Fixing a Mistake

A/n : Thank you to all who have reviewed so far. Remember reviews help writers! The future version of Rachel will be known as Rae from this moment on and the future version of Puck is Noah.

The future version of Rachel rushed to Finn's side, panicking at the sight of him hitting his head on that desk. Her medical training kicked instantly kicked in as soon as she saw him hit the desk. She soon rushed over and checked out his heart rate and breathing. He had nearly given her a heart attack. As she was checking his pupils, he started to move around and wake up. A look of desire came into his unfocused eyes at the sight of her. Though it took everything that Rachel had that took her to stop herself from kissing him right there in that classroom. To feel his sweet lips on hers for the first time in ten years would be like heaven to her.

"Hold it right there. I'm not your Rachel, and I am pretty sure she wouldn't appreciate you kissing another girl, even if it is the future version of her."

"Puck, help me out here. Tell me that you don't believe this. There is no such thing as time travel, right?"

Noah walked away from the door where he had been keeping watch and knelt down next to the best friend he had lost years ago.

"I'm not the Puck that you know, Finn. Glance out in the hall and you will see him and your Rachel anxiously looking for you."

He helped Finn stand up and they both walked over to the window that showed the hallway. Finn gulped at the sight of the younger version of the man standing beside him and the Rachel he had just been staring at before he had been pulled into this empty room, glancing around anxiously.

"We need to get them in here. So Finn go and get them. They need to know about mine and Noah's presence here in the past. They could help figure out how to explain to the others who we are. Before we do that I have a piece of advice for you Finn. Rachel deserves to know the truth about you and Santana and I suggest that you do it before Santana does it for you. If Santana does it for you she will put the worse possible spin on it. And more importantly if you let Santana tell her, and Finn I am dead serious here your relationship will never recover from it.

Finn could see the tears in future Rachel's eyes as she told him this. He realized that this was real and so was the pain that was in future Rachel's eyes as she talked about this. He could see the pain and sadness in her beautiful dark eyes and wondered what had happened in the future to make her like this.

"How am I going to tell her without her breaking up with me or crying?"

Everyone knew past, present, and future that it always broke Finn's heart whenever he saw Rachel cry. Which Puck knew being that he was Finn's best and oldest friend/ brother.

"Trust me, Finn. She won't break up with you and don't go with her to for couples counseling, it will be a disaster because she will make things worse for you than they already are. Plus teenagers should not be in couples counseling. Just be honest with Rachel about why you slept with Santana in the first place. Oh and do a better job at defending her from what Santana and the other members in Glee Club like to spew in her direction. It makes her feel horrible about herself every time you do nothing when Santana treats her so badly.

"Now that you have made changes to the future other than the ones that we came here for, maybe we can get started on what we need to do. I have a wife to get back to and you owe me big time for this Rae."

Finn watched them in shock before going to the door and opening it to reveal Rachel and Noah standing out in the hall, getting ready to open the door. He motioned for them to come into the room with him. They reluctantly followed him and they both stopped short at the sight of Rae and Noah.

"Finn, you better not be playing a prank on us." Rachel sounded irritated at him as she placed her hands on her hips.

"He isn't playing a prank on you, Rachel" Noah stated, walking over to stand beside Rae.

"You are not seeing things. I am you or you from ten years from now. So we don't get mixed up, call me Rae."

"How do I know that you are really me?" Rachel's voice was full of doubt. Rae smirked before she replied to her younger self's question."We have a heart shaped birthmark between are navel and our female parts, which only our doctors and the people who have changed our diapers have ever seen.

Rachel blushed beat red as wicked smirks came over Finn and Puck's faces. Noah just looked at his future counterpart with a serious look on his face.

"Rae, you are embarrassing that poor girl. Can we just get on with this so we can figure out how to get through the next three months? So that I can get back to my wife an those we care about."

"Why are you here?" Puck asked his voice serious for once. And he looked deathly white almost like he already knew the answer to his question and feared that his assumptions were correct.

