AN: I wrote this for the Glee_Fluff_Meme on LiveJournal. I'm posting it here in chapters because it's majorly long. Luckily, though, it shoundn't take more than this weekend to write :)
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"What did you do to her?"
Puck couldn't say he was surprised to be having this conversation. Kurt and Mercedes were practically sisters. It was natural that he'd defend her after she and Puck broke up.
"I didn't do nothing. She knew I was using her. It's not my fault she wanted me anyway."
Kurt rolled his eyes. "Well, even if that's true, you still hurt her. Trust me, I know when something's wrong with her. And I know when it's about a guy."
"Well, what do you want me to do about it?"
"Apologize!" Kurt said bitterly. "Or maybe just stop being so selfish all the time!"
Puck didn't say anything for a moment. He just stared down at Kurt's hand and happened to notice that he was holding a piece of notebook paper with Mercedes' name on it. Without thinking, he reached out and took it.
"Hey!" Kurt shouted, reaching to retrieve it. Puck held it out of the boy's reach as he tried to read it.
"What is wrong with you?" Kurt demanded, struggling to take back the paper. "Give that back! It's personal!"
"'Operation Match-Make Quinn and Mercedes,'" Puck read. He looked back at Kurt. "Are you serious?"
Kurt hastily snatched back the paper. "Well, if you must know…yes." Puck raised an eyebrow. "Look, they're my best friends, and I want them to be happy. Clearly that's something they're not getting from you."
"You got that right," Puck replied. "Those girls want everything."
Kurt rolled his eyes and continued. "So I figured, if nobody else can make them happy, why can't they make each other happy?"
"That's a good plan, except for one problem," Puck interjected. "Neither of those girls is gay."
"Nothing is impossible when it comes to love, Puck."
"Whatever. So, suppose this does work." Puck lowered his voice a bit. "You…wouldn't mind having a little help, would you?"
Kurt raised an eyebrow. "You mean you want to help me?"
"Well, yeah…I mean, I like Quinn and everything, but she's way too demanding. I could get rid of her and Mercedes. Plus they would be totally hot together."
Kurt rolled his eyes again. Puck was such a guy. Still, he could use the extra help…
"All right," Kurt whispered. "I suppose I could use some assistance."
"Awesome."
"Meet me in the auditorium during seventh period today. Don't be late."
"Okay. See you then." Puck walked away without another word.
"Great," Kurt said to no one in particular. "Just great."
When seventh period rolled around, Kurt half-expected Puck not to show up. He almost wished for it, actually, because something didn't seem right here. Why would Puck offer to help anyone, least of all him? Unfortunately, though, Puck did show up, and Kurt found himself sitting opposite the jock on the stage, his notebook opened on his lap.
"So how exactly do you plan to hook these two up?" Puck asked.
Rather than answering, Kurt simply pushed his notebook over to Puck and indicated a bulleted list entitled 'Reasons the Girls Are Meant to be Together.'
Puck quickly read over the list, written in Kurt's own hand.
Good musical chemistryBest friends alreadyBoth had bad luck with menQuinn is a mentor to Cedes; she's been through a lot of her troubles before"That's all you got?"
"Well, I haven't exactly had much time to work on it," Kurt explained. "Perhaps you could help me?"
"I've got a reason for you." Puck got a pen out of his bag and wrote:
Both are extremely hotKurt read what Puck had wrote and glared at him. "Very funny, Puckerman. But we need some actual reasons. Ways we can convince them to give each other a try.
"Um…" Puck couldn't think of anything good. "You know what, maybe we should talk to them and try to figure out what they're into. That'll give us a better idea of how to match-make them."
Kurt thought about that for a moment. "All right. We'll talk to them later. For now, let's work with what we have."
"Well, you said they have good musical chemistry of whatever."
"Yes, and that's something that's important to both of them."
"So how do we prove it to them?"
"I was thinking we could have them sing a duet in Glee club," Kurt suggested. "Maybe 'Telephone?'"
"What?"
"Lady GaGa and Beyonce. Mercedes always says that she's Beyonce, and Quinn would sound good as GaGa…"
"Okay then. Do you think they'll do that?"
"Hopefully. I'll talk to Mercedes about it."
The boys talked a bit about their new mission, and realizing that they still had twenty minutes before the end of the period, decided it was best to skip the whole class and just stay in the auditorium. They worked on homework—or rather, Kurt worked on homework while Puck stared blankly at his geometry textbook—and even had a few conversations about Glee Club and other things. Puck would never admit it, but he was actually kind of enjoying hanging out with Kurt. He actually didn't hate the other boy nearly as much as he let on. Apart from the ridiculous outfits and snarky attitude, he was a pretty okay dude. Not that anyone needed to know that.
