Ladies and Gentlemen, this is it, this is the last episode/chapter of Glee and The City. I hope you guys have enjoyed the series as much as I did writing it. I first starting writing Glee and The City two years ago and I cant believe I'm finally done. HUGE, MASSIVE Thank you to everyone who took the time to read it and leave a review, I loved reading every single one of them and it was all your encouragement that kept this going for 5 seasons. I promise I'll be back soon but for now ...

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5x17 – Glee and The City Goodbye

The Diner – Park Avenue – Friday Morning

"Here you go ladies" The waitress, Jeanette, gushed as she put down the four plates on the table before giving each of the women a loving look. Santana, Rachel, Mercedes, and Quinn were having their last meal at the Diner, together.

Mercedes and Santana both had flights out of New York that night and Rachel, Finn and the Kids were driving to Rochester the following day with Quinn, Puck, and NJ.

"Oh god!" Quinn cried, quickly pulling a napkin from her bag, and dabbing her eyes. It was the third time Quinn had burst into tears and they had only been at the diner for 30 minutes.

"Quinn, what did I say if you cried one more time?" Santana snipped, rolling her eyes at Quinn before taking a bite of her burger.

"I'm not eating outside" Quinn grumbled, crossing her arms as Rachel smiled affectionately at her, while Santana remained firm.

"Then stop crying" Santana pressed.

"I'm emotional! Who knows when we will all be here together again?" Quinn noted, sighing slightly.

"You do know you left a year ago right" Mercedes quipped. Rachel bit her lip to stop from laughing as Quinn glared at Mercedes and Santana.

"I'm sure we'll find somewhere in Rochester and when Santana and Mercedes visit we'll all be together again, eating and putting the world to rights" Rachel reasoned.

"It won't be the same" Quinn sighed, as she leaned her head against Rachel's shoulder. Rachel tried to move around her weepy friend as she continued to eat her pasta dish.

"That's settled then, let's all stay in New York" Santana joked.

"I can't, my flight leaves at 8" Mercedes replied, with a smile.

"This isn't the end" Rachel demanded, firmly. She looked over at Quinn and gave her a firm look. Quinn slowly nodded her head and moved from Rachel's shoulder to smile at Santana and Mercedes.

"Damn right it isn't" Santana agreed.

"You know that means you'll have to come visit us in Rochester" Quinn smirked, before taking a bite of her salad.

"Oh you could visit me, on the round the world trip" Santana mused.

"That sounds so much better" Rachel sighed, happily. They were all very jealous of Santana's trip, they all had exciting things happening, but Santana was going to see the world and they couldn't argue that was pretty amazing.

"Here ladies, some cheesecake on the house" Jeanette announced putting down four small plates on the table "We're gonna miss you ladies round here"

"Oh god" Quinn started crying again. While Rachel passed her a tissue and patted her on the back gently, Santana pointed to the door.

"That's it Quinn, outside"

Finn's Office – Dalton Academy – Friday Afternoon

While the girls were having the last meal together, Finn was packing up his office on his last day at Dalton. Finn was sad to be leaving Dalton after 15 years working there but he was more excited about the new adventure that Rochester would bring.

"Okay, I'm out of here Claire" Finn said, as he smiled at his assistant "Thank you for all your help"

"You're very welcome Finn" Claire smiled at Finn, before looking slightly nervous "Uhmm Mr Rogers asked if you could meet him in the gym before you left he wanted to get the final marks for some of the team"

"Yeah he's already emailed me three times, I'll go there now" Finn laughed, shaking his head slightly. He took his boxes to his car before walking back to the school gym. Finn pushed open the doors and was startled by the noise that greeted him.

"SURPRISE!"

"What's all this" Finn asked as she looked around at the crowded gym where some students and teachers were holding up banners and streamers. At the front of him stood a huge cake with his face on it.