"Something happens three months from now that will devastate mine and Noah's world because of this we are here to stop it from happening.

"What?" Rachel asked quietly. A look of suspicion had come into her dark eyes.

"We can't tell you that or it would ruin the rest of what is supposed to happen during this time." Rae said,

"We need to come up with a story of how you two people that look so much like Rachel and Puck but ten years older are here in Lima."

"May I tell our fathers about you? They should be able to explain your presence here, Rae."

"That will work. Noah should be able to pretend to be a distant family member of Puck's dad. One that his mom doesn't know about. So she won't ask to many questions." Rae stated, before turning to look at Rachel. "The only ones that we want to know about this will be our dads, and the glee club. Nobody else can know that we are here from the future."

Everybody nodded in agreement before Puck and Noah started to leave the room and Finn held his hand out for Rachel to leave with him. Rae placed s hand on both their shoulders while sharing a significant look with Noah.

"I need the two of you to stay with me for a few minutes. There are some important things that the three of us need to discuss." The tone in her voice was almost pleading as Rae watched Noah and Puck leave the room while Finn and Rachel stayed with her, holding hands and looking at Rae with curiosity.

"Rachel, tell him the truth about Jesse, he has a right to hear this."

Rachel's eyes became wider than they already were before turning to look at Finn with tears filling her eyes.

"I never had sex with Jesse. I lied to you so you wouldn't find out that I couldn't go through with it because he wasn't you. That even when I was still with him, you were still in my heart and soul.

Rae gently reached over and squeezed Rachel's hand before turning to look at Finn. He had a joyful but apprehensive look on his face, because he knew what was coming next. And for the first time he was genuinely afraid.

"It's time to tell her the truth, Finn. Tell her about what we talked about before she came in here. It will be okay. You can trust me."

Finn took Rachel's hand and exchanged a look with Rae before taking a deep breath and finally telling the truth.

"I lied to you, too. I had sex with Santana that night."

Rachel pulled her hand away from him and started to rush out of the room, sobbing uncontrollably. It was only Rae's voice that stopped her.

"Rachel, if you leave this room and don't give him a chance to explain what really happened, you will regret it."

Rachel turned back around to where Finn and Rae where standing, her arms wrapped around her body in a protective manner and tears began to fall down her cheeks. Rachek had never looked more vulnerable.

"Rachel, it meant nothing to me. She was nothing to me. I regretted it the moment that it happened, because she wasn't you. I wish I would have waited for you but you were with Jesse and planning to have sex with him. I was jealous and did something that was stupid in an effort not to think about you and St. Jackass.

"Do you want to go to Miss Pillsbury for couple's counseling?" Rachel asked so softly that it was almost a whisper.

"No, don't do that Rachel." Rae stated. "She can't even handle her own love life, how can she advise anybody else on theirs."

"You know something about this don't you?" Rachel asked Rae, with a suspicious look on her face.

"In my time, Santana told the truth in an effort to break the two of you up and cause trouble. She succeeded in taunting Rachel so badly that she did something that she did something so stupid and thoughtless that it hurt Finn and you never made things right between the two of you." Rae looked at Rachel with a haunted look that it gave the younger girl and her boyfriend chills just to see it. "I am you without Finn; I would not wish this pain on anybody. Don't give up on your relationship because it is worth more than anything you will ever have and when you lose it, the pain never goes away."

Rae turned and walked out of the room, leaving Finn and Rachel alone in the empty classroom. He held his arms out to her and she rushed into them, wrapping her arms around him tightly.

"Are we worth fighting for, Rach?" he murmured softly against the top of her head.

"Yes." She whispered.

He leaded in and softly kissed her, getting lost in the feel of her lips moving against his. Rae watched them through the window as new memories started to flood through her mind. The ones of the breakup that would have taken place two weeks from now were gone. But the ones of mourning Finn were still there so his death was still going to happen if she didn't figure out how to stop it.