Notes: So I've been trying to upload this chapter for a few hours now on and off but the site just wouldn't let me log on! So, because it's bound to happen again I figured I would just state that this is being posted on my tumblr as well as AO3 and I have the same user name for all of them. I also do post updates on how my writing is going on my tumblr so there's also that.

Next chapter will probably be up on Tuesday (my dad off!) or depending on if I have the time, on Monday. Enjoy the chapter and thank you for reading/reviewing.

Chapter Seven

As it turned out, there were quite a few gay men in Ohio that were online. Sebastian found the whole thing hilarious, and even though he was reading while lounging on Kurt's bed, every once in a while, he would look up and let out a chortle in Kurt's behalf. Kurt tried to ignore him as he went through a few profiles, reading bios and looking at the pictures. The thing was, none of them looked appealing, and some of them were just too old.

"I don't know why you're bothering with this," Sebastian said eventually, "especially when you aren't doing this because you intend to find your soul mate. Just come to Scandals with me."

Kurt didn't want to step one foot in Scandals if he could help it. The place had officially been tainted for him. First with the whole thing back in high school, and worse with the whole meeting Blaine there only to find out that he was seeing Karofksy.

"Alright, not Scandals," Sebastian said, "I still think this is stupid. Ohio is full of either closeted guys that are just looking for sex, guys like me who are just looking for sex, bears like Karofsky, old just out of the closet and possibly still married to a woman, or worse a catfish."

Kurt was starting to think that Sebastian had ulterior motives to trying to get him to stop looking at profiles on the different dating sites he'd signed himself up for, but he just couldn't figure out what they were. After all, it had been his idea to try dating in order to make Blaine jealous. Kurt wasn't sure that it would be his intention necessarily, but the more he thought about it, the more he thought that going on a date would be nice. There wouldn't be too much pressure and it didn't mean that Kurt was willing to turn it into a relationship or anything. If Blaine happened to find out, or see them, then it would be a happy coincidence.

"What do you want me to do, Sebastian?" he asked and turned his chair away from his computer to look at him.

Sebastian had definitely gotten comfortable in Kurt's bed. He had the blanket that Kurt had folded neatly at the foot of his bed, covering him, and he'd moved the pillows to support his head at an optimal position. Kurt couldn't help but admire him for a moment because he looked good in his bed, comfortable and lazy with mussed up hair and a smile that lit up his face. Kurt had never said that Sebastian was not attractive.

"Well, for one thing I am really bored of this book, and for another, I was promised Doctor Who."

Kurt rolled his eyes. "No, about my love life."

"Honey, you have no love life," Sebastian said, "it's just you and your hand, which I could easily remedy."

Kurt turned back away from him, not bothering to react because that was just how Sebastian was and responding would only make it worse. Instead he tried to look through a few more profiles. A guy named Walter didn't seem too bad, even if he was older than Kurt.

"Okay, no, stop," Sebastian said, and he stood up from Kurt's bed letting the blanket fall to the floor in his haste.

He closed Kurt's computer screen. "No, seriously, I'm not sitting here for the next few hours watching you do this."

Kurt opened his mouth to protest, but Sebastian turned his chair around and pulled him up.

"Now, Doctor Who."

Kurt was just a couple of seasons away from being fully caught up and while he was personally very devoted to finding out what would happen with Eleven, even though he still held a soft spot for Ten, Kurt had gotten a bit wrapped up in the idea that he needed to move on.

He let Sebastian push him to sit on the bed and watched him as he turned on the blu-ray player and then went about finding where they had left off on Kurt's Netflix account seeing as the last time they had been on Sebastian's.

"Here we go," Sebastian said when he found the right episode, and after pressing play he walked back to Kurt and instead of walking around, climbed over him to sit on the bed.

