A/N: Hi guys! I'm so so sorry! I ran into a life crisis so now I don't have my own computer anymore! I'll do my best to update as much as I can. I have at least 4 chapters handwritten for this story that I can type up in document edits. So, that will do for now yes? On with the show!
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee but I will be Kurt for Halloween this year!
When Kurt returned to Dalton it was to find utter chaos in Blaine's room. Blaine and Karofsky had engaged in a physical shoving match. Sebastian stood in the corner looking smug.
"What is going on in here?!" the pale angel cried, stepping between the two and shoving them apart. He looked appalled.
"Is it true?" Blaine spat at him suddenly, looking both angry and completely hurt. Kurt gave him a confused look.
"Is what true Blaine?" he asked quietly.
Before Blaine could answer however, Sebastian stepped forward winding an arm around the dapper boy's waist. Kurt saw Blaine physically cringe. "Don't ask him Blaine. He'll just lie to you and say it isn't. Now come on my darling, I'll protect you from hurt feelings. I'll make you feel better." He blew lightly in Blaine's ear, causing the latter to shudder, but not in a good way.
"Blaine," Kurt said quietly, his glasz eyes sparkling with a trace of tears. It was a terrible thing to make an angel cry. "I don't know what this is about but you can't believe anything Sebastian says. You know him better than I do."
For several seconds, the room seemed frozen. Then, without warning, Sebastian surged forward and pinned Kurt to the wall.
"Blaine is mine! Do you hear me?!" he spat. "And I'll be damned if you take that away from me grandma! If you attempt to get any closer to him, I will rip your wings from your back myself!" He slammed Kurt against the wall once before Blaine was able to yank him off. "Better yet, maybe I'll just bring an end to Blaine's life; than neither of us will ever see second-chance life. If I can't have him, no one can!"
"Enough!" shouted a new voice. Kurt was staring over Sebastian's shoulder, wide-eyed.
"Mom?" Kurt asked quietly. Elizabeth Hummel was standing in the room. Her golden wings glistening in the light streaming in through the window. "What are you doing here?"
A soft smile grazed the young woman's face. Blaine was staring in awe and Sebastian rolled his eyes.
"Oh how pathetic!" he spat. "Mommy's here to protect her precious baby girl...I mean boy."
Elizabeth narrowed her eyes and stepped forward.
"I am not here because I am Kurt's mom." Her eyes wandered from Sebastian to Kurt for a brief moment. "I am here because I have recently been appointed second-in-command of the angel council. Do you know what that means Sebastian?"
For a moment Sebastian just stared at her. Then he scoffed. "You can't be serious."
"What does it mean?" Karofsky asked suddenly. He'd been so quiet, they'd forgotten he was even in the room.
Elizabeth didn't take her eyes off Sebastian. "It means that when Alia retires, I will take her place as head of the council."
"That's not fair!" Sebastian shouted. "You'll always rule in Kurt's favor because he's your son!"
Kurt opened his mouth to protest but Elizabeth held up her hand and he remained quiet.
"No, I'll rule in Kurt's favor because he does what's right. Alia even said so herself." She turned her eyes on Blaine and they softened. "What Sebastian told you is not true Blaine. He's trying to work things in his favor. I am here to tell him that he is treading on a very thin wire right now. If he continues down this path, he will see flames." With a loving look toward her son, she turned to make her leave. "Oh, and you'll be getting a visitor in a few minutes." And then she was gone.
Almost as soon as she was gone, there was a knock on the door. Blaine answered it an was stunned to see an extremely tall boy standing there.
"Finn," Kurt whispered and Blaine looked at him. Karofsky pushed his way forward.
"What are you doing here Hudson? Go away! You're not welcome here!"
Blaine rounded on him. "He is so! Roommate or not, this is still my room. That means I'm in charge!" He stepped back to allow Finn into the room. "Come on in," he said.
Finn nodded his thanks and stepped into the room, glaring at Karofsky. His eyes came to rest on Kurt.
"Hello Kurt," he said, surprising everyone in the room.
"You can see him?" Blaine asked.
"I allowed him to," Kurt said. He stepped forward, closer to the tall boy. "Hello Finn. I'm your stepbrother. Or...I would have been," he went on, clasping his hands in front of him.
Finn shook his head.
"No Kurt. It doesn't matter that you died when you were eight. You're still my stepbrother." Kurt allowed a soft smile to cross his face. "But I don't get it. Why do you look like you grew up?" The smile on Kurt's face grew.
"Because I did grow up Finn." He walked over to the window and gazed out of it. "There's a reason for that."
"Oh for the love of God!" Sebastian shouted. "They've granted goody-two-shoes here a chance at second-chance life!" Before Finn could answer, Sebastian suddenly screamed with pain and was waving his left arm around wildly.
"What's wrong with him?" Blaine asked fore all he could see was Sebastian waving his arm.
"A hell burn," Kurt said, watching the flare up of flames on the other angel's arm. "The angel council has set fire to his arm as a warning. You three won't be able to see it. Hell fire can't be seen by the living even if they are allowed to see it."
