AN- Okay, guys, I got a couple of confused reviews so I'm going to explain it again: Originally, Funk is supposed to come before Theatricality. Really. It's the way the writers had it. And it makes sense, what with them announcing "off to Regionals!" at the end of this episode and with Jesse not being in it. I do not know why they suddenly changed it when the episodes aired but they did.

Shout out to Squid7000: IT'S FINALLY HERE! I hope you like it!

Kurt is all smiles in glee.

"What's got you in such a good mood?" Blaine asks as everyone fusses over Tina's clothes.

"Finn and his mom are moving in with us," Kurt squeals.

Blaine blinks. Because, really, is that a good idea? Considering the history that they have?

Before Blaine can mention this, Rachel bursts in the room and informs them all that Vocal Adrenaline is planning on doing Lady Gaga.

So Rachel, Quinn and Mercedes plan on sneaking in and spying on them to find out exactly what's going down.

"I'm going to start decorating our room," Kurt tells Blaine as they leave glee.

Blaine realizes he needs to say something.

"Kurt, you're my best friend, you know this right?" Kurt nods. "Okay, so I mean this from the bottom of my heart. I have been quiet for several months, hoping this would go away. And it hasn't; you guys, you're not going to get together, okay? He's straight, Kurt. I'm sorry but he's straight. And now that you guys are living together, this is adding more fuel to the fact that you might end up as step-brothers. You need to stop this whole stalking thing because it is entering scary territory."

Kurt looks angry. He opens his mouth like he's about to yell and Blaine panics because they're best friends and they're not supposed to fight anymore, remember Kurt?

"I'm over him, Blaine. Really, this has nothing to do with feelings or winning Finn over. Really."

"Kurt, you can't just shut off your feelings," Blaine argues because, honestly, he would know this better than anymore.

"You can if you're starting to see the person in a new light. Especially if that new light is 'brother' because like you said; this is really serious between Carole and my dad and…yeah. I'm over him, okay?"

"Okay."

"I should probably make this all up to Finn. He didn't look too comfortable at the idea of sharing a room with me…"

"Yeah, you're in charge of decorating, right? Why not try something a little more…Finn-ish? You know? Make the room comfortable enough for both of you."

Kurt nods. "That's a good idea," He smiles at him. "Thank you, Blaine. Even for being brutally honest."

"I figure I owed you one after you told me that my sweater, 'looked like a cat barfed up Captain Crunch' all over it."

"Well, it was ugly," Kurt says in in his defense.

Rachel calls Blaine later that night.

"What's up, Rach? How goes the Gaga?"

"I found my mom."

There's a moment of silence as Blaine takes in the information.

"What?"

"When we went to spy on Vocal Adrenaline, we heard Shelby sing. Their coach, Ms. Cochran. It's the same from the tape, Blaine. She's my mother."

"Oh my god," Blaine says softly. "Rachel, are you okay?"

"We talked. She saw me sing at Sectionals and she knew she had to tell me. But-but there wasn't that feeling. That dramatic sweeping of the camera as we ran towards each other and threw our arms around each other. It wasn't there, Blaine."

"Well…I don't know, maybe you could work on it. She's your mom and you found her and this is what you wanted all along, right?"

"I wanted it when it felt right."

"Rach…"

"I need to go lie down, Blaine. Could-could you not mention it to anyone? I don't want anyone to feel like I'm a traitor or something. The Jesse drama was bad enough."

"Sure, Rach. Love you."

"Love you too, Blaine."

Finn manages to convince Mr. Schue to let the guys do KISS instead of Lady Gaga.

And Blaine doesn't really care either way because, yeah, Lady Gaga is awesome but KISS is freaking badass and he hasn't really done anything with the boys in a while.

The next day, the girls (and Kurt) show up in their Lady Gaga outfits. Blaine appraises Kurt when he walks in.

"You look nice."

Kurt's smile isn't as fabulous as usual.

"Thanks."

"What's wrong?"

Kurt shakes his head and Blaine turns to Tina, who had walked in with him.

"Karofsky," she mutters.

Blaine sees red. He turns to Kurt who immediately shakes his head.

"Don't worry about it, okay? He's not worth it."

But Blaine does worry about it (and Karofsky would be more than worth it) but before he can say anything, Mr. Schue starts talking.

Quinn and Mercedes spill the beans about Rachel's mom and Blaine kind of wants to snap at them because he's already in a bad mood and this so did not help.

But when Rachel comes in, (looking sort of disastrous in her own Gaga outfit) she brushes the drama aside in favor of the club and their performance and Blaine beams because there's the Rachel he knows.

The girls and Kurt perform 'Bad Romance' and the boys (except Finn) all rock out in the audience because they absolutely kill this song in the best way possible.

When the girls and Kurt are done, Mr. Schue informs the boys they will be expected to do as well or better with their KISS performance.

