Synchronized Melodies

Chapter 1: Down Beat

Rachel stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Blaine and Kurt walking down the hallway together. And he was wearing his normal nerdy clothes, bowtie and all! She couldn't contain her excitement at the sight and ran up to him, giving him a huge hug.

"You transferred to McKinley!" she squealed. She heard Kurt chortling next to them as Blaine picked her up and spun her around once before setting her back down. As soon as he did, Rachel smacked him twice on his shoulder.

"Ow," he exclaimed.

"Why didn't you two tell me!" she demanded still hitting his shoulder, punctuating each word with a slap.

"We wanted to surprise you, ow! Stop that!" Blaine explained. She hit him one last time, even harder and then stopped. He rubbed his shoulder glaring at her.

"You know I hate surprises!" she pouted. Kurt wrapped an arm around her shoulders and they walked ahead of Blaine.

"He made me keep from telling you," he whispered conspiratorially in her ear.

"Hey, that's-"

"Completely true, I'm sure." Rachel glanced back at her brother. "You wouldn't be calling your boyfriend a liar, are you?"

"Oh I think he is," Kurt said, pretending to be affronted.

"You're both mean," he groused as his boyfriend and sister linked arms and headed to their shared first hour.

"We've got to come up with the perfect number for you to perform in front of the club and to make a lasting first impression-"

"You're brother's already taken care of that, Diva," Kurt chuckled, and seeing her confused face, launched into a detailed account of Blaine's rendition of 'It's Not Unusual'.

Sebastian looked around the dinky airport distastefully. His dad had seriously sent him here? How would he get a better education here compared to France, one of the artistic capitals of the world?

Sebastian groaned when he saw the dark-haired boy with a sign waving it at him; that read "Sebbers". He really wished he had any option other than his eccentric cousin to give him a lift. He groaned and as soon as he was within arm's length of Jeff and snatched his sign out of his hand, crumpling it up.

"Bon Jour, mon frère," Jeff said. Sebastian cringed at his beyond- atrocious accent.

"Never. Again, Jeff," Sebastian groaned as he led his cousin to the luggage carousel.

"Aw you know you missed me, Sebbers-"

"Ugh, and enough with the Sebbers-"

"Hey, I've been calling you that since we were kids- if you haven't noticed Sebastian is not exactly the easiest name to pronounce for a kid…"

"Yeah, but we're in high school now, hopefully your reading level has raised about a 6 year olds," Sebastian sneered as he scanned the monotonous black bags for his own red ones.

"You'd be better off being nice to me," Jeff said in a sing-song voice. "Or you won't get any of mom's double chocolate chunk brownies!" Damn it, he had him there, his aunt's brownies were like manna from the heavens.

"Fine," he mumbled, "but you'd be mad too if you have to leave France for this," he gestured in their general vicinity as Jeff suddenly grabbed one of his cousin's bags as it entered the carousel.

"Aw, it won't be so bad, Sebbers! Dalton is great! I predict we will have a fantastic year! Just you wait and see." Sebastian rolled his eyes before grabbing his second suitcase. The two rolled their bags behind him as they made their was to the car Jeff had borrowed from his parents.

"What was that about brownies…?"

"Ugh, he's so freaking stuck up and a hypocrite."

"I know, I know, I'll talk to him again," Kurt comforted his boyfriend as he slammed his locker closed. Kurt was angry at his so-called brother too, who shot down Blaine every time he tried to make a suggestion of re-vitalize the glee club. Finn got nastier when Rachel wasn't there to curb his attitude.

"I do appreciate it but you know that won't help," Blaine said. Kurt glanced around them as they walked to class- making sure there were no other glee clubbers around.

"We always- you know, tell him and the club about you two." Blaine cocked his signature eyebrows at him.

"And that would make Finn hate me less, how? He probably will blow up at Rachel for lying to him-"

"Believe me, Diva can handle herself."

"Not when it comes to Finn," Blaine muttered so low that he didn't think Kurt heard him. Kurt heard him but didn't respond because really, what was there to say to that? Rachel was hopeless when it came to his stepbrother.

"I still think we should- or rather you two should tell everyone-just rip that band aid off now. Especially now that you both go to the same school, "And it still may help change Finn's perception towards you.

"Yeah yeah, I know. I'm surprised Rae hasn't been more adamant about telling the Jolly Green Elephant…" Kurt held in his laughter, he really shouldn't be sniggering at his 'brother'. They both quieted as Rachel waved at them and approached. Kurt gave Blaine a hug whispering 'talk to her' before pulling back and bidding farewell to the twins.

"What's going on?" Rachel asked confused, because Kurt would usually stay and chat with them.

"I wanted to see how you'd feel about telling the club about us," Blaine started cautiously as he walked with Rachel down the hallway, neither noticing a certain blonde Cheerio squealing and rushing off to call Lord Tubbington's cell phone, to tell him of this latest development.

"You have so much potential, Quinn." Rachel's voice echoed in Quinn's ear as she looked at herself in the mirror, fingering her hot pink locks. She actually liked the colour, but it didn't feel, right.

"This is our last year to be together, and you don't want to squander that." Damn midget, getting to her! But so did miss glee.

"You don't have to decide now, we'll be here when you're ready."

"-Ready? Quinn?" Quinn looked up at her old hairdresser.

"So, what would you like to do with it today?" The kind woman asked Quinn as she sat her down in the chair.

