A/N: beta fearlesslyandforeverklaine. There is also a time jump for Blaine. Any issues with NYC or fashion related things just let me know. Thank you for reading!

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Blaine had now been working at the FBI for almost three years now, after two years of probation they finally stopped tracking his IP address. Not to say he wasn't doing any surfing that wasn't completely legal, he checked and made sure every time Wes would call and offer a new job. It was nice having the extra cash, and kept him current in fashions, which really was all he had at the moment. He had made some friends at the bureau, Dani and Mike being the closest, but he didn't get out much.

The only person that he regularly worked with was Artie, whom he didn't really think, liked him that much; he wasn't offensive or anything like that, but he never really said much more than hi. It really made the office difficult to work in sometimes, sure the room was filled with computers, and they used headphones a lot to speak with agents, but sometimes Blaine wanted face-to-face interaction.

Mike actually stopped by a lot considering he was an agent, being partners with Dani, he knew more about computers than the average agent and liked to come and mess around with Blaine during slow times. Sadly, Mike had just been put on a new case today, so he probably wouldn't get to see him much. Most of Blaine's job involved searching the internet for various threats, basically looking for things that he would have been doing before he got arrested. While Artie worked in the same area as Blaine did, his job involved a lot more work with agents, and finding more threatening criminals.

Blaine spent an hour working before someone interrupted him.

"Hey Blaine, guess what we are doing Friday?" Dani walked into the room smiling, glancing over at Artie quickly to make sure he wasn't actively listening.

"Nothing" Blaine suggested smiling back at her. He liked Dani, loved her even, but she was always trying to set him up on blind dates, not something he enjoyed doing. "Wait, you said we, so not another date then? Because that's a relief."

Dani just gave him a dirty look.

"Very funny, yes I did say we, and it's not you who has a date, it's me. Or at least you don't intentionally."

"What do you mean intentionally?" Blaine did not like the sound of that, especially coming from her. Dani had a way of getting what she wanted from people, which is probably why she made such a good agent.

"Well, do you remember the Latina girl I was telling you about? The one that I always see at Starbucks."

Blaine rolled his eyes at her, "Of course I remember her, and you've only mentioned her every single time you've talked to me for the last 3 weeks."

She huffed.

"Whatever, anyways I asked her out today!"

Blaine jumped up to hug her, he was so happy for her; she needed someone to date, after the last fiasco, which would never be discussed again according to her.

"I'm so happy for you! What are you guys going to do, have dinner?"

"Well no we are going to the Xes Lounge." Dani internally cringed a little, knowing that the next thing she said wouldn't go over very well. "And by we, I mean, Santana, which is her name by the way, maybe her friend, and you." After quickly saying this she turned and walked swiftly to the door, in case she needed to escape.

"No, Dani, I am not going to that place, or anything like, they have all those people there, and drinking and really where is the fun in doing that? Besides I have so much work to do, I couldn't possibly go out, and with some guy I don't even know."

Blaine tended to do this a lot, he wasn't exactly anti-social, he liked making friends, it's just dating was different. It involved a lot more, it's not like he hasn't had sex, he just wasn't good at relationships, or the beginning of them anyways, the starting out was the hard part.

"Blaine, I'm really not trying to set you up, I promise. I don't even know for sure if her friend will even go, and it's only Tuesday you have time to figure out an outfit."

"Yes thanks for that, but it's not the only reason you know. Like I said I have work to do."

Dani glanced over at his completely empty desk, which in fact had a stack of files in the outbox, while the inbox was completely empty.

"Really? Sure looks like a lot of work. Now listen I want you to do this, because I really think I could possibly date her, and on the off chance she's crazy, I can use you as back-up. You don't have to talk to her friend if you don't want to, promise."

"Fine I will think about it, but not making any promises. I am happy for you though." Blaine went to hug her again.

"Thank you Blaine, I am too." After that Dani left the office. "I'll talk to you soon, okay."

"Yeah, bye." Blaine sat back down at his desk, not actually having much to do today, normally when he couldn't find any new leads, he would just do some surfing to get some extra cash. He could do that, but Dani distracted him with the thought of going to a club on Friday. Maybe he would go, it'd been awhile, and he could use some fun.

The rest of the week went by pretty quickly; Blaine had spent his time going back and forth on whether or not he should go out with Dani on the group date; he even went to Mike for advice.

"Hey Mike could I talk to you for a minute?"

"Sure man, have a seat." Mike motioned him to the chair in front of his desk. Like most agents involved in white collar crime, he didn't have an office so much as a cubicle. It offered at least a little privacy. "What can I do for you, Artie giving you trouble?"

