Blaine led Kurt silently through the corridors towards his dorm room. Kurt was yet to make a sound but he was holding tightly to Blaine's hand which Blaine took as a good sign considering the circumstances.

Placing his key in the lock Blaine pushed the door open and ushered Kurt inside leading him over to the unmade bed. Usually this would have irked Kurt but now he simply crawled inside and pulled the comforter up around him, burying his head in the pillow he inhaled deeply closing his eyes tight.

Blaine stood above him for a few seconds before turning to close the door, standing in the corridor just outside were Wes and David matching looks of concern etched on both their faces.

Crossing the room in a few strides Blaine threw his arms around Wes and held him close.

"I'll catch up with you guys in a bit" muttered Blaine in a low voice as he hugged Wes tightly; catching David's eye over Wes's shoulder he gave a small nod hoping it conveyed what he was feeling.

"Sure man" Wes replied pulling back and looking at his friend, he gently squeezed Blaine's shoulder as he stepped back, "Is he okay?"

"I really don't know" said Blaine looking back over his shoulder into the room.

"Come find us when you're ready" added David following Blaine's gaze, "We'll be around."

Blaine watched them as they wandered down the corridor raising his hand in a small wave as they disappeared into Wes's room; sighing he turned back into his own room and closed the door with a quiet click. Walking carefully toward the bed he noticed that Kurt's eyes were still closed and his breathing even but he was clearly still awake. Placing himself at the foot of the bed Blaine placed one of Kurt's boots in his lap and began to unlace it slowly, glancing back up to Kurt's face he saw that he was now watching him with a guarded expression.

"Blaine...I" Kurt began.

"Just rest Kurt" Blaine murmured softly dropping the first boot to the floor and beginning on the second, "we can talk about it all later okay" he smiled gently as he turned back to his task aware that Kurt was still watching him.

Placing the second boot on the floor he released Kurt's foot and stood, pulling the comforter over Kurt's feet as he did so. Toeing off his own sneakers and kicking them roughly under the bed Blaine walked around to the empty side of the bed. Aware that Kurt's eyes were yet to leave him, he pulled open the comforter and positioned himself next to his boyfriend, throwing an arm around his waist and pulling him close the comforter falling over him as he did so.

Kurt exhaled and settled back against his boyfriend's warm embrace, bringing his hand up to hold onto the one curved around his waist. Blaine breathed gently against Kurt's neck, a whisper of "I love you" finding its way across his ear. Kurt was good at hiding emotion, hell he had survived for years by hiding his emotions but with Blaine he was an open book, he didn't have to hide and he didn't want to. Slowly large silent tears began to stream their way down his face and onto the pillow. Blaine knew the instant that Kurt was crying; he could feel the silent sobs travelling his body and although he remained silent he hugged him tighter and stroked his thumb over the hand that he now held tight in his own allowing Kurt to cry for as long as he needed to.

"Hey guys" smiled David as he walked into Jeff's room.

"Hey David" Nick replied with a confused frown, "You're back early. Wes with you?"

"Well yeah. We did go together Nick" laughed David.

"How come your back early then" he pressed ignoring David's last comment.

"Yeah, how come?" chimed in Jeff looking up from the box he was rummaging through, "Missing me?" he winked.

"You know what Jeff, your right, that's exactly why we came back early, we missed you too bad, we couldn't live another day without you, you complete us" he said with a desperate, breathy voice.

"Hey" shot Nick as Jeff laughed into the box; "you know the blondes mine" he smiled earning himself a wink from Jeff who was still laughing.

"Actually, I was wondering if either of you guys know what's going on with Kurt?" David queried.

"How do you mean?" said Jeff pulling himself up to sit on the bed next to Nick who had also pushed himself up to a sitting position.

"Well, there's the fact that Wes and I found him half mad in student parking this morning; he blindsided Wes and we had to all but restrain him before he'd calm down and even then we had to get Blaine. Then there's the fact that his car's been vandalised and that he's sporting a friggin black eye. Did I leave anything out?" he asked looking between Nick and Jeff with a sceptical eye.

"Shit" mumbled Jeff.

"What's that about his car?" asked Nick in shock.

"Some douche has slashed his tyres and scratched some crap into the door" clarified David, "You guys didn't know about that?"

"No" sighed Jeff running his hands through his hair, "I mean I, well we knew about the black eye but nothing about the car."

"Where is he" asked Jeff, "with Blaine" David replied, "he managed to get him back inside and I haven't seen them since. Blaine's going to come find us when he's ready."

"Hi Guys" came a voice from the doorway.

"Oh hey Wes" replied Nick, Jeff just waved, still caught up in the new bout of information he had received from David.

Crossing the room Wes dropped down onto the desk chair, a leg either side of the chairs back so his elbows rested on the top, "So, David fill you in or did you already know?" he asked.

"They knew about the eye but not the car" replied David looking at his friend.

"Okay, so let's start there then" began Wes leaning on the back of the chair, "What's the story with the eye?"

"And the wrist" added David, "did you see the way he flinched when I touched him just now?" he directed at Wes who met him with a nod.

"Okay" began Jeff not really sure where to start. Nick gently took his hand and gave it a firm squeeze as encouragement.

"Short story is that Kurt went home on Friday, ran into that Dave kid who worked him over pretty good, he came back here late Friday and called me coz he didn't want Blaine to know."

"Why?" began David before being shushed by Wes.

"Anyway he didn't want Blaine to know that Dave had beaten him up, he thought he could hide it from him, pride thing I guess. Anyhow, he asked me if he could stay in my room for a couple of nights until the bruising went down."

"And you agreed to that?"

"David please just shut up a minute" said an exasperated Wes, "just let him tell us the whole story would you?"

"Sorry" mumbled David sullenly.

Nick looked at Wes and grinned.

"Okay, so Kurt's hiding in my room, against my better judgement David" added Jeff with a pointed look at his friend, "but then Christian told Nick that I was sleeping with Kurt and then Blaine found out and then..."

"Babe, you're rambling" said Nick, "just stick to the main events" he added with a squeeze of his hand.

"Yep, okay good idea" breathed Jeff, "so now Nick and Blaine know that Kurt was in my room and Kurt was going to talk to Blaine this morning and come clean about the whole assault thing but I guess that's not gone quite as planned now has it?" he asked looking at Wes.

"Christ" mumbled David, "this is a bloody mess."