Don't miss your life.

"Don't let such precious moments pass. We all know time goes way too fast. Hold on tight 'cause it don't happen twice" Phill Vassair

Finn Hudson has a successful life as as business man to his father's company a somewhat exhausting demanding job which requires him to be away a lot. One day he gets the chance to realize his job isn't as important as missing on his own life.

I adore the song by Phil Vassar and I thought I'd write a short fic, maybe not more than 5 chapters. I don't know if I will expand it. I do hope you enjoy!

There's some of the kids from various of my fics but this is an independent story from the others even though the background is similar. For example Cory but you don't need to read my other ones to understand it.

I own nothing.

Chapter 2

He cursed under his breath when the alarm didn't go off in time. He'd swore he had made sure he wouldn't miss his flight. His dad had called him to make sure everything was right on schedule. He had called him just as the airplane door closed on his back.

"Well, what are the chances?" A familiar voice said on the side.

"Richard."

"Hello Finn." The man said kindly. Finn took his seat, making sure his belt was secure. "Small world?"

"I guess." He smiled kindly, texting something on his phone before the flight attendant came to tell him off. "Rachel."

"I see." Richard said. "She just checking up on you?"

"She worries a lot. Plus it's my kid's hockey game later tonight so she said she won't be on for a while, they are going for pizza after" Richard looked at him curiously as if he had had an Epiphany of some sort.

"New York Pizza, the best there is." Finn chuckled.

"Indeed."

"Sorry you're missing it," he said kindly. "LA isn't that bad on its pizza either." They remained quiet for a moment before the plane took off. Finn really didn't want to be rude to the old man but he really didn't want to screw on this meeting so he got on his computer quickly, somewhat typing furiously.

"Those your kids?" Richard's voice pierced his ears for a moment as the computers wallpaper came on. It was a picture of The Hudson family in Central Park, Finn had his arms around Rachel as a small boy sat tall on his shoulders, Rachel held a baby in her arms while to other boys were on either side of Finn and Rachel. "Quite the family you've got there." Finn then explained the picture as a smile crept on his lips. The boy on his shoulders was Jack, and the baby's name was Hannah, the only girl of the brood and latest addition, Matty was the hockey star and Cory, who was almost as tall as Rachel was his eldest.

"You didn't waste any time did you?" Finn laughed. "Kid, I have to tell you, it's like staring at myself in the mirror 30 years ago." Finn turned his face to listen.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I to married young although it was somewhat normal for people to do that in my time, a lot has changed since then." Finn instantly thought of Kurt and Blaine. "But I did have to work to support my family, I couldn't afford to slack, you know?" Finn nodded. "For you it's hockey, for me it was baseball. I don't know how many games I missed and kicked myself over it later," a flash of his son's disappointed face made Finn look away. "I missed recitals and games, PTA meetings, all because I had to work."

"Someone has to, right?" Finn tried to make himself feel better by saying he was giving them a better future, then he thought about Christopher and how his dedication to work had taken a toll on his relationship with Carole, he didn't want to think of reaching those levels of crazy with Rachel, they had both had it rough starting in New York, not even being together when she had become pregnant with Cory because Rachel had plans, to make it big and he didn't. He remembered countless conversations with his dad about the Army and football and how if he really wanted he could make a name for himself either way, Finn had said the Army had a good ring to it and went on to screw that one, discharged and obviously a total failure in his dads eyes, he did get into college after taking a year off post school in which he had broken up with Rachel and she went on to her dreams until he had knocked her up, moving to the city had not being Finn's choice, he was clearly intimidated by the implications of it all, but he had learned a lot on the year without Rachel, he'd grown up and so they decided to raise a child together. It was tough taking care of a kid and stuff but he had made it work, even with Cory's disease, Plus Finn had finally discovered what he wanted to do. Teaching was something he was passionate about and it came easy to him, of course that wasn't what he was doing right now, but he hoped to go back to it eventually, when he didn't have so many expenses.

He really had not had a choice after school to not help out his dad even though he was teaching, so when Christopher finally decided he wanted to take less responsibility on the company, Finn had taken over.

"Yes, but a teacher? What are you doing here kid?"

"Taking care of my family, making it count." Finn said bluntly.

"By not being yourself? That's a high price to pay." Yes it was. For him and Rachel. God bless her soul, his relentless diva had had her run of success, oddly enough it came pretty fast for her, her dream role had happened for her and he had been there every step of the way. Until neither of them could do it anymore, and Rachel decided to step back, somehow he thought that wouldn't have been possible for his wife, but he later found out he had been wrong about a lot of things, including this job. And still, here was, on a Saturday. On a plane, his meeting awaiting.

"May I be blunt?" Richard asked. "It seems to me that you're the kind of person who gives himself unconditionally to whatever you do... And I admire that, but Finn, is this what you want your story to be? Trust me, If I had had someone telling me to look back on my life, I would have listen to them."

Finn had been thinking about Richard's words all day, somehow zooming in and out during his meeting. It had gone great but Finn had this feeling clutching onto his chest. He felt guilty and worried. He wondered then how Rachel was feeling, having given it all up, her out of all people to be able to raise his children, sure, she'd grown up and she always said she had loved having a family with him... But was it really that if he was out most of the time? And was she really happy just being a mom?

So what did you think of chapter two? We had an insight of how Finn and Rachel's life is like, so what's Finn going to do? Just wanted to clarify that Christopher is actually Alive here!

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