Monday: Kids
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Disclaimer: I do not own Kurt, Blaine, Cooper or Burt. They all belong to Ryan Murphy and his various associates.
Maria Hummel was home from the hospital with her two-day-old son Kurt Elijah Hummel. Burt Hummel was out picking up some beer, it helped with the mother's milk, while Maria's oldest and best friend Leah was keeping the new mother company with her own two sons, two-year-old Blaine and eight-year-old Cooper. Cooper had gone out with Burt but Blaine had stayed with his mother, Maria and the newborn.
Blaine stared at the newborn, all smushed, and pink and staring blankly out at the world. The young curly haired boy stared at the baby with large amber eyes of amazement as the two women laughed gently from the kitchen table where they were drinking some tea together, as they watched the toddler interact with the baby.
"Would you like to hold him, Blaine?" Maria asked after the young toddler had just stood and stared at the baby for quite sometime, she had a kind and fond smile on her face as she posed the question for the little curly haired boy. Blaine looked up at the new mother, nodding his head fiercely. Maria got up from the table, heading towards the baby as she told Blaine to sit on the floor, Blaine's own mother instructing him to be careful of the baby.
The new mother took her offspring into her arms and came to sit next to Blaine, handing the baby to the young wide-eyed toddler. Blaine held the baby gently, tightly, like a precious and well-beloved doll.
Kurt shifted a little at the new hands and position but a second later he had calmed and seemed to be very restful in Blaine's arms.
"He's… He's… He's so tiny!" The mothers laughed together as they each took a spot on either side of Blaine.
"Thank god!" Maria laughed in a joyous tone before setting a soft kiss to her son's head. "But he won't be tiny for long though. Babies grow very quickly Blaine."
"Aren't you afraid of breaking him?" The mothers laughed again.
"Oh I'm sure he'll be fine."
Blaine didn't seem to believe her as he looked back down at the baby, a baby who seemed to be reaching out to him, even though the movements were hard to identify. "I'll protect him! No one is ever going to hurt him under my watch!" The mothers gave each other a fond look before chuckling lightly and agreeing to Blaine's new position in the newborn's life.
And as it turned out Blaine did an excellent job of playing the protector. He always wanted to play with Kurt and look after him, the relationship was very sweet as the mothers watched with a quiet fondness of their two sons playing together and forming a very special bond as they grew up.
But five years later Maria started to grow ill and Blaine and Leah moved, making the visits between the two children and their mothers' harder as they were no longer a block away from each other.
It was a hard fight for Maria but in the end the cancer won and Leah couldn't bare to take her son to her friend's house, her own best friend she's known since Kindergarten was dead and the house held too many painful memories. Kurt himself… he was so much like his mother and it hurt to see him because she couldn't help but see Maria, her best friend. So Blaine and Kurt stopped seeing one another.
Blaine never forgot his younger friend but Kurt could only remember a shadowy figure, a figure that was in photos with him and the memory of someone other than his parents watching over him.
It would be over a decade later before the two young boys, now young men, would meet again.
A/N Please review! I'll be posting Tuesday's story shortly so put the story on your alert pages. Thank you!