Especially coming immediately after Original Song, this one is incredibly short. Remember when this episode aired and we were all like WHERE ARE KURT AND BLAINE? I've added in a little scene at the end that I hope you'll enjoy. :)

Someone asked how I know all the dialogue from the show word for word... I go through every episode and transcribe it all (all the Klaine stuff, I mean)! Generally, I have to watch each scene three or four times to make sure that everything is correct. First time so I can type out the dialogue. Second time so I can read what I just typed with the voices to make sure I got it right. Third time to watch their body language and imagine what they might be thinking. And a fourth time (and sometimes fifth, and sixth, and etc.) to look for little details or continuity issues. For example, I THOUGHT that Blaine left his little boom box behind after he and Kurt sang 'Baby It's Cold Outside', so my original plan was to have Blaine return for it after Mr. Schu left (an opportunity for more Klaine!), but when I watched it to make sure, I noticed that he actually did pick it up and take it with him when he left. So, that killed that idea. XD But yeah, I don't have it all memorized or anything! The transcription is DEFINITELY the most time-consuming part of writing this, but I really want it to be correct.

You guys, new Glee is so close... WHO IS EXCITED? ;)

(I do not own Glee or any of the characters, dialogue, or songs from the show. It's all just for fun!)

KURT

"We've got a little time," Blaine noticed as he put his phone on silent in anticipation of the upcoming performances.

"Want a tour?" Kurt teased.

"Sure!" Blaine said happily. Kurt shook his head.

"I've been inside that dumpster many times," he said offhandedly, gesturing at the large blue container in the McKinley parking lot.

"I can't believe this school is even still open," Blaine mumbled.

Kurt shrugged. As they entered the building, he wanted to hold Blaine's hand. But he knew better.

"And that was the Spanish classroom," Kurt said, gesturing into the room where Mr. Schu taught Spanish classes, "And, of course, you know the choir room."

"Hey, you guys, you better get in the auditorium!" Brittany suddenly appeared, pushing Artie, "The show's about to start!"

"It's gonna be a full house, y'all!" Artie added enthusiastically, "Gotta get there early to get a good seat."

Kurt and Blaine turned to watch the other two move away. "We'll be there in a minute," Kurt smiled, motioning subtly at his companion, "I'm just showing Blaine around."

"Thanks for coming and supporting us, guys. It's really cool," Artie said as he and Brittany disappeared through the door to the choir room.

Kurt's heart clenched slightly as he watched them leave. Although the past month had been his best yet at Dalton – primarily due to his new relationship with Blaine – he still felt like he would never quite fit in with the Warblers as well as he had fit in as a member of New Directions.

He didn't realize that Blaine was looking at him until the other boy spoke. "Aww," Blaine said sympathetically, "you miss them."

Kurt turned, opening his mouth to confirm the assessment, but they were interrupted by a harsh voice from behind.

"What the hell are you two doing here?"

The sound of Karofsky's voice brought Kurt's fond memories of McKinley crashing down. But, to his surprise, he didn't feel the fear that he had felt every second when he had last been a student at McKinley. He felt uneasy, but not afraid.

"We're here for the benefit," Kurt informed him, "Don't tell me you're going."

BLAINE

"I wouldn't be caught dead," Karofsky scoffed, "I was pumping iron in the gym and one of the guys told me you two were here spreading your fairy dust all over the place."

Blaine was surprised to see the football player. He wondered why the other boy had come across campus just to taunt them. Blaine had a suspicion that Karofsky wanted to see them. Karofsky had, no doubt, heard about their relationship, and perhaps he was curious to see how Kurt and Blaine interacted. He had probably never laid eyes on a gay couple before.

Blaine also knew he was not interested in letting Karofsky bring all of the pain of being bullied back to the surface for Kurt.

"Would you just give it up?" Blaine challenged, "You can live whatever lie you want, but don't pretend that the three of us don't know what's really going on here."

"You don't know squat, buck boy!" Karofsky snapped.

The insult pushed Blaine to the end of his patience. He was done letting Karofsky talk down to him and to Kurt. He stepped forward and shoved the larger boy. They never quite managed to get into a proper fight, though, because suddenly Santana was between them.

