Between work, Christmas shopping, Tumblr and other procrastination, I have finally finished this chapter! I hope it was worth the wait. :) A bit of Finchel family Christmas fluff.
December 25th, 2026
Rachel chuckled at her husband and his insistence on wearing the Santa suit to put the kids' gifts out. "They're asleep you know. You don't need to dress up. They won't know the difference."
Finn smirked at his wife as he put the fluffy beard on and adjusted his hat. "Roxanne has woken up every Christmas Eve since she was born. I'm not taking the chance that she'll wake up and see me putting presents under the tree instead of Santa. Someday she'll be too old for Santa and I don't want to waste the time that she isn't."
Rachel chewed on her lip and shifted on the bed to watch Finn walk to grab the Santa coat. "I hate to break it to you Finn, but I think she may be there already. Roxy understands now that she's Jewish and what that means. Plus, she's always been rather suspicious of people in costume on days other than Halloween ever since you took her to meet the Easter Bunny and she saw him remove his head two years ago."
"Well, I'm still gonna try to keep Santa alive. Besides, I still got the boys. Liam saw Santa at the mall yesterday and flipped when my mom said they didn't have time to visit him."
"Okay, well have fun playing Santa. It's now one am and I'm going to sleep." Rachel waved him over to give him a kiss. "Make sure to eat some of the cookies and carrots the kids left out."
"Do I have to eat the carrots?" he whined. He hated raw carrots so much…unless they had a gallon of ranch to accompany them.
"Yes, the reindeer need to eat their treats too." She giggled at him and kissed him before making a face and pulling a strand of white synthetic hair out of her mouth. "I think you need a shave." Rachel pulled his beard down and gave him another proper kiss, smiling as she pulled away then laid down.
Finn put his beard back on and grabbed the numerous bags of presents out of the closet before heading into the living room where the tree was set up. As stealthily as he could, Finn put the kids' presents out under the tree in neat piles to make it easier in the morning. His children were spoiled rotten. When he had been a kid Santa never brought piles of presents as big as Roxy, Liam and Zach were getting. Zach was a mere 24 days old yet he had a pretty large crop of boxes. Granted much of them were filled with clothes and other baby necessities as opposed to toys like Liam and Roxy.
He had just put the giant Barbie Dream House Roxy had been dying to get her hands on under the tree when Finn heard footsteps behind him.
"Hi Daddy."
"Hi Roxanne – I mean, I'm not your dad, I'm Santa Claus. Your daddy is upstairs asleep," Finn said in his best Santa Claus imitation. He looked at Roxy who stared back looking unconvinced. "What do you think you're doing out of bed young lady? Don't you know you're supposed to stay asleep until the morning?"
"I wanted to see how many presents I was getting," Roxanne stated bluntly. She walked over to the pile with her name on it and examined the boxes carefully.
"Roxanne, if you don't go back to bed, I'm going to have to take all these presents back to the North Pole and give them to the elves. You're supposed to be asleep."
Roxy rolled her eyes at him like he was stupid. "Elves don't play with the toys, they make them. Duh! And I'm not sleepy."
"Roxanne, go. To. Bed," Finn said in his stern father voice rather than his Santa voice.
She huffed dramatically and threw her head back. "Can I get some milk at least?" she asked with a pleading glance.
Finn sighed. "Fine, but then you need to go to bed because I have a lot more houses to go to and the reindeer are gettin' pretty antsy on the roof."
"Sure," she replied sarcastically not buying his Santa story for a second.
Finn followed her to the kitchen and grabbed her favorite Tinker Bell cup and some milk. Roxy took the cup from him and eyed him critically.
"If you're really Santa, how come you know where my Grammy keeps my favorite Tinker Bell cup?"
Finn couldn't believe it; he was getting grilled by his five year old. Why couldn't she just accept he was Santa and bringing her presents? "I'm Santa and Santa knows everything."
"Isn't Santa s'posed to know when I'm awake? You didn't know I was awake and I caught you. You're not very good at this."
Finn was trying to think of an excuse but nothing was coming to him. "Santa is just a little off his game this year. Now stop with the 20 questions and get back to bed or you're only getting coal."
Roxanne turned to leave the kitchen but quickly turned back to Finn. "And if you're Santa why would you give me presents anyway? I'm Jewish."
"Go to bed, Roxanne," Finn replied a little louder than intended and startled her.
"Okay," Roxy said with attitude before making a face at him and scampering out of the kitchen and back upstairs.
Finn shook his head and grabbed himself some eggnog to wash away the taste of carrot. He finished putting the presents out and hung the Christmas pickle before scarfing down a few sugar cookies Rachel and the kids decorated and forcing the baby carrots down. Damn reindeer...
On his way back to his high school bedroom he and Rachel shared whenever visiting his parents, Finn stopped in the kids' room to make sure Roxanne had actually gone to bed. He peeked into the room and found Zach sleeping soundly surprisingly, Liam had managed to flip himself around in bed and his feet were on the pillow with his head at the other end covered by the blanket and Roxanne had apparently been sleepier than she thought because she was snoring and drooling in a rather Finn-like manner on her pillow. He stepped further into the room and flipped Liam around so he was lying normal again, gave Roxy a kiss on the forehead and went over to check Zach.
