A/N: See guys, I haven't deserted you. Book finished, I am back to writing fanfiction again. I plan on finishing all my stories, but this popped in my head and wouldn't go away. Pesky muse. Anyway this is a Dave/Kurt story but with less angst and more humor. Hope you enjoy.

Oh, Brother...

Chapter One

"Seriously, dude. What the hell? Let it go." Dave said.

Finn shut his locker and turned to stare at the jock next to him. "Come on, Karofsky. You're like really good. And I know you enjoyed performing at the halftime show." He gave him the Finn Hudson smile. The one that made all the girls swoon and all the guys want to be like him.

"That was like a month ago. I can't believe you're still on me about that." Dave took a few things from his locker and closed it with a final thud. "Listen up, Hudson," he said getting right into Finn's face. "I'm not joining your stupid Glee Club."

"But no one's got slushied for like a month…" Finn knew that was due to him winning the Championship game. Well, it was a team effort, but he was the quarterback and the leader of the team. He was surprised he couldn't convince Dave to join Glee. After all, Finn was like the king of the school now. Dave was just a prince or something… and soon Quinn would be Finn's queen…

"Let… It… Go..." Karofsky said shaking his head and interrupting Finn's fantasy. "Seriously, dude. Why do you even care?"

Finn thought back…

Flash back to last Friday after Glee…

"Finn, can you wait a second? I want to talk to you about something."

"Sure Mr. Schue…" He stopped and turned back to his teacher. Mr. Schue was always relying on him. After all he was the co-captain of the Glee Club or something.

Once everyone else was gone, Mr. Schue sat on one of the choir chairs and indicated Finn should join him. Finn was a little nervous. He hoped it wasn't about Rachel. She had been bummed since they broke up and although she was focusing on her talent now, there were times when she was really down. Not that Finn didn't feel bad about that, but she was the one who cheated on him. With Puck! And so what if he had snuck around with Quinn behind Sam's back… whole different story there.

"Finn?"

"Sorry, Mr. Schue… What did you want?"

The choir director looked nervous. "Well, Finn, I noticed you and Dave Karofsky have been getting along better since the Championship game," he said.

"Yeah… I guess that's true. I mean no one's getting slushied and that's a good thing…. And I did get MVP of the game… I'm sure Dave admires me."

"Probably…You're a leader, Finn. And we need leaders in Glee Club. And as a leader, I need you to do something… for Glee Club."

Finn was willing to do almost anything for Glee Club… and Mr. Schue. And he was a leader. That was true. He felt like he could do almost anything. They didn't call him Finny Bear for nothing. "Okay, sure, Mr. Schue. What is it?"

"I want you to get Dave to join Glee."

"That's not gonna happen, Mr. Schue. I already tried… several times. He won't do it."

Mr. Schue looked disappointed, and Finn hated that look on his face. He hated disappointing anyone. Especially Mr. Schue, his mom… and Burt. He really hated disappointing Burt. "I guess I can try again," Finn said. "Why do you want him to join so much? I mean he was good but …I mean… not as good as me or the other guys here."

"He just seemed happier when he was performing….Don't you think?"

Finn nodded, but still he thought there was something else. He didn't always get stuff… actually usually he didn't get stuff… so maybe he was imagining it. "But…"

Mr. Schue laughed nervously. "Okay, Finn. You got me. I have another reason for wanting Dave to join Glee. I just think if he's happy and not being a bully, we might be able to get him to apologize to Kurt… Then maybe Kurt would come back to McKinley and New Directions."

"So this isn't really about Dave? It's about Kurt? That seems kinda mean." Then realizing what he said to his teacher, he added, "Maybe not mean… just… cruel. I mean…" He looked at Mr. Schue nervously.

"It's okay, Finn," he said with a sigh. "I know. It's just… If we want to win Nationals this year we really need Kurt's voice. And his talent's just wasted at Dalton."

"I know," Finn said. "He's always in the background, blending in. I never thought Kurt would blend in anywhere. And I do miss having him here…"

Mr. Schue smiled at him. Finn liked when he smiled. He felt like his teacher was proud of him. After all, he asked Finn to do this, not Puck. And certainly not Sam.

"Okay, Mr. Schue," he said. "I'll do it!"

Flash back to the present…

"Finn!"

He looked up at an irritated Karofsky.

"I said… why do you even care?"

Finn smiled his patented smile. "You just seemed happier when you were performing with us."

"So, you're goal is to make me happy? Is that it Finny Bear?"

Finn nodded his head. Maybe he could get Dave to change his mind…

"Then leave me the hell alone," Karofsky yelled, before storming away.

Finn wasn't discouraged. There was a time when he might have been, but good things were happening to him lately, and Finn thought he could do anything. After all… he ruled this school!

He tried again over the next few days, but Dave always told him no. Along with a few other colorful words. Some of them Finn didn't even know. Who knew Dave had such an interesting vocabulary?

