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Chapter 11

The Truth Comes Out and Statements Are Made

Burt was frantic when he entered Lima Police Department, when Kurt had called him and asked him to meet him there, he didn't know what to think… Kurt had always been a good kid; he had never been in trouble with anyone - other than him - and definitely not for doing anything illegal, so he knew his son couldn't have been at fault.

"Dad!" he heard his son's voice call out and turned just in time to catch him as his son launched himself at him,

"Kurt? What's going on? Why are you here? Why are you even in Lima? You're not meant to be home until tomorrow" Burt questioned as he wrapped his son in his arms.

Kurt lead his Dad back to the seats in the waiting area where he could now see seven other boys all in Dalton uniforms, who all politely said hello, and introduced themselves to their friend's father

"So what's going on Kurt?" Burt asked him, while taking a seat after introducing himself to the boys, that he now knew were part of his son's glee club,

"I have to make a statement to the police, because Karofsky was arrested today" Kurt began explaining nervously,

"Okay so your former bully was arrested… what does that have to do with you and why you and your friends are here in Lima?" the mechanic questioned,

"Well…" his son trailed off,

"Kurt spit it out son please?"

"There are some things that happened with Karofsky, when I was still at McKinley that I didn't tell you about… that I didn't tell anyone about, and they were the reason why he threatened to kill me… it wasn't because of the bullying he put me through that he threatened me not to tell, like I lead you to believe" the boy started to explain, taking a deep breath he continued,

"One day he pushed me into the lockers and I got annoyed… I snapped, I followed him into the locker rooms and confronted him… an argument started and insults were thrown… then I thought he was going to hit me, I closed my eyes waiting for the impact but it didn't happen… he…he…he grabbed my face pinned me with his body against the lockers and kissed me" Kurt trailed off,

"That's not the end of the story is it… there's more otherwise we wouldn't be here right now" Burt concluded,

"No it isn't… I was upset and I called Blaine, he came to Lima and we talked, I told him what happened and he offered to talk to Karofsky with me, which he did, but as usual Karofsky didn't want to listen and he got violent… he pinned Blaine against the metal fence on the stairs at McKinley, I had to pull Karofsky off of him… Karofsky fled after that. A few days after that he found me alone and dragged me into the empty locker room, he pinned me against the lockers, he wanted to know if I had told anyone other than Blaine about the kiss… which I hadn't, then he said I needed to be punished for telling Blaine and to be reminded not to tell anyone else… he then pulled out a knife and held it to my throat… he raped me, and then cut the side of my neck as a reminder not to tell and told me that if I told anyone else about the kiss or told anyone about what had just happened the punishment would be worse, because he would use the knife to kill me… you know the rest up to sectionals last week, since the Warblers tied with New Directions for first place and both teams get to advance to regionals, we had a celebratory party back at Dalton… and well… I got drunk, Blaine took me to my room and in my drunken idiocy I told him everything that had happened with Karofsky and then I freaked out, I fell asleep but Blaine stayed in my room all night waiting to talk to me about it, but I got upset and threw him out. Jeff and Nick saw him leave my room the next morning and thought we had slept together, and were confused when I was avoiding him because I didn't want to talk about what I had revealed to him, they kept bugging us and last night I snapped and hurt Jeff, Nick got angry with me for hurting his boyfriend and said some things and then I lost it completely and revealed everything about what happened at McKinley to everyone who was in the school library and that leads us to today…I knew Karofsky would find out and carry out his threat… I'm tired of living in fear… so I decided to not wait for the inevitable, and got Karofsky's phone number, I called him at lunch time today and told him I had to talk to him and told him to meet me at Lima Cemetery, I then left Dalton and went to Mom's grave, I talked to her until I heard him pull up, I didn't know that these guys had followed me and when Karofsky tried to attack me Nick tackled him to the ground, and the others formed a wall in front of me… then there were sirens, he was being cocky saying the sirens weren't coming for him, and then when he found out they were he lashed out with the knife and cut Nick's arm, he was caught by the police and brought here, and we were all brought here to make statements… obviously we have to have a parent or an appropriate adult with us before they can take the statements from us, hence why I called you, the other guys are waiting for their parents" his son finished his story.

"Oh Kurt… I wish you had told me son… boys I'm sorry I don't remember your names right now or who is who… which one of you is Nick?" Burt asked while hugging Kurt,

"I am sir" a brunette boy said raising his hand a little so that his friend's father would spot him,

"How's your arm? From what I gather from the story I was just told you were hurt protecting my son with the rest of these boys"

"It's fine sir, just a scratch… and it was worth it to protect Kurt" the boy replied,

"Well thank you… all of you, I don't know what I would have done if I had lost my son" he acknowledged,

"If I could go back to when we were in the cemetery and change what happened I wouldn't, I would do still tackle that jerk to the ground and I would still stand in front of Kurt and get cut, as long as my friend was safe" Nick replied,

"So would we, you don't need to thank us for protecting Kurt, Mr Hummel, he's one of us and we protect our own" Wes input,

"He's my best friend I won't ever let anything bad happen to him" Blaine added,

Burt nodded his acknowledgement to the seven boys and then released his son, standing from his seat,

"I'd better let them know at the desk that I am here" he told them, before approaching the front desk, he had a short conversation with the desk officer on duty, before returning to the boys.

A few minutes later Kurt's name was called out as an officer approached him and the boys. Kurt and Burt stood and followed the officer to an interview room where Kurt made a statement telling the officer everything that he had told his Dad out in the waiting room, going into further detail when asked.