A/N: Sorry about the wait for this chapter, but hopefully it's long enough to make up for it. Again, the song used is A Million Years by Charlene Kaye which can be found here: charlenekaye . bandcamp track / a-million-years
Sebastian was showing Jeff the progress he had made on the new song when he felt it. Blaine was in the kitchen making them a late lunch and they were playing acoustic guitars, reading from the sheet music Sebastian had written the night before.
They were mid-way through playing the new bridge for the song when Sebastian blanched and his left arm fell limp.
Jeff looked up at him in alarm. "Sebastian?" he asked, his forehead creasing in concern. "Are you okay?"
The guitarist's face was still pale as he shook his head to clear it. "Y-yeah, I'm fine," he said unconvincingly. "Just phantom soulmate pain I suppose. I'm going to go and… I don't know, do something."
"What do you think happened to your soulmate?" Jeff enquired.
"I have no idea but I'm guessing he broke his arm from the way it feels. It feels like my arm is getting crushed," Sebastian answered impatiently, cradling his left arm slightly. He stood up and set his guitar against the couch.
"Do you want us to–" Jeff started.
"No," Sebastian cut him off. "I'll be fine alone."
Sebastian left his slightly bewildered housemates and rushed into his bedroom closing the door behind himself. He dialled Hunter's number and, as he expected, got no response. He had only briefly met some of Hunter's friends and had no way of contacting any of them. He was stuck alone in his room with pain in his arm and no way of figuring out what was going on with his soulmate.
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Nick's second day of teaching was going well until his English class after lunch when an overwhelming sense of worry encompassed him. He knew it was nothing to do with him, and he could only imagine what was making Jeff this concerned. Nick hoped his students hadn't noticed his change in attitude, but it was all he could do to finish the lesson and not call his soulmate.
The rest of the lesson passed slowly, made worse by both his and Jeff's worrying. At last the bell rang and the last student left the classroom. Nick dialled Jeff's number and almost melted in relief when his soulmate answered.
"Hello?"
"Jeff, what happened? I can feel you worrying and it's making me worry and I'm just a big mess of worry right now," Nick got straight to the point.
"I'm fine, I promise," Jeff quelled some of his soulmate's worries. "Something's up with Sebastian though. We don't know what, but he said it was phantom pain from his soulmate."
"And you said he hasn't met him yet?" Nick said, remembering what he could about Sebastian's love life.
"Yeah, so this must be terrible for him," Jeff said and Nick could hear the concern his soulmate had for his friend in his voice.
"It must be so much worse not knowing," Nick frowned. "The emotions I used to feel from you were bad but actually feeling the pain must be horrible."
"He went into his room half an hour ago and we haven't heard anything from him since but neither of us are brave enough to go check on him."
"If he wants to be alone I think you'll just have to let him be," Nick said, then sighed as he saw the time. "I have a class now, but I just needed to know you were okay."
"I'm sorry for making you worry, but I'm fine," Jeff reassured him. "Have fun with your class, I'll see you soon – just remember, 8 hours away means 8 minutes of cuddling."
"I'll keep that in mind," Nick laughed. "Bye."
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Sebastian sent Hunter a text telling him to call him as soon as possible and sat in his room waiting all afternoon. He considered distracting himself by playing guitar but the phantom pain was still too strong to move his arm too much. He didn't even attempt to work on the song, knowing that it would only end with him getting overly emotional about his soulmate.
Hunter finally called him late that afternoon and Sebastian didn't know whether to be angry or relieved when he heard his voice.
"What the hell happened?" he asked.
"A spotlight fell on my arm when we were shifting it," Hunter explained.
"Holy shit, are you okay?"
"I'm alright now, my arm's broken though. I'm lucky it only landed on my arm, a few inches to the right and–"
"No, we don't need to think like that," Sebastian cut him off, unable to deal with those thoughts. "I'm coming over and bringing you food. I can't leave you alone in your house with a broken arm, god knows what you'd end up doing to yourself."
"I can look after myself, Sebastian," Hunter argued.