On the third day, Finn tried a different tactic.

"Dude, let go of my arm."

"No, Dave," Finn said. "We need to talk."

"Where are you taking me…. Oh, hell no!" They had just arrived at the choir room. "Is this some sort of intervention?" he said with fear in his voice.

"Wait… what? No," Finn said. "It's just quiet in here."

Karofsky relaxed some, and Finn wondered what that was all about. What was he afraid of? That they were going to make him sing and dance? Or was it something else? His brain hurt from trying to think too much so he gave up and turned toward the other jock.

"Well?" Dave looked at him expectantly.

Finn opened his mouth but nothing came out. He had no idea what to say. Everything he wanted to say was already said, and Dave had refused. He'd come up with the great idea of getting him to the choir room, but now what?

"Are you freaking kidding me? You drag me here … why? To ask me to join Glee again? You're not telling me everything. I'm not that good of a singer… and I'm not stupid, Finn. So just cut the crap and tell me what this is about."

"Okay," Finn said. "You're right. This isn't about you joining Glee. It's about Kurt."

Dave glared at him, shaking his head angrily. "I'm outta here."

Finn grabbed his arm. He was so close… he couldn't give up now.

"You have a death wish, Hudson? Let go of me."

Finn dropped his hand. It wasn't like he was afraid of Karofsky… but still he didn't have a death wish. Not when things were going so great.

"You haven't bullied anyone for the last month, and I just thought maybe you could apologize to him."

"Now why would I want to do that?" He folded his arms across his chest and raised his eyebrow at him questioningly.

"So Kurt will come back to McKinley," Finn answered honestly.

"This isn't about my 'talent', is it? In fact, it isn't even about me. Figures…" He seemed kind of sad about that.

Finn looked down sheepishly. "We do want you in Glee, Dave."

"That's a bunch of crap. and you know it. All you care about is your precious Kurt. Well, I'm not going to help you, Hudson."

"Why not, Dave? You kind of owe him after making him leave and all."

"You know what? I'm done with this…" Dave walked to the door, and then turned around. "Just for the record, Finn. I don't want Kurt to come back, ever."

Finn could feel the anger building up inside him. Kurt was his brother. Dave couldn't get away with saying things like that. He rushed around to block Karofsky from leaving the room.

"How can you say that?" he said angrily. "Kurt's a good guy. He's never done anything to you."

Suddenly Dave was angry, too. Finn could see it in his eyes… in the way his lips pressed together tightly... in the way he cracked his knuckles. Yup, Karofsky was pissed.

Finn backed up a little. "Right? Kurt hasn't done anything, has he?"

"You don't know what you're talking about, Hudson." He seemed about to say something else when he shook his head again, all his anger disappearing. "It doesn't matter."

And at that moment, Finn realized he was close. Close to finding out the big secret that made Karofsky tick. The thing that made him explode at the littlest thing. "Tell me why, Dave." he said. "Why don't you want Kurt to come back?"

"You don't understand," he said with a loud sigh. "When Kurt's here… I can't breathe."

Finn looked at him in surprise. "You mean because of all the perfume he wears? It's not that bad. I think it smells nice."

Dave shook his head and held up his hands. "No, that's not… I'm just not going to apologize to Kurt so you can forget it."

Finn could tell he was avoiding the subject. He wasn't that stupid. At least they were still talking about Kurt. "Well I think you need to tell him you're sorry. You would feel so much better."

"Why would I apologize, Finn, when it's partly his fault? If he wasn't always prancing around looking so …"

But Finn interrupted before he could finish. "Hey," he said angrily. "Don't you dare use that word!" Finn could still see the look on Kurt's face when he called him (actually it was the lamp) faggy. He wasn't going to let Dave use that word about Kurt.

Finn could see the look of surprise on Dave's face. The other boy whispered something but surely Finn heard wrong. "What did you say?"

"I said he prances around looking so … pretty," Dave spat out, irritably.

Finn's mouth was open, and at Dave's look he closed it quickly. "Did you just call my brother pretty?"

"You don't think he's pretty, Finn?"

"Not going there…" Finn stared at the other boy for a moment. "So you're still just making fun of him because he's gay."

Karofsky laughed then. It wasn't a happy laugh though. It was more of a 'God, how can you be so dumb' laugh. Finn knew that laugh well. He got it all the time.

"What, Karofsky?" he said. Now he was really getting pissed. He was just trying to help Dave… and Mr. Schue, and New Directions. And all the jock was doing was making fun of him… and Kurt. It wasn't fair. "Do you really hate Kurt so much that you don't want him here? That you can't stand to be near him?"

"I don't hate him that much, okay? I like him that much!"

"Now you're just being mean."

Karofsky gave him an intense look. "I'm not being mean, Finn. I'm … gay."

"Really, Dave. Cut it out, man. I'm being serious here."

