It was a couple of days before Blaine had the misfortune of catching up with Christian, he'd been brooding over the other boys meddling and the effect that this had had on Kurt and he was now practically vibrating with aggravation.

Kurt had been quiet for the past couple of days only really spending time with Blaine and his close friends. Whenever the common room had grown crowded or rowdy he had retreated to his room or the library, although he avoided going there alone, usually coercing Jeff to study with him if Blaine was busy.

Jeff for his part was a willing study buddy; he was already distrustful of Christian's behaviour over the whole weekend debacle and was more than happy to keep an eye out for Kurt. In fact Jeff enjoyed spending some quality alone time with his friend and it didn't hurt to keep Nick hanging on every now and again.

Blaine finally caught up with Christian one evening as he was returning to his room from a late study session with Wes where they had spent half the evening trying to get David to turn down the volume of the game he was playing on Wes's console.

"Wes if you let me take it to my room I'll be out of your hair" David had argued glibly.

"David I don't want you to take it, just keep it down would you?" Wes had replied irritably through gritted teeth.

"Will do"

Only for the same conversation to occur not fifteen minutes later once David became increasingly excited and vocal about his level achievements.

Blaine had noticed Christian immediately as he left Wes's room, he had exited the common room and was making his way up the corridor directly in Blaine's path.

"Christian can I have a word?" asked Blaine plainly.

"Ah Anderson" smiled Christian looking him up and down, "to what do I owe this pleasure?"

"What exactly is your problem?"

"I'm sure I don't know what you mean" smirked Christian in return as he went to side step Blaine.

"I mean" stressed Blaine pulling himself up to his full height and standing steadfast in front of Christian, "what is your issue with me and Kurt and where the hell do you get off sneaking up on him and making a move huh?"

"Oh my, is that what Hummel thought that was" Christian grinned in response, "he really is sheltered isn't he, you'd better tell him that he'll know about it if I ever were to make a move on him, I wouldn't be that subtle."

"What the fuck" spat Blaine taking a step toward Christian.

"You heard Blaine, I was just trying to pay your guy a compliment, he is hot when he's angry, you should know huh, but then I don't suppose that you two are anything but sugary sweet and fluffy together. Maybe you should piss him off then maybe you'd see what I see" mocked Christian with an evil smirk.

"You stay the hell away from him" spat Blaine.

"You know what I don't think I will" sneered Christian taking a step of his own toward Blaine and looking down into his angry face, "I like ruffling your birds feathers and he does make it so easy."

"Listen you prick..." started Blaine before feeling a hand rest firmly on his shoulder.

"You okay Blaine" asked Nick looking directly over Blaine's shoulder at Christian.

"Saved by the bell hey Anderson" mocked Christian as he looked back at Nick before stepping around them and swaggering down the corridor.

"Just stay away from him Christian" growled Blaine to the retreating figure.

"Night Anderson" replied Christian with a careless tone, "Nick" he added with a curt nod.

"You alright man" asked Nick calmly once Christian was out of sight.

"Not particularly" growled Blaine.

"Hey c'mon lets go get a coffee and you can tell me what's gone on" suggested Nick kindly whilst steering Blaine towards the kitchen.

Ten minutes later found Nick and Blaine curled up on either end of the couch in the large kitchen area, mugs of hot coffee grasped in their hands.

"So what was up with Christian?" queried Nick tentatively, "you looked like you were going to take a swing at him."

"I told him to keep away from Kurt" Blaine mumbled into his mug.

"Oh" replied Nick taking a drag of his hot coffee, "and I take it he didn't agree to it."

"No he didn't" grumbled Blaine, "I don't get it Nick, why is he being such a dick about this? He knows Kurt and I are seeing each other, hell he doesn't even act as if he likes Kurt most of the time, so why the hell has he set his sights on him now?"

"I don't know Blaine" sympathised Nick, "but you know Kurt's not interested right, you just need to try and ignore him."

"What and hope he just gets bored and goes away" asked Blaine with a look of disbelief.

"Well yeah" said Nick "I don't see as there's anything else you can do."

Several minutes of silence passed as Blaine was lost in his own thoughts and Nick waited patiently whilst sipping his coffee.

"You know he scared him" Blaine spoke quietly.

"Who?"

"Christian, he scared Kurt when he made the pass at him the other night" Blaine clarified looking up from his coffee to meet his friends gaze.

"You know why Kurt transferred here, all that business with Dave at McKinley and Christian coming out of the shadows the way he did has put him back on edge, haven't you noticed he's been quiet the past few days?"

"Yeah I have " sighed Nick, "Jeff filled me in on everything and I'm sorry mate really I am but threatening the guy won't make it any better you just have to leave it alone now."

