Sorry for the wait. I held off posting due to the airing of The Quarterback in America and the UK.
Thank to you all for the great response to this story and I hope I don't disappoint. Once again this is un-beta'd, so all mistakes are mine.
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Kurt and Santana sat at the table watching Rachel prepare lunch. "You know Kurt I think you're doing the right thing. It's very mature of you to hear him out and you never know, without you know who in the picture, maybe you could forge a friendship now. I always thought your personalities very suited and you could be a great team now you'll both be working together."
Kurt looked at Santana in disbelief, "Is she for real?" Kurt then looked back at Rachel, "Are you serious?"
Santana started to laugh as Rachel looked confused. "What? I was only saying..."
"Yeah I heard you the first time. I'll agree with that this is the mature thing to do. But I can assure just because Blaine is no longer an issue, me and Sebastian will never be friends. Sebastian is some part of the legal firm that deals with Vogue. I don't think I will have to spend more than one monthly meeting with him at most or if I'm really unlucky two. So get any ideas, you've got brewing in that brain of yours, gone."
Rachel placed a tray of sandwiches down. "You know sometimes you're a real bitch. Forgive me for thinking that it would be nice for you to have a friend that knows what it was like for you when you were younger."
"Christ Berry we ain't that old." Santana muttered as Rachel shot her a dirty look and turned back to Kurt.
"You have no male friends in New York. You never date anyone, you see people and I guess you can call some of them sex buddies..."
Santana burst out laughing. "Oh my, sex buddies, haa haa. While what she said was fucking funny, she has a point. I mean it would seem that you have somewhat turned into Sebastian over the years. You're nicer to the guys you fuck and chuck than he was but you do the same thing he did. Hell maybe Berry's right, you two could actually be friends."
Kurt stood up and looked at the two girls, "I am nothing like Sebastian. I don't need or want to become his friend. I agreed to hear him out to make the contact we will have easier that's all. Once he's spewed out what he feels he needs to say that's it, he can go on his merry way and I can get back to doing what I do. Now if you don't mind I'm going to freshen up, call me when he gets here." Kurt turns and heads out to his room.
"You know what Santana, its times like this when I want to find Blaine Anderson and punch him in the face." Rachel said as Kurt slammed his bedroom door.
"He's in LA. Works on some crappy soap no-one with a job or life watches. His acting is totally cheesy. He got married but got divorced after six months when a video of him sucking of some casting agent in the bathroom at some low-budget film premier surfaced online. I'll book tickets on the next flight if you want?"
"How the hell do you know all this?"
"I have my ways, nothing gets past Auntie Tana. Now you better get a move on with this lunch cause I'm hungry and Slick will be here in ten minutes."
Sebastian stood outside the Kurt's apartment door wondering whether this was a good idea. Rachel had rung earlier and assured him that Kurt was willing to talk but he had the feeling Kurt had been coerced into it. He pushed the idea to one side when he remembered that no one could force Kurt into anything he didn't want to do. Taking a deep breath he pushed the buzzer and hoped for the best.
"Well, well, well if it isn't the criminal chipmunk in all his slimy glory." Santana opened the door and turned to walk back down the hallway. She stopped when she realized he wasn't following, "Are you coming in or are you a vampire that needs an invite?"
Sebastian rolled his eyes and stepped into the apartment, "I was actually brought up with manners and don't just stroll into people's homes when the fancy takes me. And I'm see myself more as a wolf then a vamp."
Santana starts to laugh, "Yeah always losing out to the tall pale-faced dude." Sebastian winced at her meaning as they entered the kitchen.
"Sebastian, you found us okay then?"
"Hate to point out the obvious Berry but he must have, seeing as he's standing in our kitchen."
"Unlike some, I like to make polite conversation and try to make our guest feel welcome." Rachel snapped back.
"Look if me being here is a problem, I'll just talk to Kurt when I see him next..." Sebastian looked desperately for a way to escape.
