School reopens a week later, after the funerals and the town has started to heal. There's a collective deep breath as each kid walks through the doors and Blaine can't help but notice the metal detectors and CCTV cameras trained on all of them. He's glad for them, as one of the almost-victims; he'll never be a victim, no; he knows exactly how close he came to losing everything. He's limping as he walks through the doors, his leg bandaged under his pants. For once he's not wearing his uniform but his normal clothes. He couldn't wear them, not now. The bullet that hit his leg thankfully just grazed him, splitting the skin apart but not close enough to damage his precious Achilles tendon. That breaks and he can kiss his dancing, and most of his career goodbye. He sees his friends all standing halfway down the hallway like many other students and those who don't stop give the wall a good look. It's been repainted and on it hangs the words, 'McKinley High. We Will Remember. Between Us We Are Strong.' Below the words hang pictures of the five students that died that horrible day, including Becky. Blaine has to snort at the words. Trust this school to miss the point completely then get the words wrong. Brittany hugs him tight, and then Sam; soon all of them are stood in the hallway in a group hug. No-one says a word.

He walks into English and immediately zones out. The last week has been surreal. They'd taken him to the hospital and got him patched up, and then he went home with his parents and Kurt. His parents and Kurt had talked for a while after he was sent to his room to lie down and when they call him he has to call for Kurt to help him down the stairs, his leg isn't the problem, it's just crashing through him what happened and nearly happened. They all talked for hours, his parents explaining all the things they never could before and healing the rift between them. After dinner they'd hugged and left Blaine and Kurt to go up to his room.

Kurt had immediately kissed him and told him how much he loved him and Blaine's heart took off. They talked long into the night about life, them and the future. They decide to start over and try harder this time. They make love and Blaine feels like his life is finally going right, even with the horrific events of the day.

He sleeps most of the next day then goes out on a date with Kurt and the rest of the week follows a pattern of spending time with his parents, Kurt, Kurt's parents and sleeping. He thinks a lot about Becky too.

From the moment he'd stepped through the doors of McKinley and surprised Kurt the first day of Kurt's senior year he'd associated the small girl with Coach Sue, anger, evil plots and hate for not just the Glee Club, but everyone. The girl pushed away everyone but those she trusted. Coach Sue, sometimes Santana and a few of the Cheerios but they were as shocked as him when he'd heard from them. At the end, no-one knows what truly pushed her over the edge but Blaine guesses if she'd been taught to love, treated nicer and included she might have turned out a lot different. Her parents had been on the TV on the first day, crying over their girl and apologised to the families and wished they'd done more by their little girl but nothing could erase what she'd done, or what society had done to her.

The students are told to stay together and treat each moment as something to be treasured. People hug more, they talk more, they're kinder and watch everyone more. In the back of Blaine's mind he wonders about the idea of just making sure no-one does something rash again but when he talks to Kurt about it that night Kurt tells him not to be so pessimistic and anybody is capable of anything but it's worth smiling at everyone, not just his friends, he's doing the same at NYADA. Blaine laughs and falls in love a little more.

Graduation comes quicker than they all thought and he's suddenly standing in front of the school, valedictorian and expected to give the speech he and Kurt have been rehearsing. "This year," He starts and looks out at the sea of students. "Life has been very different. We lost friends, through choices we and other people made. We lost something of the idealism of childhood, the thought that it couldn't happen to me, because this year it did. It happened and we learn to deal with those things and heal. We found something as well. From the dust we found each other closer, ready to be better friends, better students, better sons and daughters; better people. We leave McKinley today, more sure than ever in what we want to do. Ready to take on the world and remember those people we lost, living not just for ourselves but for them, who they would be. Today we leave as adults and we will go on, carry on, live, succeed, become things we want and dream because wherever we go, a part of this place lives with us. We will be singers, actors, athletes, scholars, lawyers, managers and assistants but we will always be titans." He finishes and the crowd cheers. He looks over at Kurt and sees him wiping tears away. He steps back to the New Directions and they start to sing 'Who You'd Be Today'.

When Principal Figgins shouts into the microphone, "I give you the McKinley High School Class of 2013!" They all toss their mortar boards into the air but Blaine just stares at the ring on his left hand.