The slushy special
I started writing this as soon as I saw the Michael episode, and then I got distracted by work. Slightly AU (I guess) as Blaine is staying at the Hudson/Hummels. I don't own Glee…yet (muahahahahaaa!)
Blaine had often wondered if he could ever take a bullet for anyone, he'd like to think that he could, but in that moment with the barrel pointing at the intended victim could he really do it? Could he jump in front of the projectile? Funnily enough the answer would come sooner then he thought; granted it wasn't a gun that was pointed at anyone and it wasn't just anyone. Kurt is not just anyone. Kurt is everything. The smirk on Sebastian's face was enough to make Blaine wanted to punch him; a look of complete smugness. Sebastian looked from the slushy to Kurt and back again. Blaine knew what he was going to do – he couldn't let it happened. Kurt had been humiliated enough with slushies' and locker checks. Hurt enough by Sebastian and his inappropriate comments. There's no way in hell that Sebastian is going to touch Kurt. This was Blaine's thought was a dove through the air, as the slushy hit him. Then the thought was interrupted by pain. Kurt mentioned that it would sting but this, this was more than that, this hurt like a bitch, like knives stabbing and twisting in his eyeball. Clutching at his face Blaine curled himself into the fetal position and tried to wish the pain away.
"Blaine!" Kurt fell onto his knees next to Blaine.
"Kurt," Blaine groaned "it hurts so badly."
"It's okay, it's okay" Kurt rubbed Blaine back "Blaine does it hurt anywhere else?"
Blaine screamed low and primal, almost like a grunt "N-no just my eye. Make it stop Kurt. Please, it hurts so badly."
Tears cascaded down Kurt's face as he looked to Finn for help.
"Right, Rach call and ambulance" Finn patted Rachel's shoulder silently communicating that she had to stay calm. "Mercedes grab the blanket out of your car and put it over Blaine. Sam take Kurt's keys and bring his car around" Sam grabbed the keys. "I will call my Mom."
"What about the rest of us." Artie wheeled forward slightly.
Finn scanned the rest of the group "You can kick the ass of any Warbler who comes back." Pulling out his phone he took a deep breath and called his Mum.
All of New Directions insisted in going to the hospital. Kurt rode with Blaine and the rest of the club piled into the closets vehicle.
By the time Burt and Carole made it to the hospital Kurt was a mess; he was holding onto Finn for dear life, sobbing into his shirt. Finn simply hugged Kurt around the shoulders and slowly rocked them both back and forth. While the rest of New Directions paced, prayed, tried to bribe the nurses for information, plotted revenge and cried.
"Kurt! Finn!"
Both boys looked over and their parents. Letting go of Finn Kurt ran to his father and wrapped his arms tightly around him. "Dad" he sobbed "Blaine…slushy… his eye… so much pain."
Burt kissed Kurt's temple "Ssshhh Kurt, it's okay."
Carole reached over and squeezed Finn's hand as he joined them "what happened sweetie?"
Finn took a deep breath "The Warblers found out about us doing MJ at regionals so we decided to battle them by singing Bad in a parking lot. It was going great, until Sebastian pulled out a slushy." Kurt's grip on his father tightened, Finn noticed but kept going "it was meant for Kurt but Blaine jumped in at the last second. It hit him right in the face."
Burt pulled back from Kurt to look in his eyes. "Kurt, who is Sebastian?"
Kurt sniffed and unwrapped himself from his Dad "He's a Warbler; he transferred after Blaine came to McKinley. Blaine met him when he invited The Warblers to Westside Story and he's had his eye on Blaine ever since. He takes any opportunity he can to hit on Blaine, put me down, remind me that I'm not get enough for Blaine." Kurt took a deep breath attempting to calm himself "I guess this was another attempt."
Carole hugged Kurt "I am going to see what I can find out." She turned and headed to the Nurses' station. The next 15 minutes were spent sending New Directions home leaving only Burt, Carole, Finn and of course Kurt.
"Kurt honey, Blaine's in Room 518." Carole smiled.
Kurt surged forward and began running down the hallway.
