Two chapter in two days, I was just too excited about getting to play with the other new directions as Borrowers that I had to write it straight away, it's a long one too. So enjoy.

Welcome to the Twenty Fifth Chapter of Brave Little Heart.

From the moment that Blaine woke up one thing was in his mind. Today was the day. Today was the day that they were moving the Borrower village. A thousand things could go wrong and each scenario went through his mind during the day. What if the Borrowers got thrown around in the boxes and hurt themselves? What if they crashed the car? How would they explain the little people in their boot to the police? What happened if he trod on one of Kurt's relatives? Were these normal concerns you have with your first boyfriend?

Though some of his friends had left the last night most were leaving throughout the day so they had set up a lunch at a fast food bar. Blaine sat quietly in the corner until Logan clicked his fingers at him.

"Hua?"

"What's up with you Blaine?"

"Nothing, just a little tired."

"You've been making that excuse all week." Thad said.

"Blaine, is there something going on at home? You can tell us you know, we're your friends, we care about you." Wes said resting his hand on his shoulder.

"No, it's not that. I'm sorry I've been absent all week. I'm just worried about the exams, Dalton's tough."

"You always get A's Dude." Thad said. "No need to be freaking out."

"That's not true I got a B plus on calculus last week."

Logan laughed.

"That's hardly a reason for not going out for a week."

"I've gone out, I had a dinner date."

"A date?" Logan said followed by a wolf whistle.

"Yeah, Blaine's got a secret boyfriend."

"Why's he secret?"

"Hey, aren't I allowed a little bit of a private life?"

"No." Thad and Logan said in tangent laughing.

"I could stay a few more hours?" Wes said hanging onto Blaine's door frame.

"I'm fine Wes."

"I don't like leaving you here all alone."

"I'll be fine, my parents will be here in an hour or two." Blaine lied. It was five' o'clock and Wes was the last student to leave Dalton. Now the teachers who were going away (leaving a skeleton staff) were packing. Wes tilted his head to one side and pursed his lips.

"You're keeping something from me."

"Nope, not at all, nothing, what would I keep from you?"

"Are you having a secret meeting with the boyfriend later?" Wes asked grining widely.

"Yes." Blaine admitted.

"You sly dog. Remember, move at your own speed and if it feels right use a condom."

"Gods, yes grandma."

"You're grandma talks to you like that?"

"No, she tells me to cut my hair and gives me toffees."

"Right." Wes bent down and picked u Pavarotti's cage. It had been a hard decision but Blaine knew Borrowers didn't like birds and he couldn't't;t worry about having a canary in a car as well as a unknown number of displaced little people.

"Are you sure you're okay with him?"

"Yeah."

"Be sure to change his water and let him flap around a bit everyday but keep the windows and doors closed so he doesn't get loose. And keep him by your window because he likes to flirt with the robins."

"Relax Blaine." Wes laughed. "We're going to get on great. I'm sorry about your aunts bird allergy."

"Yeah, I didn't know she was coming to stay. You'll hone me if anything goes wrong won't you?"

"I will, stop worrying. Bye Blaine."

"Bye Wes have a good holiday." Blaine bent down next to the bird cage.

"Bye Pav, you be a good boy for Wes and don't go telling him any of my secrets okay? And don't let him listen to Celine Dion on loop if you want some Katy Perry just tell him."

Wes laughed as he turned to go down the hall. Blaine felt a wave of sadness as he watched them leave. They had to be out of the way for the Librarian's plan to work but he was still going to miss his friends over the next few weeks.

Blaine put the blanket in the box and stuffed his pillow over the top of it. It folded up and doubled over in some parts. It was padded but Blaine wondered if it was too padded, were they going to be able to stand up? Didn't he need to put something in for them to hold onto when the road got bumpy. How many boxes did he even need? He still had no idea how many Borrowers there were in Dalton. He just hoed the Librarian would know. He looked down at the four boxes padded with pillows and clothes and blankets and decided it was the best he could do. He turned back to packing his own bags. He had half an hour to get all the boxes down to the library.

The Librarian didn't arrive until he had brought the final two boxes down to the library. She looked at him.

"Is, uh.. is this alright?"

