"It's unlocked."

"Burt must already be here."

"Well, maybe he'll just get what he came here for and leave right away. We might not have anything to worry about."

"What the hell is going on in here?"

"Never mind..."

Kurt and Finn raced inside as quickly as they could, Blaine looking at Kurt nervously.

"Blaine, what are you still doing here?"

"Dad, I can explain everything."

"Kurt, do you have something to do with this?"

Kurt sighed. "Yeah, I do. Dad, I lied to you earlier when you asked me if I knew Blaine. I just met him, and..."

"You mean you knew he was going to come in here asking for a job and you acted like you'd never seen him before?"

"Actually, I was the one who told him to ask for a job even though I knew he didn't know anything about cars."

"Why would you do that? And what is he still doing here?"

"I just... I told him he could sleep here."

"Kurt, what is going on with you?"

"Dad, I was just trying to help him."

"Why did you think he needed your help?"

"Because he doesn't have any place to live. I just really wanted to help, I'm sorry."

Burt sighed and looked at Finn and Blaine. "Would you two mind... going for a walk?"

Finn nodded and motioned for Blaine to follow him, the two going outside.

"Start from the beginning, and I want the truth."

Kurt looked down. "You wouldn't believe the truth..."

"Try me."

Kurt bit his lip. Should he tell his dad the truth? The real truth? That Blaine was a merman?

"None of this is Blaine's fault. It's all on me. Everything he did, he did because I told him to do it."

"Start earlier than that."

"I met him right before we came in here to see you, he... got kicked out of his house for being gay. So I told him to get a job working here and to sleep here at night... I didn't want him to end up sleeping on the streets or something."

So much for the truth.

"Not all parents are as understanding as you are, I felt bad that he didn't have a father that was as kind hearted and caring... and forgiving, as you are."

"Nice try, Kurt." Burt couldn't help but smile a bit. "Why didn't you just tell me all that in the first place? If I'm such a kind hearted caring father, don't you think I would've understood?"

"I don't know. I wasn't thinking. All I was focused on was helping Blaine." He bit his lip. "Mom would've helped him, I was just trying to do what I thought she would've done." His looked at his dad with wide eyes and a bit of a pout.

"Kurt, you know that using the mom card gives you an unfair advantage." Kurt's smile matched his fathers. "You're right, your mother would've helped Blaine... but she wouldn't have lied and gone behind my back to do it."

"You're absolutely right, and I really am sorry. I'll do anything to make it up to you."

"Oh, you will, and you're going to start by going out there and tell him that he can't work here anymore, and that he's not sleeping here either."

Kurt looked at the ground. "Okay."

"After that you're going to be spending a lot of time at home, because for the next two weeks, you're grounded for lying to me."

"Fair enough."

"While you're grounded, I want you to clean out that extra room upstairs that we've been using for storage."

Kurt looked up and raised his eyebrows. "Um, okay... but, why does that need to be cleaned out now? It's been like that for months."

"Well, Blaine's gotta sleep somewhere..."

Kurt could feel the smile growing on his face. "You mean..."

"Yeah, yeah, now get out of here before I change my mind."

Kurt tackled his dad in a hug. "Thank you so much! I love you, dad."

"I love you too, Kurt." He said as Kurt pulled away. "And you can tell Finn he's grounded for going along with your little lie." He yelled after his son as he ran outside.

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"You sure look happy for someone who's probably grounded until their thirtieth birthday." Finn stated.

"That's because Blaine is moving in with us."

Finn looked shocked and Blaine's entire face lit up. "You're kidding, how'd you pull that off?"

"I'll explain later." Kurt said as Blaine tackled him in a hug. "Our punishment is cleaning out the spare room upstairs so that Blaine can have his own bedroom." Kurt said as he hugged Blaine back.

"Wait, our punishment?"

"Yeah, you're kind of grounded for going along with my lie... sorry..."

"It's okay, cleaning out that room will be way easier than it was trying to cover for Blaine at the shop."

"I really owe you big time, Finn. You didn't have to get yourself in trouble and do all this running around just to help me and Blaine."

"Hey, what are brothers for?"

Kurt smiled.

"So, Blaine, are you excited about moving in with us?"

Blaine nodded quickly and Kurt laughed.

"It is not going to be all fun and games though, we have a lot of work to do. I've got a lot of human stuff to teach you about and not a lot of time to do it. We could get away with my dad thinking you didn't know anything about cars, but he'll really start to get suspicious if he finds out you don't know anything about the every day stuff like watching TV and doing chores... are you up for the challenge?"

Blaine gave Kurt a salute and he laughed again.

"Good to hear! Now, let's go home." Kurt said, opening the car door for Blaine.

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Kurt, Finn, and Blaine got home a little after Burt, which meant that he had already explained the situation to Carole. Of course that meant she was going full on mom, which nobody really minded much at all.

Carole was a great mother, and Kurt was positive that Blaine was going to love her, and he knew that she was going to love Blaine.

