A/N: Hey, Readers! Sorry for the shortness of this 'Episode'. I was honestly going to skip over it and write the next one but it would have thrown things off, so I'm gonna call this the 'Filler Episode'. I promise the next one will be far better. Thanks for reading!

When Sue exited her bedroom that morning, she was greeted by a bright flash coming from Blair's camera. "What the devil are you doing?"

Blair lowered her camera with a grin. "I need to finish taking the candids for the yearbook. And since you look stunning first thing in the morning, it was a moment I had to capture." She took another picture for good measure.

Sue looked at Blair like she was about to explode. "If any of those end up in the yearbook…"

Blair cut Sue's threat short. "I'm just kidding, Sue. See?" She turned the digital camera around to show her that the pictures were deleted.

"I almost forgot you joined the yearbook club," Sue stated as she went to the kitchen for some breakfast.

"It's not like a bring it up," Blair answered as she followed her. "Especially around Rachel. If she knew then she'd bug me incessantly with photo requests. She'll just have to settle with the Glee photo this year."

"There is no Glee photo this year." Sue set a bowl of cereal in front of Blair. "Since the Glee Club's yearbook photo always gets vandalized, Figgins made the decision to leave it out."

Blair's shoulders slumped a bit at that. "Seriously? There was never any yearbook vandalism at my old school. Damn, that sucks. I was looking forward to that picture."

"Language, Blair." Sue sat across from Blair at the table with her own breakfast. "You know, if you joined the Cheerios you would be featured in at least one of the six pages dedicated to them."

Blair looked at Sue with a stoic expression as she took a bite of cereal. "It's not being in the yearbook that I was looking forward to, it was being in the yearbook with Glee." She sighed a bit and slouched in her seat.

Sue had a momentary lapse in her evil ways when she suggested something, "Use your candids. If Glee can't have an official picture then slip in as many Glee candids as you can."

Blair thought that was a great idea and it meant a lot to her that Sue was the one who suggested it. "That is an awesome idea!" She loved it so much that she got out of her chair and hugged Sue for it. "Thank you!"

Sue pushed Blair off a bit. "Okay, enough with this mushy stuff and finish your breakfast."

Blair stood up straight, saluted Sue, and returned to her breakfast. She couldn't wait to get to school now and get to work on the candids.

With her camera in hand, Blair walked down the hall of McKinley High looking for her Gleemates. Whenever she spotted any together, she'd discreetly snap pictures of them talking and laughing. Blair thought these were going to come out awesome.

"Are you a stalker now?" Liam joked from behind Blair, making her jump out of her skin.

"I'm really getting sick of being scared so easily." Blair held her camera up, saying, "And I'm not being stalker-ish. I am taking candid photos of the Glee Club since we can't have a picture in the yearbook." Ever since her conversation with Sue, she was starting to feel like a broken record about the yearbook picture, but oh well.

"Given how badly those pictures have been treated over the years, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone was relieved that we aren't getting one." Liam didn't want Quinn to be put through any more crap than what she'd already gone through so he was fine with there being no club photo.

"I'm still getting used to all this petty high school childishness," Blair stated as she took a picture of Liam when he turned his head to look at something. "Never had to go through it at my old school."

"Maybe you never had to go through it," Liam countered, "but that doesn't mean others didn't."

Blair snapped another picture before a thoughtful look crossed her expression. "Huh, you may have a point there. Key word being 'may' because I'm fairly certain I'd have heard about it or witnessed it. Small school in a small town. Someone would have to work pretty damn hard at keeping a secret from the rest of the school."

Liam changed the subject when he took the camera from her. "Go be candid so there can be a few shots of you in the mix." He smiled when Blair didn't put up a fight about it and went down the hall to talk to Kurt and Mercedes and then Mike when he joined them. Someone must have said something funny because they were all laughing. Liam took the picture at just the right moment, at least he thought so. When he looked back at the picture with Blair laughing, he thought she looked radiant.

A few more pictures later, Blair returned to take back her camera. "Any good ones?"

Liam joked with her, acting like he'd completely forgotten to take any. "Crap, sorry, I was looking through the ones you already took and got sidetracked."

"Liam!" She scolded with laughter but saw he was messing with her when she got the camera back. "Wow, Liam. You're a riot."

"I have my moments." Liam winked at her before heading to class.

Blair shook her head and went off to her own before the late bell rang.

Mr Schue wasn't as relieved at the majority of Glee Club was about there not being a picture. Even with the candids being in it, he felt there should be a photo to officially represent the club. After a chat with Mr Figgins he was able to buy some ad space for a picture, but unfortunately there would only be enough space for two members so he announced they needed to vote for co-captains.

The vote didn't go as planned because everyone voted for Rachel to represent the Club and the majority of the members felt there didn't need to be a co-captain to represent them so that ended the voting. While all this was going on, Blair was taking pictures and either they didn't notice her doing it or they just didn't care.