His youngest looked adorable. Zach was really the perfect mix of Berry and Hudson. He had Rachel and Hiram's thick dark hair, his mom's eyes, a cute little nose like Finn had as a baby, he had been nearly as big as Roxy when she was born which made Finn believe Zach would inherit his height and size and he didn't cry that much usually. He was a pretty easy-going baby and Finn was quite proud that he and Rachel had produced such a cute kid. Finn was so proud of all his children. He was actually kind of sad that he and Rachel couldn't have any more. But he loved his three babies more than anything.
Finn smiled down at Zach as he squirmed a little in his sleep then deciding the children were all fine for now stopped at the bathroom really quick then went back into his room. He had been expecting it to be quiet and dark as Rachel had gone to bed but he was more than pleasantly surprised to find the room bathed in a soft glow from various candles and his sexy wife still awake wearing a tiny silky red robe trimmed with white faux fur, a little Santa hat on her head, twirling a candy cane between her fingers with a sly grin on her face.
"Well, there's my jolly man in the suit. What took you so long?" she greeted sitting up and draping her arms over her still rockin' legs. Finn had to say, after three kids Rachel was still in fantastic shape and the sexiest little thing he'd ever had the pleasure of knowing. Thank Grilled Cheesus for daily yoga.
"Mini-Me woke up like I figured she would. You were right; she wasn't buying the Santa gig anymore. She's only five! When did she become such a Santa cynic?"
Rachel smiled sympathetically at Finn as he pulled his beard off and sat down on the bed next to her. She wrapped her arms around him and pulled the front of his jacket open to run her hand up under his t-shirt.
"Kids grow up so much faster these days; even faster than we did. Don't worry, like you said, you still have the boys and you know Liam will be excited to see Santa tomorrow when Blaine dresses up as him when they come over." Needing to move forward as she really wanted her husband's touch Rachel changed the subject. "Now, you haven't even said anything about what I'm wearing...or not wearing." Rachel chuckled as Finn looked down at her body which was nicely lacking in the clothing department. He smirked at her as she pressed her lips to his and pushed his Santa coat off his body. She gripped his shoulders and he moved her into his lap. He untied her robe and she pulled his t-shirt off him.
Finn broke their heated make-out to voice his concern. "Rach, we can't-"
"I got the okay from my doctor before we came. It's alright."
He looked at her skeptically as his eyebrow popped up. "You got the okay already?"
Rachel smiled coyly. "I was surprised too but he said I was fine. I was going to wait until tomorrow as it's our sex-iversary but then you had to put on the Santa suit and I just couldn't wait anymore. I've missed you so much over the past few weeks." She pouted a little for effect before pulling the front of the robe open and letting it slip down her shoulders to pool around them on the bed.
Finn's eyes immediately zoomed in on her boobs which were still really full as she was breast feeding. He licked his lips and ran his hand up her stomach to hold her breast. Her nipple pebbled as he ran his thumb over it and she leaned into his touch more. His hands felt amazing on her; warm and rough from years of handling a pair of drumsticks yet gentle as they caressed her body. His fingers left tingles as they brushed over her skin and watching the way he smoothed his hands over her body, touching her like she was made of porcelain, always turned her on.
"Finn, I need you."
He just nodded and kissed her before laying her down and caging her in with his body. She scratched her nails down his bare chest and pushed his bright red Santa pants and yuletide boxer-briefs down. He wiggled out of them and pressed Rachel into the bed more as he settled between her legs which wrapped around his waist. Her arms folded around his neck and he held her body against him as he kissed her tenderly and slowly slid inside her.
Finn moaned into Rachel's mouth as he felt her warmth envelope his length. After no sex for weeks, Finn was so sensitive and Rachel's hot, slick walls clenching around him as he moved in and out of her was making things move a lot faster than he really wanted them to. He wanted to spend his time making Rachel buzz until she finally peaked but for some reason he couldn't keep himself together. Running over the mailman played in his mind over and over for the first time in a long time but even that wasn't working.
"Oh God," he choked out as he began coming inside her. He moaned his way through his orgasm, eyes closed and mouth puckered, until he was finished and fell onto Rachel. He suddenly felt 16 all over again.
He could hear her heart beating while his head rested on her chest and then she spoke. "That was...really fast."
"Sorry." He lifted his head and looked sheepishly at his wife who seemed rather displeased. "I tried to stop myself but it's been a while and you felt really amazing and...I'll be able to go longer in a minute."
"Let's hope so. I'd kind of like to get off." She quirked her eyebrow at him.
"Don't worry. Santa will be sure to take care of his Mrs. Claus." Rachel chuckled as he attacked her with playful kisses.
True to his word, Finn took care of Rachel so well she easily fell into a peaceful sex coma and didn't wake up again until the cries of a three week old baby boy through the baby monitor roused her from her slumber. Rachel groggily sat up and rubbed her eyes. Of course Finn was still snoozing away as Zachary cried his head off. Rachel rolled out of bed and threw on some family friendly Christmas pajamas to go change and feed her baby.
When she walked into the guest room the kids shared, she found Zach wailing in his crib, totally red in the face, Liam with his feet on his pillow and his head under the covers at the other end and Roxanne face down with a pillow over her head. She was honestly astounded that Roxy and Liam were not awake yet considering it was officially Christmas and they would be getting presents.
Rachel spoke to Zachary in a soothing voice and lifted him out of his crib. She sang softly to him as she changed his diaper then carried him back to Finn's room to feed him. He was still crying when she entered the room and Finn finally woke up. He rubbed his eyes as he zeroed in on where the crying was coming from.
