Puckurt fans: I love you.
Dantana fans: I understand why some of you are angry at the lack of Dani and the straight acting Santana and seeing as you only have access to the story thus far, i can understand why. But please be aware that Santana and Dani have NEVER met before, and for Dani to just find Santana out of the blue is unrealistic. this is tagged as Dantana because this fic as a whole features their relationship heavily. Dani just has to get on the scene first. as for Santana 'giggling' because of Puck's actions, Puck's her best friend, she doesn't need to be attracted to him to 'giggle'. once again i understand why people are confused, but Puck and Santana's behavior will be explained. the constant bashing and accusations of 'trolling' are really disheartening.
CHAPTER TEN
Kurt wasn't entirely sure what was going on, but if he had to guess, he would suspect that he had become McKinley High's most hated student overnight. It had been a week since Blaine dumped his fabulous ass and Kurt was rather ashamed to admit that he faked ill to take a few days off of school to get his head and heart sorted. Something had evidently happened in his absence and it involved him, yet he had no idea what offence he had caused to create such a hate campaign against him.
On Monday morning, Kurt arrived at his school after his week rehabilitation in a good mood. He had spoken briefly with Blaine the night before to ensure as little awkwardness as possible and Kurt had come to realize that although Blaine did indeed hurt him for not fighting hard enough, the dark haired Beta was still his best friend and discarding him like trash when they shared the same activities and circle of friends would be ridiculous. So as he moved through the parking lot, he waved to Blaine and Mercedes as they pulled up together in the black girl's car, it was their greeting back that distracted him and led him right into the arms of the jocks. Kurt had been bullied by the popular athletes when he first joined McKinley back in his freshmen year and it had only been within the last year or so (ever since Finn became his official brother) that they had finally moved on to other targets, opting instead to completely ignoring him. Apparently the jocks didn't get the memo that day and before Kurt could even let out a squeak of surprise, he found himself in the inside of the filthy dumpster, the contents of his bag and pride crumpled on the floor beside it. After being rescued by Blaine and Mercedes, Kurt explained that he had no idea what caused the Neanderthals to revert back to their old ways and with the help of his friends, found his way into the locker room to change into a spare set of clothes; something he hadn't had to do in a very long time. It made him late for class and when Coach Sue Sylvester spotted him in the hallways during lesson, she gave him a lunch time detention. As fate had it, during detention he was stuck in the room with a load of troublemakers including several of the boys who threw him in the dumpster that morning; resulting in have spitballs spat in his hair and degrading slurs shouted towards him throughout the hour. For a brief moment, Kurt assumed that maybe Puck had revealed his Beta, causing the jocks to rebel because Kurt Hummel threatened to take their stud off the market, but he quickly dismissed that idea when none of the bullies even mentioned Kurt's sexuality, status or Soul Mate, instead they remained oddly mute when dishing out punishment. Just before Glee Club that day, which he was incredibly excited about given the rest of the day's events, a swarm of Cheerio's rushed past him in the red and white blur and one of them, Kurt had no idea who, threw a grape flavored slushie all over him, making him miss Glee because he had officially ran out of spare clothing. This happened, almost identically on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and by Friday, Kurt had seriously had enough. He had not seen any of his friends apart from Finn at their home because he kept missing Glee rehearsals and lunch and the isolation was eating away at him.
"Finn, I don't want to have to do this, but I'm pulling out the brother card." Kurt declared as he drove himself and his brother to school in his Navigator. Finn loved riding in the machine and Kurt used it to his advantage. "I'm going to need you to speak with your buffoon teammates and tell them to stop throwing me into the dumpster and shoving me into lockers a la 2 years ago."
"Wait, what?" Finn asked with furrow brows as his head snapped up from eyeing up the dials on the dashboard. "You're being bullied again?" Kurt nodded his head. "What the hell man, why didn't you tell me? Is this why you have been M.I.A all week?"
"Yes and I'm telling you now. I don't understand why it's happening but it's not only the football team, but Coach Sue and the Cheerio's. Clearly I've done something wrong but until I can pinpoint what that is, I would appreciate it if you could… chuck your weight around shall we say."
"You want me to kick their asses?"