"We couldn't let our favourite teacher leave without some style" Lark, the Student Body President, explained as she walked over to Finn with the rest of the Student council and passed him some balloons and a small present.

"As our old coach reminded us" Claire added, Finn hadn't even noticed that she had walked in behind him. That's when Finn say his friend stood with the new coach, with a wide smile on his face. Finn wasn't sure if it was because he was happy he'd pulled off a surprise or a teasing smile because he knew Finn hated being the centre of attention.

"Puck, you did this?" Finn wondered as he walked over to him.

"It was easy" Puck shrugged.

"Still thank you!" Finn pressed.

"You mean a lot to this place Finn; the kids wanted you to see how much" Puck explained. He held up his hands and everyone let out a hug cheer and someone let off a cheer canon.

"Well then let's have some cake" Finn clapped his hands together and everyone let out another cheer as the canteen staff began cutting up the cake and passing it out.

Rachel and Finn's House – West Village – Friday Afternoon

A few hours later, Rachel and Finn were at home packing up the last of their boxes that would be going with them in the moving van. They had sold a lot of their furniture and bought new stuff for the house, so they were mostly taking clothes, electricals, toys, and treasured keepsakes that had still somehow been able to fill the entire removal van.

"Gosh who knew Puck was so sweet" Rachel mused as she taped up another box of her shoes and moved into the hallway ready for Finn to put in the van.

"He has his moments" Finn agreed. Finn and Puck had stayed with the other teachers, chatting, and eating cake, for an hour before making their leave. While Finn had gone back to the house to pack, Puck had met up with Quinn and NJ to meet up with some of their other friends who still lived in New York.

"He'd have to, married to Quinn" Rachel chuckled.

"God how is that got all new furniture at the house, yet we still have all this stuff" Finn wondered, looking around their ow empty bedroom except for their bed which they would move in the morning and about 15 boxes that needed to go downstairs.

"This is what we get for having three children" Rachel argued, with a slight shrug. Finn looked over at her with an amused look.

"Yeah let's blame it on them and not the fact that you have 110 pairs of shoes" Finn smirked.

"Exactly" Rachel replied, completely ignoring Finn's sarcasm as she continued to throw her shoes into boxes.

"So, what time are the others getting here?" Finn asked.

"In about an hour or so" Rachel answered, just as Rose came running into their room with three of her American Girl dolls in her arms. She bounced onto of her parents' empty bed and let the dolls drop down next to her.

"Okay I've picked these three dolls for the car" Rose exclaimed, loudly.

"Rose, we said one doll; there isn't enough room in the car" Rachel said, firmly, giving her daughter a firm look.

"But I need all three!" Rose groaned, banging her hands down next to her.

"How about I flip you for it, heads you take one doll, tails you take three" Rachel explained, as she pulled a coin out of her jean's pocket. Rose nodded eagerly so Rachel flipped the coin, caught it mid-air then held it out for her daughter to see.

"Look at that heads it is" Rachel cheered "Only one doll in the car, thank you very much"

"Why do I always lose?" Rose grumbled shaking her head as she picked up her three dolls and stomped back into her almost empty bedroom.

"How long do you think it's gonna take the kids to realise that it's a two headed coin" Finn quipped. Rachel had received the coin from her dad, who said it was the best way to get the kids to do what you needed them too, he'd done the same thing to Rachel and Marley when they were kids, something Rachel only realised when he'd given her the coin.

"I think we've got at least 3 more years" Rachel reasoned.

"DAD, HENRY'S GOT HIS ARM STUCK IN THE BANISTER AGAIN" Rose called from the bottom of the stairs.

Rachel shook her head as she passed some baby oil to Finn "Maybe even 5 years"

Rachel and Finn's House – West Village – Friday Afternoon

An hour later, the Hudson Family had finished packing everything into the removal van and were now having a drink in the kitchen with the Puckerman's while they waited for the others to get there. There was no chairs in the kitchen anymore, so they were sat on the kitchen counters and spare boxes.