"What you would you do Nick, if it was Jeff, if Christian made a pass at him?" asked Blaine flatly searching his friends face for an answer.

"Honestly Blaine I don't know" sighed Nick returning to his drink "but I do know that telling someone they can't have something usually makes them want it even more."

"Great" muttered Blaine into his mug as Nick smiled in sympathy.

Kurt and Jeff had begun the evening at either end of the couch in Jeff's room but as the movie had progressed they had inched closer until they were practically wrapped around each other in terror.

"How the hell did I let you convince me to watch this" mumbled Kurt from behind the comforter he was holding over his face, his eyes peering out over the top.

"It seemed like a good idea at the time" replied a shaky Jeff, "Nick said it was a good movie and hello, Daniel Radcliffe, how was I to know it was going to be this scary?"

"Jeff it's a ghost story, what did you expect?" asked Kurt hand flying up to his eyes.

"Yeah I know but come on its Daniel Radcliffe" moaned Jeff burying his face in Kurt's shoulder so he didn't have to look at the screen.

"You know what even he's not worth this" said Kurt standing up from the couch and turning the TV off with a definite click.

"Oh thank god" Jeff moaned dramatically throwing his head onto the back of the couch and starring at the ceiling.

"So what do you want to do now?" asked Kurt taking in Jeff's loose form on the couch.

"Dunno" said Jeff looking up "you could clean my room again if you want" he said with smirk.

"Keep dreaming Sterling" grinned Kurt, "do it yourself its character building."

"Yeah, that's what my mom says" mumbled Jeff.

"What's Blaine up to tonight?"

"Um, project with Wes" said Kurt whilst flicking through the pile of car magazines on Jeff's floor.

"You know, you should come over to my dad's workshop sometime he's always doing up cars" suggested Kurt whilst picking up a copy and thumbing through the pages.

"Really, wow that would be awesome" Jeff said excitedly, "do you think he would mind?"

"Gosh no, Finn's always in there tinkering with something or other" said Kurt, "Dad would get a kick out of showing it all off, he's a bit of a kid like that."

"Awesome" grinned Jeff, "when are you next home?"

"Oh, this weekend" grimaced Kurt his hand automatically flying to his eye to touch his fading bruise.

"Hey don't worry it's looking much better" said Jeff "I'm sure it'll be gone by Friday" he said reassuringly reaching out to touch Kurt's arm.

"Thanks. Hey how about you come with us? Blaine and Nick are driving me home for some reason I still can't quite understand."

"Well isn't your car still damaged" asked Jeff with a sideways glance at his friend.

"Yeah I guess it is" Kurt winced, "you know I hadn't even thought about that, I guess I'd better start looking into fixing it up, perhaps my Dad'll let me pick up a few shifts at the shop for the next few weekends, he doesn't have to know what I need the money for" he thought out loud.

"Hey you know what, leave that to me" Jeff said quickly, "I'll price it up for you and let you know, what do you think? You don't need your car this weekend if Blaine is driving you home so just forget about it and I'll let you know, what do you say?"

"I say you're babbling" laughed Kurt.

"Sorry" pouted Jeff, "but really Kurt don't do anything this week, leave it with me and I'll let you know prices etc" Jeff said whilst crossing everything in the hope that Kurt would leave well enough alone.

The fact was his car was no longer in the student parking lot, it had been collected and was now undergoing a fairly extensive repair to the door and would have four new tyres fitted in the next few days. Kurt however, did not need to know this and if he started trying to arrange this himself he would discover the very large navigator sized hole which now occupied the corner of student parking.

"You're probably right" sighed Kurt, "are you sure you don't mind Jeff I know your really good with cars and stuff and I mean I can't expect Blaine to drive me home every weekend and my Dad will start to get suspicious if he did."

"Kurt really it's no problem" smiled Jeff in relief.

"Thanks" smiled Kurt in response.

"Anyway" said Jeff looking for a change of subject, "do you want to watch something loud with lots of guns" he asked whilst pushing himself off the couch and grabbing a new DVD from the shelf next to the TV stand.

"Sure" smiled Kurt dropping the magazine back onto the pile, "so what about the weekend?"

"Man I would love to but it's a family thing this weekend" Jeff said whilst putting the DVD into the player, "but definitely next time" he confirmed returning to the couch.

"It's a date" smiled Kurt.

"Don't let Nick and Blaine hear you say that" laughed Jeff, "not after the last few days we've had with Christian."

"Good point" agreed Kurt with a grimace.

"In that case it's a bro-date" smiled Jeff holding out his fist for Kurt to bump.

"You're as bad as your boyfriend" moaned Kurt but he bumped his fist to Jeff's just the same.

Jeff just smiled and sank back into the couch to watch the movie.