If you're wondering why it's took me so long to write the next chapter, it's because I'm back in America. Therefore I doubt I'll be putting much British Soap Characters names into this fic. Also I saw the Teen Choice Awards last night, I admire Lea SO much for that, she's one of the bravest and strongest people out there. I'm so glad she knows she has all our love & support. Her speech left me in tears, I'm so glad she won and that glee won also. Blake Jenner and Chord Overstreet also picked up awards for Glee. Overall Glee did get alot of awards, I'm just upset that Cory wasn't there to witness them. Anyway, enjoy and PLEASE REVIEW.

On getting back to the house after picking Abigail and little Finn up, Finn had decided that him and his son would join Rachel and Abigail in baking. They were now in the kitchen where Rachel was mixing the cake mix after Finn had tried and failed, only proceeding to spray it all over. "You know, I think you've made more mess than the kids"

"I think you're talking rubbish"

Rachel laughed and shook her head a little "do you think you could manage to melt some chocolate?"

"I can work a microwave"

"So that'd be a no then. Don't use the microwave it ruins it, I've tried and tested it. Use hot water"

"Yes boss" he smirked and mock saluted before went into the cupboard to get out two bowls, one smaller than the other.

Abigail ran across the kitchen and into the back of Finn's legs at the mere mention of chocolate, "I help you Finn?"

"Course you can sweetheart" he smiled and wrapped his arm around her waist to lift her, sitting her on the kitchen top. "We have to be careful though, so we don't burn ourselves."

Abigail nodded "where chocolate?" she shrugged, throwing her little arms up as she spoke. "It gone?"

Finn chuckled and shook his head. "No it's in the fridge, I'll get it in a minute darlin'"

Abigail nodded once "darlin'"

Rachel laughed quietly from where she was standing and couldn't help but find how Finn acted around Abigail adorable. Oh she had it bad, and she knew it. She turned around and was about to say something over in their direction when little Finn wandered back into the kitchen and she smiled, holding one hand out to him which he toddled over to take. "Do you want to help?"

He nodded and Rachel smiled, lifting him up onto the work surface as Finn had done only moments before with Abigail. After putting down the whisk that she had been mixing with, Rachel dipped her finger into the bowl before holding it out to Finn. "Here, taste"

He hesitated for a moment before leaning forward and tasting the cake mix Rachel had offered to him. "mmmm"

Rachel smiled "nice?"

Finn nodded "tasty"

"Did I do a good job?"

"Yeah" he grinned, "I have some more?"

Rachel nodded and allowed him to dip his finger in the bowl, doing the same herself.

When Abigail shouted over to them, Rachel couldn't help the laugh that escaped her lips, "mama, stop eating all that"

"It's very tasty"

"No mama you stop or I shout at you."

"Yeah mama . . ." Finn smirked

Rachel raised her eyebrow a little "but out you."

Finn laughed and after getting the chocolate he let Abigail help him break it up and put it into a bowl that was sitting in the hot water he had filled the bigger bowl with so that it would melt. Rachel was helping Finn with spooning the cake mix into cases, holding her hand over his as they put it in. "Do they take a long time?"

Rachel shook her head "no, not too long sweetheart. Are you going to decorate one for your daddy?"

Finn nodded "yeah, I decorate one for you?"

Rachel smiled and nodded "yeah if you want to"

Finn grinned before returning to spooning the mix from the bowl into the cases with her.

Once Rachel had put the cake mix into the oven she laughed at Abigail who was covered in a mixture of flour and chocolate. "I think someone needs a bath"

"No, we do cakes"

"They need to cook and then cool down baby, have a bath while they do that, yeah?"

Abigail nodded and held her arms out to Rachel who picked her up and held her on her hip. "I'll just go and put her in the bath while they cook Finn."

He nodded "I think I'm going to do the same with Finn Jr . . ."

Rachel smiled and turned to walk out of the kitchen when Finn placed his hand on her arm. "The button at the side of the bath . . . Press it when she's in there . . ."

Rachel frowned "why?"

"Just trust me . . ."

"She might soak the place"

Finn laughed "it's fine, you'd think a couple of swimmers had been in the bathroom when he's been in." Finn gestured to his son with a nod.

Rachel smiled "thanks again, Finn . . ."

"I've told you that you don't need to thank me . . ."

Rachel gave a small smile and after a moment she turned around and went upstairs into the room that she was staying in with Abigail. She filled the bath with warm water and sat down at the side of it. One she had undressed Abigail she lifted her into the water. "Big bath mama"

"I know, do you like it?"

