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Blaine is very passive at the moment but he won't always be!

"Jones, follow Cooper everywhere he goes. I want someone watching him constantly. If he gets a lead on this then his anklet won't stop him from heading off into danger alone."

"Okay."

Cooper glares at Peter as he pulls on his suit jacket. "I am in the room you know."

"I know as well as you do what you're like. This is a good idea. You'll notice him tailing you anyway. Might as well be honest. You've got to work with us on this Cooper, anything…extra you do…anything outside of the law you need to tell us, you cannot go off alone on anything, got it?"

Cooper nods but he doesn't say anything, he will do whatever it takes to get Blaine back and will not promise otherwise.

Cooper drives to Kurt's house himself and pretends not to notice the car that trails him. He knows that Peter knows him better than anyone, and Peter is right - Cooper wouldn't waste a second going off to get Blaine if the opportunity arose, it would probably work out in his favour to have someone else know what he was doing.

Cooper hadn't met Kurt yet because he barley ever saw Blaine anymore. Any impression Kurt already had of him would not be a good one, Cooper had left Blaine alone and now he was the reason he had been taken. Cooper had ended up in jail for the most important four years of his little brother's life, he had only been out six months and whilst he and Blaine had been getting along better lately and seeing each other more Blaine hadn't worked up the courage to introduce him to Kurt yet. Cooper knew almost everything about the other boy - Blaine didn't stop talking about him. So now Cooper would be doing it himself - one more thing he was bound to screw up. He regrets it, because the way Blaine talks about Kurt shows him that he wasn't far off meeting him. He had been looking forward to it.

He knocks on the front door and already gets the impression that an actual family lives there, not like his old home - the one Blaine is stuck in.

A boy that could only be Kurt opens the door almost instantly, he gapes at Cooper before stuttering. "I…you're…Oh no. This isn't good, it can't be. Is Blaine hurt?"

"Cooper, Blaine's brother. I'm sorry this is the first time we're meeting." Cooper extends his hand and allows himself a couple of seconds to agree with Blaine, Kurt is beautiful, before thinking of his brother makes his heart stop and he has to remind himself he is here to tear apart the world of the this boy that his brother loves just like his own world was ruined this morning.

"Kurt it's best that I come in."

"Yes, yes." Kurt lets him inside immediately and he looks nervous so Cooper sits and wants to get this over with as soon as possible.

"Kurt? Who is this?"

"Dad this is Cooper, he's Blaine's older brother…this is my dad, Burt. What's wrong with Blaine?"

Cooper sucks in a deep breath. "How much has Blaine told you about me?"

"Everything."

Wow.

Blaine was a private person and he hated Cooper had ended up in prison and he especially hated that everyone thought it was so brilliant he was working with the FBI despite everything that had led him there. He resented Cooper for being absent when he should have been there for him. If he told Kurt everything, it had to be serious. Looks like Blaine had fallen hard.

"Okay, so you know I work with the FBI now?" He watches for signs of surprise, but gets none. What surprises him however, is that the dad, he isn't surprised either. "Last night…you spoke to the police about trying to submit a missing persons report."

Kurt's eyes are red now and he's gripping his father's hand for comfort. "Yes."

"I know you contacted the police about Blaine." Kurt nods. "Tell me everything that happened."

"Last night we were on a date, we went to the movies. The film finished and we said goodbye. I left at ten thirty, I pulled out the parking lot before Blaine but knew he was going straight home. I gave him twenty minutes to get home which is plenty and we always text each other as soon as we're back. I got worried when he didn't text me at eleven, so I rang him but got no answer…same until half past then I got really worried. At midnight…I rung the house phone. I know that sounds pushy like I didn't give him enough time but he texts as soon as he gets home and he always makes sure I let him know I'm back safe as well and he hadn't asked if I was back either…We call each other before bed and Blaine wouldn't have been up at midnight …"

Cooper knows Kurt must have been so worried to call the landline. Cooper has no idea if his dad has ever met Kurt but that is irrelevant because he knows that he would never like the boyfriend of his son in a million years. No matter who he was.

"You are a good boyfriend." That is so beyond the point right now but the sentiment is out of his mind before he can stop it.

