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Chapter Ten
"At least it's not like an overnight thing," Sebastian said as he sipped at his iced tea.
They were back at Breadstix because for some reason Lima really didn't have any other decent restaurants, and because Kurt had been adamant about not wanting to cook.
"Yeah, there's that for silver lining," Kurt said.
Sebastian had been surprised when Kurt called him up to go out to eat with him. He'd expected for Kurt to be busy the entire day with the invitationals thing, but they should have expected for Sue to pull something like making the entire thing longer.
"If I didn't know better," Sebastian said, "I would think she was trying to give you guys more time to get things together."
Kurt shrugged his shoulders. "Well, that is a plus, but it just worries me she's planning something worse. I almost wish that she was still sharing stuff with you so we could have some idea."
It was at that precise moment that a waiter appeared, and Sebastian almost jumped when he realized that it was Sue Sylvester herself.
"To think you were supposed to be on my side," she said and shook her head, "your hair, pointed face, and that mole on your cheek all pointed to ally. Alas, I was wrong. Here you are eating dinner with Kurt, on a date."
"Uh," Sebastian started.
Sue, however, was not done yet.
"So," she said looking at Kurt, "is this what you've fallen for. A thin slice of a man with a rodent face who once in a fit of justified dislike for your girly ways made your one true love almost leave his desired life of show tune singing to join gay, one eyed pirates the like of Johnny Depp."
"Johnny Depp doesn't have one eye," Kurt said, brows furrowed.
Sebastian shook his head. "That isn't the point, Kurt," he whispered.
At that point Sue pulled a pin out of her apron and stuck it to Kurt's shirt and then did the same to Sebastian's. She shook her head.
"Unbelievable," she muttered and then walked away.
"That woman is certifiable," Sebastian said.
He stared after her, as she crossed the restaurant picking up plates full of food from tables only to drop them off elsewhere, and leaving pins in her wake before she walked right out of Breadstix.
"How is she even allowed to do these things," Kurt said, "I mean Blaine and Karofksy meeting his exes here and now this. It's like she owns this place or something."
Sebastian wouldn't really put it past her buying the restaurant in order to use it to terrorize people. He wouldn't put anything past Sue Sylvester.
"Anyway, I have no idea what she's really up to, but I doubt that she's done trying to get me and Blaine together." He picked at his pin and rolled his eyes. "Clearly."
Sebastian nodded. "Well, why fight it? She's only trying to help, right?"
"Because it's Sue," Kurt said, "and pushing Blaine is not the best way to get him to do something."
"But making him jealous might help this along," Sebastian said.
They hadn't really talked about it since Sebastian suggested it over cheesecake, Kurt hedging around the subject while they watched the fiftieth anniversary episode of Doctor Who. Kurt had been distracted enough about David Tennant back on the screen to even think about it.
"I don't know," Kurt said.
Sebastian swallowed. "Well, how about a trial, I'll come to this three day competition thing. A day late."
"Yeah, alright," Kurt said.
After finally getting the attention of a waitress, they placed their food orders and Kurt jumped into a conversation about Elliott and Dani. Despite Dani making him promise to call every day, Kurt had taken to calling every other day to keep her updated.
"She said she has a new girlfriend," Kurt said.
"I know, Elliott told me he hasn't been able to see her in a while because she and Sarah have been pretty much holing themselves up in Dani's apartment."
Kurt rolled his eyes. It figured that was what Elliott would tell Sebastian.
"So, I told her that Santana was engaged," Kurt said, "I thought she might need to hear about it. I'm glad she's moved on."
Sebastian had known that Dani had been dating Santana at one point, but all he knew was that after a few good months together, Santana had gone and gotten back together with Brittany. Dani had been devastated, especially since Santana hadn't even bothered to break up with her first.
"And it can be done," Kurt said, "the whole moving on thing. I just – I guess it just isn't possible for me."
"It is if you really want to," Sebastian said.
He was just a little irritated at Kurt and all his talk about wanting to move on, while also backtracking immediately because he was definitely still in love with Kurt. He understood that Kurt was in pain and that he didn't seem to have any idea on what to do, but Sebastian knew that Kurt needed to make a choice soon. He was either going to fight for Blaine, or he wasn't.
After they finished eating, Sebastian dropped Kurt off at Rachel's house and he continued on to the nursing home where he spent a few hours with his grandfather.
