Ch. 24
When they got a 'cease and desist' letter from 'My Chemical Romance', and Rachel suggested that they sing an original song, Kurt finally started to appreciate Quinn's need to be in control, on top, and get even.
He really wanted to sing an original song, not necessarily one he had written on his own, hell even singing a song written by Rachel; would be cool.
When he later learned why Finn had been reluctant to sing an original song, especially one written by Rachel, he started to become a little worried. According to Finn; her song about her headband wasn't very good, and her song 'Only Child' wasn't that much better.
But due to Quinn agreeing with Rachel, after seeing Finn's reluctance to do so, and Santanna's insistence that she get a shot to write 'the' song for the competition, everyone had gotten a chance at writing a song for the competition.
Kurt didn't really believe in his ability to write a winning song. Sure he could write good songs, sometimes even amazing songs, but this was supposed to be an anthem. That and the fact that he hadn't written a song for the whole group before (he had only written songs which would work well with his own voice), made the whole songwriting experience quite daunting.
When Noah came to him with a song he had written, about and to Kurt, Kurt got tears in his eyes. It had a really upbeat rhythm, but was so heartfelt and emotional that he had trouble keeping them back.
"I love your song Noah, but…" at Noah's lowered shoulders he hurried on.
"No, listen; I really do love your song. And if the judges were impartial, we would definitely win on it. But Noah, it is obvious you have written this song to a guy… and no matter how 'out and proud' I am, I'm also realistic. You don't win this kind of competitions by telling anyone that you are gay… you lose because of it."
At Noah's sullen look, Kurt smiled lovingly at him.
"Don't throw out the song though… I expect to hear you sing it at our wedding." That made Noah release a little smile, at least he had Kurt's assurance; that he loved the song he had written to him.
Out of all of the songs presented in glee; Mercedes was the best one. But he had to agree with Mr. Shue. There was no way they would win the competition with that.
When they finally, collectively, wrote their song 'Loser Like Me', and Rachel later joined them with her beautiful song; 'Get It Right', and Mr. Shue immediately gave the big roles to Rachel and Finn, even though Artie at least had a prominent role this time, Kurt had had enough.
Fair was fair and, while he agreed that it should be Rachel who sang her own song; he wanted a big part of their group song.
Rachel wasn't willing to give up her place as the club star, and while Finn was willing to give up his spot, Kurt wanted Rachel's.
Finally Kurt issued a challenge, to put an end to the argument, and make those who had taken Rachel's side, primarily Mr. Shue, see that he had much more, or at least as much, talent as Rachel.
He asked Noah if he wanted to try for a spot too, as he had an amazing voice, now that he had learned to control it during the summer, but he said; that he didn't burn for getting the spotlight on the stage like Kurt did. The result became a duel; with the song 'The Star Spangled Banner' as the weapon, due to it being an anthem and a song where you both needed talent, control of voice and control of emotions. It was the perfect way to see if they had it in them; to sing a winning song at Regionals.
Surprisingly, that is to the rest of the club, as Kurt wasn't for a minute in doubt, Kurt did it better. And it wasn't just a little better. No he absolutely blew Rachel out of the waters, with the amazing control he had of his voice and emotional transfer. He had forfeited once… he was never doing so again.
As anyone could guess; Kurt won the spot as lead singer on their group song, and of course they won Regionals. They were the best.
Rachel's little speech almost made Kurt like her again. Oh well, she was going to do something stupidly offensive soon enough, and he would go back to hating her.
When Sue Sylvester visited the day after; Noah and Finn was ready to make her go away again, but Kurt welcomed her warmly.
When his brother and fiancé asked why he would welcome her, after what she had done, he simply answered;
"She has never been my enemy! Competition, yes… enemy, no. and you can easily be friends with the competition… if you don't talk with those on the same level as yourself, you become lonely. As it is; I happen to like Sue's company. Now stop complaining about my friends, and go do something productive." And shooed them out of the kitchen, even denying Finn the cookies he had wanted.
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Noah was acting rather jealous when Kurt informed him that he would be meeting Blaine at the Lima Bean that Sunday. When Kurt asked into the reason for this; as he had seemed rather cool with the whole 'being friends with a gay guy' ting, he started laughing in hilarity at the answer.
Noah told him that he was sure that Blaine was in love with him… which was ridiculous as their interaction hadn't changed, and Kurt was sure that Blaine knew that he was in a committed relationship. While he had never spoken about Noah, neither by name nor about the fact that they were living together; he had told him that Sarah would be his future daughter, and had shown him his engagement ring (although he couldn't remember if he told him it was an engagement ring, but it should be pretty obvious; as he always wore it).
Noah insisted that what he said was the truth, and in the end Kurt agreed to make Blane fully aware of him being together with Noah. Noah even insisted on Kurt telling Blane his name.
The meeting at the Lima Bean started out as all of their meetings did; a hug hello and sitting across each other; telling each other what had happened in their life since last time they spoke. The only difference was that Blane congratulated Kurt on New Directions win at the Regionals.
When they came to a lull in the conversation; Kurt took up the subject that Noah had insisted he included in their talk.
"So… Noah told me that you have a crush on me… isn't he ridiculous?" he said with a rather embarrassed laughter.
Blaine sat in shock for about two seconds, and then he looked down; all red in the face.
"Well I… that is to say…" then he took a deep breath; seemingly to gather courage, and continued.
"Yes… I'm in love with you… you don't have to return my feelings or anything but… please don't dismiss me. I think that we could be very good together…" as he spoke his voice became more and more quiet, and it finally tampered off.
