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There's no Kurt in this one but he and Blaine will meet soon.
Warning: alcohol and drug use
Blaine threw his head back and let the guy who was sitting next to him bite and kiss his neck. This party was the best he had ever organized, with just enough pretty boys, alcohol and yeah... drugs. Nothing too bad, he didn't want anybody lose their head and destroy his apartment, just a few pills to ease the mood.
This pretty blond guy whose name he didn't know had found him about five minutes after his arrival and Blaine had known instantly that he was a talented one, good enough to keep him company for the rest of the night. He made sure his glass was always filled and see, it didn't take him long to catch what Blaine wanted from him. Just a nice evening, nothing major. He wouldn't remember him the next day anyway, once the effects of the alcohol and the pills took off. It wasn't like he wanted to. He never spent two nights with the same guy. He only used them for fulfilling his needs, he didn't need a burden when his life was so perfect this way.
"Dude, this thing is awesome" Sam, his best friend told him as a girl climbed into his lap and buried her face into his chest.
"I told you" Blaine smiled.
"I want to dance" the girl told Sam.
"That can be arranged" Sam smiled. "Music!"
Blaine sighed and reached out for his laptop to get them some music. Soon, Katy Perry's familiar voice filled the room and some of his guests, including Sam and his new friend, got up and started dancing.
"I want to dance, too" the guy told Blaine, pulling away slightly.
"But I don't" Blaine said, pushing the guy's face back to his neck, and closed his eyes. Soon he felt his tongue ran down his sensivite skin and he sighed happily. Yeah, that was how people should live their lives.
Unfortunately, they were disturbed again by the banging on the front door. Blaine sighed in frustration and pushed the blondie away, getting up from the couch. He made his way to the door and opened it slightly, raising an eyebrow. It was one of his neighbours in nothing but his pijama pants and he seemed angry.
"Can I help you?" Blaine asked.
"It's past midnight and some of us want to sleep" the man said.
"Then sleep" Blaine shrugged.
"I can't because of these nerve-racking noises coming from your apartment" the guy replied.
Blaine rolled his eyes. It was Sunday night, when people usually rested after a long week and got ready for the next one. He didn't understand what the guy's problem was.
"Get earplugs or something" he said, trying to close the door.
The man reached out, preventing Blaine from closing the door.
"I will call the police if you don't silence that crowd" the man said.
"Go on" Blaie shrugged and closed the door before the man could stop him again.
"What was that?" Sam asked.
"My neighbour" Blaine said as he sat down again, disappointed that pretty guy found himself somebody else while he was gone. "He said that he would call the police because we're too loud."
"The police?" Sam gulped nervously.
"Relax, he won't do anything" Blaine waved him down.
"He better won't because we would be in so much trouble if the police found our supplies" Sam said.
"Sam, it will be fine. Sit down and enjoy the party" Blaine said, grabbing his glass from the table.
True to Blaine's words, neither his neighbour nor the police came back to visit them that night. About four hours later, his guests left and only Sam stayed behind to help Blaine get rid of the rest of the alcohol and clean up in the morning. They only sat down with a few glasses of beer when somebody knocked on the door.
"I can't believe he's back again!" Blaine said in frustration.
"Let me deal with this" Sam said, putting a hand on Blaine's shoulder. He stood up and walked to the door, opening it slowly because in his drunken state, he barely found the handle. He looked around in confusion. Nobody was there what didn't make any sense. They had both heard the knock.
"There's nobody out here" he said as he stepped forward, almost tripping over something that had been left in front of the door and he hadn't seen before. He swore quietly, massaging his feet as he looked down at the large basket.
"Blaine, somebody left you a basket" Sam said.
"A what?" Blaine asked as he joined Sam outside.
"Yeah. A pink one" Sam said.
Blaine looked down at the basket what wasn't really a basket as he realised when he crouched down to take a better look. It was a carrycot with something pink in it. Something that was moving. Blaine gasped in surprise and fell back, staring at the thing in the carrycot with wide eyes.
"What the hell..."
He grabbed the edge of the blanket and pulled it away.
"Oh. Dear. Freaking. God" Sam said.
Blaine looked into the carrycot and to his surprise, the same hazel eyes looked back at him. The owner of the carrycot was very much awake and stared at him with wide, scared eyes.
"Wow, dude. That thing you gave me must have been really cool because I'm hallucinating a baby" Sam muttered.
"You're not hallucinating" Blaine said slowly. "God, somebody left a baby on my doorstep."
Sam looked around on the empty corridor as if he was waiting for someone to come out and get the baby.
"Hello! Someone missing a baby?" Sam shouted.
"Shh" Blaine hissed.
"What?" Sam frowned.
"Just... be quiet. I don't think somebody left her here accidentally" Blaine said, although he wished he hadn't been right. Who would do this to an innocent child and more importantly, who would play this kind of game with him?
"We have to call the police" Sam said in panic.
"No, we can't" Blaine said.
"What should we do with her then?" Sam asked.
Suddenly, probably because of the loud, panicked voices over her, the baby started crying, her voice louder than a siren.