Kurt shakes his head like he's let Blaine down and carries on. "Your dad answered, he was annoyed but confirmed Blaine hadn't gotten in yet. He put the phone down on me. I didn't have your number and he wouldn't pick up the house phone again and I'm so sorry I don't know where he is!"

Cooper balls his hands into fists. His dad had known something was wrong last night only he didn't care enough to notice.

Kurt starts sobbing into his dad's shoulders who takes over. "We retraced Blaine's steps, he definitely left the parking lot because his car was gone so we followed the route home he usually takes in case he had been in an accident and Kurt rung all of Blaine's nearby friends. When we couldn't find anything we reported it to the police who told us they couldn't do anything until a day later. We were going back there later today as soon as we could to do it."

"Thank you. Thank you so much. Kurt…this is important…is there anything you remember about last night that didn't feel right? Anyone say anything to you guys or anyone that struck you as suspicious?"

"We didn't notice anything, no. No-one said anything about us being on a date either…do you think it was a hate crime?"

Cooper leans forward and puts his head in his hands fighting off the sting of disappointment at having no leads on this - he was completely at the mercy of their demands unless they found something that couldhelp.

"No, Kurt. It wasn't."

He wishes he had brought Peter with him after all now because he feels like ripping himself apart and cannot bear to look at the wonderful boy in front of him who got worried after half an hour of silence, by telling him this news. "Kurt…Blaine's…Blaine's been kidnapped." Kurt lets out something halfway between a sob and a scream at the news but Cooper keeps talking because if he doesn't he will stop completely. "I got a call from him this morning saying so and that they would be in touch."

"It's all my fault! I should have watched him drive off first!"

"Kurt it is not your fault."

"Kurt you're the one who noticed he was gone. You've already done so much. We are doing everything we can. Just let me know if you think of anything at all that might help. No matter how small."

"Will you keep me informed? If I give you my number. Please."

"Yes. I will. I promise. Thank you Kurt."

"I trust that if anyone finds him it will be his brother. He said you were the best."

"He did?"

Cooper assumes the look on Kurt's face is as close to a smile as he can manage right now. "He also said he wishes you'd used it for good."

Cooper sucked in a breath because that is such an extraordinarily Blaine-like thing to say. He can imagine Blaine pacing up and down one night, frustrated. Saying how good a painter Cooper was and what a waste it is he's a fraud. He's heard it all before after all. "Well I will do now."

A kind looking woman rushes in to comfort Kurt who by now is sobbing and looks exactly how Cooper feels, while Burt walks him to the door. He steps outside with him and hands him a business card with his contact details on.

"I really care about Blaine, he's a good kid and he means the world to Kurt. You need anything you let me know…and…I know it won't be your first concern or anything when you find stuff out but please keep us updated…anything you don't want to tell Kurt…tell me."

Cooper nods and thanks the man, he slips the card carefully into his pocket.

He means any bad news goes through him first.

Any hope that Blaine had of people seeing him and saving him when he got out of the back of the van, was shot down instantly. He's blindfolded and they don't untie his arms. He tries to thrash around but they have such a strong hold on him when he leaves the van it's useless. Besides, he's tied and has no way to see where he's going if he does break free for a moment - he knows its useless. He stumbles as a strong hand guides his shoulders and tells him when to walk, he's inside, they make him walk up a set of stairs - he's terrified he'll fall. It doesn't feel like they were outside anyway, he was probably in an abandoned warehouse or somewhere equally creepy, rundown and nondescript.

He hears a thud and his hands are being untied as he's shoved into something, he puts his arms out to save himself from falling but feels cold metal in front of him, it feels like rungs…it's another ladder. This isn't good. He's so trapped.

"Climb."

There's a strong hand on his back the entire time pushing him upwards, it's so difficult having to climb like this, he aches, he's terrified and still blind. He gets up there and someone must have gone up first because someone pulls him up the rest of the way and he yelps in surprise. He tries to shove away again but he knows he can't get down the stairs…he's just pushed to the floor and dragged along, he tries to move his legs and keep up. Whoever it is makes him sit on the floor, his back is against something - a pole of some sort? A beam? And his hands are tied behind his back again.

He can hear footsteps moving around, and his own heart thumping. He tries to bring his knees up as close to his chest as he can. He whimpers in surprise when a hand touches his face, his blindfold is taken off and the room he is in, is pitch black - he can't see anything at all.