"I'm still coming over, you're going to put up with me for all the hell you put me through this afternoon."
"Fine," Hunter sighed. "See you soon."
"Don't overexert yourself," Sebastian managed to say before he heard the dial tone.
Sebastian threw on his coat and was halfway to the door before he realised that he should explain where he was going to his housemates. Jeff was on the couch with Nick and the blonde looked up when Sebastian's door had opened.
"I'm going out, don't expect me home tonight," Sebastian informed him, purposely leaving out where he was going.
"You've stopped feeling the pain?" Jeff asked.
"Yeah it stopped," Sebastian nodded. The pain had mostly disappeared about half an hour before Hunter had called him.
'I'll tell Blaine where you've gone when he gets home, I don't think he has anything planned for tomorrow though."
"Thanks, Jeff," Sebastian nodded. "See you."
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Hunter was on the couch when Sebastian got to his house. Hunter lived in an apartment complex about a 10 minute taxi ride from Sebastian's place with one flatmate, who Sebastian only knew as Beats. Sebastian didn't know much about Beats, only that he got his nickname from his beatboxing skills and that he was a pilot so Hunter often had the flat to himself.
"Hunter?" Sebastian asked to see if his soulmate was awake.
"Mmm?" he replied. Sebastian went over to the couch and sat down beside him, observing Hunter's state. His left arm was in a sling and he looked and sounded very drowsy.
"How are you feeling?"
"Sleepy," Hunter said. "They said the painkillers would make me sleepy and that I should sleep. Will you come and sleep with me, Sebastian?"
Sebastian chuckled slightly at the unintentional innuendo. "Of course I will, come on." He offered a hand to pull Hunter off the couch and the other man took it, hoisting himself up heavily and stumbling towards the bedroom. "Where's Beats?"
"How 'm I supposed to know?" Hunter replied, still sounding very sleepy.
"Is he working?" Sebastian asked, hoping to get an answer with the more precise question.
"Yeah, something like that." Sebastian gathered that Beats was most likely working and that Hunter definitely needed to sleep.
Hunter sat down on the edge of his bed and began taking his shoes off with his good hand, fumbling a bit before Sebastian stepped in to help him. Hunter looked like he might have protested but ultimately thought better of it. Sebastian managed to gently take Hunter's arm out of the sling and remove most of his clothes before he finally fell asleep, the medication kicking in to knock him out completely.
Sebastian smiled at how peaceful his soulmate looked in his sleep. Thinking back, it was the first time he'd actually seen him properly when he was asleep. Usually they both fell asleep at the same time after they both came and then it was a mad rush when they woke up, or one of them would be gone before the other woke up.
Once he was certain Hunter was in a deep enough sleep, Sebastian got out of the bed and made his way into the kitchen to make himself some dinner. He found a frozen meal and heated it up before sitting down at the couch and turning the television on low.
He tried not to think about how comfortable he felt in Hunter's apartment while he was eating. He tried to ignore the part of his brain that was starting to imagine him moving in here. It would be much more convenient living here, not just for the sex, but because he was really starting to enjoy spending more time with his soulmate. He knew it went against the spirit of their friends-with-benefits deal they had, but he was starting to enjoy the 'friends' side of their deal just as much as the 'benefits'.
When he got sick of those thoughts running around his head and he couldn't distract himself with bad TV any longer, Sebastian went to bed. He lay down next to his soulmate and tried not to think about how he was starting to wish he could do this every night.
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Sebastian woke the next morning to the sounds of someone in the kitchen. It took him a moment to take in his unusual surroundings and realise that he was in Hunter's bed, not his own. It took another moment for him to realise that the sounds in the kitchen were most likely being made my Hunter's housemate, Beats, who was apparently home from work.
Sebastian would have simply gone back to sleep until Hunter woke up, but his body had other ideas. He internally cursed Hunter not having an ensuite bathroom as he felt his full bladder, and his hungry stomach growled so loudly he made the man beside him stir slightly in his sleep.