"No, I don't condone violence at all, no matter who it's subjected to." Kurt assured turning and giving his brother a small smile. "But if you could warn them, threaten them, bride them, blackmail them, anything to keep them away from me, I would really appreciate it."
"Dude, guys on the team only respond to violence, words mean nothing. That's why we are on the football team and not in the poetry club." Kurt sighed and shrugged his shoulders, he had tried to take the high road, and whatever method Finn chose to take from now on was his own call. "I'll round up Mike and Puck later on to deal with it with me, don't worry about it bro, I'll keep you safe."
"Please don't tell Puck." Kurt pleaded almost frantically and Finn just stared at him as if waiting for some juicy gossip. "Not just him in particular, but any of the New Directions. Let's just keep it a family matter shall we."
"Meaning I can tell Rachel because she is my Soul Mate and future wife, making her your future step sister in law or something."
"No, don't tell Rachel, her big mouth is built to sing and gossip and I don't want the world knowing by lunch time" Kurt informed and frowned when he watched his Alpha brother smile warmly at something in his head. Kurt hoped to Gaga that Finn wasn't thinking of something else Rachel could do with her mouth, he had heard of her no gag reflex trick on more than one occasion. "Just keep it between the two of us."
"But I don't like lying to her, especially since I'm no good at it." Finn pouted and Kurt found it annoyingly adorable as he turned the corner into the school parking lot.
"The sooner we fix this problem, the quicker the lie dies and we can go back to normal. Just promise me Finn that you will not tell anyone else."
"I promise Kurt, I won't tell anybody about this." Finn promised, nodded his head in finality.
"Kurt's getting bullied." Finn announced at the lunch table when Kurt failed to appear for the fifth time this week. He had saved him from a dumpster throw by escorting him into the building but had since lost track of the little guy. "It's been happening all week and today he asked me for help, which says something because he's always so strong and stuff."
"What do you mean by 'bullied'?" Puck asked with a frown as he shifted on his seat the lean on the table with his elbows.
"As in the kind of torture you put him through white Boy." Mercedes snapped at the Alpha. "Kurt took a trip in the garbage on Monday thanks to those tools and he made me and Blaine promise not to mention it, we agreed to it because we thought it was a one time thing."
"I thought it was weird how he stopped turning up to lunch and Glee, but I just assumed he wasn't ready to be around Blaine yet." Rachel voiced, looking completely devastated.
"This is fucking garbage." Puck shouted out angrily, jumping from his seat. "I'm done with everyone thinking they can fucking pick up him because of his tiny frame and 'don't retaliate with violence' attitude." Mercedes and Tina, who had no idea about Puck and Kurt's Soul Mate connection, watched on in sheer confusion. Rachel and Brittany looked ready to swoon at the romance of it all. "Well not anymore, Kurt is my boy now and any attack on him I will take fucking personally." He growled, kicked the table and stormed out of the lunch room. All the other Glee kids from around the table; Finn, Rachel, Mercedes, Blaine, Tina, Brittany and Sam jumped up to follow the enraged boy.
"God, this is so boring, just tell us why we are doing this." Kitty Wilde groaned as she rested her elbow on Jordan Stern's shoulder. "I like being a bitch as much as the next girl, but silent slushie attacks are seriously lame."
"Agreed, I don't even know the boy and targeting him is just taking time away from other bitches that deserve to be tormented." Bree sassed, brushing invisible lint off the hem of her cheerleading shirt.
"He does deserve it." The ring leader snapped
"Let's cut the bitch!" Becky, a junior cheerleader with Down syndrome and Coach Sue's favorite, demanded, raising her fist to the air in triumph.
"I have no problems with Hummelside." The ring leader shrugged as she flipped her raven locks behind her back. "The Jocks are doing their jobs without complaint, so why aren't you bitches doing the same?"
"You are offering them your lesbian vagina; none of us here are interested in that, not even Brittany is anymore." Bree sneered. "I'm done. I spent a week of my life throwing a drink over a boy's head, I can tick that off my bucket list now, I have bigger plans now, involving Jake Puckerman." Half the girls around the black cheerleader giggled and the ring leader's eyes narrowed dangerous.
"Same. I'm done. Got bigger fish to fry." Kitty shrugged, turning on her heels and strutting out of the hall, the other's following suit, leaving Santana Lopez alone and furious.
