Sorry for the crazy delay in updating on this everyone. It seemed my muse had moved on to my other projects, but finally I have finished this chapter. I hope it was worth the wait.
August 15th, 2026
"Roxanne, please stop pole dancing," Finn shouted to his five year old from over the hood of the car he was thinking about buying for Rachel.
She held onto the lamp post in the lot with one hand, one leg wrapped around the base and her head thrown back. Finn cringed at the sight.
"But Daddy, it's fun!" Roxy cried in protest. She continued to swing around the pole ignoring her father's request.
"Oh baby, please do not ever say that to Daddy again." Finn walked over to his child and forced her to stop by gripping her hand and dragging her away.
She glanced up at him with a pinched face. "But why? It was fun Daddy."
Finn face palmed. He did not need his daughter thinking working a pole was a fun pastime. She already had a penchant for drawing the attention of the boys in her summer camp and ever since he took her to school back in March she'd been boy crazy over that no good Noah McGregor.
"You know what else is fun? Listening to Daddy and doing everything he says without question, okay?" Finn said quirking his eyebrows and grinning widely at her. She didn't look convinced.
"Daddy, Daddy! I want that one!" Roxy suddenly started shouting and pointing, jumping up and down in joy at spotting the new 2027 Chevy Camaro. "It's so shiny!"
Finn chuckled. "Well, when you're able to buy your own car then you can get it. Right now we're here to get a car for Mommy."
"But Mommy doesn't want a car. She said so. I do want a car so you should buy one for me," Roxy announced in what she thought was solid logic.
"Nice try but I don't think so." Roxy scrunched her face in disapproval at Finn's words.
"Can we get McDonald's?" she asked pointing at the McDonald's across the street.
"Now that I can buy for you, but don't tell Mommy. She'll kick Daddy in the shin and make him sleep on the couch again." Finn shook at the memory.
Ever since she found out she was pregnant again, Rachel had been more determined than ever to keep to her vegan diet this time through. With Liam she had made it a few weeks longer than with Roxy but still she succumbed to the delicious smell of barbeque chicken wafting through the house.
So far she had made it five months, her longest success to date, but it was getting harder and harder not to acquiesce to the new baby's rather large and meat craving appetite. Essentially to make sure she wouldn't, Rachel had thrown out every bit of food that was not vegan in a bout of hormonal rage and wouldn't let anyone bring non-vegan food into the house. She literally made Finn sit outside for over an hour the one day after he bought a gallon of non-soy milk, cheese and turkey and ham for his lunches. Rachel cried on the other side of the door to him about how he didn't care about her needs and how dare he bring that kind of food into their home. After much persuading and making Rachel realize that the kids needed the protein, she finally let him enter the house.
If Finn and Roxy showed up back at his parents' house with McDonald's, Rachel would send the death glare his way and he would be lucky to ever speak to her again much less anything else.
As they sat in McDonald's eating their hamburgers, Roxy swinging her feet and humming to herself, Finn thought about how he'd get Rachel to leave the house to come with him to the car dealership. For some reason she was adamant about not getting a car even though they really needed one. Sure they lived in New York City which had one of the best public transportation systems around and cabs as far as the eye could see but it wasn't just him and Rachel anymore. They had two kids and another one coming in a matter of months. Taking the subway or cabs with that many people just wasn't plausible anymore. Plus Finn could easily take Rachel to the hospital himself then when she was ready to pop.
"Daddy," Roxy said seriously, her voice very quiet. She ducked her head lower to whisper to him. "Mommy is here." Finn's head whipped around and his eyes immediately landed on his pregnant wife who was pushing a stroller up to the counter.
Finn stood up. "Stay here and finish your apple slices," he said to Roxy who shook her head. He walked up behind Rachel and stood there quietly wondering how long it would take Rachel to realize he was there.
"…and do you have anything bigger than a Big Mac?" she asked the guy working the register. He shook his head no. "Okay, I'll just get two Big Mac's then…and a large fry…make that two…and a chocolate milkshake…oh and some chicken nuggets with ranch. Do you have the McRib right now?" The guy shook his head no again. "Damn it. Oh well, just make that a grilled chicken. Oh and a water."
