part 12

After helping Cooper's friends get all their gear downstairs and loaded up, the guys all plopped down on the floor in the foyer. "Now that was a productive morning." Dave said while stretching out.

"No kidding. We were able to get the tracks done and the routine cleaned up all before lunch." Blaine added. "But you know what that means right."

"We need to get back to work." Jeff stated.

The afternoon flew as rehearsal had a great energy thanks to the new tracks. It wasn't that they didn't sound good before, but now their sound was complete. Just as they finished another run through Cooper approached them. "Guess my friends were able to help out after all."

"They were great Coop." Blaine told his brother as the guys took this as a chance to rest.

"Are you guys hungry because I was thinking of ordering some takeout?" The mention of food had brought all eyes to him. "You skipped lunch again, didn't you?" He said with a laugh. "I'll go and grab some menus."

Cooper was just coming down the last flight of stairs when the doorbell rang. As he opened the door he couldn't believe his eyes. "Rachel, hi. What are you doing here?" Cooper glanced up the stairs and prayed the guys stayed up there.

"Um, I'm looking for Blaine. Is he here?"

"Not to be rude but, how did you find me?" Rachel looked down at the ground.

"I'm a bit embarrassed to admit this but, I went over to where you are filming after class today. And, um…sort of sweet talked a PA. Told him I was a friend of your brothers and…"

"Fine." Cooper was clearly agitated. But before he could say anything else music filled the foyer.

"He is here." Rachel's eyes grew wide after hearing Blaine's voice as she looked at Cooper. "Wait, is that the Warblers I'm hearing?"

"You've got excellent hearing Miss Berry. Yes, Blaine's here and so are the Warblers."

"May I see him?"

"I hate to do this but I need to say no. If I go and bother them he won't be happy. And after everything he's been dealing with lately I'd prefer to keep him in a good mood."

"That's why I want to see him. I wanted to make sure he was alright and not just putting on a front over the phone."

"He's fine. I can honestly tell you he's happier now than when he first arrived."

"Well, thank you. Please tell him I stopped by. And, I'm sorry for showing up like this." She was just about to walk away when she turned back to the door. "Cooper. Congratulations! I wish you and your fiancée nothing but love and happiness."

"Thank you Rachel."

Just as Cooper closed the door Sebastian appeared on the stairs. "Everything okay Coop? We were wondering what happened to you. The natives are getting restless."

"We just had an unexpected visitor."

"Who?"

"Rachel."

Sebastian shook his head and followed Cooper into the kitchen so he could get filled in on what Rachel wanted as well as grab the menus. "No one can ever accuse her of not getting what she wants." Sebastian said after Cooper told him how she got the address.

"No kidding. But I'm definitely going to have a word with a few people tomorrow. I'm just thankful you didn't come down the stairs any sooner than you did. And so you know, she knows the Warblers are here. She could hear you guys. After seeing how happy Blaine looked, this is the last thing I want to tell him."

"I can do it."

"No, I think this is something I need to do." They finished their conversation just before they reached the rehearsal space. Sebastian took the menus over to the guys so that Cooper could have a chance to talk to Blaine alone.

"What's going on Seb? Cooper looks pretty serious." Nick asked.

"He's telling him about an unexpected visitor we just had. Rachel Berry."

"Blaine doesn't look very happy. Can't the guy catch a break?" Thad said as he reached for one of the other menus.

"Coop wouldn't get him for her, but she now knows we're all here. They could hear us down in the foyer and she recognized our sound." Just then Cooper came walking over to them.

"If you guys can come up with a way to cheer him up it would be greatly appreciated." Sebastian watched as Blaine sat down at the piano and started to fiddle. "Bas, where are…" Cooper didn't need to finish his sentence as he saw where he was going.

"Wanna talk?" He asked as he sat down on the other side of the piano bench.

"Is it wrong that I can't wait to see Kurt face to face to put an end to all this bullshit?"

"No. But if you want, I'll put him in his place for you."

"As tempting as that is, I've got to say no."

"Okay, but know the offer is on the table."

The guys just watched as it seemed whatever Sebastian was saying was helping Blaine's mood. But Wes then looked at the guys with a mischievous look that was more often seen on Sebastian.