"I know nothing about KISS," Blaine confesses to Kurt as they walk out of the auditorium.

"Ask Finn or Puck to help you. If anyone knows the band it would be them."

"I don't want to exactly admit that. I'll just do massive amounts of research and wing it. That always works."

Kurt laughs. "Usually. So I take it you don't want to join me on Day Two of my shopping adventure?"

"I would love to. But-"

"Glee is more important than me," Kurt sighs dramatically. "Thanks."

Blaine tweaks Kurt's shoulder pad. "Drama queen."

Kurt sticks his tongue out at him.

Blaine spends the rest of his afternoon on his laptop, looking up information about KISS. He gets a text from Finn, informing him he'll be dressing up as the replacement guy for the performance.

And he totally knows who that is.

As he's blasting 'Shout it Out Loud' (their performance song) he notices his dad is standing in the doorway.

"Hey," William hesitates. "Is that KISS?"

Blaine stares. "Uh…yeah."

"Trying new music?"

"It's for glee. Our performance of the week."

"Ah."

"We have to dress up," Blaine explains, "And I need to play the replacement guy."

"Eric Carr," Williams answers. "I loved KISS. I have some memorabilia downstairs. If you wanted to use it."

Blaine is confused beyond belief because his father is talking to him. For the first time in almost a week, his father is looking at him and speaking.

"Yeah," he latches on, "That would be great."

He pauses.

"Could you help me find it?"

William also pauses. He finally nods. "Sure, son."

Blaine can't keep the smile off his face as they leave his room.

They spend like three or four hours in the basement.

William finds hid old record player and throws on a KISS album. He pulls out posters and his concert tickets and tells Blaine of all the shows he attended with his friends.

"I took your mom to one once," he recalls, "She wasn't a fan."

Blaine tries to picture his mother at a KISS concert and laughs because that is two images that do not compute.

"Here's Eric Carr," William hands Blaine a picture. "You could use this as a reference."

"Thanks, dad," Blaine says quietly.

Suddenly, William places a hand on Blaine's shoulder and Blaine looks up and his dad wants to say something. He can sense it. And this whole afternoon has been amazing that Blaine kind of wishes he doesn't say anything because he doesn't want this ruined.

But, a small part of thinks that maybe, just maybe, this is how they can relate to one another again.

"Good luck, tomorrow, "William says.

It's not what Blaine expected but he still smiles widely in response.

"Thanks dad."

The boys rock the house as KISS and the girls and Kurt and Mr. Schue are impressed as all get, cheering and dancing in the audience.

And Blaine really puts himself into the performance because he's in such a good mood right now. He's got his friends, his club and maybe, just maybe, his dad.

The boys explain their costumes to Mr. Schue and after, end up down in the audience with their fellow glee clubbers.

Kurt saunters up to him and surveys his outfit.

"Nice make-up job. If it wasn't obvious before, it really is now," he teases.

Blaine laughs. "At least I'm not wearing high-heels."

"These," Kurt motions to his feet, "Are art. Your boots are a disaster."

"Don't be hatin' on my rock-star boots."

Kurt rolls his eyes. "Don't be hatin' on my fabulous-ness."

William is waiting up for Blaine when he gets home.

"How did it go?"

Blaine smiles. "Amazing. We really rocked the house and Mr. Schue was really impressed."

"Good job, son. You know, I bet you did KISS proud today."

Vanessa walks in then, glancing between the boys and sensing no awkwardness.

"Blaine, why are you all dressed up?"

"It was for glee," he explains quietly.

"I schooled our son in the fine art of KISS," William explains.

His parents' eyes meet. They have a silent conversation that ends with Vanessa nodding and smiling.

"That's good. You-you should probably get that make-up off soon though, Blaine."

He can hear, though barely, the underlying panic in her tone. Like, the sooner he gets it off, the sooner she can go back to pretending.

He forces a smile at her. "I'll do it right now, mom."

His dad nods at him as he leaves the room. "If you need to learn about another band, I was also big on Aerosmith."

Blaine grins. "Thanks, dad."

It's a start. And he loves it.

Blaine is so super excited about this development with his father that he rushes right over to Kurt's house to share the news.

He walks downstairs. Finn is notably absent and Kurt looks rather annoyed as he glues sequins onto his Lady Gaga shoes.

"What happened there?"

Kurt jumps a little and looks up, smiling softly at him. "You scared me."

"Sorry. What happened to your shoes?"

The taller boy just shakes his head. "Nothing, really. I scuffed my toe on the car door earlier. What's up?"

Blaine beams. "My dad might be coming to terms with everything."

"Really?"

"He helped me with the whole KISS thing and he was really cool about it when I got home today. And he even kind of got my mom to act somewhat normal and, I don't know, Kurt. Maybe this is going to be better than I thought."

