A/N: Today's the day of the football game; Blaine's playing, Kurt's cheering and Puck is a fan in the stands. Will Puck finally get what he wants? Will Kurt and Blaine move forward in their relationship? Will Kurt uncover truths? And why is Mercedes seeing the numbers 8, 14, and 22? Warning: Trouble will ensue…and maybe language.
"Hey! Kurt!" yells Blaine from across the parking lot.
"Hey, look at you with your football uniform on looking very cute."
"Well, where's your Cheerios uniform?" asks Blaine.
"I figured that I put the team out of their misery and quit."
"Aw, I was looking forward to seeing you in your uniform."
"I'm sorry. I know that you were looking forward to me cheering for you on the sidelines."
"Yeah and I wanted to give you something to go with your uniform." He pulls out a necklace filled with vervain; an herb that is EXTREMELY harmful to vampires.
"Aw, you didn't have to get me anything." Blaine presents the necklace to Kurt and Kurt gasps. "Blaine…this is beautiful."
"Yeah, just like you."
With his whole face blushing, Kurt kindly accepts the gift. "I wish you didn't have to spend so much though."
"Don't worry about it. It's a family heirloom and I wanted to give it to you."
"You really are the sweetest boy I've ever met." Kurt starts to notice the smell coming off the necklace. "What's the smell? It's gorgeous."
"Well it a unique herb that I forget the name of but I wanted you to have it because its unique and you're a unique person and I thought of you when I found it in my parents' belongings."
"I hope you know that I'm never gonna take this off."
"Well I don't want you to. I want you to always think of me when you wear it."
"I will do that regardless if I'm wearing the necklace or not."
Blaine smirks at the ground before talking to Kurt again. "Well at least I now know that I will always be a part of you in some way."
NKB~NKB~NKB~NKB~NKB
Later at the bonfire, there is a commotion going on during Coach Tanner's speech about pulverizing the other team.
"Hey Artie! Have you talked to Rachel in a while? No? I guess you wouldn't have cuz you don't care jack shit about her! You're just a little fucker that fuck ups everybody's life!" shouts an enraged Finn walking towards Artie.
"Look, douche bag, she's the one who fucks up her own life by taking so many anxiety meds that she can't think! Don't blame me cuz she can't handle her own problems."
"I will blame you 'cuz she hangs on to every word you say to her about you loving her and all you do is fuck her up by egging her on and I always have to clean up the mess you make!"
Artie then takes a beer bottle and breaks it against on a cooler.
During the fight, Blaine's been listening the whole time from a distance. He runs over as soon as he hears the bottle break. "Hey, Artie, just leave him alone and nobody will get hurt."
"No, I'm gonna teach this little fucker a lesson about how to be a man and own up to his mistakes!"
"I'd like to see you try you shrimp." Artie gets into a rage and charges Finn. Just then Kurt runs up just in time to see the whole fight go down.
"Finn! Artie! Stop fighting!" As soon as Artie was about to use the beer bottle, Blaine dives in hand first and gets it cut on the glass of the beer bottle.
"Oh shit! I'm sorry man!" apologizes a shocked Artie.
"Yeah you better be! Maybe next time he won't be so nice!" shouts Finn.
"Finn! Are you crazy? You could've seriously gotten hurt!" screams a distraught Kurt.
"Just go back to your boyfriend and leave me alone! You're not my mom and you never will be!" Then Finn ran off with Kurt yelling after him. During this, Blaine's hand was healing from the cut.
"Hey, calm down, just let him cool off for a bit," Blaine soothes as he was trying to calm down Kurt.
Kurt sighs. "How's your hand?"
"What?" asks a "confused" Blaine.
"Your hand…I saw the glass cut your hand," says Kurt as he's inspecting Blaine's hand.
"No, he missed. It must've cut someone else."
"No, I'm sure your hand got cut. I saw it, Artie cut your hand."
"Look I'm fine," says Blaine as he wipes his hands on his pants to show that he was fine.
"Ok, maybe I'm seeing things. I'll see you after the game?"
"Ok I'll see you." They kiss each other goodbye and Blaine leaves Kurt as he starts to think about what just happened.