Finn snorted. "Gotta watch that waistline right?" he baited. Rachel visibly froze at his words before slowly turning to face her grinning husband.
"Finn, what are you doing here?" she said through a gritted smile.
"Roxy was hungry. She's over there eating her apple slices." He turned in her direction to see her stretching around the garbage can to see what was going on. Her eyes widened like a deer in headlights when she realized she had been caught. "Or at least she's supposed to be," he called back loudly. Roxy sat back up in her chair.
Finn turned his attention back to his caught wife. "The better question is, what are you doing here Ms. Hypocrite?"
Rachel's jaw set. "I'm hungry."
"I can see that." He looked around her at the mountain of food the guy was placing on her tray. Finn took his wallet out and paid for the food Rachel hadn't gotten around to buying yet. "Were there no carrot sticks in the veggie drawer?" he mocked.
Rachel sighed as Finn picked up her tray and she pushed the stroller back to their table. "Your mother was making a turkey burger for Burt and she noticed I was hanging around the kitchen a lot so she offered me one but I didn't want to fall off the wagon so I declined then decided to go for a walk to my dads' with Liam to get away from the smell of the meat, but all these people were having barbeques and the air just smelled so good. I thought maybe taking a drive would help but when I got in my Daddy's car it was like it took over and drove me here. I knew I should have gone drive-thru," she explained bitterly, pulling Liam out of his stroller and sitting him in the high chair Finn brought over.
Finn smirked at her. He knew it would only be a matter of time. "Babe, it is okay to go off your diet you know. You are pregnant."
Rachel shoved a fistful of fries in her mouth. "I know," she said around the mass before swallowing. "It's just…the other vegan moms in my Mommy and Me classes went their whole pregnancy without eating anything non-vegan and they were only on their first pregnancy. I'm on number three! I should be able to do it." Rachel took a large bite out of her first Big Mac. "I am a strong woman. Why can't I do it?"
"Rach, it has nothing to do with strength or anything. You get the cravings because it's what the baby needs. I don't know why you insist on fighting it every time and I bet that those other moms are lying about eating completely vegan. I know at least Julia is if she's one of the women saying she went the whole time without eating meat. I watched her get a hotdog from a cart outside the building your class is in when I went to pick you up the one night."
Rachel smiled weakly before taking another bite. "You're right. I just feel so bad about eating meat. I mean all those poor cows and chickens…" She took another bite of her burger.
"Mommy, can I get a car?" Roxy asked point blank when the conversation seemed to break.
"Ha, I don't think so young lady. Mommy and Daddy don't even have a car."
"Nuh uh, Daddy is buying you a car today," she said brightly, smiling at her parents.
Rachel's head swiveled toward Finn who sheepishly laughed. "I…I didn't buy you a car…yet." His face twitched between laughter and annoyance as he glanced between his wife and daughter.
"How many times do we need to have this conversation, Finn? We don't need a car!"
Finn threw his head back, a mask of irritation on his face. "Rach, we do need a car. It's too difficult to get around with the kids. You remember how hard it was to get to JFK with all of our stuff and the kids just last week? In a few weeks we'll be adding another kid to that. Rachel, you are a Broadway star with multiple children. There is no reason you should have to take the subway or taxis anywhere."
"Dada," Liam screamed making his presence known, throwing a French fry at his father trying to gain his attention.
"Liam agrees with me," Finn said waving his hand at his son. He pointed at Roxy. "And I know this one wants a car too. She wants the new Chevy Camaro." Roxy shook her head, a big grin on her face.
Rachel pursed her lips at Finn. "You're never going to drop this are you?"
"If you don't come to the car dealership across the street with me after you're done devouring half of some cow, I will buy the car I want and you will get no say. By the end of the day we will have a car though," Finn stated frankly.
"Why are we buying one here? Wouldn't it make more sense to wait until we got home?" Rachel asked as she wiped the ketchup off Liam's face.
"Not really since I only got us one way tickets out here. I thought we could have a road trip home in our new car," Finn explained.
Rachel looked horrified at Finn's words. "You thought it would be a good idea to have a road trip from Lima to New York with a pregnant woman and two young children? What kind of drugs are you on? We'll be stopping every ten miles so I can pee! Finn, that is a horrible idea."
