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"What's going on here?", Kurt asked, shocked.
"Aww, didn't you miss your old friends?" Bodhi went over to the counter, grabbed an apple and bit into the fruit. "Your folks have been hospitable so far. I almost feel bad for trapping them."
Kurt narrowed his eyes at the group of aliens. Due to his sudden anger, the air charged up electrically. The lights started flickering ominously. "Let them go and leave. Now."
"Nah", Deacon answered with a smirk. "And before you do something you will regret afterwards…just consider that you are alone, and we are five. You will not stand a chance."
He had a point. "So what is it that you want?", Kurt hissed hostilely. "I'm sure you didn't just show up here to torture my parents for fun. 2 000 miles away from Arizona, mind you."
"He's smart, our bionic friend, isn't he?" Taj got up from his seat and smirked at him. "You're not wrong. The truth is that we need you."
Kurt glowered at him. "Me? What for?"
"Okay, not all of you – we only need that microchip in your head, that's all", Rex explained calmly.
Burt's and Carole's eyes widened in panic. The surgery to remove the microchip was extremely risky, given that the chip was implanted on his cortex. And even if Kurt miraculously survived the surgery – he would still die afterwards because his body would reject the nanobots.
"You cannot be serious", Kurt scoffed. "Forget it."
Taj clicked his tongue disdainfully. "Did you hear that, my friends?" He looked into the round of his buddies.
Kaz had stayed unusually quiet all the time, but the boys hadn't noticed. "Let's make sure he understands what's at stake here, okay?"
He turned back to Kurt again and put his hand on his shoulder as if they were old friends. "See, the thing is that you have no choice. We know where your parents are, and we also know where your friends' folks are. The reason we didn't get them involved yet is that we didn't want to go that low. But now, you left us no other choice."
"But if you agree to giving us that chip of yours, we will leave all of them alone, you have our word."
The other four aliens nodded in agreement. "Sounds like a deal?", Deacon asked.
His parents shook their heads fervently, but Kurt just sighed deeply. "Fine", he relented. "But don't even think about laying a finger on my family."
"We will stick to the deal, honest", Bodhi said with a self-righteous smirk. "Come on, let's go to our bus. You can drive shotgun if you wanna."
With slumped shoulders, Kurt followed them out of the door.
Before they left, Kaz threw the married couple an apologetic glance. "I'm so sorry about everything", she whispered and quickly pushed the steak knife over to them so that they could free themselves.
…
Sam pensively played with the can of coke in his hands while he was sitting in the living room, all by himself.
-4 hours earlier-
"What the hell was that, Kaz?!", he yelled once he had slammed the door shut behind them.
Kaz looked tormented. "Sam, let me explain…"
"Explain what? That you betrayed us?", Sam spat "I trusted you! I thought you were different from them, but you are just as malicious and backstabbing as your friends!"
"Sam, I never told them you were here in Tucson, really!", Kaz said with a pleading tone. "I could never do that to you. In the past week, you grew on me. I've never felt like that ever before. I would never just throw that away!"
The male blonde looked at her disbelievingly. "And how am I supposed to believe you?"
"You need to trust me!"
"But I can't!", Sam hissed. "I just cannot trust you, Kaz."
She just looked at him, shaking her head sadly. "You cannot trust me", she whispered, more to herself. Her eyes filled with tears. "You will never trust me, no matter what. You will always see the evil earth invader in me, no matter what I do."
Sam looked at her, wide eyed, his initial anger long forgotten. "Kaz…"
"You may be half an alien, but you have the mentality of the humans: Never trust those that are different from you."
He wanted to take her hand, but she backed away from him. "You are such a hypocrite, Sam! And this", she pointed at the two of them "-is no good idea. It never was. I should have known better." She went to the door and opened it. "Leave. And never come back, okay? We are through."
"But Kaz…"
"Didn't I make myself clear enough?", she yelled. "This is over. Next time we meet, I will treat you like an enemy." Her voice sounded ice cold.
Sam gulped, but her glare was unrelenting. With a sigh, he left her motelroom.
…
Why did their breakup still hurt? They had never even been a couple to begin with. Sam leaned back and stared at the ceiling.
"Are you okay?" Mercedes' voice pulled him out of his reverie. "You have that kicked puppy look in your eyes."
"I'm fine…", he sighed and turned his head. She cocked an eyebrow unimpressedly. "Are you?"
"Okay, I'm not." He sighed again. "Kaz broke up with me. Sort of."
Mercedes grimaced. "I'm sorry. I mean, I didn't like her, but if she made you happy…"
He massaged his temples. "Maybe, it was for the best. We just weren't compatible. We chased something we couldn't have."
"I mean, it still could have worked out at the right time and in the right place", Mercedes muttered.
Sam sat up properly. "What about you and that mummy-dude?"
"His name is still Omari", she scolded him "And he left today. He is still in love with Soraya and hoped that I would be a good replacement. At least, he was honest to me."
"Yikes." Sam threw her a compassionate glance. "I'm sorry to hear that."
"Hey, I should have expected that", she answered with a shrug. "He is so into her, and I cannot blame him. We don't choose who we fall for." For some reason, she was looking at him.
And for some reason, he was blushing now. He quickly looked away and cleared his throat. "No, we don't."
