Yup. Do I really need to say it? Sorry for the wait! Luckily, I'm going to be updating twice in a row though, and there are a couple of secrets revealed in this chapter, so yaaaaay! Also, a bit of Puck development. And lastly, I'm realizing that I probably won't have enough time to lay out every little detail of the mermaid world in this story, so if you have any question don't hesitate to ask!

Chapter 16:

Kurt practically skipped into his apartment, a huge goofy grin on his face. He'd finally finally gotten his first kiss. After years of waiting, waiting for Blaine...It finally happened. He felt like he was floating on air and he was practically glowing out of control. It was strange, since the glow was really only triggered by pitch black conditions but whatever. He didn't really care all that much. The only thing he cared about was Blaine Blaine Blaine. He couldn't stop thinking about him.

Kurt skidded into his apartment and slammed the door behind him, leaning back against it and sighing. He pressed the palm of his hand to his mouth, trying to contain his goofy grin. Gosh it was getting harder to breath. Had he ever been this happy before in his entire life? Probably not. At least not that he could remember. Perhaps when he first met Blaine. He slid down the door and sat on the floor, unable to hold his weight up anymore. He was glowing...He was floating...Was he a firefly? Is this what it meant to be a firefly? Because he sure felt like one. And from what he had seen, Blaine loved fireflies. Did that mean Blaine loved him now? He certainly hoped so.

His happy moved dissolved almost instantly when he heard an extremely quiet creak from one of the floor boards. Oh right, how could he have forgotten?

"I know you're there Puck. Come out. Now." Sure enough, A mohawked haired merman entered the living room from his bedroom. It had been years since he'd last seen the merman, who in all honesty appeared as more of a shark instead of a merman in water. He had been ostracized from the colony, forced to join a new one. Puck hadn't gone for it though, choosing instead to live in a cave right outside of the kingdom, staved of all merfolk contact. Not that it really mattered, Kurt figured. Puck spent most of his time on land, completely abusing his Watcher gift. He was supposed to use his gift to make sure the breeders were taken care of, especially the females, since they spent so much more time on land than the men. According to Kurt's father though, Puck used his gift to be coital with women and men on land, pretty much leaving whatever breeder he's supposed to be caring for to fend for themselves. This was the reason he was banished, and the reason Kurt happened to be completely disgusted by him. Well, one of the reasons at least.

"How'd you know I was here?" Puck smirked, crossing his arms and leaning against the doorframe. Kurt rolled his eyes.

"Your Ly methods are terrible. Do you honestly think I couldn't sense you digging around in my head?"

"We haven't seen each other in years you know, Kurt. I kind of expected a warmer welcome."

"You're joking, right?" Kurt hissed, pushing himself up. He brushed past Puck and practically stomped into the kitchen heading for the cupboard. He seriously needed some Sour Patch Kids. "In all the time we've spent apart, you've been probing in my mind. You probably know every thought I've had since you left. Every feeling, every emotion..." Kurt shuddered. "The worst kind of violation."

Puck shrugged indifferently. "Well yeah," He said without an ounce of guilt. "But only because they never really changed much. It was always Blaine and sadness. Hell, it still is."

Kurt stared at him defiantly. "I'm not sad anymore."

"I've noticed." Silence descended over them as Kurt began to scarf down the candy, needing something to do with his mouth. Despite his hostile confident attitude, he was honestly terrified that Puck was there. The hazel eyed man was known to have practically no morals. He was sneaky and manipulative, and Kurt wouldn't put it beneath him to try and hurt Blaine. Back when they were younger, he and Puck had actually been pretty good friends. There weren't many male merman in his father's colony, and even less on the inner walls of the kingdom. But he had met Puck one day in the palace coral reef garden. It was perhaps a year before he first met Blaine, and he had been upset about something. Now, years later, he couldn't remember why. All he remembered was the first merboy other than himself he had ever seen coming to comfort him. Over the years he had met more of course-Sam, Artie, Finn and Rory; but he hadn't clicked with any of them like he clicked with Puck. Until he met Blaine of course. They were still young, and hadn't perfected their Lystrata methods quite yet. But since Puck's training to be a watcher started way earlier than the other boys breeding lessons, it was required that he perfect his Ly as soon as possible. He would be shadowing an older Watcher, by the name of Shuester soon, and he would need a way to communicate with the kingdom while he was on land. Unfortunately, it was awful timing for Puck to begin learning, because Kurt had been disappearing a lot lately. He was still kind of rocky with his Ly methods, but he decided to use it to discover where his friend had been sneaking off too.

