A/N: I can honestly say this chapter is slightly dark for Glee so Im lightening it up in the next one don't worry. I've brought up a problem which I think will probably be mentioned in the series over the fact Blaine is younger than Kurt and Kurt going off to NYADA (maybe, we don't know obviously). Still slighlty worried there'll be less screen time for our guys :( but all the other awesome Glee characters are important too so... I just get really annoyed that the boys aren't always sat next to each other in the choir room or their converstaions in the corridors at school are like hi, bye. Don't know if anybody else noticed this? Anyway, I was actually inspired by my French work for this chapter, don't know why it inspired me but there you go. Not entirely sure you'll like this chapter tho :\ And sorry this authors note is so long XD
Warning: Mention of violence. Also ever so slighlty fluffy. But not mega so. I don't do ott kissing I'm afraid. Don't really want to scare my readers away.
"Sooo, how was he." Sebastian asked.
Kurt jumped. He had just closed his locker and Sebastian had randomly been there, leaning against the lockers nonchalantly, his arms crossed and a huge smug grin on his face.
"You have to admit, he's hot right?" Sebastian continued, following Kurt as he started to walk down the hallway.
Kurt sighed. "Yes, Sebastian, he was hot and, even though it is hard to admit it, rather nice."
"See, I can sure pick 'em." Sebastian shrugged. Now Kurt wasn't his enemy in love, Sebastian seemed to be a whole lot nicer than usual.
"May I ask how you know this guy?" Kurt frowned.
"One night stand." Sebastian said as if it wasn't a big deal.
"And you keep in contact with him?" Kurt looked unimpressed.
"Well yeah, who knows when I'd want some action? Unfortunately for me when I asked for his 'assistance' again he said he was looking for a long time relationship. I don't really know him that well come to think about it..." Sebastian trailed off.
"So for all I know you've set me up with a paedophile." Kurt replied matter of fact.
"Hey don't overreact, he's the same age, even goes to Dalton and you even told me yourself he was a nice guy." Sebastian said defensively.
"Yeah, he is." Kurt nodded. His time with Greg had been fun. They talked, danced laughed.
"So, you going to see him again?" Sebastian asked, curious.
"He invited me to a movie Saturday..."
"See, things are already looking up for you Kurt. You could get any guy you wanted if you put yourself out there." Sebastian patted Kurt's back.
Kurt didn't want to put himself out there. Yes Greg was great, but he wasn't Blaine.
Finn arrived home Saturday night to find Kurt once again cooking enough food to solve the poverty crisis in Africa.
"Urm dude..."
"Here, try this." Kurt shoved a spoon into Finn's mouth, watching for the reaction.
Finn couldn't help but fall in love instantly. Kurt was an amazing cook and he was about to ask for more when he realised the real problem at hand.
Finn grabbed the spoon out of Kurt's hand. "Okay dude, we're going to put this down now," Finn put the wooden spoon back in the cooking pot, turning off the oven and grabbing Kurt by the shoulders leading him to the sitting room. "And we're going to talk about what's wrong with you."
Kurt seemed a bit dazed as Finn sat him down, taking the seat across from him.
"Is this about Blaine?" Finn asked, concerned.
"Why are you so interested, you never usually are, so what's so different now?" Kurt snapped avoiding the question.
"Dude, I'm your brother, talk to me, has this got anything to do with Blaine?"
Kurt looked away, rubbing his wrists self consciously. This had everything to do with Blaine. He missed him terribly but there was something else...
"Dude, if you miss him why did you reject his apology?"
"Because I'm holding him back." Kurt murmured, his words almost inaudible. Kurt wanted to tell Finn everything, not just the fact Blaine was the only thing on his mind, but also about that.
"In what way are you holding Blaine back?"
"I can't say, even I'm not supposed to know. He didn't tell me because it would hurt me most of all." Kurt choked.
Finn took a sharp breath in. "Look, just talk to him."
"I can..."
"Talk to him Kurt! You have to work this out because you're not only hurting yourself, but you're hurting Blaine as well! Think about it okay?" Finn's voice softened from his raised tone as soon as he saw Kurt flinch.
Kurt nodded, but still seemed distant when he talked. "Yeah, I might just do that. Thanks Finn." Kurt stood up smiling at Finn. "I think I'll go clean up the kitchen now."
Finn seemed satisfied so Kurt left the room. What Finn didn't know was that Kurt had no intention of talking to Blaine. He just said what he had to make Finn happy. So what if Blaine was hurting? He'd get over that, the more Kurt stayed away from him the quicker Blaine will be able to heal and move on.
Back in the sitting room Finn sat thinking to himself. As soon as Kurt had left the room Finn allowed his smile to fade. Finn may seem clueless at times, but he had seen it, and he didn't like it. He was going to talk to Blaine first thing in the morning, and maybe pay Karofsky a visit later on...
