So here's what you missed on Glee…
Tina and Artie totally broke up and Artie is back with Kitty and everyone thinks Tina is back with Mike. Blaine's dad showed up out of nowhere and Blaine totally told him get lost. Brittany is living with Jesse and Rachel which means Santana is by herself. And being by yourself is just no fun at all, in fact, it's pretty miserable.
Starring: Darren Criss, Chris Colfer, Becca Tobin, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, Harry Shum Jr., Heather Morris, and Naya Rivera.
Created By: Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, and Brad Falchuck.
Written By: Taylor Underwood
Playlist: 'Broken' – Lifehouse (Santana Lopez-Pierce)
'We Threw It All Away'- Jason Michael Carroll (Mike Chang and Tina Cohen-Chang)
'Still The One' – Shania Twain (Kitty Wilde)
'Oh, Father,' – Madonna (Blaine Hummel-Anderson)
Santana had been thinking the entire time Brittany had been staying with Rachel. She had to figure out why she was suddenly finding all of Brittany's personality annoying. She didn't want to, but she did. All she really knew was that she loved Brittany more than anything and didn't want to have her marriage fall to pieces.
She thought about all of her friends' relationships and how they all seemed so happy. How did they do it? Kurt always said communication is key in any relationship. Rachel said it was trust. Quinn always said both were important. She knew that by not telling Brittany exactly how she was feeling it was tearing them apart, but she wasn't always the best with expressing herself.
With everything that had happened to her in the last few years Brittany was the only one to stick around. Brittany could get her through anything. So, why was now to much harder? Why couldn't she just look at her wife and feel the way she did when she was a teenager? She knew that Kurt and Blaine still had that between them. They were constantly throwing their happy and perfect lives in her face.
Maybe that's why this is all so much harder. Brittany wasn't there to help her through it and none of her friends would really understand because they were all in happy relationships that never seemed to have any problems. She couldn't remember the last time one of their relationships was on the rocks and needed saving.
And now with a baby in the mix of their group of friends it was even worse because all anyone wanted to do was talk about how precious the girl was. They all only seemed to care about Kurt and Blaine.
She and Brittany had talked about having children at some point then everything went downhill and the subject was never brought up again. Was all of this because Santana thought that having a baby with someone who still couldn't add two plus two and come up with the correct answer was a bad idea? Did she inadvertently really ruined her relationship by saying it wasn't the right time because they weren't mature enough?
Santana knew that none of these questions were going to be answered by sitting alone in their beat up Brooklyn apartment. She was going to have to actually go into the city and talk to Brittany, even if it meant seeing all of her overly happy friends.
She decided to bite the bullet and head into Manhattan to see Brittany. She was praying that Brittany still loved her and wanted to be with her. She was terrified of what she was going to walk into at Rachel and Jesse's apartment.
She got there late in the evening, the night before she was supposed to be back to talk to Brittany. She quickly knocked on the door and waited for someone to answer it. At that moment she realized she had nothing to say. She had sort of figured out why the marriage was going south, but what was she going to say to Brittany about why she had been so mean in the last months?
Before she was able to turn around and run away the door opened and Brittany was standing on the other side of the threshold. "Santana," Brittany asked looking a little confused. "Want to come in? Rachel and Jesse are out for dinner."
Santana hesitated for a moment. It was like she was sneaking around her parents again. She finally entered Rachel and Jesse's apartment and sat down on the couch.
"Sorry," Santana started, "I didn't want to wait until tomorrow to talk to you about us."
Brittany smiled. She hoped that this meant Santana was ready to move passed what was wrong between them, but she didn't know for sure. More times than not Santana was very difficult to read from her facial expressions and this was definitely one of those times. She was very happy to see her, but she had this off feeling in the pit of her stomach. "What do you want to talk about," Brittany finally asked.
Santana sighed deeply. "Look, I know I've been mean," she started, "I'm doing it purposely. And I know that you want a baby, but I still don't think now is the right time."
"I'm off having a baby, Santana," Brittany quickly said. "And that's not an apology. That's you stating facts. Why have you been calling me annoying and dumb?"
"Honestly," Santana said, "I have no idea. I was always this huge bitch my entire life. I've always hated most everyone I've ever met. Then I met you and you didn't make me hate you, but I've grown up a lot in the last few years.
I can see Rachel and not have the urge to rip her vocal chords out. I don't know what changed in me to act the way I have been towards you, but I'm gonna try my hardest to fix it."
Brittany sat there for a moment and thought about what Santana was saying. She knew all of these things already. And all Santana had to say was that she didn't know why she was being so mean? This confused Brittany. Everyone begins to mature and think differently throughout their life, but she always thought that her and Santana would always be on the same page; however, this was proving to be so much different than what she had imagined when they got married.
