August 2021

Blaine quickly shoved his legs through his pants and the sweater over his head, he glanced at the clock on the wall; 5:20.

"Dammit, dammit, dammit!" he muttered finding shoes and putting them on, not worrying about socks. There was no time for that. He glanced the mirror in dismay at his wet, dripping curls; they would have to stay like that he guessed. He quickly grabbed his wallet, shoving it into his back pocket, and his keys and raced out the door.

Fifteen minutes later he was at 'Holly's All-Day Childcare Centre' he was parked crookedly, but it didn't matter. He'd sign Maddison out then they'd be off again to the supermarket so he could feel like he was being responsible in some way and at least feeding her well.

As he walked in he was greeting by the bubbly blonde Holly herself.

"Hello Blaine. We were wondering when you'd get here."

"I'm so sorry Holly. Work ran late and I-"

He held up a hand to silence him. "It's ok. You're not the last to arrive."

He looked over, and sure enough Maddison was playing dolls with another girl with chestnut, braided hair. Part of him felt bad, leaving the chestnut haired child all alone, but he really had to get going.

"Maddy," he said.

She looked up from the game she was playing. Her hazel eyes lit up as soon as she saw him.

"Daddy!" she squealed, jumping up and running to him.

"Hey kiddo." he grinned as he scooped her up while she hugged him tightly around the neck, her legs quickly gripping around his waist.

"I missed you all day." she said, kissing him on the cheek, she then scrunched her face up. "Ew, you're all prickly."

He laughed. "Sorry. Are you ready to get dinner?"

She nodded, then glanced back at the chestnut haired girl.

"What's Lily going to eat?" she asked.

Blaine shrugged. "That's up to her mom or dad."

"And, here's Kurt now for her." Holly said smiling.

Blaine was not the type of man to believe in fate, or the stars, or any sort of higher being planning out his life for him. Enough had happened in his life to disprove any kind of evidence of anything like that. However, in that moment he wasn't so sure. Maybe the fates were real. And maybe they were extremely cruel.

Because the very last person he expected to see walking through that door was the one person who did.

Kurt Hummel.

"Holly, I'm sorry, I'll pay extra for the time she was here." Kurt said, apparently not seeing Blaine, who was frozen to the spot, at all.

"It's alright Kurt, Maddy only just got picked up as well."

"Oh? Oh good, at least she wasn't..." he trailed off as he focused in on Blaine, who was still unable to move. "Oh."

"Yeah." he managed to choke out.

"Daddy, I'm hungry." the girl in his arms suddenly jolted him back to reality.

"Oh. Right, we're leaving now sweetie." he looked back at Kurt. "We were just leaving." he said to him unnecessarily.

"Right." Kurt nodded.

"I thought I should mention to you two men, Maddy and Lily have been glued to each others sides all week, maybe you should organise a play date for them sometime." Holly said, smiling at them both.

Blaine did not like that idea.

"Uh, yeah, maybe." he stuttered out. "I have to go. Busy night. Bye." he said hastily, avoiding looking at Kurt.

"Bye Holly, bye Lily, bye Lily's dad." Maddison waved enthusiastically.

And Blaine fled from there as quickly as he could.

A/N: Throwing this out as a bit of a feeler to see what people think because I'm insanely insecure. So... if you enjoyed it, it would be awesome if you let me know by leaving a review or something :) I'm sure you have 500 questions about the little situation that exists right now :) haha