"Hey! Hey! No, stop!" She demanded. Blaine reigned in his rage for a moment and backed away. He noticed that Kurt was standing off to the side, his hands behind his back.

"Real brave with your fists but you're a coward when it comes to the truth," Kurt said harshly, glaring at Karofsky.

"Truth about what?" Santana asked, confused.

Blaine noticed a flash of panic on Karofsky's face, but the football player quickly compensated with an insult. "It's none of your business, J-Lo," Karofsky dismissed Santana.

"First of all," Santana said, stepping forward, "anything you do became my business when you decided to toss that slushie up in my grill."

"I think I can take a couple of queers and a girl," Karofsky said offhandedly. The adrenaline pumping through Blaine's veins wanted to find out, but before he could say anything Santana took over.

"Okay, see, here's what's gonna go down," she said gravely, "Two choices. You stay here and I crack one of your nuts – right or left, that's your choice – or you walk away and live to be a douche bag another day."

She leaned forward to make her final point, "Oh, and also? I have razor blades hidden in my hair. Tons. Just all up in there." She motioned to her head, waving her hand around to illustrate her statement.

Karofsky backed down. With a grunt of rage, he turned around and stormed away.

"We could've handled that," Blaine suggested.

Santana surprised him with her answer. "It was more fun doing it together," she said with a smile.

Suddenly, her phone vibrated. "Oh crap," she exclaimed as she read the text message. She hurried off without another word.

Blaine could feel Kurt looking at him. He stood motionless, breathing heavily. He still felt a little out of control.

"You okay?" Kurt asked after a moment.

Blaine nodded, turning to look into Kurt's worried eyes.

Kurt chewed his lip, his hands still clasped behind his back. "I can't deny it; the protectiveness is flattering..."

"...but I shouldn't have provoked him," Blaine completed the sentence for the other boy, "I know." He sighed and rubbed his face in frustration.

"I think I'm finding my peace about it," Kurt said gently, "You don't have to protect me all the time."

Blaine glanced around to make sure they were alone, and he leaned forward to kiss Kurt softly on the lips. "I don't want him, or anyone, to ever hurt you again," he admitted.

Kurt straightened Blaine's jacket. "We can handle it together," he paraphrased Santana's earlier statement.

Blaine smiled, starting to calm down.

"Okay," Kurt said, glancing at the time on his phone, "we have got to get into the auditorium. If we miss some of the show, I'll never live it down."

KURT

"I mean, what is this?" Blaine said incredulously, walking quickly to vent his frustration. "We should kick them out. And I'm calling the Warblers to come and watch."

Kurt giggled at Blaine's distress. "I'm pretty sure it will be over by the time they could get here from Westerville."

"Ugh," Blaine scoffed as they reentered the auditorium.

"Where is everybody? Let's get on with it!" Sandy shouted at the empty stage.

"You're a really horrible person, you know that?" Blaine scowled at him as they walked by.

"Don't bother," Kurt chided, putting a hand on Blaine's arm to keep him moving, "Let's go over there." He motioned to the opposite end of the auditorium.

Blaine was still pouting when they sat down.

"Not the most upbeat day of your life, huh?" Kurt assessed.

Blaine rolled his eyes. Kurt smiled and nudged Blaine's foot with his own. Blaine nudged him back, and Kurt was pleased to see a tiny smile on his face.

"At least we can hang out at your house for a little while before I have to go home," Blaine mumbled.

"That's the spirit!" Kurt teased, reaching down to squeeze Blaine's knee. Blaine brushed his fingers across the back of Kurt's hand.

"And now, ladies and gentlemen, Miss Holly Holliday," Sam announced.

Kurt leaned over to whisper in Blaine's ear. "She's the awesome substitute." Blaine quickly nuzzled his nose on Kurt's cheek before he sat back so they could watch the performance.

KURT

"Can you pass me..." Kurt leaned back in his vanity chair and groaned as he looked around for a moment, "...that little black notebook on your way out?" He pointed at a stack of books on the floor by the doorway.

Blaine bounced up and grabbed the little notebook. "See you tomorrow?" he asked as he walked over to hand it to Kurt.

Kurt nodded, and giggled as he felt Blaine's breath on the side of his neck. "Bye," Blaine breathed into Kurt's ear. He left the room, closing the door behind him.