…
He had absolutely no idea where the aliens had brought him. Somehow, they had managed to rent a small clinic not far from the border to Indiana. Whether their owners were just fans of Brainwarp, or they had somehow brainwashed them, Kurt had no idea. Actually, he didn't even care. Right now, he was sitting on the floor of the OR, leaning against the wall, and hugging his knees. They had told him to wait there for him, until they had gotten him a brain surgeon that would do the surgery on him. Not that he had any other choice, Taj had locked the door from outside. Even if he hadn't, he wouldn't be so stupid to flee. He had nothing to lose anyway – he already lost everything. The people he cared about had been lying to him.
"I'm so sorry, baby", a female voice next to him suddenly said. Kurt turned his head, his eyes widened in surprise. A pretty middle-aged woman was sitting next to him now, she had auburn hair with emerald eyes and a pale complexion. Her perfume smelled of lilacs.
"Mom?", he breathed. "Are you…are you really here?" He rubbed his eyes, but she was still sitting next to him after that.
Elizabeth shook her head slowly. "I wish, bug. But no, I'm not here. You are hallucinating. The bottle of water you have drunk earlier that day must have contained narcotic substances."
Only now that she had said it, he noticed how he was getting more lightheaded the more time passed.
"I'm still glad you're here, even if my head is playing a trick on me."
His mother sighed and wrapped her arms around him.
"You know, mom", he whispered "Eighteen years ago, I should have died, not you."
She jerked her head to the side when he said that. "What did you say?"
Kurt sighed. "You should have lived. If they had saved your life, you surely would have become a heroine or at least invented a cure for cancer or something. But what have I done all these years? Finn wanted me to become a hero, but just look at me! I'm a joke, right?"
His mother looked at him sternly. "Kurt Hummel, don't you dare say something like that again, okay? You are no joke, do you understand?"
"But mom…"
"And you are a hero! You are willing to sacrifice yourself just so that your family and friends are safe! If that's no hero material, then I don't know."
"But look where I am now, mom!", he hissed "They are soon going to slice open my skull, just because of a piece of metal in my head! And I said yes just because Rachel and Blaine have been sleeping with each other behind my back! I should have known she was up to something. After everything we've been through, after she had shown me the tattoo she had of Finn, she dares to…"
Kurt trailed off when realization hit him like a bus. He turned to his mother incredulously. "Oh my god…"
"What is it, baby?", she asked curiously. "What's going on in your head?"
"Rachel's tattoo…I saw her hip in the motelroom, and she didn't have it! Oh god…" He jumped up and started pacing, suddenly full of energy. There was another thing that didn't add up. "Two days ago, I threw a fork at Blaine's left arm."
Elizabeth looked at him amusedly. "You did what now?"
"Long story", he waved it off "Anyway, I bandaged his arm. But when I saw him with Rachel, he didn't have the bandage. And the fork injury was gone, too. I doubt that it healed within two days, though. No, something is very, very wrong here."
"They tricked you, bug", his mother realized. "They wanted you to think that your friends betrayed you. And when they tied up your father and your stepmother, you had no reason to not go with them. It was all part of the plan."
"Oh my god!", he exclaimed and ruffled his hair. "How could I fall for this? I should have known better."
"It's not too late now to get out of here, baby", Elizabeth urged him. "You can still leave."
He rushed over to the door and tried to push it open. Nothing.
"Can't you manipulate the lock with your electromagnetic abilities?", she suggested.
Kurt shook his head. "I'm too weak for that. I can't even move a screw right now."
He honestly had no idea what to do now. He –
Just at that moment, the door opened, and he jumped back. None other than Kaz was standing in front of him now.
"What do you want?", Kurt snapped.
"Just wanted to tell you that the surgeon is going to be here any moment", she informed him neutrally.
Kurt crossed his arms. "What if I don't want to do this anymore?"
"We had a deal, remember?"
"I don't care about our deal!", he spat "You lied to me! You fooled me!"
The female alien looked down her shoes.
-Flashback-
Right after Kurt had left the motelroom, all upset, Rachel and Blaine started morphing – until they looked like Kaz and Bodhi again.
"My plan was just awesome, right?", the male alien smirked at Kaz. His plan to pose as the bionic dude's boyfriend and that other female freak and break his heart. The only thing they needed for the shapeshifting were DNA samples from both of them. When Bodhi disturbed Rachel's little kickboxing lesson, he only wanted to steal a strand of her hair. That the cop showed up as well was the icing on the cake.
Kaz didn't meet his glance. Why did she feel like shit now? "Yes", she decided to answer, even though she didn't mean it. "But he was kinda upset, don't you think?" Kind of like Sam...
Bodhi laughed at her shortly. "Who cares about that? All we want is that microchip, right?"
"Right", she muttered "The microchip…"
…
"Let me go now." His anger was gone, he was way too weak to be mad at her at the moment. "Please."
Kaz sighed deeply – and dropped the keys all of a sudden. "Oops. I just dropped the keys and need to pick them up again", she said, deadpan. She ducked down to pick up said item.
Kurt cocked his eyebrows confusedly. "Okay…?"
"And while I pick up the keys, you slip past me and escape", she said pointedly. "Oh, bummer. I'm such a doofus and way too slow to stop you."
When he finally got the point, Kurt smiled at her faintly. "Thanks", he said.
"Don't think I'm doing this only because I like you or something", Kaz commented.
She was surprised when Kurt laughed shortly. "Oh, I already know you have been sleeping with Sam. Next time, try to be less subtle if you undress each other with your eyes during our fights."
She stared after him when he walked out of the room, speechless.