A/N: Yeeeeah so things are still kind of crazy right around now, and especially this week, since my plan was/is to post two chapters a day of this story for seven days, with the remaining fourteen chapters... So here come six chapters now, which were meant for Thursday, and yesterday, and today.

"Ex Memoria"

23. New Approach

May 2012 - Lima, Ohio

It felt so much simpler to convince one and have them there to convince the other, and if they had to choose a starter, it was Mike all the way. Kurt would do the talking, so this left Blaine and Sam on duty to divert Tina and keep her busy for a few minutes. He didn't know what they told her, but it must have worked, because as he came in play, they had disappeared with her, and Mike was alone.

"Hey," Kurt stepped up to Mike.

"Hey, are you looking for Blaine? He was just..."

"No, no, I've actually been hoping to talk to you about something," Kurt told him, carefully redirecting him out of the throng of students.

"Okay?" Mike hesitated.

"Haven't you been noticing all these strange things happening at school these last six months or so?" Kurt slowly asked. "Ever since she came," he nodded for Mike to follow his gaze.

"Miss Harrison?" he asked.

"She's not who she says she is," Kurt whispered. Mike may not have been convinced just yet, but already Kurt could feel his curiosity winning out.

"I don't get it..." he shook his head.

"I didn't know at first, same as you, but now I do."

"Why are you telling me then?"

"A lot of us know already, so why not?" Kurt shrugged. "But," he raised a finger. "You can't tell anyone." He knew he could just as easily lose him as he could win him at this point. He needed to tip the scales in his favor. "I know what it's going to sound like, and believe me, I needed as much convincing as anyone if not more. I wouldn't be telling you if I didn't believe it, because it will sound crazy... Except there's been proof. I'm just one of those who had to be told about it, but there's those who've seen for themselves."

It was all talk for now, he knew, but then the more involved and believable he could make himself sound, it would press his point, he knew. And he could see it, no matter how he kept quiet, Mike wed standing by and listening.

"I'm just going to come right out with it, because dragging it out isn't going to make it any less unbelievable. Miss Harrison, she's from the future."

Mike stared at him, as one might when they waited for a smirk or a laugh. He got none.

"She hasn't said by how much, but we don't think it can be by very much," Kurt went on instead, and Mike went on with his silence. "But that's only the start, and I'm hoping it's a good sign you haven't walked away yet."

"This isn't because I said it would be cool to go back in time and all that, is it?" Mike asked.

"You said that?" Kurt asked; he honestly had not known. "But no, it has nothing to do with that, although play your cards right and you might get your wish eventually. See, the reason Gemma's here..."

"Gemma?"

"That's her real name," Kurt paused, remembering he hadn't said it before. "Anyway, she's here because of this other person called the Doctor." The last thing he would have expected here would be recognition, but at the mention of the Doctor's name, there had been the slightest flicker of a memory in Mike's eyes. "What?"

"It's nothing, just... I overheard Brittany talking to Santana once, I think... weeks ago. Made no sense, but I figured that was just Brittany... But they mentioned someone, a doctor..."

"Yeah, that's the one," Kurt jumped on this chance, at the same time wondering if anyone else had ever heard any of them, and whether or not it would later come back to bite them. "He..." he decided to leave the gender issue for later, "He's a time traveller, she travels with him, Gemma does, in time and... and in space."

"So, aliens?" Mike frowned, doubtful again.

"Well... the Doctor's one, for starters."

"Hummel!" They turned, startled by the shout. Santana was marching their way, cutting through the crowd, with Brittany and Sugar on her tail.

"Oh, great," Kurt sighed.

"What kind of game are you playing at? You weren't even..."

"Even supposed to know you were going to tell him about the Doctor?" Kurt filled in.

"What?" Mike blurted out.

"You already told him?" Santana understood.

"Hey, be cool," Brittany breathed; she hadn't caught on, still believing Mike didn't know.

"Because you guys were doing do well," Kurt frowned.

"You're really not joking?" Mike looked to Kurt, who resisted turning a triumphant look to Santana.

"I'm really not. They all met him," he pointed to the girls, turning to them so they might help seal the deal.

"I met him when I was six years old," Sugar spoke, though she kept this response as brief as one could.

"We met him a couple years back, that trip to the Grand Canyon," Santana eventually volunteered, at the same time keeping an eye on Brittany so she wouldn't just blurt out how she was turned into a cat.

"I was there, I didn't see anything," Mike pointed out, but even as he said this, he did remember how they'd disappeared for a while. He'd been there with Matt and they had covered for them; it had been one of the things that had made the four of them friends.

"You okay?" Kurt asked.

"I... I need to go and think," he replied, walking off.

"If this craps out, it's your fault," Santana told Kurt.

"Yeah, that's what I figured."

TO BE CONTINUED (TODAY)