Hey everyone! I know this is an episode without much Finchel, but I added in a Finchel scene, and there were some nice opportunities to get inside Finn's head write some Furt (I do love Furt - one of the many things I'll miss :( ) Plus, I tried to explain Rachel's reasoning behind a controversial move she made in this episode. Like I said in my other story, I hope you guys are still enjoying this. I didn't get many reviews on the last chapter, and I really hope people are still reading. Fanfic is how we keep Finchel and Finn alive :) Hope you guys like this one and review if you want me to continue :)

Chapter 4: Preggers

Glee club was a lot more fun when it was just the original six.

Mercedes, Kurt, Artie and Tina didn't seem to like Rachel, but they didn't seem to hate her the way the cheerios did, either. And of course, Rachel got to spend time with Finn.

Mr. Schue arrived. "Okay, everyone! We're doing a West Side Story medley!"

Rachel was so excited. West Side Story was one of her favorite musicals. Maybe she and Finn would get to sing some of Tony and Maria's duets. But then when Mr. Schue handed her the sheet with her lyrics, she realized this wasn't what she'd been expecting.

"Excuse me, this isn't the right key," Rachel said.

"No. It's actually the right key," Mr. Schue said as he continued handing them out.

Rachel took another look. "No, no, this is the alto part."

Mr. Schue didn't blink. "Yep. Tina's doing the solo."

Hadn't Rachel told Mr. Schue that she wanted to sing this song? "I'm sorry, there must be some sort of mix up. I thought I made it very clear that anything from West Side Story goes to me. Maria is my part! Natalie Wood was a Jew, you know. I've had a very deep, personal connection to this role since the age of one."

"Well, I'm trying to shake things up a bit," Mr. Schue protested. "Get us out of our boxes."

"You're trying to punish me," Rachel said. Was he still mad about the performance at the assembly? Or about her quest for Dakota Stanley.

Mr. Schue laughed. "I think you're being irrational."

"I think you're being unfair!" Rachel protested.

"I think you're being unfair to Tina, who might have been happy about getting her first solo," Mr. Schue shot back.

Rachel groaned. "Tina knows how much I respect her and I think she would agree with me that she's not ready for such an iconic role as Maria."

"Wait… I'm a Jet?" Mercedes asked.

Clearly, this was over. Rachel left the room.

x

Rachel had quit Glee? Oh, crap. Finn didn't have a solo in the West Side Story medley, either. Tina and Artie had been given the leads. Not that he'd want to sing lead with someone other than Rachel. As they were leaving Glee club, Kurt came up to Finn.

"Finn? I needed to ask you something." Kurt stuttered.

Holy crap. Was Kurt asking Finn out. "Thanks, but I already have a date to the prom. But I'm flattered! I know how important dances are to teen gays."

Kurt looked shocked. "I'm not gay."

He wasn't? "Oh."

"I just… I needed a favor," Kurt said. "I'd like to join the football team."

The football team? Kurt was the last person Finn would expect to join the football team. "All right, you can come with me to practice after Glee today."

"Thanks," Kurt said.

x

Finn had planned to try to get Rachel back after Glee practice, but Kurt was a nice guy, so he figured he should help him out. "Just relax, okay?" Finn told Kurt. "Remember what I told you. Keep your eye on the ball…don't try to aim it. Okay, put your helmet on."

"It'll mess up my hair," Kurt protested.

Was Kurt really not gay? "Put your…put your helmet on, okay?" He helped Kurt on with the helmet. "That's good. Red's your color."

Kurt smiled. "Thank you for helping me with this, Finn. You're really cool."

Finn gave Kurt a smile. "Well, I figure, the more crossover between Glee and football, the easier my life's gonna be." Which was true. He saw Kurt leaving. "Woah. Woah, woah, where are you going?"

Kurt turned around. "To get my music ready."

What would Coach Tanaka and the guys on the football team think of that? "Wh-what? Are you nuts? You can't use that!"

Kurt gave Finn a look. "But we did when we were rehearsing."

"Practicing," Finn tried to explain. "And no one was around! Look, do you know how much interference I had to run with these guys just to get you this try-out? If you do it your way, they're gonna kill you!"

"My body is like a rum chocolate soufflé," Kurt protested. "If I don't warm it up right, it doesn't rise. If I'm doing this, I'm doing it my way."

As Kurt left, Puck came up to Finn. "So are you two an item now, or…? He doesn't belong here!"

Finn was getting fed up with Puck. "You joined Acafellas, what's the difference?"

