Blaine stayed the night at the hospital with Charlie despite the nurse's insistence that visiting hours were over and he needed to leave.
"Please, I'm all that she has and I promised her that I'd stay with her. Please ma'am just let me stay." Blaine begged. The nurse looked at him with the face of pity and her harsh frown softened.
"Would you like a cot to sleep on?" She asked.
"No, the chair will be fine, ma'am." Blaine said as he sat back down in the large padded chair next to Charlie's bed.
"Get some sleep honey. You look like you need it." The nurse said. Blaine gave her a smile and nodded before she left.
"Blaine.." Charlie whined.
"Shh… go to sleep. I'm still here." he cooed as he placed his head onto Charlie's bed and grabbed her hand which was still inside of the restraint and they both drifted off to sleep. The next morning, Blaine woke up and it was already five o'clock and he needed to be at school by seven. He gave Charlie a kiss on her head and then left her hospital room. He walked back down the road and across the bridge where he almost lost his sister. He looked at the edge. One step and she would have been gone forever. Despite the aching feeling of not wanting to move, he pushed himself to move forward and made it home. Everyone was still asleep so he changed and then grabbed his school stuff. While leaving he got a text from Kurt.
Kurt 3
- Want to meet me for coffee at the Lima Bean before school?
Blaine smiled and sent a quick text that said "sure." and got into his car. He drove to the Lima Bean and then went inside. Sitting at their typical table was Kurt with two cups of coffee sitting next to him. Kurt smiled when he saw Blaine and extended the coffee cup out towards him.
"I got your usual." Kurt said.
"Thank you." Blaine replied as he pulled out the chair and took a seat.
"Hey, are you alright? You just look a little worn out." Kurt asked.
"I'm fine. I just didn't sleep very well last night. A lot on my mind, you know with Sectionals and everything." Blaine answered. Kurt sighed
"To be honest Rachel and I might as well get used to a life of barista work and summer stock. There's no way we're getting into NYADA now. If we don't win Sectionals, I pretty much don't have anything to live for." Kurt confessed.
"New Directions is a mess and we're going to lose. And, I can't do a thing about it." Blaine exclaimed. "Everytime I open my mouth Finn give me these looks like "what does he think he's doing?" I know what I'm doing!" Usually, Blaine would have put on a better attitude, but today that was not going to happen. He was so tired. After a night in the hospital and learning what happened to Charlie at that party, he didn't have it in him to hide his anger to basically everything around him. These were the days when Blaine wished he could be someone else; someone normal. Kurt gave him a little smile, but Blaine could tell that he just didn't get how much Finn was really getting to him. The from behind him he heard a familiar voice.
"Hey guys, so crazy, I'm sitting over there checking out this guy and all of a sudden I'm like, wait a second, I know that hair." Sebastian said as he pulled a chair from another table and sat down with them. "What's up buddy, I haven't seen you online...Hi Kurt."
"We've been really busy with glee club…" Blaine said before getting interrupted by Kurt.
"...practicing for Sectional, together." Kurt said lovingly as he reached out and grabbed Blaine's hand.
"Umm...congrats on the Warbler win at your Sectionals." Blaine said to Sebastian. "We're up this week." he added making a nervous face.
"Yeah...hey if there's one guy who can whip the New Directions into a legitimate threat it's Blaine Anderson, Right?" Sebastian said evilly.
"Right." Blaine replied without even really listening to what Sebastian said. He has felt his phone vibrate and looked at the caller ID which told him that it was the hospital. He was worried that something was wrong with Charlie. "I need another coffee." Blaine said before getting up from the table and rushing off. He picked up his phone and held it to his ear. "Hello?"
"Mr. Anderson, your...sister is asking for you." the nurse told him.
"Can you just put her on the phone?" Blaine asked.
"Well...technically because she's on a 72 hour psych hold, I'm not supposed to." the nurse replied.
'Please, I know she's scared and I have to get to school. I don't have time to run over." Blaine begged.
"Alright…" the nurse replied hesitantly.
"Blaine? Where did you go?" Charlie asked.
"I had to go to school, Charlie." Blaine told her.
"But, you promised that you would stay with me." Charlie whimpered.
"I'm sorry. I will be back right after glee practice. Just try to get some rest and I'll be there soon. I promise." Blaine replied.
"Okay…" Charlie said. "Please hurry after school."
"I promise I will." Blaine told her before hanging up. He quickly got in line and bought another coffee, even though he didn't finish his first one. Whatever...he was going to need fifty cups of coffee if he planned to make it through the day. He walked back over to the table where Sebastian and Kurt were sitting.
"What are we talking about?" he asked.
"Duh...the next time we're all going out drinking, killer." Sebastian replied.
"Uh-oh." Blaine laughed nervously.
"Look, I got to run, but you take care of that Warbler, Kurt." Sebastian said with a wink of his eye. Blaine sighed. To him, Sebastian was just a nice guy, but he could see how much he got under Kurt's skin.