"I'm sure it will be Mr. Anderson."

"Okay." Blaine gave a deep sigh. "So, what's next?"

"You have to go out the parking lot to help them cross. I promised them a guard against cats and owls."

"Okay." Blaine said. "What about this stuff? I mean don't need help carrying it?"

"I maybe old but I think I can still manage a few empty boxes."

"My bags not empty."

Blaine got his answer when the Librarian shot him an evil look. He hurried out the library door pausing for a moment when he hit the main doors. There was no secretary on and the doors got locked at eleven, it was almost half past. Scared he was about to set off an alarm he pushed at the doors. The opened slowly and after they were half open and no alarm went off Blaine snuck out. Of course the Librarian had turned the alarms off, he hadn't even thought about that. He would make a rubbish secret agent.

He walked around to the car park, there were only four cars left but Blaine had no idea which was the Librarian's. Looking around in the dark with his little flash torch he also had no idea where the Borrowers were going to come from. He waited in the dark for what felt like hours wondering what he was meant to do when the stillness of the night was disturbed by a shrill scream. Blaine suddenly felt ice cold, he just knew that scream was from Kurt.

He ran towards the back wall of the school where the sound had come form. His torch aimed at the floor. It was the cat he saw first, a ginger tabby he had seen around the school grounds. It had it's back arched and it was hissing. As he spun the torch around he saw the Borrowers. Blaine could not work out any individual, there were so many of them it was like a withering crowd. They were almost two meters away from the cat. There seemed to be a few older men at the front, needles and spikes and tips of knives held out in front of them shouting angry undistinguishable words back at the cat.

"Shoo!" Blaine shouted running at the cat. It hissed angrily at him once then turned an ran away.

He walked back to the Borrowers, he judged there to be maybe fifty or sixty and they seemed of all different ages and there were a few different races. Although Blaine couldn't really take them all in it seemed to him as if they were as varied as any group of people you might see walking around any American town. He knelt down on the floor. His heart was still beating fast and he was stunned to see all the Borrowers though he had known he was going to. They really did exist, a village under the floorboards. He'd known, but it was still really shocking to see. He looked out for a familiar face to make it all seem less like a dream and found Burt to be one of the men stood near the front. He was a little relived and a little bit frightened when he saw that Kurt was with him hiding his head in his fathers shoulder.

"Is everybody alright? I'm so sorry, I should have come closer to the building I just didn;t know where you would be coming from."

"We're all alright. It's okay Blaine. We could have handled it."

"I'm still sorry I said I'd be here."

Kurt turned his head to meet his eyes.

"You were here." He said his voice sounding weak.

"Are you okay Kurt?" Blaine wanted to reach out to touch him but he knew it would be the wrong thing to do.

"Yeah." He answered shakily. "It's just, it's the first time I've seen a cat since.."

He left it hanging but Blaine knew he meant since his mothers death.

"Right, well, now you're here kid why don't you walk a little ahead of us with that light to make sure there aren't any more out there."

"Yeah alright." Blaine said noticing that the other Borrowers at the front were staring at him with nothing short of distrust and disbain.

Getting the Borrowers across the parking lot to where the Librarian was now waiting for them by a little red car was an arduous task. The group moved slowly, which Blaine found strange as Kurt was always surprisingly quick but then there were some older Borrowers and some little kids who couldn't;t be more than five or six. It took half an hour of taking three steps forwards a minute and swinging his torch around and up in the sky to look for owls. He was half bored but half afraid that a teacher would come out and ask him what all the light flashing was about.

When they finally all got to the car he saw that the boxes had been laid out on the ground with little wooden ramps laid out for the borrowers to get up and down in them.

"What can I do?" Blaine asked.

"Nothing, I have to talk to the elder to reassure them and help them decide how to split up the families into the different boxes. You gaud the rest of them."

Blaine looked down to see two of the forefront men, Burt and three very old looking Borrowers leave the group and start towards The Librarian. Blaine nodded and went to stand by the group flashing his light around occasionally to look busy and trying to find Kurt to see if he was alright but it was difficult in the dark.

"Hey! Hey! Bean!"

