Chapter Five

"Not quite baby doll, I think it's about time I introduced myself. My name is Danny."

"B-Blaine, stop messing around this isn't funny."

"I told you, I'm not Blaine." Kurt watched as this 'Danny' sighed and ran his hands through his hair - which was now drying into curls. "Look - don't tell me you never noticed. I saw how you looked at me when even I -uh- 'came out'."

He had a point, Kurt did notice sudden changes in Blaine's demeanour. But what did this mean? Did Blaine have other personalities?

"But… I don't understand." Kurt mumbled in disbelief, walking back into his bedroom and sitting on his bed.

'Danny' followed, shaking his head and laughing slightly. "I didn't think you would." He finally spoke up, standing across from Kurt.

"So, care to explain?"

"Well, I don't think I should tell you the whole story of why I'm here. However I can tell you how - I guess you could say Blaine has Dissociative Identity Disorder, or multiple personality disorder - whatever you wanna call it." Danny waited for Kurt to respond before he continued.

"Is he… aware of you?" Kurt asked, in disbelief that he's actually believing this, Blaine could be playing a trick in order to bounce back from saying he was 'straight' earlier.

"Yes, well… he's not aware of what I do. I'm aware of what he does but I guess you could say he blacks out when I take over."

"Why do you take over?"

"Blaine can't always cope, so when he's most stressed - usually for specific reasons. So, I come out to help; you get it baby?" Danny winked.

Kurt flushed, either Blaine was a really good actor or this was actually happening. Danny's behaviour was so unlike Blaine's that Kurt was believing it more by the second - it made sense after all. Every time Kurt had met 'Danny' something had happened between him and Blaine beforehand that would make the boy stressed out. It also made sense for Blaine's whole 'I'm straight' confession earlier and him having no idea what Kurt was talking about when he said he was hitting on him. If it was Danny than that meant it was him who was gay - not Blaine, however even Blaine sometimes had shown interest in Kurt; or what seemed to be interest. Something else was going on that Kurt really wasn't sure of; nor sure if he wanted to pursue the answers.

Ugh, this is so confusing. Kurt thought to himself as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

"So… when does Blaine come back?" Kurt asked pointedly - he really had a lot to say to Blaine.

Danny put on a pretend shocked face, and put his hand up to his heart. "Oh Kurt, I'm hurt! Here is me thinking we could have some alone time… if you know what I mean." Danny waggled his eyebrows.

Kurt turned bright red, "I… I think you should go."

"You sure? The offer still stands from that time at your dad's shop…" So that was him. He was sure of it before but this confirmed it.

"I'm sure… I need to talk to Blaine."

"Well baby doll, it's not that simple I'm afraid." Danny shrugged.

"What do you mean?"

"Blaine isn't ready to come back yet."

"How long will it be until is ready then?" Kurt huffed, losing patience.

"I don't know, sometimes it's hours… days. Hell, sometimes it's even weeks. It solely depends on the reason why Blaine shut off in the first place."

Kurt was about to ask what the reason was, but really he already knew. The whole, trying to kiss him thing from before and not believing him when he said he was straight.

"You know… Blaine might have not wanted to kiss you but I'm a different ballgame altogether." Danny's voice dropped an octave when he said that and Kurt suppressed a shudder, Danny noticed this and moved closer to Kurt - sitting next to him on the bed so he could feel his body heat through his jeans. Danny leant closer to Kurt and whispered in his ear, "so, what do you say baby?"

Kurt almost gave in - almost. Obviously Kurt was attracted to Blaine - and this was Blaine just another side. If Blaine had acted like this instead of the shy schoolboy - would Kurt jump on the chance to be intimate with him? Kurt shook his head. No, Blaine isn't like this and that's what attracted him to the other boy in the first place.

"Fine." Danny sighed and lied down on Kurt's bed. Kurt tried his hardest not to look and the skin that was revealed as the other boy's shirt rid up as he laid back. "So, what are you going to say to Blaine?"

"I'm not sure… probably it'd be best for me to first of all mention that I've found out about… well you." Kurt sighed. "Then I guess we'll take it from there. I still can't believe I'm believing this."

"Whether or not you believe it, doesn't change the fact it's real."

