A/N: Thanks for the reviews on the last chapter - this one is a little lighter than the previous one, and is essentially a filler before I get to the Christmas/New Year stuff in the next; but when I thought of this little plot line, it was too good not to write!
And it does make for a really nice little twist that no one would have seen coming, and also it will have some nice little ties to it as well for the story further as it progresses. Also as well I think it was one couple on Glee that I would have liked to have seen more of then we did.

Anyway let me all know what you think and thanks for reading!

Love,
KJ xoxoxoxoxoxo

Chapter 10

As they entered into the month of December, Mikki started to shadow Haley for the lead up to her taking the afternoon news breaks; whilst still also doing that of her research job as well.

After having spent most of the day down in the archives of the station, looking for back story on the one that she was currently working on; Mikki came home and showered before starting on dinner, which she currently had part of cooking in the oven, and was reading one of the many novels that she had yet to get around to divulging into the world of, when Sebastian came home.

"Hey babe" he said, when opened the front door; and put down his car keys on the table near it and walked over to where she was laid out on the sofa reading.

"Hey yourself" replied Mikki, with a smile to him, as he put the jacket of his suit which he'd already taken off over the back of the armchair.

"What you doing?" asked Sebastian, going over to her on the sofa and picking her feet up, sitting down and then placing them back into his lap and lightly rubbing them.

"Hmm that feels nice" said Mikki, looking to him with a smile.

"Yeah" replied Sebastian with a smile of his own to her.

"I was just reading" said Mikki. "And I have part of dinner in the oven cooking also as well"

"Okay" replied Sebastian, with a nod and looked at her with a smile.

"What?" asked Mikki, with a laugh.

"You know I was wondering where that one of my college hoodies had gone" he replied with a laugh of his own, seeing that Mikki was wearing a garnet red University of South Carolina hoodie; that said 'Carolina Gamecocks' across the front of it.

"I may have taken it with me when I went to California" replied Mikki, with a smile as she put the bookmark into where she was up too and placed the book down on the ground beside her.

"Yeah" said Sebastian, with a laugh. "I'm going to be wanting that back"

"You're going to have to get it off me first" said Mikki, with a smile to him.

"That's not something I am going to complain about" replied Sebastian with a laugh and he stopped rubbing her feet, and grabbed her hand and pulled her over towards himself, and kissed her.

"Just so you know" said Mikki, with a smile to him. "I'm not actually wearing anything under it"

"Oh really now?" asked Sebastian with a laugh and Mikki shook her head.

"Nope, nada, zilch" replied Mikki, with a smile. "I was down in the archives today and it's pretty dusty down there, so when I came home I had a shower and couldn't be bothered getting fully dressed again, so I went sans underwear"

"So none at all" said Sebastian, looking at her with a smile as well.

"That's right" replied Mikki, with a laugh. "Not even under my leggings"

"Hmm, that's kind of hot" said Sebastian with a smile and kissed her. "Knowing how quickly I can do things with you right now"

"Is it" replied Mikki, with a nod and moved into his lap to sit; with her legs either side of him and started undoing his tie, which was already loose and unbuttoning the second from top button of his shirt since he'd already undone the top button.

"Uh huh" replied Sebastian kissing her and almost getting the hoodie off her, when the bell on the oven went off indicating what was cooking, that time had finished for it.

"And dinner is ready" said Mikki, with a laugh and removed Sebastian's hands from where they were almost at getting the hoodie off her.

"Screw it, it can wait" replied Sebastian, kissing her.

"It will be over cooked if that happens, and I'm not throwing out a perfectly good meal because we can't keep our hands to ourselves" said Mikki, with a smile and quickly kissed him before getting up off him.

"Mik, come on" said Sebastian, looking at her. "You're seriously killing me here"

"Hmm, sorry babe" replied Mikki, with a laugh as he leaned back against the sofa. "Just think what you can do to me after dinner"

"Okay, but that doesn't really help me out now does it" said Sebastian with a sigh, as Mikki went over to the kitchen and got the chicken out of the oven to rest for a moment, whilst she made a put the rice in the microwave to go with it.

"Well whilst I do this, you can go deal with your little problem" said Mikki, with a laugh. "And then I promise after dinner you can definitely get your hoodie back"

"Such a tease" said Sebastian standing up from the sofa and grabbing his suit jacket and with a laugh himself, headed into their bedroom.