Puck laughed. "I'm a stud, dude. I could wear a dress to school and people would think it's cool."

"Everybody take a knee," Coach Tanaka called out. "Six games. Our kicker, Mr. Langenthaal, is zero for twelve in field goal attempts. As most of you statistically minded people know, THAT SUCKS! So Mr. Langenthaal will thusly be in charge of hydration services. The next player that can get a football between those uprights will get his job."

Kurt came to Coach Tanaka. "Hi, I'm Kurt Hummel, and I'll be auditioning for the role of kicker."

Lots of the players laughed, but Kurt chose to ignore them. Finn decided to ignore them too and just held out the ball for Kurt. Kurt turned on the music and turned on the music before kicking the ball through the goal. The team fell silent.

"That was good, right?" Kurt asked uncertainly.

"Aha, yeah," Finn said.

Kurt looked surprised. "That was good?"

"Yeah," Finn repeated.

Coach Tanaka came up to Finn. "Can you do that with the game on the line and ten gorillas bearing down on you wanting nothing more than to taste your sweet virgin blood?"

Kurt nodded. "Mm, sounds like fun. Can I have my music?"

"If you kick like that, you can wear a tutu, for all I care!" Coach Tanaka declared. Gentlemen! We have found ourselves a kicker!"

x

Finn had gotten Kurt on the football team, so he shouldn't have trouble getting Rachel back in Glee. As he walked down the hall, he saw Quinn. He was still dating Quinn. He couldn't forget that. However, it seemed like she was avoiding him. "Quinn!" She continued walking away. "Quinn. Hey, what's with the silent treatment? Whatever I did, I'm sorry."

Finally, at the end of the hall, Quinn turned to face Finn. "I'm pregnant. I wasn't sure, and I really didn't want to go by myself, and I'm so sorry that I didn't tell you sooner!"

What? This didn't make since. Finn had never had sex with Quinn. They never even got past first base! "Mine?"

"Yes, you. Who else's would it be?" Quinn sobbed.

This didn't make sense! "But we…we never…"

"Last month. Hot tub," Quinn said.

Even less sense. "But we were wearing our swimsuits!"

"Ask Jeeves said a hot tub is the perfect temperature for sperm," Quinn said. "It, it helps it swim faster."

Finn still wasn't so sure about this. But he didn't want to make her feel any worse. "Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Are – are you gonna get a…?"

"No. I really thought I had a shot at getting out of here! No." Quinn sobbed. Finn didn't know what to say. He had to find a way to make things better.

x

Finn needed someone to talk to. He couldn't talk to his mom, she'd be so ashamed. He didn't trust the football players, things had been awkward enough between him and them lately. Rachel would be furious if she found out. So he decided to talk to Mr. Schue. He went into the auditorium, and Mr. Schue noticed him. "Hey, Finn. What's up?"

Finn burst into tears as he collapsed on his teacher's shoulder. "Whoa, what's wrong?" Mr. Schue asked.

Finn finally managed to speak. "She's pregnant."

Mr. Schue looked at him. "What?"

Finn only managed to nod.

"How about we go somewhere to talk?" Mr. Schue asked. Finn nodded again and got in the car with his teacher. They went to Breadstix, and Finn finally managed to talk as they walked along the buffet. "Thanks a lot for this, Mr. Schue. Couldn't talk to my mom, you know?"

"So how far along is she?" Mr. Schue asked.

"I don't know. Uh, a couple weeks, maybe?" Finn admitted. "It's pretty recent, I guess." They got to their table.

"Well, what do you, what do you need me to do?" Mr. Schue asked. "You want me to set you up with Planned Parenthood?"

Finn shook his head. "No. No, it's not even a conversation. She's keeping it. I've seen the guys around town who had kids in high school. They work here or at the supermarket or pumping gas… or worse. They're caged. Got no future. I can't become one of those dudes! Mr. Schue, I gotta go to college, but we don't have any money. I need a football scholarship, but the only way I'm gonna get one is if we start winning." They had found a good kicker but...

"I'm not a football coach," Mr. Schue reminded Finn.

"Remember when we were working on that Acafella stuff and you helped me and Puck with the dancing?" Finn asked. "You loosened us up. That's the football team's problem! I figured it out, watching Kurt kick those field goals." He held up a book he'd gotten from the library. "Here, check this out. I got this at the school library. Did you know you can just borrow books from there? All of them. Except for the encyclopedias, but… It says in here that Walter Payton was a great dancer. In college, he – he won dance competitions on "Soul Train" and he took ballet lessons, and he even got the whole Bears team to take them the year they won the Super Bowl. That's how they came up with the Super Bowl Shuffle."

