Hey everyone! Sorry it took me longer than usual to post this, I had some family issues over the weekend. Thanks as always for all the reviews on the last chapter, I really appreciate them. I actually changed the plans for this chapter today when the new duet was released because I thought it would be perfect for Finchel! Anyway, enjoy this chapter and review if you want me to continue!

Chapter 23: Expanding Families

"When should we tell her?" Finn whispered to Rachel.

Rachel smiled. She was a bit nervous about telling Allie. "Maybe when my mom and Beth come over tonight?"

"That sounds good," Finn said. "That way we can tell Beth and your mom, too. And then we can call my parents and your dads."

"Allie's going to be a great big sister," Finn said.

"She will!" Rachel agreed. It was a good thing Allie was at Mia's house now, so Finn and Rachel didn't have to worry about her overhearing them.

"When should we tell our friends?" Finn asked.

"Well, how about we go to dinner with a group of them when Brittany and Santana get back from their honeymoon and tell them then?" Rachel suggested.

"I like that idea!" Finn said.

Rachel couldn't believe she was pregnant again. She'd already had one baby, and now she was going to have another. Allie was going to be a big sister. It had been nearly a week since they found out, but they wanted to keep it a secret for now.

"So, do you think it'll go okay with work?" Finn asked.

"Yeah, it's fine," Rachel said. "I'm just in the chorus, so it doesn't really matter if I'm showing."

"In the policy book for work, it said they'll let me take four weeks off to be with you after the baby's born," Finn told Rachel.

"That's good," Rachel said.

x

That evening, Finn, Rachel and Allie were getting the house set up for dinner. Finn and Allie were watching TV in the living room as Rachel made dinner, and Shelby came in. "Rachel, Finn said to come into the living room."

Rachel knew what this probably meant. "I'll be right there." She went in the living room and sat down on the couch next to Finn.

"Mom, Beth, Allie, Finn and I have some news for you," Rachel said.

"What is it?" Allie asked, looking excited.

Finn looked like he wanted to say it, so Rachel decided to let him. "Rachel's pregnant!"

"Are you serious?" Shelby asked, hugging Rachel.

"Yes," Rachel said. "I took the pregnancy test shortly after Santana and Brittany's wedding."

"You'll be a big sister!" Finn said to Allie.

"Just like me!" Beth added.

"Yay!" Allie said. "I want a girl."

"It's too early to tell, Allie," Finn told his daughter. "We won't know for another few months."

"So, how far along are you, Rachel?" Shelby asked.

"Maybe a few weeks," Rachel said.

"That's so exciting," Shelby told her daughter. "Allie's going to be a big sister!"

"Where will the baby sleep?" Allie asked.

Finn and Rachel hadn't thought about this. Maybe a bigger apartment was in order. "We'll figure that out when it's closer to the baby being born."

"Okay," Allie said. "Can we give the baby my baby things?"

Rachel was happy to see Allie so excited. "We can!"

"You guys need to tell your dads, too, Rachel!" Beth said. "And Finn's parents. And my mom and dad."

That reminded Rachel of something. "Beth, don't tell your other parents just yet. We want to get to tell them."

Finn turned to Shelby. "Make sure she doesn't tell them."

"I won't let her," Shelby said.

"I'm so happy!" Allie said.

Rachel smiled at her daughter. "Good, so are Daddy and me."

x

That evening, after Shelby and Beth went home for the night, Finn and Rachel decided to call their parents back in Ohio to tell them the news. It did bring back bad memories for Rachel after what happened the last time she told her dads she was pregnant, but now that they were close again, this time would be better.

She dialed her dads' number and had the phone on speaker so that Finn could hear.

"Rachel?" she heard her dad Hiram's voice on the other end.

"Hey, dad," Rachel said. "Is Daddy home?"

"I'm here!" LeRoy said on the phone.

"Please don't get mad at me this time, but I'm pregnant again!" Rachel said.