"What time is it?" he asked.
"Six am. I'm honestly amazed he waited this long." Rachel made herself comfortable in bed and as soon as the kid latched on, his tune changed and the room fell silent. She slipped her finger into Zach's little hand and smiled at her baby as he peacefully laid in her arms. Finn sat up and leaned his head on Rachel's shoulder to stare at his kid as well.
"We make really cute kids," he commented as Rachel stroked Zach's tiny head.
Rachel grinned at him. "Yeah, we do."
Seconds later the door burst open and a tiny mess walked into the bedroom dragging a dinosaur behind him. "Santa!" he whined at his parents as he rubbed his eye. Liam's hair was sticking up in every direction and somehow he managed to lose his pants and one sock during the night. His little tummy stuck out as he walked to Rachel's side of the bed. He held his arms out to be picked up as he was too small to climb onto the bed himself.
Finn quickly searched for his boxers and hastily put them back on before lifting Liam onto the bed. "Merry Christmas, buddy! You excited for presents?"
"Ya!" he cried out, a large smile growing on his face. He looked so much like Rachel when he smiled that big. "Pwesents now!"
Rachel giggled. "You need to wait for Roxy and Grammy and Papa. You can't open presents without them."
Liam didn't want to accept this. He lifted his dinosaur over his head and whacked Finn in the face. "Pwesents! Santa!"
Rachel looked at Finn in horror and shifted her arms to check his nose which he was clutching. "Oh my God, Finn! Are you alright?" She turned his head to look at him. His eyes were watering and he wouldn't remove his hands from his nose. "Finn let me see!" She pulled his fingers from his face and checked out his nose. Having had a broken nose herself she knew what to look for.
"Ow God, it hurts," he said, tears in his voice.
"I think he just hit you pretty good. You're nose doesn't look broken." Rachel lightly touched it. "Nor does it feel broken." She rounded on her son. "Liam! You do not hit people with your dinosaur! You really hurt Daddy."
Liam looked upset as he watched Finn trying not to cry. He crawled into Finn's lap and put his little hands on Finn's cheeks before leaning forward to kiss his nose. "Dada, no cwy."
Finn held the bridge of his nose as the pain began to recede. "It's okay, buddy. You just need to be more careful with that dinosaur."
"Santa?" Liam questioned now that Dada seemed to be okay. He really wanted to see the man in red.
"Oh crap," Rachel said as she looked down at Zach who had finished and was now yawning. "I forgot a towel. I'll be right back." She climbed off the bed and left Finn and Liam to discuss Santa as she went back to the kids' room. As she walked in Roxy woke up and instantly popped out of bed.
"Morning Mommy! Can we open presents?" She bounced giddily as she followed Rachel around the room.
"Grammy and Papa aren't up yet."
"Can I wake them?"
"No, you may not. You will let your grandparents sleep until they wake themselves up. Why don't you go ask Daddy to make some breakfast for you until they get up?" Rachel suggested, grabbing a towel and throwing it over her shoulder to burp Zach.
Roxy groaned. "I just wanna open my presents!"
"Roxanne. You need to wait."
"Fine," she moaned stalking out of the room to go make her dad make her breakfast. She walked into her parents' room and found Finn. "Daddy, Mommy said you need to make breakfast. I want chocolate chip pancakes." She smiled brightly at her father to better get her way before climbing into the bed to give him a big hug.
"Well, Merry Christmas to you too," he replied sarcastically.
"Daddy, I'm hungry."
"Hungy!" Liam yelled as he shifted and stuck his knee right into Finn's groin.
Finn groaned in pain and smiled tightly at his son. "You, kid, are so lucky Mommy and Daddy aren't planning on more kids." He picked Liam up and set him down next to him before rolling out of bed and stretching. When he looked down at the floor he realized his Santa suit was everywhere. He kicked the material under the bed, grabbed his plain white t-shirt and slipped it on then lifted Liam up. "Let's go make breakfast."
Roxanne had insisted on helping make the pancakes and ended up dropping the bowl of mix all over the floor splattering everything in sight including her brother. The mix and a few chocolate chips were in his hair and his face was completely covered as he stood still and began to cry.
"Oops," she said looking guiltily at the mess she made.
Finn took a deep breath and stared at the ceiling. "Roxanne. Please get the Swiffer."
"What happened?" Rachel inquired quietly trying not to wake Carole and Burt who were probably already awake now from the loud clatter of the bowl hitting the floor and Liam crying. "Liam! Finn, what happened?"
"Roxanne was trying to help. Could you maybe take him and clean him off while I clean the kitchen?"
Rachel nodded and grabbed Liam's hand to lead him to the bathroom. "It's okay, baby. We'll just rinse you off and then we'll open presents, okay?" Liam seemed to stop crying so much after the reassurance of presents.
Finn and Roxy cleaned up the kitchen and started the pancakes over. This time Roxy let Finn handle the batter and she just watched and ate some loose chocolate chips until Rachel came back in with a freshly bathed Liam and a wide awake Zach who just stared at everyone. She snatched chocolate chips from Roxanne and chastised Finn for letting her eat them straight from the bag.
Apparently the smell of pancakes and bacon began to waft throughout the house because Burt came in when breakfast was nearly done cooking. "I smell bacon," he simply commented.