One of the men kneels in front of him - it's the first man, the one that took him, Blaine can barely even look at him until he is told to and he obeys simply because his fear of punishment for disobeying outweighs his fear of looking.

"We're going to leave you here until morning, give people the night to worry about where you are and then in the morning we'll call your brother and set the plan in place."

"Wh-what, why Cooper?"

"Your brother has pissed me off and now I'm making him pay. So you wait here, and we will see you in the morning."

The men laugh and leave him tied to the floor. It looks like he's in a loft or an attic conversion of some sort, his eyes are slowly adjusting, he can see there's the wooden beams like the one he's tied to extending from floor to ceiling at the highest points, the roof is slanted and it looks like there's a window but it's on the other side of the room and isn't really that big - it's too high to reach to get open even if he was free anyway. All he can do is sit here and cry.

Cooper will get him back. Blaine knows it. He works for the FBI and he loves Blaine and Blaine knows that Cooper can do anything when he sets his mind to it - because some of the things he has done were thought to be pretty impossible. Blaine hopes he can steal him back the way he has stole so many other things.

If they knew Cooper, then he was taken for a very specific reason and they obviously want him to suffer and want Cooper to suffer as well, he assumes there will be a ransom and he hopes that means they won't kill him.

He's so uncomfortable, he's aching from all the mistreatment and his arms feel numb, he knows he's shaking in fear even though he's still trying to curl up the best he can. He just sobs - quietly at first, because he's scared of attracting anyone's attention but thinking about the men makes him cry even harder and he's just sobbing and then he realises through his terror that he's shaking from the cold too.

He has no idea how long he sits there for shaking and crying with every scenario running through his head but eventually his eyes close when it's a bit lighter outside and he manages to exhaust himself enough that he falls asleep.

He wakes up, and for one split, blissfully ignorant second, he forgets where he is, but then the throbbing pain in his arms and the fear he feels return to him and he just wants to scream. He doesn't know how long he's awake for when the hatch opens and the men climb up.

Every inch of his body feels like it is burning, he is hyper alert, but he keeps his eyes shut and tries to feign sleep hoping that they would just leave again.

Even if he had been asleep the slap round the face one of the men gives him would have woken him up.

He opens his eyes and flinches, one of the men is kneeling in front of him clutching a crappy disposable cell phone and wearing a balaclava. He dials a number and Blaine's heart is hammering in his chest as the phone is pressed next to his ear.

"Talk to your brother. You can tell him you've been taken, but if you try anything we'll give you another eye patch, got it? We need you alive but not unharmed."

Blaine doesn't have time to recover from the threat before the phone starts ringing.

"Hey Blaine, what's up?"

Blaine has to breathe in deeply because there is a voice that he loves on the other end of that phone and there was a time last night when he didn't think he would ever get to hear that voice ever again. When he tries o talk he can barely get the words out.

"Coo…Cooper…help me…"

"Blaine? What's wrong? Are you hurt?" Blaine can hear the worry in Cooper's voice instantly, it wavers - something he never usually hears - Cooper is usually so confident and cool.

"They…Coop they kidnapped me…"

"What? Who? Blaine can you tell me anything?"

Blaine wishes he could but he knows nothing. The phone is ripped away from him and he just wants to grab it back again, he listens to the man say that he knows Cooper…say that he'll be in touch. If he already knows Cooper then this was bad because it wasn't random - if Cooper had stolen something valuable and they wanted the money back…or if they just wanted revenge then this wouldn't work well at all - it means they willprobablyseriously hurt him.

"Please…just tell him what you want now, he'll get you the money or whatever you want I know he will!"

Blaine is too scared to be embarrassed about begging, if he was untied he would be begging on his knees right now.

"I'm having fun. You will get another phone call tonight discussing the ransom, if you do as you're told then you'll get fed."

The man leaves without another word and Blaine starts sobbing again. He doesn't know how long he sits there for until the realisation strikes him and he feels physically sick but it is long enough for his throat to be dry and the tears to have stopped.

He realises that the man had threatened him with injury - specifically, another eye patch.

He had that removed a month ago.

They'd been watching him.