Blair sat at the kitchen island munching on breakfast when Sue came in to make one of her protein drinks. "Morning," was her generic greeting between mouthfuls as she flipped through the 'Splits Magazine' article about Sue.

"I believe you meant to say good morning," Sue answered with a bit more cheerfulness than usual. "And yes, Blair, it most certainly is."

Blair paused mid-page flip and looked at her oddly. "Someone woke up on the right side of the bed this morning."

Sue didn't say anything to this and just added the ingredients to the blender. "Sectionals is coming up. Know who you're going to be competing against?"

Blair answered this question because it didn't seem to be that big of a deal. "I think they're called Jane Adams Academy and Holdenbrook School for the Deaf – or something like that. Why?"

Sue put the lid on the blender. "Just curious." She turned it on the highest setting to tune out anything Blair might be asking next.

Blair had too much on her mind to worry about what Sue was up to, so she let it slide. "Whatever." She brought her dishes to the sink and set them inside. When Sue turned off the blender, she said, "We're going to kick their butts anyway. Our set list highlights what we do best, so I'm not worried."

Sue noticed this instantly. "Getting a bit complacent, are we?"

Blair shrugged a bit. "Call it what you like. I want to hit the bookstore before school so I'll see you later." She grabbed her backpack and left with a quick wave to Sue.

Sue poured her protein drink into her glass as gears turned in her mind. The idea of Blair getting complacent did not sit well with her at all. Complacency would lead to boredom and boredom would lead to wandering thoughts which could lead Blair down a dark road again. Glee club was the distraction Blair needed to keep her thoughts off everything bad in her life. If it wasn't doing its job anymore then Sue just might have to mix it up a bit.

Blair walked down the hallway at school with a paper tote bag in hand. Its contents were what she wanted to buy before school – a gift for Quinn. She found Quinn at her locker and held the bag out to her. "This is for you."

Quinn wasn't sure what to make of this. "Is it going to explode on me?" She was kidding.

"Did we become enemies and I didn't notice?" Blair joked back. "Just open it."

Quinn took the bag and pulled out the contents. There were three maternity shirts a pair of maternity pants with it. "Blair…"

"It's not much but it's a start. And I signed you up for the rewards program at 'Rock-a-by Maternity' so you get a discount card that builds up rewards points for free stuff you might need." Blair handed the card over with a supportive smile.

Quinn couldn't believe how generous Blair was being and it was making her feel really guilty about trying to get Liam to break them up so Puck would be free to try thing with again. Not to mention the fact that Blair still had no idea that Puck was the father. "Why are you doing this?"

"We're friends…sort of," Blair laughed because she wasn't quite sure what they were, but still. "And I look after my friends. Even my 'sort of' ones. It's just what I do."

Quinn was starting to tear up as she put the clothes back into the bag and hugged Blair. "Thank you."

Blair was not prepared for the hug so it took her by surprise, but she finally kicked into gear and hugged her back. "Can we stop now? This feels awkward."

Quinn laughed because she actually felt the same way and pulled back from the hug. "Thank you again, Blair. This means a lot to me."

"Whatever you need, I'll do my best to help. Like I said, I look out for my friends. Speaking of – I heard Liam got food poisoning. There's some ginger ale and crackers in the bag, too. Those are kinda for both of you." The bell rang so they had to get to class now. "Later, Quinn." Blair gave her a bit of a salute wave and headed down the hall.

Quinn was putting the bag in her locker when Puck came over, asking, "What was that about?"

"Blair gave me some maternity clothes," Quinn answered without looking at him. "She looks out for her friends, you know."

Puck scoffed. "You're not her friend. Stay away from her."

Quinn's face hardened when he said that. "You want me to stay away from Blair but you don't want to stay away from me?"

"This is confusing for me," Puck admitted quietly, despite the fact there wasn't anyone around. "You're having my kid. It's messing with my head, but no matter what I'm not leaving Blair. She's never to know I'm the father."