Mikki laughed as she got some plates out of the cupboard and put chicken on both of them, and waited for the rice to finish cooking; and headed over to the table with a bottle of wine and some glasses also for both of them.

Getting back over to the microwave just as the rice finished cooking, she got the packet out and served it out between the two plates, as Sebastian having changed from his work clothes into sweat pants and another hoodie that he had from college still also; came up behind and wrapped his arms around her.

"You know two can play your little game, Minnie" he said, with a laugh as he kissed her on the neck.

"Hmm" replied Mikki with a laugh. "No complaints from me"

"I bet there isn't" said Sebastian, with a laugh also; as Mikki handed him a plate of food and the two of them headed over to the small dining table in their apartment and sat down. "So you will never guess who called me up today and said they are going to be in town on the weekend"

"Don't know" replied Mikki, as Sebastian poured two glasses of wine for them.

"Guess" said Sebastian, with a laugh.

"Guess" replied Mikki, with a laugh. "Do you know how many possible people there could possibly be that I could guess from"

"Oh sure I do" replied Sebastian with a smile to her. "Miss, you've got to guess my name because I won't tell you it"

Mikki looked at him and laughed. "I was kind of a tease there wasn't I"

"You still are" said Sebastian, with a smile.

"Yep true" replied Mikki, with a laugh and smile of her own. "Okay give me a hint"

"A hint?" asked Sebastian, and Mikki nodded. "You haven't seen them since before you left for California"

"Okay well it's not your brothers because them I have seen" said Mikki.

"Nope not Beavis and Butthead" replied Sebastian, shaking his head.

Mikki looked at him and laughed. "So it's Beavis and Butthead this month, not Tweedledum and Tweedledee?"

"That is correct, because at least Dum and Dee, were kind of smart" said Sebastian, with a laugh also. "Beavis and Butthead are just morons, like Dyl and Jere"

"Oh they mean well" replied Mikki a laugh, as Sebastian laughed also. "And I'm guessing not Kurt, because he would have told me as well if he was going to be here"

"Not Kurt, no" replied Sebastian shaking his head.

"Robbie's here, so not him either" said Mikki, as she thought about who could possibly be the person Sebastian was referring too. "Artie"

"Yep Artie" replied Sebastian, with a nod.

"Really?" asked Mikki, looking to him.

"Uh huh" said Sebastian, as the two of them continued to eat. "He'd seen you were back here on our Facebooks, and we were talking today at lunch time; and he said it's been too long since we've all seen one another, so he said he'd come across from Lexington on Saturday night"

"So I am guessing you've already invited him for dinner then?" asked Mikki, with a laugh.

"Yeah" replied Sebastian, with a nod. "That's okay though, right"

"Of course" said Mikki, with a nod also. "I missed Artie too when I was over on the east coast"

"Yeah, I haven't seen him in about four months" said Sebastian. "We caught up one day over the summer"

"Hmm, well my last time seeing him was definitely a lot longer than that of last summer" said Mikki, with a laugh.

"Uh huh" replied Sebastian, with a nod. "I'll send him a message later and let know it's all good for Saturday"

"Sure babe" said Mikki, with a smile; and the two of them finished up eating dinner, before keeping true of their promises from earlier on and to get one enough out of the clothes that they were currently that of wearing, before watching some television and then going to bed.

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Saturday evening, Mikki and Sebastian who had also told Ellie that Artie was going to be in Columbia for dinner with them; invited her and also Robbie to join them for dinner as well.

Ellie and Robbie having arrived a little earlier than that of Artie, were in the kitchen finishing off the cooking of what Mikki had decided to make, whilst Sebastian and Robbie played a video game.

"It's just so typical" said Ellie, with a laugh to Mikki as she buttered some bread up. "The guys sit down do nothing, and leave all the hard work to us"

"You know maybe one night we should make them cook for us and we do what they're doing" said Mikki, with a laugh, as the buzzer sounded into the apartment to let them know that Artie had arrived sounded, and Mikki walked over to with a laugh looking over to Sebastian and Robbie. "Don't get up boys"

"We won't, thanks" replied Robbie, with a smile and Mikki looked at him shaking his head.

"Give us one minute, babe" said Sebastian, looking over to her quickly. "Nearly at checkpoint"

"Hmm okay" replied Mikki, with a nod as she pushed the button on the door buzzer. "Hey Artie, come on up"

"Thanks Mikki" he replied on the other end, as she also pressed the button for the door to open downstairs.

