Chapter Thirteen

A/N: I OWN NOTHING!

Last time on Glee…

"And the winner is…."

And that's what you missed on GLEE!

Teddy waited with baited breath to hear who would go on to Nationals.

"It's a tie!"

Teddy blinked. It was a what? Great, that meant that he would have to deal with the Warblers again. Brill-fucking-iant.

000

The next day really tried his patience, and Teddy didn't know how. All he knew was that he was going to the Lima Bean to see what all the fuss was about when he saw Sebastian.

What's that rat up to? Teddy thought with narrowed eyes when he heard Rachel exclaim. Teddy waited until Sebastian turned to leave.

"Sebastian," Teddy said curtly. "What was that about?"

"Just some friendly banter between the competition," Sebastian shrugged. "Now if you'll excuse—"

Teddy reached his arm out and stopped Sebastian in his tracks.

"I'm warning you Sebastian," Teddy growled. "You mess with any member of the New Directions and you'll have me to deal with."

"I hardly think you're someone to be worried about," Sebastian scoffed. Teddy smirked.

"Remember when fireworks went off in Warbler headquarters?" Teddy asked innocently.

"That was you!"

"Can't prove it, but I've got pictures of all you Warblers running around like chickens with their heads cut off," Teddy smirked. "Don't mess with my friends."

He let Sebastian walk off and then pondered what he said. Did he really consider the Glee club to be his friends? Well, he considered Santana and Blaine at least. Rory too.

"What was that about?" he asked Rachel, who was looking at a piece of paper in shock. She slammed it on the paper.

"Nothing!"

Teddy raised an eyebrow in inquiry but then shrugged. He figured that he'd find out at Glee tomorrow, and sure enough he was right.

"The hell?" he blurted out when he saw the photo Finn was waving around. "Dude, no offense but I never want to see that again."

"None taken," Finn said absently and then he turned to Mr. Schue to complain. Artie stated something from a book but Teddy didn't hear anything. So that's what Sebastian was talking about. He made eye contact with Santana, who nodded.

"We're going to meet with him," Santana whispered. "This crap needs to end."

Teddy nodded and frowned when Finn stormed out. No need to guess what just happened, but they needed Rachel. She truly was the best out of all of them.

The next day, Santana and Teddy met Britney, Kurt and Blaine in front of the Lima Bean.

"Why is he here?" Kurt asked. "No offense John, but—"

"He's here because he is my minion," Santana stated. "Got a problem with that?"

Kurt raised an eyebrow but didn't object. They walked in to see a subdued Sebastian. The two couples sat down while Teddy sat in the corner. He heard something about a boy named Karofsky but he didn't know who that was.

"Who's Karofsky?" he asked Santana after they left the coffee place. Santana looked at him for a moment and then sighed.

"He's a former classmate," she said and then turned to leave. Teddy was confused until a Glee meeting one day in the auditorium.

"Mr. Schue?" Finn asked.

"Well, I just heard that Rory and John have never tried peanut butter," the curly haired man said and everyone gasped. Teddy raised an eyebrow. He didn't' see what the big deal was. Taking the spoon from the teacher, he licked the brown solid and shrugged. He had better.

"Now listen guys," Mr. Schue started to say and Teddy tuned him out. He turned back in with a jolt when Schue mentioned suicide. So Karofsky had tried to kill himself? He didn't know the kid but he felt bad for him. It reminded him a lot of a time after his OWL's.

Teddy sat on the ground of the Astronomy Tower, weeping. While he was sure he had passed the exams, as usual he had to deal with the abuse of the other students. While he was somewhat used to it by now, it was still depressing that he didn't have any friends.

"Maybe…" he thought and stood up. It was drastic but he wanted the taunts he had endured for four years to end. The ridicule and the questions. The assumptions that were made simply because he had a were-wolf for a father.

"TEDDY!"

Teddy turned around to see Victorie standing there as pissed as a thirteen year old could be.

"What are you doing here?" he asked.

"You let me borrow the map last week," she told him, brushing the strawberry blonde hair out of her blue eyes. It was true. She had asked for it in order to avoid a boy in her House who was annoying her. Teddy could only assume she was returning it. "I saw you standing particularly close to that edge."