Kurt was silent. What could he say? Everything was such a huge mess right now. If only he never tried to kiss Blaine - then again that doesn't change the fact that Blaine was going through this. Possibly alone.

"Wait, so who else knows about this?" Kurt asked, looking over to the boy lying on his bed. Something that would have made him blush in any other situation.

"I think that's a question for Blaine to answer." Danny answered without missing a beat. Kurt nodded and turned back to face the opposite direction.

So another mystery to add to this whole situation - the reason Blaine was like this and who other than himself knew. A few moments passed in utter silence before Kurt spoke up finally.

"So… Danny." The name sounded alien on his tongue, when he knew he was addressing Blaine's form. "How long have you been around then?"

"What did you call me?" A groggily sounding voice came from Danny's direction. Kurt quickly spun around to face what he thought was Danny.

"Blaine?" Kurt asked, noticing the shift in personality - Blaine was slowly sitting up and Kurt could see a different look in his eyes. Everything about him seemed to have shifted, the cocky lopsided smile that seemed to be forever planted on Danny's face was replaced with Blaine's usual blank look.

"D-did you just call me Danny?" He even sounded different, Danny seemed to have a different edge to his tone. Blaine's voice was much softer, smaller.

"Y-yeah… I uh - I guess I met him." Kurt flushed, not being able to look Blaine in the eye. At first he was sure he was going to confront him, but seeing the look on Blaine's face made him realise what a private, personal even slightly embarrassing secret Kurt just stumbled upon. Blaine obviously wasn't ready to share that part of him yet and for Kurt to find out like this, Blaine must be feeling really insecure.

"I should have warned you." Blaine's small voice spoke up after a few minutes. "No, I shouldn't have even spoken to you in the first place!" Blaine suddenly stood up and faced Kurt. "I'm sorry Kurt but we can't be friends anymore."

Kurt quickly stood up. "What? Why? It's nothing to be embarrassed about Blaine… I wont tell anyone!"

Blaine shook his head. "No, you don't understand." He looked down at the floor.

"Well then let me. Talk to me Blaine!"

Blaine shook his head again and when he looked back up at Kurt, Kurt saw that there were tears forming in the shorter boys eyes.

"Blaine, please." Kurt reached out to touch Blaine, out of comfort. However Blaine quickly moved out the way.

"You know what?" Kurt almost shouted, getting angrier now. "I'm sorry for almost kissing you, I got the wrong message because of what Danny did. I won't try again so you wont have to worry about me 'infecting' you or whatever."

"Ku-"

"No Blaine, I get it." Kurt started tearing up. "You know the worst thing? I thought you were different to everyone else, but you're not. You're just another straight guy afraid us gays are out to convert you!"

"You don't understand!" Blaine shouted back, his own frustration now evident. "It's not like that."

"What is it then Blaine?" Kurt said unable to stop the tears.

"I'm sorry Kurt." and with that he was gone, out of Kurt's room, his house and as far as Kurt was concerned - out of his life.

The next few weeks of school were torture to Kurt, he saw Blaine. A lot. It seemed this time Blaine didn't feel like skipping - he guessed Danny didn't make an appearance. He couldn't be that upset about us not being friends anymore then - Danny said he only showed up when Blaine was stressed. Kurt thought to himself, trying to make any excuses as possible to make it hurt less. He knew that the only way he'd get over it if he convinced himself that Blaine just didn't want to be friends with him - sure it didn't make sense but he was Kurt Hummel, and Kurt Hummel knew that if someone didn't want anything to do with him then he sure as hell had no time for them.

Or so he told himself.

That didn't stop him from staring when he saw Blaine fumbling with his locker, or walking down the halls. Or eating in the cafeteria alone.

Rumours spread like wildfire the first week - once people started noticing Kurt and Blaine were no longer on speaking terms. Some of the rumours hit home - like the one about Kurt coming onto Blaine and Blaine - being straight, refused. Some were downright silly like the one about the only reason Blaine started talking to Kurt was Kurt was threatening him.

It had been a total of 5 weeks since the argument in Kurt's room and Kurt was started to dearly miss Blaine. They may not have spent much time as 'friends' but what they did Kurt really enjoyed. He wondered if Blaine felt the same way, if the way Kurt would look at Blaine and see him already looking back was anything to go by - Kurt guessed that he did.

