"So how long do you think it'll be before Sue and Mr Schue try to strangle each other?" That was the first thing Puck said to Blair at school that morning.

"Hello to you, too," Blair replied as she got into her locker. "They've been playing sort of nice so far for the past week so any day now."

"Whose side are you taking anyway?" Puck was curious where Blair's loyalties were placed.

"I'm loyal to both of them, Puck. It'll be the circumstances that are the deciding factor." Blair swapped out some books then looked at him with a raised brow. "Why? Are you planning something?"

"Now what makes you think I'm planning something?" Puck gave her his signature half smirk.

"Because you're always planning something," she laughed in reply.

"Not this time. At least not in Glee club." Puck walked up behind Blair and wrapped his arms around her. "I do have plans for something for us though."

Blair turned around in his embrace and draped her arms over his shoulders. "If you're planning what I think you're planning then the answer is still no, Puck. I'm not ready for that."

Puck groaned because they'd been dating for awhile now but still haven't slept together. He removed his arms from around her. "What's the problem, Han? You not trust me or something?"

"It's not that. I'm just not ready. And if you have a problem with that then we need to end this." Blair wanted to take the next step with Puck, she really did, but something was holding her back. There was a feeling in her gut about it that she just couldn't shake – a feeling that she would regret it if she slept with him.

Ending things with Blair was the last thing he wanted to do – which was a big reason why he didn't tell her the truth about being the father of Quinn's baby. "You can't get rid of me that easily. I'll try to be more patient."

"Thank you." Blair gave him a kiss on the cheek and when she pulled back, she spotted Liam down the hall. "We'll talk later." She darted down the hall to Liam at his locker. Blair tapped one shoulder and walked around to the other, grinning when he did the whole looking where he was tapped and not seeing anyone there thing.

Liam quickly realized he'd fallen for the oldest trick in the book. "Funny."

"I thought so." Blair leaned back against the row of lockers. "Where were you yesterday? Did you forget it was your lunch day in the whole 'lunch time custody' arrangement?"

"Yeah, sorry. I wanted to talk to Quinn after her doctor's appointment." Liam made sure to speak quietly so the others around them couldn't hear.

Blair spoke in the same hushed tones and waited for someone to pass before answering. "She doing okay?"

Liam nodded. "Yeah. They both are. It's a girl."

Blair could tell that Liam didn't really want to talk about this but there was something she wanted to ask. "Have you forgiven Finn yet?"

Liam let out a deep exhale. "I'm working on it. Quinn keeps pestering me to forgive him too, so you're not the only ones who wants us to be friends again."

"Or at least be civil enough to eat lunch together and actually look at each other in Glee club." Blair shrugged. "Baby steps." She cringed at her choice of words. "I didn't mean to say it like that."

"I got the gist." They still had another minute before class so he used it to ask her something. "How are things with you and Puck?"

"Fine. It's still mind boggling that we're dating. Still not quite sure how it happened." Blair laughed because she really hated Puck before and then it changed. Her expression dropped a bit because she realized she had a tendency of falling for guys she 'hated' until she didn't.

Liam noticed this change in her. "Everything alright?"

Blair snapped out of it and brushed it off. "I just had an epiphany. No big deal."

Liam was about to ask her what it was about but the bell rang before he had a chance to and then Blair disappeared down the hall to get to class.

Later that day in the choir room before Glee started, Blair and Mike were doing the Foxtrot just for the fun of it. Blair hadn't danced outside of the routines for Glee club in so long that she'd really enjoyed this. At the end of it, both she and Mike laughed.

"Where did you learn that?" Mike had been taking dance classes of various forms for as long as he could remember and hadn't come across many who knew the Foxtrot.

"Dance, music, and gymnastics were a big thing in my family growing up." Blair playfully curtsied to him. "Thank you for the dance, kind sir."

Make in turn bowed with a flourish. "The pleasure was mine, madame."

"Get your own girlfriend," Puck called from his seat on the risers. "She's unavailable."

"Someone's jealous," Kurt said to Blair as she sat in the seat beside him.

"I'm a date one person at a time kind of person. Unless there's three of us dating each other. But that's the only exception." Blair said that like it was a perfectly normal thing to say, because for it was.

Puck's attention perked up when she said that. "Hold on, you're into three-ways? How did I not know this?"

"There's a difference between a three-way hookup and having a polyamorous relationship," Santana chimed in and at the looks she was being given she said, "What? It's not like I'm the one speaking from experience."

This conversation was cut short because Sue and Mr Schue walked into the room. They did a coin toss to see who would get to direct first and Sue won. Blair kept quiet about the fact that it was a double-headed trick coin. Some things just weren't the bother and this, she felt, was one of them.

