Well, I kinda have a hurt heart. It was well written but it left me sad. Especially didn’t like Finn having a “familywith someone who wasn’t Rachel.

Ok not much Finchel just Finn’s fucked up mind.

This was quite a good finchel fanfic . Even if he wash away from her for many years , you let us no that eventually Finn and Rachel were endgame .i hope you write more finchel in 2017 . Bev beltz.

I thought this was a really interesting spin on where Finn might be heading post 4x04, and it certainly seems a more interesting take than what canon Glee is pushing us towards. I can actually see him hooking up with a single parent and getting a found family too, especially considering his upbringing. The thing is, I liked how well he worked together with Chelsea so much that I was a little disappointed he went back to Rachel. He seemed very happy and settled in his new life that it jarred me a little how quickly he said goodbye. Your writing is incredibly, so I am just wondering if I missed reading something between the lines?

The Finn/Kurt interaction was incredibly in this, BtW. You have their canon dynamic spot-on.

Also, to your other reviewer? It's a fic where Finn works his way back to Rachel, and you make it implicit in the summary it's Finn-centric. I'm just fine with the label, and I don't even ship or seek out Finchel!

I read this in bits and pieces since the alert showed up, and now I have a bit of time to review. But, how much time do I need to write "Amazing." Sort of a trick question, since to type that only took less than a second, but to give all the reasons why this is so great would take much longer.

Long story short, I love how you're not afraid to show the non-fluff. Honestly, it's being realistic and that's what makes your stories really pop. Just how complex people and thoughts and scenarios are, and then writing them all that way.

Random things that I remembered loving were 1) Everything with Puck ... including not making him a complete loser. And what a cool way to get him to find direction. I love sharks! 2) Kurt being all little brother (despite that they are clearly the same age). 3) Finn totally round kicking Rachel's idea that he was in NY for her. Ha!

And, finally, this line:

It's hard to move when nothing is the only thing behind you trying to push you forward. Nothing doesn't push very hard.

You're so poignant, baby!

I lived this! Although part of me was hoping him and Chelsea would stay together. Anyway amazing job with this. :)

I loved this so very much! I wish there was more. I want to see Finn and Rachel getting to know the people they've become, and I'm totally greedy. I want Furt happiness! Guh, you write the best Finn out there, seriously!

Really enjoyed reading Finn's journey and seeing him grow up into the person that is ready to be in a solid relationship with Rachel. Would love to see a second one-shot in Rachel's POV?!

See I'm good for something. I should hound you more often... Under 1000 that's what I promised right? I think I can do that...

Okay over the weekend I had a conversation with someone from my past and one of the things he said was that our foundation as people hadn't changed we both just had a lot of growing up to do (which I'm still not entirely sure I've done but yeah anyway)...

But that's what you have here. You take Finn on this journey of growing up and building on his own foundation. Up until the point where this starts he's really been doing just about everything in his life with it revolving around someone else. And at some point you have to stop that, it just takes everything exploding around him for it to happen. Because he's Finn and he needs a catalyst. That so true to form.

So you make him a bit of a vagabond, if this were set in the depression he'd have been hopping railroad cars. But it works because everyone has their own way of dealing with stuff, especially when everything you know blows up. And sometimes the way it's dealt with is the exact opposite of how you would have dealt with it before because obviously you don't want to be the person that cause the wreckage. So he's traveling vagabond, no roots Finn for a while.

But through out the whole course of the story he's still Finn. The things that made him the Finn we known and love are there. The foundation is there, he's just having to build on it. And you do this beautiful wonderful job of building with these big building blocks that kinda creep up on him. But that how life generally works sometime. The things shape you aren't always car crash in your front yard. You don't always have to crawl out of the wreckage for things to change. Sometimes you just stop moving for a moment and realize that you've been moving forward the whole time.

And this happens to him a few times here without him having to get smack in the face or have some life altering moment. He figures things out in time and for himself. And the things he figures out and the way he reacts. It goes back to how he's still Finn, it's just now he knows who Finn is.

Something else I really, really love, is that once he's made the decision to move on from Rachel she for the most part becomes a non factor. The Finchel fandom tends to expect that this couple is just going to make decisions with the other in mind always but that shouldn't be the case. I never bought into the whole marriage story line because they both needed to grow up and figure out who they are without each other so they can be together without being co dependent. So the fact that every other scene didn't have him referencing or thinking about Rachel was refreshing.

And the fact that when he does go to New York he's not immediately at her door step was refreshing. And the small bit of Rachel you wrote was so perfectly Rachel. It gave just enough insight to show that she may have grown up as well, but her foundation is still there too. So with the building on the same foundations they started on they really can have something cast iron that won't break (FYI I caught that too).

So we're going to ignore all the construction references I have no idea how I know anything about construction... And I'm really glad you get me because I'm not sure this makes sense to anyone else. So I'm going to stop now before this really is like 1000 words of rambling.

Why label this fic Finchel when it's clearly only about Finn?