Blaine started doing it first during high school, it wasn't even really meant as wrong; he was just scared about meeting new people.  After what happened at his last school, transferring to Dalton was daunting, even with the whole zero-tolerance policy. So he hacked into the school files to make sure the show choir boys were actually nice, meaning they didn't have any hidden records. Blaine wasn't stupid though, he knew people who had good records didn't necessarily mean they were nice, but it'd help a bit.

After that he didn't really use his computer skills, he had joined the Warblers, made good friends, did his homework, and really didn't think about computers much. During his junior year, Blaine's friend Wes was applying to colleges, and was having trouble uploading his essay.

“Do you need any help? I know a bit about computers.” Blaine asked, motioning towards Wes' laptop.

Wes had been trying to figure out what was wrong for the last hour, decided to hand it over, and

“Might as well, though I didn't realize you knew that much about computers.”

“Yeah a bit.” Blaine said, whilst typing into the computer, it was just a simple problem, some of the html had been wrong, so Blaine changed it and proceeded to upload the file. “Is it good to upload now?”

“Yeah, but you fixed it already? It's been like two minutes!” Wes was shocked.

Blaine looked down, with a blush, “It wasn't really too hard, just some codes were wrong, easy fix.”

“Right, and that's why I couldn't figure it out for an hour, because it was easy. Are you calling me stupid Anderson?” Wes was joking of course, but Blaine fell for it so easily.

“What!? No of course not! I just meant, like, it was easy for me, because I know these things; I mean I did hack into the school system once, their firewalls aren't exactly simple. Plus, you are supposed to be able to access the university sites, so having the codes like that wasn't too hard.” Blaine rambled on, hating that he had offended his friend, but stopped when Wes started laughing.

“Sorry man, but that was just too easy!” Wes continued laughing until he realized something Blaine had said. “You hacked Dalton's system?”

Blaine started blushing again.

“Well, I just wanted to make sure it was safe here, because of my last school, I figured it might give me a head's up.” Blaine was embarrassed about having just told Wes that, especially once he realized that Wes was also the school president, and he could report him.  “Oh God, Wes please don't report me, I promise I didn't do anything else, and it was only the one time!”

Wes held up his hand.

“Blaine, whoa, calm down, I wouldn't report you for that. One, you are one of my best friends, two, you just helped me with my college application, three, it's actually pretty awesome.” Wes was smiling at him, thinking he might actually be able to use Blaine's skills, and help Blaine out too.  Maybe get some extra cash, because while both him and Blaine's parents were well enough off to afford Dalton, that didn't leave much for them to spend. He and Blaine had gotten closer for that very reason.

“So my young friend, I just may know a way for us to make some extra cash.”

Blaine looked at Wes apprehensively.

“It's not drugs is it? Because I'm really not into that, I mean if you are that's your choice, but you do know that it can mess up your life?”

Wes smiled.

 “You really are too caring sometimes, but no man, it's not drugs, and I wouldn't do that. This is about your excellent computer skills.”

Blaine was confused, because unless Wes was talking about building a website, which he really didn't think was going to be happening, it still sounded like it wasn't exactly legal.

“Well what exactly is it then?”

“You see Blaine; I have this older cousin, who may know some people, who may like your skills, for pay.”

“You mean you want me to hack into websites, that doesn't sound too bad.”

“It's not, and just think, you could buy all the bow-ties you want!”

Blaine figured it couldn't be too bad, as long as it wasn't government sites, and nothing that could potentially hurt someone. Besides, Wes was right, he did love bow-ties; he hated not being able to wear them to school.

“Okay sure, we could do that.”

It started off simple, or at least for Blaine, changing names on sites, running the codes differently so that it would be harder to get into sites. Other times he even helped set up new firewalls, those were his favorite jobs, because it felt like he was actually helping people, instead of hacking. Blaine didn't really like to call it hacking anyways, more like sneakily surfing.

Soon though, the jobs started to get bigger and more in depth, but Blaine kept it up through high school, he was saving the money for moving to New York. Blaine wanted to preform, but knew it would be hard to get started, so he was planning for NYU, and computer skills. He liked surfing, it was fun and he could probably find a job in IT, while still preforming on the weekends. Blaine had a plan.

The first time Blaine got arrested was right after his 18th birthday, he was doing a pretty big surf, though not the biggest, he made a mistake though. While working through the 3rd firewall, he forgot to erase his trail, and since it was a pretty big company, he got caught. Luckily it ended up just being a large fine, sadly something his parents were making him payoff. He never told them about the money he had saved up, and figured it wouldn't be a good thing to inform them now. It would show exactly how long he's been surfing, so he made payments for the fine. The $48,563 he had in the bank remained hidden, the statement his parents got from the bank always said $467.04.

Luckily for Blaine getting arrested and fined for hacking, he cringed at the word, wasn't exactly a job killer, at least not for an IT job. He still got accepted to NYU and he had a decent job for a large company doing IT work. He had secretly hoped he could do IT in a Fashion House, just so he could be close, but apparently a lot of IT guys wanted those jobs, he wasn't really sure why though, they didn't seem to care about the clothes.

Wes was going to school at Columbia, so he was still fairly close, and would occasionly send jobs to Blaine, but he promised they were always simple ones, until one wasn't.

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Blaine sat in a simple plain room, hands cuffed to the metal table in front of him, he stared at the two-way mirror. He couldn't believe this had actually happened, it's one thing to get arrested by the police but this was the FBI, he was so screwed. Turned out that all those simple jobs Wes kept sending him, were actually government sites for different countries, and he had actually opened doors for possible terrorists.  He didn't understand how Wes could do something like this!

The door opened quietly, and a short woman walked in, she didn't seem intimidating at all, especially when she smiled at him.

“Good afternoon, Mr. Anderson.”

Blaine cleared his throat,

“Hello, I mean good afternoon ma'am.” He expected to be interrogated like they did on TV, especially after what he did, maybe this was the good cop part.

“Now, Mr. Anderson, my name is Agent Pillsbury. I have read over your file, and I saw that you have been informed of your charges, correct?”

“Yes, ma'am. I want to say I'm sorry too, I had no idea that those were government sites, and for anything that happened, I just can't believe I will be, or possibly am responsible for someone getting hurt. “ he started to cry, hating himself for this, what if a child died, or someone starved or a building was blown-up!?

Agent Pillsbury reached over to grab Blaine's hand.

“Now Mr. Anderson I know you are sorry for what you did, and it's not okay, but we are willing to let you fix your mistakes.”

Blaine looked up at that.

 “How?”

“How would you like to work for the FBI?”