Sue proceeded to announce she had a list of those she wanted as part of her 'elite' Glee club, but before she could list any of them off Mr Schue said she wasn't allowed to do that because they wouldn't be able to compete in Sectionals since it was against the rules. "Oh, but I can," Sue answered then turned to Blair. "Blair?"

Blair pulled the Show Choir rule book out of her bag and went over to Mr Schue. "I don't know what this is about," she said to him quietly, "but I'm pretty sure she had me bring this over for dramatic effect."

Sue heard that and narrowed her eyes at Blair who simply smiled back to her in reply. "As you can see there, William, while twelve members must perform for each team not all twelve members must perform each song." She smiled proudly since she was going to get her way.

Mr Schue saw it there in black and white so there wasn't anything he could do about it. With a scoff he took a seat next to the piano and waved his hand. "Fine. Go ahead and take all the football players and your Cheerios."

Sue put on her reading glasses and turned to the group. "Alright, everybody, listen up. When you hear your name called, cross over to my side of this black shiny thing." The 'black shiny thing' being the grand piano. She ignored Mr Schue when he pointed that out to her and proceeded to read from her list. "Santana, Wheels, Gay Kid, Asian, Other Asian, My Asian, Aretha, and Shaft."

Blair couldn't help but let out a single loud laugh at the end of Sue's list. It was utterly and completely horrible and yet Blair found it utterly and completely hilarious. She got up with those who'd been called and went to stand with them, all the while thinking Sue was up to something.

With Sue's group assembled behind her, she turned to Mr Schue. "See, Will, I don't want to participate in a group that ignores the needs of minority students."

Mr Shue got right up to his feet and leaned over the piano to say to her quietly, yet heatedly, "You have got to be kidding me."

Sue shook her head. "I wouldn't kid about this, Will, and maybe that's your problem. Bigotry is no laughing matter."

Santana smiled as she interjected with, "And that's how Sue," she held up her hand shaped like the letter 'C', "sees it."

Sue looked back at Santana with such pride upon hearing that. "Outstanding." She then pointed at Blair. "You could learn something from her."

Blair dropped her face her hand and shook her head, thinking aloud, "This is going to be a long rehearsal."

That night Blair was cooking supper when Sue came into the kitchen and held a key attached to a purple rabbit's foot in front of her face. Blair reached up and cautiously took it from her. "Uh…thanks?"

Sue laughed at her reaction. "It's a housekey. You've earned my trust. Now what are you cooking?"

Blair looked at her with wide eyes. "I seriously don't have to wait around for you anymore and I can come home when I want to?"

"Yep." Sue picked a vegetable out of the stir fry Blair was working on and popped it into her mouth. "As long as you don't bring over that Nuck boy you're dating."

"It's Puck," Blair corrected as she slipped the keychain into her pocket. "And no worries there – he's too afraid of bumping into you here to come over."

Sue felt pretty good about that. "Good. It means I'm doing my job right."

Blair laughed with a shake to her head and put the finishing touches on her creation. When she reached out for the spice on the counter it revealed the bandage on her wrist.

Sue caught that instantly and went right over to her. "What did you do?" Her face and eyes were riddled with worry.

"It's not what you think, Sue." Blair pulled the bandage back to reveal the burn. "I was on the phone when I took the rolls out of the over and dinged my wrist on the pan since I was using a pot holder. It was an accident and I'm fine. I don't even think it'll scar."

Sue let out a breath she didn't even realize she'd been holding. "Use the oven mitts next time instead of a pot holder."

Blair returned the bandage to its place and saluted Sue. "Aye, aye captain." She sprinkled in the spice, sautéed for another minute, then brought it to the table. "So…" Blair sat down across from Sue. "What's your ulterior motive in the Glee club?"

"Now what makes you think I have an ulterior motive?" Sue served herself some of the stir-fry.

"Because you always have an ulterior motive," Blair answered then added in, "And I feel like we've had this conversation before."

"We have," Sue concurred. "So I will tell you now what I told you then – Not everything I do has an ulterior motive."

Blair popped her lips before raising her water glass in cheers. "I'll believe it when I see it."

Sue didn't say anything in reply and clinked her glass with Blair's.

At the next Glee rehearsal, it wasn't with the whole group but just those Sue chose. Sue picked the song 'Hate on Me' for them to perform. It went over quite well with all of them. Mercedes had the solo, those who wanted to dance freely could have, and they came up with a routine on the spot. Everything flowed so well and Blair, along with the others, had a lot of fun performing it. In fact, it went a lot better than Blair thought it would have. As enjoyable as this all was, Blair still thought Sue was up to something.

