"Hey, Sam," Finn said as Sam entered the choir room. "Did you talk to Blaine?"

"I thought you guys didn't care," Sam said with a glare. Finn shifted uncomfortably.

"Sorry about that, Sam. We shouldn't have said that."

"Blaine realized nearly immediately that no one else cared because I was alone," Sam deadpanned, not accepting Finn's awkward apology.

"We should have been there for him," Finn said, not meeting Sam's eyes.

"You should have been!" Sam agreed loudly. Tina rolled her eyes.

"Boo hoo. Blaine left. He doesn't care about us. Why should we care about him?"

"He's our friend," Sam spat, turning his glare to Tina.

"He was our friend," Kitty said. "I don't think he wants to know us anymore. What did he do when he met you? Give you a hug and a smile?" Sam flushed lightly, thinking back to Blaine's insane flirting.

"He tried to push me away at first, but then he understood that I want to help him."

"Really?" Kitty asked, raising an eyebrow. "How do we know this isn't some sort of Warbler plot?"

"That does make sense," Marley said with a small shrug. Ryder nodded, agreeing with her.

"Why would they tell us they were on steroids for Sectionals?" Sam asked incredulously.

"I don't know," Kitty said sarcastically. "Maybe to… distract us? Force us to solve Blaine's problems as opposed to our own?" Sam bit his lip. He had to convince them that Blaine was telling the truth. Sam knew that he was telling the truth.

Anyone that looked at Blaine would have known that. Blaine was so torn, and Sam could see that so easily in his eyes.

He knew what he could do, but it definitely wasn't the right thing to do. After all, it would be a slight lie, but Sam thought that it was needed.

"Kitty, you think he'll make us lose. What if we convince him to come back? Convince him that we're his friends? We all know that he's one of our best voices, and that we really need him. So, let's bring him back!"

Finn looked at Sam, narrowing his eyes.

"Do you really think he'd even consider it? He looked pretty close to Sebastian when I saw him."

"And then Sebastian tried to force him into steroids, and suddenly, the small amount of trust he actually had in Sebastian fell away," Sam said quietly.

"So, you're saying that he isn't kissing Sebastian every chance he gets?" Kitty said.

"No! He's not; I can promise you that. He's… open," Sam said, smiling a little as he remembered Blaine's line as he left. He had been both shocked and slightly scared when Blaine had left.

After all, he'd thought that Blaine's flirting had been a way of trying to push Sam away. Then Blaine had said that, and suddenly, Sam wasn't so sure.

It didn't bother him, though. After all, he was an attractive guy, and it was kind of flattering that Blaine was into that.

"And you know that how?" Tina said. Sam flushed slightly. Admitting he didn't mind in his own head was alright, but he really didn't want to say that in front of the entire Glee club.

"Um, I-"

"Oh my god," Unique said suddenly. "He – he! Oh my god! He was flirting with you, wasn't he?"

"Umm…" Sam said quietly. "Uh, yeah."

"Wait?" Tina said, laughing a bit. "He was flirting with you? Blaine?"

"Yeah, I know. It's hilarious," Sam deadpanned. Everyone was laughing at him, pretty much. Even Finn was grinning.

"What did he say?" Kitty demanded.

"He told me I have a nice ass… among other things…" The entire club began to laugh at him.

"Oh my god!" Marley said with a giggle. "What else?"

"No!" Sam exclaimed. "I am not talking about this!"

"C'mon, Sam," Tina said, rolling her eyes. "If we have to talk about Blaine, then let's at least talk about something interesting about him."

"Besides," Kitty added. "I never thought Blaine would be the one to say something like that. I admit that I'm intrigued."

"You shouldn't be," Sam muttered. "Fine. What do you want to know?" Everyone took a second to think before replying.

"How freaked out were you?" Ryder asked.

"When it happened: a lot. Now, not so much."

"What was the worst thing he said?" Tina asked, giggling.

"He – he," Sam started before pausing. "He called me princess once."

"Princess?" Jake said with a chuckle. "So… he pretty much implied that you're a girl?"

"Blaine wouldn't imply that someone was a girl. After all, he dated Kurt and never said anything," Kitty said. "I think he was implying that he'd top you." Everyone laughed again, and Sam blushed even more furiously.

"He was not… implying that!" Sam exclaimed.

"Dude, your face says differently," Ryder said. "It's ridiculous that he's changed so much since leaving. Do you really think that he'd come back?"

Sam bit his lip. No, Blaine probably wouldn't be coming back, but Sam needed the New Direction's help in order to fix this. He wasn't promising anything, right?

"I think he would. Blaine went to Dalton to find himself now that Kurt's gone. He's just more lost now."

"We should help him, guys," Finn said. "How was he? Did he seem happy?"

"No," Sam said. "He sounded stressed and like he's got too much on his plate."

"The Warblers don't practice more than us. Why's he so busy?" Tina asked.

"Trent told me that he, David, and Blaine refused to take the steroids, so they've been working their asses off to be as good without them. Blaine's got a solo in the second song, and Trent said that he's breathing hard by the time they get to it."

"Blaine's breathing hard?" Tina said. "I don't even want to imagine their dance."

"How will we beat them when they're like that?" Ryder said. "We don't have a chance."

"Hey," Sam said. "We can do this, and we can also help Blaine. Are you guys with me?"

For a moment, everyone just looked around at the others.

"Yeah," Finn said. "We can do this." That seemed to be what the others needed to hear because everyone agreed after that.

Sam smiled as he saw the New Directions finally decide to help Blaine.

"Yeah!" Jake said. "And we might be able to get him back before Sectionals!"

Sam's smile died. Blaine had made it clear that he wouldn't come back. And he was sure that Blaine would make it very clear to them that he wouldn't.

Sam just hoped that Blaine wouldn't distant himself from them again because they want him to come back.

He sighed softly. This could be a disaster, but it could also go well. Either way, for better or for worse, the New Directions were involved, and they were going to try and help.

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Hey, guys! I know it's been a long time, but I've just been pretty busy recently. I now have gymnastics for 20+ hours a week. Woohoo.

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Thanks to all my old reviewers and especially to Dr. Pepper 87 for answering all of my numerous questions about glee. Thank you guys!

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