"Papa!" Roxy cried before running over to hug him. "Mommy, Papa's awake, now can we open presents?"
"We just made breakfast. It'll get cold if you wait and Grammy isn't up."
"Oh Carole took Pixie for a walk. She should be back any minute."
Rachel sighed as Roxy pleaded at her with her eyes and puppy dog pout. "Eat some breakfast with us first then you can open."
Finn handed Roxy a plate and she bolted to the table. She ate quickly and impatiently waited for the rest of the family who saw fit to just sit around and drink coffee and talk about the huge Christmas dinner party they were hosting later as opposed to opening presents like they should be concerned with. Roxy put her elbows on the table and pushed her cheeks up as she sat and waited for the okay to start presents. She started making farting noises with her mouth until Finn leaned over to whisper to her. "Keep it up and you won't get any presents." She went silent after that and stared at Liam tossing her Grammy's aging dachshund some Cheerios.
As Carole and Burt discussed who would be making what for dinner, Rachel watched her daughter sit and sulk. She leaned over to Finn. "Think we tortured her enough?" She smiled at Finn. "Roxanne," her child perked up at her name, "if Grammy and Papa are done we can start opening presents."
Her eyes widened and Roxy looked at her grandparents. "Grammy, Papa, can I open presents now?" she pleaded with them.
"I dunno, Grammy. You think Roxy should get to open her presents now? I did hear from Santa that she was a little naughty and got out of bed last night." Burt chuckled and pinched Roxy's cheek.
Carole smiled at her and nodded. "I think how good she's been every other night this year can make up for that. Come on; let's go see what Santa brought."
Roxy beamed and jumped out of her chair, running for the living room, Pixie on her heels in the excitement of the chase. She stared at the pile of presents giddily and bounced on her toes. Once the family was gathered in the living room Roxy tore into the gifts. She started with the stocking full of candy and little bobbles then moved from smallest to largest unlike Liam who just ripped open anything with wrapping paper on it.
When Roxy opened a plethora of Barbie's, a pink Barbie RV and then finally the exquisite giant Barbie Dream House she shrieked in excitement. "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!" She stared at the large box in awe and Finn swore she was about to faint. If she got this excited over a Barbie house he was scared to see how she'd react to bigger, more expensive gifts she'd ask for as she got older. "I love it!" She ran over to Finn and gave him a big hug and kiss. "Thank you, Daddy."
"I didn't get that for you. Santa brought the Barbie Dream House."
Roxy pursed her lips at him. "Okay. Tell Santa I say thank you." She went over to Rachel and hugged her as well. Now that the first round of gift opening was over, Roxanne was beginning to calm down a little and was actually getting kind of sleepy.
"Dinsor!" Liam yelled as he sat in his new T-Rex shaped comfy chair. He was holding his dinosaur he had whacked Finn with earlier and examining some new stuffed dinosaurs he got. "Dada! Dinsor!" He threw the old dinosaur off to the side and held up two new ones to show Finn. "Rawr!"
Finn chuckled as Liam started making roaring noises and made the stegosaurus start eating the raptor. He wanted Finn to play with him. "You got 'em backwards, bud. The raptor eats the other dinosaurs." He tried to display that for him, but Liam didn't agree.
"No! Rawr, rawr, rawr." The stegosaurus continued to attack the raptor and Finn just went with it. He'd learn eventually.
The day progressed lazily with Finn and the kids playing Dinosaur Barbie Dream House. Finn was as usual Ken while Roxy was of course Barbie. As for Liam, he was the ride to the ball on his Brontosaurus.
Rachel had gone with Carole and Burt into the kitchen to clean up from breakfast and plan for dinner. It was the first time in a very long time that the Berrys and Hudson-Hummels would be sharing a meal together as Rachel's dads usually vacationed to somewhere tropical over the Christmas holiday these days. Being Jewish, the holiday really didn't do much for Leroy and Hiram except give them some vacation time at the same time. Not to mention, Puck, Anjali and Co. were in town this year and would and stopping by and Shelby and Beth were on the guest list as well. The house was going to be full and there was no room for mistakes.
Dinner was at five which meant there was very little time to get everyone ready in only two and a half bathrooms. Once the ham was in the oven and sides were prepared to be cooked at the appropriate time, Rachel hopped in the shower before tossing the kids in to get ready and making sure Finn didn't sit around watching Elf for the tenth time in two weeks instead of getting ready.
Finn was just finishing up putting Liam into the little suit Rachel had picked out to match with Roxy's outfit when his girls and baby boy entered the room.
"Look at my men in their dapper suits. You both look so handsome," Rachel crowed as she walked over to Finn to give him a kiss. Zach was against her chest staring blankly at him as babies do and Finn leaned down to kiss his little head. In an effort to match Zach with his big brother and daddy, Rachel had managed to find a cute little onesie made up to look like a little tuxedo. He looked absolutely adorable.
"We're just trying to match how beautiful my ladies are." He winked at Rachel before kneeling down to Roxy's level. "Don't you look pretty?" Roxy swung her poofy red dress around.
"It's really poofy," she commented. "I love it. Mommy said I look like a princess."
"Mommy is right. You're the prettiest princess of them all. Did you show Grammy and Papa how pretty your dress is?"
She shook her head no. "Not yet. Grammy and Papa are still getting dressed. Can I go play with some of my toys?"
"Sure thing, Roxy doll. Just be careful not to mess up your pretty dress."
