A/N: Hey, Readers! A little head's up here about something – I did not edit this 'Episode'. I finished writing it at 2 AM and too tired to edit but wanted to get it posted, so I apologize for any grammatical errors, typos, etc. With that said, hope you enjoy it reading. : )

Thanks to the blogosphere, the fact that Quinn was pregnant was all over the school. Blair heard all about from Rachel how she tried to stop the story by giving the blogger a pair of her panties, but it clearly didn't work out in the end. The first thing she did was give Rachel props for trying to take care of herself, the second thing she did was tell her how creepy it was for her to do it, and the third thing she did was try and track down the blogger to rip their head off – literally.

"I'm going to kill them," Blair seethed at school when she saw the blogger walk by. She took her backpack off her shoulder and handed it to Rachel. "Hold this please." Blair dropped the bag into Rachel's hand and stormed off.

"Ohhhh no…" Kurt was quick to stop her. He placed his hands on her shoulders, turned her around, and guided her back to the lockers. "You have murder face on and we cannot afford to be witnesses against you at your trial."

Blair took her bag back from Rachel who was holding it out to her then crossed her arms and pouted, "You never let me murder anybody."

"It's because we love you." Kurt patted Blair's head which resulted in Blair sticking her tongue out at him in reply.

"Loser," she muttered, though with love.

"Jerk," Kurt beamed, saying it the same way she did. His beaming didn't last for long because Karofsky was coming down the hall with a Slushie cup in his hand so Kurt ducked and Rachel quickly ran off.

Blair pointed at the hockey jerk with a death glare in her eyes. "Move along."

Karofsky made it out like he was about to throw it at her but continued down the hall and eventually found his target – Finn.

Blair practically felt steam shooting out of her ears at the sight of this and was about to do something about it, but a hand on her arm prevented her from doing so. She was about ready to rip the hand off until she saw it belonged to Liam, who looked as upset about this as she was.

"I got this," he told her, not taking his eyes off Karofsky and went down the hall.

When Liam arrived Finn was telling Karofsky that he was going to pay for what he did and Karofsky retorted by saying neither he nor Quinn had the juice anymore. Liam responded to this by shoving Karofsky against the wall, saying firmly, "But I do. And if you mess with my sister or my friend ever again I will end you."

Karofsky scoffed, acting like Liam's threat didn't bother him, and pushed him away. "Yeah, whatever." With nothing else to say, he continued down the hall.

During this whole exchange, Blair stood with Kurt and watched with wide eyes. "Whoa."

"Double whoa." Kurt needed to fan himself for a moment. He then realized Rachel wasn't standing with them anymore. "Where did Rachel go?"

Blair looked around and didn't spot her either. "She must have run for the hills when the Slushie appeared. We'll see her in class." She playfully stepped aside with a flourishing arm wave. "Loser."

Kurt bowed his head. "Jerk." They linked arms with a laugh and as they went down the hall, they each looked back to Liam who was still talking to Quinn and Finn. Blair could easily figure out why Kurt looked back, but Blair had no idea why she did.

After Glee rehearsal where Mr Schue gave the assignment of making a mash-up with one of his favorite songs – Bust a Move – Blair had been wracking her brain. She was flipping through her playlist even in class but couldn't find one. Blair was starting to think that – despite Mr Schue's lesson that two unexpected things can work great together – there wasn't a song that would work. Granted this was only her first day trying so she wasn't going to give up yet.

At lunch, Blair sat on the staircase outside with music playing in her ears. She was so engulfed in the music that she jumped about fifty feet when a hand touched her shoulder. "Holy shit. You're popping up out of nowhere today."

Liam sat down on his spot on the steps and smiled, "I'm a ninja, hear me roar."

Blair almost spit out her soda when he said that. "I think if ninjas roard that would kinda defeat the whole stealth purpose."

Liam had to give her that one. "How about this then – Silent but deadly?"

A slow grin spread across Blair's face. "I like it."