Blaine looked down to see that one of the Borrowers had separated from the group and come up to stand right next to his shoe. He seemed quite young, wore what looked like a green bomber jacket and had a Mohawk. Blaine was caught up for a moment in wondering how he had found a razor small enough.

"Are you listening to me?"

"Yes."

"Well I hear you and my man Kurt are dating?"

"You're man?"

"Yeah, in the no homo way. Kurt is my bro Finn's little bro which means he's like my cousin or something."

Blaine smiled widely, he didn't understand what the boy was saying but he didn't want to make a bad impression on what could possibly be Kurt's cousin (though he had a feeling he wasn't).

"What I'm saying Bean is if you hurt my man Kurt I'll hurt you." He pointed up at Blaine. Blaine felt a rush of irritation, he'd been threatened many times before at his old school but there was no way that he was putting u from it by a three inch boy who thought he was hard.

"Oh yeah, and what are you going to do from down there?"

The boy moved too fast for Blaine to really see what he was doing down there. Then he felt a sharp stabbing pain in his ankle.

"Oww!" Blaine jumped backwards and bent down to rub his ankle. Being closer to the floor he was able to see the needle in the boys hand and the smirk on his face.

"Point taken." Blaine said grudgingly.

"Hey!" Another Bean was walking towards them, a girl with long blonde hair and a very short red dress. She was followed by a Latino looking Borrower, in a very similar dress. Blaine was suddenly struck by how big the borrower world was, he had got used to the idea of a village in Dalton and maybe a few others dotted around but they might be borrowers all over the world.

"Don't hurt the big dolphin Puck, I need to talk to him about what he's going to do to protect us from the dragons." The Blonde smiled at him and waved her fingers. "I'm Brittany."

"Hello Brittany I'm Blaine." He said a little taken with the sweet naivety of the girl.

"Mr Blaine, I was wondering if you could tell me what you are going to do to make sure that the dragon's don't get us."

"Uh.. what Dragons?"

The Latino girl made a little gesturing motion. It took Blaine a moment to realize she wanted to talk to him quietly. He checked the floor below him to be sure that there was no chewing gum and lowered his forehand to the floor so the Latino girl could whisper in his ear.

"Listen up freak, my girl Brit lives in a special world where everything is possible. It's a wonderful place and I don't want it to be destroyed so if she says dragons exist then they do, got it?"

Blaine sat up and nodded his head. He couldn't destroy Brit's fantasy world. After all, his life had become much better since he had discovered Borrowers, and in a world where Borrowers existed, perhaps dragons did too. Well, probably not but still. Brittany was staring up at him expectantly not at all concerned with his secret conversation with the Latino girl.

"Um.. I haven't put any safety procedures in place Brittany because the Dragon's in Ohio only come out in the day."

"Oh, why is that?"

"Uh, because they're solar powered."

Brittany smiled.

"Cool, thank you. I'll tell Kurt you're a good Dolphin for him."

"Thanks." Blaine looked up and saw that Kurt was coming towards him with a wide smile. He was accompanied by Rachel and a really tall (almost four inches) boy with a goofy smile and short brown hair.

"I see you've meet everybody."

"Yeah, um.. Puck and Brittany." Blaine said pointing to the two borrowers whose names he'd got.

"Santana." The Latino girl said putting her hands on his hips.

"Well, you've meet Rachel and this is my step brother Finn."

"Hi, it's nice to meet you."

"Yeah, It's cool, I've never spoken to a Bean before. Um.. when you have a moment can I talk to you in private."

"Umm... not going to threaten to kill me if I hurt your bro." Blaine joke, Finn's face fell.

"Wait, how did you know? Can beans like, read your mind?"

"FINN!" Kurt whined.

"It's okay Bro." Puck said clapping Finn on the shoulder. "I already did it."

"PUCK! I can't believe you." Kurt said shaking his head.

"It's okay." Blaine said flippantly. "I'm getting used to your friends threatening me."

"I won't threaten you Mr. Blaine. I like you." Brittany said sweetly. "I think you and Kurt are like a really cute couple."

"Are thank you Brit." Kurt said.

"Blaine!" The Librarian was calling him from over by the car.

"I guess I've got to go. Nice meeting you all. See you later Kurt."

