Hey everyone! Here's chapter 3! Thank you for all the favs, alerts, and reviews! I'm excited to see the amount of reception this fic is getting so far.

Since this is obviously AU and some of the characters don't know each other, I'm going to clarify who knows each other and who doesn't at the end of this chapter since a new character is being introduced.

I don't own Glee. The only characters I own are Tara, Shane, Daniel Barnes and Lynn Barnes. (Also any of the kids who appear because I'm too lazy to type them out.)

Enjoy!

"So, Rach, are you excited to be on Late Night with Sam Evans?" Kurt asked before taking a sip of his steaming coffee. Rachel and Santana chugged down a sip of their iced coffee before the Broadway star thought of an answer for his question.

"I guess so. I mean, I'm going to be on three talk shows this week; one in Los Angeles, a daytime talk show, and one tonight here in New York. This is my only one in New York, and I'm going to miss my kids," she said with a sigh.

"If you want I can write some crap about how much you miss your kids," Santana suggested. She may have appreciated her friend being her PR rep, but sometimes her stories were a little too far fetched.

"The thing is Santana, I will miss them. When you travel, don't you miss Anna?" she asked. Anna was her and Brittany's two year old daughter.

"Of course I miss her, but she still has one of her mom's at home with her all the time. It's not like I'm going to be gone forever," the Latina explained. She didn't understand her logic. Then again, she didn't have eight kids to worry about either.

"And I miss my kids when I'm working at Vogue and when Blaine's teaching too. When we're with them though it's like we haven't been a part," Kurt added. She probably felt this way because it was only recently she was able to connect with all of her children. Jesse was their main caregiver while she was working her strict hours on Broadway. Now that she hired Tara and she was able to spend more time with them things felt different. "But anyways, the crowd is going to love you tonight. They always love someone from the area."

"I'm hoping he goes easy on me. This is one of my first interviews since Jesse's death, and I'm still adjusting to the paparazzi not following my every move anymore," the Broadway star took in a sigh before looking at her phone. It was noon, which meant two of her children would be out of school in a few hours. All of her children were around by three-thirty, but she had to film her talk show at three of four. Then she was going to have to hop on a plane for Los Angeles and stay there for two days to film her other two talk shows. And as soon as she finished filming the last one she'd jump on a plane home to be with her kids by Saturday evening.

"I'm sure he will," Santana comfortingly spoke. She then smirked while saying "Not many people know this, but I'm his PR rep too, and if he pulls anything that makes me what to smash him through his chair I'll tell a tabloid about something scandalous."

"Thanks Santana," Rachel smiled.

"Oh yeah!" Kurt hit his hand on the table, which started the two girls. "I forgot to tell you, my step-brother works as a production assistant on Late Night with Sam. His name is Finn Hudson."

"Hudson? I thought your dad married his mom?" she asked.

"They did, but we both decided to keep our original last names. I guess his reasoning was to honor his dad," he stopped there, as if he had to continue but couldn't.

"Well don't think I'm going to go up to him saying I want to date him just because you told me about him, Kurt. Let's see if I even meet him first," she pointed out as she got up from her chair. "I have to go. I'll text you guys soon, ok?"

Rachel waved goodbye while leaving the seating area of the coffee shop, but before she could reach the door she accidentally bumped into someone much taller than her. "Oh gosh, I'm so sorry!"

"It's cool," the man said, who bent his neck in order to look at her. She noticed he had a long mohawk on the top of his head. "Aren't you Rachel Berry? The Broadway actress?"

"Why yes, yes I am," the brunette beamed. "And you are...?"

"Noah Puckerman, but you can call me Puck. Say, aren't you supposed to be on a late show tonight?"

"Yep, and tomorrow I'll be on a daytime show, and then Saturday I'm filming another one for this coming Monday."

"You're a busy girl, aren't ya? One of my girlfriend's from high school was on that Sam one last night, Quinn Fabray. She's hot," Puck said, but turned his voice into a whisper. "But not as smokin' as you."

Rachel blushed. This stranger was flirting with her! Mostly she'd reject them and walk away, but he didn't seem like a threat.

"You're quite the smooth talker Noah. I must go though, I'm a bit of a hurry. I'll see you around," she said while extending her arm for a handshake. He accepted the offer and shook it gently. They said one final goodbye before she got inside her limo and told Shane where she wanted to go. She didn't realized her hand was still in the form of a fist until she release it, and saw a piece of crumpled up paper fall on her lap. She unwrapped it and it revealed Noah's number. She smiled while she looked at it. He clearly kept pieces of paper like this hanging around in his pocket.

Noah was certainly an interesting guy, that was for sure.

-outnumbered-

Finn sat on the couch, watching tv and keeping an eye on Lucas at the same time. He noticed the way Lucas played with his toys in his playpen; so innocently and filled with nothing but imagination. Today was his lucky day, he only had to help on the set of Sam's show today just for filming instead of staying there all day. He knew he'd have to get ready in an hour, but he decided to relax using the time he had to do so.

Suddenly, his phone starting ringing next to him, and he decided to see who was calling. His lips pursed as he read the number and let his phone ring. It was that same number that called him once a month; typical of the Barnes. He rolled his eyes once before pressing answer and started to talk.

"Hello, who is this?" Finn asked with a playful smiled on his face.

"Finn, that's not funny. You know who this is," the man spoke.

"Are you sure you have the right number? And how do you know my name his Finn?" he questioned.

"You do this every time Daniel and I call, and I don't like it. Is this the way you're raising our grandchildren? Making a joke out of everything and treating things like they're a game?" he heard Lynn speaking now. They were obviously on speaker phone with him.

"It's funny how up until last year you didn't even think of my children as your own blood. Now that Kate's gone you suddenly want to reconnect with us. Well I don't think so," Finn snapped.

"Kate was our daughter, we have the right to see her children."

"They're mine too, you know. All ten of them are a part of me and her."

"We still haven't' forgiven you," Daniel spat.

"Well I guess that's only fair, since Kate and I never forgave the two of you anyways," Lucas started crying while he was talking. It looked like he fell down on accident. "Look, I gotta go. I'm looking forward to this exact conversation next month." And he hung up the phone without saying goodbye. When were they going to leave him alone? He wasn't going to even consider letting them see his kids until they apologized for what they did.

So here's how most people in this AU are connected: Rachel, Jesse, and Santana grew up in New York their whole life. Kurt, Blaine, Finn, and Brittany all knew each other from Ohio. Puck and Quinn know each other from living in L.A up until he moved away to attempt at becoming a rock star. Kate (Finn's wife) also grew up in L.A. Sam grew up somewhere else too.

Do you think Puck is going to get in the way of Finn and Rachel? And we still don't know what's going on with Kate's parents. What did they do exactly? Put what you think in your review!

Coming up in chapter 4: Finn and Rachel meet. How do you think it'll go?Will Sam say something on his show that might be a little too revealing?