He knew he had no choice but to get up so he did, dressing quickly and making his way out to where Beats was making breakfast for himself. Sebastian didn't say anything, instead making a beeline for the bathroom to empty his very full bladder.
When he returned from the bathroom feeling much more relieved, Sebastian couldn't ignore the man who was now sitting at the dining table eating. Sebastian found a bowl and made himself some cereal before sitting down opposite Beats.
"Sebastian Smythe," he introduced himself, offering a hand to shake. "I think we may have met before but I–" Sebastian cut off when he saw Beats' eyes dart to his wrist and he realised that he forgot to put his cuff back on after he took it off to sleep.
"You're Hunter's soulmate?" Beats asked. "I remember you from a few parties but I always thought of you more of a–"
"Friend with benefits?" Sebastian finished his sentence for him. "That's the deal we have going. I'm only here because of his arm."
"What happened yesterday? I got some confusing and slightly distressed voicemails from Hunter but I don't really know what actually happened."
"I wasn't there, but from what I gathered a spotlight fell on his arm yesterday while he was at work."
"Is he okay now?"
"I think so, he was pretty drowsy from the pain meds when I got here last night but I think he'll be fine," Sebastian shrugged.
"Good," Beats nodded.
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"Did Sebastian say when he was coming home?" Blaine asked Jeff later that morning.
"No, just that he wouldn't be home last night," Jeff answered. "Why, do you have something planned?"
"Not really, I was just hoping to get some more work done for the new song."
"I think he pretty much finished it the other night with Thad," Jeff said. "It probably needs better arranging but I think it's pretty much done."
"Want to show me then? I was talking to Wes earlier and he said he couldn't get us into a studio for a while but this'll probably be the first thing we record when we can get in."
"Sure," Jeff said as they made their way into the office. "Did Wes say anything else?"
"Not really, just that he was trying to find more things for us to do," Blaine said, sitting down at the keyboard.
Jeff nodded and picked up an acoustic guitar before finding the sheet music he had left on the desk and passing it to Blaine.
"A million years he'd been awake, a million years he'd prayed…"
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"Beats, can you make me something to eat?" Hunter stumbled blindly into the kitchen, not quite fully awake. He paused for a moment and blinked a few times when he saw Sebastian sitting next to his housemate. "Sebastian, you're still here?"
"Yeah, I fell asleep here and I wasn't sure if Beats was coming home so I stayed," Sebastian answered.
"You've got yourself a loyal soulmate, Hunter," Beats nodded.
"You told him?" Hunter asked, his jaw beginning to clench in anger.
"He saw my wrist when I got up this morning," Sebastian said, quickly explaining as he sensed his soulmate getting mad. "I was barely awake and I didn't think to put my cuff on when I got up to pee and he saw the name."
Hunter turned to his roommate. "Don't tell anyone. Please."
"I won't," Beats said. "Your secret's safe with me."
"Good," Hunter nodded curtly.
"Well, I have to work tonight so I'm going to get some sleep and leave you two to it," Beats said before disappearing into his bedroom and closing the door.
"I swear I didn't mean for him to see the name," Sebastian turned to his soulmate. "I had only just woken up and I needed to piss so badly and–"
"It's fine, I believe you."
"You don't sound convinced."
"Well what do you want me to say?" Hunter snapped. "We both agreed we don't want anyone to find out and now he knows."
"You know he would have found out eventually," Sebastian reasoned. "And you don't think I'm annoyed as well? This is just as much my problem as it is yours."
"Except you could have prevented it."
Sebastian shook his head slightly and stood up from the table. "I came over to look after you after you nearly lost your arm – the pain from which I felt all afternoon – and this is the thanks I get?" He grabbed his jacket and headed for the door. "I hope you realise that you're not wearing your cuff either right now."
Sebastian closed the door behind himself forcefully and left Hunter standing in the kitchen thinking over his last statement. Hunter's wrist was indeed bare and Beats could have just as easily seen the name on his wrist instead of Sebastian's. He really needed to work on not losing his temper.
