AN: I apologize that this Chapter was slow in getting posted. I have been gone/still gone, as of this posting for my cousin's wedding, so I haven't had very much time to work on this chapter. The next Chapter is the beginning of the music themed chapters again. I hope that you all enjoy and review!~Draco.
Chapter 3
The Instigation of Hope
-Kurt-
That night when Kurt got home from the garage, calmer than he was and not nearly as upset, he left his father out in the new two car garage, and went into the house to find Carole putting away the last of the groceries that she apparently went and bought earlier.
Kurt moved to the fridge and then pulled out a bottle of water, before he turned to look at Carole as she put the plastic bags in the pantry. Kurt cleared his throat and Carole looked over at him. "Did you need something, Kurt?"
Kurt nodded. "Carole, may I talk to you?"
Carole smiled. "Of course you can honey. Now what's bothering you?"
Carole gestured to the table to sit and Kurt came over and sat next to her. "Dad told me something today at the shop that you think that Finn didn't break up with me intentionally, is that true?"
Carole nodded. "Yes, that is what I believe. Finn loves you with all his heart, for he's told me more than once. I remember shortly after he had gotten over his mono, that he really couldn't picture himself with anyone else. I know that Finn isn't always smart with his decisions sometimes, but I think he would do just about anything for you."
Kurt was quiet for a minute. "What do you think made Finn do this?"
Carole shook her head again. "I don't think that it is a what, but more of whom."
Kurt nodded and glanced down to look at the floor for a moment before he looked up. "Who do you think then?"
Carole shrugged. "With the way this town thinks, it could be just about anyone. But I think it was someone that Finn knows at least, and they threatened to do something to you. And I think in Finn's mind to protect you, he needed to break up with you, as much as it pained him to do it."
As what Carole said sank in, Kurt thought back to two weeks ago. He remembered that Finn looked up set about something and not being himself, but he then remembered a few times where Finn looked at him like he'd never see him again. Kurt's eyes snapped to look at Carole's. "Do you think that's why he was sick that week before camp?"
Carole nodded. "At first I was like you, that it was really Finn being sick. But after he left I thought about it some more, and when Finn was younger and he tried to hide things from me, he'd always get himself worked up to the point to where he got sick. Usually that took a couple of days, but I think where you're concerned well it didn't take as long."
Carole nodded again. "Yes, I do believe that's when it all happened. Because when Finn saw your dad that day Burt said that he was pretty upset about something where you were concerned, but Finn didn't tell your father specifics either."
It was like someone had just thrown a puzzle on the table upside down and scattered all the pieces around. Kurt felt he finally had figured out one small part of this bizarre puzzle. Carole cleared her throat. "Though I think that you and I need to go through Finn's room and see if we can't find any evidence that supports that."
Kurt nodded. "I'll go start."
And before Carole could say another word, Kurt was up and gone. Kurt went immediately to Finn's room to begin looking for some sort of clue as to what was going on with Finn. Kurt paused once he entered the room and looked to see where Finn would hide something. Kurt was a little surprised to see that Finn had picked his room up before he had left. There were no dirty clothes, garbage, magazines all over the floor like there usually was. Hell Finn had gone as far as making his bed, and seemed to do it properly and not just throw the comforter up and calling it good.
Kurt finally settled on looking through Finn's desk first. Going through the five notebooks on top of it he found nothing, he started up Finn's laptop and attempted to hack into it, but with not much luck. Kurt took out his phone and called Artie. After being treated to a few seconds of Usher's Confessions Arite picked up. "Sup Kurt, what can I do for you?"
Kurt smiled. "How good are you at hacking into other people's laptops?"
Artie was quiet for a moment. "Well that depends, on who it is and what the situation calls for."
Kurt nodded. "I'd like you to hack into Finn's laptop. I've tried everything that I can think of for a password and I am not getting anywhere."
Artie was still quiet for another moment. "May I ask why you want to get into Finn's laptop?"
Kurt sighed. "This might sound like some desperate way to hang on to him, but you know that Puck thinks that Finn was forced to break up with me?"
It took Artie a moment to respond for he didn't think Kurt was looking for an answer. "Yeah, I remember that."
Kurt then spoke again. "Well Carole is under the same assumption that Finn was coerced into breaking up with me and that he left some sort of clue around here at the house."
"Well I can take a look, but I don't know if I'll be able to get into his laptop." Artie said after a moment.
"Thank you, Artie."
"It's no problem, Kurt," Artie spoke. "Though, I do feel that I should point out that you probably shouldn't get your hopes up though, there might not be anything on there."
Kurt sighed. "I know, I just want to check to make sure."
"Alright, I can come over in a couple days; I'm down at my grandparents' house in Indianapolis." Artie said.
Kurt smiled. "That's fine that will give me a chance to look through his room."
Artie laughed. "Alright have fun on that Indiana Jones. I'm sure the Temple of Finn is going to reveal absolute wonders to you."
Kurt let out a small chuckle. "I'm sure it will, thanks Artie, talk to you later."
"Later home boy," Artie said.
With that Artie hung up and Kurt set his phone down on Finn's desk. Kurt then decided to go through the desk. He opened up the middle drawer, and didn't find anything too out of the ordinary, like pens, some rubber bands, a note book filled with cheat codes for his various X-Box games and a couple of pictures of Finn goofing off with their friends from glee. Kurt shut the drawer and then turned in the computer chair and opened the top side drawer, only to find a few more X-Box Games and a box of colored pencils. Kurt closed that drawer and opened up that one below and found himself slightly disgusted and impressed at the same time.
