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Chapter 1 - An Intervention

Finn was sitting in the choir room working on a plan for next week's lesson. Being in charge of Glee club still made him panic at moments, but his confidence had been rising with every day in the job. Immersed in sheet music he didn't notice someone coming through the door and only looked up when he heard a cough from the person behind the piano.

"You? What do you want here? Get out!"

Against all expectations Sebastian showed no reaction to Finn's outburst, not even his trademark smirk was playing on his face. Instead he sighed a little and raised his hands in surrender.

"I'm here about Blaine. I'm not here because of the Warblers and they don't know I'm here. I just want to talk."

Raising an eyebrow Finn sneered: "And why should I believe a word of what you're saying?"

"You don't have to. All I'm asking is that you hear me out. I know I did a lot of shit last year, hell the last years really, but I'm trying to make some of it right. And Blaine … I just don't want another Karofsky, ok."

Flabbergasted Finn looked at the younger boy, who very unusual didn't wear his Dalton uniform but instead was dressed in plain Jeans and a black sweater.

"You mean, Blaine, but he wouldn't, never. He's not suicidal."

"Maybe not now, not yet. But I've seen the look in his eyes when he came to sing with us at Dalton." Sebastian had to raise a hand to silence Finn, so he could continue.

"As much as I would love having him back at Dalton, even if only to raise our chances at Nationals, it's not what he wants. Here, watch this."

Catching the tape Sebastian had thrown over to him Finn questioned: "What's that? Another threat video."

Sebastian rolled his eyes obviously restraining himself not to make a comment. "Didn't I say I was here on private business? Just watch the tape okay? It's from Dalton's CCTV cameras so there is no sound, but you should be able to see the performance pretty well."

Hesitating for a second, Finn then grabbed his laptop and had just pressed the power button as he noticed Sebastian had turned to leave.

"Hey, wait! You can't just leave me here with this. I'm done playing games with you dude. If you're really here to help Blaine then stay and explain what exactly I'm watching for here."

Reluctantly the other boy turned and sat next to Finn, giving a sharp nod as Finn pressed the play button on the now loaded CCTV tape. They watched in silence as the Warblers forced Blaine into a Blazer and then performed Dark Side center-staging the former Warbler. While Sebastian's face only grew a little sadder as he watched, Finn's brow furrowed further and further with every time the camera captured Blaine. The silence extended after the tape had finished and it was Finn who spoke first.

"I'm no good at this emotional stuff. Believe me, I'm clueless really, but despite his smiles he seemed uncomfortable and there was something missing from his usual performance."

"Joy, fun, jauntiliy. Look, I know this must be hard for you. Kurt being your step-brother and all, but Blaine needs you guys. He only considers coming back to Dalton, because being here is painful. And he thinks with what he did, none of you want him here."

"That's not true. I mean what he did wasn't cool, but he's our friend." Finn interrupted jumping up from his chair.

"Maybe you should let him know that. It may not seem that way, but Blaine has an incredibly low self-esteem. You just don't know, because he hides it well."

"And since when do you know him so well? You hardly ever had contact that wasn't taunting and snide remarks." Finn shot back angrily.

Not raising to the bait, Sebastian replied coolly: "You know, me and him, we're not that different. We're both openly gay and confident with it and people think that's just the way we are. No one questions the story behind it. But it's a mask, for me it's the remarks and come-backs, for Blaine it's playing Mr. Nice-guy 24/7. Neither is real."

Seeing Finn's skeptical look and the questions that were on his lips, Sebastian spoke up once more.

"Last year when I took over the Warblers, I did some research on Blaine."

"Digging up dirt, you mean." Finn interjected causing the other boy to shrug awkwardly.

"Call it what you like. Anyway I started with his Dalton Files. Did you know that Blaine had remedial lessons in nearly all subjects when he entered the school? Even with Dalton's academic standards being higher than at his previous school, Blaine is a good student and could have easily managed. So I dug a little deeper and it turns out he had missed several weeks of school before he transferred. He'd been at hospital. To be precise he was treated after he had been beaten to pulp by some guys after a school dance."

"I knew about this, I mean I heard Kurt and Blaine talk about it once, but I didn't know it was that bad." Finn murmured clearly shocked by this revelation. However Sebastian was far from done.

"The guys who did it, I'm pretty sure they were homophobes. In fact I know from Blaine's counseling notes."

Finn shot him an angry look, but Sebastian only shrugged it off.

"I'm not proud of it okay, but I'm telling you this to do some good. So anyway beside this fact, Blaine's father, who was the one to testify as Blaine was still out in hospital, never mentioned the fact that these guys had bullied his son before. That he was gay and maybe that was the reason for the fight. Instead the police report says something like 'jealousy' and 'teenage quarrel'."

"But, but why would he do that?" Finn stammered.

"Are you really that daft?" Sebastian asked dryly and promptly Finn was in his face snarling.

"Listen you punk, I'm still not sure I believe a word of what you say so don't test me."

Raising his arms in a calming gesture for a second time in the conversation, Sebastian retreated: "Alright, alright. I'm sorry, okay. It's just, you know not everyone is as lucky as your brother and has understanding, great parents. Mine clearly weren't. I didn't want to leave Paris, but it was Dalton or disownment after they couldn't hide my sexuality from their social circles anymore. What do you think does it feel like if your parents can't stand you enough to be on the same continent as you?"

"Dude, I'm sorry, I…"

"Forget it. This isn't about me. I'm just saying, Blaine's dad obviously isn't ready to accept the fact that his son is gay. Did you notice that his parents have not been to a single of your shows? It was the same in Dalton the other boys told me. They only saw his father on open-days where he would loudly demand that Blaine joined some sports team instead of 'that girlish singing group'."

"But Blaine, he's so confident. He helped Kurt when he got bullied, it … it just doesn't make sense." Finn stuttered disbelieving.

"And you have to give him credit for that. He's a strong guy. I used that frustration to turn in into malice. He just worked through it, but either way these things leave marks. First your parents, then you get chased out of high school by bullies, in Dalton he thought he had found acceptance just to learn that as soon as he was not their star anymore, they turned against him. And now he wonders if you may all turn on him too. After all, to him you liked him, because he was Kurt's boyfriend. I don't think you even know the real Blaine yet, but I can't say much about that. The other guys made some hints, but I don't know him good enough to judge that. Just so you know, his best friend at Dalton picked the song. It's 'Dark Side'."

With that remark Sebastian got up and left the choir room leaving a thoroughly confused and worried Finn behind.

AN: So this is an idea that just came to me today and I had to write it down. Please let me know if you are interested in me continuing this, because I do have other stories WIP and this was not planned. It just happened. If enough people want me to continue it, I will. Otherwise I'll just delete it and go back to my WIP stories.