His brow furrowed in thought that maybe Rachel was right but then shrugged. "Too late now. Are you done eating yet? I want to go car shopping." Finn snuck his hand over to Rachel's fries and tried swiping one but Rachel caught him.
"Touch them and you lose a finger," Rachel snarled, biting at his hand as he withdrew it.
Fifteen minutes later after Finn watched Rachel down enough food for the entire family they walked out of the restaurant and back over to the car dealership.
Finn walked Rachel over to the car he had been looking at for her, the latest Chevy Tahoe, but she didn't look impressed.
"Finn, why would we need an SUV in Manhattan? I mean it is environmentally friendly according to the label but still…"
"Rachel, three kids," was all he said in argument.
While her parents argued about which car to get completely ignoring her input, Roxanne wandered around looking at all the different models of Chevy's. She really wanted that Camaro. She walked up to the driver's door of it to see if she could possibly hop inside just to look around and pretend like it was hers.
She approached the door, her hand outstretched ready to open it until suddenly the door of the car next to it swung open and whammed her in the back knocking her forward into the Camaro then down onto the ground.
"Oww," she cried out rubbing her chest where it hit the car as she sat up wondering what just happened.
An attractive blonde teenager stepped out of the vehicle, her hands over her mouth in shock as she realized what she had just done.
"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry," she said as she closed the door and knelt down to help the child she had just knocked over get back onto her feet. "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
Roxy rubbed her rump which she had fallen on hard as she looked up at the girl. "My butt hurts," she stated blandly.
Another woman walked around behind Roxy wondering what was going on herself. Roxy turned around when the woman spoke and did a double take. The woman looked very much like her own mother except older.
"Roxanne!" she could hear Rachel screeching. She looked around the woman's legs to see her mom urgently pushing Liam in his stroller with Finn right behind her. "Roxanne, get your butt back here! You can't just wander off…"
Rachel slowed her walking, Finn nearly crashing into her as she realized just who was standing around her daughter.
"Rachel?" Shelby said with surprise as she turned around and found herself staring at a pregnant Rachel Berry…or Hudson as it seemed to be.
"Shelby?" Rachel replied in nothing more than a whisper. She was having a hard time comprehending just what was going on. Then a familiar looking blonde stepped into view from behind Shelby and Rachel gasped while Finn's eyes widened.
If the girl had been wearing a Cheerios uniform and a scowl she'd have looked just like Quinn at that age.
"This must be your daughter. I'm so sorry; I didn't mean to knock her over. I wasn't paying attention when I opened my door so I had no idea she was standing there," Beth apologized as she pushed Roxy back over to Finn and Rachel. "I think she's okay though."
Beth's eyes narrowed as she took in Rachel's face. She looked eerily familiar. When she turned back to her mother who was staring at the woman, she figured out why.
"Mom, what's going on?"
"Well this is awkward," Shelby stated crossing her arms over her chest. She hadn't seen Rachel in 16 years and now here she was meeting the entire family she had created in that time with one of the delinquents who'd slashed the tires of her last Nationals winning show choir's cars. Shelby wondered if that meant she'd made it out of Lima or not.
Rachel and Finn shook their heads in agreement with Shelby's statement. "I didn't realize you lived in the area," Rachel said quietly.
"We just moved here actually; kind of missed home. Are you still living here?" She wanted to know if run-ins like this would be a regular occurrence.
Rachel shook her head furiously. "No, we live in Manhattan. We're just here visiting our parents before Finn and Roxy have to start school. Finn's a music teacher and Roxy's starting kindergarten in September," Rachel crowed proudly.
Shelby looked at the children more closely for the first time. The girl looked just like her father and the boy chewing on his foot looked very much like Rachel. Then she looked at Rachel's pregnant belly. It hit her then that she was now, genetically anyway, a grandmother.
"Cute kids," she said pointing to them.
Rachel smiled as she looked down at Roxy. "Thank you. I think they're pretty cute too but, I'm kind of biased." She let out a small laugh which seemed to start to break up the tension.
"How are you Rachel?" Shelby asked simply.
"I'm doing very well. As you can see I'm very happily married with two, almost three children." Rachel rubbed her baby bump appreciatively. She stared between Shelby and Beth. "And what about you?"
