A/N: Well, here is the next chapter! As requested, there is some Wes and David! Yay! Please let me know what you all think?

Enjoy!

Chapter Nine

"Hey, K-kurt."

Kurt glanced up from his locker when he heard the stutter. Tina had admitted to everyone last year that she had been faking it the whole time, but it still occasionally popped up when she was nervous or scared. Sure enough, the pretty Asian girl looked nervous, fidgeting with her bag and glancing around.

"Hi, Tina," he smiled before turning back to his locker to finish getting his books out.

"Is that Blaine?" Tina indicated at the framed photo in his locker.

"Yes," Kurt glanced at it fondly before shutting his locker. "And before you ask, because I'm sure you will, it was framed when he gave it to me."

Tina giggled lightly, and fell into step with Kurt. They walked down the hall in silence for a few minutes before she spoke again.

"Puck'sgoingtotrytoseduceyou!"

Kurt froze and looked at her. "I'm sorry, but did you say Puck is going to try seducing me?"

Tina nodded quickly. "It's supposed to make you break up with Blaine. For the record, I was against it. So was Mike, Sam, and Quinn. We all thought it was too cruel. Except maybe Quinn; I think she objected because they wanted Sam to try to seduce you."

Kurt just continued to stare at the goth girl in shock, both because it's not often he hears her speak so much at one time, and because that what happened last night with Puck had been a plan that apparently the whole glee club was in on. And they had thought about using his feelings for Sam, to top it all off?

It was a sick and hurtful game they were playing.

"K-kurt?"

He blinked once and focused back on Tina. She was looking at him worriedly.

"Thanks for the warning," Kurt tried to smile at her, but he knew it probably looked more like a grimace. "But it comes a little too late. Puck practically climbed on me and stuck his tongue down my throat yesterday afternoon."

Tina had an appalled expression on her face. "I'm so sorry I didn't warn you sooner!" Then, and a brief pause, "How was it?"

"Tina!" But that got an actual laugh out of him, and he knew that was the goal.

She grinned playfully. "Well, he is a stud. I'm perfectly content with Mike's abs, but even you have to admit that boy is fine!"

"I'll admit that he is a good kisser," Kurt sighed. "I think I kissed him back even though I didn't want to."

"Well, I have to get to Chemistry, so I'll see you in Glee," Tina smiled and waved as she walked away towards her class.

Kurt waved back and continued on to his class, silently fuming about his friends were acting. He didn't even notice Karofsky staring at him from down the hall.

"So tell me again why we're sneaking around this place instead of going to class at our own school?" Sam asked quietly, as he, Finn, Puck, and Mike were tip-toeing down an empty hallway at Dalton.

"I told you already," Finn hissed, peering around a corner. "It's for the good of the club. And Kurt, of course. It's good for Kurt too."

"So how exactly is skipping school to beat up someone on an opposing team good for Kurt?" Mike asked sarcastically. "After all, he's pretty adamant about them not dating."

"Dude, you did not see Hummel's neck," Puck growled. "It looked like an octopus wrapped its tentacle around his throat."

Sam stopped with a confused look to the mohawked teen. "How does that even make sense?"

"Okay, honestly?" A voice came from behind them. The four boys spun around to come face to face with Blaine, who was giving them an amused smile. "At least when Kurt came to spy, he made some kind of effort to blend in."

The four members of New Directions stared at him in shock. They really hadn't expected to find him so easily.

Blaine chuckled awkwardly and rubbed the back of his neck."There are no impromptu concerts going on anytime soon, and the Warblers only rehearse after school, so you're a little too early if you actually are spying. Maybe try coming back this afternoon?"

"We're not here to spy," Finn growled, looking down menacingly at the much shorter boy. "We are here to tell you to stay away from Kurt!"

Blaine's amused expression fell away to one of confusion. "What?"

"You heard him," Puck stood beside Finn and put on his most dangerous face. "Leave Kurt alone. He doesn't need you messing with his head, or heart, or whatever."

Blaine glanced briefly at Mike and Sam who were hanging back and looking apprehensive, before focusing on the other two. "I'm not quite sure what you mean. I have no intentions of messing with either Kurt's head or heart."

"Bullshit!" Puck snarled, taking a step closer.

"We saw what you did to his neck," Finn interjected fiercely. "That is like, totally moving too fast for having just met met him with no ulterior motives!"

An unknown emotion flashed through Blaine's eyes before he replied. "He told you I did that to him?"

"He didn't have to," Puck glared. "It was kinda obvious. He spent the afternoon with you, and comes home with a bunch of fresh hickeys. Who else would it have been?"

Blaine sighed deeply, and seemed to be internally wrestling with himself.

"Whatever, just stay away from him. We don't need you screwing us up," Finn said.

"So this is all about your glee club then, and not about Kurt?" Blaine took Sam and Mike's guilty expressions as a confirmation, and sighed again. "Look, I really like Kurt. But with everything he's going through right now, he doesn't need a boyfriend. He needs a friend. So until he's ready, that's all I am. It seems like he needs me now, especially since his other supposed friends are kind of being jackasses to him."

Puck suddenly shoved him roughly, causing Blaine to fall to the ground. Fear flashed through his eyes as he stared up at the angry mohawked teen.

"What the hell is going on here?" Two boys came running up and slid to a stop beside Blaine. The darker skinned one knelt down to help Blaine up while the other was sending a message on his phone.

