A/N So this is it, months later, forty chapters and I have finally finished, it's an ending, and yep most things are resolved but not everything because things never really are in life.
To my many supporters who have reviewed every chapter and made me smile on bad days, thank you so so so so so so so much, most of you read all the other things I write so I'm sure I'll be thanking you again soon enough.
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Thank you so much to everyone, especially Olivia and CC (now cc xx) who didn't/don't have profiles but still reviewed every chapter I can never tell you how awesome it was to get your first reviews saying how much you loved the story :D
Linnea 212: Puck is mine missy! But thank you so much for your support through all of this :D and to SweetCaroline1986 and Kimmy77 your long reviews always cheered me up no end, and made me feel better when people hated this story.
So this it; the end of my first story (finally) Disclaimed for the final time :D
Chapter 40 Over
Rachel moved her head and glanced at the front door in shock as Ethan bottle of beer slipped from his hands and dropped to the floor, crashing into a mess of glass and spilt beer, the noise shocking the party and turning them to the drama that was unfolding at the front door. Leon pushing through the crowd at the sight of his three children's scared and shocked faces, and Puck and Eli's anger.
The couple pushed themselves into the house and closed the front door behind them
"Who are you and what gives you the right to push your way into my home?" Leon asked angrily.
"Dad" Rachel said quietly slipping her hand into his "these are our biological parents. Eli take everyone into the kitchen" instructed Eli did just that and ushered everyone into the kitchen closing the swinging door behind him and turning the music up. Puck refusing to move sat down on the stairs, knowing Rachel would need him after seeing her parents.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Damian asked gruffly wrapping his arm around his little sister who had moved in front of her adoptive father, while Ethan flanked her on the other side.
"Aren't you breaking your parole right now?" Rachel asked icily "I am not above calling every parole officer from here to Neptune California and ensuring that you get put back into prison"
"Wow my little girl grew up into quite the little hardball" Seth Nicholas said with a smirk
"No thanks to you" she snapped "seeing as you were imprisoned for what you did to us I'm sure you are breaking your parole in more ways than simply leaving the state of California"
"Leave" growled Ethan "personally I don't give a fuck why you are here"
"Well that's no way to talk to your parents" Jean said snippily
"Our parent is right there" Ethan said poking a thumb at Leon who was sitting down next to Puck not talking letting his children bury this area of their history on their own, if he fought this battle for them they wouldn't resolve the lingering problems. "The only person who in the last twenty years has given a crap about us is sitting right there"
"I raised you, I gave birth to you, and I'm your mother"
"Yeah the mom who would throw buckets of water over us to wake us up and send us to bed after our father had beaten the crap out of us" Damian laughed harshly as Seth opened his mouth.
"No you don't get to stand there and defend yourselves, do you want to know why? Because we never got to defend ourselves. Never" Rachel interrupted "now I have no idea why you are here and frankly I don't give a damn, Eth, D, do you?"
"Nope" Ethan said quietly
"Fuck no" Damian agreed with his sister "the only thing, the only thing I could ever thank you for is making sure that us three are close"
"Because we are, closer than ever and we do have you to thank for that, because me and D will never let anything happen to Rachel ever again" Ethan said his arm around his sister holding her tight to his side.
"We just...we wanted to see you" Jean stammered looking at her husband in shame "ever since we got out...we just wanted to see you"
"That's called guilt" Puck growled in the corner making the two young men laugh
"Yep and you have a lot of things to feel guilty for" Ethan continued.
"Look son..."
"Don't you fucking dare call me that" Ethan snapped as his father turned awkwardly to Damian
"Or me, we aren't your children, the Nicholas siblings died a long time ago" Damian informed them "your children were scared, timid shadows of what we are, now Ethan is a graduate of Stanford, I'm in Columbia, Rachel is a 4.0 student, we are nothing like how you raised us"
"W...wow that's great" Seth stammered "guess you didn't get your brains from me, a dumb factory worker"
"It sounds like you are fishing for a compliment" Rachel snapped "all of our accomplishments all of our goals are because of how we raised ourselves and the Berry's have raised us. Please leave, I don't think I can handle this just leave" Rachel begged turning away and hurrying over to Puck and her father who both slipped their arms around her and hugged her tight, as the brothers moved together shoulder to shoulder.