"I won't." She hugged Finn again then skipped off downstairs.
"I hope everyone gets here soon. I'm hungry." For added effect, Finn's stomach growled.
Rachel poked his belly. "There are hors d'oeuvres you can snack on until everybody gets here. Just don't eat them all, they're supposed to be for everyone." She shot him a knowing stare to which he rolled his eyes. Rachel wouldn't have to warn him if it hadn't happened before...on multiple occasions. "I'm serious, Finn. Your mother and I worked hard on those. We'd like for more than just you to sample them."
"Okay, I'll only eat half of them."
"Finn!" Rachel chided. He laughed at her audacity.
"I'm kidding, babe. I swear I won't eat them all." He hugged her close and kissed her softly. "You want me to take him so you can relax a little?"
"Please? I just want to put my hair up." She handed Zach over and kissed her baby's little head and lightly rubbed his little back. "I still can't believe how cute he is."
Finn smiled at Rachel before looking at their youngest. "You did a good job, babe."
"You helped."
"And I was more than happy to do so." He waggled his eyebrows at her and she giggled. "Go relax. You've been up and at 'em since six." Finn gave her a kiss before leaving her to her own devices. He grabbed Liam as well and went downstairs to find Roxy playing with her Barbies. Apparently Barbie was mad at Ken again because he was hanging upside down from the porch roof of the Dream House.
"What did Ken do this time?" he asked her as he put Liam down and sat on the couch and laid out some pillows to prop Zach up and keep him from falling off.
"He said Barbie was a bad chef. Barbie wanted to cut his head off but he's a new Ken so she didn't."
"Well thank goodness for that." Finn thought that Ken should be thanking his stars he wasn't anatomically correct also. Ever since Roxanne learned that hitting a man in the crotch hurt a lot it was her favorite place to attack when severely pissed off. She knew better than to hit him there as Daddy had the power to take away toys, TV time and dessert but Puck and Isaac had been on the receiving end of more than one nut shot. It was rather hilarious to watch Puck crawl after Roxy as she ran to hide after dick punching him for calling Finn a 'fucking pussy' then getting into an argument with her about how 'Mommy says you shouldn't say bad words' then Puck insulted Mommy and tugged on Roxy's pigtails. Finn had never been more proud.
The doorbell rang a few minutes later and Finn picked Zach up to get it. He opened the door and a black suited blur with a mohawk flew past him into the house while its mother yelled at him.
"Isaac! You get back here!" Anjali said as she pushed past Finn without a hello.
"Hello Anjali," he replied sarcastically before turning to Puck and the girls. "Rough day?"
"He's been asking for it since he woke up. Ever since we said we were coming over here he's been in a pissy mood and doing everything he can to get on Anj's nerves."
"Hi Uncle Finn," Jasmine said as she strolled into the house. "Can I hold Zach?"
Finn looked down at the angelic girl. "Maybe later. He's asleep right now and I don't want to wake him." She pouted a little but then ran after Liam as he zoomed by on his new motorized Fisher Price motorcycle laughing his head off as Pixie chased him barking loudly.
Puck followed Finn into the living room and sat down with Scarlett in his lap while Finn cradled Zach to his chest. "Daddy, baby," Scarlett said quietly as she pointed at Zach.
"Yep, that's Uncle Finn and Aunt Rachel's baby. You remember him?"
Scarlett shook her head then placed it against Puck's chest to better see Zach's face.
Suddenly a loud scream came from the kitchen followed by a lot of crying. Roxy ran into the living room covered head to toe in what looked like a banana crème pie. She was crying hysterically and tried to climb into Finn's lap but he held her back. Rachel and his mother would kill him if banana crème pie got all over his suit and the couch.
"Isaac Alexander Puckerman!" they heard Anjali screech before the kid ran into the living room knocking into Roxy forcing both of them to fall to the ground. Anjali rounded the corner and Finn could tell she was about to explode. "You apologize to Roxanne right now!" She lifted Isaac to his feet and held him by the back of the neck to get him to look at Roxy who was still on the floor crying. "Apologize! NOW!"
Finn shifted Zach and knelt down to pick Roxy up. They were going to need to change her clothes and someone was going to need to clean up the pie that was now in the carpet.
"I'msorryIthrewthepieatyou," he mumbled quick and lowly.
"Louder!" Anjali yelled at him.
"I'm sorry I threw the pie at you!" He tried to pull away from his mother's grip but she held him tightly. Roxy calmed down enough to give him a mean glare through the pie on her face before stepping forward and punching his groin. She then proceeded to storm off upstairs in a true Rachel-like storm out leaving the men wincing in pain as they watched Isaac hold his balls and fall into the couch. Finn stood up and followed Roxanne upstairs to explain to Rachel why her dress was ruined now.
"Serves 'im right," Anjali muttered as she sat down next to Puck and took Scarlett from him.
Puck stared at his wife disbelievingly. "You are hard woman, sayin' he deserves to be punch in the nut sack…"
She shrugged and tilted her head to look at him. "Well if it teaches him a lesson about throwing pie at people…" Anjali looked at Scarlett. "You wouldn't throw pie at anyone, right?" Her youngest smiled and shook her head no. "Good girl."
Upstairs Roxanne was still crying as she and Finn entered the bedroom the kids shared. He needed to put Zach down.
"My princess dress is ruined!" Roxy lamented before throwing herself down onto the bed.