"Blaine. Seb. Would you mind coming over here?" Wes said as he grabbed his camera out of his bag. "I'd like for the two of you two make yourselves comfortable." Blaine looked at Sebastian, curious as to what was going on and he just shrugged his shoulders as he was confused also. Once they got comfortable on a couple of the floor pillows the rest of the guys filled in around them. "I think it's about time we started to document this occasion." Blaine then looked at Sebastian who was right next to him. Before he had a chance to say anything Nick and Jeff made themselves comfortable between the two.

"I still think Blaine should sit on Seb's lap." Thad chimed in.

"Next time." Wes replied.

"You joining us man?" Blaine asked as Wes set the camera up on the piano.

"Of course." The next thing they all saw was Wes sliding in front of the group and the flash going off. "It's going to go off again so move if you want."

Once Wes was happy with what he got he looked at Sebastian. "Your laptop still in here?"

"Should be on the other side of the piano. I'll get it."

"No, you stay. I've got it." Sebastian then looked at Blaine who looked as confused as he felt. The rest of the guys couldn't help laugh due to the looks on Blaine and Sebastian's faces. "And it's done! Everyone can now see Blaine is moving on with his life." About a minute later all of their phones went off. As Blaine took a look he couldn't help smile. There he was, surrounded by his friends having a good time."

"You need to get on Facebook stat!" Tina told Artie over the phone. "Blaine is no longer MIA."

Since he was at home, Artie opened up his computer. He didn't need any further explanation from Tina as he saw what she was talking about. "Good for him!"

"Look at the picture closely."

"Oh hell! Someone get the popcorn ready. This is gonna get fun!"

Cooper came walking into the room carrying the boxes of food with a smile on his face. "Nice picture." He told Blaine as he took one of the boxes from him.

"I think so too."

"Oh, it's on. Kurt saw the picture." Nick said as the other guys were already getting their food.

"What did he say?" Trent asked.

"So much for spending time with your brother, huh Blaine."

"That's not so bad." Dave said as he sat down.

"That's only the first comment. There are at least ten others from him. Oh, and he saw Seb, he's not happy at all."

"It's a picture of the Warblers, did he really expect Seb not to be in it." Jeff asked.

As the rest of the guys ate and talked about Kurt's comments Cooper came up behind his brother and Sebastian. "You guys have about four hours till Lexi will be home, I just talked to her. The girls are taking her to a show."

"Thanks for the heads up Coop."

When Sebastian came up the stairs that evening he poked his head into Blaine's room and saw him laying down on his bed with his laptop open and laughing. "What's so funny?"

"You've got to see this." Blaine said as he tapped a spot on the bed next to him. "The photo Wes posted has over two hundred comments."

"You're kidding." Sebastian replied as he joined Blaine on the bed.

"Nope. I think all of the guys have posted numerous times as well as most of the New Directions."

"Okay, but why so many comments?"

"I think you need to read them for yourself as I don't think I can do them all justice." As Sebastian started to read Blaine got off the bed and walked to his closet.

"Leaving me already?" The pout on Sebastian's face tugged a bit on his heart strings.

"No, just thought I'd try and figure out what to wear tomorrow night while you read. Any ideas?"

"You have a whole new wardrobe, the possibilities are endless. But if you want, start trying stuff on and I'll tell you yes or no while I read."

"Why not."

As Blaine looked through the closet Sebastian couldn't help laughing out loud. "I never knew it was illegal for us to be in the same place."

"Me either. Wait till you get to Santana's first comment, it's priceless. The two of you are more alike than you either would probably like to admit." Sebastian nodded as he knew Blaine was right. "Have you been to the place Cooper's taking us?"

"Yea. It's much nicer than your average karaoke bar. Has a definite club vibe to it. I think everyone's going to have a blast." Since Blaine had yet to reappear Sebastian walked to the closet and pulled a bunch of stuff out. "This should give you a good start." He then got back on the bed and back to reading.

They were clearly comfortable around each other as Blaine just started to change his clothes right there. "What do you think so far?"

"Well, I think you look great as you are but I think the others would prefer more clothing." He replied as Blaine stood in front of him in just his boxer briefs. "But I'm guessing you meant all the comments."

"Yes." Blaine knew trying to hide the smile on his face was pointless.