Blaine was starting to get the point. He was watching Sebastian with fascination. Karofsky looked positively angry and Finn appeared to be terrified.
"And do you want to tell me why my angel is being punished?" Karofsky spat, glaring at Kurt.
"For discussing second-chance life with a human when he had no prior permission to do so," Kurt stated flatly. Karofsky became outraged.
"He merely said what it was! That was not discussing it!"
Kurt turned a hard eye on the chubby boy. "Doesn't matter. He still brought it up. No human is allowed to even know about second-chance life unless the council has permitted them to. They're still investigating how Sebastian knew so much about it when he killed himself."
Karofsky's expression changed to one of confusion.
"You mean when he died in that elevator accident," he said. Kurt raised a brow.
"Is that what he told you?" Karofsky nodded. Kurt looked at Sebastian who was clutching his arm. "You lied to your charge? Are you crazy? Lying to someone who is supposed to trust you with their life is a serious offense for an angel. I'm surprised you haven't been reprimanded for it yet."
"Wait," Karofsky said. "What do you mean he lied?"
Kurt's eyes went back to Karofsky. "Sebastian didn't die in an elevator accident. He purposefully had himself killed. His intentions have been to guard Blaine so Blaine would fall in love with him, granting him the purpose to have second-chance life. Sebastian never intended to remain dead. He's been obsessed with Blaine ever since he met him."
This information both stunned Blaine and set Karofsky off. Finn just stood feeling awkwardly out of place.
"You liar!" Karofsky shouted, shoving his angel against the wall. "You made a fool out of me! And to think, I actually wanted to help you!"
Tension filled the room as everyone tried to drown out the sounds of Karofsky berating Sebastian. However, it was Finn's sudden question that broke it.
"If he killed himself, why did he become an angel? Shouldn't he have gone, you know, down there?" He pointed to the floor. Kurt gave a soft shake of the head.
"That's what the council's still been trying to figure out." Finn frowned.
Blaine had been standing there silently lost in thought for a couple of moments.
"I think I know why," he said and they all looked at him. "When someone kills themselves, it's normally with the intent of leaving this world forever and ending all their pain and suffering for good. But Sebastian didn't have pain and suffering, and he never intending on leaving the world forever."
Kurt looked thoughtful for a moment. "His death wasn't scheduled," he said quietly.
"What?" Finn asked.
"When I died, I was told by the head of the council that mine was an unscheduled death."
"You mean you weren't supposed to die in that car accident?" Blaine asked.
Kurt shook his head. "No. I wasn't even supposed to be in the car. When I died, they told me that everyone's life has a timeline, but sometimes an unscheduled event can upset the balance and change everything. Originally, the timeline had me scheduled to stay behind and my mom to go on her own. But because I begged to go with her, I ended up in the car when I wasn't meant to be. I died before I was scheduled to. That's why I've been given a chance at second-chance life."
Everything was slowly falling into place and making more sense. Sebastian wasn't meant to die yet and regardless of how it had happened, fate said he was to be given a chance at earning second-chance life.
"Sometimes, I can't stand that the high and mighty is always so forgiving," Kurt said. "No offense to him and the rest of those still in the majestic sky but if I had lived my life how I was meant to, I would probably be an atheist right now."
Finn looked at him wide-eyed. "Dude, seriously?"
"Don't call me dude Finn." Kurt frowned at him and Finn put his hands up in surrender. "But think about it," he said. "Do you really have a reason to believe he exists? What proof do you have except for the words of books in the church? Just because it says he's been seen doesn't mean he has."
Sebastian who was still holding his arm, was watching him intently. After a few moments during which nothing happened, he turned his eyes on the ceiling.
"Oh come on!" he shouted. Kurt raised an eyebrow.
"What are you waiting for?" Blaine asked indignantly.
"For Kurt to be punished for saying all that about the high and mighty."
"I'm not going to be punished Sebastian." The other angel scoffed.
"Why not?"
"Because I didn't say anything he didn't already know." Sebastian gave him a look. "You forget. The all high and mighty knows everything. He knows exactly who I would be now if I were still alive."
Blaine looked confused. "Wait, you can see what will happen in my future but you don't know anything about your own?" Kurt shook his head. He crossed the room and gently took Blaine's hand in his, smiling softly at him. Blaine felt tingles crawl up his arm.
"That's different Blaine. I'm your guardian. It's part of my job to know your timeline and your future. Even angels aren't meant to know their own. Reduces the temptation to interfere with your own destiny."
"But you're angels," Blaine said. "Surely you wouldn't dare or dream of altering your own lives."
Kurt smiled and pecked him delicately on the cheek. Blaine felt his face grow warm.
"Not all angels are good Blaine," he replied looking pointedly at Sebastian.
"Wait a minute," Finn said. "Angels have fates and destinies?"
"Of course e do," Kurt said gently. "Especially those of us who might be granted second-chance life." He paused. "The angel council already knows if and how I will get second-chance life. All I know about the how is that it has to do with Blaine. He has the answer, though neither of us knows what it is yet."
