"Hey, ladies, could you all stick around for a minute?" Quinn asked when glee club was over.

The ladies nodded and came to sit around her.

"You know what's been bugging me since Kurt told us what happened? He said before Liam kissed him that he said he usually preferred blondes..."

"And boobs," Santana finished. "You're right but what does that mean?"

"Well, he told Kurt he was sorry he couldn't let him go and that he preferred girls. We all know Sebastian is a slimy jerk. What if he set Kurt up?" Quinn proposed.

The girls' faces were blank for a moment, then one by one they started to nod.

"It makes a sick sort of sense," Mercedes said, her face contorted with disgust.

"It sounds like something that scrawny asswipe might come up with. He always wanted the hobbit, we've heard that from Kurt since day one. He never even tried to hide it. Hell, we talked to Kurt about it before." Santana agreed.

"But why would Blaine believe Sebastian over Kurt? That makes no sense," Rachel brought up.

"Did you see how much he'd been drinking, you guys? Thinking about it now, I swear every time I turned around, Sebastian was shoving that bottle at Blaine. Could he have just been too drunk to notice?" Tina asked.

"Drunk or not, Blaine seriously screwed up by not giving Kurt the benefit of the doubt. But I've been keeping my ear to the ground and from what I've found out, Blaine hasn't been talking to Sebastian at all since last week," Santana informed them. "I think the hobbit has his own doubts now."

"How would you know that?" Mercedes asked with a smile.

"I have my own set of contacts over there at Warbler central. They all like Santana," she said, her dark eyes sparkling.

"I have a plan," Quinn announced. "Santana, can you find out where we can find this Liam guy off campus?"

"Am I the queen of Lima Heights Adjacent? Give me five minutes," Santana answered with a flick of her ponytail and walked to the other side of the room, her phone already at her ear.

"What's your plan?" Rachel asked.

"I've learned a lot about manipulation from Coach Sylvester. I plan to put that to good use. And if Liam likes blondes and boobs, I think he might just get a visit from one," she said with a devious grin.

They were discussing the intricacies of her plan when Santana returned smiling triumphantly. She reported that Liam worked at a restaurant in Westerville and she'd even found that he was working this afternoon.

"Looks like I'm going to Westerville," Quinn said, her eyes sparkling. "Let's meet tonight at Rachel's and we'll go over the rest of the plan. Make sure the guys are there too."

They all agreed and headed out.

That evening, they met in Rachel's basement. Quinn told them what she had found out. There were murmurs of disgust and anger. But they kept on task and came up with the rest of the plan. The girls hadn't told the boys the intimate details of what happened with Kurt and Liam. The guys knew the general details because they'd all been there when Kurt had been trying to tell Blaine that Liam had been the one doing the kissing.

"You guys if this works out, we could get Kurt and the hobbit back together and get a little payback," Santana said, rubbing her hands together.

Artie and Mike exchanged high fives, anger plain on their faces. Finn's phone rang and he stood to the side to take the call.

"Just be in your places tomorrow afternoon at the Lima Bean. Got it?" Quinn asked.

"You guys, we've got trouble. Kurt is gone," Finn announced.

"What do you mean he's gone?" Mercedes asked, standing.

"Burt just got a long voice mail from Kurt telling him he had to take off for a few days and to please don't worry or try to find him. Burt says he must have gotten home before everyone else because he grabbed some clothes and took off," Finn told them, worry on his face.

"Is Burt going to call the police?" Rachel asked.

"Not right away. He texted Kurt and told him he wouldn't if Kurt texted him back every so often. He understands how much Kurt is hurting," Finn replied. "He's a good dad."

"Are we going to try and find him?" Mercedes wanted to know.

"Why don't we wait until after we see if the plan works," Quinn said and Santana nodded. "It might just be best for Kurt to be out of the picture while we get this figured out."

"Don't you think he would want to be in on it?" Sam asked.

"I don't think so, not with how upsetting this whole thing has been for him," Mercedes said. And the other girls nodded with her, knowing she was right.

"Finn, if Burt hears from Kurt, will you send out a group text?" Rachel asked.

Finn agreed and they all said good night.

Finn sent out a group text later that night.

Kurt is ok. He txtd dad a couple times. Burt knows where he is.

The next afternoon, the glee club met up in the side parking lot of the Lima Bean. The plan was for the guys to sit in their cars in case they were needed. Artie was strategically placed and Santana, Quinn, and Brittany were all waiting outside in their Cheerios uniforms.

A small beater of a car pulled up by the girls and Liam got out. Quinn approached him, a welcoming smile on her face.

"Hey Liam, I hope you don't mind, I invited my friends," she said, waving her hand at the other girls. "We tend to, uh, share things on our cheerleading squad."

"Hey, no problem. Three's a charm, right?" He gave them a big grin and leaned against the side of his car as they surrounded him. None of them commented on his wrong use of the quote.

"Absolutely. I told them how I couldn't get you out of my head, having a thing for big blondes and they wanted to meet you," Quinn said.

"We hear you are quite the bad ass," Santana said, perusing his body.

He laughed. "Yeah, last week was one of my badder moments, you could say. Did you tell them, Quinn?"

"No way, I saved that part for you. I loved how you told the story," she said, running a finger down his arm.

"Yeah, we heard you got that fancy pants pretty good," Santana urged him. "Do you go to Dalton?"

