DISCLAIMER: I neither own Glee nor the characters. They are the property of Ryan Murphy and FOX. This is purely for fun. Enjoy :)

A/N: Ah HA! I bet you thought it was over! Well it's not! In fact, something is afoot. . .


Family Ties

Chapter Six: Betrayal


Finn felt like he was going to pass out after he ate his dinner. He stuffed as much food into his mouth as humanly possible, and Rachel looked borderline disgusted when he refilled his plate a fourth time. He didn't care, though. He was in culinary heaven.

Dinner was very. . .interesting, to say the least. Rachel and Jesse were very charming and made good impressions on Burt and Carole. They chatted idly and even gave the adults a taste of what New Directions had been working on earlier that day. In hindsight, he shouldn't have tried to dance after eating four plates full of meat and starches.

After dinner, he said goodnight to Rachel. He never thought she would meet his mom so fast, but he was happy that she did. His mom seemed to like her. And she really knew her way around a kitchen!

Before bed, Finn pulled Kurt aside. He still had beef with him that they hadn't yet settled from earlier that day.

"I know it all worked out for us, but did you really have to set it up so Rachel would get hurt? I thought we were all going to talk."

He looked apologetic. "I was still bitter. I already apologized to her, though."

"Yeah, well you owe me an apology, too. Rachel is my girlfriend now. And you have to promise me you'll make an effort to be her friend."

Kurt nodded. "You're right. I'm sorry, Finn. Rachel is actually okay, if you tune out half of what she says."

Finn sighed. Kurt would have to work on that.


The first few weeks after he and Rachel had started dating, things were actually. . .good. For the first time in a long time. He was happy with Rachel and tried to spend every minute he could with her. It never seemed like enough. He couldn't wait for basketball to be over so he could spend weekends with her. He normally had away games on the weekends and they really only spent the evenings together. They also didn't have much alone time with each other; her dads were always vigilant and his house was always full of people nowadays. But he didn't mind all that much. He wanted to take things slowly anyway. They had all the time in the world.

Things at home were great, too. He was getting more and more comfortable living at the Hummel's, and his mom had never looked happier. Finn was getting along great with Burt, too. He helped him in Burt's auto shop sometimes when he needed an extra hand and actually got paid for it. He saved the money for his dates with Rachel.

Kurt was floating on cloud nine these days. He was deliriously happy with Jesse and it was reflecting in his attitude. He was getting along with Rachel, and stopped criticizing her personality. Kurt even took out Rachel and Carole for a spa day. Jesse became a staple around the house, and Finn made peace with the fact that he sang most of the solos in glee. Every Friday, the family would have dinner with Rachel and Jesse. It became a tradition, and Finn was growing fond of his extended "family."

Until the last week of March. That's when things took a turn for the worse.

Regionals were in a few weeks. Mr. Schuester had the team practice whenever they had a spare minute. Free periods, lunchtime, after school, Friday nights. . .it seemed like glee club had taken over their lives. Finn still had to balance basketball and school somewhere in-between the non-stop glee rehearsals, and he was exhausted.

One afternoon in late March, Finn was running very late to a rehearsal. Ms. Rollins made him stay late to make up the Math quiz he'd failed, and now he was almost a half an hour late for rehearsal. He ran down the hallway and noticed Jesse by the choir room doors, on the phone. He could hear the conversation echoing down the empty hallway. It was clear Jesse was unaware of his presence. His tone was frantic, and stressed.

"Yeah, I'm at rehearsal now. . .What else do you want me to do? . . .I think I've found out enough, Shelby! I don't want to do this anymore. . .uh-huh. . .yeah I want to win, but I've been here for almost a month. . .alright. . .I have the songs and the setlist. . .I'll transfer back to Carmel in a week. . .fine. . .bye." Jesse hung up the phone and when he turned around to walk back into the choir room, Finn was standing right behind him, blocking his path. He looked alarmed and started to stutter nervously. "H-Hey Finn, why are you so late to rehearsal?"

Finn didn't answer. Instead he grabbed Jesse by the collar of the shirt and pulled him up so he was on his tip-toes.

"You're a spy?" Finn couldn't believe it. He started to shake him a little bit and his eyes blazed with fury. "You're a god-damned spy?!" Jesse looked terrified and the choir room doors opened. Kurt came out into the hallway and saw his boyfriend being held by the shirt, inches off the ground.

"What's going on here, Finn? What are you doing to Jesse?" Finn looked down at Jesse and pulled him into the choir room. He interrupted the rehearsal and let go of Jesse so he was standing in front of the group. Everyone looked shocked.

"Tell us the truth, Jesse. If you don't say anything, I will." Jesse looked around at all the members of the glee club and his eyes lingered on Kurt's. He bowed his head and refused to say a word. Finn wanted to pull out his hair. Of course it would have to be up to him to tell the truth.

He pointed at Jesse. "He's been lying to us the whole time. Did anyone ever bother to ask where he transferred from? At all? He transferred from Carmel. He's been a spy for them all along." The glee kids all let out heir own exclamations of shock, and Kurt looked completely heartbroken. He walked up to Jesse with tears in his eyes. Jesse looked at Kurt with deep sadness and regret etched into his face.

"Is it true, Jesse?" He looked at Kurt with panic in his eyes.

After a few seconds, he nodded. "Kurt, please. . ."

Kurt slapped him in the face.

"Are you really gay, too? Or was that all a lie?"

"No, Kurt! This is really who I am. I didn't want to be a spy. Well, I mean, at first it didn't matter. But then when I got to know you all, I wanted to stop. I really did." Jesse looked at everyone with desperation in his eyes. "I don't even want to go back to Carmel now that I know what it's like to be accepted into a group as great as yours. I never knew glee could be fun until I joined New Directions. At Carmel, it's like torture. Please, you have to believe that I was really your friend. I'll lie to them. I'll give them fake songs."