He sinks onto the bed next to Kurt and glances at his shoes. "Dude, you're missing a lot of sequins. How bad did you scuff your toe?"

Finn chooses that moment to walk in from what Blaine knows is the laundry room. "Hey, Blaine, didn't hear you come in."

Blaine notices Kurt tense slightly next to him and greets Finn with a nod.

"Kurt, look dude, I'm sorry about your shoes," Finn says and it feels to Blaine like he's apologizing for more than the shoes.

"Don't worry about it," Kurt says stiffly.

"You know Karofsky, dude and-"

"Karofsky?" Blaine repeats looking straight at Kurt.

Whose cheeks have flushed a deep red and he's determinedly not looking at Blaine.

"Did Karofsky do this, Kurt?"

Finn, who seems to realize he messed up, tries to back Kurt up. "No, he-"

"Kurt," Blaine says firmly. "Did. Karofsky. Do. This."

Kurt sighs. "Yes."

Blaine's on his feet in an instant and Kurt stands a second later.

"Blaine, no, I know what you're thinking and it's not worth it."

"Kurt, I'm not going to stand by while he-"

"He'll murder you, Blaine. Please, just drop it, okay?"

Kurt grabs Blaine's hand and looks at him earnestly. Blaine, who cannot say no to an expression that pleading, groans.

"If he does anything again, I'm not holding back."

Kurt smiles. "I know. Thank you."

Finn, Blaine realizes, looks very uncomfortable.

And, maybe even a little ashamed.

Blaine drives to Kurt's house the next day.

Kurt had called him earlier, raving about how he finished his and Finn's room and it's fantastic and Blaine needs to get over to the house as soon as possible because it's his best work ever.

When Blaine arrives, Burt seems kind of annoyed. He doesn't read much into it, writing it off as work or something. He slips downstairs and his eyes widen as he takes in the room.

It's…well actually kind of a disaster. Hangings are on the floor, and pillows are thrown about. There's a wooden something on the floor and the couches are stripped of their bedding. Kurt is standing in the middle of the room, tugging on some sort of hanging decoration, muttering under his breath about how "it all needs to go"

"Kurt! Stop! What," Blaine rushes to him. "Are-are you okay? What's wrong."

He grabs Kurt's arms and the taller boy just looks at him before he falls into his arms and begins sobbing.

"Hey, hey it's okay. Talk to me Kurt. Tell me what's wrong?"

Kurt shakes his head. Blaine just holds him tighter. After a few minutes, Kurt pulls away.

"Finn didn't like the room. He was yelling at me about how much he didn't like it and then I told him we could redecorate it and-and he said that the first thing to go was the…'faggy' blanket."

"What?" Blaine hisses.

"He didn't mean it! He was upset and it wasn't toward me but my dad heard him and flipped out and they're not moving in anymore and they're going to break up and my dad is going to be all alone again it's all my fault. Blaine! I messed everything up."

"No, no you did not. Kurt, this was not your fault, okay? Finn over-reacted."

"I thought I was over him," the taller boy says quietly. "Maybe-maybe I really wasn't. You were right; you can't just shut off feelings. I just, I thought-"

"Hey," Blaine says quietly but forcibly enough that Kurt stops talking and looks at him. "Maybe you're not, okay? But, honestly, I haven't seen you throw him those adoring looks you used to in a while. I-I think maybe, on some level, you did accept that you and Finn would only ever be friends. And you held onto those feelings and tried to push the other ones away."

"My dad hates him. He was so happy with Carole, Blaine. I-I suck."

"You know what you need? You need to get out of the house for a little while. This room is not helping the mood. We can go back to my place and just hang out there, okay? You can even spend the night if you want."

"It's a school night."

"Okay, you can just come over. We can play board games or something equally tedious. Does that sound like fun?"

Kurt sniffles. "Kind of."

"Okay, let's go tell your dad."

Burt gives them the okay and they drive to Blaine's house in relative silence.

Blaine leads the way to the gaming closet, located down the hall from the kitchen and he pulls out Candy Land, Mouse Trap and Twister.

He leads Kurt back into the living room and places the boxes on the coffee table.

"Pick one."

Kurt shrugs.

"Fine, I'll pick."

He grabs Twister and throws the top of the box, pulling out the giant mat and setting it up behind the couch. He places the spinner next to it.

"You're going first."

He spins for Kurt and it lands on right hand green. Kurt shoots him a look but places his right hand on one of the green circles. Blaine spins and gets left foot blue. Kurt gets right foot, yellow and Blaine gets right foot blue and then Kurt spins another yellow, this time for his left foot and Blaine gets right hand red and realizes as soon as he does it, that he's sort of hovering over Kurt.

And Kurt is looking up at him, far less depressed than before and he's kind of smiling.

"You gonna spin again or just stand there and stare at me?" he teases.