Less than five seconds in the house and she already wanted to know what Blaine's favorite food was so that she could make him something to eat, going on about how he was probably starving and how she wanted to make him feel at home and to never be afraid to ask if he was hungry or needed something.

Of course, Blaine didn't really get the concept of Carole cooking a meal and instantly mouthed the word watermelon, causing Kurt to laugh.

"He loves watermelon." Kurt said with a shrug.

"Well, he's in luck, we have that." Carole said smiling.

"Hope you don't mind sleeping on the couch for a few nights until we get the spare room empty." Burt said, motioning to the couch.

"Want to watch some TV, Blaine?"

Blaine tilted his head curiously and looked at Kurt with that confused look he always got when he didn't understand something.

Burt was on his way upstairs to change into something more comfortable before fixing the problem in the upstairs bathroom, and Carole was in the kitchen, so Kurt figured it was safe to show him the TV now, since there was no one around to see Blaine's complete and utter shocked expression at something any human would know like the back of their hand.

He turned the TV on and watched as Blaine jumped away from it in shock when there were suddenly people talking on the screen. He hadn't been expecting that. His eyes widened, and Kurt couldn't help but laugh. "Cool, huh?"

Blaine walked over to the TV, poking the screen a few times.

"They're not going to turn around and look at you, Blaine, they can't hear you or see you."

Blaine tilted his head and Kurt pulled him over to the couch. "Don't stand so close, you'll hurt your eyes."

But the second Kurt let go of him he had his face back against the screen, Kurt sighed and laughed again.

"I think I have the perfect movie." Kurt said as he walked over to where they kept all the DVD's, grabbing the Little Mermaid and putting it in the player.

"Remember that story I told you about Ariel and Eric?" Blaine nodded, but didn't take his eyes off the TV. "Want to see it for yourself?"

Blaine finally turned away from the TV to look at Kurt, his face lighting up with pure excitement at the thought of getting to watch the story Kurt had told him back when he was still a merman.

He mouthed something and Kurt nodded. "Yep, you can do that. You can watch a lot of different stories. The people on the TV are actors... performers, remember when we talked about performing?"

Blaine nodded excitedly and looked back at the TV.

"Blaine, you have to sit over here and watch it, you can't stay that close. If you don't come over here, I'm going to turn it off." Kurt said sternly, Blaine took a seat next to him on the couch.

Carole walked in and put the plate of watermelon down on the coffee table, Blaine tugged at her sleeve and pointed at the TV with a huge smile on his face as if he though he was showing her something she'd never seen before.

"Oh, the Little Mermaid, what a cute movie. I didn't know you guys were going to have a movie night, would you like me to make you some popcorn?"

"That's okay, I'll make it." Kurt said, standing up and walking into the kitchen.

Blaine scooted over on the couch a bit, pointing to the now empty seat and smiling at Carole.

"Oh, thank you, Blaine, that's very sweet. But I have to help Burt fix a problem we're having upstairs. We can watch a movie together another time, okay?"

He nodded before looking back at the TV as she headed to the upstairs bathroom.

Kurt returned with a bowl of popcorn, smiling when Blaine held out a piece of watermelon.

"No thanks. Do you want to try this?" He asked, holding out the bowl of popcorn.

Blaine looked at it curiously before taking a piece and popping it into his mouth, a smile crossing his face.

"I know, it's really good, huh?"

Blaine nodded and grabbed a handful, eating it as he returned his attention to the movie.

Kurt had to say, watching TV with Blaine was extremely fun. The way he reacted to certain moments was amazing, the way he'd look shocked or would make extreme hand gestures at the screen as if he were trying to tell the people in the movie what to do, Kurt was positive that he would've been yelling at the screen at some parts if he still had his voice.

Blaine was a little confused by Ursula's appearance, but Kurt figured he would be. According to Blaine sea witches didn't look like that at all. To quote Blaine, they looked like merzombies.

Ursula certainly didn't look like a zombie, but her scenes seemed to freak Blaine out anyway.

Every time she appeared Blaine would reach for Kurt's hand and squeeze it, or even go as far as to flinch and bury his face in Kurt's shoulder.

Though nothing seemed to scare him more than towards the end when Ursula was sure she'd won and dragged Ariel back into the water. Kurt almost couldn't breathe because Blaine had latched onto him so tightly as Ursula grew to the size of a giant, and Blaine didn't look back up until she was defeated.

That got Kurt thinking. How powerful and scary were the sea witches Blaine traded his voice to?

Now that he thought about it, Ariel had a time limit, she only had three days to make the prince fall in love with her.

Did Blaine have a time limit? How long was it? And what did he have to do before his time was up to stay human and get his voice back?

Kurt was going to have to find all that out, because if Blaine failed and turned back into a merman, Kurt didn't know what would happen to him.

What if that sea witch kept him as a slave? What if she hurt him? Or worse?

He couldn't let any of that happen...

He was going to have to find out how much time he really had with Blaine, and if there was anything he could do to help make sure that it didn't end...