Teddy sighed.

"It doesn't matter," he muttered but Vic heard him all the same.

"DOESN'T MATTER!"

Teddy winced as Vic's voice went so high he was sure bats had heard her scream. "Teddy, please don't do this. Don't throw your life away over the words of some stupid kids!"

Teddy chuckled humorously. Wasn't Victorie the same age as the kids she was bashing? He leaned back and felt his back hit the wall.

"It's not like I've got anyone who'll miss me," he muttered darkly.

"What about James?" Victorie asked, moving closer to the older boy. "What about Al and Lily, who would be devastated if something happened to you?"

"They don't count," Teddy snapped. "They're family, family has to miss you."

"What about me?" Victorie said in a near whisper but Teddy still caught it anyway.

"Y—you'd miss me?" he said in shock. The first two years Victorie had ignored him to hang out with the Gryffindors instead of him, even though they'd been friends since infancy.

"Of course I would!" Victorie said indignantly. "You're my best mate! Always there for me when I need you."

Teddy sighed and looked over the ledge once more. Even with every word Victorie was saying, he still didn't want to stay. He didn't want to deal with the bullies.

"What about that girl you're always talking about?" Victorie said, and Teddy noted that she sounded somewhat put out now. "Christmas you were talking about a beautiful girl that you wanted to ask out."

Teddy chuckled. "That was you."

Teddy tuned back in when Santana shoved him.

"Huh?"

"Lost in thought there?" she asked. "Mr. Schue is having us share experiences we're looking forward to, so we can remember them if we ever get the…."

"Oh," Teddy interrupted her. "Well, I may not have an impending marriage—" he nodded to Finn and Rachel, "or be looking forward to equality—" he had heard Blaine's wish, "but I can't wait for entering the same career as my mother had been in before the economy crashed."

He hated lying, but he had decided for his mum to be in law enforcement anyway in case he ever mentioned his desire to enter that workforce.

"What did your mum do?" Quinn asked.

"Law enforcement," Teddy told her with a smile.

"Was she a wizard too?" Brittney asked and Teddy froze. How'd she know?

"Britt, we told you," Quinn sighed. "There's no such thing as wizards."

"Yeah Brittney," Tina said, "you almost sound like the people from the Salem Witch trials. Just because odd things happen to John doesn't mean he's a wizard."

"Uh guys…."

"He's got to be though," Brittney stated. "The odd hair, the slushies stopping in mid air around him and San told me that he has a cat."

"Everyone has cats," Rachel said gently.

"A black cat."

"Actually he's brown," Teddy said. "Dark brown with one spot on his back that looks like the full moon. He's been with me since I was five."

"Cats don't live that long," Sam pointed out. "I can't think of any pets that live that long."

"See?"

"Still doesn't prove anything," Rachel said. "Maybe the cat died and John's parents got a new one to prevent explaining the fact that pets die."

"HOLD IT!" Mercedes yelled as a realization struck her. "On the week of Valentines day, we asked John to join the God Squad."

"I'm right here," Teddy said, annoyed that they were talking about him behind his back. Mr. Schue had just given up trying to gain control of the conversation.

"He said that you didn't believe in God," Quinn gasped as she caught on to Mercedes' point.

"So?" Finn asked. "Kurt doesn't believe in God, are you going to say that he's a Wizard too?"

"Finn, he said that if there was a God, he'd still have parents," Sam said. "How can that be if his father met with Mr. Schue?"

Everyone turned to look at Teddy, who flushed bright red.

"Uh….BYE!" he shouted and then ran out of there. Actually, he rolled off the stage but he managed to get up fast enough to avoid being caught by Santana and Finn. Ducking into a bathroom, he apperated out of there—barely missing the grasp of Kurt and Mike.

"Damn!" Mike swore as his fingers clutched air.

"How does he do that?" Blaine asked as he embraced his boyfriend. Kurt embraced him back.

"I don't know," Santana said and everyone backed away as she got the Queen Bitch look on her face. "But I'm going to find out. Who's with me?"

Everyone quickly nodded, even Mr. Schue (who had followed the chase to make sure no one got hurt). Their team member was lying to them. It was time to see what the deal was.