Once Zach was in his crib, comfortably staring up at his mobile, Finn started freaking when he realized Roxy was getting pie everywhere. "Roxy, get up!" he yelled a little louder than he meant to. He picked her up off the bed and stared down at the pie covered sheets.
"Oops," Roxy said quietly when she realized what happened. "Sorry."
"It's okay, baby. We'll change the sheet. Let's go get you cleaned off okay?" He escorted Roxy out of the bedroom and ran into Rachel who looked a little better rested until she laid eyes on her daughter.
"Finn! What the hell happened?"
They entered the bathroom and Roxy sat down on the toilet while Finn turned on the shower and Rachel started cleaning off her little girl's face. "Isaac happened. I'm not sure why she got a pie in the face but he threw the banana crème at her."
Rachel looked sadly at her little girl feeling so bad for her. "Roxy, what happened, baby? Why did Isaac throw a pie at you?"
She sniffled a little and Rachel started undressing her. "I was in the kitchen and Isaac and Aunt Anjali came in with pie. Isaac's hair is funny because it's a silly mohawk and I told him that and he said to 'shut up 'cause I'm a stupid girl' and I said that wasn't very nice then he said my dress was ugly and I stepped on his foot then he threw a pie at me! He ruined my dress."
"It's okay, baby. Mommy brought you another dress to wear just in case this one got dirty." Rachel kissed Roxy's cheek and stood up. She asked Finn to grab Roxy's second dress and went about cleaning off her daughter. Zachary started crying just as Rachel was finishing up getting Roxy re-dressed. "You look so pretty, Roxy. Now just ignore Isaac so he doesn't mess up this pretty dress too, okay?"
Roxy shook her head and went to find the floor length mirror to look at her new deep purple satin and black lace princess dress while Rachel went to grab Zach. He was crying up a storm and when Rachel noticed the time she realized why, it was time to eat again. She was burping him when her daddy walked into the room.
"Hi baby and little baby." He leaned down to give Rachel a hug and kiss Zach's little head. "How's my littlest grandson today?"
"He's been an angel today surprisingly; the least worrisome of the three." Rachel sighed. "I'm so glad we decided three was enough. I don't think I could handle another one."
Hiram chuckled and beckoned for Rachel to hand him his grandson. "Nonsense; you and Finn would do fine. You both take great care of my grandbabies. Speaking of, Liam really needs to learn to stop hitting people with his dinosaurs. Your dad got a whack to the knee when he didn't pick Liam up fast enough."
Rachel shook her head in disbelief. "We've been working on it. He hit Finn in the face earlier and nearly broke his nose."
Hiram cradled Zach in his arms as he and Rachel walked back downstairs to join the rest of the group. They were scattered throughout the kitchen, dining and living rooms. It seemed the only people missing now were Kurt and Blaine as Beth made her presence known when she started squealing and ran right over to Hiram and the baby as soon as she saw him.
"Oh Rachel, he's so cute! Da wittle baby," she cooed at him as he stared up at her blankly before yawning.
Though he was only just over three weeks old, he already had a system. After he ate, he slept, then woke up and needed a diaper change then did it all over again. With the commotion of having everyone around and being rather loud however, Rachel wasn't sure if phase two would happen smoothly. They may have been in for a cranky day.
Beth looked at Rachel and held her hands like she was praying. "Rachel, could I please hold him? I've never actually been allowed to hold a baby before."
She hesitantly looked at her father then back at Beth. "Um, sure. If you don't mind, I'd prefer if you could sit down with him though. You know, overly worrisome mother here."
"Of course, no problem." Beth moved back to the couch and sat down between Finn and Puck who were discussing football and who they believed had a chance at winning the Superbowl. Rachel explained how to hold him and to give him to Finn if he became fussy then a little reluctantly left to go help Carole with dinner.
She walked into the kitchen and found Carole, Anjali, Jasmine and Isaac. "Well, if it isn't the Little Monster. Isaac, you really need to stop tormenting Roxy. It's not nice."
"She started it," he grumbled before his mother pinched his neck and made him grumble in pain. He tried to dart out of the kitchen but Anjali yanked him back.
"Nuh uh, I do not think so, young man. You are not leaving my sight tonight. You lost your right to freedom when you threw that pie at Roxy."
Just then Roxy flew into the kitchen. "Mommy, when are Uncle Kurt and Uncle Blaine gonna get here? I wanna open more presents." When she noticed Isaac, she balked a little bit and hid behind Rachel.
"Baby, we're eating dinner before we open more presents. You'll just have to wait. Uncle Kurt and Uncle Blaine should be here soon though, okay? Why don't you go back out to the living room and play with Liam?"
"Liam is playing with Papa and Scarlett," she explained a little sadly.
"I'm sure they'll let you play with them." Rachel ran her fingers through Roxy's hair.
"Where is the red dress I specifically picked out for my niece and Godchild to wear today?" Kurt whined as he walked into the kitchen carrying a giant bag of presents.
Roxy beamed at him. "Uncle Kurt! You're here!" She ran over to him and hugged his legs tightly. "Can we open presents now?"
"Not until after dinner sweetie. Now where's your pretty red dress?"
Her face fell a little until she got angry and pointed at Isaac who shied away behind his mother. "Isaac threw pie at me and ruined my dress."