Everyone shook their heads. No one looked sympathetic to his situation.

"Go back to Carmel, Jesse. They'll believe all of your lies there." Kurt practically snarled at him.

Finn winced. Jesse wasn't out of the closet yet at home. He would have to go back to pretending he was straight again.

One by one the members of New Directions left the choir room until only Kurt, Jesse, Finn and Rachel remained. Jesse now had tears in his eyes.

"Kurt, please. I was lying to the team, but not to you. I need you, Kurt. I can't go back there. I can't be myself in Carmel." Kurt shook his head. He turned around and walked out of the room without another word to Jesse. Jesse ran his hands through his hair and looked over to Finn. "Are you going to kick the crap out of me or something? Beat the fag when he's down?"

"No. I'm going to tell you something. For the future." Finn took a deep breath. He was never the most eloquent person to ever walk the earth, but he had something he needed to say. "I'm a pretty simple guy; I don't know a lot about the world and the universe and stuff. But the thing I know that is most important, is family. I'm lucky to have two of them." He looked down at Rachel, who was standing with him. "I have my glee family and my family at home." He looked up at Jesse and his gaze was serious. "And I let you into both of my families. I accepted you, even when I didn't even like you all that much. And now, you've just betrayed both of them. Go back to Carmel, Jesse. If you tell them anything about New Directions, then you'll live forever knowing how much you betrayed our family. Don't come back."

The tears were falling freely from Jesse's face now. Jesse spared one more look at both Finn and Rachel and walked dejectedly out of the choir room. Finn slumped into the nearest chair and ran his hands over his face in frustration. Rachel sat next to him and rubbed his back.

He was furious. He felt betrayed. Kurt's heart was broken. His club had no male lead. It was a good thing he still had Rachel; she was the anchor he could cling to when the seas got rough. He looked up at her and she kept rubbing his back in wide circles, distracting him from the feeling of wanting to punch something.

"We're totally screwed, Rach. Kurt's probably crying rivers. We don't know if Jesse will leak our material. Things were just starting to get good again!" She gave him an encouraging smile that broke through the angry haze in his mind.

"I'm really proud of the way you handled Jesse. I don't think he'll betray us. I believed him when he said he was happy here."

"You did?" She nodded.

"Yeah. Growing up with two gay dads really helped me realize how important it was to have people in your life who accept you no matter what. Jesse had that here. He had friends and people who cared about him and let him express himself in a way they never allowed in Carmel. I want to trust him. And I want you to trust him, too." He looked over at Rachel and had to smile. She was so beautiful; inside and out. She believed in people, accepted them, and trusted them. Even when they had done her wrong. He bent his head down and captured her lips in a delicate kiss.

"You're too forgiving, you know that?" She blushed and kissed him on the cheek. She playfully slapped him on the knee.

"C'mon, you. We have to get practicing." How were they going to practice? The team was gone!

"For what?"

"Your lead solos! I have to teach you Jesse's choreography and his harmonies for all the songs!" He smiled. He never even realized in all the shock about Jesse that he would get his lead solos back.

"All right, then! From the top!"


Finn walked into the house later that night feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Rachel had been working him for the past three hours on all the details of the choreography, and his brain felt like it was running on overdrive. He walked in and his mom and Burt came up to him right away.

"What happened at school today?" Burt looked furious. "Kurt won't come out of the basement and he said something happened with Jesse."

"I'm worried, Finn. He won't eat dinner."

Finn ran a hand over his face, trying to relieve the pressure of a headache he felt coming on. "Jesse had been lying to the club. It turned out he was a spy for one of our competing schools at Regionals."

Burt looked even more furious than before. "That little punk played my boy for a fool? And we invited him into this house! If he ever comes round here again, I'll grab my shotgun!"

Carole pat Burt on the arm. "It's okay, honey. All kids get their heart broken sometime or another."

Finn sighed. "I'll try to talk to him." Burt and Carole nodded, and Finn went up to the basement door. It was locked. He knocked on the door. He heard no sign of any movement.

"Kurt? It's Finn. Can we talk, buddy?" No answer. He sighed. He really couldn't say much through the door with their parents listening, but he tried his hardest to find the right words. "Dude. I know today sucked. But I believed Jesse when he said he was happy here. He might have screwed the team over, but I think he was telling the truth. Especially about you." He exhaled deeply and turned around to walk away, thinking he had done his best. The door opened and Finn turned around to see Kurt, with bloodshot eyes and messy hair.

"You think so?" Kurt sniffled.

"Yeah. I think once he gets back to Carmel, he's going to realize everything he'd lost." Kurt smiled at Finn and walked up to him. He opened his arms widely and gave the tall boy a hug. Finn looked at his mom and Burt with his eyes wide open in shock, but put an arm on Kurt's shoulder and patted it awkwardly. "It'll be okay, man. There are plenty of other guys out there."

Kurt got a wicked glint in his eye and winked at Carole. "Oh Finn, I never realized how nice it felt to be in your arms. . ." Kurt said with a giggle.

Finn looked down and shot him the "Don't Hit On Me" look. He took two steps backwards and heard Kurt laughing with his mom. He and Burt looked uncomfortable.

"Alright, that's enough of that!"

Kurt continued to laugh and sniffled lightly. "Thanks, Finn."

Finn ruffled his hair. Kurt slapped his hands away.

"No problem, bro."


Salut mes amis!

The pain of betrayal! Poor Kurt, Poor Jesse!

Until Next Time *sings* Don't Stop. . . Reviewing!

Merci Mille Fois

The Minsk