"Thanks for running with me, gives me adult conversation." Puck chuckled putting Beth into her jog stroller.
"Thanks for the invite, I need to strengthen my legs for the whole pyramid thing." Tina said taking off her hoodie, it had been a group invite but the others had plans and Mercedes just laughed at him. "Artie wanted to come but his chair has trouble on the jogging trail."
"He needs something like this." Puck gestured to Beth's stroller.
"You and Finn could make one." Tina suggested stretching her legs, Puck was amused by the baggy black workout clothes and ball cap that shaded her face, she'd already changed the streaks in her hair to red.
"I think we could, I mean if we had some directions to follow." Puck shrugged tucking two water bottles in with Beth after buckling her in, "Check this out." Spinning the stroller so he could get ready to jog Puck gestured to a small radio attached to the handle. Turning it on he kept it low enough so that he could hear Beth if she cried, "I got it so I could keep pace and sing along, she likes music," Puck said as they locked his mom's car and walked to the jog trail "Quinn sings the classic girl groups like her and Santana and Brittany sing, I sing whatever's on the radio."
"I mean they say babies can hear when they're still in the womb so she always heard us singing in Glee, and with you guys as her parents she could definitely have some music talent."
"Possible." Puck agreed.
"So how's the whole half Jewish thing going to work?" Tina asked.
"Celebrate both and when she gets older let her pick." Puck shrugged.
"It's what my parents did." Tina admitted.
"Wait, you're Jewish?" Puck chuckled when Tina nodded, "I totally didn't see it."
"Mom's side," Tina explained "Mom converted to Christianity when she married my dad but we still spend Hanukkah with her side every year."
"Bonus gifts." Puck chuckled "Ready?"
"Ready." Tina nodded.
"I do a couple laps around the pond when I have Beth." Puck explained jogging in the direction of the pond trail. "I know she's gonna fall asleep but I still like her to see the ducks."
"That's sweet." Tina smiled.
Puck chuckled "Not something I've ever been called."
"You're a good guy Puck, kinda slutty, sorry..." Tina apologized.
Puck laughed shaking his head he interrupted "It's okay, I know I've slept with almost every Cheerio, I've earned every man-whore I've been called. I know I've been a huge asshole, threw Kurt into dumpsters, locked Artie in the porta john, even slushied Rachel..."
"But you've changed and you've apologized." Tina pointed out.
"Thanks." Puck nodded telling her. "I just don't want to be a Lima loser like my dad."
"You've got a job, I know you're doing really good at it, Asian community" Tina said at Puck's confusion, he smirked "you're taking care of Beth, trust me Puck you're not a Lima Loser." Tina assured him patting his arm "I mean you haven't slushied anyone since you joined Glee, you're being nice to Artie and Kurt."
"Kurt's been a huge help with figuring out clothes and sh..stuff for Beth." Puck caught himself, he was trying not to swear in front of Beth even if she wasn't old enough to understand. "And Artie's helping me with my history homework, I got a C."
"And only one week left of summer school."
"Come with me to run this idea by Artie," Puck said unlocking the car, opening the passenger door and trunk he unlatched Beth and handed her to Tina, who couldn't resist a quick cuddle "his mom still gives me the evil eye, I mean I get it I was a bastard that locked him in the porta potty so I get she doesn't trust me." tossing the small back pack and waters on the backseat next to the car seat Puck broke down the jog stroller, Tina took the opportunity to put Beth in her car seat. Putting the jog stroller in the trunk Puck closed it.
"Is this right?" Tina slipped out of the back seat gesturing for him to check Beth, climbing in the back seat Puck smiled at Beth.
"Hi baby," tugging at the straps, Puck nodded "Tina did a good job huh baby?" Beth blinked at him causing him to chuckle.
Tina chuckled too, Puck was a good dad even if he was a horn dog. "I'll go with you, she still likes me even though I'm Artie's ex."
"Thanks." Puck smiled climbing out of the car and closing the door, opening the passenger door he waited for Tina to get in before closing it. Pulling out his phone he quickly texted as he walked around to the driver side.
Puck to Baby Mama: On our way
Puck to Coach Lite: Got a thought, give me twenty and I'll be over
It was a few minutes before his phone pinged twice, he was already driving, his phone was in his cup holder, he was at a stop sign when he checked it.
Quinn to Puck: Okay
Artie to Puck: K
Puck to Finn: Dude got somethin' to run by you later, call me when you're free
The passenger seat was his normal spot for his phone when he was driving, he'd broken one by sitting on it, with Tina as his passenger he was using the empty cup holder.
"Is everything alright?" Rachel asked, Finn was looking at his phone, she wasn't sure if it was Santana or Mr. Hummel.
"Fine, Puck wants to talk to me later." Finn shoved the phone away. "So who did you want to know about?"
"Her." Rachel pointed in her encyclopedia "Santana says she's your favorite."
"Of the DC, one of my favorites, I love the Big Three, I mean who doesn't?" Finn asked shrugging.
"What do you mean of DC?" Rachel asked confused.
"There's a group of publishing companies they're one of them, I like characters from a few of the different companies, some people stick with one company and refuse to check out the other." Finn shrugged again.
