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

Don't miss your life." 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.

A/N: hello everyone! Thank you so much for supporting the story! Sorry it took me so long! I do hope you like what's to come next.

Chapter 6:

"Happy birthday baby!" Rachel said as Cory blew the candles on his cake. They'd decided to have it as a small picnic near Central Park with everyone who was still in New York.
"Did you make a wish?" Finn asked him quietly. Cory nodded.
"Okay so... Time for presents!" Kurt said excitedly. "Open mine and uncle's Blaine." Cory did as he was told. Kurt, working on fashion recived quite the discounts in some stores and got Finn and Rachel's kids with clothes. The rest of the gifts consisted on various items from his aunts and uncles and money from his grandparents.

Finn spotted Rachel watching the kids play silently as he totted Hannah. "What's on your mind babe?" Rachel leaned her head on her husband's shoulder.
"I was... I can't believe Cory is ten... I remember walking up at night when he cried and not knowing if he'd always be with us."
"Rachel..."
"I know, I know... I'm overthinking everything... But, Finn I really thought I would never see this day..."

"I know babe." Finn kissed her softly on the lips.

"There isn't an easy way to explain this to you." Dr. Solomon said. "Babies, primarily when they present some health issues as they grow and begin to develop... when we think they seem to have gotten past the worse, are presented with an even bigger challenge, which in most cases its hard to determine even with all the technology we have today."

"What... What are you saying?" Finn asked as he looked down at Rachel.

"There is a murmur in Cory's heart, it had not been detected until now. Sadly, not until something like This happens, are we, able to detect it."

"What does this mean?" Rachel was able to find her voice, but her heart was heavy.

"For now, it means we have to monitor him. So the infection he's battling with doesn't affect his heart. Then we will be able to run some more test, I'm sorry guys, I wish I had more answers for you, but for now, all we have to do is wait."

Hannah began to fuss in Finn's arms pulling Rachel from her thoughts . "Ah sweetie, are you hungry?" She took the baby from Finn and moved to sit on a bench. She moved the diaper bag on her side and prepared a bottle.
"I see you're all set." Finn kissed the baby's forehead. Finn spotted his dad on the side. "I'll be right back."
"We'll be here." Rachel said softly as she watched as Finn moved to his dad. He'd told her about Chris being sick but she just didn't know just how serious it was and she'd promised to keep quiet so Carole wouldn't worry, but she knew just how much it hurt Finn to see his father suffer. Two months ago, when Finn had quit his job, the two of them had become closer. And Rachel was grateful Finn had that as Chris had been an absent father growing up.
"I can't believe your kid is ten," Chris said kindly crossing his arms across his chest.
"Yeah, me neither." Finn admitted. "So you talked to mom?"
"I have. She said she'd come to chemo with me next week." Finn's heart ached. After trying to fight this disease with a low profile over the pasts weeks, the doctors had come to the conclusion they needed to more agresive to kill the cancer. "I'm just glad she didn't kill me for keeping it hidden from her for so long. "
"Boys! What are you doing over there! I want to take a picture!" Carole called them to where the others were.
Okay. Here." Carole handed the camera for Finn to set it up and the Hudson clan gathered around. Finn had his arms around the birthday boy, Rachel stood beside him holding on to Hannah as Chris and Carole hugged jack and Matt. Finn looked down over at his son.

"Oh god.." Rachel gasped. "There's a number of things that could cause a murmur, but the most common is the fact that his heart isn't receiving enough blood, or sending it out to the rest of his body like it should.."

Finn couldn't listen to another word. His eyes were fixed on his small child. The baby in Rachel's arms. Their son.

"So what do we do?" Shelby's voice snapped him back to reality.

"For now, we'd like to asses how much damage there actually is..."

"And in order to that.."

"You need to get close to his heart." Finn spoke. "He's going to need surgery."

"What?! No!" Rachel screamed holding on to Cory for dear life. "No there must be another way!"

"There isn't, I'm sorry."

"No lady, you're doctors, figure out a way!" Santana snapped.

"We can't decide the course of treatment for Cory blindly. I wish we could..."

"What are the risks?" Shelby asked. The kids all stared at her.

"Like any other surgery, there are always major risks, but we'll take every precaution..." They explained the risks. Bleeding out, infection, death.."

Death.

"We'll give you some time to consider your options, but if I am being honest." Dr. Solomon said kindly. "As a mother, I would advise you to let us help your baby in the only way we know possible."

"What happens if we don't do the surgery?" Kurt asked.

"His heart could give out."

"He'd have a heart attack," Finn said grimly.

"Yes." Dr. Harris said. "His heart would eventually stop." Finn had to take the baby from Rachel because she began shaking violently, screaming. Kurt and Santana held her down.

"We'll give you a minute." Harris said.

"No, I want you to do the surgery.." Finn said bluntly.

"Finn.." His brother warned. He turned to glance over at Rachel and then Cory. The doctor nodded. His new born was having surgery.

So, this wasn't very long but things will get a little hard for finchel soon. I do hope you like the direction I am taking with this. Thanks for reading! Flashbacks are in italics.