A/N Sort of an action packed chapter, and if I haven't replied to your review I am really sorry but my email went down and I'm basically useless right now but I will be better this time I promise! And to Lilly thank you so much for your reviews they mean a lot to me :D

Time 14

Finally exiting the kitchen after suitably calming down Lauren enough that she wasn't going to be fired and that it wasn't her fault for Finn's actions Rachel headed towards the study and Puck's side, needing his arms around her more now. Closing the door behind her silently Rachel flew across the room and into his arms before anyone could disturb them, picking her up off her feet he crushed her warm body to his own as his arms were suddenly full of her.

"I missed you" Rachel murmured into his ear as her feet dangled below her, pulling back slightly she crushed her lips to his whimpering as he kissed back harshly himself moving them so that they were both sitting on the low couch Rachel across his lap.

"I missed you too" Puck gasped as he broke off for air and shifted her so sat more comfortably "so much"

Catching their breath momentarily the two of them threw propriety to the wind and started to kiss again, Puck's hands going under Rachel's arms to pick her up and make her straddle him, pushing up her skirt as it caught on her knees all the while his lips moving against hers.

Sitting back in shock a little Rachel looked down at her position and blushed before looking up at him, her hair was falling around her shoulders rather than in its pinned coif, and while her lips were bruised by his kisses her skirt was hiked up enough for him to run his fingers over her lower legs.

"I'm...I'm sorry" Puck said realising his actions had been inappropriate "I just..."

"No it's ok" Rachel said fussing with her hair and putting it back into her hairstyle "I'm just embarrassed"

"Why?" Puck asked making her look him in the eye "you didn't do anything wrong"

"I'm so inexperienced compared to you" Rachel mumbled "and I shouldn't be doing this it's not right"

"Why because society rules dictate that we can't show our love for each other like this? You are always saying that they are stupid rules and they are, I love you Rachel and after not being with you I wanted to show you that I did, and that I missed you. What is wrong with that?"

"Nothing is wrong with that, I guess that even I have been brainwashed in some ways" Rachel said quietly looking into the eyes she loved "wait a minute did you say that you love me?"

"Of course I did, of course I do" Puck said stroking her cheek with her long fingers "I love you Rachel"

"I love you Noah" Rachel said gently leaning into his touch on her cheek

"And as for the inexperience you think you have compared to me, I don't care and neither should you"

"Ok I won't" Rachel promised smiling at him before clambering off his lap and straightening her skirt as it fell sharply, Puck getting to his feet as well and sorting out his jacket before they rejoined the party their short break going unnoticed in the still present buzz of Finn's actions.

"Well that was more action then I wanted for my party" Hiram joked as his daughter rejoined him in the dining room

"Yes it was rather a shock, I am surprised Santana has not come up to me and started gossiping" Rachel laughed looking around the room for her friend and her constant sidekick Duke Jesse, failing to spot her exotic looking friend from where she stood she excused herself to walk around the party.

"Find her?" Puck asked a little while later as Rachel returned a frown on her face "take that as a no then"

"She is not in this house I am certain of it" Rachel said with annoyance "neither is his Grace, I hope where ever the two of them are they are ok"

"Jesse is a good person, he will look after her" Puck comforted her "and I'm sure she left you a note somewhere"

"Maybe in your room" Hiram suggested a little worried that a girl in his ward had disappeared "please check Rachel"

"Yes father" Rachel said hurrying away, Puck following her as the party wound down around them Rachel going up the back stairs so to avoid the eyes of the guests herself, following her as she entered her large suite of rooms Puck stopped in the doorway hesitant to go any further without her permission.

"You can come in Noah" Rachel said in amusement looking at him hovering in her door "if we are going to share a room one day I don't think you should worry about entering it" nodding sheepishly Puck walked in and helped Rachel search her cluttered desk for a note.

"I thought you would be extremely organised" Puck admitted as he lifted piles of paperwork and books away from Rachel as she searched her desk.

"I am usually, well in other instances of my life I am but when I am reading I seem to have about five books on the go, plus I was working on some household things for my father and time ran away from me finally unearthing a piece of paper with Santana's writing on it and grabbed it before finally unloading the weighed down Puck passing over the note for him to read as she tied up a little.

"'Rachel, don't have a fit I will be back tomorrow" he read aloud "'I would tell you where and what I am doing but you would feel obliged to stop me, I promise is a good thing though, Santana.'"

Looking up he met similar incredulous eyes only brown mirroring his own thoughts, moving over to him Rachel burrowed into his side and took the note from his hands so that he could wrap his arms around her which he did quickly as Rachel re-read the note.

"I guess the only thing I can do is wait till tomorrow" Rachel said looking up at him as arms rested around her narrow waist, his head against hers.

"Like I said I'm sure she will be ok and Jesse will look after her" Puck promised her again pressing a kiss to her hair "now I think we should concentrate on a little more on each other"

"Oh yes?" Rachel asked arching her eyebrow and turning in his arms to look up into his eyes "anything in particular?"

"Well our engagement" Puck drawled "that sort of springs to mind"

"If you turn my proposal into a joke you will be paying for it for a long long time" Rachel threatened him jokingly, elbowing him in the side and laughing as he rolled his eyes jokingly and let go of her to step back and go down on one knee.

"My darling Rachel" he started laughing inwardly as she rolled her eyes "ok serious now, darling would you do me the honour of becoming my wife?" he asked pulling out a ring box and opening to show Rachel a large blue sapphire surrounded by diamonds set in a whit gold band.

"Oh Noah, it is beautiful" Rachel breathed out as he took her left hand to slid the ring on "of course I will marry you"

"Knew it" he said smugly as he jumped back to his feet and picked her up in one swift movement spinning her around and around the room, he knew she was going to say yes but he had still been nervous.

"He asked then" Hiram drawled from the open doorway with a smile as he watched his daughter be twirled around by her fiancée, Puck having told him that he was planning on proposing to Rachel soon just not the specific time.

"Yes father" Rachel beamed getting set back on her feet by Puck who couldn't stop touching her in any way, putting out her left hand Rachel showed off her sparkling engagement ring.

"It was my grandmothers" Puck told her pressing another kiss to her head as Hiram studied the ring "my grandfather gave it to her, his first wife I mean my father's mother. When I informed my mother of my intentions to marry Rachel she had the ring taking out of the vault and said I had to use it"

"I love it" Rachel assured him looking back up at him as he held her close "though I don't know why you didn't just ask me earlier"

"I wasn't exactly planning to ask you tonight" Puck shrugged "and I dropped a big enough bombshell on you earlier my love"

"I guess so" Rachel said her eyes full of love as she looked up at him "I love you"

"I love you"