Kurt gasped in horror and narrowed his eyes at the boy. "That dress is designer and dry clean only! I oughta-"
"Kurt, he's six and you need to chill out. He's been dealt with. Stop bitching about a dress now and go put the presents by the tree. Dinner is almost ready," Anjali scolded in an effort to protect her son from Kurt's wrath. He grumbled as he walked out of the kitchen with Roxy hot on his heels.
An exhausting thirty minutes later everyone was seated and eating dinner. It had taken forever to get all the kids to the smaller kids table Burt and Finn set up as Roxy refused to sit near Isaac and Liam thought they were playing a game of hide-and-go-seek which he was winning as no one could find him. Once Rachel had coaxed him out with the promise of Santa and Finn had assured Roxy that if Isaac tried anything he wouldn't get any presents, they had been able to get all the kids at the table and dish out their food.
Throughout dinner, Roxy kept glancing over at the adults to discern if they were finished eating yet. Isaac kept staring at her weird and she didn't like it and she wanted to open presents so he could leave. When Rachel got up to check on Zach, she saw her in. Roxy claimed her mother's spot next to her father and poked him in the arm to get his attention.
"Daddy, can we open more presents now?"
"Not everyone is done eating dinner yet. And Santa isn't even here yet." Roxy rolled her eyes. "Just a little bit longer, okay? We'll open presents then have dessert."
Unhappily, Roxy conceded and went back to the kids table where she had to fend off Jasmine singing about how Isaac loved her and wanted to kiss her as well as his mean glares and kicks under the table. She was about ready to stab him in the forehead with her fork when finally the distraction she had been waiting for arrived.
"Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas!" a booming voice called from the front door. Then a short, fat man in red came into the living room. He was Santa but he looked quite different from the Santa Roxanne had seen the night prior; mostly because he looked like her Uncle Blaine rather than her father. Rather suspicious, rather suspicious indeed. All the kids got out of their seats and crowded around Santa. They followed him to the tree and the adults followed them into the living room bringing in extra chairs to fit everyone.
"You aren't the Santa I saw last night," Roxy commented as she sat down on the floor next to Scarlett.
"Of course I am. There's only one Santa Claus."
Roxy stared at him skeptically. "You're shorter than last night."
Santa just stared at her then moved on. "Okay, present time!"
Santa started handing out presents to everyone and Roxy dropped it for now as she was busy enjoying being handed more presents. The kids squealed and ripped open the paper like wild animals and the adults grabbed their gifts to exchange with each other while Pixie went around sniffing everyone's stuff before finding some scraps of food Liam had so thoughtfully left under the table for her. In all the chaos, Zachary started crying and Rachel excused herself.
She cooed and comforted him, rocking him back and forth gently as she sang softly. Rachel strolled into the kitchen and rubbed his head lightly as she cradled him to her chest.
"I love watching you be all maternal," Finn's voice said from behind her as his hands wrapped around her waist and his chin rested on her shoulder. "You're so good with them all."
"Well, I wouldn't be here without you, now would I? You're really great with them too." She turned her head to look at Finn who was beaming at her. "I love you."
"I love you too, babe." Finn kissed her then spun her around before producing a little box from inside his coat pocket. "Merry Christmas." He opened the box to reveal a lovely gold necklace with three baby bootie charms adorned with small ruby, amethyst and blue topaz birthstones.
"Finn, it's beautiful," Rachel crowed as she took the box from him and looked at the necklace.
"Well, I can't take credit. This is actually from Zach," Finn replied with a serious tone before smirking at her.
"Oh, I see." She kissed Zach's head and he made a little peep before pressing his fist into her chest. "Thank you little one." She smiled against his soft hair before pressing another little kiss there. "And thank you, Daddy for helping him pick it out." She gave Finn a kiss and pulled her lips in as they broke to drink him in.
"You know, I think Roxy and Liam got you something too. You should come back out and see what it is." He draped his arm over her shoulder and escorted her back into the living room before taking Zach and sitting down on the couch with him and his wife.
"Mommy, your present!" Roxy said as she walked up to her with a box.
Rachel unwrapped it and found a lovely custom photo album full of pictures of her and Finn from high school through to just a few days ago. She could see where Roxy had put the pages together and where Finn had helped her. There were descriptions on every photo and comments about the events. Roxanne had particularly enjoyed all the pages dedicated to her and made sure to highlight them with all the gold star stickers she had available.
"Mama!" Liam called as he crawled into her lap and looked at the album. When he saw a picture of himself he clapped in excitement. Rachel was choking up as she looked through the pictures that spanned her entire adult life and showed how her family had grown over the years.
"Thank you, sweetie. I love it so much." She pulled Roxy's head to her to give her a kiss on the forehead and hugged her and Liam tightly.
"Oh," Finn pulled another box out of his pocket. "And Liam got you these to match your necklace." He popped open the box and revealed a beautiful pair of diamond earrings.
Rachel smiled brightly. "I'm just so spoiled by all my babies. Thank you all so much." She kissed each of her children again.
"Wait," Finn licked his lips and searched around in his jacket again before digging out yet another small box.
"Do you have a jewelry store on your person?" Rachel joked.
"Gotta give you your present from your original baby – shut it Puckerman!" Finn said loudly as he heard Puck snicker, about to make a comment about him 'being a baby alright'.