"Bye big dolphin." Brittany shouted as Kurt waved goodbye to him.

Blaine walked over to join the Librarian passing Burt and the other elders as they mad either way back to the group.

"Hey, you understand Borrower speech, what's a dolphin?" He asked the librarian.

"It's a marine mammal."

"Oh, yeah right." Blaine was puzzled but decided to put it down to the girl being a little eccentric.

"You're driving."

"What? I thought you were going to drive?"

"I was, but the arthritis is playing up, can't grip anything. I'm staying in back to watch the families."

Blaine felt sick, he remembered in his drivers Ed class the instructor used to say that when you have passengers you are responsible for their lives as well as your own. Well tonight he was responsible for a whole village. He nodded and took the keys off the Librarian.

"You can drive right?"

"Yes."

"Good. Give it ten minutes and we should be ready. Why don't you go start the engine and put the radiator on it's chilly tonight."

Blaine looked back to see the first of the Borrowers climbing up the wooden planks, they looked awfully steep. He wanted to go talk to Kurt and tell him that he would be as carefully as possible but he saw that he was one of the ones walking up the planks holding the hand of and old lady who shuffled along slowly. So instead he just went into the car and switched on the radiator and the radio.

"Mr. Anderson, you need to come get the boxes."

"Oh, right." Blaine said jumping out of the car and running round to the back. He was eager to leave and get the borrowers to a safe place. It was probably that eagerness that made him pick up the box a little too fast.

"OI! Watch it!"

Blaine looked down and saw the box with it's dozen little people. The boy who had shouted was a big blurry teenager that Blaine had not been introduced to.

"Sorry, bit nervous."

"Yeah, well you scared my little sister." He said looking down at a tiny girl in his arms.

"Don't be nervous Mr. Blaine the weird red monster has it's mouth open so I think it's going to let us ride in it's belly." Brittany said.

"It's a car."

Blaine saw the evil look from Santana who had her ams wrapped around Brittany's middle (was there something going on there? Perhaps there were more gay Borrowers than Kurt thought).

"Uh.. I mean It's a car monster."

He lowered the box into the boot carefully.

"Keep bracing yourselves it's just a little further." Blaine said as he pushed the box back so that he could fit the rest in.

For the next three boxes he made sure to introduce himself to the borrowers into it. He wouldn't treat them like they weren't living beings again. He told them to brace themselves as he lifted them and he told them when it was over. The last box had Kurt in it. He smiled up at him when he went to lift the box.

" Hi I'm Blaine and I will be your driver for tonight."

There was a small 'hi Blaine' back from a sweet little boy but the rest stared up at him with slight fear.

"Is that your boyfriend." The old woman who was sat next to Kurt said nudging him in the ribs.

"Yeah Mama, that's him."

Kurt smiled rather proudly and Blaine found himself breaking into a similar wide smile.

"He's cute." The old lady said and then she sighed. "Burt, I'm going to lose another one."

"What? You'll never lose me grandma." Kurt said.

"Okay, time to go. Brace yourselves."

Blaine lifted the last box into the car.

"There's going to be a big bang in a few seconds guy, nothing to worry about." Blaine shouted slamming the car boot.

The librarian got into the back with his suitcase and turned so she could look into the boot. Blaine got in the front and started up the engine.

"Is everybody alright back there?"

"They're all fine." The Librarian said. "Come on Kid, drive!"

The librarian gave him directions as he drove. It was a pitch back night and the headlights only reached a few meters in front of him so it seemed like the signposts just appeared out of nowhere. There were no other cars out and he tried to drive as slowly as possible. He could hear a young child crying in the back and somebody trying to comfort him. He kept glancing in the mirror but he couldn't see anything. By the time they reached the bumpy side road the librarian had told him about Blaine's nerves were shot. He had to drive at a crawl to stop the potholes from making the car shake too much. There were still some gasps from the back and every time the slightest bit of noise was made Blaine turned to look behind him to ask the Librarian if everybody was alright.

The house inched into view out of the darkness. It was a one floored building but it seemed to stretch in all ways and Blaine knew it would be large inside. Even in the dark the paint looked old and flaked. There was a wrap around porch with an old creaking swing chair.

"Is this it?"

"This is it."