Author Note: Hi, hope some of you guys are still out there. I've been a little obecessed by another fanfic lately which is just brilliant - Once More To Get It Right by TintedInRose a Klaine Vampire fic, seriously you should check it out. Not sure what the etiquette is about suggesting other fic's but it's really too good not to share but if someone wants to let me know thats cool.

Anyhow, I've been a little distracted reading that over and over so have fallen behind again... Sorry, but heres the next installment. Hope you enjoy. As usual I don't own anything.

Kurt was frantic. His face red; his hair in complete disarray from where he kept running his fingers roughly through it and his usually impeccable clothes showed specks of dust and fluff from where he had laid under his bed searching blindly for his mother's locket.

He had taken if off to go running and he was certain that he had hung it, as always, on the mirror of his dresser but now it was gone. His first instinct was that it had dropped down the side of the cabinet having come off of its hook but after a fruitless search lasting over five minutes Kurt was still coming up empty.

As time passed he had discarded his sweater, rolled up his sleeves and was becoming increasingly hot and flushed, panic gripping his heart tightly as he continued to search but come up empty handed.

A knock on his door barely registered as he emptied another of his dresser draws onto this bed and unceremoniously rummaged through the contents dropping random items onto the floor to join the already growing pile which circled his bed, his mutterings continuing as a second knock echoed around his room.

"Kurt?" Jeff said poking his head around the door and stopping dead at the sight,"Kurt are you okay?"

A harried and tear stained Kurt glanced up at his friend before plunging randomly back into the pile of goods on his bed, desperately searching through them in a hopeless hunt for his missing chain.

Approaching the bed slowly Jeff tried to take in what he was seeing, Kurt was a mess both physically and clearly emotionally, his well ordered room was in a state of complete disarray, his entire dresser strewn across the room, his bed unmade, pillows flung on the floor whilst the comforter hung messily off the end of the bed. "Kurt" Jeff tried again speaking gently so as not to spook him as he was mumbling to himself in an alarming fashion.

Flicking his eyes quickly up to meet Jeff's Kurt simply said "I can't find it" before pushing a pile of bottles onto the floor in an attempt to make room for another draws contents.

"What can't you find Kurt" Jeff pressed.

"I can't believe I lost it" large tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Kurt what can't you find" Jeff tried again coming to stand at the end of the bed that Kurt was practically dismantling.

"I can't find it Jeff, I CAN'T FIND IT" he wailed.

"Ok man calm down" said Jeff swiftly stepping around the bed and scooping Kurt into a tight hug, "what have you lost, tell me and I'll help you find it."

"It's not here. I've searched everywhere Jeff and it's gone. What am I gonna do?" Kurt sobbed into his friends shoulder.

"Kurt you need to breathe okay," pulling back Jeff placed his hands on Kurt's shoulders before catching his gaze with a reassuring nod and began breathing slowly.

Kurt looked at him through wide, tear stained eyes before concentrating on what he was saying and trying to calm himself down.

"So what is it you can't find?"

"My mom's locket" Kurt breathed and Jeff could hear the panic rising in him again as he spoke the words.

"Okay then, where did you last see it?" Jeff asked calmly.

"It was hanging on my dresser" Kurt gestured to the empty hook on the now bare dresser, "I hung it there before I went running with Wes but I noticed earlier that it wasn't there and I thought it's probably dropped down the side of the cabinet but it's not there Jeff and I can't find it and I've been through absolutely everything and it's gone and I, I ..."

"Hey, hey stop" Jeff said sternly, "we'll find it. It has to be here somewhere right; maybe you just need a fresh pair of eyes?"

Kurt sagged from Jeff's arms and dropped onto the bed, roughly wiping his eyes with the back of his sleeve.

"Look you go wash your face and I'll look okay" Jeff smiled encouragingly.

"Okay" Kurt sniffed, "thank you" before rolling off the bed and padding across the floor to the bathroom.

Kurt returned to find Jeff repacking his dresser draws. Shuffling over to the bed he smiled at his friend who looked up at him with a grin.

"You know this isn't right Hummel, it's usually you tidying my room, I don't much care for this role change" he joked.

Kurt didn't reply but smiled at his friend before grabbing some of the stuff on his bed and handing it to Jeff to repack, "Any luck" he asked hopefully.

"Not yet sorry" Jeff replied, "but its impossible trying to find anything in the mess you've made" smiling at his own comment for several moments before he realised Kurt was yet to respond.

"Hey I'm sure we'll find it" he smiled reassuringly as he caught Kurt's gaze.

"Thank you Jeff" Kurt replied in a small voice.

"No worries."

Blaine entered Kurt's room later that evening to find a tear stained Kurt curled asleep on the couch next to a troubled looking Jeff who was holding him tightly with his arm slung around his shoulders.

"Jeff?"

"Hey" Jeff replied sadly.

"What's going on?"