She opened the box and found a lovely little blue topaz encrusted 'Z' charm to match her silver 'R' and 'F' charms and her ruby encrusted 'R' and amethyst inlaid 'L'. As her charm bracelet had been growing short on space over the years, Finn only got her new charms for it on Christmas. He held her wrist out and Finn helped her add it to her other babies' letters.
"Thank you, dear. I love it." Rachel pecked Finn on the lips and he deepened it forgetting there was a room full of people until a throat cleared. He pulled away and looked around. "Okay! Pickle time!" he said to remove the attention from him and Rachel.
"What's 'pickle time'?" Shelby asked. It was her and Beth's first Christmas with the Hummel-Hudsons and she was quite unfamiliar with their traditions.
"Every year when Santa brings the presents during the night he hides a special pickle ornament in the tree. Whoever finds the ornament gets their pick of the extra presents. Only the kids participate though no matter how much Kurt protests."
"I think that is ageism and I will continue to protest."
"He just whines because I always found the pickle first before we started only letting the kids participate."
Kurt shook his head and crossed his arms over his chest, unhappy at never finding the pickle first. Santa patted him on the back before standing up to referee the pickle hunting. As soon as he said 'go' the children went a little crazy and by the end of it Isaac was triumphant but only because he shoved Roxy out of the way and into her brand new Barbie Dream House causing her to smash it to pieces. When she saw the damage done everyone expected her to begin crying but she shocked them all when all she did was stand up, brush herself off, calmly walk over to Isaac and punch him hard in the eye before kneeing him in the groin again.
Rachel had no choice but to scold Roxy for hitting Isaac but honestly, she couldn't blame her too much and it wasn't exactly uncalled for. Isaac got his punishment for shoving Roxanne as well and both apologized to the other. The Dream House was destroyed which meant they'd have to get her a new one but Anjali said she would take care of it.
Things calmed down after all the kids got their extra presents and Isaac and Roxy managed to keep from killing each other for the remainder of the night. After all the presents had been unwrapped and dessert had been eaten, the group finally began to disperse. Puck and Anjali were the last to leave and as they said goodbye, somehow Roxy and Isaac found themselves alone in the living room.
Roxy sneered at Isaac as they stood in front of each other. "My mom says I shouldn't say I hate anyone because hate is a strong word. She says I should say 'I strongly dislike' so I strongly dislike you."
"Well I strongly dislike you more," Isaac retorted. "I'll never like you."
"Well, I'll never like you." She stuck her tongue out at him and he pulled on her hair. "Ow! You're so mean!"
"Isaac, let's go!" Anjali called from the doorway.
"I gotta go," he said quietly.
"Good 'cause I don't want you here."
"Good 'cause I don't wanna be here anymore." Isaac turned away to leave before turning back really quick. "I'm sorry I threw that pie at you and made you break your doll house."
Roxy turned her nose up at him as she folded her arms over her chest. "You should be."
He gave her a weak smile. "Bye Roxanne. Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas," she grumbled. Isaac finally left her presence and as he walked to the door he couldn't stop his mouth from twitching into a tiny smile.
When Puck and Anjali left, Finn and Rachel walked back into the living room to find Roxy sitting on the couch holding one of her new baby dolls she had gotten. Finn scooped her up. "Ready for bed, Roxy doll?"
She shook her head no but a yawn betrayed her. "Will Santa bring me a new Dream House tonight?" she asked with an inquisitive tone.
"Not tonight, Rox. Don't worry, you'll get a new one. Come on, it's time for bed." Finn scooped up Liam who had fallen asleep on the chair and carried them both upstairs where Zach had already been put down for the night while Rachel offered to help Carole and Burt clean up downstairs.
Once in her pajamas and comfortably in bed, Roxy had quickly fallen asleep and Finn changed into some sweats, a t-shirt and for added festiveness his Santa hat before going back downstairs. He was met by Rachel in the hallway before he could even make it down however.
"Your mom and Burt are finishing cleaning. They said I looked exhausted and should go to bed."
"You've been running after kids all day and didn't get much sleep, it's understandable." He pulled Rachel in for a hug and walked her to his bedroom. "I know you're tired but do you think maybe we could get a jump on sex-iversary sex? We probably won't have that much time tomorrow seeing as we're supposed to take the kids over to Shelby's for lunch then go to your dads' for dinner." He closed the door behind him as they entered and they both fell onto the bed with a slight grunt.
Rachel shrugged as she lay underneath her husband who was busy working on giving her a nice lovebite on her neck. "I guess we can. It'll put me to sleep faster."
Finn pulled away and looked at her offended. "Thanks."
"That's not what I mean. You always tucker me out, baby," she assured seductively before pulling him down for a kiss. "Thanks for making this Christmas really great. I loved all my gifts and getting to spend time with everyone. I love Christmas in New York but Christmas at home reminds me of the old days."
"Me too. I really love that new drum kit you got me. Ever since Liam put his head through my old bass drum it just hasn't played the same." They both chuckled. "Y'know, we could possibly sneak in a quickie in your bedroom at your dads' tomorrow to really make it like the old days." His eyebrow twitched up.
Rachel bit her lip. "We'll see. Now Santa, let's make this a very merry Christmas before I fall asleep."
"Sure thing, Mrs. Claus."
Finn couldn't help but think that he really loved Christmas.
So I have a million ideas for this fic still but I'm always open to more. If there's anything you'd like to see just let me know. :)
And I'd like to wish everyone a merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, and happy Kwanzaa if you celebrate any of those. Happy holidays everyone!