouraged…