15 days, 4 hours, 29 minutes left.
The next day, Kurt put his phone, wallet, camera and notebook. Then he noticed something.
"Where's my letter?" he wondered.
He looked through his stuff and began panicking. The letter must have fallen out of the bag before he had discovered the hole.
"What if someone gives it to Dad?. My 49 days will be over."
Burt read through the letter carefully. Was it actually Kurt. Kurt felt his necklace burn red hot and then it broke into pieces. He was roughly ejected out of Finn's body. Finn fell to the floor and the Scheduler appeared before Kurt.
"Your 49 days journey is over, Traveler Kurt Hummel" She announced.
"I'm going to die now?" Kurt asked afraid.
"Let's go to the elevator"
"No, no, no, no. That can't happen" Kurt grabbed the bag and ran out of the apartment.
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"What was Blaine telling you yesterday?" Carole asked.
"I've decided to have the operation" Burt announced.
"Burt, oh thank god" Carole hugged her husband tightly, tears escaping her eyes as she cried in thanks.
"What changed your mind?" Carole asked, wiping away her tears.
"Blaine did. You know what that kid said to me? He told me that Kurt's watching over me somewhere and all this time he must be hurt that I'm not trying to get better. Then I could hear Kurt scolding me in my head when I had the heart attack years ago" Burt replied
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"What? Really? Thats amazing" Blaine said.
He hung up and Wes looked at him eagerly.
"Burt agreed to the operation" Blaine announced.
"That's great!" Wes whooped in celebration.
"I'll just call Kurt" Blaine said.
"What about the letter? If she found out you have it, there'll be a lot of explaining to do" Wes asked
"First, let me call him" Blaine said.
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Kurt rushed into his room at the hospital and saw Carole sitting there at his bedside.
"Fred," Carole said.
"By chance, did you receive a letter today?" Kurt asked.
"No, we haven't" Carole replied.
"Where's Mr. Hummel?" Kurt asked looking around for his father.
"He's with the doctor. He agreed to have the operation" Carole replied.
"Really? Did he really agree?" Kurt asked.
Carole nodded and Kurt said a quick prayer of thanks.
"But who convinced him?" Kurt asked.
"Kurt's friend, Blaine. Your boss" Carole replied.
"Blaine?"
"He came here yesterday and talked for a long time with Burt. I don't know how but Burt agreed"
"Blaine convinced Kurt's dad?" Kurt couldn't wrap his head around the idea.
"The way I see it, he seems to really care for Kurt. All this time, he's been bringing pink roses. Over there" Carole pointed and Kurt looked at the bouquets of pink roses.
Then Kurt's phone rang.
"Hello?"
"There's an emergency at the restaurant. Come quickly" Blaine said and hung up.
Kurt left the room and sat down on a chair outside. There he began crying.
"Thank you, Blaine" he cried out.
Quinn watched Finn cry his eyes out and immediately began feeling suspicious. What was wrong with that guy. Why did she always get the feeling that he was acting a lot like Kurt?
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Blaine watched Kurt walk into the locker room in the restaurant. Kurt left the room and Blaine quickly walked inside. He opened Kurt's bag and quickly put the letter back inside. Then he walked out.
What he didn't realise was that Kurt left his phone in his bag. Kurt went back inside and saw the letter inside his bag.
"All this time, Blaine had it?" Kurt felt his worry reach a breaking point and he ran out of the restaurant.
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The Scheduler sat alone on the park bench. She wasn't even listening to her music. She was too wrapped up in thinking about what connection there was between Finn and herself.
"I seem to have been discovered. Blaine read the letter" Kurt said sitting down next to her.
"Your necklace hasn't broken yet so obviously he knew before the letter" She replied, bored.
"What?"
"If humans find out without you telling them, we don't count it as your fault" She replied.
"So I'm safe?"
"You still can't expose your identity. You can't talk about it to Blaine until all this is over" She warned.
"So do you remember Finn now?" Kurt asked.
"I told you I can't until my term ends" She replied.
"Just don't ask me anything more!"
She suddenly disappeared and Kurt started. Kurt walked back slowly remembering every single moment with Blaine. How he had started caring for him after all that had happened. That day he had gone out for a date with pink roses.
"That wasn't for any other guy, it was for me" Kurt realised. "He does like me. Like the way I like him".
He went back to the restaurant to work but that didn't stop the silly little smile from coming onto his face.
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Blaine sat opposite Sam glaring at him.