"You'd better leave," the one with the phone said calmly, looking each of the New Directions boys in the eye. "Unless you want to deal with an angry bunch of Warblers. You see, we don't take too kindly to people harassing our lead vocalist."

Finn got a panicked expression and motioned for his friends to leave. Before he followed them, he glared once more at Blaine. "Stay away from him, or else next time it won't just be a push."

Blaine watched sadly as the four boys ran off.

"So what was that about?"

He smiled at his two best friends, Wes and David. David was dusting him off, and Wes was cancelling the last order to the Warblers for a rescue.

"Those were some of the boys from New Directions," Blaine began, and Wes cut him off.

"Again? I'll admit, it was cute when Kurt came spying, but this is really going too far."

"Yeah," David agreed solemnly. "Plus they made even worse spies than Kurt did."

Blaine had to laugh. "I actually told them that. But I don't think they were here to spy. They were actually trying to threaten me to stay away from Kurt. I believe they think I'm trying to sabotage them."

"And yet, they're the ones who keep coming here, whether to spy or to threaten our lead vocalist with bodily harm," David straightened out Blaine's collar, laughing a bit when the shorter boy pushed his hands away in exasperation. "But seriously, Blaine, are you okay?"

"Yeah," Blaine smiled sadly. "Just a few flashbacks to the bullying days and some bruised pride. Nothing big. Thanks for the rescue, guys, but I have to go. I was on my way to finish that English paper. See you guys in rehearsal." With that, he walked off.

David and Wes watched him go.

"He seems so sad," David commented thoughtfully. "We should cheer him up."

Wes turned to look at the other boy. "How do you suggest we do that?"

David grinned evilly. "I have a plan."

It was finally the end of the day, and almost time for glee. Kurt was just at his locker, putting his books away. He wasn't looking forward to rehearsal; he was planning on confronting his friends about their horrible plan. He actually had wanted to talk to Puck alone first, but most of the other glee guys seemed to have been missing all morning, only turning up for their afternoon classes. They seemed to be avoiding him as well.

To top everything off, every time he turned a corner, Karofsky seemed to be there, staring. Just staring.

If he was honest with himself, it was very frightening.

Kurt sighed slightly and closed his locker. There was no use putting the confrontation off any longer.

He started off down the empty halls towards the choir room.

It wasn't long before he heard the footsteps following him. He tightened his grip on his bag slightly and sped up. It sounded like like there was more than one person.

The footsteps sped up as well.

Kurt started to panic, and was contemplating full out running when a familiar voice called out to him.

"Wait a minute, Kurt!"

He froze in shock before being gently tackled by David and Wes.

"What are you guys doing here?" Kurt asked numbly when they pulled away, staring at their grinning faces.

"Kidnapping you!" David replied cheerfully.

"Why?"

"Because Blaine needs cheering up," Wes said with a slight frown. "Some of the guys in your club came out today to tell him to stay away from you."

"They what?" Kurt could feel the anger rising inside.

David nodded. "I'm sure if we hadn't came along when we did, they would have done more than push him down."

Kurt frowned before turning and continuing briskly on his path.

"Wait, where are you going?" David asked as the two boys jogged to keep up.

"I'm going to yell at my glee club," Kurt ground out, "and then I'm going to let you kidnap me."

"Cool, can we watch?" Wes elbowed David in the side.

Kurt ignored him and burst into the choir room. To his satisfaction, everyone was already there, including Mr. Shue.

"You're late, Kurt," Shue frowned as he noticed the two boys in Dalton uniforms following him into the room. "What's going on?"

"That's what I would like to know," Kurt spat out before turning to his teammates. "What were you guys thinking? I honestly cannot believe you went to Dalton to threaten Blaine!"

"Wait, what?" Shue tried to interrupt, but Kurt ignored him.

"That is completely crossing the line, especially since he transferred to Dalton to get away from harassment. Blaine has been nothing but nice to me, listening and talking about things when I need it! He's been a real friend.

"You all don't seem to care when the bullying gets out of hand, and I get hurt here at McKinley! How many times have any of you threatened Karofsky against hurting me when you see him slam me into the lockers? I know you glee jocks stopped throwing me in the dumpster every morning, but do you try and stop your teammates from doing it? No; you just keep on walking by just like everyone else! But now you get all defensive when I make a friend who just happens to be on an opposing team!

"Do you realize that you all have hurt me more in the past two days than Blaine has in the roughly two weeks I've known him?" He looked Puck in the eye. "I know you were trying to seduce me to get me away from Blaine. You didn't think that would hurt me? You didn't think that playing with my emotions, and using me in such a degrading way would be painful?"

Kurt pointed angrily at Finn and Puck. "And neither of you actually asked me who left marks on my neck. You just assumed. Well, it wasn't Blaine. It was-" he cut off with a gasp. He couldn't say it; not to them. They would spread it around the school; no one deserved to be outed like that.

Thankfully, David stepped up and wrapped an arm around his shoulders. The younger boy was quivering with rage and hurt.

"Come on," he whispered in Kurt's ear. "Let's go."

David led Kurt out while Wes surveyed the rest of them with disdain. "We're kidnapping Kurt, and if that's the way you treat him, we might not give him back."

With that he followed the other two out.

New Directions was left staring after the three boys, wondering just how badly they screwed up.