It had been two weeks since Sebastian's attack and he had been staying at Blaine's house. Blaine had given up his bed for Sebastian and willingly camped on an air mattress on the floor. Whilst Blaine was at school, Sebastian spent his days in Blaine's room, mainly sleeping or crying to himself. He was depressed and distraught, and Blaine new it. Reactions from Sebastian were lifeless and minimal. He still flinched when Blaine tapped him to ask something, and Blaine couldn't help but feel sad with him. He didn't know what else he could do, Sebastian refused to see a councilor and since the police had officially closed the investigation, Sebastian refused to leave the house.

Sebastian had been kicked out of Dalton due to his parents refusing to pay tuition now, and tomorrow he began his first day with Blaine at McKinley. He was terrified to say the least, but Blaine's parents had told Blaine that he needed to go to school, otherwise he couldn't stay with them any longer. Blaine didn't honestly think that they would throw Sebastian out, but encouraged and somehow persuaded Sebastian to transfer to McKinley with him.

"You'll be safe there. I will be there, in all your classes. You can join Glee too, no one will judge you there" Blaine had said to Sebastian whilst persuading him. Everyone knew he had been beaten up and left bleeding, but no one, as far as he knew, knew that he had been violently gang raped by four boys from Dalton.

It was the morning before, and Blaine was packing his bag to go. Sebastian was just glad that he didn't have to go today. He was scared and ashamed, and even though he knew he had to go tomorrow, it was still a little comfort knowing it was 24 hours away. Blaine walked past Sebastian, who was sitting on the edge of the bed in just his pyjama bottoms, touched his shoulder and told him he was leaving because Kurt was here to pick him up. Sebastian flinched at the touch but forced a smile to show Blaine he was okay. Blaine knew his smile was false, but smiled back anyway. He also noticed that the new tooth Sebastian had put in last week, to replace the one knocked out, was slightly crooked but made Sebastian's smile even cuter than it already was.

"Are you gonna be okay today?" Blaine asked.

"Yeah, I'll be fine. You shouldn't keep Kurt waiting.." Sebastian replied, but he wasn't fine. His tone screamed everything but fine.

"Try and get some sleep at some point, you hardly got any last night." Sebastian nodded in agreement. He hadn't had a proper night sleep ever since the attack. Usually he would wake up in cold sweats after remembering all the awful things that happened to him. Last night was particularly bad though. He woke up several time. A couple of times he was screaming for help as he relived the nightmare of that night in his dreams. Blaine was a star though. He would get up and sit with Sebastian until he was ready to go back to sleep. He would tell him it would be okay and everything was fine and that he was safe with him.

And he did feel safe with Blaine. Well, as safe as he could feel. But other than that, he had trouble feeling anything for anyone. He remembered having feelings for Blaine before the incident, and could sense that Blaine was feeling something for him that went beyond friendship. But it was hard for Sebastian. After his physical abuse and his emotional trauma, enhanced by his father's abandonment of him, he just can't open himself up and allow him to feel something more for him. And sometimes it scared him. He was scared that he would never feel anything ever again, and would go on living as an empty shell, shutting out the world to avoid any more pain.

His train of thought was interrupted when the bedroom door opened and revealed Kurt standing there looking annoyed at Blaine. His eyes met Sebastian's and his expression changed to one of slight shock and awkwardness.

"Oh. Hi" He said, trying to sound concerned but failing to be convincing. "How are you?"

"I'm fine" Sebastian replied.

"I heard you're transferring to McKinley" Kurt said, his voice had a hint of bitterness. "Well, it is safe there. Trust me. It's unlikely you'll be beaten up again there, you'll have friends around." He sounded pretty genuine then, but Sebastian wasn't surprised, not after hearing about Kurt being bullied for being gay. It was clear he thought Sebastian had been beaten up for the same reason, which wasn't a lie. He was thankful he didn't know the full extent of it though. He didn't want to imagine every one's reactions.

"Right, we better go" Blaine said towards Kurt. "I'll see you tonight, I'm not sure what time I'll be back, could be late." Sebastian simply nodded in recognition as they left, and he heard Kurt quizzing Blaine about Sebastian, no doubt why he was topless and on his bed, all the way down the hall.

The day was pretty uneventful for Sebastian. He managed to get a couple of hours sleep in, before he awoke in his usual sweats. The rest of the day he spent thinking about tomorrow and what he was going to do. A lot of his energy was spent each day trying not to think about his attack or his parents, but his thoughts always ended up at either one of them, resulting in him breaking down into tears. It was 8 o'clock before Sebastian noticed that Blaine hadn't returned home. His stomach was rumbling, he didn't eat much these days anyway, and he was noticeably thinner than his usual skinny frame. Why was Blaine late? He said he would be, but he didn't think this late. Panic rose within Sebastian as he tried not to imagine all the awful things that he had been through happening to Blaine. If anything, it actually made him feel worse thinking that it could happen to Blaine over the fact it happened to him.

He began pacing the room. He texted Blaine four, no five times but he didn't reply. Where was he? Sebastian's heart was racing. What if the same guys had seen him with Blaine and gone after him too, to teach him the same lesson they taught Sebastian. His eyes filled with water at the thought and frantically began to call Blaine's phone. It didn't even ring. What was happening? He felt like he wanted to go and look for him, but that thought terrified him more.

Suddenly, Blaine opened the door.

"Sorry I'm late. Glee ran on for ages and then Kurt asked me to talk and.." Blaine stopped at the sight of the clearly distraught Sebastian across the room. "Oh my God, what's happened?" Blaine quickly said, making his way to Sebastian, grabbing his hands. Sebastian's heavy breathing words was making what he said hard to hear.

"You.. you were.. late.. and I.. I.. I thought.. something... might.. might have.. happened to.. you" Sebastian spluttered out. Blaine sighed with relief and wiped the tears from Sebastian's face and cupped it with one hand.

"I'm fine, silly" he said with his soothing voice. "Calm down, Seb, every thing's alright." Blaine sat Sebastian down on the bed. It took a couple of minutes for him to calm down.

"I'm going to be late sometimes, and I'm sorry but I can't always help it" Blaine said to Sebastian. He genuinely sounded sorry.

"Don't be sorry" Sebastian said when he could speak normally again. "I was overreacting"

"No you weren't. It's completely understandable" Blaine said. Despite Sebastian's overwhelming depression, Blaine was the only person who knew how to force a bit of contentment into Sebastian when necessary. Blaine smiled at him.

"I'm gonna go make us something to eat." He squeezed Sebastian's hand and then left the room.