When he got home later, he was surprised to find the lights on. When he walked inside, he knew that he should have expected to find his mom inside.
"There you are, sweetheart," she said, "I was wondering where you might have wandered off to."
He hugged her and let her kiss his cheek. "Are you hungry. I was thinking I might make something for dinner."
"Maybe in a couple of hours. I had a late lunch."
"Alright," she nodded, "well, I'm going to take a nap first, then."
He wasn't mad that his mom was home, and not even that surprised, but he didn't know what her presence would do to change things. After all, he knew that she wanted him to get into a real relationship and she'd been pushing for Kurt before. He just hoped that his mom and grandpa didn't get together to talk about it.
The next day, he spent his morning visiting his grandpa with his mom tagging along, and after eating lunch with her, he sneaked away to head over the McKinley.
He texted Kurt that he was there, but received no answer. Figuring that Kurt was probably just busy, he headed to the auditorium and sat on his own away from the high school students. It was only after Sue announced that Blaine was missing, that Sebastian knew something was wrong and that Sue was behind it.
He could have easily gone to find her and figure out how to find Kurt or Blaine, but Sebastian was still a little bit of the opinion that Sue might really bring the two of them together again. So, instead he sat back and enjoyed The Warblers. He recognized a couple of the boys that were up there, but not by name, and the rest were all new.
Blaine had done a good job coaching them, and Sebastian could tell where he had improved them. Sebastian had always known that Blaine had been an asset to The Warblers. He understood music better than almost anyone he knew, and it showed in the arrangement to a cappella.
After The Warblers were done, the second day was over and Sebastian spotted Rachel Berry with a blond girl Sebastian didn't remember. He couldn't tell if they were even worried about the disappearance of Kurt. What he did note was that The Warblers were certainly worried about their coach.
"I think we're locked in," Blaine said and his eyes glanced around the elevator looking space, "what kind of elevator is this?"
Kurt frowned. "I don't think this is a real elevator," he said.
"What?" Blaine asked, "but, but The Warblers are going to perform soon. We have to get out of here, Kurt, oh my god, who puts a fake elevator in a school?"
"Sue."
Of course. This had been her plan all along, to lock them in the elevator and get rid of two of the glee club coaches and at the same time try and get them back together by putting them into a small enclosed space together.
"I am a failure of a teacher," Blaine said, "oh god."
He moved towards the walls, feeling for anything that might give. The elevator had not been there the day before, which could only mean that Sue had put it together recently and there had to be a way to get out. But, the walls all seemed firm, and the bathroom had no windows or anything in it other than toilet paper. Sue had made sure they had no way out.
So, then, he pulled out his phone. There was a message from earlier that he hadn't seen. Sebastian telling him he was going to the auditorium. He tried to text back, to tell him he was locked in a fake elevator but the text didn't go out.
He walked around to every corner of the room, lifting his phone as high as his arms could go and putting it low to the ground but there was no service anywhere. He didn't even have a hint of the school wifi so he could try to at the very least send a facebook message. He groaned.
Blaine, in the meanwhile kept trying to open the doors by force, and then when that didn't work, he stepped back and kicked the door as if that would make any difference.
Sue had really gone and crossed yet another line by locking them in an elevator on the day of their invitationals competition when they were both needed by their teams and especially him with the mess that New Direction was.
"Maybe if we yell someone will hear us?" Blaine said and he looked desperate.
So, they banged their fists against the doors and they yelled, but no one came. Kurt pressed his ear against the door, but he couldn't hear anything either.
They tried for a few more minutes, but then Kurt backed away and dropped to the ground. He grabbed his phone again, trying to call Rachel or Sebastian, or Sam, or even his dad. Anyone that might get them out of there.
"You have your phone," Blaine said, "good, good. Try calling for help."
"That's what I'm doing, Blaine," Kurt snapped back.
It was no use, though, because even when it looked like he had a little bit of service it didn't really seem to be working.
That's when Blaine started banging his fists against the door again. After a few minutes, he slumped against it instead while Kurt tried and tried to get a phone call or text out.
"And?" Blaine asked.
"No service," Kurt muttered back.
Any other time, Kurt knew that he would have been over the moon to be locked in a tiny space with Blaine. He would have said that it was exactly what they needed to be able to really hash everything out. The fact that Sue had made it happen made it harder for him to really appreciate that he and Blaine might really get a chance to talk.
