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Chapter Nine

Kurt got to Breadstix early, mostly because he'd gotten tired of listening to Sebastian tell him to not go that he'd left his house early, but also because he didn't want to be the second person there. So, he fiddled with his napkin, tried not to fuss with his phone too much, and tried to make himself go through with it.

As a precaution, which had been Dani's idea, Kurt had asked Walter to phone him. Mostly, they'd discussed Golden Girls, and Kurt had definitely appreciated his insight and interest and it had only made him more sure that he needed to go on the date with him. Sebastian had pouted at him and tried to change his mind.

What finally convinced Kurt was seeing Blaine and seeing the concern that Blaine had for his current relationship. Sue may have brought out some problems for Blaine and Dave, but from the way Blaine acted it was obvious that he cared for his boyfriend. So, after telling Blaine about his date, Kurt had known that he needed to go on it, and hope that Walter was a good rebound guy.

Then, Walter arrived and he was older than his father.

"Sebastian was right," he muttered to himself, "this was a huge mistake."

"Well, I do like hearing that."

Kurt almost fell out of his seat, because Sebastian had showed up and he was standing next to Walter who looked confused, but quickly tried to explain himself.

Sebastian shook his head. "No, see nothing makes it okay to lie to someone about who you are and what you look like. So, how about we end this here, and Kurt doesn't talk to you ever again."

Walter looked towards Kurt, and Kurt wasn't sure what he was expecting from him. Did he think that after one phone call, Kurt would be okay with him lying to him about his age? Kurt hated that Sebastian had been right. He also hated that he knew that if Sebastian hadn't been there, that he might have listened to Walter and gone through with the date.

"Alright," Walter said when Kurt didn't respond, "I'm sorry."

Sebastian slid into the seat across from Kurt. "Elliott and I thought that it'd be best if I came along," Sebastian said.

Kurt knew that he should be angry, but when he looked at Sebastian with his satisfied smirk as he texted away, Kurt knew that he couldn't be. If he were going to be honest, he hadn't really been too excited about the date, anyway, not after seeing Blaine and definitely not after seeing Walter.

"Thank you," Kurt said.

Sebastian tore his eyes away from his phone. "Fifty something year old," he said, "and just out of the closet. It's a little bit sad, I guess, but it doesn't mean he has to lie about his age and try to meet up with twenty something year olds?"

Kurt laughed. "It was a bit on the creepy side."

The waitress appeared, then, "Oh, is this your hot date," she said, "you do know how to pick them."

"No, no, no," Kurt said quickly.

Sebastian whispered, "what if it was?"

"I—" Kurt said.

"Joking," Sebastian said quickly.

Kurt let out a breath. "You are horrible," he said and leaned back in his seat.

Sebastian shrugged his shoulders. "You know this about me already, Hummel. Now, what to eat."

Kurt watched him as he busied himself with the menu and he couldn't help but wonder how a date with Sebastian might actually go. They had hung out enough times and seen each other in all types of situations and Kurt could admit that he was comfortable with Sebastian, but he just didn't know if he would be comfortable dating him. Would Sebastian act differently? Would he try to pretend that he was romantic or would he be his usual insinuating self?

"You look like you're thinking quite a bit, there, Porcelain, didn't think you could to be honest."

He shook his head. "Trying to figure out what I'll have," he muttered.

"Right," Sebastian said.

When the waitress returned, they placed their orders and this time she didn't comment on the possibility that they were on a date and instead just asked them for the drink orders.

After she was gone, Sebastian turned to look at Kurt. "So," he said, "are you still going to try and do this whole moving on thing or admit that you are not going to get over Blaine that easily?"

Kurt sighed. Sebastian probably more than anyone knew that Kurt was definitely still in love with Blaine, but that wasn't the problem at all. The problem was that despite everything, Blaine still seemed to be invested in his relationship with Karofksy. So much so, that instead of pulling them apart, Sue had only managed to put Blaine in a position of worrying about his relationship.

"Sue invited a bunch of Karofsky's exes to one of Blaine's dates with Karofksy, but I think it made Blaine worry more about how he may not be what his boyfriend wants than anything. I don't even know how she managed to find all those guys."

Sebastian coughed and took a sip from the water glass.

"Bear Cub's gotten around, has he?" Sebastian asked after a moment.

"I guess," Kurt said, "I don't really want to think about it."

When their food arrived, Sebastian busied himself eating and Kurt was surprised at the lack of chatter coming from Sebastian who usually had a lot of opinions to spout off.

"Alright," he said, "what's going on? You're acting a little strange."

Sebastian chewed on his food and stared at Kurt and then closed his eyes before sighing. "I made a mistake."

"What kind of mistake?"

"I decided to help Sue break Karofksy and Blaine up. I thought it would help things along."

"Unbelievable," Kurt muttered and then he remembered Sebastian's slip. "You called me Porcelain. Oh, I should have known. Where did you get that bear, and Karofksy's exes? And, and, and you probably came here to ruin my date with Walter even if he hadn't lied and…"

Sebastian reached across the table and grabbed his hands. "Kurt, calm down."