"You don't believe me?"

"No. I don't. Just tell me why you won't apologize to Kurt."

"I can't believe it," Dave said almost as if he was talking to himself. "I finally come out to someone and they think I'm joking. Is everyone just blind and stupid?"

"I'm still here in the room with you, Dave. And I can see fine."

"Finn, I think Kurt's pretty…"

"Yeah, so you said."

"When he smiles he lights up the whole room…"

"Duh, everyone knows that."

Dave sighed heavily. "The reason Kurt left was because … I kissed him."

What? Even though he could see fine, his hearing was going. There was no way Dave just said…

"You kissed him?"

"On the lips."

Finn was angry at first. How dare he kiss his brother? Then he was confused. Why would he kiss his brother? Unless…

"You like him. You like Kurt!"

Dave rolled his eyes, but Finn barely noticed. He was on a roll.

"You want to have sex with my brother," he accused.

"No…" Dave said quickly.

Finn gave him a puzzled look. "You don't want to have sex with my brother…"

"Yes, I mean… no… I haven't thought that far ahead. I just know I like him."

Finn didn't believe him. He was a guy. He thought about sex. And if he liked Kurt then… okay, he wasn't going to think about that anymore. Otherwise he might have to beat Dave up or stick needles in his eyes to distract him from disturbing thoughts.

"But Kurt hates you."

"Thanks, Finn. Thanks for that." The big jock hunched his shoulders in defeat. "So Kurt is better off at Dalton with his pretty boyfriend, and I'm better off here with my sanity."

Dave looked so sad. He felt sorry for him. Even though Finn was like the biggest stud around right now, he knew what it was like to want someone… he couldn't stop thinking of Quinn lately. Something in Dave's rant penetrated his self-absorbed mind. "Boyfriend?" he said. "You mean Blaine?"

"Yeah, pretty boy."

"Do you like Blaine, too? I mean you called him pretty."

"No. I do not like him at all. And I hate the fact that Kurt is with him. Not that I deserve Kurt." He sighed again. He was doing that a lot lately. "Why are we still talking about this?"

"Because Kurt doesn't have a boyfriend."

"Are you sure?" Dave said. He sounded really hopeful.

"Yeah… Kurt likes to bring me warm milk and we have… 'lady chats'…"

Karofsky just smirked at him.

"Hey, it tastes good. Anyway, he did like Blaine but they talked and they're just friends… like Harry and Sally somebody."

"When Harry Met Sally?"

"Yeah, how d'ya know?" Finn was surprised at how smart Dave really was. Maybe if Kurt knew that he might like him more.

"So Kurt's not dating him…? Although Harry and Sally do get together in the end, it's like 20 or 30 years in the future. I can deal with that. Do you think I have a chance, Finn?"

Finn shook his head. "Dude, Kurt won't give you the time of day."

"Thanks for all your help, Finn," he said, as he moved by Finn to get to the door. Finn was confused. Although he said thanks, he still seemed angry.

"So we just have to get Kurt to see you differently."

Dave stopped but didn't turn around. "Do you think that's possible? I've been horrible to him."

"Look at me and Puck…" he said. "Before Glee we did terrible things. I'm still embarrassed by what we did. So you slushied him; we threw pee balloons at him. So you shoved him; Puck nailed his lawn furniture to his roof."

"You can't just excuse my behavior…"

"I'm not, Dave," Finn said moving next to him and looking him in the eyes. "I'm just saying, you deserve a second chance, just like we got."

"I stole the wedding topper from your mom's wedding cake…"

"You weren't even at the wedding…." Finn said, confused again. He held up his hand. "Know what? It doesn't matter. You still deserve a chance to show Kurt you've changed."

"You think so?"

"I do," Finn said. "And I'm going to help you. But if you hurt my brother, I will end you. Got it?"

Dave smiled at him. Even though Finn wasn't gay, he thought Dave had a great smile. Maybe if Kurt saw that smile…

"I still don't see how this is going to work… maybe we should just leave things like they are, Finn."

"Man up, Karofsky," he said. "We're gonna do this. And we're gonna get Kurt to come back to McKinley. Now we just need a really good plan and a cool name…"

"Whatever. Just tell me what I need to do."

"Give me some time to think… too bad I'm not with Rachel anymore. She would be right on this… except that she hates you. Okay, never mind…"

"Finn, I can't believe I'm leaving my love life in your hands."

"I have it!" Finn interrupted with a dopey grin.

"A plan?" Dave looked doubtful.

"No, a cool name… You know how Rachel and I were called Finchel?"

"No… and I don't want to know about it."

"Never mind, doesn't matter. The point is… I thought of a cool name for our plan." Finn felt happy again. He was going to make Dave happy and get Kurt back. He really could do anything.

"What?" Dave asked impatiently.

Finn smiled widely.

"Operation: Kurtofsky."