"Have you stopped volunteering at the hospital?" Liam asked out of nowhere. "I haven't seen you when I've been there."

"They moved me from the old people ward to the young people ward. Apparently I'm better with kids than I am with elders." Blair shrugged because they didn't really give her a reason on her assignment change, but it didn't bother her. Her favorite elderly patient had been discharged awhile ago so she didn't mind trying to brighten up the kids' day.

Liam was surprised to hear that. "I would have figured you'd send them running away in fear."

"Hey!" Blair scoffed with an 'I can't believe you just said that' smile and threw a grape at him, which he managed to catch with his mouth. "Now you're just showing off."

Liam grinned as he chewed the grape then asked her, "Any ideas for the mashup?"

Blair shook her head. "Not a one, but the day is still young."

"If anyone can come up with something, it's you. I never would have thought to put together 'Don't Stop Believing' and 'Castle on a Hill' together, but you did. And it worked." Liam reached down and snagged a grape from the container in Blair's hand. "You'll think of something."

Blair shrugged because she wasn't too sure of that. "How's Quinn doing? She seems pretty shaken by the whole school hierarchy thing."

"She's determined to come up with a plan to make her cool again. Her being my little sister is only going to keep her afloat for so long." Liam never really cared about the whole hierarchy system in the school but did appreciate being able to fall back on it when he needed to.

Blair had a bit of a double-take moment there. "Little sister? I thought you guys were twins."

Liam laughed at that. "No, we're definitely not twins. We're in the same grade because we're only a few months apart. It wasn't until after my parents adopted me that they found out they were having Quinn." He looked at her weirdly because of the expression on Blair's face. She looked like she'd just solved a big mystery. "You doing alright over there?"

Blair was just thinking how that explained so much. If Liam was adopted then no wonder he didn't share the same name as his Alter. Blair really hadn't thought much about her Reality in awhile because she was feeling so settled in this one, but hearing Liam's revelation sent her back a little.

When Liam asked if she was doing alright, she snapped out of it. "Yeah, sorry. I was just making sense of it in my head. I really thought you and Quinn were twins."

Liam kinda thought there was more to it than what she was saying but didn't question any further and instead tried to steal another grape.

"Hey," Blair pulled the container from his reach. "You're already stolen one. Now you're just getting greedy."

"One more isn't going to kill you," Liam grinned and reached over again, only to have her move it further.

"How do you know?" Blair questioned jokingly. "It just might."

Liam looked at her thoughtfully. "I'm willing to risk it." He reached out again and accidentally knocked the container out of her hands.

Blair's mouth dropped when her container went flying and her grapes dropped everywhere like confetti. She turned to Liam with his expression then burst out laughing. "Guess neither of us were meant to have them."

Liam laughed at this turn of events as well. "Guess so."

Puck went over to the stairwell and found Liam and Blair laughing together. He felt a bit jealous and cleared his throat to make his presence known. "What's so funny?"

"The great grape-pocalypse." Blair smiled at Puck. "What's up?"

"The Auditorium is free. Thought you might want to work on the mash-up together." Puck spoke to Blair then glared at Liam.

Blair was busy gathering up her lunch things so she missed this. "Sure. Later, Liam."

"Later," Liam replied and had to take deep breaths as he watched them walk off together because seeing them like that made his blood boil.

Blair and Puck stayed in the Auditorium for the rest of lunch period and through free period – a time Puck was supposed to be at football practice. She pointed this out to him after another failed attempted that led to both of them laying on the stage looking up at the ceiling. "Aren't you supposed to be at football?"

"I'd rather be doing this." Puck took her hand before turning over to kiss her.

Blair smiled into the kiss before pulling back. "You're not going to get in trouble?"

"Since when are you worried about getting into trouble?" Puck laughed because this wasn't like her.

Blair looked back up to the ceiling and sighed. "I don't know. Guess all this stupid hierarchy stuff has got me thinking. I never had to deal with this at my old school."

