acontrollist | Welcome to the Fallout

She tells Kurt later that night. Of course she does. He's her best friend and she's been trying to work out this...thing with Noah since it started Sophomore year, in between Finn and Jesse. And he's happy for her, which is great. It's just...he's a little too happy. A little too loud.

And guess who he lives with?

She's at her locker the next day (she hasn't seen Noah yet. She hasn't looked. She knows he's usually late and she's painfully punctual, so it's pretty much a moot point.) She's not expecting Finn to approach her. And she's definitely not expecting to hear "Puck? Puck? Are you kidding me?"

"I'm not sure how it's any of your business, Finn."

"He’s bad for you."

"You don’t know what’s bad for me, do you?"

"C’mon, Rachel, I know you better than anyone."

"So you kept hurting me on purpose, then?"

"Rach-"

"No, Finn, stop. I won’t-…even if I wasn’t trying this...thing with Noah-"

"Rachel, wake up! He only wants what he can’t have!"

"And why can’t he have me, Finn? I don’t belong to you. We're over, okay? We're done. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to make sure I have all of my homework for the day."

"You know you do, Rachel. Come on, we need to talk about this..."

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Puck does plan to tell Finn the next day about him and Rachel. Of course he has no idea that he already knows and is causing a scene by her locker as Puck makes his way to school, late as always. Finn's his best friend and Puck does feel bad because Finn's probably still in love with Rachel, but frankly he thinks Finn had his chance and fucked it up by making her choose between him and New York, so whatever. Finn will just have to suck it up. Puck would never make her choose like that because... well, he knows she'd choose New York over him and it's a decision he wouldn't be offended by. At the back of his mind he knows at the end of the year Rachel will be out of Lima and it's going to suck a lot when he says goodbye to her... but what's that quote? Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all? Puck doesn't know which dude said that but he'd buy them a beer because he can totally relate.

He wants to catch Rachel before class starts and heads to where her locker is, but he hears Finn's yells before he sees them arguing in the hallway. He immediately heads towards them, driven by his instinct to protect Rachel and explain to Finn that he wasn't trying to hurt him on purpose. But anger flares up inside him when he hears Finn bad-mouthing him. He's supposed to be his friend. He knew Finn wasn't going to be over the moon about this but he has no right telling Rachel why Puck wants to be with her for reasons that couldn't be further from the truth.

Putting himself between the two of them, Finn might have been taller than him but Puck's stance is still intimidating as he stares Finn down. "Dude, you have no idea what you're talking about, so shut the hell up."

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