"Make her stop" Sam said.
"How?" Blaine asked back.
"How am I supposed to know? I don't know a thing about babies" Sam said.
"Because I'm an expert of them" Blaine rolled his eyes.
"Let's get her inside" Sam said.
"Should-should we?" Blaine asked.
"What else are we supposed to do with her in the middle of the night?" Sam pointed out.
"I don't know... Maybe just leave her here. Her parents have to come back for her eventually" Blaine said. "They have to."
"What if they won't?" Sam asked.
Blaine ran his fingers through his hair. Whoever was playing with him, they should better come and get the baby because it wasn't funny at all.
"Okay. Let's get her inside. She's too loud" Blaine said in the end.
They grabbed the carrycot and carried it into the living room together. Unfortunately, the baby inside didn't seem to like the idea because she just got louder than before.
"What's wrong with her?" Blaine asked in concern.
"Maybe she isn't happy that she was left for strangers in the middle of the night" Sam said.
"Who would do such a horrible thing? She's just a kid" Blaine said.
"Don't you want to hold her?" Sam asked.
"Why should I?" Blaine frowned.
"Because it would help her calm down. I guess" Sam answered.
"Why don't you do it?" Blaine asked.
"Hey, it's your pack, not mine" Sam said.
"It's a baby, Sam" Blaine said, shaking his head.
Since his friend didn't seem like he would get the baby out of the carrycot anytime soon, Blaine took a deep breath and reached out for the little crying bundle. He didn't know too much about babies, his brother had one but he hated kids so much that he mostly avoided his own nephew just like any other kid. He still knew that he had to hold them gently and be careful because they couldn't hold their heads alone.
He took the baby out, holding away as if she was a bomb that could explode in any second. Blaine couldn't decide if his eyes were wider or the girl's. They were both silent, eyeing each other catiously for a whole minute, right until the baby started crying again.
"Come on, don't do this" Blaine said desperately. "What should I do now?"
"Rock her. Gently" Sam said as he went through the content of the carrycot.
"Okay..." Blaine sighed, carefully shaking the baby in his arms but she just cried louder. "It's not working!"
"Hey, I found a letter" Sam said excitedly, not paying any attention to his friend's problems.
"Open it" Blaine said impatiently.
Sam opened the envelope and held out the letter, so both of them could see.
Blaine,
You surely don't remember me and I don't blame you at all.
We met last year, at your friend's Christmas party. I know you didn't want anything more from me and believe me, I never wanted to involve you in this but things changed and now I need your help.
Blaine's eyes found the name at the bottom of the letter and his heart stopped for a second. Of course he remembered this girl. She was the only one who...
"Who's Brittany?" Sam whispered.
Blaine shook his head and continued reading the letter.
Two weeks after I left the town, I found out that I was pregnant. With your child. I know it's hard to believe but you were the only one for me in that period, so I'm 100 % sure that the baby is yours.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Blaine asked, although he knew that nobody would answer his question.
I wanted to tell you... At least first. But I decided that it was better for all of us if I didn't come back and raised the child on my own. I know it was my fault. I told you that I couldn't get pregnant from one time because your little guys didn't know the way to my eggs, so they couldn't find them but it looks like yours are too smart and you somehow got me pregnant.
"This is just getting better" Sam smiled, knowing that Blaine couldn't hit him while holding the baby in his arms.
"Not funny, Sam" Blaine said.
I really tried to do this on my own, Blaine, but I just can't anymore. I'm so tired, and I have horrible thoughts about the baby. I'm afraid that I would hurt her and I couldn't let it happen. I want you to take care of her, I know you can do it. She's your baby as well after all.
Her name is Lily, after my grandmother. Not that she looks like her but she is just as loud as grandma used to be. I'm sure you will love each other.
"I can't believe this is happening" Blaine muttered, his eyes finding the baby in his arms again. Not just a baby... his daughter. The baby was his daughter. God.
"What are you going to do now?" Sam asked quietly.
Blaine looked at his friend with wide eyes. The letter changed everything. If Brittany was right and Blaine had a horrible feeling that the baby was really his, he couldn't just make her disappear. He had to take care of her, raise her. But he wasn't ready for this. So he did what he always did when he was in trouble: he denied.
"This is a mistake. I can't be the father" Blaine said.
Sam looked at him doubtfully and then down at the baby in Blaine's arms. She looked exactly like the girl version of Blaine: her skin, her big hazel eyes, even her dark curls. There was no denial, the baby was Blaine's.
"Did you have sex with her?" Sam asked just in case.
"Yes" Blaine sighed. It had been the biggest mistake of his life. He was gay, he was 100 % sure that he was gay but that night, he had had too much alcohol and Brittany had been there...
"Did you use protection?" Sam asked.
"No" Blaine admitted.
"You're in trouble" Sam stated the obvious.
"What am I supposed to do now?" Blaine asked desperately. He wasn't ready to have children. Hell, he wasn't even ready for a real relationship.
"I don't know, man" Sam shrugged.