"Santana…"
Santana quickly got up and took Brittany's hands. "Britt, I'm so sorry for everything I said to you. I promise you that I will never act that way again."
Brittany smiled at her wife standing in front of her. "Can I move back in?"
"Are you packed," Santana asked giving her a light kiss
Kurt walked into the living to see Blaine in his usual position on the floor with Hepburn on his chest. "How are you doing," he asked quietly.
"Still a little angry, but okay," Blaine responded. "I just can't believe he stood outside our building for that long."
"Your mom did say that he would," Kurt said lying down next to him. "Honey, I know you're angry and upset and I don't want to fight, but don't you think you should call him?"
"Kurt," Blaine sighed, "I know that I need to get over all of this because it's holding me back, but I just can't stand to even hear him speak right now."
Kurt understood, but it was driving him crazy seeing Blaine mope around the house the way he was. He just wanted his husband back to his cheerful and bouncy self. He wasn't even going to the music rehearsal of the show he just composed. "Okay, I get it. I'll start making dinner," Kurt said standing up and walking into the kitchen.
While Kurt was chopping the potatoes he heard a slight sob come from the living room. He knew that Blaine's emotions were taking over his entire body and when he got like this it was so hard to pull him out and get the real Blaine back.
Kurt peeked into the living room to see Blaine sitting on the floor holding Hepburn tightly to his chest. He could tell that there were tears on Blaine's cheeks, but knew that right now would not be the right time to try and comfort him. He needed his space with the baby and Kurt respected that. Sometimes he needed his alone time with Hepburn to cheer him up a little bit.
As Kurt continued dinner he kept hearing sobs coming from Blaine and it was breaking his heart. Not only was his husband hurting and crying, but he wasn't able to do anything to help. So, he did what any loving husband would do and made him all of his favorite comfort foods hoping that for a little while he'll have a smile on that handsome face of his.
It didn't take long after dinner for Blaine to go back inside himself and not talk much.
"I'm just gonna lay down," Blaine said walking into the bedroom.
Kurt sat on the couch baffled at how to fix this mess. After their parents and Cooper had left he went back to being Blaine, but once he saw his father he shut down. He got mad briefly, but he's just been depressed. One thing Kurt did know was he had to figure out how to get Blaine out of this depressed state.
Tina had been in Chicago for several days making sure that she and Mike still did have that connection.
Mike was floored when he saw Tina show up at his apartment. After the bizarre phone call he thought he'd schedule a time when he had it available to fly back to New York and see her and work through everything. He didn't want to be a horrible friend to Artie. He knew that he had to talk to Artie about everything and make sure there are no hard feelings between the two of them, but he knew that Artie may be really pissed at him. They hadn't spoken since Tina left and he had no idea that Artie had rediscovered his love for Kitty.
"Um," Mike started as he and Tina walked down Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. "This weekend you need to go back to New York. That's where you live."
"But..."
"I'm coming too because this is a mess," Mike chuckled. "You leaving Artie and flying to Chicago to be with me. You're insane. I love you, but you're crazy."
Tina laughed at him. "So are you saying we can call ourselves official again?"
"I don't want to call it that until we've talked everything through," Mike told her. "But I will hold your hand," he said taking her hand in his as they continued to walk.
Two days later Tina and Mike were back in New York, having to stay in a hotel since Tina left Artie. They had called and Artie and Tina were going to talk privately first and she was shaking as she sat waiting for him in Washington Square Park. She didn't know if he'd be okay or immensely angry with her.
Finally she saw Artie rolling over to where she was sitting on a park bench. "Hey," she said standing up.
"Back with Mike," Artie spit out without thinking first. "Sorry, that was rude. If you are that's okay. I told you it was."
"Artie," Tina started, "why are you so okay with this? What I did was awful. You should kind of hate me."
Artie almost let out a laugh at his former fiancé. "Tina, there's a reason I was so cool about it. You were my first love. My first kiss. But when you had the strength to admit that you were settling because you thought Mike had moved on; I looked at myself and had to ask myself what I wanted. I went through our senior year Thunderclap and saw this picture of Kitty and me sitting together laughing. Just like you with Mike, all of the feelings came back or they never really went away. I was just hiding them."
"So," Tina started, "are you telling me that you're dating Kitty again?"
Artie smiled, "yes, I am," he said proudly. "Well, sort of."
"Don't tell me she's making you hide it again," Tina interjected before Artie was allowed to finish what he was saying.