"Nah, I'm out of school. I'm twenty one. How do you think we got the alcohol that night? So, Sebastian comes into my work and tells me he needs to hire me to set up some homo. It was pretty good money, so I agreed. He said all I had to do was pretend I was on a date with him, maybe dance with a couple homos, then kiss one of them," he shared, a big grin on his face.

"Oh my god, that's so awesome," Brittany said with an empty smile.

"Totally. Was that Sebastian Smythe? How much did he pay you?" Santana asked.

"A thousand bucks! And yeah, Smythe is his last name. Can you believe it? For one night's work. Insane. But hey, nobody knows I did it, so it's not like anyone's gonna think I'm a homo. The little freak sure did fight me, though. Sebastian said he would be all into it, but I had to get a little tough with him. But it wasn't a problem for me," Liam said, flexing his arms.

"I bet it wasn't a problem at all," Santana said. She looked at Quinn. Quinn looked over her shoulder, then back at Santana and nodded. "Just like this won't be a problem for me," Santana said, looking up at him from under her lashes. She moved closer to him, put her hands on his arms and he grinned as he leaned down to her. As he did, her knee reared back, swung forward and struck him hard between the legs.

An odd squeaking sound escaped him as all the air rushed out of his lungs. The girls backed up as Liam fell to the ground, grasping his crotch.

They were suddenly surrounded by the guys of the glee club. Mercedes, Rachel, and Brittany all went to the corners of the building to stand guard.

"You wanna fuck with someone smaller than you?" Finn growled at Liam, who was just able to start breathing again.

Puck and Mike yanked the guy off the ground and held him while Finn laid into him, throwing punch after punch at the guys face and torso. Liam collapsed on the ground after a time, too heavy for them to hold up. Puck kicked him in the kidneys, before grabbing his head and leaning over him. "We have your little confession on video, motherfucker. So I highly suggest you keep this all to yourself or you'll be spending some time as somebody's bitch in jail. Got it?"

Liam nodded before and slumping to the ground with a strangled moan.

Quinn was over at the car where Artie had taped the whole thing on his phone. She had him send it to him then quietly got in her car and left. She knew where the guys were headed next and she knew someone else who had a true right to be there with them.

She pulled up to Blaine's house and rang his doorbell, thankful she'd thought to look his address up online. He answered the door, a shocked look on his face.

"Quinn, what are you doing here? I mean, come in, please," he said, holding the door for her.

She realized he looked terrible. His hair was flat against his head, he had bags under his eyes like he hadn't slept for days. Part of her was happy. He did deserve to suffer for not believing Kurt. But maybe all of their suffering would be coming to an end soon.

He showed her into a room with couches and they sat down. "I don't know what Sebastian told you about what happened last week, but I brought something for you to see," she began and held her phone out with the video ready to play.

He watched it quietly, his eyes running over with tears, his hands trembling. When Liam got to the part about Kurt fighting back, he cried out and dropped the phone.

He stood up and paced. He made two laps before grabbing a vase and throwing it against the wall. "That son-of-a-bitch! To lie to me, to set up Kurt, to attack him like that! After what...," he looked at Quinn and stopped.

"I know what happened with Karofsky. He told us," Quinn said. "I think everyone might know now, after the video. But nobody will say anything. We all love Kurt too much."

Blaine nodded. "After what happened with Karofsky, I can't even imagine what Kurt must be going through. I have to talk to him," he said, walking towards the door.

"First you need to get to Dalton," Quinn told him.

He stopped to look at her. "Why? I can deal with Sebastian later."

"Because the glee guys are already on their way out there. You might be able to beat them because I left before them. But if you want any sort of part of this, you need to get going now."

He nodded and grabbed his coat. "Could you send me that video? I know what to do with it," he said.

She agreed and walked out with him. He sped off before she even closed the door to her car and she knew she'd done the right thing.

Blaine made several calls on his way and knew the guys from glee were going to miss out on everything if they were heading to Dalton. He pulled up at Sebastian's apartment and took the stairs two at a time.

At his knock, Sebastian opened the door and smiled. "Hey Blaine, good to see you. Did you finally come to your senses?"

"I did. Completely," Blaine said with an evil smile as the door shut behind them.

When he left a little while later, his knuckles were bleeding and his smile was satisfied. Now he had to find Kurt. He couldn't believe how wrong he had been about everything. Two punches and one bash of his head against the wall and Sebastian had started sputtering out his confession, his nose bleeding all over his expensive suit. How he wanted to be with Blaine, how it was part of a game to him to get Kurt out of the picture. Blaine was sickened that he had blamed everything on Kurt, thinking Kurt was jealous of his friendship. When all along it was Kurt who was able to see the whole picture clearly.

His phone rang and he answered it. "Where is Sebastian, Blaine? I know Quinn talked to you," came Finn's voice.

"I took care of him, Finn. There is no need to worry on that account," he said and told Finn what he'd done. "Thank you, by the way. I owe you for taking care of that animal, Liam," Blaine said sincerely.

"I didn't do it for you," Finn said bluntly. "And if you're telling the truth then we'll consider the Sebastian issue settled.

"It is settled. And I know you didn't do anything for me. You did it for Kurt. It doesn't mean I'm not grateful, though I would have loved to have a part in kicking his ass. Finn, please know how sorry I am about all of this. I love Kurt with everything in my heart and I am going to make this up to him."

"You're going to have a lot of work ahead of you," Finn said.

"I know," Blaine said and they hung up. He did have a big job ahead of him and he knew just where to start. He only hoped it would be enough.