Summary: Sebastian tells the New Directions a story from his point of view while Blaine has an unexpected experience.

Notes: Thanks, mykkila09 for the idea…weeks ago ;)

Soul Mates Handbook Chapter 6: Shared Memories

It is common knowledge that upon the initial skin-to-skin contact between a match, soul marks are formed. There is much less known about the shared memory aspect. Only memories each match has experience to the point of contact are shared. Once the pair separate the process is over.

Marked matches cannot read each other's minds. They will experience events when separated as any other non-marked partners would. Scientists have been unable to determine why memories are shared at the time of initial contact. It is one of the mysteries which make finding one's soul mate such a remarkable occurrence.

Warning: If a match is attempting to keep their pairing secret, each must remember that they are now privy to information others would question them knowing.

Everyone, this is Sebastian.

"Guess we know why Kurt doesn't want Sebastian around. He's hot!" Tina blurted out, then apologized to Mike. Due to the distraction, it took a moment for someone to notice Santana and Brittany had come in with him.

"Spies!" Rachel yelled, pointing out her former teammates.

Santana gave Blaine a wink to help his nerves but immediately sensed it wasn't necessary. He had a presence about him she had never seen. It made her wonder if this was who he was before Kurt. "Chill out, Unibrow. I'm not here to pull a Jesse St. James on your not so secret meeting. Paranoid much?"

"I'm not paranoid, I'm cautious. I mean, for all we know Sebastian is a spy."

When Sebastian began to laugh, Brittany panicked. He reminded her of an evil character in a cartoon and she had no idea how to get his attention without giving away their connection. Blaine didn't look like he was going to be any help. Was he smirking?

"What the hell are you laughing at?" Finn had to be at football practice soon and this meeting was taking longer than it should. The Ohio State recruiter would be there and his whole future was riding on impressing him.

"I'm laughing at your girlfriend" Sebastian was able to say as he caught his breath. Brittany relaxed as the breathing calmed him…creepy, eerily calmed, but calmed. "It took a lot of balls for her to call me a spy when she was probably the master mind behind yours."

"No, that was my fault" Puck admitted. "But Dude, I swear it wasn't like the shit St. James pulled on us."

Sebastian walked away from the others until he is standing directly in front of Kurt. Santana, Mike and Artie were worried but since Brittany and Blaine didn't react, neither did they. "Maybe not in the beginning but then Hummel winds up transferring. From what I understand it was for valid reasons but it didn't take long for him to figure out Dalton wasn't the gay paradise he envisioned when Blaine sang Teenage Dream." Sebastian turned away from Kurt to Rachel and asked "Isn't this about the time you took over the role of bestie from Mercedes?"

Rachel began to stammer a denial but Quinn interrupted her. "I think we need to hear more of Sebastian's theory."

"It's not a theory." Sebastian changed his focus from Rachel back to Kurt before continuing. "Hummel slowly chipped away at Blaine with derogatory comments about the Warbler's song selections."

"And he called us Blaine and the Pips" Blaine chimed in, shocking everyone, especially Santana. She had no idea Blaine would say what he did. Her connection to him was gone and the person she needed, Jeff, wasn't answering her texts. Unlike McKinley, Dalton enforced their No cell phones in class policy.

"How do you know all of this, Sebastian?" Mr. Schue asked. While he gathered Blaine and this boy were friends, he seemed to know this story a little too well. Like he had been there when it happened. The most likely explanation was Sebastian was a Warbler, but Will was pretty sure he would have remembered him.

"Oh, you'd be surprised at how much I know."

"I want to hear more" Brittany said, breaking the tension in the air following Sebastian's statement. "What happened next, Sebby…astian?"

"Well, by this time Blaine believes he's fallen for Kurt…fine, whatever. So, to make him happy Blaine convinces the Warblers to turn his Regionals solo into a duet and chooses a song entirely out of the Warblers wheelhouse hoping to prevent the anticipated bitching. You all heard the disaster that was Candles and New Directions win. Now before everyone starts waxing poetically about original songs, consider this. Two weeks after the Warblers loss, all of Hummel's problems at McKinley are suddenly gone and he's back in time to go to Nationals in New York."

"They were not gone! I was elected Prom Queen!"

"If the dress fits."

"It was a kilt!"

"And the homophobic bullies knew the difference?" Sebastian wanted to bring up Blaine telling Kurt about his attack, but didn't. It wasn't something Blaine would willingly share. Plus, from the expressions in the room, he had made his point…and he didn't have to kill anyone. Actually, his felt more in control of his hormones than any other time since he and Blaine formed their soul marks.

"Sebastian, you're not here to audition, are you?" Mr. Schue asked, knowing it was a rhetorical question. "You're a Warbler."

"Yes" he admitted without reservation. "Oh, please. If this infamous St. James spy took Berry back to Vocal Adrenaline with him instead of scrambling an omelet on her head, none of you would have gone to Carmel to see what the hell was going on?"

The question hung in the air when Kurt practically ran to Blaine and grabbed his hand, pulling him away from the group. All pretenses of Brittany, Santana and Sebastian not knowing each other were quickly forgotten. "Sebby, you have to settle down." Brittany wasn't panicked, she was scared. She hadn't felt this much anger in her life and was sure if Sebastian could get to Kurt he would hurt him. "Look at Blaine. He's ok. San, please tell Sebby Blaine is ok."