He watched as the percentage on his phone went down and down as it kept searching for service and Kurt kept trying to make a call. Blaine just kept banging on the doors until he got tired and then slumped down to the floor.
Kurt didn't know what to say. He could tell that Blaine was angry, and he knew that once he could have brought Blaine back from his anger just by talking, but he wasn't sure if that would still work, so instead he said nothing and he wondered when Sue would let them out.
"Get through to anyone yet?"
Kurt shook his head.
"This is the worst," Blaine said and groaned, "they're probably performing already. I was supposed to be there for them."
His phone informed him they had only been in the fake elevator for seventeen minutes. Blaine was probably right, The Warblers were probably already performing.
After a while, Blaine started banging on the door again, and Kurt just watched as the percentage on his phone went down. Blaine yelled at him about how he charged his phone, like it hadn't been months since they'd last talked about it.
So what if Kurt didn't like the idea of his phone plugged into the charger all night long even after it was fully charged.
Then, it died.
Blaine finally stopped banging on the doors.
"At least we've got a bathroom," Blaine said.
Kurt didn't think it was a good thing. Instead, it was a bit worrying. A bathroom meant that they could be in there for a while. Sue had thought of everything.
"God, I am losing my mind. We have to find a way out of here."
It was merely a moment later when a panel of one of the walls slid up and a puppet riding a tricycle appeared, with a heavy likeness to Sue.
Blaine moved as fast as he could away from it, face screwed up, with a muttered, "what the hell" and Kurt scrambled up to his feet. The thing was beyond creepy with the weird tracksuit and the papier-mâché face. Then, it began to talk and Kurt knew that he was going to have nightmares about it.
He didn't do good with horror and if he remembered correctly neither did Blaine, but the weird Sue puppet did remind Kurt of something from one of the numerous horror movies that Finn had watched with Puck, both of them cowering together as they watched and jumpy for days afterwards.
"Hello, Klaine," the puppet said, "let's play a game. You are trapped in an elevator."
They weren't though. He said as much.
The creepy puppet responded, which answered the question that it wasn't just delivering some pre-recorded message. There was probably a camera in the puppet or in the fake elevator itself and Sue, and more than likely Becky, had probably been watching them since the moment they got inside.
"…eat each other and then suffocate but you have another choice," the puppet was saying.
Kurt could almost guess what would come next.
"You and Blaine must kiss. If you kiss each other you will be allowed to leave this room."
He couldn't kiss Blaine. Despite how much he might want to, this was exactly the kind of circumstances in which he couldn't kiss him. Not to mention that for all that Blaine called it easy, he was in a relationship and he didn't look like he wanted to kiss Kurt.
The creepy Sue puppet was in front of them, waiting in anticipation and when Kurt thought about being stuck in the fake elevator for longer than the time they'd already been in there, he did consider that kissing Blaine would be easy and simple. They'd done it often enough.
He turned to Blaine and braced himself.
"Okay here we go," he said and he leaned towards Blaine.
Blaine followed his lead, leaning towards him as well, and then Kurt panicked.
"Blaine and I are about to kiss. Ready."
He couldn't look away from Blaine and stopping before their lips could touch he instead made a kissing noise.
"There."
"No, not like that. I want to see you really go at it," the Sue puppet said and Kurt should have known that was what was going to happen.
Sue wasn't going to take anything other than a real kiss, the kind that had come so easily for him and Blaine once. It was a ridiculous plan, and one that put both of them on the spot which was exactly what she wanted.
"Just let us go," Blaine said and when Kurt looked at him he looked agitated. "Please. Just no."
"We're not gonna do that," Kurt responded and waited.
Sue couldn't keep them in there for that long, could she? Rachel had probably already noticed that he was gone and Sebastian probably had too seeing as Kurt had never answered his text or been around to see The Warblers. Of course, there was also Karofksy. When Blaine didn't go back home, he would be sure to go looking for him. Kurt remembered multiple times when Blaine had gotten home late when they were in New York and how worried he'd gotten, only for Blaine to arrive apologetic and explaining about stopping to help someone out, or getting distracted by school work.
The creepy Sue puppet continued talking, mentioning the temperate going up and then a heart shaped box showed up and the puppet wheeled away and it was only then, that either of them thought to have gone for the hole she'd come from. They weren't fast enough and it closed behind her, leaving behind the box.