For the few seconds that Sebastian was over him, and that Kurt got to smell him and felt their legs brush together, Kurt felt like he'd been shocked by something. He shrugged it off to his lack of intimacy and sex since Blaine before the break up, but still shivered when Sebastian leaned over to whisper in his ear about an element he was excited about in the episode and also when Sebastian threw the blanket over both of their legs and had to sit even closer to him in order for it to cover them both and somehow Kurt was left leaning against Sebastian.

His head was resting on Sebastian's chest when Kurt woke up later, and somehow Sebastian's arm was around his waist. Their legs were tangled up under his blanket, and Sebastian was making a slight wheezing noise that came rhythmically out of him which told Kurt that he had to be asleep. It felt like the best sleep he'd had in a while because even though it had been months, Kurt was always still searching for Blaine in his sleep when he wasn't restlessly trying not to think about Blaine.

Slowly, he pulled away from Sebastian who made a noise as he rolled towards Kurt and curled into himself instead. Asleep, Sebastian looked pretty, and Kurt just watched him. In a way, it would have been easy to give in to Sebastian, to just use him to move on instead of any of the guys he'd seen online, but that didn't mean that it was a good idea.

He got up from the bed and picked up his phone. It was 2am. On his phone he had notifications from texts from Rachel as well as a few e-mails from NYADA. Nothing that needed his attention until morning. After he turned off his tv and blu-ray player, Kurt walked back to the bed and Sebastian. It would be mean to wake Sebastian up, but Kurt didn't want to leave him in his room alone. So, he sighed and after changing quickly into pajamas got back into bed, staying as far from Sebastian as he could.

"Tell me about the boy."

Sebastian paused as he poured tea and looked at his grandpa. "Boy?" he asked.

"Yes," grandpa said, "the one you're always running out to meet."

Sebastian didn't respond. His mind was reeling. He knew of course that his grandfather had caught on to the fact that Sebastian only ever left him early when he needed to pick up Kurt, or because he was having lunch with Kurt. He just hadn't expected for him to ask about it.

"His name is Kurt," Sebastian said, "and I guess he's sort of like my best friend."

It was the truth. Kurt was his best friend. For a while, Sebastian had considered Hunter his best friend, but he hadn't actually talked to Hunter since graduation and Hunter had never been a good friend to begin with. Kurt on the other hand was the perfect friend. The only problem was that Sebastian was slowly coming to the realization that he really wanted to sleep with Kurt. Just that morning they had woken up tangled together in Kurt's bed and Sebastian was positive that Kurt had been just as hard as he was and it wasn't just morning wood.

"Well, you spend a lot of time with him," grandpa said.

Sebastian shrugged his shoulders. He added sugar to his grandpa's tea and then to his own before taking both cups and handing one to his grandfather before he retook his seat next to him.

"Aside from you, I don't really have a lot of people to see here in Ohio," Sebastian said, "and he's going through a hard time right now."

Without meaning to, Sebastian spilled all of it. How he'd met Kurt for the second time in New York, and the whole story of Kurt and Blaine and the two break ups and how Kurt was hurting like crazy and trying his hardest at waiting for Blaine to want him again.

While Sebastian spoke, his grandpa listened, and after he was done, he smiled.

"Sebastian, are you telling me that you don't care for this boy?"

"I—"

"Thought so," grandpa said.

Later, when Sebastian was leaving, his grandpa asked him if he was meeting Kurt, but Sebastian didn't answer him as he left. The answer was yes, which wouldn't have surprised him.

Kurt had run into some car issues when it turned out that his car was no longer insured. So, he'd been getting rides from Rachel, Sam, and whatever other glee club member was still around. Eventually he'd managed to mention it to Sebastian who had started picking him up at McKinley after spending time with his grandfather mostly because the nursing home was in Lima and Sebastian really had nothing better to do.

Most days, Sebastian was forced to get out of his car and wander the halls of McKinley until he could locate Kurt because something or another always caught Kurt's attention.