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Jeff and Blaine had moved back into the living room but were still working on arranging the song when Sebastian came home and went straight to his room without a word to either of them. They shared a quizzical glance before returning to the song, though much more distractedly than before.
Sebastian emerged from his room a few minutes later, looking thoroughly irritated.
"We made the office soundproof for a reason, and it wasn't just for sex," he snapped. "Please go work in there."
"Are you okay?" Blaine asked, concerned at his crabbiness.
"I'm just fucking peachy, thanks for asking," Sebastian responded sarcastically.
"I'm not even going to ask," Jeff shook his head. "I swear they only called the crab in The Little Mermaid Sebastian because of your personality."
Sebastian slammed the bedroom door behind himself, leaving Blaine and Jeff more than a little bit shocked at their band mate's behaviour.
"I've been waiting so long to use that Little Mermaid crab pun," Jeff said with a chuckled as he picked up his guitar and the sheet music.
"It might have been taking it a little bit far," Blaine said, following him back into the office.
"Maybe," Jeff shrugged.
Blaine sighed and ran a hand over his hair. "I'm having dinner at Kurt's tonight, am I going to regret leaving you two home together alone tonight?"
"Nick'll be here, we won't be alone." Blaine still didn't look convinced. "I can tell he's pissed, Blaine, I'm not stupid enough to bait him when he's in a mood like this."
"I hope not, we need you both in one piece for the band."
"I promise I'll be good, mother," Jeff smirked.
"Shut up," Blaine laughed.
"So you're going on a super romantic date at Kurt's tonight?" Jeff asked.
"He's cooking dinner," Blaine smiled dreamily.
"Sometimes I think about cooking for Nick, but then I remember the lasagne fiasco from last year and decide against it."
"It took me 6 months to work up the courage to try lasagne again after that," Blaine laughed. "But maybe I could show you how to make something a bit easier one day."
"As long as the fire brigade's on standby, sure," Jeff grinned.
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"Do you two even come up for air?" Blaine asked incredulously as he watched Jeff and Nick, attached at the mouth on the couch.
There was a slight pop as Jeff leant back from his soulmate. "Singer's lungs, we've got great air capacity," he grinned. "Keep that in mind for tonight with Kurt."
"Speaking of which, I'm going now," Blaine said, rolling his eyes. "I don't know when I'll be back."
"Have fun," Jeff bid his band mate farewell before Nick's mouth was back on his.
"Keen tonight, are we?" Jeff smirked into the kiss.
"I'm procrastinating marking essays, you're much more fun."
"Well, I'm not complaining."
"Well now I'm extra glad I'm leaving," Sebastian said with slight disgust.
Jeff leant back again and saw his other housemate standing by the door.
"I'm going out, don't expect me home tonight," Sebastian said.
"Bye," Jeff called after him.
"We've got the house to ourselves?" Nick asked. Jeff nodded. "Then those essays can wait another day to get marked."
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Blaine knocked on Kurt's apartment door, anxiously pulling at the bottom of his cardigan.
"Blaine!" Kurt greeted him, a huge smile appearing on his face the moment he saw his soulmate.
"Kurt," Blaine's smile matched his boyfriend's.
"I hope you like pasta," Kurt said, leading Blaine inside.
"I love pasta," Blaine said, sitting down on a stool in the kitchen.
"Good," Kurt pressed a kiss to his soulmate's lips before returning to the stove. "It's nearly done, why don't you put some music on?"
Blaine walked over to the stereo Kurt was referring to and hit play, hoping whatever was already in the CD player would suffice.
"I think you're pretty, without any make-up on…"
"You were listening to The Warblers?" Blaine smirked.
"How can you blame me? The lead singer's cute and has an amazing voice."
"Is that so? I've heard he also has an incredibly attractive and talented soulmate," Blaine grinned, returning to the kitchen.
"Really? I'll have to look him up," Kurt smirked, playing along.
"Rumour has it he makes great pasta too."
"Well, then Blaine Warbler must be one lucky man."
"He sure is," Blaine smiled.