Mr Schue cared, though. He didn't like the idea that the club still seemed to be embarrassed by the fact they were in it, so he encouraged Rachel to find a co-captain.

After many noes, Rachel convinced Finn to be her co-captain but unfortunately he bailed when it came time to take the picture.

Blair saw this first hand because she thought it would be interesting to take their picture while the official one was being taken. Her brow furrowed a bit when she find Finn wasn't in the room where the photography stuff was set up.

Rachel noticed Blair come into the room and looked at her with such relief. "Oh, Blair, thank goodness. Finn is a no-show. Will you please take the picture with me? I'm sorry I didn't ask you before and I realize I should have now because you love Glee as much as I do and…"

Blair cut her off there, "Sure."

Rachel's face beamed. "Really? You mean it?"

Blair nodded, "I mean it." She set her camera down on the table and after Rachel made a couple hair adjustments to Blair's person, they sat down on the stools. Blair and Rachel sat back to back and smiled when the picture was taken.

The photographer took a couple shots and felt that was the end of it, but Rachel had other ideas. He cut through her requests of more pictures by telling her that he had to get to a casting session for his brother-in-law's commercial.

Blair saw how Rachel lit up at the mention of that so she snagged her camera and took pictures, tuning out the conversation, but was pulled into it when Rachel said,

"It's a great idea, right Blair?"

Blair lowered her camera with a, "Huh?"

Rachel sighed quickly since it was clear that Blair hadn't been paying any attention. "Glee club in a mattress commercial, yay or nay?"

Blair thought that would be awesome, so she instantly answered with, "Hell, yeah."

The commercial went great, they sang 'Jump' and did gymnastic feats and dance moves on the bouncy mattresses, and everyone had a great time. More importantly, they were united as a team. That was something that seemed to be missing lately but doing that commercial all together it was like they got their mojo back.

The first night the commercial was to air, Blair was all ready to watch it and smiled wide as she looked between the clock and the TV.

Sue sat on the sofa beside Blair and looked at her a bit suspiciously. "What's going on, Blair?"

"You'll see," Blair turned up the volume when the commercial started playing. "Here it is!"

Sue turned to the TV and her eyes widened at the sight because she had no idea Blair had been a part of this, yet alone the Glee club.

When the commercial ended, Blair turned off the TV, asking happily, "What did you think?"

"Rachel is annoying as ever, but it was nice seeing you using your gymnastics skills." Sue's face scrunched up a bit in thought because her gears were turning.

Blair's posture slumped a little bit because she had a feeling that something that was wrong. "There's a but, isn't there?"

Sue nodded a with pursed lips. "Did you get paid for that commercial?"

Blair wasn't expecting that question. "Uhm, no. Not with money, anyway. They're gonna be giving us a mattress each for doing it. Why?"

Sue sighed with a shake of her head. "You and your Glee friends really stepped it in, Blair."

Okay, now Blair was starting to worry. "What are you talking about?"

"It's in the show choir rule book, Blair. If you perform and get paid for it then you're no longer an amateur and that disqualifies you from competition." Sue got up, pulled the rule book off the bookcase, and handed it to Blair. "I'm not making it up."

Blair took the book and flipped to the appropriate page based on the table of contents and her face dropped a million miles when she saw the words written there. "No…no. That – that's not right. We didn't know about this."

"Knew about it or not, it doesn't change anything." Sue took the book from Blair and set it on the coffee table.

Blair couldn't believe this was happening. She shook her head, refusing to accept it. "No. We are not going down like this. I'm going to find a loophole." Blair got up with determination, "I am not giving up without a fight."

Sue leaned back into the sofa with a proud smile on her face as Blair went off to her room already in the process of making phone calls. She caught a glimpse of the fire she knew Blair had inside and couldn't wait to see her finally unleash it.

Blair did find a loophole, but it wasn't a great one. If Mr Schue accepted the mattresses instead of the individual Glee members then only Mr Schue would be disqualified from Sectionals and not the entire club.

Mr Schue was more than willing to take the bullet for them and at the kids' doubt that they wouldn't be able to do it without them, he told them that if they couldn't then he wasn't doing his job right. Mr Schue told them that teachers have to prepare their students for going out in the world without them. He had complete faith in his kids and made damn sure they knew that.

During this entire speech, Blair captured it all. It was one of the featured candid photos that Blair didn't have to sneak in but place on the Glee Club's own page in the yearbook since – for some reason Blair didn't know of – Sue gave up one of the Cheerios pages. In the center of the page was the group photo of the Glee kids and all around it were the smaller candid pictures.

As Blair held the finished product in her hand and smiled with pride because, even if all the others did get vandalized hers would not, and knowing that a part of her would forever be in this Reality meant more than she could even put into words.

End Season 1 Episode 12