"It's all so complicated." Rachel shook her head causing Finn to chuckle.
"Think of it as remembering your lines for a character in a play, like those guys these guys each have their own special thing, but the two big companies do have characters that come close to identical. Both have a King of the sunken city Atlantis." Taking the book from Rachel he flipped through before finding one "This guy," he said handing the book back and picking up the other, searching the index he found the page number and flipped right to it. "and this guy." he showed her the other book.
"Crazy." Rachel laughed.
"Their stories are really cool, if school books were like this I think it would be easier." Finn said.
"Can you mark that page?" Rachel asked reading the name at the top.
"Sure." taking a piece of paper from her dresser Finn tucked it in place before closing the book. "It means a lot that you're trying to understand my stuff."
"I've recently learned it's not all about me." Rachel said softly, smiling Finn leaned kissing her temple. "My dads like the superheroes, we could do the movie day here if you'd like, I'm sure they'd make snacks."
"Okay." Finn nodded offering. "I have practice in the morning, I'm helping get the crib together and clear the guest room so it can be painted, I can come over after after that."
"If you require assistance I am more than happy to help out." Rachel offered.
"I'll check with Santana." Finn promised.
"Hello?"
Quinn was only slightly confused at the sight of her daughter in Tina's arms but Puck was holding the carrier and the and diaper bag "Since you losers ditched me Tina went with me." Puck followed Quinn into Santana's house.
"Figure I need to get into some kind of shape so I can survive Cheerios practice." Tina admitted.
"Are you going tomorrow morning?" Quinn asked taking Beth from her.
Tina nodded "Mercedes is picking me up."
"She just wants to ogle the walking wall." Santana mumbled then yawned.
"Well look who's awake." Quinn smirked "Come on Ducky sit up."
"Don't wanna." Santana muttered scooting closer to Brittany. "Comforble." Tina smiled at the mumbled and mispronounced word.
"Are you coming over after to help with the rooms?" Mike asked getting up.
"Finn mentioned heavy lifting." Puck nodded.
"Clearing out the guest room so they can paint." Santana said giving up and trying to sit up, taking Mike's hands she let him help her up. "My parents wanted the room painted for the babies, we've been arguing for months they didn't like what I wanted but they finally gave in." Santana smirked, Brittany smiled sitting up behind her "I played dirty and reminded my mom that they were strong female characters and that it didn't matter that they were comic book characters, they were people my daughters could look up to."
"And she played the Latina card." Quinn chuckled putting the baby in the playpen.
Puck squinted at Santana confused "You like Wonder Woman, Batgirl and a shit ton of blonde chicks, name one Latina."
"Wonder Woman was portrayed by Lynda Carter, she's Latina." Santana said smugly.
"Really?" Puck's eyebrow arched "I did not know that, she's hot."
"Yep, so the girls get their superheroes."
"Nice." Puck was impressed. "I got some sh...stuff to do so we'll leave you to your movie." nodding to the TV Puck headed for the door with Tina.
"See you tomorrow." Tina waved over her shoulder at the group.
Shaking her head Santana waited until she heard the door close. "If you'd have told me freshman year that we would be willingly hanging out with the Glee club I would have said you were on crack."
Mrs. Abrams eyed the duo at the front door, first the boy Matt and now Tina, the boy with the mohawk hadn't shown up without someone by his side since the first time he showed up at her house "Hello Mrs. Abrams, we were wondering if Artie was home." Tina smiled.
"He is." giving Tina a nod she gestured them inside calling over her shoulder "Artie you have guests."
"I have what?" Artie rolled into the entry "Oh, yea. Puck wanted to talk to me about an idea he had."
Mrs. Abrams looked at Puck waiting for him to say something but it was Tina who spoke up. "It's something to help us work out, we got the idea when we were jogging with Beth in her stroller, Artie's chair doesn't work great on the track or jog trails but they have chairs that do..."
"And they are expensive." Mrs. Abrams cut in.
"But I think with Finn's help I can build one, then when we're on the track you don't have to wait to yell at us." Puck smirked aiming the last part of his statement at Artie who chuckled, Artie had taken to yelling out laps and encouragements from the sidelines.
"That could be cool." Artie nodded.
"And what's in it for you?"
"A running buddy, jogging gets lonely but I need to keep in shape for football and basketball and if I have a friend along it keeps me out of trouble." Puck said honestly.
"He's like Puck's personal Jiminy Cricket." Tina chirped.
"He helps me study." Puck explained, Artie was younger but even Puck would say smarter.
"You mean does your homework for you." Artie's mom was still not sold on the idea.
"No ma'am, just helps me study, if he did my homework for me it would be all A's," Puck said honestly. "We just wanted to get Artie's opinion on the chair before we made it."
"I think it's great."
Puck nodded with a smile, "I'll talk to Finn and we'll get measurements."
"Are you going to Santana's tomorrow?" Tina asked.
"Yea, I promised I'd help pack boxes." Artie nodded.
"See you tomorrow." Puck nodded giving a smile to Mrs. Abrams.
Artie waited until the door was closed before promising his mom "He's not the guy he used to be, just give him a chance." sighing Mrs. Abrams nodded.