"I can't. I've lost my connection."

Across the room, Blaine saw how upset Sebastian was and realized something. He didn't care if Kurt was upset, he only cared about Sebastian.

Kurt's screeching brought him out of his thoughts. "Damn it, Blaine, answer me. How could you have told that Meerkat…that Warbler…those lies about me?"

"I never said one word about any of those things to Bas…Sebastian." It was the truth. He never said anything. Sebastian learned everything through their shared memories. "And nothing he said was a lie, just an alternate interpretation."

"You're sleeping with him, aren't you? Just because I…"

"Kurt, stop" Blaine said softly, giving Kurt the benefit of the doubt that he didn't know just how loud his accusations were. "I am not sleeping with Sebastian but I do have feelings for him."

"What does that mean? Are you breaking up with me for him?"

Out of the corner of his eye, Blaine saw Sebastian smiling at him and he couldn't help but smile back. Everything and everyone else fell away. It was the two of them, their bond, their love. Blaine could feel Sebastian's love coursing through his veins, warming his body…warming his soul. Nothing else mattered. "Yes, and I'm having my mother re-enroll me at Dalton on Monday. I should have never left."

"No, you shouldn't have" Santana agreed as she linked their arms together. "Come on, Blainers. Artie's beginning to go over the edge and we're heading over to the auditorium. We need our Tony." They left Kurt standing speechless but it was obvious Blaine didn't care. "Are you ok? I can't sense what you're feeling anymore."

"I feel…good? I didn't want to hurt Kurt but seeing Bas upset overrode all of those emotions. Does that make…wait, what do you me you can't sense what I'm feeling anymore?"

"I finally got ahold of Jeff. He said the connection probably ended because your hormones have leveled out."

"But I thought it would take 10 days to 2 weeks."

"5 hours is probably some sort of record but you are an overachiever. We can talk about this later."

Blaine didn't feel like his hormones were leveled out when he rejoined the group…rejoined Sebastian. All he wanted to do was run into his arms. Hopefully, the two of them could snag a few minutes of alone time soon. "Hey guys, there's something I have to tell you…"

"He can't be Tony!" Kurt yelled as he ran in front of Artie to stop him from leaving. "Blaine's going back to Dalton."

"Monday" Artie added. Blaine had told him and Mike he was going back to Dalton because of the protection it would provide, but he (and probably Mike) knew there was more behind the decision. "If he goes back to Dalton Monday, he is still a McKinley student today and tomorrow. He's still Tony."

Blaine began to apologize but Puck stopped him. He was having an internal power struggle with the guilt of starting the whole Send Kurt to spy on the Warblers plan. He was going to have a long talk with Kurt, Rachel, and most likely Finn, once the play was over. "But I'm curious. Mr. Schue, we have 9 members, well I guess 8 since Anderson is headed back to Hogwarts. Would you have made Sebastian audition?"

"He made Blaine audition." The look on the teacher's face made Sebastian think he wasn't the one behind that particular slight against Blaine. He didn't know why, but he decided to let the man off the hook. "You know what, I don't want to be accused of not playing fair so since I'll be hearing all of you sing later…"

There's a place for us,
A time and place for us.
Hold my hand and we're halfway there.
Hold my hand and I'll take you there

Blaine smiled and joined him for the ending

Somehow,
Some day,
Somewhere!

The room was silent until Artie laughed "Damn! Why couldn't I have met you a month ago? We could have had West Side Story with Tony and Mario and saved me a lot of headaches!" When Rachel gasped, no one held back the laughter. They took advantage of the moment to finally get away and headed to the auditorium.

Once everyone else was gone, Mr. Schue turned to Kurt, Rachel and Finn. "Will one of you please explain what just happened?" The lack of response was all the answer he needed. "The loss of Mercedes, Santana and Brittany was on me. And, I didn't say anything about how was Blaine treated because I thought it had something to do with Blaine getting Tony and would work itself out once the play was over."

"Mr. Schue…"

"Finn, nothing you say will make this better. Blaine and Sebastian together…" Mr. Schue took a deep breath and found the courage to say "We've got no answer for that, not even close." Without another word he walked out, not in the mood to listen to any self-aggrandizing responses.

"What does he mean we don't have an answer for Blaine and Sebastian?" Rachel huffed. "I mean they were good but we have me…and the two of you, of course."

Finn kissed Rachel's cheek "I've got to get to football practice but now we definitely need to make a trip to Kentucky."

"Of course." Rachel smiled and waved until he was out the door. "Kurt, what are we going to do?"

"We'll be fine."

"How? With Blaine leaving we only have 8 members, if that. I can tell Puck is upset about the spying."

"I wasn't a spy, Rachel."

"But the way Seb…"

"Do not say that boyfriend stealer's name" Kurt growled in a tone Rachel had never heard. "It doesn't matter anyway. Blaine will be back."

"Um, Kurt…"

"No, listen. Something strange is going on. The Warbler knew things he shouldn't and when I grabbed… held Blaine's hurt hand, the one in the brace, nothing happened. No flinch or wince, not even an ouch. Something's going on and you have to find out what it is."

"Why me?"

"Because I won't be able to get near Blaine but you will be on stage with him. You will hold his hand. Rachel, you're the only one who can save the New Directions."

Note:

Somewhere (West Side Story): Music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim 1956, 1957