Rachel was filling up hers and Quin's wine glass when there was a loud knock on the door.

"Why don't you get the door, Rosie?" Rachel said. Rose rushed to the door and opened it up to find her Aunt Mercedes with her arm around her Uncle Sam who looked really upset with tears in his eyes.

"Uncle Sam why are you crying" Rose asked confused, as she slammed the front door once the couple were inside.

"Because I'm a well evolved man, who's not afraid to show his emotions" Sam cried as Finn handed him a bottle beer. He slumped down on a seat in the kitchen and didn't say anything else. The others looked to Mercedes for an explanation.

"We've just handed our keys over to the landlord and he hasn't stopped since" Mercedes explained, with an amused.

"It's just hit me, this is it! This is our last night in New York for who knows how long" Sam cried, throwing his hands up.

"You do know you moved to LA once before right Sam" Finn said.

"It's different this time!" Sam groaned.

"Hey guys!" Santana greeted, letting herself into the house and walking into the kitchen with Brittany following behind her. Santana stopped in her tracks when she noticed the tears in Sam's eyes.

"What is this?" Santana demanded, pointing her finger right at Sam's face "Did no one tell him that there will be no tears tonight? Grow a pair Sam?"

"You're a monster" Quinn snapped, reaching over to give Sam a one-armed hug while giving Santana a dirty look. Finn chuckled lightly as he handed Brittany and Santana a drink, it was a surprise to no one that Quinn and Sam were the emotional ones in the group.

"Santana likes to hide her pain with a snippy attitude" Brittany mused, with a small smirk.

"Well in that case Santana's been in pain since the moment I met her" Puck joked.

"Funny how that works isn't it" Santana quipped, glaring at Puck before walking over to the kids who were playing in the living room.

"She got the better end of that exchange" Puck noted.

"Yeah she definitely did. Have a beer" Finn jested, handing his friend another bottle.

Puck shrugged, took the beer then took a long drink "Let's get drunk!"

XOXO

"Hey Finny, got a minute" Santana asked as she walked over to Finn who was thankfully on his own inn the kitchen getting another drink while everyone else was in the living room and patio. Santana wasn't sure how much they had all had to drink but Rachel and Quinn were dancing around the living room with the kids while Puck tried to throw spitwods at Sam.

"You know Rachel is the only one who can call me that and that's only because she gives it me on the regular" Finn mused, winking at Rachel who was dancing with Quinn by the stairs.

"You tell her babe" Rachel cheered, winking back at Finn.

Santana shook her head "Are you two drunk… you know what never mind. I just wanted to say thank you, for everything. The last few months I was a giant ass –"

"A giant one!" Brittany called from the living room.

"I said giant Brittany" Santana snipped, rolling her eyes before turning back to Finn "Anyway your help has made me a better person, so thank you"

"Wow are you drunk" Finn laughed, smirking at Santana, who rolled her eyes.

"I'm serious, thank you" Santana pressed.

"You're welcome" Finn replied, seriously. Santana reached over and gave him a quick but tight hug, Finn quickly responded.

"You know what would be a great idea… TACOS" Sam mused, loudly as he walked past the pair on the way to the living room.

"Are we all drunk?" Finn wondered, bewildered as he looked around at all his friends. Quinn and Rachel were now watching NJ and Rose watch TV, both with tears in their eyes. Sam and Santana were calling out for Tacos and Puck was showing Mercedes how to French braid using Brittany as a model.

"Yeah we're definitely drunk"

XOXO

"And there's this awesome park just by my house that has two slides" NJ explained earnestly "And I can show you all my new friends and then they will be your friends too"

Rachel let out a content sigh as she leaned against the doorjamb as she and Puck watched the children who were all sat together on the stairs, even Mason was there. He was clawing up Henry's back and Rose was holding the new baby, rocking him back at forth.

"I can make my own friends NJ I told you this" Rose argued, shaking her head while giving NJ a pointed look.