"You don't talk about your life before Lima often." Puck rolled to his side and propped himself up on his arm. "What was it like?"

Blair shouldn't have brought it up. "I don't want to talk about it."

"You like keeping people at arm's length, don't you?" Puck was being as patient as he could be with her but he wanted her to let him in one way or another.

"Less chance of getting hurt that way," Blair admitted, moving to a sitting position and leaning back on her hands.

Puck was serious when he said, "You don't have to worry about that with me." Intentionally hurting her was the last thing he wanted to do.

"I have to worry about that with everyone," Blair countered. It was the truth. She'd lost so many people, more than she wanted to remember, and getting hurt by someone she cared about wasn't something she could deal with anymore. With Sue she could at least be slightly prepared for it, but anyone else – Puck especially – probably not.

Puck wanted to get to know her beyond what she's told him. And even with what she's told him there wasn't any detail, it was just basic facts. "Come on, Han. You can tell me one thing. If you tell me one thing about you I bet it would make you feel better about letting me in."

There were a lot of things about herself that she could share with him but chose something that wouldn't reveal too much. "My favorite song of all time is 'Sweet Caroline'."

This might be a start if he could get her to say more. "Why?"

"My dad used to sing it to my mom whenever she was upset. They could have had the biggest fight ever but as soon as he'd start singing that song, it was like…" Blair smiled at the memory, "It was like he was saying the ultimate 'I love you' and the problems didn't seem to matter anymore. Whenever I hear that song it makes me think that one day I might have something like that with someone, too."

Puck smiled at Blair. "Thank you for sharing that with me."

Blair moved some hair behind her ear. "Thank you for listening." She returned to lying down and asked Puck teasingly, "So, have you told your mother about me yet?"

Puck practically guffawed at that as he laid down beside her. "Not a chance. My mom would flip if she found out I was dating you."

Blair stood up for this and Puck followed suite. She crossed her arms feeling a bit offended. "So…you want me to share everything about myself with you but you won't even tell your mother about me? Are you ashamed of me?"

This wasn't what he meant at all. "No, no, no. That's not it. It's just that my mom – my mom expects me to date a Jewish girl. And you're clearly not Jewish."

Maybe Blair was taking this too personally, but it's where her emotions went. "So you're not ashamed of me, just of the that I'm not Jewish and too Korean to look the part?"

Puck had no idea how this spiraled so fast. "What? No! That's not what I'm saying at all."

"Really?" Blair scoffed. "Because that's exactly what it sounded like to me." She scooped her bag off the floor and stormed off before Puck had the chance to even come up with a reply.

Blair didn't talk to Puck for the rest of that day or the next. She wasn't in the mindset to do it and as she kept running through the conversation in her mind she wasn't sure if she was in the right to be offended and that just made it all the worse.

Rachel could tell something was up with her but it wasn't until Glee rehearsal that she took the seat beside her and asked. "Everything okay?"

"I think Puck and I had our first fight yesterday and I'm not entirely sure if it's my fault or not." Blair dropped her face in her hands and sighed loudly. "I'm so not used to this."

Rachel looked at her, confused. "You've never had a boyfriend before?"

"Oh, no, I have. I've had girlfriends, too, but it was…different. My fights with them weren't about whether or not we were good enough to meet the other's parents. What we fought about was…different." Blair didn't think she was making any sense but it wasn't like she could tell Rachel the full on truth so she tried to stick close to it as much as possible without giving too much away.

Rachel was still a bit confused, but this wasn't the time or place to get more into it. She did have one thing to say, though. "Maybe your relationship with Puck means more than the others you've had?" She had no idea if she was right or not but it had to be said. "Something to think about."

The rest of the kids filed into the room and serious conversations ended when Kurt and Mercedes went over to Blair to show off the purple nail polish and hair dye they found for her. Blair was so grateful for this lighthearted conversation and because of it, she didn't even notice Puck with his guitar talking to the band.