Kurt snatched his hands away. "What the hell is wrong with you?" he asked, "to go along with Sue's insane plan. You're out of your mind."

The idea that Sue and Sebastian had gotten together to plot against Blaine in order to get them back together was ludicrous. He'd never even realized that Sebastian knew who Sue was, much less that he go along with her insanity.

"I have no idea where the bear came from," Sebastian said, "I only helped her with finding Karofksy's exes and yes, I did come here as much to make sure you were safe as to make sure that you and Walter didn't hit it off. Look, I'm telling you all about it now."

Kurt shook his head. "Does Elliott know?"

"A little," Sebastian admitted, "he told me you wouldn't be happy about it."

"Why would I be?" Kurt asked and he shook his head in disbelief, "what else does she have planned?"

Sebastian shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know," he said.

Kurt didn't know if he should believe him, but then he reminded himself that it was Sue who was behind everything. She probably hadn't told Sebastian, it just wasn't how she did things.

"It has something to do with invitationals," Sebastian said.

That made sense. Sue had been the one to instigate invitationals in the first place. Of course she had a plan.

"Well, whatever it is, you better not be involved."

After that things became a bit more normal between them. In an effort to change the subject, Sebastian brought up Doctor Who and Kurt lost himself in debating why he wasn't a fan of River Song.

"It just, it diminishes everything that happened between the Doctor and Rose," Kurt said, "and they were such a better fit. Not to mention she's an obnoxious character that is portrayed basically as "perfect". She's his wife literally on a technicality."

Kurt stopped his rant when he realized that Sebastian wasn't breaking in to argue against him as he tended to do even when he agreed with Kurt. Instead, Sebastian was just staring at him.

"What?" he asked.

"I've never met anyone that can debate tv like you," he said simply and shook his head, "or, you know, debate wrongly."

Kurt glared at him, mouth open for a moment before he closed it to keep eating his food.

After ordering a whole cheesecake to go, they left Breadstix still discussing the merits of the changes in the writing staff and Kurt teased Sebastian about his very real obsession with British television.

"Well, you're obsessed with the Royal Family," Sebastian shot back.

Kurt shrugged his shoulders. Sebastian didn't even know about the Pippa Middleton musical that Kurt still had in a file on his computer. Blaine had even composed songs for it, not that they had ever done anything with it.

"How did you even get here?" Sebastian asked.

"Rachel," Kurt admitted.

He hadn't wanted to ask Sebastian for the sole reason that Sebastian was likely to try and ruin the date, or not take him to Breadstix at all. He should have known that Sebastian would show up anyway.

They got into his car and Kurt kept the cheesecake on his lap. After the failure of the date, finding out that Sebastian was in league with Sue, and knowing that there was more to come from Sue's crazy plans, Kurt knew that the cheesecake was a must.

When they got to Kurt's house, Sebastian parked in the driveway behind Kurt's unused car, and Kurt was only a little surprised when Sebastian followed him to the house.

"I keep meaning to ask," Sebastian said as they entered, "where is your family?"

"My dad took my stepmom on a small vacation, but they're at Washington now. Should be officially back in a week or so."

Sebastian nodded.

Kurt walked to the kitchen and set the cheesecake down to find plates.

"Your love for cheesecake was surprising," Sebastian said.

Kurt didn't comment, handing him a plate instead while he found a knife. In the meanwhile, Sebastian had sat down and he was opening the box.

"I, um," Sebastian said, "if…if that had been a date, would you say it went well?"

Kurt almost dropped the knife. "What?" he asked.

When Sebastian started to repeat himself, Kurt shook his head.

"No, I heard you. But, what do you – did you want it to be a date? Oh my god, Sebastian, do you like me or something because I…I love Blaine. You know I love Blaine. Oh gosh, this isn't—"

Sebastian got up and he grabbed Kurt by the shoulders. "Hey," he said, "calm down, I just, I had an idea. What if, your date was me. It will sure make Blaine jealous and the plus is, well, you know I don't really want a relationship. Wouldn't be opposed to some sex though."

"Oh," Kurt said and looked back up at Sebastian meeting his green eyes. "I'll…I'll have to think about it."

"I'll be back after invitationals is over," Blaine said, "whenever it finishes. Sue didn't really give anyone a time table."

It was Dave's day off which meant that he was still in pajamas and that he had yet to even bother to take a shower.

"Alright," he said.

Blaine rolled his eyes. Things weren't really going well. Dave had basically agreed with Blaine that there was no need to worry about Sue's plan's, but he had shrugged Blaine off when Blaine made an attempt to talk to him about all of his exes.

"It doesn't matter," he'd said, "they're in the past, alright."

So, they hadn't really talked about it, or Blaine's worries about what Dave wanted. The thing was, Blaine had never thought about the relationship with Dave as something that would be long term. Not when being back in Ohio was a temporary break to figure out what his next step would be after really getting over Kurt. Being with Dave had been accidental, and moving in with him had been nothing less than Blaine trying to convince himself that what they had was real. But the cracks were starting to open and Blaine was slowly starting to realize that he and Dave really weren't suited for one another. Dave was prepared to stay in Ohio for the rest of his life, and to live a simple life and for all that Blaine had failed out of NYADA and run to Ohio, he still wished to return to New York, or to go out to California, but to do something that included performing and acting, and most importantly making music. In that life, Dave wouldn't fit even if he tried. He tried to stop himself from thinking that of course Kurt would fit.