Blaine…Blaine doesn't know what to do. His face is less than two inches away from the boy that he has incredibly strong feelings for and he keeps hearing Kurt's voice over and over in his head about how he's over Finn (as over him as he can be) and, honestly what's stopping Blaine from leaning down and kissing him? They're both out, they're both single and Kurt's lips look kind of delicious.

Kurt eyes widen as Blaine's head moves a fraction of an inch towards his but before he can go any further, Blaine's father appears in the doorway.

"So, how was school-"

He stops. Blaine and Kurt's heads both whip towards him at the same time and Blaine is oh-so-aware of how this possibly looks and oh shit.

"Hi dad. This is my friend, Kurt. You remember him, right? He was on the football team."

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Anderson."

William doesn't say anything. He merely looks at the two boys, then specifically at Blaine. Then he walks away. Blaine pushes himself off the Twister board and swears under his breath. He feels Kurt's hand on his shoulder a moment later.

"Blaine, I…"

"Don't worry about it," Blaine forces a smile over his shoulder. "Let's put this away and go up to my room. Less chance of interruptions."

Kurt goes a little red at the implication but honestly, Blaine wasn't even thinking along those lines anymore. His father's retreat into silence put a bad feeling in his stomach.

Square damn one.

Finn walks up to Blaine in the hallway the next day.

"Hey, dude, can I ask you a favor?"

Blaine glares at him. "I'm sorry, but aren't I too 'faggy' to talk to?"

Finn pales. "Kurt told you. Look, man, I didn't even mean it. I was angry and it slipped out and I want to take it back so badly. You know me, Blaine. I don't have a problem with it at all I just-"

"Called Kurt a bad name because you felt uncomfortable with him," Blaine tells him. "You're right. No problems at all."

"Karofsky and Azimo wouldn't leave me alone about sharing a room with Kurt and catching the gay and you know he used to like me! I just, I snapped. And I would do anything to take it back, Blaine."

"Don't you get it, Finn? It doesn't matter what happened or how sorry you are. You used that word. That extremely offensive word about something Kurt worked really hard on and I just…I can't believe that you would say that."

"Please," Finn says quietly as Blaine rolls his eyes and tries to slip away, "Can you tell him I'm sorry?"

Blaine looks at his oldest friend. "I'll think about it."

So, Puck gets all the boys together to sing 'Beth' to Quinn and Blaine is really glad it's one of the songs his dad made him listen to because he can totally help with this shit.

Finn sings a line to Kurt, who stares stonily back and Blaine can feel the anger in his eyes and sort of misses the days when he stared at Finn adoringly.

Well...sort of.

Afterwards, Quinn agrees to let Puck be there when the baby is born.

Blaine swears he sees tears in Noah Puckerman's eyes after that.

He's too busy being distracted by Kurt.

"What happened after I left last night?"

Blaine shrugs. "Same old, same old. Dad didn't say a word, mom followed suit."

"Blaine I am so sorry, I-"

"Hey. I was the one who suggested the game. Kurt, this isn't about you. It's about me and their blatant disappointment, okay? Please, don't blame yourself."

"Your parents kind of suck," Kurt admits.

Blaine sighs. "That's the problem; they generally don't. My dad was so cool with the KISS thing and my mom does love me…I think they just need more time."

"Well, my door is open if you ever want to just get away. You know that, right?"

Blaine nods. "Yeah."

They watch Finn walk out.

"He's sorry, you know?"

Kurt nods. "I know. It still hurts."

Rachel comes into school the next day with a broad smile on her face. Blaine greets her easily.

"You're in a good mood."

"My mother and I sang a duet yesterday. 'Poker Face'. And we both agreed that a relationship between us is not what we want. But, unlike before, we were actually able to say goodbye."

"'Poker Face'?"

"I didn't really think of the song implications until after," she admits sheepishly.

"I'm sorry I wasn't here for you more," Blaine says.

"Blaine Anderson, are you kidding me? You were there far more than anyone else in glee club."

They hug.

The next day, everyone goes to glee in their costumes of the week.

Blaine notices, a little too late, that Kurt isn't in the room.

"Where's Kurt?"

Artie glances around. "And where's Finn?"

The glee clubbers exchange looks and immediately bolt out of the room in search for their friends.

They find Kurt and Finn standing up to Karofsky and Azimo and immediately call out to the fact that they have their backs.

Blaine smiles as he watches Finn and Kurt exchange smile of their own, Finn dressed in an outlandish Lady Gaga-esque outfit. Finn, who finally stepped up to the plate and proved to Kurt how sorry he was.

Rachel links arms with him as they follow Mr. Schue back to the choir room, and Blaine glances over his shoulder to see Finn trying to touch Kurt's outfit and Kurt waving his hands off.

They were going to make awesome brothers one day.

AN- Totally awesome brothers. One more chapter guys!