A/N: Hello again! Lots of dialogue in this one, so without further ado: Chapter 2! Enjoy! :)

Disclaimer: Nope, I do not own Glee or any of the characters, unfortunately.

Neither one let go of the other one's hand.

'Say something, stupid!' both brains screamed at their respective owners, 'Just say something!'

Kurt was still staring at the boy who had just introduced himself as Blaine Anderson.

"Uh, I just wanted to know if you could maybe point me in the direction of the cafeteria?" Blaine said. Both let go of each other's hands reluctantly.

"Sure. It's just down the hall. You can't miss it."

The boy didn't even look where Kurt was pointing. He seemed fixed on Kurt's face. 'Oh God, is something the matter with my face?' And then Blaine Anderson shook his head as if to clear it.

"Thank you. It was nice meeting you. Maybe I'll see you around.", Blaine said.

"Yeah," Kurt answered and then added something completely stupid, "You know, if you want to you can come and check out glee club later."

'What? Why did I just say that? What is wrong with me?' But Blaine was still smiling.

"That sounds good. I'll give it a thought." And then he turned around and walked away leaving behind a dumb-struck Kurt Hummel. This wasn't good. Blaine Anderson was bad, bad news. Kurt saw another straight-crush debacle heading his way. On the up-side at least one of the new students seemed promising. Kurt didn't even notice how a smile crept onto his face. The tiny necklace in his locker was all but forgotten.

Kurt's thoughts kept coming back to the boy from the hallway - as if this day hadn't already been filled with enough daydreams. He was relieved when it was time for glee club. Since he was pretty sure that Blaine wouldn't actually show up, it seemed like something to take his mind off of things. Meanwhile Mercedes was telling him something but he wasn't paying much attention. 'Damnit! Get your shit together!'

Santana walked in.

"Hey, who was that guy you were talking to in the hallway? He's fine." she interrupted their conversation.

"Um, Blaine is his name. He's new here. He just wanted directions."

"Well, next time you can send him my way. 'Cause he's smokin." she winked at him.

"I'll be sure to do that." Kurt said laughing. But he wouldn't need to because in that moment one Blaine Anderson walked into the choir room as well. His eyes were searching and he seemed unsure of whether he was in the right place until he saw Kurt and his face lit up in recognition.

"Kurt!" he said smiling, "You said something about a glee club?"

Santana and Mercedes were staring first at Blaine then at Kurt. Fortunately Rachel took it upon herself to take the stage then.

"Yes, yes! Very good, Kurt! Recruiting new members should be a priority for all of us." she said to the other members of New Direction and then turned to Blaine, "I'm Rachel Berry. Welcome to McKinley High's New Directions."

"Wait," Finn said, "Just like that? Shouldn't he audition or something?"

"Finn, we can't be picky. We can use every voice we can get."

"No, it's fine, honestly. I can audition." Blaine said.

"Oh, I see, we have someone new in our midst." Mr Shuester was more than happy to see Blaine as he entered the choir room.

"I'm Blaine Anderson," he said.

"Great, it's always good to have more people who like to sing."

"Mr. Shuester, Blaine was just about to audition for the New Directions." Rachel naturally had to be the one to tell him that.

"Well alright then. The stage's yours."

"Do you... uh have a guitar around here somewhere?" Blaine said looking around.

Puck walked across the room and handed him a guitar.

"Ah, thanks."

And then he took a stool and sat in the middle of the room. Kurt's curiosity was beyond peeked. He couldn't wait to hear Blaine sing and seeing him with that guitar was hot. 'Hold it right there, Hummel! We are soo not going down that road again,' he told himself. But then Blaine began to sing and all of it went to hell.

"You think I'm pretty

without any makeup on.

You think I'm funny

when I get the punchline wrong..."

No. way. in. hell. An acoustic version of 'Teenage Dream'? God was trying to kill him, Kurt was sure of it. Blaine's voice was beautiful, of course. Damnit.

Damnit, damnit, damnit!

Kurt was sure it was only his imagination that Blaine seemed to be singing that song to him. Surely he wouldn't do that. They barely knew each other! 'Long enough for you to develop one unhealthy obsession,' he thought bitterly. But sure enough Blaine's eyes rarely left Kurt's.

"Let you put your hands on me

In my skin-tight jeans

Be your teenage dream tonight"

The song came to an end.

"Wow! I don't think I'm getting ahead of myself, if I say Welcome to New Directions!" Mr Shue said and everyone applauded.

"Dude, that was awesome. I'm Finn by the way."

"Thanks" Blaine smiled a brilliant smile as all of the New Directions were introducing themselves to the newcomer. And then Blaine sat down next to Kurt who in turn was still sure, he was gonna die. They shared a quick smile, Kurt blushed and Blaine turned to listen to Mr. Shue. Kurt's heart was beating like crazy. He would deny that of course. He wasn't gonna let himself fall into that misery. It wasn't Kurt's fault though. He couldn't know that he'd had no chance from the very beginning.

'This is bad,' Blaine decided once again, 'very, very bad.' What had he been thinking? Joining glee club? Not introducing himself properly to the keeper? He was acting like a freaking teenager! And now he was sitting next to Kurt and had a tingle in his stomach that he had forgotten he was capable of having at all. Kurt's smile was beautiful. Whenever he smiled at him Blaine felt hit by it in the best possible way. Like nothing bad could ever happen to them. Ever.

'Right and just look where that kind of thinking has gotten you. And why on earth would you sing that stupid song to him? No scratch that, why would you audition for a stupid High School glee club in the first place?'

He tried desperately to concentrate on whatever that caricature of a teacher was saying. But his mind kept creeping back to the boy he was sitting next to.