"You are?" Hiram asked.

"She is!" Finn said. "We're getting another baby!"

"That's great!" LeRoy said. "You know how much we love Allie, and now we're getting another grandchild."

"You're not mad?" Rachel asked, holding Finn's hand.

"Of course we aren't," Hiram said. "I really think we were more shocked last time. But you and Finn are married and have solid jobs. We're so happy for you."

"Thanks, Dad," Rachel said.

"Is Allie excited?" LeRoy asked.

"She already wants to give the baby her baby things," Rachel said proudly.

"That's so sweet," Hiram said. "We'll come visit you guys soon, okay?"

"Okay," Rachel said. "I love you guys. We'd better call Burt and Carole now."

"We love you, too," LeRoy said before hanging up the phone.

"See, they aren't mad," Finn said, kissing Rachel.

"Let's call your parents now," Rachel said, smiling at Finn. Finn got out his phone and dialed his parents' number.

"Finn honey!" Carole said into the phone.

"Hey!" Rachel said.

"Oh, hi Rachel," Burt said.

"Guess what!" Finn said. They didn't have nerves about telling Burt and Carole since they were very accepting last year.

"Tell us," Carole said.

"Rachel's pregnant again!" Finn said.

"Are you serious?" Carole asked.

"Rachel, how far along are you?" Burt asked.

"A few weeks," Rachel said.

"Oh my God!" Carole exclaimed. "We need to come visit!"

"Have you told Kurt yet?" Burt asked.

"Not yet," Rachel said. "We're planning on going out with a bunch of our Glee friends to tell them."

"Kurt's going to want to buy a bunch of stuff for the baby, just warning you," Burt said.

"Oh, we know!" Rachel giggled.

x

A few days later, Finn, Rachel and Allie were going to go out to lunch at the karaoke bar to have lunch with all their New Directions friends who now lived in New York. Allie had really wanted to tell them, so Finn and Rachel had asked that they meet for lunch instead of dinner.

"How was the honeymoon?" Rachel asked Brittany and Santana as soon as they got to the bar for lunch.

"It was incredible!" Santana said. "Well, other than Brittany's sunburn."

"The sunburn hurts," Brittany giggled.

Finn nudged Rachel. "I got a text from Blaine, he and Kurt got a table."

"Did you miss me?" Allie asked Santana and Brittany.

"Of course we did!" Allie said.

Rachel could tell that Allie was about to tell them. "Wait until everyone gets here."

Finn, Rachel, Allie, Santana and Brittany joined Kurt and Blaine at the table. "So, my parents told me that you three have some news for us," Kurt said to Finn and Rachel.

"What?" Allie asked.

Finally, Jake, Harmony, Ryder and Marley came in. "Now that everyone's here, can I say?" Allie asked excitedly.

"Say what?" Jake asked.

"My mommy's having another baby!" Allie shouted.

"You are?" Harmony asked Rachel.

"I am!" Rachel said. "I think I'm a few weeks along."

"That's so exciting!" Ryder said. "Allie, are you excited to be a big sister?"

"I want to be this baby's godfather, since Kurt got to be Allie's," Blaine said.

"Well, we have lots of choices," Rachel said.

"Speaking of babies..." Blaine said, turning to Kurt.

"What?" Finn asked.

"About a week before we made plans for having kids with Brittany and Santana, we heard about a teenage couple who's having a baby but doesn't feel ready to take care of it," Kurt said. "Since we didn't have the plan worked out with Brittany and Santana yet, we didn't think there would be a way for us to have kids, so the people we know who know them but us in contact with them. We're in the process of applying to be the adoptive parents of that baby."

"And to keep up with the original plan, we would like Brittany and Santana to be that baby's mothers as well," Blaine said.

"We're going to have a baby, too!" Santana said.

"I'm so happy for the four of you," Rachel said. "The four of you will be amazing parents."

"So I get another cousin?" Allie asked.

