Love Will Find Away

Ok so I'm BACK! Miss me…hmm what episodes have aired since my hiatus lets see…Never Been Kissed-Brilliant and I've even figured out how to bring Blaine to this cannon! Substitute- pretty middle ground but I did love the singing in the rain numbers as it's my favorite non Disney musical and finally Furt which given enough re-watches could possibly become a new entry in my top 3 of all time list… also when watching 11-23-10's General Hospital was it wrong for me to picture Kurt instead of Spinelli with Molly?

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Michael had been stunned as he walked back into the living room that evening to see Quinn frozen in place clutching something in her hands.

Walking over to where his girlfriend stood Michael placed a gentle hand on her shoulder as he began to brush back her hair.

"Quinn, what is it?" he asked.

"What is what?"

"Whatever it is your holding."

Biting her lips she knew that despite the fact that she'd promised the young man she'd never lie to him she couldn't hell him about the letter. In doing so Michael would probably inform Kristina who would in turn pursue things with Artie again and well frankly the blonde thought that her friend and potential sister in law deserved better.

"Oh this," she eventually said holding up the letter, "it's just some sweepstakes letter, I could already of one a million dollars that kind of thing."

Michael seemed to buy what Quinn had said as a smile crossed his lips before he lent over to plant a kiss on his girlfriend's neck.

"So, are we still on for snuggling and Turner Classic?" he asked.

Quinn nodded.

"Let me get changes first alright."

Michael nodded heading into the kitchen to make them some cocoa while she headed into her room to change and unbeknownst to Michael hide the letter in the back of one of her draws to read at a later moment and that was that.

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A few weeks had gone by since that Valentines Day evening and Artie had received no word from Kristina causing his heart to sink into a pit of despair wondering if perhaps his gesture proved too little to late.

He'd been alone in his dorm room for a moment on that March afternoon and so he decided to pick up his guitar and do the one thing he learnt to do while he was in glee club, sing out his feelings.

Well not really his feelings as when his fingers flew across the familiar strings he wasn't in the mood to sing something dark and totally emo instead he began to sing something slightly more upbeat, which worked well for his voice.

Your way too beautiful girl,
that's why it'll never work,
you have me suicidal, suicidal,
when you say it's over,
damn all these beautiful girls,
they only wanna do ya dur,
they'll have you suicidal, suicidal,
when they say it's over…..

He was lost in his song that he didn't even hear the door open until the sounds of Nate's applause broke him out of his spell.

"Damn Abrams," the younger man said as he tossed his messenger bag on his bed, "I don't know if I should be commenting you on how talented you are or stating the obvious that dude your in a funk."

A sliver of a smile crossed the young man's face as he placed his guitar on the floor before he shrugged his shoulders.

"Doesn't matter, both those statements are completely accurate."

Nate just nodded as he took a seat across from his roommate.

"Anyway you should totally considering signing up for the open mic night coming up."

Artie just shook his head at the thought of performing in front of an audience. Sure he'd done that countless times with New Directions back in High School but that was the old Artie.

"I mean let's face it chicks dig musicians and I've said it before and I'll say it again, you are seriously in need of a chick."

Artie bit his lip.

Frankly he'd been tired of Nate's notion that the best way to get over a girl was to let a new girl crawl under him…something he was sure Puck would say to him had they still been at McKinley.

"I still can't believe she didn't call back, I mean I pored my heart out to her Nate…MY HEART!"

Nate just nodded.

Sure he'd never actually read the letter that Artie had told him he placed under Kristina's door however his roommate seemed like an honest man and so he would take his roommates word for it.

Letting out a sigh Nate simply shook his head.

He was all for Artie meeting someone and moving on, hell he wouldn't even hesitate at creating an online dating profile for his roommate if he were asked and yet at the same time deep down a hopeless romantic was kicking and screaming to get out.

Nate couldn't stand the silence that was brewing in the room and so finally he let out a sigh as he looked into Artie's eyes.

"Are you a fan of the sox Artie?"

He gave his roommate a slow nod as he'd really never gotten into following professional sports despite his friends better efforts until he'd first set foot in MA.

"I wouldn't call myself a fanatical member of the nation but yea I like them why? Do you have tickets for opening day at Fenway or something."

Secretly wanting his roommate to say yes as he'd never been to a pro game before however Nate instead shook his head.

"I wish," he said letting out a sigh as he shook his head, "no, I was asking this cause well, the sox…well baseball in general has a rule you know…three strikes and your out."

Artie nodded.

He was well aware of said rule.

"And your point?"

Nate smiled.

"My point is, maybe you should do that with Kristina you know. You sent her a letter and she failed to respond correct."

"Correct."

"Well then do it again, and if there is no response again and if there is STILL no response well…."

