Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or any songs that may or may not be used within this story. However, I did borrow dialogue from the show here and there- some of it may be exact others more of a paraphrase but I just wanna cover my bases.

A/N: Hey all! This idea just came to me and I sincerely hope it hasn't been done a hundred times- if it has I want to apologize now. There are so many good writers on this site and I don't want anyone to think that I've been stealing ideas.

I have no clue how long this is going to be as I the only thing I'm going on is what if Blaine had been bullied at McKinley and Kurt had been his savior at Dalton- and then I started writing.

Blaine hated his life.

There was no getting around it. He was the only out gay guy in his school and it made his life a living hell. He couldn't walk down the halls with out fear- and for good reason. There was a boy at his school, one David Karofsky, who had decided to make his life as miserable as possible- often by threatening his well being and by shoving him in to lockers. It had been a long time since Blaine had gone without bruises on his back in the distinct shape of a lock and its handle.

He did have one reprieve: glee club. It was there that he felt comfortable to be himself-because in glee club, pretty much everyone was an outsider like him.

"How you doin'?" Mercedes, Blaine's best friend asked as she sidled up next to him at his locker.

"Okay." He answered with a shrug, not daring to look her in the eyes.

"You know Blaine, you really are a terrible liar." She said as she saw her friend hurriedly shove more books into his bag.

"Just drop it Cedes." Blaine said slamming his locker shut. He had made it one step before his ever present nightmare-made-real happened and he was shoved into yet another locker.

"Watch where you're going fairy!" Karofsky shouted, laughing with his other jock buddies as they passed.

"Leave him alone!" Mercedes shouted and made to go after them before Blaine asked her to stop.

"Cedes, just leave it." He said sounding resigned. He felt a twinge at his back- another bruise to add to my collection he thought. "Help me up."

Mercedes glared at the backs of the boys a moment longer before helping Blaine to his feet.

"I'm sorry Blaine. If I had seen them I would have tried to stop them." She said as the duo set off toward Glee rehearsal.

"It's okay. I know you would have." Blaine said but the fact remained Blaine was secretly beginning to wonder how much longer he was going to be able to deal with this bullying.

"Listen up gang cause I've got the names of our competition for sectionals: drum roll please." Mr. Schuester said and the club began drumming on the books. "First is the a cappella choir from the all boys private school is Westerville the Dalton Academy Warblers."

The room seemed approving of the competition but Santana made her opinion known-

"Okay, so like a thousand gay jokes just popped into my head."

Blaine clenched his fists and shot a glare from across the room. It was things like that that really got under Blaine's skin. She had no idea how hard it was and she was willing to make jokes.

"And the other team to beat the Hipsters- a choir from a continuing education program. They are comprised entirely of elderly individuals getting their high school GEDs."

The group murmured about how it was weird and/or unfair that they had to compete against old people. Schuester let them go on for a little bit before refocusing the group and giving them the assignment: boys vs. girls.

"Blaine, gonna say it again boys team." Schuester said without turning around.

Blaine glared at his back. It wasn't his fault if he was more comfortable with the women of Glee. The boys were...supportive, or rather not outright hostile about Blaine, but that didn't change the fact that he still felt like an outsider in the one place that was supposed to be his safe haven.

Blaine was walking briskly to his locker when it happened again- Karofsky shoved him into the lockers but this time something snapped and Blaine shouted before he could stop himself-

"What is your problem?"

Karofsky stopped short and Blaine saw him tense. He felt his heart race as the bully turned to face him.

"You talking back to me?" He stormed over and stopped right in front of Blaine towering over him "You want a piece of the fury?"

"The fury?" Blaine asked before he could swallow the words.

"Yeah its what I named my fists." Karofsky retorted.

Blaine replied, not being able to stop himself even though he knew he was starting to push this too far. "Well with that level of creativity you could easily reach level of assistant manager at a processing plant."

Karofsky looked confused but Blaine could tell he was starting to cross from confused to angry. "I don't know what that is but if I find out that's bad, the fury's going to find you!"

Blaine felt himself slam against the lockers for the second time in as many minutes. However, this time the attack didn't go completely unnoticed. Mr. Schuester saw Blaine stunned, standing against the locker and quickly brought him back to his office and sat the boy down.

"Is there anything I can do?" He asked meaning well but it was truly a loaded question. Blaine just sighed and replied.

"No, this is my issue to deal with...alone."

"Can I be honest?" He asked and waited for Blaine to nod. "I really think this is getting to you. This all used to slide off your back- you're not as happy or outgoing."

"Can I be honest with you?" Blaine snapped back. Mr. Schuester nodded. "You like everyone else at this school is too quick to let homophobia slide." And because Blaine couldn't resist due to still harboring some resentment added- "And your lesson plans are boring and repetitive. Boys vs. girls?"

"You're upset because I didn't let you join the girls like you wanted to." Mr. Schuester replied.

Blaine sighed and started to gather his stuff so he could get to class. "To answer your question, yes- I am unhappy. And yes, being the only out gay kid in this whole damn school 'gets me down'." Blaine reaches the door but pauses- "But most of all I'm not challenged in the least here."

Blaine walks out of his teacher's office and starts to head to class but stops because he hears footsteps pounding, coming from around the corner. He panics and ducks into the closest classroom which- lucky for him- is empty. He takes a moment to calm his racing heart after he sees its a kid he doesn't know rushing to get to class. Blaine looks and his hands are shaking.

Blaine doesn't believe in God but he finds himself praying for a moment- to the universe he supposes- wishing all the fear to end already.