"I'll like your friends NJ" Henry beamed, smiling encouragingly at NJ. Rose rolled her eyes, a move she perfected from her auntie Santana, as she continued to rock Egan in her arms.

"Thank YOU, Henry" NJ proclaimed, giving Rose a hard look.

"NJ, we talked about this, if we are going to be married one day then you can't be jealous of my success or my popularity" Rose explained, firmly.

"Yes Rose" NJ sighed.

"I'm so proud of you Sweetie!" Rachel exclaimed, loudly. Rose beamed at her mother before going back to her conversation with Henry and NJ, they had now gone on to discuss who was going to be lead singer in NJ and Henry's band.

"I don't like that my son is becoming a pushover" Puck complained.

"Noah, I need another drink" Quinn called from the dining room.

"Coming dear" Puck called back, before looking back at Rachel who was smirking at him "She pushed out my children! What has Rose done?"

"Here are those brownies you like NJ" Rose said happily, handing a plate of brownies while still managing to hold the new baby. Rachel was pretty sure Rose was going to rule the world one day, in her totally unbiased opinion.

"Okay, this might be okay" Puck agreed, slightly reluctantly.

"Oh god! I think we should start planning their wedding now!" Rachel beamed. Henry walked over to his mother, having heard her conversation with Puck

"What about me Mommy" Henry asked, looking up at his mother. Rachel leaned down and gave her son a kiss on the cheek.

"We've decided your gonna marry the new baby" Rachel replied, still crouched down next to her son.

"Okay!" Henry shrugged, before walking away. Puck shook his head and rolled his eyes before walking away as well, leaving Rachel to watch Rose and NJ who were now sharing the brownie.

XOXO

"Okay I think I'm drunk enough to do a speech now" Puck announced to them all. They all staggered into the kitchen, all different stages of drunk. The only sober ones among them was the kids and Santana.

"Yay Puck!" Sam cheered, throwing his drink about and accidently getting some of his beer on Mercedes who was sat on his knee.

"While soon we may all by miles apart, the love we all share will see us through the bad times and the good like we are right there with one another. So…"

"Are your reading that of a piece of paper" Santana asked, noticing a small piece of paper in Puck's hand that he kept glancing at. Quinn snatched the speech of paper from him to read it.

"Did you Google, goodbye speeches" Brittany exclaimed, shocked, pointing at the offending piece of paper in Quinn's hand.

"It's time I came clean, I've googled a lot of the speeches I've given" Puck confessed. Almost all of them, including the children gaped at him, frozen in shock for a few seconds.

"But they weren't even that good!" Sam proclaimed.

"Don't listen to him, they were great" Quinn encouraged, before suddenly tearing up "And now we won't be able to hear any more of your speeches because we won't be together"

"We live together Quinn; I can still do them for you" Puck reasoned, wrapping his arm around her, and pulling her towards him.

"It's not the same, either we all hear the stupid speeches or none of us do" Quinn snapped, giving them all a firm look as she pointed at them all individually.

"Yeah, we're definitely drunk" Finn mused from where he was sat on the kitchen counter, with Rachel between his legs, clinging to his arm.

"Don't you guys have to drive to Rochester?" Sam laughed, looking over at Rachel and Finn who both started giggling.

"We should wait until tomorrow now" Rachel and Finn both nodded at each other before taking another drink. Finn finished his drink then looked down at Rachel confused.

"Wait, weren't we doing that anyway!"

XOXO

Eventually they had drank all their alcohol and it was time for Mercedes, Sam, Brittany, and Santana to leave for the airport. They were all stood outside waiting for the Uber's to arrive. The girls were stood by the car in a group hug while the others waiting for them by the front steps.

"Okay call us when you land okay" Rachel cried, softly still trying to stand firm.

"I will do" Mercedes replied, repeatedly nodding her head.