In the second drawer seemed to be where Finn was currently hiding his porn collection. Kurt took a quick look and noticed that there were only five magazines, and Kurt was, slightly thankful/relieved that only one of them had women on it and that the other four were surprisingly guy on guy. Kurt also noted lube and condoms. Kurt quickly closed the door, then set himself to looking through Finn's dresser only to come up with nothing.
Over the next two days Kurt practically, went through Finn's room, with a fine tooth comb, and even Carole helped a little. Kurt noticed that Finn had left his Calvin Kline collection and took only his old clothes, and to Kurt's utter horror to find out that Finn's Gaga dress was also gone. But other than that there was nothing that gave Kurt a clue.
Artie had come over and surprised Kurt with his Rewalk, which Kurt had heard about from Mercedes since he and Finn were on a plane to Wyoming when Artie had received the gift. Artie had managed to hack into Finn's laptop for the password was one that Kurt didn't think of, Stegosaurus plus Finn's birthday, and only to be hit with another dead end. Once Artie left a couple of hours later, Kurt sighed and resigned himself to probably never figuring out this mystery.
-Finn-
Finn has spent four days being angry with himself and cursing his own stupidity and naivety over his actions. Finn did his treatments regularly and spent a lot of his spare time in the weight room working on his anger, which with each passing day only seemed to fuel the fire in his heart. That night, after lights out, Finn dug through his travel bag and pulled out his Gaga dress. Finn sat on his cot with it in his hands as he debated about his choices.
Finn then shucked off his camp clothes, to where he was standing there in his boxers, and he then put the dress on for the first time since sophomore year. Finn also put on the high heels that he had for it, and he started to walk around his small one room cabin, practicing balancing on the heels.
At breakfast, Finn grabbed his so called plate of scrambled eggs and bacon, and he sat down with Ricky, and another person that Finn had yet to meet. Ricky smiled as he looked at Finn. "Hey, Finn what can I do for you today?"
Finn took a mouthful of eggs and then set his plate aside. "I need some information about this place."
Ricky raised a curious eyebrow. "Alright, what can I do for you?"
Finn leaned in a little and spoke softly. "Does this place have like a PA or sound system here?"
"Yes, they do, it's all locked into the main office though." Ricky said and then asked. "Why do you want to know that?"
Finn ignored the question. "Do you know of anyone here who is a tech dude, and knows how to tap into systems like that?"
Ricky was quiet for a moment, before he looked at the kid next to him. Finn noticed that the kid had blonde hair, that made Finn think of Sam a little bit, but the kid looked way different than Sam. Ricky looked back at Finn, and then spoke. "That would go to Damien here, he's into the whole sound system stuff. "
Damien looked up from his plate. "What can I do for you on the sound system?"
Finn was slightly excited now. "Can you splice in anywhere on the system and then be able to pump a signal through it."
Damien nodded. "It can be done, but it'll take some time."
"Would you be ready by Monday?" Finn asked.
Damien nodded, "I could have it ready to go by Sunday night."
Finn nodded. "That'll be good, but Monday is when I want to do this, during breakfast."
Ricky looked as if both of his eyebrows were going to disappear into his hair. "Finn what are you planning?"
Finn looked at Ricky and an evil smile formed on his face. "I am officially taking a stand against this bullshit that these guys are doing to us."
Ricky's mouth fell open and he stared at Finn. "Finn most of us have already tried to resist these guys, they just keep coming. They eventually wear you down until you finally just give in to the inevitable. We all fought when first arrived here."
Finn nodded. "But I didn't. I came in willingly, for reasons that were manipulated to make me come here. You said so yourself, Ricky, that I am not even supposed to be here. So I am going to make a stand not only for myself, but for Kurt as well. These guys are the sick ones, they get their kicks by torturing us, and yet they try to justify it by saying that we're the sick ones, and they call it treatments. Like hell!"
Ricky and Damien looked at Finn as if he had gone completely mad. "How do you plan on preventing them from punishing you? They will double everything that you are taking and make it worse for you."
Finn's smile only grew. "Now there's the beauty in all of this. If we all stand up together against them, they can't possibly take us all down, without having to use violence. I am more than confident that they won't use if they want to stay in business."
Ricky spitted and sputtered for a moment. "Finn this is like suicide here on what you're planning."
Finn continued to smile. "We can all ban together on this, I know it. If we all stand up we can overcome these ass holes and get out of here."
Ricky seemed to lose ability to speak. Damien however spoke next. "And how do you plan on banning us all together to stand up against all the councilors and camp buddies?"
Finn's smile really perked up at this point. "With the music of one person who all of us can relate to, Lady Gaga."
"You are going to have us all join together under Lady Gaga?" Damien asked.
Finn nodded. "We're all going to stand up for our rights as people to love who we want. Lady Gaga gives all of us, hope, and hope that one day we can all live together as equals."
Ricky finally managed to speak. "So it's going to be a Lady Gaga Rebellion then. Well Finn I'll make sure that everyone at this camp knows your story, and what you're planning on doing. I am going to be behind you on this all the way."
Finn's smile only seemed to get bigger. For everything finally seemed to go into a positive step for him. Come Monday, all the so called therapists are going to be in for the surprise of a life time. For Finn was going to saddle up and embrace his inner Gaga, and he was going to lock and load with every other camper there to bring about some justice.
