A/N: Blaine's cocky and not so nice in this because that's what the prompt asked for.

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Blaine Anderson, as the youngest son of the heads of the Dalton clan, was cocky and brash. His position afforded him protection from consequences his fellow clan mate faced on a daily basis and he used it to his advantage. His parents didn't pay much attention to him other than when they had to smooth over a dispute and his older brother, Cooper, had been gone for years after their parents arranged a marriage with the middle daughter of a clan in Los Angeles and when Cooper was picking which Gargoyles he wanted for his new clan, he didn't choose Blaine.

Cooper had been under no obligation to choose Blaine, in fact some clans forbid the choosing of a sibling when forming a new clan, but Blaine had been under the assumption his brother wanted him. Their relationship hadn't been the best, Cooper would pick on him all the time, but they were still brothers and he could have pulled his own weight in Cooper's new clan. But his brother had married and left without ever looking back and Blaine hadn't heard from him since the wedding.

He couldn't lie and say Cooper's choice didn't feel like a betrayal. The weeks leading up to the wedding, Copper had been the nicest Blaine could remember and his hopes of going to Los Angeles as a member of his brother's new clan were high. They lasted until the day of the wedding, when Cooper announced his new clan members and Blaine wasn't among them. He had spent so much time bragging to his friends that his brother was going to choose him and when Cooper hadn't, it left him open to their ridicule.

Blaine spent a lot of time after his brother's wedding lashing out at everyone in the clan. His parents had to take their attentions from serious matters to deal with the problems he'd created and there were a lot of members of their clan who resented him. Blaine suspected part of the decision to arrange a marriage for him was to get him away from those clan members but he was going to head his own clan so he couldn't complain.

"Blaine," Rachel Berry gracefully dropped from the sky, landing on the ground in front of his house. He was lounging on his porch, soaking up the summer sun, and he wasn't in the mood to be disturbed.

"Not now Rachel," she was his closest friend in the clan, and really the only one who understood him. She would definitely be his first choice for his new clan and he'd make sure she was given a high rank.

"You have a message from the Hummels," she waved a letter in the air. She'd obviously ignored the no flying during the day rule to go check their mailbox but he'd never report her. "Open it. I wonder if it's a love letter."

Blaine almost rolled his eyes. Rachel was a huge romantic and she dreamed of falling in love the human way, meeting a guy and dating and being worshipped. It wasn't something that typically happened to people like them, children of high ranking Gargoyles in a clan, but Blaine didn't have it in him to kill her dream. She was, after all, the one person who'd never stopped talking to him through all his problem days.

"Well," Rachel bounced on her heels and her wings fluttered behind her in excitement. "What does it say?"

"Impatient," he teased. He'd been in a much better mood since his parents had announced his wedding and he'd even managed to repair some of his broken relationships with clan members. "It says," his eyes drifted over the words, "the wedding's off. They claim Kurt's met his True Match."

"Obviously it's a lie," Rachel said at once. "That hasn't happened in centuries and if it did happen, it certainly wouldn't be to such a low class clan in the Lima Forest. It would be to someone deserving, like you or I."

It was another person in Blaine's life who decided not to choose him. Kurt choose someone else, just like Cooper had at his wedding.

"They better be able to prove this claim," Blaine spat, crumpling the letter and tossing it to the ground. "Don't tell anyone about this," he added to Rachel. She was a horrible gossip. "I need to inform my parents of this development. They'll need to decide what payment they want from the Hummels when I expose them for being liars."

"Let me know how I can help," Rachel said before taking to the air again.

Blaine appreciated the offer but this betrayal was something he needed to take care of himself.