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[finchel-fics]

Author: wants2beawriter & JannP Status: complete Rating: M Chapters: 11 Words: 44k

Summary: What happens when marriage, secrets, misunderstandings and money all ignite? Rated M. Epically awesome collaborative work with JannP. Beta'd by tjcrowfoot and joshsgrl

[finchel-fics]

Author: jannp Status: Complete Rating: T Chapters: one-shot Words: 4k

Summary: Finn wants to know how a face can actually taste awesome. Finn/Rachel with a splash of Blaine/Kurt. Inspired by Rachel's comment to Blaine in BIOTA. T-Rated one parter.

[goldstarsgirlie]

And here's the sequel. Enjoy ;o)

[goldstarsgirlie]

Here's the story I've been looking for all day...you won't be disappointed.

[goldstarsgirlie]

So, whenever I discover a new piece of amazing writing I like to share. Some of you may have read this already, but if you haven't... ...it's good, like really really good! You're welcome 💛

[thepastryshoppe]

THROUGH THE OVEN DOOR (October 2013 ISSUE)

(Summaries may be taken straight from the author’s own description, modified or written up by members of staff; and should serve as only a general hint at the plotline)

A Stereo I Can't Turn Off

Author: JannP Rating: T Chapters: 1+

Summary: "Everyone in his life and around him knows that he and Rachel broke up and they've given him wide berth for some reason. He kind of wonders if they're just waiting for him to snap. He won't. It's not like when he found out about Puck and Quinn. It's different—he's different—and this is different, too. Finntana s2 redo/overview in two parts."

give me love like never before

Author:  monchelelover32 Rating: T Chapters: 3+

Summary: "You can't just say I'm beautiful and walk away."

Sexiled

Author: henriettaline Rating: T Chapters: 5+

Summary: ""You see that sock on the door? That means I have a man in my bed, so you need to go somewhere else. It's protocol." AU College Finchel. When freshman theater arts major Rachel Berry is forced to move into the dorms partway through fall semester, she gets a promiscuous roommate who keeps kicking her out for the night, but she also meets a cute guy who lives down the hall."

Vanishing Grace

Author: IThinkIJustGleedMyself Rating: M Chapters: 10+

Summary: "No matter what, you keep finding something to fight for."

[thepastryshoppe]

(Rated: M) As I stand next to the sun

So he knows there are some things you just…like you just don't say them out loud, okay? It's not really lying, but it's more like thinking about what comes out of your mouth. He doesn't usually have that ability, but sometimes he does and when he does, it's just…it's a gift.

But even if he can keep his mouth shut, it doesn't mean he's not thinking and after Schue's comment about 'not repeating the mistakes we made last year', he's thinking all right. It's not so bad, really, at least not right now. He'll let Rachel know if it gets too bad, but he can feel her eyes on his face after he decides to kind of start wandering through the thoughts he's keeping to himself. She's completely trying to suss him out and he's just thinking.

The first mistake he thought of, honestly, was way back when Schue told the Glee guys they were objectifying the girls. They sang a Madonna song about how it feels to be a girl and he told them to try to understand, maybe a little, so they could be nicer and more respectful. (Also something his mom has practically beaten into him since that Darren douchebag. It's something he's learned just watching Burt, too, and he gets how important it is. He means, like if his mom isn't respected by a dude, he's old enough and big enough now to kick the shit out of the guy and he'd totally do it. So it's important to him now, as the guy in an equation, to avoid treating girls badly and getting kicked by someone else who cares about them.)

Besides, even when he treated Rachel all nicely, he still lost her. So—yeah, that was kind of a mistake. He had to watch her with Jesse after that and it sucked balls. Then again, he kept being nicer to her and eventually he got her and…well, he was pretty sure Mr. Schue was onto something and he tried to look out for her.

Well, in some ways. He's way better at it this time, too. He's been trying to kind of get better at it where girls in general are concerned. The worst place for that was with Coach Beiste. It was so hard to walk to the line between respecting his coach and respecting the coach's boobs. Okay, not literally respecting her boobs because—nothing against her, but he's not attracted to her like that. He doesn't think of her that way, even though he maybe suggested Sam think of her kind of that way. And yeah, he's kind of shitty at respecting people sometimes but he learned from that, too.