"This is getting silly." Kurt said out loud, accidentally.

"What is Kurt?" Tina asked.

"Oh uh… did I say that out loud?"

Tina followed Kurt's eye line and saw he was looking at Blaine. "Is it about him?"

"Maybe." Kurt shrugged.

"What actually happened between you guys? One day you were all friendly and the next it was like you had never even met."

Kurt shrugged again, not really sure how to answer, it didn't seem very smart to answer 'Oh well basically he has another personality and that personality hit on me so I though Blaine was gay, when I tried to kiss him he backed away saying he wasn't, then locked himself in my bathroom till the other personality emerged." Yeah, that really didn't seem like such a good idea.

"Well, whatever it is I hope you sort it out soon." Tina smiled and walked to out of the building, since school was over.

Tina was nice, why couldn't he have stuck with her and Mercedes instead of chasing after some mysterious guy. Because you have a huge crush on him that's why. Kurt shook the thought out of his head and went back to focusing on what he was looking at, it shocked him to see Blaine staring back at him, he wondered how long they'd been like this while he was lost in his thoughts. Kurt quickly turned away to his locker - blushing.

A few moments later he heard a familiar voice behind him. "Hey."

Kurt turned around to see Blaine, awkwardly shuffling on his feet and looking at the floor.

"Hi," Kurt said quietly.

"Look Ku-"

"Bla-" They both spoke at the same time. Both boys laughed lightly. "You first." Kurt offered.

Blaine nodded. "Look, I'm sorry about what happened before… I guess I just find it really hard to talk about my uh - situation."

"I understand, I'm sorry as well… I guess I get really protective over my sexuality."

"It's understandable I mean, you went from a completely accepting city to a homophobic place like Ohio." Blaine smiled slightly. "I'm not by any means homophobic, Kurt."

Kurt nodded and waited for Blaine to continue.

"Do you wanna go for a walk?" Blaine said suddenly after a few moments silence. "I mean, so we can talk…"

"Sure." Kurt agreed, just glad to have Blaine back in his life again.

The walk was silent at first, both boys shyly glancing at each other from time to time. Blaine was the first one to break the silence.

"So I'm guessing you're wondering how I got…how I got Danny." Blaine paused momentarily. "Well, the truth is… I don't really know. When I was about 15, I started noticing things, like I would randomly not remember huge gaps of time. My hair would be different, so would my clothes when I woke up again.

"Also around this time I noticed my parents were behaving differently to me - my dad would just downright refuse to talk to me for reasons I didn't know and my mom always looked disappointed in me. I never knew why. I still don't.

"Anyway, a few months after all this I decided to talk to my parents about it, I told them what I basically am telling you now - that I had problems with my memory and things were becoming really weird. They argued about whether to send me to a doctor or not - but decided against it since our family has a strict reputation to uphold. Having a mentally ill son didn't really match up with the 'perfect nuclear family' image that my family fought so hard to hold on too." By now Blaine and Kurt had stopped walking and were sitting on a bench near a play park.

"Eventually they stopped looking at me with disappointment, I didn't get why the sudden change happened. It was like… they were pleased about something. I kept getting asked if I remembered anything serious happening, like something happened that I should remember but I didn't you know? It's hard to explain and I might just be paranoid - but whatever it was they seemed happy that I did forget."

Kurt furrowed his brows in confusion, why would his parents be happy about him having a mental illness? What did Blaine forget that would make life easier for his parents? Blaine didn't seem to know… but he guessed Danny did.

"So your parents, I'm guessing they met Danny?"

"Yeah… I guess that's what made it easier for them to understand. And for me to understand, they explained to me what was wrong with me and told me all about Danny. At first I thought it was a joke, but it all made sense after a while - the change in appearance, the blacking out."

"Have you ever, well - got in contact with Danny?" Kurt asked, looking over at Blaine who was staring at the grass in deep thought.

"Yeah, actually. When my parents told me about him I started leaving notes. Asking questions like 'why'. He didn't reply - not at first. It wasn't until a few months after when I saw a note taped to my mirror…" Blaine paused, like he was battling himself on whether he should carry on.

"What did it say?" Kurt urged him along but didn't know if he wanted to really hear the answer.

"I'm here to protect you."