"And call us every day" Quinn added, someone cleared their throat in the distance "Okay every other day"

"I call you every day" Santana said, firmly, side eyeing the other group before looking back to her best friends.

"Call me even if with the stupid time difference" Quinn cried.

"Oh god I forgot about the stupid time difference" Rachel sobbed loudly which set off the others and they pulled each other closed to them in a tight hug.

"Should we break this up?" Puck asked, glancing over at Finn who was watching the girls slightly amused.

"Let's give them another minute" Finn replied.

"What about them?" Sam nodded his head towards the three children who were all hugging tightly by the front steps.

"We are going to the same place, you'll be in the car together for 4 hours… tomorrow after we've sobered up" Puck shouted to the children, they all quickly broke apart.

"Okay" Rose answered, before herself, NJ and Henry walked back into the house and slammed the door behind them. Finn was pretty sure they had just locked them out, but he would worry about that later.

"Okay ladies, time to break it up, the cabs are here" Finn said, finally walking over to the girls when they taxis beeped their horns for a second time.

"I love you guys, all of you so much" Quinn proclaimed, firmly.

"Okay bring it in guys" Puck called, reaching his arms out as they all came in for a group hug. They group stayed huddled together until the taxis beeped for a third time

"Okay we really need to get going" Mercedes said, reluctantly, furiously wiping at her eyes before anymore tears could fall.

"Wow, Santana, tears! What did we say about that?" Quinn joked, smiling widely at her who just lightly slapped her arm in response.

"Shut up! Come on Brittany lets go travel the world" Santana mused, happily giving one last loving but teary smile to her friends before getting in the first taxi with Brittany. Mercedes and Sam waved goodbye to the four remaining adults before getting in the second cab.

"Bye guys!"

"Bye" Rachel said, she waved as the two cabs drove away. She didn't move from her spot and watched as both cab went out of sight.

"Come on, we need a lot of coffee if we're going to drive tomorrow" Finn sighed before wrapping his arm around Rachel and pulling her back into the house.

"Okay yeah, we're definitely locked out!"

6 MONTHS LATER

Sam and Mercedes – Box Studios – Los Angeles

"Just a little bit more to the right Sam, yeah that's it – just hold it" The photographer, Stan, encouraged as he took some more shots of Sam. Sam and Mercedes were at Sam's shoot for the Dolce & Gabbana aftershave.

"Okay I think we got it" Stan concluded, before passing his camera to an assistant and walking over to Sam, he gave him a kiss on each cheek then motioned him over to the monitor to check out the photos.

"These look amazing guys" Mercedes beamed, squeezing Sam on the shoulder affectionately.

"Oh I love that one" Sam added. The photographer showed them some more photos before he started packing away and Sam was taken to wardrobe to take off the suit and make up he was eager to wipe off.

"You look really good in that suit" Mercedes flirted as she helped Sam out of his suit jacket.

"Good because I was planning on wearing it to your show to tonight" Sam beamed.

"It's not that big a deal" Mercedes waved off. Mercedes was doing a small intimate gig at a piano bar near hers and Sam's apartment and she'd been trying not to make a big deal about, so she wouldn't freak herself out.

"It's a big deal if I make it a big deal" Sam pressed.

"Oh, it's time!" Mercedes exclaimed, looking down at her watch before she began rooting in her bag for her phone.

"Go on, I'll meet you outside" Sam said. He gave Mercedes a quick kiss before she rushed out with her phone already to her ear.

Mercedes tapped her foot as she waited for Santana to answer "Come on… I don't care if you're climbing a mountain right now you have to answer"

Santana and Brittany - Great Wall of China – China

"My god! Are we nearly there yet?" Santana groaned, as she bent over to catch her breath. Santana and Brittany had been walking along the Great Wall of China for about two hours which meant that Santana had been complaining for an hour and forty-five minutes.

"You know you'd think after 6 months I would have gotten used to your complaining" Brittany quipped, looking back at Santana who was trailing behind her. She reached her hand out and grabbed Santana's hands and pulled her towards her.

