The next year of Blaine's life found him caught up in a flurry of action. During the few months between finding out Kurt had joined the death eaters and graduation, Blaine had hit the books with a vengeance. At first it became an easy way to avoid Kurt - get meals from the kitchens, hide in books, and try not to think about it. Eventually, however, he dove deeply into studying any and all material that would help him fight with the Order of the Phoenix.
After graduation, he'd immediately joined the ranks of the Order. They were gravely in need of people, and were at a slight loss as to how to fill the hole that Dumbledore had left.
A few months after that, the ministry had officially fallen, and most of the Order was scattered. Blaine kept pushing ahead though. He needed to do whatever possible to bring down Voldemort before Kurt ended up dead.
The week before the showdown at Hogwarts a year later, Blaine's entire life flipped upside down for the second time.
Blaine quietly slipped into the empty chair nearest the door. He'd had to finish some work before heading over the the Order of the Phoenix meeting, causing him to be a few minutes late. The meeting had already started. He'd been told that it was an important one, they were all going to be brought in on the secret of who their Death Eater informant was. Kingsley had decided that it was time for them to all know.
"Now, it is an honor to introduce to you all, the man who has been getting us information from the inside for that past eight months," Arthur Weasley announced. "Kurt Hummel."
Blaine's head snapped up in shock, eyes immediately landing on Kurt who had stood up to give them all a small wave before settling back down in his seat.
Blaine sat through the rest of the meeting in shock. Kurt had shared some new information with them all, and had occasionally chimed in with his own opinions on how to take down each of Voldemort's most trusted Death Eaters. Luckily, Blaine hadn't needed to give a report of his own - he just needed to had some notes over the Arthur. If Kurt's occasional glances in his direction were anything to go by however, he hadn't gone unnoticed.
When the meeting wrapped up two hours later, Blaine still wasn't sure what to say. He'd thought about this moment many times since Kurt had revealed his dark mark. Usually, his day dreams turned into nightmares where one of them was killed. Sometimes however, something like this would happen. Kurt being a spy. It honestly made sense when Blaine thought about it, but Kurt was an odd choice to infiltrate the death eaters when he hadn't even been out of school upon joining their ranks. How he'd even gotten Voldemort to trust him enough for that, Blaine didn't know. Perhaps it was Snape's doing.
Blaine was jolted out of his thoughts a few moments later when people began standing up. He glanced around, half hoping Kurt had already vanished. He hadn't though.
Kurt settled down across the table from him. They both stared at each other for a moment. Kurt looked as though he was about to speak, when Arthur called to him from across the room.
"Blaine! Do you have those reports for me?"
"Yeah! Hold on a second," Blaine looked back over at Kurt, hand grabbing his for a brief moment. "Promise me you won't leave yet?"
"Promise."
Blaine crossed the room quickly, handing over the reports, and pausing briefly to get an update on Tonks, Lupin, and Teddy. After being handed a picture of the baby, Blaine darted back to where Kurt was thankfully still sitting.
"So."
"So," Kurt parroted back.
"I'm sorry I flipped out at you last year?" Blaine said uncertainly.
Kurt smiled sadly. "I never blamed you for that. It was a risk I had to take when I agreed to the job. I knew there was a fairly good chance you would freak out, which was probably for the best."
"Why?" Blaine asked, pulling back the hand that had migrated onto Kurt's. "Is there someone else?"
"What?" Kurt asked, a look of shock crossing his face. "Of course not. I just meant that you were safer this way and my cover was strengthened by you… doing what you did."
Kurt slid his hand across the table towards Blaine, who immediately took reached out and held it. "I know that now definitely isn't the time, what with the war and the double crossing and all that, but can we… I want to go back to dating. Or at the very least, friends."
Kurt sighed, tightening his grasp on Blaine's hand. "I don't know if I can," Blaine tried to pull his hand away, but Kurt kept a firm grip on it. "Wait, Blaine, hear me out." Blaine nodded and stopped pulling away. "I still love you."
"I love you too," Blaine breathed out. "Even knowing you'd become a death eater didn't stop me."
"I don't think that we can date or have extra contact though."
Blaine sighed sadly. "I guess that's probably smart."
"If it weren't both of our lives on the line if He found out, I would say 'fuck it, let's date again,' but I can't."
"I know," Blaine agreed. "Let's just get through the rest of this war as fast as possible. I can't give you the details, but I think… I think we might not have to wait too much longer."