"We're siblings." Rachel and Blaine said together in front of the club. All of the glee clubbers looked shocked, except for Kurt, Santana, and Puck. All the rest seemed to simultaneously start talking, in an uproar. Rachel looked at Blaine as if to tell him 'I told you so' and Blaine sighed.

"Woah, guys," Mr. Schuster said, finally getting over his own shock. "I understand that this is a big revelation but we all should calm down and listen to their explanation for keeping this from us." Rachel's mouth dropped open- was he serious?

"I've told you all about my brother the past few years! It's your own fault that you didn't know, and just further evidence that this group refuses to adhere to my suggestions and over all listen to my-"

"And after Rae found out that we were going to compete against each other last year at Sectionals, she kept quiet about us and I agreed she should after the Jesse incident. And after the way she told me her club treated her, can you really blame me?" at least half of the club had the good sense to seem ashamed.

"So I guess I can't join your threesome," Brittany said sadly.

"What are you talking about?" Mercedes asked the question many of them had.

"Well at first I thought Blaine was cheating on Kurt with Rachel, because even if I wasn't bi-curious, I would tap that, but then I noticed the three of them hung out a lot so I knew they had to be having a threesome!" Brittany explained with an air of exaggeration. The club didn't really know to say to that, until someone broke the silence.

"That explains a lot," the blonde again Quinn murmured. Puck looked at her shocked that he had missed her coming in, but more shocked that she looked like herself again- what the hell had caused that change? Everyone else looked surprised as well, but Rachel just sent her a bright smile. Quinn hesitated a second before sending a small smile of her own to the petite brunette, with only Blaine catching the exchange.

"Well, welcome back, Quinn, we're happy to have you," Mr. Schue said and Quinn nodded at him gratefully.

"We should have known, I suppose," Tina said, taking the focus off of an uncomfortable-looking Quinn. "I mean, they do have the same last name."

"Wait, Rachel's last name isn't Berry?" Brittany asked looking startled at this information.

"Why would her last name be Berry?" asked Artie of his former girlfriend.

"Well San is always saying that she has sweet Berry-"

"Britt-Britt, ix-nay," Santana said through her teeth, he face turning a bit pink.

"Santana, there are no pigs here for you to speak to," Brittany patiently explained to the Latina.

"I know, Britt-Britts," Santana said, sighing and linking pinkies with a grinning Brittany.

"They're both so bossy and demanding. It's no wonder they're related," Mercedes groused. Finn seemed to finally have come out of his stupor and Blaine felt Rachel tense next to him as Finn straightened up and started to speak.

"You're kidding right? This is all some big joke because of what I said to you about hanging out with him so much?" Was he serious? Even Brittany had figured out they were siblings before Rachel's own boyfriend. Though Blaine was quickly starting to believe that Brittany was the smartest of them all because she figured out Rachel and Blaine were keeping a secret on her own before anyone else. But he held his tongue Rachel had dubbed Finn a more or less taboo subject because of his ranting and raving over the dick during the summer.

"I can't believe you kept this from your boyfriend for two years?" Blaine didn't like that Finn was implying that she had been with him for two years (They'd been going out three fucking months) and Rachel had only kept out the fact that Blaine was her brother. To his knowledge she had never denied having brothers.

"I'm so sorry, Finn, I wanted to tell you but-"

"You know after Babygate I have trouble trusting people!" Finn burst out and went towards the door, but turned back to Rachel one more time. "How could you do this to me?" And he stormed out, emulating his girlfriend's famous storm out.

"No, Finn, wait-" Rachel's voice was cut off as the door shut behind her. There was an awkward silence as Blaine slipped back to his seat beside Kurt. The soprano grabbed his boyfriend's hand and sent him a smile.

"Oookay, guys, we should probably move on- does anyone else have anything they'd like to er- say, or sing?"

"Oh I am all over this!" Mercedes said getting up and moving to the front. She talked to the band before breaking out into a house-rocking number. She was pretty good.

Blaine suddenly sat at attention as he saw Rachel and Finn re-enter the room- holding hands though standing farther apart than normal. Kurt shot Blaine a look rolling his eyes at the couple that had sat in front of them. He smiled and squeezed Kurt's hand. That's why he kept him around.

A/n: I know, later than I planned, but I did warn you... Oh and I have not seen the last few episodes of Glee. I know general stuff, though- Quinn's fate, Cooper's a jerk. The only thing that made me miss watching was hearing about Sue throwing Mercedes phone and Brad fist-pumping in the background. But it's refreshing not being constantly frustrated at the total lack on continuity.

Also Jeff as Sebastian's cousin? I seem to be making everyone related to each other! It was unintentional in a way. I was going to make them friends, but Sebastian doesn't really have many friends... So voila: cousins!

A little choppy I know, but that happens sometimes.,. It's an update!

I'll try to update before school's out, but finals time is here again, and I don't know what it'll be like time-wise… I'll try. My problem with this story is that I had about sixteen chapters and an epilogue planned, but I keep wanting to add other characters' storylines, so who knows how long it'll end up being!

And it'll be one or two more chapters until we get some real Sebastian action (more than a snippet). My apologies, but it's coming!

Thanks for being patient, or not-so-patient… also thanks for all of your reviews. I have a oneshot supernatural Smytheberry called "Adversity of Fortune" if you can't stand the waiting. I really like how it turned out and have many many ideas for additional chapters that I hope to post when I get this to a more stable place.

Any who: reviews are awesome! If you don't want to leave one, well thanks for reading! I hope the first chapter didn't disappoint!

Until next time: Stay Tuned!