Jeff sighed and tried to untangle himself from Kurt before gently lowering him onto a cushion and standing, silently gesturing for Blaine to follow him to the other side of the room.

"He can't find his mom's locket" Jeff explained quietly whilst shooting glances toward the couch, "I tried to help him find it but it's gone Blaine, it's just no-where" said Jeff running his hand through his messy blonde hair.

"He can't have just lost it" Blaine said in disbelief, "there is nothing more precious to him than that, there's no way Jeff it has to be here somewhere."

"Well I'm telling you it isn't" he snapped somewhat put out by Blaine's lack of belief, "when I got here earlier he was distraught, he'd turned this place upside down Blaine, you should have seen it, there was stuff everywhere, his dresser, his bed, it was all over the floor and he was a bloody mess."

"Shit"

"Yeah shit. He was going off the deep end"

Both boys' gazes snapped to the couch and they stopped talking for a moment as Kurt stirred and sniffed before snuffling down into the cushion. Tugging Blaine out into the corridor Jeff continued in a hushed voice, "so anyway, I managed to calm him down and told him I'd help him look but it's not here Blaine, we've been over this place inch by inch and it's just not here and he's beaten himself up about it ever since, he's cried himself to sleep."

Blaine's heart ached as he looked at Kurt, the sight of him curled alone on the couch; his cheeks stained with tears tore right through him because he knew what the locket meant to him; turning back to Jeff he reached out and placed a hand on his shoulder, "thanks Jeff" he smiled.

"No worries, look after him yeah?"

"Always"

Blaine watched Jeff head down the corridor before re-entering the room and closing the door behind him with a click. With a sigh he crossed the room and hunched down next to the couch, gently sweeping Kurt's messy hair from his forehead, "Kurt."

"Ummm"

"Kurt you need to go to bed now baby, you won't sleep properly here" he whispered.

"Huumph"

"Kurt" Blaine persisted with the disgruntled figure, stroking his cheek with his thumb and smiling at his lack of response. After several fruitless minutes Blaine decided it was a lost cause, "you know what baby, you can stay there if you want" he smiled gently before standing and grabbing the comforter from the bed, draping it carefully across his boyfriend he bent low and kissed his forehead before retreating across the room and quietly opening the door. With a last glance in Kurt's direction he flicked off the light and silently closed the door behind him.

Blaine snuggled closer to the heat radiating under his comforter, he was somewhere between sleep and awake and everything was a little fuzzy, the room was dark, illuminated only by the glow of his bedside clock and although he had opened his eyes briefly to squint at the time he had immediately fallen back into sleep. Gravitating toward the heat he sighed in contentment, he was warm, and extremely comfortable. Nestling deeper into the warmth he murmured and smiled to himself before disappearing once again into his dreams.

Kurt had woken several hours after Jeff had left, finding himself alone on his couch in the darkness he had stood and stumbled his way across the room in the dimness before finding the switch to the bathroom light. Shielding his eyes from the bright glare he flinched at his reflection in the mirror, his eyes were red, dark circles evident beneath them, tear streaks littered his cheeks and there was simply no explanation for his hair which was sticking out in all directions, remembering how he came to be in this state he watched as large tears oozed from his eyes and trailed down his cheeks in the same tracks that were already showing.

Kurt didn't know how long he stood there watching the tears roll silently down his cheeks; he couldn't tell what the time was or even bring himself to care. His heart was broken and it was his own fault, there was nothing he could do to fix it, he had lost his most treasured possession and his heart ached with a pain so great he could hardly stand it.

Eventually managing to cross the room and fall onto his bed he curled into a ball, wrapping his hands tightly around his knees and letting the tears continue to silently fall. Uneasy images haunted his dreams, sleep was fitful and restless, shadowy figures prowled the edges of his consciousness and more than once he found himself startling himself awake with a gasp and a repressed sob. Lying silently in the darkness, staring at the black ceiling above Kurt suppressed a shudder, he needed comfort, he couldn't be on his own, it was too much for him to deal with, he needed Blaine.

Kurt shuffled the short distance to Blaine's room, it was the middle of the night, the corridors were silent and a chill ran through him as it amplified his loneliness.

Pushing Blaine's door open he cast a glow across the room and peering into the dark he could just about make out the lump on the bed that was his boyfriend. Closing the door he made his way quietly across the room before pulling back the comforter and sliding in next to his boyfriend, immediately relaxing Kurt let the warmth spread through him, easing his anxiety he felt able to breathe. Blaine shifted and with a murmur snuggled himself closer into Kurt's side before letting out a contented breath, Kurt smiled softly to himself before closing his eyes and joining him in dreams.

Kurt felt his hair being pushed off of his face and the soft breath of his boyfriend as his lips grazed across his own.

"How are you feeling?" it breathed.

"I'm okay" Kurt said softly.

"Why didn't you wake me up?"