Kurt just sat staring at him in a stupor. He was sure that Blaine was aware that he already was in a committed relationship; and jet he sat here, practically asking him out. Who would have thought Noah to be right!
Then, after having turned and twisted what he was going to say for almost a minute; leaving Blane to fidget in his chair, he started trying to explain.
"look Blaine… you are a very dapper young man, and I am sure that if nothing else; we could have had a stable relationship, but… first of all; you don't even find me attractive! You told my father to teach me about sex because you thought that me being unwilling to discuss sex was a sign that I didn't know anything about it, and apparently you found my apparent naivety to be offsetting… why would you want to be with someone you don't find sexy? That is after all a rather big part of being in a relationship."
Blane got as red in the face, if not more so, as he had been before Kurt's long thinking break made him lose most of the blood in his face due to nerves. Then he almost fell over his own words, with the speed they left his mouth.
"That's not true… I really think you're very sexy… and your naivety is really sweet… I mean; I really… I really want to kiss you… I… please let me prove that I find you irresistible."
As the last words left his mouth he tried to lounge over the table; apparently he was going to kiss Kurt right where they sat.
Kurt hurriedly raised a hand; this wasn't anything he wanted any part of, if he didn't want his fiancé to kiss him in public, there was no way he was going to let his best gay friend, who had apparently turned out to be an admire, do so.
His words fell over themselves as he tried to ward of Blaine.
"What? No… what are you… Blaine why would you… there's no way… Blane?" then, as he finally collected his thoughts; he started to talk in a rather hard, and to the point, voice.
"Blane, no… just no. I told you a long time ago that I was going to get married, why would you…"
Here Blaine interrupted him.
"That's fine, we can get married….no problem; I'll get you a ring and…"
Kurt took over the conversation again, showing him his ring. He had liked how confident, and on top of the world, Blaine had seemed; that was the reason he had wanted to be friends. But right now Blaine seemed rather pathetic.
"something like this you mean… like the engagement ring my fiancé bought for me… how did you think I was going to get Sarah as my daughter…" then; because of Blaine's confused look, he explained;
"You know: the girl I brought with my around the beginning of our friendship… she is the sister and adopted daughter of my fiancé Noah…" Blane looked absolutely crushed; he hadn't been aware of Noah being in the picture… he had thought Kurt free, and more than willing to be in a relationship with him. After all; why else would he be so willing to come out for coffee or singing every time he, Blaine, asked?
"How long…" then after a deep fortifying breath he started again. "How long have you been together with this… Noah was it?... Why have you never mentioned him? It can't be all that serious when you never talk about him." The last part was said with hope in his voice; maybe he did have a chance after all.
"We have shared a bed for just under a year, and he proposed, unofficially, just after the summer holiday. He gave me the ring at Valentine's Day. He needed to collect the money first." It was said in a no nonsense voice, but even then; sounded rather sorry.
Blaine sat staring at his cup for a couple of minutes; while Kurt sat rather uncomfortable, not knowing what to say to make it better. Then Blaine took a deep swallow from his cup, emptying it of coffee.
"I need some time for myself… please don't call me… I will call you when I feel ready to see you again." With those words he left the Lima Bean, heading home to Dalton Academy while listening to sorrowful, heartbroken top 40 music.
Kurt just sat; quite shocked at how the day had gone. He hadn't believed Noah when he told him about Blaine's feelings. And even though he had been warned, he had been fully unaware of how to handle the situation. He just hoped that this wouldn't spell the end of their friendship. He liked Blaine as a person, but he also liked the part of having a gay friend. He did have Noah, but he was so far from being the typical gay as could be; hell he wasn't even all that gay, more Kurt-sexual.
But even should his relationship with Noah cost him his friendship that was just how it would have to be. Noah was the best thing that had ever happened to him, and he wasn't about to pretend that Noah wasn't the center of his life, just to strengthen Blaine's ego and care for his feelings.
As he had assured himself that he had acted correctly, he finished his own cup of coffee, and went home. He owed Noah an apology for laughing at his suspicion that Blaine felt more than friendship toward him.
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Kurt had thought that he could invite his friends from Dalton (because even though he mostly hang out with Blane, he had found other friends at Dalton; the whole anti bullying thing was a good basis for finding male friends for an otherwise ignored gay guy) to the decathlon benefit concert; as they had rich parents and large allowances. But that wasn't to be. As he had apparently 'broken Blaine's heart' after 'leading him on' he was persona non grata at Dalton Academy. He should have guessed; Blaine was after all the much beloved star of Daltons Warblers.
The whole show was a disaster from the get go. Not because they didn't sing well; they did, but because of them not finding enough audience. Sure they had Sunshine's twitter followers, but they should have known that Sue would figure something out to make them leave.
Kurt was rather shamefaced. After all; he had defended Sue to his brother and fiancé just a week before. But as he said; he liked Sue, and knew that even though she wasn't well liked, and in turn didn't like a large part of New Direction, she liked him. And he liked her in return.
You didn't have to agree to all of the actions of a person, to enjoy there company.
But even with the disaster it was; including the fact that Karoffsky started to harries Kurt again; one warning and suspension apparently wasn't enough, they got their money.
While Kurt didn't agree with drug abuse, and believed that he would have been moved by Mercedes song anyway; the fact that Sandy Ryerson donated all that money to their cause, was enough to justify the otherwise disaster of a concert.
AN/ Shinigami (Guest); the story doesn't follow the series exactly, and as we come further along in the story more and more differences will show up. To answer your specific question; no Jack won't show up.