NKB~NKB~NKB~NKB~NKB
"Hey where have you been?" asks Mercedes when she walks up to Kurt.
"Can I ask you a question and you give me a really serious, no joke response?" asks a determined Kurt.
"What is it?"
"The bad mojo, when you touched Blaine and you had that reaction."
"You know what; forget I said anything about that. Your little dinner party plot totally won me over."
"No Cedes, seriously, what was it? Did you see something? Or…"
"It wasn't clear like a picture, but today I keep seeing the same numbers 8, 14, and 22. When I touched Blaine that night, I got a feeling and it vibrated through me and it was cold and it was…death. It's what I imagined death to be like."
NKB~NKB~NKB~NKB~NKB
Kurt walks to his car and unlocks the trunk and closes it. He turns around to find Puck standing right behind him. He gasps in response. "You scared me. What are you doing here?"
"I'm hiding from Quinn." Puck whispers in his ear.
"And why is that?"
"I need a break. She talks more than I can listen."
"That can be a sign."
"Well she's awfully young."
"Not much younger than you."
"I don't see it going anywhere in the bigger picture. She can drive me crazy." He smirks.
"Quinn does have really annoying traits but we've been friends since the first grade and that means something to me," says a not-fucking-around Kurt.
"Noted. I'm sorry if I make you uncomfortable. It's not my intention."
"Yes, it is. Otherwise you wouldn't put an alternate meaning behind everything you say."
"You're right. I do have other intentions. But so, do you."
"Really?"
"Mmm-hmm I see 'em. You want me."
"Excuse me?" asks an incredulous Kurt.
"I get to you. You find yourself drawn to me. You think about me even when you don't want to. I bet you even dreamed about me." Kurt looks at him with wide eyes.
Puck starts to use his compulsion on Kurt. "And now you want to kiss me." He leans in only to get a smack across the face.
"What the hell? I don't know what game you're trying to play with Blaine here but I don't want to be part of it and I don't know what happened in the past but let's get one thing straight: I am not Kristian."
NKB~NKB~NKB~NKB~NKB
Blaine walks around the football field to find Puck leaning up against a wall near the school parking lot.
"So, you gave him a fucking vervain necklace?" asks Puck in a shocked voice thinking Blaine wouldn't have the balls to do it.
"So, what if I did?" asks Blaine back.
"I mean I figured, because nobody is able resist this charm and badass-ness."
"Yeah, I'm sure that's it," answers a sarcastic Blaine.
"And the fact that I tried to use compulsion and he didn't adhere to it."
"I'm surprised you know big words…knowing you."
"You know what, no matter how hard you try to protect him; I will end up having him."
"Look I know you still love Kristian but I don't know how to get him back," says Blaine, tired of having the same argument.
"So, for now I'm just gonna use anybody I want until I can get Kurt underneath my sheets."
"Why do you want him so badly? He is NOT like Kristian."
"Well he's the closest I'm gonna get!" yells Noah in frustration. "I just want to feel something again."
"You will, just give it time," soothes Blaine. The door from the locker room opens and Mr. Tanner walks out of it.
"Or I could do this." And Puck kills the coach, right there, in front of Blaine. He drinks all he can in one bite and leaves him bleeding to death on the ground. "So, you see, I'll never change. You're just gonna have live with it." And he leaves without a second thought.
NKB~NKB~NKB~NKB~NKB
Sam walks out of the locker room to find the coach lying on the ground dead. "Somebody help! Call 911!"
After a while, the cops and paramedics come. Mercedes sees the three numbers she kept seeing; 8 on the cop car, 14 on the license plate and 22 on a parking space. She starts to cry.
NKB~NKB~NKB~NKB~NKB
I thought there was hope. That somewhere deep inside, something in Puck was still human, normal. But I was wrong, there's nothing human left in Puck. No good, no kindness, no love, only a monster who needs to be stopped. ~ Blaine
As Blaine writes down his thoughts in his journal, Puck stands beside Kurt's bed and strokes Kurt's face in admiration and wonder while Kurt sleeps peacefully.
