A/N: This was written as a reply to a prompt on Glee Angst Meme. In this AU, everyone gets an expiry date. Some are born with them, expecting 60 years more, others get them only a year ahead of the date. The start of this story will be set in the timeline of season one and then go over in season two so before Kurt and Blaine actually meet. Blaine is a freshman at Dalton having to redo a year after he was beaten up after the dance. While it is going to be Blaine/Kurt centered I thought I should start at the beginning and show some Anderson brother love as well, so do not worry readers Kurt will show up. It just might take a few chapters for him to do so.

Blaine normally slept like a rock most nights. This had not always been the case, but the young teen felt safe at his dorm room in Dalton Academy and so hardly anything could wake him up until his body had its eight hours of rest.

When a pillow came crashing into his face however his survival instincts took over and he gasped before looking around the room for whoever wanted to hurt him.

"Pick up your phone Blaine," his roommate Nick Duval growled where he was lying on his own bed glaring at him. "It has been ringing for ages and I do not think the person who wants to reach you is about to give up anytime soon."

In his sleepy haze he glanced over at his phone that was lying on his bedside table and saw that it was blinking with missed calls. Looking at the clock he saw that it was just after three at night and he wondered who might want to reach him at this time. Before he could check who it might be however his phone started to blare out the ring tone again, and Blaine could not believe that he had not woken up by it. It was just so loud.

"Pick it up, and throw me back my pillow so I can try to get back to sleep." His roommate told him pulling the covers over his head trying to block the sound of the annoying phone.

Blaine grabbed the pillow and phone holding them in his hands while looking at the Caller ID. It was his older brother Cooper calling and he could not for the life of him figure out what the older Anderson wanted with him in the middle of the night. All he thought as he made a half assed attempt to throw the pillow back to Nick and pick up the phone at the same time was that his older brother better not butt dial him again.

"Cooper?"

He really did not know why he was asking; who other then Cooper would call him from that number, but who knew maybe there had been an accident or something. As he started to think about all the difference scenarios about what could have happened to his brother he started to get more and more worried.

"B-Blaine," it was his brother that was for sure but his voice was slurry as if he was very tired or very drunk.

Blaine guessed the later.

"Are you drunk?" He could not believe that his older brother was drunk calling him.

Sure it had happened a few times before when the older Anderson wanted to tell his younger brother something awesome that happened but it was ages since last time. Cooper Anderson had been somewhat of a wild child, driving their parents and to some degree Blaine up the walls with annoyance. The last few years Cooper had started to get on track, which was about time considering he was not getting any younger and he was already twenty-seven years old. Cooper had not bothered with college and had gone out in the world to find himself instead and it was only a couple of years ago that he just happened to figure out that he was wanted to do. Sure it had probably been a little ambitious of him to want to be a famous movie star but at least it was something. So far Cooper had not done much, though he had starred in a couple of adverts and was auditioning for parts all over Hollywood in the hope of making it big.

"I'm expiring B!" His brother's slurred voice called out. "I will never become a big Hollywood actor now."

God, was his older brother actually calling him in the middle of the night because he had a freak out if he ever was going to make it big? Blaine suppressed the groan that was threatening to escape his mouth and took a deep breath instead. "You are not expiring Cooper, you are only twenty-seven, a lot of Hollywood actors made it big after they turned thirty. Just look at Harrison Ford and Sylvester Stallone, both of them had their big breaks after they turned thirty years old. You still have a few years before you need to start worrying." He knew that it was hard to reason with the older man while on the phone, but at least he had to try. Chances were that Cooper would wake up with a hangover later and have forgotten all about what had happened anyway.

"N-no you don't understand," Cooper voice was shaking slightly now and Blaine was pretty sure that his brother was crying. Blaine sighed; feeling way too tired to let this go on all night which it seemed like was the direction it was going. "The expiring date is on my hand."

Blaine's breath caught in his throat and he almost lost the phone in shock.

"W-what?" He could not really believe it.

Cooper had not been born with his expiring date on his hand like most people. It only happened to like five percent of the world's population but most people got their date in their teens, something about the hormones making the magic figuring out when it was time for them to die. Cooper Anderson had been one of those few who never had their date appear however, the two brothers had joked about it and figured that Cooper's date would probably end up showing up when he was sixty or something and giving him another thirty years for all the trouble.

"It is on my hand Blaine," Cooper sounded somewhat more sober now though his breathing made it clear that he was falling to pieces.

"Are you sure it is not someone playing a joke on you with a magic marker, did you try to wash it off?" It was a stupid thought really, who could ever be so cruel to do such a thing after all but Blaine had to ask because by the sound of it whatever the date said was not good news.

"I tried but it didn't go away," his brother was sobbing down the phone now and Blaine could only hope that the older man was in his apartment or something so that he was safe and not out on the streets.

"How long?"

It took a couple of seconds for Cooper to really answer him, making a hope spark in Blaine that his brother had been too drunk to see the date right and that they still had tons of years together but that hope was crushed at his brother's next words.

"I won't live to see my next birthday."

Cooper had only turned twenty-seven five months ago.

"Come home," Blaine tried to keep his emotions under control so that he would not break down but he could feel the control slipping quickly. "Just come home and stay at the house, I will move back home as well and be there with you okay?"

"I will take the first plane in the morning."

Confirming the plan they finally hang up with promises of seeing each other as soon as Cooper's plane landed and it was not until then that Blaine finally let himself break down. He did not even realize that Nick had been awake the whole time he had been on the phone before the other teen pulled him into a hug and let him cry on his shoulder.

"It is going to be okay Blaine; everything is going to be okay." Nick told him as he tried to comfort the lead-soloist of the Warblers the best he could.

It was not going to be okay however, his older brother was going to die and Blaine dug his nails into his own palm where the confirmation that he was going to live for over fifty years more without his brother was written.