"You think this isn't confusing for me?" Quinn shot back. "As much as I love Finn, you're the baby's father, you said it yourself. And there is a big part of me that wants to know what it'd be like if I gave you a real chance."

Puck shook his head because this was something he didn't want to hear. "Don't say that to me. Don't you dare. You knew how I felt about you and you ran into Finn's arms anyway. I'm with Blair, I love her, and you are not going to screw up what I have with her."

Quinn didn't think about what her words would truly mean but she said them anyway, "Even if I tell you I want to keep the baby after all?"

Puck didn't get the chance to answer that because a teacher appeared in the hall telling them both to get their butts to class.

"I'm free!" Blair exclaimed with a fist pump to the air as she walked out of the doctor's office during lunch period because her cast was finally off.

Finn had gone with her for this because he had something he wanted to talk to her about without anyone else from school being around. He stood up from his seat in the waiting room and chuckled, "I don't know. I was kinda liking the purple arm."

Blair patted her bag proudly. "They let me keep it. Signatures and dirty jokes and all." She had no idea that Puck had written a dirty joke on there until she happened to see it in the mirror one day. Blair nudged him a bit as they went outside. "So you gonna spill it or what? I know you didn't tag along for the moral support and the bus ride."

"Uhm…I'm going over to Rachel's house on Friday. She's going to help me with this new hairography stuff." Finn cleared his throat as he sat on the bench. "Quinn was fine with it, which is kinda weird, and I guess I wanted to talk to you about it because you're so blunt and realistic and stuff."

Blair sat on the bus stop bench beside Finn, bent her knee to rest her foot on it, and wrapped her arms around her leg. "Firstly, I think Mr Schue having us do this hair stuff is stupid and a distraction and it takes away from what we are as a Glee club. I know that's not what you wanted to talk about, but I had to say it." Now she got to the matter at hand. "Are you asking me if I think it's a good idea for you to be going to Rachel's house when you clearly feel something for her while you have a pregnant girlfriend who is weirdly okay with you doing it?"

Finn's eyes widened because he couldn't believe she had gotten all that out in one breath. "Yeah, pretty much."

Blair popped her lips in thought. "Well…I guess all I have to say about that is – If you feel like you're doing something wrong don't do it. Quinn trusts you, so that's probably why she isn't concerned about it, but if you don't feel right about it that's your own call."

Finn nodded as he thought about it because Blair had a pretty good point. Finally, he came to a decision. "I'm going to cancel Rachel." He nodded affirmatively before asking Blair, "You want to go bowling on Friday?"

"Sure," Blair replied as the bus pulled up. "Puck and I don't have any plans so I'm in."

"How could you!" Rachel shouted at Blair in the hall later that day at school. Her tone was more hushed wen she caught up with Blair. "You know how I feel about Finn and when I finally get a chance to spend some alone time with him you swoop in and take him for yourself?! You already have Puck as your boyfriend and Liam swooning over you. Do you need to have Finn, too?"

Blair was taken completely aback by this. "Whoa, back up, Berry. Finn has a girlfriend – a pregnant girlfriend, so you shouldn't be trying to hook up with him no matter what you feel. And Finn is my friend, we hang out a lot so it's nothing new. And you're right, Puck is my boyfriend and I don't cheat on who I'm dating. As far as Liam swooning over me, you need to get some glasses because that is so not the case. He's my friend."

Rachel crossed her arms because she was really upset about all this. "I'm not trying to hook up with Finn. I just wanted him to see that we could be together if he wanted us to be. And don't even try to say Liam doesn't like you, because he does. He's liked you even before Glee, everyone knows that."

"If Finn wanted to be with you then he'd find a way to make it work. Clearly it's not what he wants." Blair stopped walking and stepped in front of Rachel. "For the record, I don't care what anyone thinks they know. Liam is my friend and only my friend, just like Finn. End of story."

Rachel's posture straightened a bit smugly. "So if I asked Liam out on a date, you wouldn't mind?"