There was a comfortable silence during which Kurt took hold of Blaine's other hand and the two of them just stared into each other's eyes. It was Karofsky who broke the silence.
"Can a charge renounce their guardian if they want to?" he asked quietly. They all turned to look at him.
"David don't be absurd!" Sebastian spat. "I need you!"
"Liar!" Karofsky turned back to Kurt. "So, can they?"
Kurt slowly nodded his head. "Yes," he said.
"And what would happen if I renounce him?" Karofsky asked. "Would that be the end of his chance to get second-chance life?" Kurt sighed and shook his head, withdrawing his hands from Blaine's, the latter missing the contact immediately.
"First of all, Sebastian will immediately be sent back to the sky. Without a living person to bond him here, he can't walk the Earth, unless he's on the council," Kurt started. "But no, it wouldn't be the end of his chance to get second-chance life."
"Why not?" Karofsky pressed. "Don't you only get the one chance?"
Kurt nodded. "Yes but in this case Sebastian would not have ended his chance of his own free will. You would've forced him out of it. The chance is only officially ended if the angel pulls out on their own."
This did not seem to sit well with Karofsky, or Blaine for that matter.
"That's crazy!" Blaine shouted. "So if Karofsky renounces Sebastian, all he has to do is get another charge and then just continue his plans?"
Sebastian looked smug and Finn looked entirely lost. He didn't know a thing about any of this.
"Relax sweetheart," Kurt said, grabbing Blaine's hand and giving it a squeeze. "It's not that simple."
"What do you mean?" Blaine asked.
"Being a guardian is a privilege. The council have to grant him that honor again and seeing as his track record with them is not very good, it's not something they'd grant him easily a second time. He'd really have to earn it. Furthermore, they know what his plan is. If they were to ever grant him guardianship again, it's likely to be in a place far away from here."
Finn as looking thoughtful. "But wouldn't he just do something to make sure his charge would move here?"
Kurt shook his head. "An angel has no rights to influence the relocating of their charge and his or her family, unless it was an emergency situation pending a matter of life or death for the charge. And if Sebastian ere to lie and claim the family or the charge were in life threatening danger, that's a first offense wing stripping violation."
"What does that mean?" Finn asked.
"It means that even if Sebastian were a model well behaved angel who never did anything wrong - like me - doing that would result in stripping his wings and sending him down below. For an angel, just to lie is bad enough - to the point here if they're a council member they can be kicked off - but to lie for their own gain is inexcusable."
Well, that all explained a lot. Everything Kurt had just explained basically said that all they had to do to get rid of Sebastian was for Karofsky to renounce him. But that seemed too easy.
"It's too easy," Blaine said. "Even with what you already frightened him with Kurt."
"Of course it is. It always is," Kurt replied, smiling at Blaine.
"You don't scare me anymore Kurt," Sebastian said. "I made a deal while all of you were out today." He smirked. "It will keep me protected."
After a beat, Kurt gave the other angel a half-smile. "Must have been a bad deal."
"What makes you say that?" the meer kat boy asked. But it was Karofsky who answered.
"Your wings have gotten more black." Sebastian frowned.
"Impossible!" he shouted, running to the bathroom mirror. "He promised! He promised me protection against this!"
Kurt was smirking slightly. Blaine and Finn looked at him. Neither of them seemed to pick up on what Kurt was thinking but than they were both still living people. Karofsky figured enough to know this deal was not as good a thing as Sebastian seemed to think it was.
"Why is this a good thing Kurt?" Blaine asked.
"Well, it's not that kind of a good thing. It's a good thing in the sense that it could work in our favor. Sebastian made a deal with a bad person."
Blaine seemed to catch on but Finn was still confused. "I don't get it," the tall teen said.
"Put it this way," Blaine told him. "Sebastian sold his soul." Finn's eyes went wide.
"Do angels even have souls?" he asked.
"Not in the same sense humans do," Kurt said. Sebastian was still freaking out in the bathroom. He ignored him. "It's even worse for an angel to sell their soul than a living person. My guess is Sebastian was tricked into it. They're very tricky people."
Well, this was certainly going to complicate things. If that wasn't bad enough, Sebastian seemed to have composed himself.
"Don't look so happy." He looked directly at Karofsky. "This effects you too."
"What?" Karofsky said. Sebastian smirked.
"Oh yes, see if you do something I don't agree with, all I have to do is snap my fingers and my new friend will punish you. So if you don't do what I say, you'll be physically tortured at the snap of my fingers."
And just like that, Karofsky found himself on the victim side of his own angel's schemes.
A/N: And we have chapter six! Yay! I have at least three more chapters completely written. They just need to be typed, which I will do in the editor. Anyway, this was a very informative chapter, don't you think? More to come. Something special in the next chapter if I remember right and more of Sebastian's muddling with a darker being. Stay tuned! Oh and there will be a Kurt/Burt thing coming up in the future and a few new angel introductions! Reviews make me smile! I'm off to do the next chapter. Happy reading!