Date: June 2nd, 2012 Characters: Finn Hudson, Rachel Berry Location: Lima Warnings: None. Will add if needed. Summary: Without his mom, the Hummel-Hudson household no longer feels like home to Finn.
Finn felt lost. It was more than everything that was happening around them--that there were alert sirens going off, and they hadn't had electricity for the last two days, and things continued to go from bad to worse. It was everything that had happened to him. His mom was gone, and the last three days had been the most painful and lonely of his life. Burt and Kurt, and even Blaine (though he had lost both of his parents, apparently, and hadn't really moved from Kurt's room since he'd shown up there) were trying, but it just wasn't the same.
This place wasn't the same. This house wasn't home. Not without his mom. Not without people who loved and understood him the way she did. The way Rachel does.
And he couldn't even call her because his phone was dead. Who would have ever thought that the loss of electricity would mean the loss of cell phones? Finn had always kind of thought no matter the apocalypse, at least with cell phones there would always be ways to communicate. Oops? The same could be said for the internet. Sure, it was probably still out there, but until he could find a laptop with a battery that was charged or a generator or something, all of that was kind of pointless. Burt had gone into town yesterday to check the stores for a generator but most everything had been cleared out. "Looted," Burt had said with a shake of his head. He did come home with food though, and weapons.
It was a scary world.
So Finn does the only thing he could think of that would make him feel more comfortable--he packed up what he could into a duffel bag and told Burt he was going to Rachel's house to be with her. After all, they had planned on getting married before her acceptance into NYADA and his decision to join the army. That was all kind of pointless now, and all they really had was each other. Burt argued, of course, saying his mom would have wanted Burt to look after him. But the thing was, Finn was an adult now, would have been leaving the house anyway, and it wasn't fair to Burt--not when he had both Kurt and Blaine to look after now. Finn would be all right, and Rachel's place wasn't too far away. They could still all look out for each other.
Maybe Finn was being an ass by leaving the way he was, by making it seem he was only leaving because his mother wasn't there anymore, but he didn't care. It seemed like the last year had been mostly shit, and the only person that really mattered in his life anymore was the person he should be with then... when everything else was falling apart.
So he grabbed his stuff, said goodbye to his sort of family, and carefully drove his way a few across town to Rachel's house.