"Would you let me finish," Artie said, "no, she's not making me hide it. She's making me get closure between the two of us and with Mike before she wants to make anything official."
"I get that," Tina told him, "Mike's making me do the same thing."
"Okay," Artie started speaking again, "tomorrow night you and Mike come over to the apartment and we will have an honest and adult conversation about the entire situation and make sure that we're all on the same page. I want you to know that I have no hidden resentments for you or Mike."
"I'm glad," Tina told him. "I will see you tomorrow night then, I guess," she said with a large smile on her face.
"So how did it go," Kitty asked as soon as Artie got into the apartment.
"Good," he replied, "I invited them over tomorrow night for dinner so we all could have a conversation about this. I feel like we're back in high school," he chuckled, "hopping from relationship to relationship."
"Oh no, no more of that," Kitty said sitting down on Artie's lap and kissing him. "You're stuck with me,"
"I'm one lucky man then," he smiled and kissed her back.
"Okay, I will make dinner tomorrow since I know that you can't cook at all," Kitty laughed standing back up and walking towards their kitchen area.
"I make a mean grilled cheese sandwich, thank you very much," Artie said rolling over to her. "And you know I get the milk to cereal ration perfect every single time."
"Yeah, but you put the milk in first which is just wrong," she said finishing making herself and Artie a quick sandwich.
"Everything worked out," Mike asked once Tina had made her way back to the hotel room.
"Well, he doesn't hate me and he's pretty cool with you too," she said falling onto the bed and curling up next to him. "He invited us over to his apartment tomorrow night for dinner and adult conversation about this. It's so weird."
"What is," he asked running his fingers through her long dark hair.
"Five years ago Artie and I agreed to get married at age thirty if we didn't find love," she started, "then we actually got engaged because we thought we were in love again, but here I am with you," she said looking up at him, "which is what I've always wanted. I know that now."
"It's what I've wanted too," Mike replied, "I know I turned you down that day of the crazy double wedding, but I wanted to give you the chance to live your life alone for a while. We weren't in the same state it would have too hard for both of us."
"Now we have to figure out what the two of us are going to do," Tina told him. "My life is here and yours is in Chicago."
Mike hadn't thought that far ahead. Tina was back in his arms and the future didn't really seem all that important so he pushed it into the back of mind and forgot about it completely. "Well," he started, "I have my dance classes there. I teach. I learn."
"True," Tina said with a smile. "I'm an actress. I'm not tied down anywhere and I'm not working right now."
"Does that mean," Mike started hesitantly not knowing if she was saying she would move completely to Chicago to be with him.
"Yes," she said smiling, "but we have to try to make it out here for the big stuff. If Kurt and Blaine suddenly have another baby, or any of these guys do. Or if Puck and Quinn get married."
"All of the large events we will fly out here and make it to," Mike told her. "Don't ever worry about that."
"You know, Hepburn," Blaine started to speak while putting his daughter into her pajamas. "I'm not gonna lie to you. Sometimes parents can be bad parents. I'm not saying Papa and I are, but the truth is sometimes a sweet baby girl can have a mean daddy. Daddy has a mean dad. Or he used to be, I don't know anymore. He says he wants to make things better, but he made things so bad…"
Blaine heard Kurt's footsteps at the door. "Sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop. Was just checking on you."
"You think I can't change her clothes," Blaine asked slightly offended.
"No," Kurt quickly told him. "It's just you've been a wreck since your dad came into town. I just wanted to make sure you were okay."
"I'm fine, Kurt," Blaine said getting back to dressing his daughter. He didn't mean to sound as cold as he did. He just knew that Kurt wasn't going to fully understand what Blaine was going through. Kurt had Burt, the kindest man alive growing up; he didn't have a dad like that. He felt a connection to Burt after all of these years feeling like part of his family, but it wasn't the same as having your own father being that warm to you.
Kurt sighed and turned to leave the room.
"Honey," Blaine blurted out. "Sorry, I'm still not myself."
"I've noticed," Kurt said to him. "Blaine, you've been crying and not speaking to me. I want to help you, but you won't let me." Kurt walked further into the room. "You even move away when I try to hold you in bed."
"I just feel like that kid that he walked out on," Blaine told him. "Not like the man that you married."
"Well," Kurt started, "I loved that kid he walked out on. More than you'll ever know and I love the man that I married so much, but you have to let me in. I know I won't completely understand, but you can help me."
"He made me feel like nothing," Blaine told him. "I never told you how that day affected me. Even with you and the Warblers and my mom and even Coop, I still felt like nothing. That I wasn't worthy of love."