"We're doing very well. Just decided a change of scenery was necessary; needed to get out of the city. We're here looking for a car for Beth actually."
Beth stepped into the middle of everyone. "Hold on. Mom, what is going on? Who are these people?" she asked very confused by the entire situation.
Roxy pulled on Finn's hand to get his attention. "Daddy, that lady looks like Mommy," she whispered to him quite astutely.
Finn looked at his wife. "Uh, Rach, did you and Shelby want to catch up? I can take the kids and go talk to a salesman…?"
"Yeah, why don't you do that." She let Finn take the stroller and watched him walk away, crossing her arms over her chest looking at her birth mother.
"Did you maybe want to go for coffee?" Shelby asked pointing to the Lima Bean next door.
"Sure."
A few minutes later, Rachel, Shelby and Beth were sitting at a table sipping on their respective drinks. Being pregnant Rachel couldn't exactly drink caffeine but she was enjoying her raspberry lemonade quite thoroughly.
Beth looked between the two women trying to figure out why they looked so much alike. "Anyone wanna tell me what's going on?"
Rachel looked to Shelby who began to explain. "Do you remember how I told you I had a baby years before I adopted you?" She nodded remembering the story. "Rachel is my daughter, Beth."
They all paused for a moment while the information sank in. "I see. So, you're my sister?"
Rachel's mouth fell open. "Uh, um, well, I guess technically." When Rachel thought about it in some way she was Beth's sister which was kind of weird. When she really thought about it she realized just how weird the situation was. Her husband thought he had been Beth's father when it was actually her best friend's husband who had helped her husband's girlfriend cheat on him then gave her baby up to her biological mother thus making her best friend's husband's baby her sister. It was giving her a headache thinking about how complicated the whole thing was.
"I've always wanted a sister. When my mom told me about you I asked her if we could find you but she said it probably wasn't a good idea."
"Well, you found me now." Rachel smiled a little tightly. This entire thing was difficult to swallow.
"Have you run into Quinn at all?" Rachel asked, wondering if Quinn had seen Beth since Shelby had left with her. Puck hadn't but she knew he constantly wished he could.
Shelby shook her head. "I haven't seen Quinn or Puck since we left."
"Quinn and Puck? My birth parents? You know them?" Beth asked Rachel.
Rachel wasn't sure what she should say as she wasn't sure what Shelby wanted her to know. When Shelby nodded at her though, she knew it would be okay to talk about them. "Quinn dated my husband, Finn, before me. He actually thought he was your father for a while. Then we all learned Puck was. It was a long saga. And Puck is actually married to my best friend Anjali now."
"Do they have kids?"
Rachel looked concerned. She hadn't seen Shelby in over a decade and she didn't really know Beth at all yet Shelby was okay with her revealing all this to her daughter? "Shelby, are you sure this is okay? We haven't spoken in 16 years."
"I know, but now that you're here, maybe it's time we do." She looked at Beth. "Do you think you could go get me a muffin, sweetie?"
She scrunched her eyebrows together. "Um, I guess so." Shelby handed her some money and she left the table to go get a muffin.
Shelby looked back at Rachel. "I know I have no right to come in and disrupt your life. I've wanted for so long to apologize for how I left things with you but I didn't know how. But now you're here and I need to tell you that I'm so sorry for doing what I did to you. It wasn't fair to you at all."
"You're right. It wasn't." Rachel paused, feeling tears begin to well up in her eyes. "But you know what? I'm not that upset anymore. Sure, it hurt knowing you didn't want me the way you wanted Beth, but I got over it. I moved on and now I'm working on Broadway, married to the man of my dreams and raising two adorable children, getting ready for another, and even though you left me, I have to be grateful to you somewhat. I mean, I wouldn't be here without you. And you leaving me, it made me realize that when I was ready for kids…I would do everything in my power to make sure they never felt as abandoned as you made me feel."
Rachel's words stung Shelby a little but she knew Rachel was right. She gave her up then pursued a relationship with her only to decide she didn't want one then flaunted her new baby in her face. It had been pretty low.
"Rachel, I am so, so sorry."
Rachel took Shelby's hand and gave her a weak smile. "I forgive you. I forgave you a long time ago."