Abigail nodded and sat down in the bath "we stay with Finn now?"

"For a little while"

"Is Finn my daddy now?"

Rachel gave a sad smile and shook her head, running her hand over Abigail's hair gently "no sweetheart, Finn is just our friend."

"But I like him more than daddy" Abigail pouted.

Rachel nodded "me too baby, me too." Rachel pushed her hair back gently and sighed, running her tongue over her teeth as she tried to rid all thoughts of Brody from her mind. She knew that if she could have she would have wiped away Abigail's memories of him too. "Here should we try this?" Rachel questioned in the hope of changing the subject of conversation, gesturing to the button that was at the side of the bath.

"What does it do?"

"I don't know . . ."

"I press it?"

"Yeah go on then"

Abigail stepped through the water and over to where the white button was, hesitating for a moment before she pressed it. After she had, a low rumbling noise came from the bath which made her panic and turn to go straight back to Rachel. "I no like it mama, get out"

Rachel lifted her so that she was sitting on the edge of the bath with her back against her chest. "Wait a minute baby, keep your legs in" Abigail held onto Rachel's arm that was around her waist as though her life depended in it, but when the bath began to bubble from the jets that were in it and noise subsided, Abigail frowned and Rachel smiled. It then became apparent that Finn had suggested she try out the jacuzzi/whirlpool option in the bath for Abigail.

"Makes bubbles"

"Yeah, do you want to get back in?"

Rachel hesitated for a moment before nodding "I touch them"

Rachel smiled and nodded as Abigail moved to get back into the bath, putting her hands out to place over one of the jets, giggling as it bubbled the water under her hands. "I love dis bath mama, we get one?"

"If we with the lottery"

"Deal" Abigail grinned, and Rachel couldn't help laughing at her daughter's lack of understanding in regards to what she had said.

Twenty minutes later and Abigail was still playing in the bath after having her hair washed. Rachel was soaking wet from sitting by her daughter as she played, her excitement over the bath still not having subsided. Rachel leaned over to take a towel from the heated rail and held it out to Abigail who pouted and shook her head. "No mama, not yet . . ."

"Yes Abigail, now"

"5 more minutes?"

"We said that ten minutes ago."

"Pretty please"

"If you get out now, I might let you get in again tomorrow . . ."

Abigail hesitated for a moment, considering Rachel's offer before she walked to the side of the bath before Rachel wrapped her in the towel and picked her up.

"It's warm an' toasty"

Rachel laughed, "Is it?"

Abigail nodded and wrapped her arms around Rachel's neck as she carried her into the bedroom. After drying her off she changed her into a little lemon colored onesie and dried her hair as she sat on her lap. After doing so, she turned around with Abigail and carried her downstairs. When she stepped into the kitchen Finn laughed. "Did you get a bath with your clothes on?"

"Oh you're funny"

"So she liked the bath then"

"Once the noise had stopped yeah, she'd have been in that all night if I'd have let her."

Finn smiled "why don't you go get a bath while I decorate the cakes with these two?"

"You don't mind?"

Finn shook his head "no go on" he held his hands out to take Abigail, and Rachel ruffled her hair gently. "Try to keep her as clean as you can."

Finn smiled and nodded as Rachel turned around and wandered out of the kitchen, going upstairs to get a bath herself. She filled the bath with water and turned it onto a higher setting than it had been on when Abigail was in the bath so the bubbles came out faster. She undressed and stepped in before lying down, a relaxed sigh rolling from her lips as she tried to remember the last time that she felt as she did at that moment in time. Rachel knew that there was still a lot she needed to sort out but now that herself and Abigail had somewhere to stay and she had a job, she hoped that it would be easier to sort out than she had thought it would be the previous day. She wished that things were different with Finn but she knew that he was married and that she had been the one who had first deemed what had happened a mistake, so could hardly blame him for his reaction. However she hadn't meant what she had said in the slightest and little things that had happened between them since their talk had made her suspect that he felt the same as she did about what had been said, though she was trying not to get her hopes up in fear of being wrong.

In the kitchen, Finn had put a little apron on little Finn and Abigail and had given them some cakes to decorate. There was bowls of chocolate, smarties, marshmallows, hundreds and thousands and Haribo sweets for them to use. Finn walked over to where little Finn was standing and smiled as he picked up a Haribo sweet to place onto the melted chocolate. "Are you having fun son?"

Finn nodded "I like Rachel"

"So do I"

"Abigail too?"

Finn smiled and nodded "are you going to make me one?"

Little Finn nodded "yeah, make Rachel one too?"