He was surprised, then, that when he arrived in the auditorium he found The Warblers, the four members of The New Directions, and none of the coaches. After questioning one of the McKinley kids, he was informed that the three of them had just run off after a phone call.

"Wonderful," Sebastian said.

"Who are you?" the girl who seemed a little too perky for his tastes asked, "you've been around is all."

Her brother who threw an arm around her shoulder nodded. "Always around Kurt. Are you his boyfriend?"

The girl shook her head quickly. "I thought we established he was pining after the Warbler coach."

Sebastian decided that he didn't need to talk to them anymore, so instead he tried to call Kurt, but he didn't pick up. So, after a text, he decided he may as well keep exploring.

This was how Sebastian ran straight into Sue Sylvester.

"You look mighty familiar," she said and walked around him as if trying to take all of him in.

Sebastian didn't know what he was supposed to say, but when he tried to move away from her a blond girl glared at him and shook her finger.

"Porcelain's friend," Sue said, "yes, yes, but how would you fit in my plan?"

"What plan?" Sebastian asked.

"The one to end glee club and bring Klaine back together," Sue said and then, "Becky, what do you think?"

Sebastian coughed. "I'm all for bringing Kurt and Blaine back together if that's what you meant by klaine, but I don't think I want to be a part of your machinations."

Sue pursed her lips, "that means nothing to me."

Then, she was gone and Becky disappeared after her.

"Right," Sebastian said, "and that's supposed to be the Principal." He shook his head and continued down the hall.

He checked his phone again once he was in his car once more and this time there was a text and picture from Kurt.

The picture was of a bear cub, and he was sitting on a bed that was covered in rainbows with even more rainbows in display behind it. He was a cute bear, more interested in himself than anything. Sebastian just didn't know what it meant. Then, he read the text.

Principal Sue left a bear in Blaine and Karofksy's apartment. We're waiting for animal control now.

Sebastian called him immediately.

"A bear?" he asked when Kurt picked up.

Kurt laughed. "Yeah. He's actually kind of adorable. I mean, it was really wrong of Sue to do this, but mostly it just freaked out Karofksy."

"Which I'm sure you're delighted with," Sebastian said and grinned.

"No," Kurt said, drawing out the word.

Sebastian could tell he was lying.

"You have to tell me all about it," Sebastian pressed.

Kurt sighed. "Give me a sec."

Moments later he was back. "Alright, so he was atop a chair, holding another chair. I don't know what he was thinking."

"Well, it is a bear," Sebastian said.

"Yeah, but a chair isn't going to do any good. Mostly though it's weird."

"What?"

"Just," Kurt said, "all of this. I never thought I'd be here, you know, at their apartment. I recognize Blaine's things, and the bedroom the bear was in, it just had so many of the things Blaine kept in his old room and—"

Sebastian had to stop him. "Wait, wait, wait. That room with the rainbow theme is Blaine's?"

"Brittany decorated it," Kurt said, "although I'm surprised they let her. Her tastes are nothing like Blaine's or probably even Karofksy's. Anyway, I guess it's their collective room now which I don't even want to think about."

"Ew," Sebastian said.

He didn't want any kind of mental picture of Blaine doing anything physical with David Karofsky. It was bad enough that he knew they were together.

"Agreed," Kurt said, "hey, animal control is here. I have to go."

"See you later?" Sebastian asked.

It took Kurt a moment and then, "yeah. I'll call."

Sebastian let out a laugh. Sue Sylvester was trying to get Kurt and Blaine back together and the beginning of her plan had involved putting a bear in Blaine and Karofksy's apartment. Sebastian could understand her reasoning and part of him was moved by the genius behind it. Where had she even found a bear cub? Lima had no zoo and either way it probably hadn't been easy to just convince someone to put a bear in a random apartment.

Maybe he needed to reconsider working with Sue. If this was how she started off her plans to get Kurt back with his boyfriend, then Sebastian could get behind helping her.

He got back out of his car and headed back to the school.