After the rehearsal, Blair went up to Sue. "Can I ask you for a favor?"

"You can, but that doesn't mean I do it," Sue replied as she neatened up the stack of her sheet music.

"Whatever you're scheming…don't do it." Blair really hoped Sue was listening and really listening. "Glee club is important to me, Sue. Please don't do anything to mess it up."

Sue looked at her and answered defensively, "Do you really think so little of me?"

That wasn't the case. "No, but I do know how single-sighted you can be. When you want something you go after it will full force and don't always consider what the consequences might be. I actually think that's something we have in common." Blair looked at her pleadingly. "Look, I don't know what you're planning and I clearly can't stop you, just…think about how it's going to affect everyone else before you do it. Please?"

Sue didn't answer her one way or the other and only said, "You're going to be late for class."

Blair didn't expect Sue to agree so she wasn't surprised by her response. "Later, Sue."

It seems Sue wasn't going to give Blair the one thing she asked for because not only did she steal Puck and Brittany from Mr Schue's team, but she also had a big blow up with Mr Schue – during which she called Glee club stupid and something no one cared about.

They were in the Auditorium when this happened and as soon as Blair heard what Sue really thought about Glee club, she left. Everyone was so focused on the fight that no one noticed her leave. Well, almost no one.

Liam was on stage when he saw Blair leave and went after her, leaving Sue and Mr Schue to argue while the other Glee clubbers listened. Since Blair had a head start, it took him a minute to find her but he did. She was sitting on the stairs outside where they ate their lunch. "You're predictable with your hiding spots, you know that right?"

"I didn't expect anyone to follow, so I didn't put much effort into it." Blair wiped her eyes and didn't look at him.

Liam sat on the step beside her. "You want to talk about it?"

"I understand Sue, I do. I understand her and I accept her but it still hurts that she actively tries to destroy something that I love. My shrink thinks she's doing it to give me a villain to focus on so I don't focus how I feel onto myself." Blair scoffed because a part of her thought Doc was right about that. "Who knows, maybe she is but I wish she wouldn't. I need this in my life. I need this outlet. I need my friends and she doesn't give a damn."

Liam wrapped his arm around Blair to hug her and she leaned her head on his shoulder. "No matter what happens to Glee club you will always have your friends. And as far as your outlet goes, you can sing and dance anywhere."

"Anywhere?" Blair laughed as she wiped some more tears from her eyes.

"Anywhere." Liam stood up and held his hand out to her. "Like right here on these stairs for example."

Blair looked at him like he was nuts. "Not happening."

"So happening." He started humming the intro to 'Shake it Off' – but not the Taylor Swift version, it was the Supernatural Parody version – before singing the first couple verses as he danced on the stairs.

Blair laughed at how much he got into it and couldn't stop herself from getting to her feet to sing and dance along with him. She knew this parody version as well as the real one.

At one point they ran down the stairs to the picnic tables and jumped on them to continue with their singing and dancing that consisted of a lot of shaking, shimmying, and twists.

At the end of the song, they sat on the bench and laughed. "See?" Liam said with a wave of his hand. "Anywhere."

All Blair could do was smile because he was right. As weird as it was to just randomly burst out in song and dance, he was right.

Blair went home one minute before her curfew was up and found Sue waiting for her in the living room. "I'm going to bed." She still wasn't ready to deal with her yet.

"Blair, wait." Sue got up from the sofa and stepped into her path. "I wanted to tell you that I'm sorry. No matter what my feelings towards Glee are, I shouldn't have said what I did." She gave that a moment to sink in before continuing. "Also, I have decided to step down as co-director."

Blair was starting to take her seriously now. "Really?"

"Yes. It's not my thing." Sue waved her hand. "It's too fruity. And as you well know I don't handle emotional teenagers well unless they're breaking down from physical exhaustion. My methods are extreme, I know, but when I coach and they win – I win. You know how I feel about winning."

"I do, but Sue…Life isn't all about winning. Life is messy and impromptu and complicated. It's filled with as many losses as wins. You gotta take the good and the bad and accept that you can't change it." Blair had a feeling that her last words would click with Sue, and they did.

Sue instantly remembered the last sentence Blair said to her. "You used my own words against me."

"It was the last thing you said to me my first night here. It stuck." Blair gestured to her room. "Goodnight, Sue."

"Goodnight, Blair." Sue was sorry for how Blair was affected by all this and would be careful to ensure Blair didn't get caught in the crossfire of what she was going to do next.

End Season 1 Episode 7