All of the Warblers had made their own arrangements to get to McKinley. Some of them had cars, and others had older siblings or parents dropping them off if they weren't getting a ride from the others. So Blaine didn't have to make the drive to Dalton, instead he went straight to McKinley after stopping at The Lima Bean to pick up coffee.

He listened to the radio as he drove and tried to ignore the memories of he and Kurt belting out songs in each other's cars when they drove anywhere. In New York that had stopped, too, but due to practicality. There was no reason for them to drive in New York.

Being at McKinley always brought him memories of Kurt. Of transferring to be closer to Kurt, and definitely their year there when everything seemed easy and like it was going to just work out.

It also reminded him of his senior year and Sam and Tina and all the kids they'd recruited. All but Kitty were gone. He'd heard that Sue had made them transfer to other districts. It had been one crazy year, but then everything was always crazy at McKinley.

When he parked, students were leaving, seeing as invitationals was happening after school, but he did spot Mr. Shuester arriving with Vocal Adrenaline. They got off a yellow school bus, and while they spoke amongst themselves none of them really addressed Mr. Shuester.

Inside, a few of his boys were already there, walking towards the auditorium with everyone else.

"Hey, Mr. Anderson," one of them said.

"Hello," Blaine said, "come on, we'll have time to hold a quick meeting before it all starts."

A few more of them were already waiting in the auditorium, and it looked like Kurt, Rachel, and their kids weren't there yet. They were probably still putting last minute changes into their setlist in the choir room.

They were still missing two of their members, and Blaine almost rolled his eyes because it was the two boys that reminded Blaine most of himself and Kurt while they were at Dalton. They were also a little bit eerily like Jeff and Nick to some extent and Blaine was just waiting to figure out if they really were together or not because half the time they kept trying to push the idea that they were straight with girlfriends. No one bought it.

When they finally arrived, they looked put together, except for the slightly crooked blazer on the one. Blaine eyed them and shook his head.

"Alright boys," he said instead, "while this is not an official competition, it is important. You've worked hard and you are more than ready for this. But I just wanted to add, that you should enjoy it. For some of you this is your first public performance and I just wanted to say that you should enjoy the nerves and the excitement. Just, have fun with it."

They didn't do a show circle or anything like what Mr. Shuester would have done, and Blaine wasn't even too happy with his little speech, but he'd known they'd expected something from him.

A few minutes later he saw Kurt and Rachel followed by Sam and their four glee club members including Jane.

The whole Jane situation had been a bit too messy and Blaine knew his reasons for getting upset had been genuine. Still, watching Kurt and Rachel as they sat down, he knew that he may have forgotten just how hard the two of them were having it. They still only had four members, even if one was Jane, and none of the kids looked sure of themselves.

Sue introduced Vocal Adrenaline and Blaine was not entirely surprised when they performed like they had been preparing their songs for months. His Warblers were each shocked, and Blaine could tell that they had suddenly become worried.

When he glanced over at New Directions, he knew that they felt even worse. Rachel looked a mixture of anger and surprise and she and Mr. Shuester kept looking at each other and glaring. Kurt for his part was trying to not look worried, but Blaine could tell he was.

As the second song began, he felt like he hadn't done enough to prepare his kids. The dance moves, the acrobatics, and the choreography was not his forte and he had tried his best to make sure they weren't just stepping from side to side, but they would never be up to par with Vocal Adrenaline when it came to that.

When they were done, Sue reappeared, suddenly announcing that the completion was three days long and changing the rules on them because it was Sue. Had Blaine not been as worried about how his kids would do as he was, he might have listened closer and realized that this wasn't just Sue trying to make things even more difficult, or trying to make things easier for them by giving them more time, but that it was Sue still trying to make her plans work.

Notes: Alright, so here begins the slight changes in canon aside from the obvious ones that are already present and I guess I wanted to sorta address that.

So, Walter lasted all of 2 seconds in this. I actually really liked the idea that Kurt would date someone else...until we found out that he was a fifty something year old guy and then I cringed and then I cringed some more when it turned out that he lied to Kurt about his age...and that Kurt decided to go along with it. I know some people liked it and are explaining it away and whatever but I just couldn't stand what glee did with this.

Additionally, we don't need a Walter in this story when we have a Sebastian. And I just loved the idea of Sebastian intervening. Also, yes, Sebastian was helping Sue. I don't remember if it ever made it into the story, but he was the one that tracked down Karofsky's exes for Sue. So there's also that. I did consider keeping this going, but due to other reasons he came clean to Kurt instead.

The next chapter begins The Hurt Locker Part 2, and that one will span through chapter 14 because of all the awesome things happening and I cannot wait for you guys to read all of the elevator stuff because I had a blast writing it.

Alright, ramble over. Not sure when the next chapter will be up. Could be this weekend depending on how much time I have, but otherwise it will be on Monday or Tuesday.