"I can see why you were laughing. Just being in the picture made me public enemy number one in Kurt's eyes. Does he not notice the rest of the guys in the picture?"

"Doesn't seem like it, does it? And it's not like he didn't know we were friends again as he constantly got on me about it." After putting his shirt on he turned to face Sebastian. "How about this one?" Sebastian looked at him then told him to turn around.

"Nice, but not quite the right look." He then leaned over and tossed another outfit at him. "Try this one." This went on for about a half hour till they both agreed on the same one. "There are some new comments that you need to see."

Blaine took his outfit off and slipped on a pair of lounge shorts and a tee before laying back down on his bed. "When is he just going to drop it?"

"I don't think he's going to and the guys aren't helping matters. I think it's their mission to make him look completely foolish."

"He passed foolish a while ago. It kind of makes me wonder if this all would've happened if I had done it in person like you said."

"Don't know. But right now his worst nightmares are running rampant." They stayed up a couple hours more as they couldn't turn away from the train wreck happening before them.

When the Warblers arrived the next morning each of them were carrying a bag as they knew the chances of going back to the hotel to change were slim. "Are you all moving in?" Cooper asked playfully as he let them in.

"Didn't Blaine and Seb tell you?" Thad said with a smile. "Speaking of them, where are they?"

"In the kitchen with their morning entertainment. And from what I can tell you are all a big part of it." The guys all laughed as they knew exactly what Cooper was referring too. "I already told them, but I'm telling you too. We want to leave around eight tonight."

"Got it." Wes acknowledged. "We'll be ready to go."

"And guys don't have too much fun today. Later!"

When they walked into the kitchen Blaine and Sebastian were sitting at the island with a laptop between them. "Enjoying the entertainment?" Dave asked.

"How did you guys keep this up almost all night?" Sebastian asked.

"The advantages of us all being together, we worked in shifts."

"Not that it's not funny, but why?" Blaine asked as he poured himself another cup of coffee.

"We figured if we kept him up most of the night we could have a quiet day with no phone calls. You can't tell us he didn't try calling you." They were right as Kurt tried multiple times to call him the previous night. And the voicemails were definitely interesting.

"Are you going to say anything Seb?" Nick asked as he grabbed a donut.

"We decided it was probably best if I kept quiet at least till he calms down a bit."

"Probably a good idea as he's definitely wound up." Wes said as he sat down on the stool next to Blaine. "Did you talk to any of your friends last night as I'm sure Kurt wasn't the only one to try and get a hold of you?"

"I spoke with Artie and Puck actually. Artie is getting a kick out of all this and Puck can't believe he's not in Lima right now to see the fallout with his own eyes."

Knowing that they couldn't lose track of time today, all of the guys set the alarms on their phones. With as much as they'd gotten done the previous days, today's rehearsal was much more laid back, that was until Sebastian brought a video camera into the room. "What's that for Seb?" Trent asked as Sebastian set up the tripod.

"The only way were going to get a complete view not missing one of us is to record it. I don't want to risk missing anything."

"Always the perfectionist, huh Bas?"

"And you're not B."

The guys moved all their bags against the wall so that nothing was clouding the frame. Once things were cleaned up they went back to work.

"Please tell me you all got my message that this place has a night club vibe." Sebastian said after all their phones went off. After they all said yes, Sebastian and Blaine proceeded to tell them all where the spare rooms and bathrooms were so everyone could shower and get ready.

When Blaine got out of his shower he looked at the clothes he had laid out on in bed and noticed the light on his phone was on. Looking down he saw he had a message from Cooper reminding him that they need to be ready by eight. "Like we'd miss a chance to wind down after the past few days." He thought to himself as he started to get dressed. After giving himself a once over in the mirror Blaine headed downstairs

As he walked down the last flight of stairs he saw that more than half the guys were already down there. All of the guys looked good, but he couldn't quite keep his eyes off Sebastian who talking with Wes. "Looking good killer." Sebastian said with a smirk as Blaine walked down the last couple of stairs.

"Thank you. Not looking half bad yourself."

"What can I say, I clean up well." Blaine couldn't disagree as he looked amazing. His dark jeans fit perfectly and the dark green shirt he was wearing more than brought out his eyes.