Kurt sighed and thumbed through his notebook, searching for the notes that he needed to study. As he flipped past one page in particular, he slammed his hand down to keep the pages from turning further.

It was a drawing, done with a red pen. A red heart, pierced by Cupid's arrow. With Kurt and Blaine's names inside. It was exactly as Kurt remembered.

Except that someone had taken a blue pen and drawn a tree trunk so that the red heart looked like it was carved into a tree. At the bottom, in Blaine's elegant handwriting, was a little sentence.

Don't they get together in the end?

"Blaine!" Kurt shrieked the other boy's name at the top of his lungs as he snatched the notebook off the table and bolted out the door. Blaine wasn't in the hallway, so Kurt ran down the stairs. Finn was standing in the doorway to the kitchen. His eyes were wide. Kurt just waved him off with a wild flail of his arm as he rushed out the front door.

Blaine was climbing into his car, and Kurt rushed across the driveway as the other boy shut the driver's door and started the car.

"Stop!" Kurt cried as he passed through the beams of the car's headlights. He realized that he had no shoes on as he skidded to a stop beside Blaine's window and flattened the notebook against the glass. Blaine looked up, noticed the page of that was plastered on his window, and burst into laughter.

"Get out!" Kurt squealed. He opened Blaine's door and dragged him out of the car by his forearm, not even giving Blaine time to turn off the car. Blaine was laughing so hard that his legs did not cooperate, and he fell to his knees on the driveway. Kurt hauled him up, and Blaine had to lean on the car to stand upright.

Kurt shook the notebook in Blaine's face, unable to speak.

"Are you mad?" Blaine managed to gasp.

"Am I–" Kurt stepped closer and leaned in until their faces were almost touching. The shock was wearing off, and he could feel Blaine's joyful expression crushing his resolve. The other boy's golden eyes shone with tears of laughter. "When did you do this?" Kurt demanded.

Blaine shrugged and his breath hitched as he tried to stop laughing, "You loaned the notebook to me last week, remember? I needed your chemistry notes."

"Oh my god," Kurt groaned, leaning his forehead against Blaine's in a mixture of embarrassment and delight.

Blaine smiled wildly and closed the small gap between them to kiss the flustered young man. Kurt couldn't help but smile too as he felt Blaine's grin against his lips. He stepped forward, pressing Blaine fully against the car, and kissed him back with enthusiasm. Their breathing sped up as they kissed, and Kurt dropped the notebook and reached up to grasp Blaine's face in his hands.

"Are you guys okay?" Finn called from the house, "Kurt?"

Kurt jumped back from Blaine so fast that he stumbled as he twirled around to glare through the darkness at his step-brother, who was squinting into the darkness. He heaved a giant sigh of frustration. "Yes, Finn," he growled, "we are perfectly fine."

"Just making sure, dude! You seemed a little crazy before!" Finn called back cheerfully, and he went back inside and closed the door.

"I'll show you crazy," Kurt grumbled as he turned back to Blaine, whose face was soft with affection. Kurt skipped the few steps back to Blaine. "Do I amuse you, Blaine Warbler?"

"Something like that," Blaine teased. He opened the door to his car and bent down to pick up Kurt's notebook. "See you tomorrow?" he asked for the second time that evening.

"As long as I'm not in jail for killing Finn," Kurt said cheerfully. He took his notebook from Blaine.

Blaine grinned. "Goodnight, Kurt." He climbed into his car and closed the door, and Kurt did not go back inside until Blaine's car disappeared from sight.

See, they had to have that little party for Kurt at the end of Original Song so that "of course" Blaine knew the choir room. That line doesn't make ANY sense on the show... Blaine had never been in there before (that we know of!). COME ON, GLEE. CONTINUITY IS YOUR FRIEND. I wish. I love you anyway.

Blaine is really moody in this episode! It's kind of cute, though, don't you think?

Sometimes people carve hearts with their names inside on trees, right? Yeah. I like to imagine that Blaine was pretty pleased with himself when he did that. ;) If I was an okay artist I'd try to draw it for you guys, but since I'm not I hope I described it enough for you to have a mental image!

Up next... Kurt transfers back to McKinley! Does anyone have an opinion on what Blaine's Born This Way shirt would say if he had been part of that number?