Hi,
I've started yet another new story because I was inspired by a quote from my rewatch of Glee: "You'll never let what happened to me happen to one of them" (1.05) and then thought of the way Schue has never really seemed to care too much about Blaine and this idea popped up. There are a few more things.

+ I consider Seasons 1-5 canon and Season 6 a spinoff
+ I hope I can continue writing this and my other fanfics but often get caught up in RPng orz. Please check out my partner's tumblr for some awesome work, her blogs are so much better than mine: khummelanderson-nyc and goldenkhummelanderson

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To Keep Him Warm

Kurt was trying to keep calm as he did another morning push up. He tried to steady his breath as he pushed down lower on the floor and then keep slow, controlled breaths as he pushed up. Deep inhale. Deep Exhale. Up. Down. Hearing the whistle from the kettle Kurt was just about to go and pick it up when he heard footsteps in the apartment. He stared down at the floor and watched as tears fell from his eyes onto the hardwood floor of the Bushwick loft.

He wanted his fiancee!

He looked up at the world around him, the sun almost blinding his tear stained eyes which already stung so bitterly from the effect of being seriously sleep deprived. He took another breath in and pushed himself to a seated position on the ground. He pulled his knees up close and let his head rest on them.

He didn't really remember how many weeks it had been since he had seen Blaine, how many weeks since he had filed the missing person's report, how many weeks since he felt whole. He had thought at first, quite innocently, that Blaine would come back, but now Kurt worried that he would never again see the person who had captured his heart.

"Do you want decaf?" a male voice asked from the kitchen.

It was never the voice that Kurt wanted it to be and he was slowly starting to recover from that (though most of the time he wasn't sure how he was doing so). Right now Elliot had taken it on as his job to make sure that Kurt was coping alright. Elliot didn't have the right presence though, he wasn't Blaine, he didn't have Blaine's energy, or Blaine's smell, or Blaine's charm. Elliott was great and Kurt loved having him as a friend, but he wasn't Blaine.

"Su-Sure" he choked as he wrapped his arms around him.

He didn't know why Blaine had left him, he didn't know whether it had been something that he had done wrong or whether something had happened after Blaine had left the apartment. All he knew was that classes were starting again in a month and unless he found Blaine then he might as well send a note in from Blaine withdrawing from NYADA. As Elliott brought him the coffee, Kurt heard his phone ring and took a labored breath in, he knew that tone and as much as he didn't want to talk to Rachel and have to help her with her problems, well it might just be what he needed to get his mind off of Blaine.

"Hi," he said, not bothering to disguise the sadness in his voice.

"Oh Kurt! You would not believe what happened!" Rachel said in her annoyingly energetic tone, "So, you know my show that Mary was writing? It was a complete disaster, but I managed to get this other job in LA on this new high school drama which is amazing! They just….they want to get footage of me interacting with the people in Lima as part of their background research or promotion and I just…I think it'd be so much fun if we were there together."

Kurt placed a hand over his eyes and tried to breathe deeply again, he did not want to go back to Lima and he found it hard to believe that Rachel hadn't asked him how he was doing. Okay, maybe on that last part he shouldn't find it so hard to believe.

"Are you getting paid?" Kurt asked as Rachel stopped talking for a millisecond.

"Are you saying that you want to get paid as well? I don't think this is negotiable with friends, I'm only getting paid because I'm one of the stars of the show. I mean, if there's an important message you want to get out then you could talk it over with them or something, but I really don't think it's up to them to pay the non stars."

Kurt paused, maybe if he joined Rachel with this he could find some new leads and figure out where Blaine was. That would be a reason why this would be worth doing, he needed to learn where Blaine was and then he would have the answers he needed or at least a way to get closure. He just hoped that he wouldn't have to give back his engagement ring.

"What would I need to do?" he asked, curiosity piqued.

"Just spend time with me and…oh Blaine's brother as we go back to Ohio and talk about our lives when we were in high school. He's playing this really attractive but really emotionally torn teacher with a dark past and he's amazing," Rachel started.

Kurt's mind clicked. If Cooper was there then he could get help, they could find Blaine together, he just knew it. "Okay Rachel, I'll do it," he finally smiled.

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Summer always seemed so boring now that all the Glee club members were gone, or at least that's what Tina Cohen-Chang believed as she sat by herself. She was drinking her fourth latte of the day as she looked out at the dimly lit afternoon. She would be starting back at Brown soon and still she felt incredibly sad. There were three people she really loved and even though one of them was in New York, the other was in Chicago, and the other one had been missing for two months. These three guys would always try and cheer her up and she missed having one of them to lean on.

She had returned to Lima in order to have some fun with people she felt close to and she hadn't had any luck. All she could do was sit here day after day getting fatter and fatter and it wasn't even on those delicious cupcakes that she once had at the too young to be bitter club.

She stood and put on her red coat, picked up her purse, and left the coffee shop.

As she was walking she decided that she wanted a change of scenery. She often went by the high school, but a lot of the time she had turned around and walked away before even approaching the area. So many memories had been tangled together, so many different Tina Cohen-Changs had been in existence and she was scared of trying to sort through all the crap to find the real Tina.

Today might be a good day for figuring out who that was.

She took a bus to the school and smiled as she saw a familiar mop of brown hair. She pulled the wire just in time and hopped off the bus. "Mr Schuester" she smiled, catching him just in time. "Hi," she grinned not paying attention to the homeless people around them. "I saw you when I was on the bus, have you been having a good summer?"

Will's eyes widened as he looked at her, "Oh, yeah, great actually. I'm gong to go, it's nice to see you again," he said quickly before Tina even had time to ask why she didn't receive the loving comments and welcoming that Rachel Berry would have had. She made an angry growl as she came to the realization that there was barely any reason now for why she had jumped off the bus and tried to speak to her old Glee club teacher.

She heard movement as one of the homeless people coughed and then looked at her.

"You're pretty, too pretty to be here," he said, his voice seeming to be clogged up with the type of sickness one might get from sleeping on the street.

Tina took a deep breath before realizing that she knew that voice, the sweet undertones of one of her best friends, the gentle pace of the words, the very voice that had given her so much comfort in her senior year of high school. "Blaine?" she asked as she looked over the homeless man. He was ragged and dirty and his hair and beard was a mess, but he definitely looked similar to the boy she had known. She leaned forward and gasped when she saw two triangular eyebrows above honey-amber eyes.

"Who's Blaine?" the man asked before coughing and Tina just stared at him.

What had happened to Blaine Devon Anderson?