Blaine closed his eyes, taking a deep breath. There was only one person who could get him out of this.
~ o ~
"Cooper, help me!" Blaine almost shouted as his sleepy looking brother stepped through his door.
He had called Cooper about half an hour earlier, when it had become clear that he and Sam were not enough for the baby. He had tried everything but she just kept crying. And he was close to a breakdown. It was just too much for him.
"Hey, little brother" Cooper smiled. "I hope it's an emergency because..."
"It is" Blaine said, ushering his brother into the bedroom. Sam was there with the baby, singing a new song but it didn't seem like Lily liked it.
"Wow" Cooper said, looking from one man to the other. "You're babysitting the little one? Blaine, you know you aren't good with kids..."
"She's mine" Blaine said.
"But you... What... How?" Cooper asked, his voice way higher than usual.
"It's a long story" Blaine said. "Look, I will tell you everything but you have to help us calm her down. She's giving me a headache with this screaming."
Cooper looked at the baby girl on the bed and he felt bad immediately. She was crying so hard that he couldn't just stand there and let her suffer.
"Alright" he nodded. "Did you check her diaper? Maybe we should change it. Or she's hungry. Let's start with these things."
"Okay" Blaine nodded in agreement.
"Where are her things?" Cooper asked.
"What things?" Sam asked.
"Diapers, wet wipes, bottles..." Cooper said.
"She doesn't have anything except for that old blanket" Blaine pointed at the pink blanket in the carrycot.
"Oh my..." Cooper rubbed his tired eyes. "Fine! You two stay here. I will go and get her a few things."
"You can't leave us with her!" Blaine said desperately.
"Hold her in your arms, it will help her calm down" Cooper said as he walked to the door. "I will be back in no time."
Those forty minutes seemed like forever for the two men. First Blaine tried to hold Lily, then Sam got her from him. It was all useless. The girl just kept crying, her face turned deep red and she seemed like she could throw up in any second. Both men sighed in relief when Cooper finally came back with three huge paperbags of baby supplies. He quickly made a bottle ready for use and grabbed the baby from Sam. As the bottle was pressed into Lily's mouth, she fell silent immediately.
"Finally" Blaine sighed.
"She was hungry" Cooper said quietly, looking down at the baby. "I guess you have some time to tell me how this happened."
Blaine sat down beside his brother and closed his eyes. He tried to remember everything, so he could tell Cooper how he had become a father without knowing about it.
"It happened over a year ago" Blaine started. "One of my friends invited me for his Christmas party. It was awful and I was bored and that girl was there..."
"Wait... I thought you were gay" Cooper said in confusion.
"I am" Blaine sighed. "I don't know how it happened. We started talking and then I found myself in the bedroom with her. I guess I was curious, wanted to know how it worked. So I said yes."
"I didn't have any condoms but she said that we didn't need any. That she couldn't get pregnant from one time" Blaine said.
"And you believed her?" Cooper asked with a raised eyebrow. He thought that his brother was smarter than this.
"We were drunk" Blaine admitted. "It was just a one night thing. I never saw her again and forgot that that night ever happened. Until tonight."
"She left the baby on the doorstep" Sam explained when Blaine fell silent.
"So she got pregnant, gave birth and raised the child for about three months" Cooper summarized. "Then she understood that it's hard and decided to leave her here and let you raise her."
"Exactly" Blaine nodded.
Cooper looked down at the baby, sighing. How could two idiots have such a cute daughter, he had no idea.
"We have to call the police" Cooper said, giving his brother a pointed look when he opened his mouth to oppose. "No, Blaine. We have to let them know what happened and ask for their help."
"You think that they will find Brittany and bring the baby back to her?" Blaine asked hopefully.
"That's not what I was talking about" Cooper snorted. "You will be the legal guardian of your child but it's a long process. You have to talk to the authorities, maybe have a DNA test to proove that Lily is your child and they will send someone from CPS to make sure you raise her properly."
"Wait a second. I never said I wanted to raise her" Blaine said.
"Well, little brother, it's a little too late for that" Cooper said.
"Coop, I don't think you get it..."
"I do" Cooper interrupted. "You made a mistake, that's right. But you're an adult man and it's your responsibility to take care of your kid."
"You can't be serious! I can't even take care of myself!" Blaine gasped.
"It's time to grow up" Cooper said. He put down the bottle and pressed the baby into Blaine's arms before the man could protest. "I know that I made a mistake when I spoiled you too much after mom and dad had died. It was wrong because you didn't learn how to live on your own. But I think this baby is a sign that you have to take responsibility for your actions and not be so selfish."
"Hey!" Blaine gasped.
"I will help you with the basics but I won't let you get rid of her" Cooper said seriously and stood up. "Alright, guys. Let's change the diaper and let her sleep. I will be back in the morning and help you with the police. I suggest you to get rid of everything you don't want them to find here."
Blaine gulped nervously and looked at Sam for help but his friend seemed to be on his brother's side. He was all alone and had no idea how to get out from the biggest trouble of his life.