"Well you want me to let you set me up on a blind date."

"Your words Artie not mine…"

Artie just smiled.

"You know Nate, that doesn't sound like a bad idea."

Smiling he began to pick his guitar up and haphazardly begin to play some music again.

"I know it's not a bad idea, haven't you realized I'm a genius."

Rolling his eyes Artie continued to play wondering what his roommate would think if he mentioned that he'd be willing to give open mic a shot as well.

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After her drunken Valentines Day escapade with Tina at Jake's, Kristina once more focused her mind on herself and her promising law career which was what brought her to a small coffee shop just outside of campus where she sighed as she slumped into a booth where she'd begun to bury herself in one of her texts suddenly thankful for her fluent understanding of Latin.

She'd been lost in the phrases when a voice spoke from behind her causing her to jump.

"Is this seat taken."

Looking around she wondered why this mysterious male voice asked this, as the shop wasn't full at all.

It was then she turned around to face a young man holding the same pre-law texts that she had been.

"I mean I find it better studying with a partner, but if you don't I understand."

Kristina just shrugged her shoulder. Truthfully she could of studied successfully either way.

"Sure you can join me, but don't think that becoming my study buddy now isn't going to make me less competitive when the time comes to apply to law school."

Taking a seat the young man let out a small laugh.

"It's not that we haven't competed against each other before."

Blinking a bit she tried to figure out what he meant until it hit her. The reason he looked vaguely familiar to her wasn't just that they were in class together but they had actually competed against one another at Sectionals Junior Year.

"Katy Perry," she said with a smile recalling the Dalton Academy Warbler's performance.

He nodded before flashing her a confirming smile.

"Spice Girls was it?" he then asked making the young girl flash back to their performance for that competition which was a medley of selections from the girl group along with those of the Backstreet Boys that came about much to the chagrin of one Rachael Berry.

She simply nodded as she shook away the moment of happier times from her mind as she watched her companion hold out his hand.

"I'm Blaine by the way, in case you wanted to call me by something other then a nick name."

"Kristina and likewise," she said shaking his hand as a tingling feeling washed over her.

Were those sparks perhaps? She wondered as they begun to go over the material.

They'd been working soon for the greater part of an hour and they seemed to be two souls sharing one brain.

"Red Vine?" Blaine asked taking a break and reaching into his messenger bag to pull out the candy in question.

Until now, Kristina thought as she shook her head.

"I'm more of a Twizlers girl myself but thanks for the offer."

Blaine simply rolled his eyes at the blasphemy of her remark however they still continued to study for yet another couple of hours before Kristina noticed the time and the fact that she needed to head back to the apartment as the Providence crew was heading over and she was supposed to be the one that was cooking dinner.

Slowly she began to pack up her things when a thought filled her head.

'Maybe the morning period is over,' she thought, 'maybe I should ask Blaine out after all when a door is closed somewhere a window opened up and well…Blaine did make an adorable window.'

"I'll see you in class," Blaine said with a smile as he stood up to walk away before Kristina held her hand up to stop him.

"Wait, I was wondering…and feel free to say no to my impulses but well maybe would you like to go out sometime in a non school capacity?"

"Are you asking me on a date?" he asked as he looked over to the brunette who although beautiful wasn't his type, not that it was her fault or anything like that.

Kristina just nodded thinking that her asking skills were all kinds of rusty.

"Yea, like a date, but if your not into it I'm cool."

Blaine sucked in a deep breath wondering if he should openly tell her now that although he indeed wanted to hang out with her more that he was in fact gay and didn't want to lead her on however instead he simply smiled.

"No, I'm cool," he said as he picked up her cell phone that was sitting on the table and typed in his name and phone number.

She smiled picking up his phone to do the same before he headed out to go on his way.

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Nate had left for the evening to spend quality time with his girlfriend Cassie leaving Artie once again alone in his room. Sure he could of just as easily found something to do aside from sitting in his room alone, in fact he was pretty sure he heard that there was a LAN Party going down in the second floor lounge that he was pondering checking out however he had business he needed to attend to.

Opening up the small draw that sat on the side of his desk Artie picked out a fresh piece of stationary rolling his eyes for a split second that he was dorky enough to actually own stationary in this cyber age.

Picking up his pen he began to dramatically drum it against the side of his desk trying to figure out what he was going to write to her.

Kristina-

I don't know if you got my last letter but I hope that this one found you well. Like I said before I'm a huge ass. I promised your sister, Kurt, and well pretty much everyone we know that I wouldn't hurt you like Kiefer did and there I went hurting you albeit in the emotional sense. I should have been open and honest with you from the start and for that I am truly sorry. I get that your mad at me after all if I were you I'd be mad at you too however I'm sitting vigil, hoping that one day I can earn your forgiveness and at least win your friendship back.

