A/N: Thank you to everyone who is following along on this journey with us. I'm loving the feedback & seeing where each of us takes our one-shot. I feel like mine this week went in a more obvious direction than I like, but I'm having a stressful week, and just happy to be able to participate. I hope you still enjoy it! xoxo

Prompt #5: The one that got away.

Character(s): Rachel & Kurt with a bonus cameo

Words: 540

Date: August 1, 2012

The One That Got Away

"In another life

I would be your girl

We'd keep all our promises

Be us against the world."

Rachel's voice filled the small karaoke bar with heartache and longing, as Kurt watched from a table just left of centre. His phone rested on the table, but at an angle so that Rachel couldn't see that it was currently on speakerphone.

Blaine slid gracefully into the vacant seat beside Kurt. Blaine reached under the table and slowly traced his fingers along the inseam of Kurt's painted on jeans. He leaned sideways and placed his mouth at the outer shell of Kurt's ear, "I'm so grateful that that isn't me on that stage right now. For what it's worth, I will never regret our fights or tears we shed because it means we're sitting here facing our future together. I love you." Blaine kissed the soft skin just below Kurt's earlobe.

Kurt turned his head and kissed the corner of Blaine's mouth before he whispered, "I love you too. You've always been worth fighting for."

"In another life

I would make you stay."

Kurt heard the pain in every word Rachel sang and didn't know how he hadn't realized it before. It was only six months ago that she had broken down and confessed to him that she was having dreams of Finn. Kurt was shocked. In the four years that they had been in New York City, Rachel had only ever mentioned his step-brother a handful of times. He had believed that she was truly over him and everyone had believed her excuse that she was too busy becoming a Broadway star to have a boyfriend. Although plenty of worthy men had tried.

Rachel told Kurt that she had been haunted by a recurring dream in which she refused to board the train after high school graduation. Instead, she turned around and demanded that Finn marry her that day, the way they had been planning. She never knew what happened after that because she always woke up with tears streaming down her face. Even after all these years, Rachel said Finn still had her heart.

What Kurt didn't tell Rachel was that she still had Finn's heart also. His step-brother was lost and unfocused in Ohio, after the Army rejected his application. Kurt was not one to play cupid, but this had gone on for too long. And against his better judgement, he decided to give them a big push.

"So I don't have to say

You were the one that got away."

Rachel wiped away a few tears as she stepped off the stage. She smiled sweetly at Blaine as she sat in the seat on Kurt's other side. Kurt picked his phone up off the table and handed it to Rachel, "There's someone you need to speak to."

Confusion clouded Rachel's face until she glanced downward and saw Finn's name on the caller ID. A small gasp escaped her lips before she grasped the phone and held it to her ear with a shaking hand. Rachel took a deep breath and said, "Finn, that song was for you."