Beth came back with a blueberry muffin setting the plate down in front of Shelby. "Is everything okay?" she asked, noticing that both women looked a little teary eyed.
"We're fine or at least we will be," Rachel said with a quick smile to the girl. She dug around in her purse looking for a pen and paper. "I don't know how interested you would be in speaking with him, but if you'd ever like to talk to Puck, I know he'd love to see you. He thinks about you all the time and I know he and Anjali and their kids would love to meet you…if it's alright with your mom of course." She looked to Shelby before scribbling down Puck's house number. "And if you're interested we're having a family dinner tonight. You can stop by and meet my kids if you'd like."
Shelby smiled at her appreciatively. "I'd like that. We'll be there."
Rachel stood up from the table and grabbed her purse. "I really should get going. I need to pee again and if I don't get back to the car dealership Finn is going to buy a ridiculous truck or sports car that we don't need if I'm not there." She scribbled down her dads' address and told them what time dinner was before giving Shelby and Beth an awkward hug goodbye.
When she arrived back at the dealership she found Finn sitting in the waiting area while her daughter pushed Liam around in his stroller like she was driving a racecar. When she ran into the back of a large man's legs and he shot her the death glare, she quickly high tailed it back over to Finn and hopped in his lap for safety. Rachel giggled to herself as she sat down in the chair next to Finn.
"Rachel, we are now the proud owners of a Chevy Tahoe!" he crowed proudly, flashing her a large smile.
"Did you really buy a car without me being here?"
"I thought we decided on the Tahoe?" he asked confused.
"Well, I guess, but I thought you would have waited for me."
"I wasn't sure how long you were going to be with Shelby." He shifted Roxy to his other side and placed a protective hand on Rachel's swollen belly lightly rubbing it. "How did that go by the way?"
Rachel put her hand over Finn's. "Shelby and Beth are joining us for dinner. They wanted to meet the kids."
Finn looked worried. "Are you sure that's such a good idea after everything? You used to tear up just thinking about her."
Rachel pulled her lower lip into her mouth and nodded as she stared at the floor. "I think it will be good. I've forgiven her for everything and she apologized and…it will be good."
Still not totally convinced, Finn just nodded. "If you're sure. I just don't want any drama. You and the baby don't need any stress."
"Don't worry, the baby and I are fine. Maybe if we get back to my dads' before they get home and get the little ones to take a nap I can show you just how fine I am." She waggled her eyebrows at her husband playfully.
Like a bullet, Finn hopped to his feet, holding Roxy in his arms. "You take your dads' car back and I'll get the new car. I only have one car seat though so you gotta take Liam. Now, let's go, let's go, let's go!"
Rachel laughed at Finn's eagerness and determination. "You need to calm down. It'll take me a little while to waddle out to the car."
"I'll get the car. You wait by the entrance." He carried Roxy with him as he bolted for Rachel's dads' car. "You ready for a nap, Rox?"
"I don't wanna take a nap. I'm not sleepy," she replied wondering why her dad was trying to force a nap on her. She very rarely took naps anymore. "Can't I play the Wii?"
"Sure, but you gotta have the volume really loud."
A few hours later, after some really great pregnant sex while Liam took a nap and Roxy played Just Dance and when Leroy and Hiram came home, dinner was nearly ready when a knock on the door made Rachel more nervous than opening night of a new show. She told her fathers Shelby and Beth would be coming by to which they were as worried as Finn had been about the potential effects on Rachel's state of mind and had been freaking out a little ever since they had started working on dinner.
Feeling too riled up to answer the door herself, Rachel sent Finn to let Shelby and Beth in. He greeted them cheerfully and took the cherry pie Shelby had brought with her. As he stared at Beth he couldn't help but be entirely reminded of Quinn.
"Daddy, Mommy needs you in her bedroom!" Roxy yelled as she ran to the door where Finn was standing. She looked really confused as to why the people from the car dealership were at her grandfathers' house.
"Okay, sweetie. I'll be there in a minute."
"Okay." She smiled at Finn and ran back upstairs to visit her mom.
"Well, come on in. We've been waiting for you."