Mr Schue came in and addressed the club. "Hey, guys, any ideas for a mash-up?" When everyone groaned and muttered, he laughed, "Come on, guys, it's like you're begging me to start dancing." He laughed all the more when pretty much all the kids said their varying 'noes'.

It got quiet in the room when Puck said to Mr Schue, "I've been working on something."

Mr Schue was surprised and impressed. "Take it away."

Puck started strumming his guitar to the intro for 'Sweet Caroline' with his back turned to the group but when the opening lyrics began, he turned around to face them and sang directly to Blair. He hoped that this would be the first step in making things right with her.

Blair gasped when he started singing this song because she had just told him what it meant to her. She honestly thought she was going to cry but tried really hard not to. There was a time she would have instantly gone cynical-mode and think Puck was only singing this song as an out or something of her mad at him, but now as she sat there and saw the look on his face and heard the way he sang the words it pulled at her heartstrings.

When Puck sang the last words and the song came to an end he was going to tell Blair how sorry he was but he didn't get a chance because she shot right out of her chair, threw her arms around his neck and kissed him.

As they kissed some of the Glee members cheered and whistled but there were a few that didn't like what they were seeing for personal reasons.

Finally Mr Schue got back the club's attention. "Alright, that's enough of that." When Puck and Blair pulled apart, he pointed at them with a laughing smile, "Don't make me send you to different ends of the room." Mr Schue clapped his hands together. "Alright, who's next?"

After rehearsal, Blair stood against the row of lockers while Puck got stuff out of his. "I'm sorry I freaked the other day about not meeting your mom. I'm not used to this part, the whole meeting the parents thing. I grew up in a small town where everyone pretty much knew everyone and I grew up with the people I eventually dated. So, I'm sorry. And thank you for the song. It meant a lot to me."

Puck closed his locker and took her hand in his. "You mean a lot to me. I hope you know that. I've never felt this way about anyone before which is why I'm going to tell my mom about us. If she has a problem with it then she's just going to have to find a way to get over it."

Blair shook her head at this. "I don't want to cause a rift between you and your mom. You never know how much time you're gonna have left with them. Don't waste it." She kissed his cheek. "It's fine, I swear."

"You sure?" Puck needed to be positive she was alright with this.

Blair nodded. "I'm sure." They walked down the hall together as she asked him, "Have you decided what you're gonna do with the whole Glee club or football thing?" Blair knew all about how the football coach was making them choose between one or the other.

Puck hadn't yet. "Not yet. I…" He was cut off when Karofsky threw a Slushie at both him and Blair. This was the first time it'd ever happened to either of them and they were both stunned.

It didn't take long for Blair to go from stunned to pissed, though. "You're dead!" she shouted but was stopped by Puck from doing anything.

"Come on." Puck guided Blair to the locker room so they could get cleaned up and appreciated the fact that she didn't put up a fight about it.

Liam saw the whole thing and waited until Blair and Puck were out of sight before he tackled Karofsky to the floor and whaled on him. He got a couple more good punches in before getting to his feet and pointing firmly down at him. "If you ever Slushie Blair again – If you even so much as look at her, you're a dead man."

Karofsky coughed and groaned but that didn't stop him from talking back. "Big talk from a guy who isn't her boyfriend."

Liam was about to start beating on him again but stopped when a teacher came into the hall and asked, "What's going on here?"

Karofsky smirked at Liam in a way that'd make him think he was about to tell, but didn't. "Nothing. I tripped and faceplanted. All good."

The teacher looked around to see if any other students would say something different but none said a word. This made them say, "Go to the nurse if you need to and everyone else get to class, now."

Karofsky got to his feet and pointed at Liam with a laugh before going down the hall. Liam punched a locker before going in the opposite direction.

Blair and Puck missed all this because they were busy cleaning up. "Can't believe I ever tried doing this to you," Puck said as he rinsed out his hair.