"And you haven't so that really on you" Santana replied, with a loving smile.

"I don't know what I was thinking, travelling the world with you"

"You're obviously crazy"

"Exactly"

"View is pretty good though" Brittany mused, she wrapped her arms and Santana and turned them towards the wall so that they could both see and admire the view in front of them. They had been to some amazing places and it never got old. They were having the time of their lives.

"It's incredible" Santana mused. They were staring out of the view when they both felt Santana's phone vibrate in her pocket, neither of them had realised it was time.

"I know you're trying to be sweet by ignoring it but we both know she'll just keep ringing. It's okay answering it" Brittany said. Santana turned in her wife's arm to smile at her.

"I love you"

"Love you too… tell them I say hello" Brittany called to Santana's retreating body. Santana quickly found a bench to sit on and answered Mercedes's call.

"Hey Cedes… I'll patch them in now"

The Hudson's and Puckerman's – The Fall Festival – Rochester

While Sam and Mercedes were living the model life in LA and Santana and Brittany were seeing the wonders of china, the Puckerman's and Hudson's were at the Rochester Fall Festival. It was an annual event in the town square that had hay rides, carnival games, corn mazes and food stalls full of corndogs, candy apples and hot chocolate.

"I wanna do the hayride first!" Rose beamed, pulling on her father's hand.

"No we have to go in the corn maze" Henry argued, pointing to the corn maze in the distant. Rochester was famous for housing the largest corn maze in the district, something Rochester was very proud of and something Puck and Finn had mocked relentlessly when Quinn had mentioned it.

"It's not actually made of corn is it" Puck wondered, shyly as he pushed Mason and Egan in their double pram.

"I really hope you don't need an answer to that" Finn replied, giving his friend a strange look.

"Here are your candy apples guys" Quinn said, walking back over to the group with a candy apple for all them except Mason and Egan who she pulled out a banana from her bag for.

"You know I didn't think they would be able to top the Summer Jamboree but somehow they managed it" Rachel mused, before she bite into her candy apple as she looked around at the different stalls and games.

"I know!" Quinn exclaimed, not noticing the sarcastic tone to Rachel's words.

"Okay what are we doing first?" Finn asked looking down at the three children.

"Hayride"

"Games!"

"Corn maze"

"Why don't we have a look at some of the stalls while your mommies answer that?" Finn replied, smirking at Rachel and Quinn, when both their phones starting to ring at the same time.

"10 minutes Mommy that's it!" Rose demanded, pointing her finger at her mother and Auntie.

"I promise sweetie" Rachel chuckled.

"Noah, see if they have those candles I like" Quinn called behind her, before the pair rushed off to find a private area to answer the call. They found an empty bench, so they took a seat before answering the call.

"Hey guys, we're here" Rachel greeted, happily eager to talk to Mercedes and Santana. The last time the girls had been able to talk all four of them together was two weeks before.

"What you guys up to?" Quinn asked.

"Oh you know just strolling along the Great Wall of China" Santana replied, Rachel could sense the smirk he had on her face. She shared an eye roll with Quinn before going back to the conversation.

"God is that where you are, I can never keep up with you to" Quinn sighed, before taking a bite of her candy apple before Rachel passed her some of her hot chocolate.

"We'll be in Japan the next time we conference call" Santana laughed.

"Well we are at a pretty cool Fall Festival" Rachel argued, even though she knew that didn't at all sound as interesting.

"And is it as good as the Summer Jamboree" Mercedes wondered, with a teasing tone.

"Do you know, I think it just might be" Rachel laughed. She wasn't just talking about the fall festival but Rochester itself, it had defiantly been the right move for her family.

"Mercedes are you excited for your show tonight" Quinn asked, excited. Mercedes quickly launched into her story about her show and the girls carried on talking until Finn finally had to break up the conversation 15 minutes later.

THE END