With Hope-

Artie

Looking over at the note he'd just written he took a few moments to read it over making sure it was perfect and what he needed to say.

A smile crossed his face and soon he found himself folding the note into an envelope and sticking a stamp on it before grabbing his laptop and heading to the party making a pit stop on the bottom floor of the dormitory building to drop his letter off in the outgoing mail box thinking that in just a few days Kristina would hopefully hear what he had to say and accept his olive branch.

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"So he walks up to my table and asks me if the seat across from me was taken," Kristina said with a smile as she began to recall her interactions with Blaine to her roommates as well as Mike, Tina, and Mercedes later that evening.

She tried to read her friends faces however they seemed to all be showcasing mixed emotions. For example her female friends were enthralled while Mike was intrigued, her brother however well…

"This Blaine guy kind of sounds like a douche bag," Michael said shaking his head at his sister, "I mean 'Blaine' that's not a name it's a major appliance."

Kristina and the others in the room simply rolled their eyes and Tina spoke up.

"Quoting a John Hughes movie, seriously Michael."

The young man flashed a look to his sister's friend, a stream of choice words formulating in his mind however his train of thought was derailed when Mercedes spoke up.

"You know what we should do?"

And now all eyes fell upon her.

"We should look up videos of Dalton's group up on you tube during dinner, I mean nothing's on and no offence but we've seen all that's worth watching from your DVD collection too many times to count."

Mike crossed his arms.

"But I was looking forward to a viewing of Newsies without Kurt's wining complaints."

Leaning over he kissed his girlfriend's cheek.

"But this is fine too," he said with a smile as they finished up cooking in the kitchen and made their way back over to the living room where Quinn had managed to hook her laptop up to project on the television set and was now typing away on a search for videos of the Warblers.

Sectionals –2010

"I remember that one," Mercedes said, "click click."

Quinn nodded and clicked the play button where they soon were entertained by the all boys acapella group singing:

Let's go all the way tonight
No regrets, just love
We can dance, until we die
You and I, will be young forever

You make me feel
Like I'm livin' a
Teenage dream
The way you turn me on
I can't sleep
Let's run away and
Don't ever look back,
Don't ever look back

My heart stops
When you look at me
Just one touch
Now baby I believe
This is real
So take a chance and
Don't ever look back,
Don't ever look back

"I can't believe you ever beat them," Michael said as he was met with his girlfriend and his sister's hands playfully slugging him on either side.

"Which one is he anyway?" Mike asked as Kristina pointed him out.

"Does he still look like that," Tina asked, "cause he's pretty easy on the eyes Kris."

Kristina nodded.

Sure she wasn't consciously paying attention when they were at the coffee shop but in watching the video she definitely had to agree with her friend that Blaine was rather attractive.

As they sat continuing to eat their pasta they clicked on a few more video's of the Dalton Academy Warblers as well as basked in the nostalgia that was their days in New Directions however seeing the way she and Artie were singing blissfully together drew Kristina to clearing their dishes.

"Can I talk to you in private?" Mike asked from behind her as she now stood in the kitchen.

"We're in private now," Kristina replied as she watched her friend stick his hands in his jeans pockets while he nervously teetered back and fourth on his feet.

"So I know I haven't asked, heck I haven't even gone shopping for a ring yet but would you be my best person?"

Mike's question took her by complete and utter shock.

"Best…Person…you mean…you…Mercedes."

"I hope," Mike said nodding.

"Well then the answer all depends on who your blushing bride's best person is."

"If your worried she's going to ask Artie don't be, I'm sure it's going to be either your step brother or Tina, Quinn being a total dark horse."

Simply letting out a laugh Kristina nodded.

"I accept," she said with a smile as her phone vibrated in her pocket.

Picking the phone up she spotted the caller ID reading:

BLAINE causing a smile to cross her face.

"Hello," Kristina said.

"Hello," Blaine replied on his end, "so I was wondering if you were free Friday night."

"Friday," Kristina simply said as Mike playfully slugged her to encourage her to go for it.

"I mean if it's too soon…"

"No, Friday's fine," Kristina said as the duo set up their date before Kristina and Mike re entered the living room where she smiled.

"I've got a date."

TBC

OK so this chapter like I said in the beginning AN introduced Blaine to my head cannon! Hope you like the addition. My sister just turned me on to A Very Potter Musical (Easter egg intended) and now I kind of have an irrevocable soft spot for Darrin Criss. Also I know on cannon they do Train's Hey Soul Sister Sectionals but in my fanon this is when they did Teenage Dream so deal…. tracks in this chapter: the aforementioned Teenage Dream by Katy Perry, Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston