Summary: Before Blaine's so-called intervention, Sebastian has an announcement to make. Later, Kurt finds out why Sebastian's father was in town.
"What do you mean Rachel is missing?" Blaine had walked into his kitchen to find Cam on the phone. It was obvious he wasn't supposed to hear that news.
Cam ended his call and then said calmly, since he knew Blaine was already on edge "Rachel was missing. When your friends in New York couldn't find her, Santana called Cooper to see if he could do something. He sent out a text to all of the guys here and some we've used in New York. Less than five minutes later a text came through that she had been found. Rachel's fine, Blaine."
"How do you know that?"
"Well, if you don't believe me why don't you ask her? She's right behind you."
Blaine ran over and took her in his arms. After about a minute he pulled back because something seemed off. She wouldn't look at him and "Are you wearing my Dalton hoodie? I thought I left it with Bas."
"You did, B." Sebastian came in and stood beside Rachel. He wouldn't look up either.
"What's going on?" Blaine became even more confused, and agitated, when they clasped hands.
"I was upset" Rachel's voice cracked causing Sebastian to wrap his arm around her, and causing Blaine's eyes to widen. "I had to leave New York and…I…I don't know what happened but I felt this need to go to Sebastian."
Tears began to stream down Rachel's cheeks, driving Blaine to almost believe the impossible "Bas?"
"I'm so sorry, B. Rachel and I slept together last night."
Blaine stumbled back until the counter stopped him. Was he dreaming…or to be correct, was he having a nightmare? His surroundings were out of focus, but he swore he heard Sebastian whisper "5…4…3…2…1"
Then all hell broke loose.
"Oh my god, B! You should see your face!"
"We should have taken a picture, Bastian! Sam would have loved it!"
"Sam?! Ray, Thad would have peed his pants! Oh and…" Rachel caught on and squealed with him "Santana!"
"Wait! Bastian? Ray?" Blaine paused and watched Rachel wipe the tears from her face "Are you laughing? You're laughing at the fact that you slept with the person I thought was my gold-star gay boyfriend?!"
Sebastian stepped forward to Blaine, but he pulled away causing Sebastian to begin laughing harder "I'm still 100% gold-star, you goof. Ray and I slept together as in she snores, but it's cute. Her nose wiggles."
"Thanks Bastian, but we should probably tell him we watched porn and ate brownies in your bed as well."
"Oh, yeah. B, did you know that Rosa can cook vegan? I offered Ray cake before I knew she was a vegetarian. After she told me, we went to the kitchen to find her something she could eat but I didn't know Rosa was there getting things ready to go with Sierra to Paris on Monday. When I went to the fridge to see what we had…"
"Rosa started yelling at him for (in a thick, southern accent) Thinkin' she was going to let him anywhere near that stove while she was around. It was so funny, Blaine. Then she pulled out some vegetables and made me the most wonderful stir-fry I think I have ever had…"
"And then she made these awesome brownies out of zucchini and…I don't know love or some sort of southern cooking magic or voodoo or something like that…"
"But like Bastian said, they were awesome! And then we went and watched…"
"Let's just say my girl here has a kinky side. I had to go to my special porn stash. Oh, Ray wants to see Santa before she goes back to NYC."
Nicknames and finishing each other's sentences? Blaine was pretty sure he had entered a parallel universe, but he was going to go with it for the moment. "Um, when my Aunt Cory got sick, Rosa…not the doctor, put her on a vegan diet. These days she cooks vegan for Sam to balance out his addiction to her grits. Now, before you tell me why the fuck you two thought it was a good idea to have me believe Bas cheated, let me make one thing clear. I am not taking Rachel Berry to a sex shop!" That last part was probably louder than it should have been.
*Throat clearing* "Blaine, we're ready." Dr. Shepard wasn't sure he wanted to know what was going on, but Rachel's presence got his attention. "Rachel, I'm sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday. I can make time for you this afternoon if you still need to talk."
"That's ok, Dr. Shepard. Bastian helped me, plus I'm on my way to McKinley to see what the hell is going on with Mr. Schuster. I'm also anxious to see if my Show Choir Bitch lessons have helped Sugar." She turned to Sebastian and held out her hand "You're still letting me borrow your car, right?"
Sebastian pulled out his keys, but Blaine reached over and snatched them away "Oh, hell no. You are not letting her borrow your car. Rachel, if you want to go to Lima I'll have Cam take you. Cam?"
"What's going on, B?" Sebastian asked as they waited for Cam to respond since he had at some point left the kitchen.
"You two may be these inexplicable besties now, but I have been in a car with Rachel driving…twice, and swore I would never do it again. No way am I letting you give her the keys to your $80,000 BMW." Rachel was about to say something but Blaine turned to the person entering the room "Cam, sorry about calling for you like that, but Rachel needs to get to Lima. I'd take her but I'm being summoned and I think Bas is supposed to stay."
Before he could say anything, Rachel realized that she recognized Blaine's body guard "Mr. Murphy?"
"Hello, Rachel. I was wondering if you would recognize me. I've been pretty good at keeping out of view until now."
"I don't get it" Sebastian chimed in "And why would Ray call you Mr. Murphy?"
"Last year, to get into McKinley without people saying anything, I was a substitute teacher."
"Our favorite substitute teacher" Rachel corrected him. "All of the girls had a crush on him."
"So did Kurt" Blaine added, knowing Rachel was being polite.
"You were at McKinley?" Sebastian still didn't understand that if Cam was as close to Blaine as they seemed, how was he not with him in the parking garage the night of Slushie-gate? But looking at the expressions of both Cam and Blaine, he knew now wasn't the time to bring it up.
Dr. Shepard cleared his throat again "Blaine…"
"Fine." Blaine moved closer to Sebastian and went up on his toes to give him a kiss. Then quietly, but with almost a growl, warned him "You are so going to get punished for that stunt earlier."
Sebastian shuttered at the thought, in a good way. "I can't wait."
When Blaine left the kitchen, Cam turned back to Sebastian "You want to explain what the hell is going on. Blaine heard the last part of your call about people thinking Rachel was missing."
"I wanted to make sure you were going to be here. Ray, you really didn't know Cam was Blaine's body guard?"
"Security detail" Cam corrected him "Now that Cooper is in charge, we decided to make a change. Guys that make their presence known will still be body guards, but guys like me and Daniel will be security details."
Rachel was even more confused but Sebastian gave her a look of I'll explain later "Does Sam know? Wait, does Kurt know?"
"Yes, Sam knows about me but not Kurt. Speaking of, I'm guessing whatever you want to talk about concerns him?"
Sebastian looked down at Rachel and she gave him a nod, knowing what he was silently asking her "Damn straight. He's been up to more than any of us were aware of." Cam motioned over to the kitchen table, where the three of them went to have a seat. While Rachel told Cam everything she knew, Sebastian couldn't help but worry about her putting herself in the middle of this mess. He of all people, knew how vengeful Kurt could be. That thought had his mind wander. With the excitement of Rachel's appearance, he had forgotten to ask his dad how his meeting with a certain Congressman had gone.
In Lima, that certain Congressman was sitting at his own kitchen table, waiting for his son to come down. Burt had asked Carole and Finn to give him alone time with Kurt that morning. Kurt just wasn't aware of that fact and was surprised to see his father as he went to make a cup of coffee "Dad? What are you doing here? I thought you and Carole were going shopping for her new car today."
"We were, but Finn went with her instead. Have a seat Kurt."
Kurt had a bad feeling at where this was going, but he had an out "Sorry, Dad. I have to be at work early to train someone for when I go to New York."
"Cooper told that Chandler guy his training had to be delayed and to come back on Monday. Have a seat Kurt."
"You talked to Cooper?" Kurt's previous bad feeling was now off the charts, and he didn't even want to guess what Cooper told his dad about Chandler. Burt reached into his pocket and pulled out a thumb drive. Kurt knew immediately what it was…a copy of the video where Cooper gave Travis the $10,000 in blackmail money. "Dad…"
"You've always wanted more, Kurt. It what's special about you. You know, the drive you needed to get out of Ohio, to get someplace where you were free to be your true self. But I found out it wasn't just drive, it was selfishness and it didn't matter who got in your way…even if it was me."
"Dad, I can…"
Again, Burt didn't give him the chance to say anything "What you did to Blaine, a person you were supposed to love, was deplorable." He reached down to the chair next to him, grabbed a copy of the file Xavier had given him the day before and slid it across the table. "What you did to Sebastian was criminal."
He picked up the file and almost vomited from reading the first page. Hunter Clarington had told the DA how Kurt had convinced the former Dalton Head Master to pile "punishments" on Sebastian, ultimately leading to his bringing Hunter to the school. It also stated that Kurt had done this by promising to influence his father, a very popular United States Representative, to support the Head Master's run for governor in the next election.
"Blaine told me the day after Thanksgiving that my name had been brought up in the Dalton scandal. I told you this and you said nothing. The Ohio Chair of the Democratic Party came and questioned me about my involvement. I told you this and you said nothing. Finn found out what you had done…" Kurt gasped, somehow astounded Finn would betray him like that "He apologized profusely, saying that he said nothing because it was your place to tell me, and he was right. You should know that he didn't want to tell me but when Carole overheard our conversation…well, he really didn't have a choice after that."
His dad was right about one thing. If Carole had gotten involved, Finn didn't stand a chance of holding out. "Dad, I'm sorry."
"Unfortunately, this is one of those times when being sorry isn't enough." Burt got up and pushed in his chair "I've got a lot to think about so I'm going to go do just that."
"Dad, please. Can't we talk about this?"
"Kurt, you are my son and I love you more than anything in this world. I just don't like you very much right now. I will tell you this…stay away from Sebastian and Blaine. Both Xavier and Cooper were adamant about it."
"Fine, I'll stay away from the Meer…Sebastian, but his father doesn't have the right to tell me to stay away from Blaine. Besides, Blaine and Sebastian aren't even together anymore."
"I don't know what happened, but after talking with Sam I'm pretty sure they got back together. And Kurt, Cooper flat out said if you try to go anywhere near Blaine when you're both in New York, he has people in place to stop you."
Once Burt was gone, Kurt tried to catch his breath. His entire world had shattered and he had no one to blame except himself, but knowing that wouldn't fix the situation. The first thing he needed to do was calm down, but the second was just as important...find out if he still had a job. As much as he hated working for the bastard, Cooper was very good to his employees. The restaurant matched tips earned by servers and divided that money between the non-servers. With as popular as the New & Improved Breadstix was, it wound up being a lot more money than one would think. Since Kurt's salary went to paying back the $10,000, he really needed that money.
Note: I understand in canon Burt and Kurt had (supposedly—my opinion) the ultimate parent/child relationship, but in this story it would have been it would have been inauthentic for Burt not to be pissed at what Kurt had done. However, I wanted to note in advance that I will play off of the fact that in Episode 6x12 (2009) Burt demanded Kurt "join a team" after Emma showed him the pamphlet on suicide rather than getting him therapy. That scene always bothered me.