"No it's nothing work related, its personal, you don't mind do you?" Blaine knew they were friends; he just liked to be cautious about over-sharing.

"Of course not, man. You can come to me with anything."

"I'm sure you've heard about Dani finally asking the woman from Starbucks, Santana, out." Blaine paused to make sure he had, Mike nodded. "Well Dani actually invited me and also Santana's friend out with them and I'm not really sure if I'm comfortable going."

Mike waited for Blaine to continue, but he just continued looking down.

"I'm not sure what you are asking, but if you're not comfortable going then don't."

Blaine looked up at Mike, thinking about how to explain what he was uncomfortable with exactly.

"I'm not exactly uncomfortable per se, just wary I guess of the people that are going to be there."

"Oh you mean the friend that Santana is going to bring?"

"No I mean all the people that will be at the club."

"Oh well, Blaine that's only something you can decide. If you aren't ready to be in that setting then don't push yourself to please Dani, she will understand if that's why you don't want to go. Hell she would understand if you just didn't want to go because of the friend that you don't know. She's not trying to force you, I think she's just worried it may not work out, and wants a fell safe."

"Doesn't that make me a bad friend though?" Blaine was really worried about it, he didn't want to disappoint her, and it sounded stupid to be wary of a bar, when he has not legitimate reason to. Nothing bad had ever happened to him, he never got too drunk and made a fool of himself, it was just really loud and hot.

"Of course not, even if you think the reason is stupid, doesn't mean it actually is."

"Thank you for listening Mike." Blaine was really glad he had a friend like him.

"It's no problem. If you do decide to go though and need an out, you can call me."

"Okay, thanks again."

It was that conversation, and the potential to leave when he wanted, that made Blaine decide to go. He had three outfit choices picked out last night, and was going to take them over to Dani's since she lived closer to the club. She offered to let him stay the night there, but he figured if the night went well for her, he should plan a way home. Not to say, he really planned on drinking a lot, but he wasn't going to hold himself back.

He was going to stop by his apartment after work, which would end in about 20 minutes, shower quickly and then head over to Dani's. He wasn't actually sure when they were heading out, but he figured she had some kind of plan to keep them busy until then.

Waiting for the day to end, Blaine decided to make sure all his programs were closed, and that he didn't have anything urgent in his inbox, which he knew, he just always double checked at end of day. It really only took ten minutes, but he was antsy today, so it took a little longer, when he kept fumbling his fingers on the keys. At 6:03 he had everything closed, grabbed his satchel to walk out. Dani met him at the door, which was surprising because he had thought she had taken a half day to go shopping. "Hey what are you doing here? Thought you had left after lunch."

"I did but I was maybe having a bit of a panic with my clothes, every time I go shopping I just buy a bunch of punk clothes or work related clothes. I don't want that to be my first impression, so I need your help!" Dani looked to be frantic, kind of a wild dazed look in her eyes.

Blaine grabbed her shoulders to get her to calm down a little. "Listen to me, you don't need to worry about that, I mean I'm sure she's not that worried about what you wear. I will help you though; I haven't been shopping in a while anyways." He wrapped his arm around her shoulder and started to guide her to the stairs, Blaine preferred to take the stairs over the elevators.

"Oh Blaine, you don't understand, I'm like 90% sure she will care. The outfits they were both wearing, all designer, and every time I saw her she was dressed to the nines."

Blaine thought about it, there was a chance Santana would care, but not enough to be put off he thought.

"Okay, so maybe they are in the fashion industry, which is very possible. You don't have to worry too much though, you are supposed to be yourself, and that is punk Dani. Beside, who said punk can't be fashionable? Trust me, I will find you something you are both comfortable and dashing in."

"Okay, good, I don't know what goes through my head sometimes, I know these things." Dani smiled at Blaine, glad he was going she really needed the help to keep calm until tonight.

"Did you buy anything? Or do we still need to get some things?"

"No, I was going to, but then I kept thinking it wouldn't work, that it didn't fit right. I know it's all in my head, but it's just been ages since I've dated."

"I understand, ok let's head to Macy's, because last time I was there they had the cutest leather skirt I thought you would look perfect in."

It was only a ten minute walk to Macy's so they got there pretty quickly. "Um, Blaine do you need to tell me anything?" Dani tried not to laugh, knowing Blaine had no clue how the last sentence sounded.

Blaine looked over at her confusedly. "What are you talking about?"