"I mean he is getting bullied more than us and we are freshman." Wade sighed as he watched Kurt limp down the other end of the hall after having Lipoff trip him up. "I asked my brother about it and he told me to stay out of his business and he was just taking orders but plot twist, Azimio Adams does not listen to orders, so obviously he is lying."
"Have you tried your brother?" Marley asked Jake quietly as she shut her locker and the three of them made their way down the hall. "Maybe he knows something and can help."
"Puck's not friends with Kurt, he wouldn't do anything even if he knew what was up." Jake shrugged and gripped hold of his rucksack strap.
"Point exactly." Wade clicked his fingers before pointing at the younger Puckerman. "He hasn't done anything, he's never around when the jock's strike which leads me to believe A) he cares enough to not contribute and might listen to a plea bargain or B) he has no idea that this is going on, which strikes the question; why has he been kept in the dark?"
"What if Azimio really is telling the truth and someone has asked them to do it?" Marley asked in a worried tone. "That means someone has it out specifically for Kurt as a person and if that's true, things could get really dangerous for him."
"Who the hell would be so nasty?" Wade asked in an annoyed voice, eyeing the students in front of him suspiciously.
"Santana Lopez." The answer came from none of the three freshman and all three frowned and turned around the come face to face with a letterman jacket wearing Ryder Lynn, freshman second string for the Titans. "Santana is offering herself to all the boys on the team if they can successful make that Hummel kid transfer schools, the entire state if possible."
"You're wrong." Jake laughed as he wrapped a protective arm around Marley, knowing full well of Ryder's lingering feelings for his girlfriend. "I know Santana Lopez, she is cool with Kurt."
"I'm not wrong, she offered me head on Monday if I set fire to his jacket-"
"Nasty hoe"
"But obviously I didn't accept." Ryder continued passed Wade's quip. "But some of the other guys are accepting her bribes and she's got something over the Cheerio's as well to do her bidding."
"Why would she be so cruel as to turn on him like that?" Marley asked, head turning to face all of them.
"No-one knows why, a lot of the guys don't ask questions but those who do, we get told that it's none of our business." Ryder answered with a shrug.
"And why are you telling us all of this now if you've known since Monday?" Wade snapped, stepping up to the jock with a false air of confidence that both he and Ryder knew he didn't have.
"Because I just saw you brother get punched in the face by your brother." Ryder said flatly looking from Wade to Jake. "Puck and the other guys from the choir are in the locker room and Puck and Finn are going all Fight Club on everyone in there."
Marley gasped as Jake swore loudly as they both ran in the direction of the locker room, Wade on the other hand stayed staring suspiciously at the jock in front of him. "Why did you wait so long to tell us when you could have told us at the beginning of the conversation?" He asked quietly.
"Why not?" Ryder answered back with a slight pout.
"You know Jake is convinced that you want to sleep with Marley."
"Let him believe what he wants. I've said it before, what people don't know can't hurt them right." Ryder smirked and gave Wade a cheeky little wink in which the dark skinned boy rolled his eyes at.
"Dream on, loverboy." Wade laughed and tuned on his heels to follow his friends as he tried fighting the smile of his face.
"Tell me where the fuck he is!" Puck growled like a mad man as he threw Bobby, the third Titan in his path, into the hard metal lockers in the changing room. "Tell me!" he roared, causing Rachel to hide behind her Mate in fear. Unfortunately for her, Finn didn't remain immobile, leaving her in the comfort of Tina and Brittany.
"I don't know" Bobby gasped in pain as his shoulder collided painful against the metal door. "I haven't seen him since this morning."
Puck launched at the football players again, grabbing his collar and raised his fist far behind him, ready to strike, when an ear piercing smacking noise reached his ear. Turning in curiosity, he saw Mercedes Jones, larger and scarier than ever, towering over a doubled-over Azimio.
"Why have you been preying on my beau?" the black girl demanded to know, her voice echoing off the walls in the silent room as all occupants watched on.
"Aww hell no!" Azimio snapped, jumping up to full height and placing a large hand gingerly to his reddening cheek. "Aint no pussy worth this much shit."
"Who's Pus-"
"Santana Lopez" a new voice shouted as the door swung open and Jake Puckerman and his timid girlfriend entered. "I have it on good authority that Santana in the ring leader behind all the attacks on Kurt Hummel this week."