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They had moved to the couch after dinner when Blaine leaned over and pressed his lips to Kurt's again. Kurt responded immediately, opening his mouth to deepen the kiss as Blaine's hands wound into his hair. This kiss was different than others they had shared, it felt more intimate and deeper.
Their mouths moved together, lips sucking and tongues sliding over each other. Blaine's hands stayed in Kurt's hair, but Kurt's hands slid down his soulmate's back, feeling the hard muscles and tracing down his spine.
Kurt grabbed at Blaine's legs and pulled, directing him until Blaine was straddling his lap, both of them already semi-hard. Kurt's mouth left Blaine's, instead trailing open-mouthed kisses along his jaw and down his neck. Blaine arched his neck in pleasure and started tugging at the bottom of his cardigan and shirt. Kurt leaned back for a moment and Blaine pulled them over his head, dropping them on the floor behind him.
They kissed slowly again before Kurt ran his mouth down Blaine's neck and bare chest, pressing his lips to the exposed skin and grazing his teeth occasionally, making Blaine shiver.
When Blaine's hands moved down Kurt's back to his ass and he began grinding, they both moaned in unison.
"Bed," Kurt whispered, taking Blaine's hand and pushing him up off the couch before leading him into his bedroom.
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When Sebastian woke up in a stranger's bed the next morning he felt dirty. Not just from the sweat and come that had dried on his body the night before, but his conscience as well. He tried to remind himself that he wasn't exclusive with Hunter and that what he had done the night before was completely okay. But then he remembered the way his soulmate had looked when he was asleep; the peace on his face that gave Sebastian a strange feeling in his stomach.
Getting wasted and sleeping with random men usually helped distract Sebastian from his problems, but this time he just felt worse. Maybe it was because he knew Hunter would be able to feel the arousal through their connection. The shared emotions always made their sex greater. This time, however, he felt somewhat guilty for putting Hunter through feeling second-hand arousal.
Sebastian wondered what Hunter thought of him sleeping with someone else before he remembered that he wasn't supposed to care. They were friends. Just friends. Friends who were soulmates and had amazing sex – but still just friends.
The guy lying beside him stirred in his sleep and Sebastian got up, pulling his clothes on. Checking his phone, he saw he had a message from Wes. If he left now he could still make it home and have a shower before he needed to be at Thad's. There were people in the kitchen as he walked past, but he didn't take any notice of them.
Sitting on the subway gave Sebastian time to think and he wished he had something to preoccupy himself with. The longer he thought about it, the more he realised he was kidding himself thinking that there was nothing more than friendship between him and Hunter.
He should have never messed around with trying to be platonic with his soulmate when he knew deep down that he wanted more.
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"Kurt!" Rachel called out to him the next morning. "Have you seen my red coat? I thought I left it here last – oh shoot sorry Blaine, I didn't know you were here." She retreated from the room somewhat as soon as she saw him in Kurt's bed.
"It's okay," he mumbled sleepily. "I think I saw it by the door."
"What?" she asked distractedly, her eyes focused on Blaine's body as he sat up groggily.
"Your coat's by the door… why are you staring at me?"
"Kurt has a big mirror in his bathroom, go see for yourself," she smirked. Blaine did as she said, still not entirely sure why she was there.
In the waist-high mirror Blaine could tell exactly what Rachel was talking about. Covering his not only his neck, but also his chest and parts of his stomach, were lines of unmistakeable red and purple hickeys. When he turned around he could see finger-shaped bruises and scratch marks from Kurt's hands – last night had been intense, passionate, mind-blowing and easily the best sex Blaine had ever.
Kurt was awake when he went back into the bedroom, sitting in bed talking to Rachel.
"I should go, I'll leave you two… to it," she winked before disappearing out the door.
"Morning beautiful," Blaine smiled, pressing his lips to his soulmate's.
"Morning," Kurt said, his eyes trailing over his handiwork from the night before. "I hope you like scarves, or the paparazzi will have a field day."
"Let them," Blaine shrugged. "The guys are going to grill me for details though." Kurt quirked an eyebrow, silently asking Blaine what he would do about them. "I'll hold it over their heads and keep it our secret."