Shelby and Beth followed Finn further into the house and he offered to take their coats. He hung them in the closet then took the pie into the kitchen where Leroy and Hiram were baking and watching Liam play with some pots and pans on the floor.
"Excuse me. I'll be right back." Finn left them in the kitchen and headed upstairs to find Rachel in her childhood room. Instead of hugging a teddy bear to her chest like she used to when he'd find her in her room in high school whenever she was a little stressed or upset, he found her hugging Roxy to her and singing her a song softly. "Rach?" He sat down next to her and hugged her to his chest, stroking her hair. "What's going on, babe?"
"I shouldn't have invited her. It was a mistake."
"I thought you said you forgave her though?"
"I did, but…how can I face her for an entire evening after 16 years? We don't know anything about each other and-"
"Rachel," Finn tilted her head so she'd look at him. "She's your mother. I know things between you are not the greatest but…maybe now that you've met again you should try to work things out. Maybe that's why you ran into each other."
"That lady is Mommy's mommy?" Roxy asked pulling out of Rachel's arms to look at her father with wide eyes. "But Mommy doesn't have a mommy."
"Everyone has a mommy, sweetie. Mommy just wasn't raised by her mommy. Come here," Finn said, beckoning Roxy to come with him. He stood up and picked Roxy up from Rachel's bed. He stuck his hand out for Rachel to take. "You gonna come downstairs and eat dinner? Your dads made chicken for you." He wiggled his eyebrows at her enticingly.
Rachel rolled her eyes and wiggled her way off the bed taking Finn's hand. He pulled her close and kissed her forehead. "You can do this, Rach. We'll all be there with you."
They made their way downstairs to find Hiram, Shelby, Beth and Liam in the living room. Shelby and Beth were playing peek-a-boo with Liam who was absolutely giddy. He giggled every time Beth removed her hands from her face and reached out from his place on Shelby's lap to try to grab Beth's nose.
"Hello, Rachel," Shelby greeted.
"Are you really my Mommy's mommy?" Roxy asked from Finn's arms.
Shelby cleared her throat. "Well sweetie, yes I am."
"How come you aren't married to Granddad and Granddaddy?" she asked as Finn sat down with her in the chair across from the couch. "Mommies and daddies are supposed to be married to have babies together. That's what my Daddy said when I told him I wanted my own baby."
Hiram answered her question as delicately as he could. "Well sweetie, two daddies can't have a baby on their own so we had to find someone to be your mommy's mommy. Shelby wanted to be her mommy so she had a baby for us."
"Why can't two daddies have a baby?"
"It just doesn't work that way, Rox," Finn answered.
"But Uncle Kurt and Uncle Blaine want a baby." Roxy continued to wonder about babies keeping Finn rather occupied with finding interesting ways of avoiding the gory details of baby making while Rachel and her parents talked about the past 16 years.
"So you married Finn obviously. What happened with Jesse?"
"It didn't work out. I've been in love with Finn since we met so it never would have worked out. I've always been his." She smiled at Finn who was getting his ear talked off by their daughter about how she wanted to name her next baby brother Fozzie Bear because he was her favorite Muppet.
Beth watched Roxy and Finn interacting. "Your daughter is really cute. I am really sorry I hit her with the car door earlier."
"She's okay. Roxy always bounces back easily. She's her father's mini-me, though with much of my personality. Ever the little drama queen." Rachel giggled as Roxy threw her head back in exasperation when Finn told her they would not be naming the new baby Fozzie Bear. "Ooh," Rachel cried as the baby kicked her in the kidney. She rubbed her belly and spoke to it. "Hey little guy, that's not very nice."
"You're having a boy?" Shelby asked with surprise.
"Yes, another little boy. Last one. We decided on only three kids."
"Ladies, gentlemen, dinner is ready now," Leroy called as he entered the living room, escorting everyone to the dining room.
From there the tension seemed to break up and Rachel felt more at ease as they easily discussed the past and talked about the potential future. Rachel and Finn bickered about names for their son when Beth asked about it, Finn wanting Zachary and Rachel wanting Ian, Roxy complained about how she didn't like eggplant and told Beth that she liked her pretty hair and wished she could be blonde like her, Liam threw some potatoes at Finn when he started to fuss and Hiram asked Shelby about their move back to Lima. Roxy was interested in getting to know her new grandma and aunt and practically interrogated them about their favorite things, what they liked to do for fun and other things she considered important as they moved back to the living room.