"Why are you telling me to quit working at Hummel Enterprises?" Sam asked.
"I know what you're trying to do in Kurt's dad's company. So I'm telling you to stop doing all this." Blaine replied.
"You better give up because you can't stop me. I don't even need to know how much you've found out. Kurt isn't here anymore. Burt's nearly on his deathbed"
"You don't understand" Blaine interjected.
"Even if Burt recovers, he can't really run the company. He's already signed the will so everything is mine"
"I know all of what you're planning Sam. Buying out the shares to yourself. Burt thinks that Shin Wu has them but it's all a sham" Blaine warned.
"So you're the one checking up on the accounts"
"Why would you do something like that? Did Kurt's parents do something wrong to you? Are you that greedy?" Blaine asked.
"They never did anything to me and it's not for money" Sam replied.
"Then what was it for? To do this to people who did nothing wrong to you, why are you doing this? Why are you trying to steal what belongs to them?"
"I'm trying to change my own future. They were unlucky to meet me. Just like me. I was born unlucky"
"Are you using your poor background as an excuse?" Blaine asked.
"An excuse? People like you wouldn't understand. What would you know when you had good and rich parents?"
"Don't use that as an excuse. We can't decide who are we born to. It's up to God and not to us"
"When I was four years old, I had nothing to eat sometimes at home. I used to cry in pain. Have you ever been that hungry? Because of my father's gambling addiction, he used to beat me every day as a result. He blamed me for his bad luck. When I was 13 my father passed away because of alcohol. It was the happiest day of my life. We didn't have mney to give him a funeral so I burned his body to ashes, all the while laughing"
Blaine stared at his friend in horror. He never knew that Sam had had a life like that.
"Finally there were no more beatings to endure. But you know what? Even if the beatings ended my starvation grew worse. I was insulted, ignored and teased by the kids at school. High school was even worse. Then I got into Dalton. My mother had gone mad and the insurance money, I drove it into my schooling"
"Sam"
"I always asked myself why me? Why should my mother I live like this? What did we do wrong?"
"But why bring all your bitterness out on Kurt's parents? You took their company, their home and Kurt's heart as well. Don't you feel bad?" Blaine asked.
"Why should I feel guilty? God let me suffer. Then why should I not let others suffer the same way? Thanks to them, I won't suffer a miserable life anymore" Sam said.
"It's not right. No matter what you have suffered through in life. I won't let this happen" Blaine said.
"You can try to stop me but you can't" Sam said.
"I can and I will. I can't let innocent people suffer" Blaine said.
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"You have to believe me, Sam. There's something there" Quinn pointed at the card and the resignation letter.
"Even if it is Kurt's handwriting, what you're suggesting is crazy" Sam said.
He told Quinn to leave but the theory that Quinn had left stayed in his head. Was Finn really acting like Kurt or was Quinn just imagining things?
The next day, he took Finn on another date. Then he noticed the buttons on Finn's jacket. They looked awfully familiar.
"Is something wrong?" Finn asked.
"Let's go buy you a jacket" Sam said.
He took Finn to Armani and began looking through the jackets. Finn tried a black one and Sam bought it for him. Finn frowned and whined that he didn't want a new one but Sam threw the jacket in the bin. Later on Hank picked it up and brought it to Sam.
Sam took the button he had found near the door of the hotel the day he had met Quinn and compared it to the ones on Finn's jacket.
"They match. So is Quinn right?" Sam asked himself.
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Kurt sighed as he made his way home. Sam had bought him such an expensive jacket and had thrown away Finn's jacket. If Finn found out the jacket was missing, it would mean deep trouble.
"Finn" Kurt stopped short as the sight of Mr. Schuester waving at him.
"Hi" Kurt said looking at the ground, trying to act like Finn.
"You haven't been showing up at the sessions with the doctor" Mr. Schuester said.
"Doctor?" Kurt snapped his head up.
Will frowned at Finn. He wasn't acting like himself. There was something wrong.
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Sam drove out to Finn's home. He had to resolve this mystery once and for all. He got out and stood in front of the door. Finn emerged dressed in baggy jeans and a plaid shirt. He barely acknowledged Sam and made his way to the coffee shop.
Sam followed him and watched Finn wear his uniform and take his place behind the counter. He entered and decided to end this mystery once and for all.
"Finn?" Sam asked.
Finn stared at him for a moment and then spoke up.
"What's wrong, Sam?"