That was a mistake last year he could learn from: do not think of your coach to calm things down when you get too excited by your hot girlfriend.

All right, well maybe progress is easier said than done because he still has to think of something so he doesn't completely blow it constantly. And for all the thinking he's done about respecting the girls, especially the girls who are teeny and have brown eyes and like to crawl in his lap and kiss him, he wonders if she's thought about it, too. Like does she think about respecting him in the same way? 'Cause he's under a lot of pressure to…y'know… perform. Like, all the time. There are so many ways to take that word for him, between sports, and Glee, and…well… even with that teeny, brown-eyed, super hot girlfriend.

He can't imagine Rachel would laugh at him; he's pretty sure she wouldn't. But that doesn't mean he can tell her he still has to think about the time he almost turned someone into road kill, either. Or the real reason he keeps thinking about it. And it's getting better but…well, sometimes he still has to do it because it's like she knows about that spot behind his ear and works it on purpose. She makes it hard for him to hold his shit together sometimes.

Really, though, why does he have to hold his shit together? When they're doing that kind of stuff, his big goal is to make her lose hers, so…why is it okay for her to lose hers but he has to find ways and tricks to keep his together for longer?

He looks over at her when they're in Glee, just sneaking a glance. She's looking forward, listening to Schue, and he probably should be listening too since Regionals are next week. She's biting her lip and he can see her doing that thing where she's taking notes, like, in her head instead of on paper. There are a lot of places where she's doing both, but in Glee she usually just kind of files it away in her head. She remembers some of the craziest shit because she pays attention.

And honestly, he benefits. He's not gonna complain about it.

Okay, but really. How is it fair that he has to come up with new ways to seem like such a bad-ass stud and all she has to do is, basically…look like that. Sure, he knows she showers at least twice a day between her elliptical workouts (incidentally, they started jogging last week because it's just getting warm enough outside and she kicks his ass at that, too) and her dance classes. The only time he sees her, like without makeup or lip gloss that tastes like candy or … whatever… is when they work out or when he picks her up from dance or something. So he knows she tries to look her best all the time; she's told him she likes to be fastidiously groomed and she's said it a lot. So yeah, she tries and he knows that.

But it still seems like he has to work harder at the sex stuff because she just kind of oozes sex, at least he thinks, and he's just kind of a dork—a dork who gets too excited, too fast more often than not.

As far as sex with Rachel goes, there are a lot of mistakes he's made that he'd like to not repeat. And technically, they were within the last year, so maybe that's what Schue is talking about, too. Wait—okay, no. There's no way Schue is talking about his leads' sex life. Still, it applies. Maybe he should tell her about the mailman, y'know, to avoid repeating.

Then she can help him figure out the stupid double standard that says he has to keep his cool so he can be hot.

(Seems kinda backwards. Then again, so do a lot of things.)

As I stand next to the sun is a humorous, slightly M-rated one-shot by JannP, written from Finn's perspective about an issue that's causing him some trouble: Sex, and the odd double standard that he has to keep it together while his only aim is to make her lose it. A conversation about this with Burt might shed some light on it... and what about Rachel herself?

[thepastryshoppe]

This Year's Sandwich

It isn't like he's ever been on a plane before, but even first class seats suck ass. He's just… long legs don't do well with stuff like this. He knew that from all the busses and he tried for a seat on the aisle so he could stretch out, but Quinn's on the other side of the aisle anyway and he doesn't really want to get poked with the daggers in her eyes and whatever…Kurt owes him so Kurt switched him and he's totally blocked in but it's better. So he tries—again—to stretch his legs out and he gets his foot hooked under the seat and it actually gives him the leverage to kind of accomplish something for once. He can actually feel blood moving in his thighs again so that's a start.

He might even groan a little bit in relief that something is working out, but everyone has headphones in anyway so who really cares?

He can't sit like that forever, though. He needs to put the tray table thing back down and keep working on this song—oh my God, shut up, it still counts even if he hasn't written anything but a couple of awkward football-shaped doodles—because this song has to be good. He has to concentrate.

What he doesn't expect is something tapping his foot. He looks over at Kurt first because Kurt's like his brother and he wouldn't try to…nah. So he lifts up the tray and there's…

What the fuck? What is that thing?