"Must say I like the new look Blaine." Thad said as he approached them. "Gives off a whole different vibe."

"Good. I had hoped I switched it up enough."

"You did, but not so much that it doesn't still fit you, if you know what I mean." Blaine nodded. It wasn't long till the rest of the guys were down in the foyer.

"Ten minutes to spare, we'll all live." Sebastian said with a laugh.

"You got a text from Cooper too Bas?" Sebastian nodded.

"I think when Cooper gets here we need to ask him to take a second pic." Thad said. All the guys agreed, even Blaine. Shortly after Thad spoke the door opened and there stood Cooper and Jay.

"Ready to go have some fun?"

"Yea, but we'd like you to do something first?" Sebastian said.

"Depends." Wes then held up a camera. "Abso-freakin-lutely!" Jay reached out in front of Cooper.

"You need to be in this too man." Cooper looked at the guys and they all agreed. So he found a spot next to Blaine.

"Looking good little brother." Cooper then looked over at Sebastian and smiled knowing this outfit had to be from their little shopping spree. Being the goofs that they were it was easy for Jay to get quite a few great shots. "Alrighty, let's go!" When they walked outside the boys were a bit shocked at their transportation as there was a stretch Hummer parked out in front of the house.

The place wasn't too far away, but far enough that it seemed to take forever. Once they arrived Jay led them all to a section that had been reserved for them which was already filling up with a bunch of Cooper's friends. Before Sebastian could say anything to Blaine, Cooper was leading his brother away to introduce him to his friends. A bunch of the guys were already watching one of the performances on the stage.

"These guys are good." Nick said to Sebastian.

"Good thing we all are too."

"You've been here before?" Jeff asked just before a waitress came around asking for drink orders.

"Yes, it's one of the few places Lexi and Cooper knew they could take me and I could have a good time and not feel out of place while they partied with their friends. So who's going to go first?"

"I think Seb should." Jay said as he wrapped an arm around Sebastian's shoulders. "You can show your friends how it's done." Sebastian tried to say no, but the rest of the guys agreed. Sebastian looked at Jay with a half-assed smile and headed for the stage.

"Hey Seb, I've got one of your faves all cued up, ready to go."

"Cooper! Blaine! Seb is going up on stage." Nick yelled out knowing they wouldn't want to miss this.

"Ladies and gentlemen welcome back a favorite of ours and hopefully yours, Sebastian!" Then just as the opening guitar riffs played Cooper saw what looked like Sebastian going white but quickly pulling himself together.

Hey, slow it down

Whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Yeah, I'm afraid

Whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

There might have been a time

When I would give myself away

(Ooh) Once upon a time

I didn't give a damn

But now here we are

So whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Just don't give up

I'm workin' it out

Please don't give in

I won't let you down

It messed me up, need a second to breathe

Just keep coming around

Hey, whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Yeah, it's plain to see

That baby you're beautiful

And there's nothing wrong with you

It's me, I'm a freak

But thanks for lovin' me

Cause you're doing it perfectly

There might have been a time

When I would let you slip away

I wouldn't even try but I think

You could save my life

Just don't give up

I'm workin' it out

Please don't give in

I won't let you down

It messed me up, need a second to breathe

Just keep coming around

Hey, whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Just don't give up on me

I won't let you down

No, I won't let you down

So

Just don't give up

I'm workin' it out

Please don't give in

I won't let you down

It messed me up, need a second to breathe

Just keep coming around

Hey, whataya want from me

Just don't give up

I'm workin' it out

Please don't give in

I won't let you down

It messed me up, need a second to breathe

Just keep coming around

Hey, whataya want from me

(Whataya want from me)

Whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

The guys were all screaming as Sebastian knocked the song out of the park but Cooper couldn't help notice that Blaine's eyes never left Sebastian the entire song. As much as he wanted to talk to his brother he knew Sebastian needed him so he quickly made his way to the stairs. "Where's Seb?" He asked one of the guys they knew.

"He flew down the hall once he was done. Don't know why, he nailed it tonight. Don't think I've ever heard him sing that song with such emotion before." And right then Cooper's instinct was confirmed and he went running down the hall.

*song lyrics by Adam Lambert: Whataya Want From Me