"Santana?" Brittany asked Sam in a whisper, looking so hopeful that her blonde Mate would reject such a nasty accusation against her ex girlfriend. Sam just squeezed her tightly knowing that for whatever reason, this whole game with Kurt sounding a lot like Lopez logic, having been on the receiving end of it himself. Had Sam known about Kurt torture more than five minutes, he would have put the blame on the angry Latina almost immediately.
"Is this true?" Puck asked in a deep commanding voice to the room. Marley gripped Jake's arm tightly in fear over the aggression in her boyfriends' brother's voice. Most of the Titans simply stood there, watching each other and gulping but it was the ever so subtle nod from Azimio that confirmed it. "Let me make this very clear to everyone." Puck said in a shaky, low voice that everybody heard in the silence. "Kurt Hummel is my fucking Beta." Almost everyone in the room, including several of those who already knew, gasped at the brazen confession. "Touch him again and I will not hesitate to protect him. By any means necessary."
Automatically, knowing the bond between Mates, bonded or otherwise, all the seniors in the room nodded immediately out of a mixture of fear and respect, those younger soon copying their actions. Mercedes looked completely shell shocked and seemed unable to compute a reasonable reaction to finding out her best friends fated partner was none other than Noah Puckerman, who openly declared it in public. Jake's mouth hung open in shock having only last week spoken to Kurt without so much as a hint towards them being fate-related.
"Puck, please." Brittany begged as Puck squared his shoulders, tensed his jaw and made his way out of the locker room, looking like a man on a mission. "Puck! Don't do this, dammit." The blonde Cheerleader screeched as she battled the restraints that Sam's strong arms held her in as the mowhawked Alpha stormed out of sight.
"Santana? Are you sure?" Kurt asked in surprise as Wade entered the disbanded history room, brandishing a tube of cream to help bruising. Wade nodded and proceeded to lifted Kurt's Armani shirt to apply the cream to his beaten back. Kurt hissed as the cold medicine touched the heat of the marred skin. "Why would she do that?"
"You tell me girl, I thought you Glee Clubber's saw each other as family." Wade answered and Kurt hummed in agreement. "All I know is that a person doesn't switch like that unless they feel betrayed or threatened or some heavy shit like that."
"Puck." Kurt groaned and placed his head in his hand. How could he have been so stupid to not of realized this sooner. Well, he knew the answer to that. He thought the 'relationship' between his Alpha and Santana, a lesbian, was a farce to cover up secrets and that no real connection was there beyond friendship, but Kurt saw no other explanation to Santana's Judas like behavior other than jealousy or betrayal and the only reason Santana had to be jealous of Kurt was, "She thinks I'm going to take him from her."
"But she's a lesbian, you're a boy and Big Puckerman's straight, right? Or do I smell a plot twist?" Wade asked in intrigue as his fingers generously applied the soothing cream over ivory skin.
"Indeed you do." Kurt sighed, out of tiredness for the situation and bliss from the medicine. "Puck's my Alpha."
The fingers stopped dancing across his back as Wade moved out in front of him, looking over his shoulder to the open classroom room door and back into Kurt's face. "You have got to be fucking kidding me?" Kurt sighed again and shook his head. "Damn Girl, you get yourself the finest piece of eye candy up in this place and you keep him on the down low?"
"Nothing's going to come of it Wade, me and him have already agreed to that-"
"Who give a fart whether you agreed to see other people or whatevs, that is some serious bragging material, child. Won't be seeing me being ashamed if I had my claim to a Noah Puckerman type of guy." Wade sassed as he placed the half empty tube of cream in Kurt's hand.
"I'm not ashamed" Kurt replied in a clipped, defensive tone which caused Wade to raise his eyebrows. "It's just complicated-"
"Is he ashamed of you?"
"Probably. I think so." Kurt shrugged as he pulled down his shirt, slipped of the table and linked arms with the freshman as they began walking out the history room. "I wouldn't blame him really. People who look like him deserve to be with people who look like beauty queens, I look like I-"
"You look amazing Kurt Hummel." Wade interjected in a strong voice. "You and Mercedes are my idols girl, don't be tarnishing my vision with confessions of self hate. You are beautiful, fabulous and one of a kid sweetie and if Big Puckerman had half a brain cell, he would claim you right here, right now."
