A/N: Slight violence trigger warning for this chapter. Nothing serious, just a bit of push and shove.
Chapter 2
Blaine heard the too-familiar sound of a body being shoved against a locker on his way to English on Tuesday. He winced slightly as he heard the sound again and turned the corner to see who the unfortunate victim was. Before him stood one of the most stereotypical scenes he'd seen: two football jocks beating up an obviously gay boy, the same boy he'd sat next to in English class the day before – Kurt, he thought his name was. Blaine held back the memories of all the times he'd been in Kurt's position and approached the boys.
"Ooh look it's the new kid," one of the jocks called.
"He looks angry," the other one said, and then turned to Blaine, "What's the matter newbie?"
Blaine rolled his eyes at the football players and said coolly, "What did Kurt do to you? Or are you just big enough assholes to beat him up for no reason?"
Kurt looked surprised that Blaine had remembered his name and the two jocks turned to Blaine looking menacingly.
"What are you going to do about? Huh, shrimp?" The first jock leered at him, referring to Blaine's lack of height.
The second jock stepped forward and so did Blaine, who wasn't easily intimidated. "The same thing I did to the other homophobes," Blaine said darkly.
The first jock shoved Blaine but he held his ground and shoved back, stronger than he appeared. Jock Number Two shoved Blaine harder and he retaliated with a right hook to the jaw. Jock Two looked shocked and Jock One threw a punch of his own but Blaine blocked it and threw more of his own, landing one on the jock's cheek and one in his stomach, winding him.
"They bother you often, Kurt?" Blaine turned to him while the jocks were still in shock.
Kurt nodded slowly, "Yeah, a bit. Why did you stick up for me? Most people just walk past."
"I've been the one against the locker and I didn't like it much, so thought I might as well help you," Blaine shrugged.
Unfortunately for Blaine, Mr Brewer had watched the whole ordeal from the other side of the hallway. "You four!" he shouted to Kurt, Blaine and the two jocks. "Principal's office. Now."
Great, Blaine thought, it was his second day and he'd already been sent to the Principal's office.
They followed Mr Brewer to Principle Figgins' office and sat down in the waiting area, Kurt and Blaine on one side, the two jocks staring angrily at them from the other.
Figgins spoke to them all individually, Blaine was last to talk to him.
"Now, I understand that this is your first offense but I will still have to call your parents to let them know, and I'm giving you a week's detentions starting from tomorrow." Kurt could hear Figgins talking to Blaine through the door. He knew he shouldn't be eavesdropping but it wasn't his fault the door wasn't very soundproof.
"Fine," Blaine sighed. "There'll be no-one home if you try to call today, though. Mom's working late and Dad's in New York." Kurt guessed that the reason Blaine had mentioned New York the day before with such contempt was his father.
"I will still have to call them both," Figgins said. "This is your first offense, but if this happened again we will have to discuss suspension."
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Blaine sat down at a table during lunch with intentions of sitting by himself, but Kurt, the other boy from English, and a few other people sat down at his table.
"I heard you're interested in joining glee club," one girl began confidently, "I really hope you try out, we're always looking for more people to sing back up for me."
"Or maybe we'll find out you've got more talent than Berry and she'll send you to a crack house," one of the girls in a cheerleading uniform said mockingly.
Blaine looked down at his food, slightly overwhelmed by all the attention. "Yeah I was going to try out today."
"You absolutely should, I can't wait to hear you sing," the girl the cheerleader called Berry said enthusiastically.
"What happened with you Kurt and those two football players?" Sam asked.
"They were giving Kurt a hard time so I returned the favour," Blaine said simply.
"You gave one of them a black eye and he's like twice your size!" Sam looked amazed.
"I'm stronger than I look?" Blaine suggested. "How do you know so much about it anyway?"
"Everyone's been talking about it," a tall Asian boy explained. "No one's ever stuck up to them like that before."
"Well, it's about time someone did then," Blaine said darkly. "It's not fair when the gay guy's always getting beaten up. Sometimes things get taken too far if there's no one there to stop them."
Everyone at the table watched Blaine curiously as he clicked his tongue ring against his teeth and subtly touched his left ribs. He remembered that day things had been taken too far. His Dad was still in Afghanistan and he'd just come out as gay at school.
Blaine noticed all the eyes on him and snapped out of the memory. "So you're all in glee club then?" he asked, looking around at the people sitting with him. The conversation continued about glee but Blaine wasn't listening, he was still thinking about that day and didn't notice that Kurt's eyes hadn't left him.