Blaine's room was quiet, small and sterile. Mild pain killers had been administered; his eye had been washed out with saline, and was now covered. He was impressed at how fast he had been seen, maybe that was because his injury was serious. "Oh my god I am going to lose my eye." Panic started to bubble inside Blaine. "I like my eye, Kurt loves my eyes. Oh no, Kurt's going to have a one eyed boyfriend." The panic continued to rise; Blaine felt his chest tightening and his throat closing up. He opened his mouth gulping in as much air as he could. I fucking hate Sebastian he thought as tears of panic tumbled down his face. I fucking hate Sebastian and I am having a panic attack.
Kurt rounded the corner and found room 518; his heart broke at what he saw. Blaine sitting up in the hospital bed, hunched over, hands gripping the sheets for dear life and struggling for air.
Kurt rushed over and sat next to Blaine, rubbing circles on his back. "It's okay honey, just breathe. It's okay."
Blaine looked over at Kurt, shear panic filling his eyes.
"Okay Blaine honey, you need to breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Look in my eyes honey. Listen to me okay, just concentrate on me."
Blaine nodded and squeezed Kurt's hands.
"Good Blaine. Breathe with me. Breath in." Blaine complied "good, hold it," Kurt counted to three "and breathe out. Good honey, that's good." Kurt continued the routine for a few minutes until Blaine's breathing started to slow.
Blaine sat there burying himself into to Kurt's side, trying to calm himself, trying to breathe normally.
"Kurt?" Blaine looked up at his boyfriend, his breathing still a little irregular. "You came!"
Kurt kissed him on the forehead "Of course I came. We all did. Dad, Carole, and Finn are still here; we sent everyone else home." Kurt continued to comfort Blaine whispering 'I love you' in his ear over and over again.
Carole stepped into the room "Blaine honey, what did the doctor say?" Carole smiled at Kurt and Blaine.
Blaine looked over at Carole "he said that my cornea is scratched and that I will need surgery to fix it." Blaine's eyes were huge with tears begging to be set free.
Carole took a few steps into the room "Oh honey, I'm so sorry." She paused for a moment "let's get you home."
Blaine slowly sat up and untangled himself from Kurt.
Kurt grabbed Blaine stopping him in his tracks "Wait Carole, we can't let Blaine go home by himself. He shouldn't be alone right now I think that…"
"Kurt, sweetie he's coming back with us, okay." Carole stepped forward and squeezed Blaine's shoulder "Burt has gone to get your prescription and Finn's getting your car Kurt."
Kurt wheeled Blaine towards the exit as they both discussed ways to make the cold metal of the wheel chair look more fashion friendly.
"Sebastian's a douche" Blaine sighed snuggling further into Kurt's bed.
Kurt chuckled as he returned his moisturizers to their rightful places. "I can think of a few other ways to describe him" Kurt walked over to Blaine and crawled into his arms. "Are you okay, sweetie? Do you need anything?"
Blaine placed his chin on Kurt's head "No, I'm good. This sucks, I can't believe him! I can't believe The Warblers. They were my friends, they were your friends." Blaine hummed and tightened his grip on Kurt. "Stupid Warblers" he mumbled.
"Blaine?"
"Mmm?"
"Why did you do it?" Kurt ran his fingers up and down Blaine's arms.
"Why'd I do what?"
"You know what Blaine. Why did you take that slushy for me?"
Blaine sighed, closing his eyes as he tried to think of how to explain it. "You've been through so much Kurt, we both have. I'm not saying that you can't handle things yourself. It's just" he shifted slightly "everything with Sebastian." Blaine growled the last word "by flirting with me in front of you he was trying to humiliate you, too make you feel worthless, I see that now, that's what he was always trying to do and it worked didn't it?"
Kurt nodded "to begin with it worked. I felt useless, unworthy, like I didn't deserve you. Then when you told that he meant nothing to you I was fine but then at the Lima Bean when he said you had been talking about us doing Michael Jackson songs I felt it again."
Blaine bit his lip "and now?"
"Now?" Kurt interlaced his fingers with Blaine's "Now I am okay. You took a slushy for me Blaine. How could I not be okay?"
Blaine kissed Kurt's hand that was interlocked with his own "but I want you to be more than okay."
"I will be" Kurt promised "but right now I am worried about you and pissed off at Sebastian. Okay is all I can handle right now."