"Need anything done?" asked Robbie, as he stood from the sofa and walked over to Ellie; whilst Sebastian shut off the video game.

"You can take the potatoes and beans over" said Ellie, pointing to the dishes that were on the kitchen bench.

"Sure" replied Robbie, with a nod; as there was a knock on the apartment door, and Mikki who hadn't moved from near there; opened it.

"Hey stranger" said Mikki, with a laugh when she saw Artie, and allowed him to walk inside the apartment.

"Yeah hey yourself" replied Artie, with a laugh and gave her a hug also whilst still holding the bottle of wine he'd bought with him.

"Missed you" said Mikki, as she returned the hug.

"Yeah same here, you" replied Artie, with a laugh. "Seb was seriously so depressed last summer"

"I was not depressed" said Sebastian, with a laugh as he walked over to his best friend. "And get your hands of my girlfriend"

"Hey I'm not going to be responsible for getting between Barbie and Ken" said Artie, as he stopped hugging Mikki and looked at his best friend.

"Okay again with the Barbie and Ken, seriously Arthur" said Mikki, with a laugh.

"Well they're just meant to be 'kay" he replied with a laugh as well, giving Sebastian a hug also. "And that's what you two are, meant to be"

"Yeah okay, go over to the table and sit down you idiot" said Sebastian, with a laugh.

"Sure" replied Artie, with a laugh of his own, and held out the bottle of wine to Sebastian. "I wasn't sure what your lovely girl was going to be cooking, so I thought a white wine be the easiest to bring"

"Thanks" replied Mikki, with a nod. "And you know me, I'm easy when it comes to alcohol"

"Yes, we heard about your little Long Island Iced Tea experiment in San Fran" said Ellie, with a laugh as she bought the remainder of the food she had helped Mikki prepare over to the table, the five of them sitting down.

"Okay, I really don't want to talk about that" said Mikki, with a laugh.

"Why?" asked Artie, looking to her. "Isn't that essentially what got you and Seb back together though?"

"Well yes and no" said Sebastian, with a laugh as he unscrewed the top of the wine. "Everything that happened there was sort of really weird"

"Very weird" said Mikki, with a laugh, and pointed to the food on the table. "Eat people, eat"

"Thanks" said Artie, with a nod. "It looks amazing"

"We worked really hard on it all" said Robbie.

"Oh don't take the credit" said Ellie, with a laugh. "You and Seb played video games whilst Mik and I cooked"

"Sounds typical" said Artie, with a laugh.

"Yeah, but they're so good at it" said Sebastian with a laugh as he poured wine for all of them.

"You want to know what else I'm good at babe" said Mikki, looking to Sebastian with a smile.

"What?" he asked with a smile.

"Withholding sex" replied Mikki, with a laugh.

"Ohh burn" said Artie, with a laugh.

"Yeah, more like a case of blue balls for Sebastian" said Robbie, with a laugh.

"Uh huh" replied Sebastian, with a nod and looked at Mikki. "And you know I don't think that, babe. There are plenty of things that you are wonderful at, some that I will not mention in the presence of company"

Mikki looked at him and laughed, as the others rolled their eyes.

"You do realise, two of us here were college roommates with you" said Ellie, with a laugh.

"Scarred us for life" said Artie, with a laugh also. "What I walked in on one day, never want to see happening again"

"You could have knocked" said Mikki with a laugh.

"On the door of my own dorm room" said Artie, with a laugh. "How was I meant to know the two of you were doing what you were doing"

"What were you doing?" asked Robbie, looking to Mikki and Sebastian both who had very amused looks on their faces, and Ellie leaned over to him and whispered what is was. "Okay yeah, wouldn't want to see that either"

"Yes well thank god we got a room together the next year and could do that and whatever else we wanted to when we wanted without disruptions" said Sebastian.

"Thank god for all of us" said Artie, with a laugh as he felt his phone in his pants pocket go off indicating a message and he grabbed it out. "Sorry guys, just got to check who it is"

"No, it's fine" replied Mikki with a smile and she noticed the smile on Artie's face as he read over the message. "What's her name?"