"Speaking of them, don't you have rehearsal today?"
"Yeah," Blaine sighed. "I'll text you when I'm done."
"I think you getting dressed would have to be one of my least favourite parts of the day," Kurt said with mock-glumness.
"But you know the opposite happens at the end of the day, so I think you'll be fine," Blaine smirked.
"It doesn't come soon enough," Kurt grumbled, earning him a sympathetic kiss from his soulmate.
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Blaine was only slightly late, but the rest of the Warblers and Wes were already at Thad's place with two unfamiliar girls – one blonde and one brunette – when he arrived.
"A scarf, Blaine?" Thad questioned him. "It's not that cold, I can turn the heating up."
Blaine shrugged and mumbled a non-committal answer, turning to Wes. "Who are the girls?"
"They've got a popular blog and youtube channel where they talk about music and we arranged to have them film a rehearsal and interview The Warblers," the manager explained. "I sent you a text explaining it last night."
"I was at Kurt's last night and a little bit preoccupied," Blaine said, quietly so the girls couldn't hear him.
Wes smirked at him before addressing the group. "Alright, now that Blaine's finally here, we can get started. And Blaine, take the scarf off."
Blaine sighed and complied. As expected, all eyes in the room were drawn to the red marks along his neck.
"How far down do they go, Blaine?" Sebastian asked, the smirk clearly evident in his voice.
Blaine just blushed and turned to the girls. "Do I get an introduction?"
"I'm Quinn," the blonde introduced herself. "And this is Santana."
"Nice to meet you," Blaine smiled, shaking their hands.
"Can I repeat what he said – how far down to they go?" Santana asked, reaching out to poke one of the hickeys on his neck.
"How about we start?" Blaine suggested, avoiding the question. "Teenage Dream for a warm up?"
"Sounds good," Jeff nodded, picking up his bass.
"Just give us a minute to set up the camera," Quinn requested.
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Blaine didn't get the chance to check his phone until their lunch break, and when he did he had 4 new messages from Kurt.
Quinn and Santana are there?
Have they said anything about me?
Oh god what has Santana said about your hickeys?
I'm so sorry if they're terrorizing you
He knew the girls and the other Warblers had been tweeting a few photos but he didn't quite understand what Kurt was on about. It seemed like Kurt knew the girls, so he decided to ask them.
"Kurt texted me after seeing the photos you tweeted, do you girls know him?"
Santana's smirk broadened when she heard Blaine's soulmate's name. "We went to high school together and I lived with him for a bit during college. I was intrigued when I saw the articles about the two of you."
"It gave us the extra incentive to contact you," Quinn shrugged.
"We needed to decide if you were good enough to be Kurt's soulmate," Santana added. "I can tell he thinks so but it never hurts to have another opinion."
"So do you approve?" Sebastian asked the girls, enjoying how nervous they were making Blaine.
"Because if you don't, I'm sure he'll write a dozen songs about it," Jeff grinned, joining in the banter. "Who knows how many he's already written about him."
"You've written songs about Nick, too," Blaine defended himself.
"I've written two, and one of them was with you."
"Still…"
"So you write songs together sometimes?" Quinn asked, intervening before Blaine got too offended by switching on one of the cameras sitting on a tripod. "Most of the songs on your albums were written by Blaine or solely by another one of you."
"We do occasionally, sometimes if one of us gets a writer's block another of us can help out and end up finishing the song for him," Blaine explained.
"And sometimes – like with the one we wrote recently – I'll have some lyrics in my head and then I'll hear Blaine playing something and we'll try it together and it'll just work," Jeff added. "Then we played it at a rehearsal the other day and worked on it for a bit and I think Sebastian ended up finishing it."
"Can we hear this new song?" Santana asked. "Get an exclusive for our viewers."
"I don't know if it's entirely finished yet but I don't see why not," Blaine nodded.
"It's a long way from being finished," Jeff added. "We haven't really arranged it properly, but we could do an acoustic version."
