If the week surrounding Valentine’s Day was challenging, the next few weeks were nearly impossible. When Kurt told Burt that Rachel was having a party for the New Directions kids, he didn’t think too much of it. Kurt had spent countless hours at Rachel’s house over the past few years. The idea of Finn going was a little concerning, but Burt just made it clear that both boys were to be home by midnight. Looking back, he should have asked more questions.

     Burt and Carole stayed up to wait for them, but ended up falling asleep in the living room. When they woke up around two in the morning, they didn’t find it surprising that the boys didn’t wake them up when they had returned. As they went up to bed, Carole peeked into each boy’s room, and everything seemed fine.

     That is why, at nine o clock when Burt goes into Kurt’s room to ask a question about eggs, he is surprised to see Blaine in Kurt’s bed. Fully dressed, but still, he is IN Kurt’s bed. Kurt has a BOY in his BED. Burt realizes that he needs to be very careful to deal with this situation properly, so he backs out of the room as quickly as he can. He doesn’t particularly want to see either of the boys stumble down for breakfast, so he decides that it is a good time to go out and run some errands. Yep, he has a lot of errands to do.

     By the time that Burt returns, Blaine and Kurt are both gone. Carole tells him that they left right after eating, deciding to head back to Dalton early. Apparently, Kurt promised to call that night and explain a few things. Burt is not pleased, but he decides to wait for the call before letting himself get too annoyed.

This decision was flawed, as when Kurt calls it is just to say that everything is fine, he and Blaine still aren’t together, that he is honestly quite annoyed with Blaine, but that he has a bunch of assignments that really need to be worked on. Kurt hangs up before Burt can get more than a few words in.

     Kurt ends up coming home in the middle of the week. Burt proposes a baking lesson, hoping to get Kurt into a good mood before he brings up the events of the weekend. This does not prove effective, as Kurt is in a rotten mood. He complains about how Blaine is “experimenting” with Rachel. Burt doesn’t let his surprise at this news derail him from the conversation point. He addresses the fact that Kurt had a guest stay over (in his room, in his bed!) without asking first. Kurt explains that he had Blaine stay because he was drunk, and Kurt didn’t want him to drive home. Burt expresses his horror that they were drinking (why didn’t he even THINK to ask about that?) and when Kurt says that he and Finn didn’t, Burt is only partially comforted.

     In this moment, he realizes how much he considers Blaine to be one of his. It’s great that Finn and Kurt didn’t drink, but he feels responsible about Blaine now, too. Should he sit down and talk with him about the dangers of drinking? Burt doesn’t have much time to consider this before Kurt is accusing Burt of having a problem with his sexuality. Burt is really surprised by this, and quite hurt, too. This isn’t about Kurt and Blaine’s sexuality; this is about respect and the need to follow rules in the house. They manage to resolve the discussion, and right as he starts to leave the kitchen, Kurt shyly asks Burt if he could educate himself on sexuality for gay men, so that if Kurt has questions, he can ask his dad “like any straight guy could.”

     Burt decides to deal with that later.

     Before going to bed that night, Burt goes into Kurt’s room and ask what’s going on with Blaine. Kurt tells him that Blaine and Rachel had made out while drunk at the party, and that they’d gone on a date last night. When Blaine had told Kurt about his confusion, apparently Kurt had said some things he was ashamed of and an argument had broken out. Burt is even more surprised by this than the whole thing with that Gap guy. What’s wrong with these kids? What type of a girl is Rachel to go out with a guy she knows Kurt likes? Then again, Burt thinks, she did cheat on Finn with Puck, another low move. And what the hell is Blaine doing? Kurt just told Blaine about how he feels about him, and now Blaine is making out with girls? Burt just doesn’t know what to tell Kurt.

     Part of him thinks that it might be time for Kurt to start putting a bit of distance between himself and Blaine. However, another part of Burt thinks that this relationship is doomed to fail, and it might make Blaine realize how poorly he treated Kurt. In the end, Burt tells Kurt that he’s sure it’ll work out one way or another. Kurt gives his dad one of his trademark eye rolls, but seems touched that his dad would go out of his way to chat about Kurt’s boy troubles. Kurt heads back to Dalton early the next morning.

     When he comes home on Friday, Blaine is with him. They had just been at the Lima Bean, where Rachel had kissed Blaine. Apparently kissing her while sober had made Blaine realize just how gay he was. Burt can’t keep himself from wondering how much of that was because the girl he was kissing was Rachel Berry.

     Blaine finds Burt later, and gives him a very sincere, detailed apology for his behaviour over the past weekend. The boy seems genuinely worried that Burt might decide to ban him from the house after all he’d done. Burt listens patiently, appreciating the apology, but aware that he had already, unconsciously, forgiven Blaine. Of course, he doesn’t tell the kid that.

     Instead, he tells Blaine that he is welcome to continue staying over, as long as he is in the guest room. He tells Blaine that he knows nothing had happened between the two and that he is sure that Blaine would never try to take advantage of Kurt, or of Burt’s hospitality. He arches his eyebrows as he says it, and laughs internally at the way that Blaine shakes his head emphatically to convey that he would never do such a thing.

     Finally, he suggests to Blaine that he might want to think about his drinking. To consider the amount of fun he had at the time, compared to all of the stuff he had to sort out afterwards and the people he hurt. Blaine looks incredibly ashamed at this. He nods and starts to say something, but either is too emotional to continue or decides against it. Burt lets out a gruff “Okay, then,” pats Blaine on the shoulder, and heads out to the kitchen.

     The kid’s going through something. Burt’s not sure what, but he’s sure that Blaine will figure it out. And Burt? Burt’s gonna stick around with Kurt and see what happens.