"Her name?" asked Artie, looking to her with a laugh. "What makes you think it's from a girl"

"Well we're pretty sure you're not into guys now, unless there is something you haven't ever told us" said Sebastian, with a laugh. "And that smile, well it kind of says I've got someone I really like"

"She's just someone" replied Artie, with a shrug. "That I kind of talk to occasionally, that's all"

"Oh come on Artie" said Ellie, with a laugh. "It's us, we're not going to judge at all"

"Yeah, so what if you met her on an internet dating site or something like that" said Robbie, looking to him. "It's nothing to be ashamed of now, it's how my brother met his wife"

"Okay yeah it was on one of those sites" said Artie, with a nod. "But it's also so weird as well"

"Why it is weird?" asked Ellie, looking to him.

"Because I kind of knew her already" he replied. "But also didn't really know her either, if that makes sense"

"Someone we went to high school with?" asked Sebastian, looking at his best friend.

Artie looked at him and shook his head. "No she went to high school half an hour away, in Greer"

"Did she go to my high school?" asked Mikki, looking to him.

"Umm yeah she did" replied Artie, with a nod.

"Cool what's her name, maybe I know her then" said Mikki, with a smile.

"Katherine" replied Artie, with a nod.

"I can't remember any Katherine's in my year" said Mikki, shaking her head. "Did she go by something else, Kathy maybe, or Katie or Kat? Because there was a Katie in my year, is it her"

"No not her" replied Artie, shaking his head also.

"Okay, so she wasn't in my year then?" asked Mikki.

"Year younger" said Artie, looking at her.

"You know who is a year younger then you and actually name Katherine" said Sebastian, with a laugh. "Kitty"

"Well yeah, but it wouldn't be Kitty my sister" said Mikki, with a laugh, and looked over to Artie; who now wouldn't meet her eyes. "Oh my god, it's my sister"

"Seriously Arts?" asked Sebastian, looking to her friend. "Because I was actually just kidding with that"

"Mikki's sister" said Ellie, looking to him also. "No way, get out"

I stumbled upon her profile on one of the dating sites" said Artie, looking to them all. "And of course I immediately recognized her as I had seen enough photos over the years of her that Mik had shared; and I said hey to her and we got to talking, and she's really cool"

"You're dating my sister" said Mikki, looking to him. "My little sister"

"Wouldn't call it dating" said Artie, looking to her in turn. "Kind of hard when we are in different states, but we're talking and yeah, I don't know"

"Dude, that is so freaking awesome" said Sebastian, with a laugh. "If you and Kitty married, we'd be brother in laws"

"Oh my god Sebastian" said Mikki, looking to her boyfriend.

"What?" he asked looking to her. "You can't have a problem with that, you like Artie, he's a good guy"

"It's not that, of course I like Artie" said Mikki. "It's just weird, that's all. My boyfriend's best friend and my younger sister, it's like some weird plot line from one of those stupid soap operas; and I mean who comes up with that stuff"

"I must say it is very weird" said Robbie, with a nod.

"Uh huh" replied Mikki, with a nod and looked to Artie. "Give me your phone"

"Umm why?" asked Artie looking at her.

"Because Kitty will not confess to me this, little bitch loves to keep secrets from me" said Mikki. "So if she thinks you're calling her and it's actually me, well she will then know she is busted"

"I really don't want to do that" said Artie. "It's kind of mean"

"Oh mean is my sister not telling me she is talking with my boyfriend's best friend" said Mikki, holding out her hand.

"Okay can I just say when we did start talking" said Artie as he went to Kitty's number in his phone before handing it to Mikki. "That you two weren't together"

"Yeah, still should have told me" said Mikki, going to press dial. "Does she know you were coming over here to Seb's and my place tonight?"

"Yeah she does" replied Artie, with a nod and Mikki connected the call.

"Hey" came Kitty's voice with a laugh as the call connected to her. "Did you sneak off to call me and tell me that my sister and Seb are making you nauseous? Because I seriously totally believe that they would make me nauseous too; they were always so sickly sweet with one another"

"Actually he didn't" replied Mikki, with a smile on her face. "He did however just confess to talking to you for a few months now, dear sister. Something which you never mentioned to any of us"

"Oh hey Miks" said Kitty with a laugh. "How are you going?"

"I'm wonderful Kit Kat" said Mikki, with a laugh of her own. "And you? How are you?"

"Yeah good" replied Kitty.

"Uh huh" said Mikki. "So want to explain what's going on here to me? Why you never told any of us that you're talking with my boyfriend's best friend?"