Kurt was beginning to tear up. He knew what it felt like to not feel worthy of love. It wasn't because of his dad; it was the bullying he endured. He also felt like he was failure not showing Blaine enough affection throughout the years to prove that he is worthy of all the love in the world.
"And seeing him again," Blaine's voice broke, "made me feel 16. Even though that year I found all the love I need now, in you."
"You know I support you no matter what," Kurt started, "but I feel like you need to get out some of this anger towards him. You haven't touched the keyboard since you saw him. It's beating you down; it's killing you and that scares me."
"What," Blaine asked quickly taking Kurt's hand.
"That this anger is going to take over your body," Kurt said barely getting the words out of his mouth. "And that you'll have a complete break down and leave. And that would kill me."
Blaine gently yet quickly set Hepburn down in her crib before taking Kurt's neck and pulling him in for a hug. "Nothing could make me leave you two. I won't become that man. I probably need you more than you need me."
Kurt didn't say anything. He just let himself be held by his husband. He didn't often let Blaine see him like this, especially not recently, but sometimes he just needed to be held. He knew Blaine needed to be held too and he held onto him tighter than ever before.
"We're both acting like sappy teenagers," Blaine laughed kissing Kurt's neck.
Kurt started to respond then they both heard a small laugh coming from behind them. "Expect this time we have her to cheer us up."
"A man doesn't get any luckier than me," Blaine said as Kurt walked over to see his smiling baby.
"Well, except me," he flashed Blaine a quick smile before tickling Hepburn.
Kitty was running around the kitchen making sure that everything was going to be absolutely perfect that night. She knew that this may start off very uncomfortable, but she wanted to get passed everything since they were all still acting like their high school selves when it came to their relationships.
Around seven o'clock Tina and Mike were making their way up the elevator to Artie's apartment. Tina was feeling very comfortable going up and having dinner with their friends while Mike was getting a little anxious not knowing exactly where he would be standing with Artie. He did kiss his former fiancée while they were still together. And he did kind of steal her away from him, but that wasn't completely his doing. Still having to sit through this long conversation through dinner was making him feel very uneasy.
They knocked on the door and Kitty quickly answered it letting the two of them into the apartment. Tina looked around and instantly noticed that all of the pictures had been taken down. Well, all of the personal photos. It made her sad for a moment then she realized it was probably for the best since she knew that she had really hurt Artie.
They all sat down around the table and Kitty served dinner. For several minutes none of them said anything and ate their dinner in silence. Kitty was starting to feel the tension building and the awkwardness of the night. She had to fill the silence with something.
"Well," she said quickly, "are we gonna talk about what we're here for?" She knew that the best way to get the conversation going was to just dive right in with this crowd.
"Artie, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to take her away. I just needed to tell her how I felt and it ended up being a really shitty thing to do as a friend and sometimes I just wish I had kept my mouth shut, but I had to," Mike started to ramble.
"Dude," Artie butted in, "it's fine. The funny thing about all of this is it forced all of us to be honest with ourselves and each other. You were honest with Tina which made her honest with herself and me. Which made me honest with myself and Kitty."
"I think it all worked out for the best," Tina said. "I know now that I was never meant to be with Artie in that way. Just really good friends."
"Dessert," Kitty asked cheerfully getting up to bring over the store bought cheesecake she had. "I'm glad we're talking. I just really felt weird about everything."
"I think we all did," Tina laughed.
Finally the tension was gone. They were all able to talk to each other like they did when they were in high school. Mike was able to get to know Kitty a little more, which he was happy about.
Kitty was working as a personal assistant while she was trying to get her career off the ground. Mike and Kitty didn't know much about each other and they spent the majority of dessert and coffee rectifying that.
Tina and Artie mostly talked about how they were going to still be able to have the professional relationship they always had. Tina needed to make sure that no matter what if she auditioned for him and was right for the part this mess wasn't going to get in the way. And Artie had to make sure that she was still willing to audition for his films.
Artie knew that Tina was going to be one of the kickass actresses of the generation and couldn't have something as trivial as a bump in the relationship get in the way of both of them having a successful career.
"Oh, did I tell you that I'm probably moving to Chicago," Tina asked Artie happily.
"I had a feeling," Artie said with a genuine smile. "I mean you can work from anywhere, but Mike can only really work from Chicago. I just hope you make it back for the big stuff."
"We've already talked about that," Tina told him, "we'd never miss the big stuff for our glee family. You guys means so much to both of us we'd be horrible people not to come out here for that stuff."
"Good," Artie said with a smile. He was happy that he still was able to have a friend in Tina after everything the two of them had been through.
