Chapter 50: Fight
It didn't take long for the gossip hungry Rachel to hear about what happened to Kurt.
It took even less time to tell Quinn, Brittany, and Tina during Study Hall, in the Choir Room like Rachel wanted.
"Ladies, the Kurt-Karofsky bullying situation is getting way out of control." Rachel said to Brittany, Quinn and Tina in the choir room after school. "Kurt's miserable, though he tries to hide it because he's dating Sam. And Sam make him a bit happier. But he's losing weight, and not in a good way. And he's barely even fighting me for solos anymore, as we say in class today."
"We've all been teased, but something about what Karofsky's doing is so much worse." Tina said.
"We're all lucky enough to have boyfriends on the football team. I say, we band together and demand that they confront Karofsky."
"Okay, first of all, I'm not dating anyone on the football team." Quinn spoke. "And second of all, I think you personally just set the Feminist Movement back fifty years."
"Look, guys like Karofsky only respond to muscle." Rachel said, trying to make the girls see her point of view.
"So, we're gonna fight violence with violence?" Quinn said.
"No!" Rachel said. "Look, I'm not saying that-that-that they should hit him. What I'm saying is that we need to defend Kurt, and there's strength in numbers."
"I'm confused." Tina changed the subject and turned to Brittany who was on the other side of Quinn.
"Are you and Artie officially dating now?" Tina asked.
"Deal with it." Brittany said, not looking at Tina right away. "When you and Artie were fooling around, did he ever, like, just lie there?"
"Uh, why didn't you tell me we're having a Glee Girls Meeting?" Santana walked in and confronted Rachel.
"Oh, this is a meeting for Glee Girls with boyfriends." Rachel said to the Latina woman.
"Again, not dating anyone on the football team." Quinn stated.
"We're gonna make them stop Karofsky from bullying Kurt." Rachel continued.
"Okay, I'm dating Puckerman." Santana said, turning to the girls.
"You're getting naked with Puckerman." Quinn corrected, not looking at Santana.
"Besides, Puck can't mess with Karofsky. He's on probation." Tina said as Santana crossed her arms over her breasts. "If he gets in a fight with him, he'll be sent back to Juvie."
"Mmm-hmm. Yeah, so, now if you'll excuse us." Rachel said, dismissing Santana.
"URGH." Santana scoffed, uncrossing her arms and walking past Rachel. "You're so on my list, Dwarf."
"Look, if something bad happens to Kurt," Rachel said quietly to the remaining girls as Santana left. "And we didn't do anything to stop it, we'll never be able to live with ourselves."
The girls went looking for their boyfriends to convince them to stand up for Kurt. Rachel tracked down Finn and tried to get him to help.
"But why?" She said, following Finn down the hall. He had said 'no' to confronting Karofsky, and Rachel was getting livid.
"Karofsky plays right guard." Finn said. "If he gets pissed at me, I'm going to get sacked more times than Jay Cutler, which means we're going to lose, which means Beiste is going to make Sam permanent Quarterback."
"Is being Quarterback more important to you than helping out the kid that going to be your step-brother?" Rachel said incredulously.
"LOOK, we both know I can help him more if I stay on top." Finn stops and turns to his short girlfriend. "Kurt's going to be fine."
Rachel looks down at the ground, her lips setting into a hard line.
"Rachel, I'm sorry. I want to, but I can't." Finn says.
Rachel looks up at her boyfriend.
"I've never been so disappointed in you before." She said quietly, before striding off.
"But..." Finn said, Rachel leaving him stuttering behind her in the corridor.
After football practice after school, the rest of the Glee boys confronted Karofsky, their girlfriends having had convinced them.
"Stop picking on Kurt." Artie said, wheeling up to the bully.
"You mind?" Karofsky said in disgust, buckling his belt at his locker. "I'm changing."
"We're serious!" Mike says, slamming Karofsky's gym locker shut. "This is a warning."
Sam looks up, seeing amusement on Karofsky's face as he pulls on his sweater.
"Oh, yeah?" He says.
"From now on you're gonna leave him alone." Artie says definitively.
"Look," Karofsky says, adjusting his sweater and looking at the wheel-chaired boy.
Puck watched from a short distance behind Karofsky. He wanted to join in, but knew better.
"If he wants to be a homo, that's up to him." Karofsky said about Kurt. "But don't rub it in my face."
Sam was getting madder the more Karofsky talked about his boyfriend. He was ready to punch the bigger boys' brains out with the way he felt.
"We're not asking you." Artie said, glaring up at Karofsky.
"Yeah, we're done talking about this. Just back off, alright?" Mike gets in Karofsky's face and snarls.
"Why don't you back off?" Karofsky pushed Mike hard and made him fall into Artie, knocking the boy and his chair over.
Sam had had enough. He dove at Karofsky and tried to slam him into the lockers, but Karofsky spun them around, making it Sam's back that hit the steel doors.
"Artie, you okay?" Mike asked, Puck rushing over. Both he and Mike checked on Artie before they followed what was happening behind them with their eyes.
As Sam and Karofsky struggled to gain the upper hand, they both gripped each others shoulder, Karofsky pinning Sam to the locker doors with his strength.
Sam kneed Karofsky in his kneecap, before following it up with another knee to the thigh.
"OWW!" Karofsky grunted in pain. Sam managed to get the upper hand and smashed Karofsky's back into the opposite lockers hard, and the bigger boy cried out from the steel his back had hit into.
Karofsky managed to punch Sam in the eye, and knock him to the floor. Sam didn't have a chance to get up before Karofsky's bulky frame was on his, intending to give him a beating while everyone in the locker room watched.
It was lucky for Sam that Coach Beiste rushed in when she did and yanked Karofsky off of him.
"HEY, HEY, HEY! WHAT'S GOING ON?!" She yelled, pulling Karofsky up. "GET UP!"
She pressed Karofsky to the lockers with one arm and held of Sam with the other when he got up to go after the other boy again.
"GET UP HERE! GET UP!" She grunted, restraining the two boys that wanted to kill each other.
"WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON HERE?!" She yelled at the two, while Sam breathed heavily and gazed at Karofsky with hatred, and Karofsky struggled for breath while leaning on the lockers.