"When we started talking, you and Seb weren't together" replied Kitty. "And Artie and I didn't want you both to feel weird about it, because clearly, very cleary the two of you still had all these feelings for one another, and we just didn't want it to be awkward"

"Okay and now?" asked Mikki.

"Now what?" asked Kitty.

"You know what I mean" replied Mikki, with a laugh. "Don't go acting all dumb on me, when we both know you know what I mean"

"Do I like him?" asked Kitty. "Is that what you're asking?"

"Is it, yes" replied Mikki.

"I guess" replied Kitty. "He's a great guy to talk with and all. We just haven't spent any actual time together, to see if there is a spark there or anything"

"Hmm well Christmas then" said Mikki, with a smile.

"Ask him to come around on Christmas Eve?" asked Kitty. "Because I think Christmas Day would be pushing it too far"

"Yeah, whichever even if just for a little bit" said Mikki. "Because you know I am going to be ringing up Marls and Roddy tonight and telling them all this"

"God, I hate you sometimes" said Kitty, with a sigh.

"No you don't" replied Mikki with a laugh. "I'm your big sister, this is what I am meant to do"

"Yeah, torture younger siblings" said Kitty, with a laugh of her own.

"I'll give Artie his phone back" said Mikki. "And if you don't, you know I will"

"Yeah, yeah okay fine" replied Kitty with a sigh and Mikki held out the phone to Artie.

"My sister wants to ask you something" she said, with a smile as Artie took the phone from her.

"Okay" replied Artie, looking at her and then placed the cell to his ear. "Hey Kitty, sorry about that. I kind of got talked into handing the phone over to her"

"Oh that I believe" replied Kitty, with a laugh. "I know my sister"

"Right" replied Artie, with a laugh of his own. "So she said you got something to ask me?"

"Yeah, and you don't have to say yes at all, because I get you will probably do stuff with your own family" said Kitty. "But I was thinking maybe you'd want to come over to Greer for a few hours on Christmas Eve night, because I know apart from Mik and Seb, my parents and other sister and brother will be asking me heaps of questions"

"Yeah, sure that would be good" replied Artie.

"Really?" asked Kitty.

"Uh huh" said Artie. "I was being serious when I said I liked you"; and he looked to the others who were all just smiling at him.

"Okay yeah" replied Kitty. "Wow okay, we'll organize a little later then, it all"

"Sure" replied Artie, with a laugh. "I should go, and cop whatever it is now I am going to cop from your sister, Seb, Ellie and Robbie here"

"Yeah, have fun with that" said Kitty, with a laugh.

"Thanks" replied Artie. "I'll call you later"

"Okay bye" said Kitty.

"Bye" replied Artie, and ended the phone call.

"So you said yes to what Kitty asked then?" asked Mikki, looking to Artie.

"Yeah" replied Artie, with a nod. "It will probably be just a few hours though, on Christmas Eve"

"Okay, we've definitely got to make sure your parents have mistletoe somewhere in the house, babe" said Sebastian, looking to Mikki with a smile.

"Seb" said Artie, with a laugh and looked to his best friend.

"What we all heard you" replied Sebastian, with a laugh. "You like my girlfriend's little sister"

"You did say that" said Ellie, with a nod as well.

"Hmm wait till I tell Kurt about this too" said Mikki, with a laugh.

"Okay yeah, remembering how evil you all are" said Artie, with a laugh.

"Yeah, but you love us" said Sebastian, with a laugh.

"Why, I don't know" he replied, with a smile and laugh also; and the five of them continued on with dinner, playfully ribbing Artie for his sort of relationship with Kitty and also catching up on what they have all been doing having last seen one another.

End Note: Did anyone pick that Artie would come into the story, and be kind of dating Kitty?! I will admit I did like Kartie in Glee together, so this is why I wrote them as a pairing here; and maybe that might mean that Kitty will also eventually move back to South Carolina as well; meaning Mikki will have at least one of her family around again, something which I think would really be important to her, as it was one thing she did like about being over in California and that was how close by her siblings were to her.
Anyway next chapter will be Christmas, which will be very Kapowski based and also there will be answer to what is in the box that Blaine gave to Marley. Also as well I will be bringing Kurt into the story, and I like the story line I have for him in this, because it's nice to see something a little different done with his character and background.

Love always,
KJ xoxoxoxoxoxo