Mr. Schue looked confused. "Alright, let me just get this straight. You want me to teach the football team how to dance? Eh… I don't think Ken will go for that."

Finn gulped. "We'll talk him into it. Look, you said you needed guys for Glee Club, right? If you can help us win one game, they'll start to trust you. And I'm sure some of them will want to join. It's a win-win for both of us."

"You know Finn, you could get a music scholarship, too," Mr. Schue said. "You have an amazing voice and you're a great drummer."

"Yeah, but I doubt we'll make it to Regionals without Rachel," Finn sighed. Oh crap. Rachel. That was who he wanted to be with, and now it probably was never going to happen.

"Well, maybe you could get her to come back," Mr. Schue said. "You do seem to be her best friend in the group."

Finn nodded as he began to eat. Friends was probably all they'd ever be.

x

The musical had been - well, Rachel liked the musical and its songs, but she had to admit, this did remind her of her pre-Glee days. It was lonely. She also REALLY didn't like Mr. Ryerson, but she did have the chance to sing as many solos as she wanted here.

Mr. Ryerson had left, and Rachel was in the room, practicing her solos when she heard the door open. She turned and was surprised by who was there - Finn.

"Oh, hey," Rachel said, trying to contain her excitement. "How've you been?"

Finn shrugged. "Okay, I guess. I miss seeing you in Glee."

Did he mean that? Rachel gave him a small smile. "I miss you, too."

"I'm sorry about the solo," Finn said. "I know you told me that you like that song."

"It's fine," Rachel said. "I get the lead in the musical."

Finn sat down next to Rachel. "I was wondering, since you and I can't sing that song in Glee, how about we sing it together, now?"

Rachel looked at Finn. "Really?"

"Yeah," Finn said. "I miss singing with you."

"I'd love that," Rachel said. The piano player was there, so she handed one copy of the sheet music from her binder to him, one to Finn, and kept one to herself as the music began.

Rachel: Only you, you're the only thing I'll see forever

In my eyes in my words and in everything I do

Nothing else but you

Ever

Finn: And there's nothing for me but Maria

Every sight that I see is Maria

Rachel: Tony, Tony

Finn: Always you, every thought I'll ever know

Everywhere I go you'll be

Both: All the world is only you and me

Rachel: Tonight, tonight

It all began tonight

I saw you and the world went away

Tonight, tonight

There's only you tonight

What you are, what you do, what you say

Finn: Today, all day I had the feeling

A miracle would happen

I know now I was right

Both: For here you are

And what was just a world is a star

Tonight

Tonight, tonight

The world is full of light

With suns and moons all over the place

Tonight, tonight

The world is wild and bright

Going mad

Shooting sparks into space

Today, the world was just an address

A place for me to live in

No better than all right

But here you are

And what was just a world is a star

Tonight

Good night, good night

Sleep well and when you dream

Dream of me

Tonight

"Wow Rach, that was amazing," Finn said.

Rachel smiled. "I missed singing with you."

"Maybe we could sing that for Mr. Schue," Finn said. "I'll tell him how amazing we sounded, and he won't be able to resist giving us this song."

"I'd love that," Rachel said.

"So you'll come to Glee tomorrow?" Finn asked, his face lighting up.

"Of course!" Rachel said.

x

Rachel was back at Glee, and Finn couldn't be happier. He did feel slightly guilty though. He had forgotten to tell Mr. Schue about the song he and Rachel sang together. With everything that was going on... it was easy to forget things. But hey, some good things had happened. The football team hadn't been too hard about the dance moves, and they'd finally won a game. (Okay, that was thanks to Kurt and Puck, but it was still something.)

Mr. Schue was coming into the room, with Puck and two guys from the football team named Mike and Matt. Mike was one of the few nice guys on the team, but Finn didn't know he was interested in joining Glee. He was confused as to why Puck was here, and he didn't know Matt very well. "Hey guys!" Mr. Schue said. "Let's give a big Glee welcome to our three new members fresh off their big win on Friday night – Noah Puckerman, Matt Rutherford, and Mike Chang. Regionals, here we come. Let's start today with Tonight from West Side Story."

Finn noticed how excited Rachel looked. Rachel obviously thought she and Finn were going to be singing it.

But Mr. Schue turned to Tina. "Tina, show us what you got."

Rachel made a face and left the classroom. This hadn't helped out after all.