"If you actually like Liam, then go for it. But if you're doing it as a consolation for not being with Finn then don't." That's all Blair had to say about that. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be going to class." She turned the corner before Rachel could get out another word.

Rachel was left standing there fuming because she was jealous at the fact that Finn wanted to spend more time with Blair than her.

During the test in Spanish class, Puck leaned over and whispered to Blair who was sitting beside him, "I thought we had plans on Friday."

Blair flipped her test over because she was already done with it and whispered back, "We did? I don't remember making plans."

"We always hang out on Friday night," Puck countered.

"When we make a plan we do," Blair retorted. "I'm just going bowling with Finn. It's not the first time. I think we can handle one Friday apart."

Puck felt a bit weird about this. "Is this because Quinn is babysitting on Friday?"

"That's probably why Finn's free." Blair didn't understand the point of continuing the conversation. "It's not a big deal, Puck. Let it go."

Finally Mr Schue realized they were whispering and called out to them, "No talking during the test."

Blair picked up her test and bag and went to Mr Schue's desk, saying, "It's fine. I'm done anyway." Since they were free to go to free period once tests were over, Blair put her completed one in the box and did just that.

Even though Puck wasn't done with his test, he brought it to the front, put it in the box, and went after Blair. "Hey, wait up."

Blair stopped and gestured back to the classroom. "You know you just failed that test, right?"

Puck didn't care about that. "What if I told you I didn't want you going bowling with Finn on Friday?"

"I would say that you're being jealous and worrying over nothing and that he's my friend so I'm gonna go." Blair really couldn't make herself clearer than that.

"So I could hang out with another girl and you wouldn't care?" Puck was testing something there.

"If she was your friend then I wouldn't care about you guys hanging out." Blair meant that. "Puck, I'm getting tired of constantly having conversations like this. If you're trying to push my buttons to get me to break up with you then just rip off the band-aid and break up with me yourself. Because I'm not going to stop hanging out with my friends just like I'm not going to leave you for any of them."

"I don't want us to break up," Puck made himself abundantly clear about that. "But I don't like you hanging out with the guys."

"I'm sorry about that, but they're my friends so I'm not going to stop spending time with them. You need to start trusting me like I trust you." Blair gave him a quick peck on the cheek just because. "Hang out with one of your friends or something on Friday. You deserve some fun outside of our dates, too." She turned him around and pushed him back to the classroom. "Now get your butt back in there and ask Mr Schue to let you finish the test."

"Alright, alright," Puck chuckled but didn't go right into the room. Once Blair turned the corner out of sight, Puck pulled out his cellphone. He had no logical explanation for what he was doing but he texted Quinn asking if she wanted any help with babysitting on Friday.

Friday night rolled around and Blair went to the bowling alley with Finn. She rolled another ball down the lane and knocked down all the pins again. "Strike! Yeah, baby, I am the champion!"

Finn laughed at the happy dance she did on the way back to her seat. "I think we need to find something different for us to do. I don't think my ego can handle getting it's ass kicked much more."

"Oh, I think it can handle a little more damage," Blair teased as Finn grabbed his bowling ball. Just when he was about to roll it down the lane, she called out, "Don't miss!" which distracted him and made him throw it right in the gutter.

Finn couldn't believe she just did that. "Seriously? Did you seriously just do that?"

"Oh, I seriously just did," Blair grinned back with teasing laughter.

"That's cheating," he said in a playful yet accusatory manner.

"No," Blair countered, "it's distracting. Not my fault you can't keep focus." She kept her mouth quiet when he took the next shot and hit a few pins. "How's Liam doing?"

"Still sick," Finn replied as he returned to his seat. "My mom took him to the doctor and it turns out he's got a stomach bug and not food poisoning so now he's pretty much quarantined in the extra bedroom to keep him away from Quinn."

Blair winced a bit. "Hope he feels better soon. I miss our stairwell lunches. Eating with you and Quinn at a table just feels weird."