By the time it was midnight Mike and Tina decided they should probably get back to the hotel and not be a bother to Kitty and Artie, who were obviously exhausted.
"That was nice," Kitty said taking care of a few of the dishes in the kitchen. "I mean I wasn't expecting everyone to get mad, but I thought there may be some conflict."
"We're all adults," Artie said trying to help her clean up by bringing the coffee mugs to the kitchen sink. "Thank you for making me do this. I didn't realize how much everything had affected me until tonight."
"So always remember this feeling," Kitty said giggling.
"What do you mean," he asked.
"Remember how liberated you are feeling and that I will always be right about everything," she said leaning over his chair and kissing him forcing her tongue into his mouth. "Dishes can wait," she said quickly moving behind him and pushing him into the bedroom.
Tina and Mike walked slowly down the streets of Manhattan back to their hotel.
"So are we official again," Tina asked hopefully.
"Well," Mike started, "since we've had the conversation with Kitty and Artie and they seem perfectly wonderful about everything. Yes, we are officially official again. And I wouldn't have it any other way." Mike stopped walking and pulled Tina in for one of the most passionate kisses he had ever given her.
"So, all of my stuff," Tina asked once they started walking again.
"We can get it out of storage and have it shipped to my place in Chicago," Mike said taking her waist.
"Wait," she asked stopping on the sidewalk, "are you sure we're ready to live together? I mean we just got back together and yes, the last couple of weeks have been fun, but I feel like if we move in together right now we may have more problems than we bargained for."
Mike smiled. He loved her logical thinking, but he had been waiting years to live with her and didn't want to miss a single moment of it or completely pass by the perfect opportunity.
"Okay," Mike started, "here's what we'll do. You move in with me and if at any time the two of us, together, decide it's not completely working just yet we'll find a place for you that's close to my place. Of course I don't see that happening."
"Okay, deal," Tina said boosting herself up to kiss him again.
"It only took thirty minutes today," Kurt said walking out of the nursery and into the living room where Blaine was sitting at their piano. "Work?"
Blaine didn't turn around. "No, just playing," he responded.
"Mind if I stay and listen," Kurt asked not moving knowing that sometimes Blaine didn't like to play unfinished work with people listening, even his husband. He didn't question it because he just wanted Blaine to do what he loved and make the best music he possibly could.
"Go ahead," Blaine said motioning for Kurt to sit on the couch. Blaine started to lightly tap the piano keys as he thought about his dad and Kurt and Burt, but most importantly himself and Hepburn. "I think I know why I've been acting so weird lately," he started. Kurt didn't response knowing Blaine was sharing his recent epiphany, "I was so worried that when Hepburn, and maybe more, becomes a teenager I'm going to turn into my father. People always say that you emulate the parenting you grew up with. Well, my mom was amazing and my dad, not so much, but then I thought about it a little more. I realized that I had this amazing man in my life that grew up with probably the best dad in the world. And I knew that this man wasn't going to let me become my father. And this man of mine will keep me in line. He'll keep me sane and loving and accepting and me. And dammit, I love him so much. What would I do without this crazy, funny, kind, and wonderful man," he stopped talking for a moment and his fingers slowed on the piano.
Kurt still didn't say anything not knowing if Blaine was done speaking or not.
Once he had completely stopped playing the piano Blaine got up and walked over to Kurt. "You have to promise me that if I start to act even a little like my father you will smack me or something."
"I promise," Kurt said standing up to meet Blaine's gaze. "However; you are not your father. I've met your father and I've met your mother and I've lived so much of my life with you. If anything you'll turn into your mom. Which would be very interesting, but Blaine, you'll never be Gregory Anderson. You're kind and loving and accepting. You'd never turn on our kids."
"You don't know that," Blaine quickly interjected.
"No, I do," Kurt told him, "after all these years together I know you better than anyone else in the world. Probably better than you." Kurt took Blaine's shoulders and looked directly into his eyes. "Listen to me, Blaine Devon Hummel-Anderson; we are going to have a long healthy relationship and life together. With amazing children that you love and that love you more than anything else in the world. Never forget that."
"I love you," Blaine said moving in to kiss his husband.
"I love you too," Kurt responded just before their lips met. "You're stuck with me. Deal with it," Kurt said after breaking the connection.
Blaine just laughed before kissing him again.
End Season 7 Episode 5. I know that some people have been having some issues with some of my storylines and everything, but I really don't care that much because it's my story and I can do whatever I want to. And if you piss me off about me being mean to your favorite character/ship be warned you may not see them again. I understand why RIB had a hard time with the fans at this point. I mean I love writing this, but don't make me hate it and give up like the Glee writers did because no one wants that.
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