"Yes you do!" Finn told his daughter.

"The Glee family's growing," Ryder said.

After lunch, the group decided that they wanted to sing some songs at the karaoke bar at the restaurant. Today, there was a live band to play songs rather than just electronic music. The group began looking through the list of songs when Ryder had an idea. "We should sing some of Marley's original songs."

"You write songs?" Rachel asked Marley.

Marley looked surprised that her boyfriend had said that. "Yeah, I do."

"They're really good," Harmony added. "I've heard some of them in our apartment."

"I do have the music to some of them on my iPod," Marley said.

"Let's give them a try," Kurt said.

"Okay, maybe one of the couples getting a baby should get the first one," Jake said.

"Finn and Rachel can go first, since they found out first," Santana said.

"I'll find a duet for you two," Marley said, going through her iPod. Then she found one and gave her iPod to one of the band members so they could see the music and put the music on the projector for Finn and Rachel. Rachel happily took her place at the stand with Finn, excited to sing another duet with him.

Rachel: I can't stay here
I am not the girl who runs and hides
Afraid of what could be
And I will go there
I need time, but know that things are always closer
Than they seem
Now I'll do more than dream, yeah!
Finn and Rachel: I'm gonna fly
Gonna crash right through the sky
Rachel: Gonna touch the sun (Finn: Touch the sun)
Show everyone (Finn: Show everyone)
That it's
Finn and Rachel: All or nothing
All or nothing
This is my life
I'm not gonna live it twice
Rachel: There's no in-between (Finn: No in-between)
Take it too extreme (Finn: Too extreme)
'Cause it's
Finn and Rachel: All or nothing
All or nothing
Or nothing at all
Finn: I can't give up
Can't just let it burn
And watch the fire
I started turn to dust (Rachel: Yeah, yeah)
Finn and Rachel: And now, please don't judge me
Take my hand and say you'll always wish me well and send me luck
Finn: 'Cause that would
Finn and Rachel: Be enough, yeah
I'm gonna fly
Gonna crash right through the sky
Rachel: Gonna touch the sun (Finn: Touch the sun)
Show everyone (Finn: Show everyone)
That it's
Finn and Rachel: All or nothing
All or nothing
'Cause
This is my life!
I'm not gonna live it twice
Rachel: There's no in-between (Finn: No in-between)
Take it too extreme (Finn: Too extreme)
'Cause it's
Finn and Rachel: All or nothing
All or nothing
At all!
Nothing can stop us now
There was never a shadow of doubt
That... I'm gonna fly
Gonna crash right through the sky
Gonna touch the sun
Show everyone
That it's
All or nothing
All or nothing
This is my life!
I'm not gonna live it twice
Rachel: There's no in-between (Finn: No in-between)
Take it too extreme (Finn: Too extreme)
'Cause it's
Finn and Rachel: All or nothing
All or nothing
At all
Yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
'Cause it's all or nothing at all!
Nothing at all!
Yeah
All or nothing
All or nothing
At all!
All or nothing...

At the end of the song, their friends applauded. "You're really talented at this," Rachel told Marley.

"Thanks," Marley said back.

x

"When will you tell your other friends?" Allie asked as the family was walking home.

"We'll probably call them when we get home," Finn said. "Before the ones who already know have a chance to tell everyone."

"Mommy? Daddy?" Allie asked.

"What is it, honey?" Rachel asked.

"You'll still love me when the new baby comes," Allie said nervously. "Right?"

Finn and Rachel both couldn't relate to that since they both grew up without siblings, but they felt bad when Allie said that. "Of course we will!" Finn said. "We could never stop loving you."

"And the baby will love you, too," Rachel added. "You are our first child, and you'll always be special to us!"

Allie smiled now. "Yay!" She hugged Finn and Rachel.

Chapter 24 preview: Allie has her first real injury. Finn and Rachel go to their first doctor's appointment.