"Now I know how Rachel and my other friends feel." Blair wrung out her hair a bit in the sink. "I bet you've made your decision now. You're gonna pick football, aren't you?"

Puck didn't want to admit that, but he had to. "I can't take the humiliation like this again. But me choosing football isn't going to change anything with us, will it?"

Blair finished rinsing out her hair again and answered him. "As long as you're not worried about your social standing by dating me."

"I got Slushied because of Glee. Not because of you." Puck kissed her gently then pulled back and smoothed down her wet hair. "I'm sorry you got caught in my crossfire."

"Eh, it's alright. Granted I still want to rip his head off, but I kinda feel like I've been fully initiated into Glee Club so I'm gonna wear my Slushie stained shirt with pride." Blair waved her hands down herself to show off her grape stained tee shirt. "Besides, it's purple. Can't go wrong with that."

Puck chuckled at her, "You're something else, you know that?"

Blair beamed as she grabbed her things and left the locker room with him. "Why yes, yes I do."

Later that day, Blair sat stood with the Glee club and Mr Schue in the choir room – at least those who weren't a part of the football team. At three-thirty they'd know who picked what. When it hit that time on the dot, everyone turned to the door and there was no one there. Blair knew not to expect Puck but she was hoping at least Mike would stick with Glee and was disappointed to find he wasn't going to. That disappointment changed when Mike and the other football player whose name Blair couldn't remember for the life of her came into the room.

Blair happily went over to Mike and hugged him. "You're here!"

"I couldn't leave my only foxtrot friend behind," Mike laughed and the pair busted a move before they rejoined the group.

Kurt saw who was coming in next and got Blair's attention as he pointed over.

Blair turned around to see Puck walk in. She gasped and ran over giggling as she threw her arms around him. Blair pulled back and held onto his hands. "You do realize that since you've been officially Slushied you'll likely get one every day now, right?"

Puck didn't care. This club and Blair meant so much to him that it was worth it. "Bring it."

"Am I late to the party?" Liam asked as he stuck his head around the corner.

"You jerk!" Quinn called out to her brother. "I seriously thought you were ditching us."

Liam made a 'pfft' sound as he brushed off his shoulder. "I'm a member of Glee. Screw school hierarchy."

"Screw school hierarchy!" they all cheered then looked around and realized someone was missing.

Rachel was the first to say something about it. "Wait, where's Finn?"

They all turned to the door and waited but it didn't seem like he was going to be coming. Apparently he didn't share their sentiments about the school's hierarchy.

At lunch the following day, Liam was sitting on the stairwell alone. Blair wasn't there and he hadn't seen her, which was weird. It was even weirder when Quinn came over and sat down. "She's not coming. I saw her in the Auditorium with Puck rehearsing again."

Liam shrugged like it didn't bother him in the least. "It's not like I have to eat her with every day."

"But you like her" Quinn pointed out. "You like her, don't you?" When Liam didn't say anything, she added in, "Look, Liam, you may not realize it but it's clear to me and everyone else that you really like Blair. It's all over school how you slammed Karofsky for throwing a Slushie at Blair but only threatened him when it was me and Finn, so it's only a matter of time before she hears it, too. Wouldn't it be better if she heard it from you instead?"

"Why the hell would I do that?" Liam firmly added in, "I'm not going to get in between her and Puck. I won't mess with her like that."

"Are you really going to sit there and tell me that you think Puck is the right guy for her?" Quinn scoffed. "We both know what he's like."

Liam hated the fact that Blair was dating Puck but he wasn't going to break them up. "I won't hurt her, Quinn, and I can't believe you're encouraging me to try."

"I don't want you to hurt Blair," Quinn countered. "I want you to be happy and I want Blair to be happy, so why can't you just be happy together?"

"Because she's happy with someone else." Liam grabbed his things and was about to leave, but stopped when Quinn asked him,

"Or is she?"

Liam paused for a moment as that question resonated with him, but he didn't look back and just kept going while trying very hard not to think about that question.

End Season 1 Episode 8