"I mean, why are you looking at women's clothes?"

"Oh, I just like to know what's in style, and on the off chance you need help, which you did so you should thank me." Blaine was only a little embarrassed about it; he couldn't help his love for clothes.

"I do thank you Blaine, I'm just giving you crap, I would never think you were secretly cross-dressing." She winked at him, entering the store quickly. Following after her, they needed to work quickly just in case to make sure there was enough time to get everything done.

Blaine pulled her over to the area he had seen the skirt last week, it should still be here.

"Okay Dani, I want you to look for a black leather skirt, that kind of flows, I can't remember the label though." Frowning at the clothes he didn't see it anywhere, maybe it had been in a different section. Turning to go to another designer he stopped when Dani called him.

"Blaine, look at this!" She was holding up a short black dress that flowed out, shimmered when she moved it, and the top was gorgeous strapless silk.

"It's perfect! See you didn't even need me." Blaine turned to some jackets he passed on the way over. "Here what do you think of this with it?" Holding a three-quarter sleeve, black leather jacket with studs on the collar, almost like a motorcycle jacket.

"Ooohhh, I love it! I have just the shoes to go with it too, let me try it on real quick." She said walking towards the assistant to get help with the fitting rooms, turning back around she called for Blaine. "Aren't you going to look afterwards, need to make sure it goes together well."

"Yes, sorry."

After having gotten dinner, and stopping by Blaine's for him to shower, and change, they headed to Dani's. It was already nine o'clock, but Dani said they weren't meeting up until eleven anyways so they had plenty of time to get ready.

"I am going to shower, you can watch some TV if you want. The remote is somewhere under the clothes." She laughed to herself, knowing she was probably the messiest person Blaine had ever come across.

Blaine looked around the small apartment, which was extremely tiny, since it was a studio. The bed was in the corner, covered in clothes and stuffed animals. Actually there were probably clothes on every surface of the place. Now he remembered why he normally offered to have her come over to his place, not just because his place was bigger. He considered tidying up a bit, while looking for the remote too, but decided against it, and just moved some clothes to sit on sofa.

Blaine was only a little nervous about going tonight, probably less so because Dani had said it'd probably calm his nerves if he had some wine during dinner, which it did. So now he was less nervous, but still worried how he might come across to Santana's friend. Dani wasn't even sure if the guy was gay or not, but figured he wasn't homophobic at least, since they were going to a gay bar.

He had apparently been more lost in his thoughts than intended because it seemed only a minute had passed and the shower shut off. Since it was a studio, the bathroom opened up into the main room. Dani walked out in a towel, but she didn't care and she had a divider for this very reason anyway.

"Once I get this dress on most of the way, I'm going to need help with the zipper. It's one of those hidden ones, and those are a bitch to pull up behind you."

"That's fine, I know what you mean."

Soon enough they were ready to go, Dani's apartment was close enough they could walk to the club without it being a hindrance with her heels. The plan was to meet up outside of the club; there was a small patio they could wait on. It was almost eleven now, but Dani hadn't seen any sign of them yet.

"What if she doesn't come?" Dani was starting to get more frantic the closer it got to eleven.

"I would bet my favorite bow-tie that they are just being fashionably late. If they aren't here by fifteen after we can go inside and drown your sorrows in alcohol."

"I know, I just can't help it…oh shit she's here!" Dani looked down at herself quickly making sure everything was straight, hoping that Santana hadn't seen her yet.

Blaine turned around to look for a Latina girl, but stopped when he saw a man that had to be a model, he was that gorgeous. Everything about this guy looked perfect; from the way his hair was styled to the clothes he was wearing, which Blaine could tell even from the distance were all designer. Not wanting to get caught looking Blaine quickly turned back to Dani, hoping to be distracted by her date.

"So show me."

That became unnecessary, as not ten seconds later a voice behind them spoke up.

"Hi Dani, this your friend?" Blaine looked at the girl, she was very beautiful, very sophisticated looking.

"Yes, hi Santana, this is Blaine, we work together at the Bureau." Blaine moved to shake Santana's hand, and then turned when he heard another voice.

"Oh wow, you both work there, must be really smart then. By the way, I'm Kurt."

"Kurt. Cool name, is it like Kurt and Goldie?" Blaine asked and at that Kurt's face lit up.

"You know who they are!?" Kurt asked grinning.

"Well duh!" Blaine said giggling.

"Blaine, we are going to get along just fine!" Kurt insisted as he linked arms with Blaine, pulling him inside the club. It looked like the night was about to get very interesting…