Chapter Ten: Shockwave

December 20th 2011

Gleeverse

"So you guard that ring with your life, you got that?" Blaine pulled up in front of the Hummel-Hudson house.

Chris nodded, patting his jacket pocket, "I have it right here." He got out of the car, crossing over to the driver's side and leaning on the empty window. "You can trust me. I won't let anything happen to it." He stepped back, waving once, "I should go, Kurt's dad will be wondering where he… um… I am."

As Chris turned to the house, a shockwave spread out from house, originating from the top right window. Kurt's room. The mirror! Chris spun around to ask Blaine if he knew what was happening. Blaine was gone. Blaine's car was gone. The wheel tracks in the snow from Blaine's car were gone.

Chris spun around and ran to the door. He dug around in Kurt's shoulder bag for the keys, finding them at the bottom of the satchel. He fumbled with the lock but it wouldn't open. Giving up, he pounded his fists against the door. He jogged in place, both to release adrenaline and to warm up his feet which were freezing.

A little girl answered the door, looking up at him. "My mommy and daddy aren't here and I'm not supposed to talk to strangers."

"Oh, okay?" Chris assumed the higher-than-normal, gentle voice he reserved for children and small animals, kneeling down to her height, "Can you just tell me where the Hummel-Hudson family is?"

The girl studied his face, seeming to decide he was far from a threat, "You sound like a girl," she said innocently.

"Yes, I get that a lot. Look, this is very important."

"I've lived here for almost a year. The people who lived here before were really old. I don't know the Hum… the whoevers you said."

Chris stood there in shock as she closed the door in his face.

It was nearly impossible to find a phonebook in Lima. After getting a taxi and going around everywhere he could possibly think of that might have one. He stopped at a Starbucks for something warm, because the taxi's heater was broken, and he was freezing.

After receiving his order, he sat at one of the chairs, resting his head in his hands. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed a man using a laptop. "Um hi, excuse me. Can I borrow that?"

The man looked up at him, saving his word document. "I beg your pardon."

"Look, this is an emergency. I've been running around town looking for a phonebook. Please, I'm desperate!"

"Fine," the man sighed, sliding the computer over to him.

Chris sat in the chair across from him, opening the internet browser and typing quickly. "There," he borrowed a pen from the man, scribbling the address down on a piece of paper. "Thank you, thank you so much!"

He rushed back out, glad to find that the taximan had kept her promise and stayed. "Here is the address, hurry."

"You're running up quite a bill, kid," she shifted gears, moving the car out of the parking lot and back into the street. After driving through town for a while, they stopped in front of a small one-story house. Chris got out of the car, giving the woman all the money he had and knowing that even then he was short-changing her. She seemed content with the payment; however, it may have just have been that she was happy to be rid of the kid with the crazy find-a-phonebook mission.

Chris hurried up the steps, ringing the doorbell repeatedly.

Burt opened the door, gawking a moment at who was standing on his doorstep, before enveloping Chris in a tight hug.

"I don't understand Kurt, how can you be here? Did you fake it?"

Chris frowned, not understanding. He shook his head, "I don't know what you're talking about."

"No, you couldn't have. I saw your body, I saw what that monster did to you," Chris had never seen Burt cry before, but he was now. "You look older now," he said quietly, "but it's you Kurt. I'd know you anywhere."

"Burt!" Chris took a deep breath. "Dad." He amended, keeping up the pretense of being Kurt, although he was tired and he very much wanted to go back to being Chris, thank you very much... "What are you talking about? What happened?"

"You are Kurt."

It wasn't exactly a question, but nodding still felt like a lie. Chris did so anyway.

"Then you don't remember? Kurt… y-you were murdered."

Burt had kept all the police reports, the news articles, everything and Chris had managed to convince him to show them to him. Burt led him down to the basement. At first Chris thought they would have to search through boxes, but when Burt flipped on the light switch. They were in Kurt's old basement room. It had been converted into somewhat of a shrine to Kurt. Pictures of him filled almost every inch of the walls. His moisturizing things were laid out on the vanity desk, dustless but looking like they hadn't been touched in years.

"I left everything as you had it, although I may have added a few things. Here are the documents," he passed the papers to Chris, "although I don't exactly know why you want to see them."

"I can't explain why," he said looking through the papers, flipping pass the pictures that were taken at the crime scene, feeling sick at the slight glimpse. "It's a long story." He put the papers in the satchel. He then took out the script he always carried with him, just in case, when he was in Gleeverse. Going over to Kurt vanity desk, he cleared off the surface, tapping the script once against the mirror.

"What are you doing?" Burt asked, placing a hand on the shoulder of who he thought was his long-lost son.

"Please just stay here," Chris said gently, swing up through the mirror.

So another Valentine's Day has come and gone and I went through it dateless. I know I'm only fifteen, but its still sort of depressing.

Oh well, there's always next year. That is, if the world doesn't end in December. How can the world end with Chris Colfer in it? I don't think that's possible; he's too amazing!

Anyway... I watched Heart and, frankly, I didn't like it.

For one thing there was too much Brittana, I really don't ship them. Personally for Santana and Britt, I ship Bartie (Britt and Artie) and Sebtana (Sebastian and Santana). I know Sebtana is a total crack ship, but you got to admit there was serious chemistry when they sang Smooth Criminal.

Talking about crack ships what was with the Kurtofsky story line (which was the main reason I didn't like the episode). I hate that ship with every ounce of my being. Kurt and Karofsky being together would just be wrong considering the bullying and death threats and all that.

KLAINE FOREVER!

I was glad that Blaine was in the episode, although I would have liked to see Klaine kiss on Valentine's Day. At least I got to see Blaine drag Kurt around by his tie, that was hot!

Sorry I went on and on.

Please review and tell me what you thought of this chapter, or how annoying you think I am, or your thoughts on Heart.

KLAINE FOREVER!

LOL I'm really obsessed aren't I?

I think I just figured out why I don't have a boyfriend...