"You are hurting Rachel, leave" Ethan ordered "you have hurt us enough"
"But we have so much to talk about" Jean objected
"No we don't, we don't want to see you ever again"
Standing over their father, who was slightly intimidated by the well muscled young men in front of him they walked forwards threateningly until they were backed against the door "leave" they ordered one more time together this time not allowing any room for objection.
Scrabbling for the doorknob behind her Jean pulled her husband out of the door which then slammed closed in their face.
Inside they looked at each in awe, that was nothing like they expected their meeting with their parents to go after such a long time, they had imagined angry parents, they had imagined repentant parents, but in the end they had just want they needed, the chance to tell them to leave.
"You guys ok?" asked Leon gently, wishing Mark was here to see their children finally stand up to their past.
"You know for the first time ever I think we are" Damian said glancing at his brother who was leaning against the wall smiling smugly and shaking his head, and then at his sister who was leaning against her boyfriend for once silenced by the events "we love you dad" D slapped his father on the back and walked into the kitchen where everyone had valiantly been trying not to listen to the drama unfolding behind the door.
"Well if you are ok Ethan clean that up" Leon said pointing to the puddle of beer in the middle of the wooden floor, laughing as his son growled and stomped off towards the kitchen to find a cloth. "Rachel?"
"I'm ok dad, I promise" Rachel smiled at him, leaning over to hug him as Ethan returned with a cloth and a bucket for the glass.
"You're my girl of course you are"
"Let's rejoin the party" Rachel told Puck getting up and letting him wrap his arms around her to lead her into the kitchen where the glee club waited.
"Is she lying?" Leon asked Ethan who glanced up at his worried father
"Are you? Because you are our dad"
Releasing a breath he didn't know he had been holding Leon hugged his eldest son "I wish Mark was here to see you three be so strong"
"He was" Ethan said gruffly his own voice thick with emotion "he's always here, now go celebrate Rachel winning her millionth singing competition I'll be there in a minute, stupid beer is all sticky"
"You ok Sweet's?" Eli and Jess asked as Rachel hopped up onto the counter.
"Yeah Ray are you ok?" Brit asked hugging Rachel around the shoulders tightly.
"Perfectly, we just needed to get rid of some unwelcome guests" Rachel said with a smile, making Puck and Damian snort at her gentle assessment of the situation they had watched in the foyer.
"So what have we got left for the year?" Matt asked to the room changing the conversation valiantly
"Finals and then summer" Mike said smiling at the idea of summer
"And baseball season, the cheerleaders back in their short tops full time" Puck said waggling his eyebrows at Rachel, San and Brit who laughed at him and threw some chips at him.
"Still finals" Artie pouted
"Who cares about finals!" Finn said rolling his eyes as everyone, including Puck to everyone surprise, put up their hands and Carole slapped her son around the back of the head, everyone laughing at him.
Gleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Later that night climbing into bed next to each other for the first time in almost two weeks Puck gathered his girlfriend to his body and held her tightly to his side.
"Do you think that this is sort of anti climatic?" Rachel asked as she ran her fingers across his bare chest "after all the drama of the last year all we have left are finals and then summer?"
"Yeah but it will be nice to just chill for a while" Puck agreed "anyway summer will be cool Luke and Danny are coming up here, and there is baseball season"
"I know, but no drama, and on the note of finals I am very proud of you for being worried about them"
"Well got to be if I want to get to a college on the east coast" Puck yawned "and no drama sounds good to me, it's been a crazy fucking year"
"The east coast?" Rachel squeaked
"Well duh!" Puck groused "you're stuck with me now"
"Oh well as long as there is no more drama, I can put up with that"