A/N: 39 FOLLOWERS. I LOVE YOU. WE SHOULD SPEND VALENTINES DAY TOGETHER. Do you all like where the story is? I think I'm going to do a really long fanfiction with this but I'm not sure…what do you all think? I hope you like what's happened so far and what's going to happen. In my mind I have a lot of different moments in the story and how I want Klaine to happen, and its kind of like KLAINE MADNESS. Dxo

The grounds of Dalton were vast and exploring them was exactly what Kurt needed. He needed somewhere to clear his head, to be able to take in everything that had happened over the past weeks. With everything going on with the move and McKinley and with Blaine touching him…there he just needed a place to think. The ground crunched under his feet as he moved further towards the wooded area at the edge of Daltons grounds. It was November. Almost Christmas time. Kurt laughed mirthlessly. Christmas had never been a time that Kurt liked. It might be the time for forgiveness and a time for togetherness but that had never been the case for Kurt. Last Christmas, the bullies at McKinley had been so kind as to visit Kurt on Christmas Eve, pretending to be carollers, dragged Kurt to a park and handcuffed him to a merry-go-round. That night there had been 10 inches of snow and Kurt had caught hypothermia, only being saved when the next day an early morning jogger had gone past and seen a body in the snow.

Kurt looked around, seeing he'd gone further than he thought, right at the edge of the woods. He saw what looked to be an old tree trunk laying a few feet away and went to sit down on it. He checked his surroundings before he let the tears fall. He'd been holding them back for over an hour, but he could feel them building to the surface the further away he got from the school. The sobs wracked his body and he sat there, shivering and letting himself feel everything he'd be desperately trying not too. After a few minutes, the sobs subsided and he tried to get his breathing back to normal, when a rustle of leaves to the left alerted him to the fact he wasn't alone. Turning his head slowly, he was greeted by what seemed to be a large black dog, sitting on the ground, head tilted to one side and wagging its tail slowly as if trying to figure out what this strange boy was doing out in the woods.

"Hey big guy" Kurt smiled weakly

The dog got and moved slowly towards Kurt, stopping at his feet and looking up at him with wide chocolate brown eyes, that could melt even Sue Sylvester's heart. Kurt ran his hands through the dogs fur, leaned in and breathed in its scent. It shocked Kurt to smell that the dog smelled like vanilla. Breathing in again, he was still shocked to find the smell was that of vanilla.

"Whoever owns you treats you very well" Kurt mused.

The dog barked loudly and licked Kurt's face in response.

"Stop it!" Kurt laughed, as the dog continued to lick his face. Eventually he stopped and Kurt continued running his hands through the dogs mane.

"At least you're having a good day" Kurt murmured.

The dog cocked his head as if he was listening to Kurt and looked at him as if he was waiting for Kurt to continue.

"It's my first day" Kurt whispered "And I'm scared it'll be the same all over again. I'm scared that they'll hate me and they'll hurt me…and I'm scared he'll find me" Kurt finished.

The dog nuzzled closer to Kurt and made a small, pinch of hope ignite itself in his chest. Maybe this would be different, he hoped. Unlikely, but keep tryingThe voice of doom said.

He got up from his seat on the make-shift bench and sighed. The dog shifted at his feet and moved so he was in front of Kurt.

"I don't suppose you know the way back to the main building do you?" Kurt asked, chuckling "Okay that's when you know you're going mad is when you ask an animal for directions"

Surprisingly, the dog galloped to left for a bit and then stopped, turned around and barked at Kurt. Kurt weighed up his options for a minute and then seeing he didn't actually have any and staying here in the dropping temperature was not exactly the best thing for his already lacking immune system, he started walking to the place the dog had sat. When Kurt caught up to him, the dog ran to right for a bit, almost until he was out of sight, and then sat down and barked to Kurt.

"Why not?" Kurt murmured "Why the hell not?"

After a few minutes, the main building loomed back into view and Kurt had caught up with the dog. Smiling at the dog, he leaned down and ruffled the top of his head, and began to scratch behind his ear when he leaned into Kurt's hand.

"Thanks for the company" Kurt said, pulling his hand away and walking towards the main building, turning only to see the dog had disappeared. Frowning, Kurt turned around and began muttering "I am not going insane" under his breath until he reached the front doors of the building and walking into the entrance hall. He stopped for a second to catch his bearings, remembering the way Jeff had gone when he had first shown them to his – their room, and was about halfway up the staircase when he heard several shouts of "KURT" from below him. Looking over the banister, Kurt saw 5 warblers all clustered together in the entrance hall, their faces showing how relieved they were they'd found him, though why he'd never know. 'Probably needed a new punching bag' The voice he fought with each day mused.

"Hi" Kurt muttered under his breath.

There was a scuffle at the bottom of the stairs, as two people tried to reach Kurt with both Blaine and Max, reaching the step below Kurt's at the exact same time.

"Are you okay? I'm sorry if I scared you Kurt I didn't have that as my intention-" Blaine began, but was swiftly cut off by Max.

"Well that's you all over isn't Blaine?" Max sneered "Always the one with good intentions but never actually gets those good intentions across do you?"

"Watch it Max" Blaine warned, placing a hand on Max's arm, just out of Kurt's view and extending his Alpha abilities to the maximum in this form, practically crippling Max's ability to from any coherent thought that wasn't to get to his knees and submit to Blaine's will. With a glare at Blaine, Max pushed through it and managed to push a sentence out.

"We were just wondering whether you were okay Kurt" Max hurried to say, as every word he said seemed to be causing him an extraordinary amount of pain.

"I'm fine" Kurt said, while trying to avoid Blaine's gaze, who was still staring at him with an intensity that both frightened Kurt and excited him, but he couldn't understand why.

"Would you like to come to Breakfast with us tomorrow Kurt?" Blaine asked, regarding the boy who looked like he would rather be anywhere else at that moment.

"I'm fine thanks, I think Jeff said he'd take me too breakfast?" Kurt lied

"Oh he usually sits with us anyway" Blaine exclaimed, bouncing on his heels, his hair shaking a little bit and unleashing a few curls from his perfectly styled shell. Kurt, being reminded of the black dog that'd helped him, laughed for the first time and forgetting where he was, moved the curls back into place. A grin filled Blaine's face and Kurt, realising what he'd done, wrenched his hand back, opening and closing his mouth as he tried to come up with an explanation for his actions.

"See you tomorrow" Kurt said quickly and turned on his heel, a blush flowing across his face.

"How fucking cute" Max hissed. Blaine turned to him and grinned a hundred watt grin.

"And he's my piece of fucking cute" Blaine grinned, but behind that grin was a fierce protectiveness that Max knew meant Blaine would put everything he had into wooing Kurt, and that was a hell of alot more than he could offer.

"Ayeaye boss" Max saluted, swaggering back to the group of warbler at the bottom of the stairs, accepting that, for now, Kurt would be Blaine's. At least, if Kurt wanted Blaine.