Kurt cracked his eyes open and looked forlornly into his boyfriend's eyes, "I couldn't sleep and didn't want to wake you"

"Well you should have" Blaine said with a stern gaze.

"Yeah maybe" Kurt agreed, "you don't mind me sneaking in here do you?"

"Of course I don't mind"

Kurt cuddled closer but said nothing more and for several minutes a comfortable silence reigned through the muted light of the room.

"Jeff told me you can't find your moms locket" Blaine said softly against Kurt's ear, earning him a silent nod of confirmation.

"I'm so sorry baby"

"Me too" Kurt whispered in return.

"Is there anything I can do?"

"No" Kurt swallowed, "but thank you, this is all on me and I deserve to feel this wretched."

Blaine squeezed his shoulder in sympathy but remained silent, the two lying there for untold amounts of time before Kurt spoke again.

"I'd better get going" Kurt sighed sadly as he pulled away and slowly stood, "hey what, where are you going?" Blaine asked in shock.

"I'm going to get ready for class"

"but we were having a moment."

"yes and now that moments over and I'm going back to my room to get ready for class" Kurt said matter-of-factly as he headed towards the door.

"Kurt wait" said Blaine as he scrambled across the bed and tripped across the room to grab Kurt before he could leave, "what's going on baby, tell me" he murmured softly, "why do you have to go?"

"I'm sorry" Kurt whispered, "you've been great, really, I don't know how I would've gotten through the night without you but right now I need to wash the night off of me, is that crazy?"

"No baby that's not crazy" Blaine said softly as he rested his forehead against his own, "you go and do what you need to and I'll see you at breakfast yeah?"

"Okay" Kurt replied with a soft smile before lifting his head and pressing his lips tenderly to his boyfriend's forehead, "thank you."

"How is he?" Jeff asked concernedly as he leaned towards Blaine across the kitchen counter.

"Quiet"

"That good huh"

"Yeah" Blaine muttered into this coffee.

"What's up?" asked Wes planting himself down on the stool next to Blaine and eyeing Jeff with a confused look.

"Kurt can't find his mom's locket"

"Oh"

"Yeah, oh" Jeff confirmed.

"Well where did he have it last?" asked Wes

"In his room before your run"

"Okay, so logically it has to still be there" Wes nodded.

"Well thank you so much" said Jeff his tone laced with sarcasm, "We didn't even think to look there, thank you soooo much Wesley."

"Hey what's your problem?" Wes snapped.

"Don't you think that's the first place we looked" Jeff asked incredulously.

"Hey man come on I'm just trying to help"

Jeff went to open his mouth again but was cut off before he could speak; "Thanks Wes" Blaine smiled as Jeff closed his mouth into a sulky pout, "but Jeff and Kurt turned his room upside down last night and it's not there."

"Well to be precise, I turned the room upside down and Jeff put it back together again" came a voice from the doorway, a small smile fired in Jeff's direction.

"Kurt" Jeff cheered before bounding across the room and pulling him into a hug, "how are you doing?"

"I'm fine" Kurt confirmed quietly as he walked toward the counter although he didn't meet anyones gaze.

"Here you go" said Blaine smiling softly as he placed a coffee mug in Kurt's hands and turned to pick up his own.

"Thanks"

"No problem" he winked and grinned as a blush dusted across Kurts cheeks.

"Morning baby" Nick called as he strode into the room and placed a kiss on the top of Jeff's head.

"Hey" Jeff smiled up at him.

"Everyone ready for another day of education?" he grinned as he grabbed some toast off the side.

"Uhhh" David moaned, dropping his head onto the counter earning a grin from Wes, "this week is endless, bring on the weekend" he grumbled.

"Yey bring on the weekend" Jeff bounced in his seat, "we're still on right Kurt?" he said with expectant wide eyes.

"Yeah, we're still on" Kurt smiled.

"Oh man this is gonna be great"

"Calm down Jeff it's just Lima" Kurt said with a rasied brow.

"No it's a road trip Kurt and road trips are cool" Jeff explained enthusiastically.

"Okay baby, calm down before he changes his mind" Nick laughed as he stroked Jeff's shoulders fondly.

Jeff glowered earning a chuckle from his boyfriend.

"Come on then let's get this over with" Wes said to the room in general as he stood and slung his bag over his shoulder, "come on David get up"

"Urrgghhhh"

"David now" Wes snapped, "I'm not dragging your sorry ass around school all day so snap out of it."

Kurt watched in amusement as a sulky David pulled himself from his stool and sloped across the room to stand next to Wes, "come on then if we have to" he huffed as they headed out the door.

"Whipped" Kurt mumbled into this coffee.

"Come on before Wes starts on us" Nick laughed as he took Jeff's hand and began walking toward the door, "you guys coming?"

"Absolutely" Kurt smiled before taking Blaine's hand and tugging him into the corridor to start the day.