The Christmas and New Year holidays were far too short in Kurt's opinion. Soon everyone came back to the castle and the term resumed. Kurt was thankful for all the time he got to spend with Blaine. Over the holiday the couple spent much of their time in the Room of Requirement. They agreed that they would not spend every night in the room once classes started again because they didn't want to get in trouble if one of the prefects noticed they weren't in their dormitories every night.

On Monday, the day classes started again, Kurt walked into the Great Hall and took his usual place at the Gryffindor table as he waited for Blaine and the others. He looked around the hall and found Santana sitting with Brittany at the Hufflepuff table. The two Slytherins exchanged smiles and waves before Brittany pulled Santana's attention back to her.

Kurt then sighed and sipped his pumpkin juice, almost choking on it when Sebastian sat down across from him. "What are you doing here?"

"Can't I have a nice chat with my fellow Slytherin?" Sebastian answered in his usual smug tone. He grabbed an apple from the bowl in front of him and took a bite out of it.

"Yes, but why are you at the Gryffindor table? Aren't you afraid it'll ruin your precious reputation?"

Sebastian snorted and rolled his eyes. "My reputation isn't in danger. Unlike you, I don't make it a habit hanging around Gryffindorks."

"Well what do you want?"

"I want you to break up with Blaine."

"Excuse me? You want what?" Kurt asked, laughing.

"I want you to break up with pretty boy, gayface."

"Haven't I told you not to call me that? And I'm not going to break up with Blaine. Why would I do that? And what makes you think I would actually listen to you? I may slightly consider you a friend, but that doesn't mean I'm going to actually listen to anything you say."

"There's someone more worthy of your attention."

"Who? Karofsky? I don't think so."

Sebastian smirked. "We're going to have to do this the hard way, aren't we?"

"No, because I'm not going to break up with my boyfriend and you're going to leave me alone or else I will hex you so badly that even Madam Pomfrey won't be able to fix what I did to you."

"I'd like to see you try, Hummel," Sebastian said before getting up and walking over to the Slytherin table just as Blaine came into the Great Hall.

"What was that about?" Blaine asked.

"Sebastian being Sebastian," Kurt answered, rolling his eyes.

Blaine didn't look convinced, but he didn't say another word about it.

X-X-X-X

"Did you hear what he did?"

"I knew we couldn't trust him."

"He's a Slytherin after all. They don't change just because they're dating a Gryffindor."

Kurt was confused. He was getting glares and hearing the whispers all morning the next day. Most of the glares and whispers came from the Gryffindors. Worst of all, he hadn't seen Blaine at all that day. When he tried to talk to Rachel, she glared at him and walked in the opposite direction.

"What did you do?" Santana asked him at dinner.

"I don't know! No one will talk to me. I tried talking to Rachel but she's ignoring me, so is Puck, and Finn was saying something along the lines of 'I don't even know you anymore,'" Kurt said, visibly frustrated. "I haven't seen Blaine all day either!"

"That's because he no longer wishes to see you," Sebastian said sitting down across from the two. "Rumor has it that Blaine Anderson is up in his dormitory, crying his eyes out because his beloved boyfriend cheated on him."

Kurt looked at him like he was crazy. "I would never cheat on Blaine. Where did that even start?" Kurt felt suddenly afraid as he remembered what Sebastian said to him the day before. We're going to have to do this the hard way, aren't we? "Sebastian, what did you do?"

Sebastian smirked and pulled out a large envelope from his robes. He laid it on the table. "A copy of this was put up in the Gryffindor common room and another copy was delivered by owl to Blaine this morning. Enjoy." He stood and quickly left the Great Hall.

With shaking hands, Kurt picked up the envelope and opened it, pulling out a large photo.

"Oh my god," Santana whispered.

The photo was of one Dave Karofsky and one Kurt Hummel in a compromising position on the couch in the Slytherin common, making out viciously.

"No!" Kurt shouted. "This isn't real! This isn't real! I would never! And with Karofsky? No!"

"That sneaky bastard," Santana growled, staring at the photo. "This is genius, evil, yes, but genius."

"Not helping, San," Kurt said, shoving the photo back into the envelope. "San….you know I would never do that," Kurt then said, his voice quivering as tears threatened to fall. He couldn't believe this was happening. It felt like his world was start to crumble.

"I know," Santana whispered. "But Kurt, this is bad. That photo looks real and if Sebastian gave it to Blaine and circulated it around the Gryffindor house, you're in deep shit."

"Fuck! What am I going to do?"

"You need to convince the hobbit that this was all slimy Sebastian's work before Sebastian tries to get in his pants."

X-X-X-X

"Kurt, he doesn't want to talk to you," Finn said later that night as Kurt stood outside the Gryffindor common room. After about 10 minutes of yelling at the Fat Lady to let him in, Finn finally came out to confront Kurt.

"Finn, that picture isn't real!" Kurt exclaimed. "It's fake! Made by Sebastian to break Blaine and me up."

"Well it looks pretty convincing," Finn said with a sigh.

"It's not real," Kurt said as tears began to fall down his face. "It's not. I would never do that to Blaine."

Finn sighed again. "Look, dude, I don't know what to tell you. You need to find a way to prove you didn't do that."

"So you believe me then?"

Finn looked thoughtful for a moment (Kurt didn't even know if that was possible, but apparently it was) then nodded. "You're my brother and I should be there for you, and you're really upset about this and I know how much Sebastian and Karofsky have been bothering you, so you couldn't have done this."

"At least you believe me," Kurt grumbled. "Okay, so I need a way to prove that the picture's fake. In the mean time….can you tell Blaine I love him and tell him that it's fake."

"I'll tell him, but I don't know if he'll listen. He's been crying all day."

Kurt's heart broke into a thousand little pieces.