He bends down and fumbles for a second to reach it with his too-long arms, plus he totally earns the dirty look from the dude right in front of him when he somehow manages to bang his knee and his head on the tray at the same time and seriously, he is not fucking cut out for air travel, okay?

Unless it's in his own private plane with lots of room to spread out 'cause that would rock pretty hard.

He frowns when his hand wraps around something hard and smooth and spherical and he really hopes there isn't some kind of sex toy shaped like this 'cause he's pretty much committed to picking it up now and that would be super embarrassing. And he gets enough embarrassment from Kurt checking his browser history and stuff. He picks it up, just barely managing to avoid smacking it on the tray, which is when he decides he'll probably be better off just putting the tray up for now anyway.

He glances around to make sure no one is looking at him 'cause he just picked up a snow globe, even though he was pretty sure they stopped existing in the early 2000s and he doesn't want people to think he's a creeper or something. He turns it over in his hand and if he were more OCD-inclined, he'd be worried about germs and stuff. But this is a kid who used to eat nickels off the ground. Not because he really liked the taste of them, but mostly because they were there. And he doesn't remember doing any of that anyway; his mom just tells him that stuff all the time.

He's pretty sure she might just be making it up.

So he puts up the tray table but then turns in his seat because, right, like it wasn't five kinds of awkward before anyway, but whatever. Kurt catching him with this thing would be way, way worse than, like, asking Rachel to walk on his back later or something. She's done it before, he's pretty sure she'll do it again if he needs her to. She's a pal like that.

So anyway, it has one of those gold things on it that twist around. So, like, he twists it. He's not sure if something is gonna jump out and he'll lose his shit right here if that happens, but instead it just tinkles out a little song. A song he recognizes from somewhere.

Okay, so Rachel might believe in karma, but he knows she doesn't really believe in signs. They talked about it a lot with the saved-by-a-sandwich incident, which…whatever. It was true. Believe what you want, naysayer. He was there, it happened.

But thing is, he does believe in signs. And the song coming out of that thing is a big sign. It's practically singing ask her right now if she loves you and she'll say yes. Okay, well, really it's singingMerry Christmas darling, we're apart that's true; but I can dream, and in my dreams I'm Christmas-ing with you. And he knows those are the right words because they played on repeat in his head for a long time. He ignored all the shit they repeated with because, like, he had to okay? But now he can think about it all and toss it aside and this beautiful, creepy thing in his hand is singing and telling him what he already knew. Now is the time. The karma is good. He should go with it.

Why can't he just write a song that says that? And why do all the good Christmas songs have to be taken? And why does he have to try getting her back in May when a Christmas song doesn't really apply to the world-at-large?

Why does karma hate him?

And why is he still staring at this thing like it's Rachel's naked boobs or something? Not that he's seen them, but he's pretty sure if or when he does (please be when please be when please be when) he'll be staring at them in the same fixated sort of way. Although with any luck, there'll be less singing of Christmas songs involved.

He looks around again because what if someone can hear that? And not to be biased, but Rachel's version of the song was way better. Not that he was willing to tell her that at the time, though he also wasn't in the possession of a singing snow globe at that point anyway. And technically, he's still not in possession of it now, but that's all like technicalities and stuff, which isn't his strong point.

Right, back to songwriting. He's pretty sure it was a crummy idea to come to New York with zero songs prepared, but asking him to write a song is like asking peanut butter not to be delicious; it isn't possible. (Also, yes, he knows you're not supposed to talk to peanut butter, but it was just the one time because he was just really confused and normally would have a lady, uh manly, chat with Kurt but he was off with Blaine doing things Finn never wanted to hear details about and he just needed a pal. At least he hasn't adopted any cats yet, so shut up). And he's pretty sure snow globes, especially in the spring, aren't normal inspiration for a song, but he really hopes it could work out this way for him.

He guesses, at least, it's a good thing the snow globe doesn't play "Faithfully" or else he might actually break down and start sobbing like a girl. But then he thinks that's a stupid thought because "Faithfully" isn't a Christmas song and they don't make Journey globes…do they? He should totally check into that.

So where exactly did that snow globe come from that Finn was holding during most of the scenes in New York (and the McKinley Library)? And why was he holding on to it anyway? What's so special about it? This Year's Sandwich is a wonderfully humorous explanation in one-shot form by two of my favorite writers, JannP and egyouppt.