"Wade-" Kurt began, but stopped once he heard a loud ruckus around the corner in the next hallways coming towards them. Both gay teens froze in place as a herd of people run down the hall in their direction, Noah Puckerman at the front of the charge. Kurt gulped and back himself up against a nearby locker, his linked arm squeezing Wade's tightly.
"Never again, Hummel." Puck shouted down the hall way at the boy as he and the crowd neared. "No one touches what is mine ever again, you hear me?" the possessive growl, the smoky hazel eyes filled with rage and the declaration of protection made Kurt's body react in a way that nothing ever had before. Puck didn't stop once he reached the two boys, walking right passed them down the hall and turning the corner, evidently on a mission. The crowd followed in a hurry, Mercedes being the only one to split from the group and link onto Kurt's other arm with an excited squealed.
"Looks like that half a brain cell decided to show itself after all." Wade commented after kissing Mercedes on the cheek in greeting. Kurt, blushing like mad and hard as steel, groaned as the two black teens burst into roars of laughter.
Santana heard them before she saw them. She wasn't an idiot, she knew how this could and would play out, and she simply didn't care anymore. She was officially defeated. So when Puck marched into the sports hall like an overzealous gorilla with an entourage of ten, Santana didn't even attempt to run or hide.
"Everyone wait outside." Puck ordered, and with the help of Finn, Sam and Mike, everyone begrudging left the hall as the door was closed behind them, leaving the teen bronze Alpha's alone. "You are a fucking piece of work Lopez."
"Oh please," Santana laughed as she folded her arms across her chest and sauntered up to the enraged Alpha. "You're just pissed that it was done to your princess."
"To fucking right I am. He's mine." Puck shouted back, his voice deafening loud as Santana continued her approach, looking more amused than frightened.
"You're not claiming him, Puckerman. He's fresh meat." Santana reminded him. "You are as indifferent to him as you are Patches the homeless guy right?"
"You know it doesn't work like that. Stop fooling yourself." Puck replied, his voice quietening as the anger began slipping away. Santana, no matter how fucked up, always managed to calm him down.
"Fooling myself? How about you stop fooling yourself?" Santana scoffed as she stopped right in front of him. "You think I'm an idiot? You think I can't see the signs?"
"What signs?"
"You're falling in love with him." Santana snapped and Puck went to laugh but the Latina poked him hard with her finger. "Don't deny it; don't lie, not to me."
Puck shut his mouth and looked at his counterpart seriously and once he did that, he could see the panic deep within her dark eyes. "I won't ever leave you alone Santana." He whispered as he lifted his hand to place a comfortingly squeeze on her arm, but she shook it off and stepped back.
"You're lying to me again you fucker." She screamed and blocked his grasp again before a strange sensation flooded through her body. Puck froze as he watched the girl's demeanor change before his eyes. A shiver travelled down Santana's spine as her eyes dilated deeply, her heart quickened its beating and her panties began heating up. "Get me out of her." She half pleaded, half demanded and Puck, having no idea what was wrong with his friend, got to work on her request.
"Excuse me, but I was wondering if you could tell me if this is the William McKinley that has a Glee Club called New Directions?" a blonde woman asked Ryder, Kitty and Bree as they sat outside on the school steps.
"Unfortunately." Kitty replied. "Word of advice new kid, show choir is lame."
"Oh, I'm not new, I graduated high school last year." The woman laughed softly. "No, I was looking for a specific member of the choir, Santana Lopez, have you heard of her?"
The three freshman looked from the girl than at each other before laughing to themselves.
"Oh yeah, we've heard of her. You might want to take a ticket though as the line is rather long." Bree laughed evilly.
"Line?"
"There's two lines really." Ryder answered as he stood up and wiped the dirt off his ass. "One is to kick her ass, the other is to tap it." The Cheerio's guffawed at the football player. "Give us your name and we will be sure to get back to you when it's your turn."
The blonde woman looked between the three giggling children with an unimpressed expression. Deciding she was unlikely to get any answers from the youths, she turned of her heels and away from the school. Just before departing, she called over her shoulder.
"The name's Dani."