Finn nodded with a smile before he turned around and walked over to where Abigail was standing. "Hello little Miss . . ."

"'Ello Finn, I like your baff"

Finn smiled "did you have fun?"

Abigail nodded "my mama likes you"

"I like your mama too"

"She said you not my daddy but I like you more"

"I like you too" Finn smiled, a little unsure of what to say in response to Abigail's first comment.

"Don't like my daddy"

Finn wasn't sure whether he had done the right thing in asking Abigail more, but he found the question was out of his mouth before he had the chance to stop it. "Why not?"

"He hits mama, like dis?" Abigail flung her arm out to imitate a punch, her hand curled into a little fist.

Finn paled, hesitating before he answered this time, "well it's just you and your mummy now isn't it?"

"You and Finn too?"

Finn smiled and nodded and decided to change the subject, gesturing to the cake Abigail had placed in front of her. "Who is this for?"

"Mama"

Rachel had got out of the bath after a nice soak and had put on a pink nighty, deciding to just leave her hair damp. On getting to the kitchen she had been outside of the door when Abigail had spoken her name and it caused her to pause before she stepped inside.

Finn smiled "what are you going to put on it?"

Abigail shrugged "I no know"

"A heart?" Finn suggested.

"Heart?"

He nodded "a heart means love"

"We love mama?"

Finn smiled and nodded "yeah, yeah we do . . ." He leaned over and began helping Abigail create the shape of a heart on the top of the cake.

Outside of the door Rachel felt her heart flutter when Finn spoke and she knew immediately that she felt the same way, though she doubted whether she would have the guts to tell him. She waited for a moment and tried to get her heart rate to return to normal before she opened the door and stepped through into the kitchen, pretending that she had come straight down from the bath. "Hey, are you having fun?"

Abigail nodded "I make you dis mama" she turned around and handed her the cake which caused Rachel to smile.

"Thank you" she took it from her gently and had a bite "mmmm, it's lovely . . ."

Abigail picked one up and began eating it as Finn passed his dad one and then picked up one for himself.

After eating the cakes, Rachel made Abigail brush her teeth before lying with her as she settled in bed with a bottle of warm milk. Rachel picked up the bottle when she was sure Abigail wouldn't be disturbed if she moved and turned around to leave the room, flicking on the night light as she left. She descended the stairs and smiled as she walked into the kitchen to find Finn, holding out a glass of wine to her. "Oh, thank you. Both kids down by seven, I think that's quite and achievement." Rachel smiled, having a sip of the drink before following Finn into the living room.

Finn sat downing the couch and gestured for Rachel to do the same, nodding in agreement at what she had said. "I know, I think they had fun though"

"Me too, we made far too many cakes though"

Finn laughed, "oh I'm sure they'll get eaten . . ." he smiled and paused for a moment before speaking up again, though this time his voice was a little more serious than it previously had been. "If I ask you something do you promise not to go mad?"

Rachel frowned "why would I?"

"Just . . . Do it . . ."

Rachel hesitated for a moment before nodding, "alright . . ."

"Who's Abigail's dad?"

Rachel swallowed hard, "why?"

"I'm just asking . . ."

"No you're not, if you were just asking you would have done long before now."

"Did he hit you?" The question was out before Finn had even had chance to process it fully and when Rachel paled considerably he had his answer without her having to say anything.

Rachel shook her head a little before getting up, "I'm going to bed . . ." she mumbled and placed her glass on the side before heading towards the door, though was stopped when Finn's hand held her arm gently.

"Please don't walk away from me . . ."

"I can't do this . . ."

"Hey, hey . . ." Finn turned Rachel around and ran the back of his hand down her cheek gently. "I care about you so much and I want to help you but I can't if I don't know what's gone on . . ." he whispered.

"I've never told anyone . . ."

"If you're worried I'll tell someone . . ." he shook his head, finishing his sentence with the gesture.

Rachel shook her head a little to let him know that he didn't think he would without having to say anything, and after a small pause she spoke up once more, this time about what it was that was worrying her. "I don't know where to start . . ."

"Just start at the beginning . . ."

"It's a long story . . ." Rachel whispered, the haunted expression she wore causing Finn to feel sick to the stomach.

"If you're hoping that's going to put me off, you're wrong . . ."

Finn dropped his hand from Rachel's cheek and reached down to take her hand, picking up her drink with his other as he led her gently back to the couch. Rachel sat down and Finn passed her back her glass of wine before sitting back down beside her again, placing his hand over her's, giving it a gentle squeeze as he waited for her to speak.

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