When they progressed into dessert, Rachel suggested that maybe Shelby and Beth could come over for the holidays when they came back to visit over Christmas break. She seemed to like the idea of getting to know Rachel and her family more and agreed.
Shelby knew she had messed up with Rachel all those years ago and had always regretted it but now it seemed that she was getting the chance to make amends. If Rachel was willing to let her into her life after everything, she was willing to put in the effort too. She wanted to get to know her daughter and her grandchildren and she was even willing to get in contact with Puck so he could see Beth. If she could, maybe she'd even try to find Quinn.
As the night drew to a close, Rachel, Shelby and Beth stood at the door saying goodbye.
"It was really great seeing you again, Rachel. I'm glad that we ran into each other."
Rachel smiled at her. "Yeah, it was nice. And it was nice meeting you too, Beth. Puck will be really happy to hear from you."
"It was great meeting you too, Rachel. Your family is really adorable and I can't wait to see the new little guy. You have to send us pictures when he's born." She rubbed Rachel's belly then put her coat on.
"We'll definitely keep you updated." She leaned forward to give Shelby a hug then hugged Beth as well. "We'll see you both at Christmas. Thanks for coming over."
"Thanks for inviting us, Rachel. We'll see you at Christmas." Beth opened the door and they waved goodbye to her as they stepped through.
"Bye! See you soon," Rachel called as they walked out to their car. She closed the door and found Finn standing a few feet behind her leaning against the wall with a smirk on his face.
"See, I told you everything would work out." He pushed away from the wall and walked up to Rachel, pulling her into his arms. She wrapped hers around his neck and went up onto her toes to give him a quick kiss.
"Maybe you were right. Maybe we were supposed to run into each other. It would be nice to have a relationship with her if at all possible, if she's really serious about trying this time. And after she finished her interrogation, Roxy deemed her worthy of her affection." Rachel and Finn chuckled and started to head upstairs to tuck Roxy in. Finn had already put Liam to bed but Roxy was insistent that Rachel needed to help tuck her in too. "I just hope this turns out to be a good thing. Everyone deserves a second chance."
"Well no matter what happens, I will be right here with you. I love you, Rachel."
"I love you too, Finn." They stopped on the stairs to kiss until Roxy came out and stood at the landing.
"Daddy! You and Mommy need to tuck me in! You can kiss later!" she huffed at them before throwing her hands in the air and walking back to the guest room she and Liam shared whenever they visited Rachel's parents.
They just chuckled at her and continued up the stairs. When they arrived at her room, they found her sitting on the bed with the covers at her feet, arms crossed over her chest with a 'well?' type of expression on her face.
"Okay, Roxy doll, time for bed." Finn pulled the covers up over her body and tucked the blanket under her tightly making a cocoon she was unable to move in.
"Daddy," she giggled at him. "It's too tight."
"Tighter? Okay." He tucked the blanket in more, making her wiggle around and giggle until he let up and loosened the blanket a little bit. "Are we good now?"
Roxy shook her head. "Yep." She pulled her arms out and wrapped them around Finn's neck when he leaned down to hug and kiss her goodnight. When Finn pulled away Rachel sat down on the bed next to Roxy and leaned down to give her a hug and kiss too.
"Goodnight, sweetie. Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite." Rachel stood up and blew Roxy a kiss before walking toward the door with Finn. She flicked off the light and closed the door enough only to leave it open a crack.
"Now that your dads are asleep and the kids are in bed, what do you say you and I get naked and you let me love you down? Roxy did say we could kiss later." He ran his hands down Rachel's back to cup her ass, pulling her close. She pressed her hands flat against his chest and seemed to contemplate his offer.
"Nah. I'm tired." Rachel pulled away from her disappointed husband and walked toward her bedroom they were sharing.
"But babe…" he whined at her, walking behind her.
Rachel sighed. "Oh what the hell." Finn was instantly pressed against Rachel's back as they entered the bedroom feeling really good about the overall events of the day.
"You're the best wife ever."
"I know," Rachel giggled as she let Finn take care of her just the way she liked.