"I think you're the weird one," Finn joked, which resulted in him getting backhanded by Blair as she went up to grab her ball. When he was about to throw it down the lane, he called out, "What's that?!" but it didn't work, she got yet another strike. Finn threw his hands up in the air with a, "Come on!"

"Like I said," Blair beamed smugly, "it's not my fault that you can't keep focus."

Finn's laughter died down a bit as his mind went somewhere he didn't expect it to, but quickly changed lanes – no pun intended.

On Monday at school, Quinn went to Puck's locker to talk to him before class. She was smiling a bit because of how well things went on Friday with the babysitting. They actually became a team and took care of the three little monsters they were looking after. It gave Quinn hope to a possibly future. "Hey, I wanted to talk to you." She looked down meekly before meeting his eyes. "I've decided to break up with Finn."

Puck froze when he heard what she said. "Why would you do that?"

Quinn thought they were on the same page. "So we can give this a real try."

"What gave you the idea I wanted that?" Puck didn't want that, at all.

Quinn was starting to get frustrated with him. "You're the one who came to babysit with me on Friday. We were a team. We can do this."

Puck closed his locker and looked right at Quinn. "Friday was a mistake. I never should have gone with you. Blair and I were going through a thing and I wanted to feel like I was leveling the playing field or something but I hated it." He sighed, saying, "Look, Quinn, if you want to keep the baby that's your call. If you want me to have a role in the kid's life then I will and I'll be damn good at it, but I'm not going to leave Blair to do it."

Quinn didn't really get it until that moment. "You're never going to leave her, are you?"

Puck shook his head. "Not if I can help it. No."

Quinn walked away, doing her best not to cry, and made the decision once and for all that she wasn't going to keep the baby. Her baby needed two parents that would love her and be devoted to her and that was something that, while Quinn was willing to give…Puck wasn't.

Quinn turned the corner of the hall and almost walked right into Blair. "Sorry." She was crying at this point and couldn't deal with Blair, especially not like this.

Blair could easily see that something was wrong. "Whoa, Quinn, what happened?"

Quinn couldn't tell Blair the truth because that would mean the whole truth would be out and she didn't want that. Especially since if things weren't going to work out with Puck then she wanted to go back to trying to make it work with Finn. None of this could be said to Blair, so she came up with something on the spot. "Am I losing Finn to you? Is he falling for you?"

Blair had no idea where this was coming from. "What? No. Oh my god, Quinn, no way. Finn loves you. Is this because we went bowling together?"

Quinn nodded with tears in her eyes. "He told me he was going over to Rachel's for help with the hair stuff and then he tells me plans changed and he's spending time with you. He was willing to give up help on something he was struggling with to be with you. What was I supposed to think?"

Blair felt horrible in that moment because she had no idea Quinn was feeling this way and felt even more horrible because Puck was expressing similar concerns and brushed it off. "I'm sorry, Quinn. I'm so sorry you took it like that. It's not the case, I swear. Finn is yours and yours alone." She hugged Quinn and after a moment, Quinn hugged her back.

"Thank you for telling me this," Quinn said as they pulled apart. "I feel better now." Without another word, she headed for class.

Blair continued in the direction she was going and soon found Puck. "I'm sorry," was the first thing she said to him. "I pushed aside what you felt because I didn't think it was a big deal and I'm sorry. I should have taken the time to see things from your perspective and…"

Puck cut her off there. "It's fine, really." He took her hands in his. "I trust you, Blair. Completely. It's all good."

Blair was relieved to hear that and kissed him with a smile. "Good. Because, as you know, I love you."

"I love you, too." Puck held onto her hand as they headed for class, believing that because they loved each other that nothing could ever take away what they had. As long as Blair never found out the truth. Yeah, as long as that never happened. Even Puck was smart enough to know that was a deal-breaker, which was why he never intended for her to ever find out. Ever.

End Season 1 Episode 11