"We should head to school." Blaine said to Kurt. Kurt nodded and then followed him out of the Lima Bean before driving to school. The rest of the day was a blur for Blaine. He was only really awake during glee club when...Sam?... at least Blaine was pretty sure that's what his name was came back. They sang one number and then practiced for Sectionals. Blaine was so relieved when they were finally release. He got in his car and drove over to the hospital. When he got to Charlie's room, she looked up at him and smiled. It was clear that she was so happy.
"Hey." he said softly.
"Hi." She replied as he sat down next to her.
"So...how was your day?" he asked trying to break the ice. Last night it was his job to be supportive and there for her, but today he needed to find out more about what happened at that party, about the guy who raped her.
"It was pretty boring." Charlie replied. "They don't really let me do anything." Blaine gave her a soft smile and reached out to touch her hand.
"Charlie, we have to talk about what you told me last night." Blaine said.
"Blaine no… I don't want to." Charlie said in a whisper afraid of anyone hearing.
"I can't just let what that guy did to you go." Blaine told her. "He deserves to pay for what he did to you. Just give me something, anything, even if it's just a name." Blaine begged.
"I..I.. I think his name was Liam…" Charlie whispered. And Just like that Blaine felt his heart drop out of his body. "He's the soccer captain at my school. I thought he was a really nice guy until….then." she said. Blaine felt his eyes watering and he tried to look away so Charlie couldn't see his tears. "Blaine, what's wrong?" she asked.
"I think that guy...Liam...is the one who b-beat me and my date up a few years ago. H-he killed my date." Blaine whimpered. "Charlie, I know that you don't want me to tell anyone, but I need to. They didn't do anything to him or his friends when they beat us up. They ran away and left me for the dead. When I woke up from my coma, I couldn't remember who did this to me and Casey was dead. We can get him this time." he told her.
"But, wouldn't they need a statement or somthing?" Charlie asked.
"Yes, but I know you could do it. You are one of the strongest people I have ever met." Blaine said.
"Okay...you can tell the police." Charlie said with a nod of her head. Blaine smiled and reached over and grabbed her hand. Blaine had a nurse call the police and soon enough they were there in Charlie's room.
"Miss, we're going to need and an account of what happened that night before we can go and arrest this guy," the police officer said. Blaine put a gentle hand on her back as a sign that he was there for her.
"Well, I was at this party in West Lima. There was a lot of bad stuff going on, but I swear I wasn't doing anything bad. Liam, the guy who raped me, was really drunk and came over to me and started to flirting. I thought he was a really nice guy up until that point. He started kissing me and I kissed back. He took me back to a bedroom and I thought we were just going to keep kissing, but we didn't. He-he got on top of me and started trying to take my clothes off. I kept screaming no and I tried to get out from under him, but I couldn't. That's when he punched me in my face and I blacked out. When I woke up shortly after everything hurt...down in my private area. I knew that he had raped me." Charlie told the police officer. Blaine was appalled, but not surprised. He had never forgiven Liam. He took his best friend, his only friend away from him.
"Okay, miss, you did really well. We'll do all that we can." the officer said before leaving. Blaine sat with Charlie for the rest of the night and then went home once she was asleep. He loved her, but he really needed some sleep and that chair wasn't cutting it anymore. It was the first time he'd been home in days. He almost wished that Annie, Lucas, and Sami were awake. He missed them, but it was too late so he went to bed instead.
The next day at school, they were working on choreography for Sectionals, but they weren't getting very far. Mr. Shue was a horrible choreographer.
"Why does it even matter anyway?" Puck roared. "It's not like we have a chance of winning, not without the girls."
"Sir, girls smell better than ham and when their dancing and bouncing around you can't help, but watch them." Rory confessed.
"Well that's it then!" Mr Shue said. "We'll take what's most appealing about us as a group and we'll use it to our advantage."
"Yeah what about something like this?" Blaine suggested as he did a little turn in the center of the floor.
"I like the spin. Try it guys." Mr Shue said. All of the guys began trying the move before Sam stood up and stopped them.
"God...okay stop." he said. "Blaine...this is totally boyband. What we need to sell here is sex!" Sam exclaimed as he did this very sexual move where he thrust his hips forwards.
"What the hell is that?" Blaine muttered.
"It's a body roll." Sam told him.
"That's not a body roll…" Blaine said quietly. He was not okay with these types of move, especially considering what just happened to Charlie.
"That...is sex." Sam said as he did another provocative dance move. Blaine looked around the choir room and everyone else was trying those moves...even Kurt.
"The man's not wrong." Artie said. "I got tingles where it's only fifty fifty for tingling."
"Yeah Sam that's awesome. That's exactly what we need. " Finn said clapping him on the back, which just made Blaine even madder.
"Not that's not what we need…" Blaine said trying to keep his temper under control. "We don't need to resort to that...It's cheap. It's selling out."
"I came back here to win. When you're desperate sometimes you have to use your assets and do what you got to do to get back that advantage. This is that advantage." Sam said as he performed yet another provocative move.
"Of course that's what you think… you need to think that in order to sleep at night." Blaine shot at Sam.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Sam retorted.