Puck still remembered the first time he had seen Blaine. It wasn't the appearance of the young human boy that had shocked him. It was the strong flash of emotion Puck had felt that accompanied it. It took him a moment to realize it wasn't his emotion, but Kurt's. And it was just so...intense. He had immediately shut down the connection and hadn't opened it again for weeks. And when he finally had, it was out of worry for his friend. Kurt had gone eerily silent and stopped eating. When he reopened the connection he found out Blaine had apparantly left with his family and wouldn't be coming back for a long time. At this point, the other young children were beginning to hone their Ly skills, and it hadn't taken Kurt long to realize someone else was in his head along with him. He became extremely angry with Puck, didn't talk to him for weeks. eventually they made up though, and Kurt decided to forgive him. Until his father hammered human hate into his head, of course. This was around the time they turned thirteen. Puck was preparing for his first Watcher mission, and Kurt should've been preparing to become a breeder. Instead he was being trained in the ways of royalty, which included teaching him a hell of a lot about hating humans. It was completely different from Puck. While Kurt was being taught to hate humans, Puck was encountering them for the very first time. And he found them to be, well beautiful. Amazing. Enchanting. All of the above. Despite the fact that he was supposed to be caring for his breeders, he forgot all about them and ventured into the human world. It was maybe a week after that he realized he might love Kurt, and a year after that he was banished for good. Kurt began hating him somewhere in between.

"Still can't handle human food?" Puck asked, watching Kurt stuff his face with candy. The prince narrowed his eyes at Puck, practically hissing. It caused a soft smile to grace Puck's face, remembering the days when Kurt actually would hiss at him with his cute little pointed canine teeth. He wasn't nearly as threatening as a human.

"What do you want from me?" Kurt asked, tossing the empty bag into the trash can and cutting straight to the chase. He crossed his arms.

"I'm your Watcher." Kurt scoffed at him.

"No you aren't. You're banished."

"I still have a job to do," Puck joked.

"Yeah okay. Sure. So what are you doing here?" Kurt asked again, not amused.

"I'm here to get rid of Blaine." So maybe the years of hatred from his fellow merfolk had made Puck kind of hard. And angry. He was definitely angry. And maybe his anger was kind of blurring his view of things. He couldn't understand that harming the lover of the person he loved was a bad idea. A horrible idea. But he did however, notice the look of horror cross Kurt's face. "Oh come on!" Puck snapped. "I thought you hated humans!"

"Love trumps hate, Puck. You know that. I could never hate Blaine!" Kurt snapped right back. "And besides..." His voice got gradually softer. "Perhaps I was...wrong about humans." Puck couldn't believe his ears. After all this time, Kurt was admitting to being wrong? Kurt never admitted to being wrong! He always had to be right!

"This is bullshit," Puck hissed, ignoring how Kurt cowered away from his harsh tone. "He doesn't even know anything about you."

"He does too!"

"Oh really?" Puck got uncomfortably close to the merman, taking hold of his wrists. "So did you tell him about the one year rule? That breeders can only live a year at a time on land before they burn up from the heat of the sun? Or how about the fact that you're royalty? Yeah, he might need to know he's screwing a Prince. And hey, what about the immortality clause?"

"Stop!" Kurt screamed, pushing him forcefully away. The immortality clause...how could Puck bring that up? On his twenty first birthday, all royalty had the choice of becoming immortal. He would stop aging, and live forever. If he wanted to that is. But Blaine...he would never live forever. It just wasn't possible for humans. And Kurt would just be stuck loving him for-...forever. "I was only planning on being with him for the month," Kurt whimpered. "Just the month. Why are you trying to ruin everything?"

"Because I know you." Puck said simply. "This one month would turn into two. Two into three. You'd probably follow him back to college. And then when the year's up? You'd dive back into the ocean, wait, and do it all over again. You'd try and make it work. That's just the kind of person you you know what? We haven't even mentioned your most important secret yet. Do you remember, Kurt? Do you remember why you can't make it work? Not because you're royalty, not because of the sun exposure, not even because of immortality. Do you know what it is?"

"Of-Of course I do."

"Then say it."

"No." Kurt shook his head, allowing tears to finally roll down his face. He was finally happy. He was finally happy. Why this? Why now?

"Say it," Puck shouted, shaking Kurt.

"No!" Kurt screamed back. Puck sighed and let him go, watching as Kurt collapsed to the ground.

"Fine. But you have two days to tell Blaine. Tell him everything. Or else I'm going to have to take action." And with that, Puck stomped out of the apartment.

TBC...

Soooo, short little chapter to hold you over until I update again tomorrow =] We have about two to three more chapters of Klaine fluff, before some heavy duty angst ya'll. Be prepared. You might hate me.