I'll Stand By You (Finn Hudson x OC)

FORTY EIGHT

Season 3, Episode 4:  Pot o' Gold

Ownership of Glee:  FOX, Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk

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Angie P.O.V.

Between musical rehearsals, glee club, booty camp and school, I'm relying on Finn and caffeine to keep me going. If I'm not rehearsing or teaching choreography, I'm doing homework between breaks. It gets done by the due date, and it gets done correctly.

On top of all that, Mercedes left New Directions. Which means we're still a man — or, in this case, woman — down for Sectionals. No one can reach Sam since he moved, and it seems like everything's kinda going to hell.

I still can't believe Mercedes quit. She was one of the seven original members of glee club. Tina was crying, and I felt like crying too.

"You know what, girl Chang? If you cry every time someone gets a hangnail, it kind of starts to lose its effect." Santana remarks.

Tina looks at her. "It's not a hangnail. Mercedes was one of Glee's original members."

"I feel naked in here without her." Mike says.

"Yeah, well, get used to it, 'cause without her singing for us, we're going to have to perform naked for the judges to vote for us at Sectionals." Puck says.

Mr. Shue shakes his head. "No. I will not let this setback crush our spirits. I mean, we have handled worse than losing one of our best singers."

"Kind of hard not to blame you, Mr. Shue. Think you were too hard on her at Booty Camp." Quinn says.

"I blame Artie. Why couldn't you have just given Maria to Mercedes?" Tina asks.

"Because that would have damage my integrity as an artist." Artie answers.

"Don't hate on Artie, Tina." I defend my brother.

For the first time in 2 years, Rachel arrives to glee club late. "Sorry I am late. I was putting up posters for my... for my campaign." She says when she sees Kurt.

"Did you airbrush out your jowls?" Kurt jabs.

"No." Rachel says.

"Look, let's stop it, everybody. So we lost a singer. So they canceled the musical." Finn says.

Rachel pales. "Wait, what? No, no, no, no. You can't cancel my musical."

"Sue cut the funding." Mike says.

"The point is, right now, we shouldn't be turning on each other." Finn finishes.

Blaine stands up. "I agree. I can only speak from my experience with the Warblers, but no show choir is just one person; it's a team. When we lost a Warbler, we just replaced him with another one."

"Which is easy when your waiting list has a waiting list. Dude, I know you're a big deal at Dalton or whatever, but we don't wear blazers here, so have a seat - I'm trying to give a pep talk." Finn says.

"Didn't you just say something about us not turning on each other?" I shoot back. Finn sits down, ultimately defeated. I roll my eyes at my boyfriend.

"No, you can't cancel my musical. Okay? I was considering changing my name to Maria." Rachel pouts.

"The musical is not canceled. As for Mercedes, yes, that is a huge loss for us, but we will deal with replacing her later. Right now, we need to focus on putting on this musical." Mr. Shue says.

"How?" Mike asks.

"We sell ads in the program. I figure we can get ten, maybe 20 bucks apiece for them." Mr. Shue states.