"Don't let them worry you Meerkat. They find any excuse to bitch at each other, after a year or two you learn to ignore I think they should just have sex already and relieve their pent-up tension." Kurt walked into the kitchen and sat at the table and addressed Santana and Rachel, "Now when you two harpies finish making people feel uncomfortable maybe you could go so Sebastian and I can talk just like you wanted."
"Go! Where?" Santana said.
"We're not going. I made all this food." Rachel stuttered.
Kurt looked at his two friends, "What, did you really think I was going to sit here and talk with you both chipping in your opinions every two seconds?"
"We were staying for moral support. We won't say a word I swear. Will we Santana?" Rachel elbowed the women in the ribs to back her up on the matter.
"Yeah sure not a peep from either of us. Cross my heart." Santana nodding as she spoke.
"Right," Kurt looked to Sebastian then back at Rachel and Santana, "Even he doesn't believe that pile of bullshit you two just spouted. So if you don't mind, grab yourselves a plate and pretend you're not eavesdropping from the living room." Rachel pursed her lips and Santana just crossed her arms across her chest, "Oh please, stop sulking."
Both women grabbed a plate and left the kitchen. "You three are actually friends right? Because I've seen you all together twice now and it looks like you don't like each other very much."
"You should have learnt by now not to judge by appearances. I would do anything for them and they would for me. Yes we disagree but what do you expect, we have very different outlooks on things. We've known each other for years. Rachel maybe slightly self-absorbed and spoilt and Santana is a bitch that comes across as cold-hearted but since we moved to New York we became a family. I don't expect you to get our dynamic but it works for us. I love them and I don't doubt for a second that they don't return it."
Kurt turned and looked towards the door as he heard Rachel 'awww' and Santana call him a wuss. " You could at least pretend you're not listening." Kurt call out to them.
"Okay I think I get."
"It doesn't matter if you get it Smythe, it is what it is. But that's not why you're here is it?"
"No, I guess not sorry."
"Don't be sorry, just say what it is you want to say and we can both get on with our lives at lot faster."
"You're not going to make this easy are you?"
"Personally, I don't think us talking will affect anything. When I'm working, I'm a professional. What happened back in high school is in the past and the fact I don't like you makes no difference. Can you honestly say that you like everyone you work with? Because if you do ,you're a liar and you haven't really changed at all."
"Well for your information I agree, I don't like everyone I work with. I may have told a few white lies back in high school and most of them involved you." Sebastian waited to see if Kurt would react but carried on when there was no response, "I wasn't the one Blaine cheated with."
Sebastian waited for Kurt to speak but he didn't, "I know I was terrible to you back then and I wouldn't blame you if you didn't believe me..."
Kurt cut Sebastian of, "I know."
"What?" Sebastian looked surprised.
"Are you deaf? I know it wasn't you." Kurt repeated.
Sebastian sat there stunned for a moment before he spoke, "But Rachel said you all assumed it was me?"
Kurt started to laugh, "Yes they did. You were lucky that they couldn't prove it because Santana, Finn and Puck would have come looking for you. When Blaine flew out to confess what he had done, I only asked one question. He answered my question and then I walked away. He tried to give me the details, by phone, email and in person, on several occasions. For some reasons he thought if he told me I would understand his reasons and forgive him. Strange how he thought that laying the blame on me would work in his favour."
"All you asked was if it was me, why?" Sebastian questioned.
"He said it meant nothing. If it was you I could have put it down to a drunken night at Scandals. When he said it wasn't it gave it a very different meaning."
"How?"
Santana and Rachel stared at each other as they listened to Sebastian and Kurt. Santana whispered to Rachel, "Has he told you any of this?"
"No he always refused to talk about what happened that night, even Burt couldn't get him to talk."