"I'm sorry" Blaine kissed Kurt's temple.
"For what?" Kurt looked up at Blaine.
"For not standing up to Sebastian, for letting him treat you that way. I just thought that he could use a friend, a mentor."
"You weren't going to mentor him the same way you did me were you? Look at where we ended up."
Blaine chuckled, "No. No Kurt. You were; you are special. We were never just friends, not really. I think we were together long before it was official."
Kurt hummed "Oh I agree with that. I mean who sings the entirety of Teenage Dream to a complete stranger?"
"Exactly." Blaine agreed.
"Time for you to take your drugs mister." Kurt jumped up and grabbed the glass of water and pain killers from his desk.
Huffing Blaine sat up and waited patiently for Kurt to return. "I hate pills."
"I'm sorry" Kurt returned and handed the pills and water. "They will help though."
Blaine grabbed the pills and smiled at his caregiver "I know."
Kurt kissed Blaine on the cheek and headed for the door "I'm just going downstairs to see how everyone is."
Blaine nodded and took the pills.
Back tracking Kurt grabbed the remote for his I-pod docking station and passed it to Blaine.
"How's Blaine doing?" Burt asked as Kurt entered the dining room.
"He's" Kurt took a moment "he's okay. Frustrated, angry, hurting."
"How are you?" Carole took a seat next to Burt.
Kurt began pacing "Is it illegal to kill someone because they are an inconsiderate, conceded bastard who is trying to take away the best thing that's ever happened to me?"
"Yes it is" Burt stared at Kurt with a look that said 'but if it wasn't there'd be trouble.'
Finn looked at Kurt and pulled out a seat for him. "What I don't get" Finn began "is how Sebastian thought that slapping you with a slushy was going to win Blaine."
Kurt sat next to his brother "I guess, he thought that if I was humiliated in front of him Blaine would realize how much of a loser I am and dump me, or I'd realize how much of a loser I am and I'd dump him."
"But you're not a loser" Kurt simply blinked at his brother "you're not a loser Kurt. You're one of the most amazing people I've ever met, and this Sebastian guy has no idea who he is dealing with."
Kurt placed his hand on Finn's shoulder "Thanks Finn, you're pretty amazing too."
Burt and Carole looked lovingly at their two boys. "Kurt honey, are you hungry." Kurt looked over and Carole and smiled "fruit cup" she asked.
Kurt nodded "and a slice of cake please."
"What I don't understand" Carole placed the food in front of Kurt "is why nobody did anything to stop it."
Kurt opened his fruit cup "I don't understand it either. Those guys love Blaine. I thought they cared about me too. Blaine did so much for the Warblers; he was an amazing lead soloist, a great friend to them and none of them stopped to help."
"That's what hurts the most"
They all turned to see Blaine standing in the doorway "Nick, Jeff and Trent are supposed to be my friends, but they did nothing to help me. They knew that Sebastian intended to hit Kurt with that slushy and they let it slide. I don't need friends like that. If Thad, David and Wes were around there is no way that this would happen. " Blaine slumped down in the chair next to Kurt.
Finn, Carole and Burt all looked at Blaine and Kurt confused.
Kurt swallowed his mouth full of fruit cup "they were the Warbler council last year. Kept the Warblers in check."
"And took me under their wing when I transferred to Dalton. They were my real friends" Blaine added sadly.
"Dude that sucks. But you have us now, you have New Directions."
"Thanks Finn. Hey Kurt can you do me a favour?"
"Of course." Kurt took a spoonful of his fruit cup and put it to Blaine's lips.
Blaine smiled and gratefully accepted it "can you thank New Directions for me tomorrow?"
"I can do that. Are you not going to school tomorrow?"
"No. The doctor recommended I take a few days off and I want to go to Dalton. I need to talk the Warblers."
"I'll drive you honey. Then we can go to your house and pick up some clothes."
Blaine smiled at Carole "Thanks Carole."
"What are you going to tell them?" Finn questioned.
Blaine looked directly at Finn "The truth."
Chapter 1 done. Next chapter should hopefully be up tomorrow. Am working on it as you read. I hope you enjoyed this. Please review.