IT BLOODY WELL HAPPENED.

I might have screamed and hugged my computer chair and my precautionary box of tissues.

I can't quite believe it happened, you know? I've been thinking about it all day during the crappy lessons Wednesday bestows on me and I was just happy all day...

'I'm starting to show.' Caissie noted glumly, running a hand over her almost flat stomach. 'Will you still think I'm hot when I'm all blown up like a whale?'

'I'm always gonna think you're hot. I'm just worried about how I'm gonna look in my wifebeater and "World's Greatest Dad" slippers.' Chandler pulled Caissie's legs on to his lap. They were sitting in the living room on the couch, television on but ignored, edging around the conversation they both knew they had to have. Caissie decided to start.

'Chandler. We have to-' She paused as Kurt walked in, holding the house phone.

'Sorry to interrupt, kids – Chandler , it's your mom.' Looking confused, Chandler dislodged himself from under Caissie and took the phone.

'Hey mom?' He listened for a few seconds. 'Oh my God! Um, yeah. I'll be home asap.' He hung up, staring at the phone. 'My dad was just arrested.' He said in disbelief. Caissie looked shocked, and Kurt's stomach dropped, Chandler's puzzled and anguished face reminding him why he had been so divided about the decision beforehand. 'I gotta go – I'll see you later, Cais.'

'Do you need me to come with you?' She asked.

'No... no, it's okay. Um. See you.'

'Bye.' Caissie turned to look at Kurt. 'That was... random. Do you know what's happened?' Kurt shook his head.

'No idea.' There was silence, and then they both jumped as the phone started to ring from where Chandler had dropped it on the couch. Kurt leaned down and picked it up. 'Hello?'

'Mr. Hummel?'

'Yes.'

'It's Sergeant Pepper from the Ohio state police department.'

'Oh!' Kurt moved out of the room, isolating himself.

'We just arrested Dave Karofsky. We'd like for you to come down to the station so we can review your statement and discuss a court date.'

'Does it have to be now?'

'It would be a great help.'

'Okay.' He took his phone out of his pocket and speed-dialled Blaine.

Xx

'Are you gonna be okay?' Blaine asked as they pulled up to the station.

'Yeah. Uh-huh. I think so. Maybe.' Kurt shook his head. 'Is it stupid? Should I take back what I told them?'

'Kurt... I can't help but get the feeling that this, him affecting you, isn't going to go away until something concrete is done about the situation. This might be what you need.'

'You're right.'

Xx

'I just... he never showed any signs of... But twenty years...' Summer collapsed into a fresh bout of tears, clutching at Blaine's shirt. He rubbed her back, not sure what to say. 'Why would a person come forward after twenty years?' Blaine sighed.

'Things like... like rape leave emotional scars on people. That person has probably been suffering mentally.'

'Of course, of course. But... Blaine, it was a man. It was a male, that he...' She clutched her tissue to her face. 'How do you have a twenty year marriage to someone without knowing that? Without them being able to tell you? There are so many more cracks in our marriage than I ever realised before.'

'How long were you at the police station for, last night?'

'Hours. Me and Dave, alone, we had a really long talk. It terrified me.' She inhaled sharply. 'He's been having an affair. With another man. For four months – I can't bear it!' She started to sob again.

'Shh.' He rubbed her back again.

'I don't feel like I have a family anymore.'

'Don't say that.'

'It's true.' She sniffed. 'I mean, that's not even the case, but you know. Without him, everything is just... floating around. Nothing is secure or certain anymore. I'm taking Chandler to my parents house in Chicago. Dave never liked them.'

'Chandler?'

'I have no choice. I can't stay here. I'm so sorry, Blaine, I know Caissie's situation – it's incredibly selfish but I can't stay and I can't leave him here.'

'Does he know?'

'I'm telling him tonight.'

I like to end chapters on poignant lines if I can but this one wasn't particularly so, so don't worry if you're like "TONIGHT? She's TELLING him TONIGHT?" or something...

I'm so tired.

BUT STILL. IT HAPPENED.