"I can't believe I got talked into being in this loser clubroom again." Santana remarked, staring at her red painted nails with a fowl look on her face.
"Santana! Finn said this was important!" Mercedes snapped.
The only people that were in the choir room was Finn, Mercedes, Brittany, Santana (who couldn't let Brittany be on her own for some strange reason), Artie, Tina, Mike, Rachel, Puck, Quinn, Finn and Blaine.
"Why isn't the rest of New Directions here anyway? They realise this club was the reason their life sucked so much?" Santana continued.
"Shut it Satan, nobody asked you to be here." Puck growled.
"I've only called you guy's because we're the ones who are closest to Kurt." Finn explained.
The room went deathly silent.
"What's happened to Kurt?" Blaine stood up, about to rush off and find him when Finn dragged him back down into his seat.
Finn swallowed. "Yesterday, Kurt seemed strange..."
"Dude, Kurt's always strange." Puck reasoned.
"No, he was more distant than usual, I mean, I don't usually notice these thing's but yesterday I definitely did." Finn shook his head.
Tina looked worried. "What's going on?"
"Well, Kurt didn't think I'd noticed but he has bruises." Finn said.
"Well done genius, we all have bruises, its high school after all." Santana's forked tongue never ceased to stop.
"Unfortunately Finn, Santana's right." Rachel agreed. "We've all been victim to the Hockey Team and the Football team at some point as well as being slammed into lockers by our peers, all of them probably just jealous of our talent, it's only natural Kurt should have bruises."
"Not on his wrists Rachel or round the back of his neck!" Finn shouted. He had meant to be more tactful than that but his anger and feeling of wanting to protect his step brother was over whelming.
Blaine instantly stood up and this time it took more than Finn to hold him back.
"Let me go! I'm going to kill them!" Blaine shouted.
"Dude, calm down!" Puck cried, gripping Blaine around his waist and attempting to tackle him to the floor.
"We have to think rationally about this! We don't actually know who did it so you can't go barging into the hockey team's room without a second thought!" Quinn interjected, making Blaine calm himself down.
"Okay, let's think of all the possible people it could be." Tina agreed.
"Only one name came to my mind when I saw them," Finn's eyes darkened. "Karofsky."
"That jerk's been harassing Kurt for ages!" Mike spoke up for the first time.
The room erupted into sounds of 'yeah!'
"No guy's, just stop." Blaine felt giddy. Kurt... "It can't be Karofsky."
Everyone went silent, staring at Blaine in disbelief.
"Karofsky's Kurt's friend. I know, because we met him at... well that doesn't matter, but the point is, Karofsky has done nothing, so you guys can go around chasing fake villains while I go and find Kurt, and make sure he's okay." Blaine seemed to choke up as he left the room, this time everyone just watched him go.
Kurt was in the library standing precariously on the corner of a chair, a pile of books in the crook of one arm as he reached up to try and take down another book from the top shelf. Kurt was tall, but he definitely wasn't tall enough to reach the top shelf.
He was almost there, his finger tips brushing the spine. He moved to be on his tip toes only the concentrated weight on the edge of the chair caused it to tip slightly before it went completely and Kurt found himself falling.
Before he could hit the ground an arm circled his waist, a wide chest pressing against his back. The books that Kurt had been holding came thudding into the outstretched free hand of Kurt's saviour. In this position Kurt had lost a good four inches off his height so that he had to look up into the puppy dog hazel eyes of Blaine who smiled weakly at him.
Blaine steadied Kurt back onto his feat, removing his arm from his waist as he handed back the books. "Here."
"Thanks." Kurt went to take them, but as he moved his sleeve rode up and the bruise he was trying to hide was revealed.
Kurt instantly pulled away as if he had been burnt, but it was too late, Blaine had seen it and dropped the books down onto the floor, grabbing Kurt by the arm and pulling up his shirt revealing the purpling bruise in the shape of finger tips surrounding Kurt's wrist. Remembering the other detail Finn had given; Blaine pulled Kurt closer, yanking down Kurt's collar to see a pair of matching fingertip bruises on his neck.
Kurt instantly protested, forcing himself away from Blaine. "Don't touch me!" He cried, a hand cupping his neck protectively.
"Kurt, what's going on?" Blaine asked softly.
"What's going on? I'll tell you what's going on! Why didn't you tell me?" Kurt couldn't hide the fact he knew anymore and almost broke down there and then. "Why didn't you tell me you were going to give up what you wanted, just for me?" Kurt sobbed.
"Kurt... what?" Blaine looked confused.