"It means, I'm not for sale!" Blaine yelled. Then, Sam pushed him and Blaine was totally ready to hit him until Mr. Shue broke them up. "Forget it…" Blaine muttered as he walked out of the choir room. His heart was beating so hard. He felt like he justed needed to hit something. He walked into the gym and changed into his gym clothes and started to punch the punching bag. Each punch was for a different person, Sam, Finn, Liam...his father. He hated them all.
"That Sam's face?" he heard a voice say behind him. He knew it was Finn.
"Yup. Your's too." Blaine spat back as he continued to punch the punching bag. Finn made a face as though he was surprised. "Don't be so surprised. After getting bullied so much I took up boxing. I also started the Dalton branch of fight club, which I obviously can't talk about! What is your problem with me anyway? Ever since I got here,you've given me nothing but crap!" Blaine roared at Finn.
"Honestly dude, I was jealous." Finn said. Blaine scoffed. "I felt threatened. You're talent kind of freaked me out, made me question whether or not I was good enough. Look, Blaine, I'm sorry. I've been asking like a jackass to you. With Rachel gone you're the most talented, well rounded member of this team and now more than ever we need to be on the same page, united.
"What do you need me to do?" Blaine asked with a sigh.
"We have an opportunity, an opportunity, to be remembered at this school for the rest of our lives for doing the impossible. It all starts right here with you and me. I just want to be able to look across that stage at you and know that we did everything we could, no regrets." Blaine undid his boxing glove and extended it out towards Finn.
"Let's get back to work" He said. FInn smiled and fist bumped him back.
"One other thing, what was really going on in there? You starting that fight with Sam. It just isn't you." Finn said. Blaine sighed.
"The other night my foster sister was raped. I just can't do moves like that, not with what just happened to her."
"Whoa, dude, that sucks." Finn said. "Did you guys tell someone, like the police?" he asked.
"Yeah, we talked to them last night while we were at the hospital. She tried to commit suicide too. It hasn't been a very good week." Blaine confessed.
"Dude, if you need anything just let me know." Finn said.
"Thanks," Blaine said quietly. "Let's go back to rehearsal." he said. Finn nodded and they walked back to the choir room and started practice back up.
Finally, it was friday, the day of sectionals. Everyone was nervous as they conducted vocal warm ups.
"Alright guys, you're going to want to sing from your diaphragm." Blaine told the two guys from the band that were going them.
"And if you forget the words just keep your lips moving, hopefully no one will notice." Finn added.
"Let's take a few moments and gather our thoughts." Mr Shue said. "The Trouble Tones are on in five." Suddenly Miss Corcoran and the rest of the Troubles Tones walked into the choir room.
"Hello Will." Shelby said.
"Looking good ladies!" Mr Shue replied with a smile on his face.
"We just came to say let the best glee club win." Shelby added.
"Yes, and just in case that glee club is us, I've convinced Miss Corcoran to consider a contingency plan." Santana jumped in.
"Yes, in the event that the New Directions lose, the Trouble Tones has voted to allow any of you to join us at Regionals."
"You're welcome." Sugar said with a smirk across her face.
"Excuse me?" Mr Shue asked.
"That is incredibly rude, Santana." Finn shot at her.
"We were being nice!" Santana retorted. "It would be rude if I followed you around and every time I took a step I played a note on a tuba."
'Thank you for the offer Miss Corcoran." Mr. Shue said. "But, right now we're going to concentrate on winning this thing."
"And we will be winning, Shelby. Puck, here, is gonna gonna come through for us. He's such a shining star in every conceivable way, don't you think?" Quinn said. Everyone looked at her like she was crazy. None of them knew what she was talking about, including Shelby.
"Good luck everybody." Shelby said as she and the Trouble Tones left the choir room. After that they did a show circle and went out to watch the competition. First was the Unitards, which no one expected to be good, but they were. Their lead singer was a amazing and it shocked everyone. Then it was the Trouble Tones turn. They sang "Survivor". It was good, but Blaine was feeling very confident in their song selection. FInally it was there turn. All of the New Directions went out on stage and the opening notes to "ABC" started to play. They danced around and even did a few of Sam's special moves, which Blaine still really wasn't okay with, but was willing to do if it helped the team. After that they switched to "Control" which Blaine and Artie had a lead in. Honestly, Blaine felt that song was perfect for a week where he felt like he had little control over anything. Lastly they performed, "Man in the Mirror" which was absolutely beautiful. Then they were finished and everybody was happy with there performance. The only thing left to do was judging. So, now all three glee clubs crowded onto the stage as the winner was about to be announced.
"Third place," The clown judge began. Blaine wondered why a clown was even judging a show choir competition. "The unitards!" The scary lead singer from the unitards ran up and got the trophy. Now it was between the New Directions and the Trouble Tones.
"The second place winner...the Trouble Tones!" The clown judge said. "In first place the New Directions!" All of the New Directions started screaming and jumping up and down in joy. Blaine was so happy. They had actually done it. They had won. It was the perfect ending to a really horrible week. It was just what he needed to make him feel a little bit better.