He tried to reason with himself. 'You listen to me, he's the keeper. This is coincidence. He's your responsibility. You cannot mess this up, do you hear me? This has been going on for far too long to mess it up now. You just have to keep this kid alive until another keeper is born.' He flinched at the thought of something happening to Kurt. 'Oh, no! You don't care about him. He's just a tool to get what you want. Get what's rightfully yours.' Yeah, that did it. Okay, he was back on track. This was just another challenge that he would overcome like all the others. He needed to tell Kurt about his destiny though. The keeper, he reminded himself. Right. Not Kurt. The keeper.

"Hey Kurt, wait up a second." Kurt turned around. Glee club was over and Blaine Anderson was calling his name as he was about to go to his car. The other boy was catching up with him.

"I really enjoyed glee club. Thanks for making me aware of it."

"No problem. You have a beautiful voice." Kurt said because he simply couldn't help himself. There was an awkward silence. Blaine cleared his throat.

"Look. I need to talk to you about something." Kurt looked at him expectantly. Blaine seemed to be fighting with words.

"Okay," Kurt encouraged him. Blaine took his hand and led him to the halls of McKinley to Kurt's locker as if he had been there all his life. Odd. Since he was a transfer student. And hadn't he been asking for directions just this morning?

"Open it." Blaine said pointing at Kurt's locker.

"What?"

"Open it." His tone was serious.

"Why?"

"Would you just open it?" Now he sounded annoyed.

"Well, excuse me, no reason to bitch at me like that. This is my locker, you know. I can open it whenever I want! So you better tell me why it is so important for you!" What the hell was wrong with this kid all of a sudden?

Blaine sighed.

"There is a necklace in your locker. A tiny little thing." Kurt's eyes narrowed. And suddenly he remembered the little shimmer that he had seen this morning.

"How do you know that?"

"I'll tell you if you open that locker." Kurt was about to say something back but his curiosity got the better of him. So he reluctantly opened his locker. And there it was. Kurt took it in his hands.

"Careful," Blaine said.

Kurt held it in front of his face. A little golden necklace with a tiny watch dangling from it. He watched it turning and dangling. It was beautiful.

"It's a key." Blaine's voice almost startled him.

"A key?"

"Yes. A key to travel through time." What? Kurt laughed.

"What is this? An episode of Doctor Who?" He watched as Blaine's jaw tensed.

"No. Reality." Blaine's expression softened, "Look, I know this sounds ridiculous, but-"

"You're absolutely right, it does."

"But, as I was trying to say, it is the truth. And it is now yours. You must protect it."

And then Kurt started laughing even louder.

"Okay, what is this? Did some of the jocks set you up to do this or maybe Santana or someone?" Kurt was laughing so hard he was almost crying.

"This morning before I saved your sorry ass, you almost traveled." Blaine said angrily, "I doubt you would forget how everything started to shake and shift and how some black holes were appearing everywhere." He threw the door of Kurt's locker back into its lock. Kurt had stopped laughing. The memory of the shifting was still very vivid.

"And I bet you've had some episodes of skipping too. When you feel as if 5 seconds just turned into an hour or more." When Kurt didn't answer and Blaine started nodding slowly.

"That's what I thought." Then he turned around and started to walk away. Kurt couldn't move.

"Wait," he yelled. Blaine turned again to face him.

"What?"

"What does this even mean?" Kurt didn't know what exactly he had just asked Blaine, what exactly he'd been refering to. It didn't matter. He didn't understand any of it. Blaine took a deep breath.

"It means that you are the keeper. The keeper of time. You have to protect this necklace with your life, do you hear me?", he was walking closer as he spoke, his eyes never leaving Kurt's, "You're holding the destiny of humankind in your hands. In the wrong hands this could mean death, catastrophes, the destruction of everything you know." It seemed a ridiculous concept to Kurt. He looked at the necklace again. A tiny little thing. Completely ridiculous. But then he remembered the shifting. He had almost time traveled. Absurd. Or was it?

"Why me?" Kurt thought but asked the question aloud.

"It's your family. Your mother was keeper too and her father before her." Blaine said softly.

"Even if this could be true - and I'm not saying it could be - how would you know something like that about my mother?"

"I knew your mother very well." Ridiculous.

"How old are you? 16?"

"I'd rather not answer that question. Old. That's all you have to know." Blaine said almost defensively.

"How could you possibly know my mother? You look like a teenager! Scratch that, you are a teenager!" Kurt was freaking out. This was a dream. A weird dream, mind you, but a dream nontheless. He started walking around nervously. Why couldn't this day be over already?

"This is absurd, completely ludicrious." he muttered. And then Blaine took his hand and he felt his fingers tingle.

"I am not a teenager. I am the keeper's guard. Sent from heaven to guide you." It sounded like he was reciting it from a book.

"Sent from heaven?" Kurt's eyes widened, "Like an angel?" Blaine smiled.

"Exactly like an angel." Kurt almost stopped breathing. This. was. not. happening. Kurt's brain actually went with that plan.

"No," he said. Blaine furrowed his brows.

"What do you mean 'no'?"

"This is not happening. There you go, take your necklace back." he pressed it into Blaine's hand, "It's really pretty but I'm going home." And with that he started walking away.

"You can't run away from this, Kurt." Blaine yelled after him.

"You watch me." Kurt yelled over his shoulder. You just watch me.

A/N: Yes, I went with Katy Perry. I thought about letting Blaine sing something else but I'd like to keep some canon in this (since canon is truly beautiful after all). Next up: More Blaine backstory and how Kurt fits into it all.

I'll do my best to get the next chapter up as soon as possible but I have some pretty important stuff to do this weekend, so I probably won't be able to update until Monday. Sorry!

As usual: Reviews are very much appreciated. I'd love to hear from you! ;)