Kurt took a deep breath and swallowed the lump in his throat, "It meant he took time getting to know some one to the point that he cheated. It meant it wasn't him being drunk and you taking advantage of him being lonely and missing me. It meant he found this guy attractive. It meant that I wasn't enough for him unless I gave him all of my attention. It meant I would never be able to trust him and that our whole relationship was a lie. You see when spend your life being second best you get used to having your feelings disregarded. You told me yourself that I wasn't good enough and it was only a matter of time before Blaine found someone better. I didn't get into my dream college and for a while I worked a The Lima Bean just as you predicted."
Sebastian shook his head in shame as he remembered every word he had thrown at Kurt back when they were in high school. He kick himself for not realizing, like he did with Dave Karofsky, that his words had damaged Kurt too. He felt a fool for never telling Kurt how sorry he was and thinking just because Kurt gave as good as he got that it had no effect. "Look I never should have said that crap to you back then. I was jealous of what you had. I didn't know what had gone on in your life. All I saw was this guy who had it all, boyfriend and friends that loved him unconditionally. Shit, I was in a new school where no one liked me very much, my parents only spoke to me when I did something wrong and then there was you. You took one look at me and you knew exactly what I was up too and you didn't fall for my bullshit."
"Bullshit, you went after Blaine before you even met me. Don't make it sound if it was because you were jealous of me. You took one look at me and decided that I was every gay stereotype you've ever seen or heard and you hated it. You were no different from the bullies at my school, you punished me for being too gay because you didn't want people to think of you in that way, just like Karofsky did when he bullied me. You wanted to destroy every bit of confidence I had and it pissed you of when I didn't act the way you planned. So cut the crap because the one thing I learned was to only trust family."
"Shit." Sebastian said understanding what Kurt said.
"Yeah shit, just realizing what a hypocrite you were? You see I know whats it like when you say your gay and see the look on the other persons face. Even now I still get the 'he wants to be a girl' or 'you're not manly enough' jokes just like you do I expect. So 'manly' gays like to blame this on us 'flamers' instead of just flipping the ass making the joke off or explaining how what they said is offensive to you, in the hope they'd learn from it and stop. It easier to join in with the idiots of the world and make it even harder for people already struggling. So the fact Blaine was with me and not 'a real man' like you irked you even more. So I really don't think we have anything else to say to each other." Kurt got up out of his chair and grabbed his keys, wallet and phone of the side and walk out the door and just before the front door closed he heard Kurt speak to Rachel and Santana, "I'm going out don't wait up."
"Well that went well Slick." Santana said as she sat next to Sebastian.
Sebastian looked at Santana puzzled, "You think that went well?"
"Of course she does. He never told any of us what happened with Blaine. We knew he was heart-broken we never knew how it had made him feel. Now we understand it we can fix it and get the old Kurt back.
"Theres nothing wrong with this Kurt, Berry. For some reason he opened up to Slick here. Why I don't know?, but he did."
"Well that's easy because he doesn't care what Sebastian thinks of him."
"You two do realize I'm still here, don't you?" Sebastian interrupted.
"Of course we do." Rachel said and turned to look at him, "And now we know why he is this way we can help him."
Sebastian stood to leave, "Glad I could help, I'll just let myself out then."
"Sit your ass down Slick. As much as a hate to say it but she's right." Santana pointed at a smiling Rachel, "You got him to spill so you're part of this now."
"Hold on, I just need to work with him. Now I know he isn't going to stab me when my back's turned thats all I need and want."
"Yeah, yeah keep bullshitting yourself. I saw the way you watched him at that party and the way you were looking at him when you got here. You never expected him to get that hot and I can tell you now under the designer clothes there's a fit body. You like what you see and you like that he's feisty and when you're ready to admit it come talk to us."
Sebastian just shook his head and headed for the door, "He is right about one thing you two need to fuck or something, then maybe you won't keep getting these crazy ideas in your heads. There is no way Kurt would ever be interested in me." He carried on walking out of the apartment.