"Oh don't give me that crap Blaine, I know; I know you were going to give up studying history just to follow me to NYADA! You already gave up your friends; you're on top of the school status. You gave up being in a bully free zone just for me. You went against such an amazing standard of schooling just because I told you too! And now you're planning to give up going to the best university for your subject on the bases I might want you with me!" Kurt blurted out. "I was hoping that if I let you forget me then you wouldn't give up on your dream. I knew that if we remained together that I'd get in the way of other things. I got in the way of your freedom to date other people already, and I had a go at you over Sebastian. I just feel like I'm keeping you caged and maybe if you hated me it would be enough for you to go your own way."
"Kurt, who said history was my only dream?" Blaine blinked, surprised. "It's not like I don't also like performing you know?"
"Oh come on Blaine, I've seen your room, it's got pictures of polo and that ancient map. Not forgetting the wall paper and the outdated rug. Academically you're brilliant and you can easily go into the arts by doing drama on the side while studying at uni."
"Kurt..."
"Even when I talked to the Warblers they told me about it. I wondered why you wouldn't tell me what you really wanted and when I realised you had planned to go wherever I go..."
Blaine grabbed Kurt's face in his hands. "Kurt, shut up." He pressed his mouth to Kurt's, lightly pushing him against the book shelves. Kurt was stiff at first, then relaxed into the kiss, melting slightly as he moved his arms up to hug Blaine.
Blaine stopped the kiss first. Kurt was slightly crumpled against the bookshelf allowing Blaine to lean over him, his breath brushing Kurt's face, Blaine's arms resting above his head while the other held his wrist.
"Listen Kurt, if that was the reason why you thought we couldn't be together then you're more dramatic than I thought you were.
Kurt swallowed.
"And besides, you'll be going to NYADA before I get the chance to anyway, so I'll be away from you for a year already." Blaine leaned forward to kiss Kurt again, this time the Kiss lingering for longer as he bit lightly onto Kurt's bottom lip.
"No Blaine, that's just telling me you're still going to follow me up to NYADA." Kurt pushed him away. "And I can't allow you to do that."
"Kurt, all I've been thinking about is how I'm going to prevent you from going for a year." Blaine forced Kurt back against the bookshelves again. "And trust me Kurt, whatever I do is completely my choice and you've never had a say in what I do anyway." Blaine placed a kiss on Kurt's bruised neck. "I came here because I wanted to." Another kiss landed just below Kurt's ear. "I'll choose to go to wherever I want to." Blaine made a line of kisses across Kurt's jaw. "I'll follow who I want to follow." Finally Blaine took Kurt's mouth, the kiss deep and passionate. "And I'll date only you because that's my choice and I love you."
Kurt was speechless, only one word managing to form. "Blaine..."
"More importantly Kurt, those bruises." Serious Blaine was back.
Kurt blushed looking away.
"Kurt." Blaine said sternly.
"I met someone, while I was trying to get over you. He was nice at first but on the night we went to see a movie together he tried to... and when I refused he got a bit rough and gripped my wrists, forcing me against a wall. I struggled..."
"What? God Kurt, what happened after that?"
"I managed to hit him. Really hard as well I bet he's even got a black eye." Kurt grinned. "Of course he didn't like that so he grabbed my neck. I thought I was trapped until Karofsky came and ripped him off me. Dave was brilliant, he saved me, I really thought... I..." Kurt sobbed, Blaine bringing him close to his chest.
"And then Dave took me to go and get a coffee to help me calm down. He said I needed to talk to you but I knew I wouldn't. Then when I came home and Finn said the same thing... Blaine, I'm really sorry. I love you."
"I know." Blaine smiled. "It seems I need to go and thank Karofsky for saving my boyfriend from the scary lecher. If we can be boyfriends again."
"I'd like that." Kurt beamed up at Blaine.
There ya go, like I said tiny bit dark, definitely wouldn't happen on Glee but hey, I digress. Sorry about the lame reason for Kurt staying away from Blaine, I know you guys were probably like, history? really?And also for the summed up Karofsky saving Kurt scene. I'm really tired beacuse it's like 11pm where I am haha. Anway, just thought I'd share with you this: Does anyone else think this is funny that once when I was useing predictive text on my phone, I typed Darren and the predictive came out with dapper? Coz I found that very amusing. I apologise for my randomness XD
Anyway, thank you to my recent reviewers (and my old ones) because this story would be dead without you :
Susanloves
ColferFan1217
R5Fanatic
Violethillbeautiful
-MoonxStar-
SilverWhiteDragon
NikiGrace
dbz27
.Ray
Mandy H
Glasz Wingsz
BrooketheLlama
Azrael Blood
theAkuRokuFaNaTiC
acciochriscriss
tenten93 gleelover
Thank you guys sooooo much! Love Bertie XX