Blaine went over to the keyboard and Jeff and Sebastian picked up acoustic guitars, sitting in a loose semi-circle. Thad grabbed a shaker and joined them and they began, Blaine beginning the song on the keyboard.
Jeff began the vocals, singing with quiet emotion in his voice.
"A million years he'd been awake, a million years he prayed, for one familiar soul to help him navigate his way. He stood agog at the spray of stars and thought aloud each day: I've been here so long, holding on, but–"
Blaine took over the vocals for the chorus, belting out the long notes as Sebastian began strumming softly on the guitar and Thad joined in with the shakers.
"Somehow I know, I can't be on this planet alone. And one waits, one waits for me. One waits, one waits for me. One waits, one will wait for me. And time's the only lonely curtain in between."
Sebastian sang the next verse with the same softness as Jeff, in the same strangely emotional way.
"And you could be a lion, or a buzzard or a bee. However soft your symphony, I'll know you sing for me. You too wandered the island, with a strange name in your throat."
Jeff began strumming as well and Blaine harmonised the vocals with Sebastian.
"And when you come home, I won't let you go. Somehow I know, I can't be on this planet alone. And one waits, one waits for me. One waits, one waits for me. One waits, one will wait for me. And time's the only lonely curtain in between."
Blaine sang the outro as a solo, revelling in the awed looks on Quinn and Santana's faces.
"Come out, come on out
Wherever you are..."
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"Alright, let's talk soulmates," Quinn said, directing the flow of the new conversation. "It's been all over the media and the internet – as well as obviously being the theme of your new song – but we want to hear it from you. Blaine and Jeff, tell us everything."
"I met Nick before Jeff did," Blaine began. "He came to one of our shows and I saw Jeff's name on his wrist at the meet and greet afterwards. Jeff had gone home already but we convinced Nick to stick around and come home to meet him and they've been inseparable ever since."
"Well Blaine pretty much summed it up so I don't know what else I can say," Jeff shrugged.
"You could talk about your rule about cuddling after you've been away from each other," Sebastian prompted.
"Well, Nick's a middle school teacher so he's away for roughly 8 hours every day, so I decided that we should spend one minute together for every hour we're apart," Jeff explained, blushing slightly. "It's not uncommon to find us on the couch when he's home from work."
"It's adorable," Blaine smiled.
"Occasionally sickening, but very sweet," Sebastian added.
"Is that a hint of bitterness?" Santana asked. "I've noticed the wristband you're wearing."
"Who my soulmate is is my own business, I hope you can understand that," he answered with a hint of frustration.
"Okay, just checking," Santana nodded. "Now let's hear some embarrassing stories about Blaine and Kurt."
"How they met is probably the most embarrassing story they have so far," Sebastian smirked.
"Jeff took the photo, I think I'm going to start blaming him," Blaine pouted.
"You're the one that tweeted it without looking at it," Jeff countered.
"It was the best mistake of my life, though," Blaine shrugged. "I don't think I would have found the courage to contact him otherwise."
Quinn and Jeff "aww"ed at that and Blaine laughed, causing Santana and Sebastian to roll their eyes.
"We've been on a few romantic dates but we spend most of our time just hanging out together," Blaine said. "We can't really go out too much without the paparazzi getting annoying."
"And so you're forced to stay home," Sebastian added with a smirk. "It's a good thing we made the office soundproof."
Blaine blushed and went quiet.
"Thad, you've been pretty quiet throughout this whole conversation," Quinn pointed out. "Have you got anything to say about your soulmate?"
"Like Sebastian said – who my soulmate is is my own business," Thad said.
"No hints?" Santana prompted. "Even a gender would be newsworthy."
"I don't actually know the gender," Thad said, laughing slightly. "It's a unisex name so I have no idea what gender they are."
"Really?" Jeff asked.
"Yeah," Thad nodded.
"You never told us that, now I'm really curious," Jeff pouted.
"Sorry, man," Thad laughed.
They played another song and recorded a few more conversations for the girls' blog before they had to say goodbye to Quinn and Santana, though Blaine had a feeling he'd been seeing them again.