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Life seemed to settle into a routine in the months that followed his move to San Francisco, and for that Kurt was grateful. It had been hard getting used to physical therapy and dialysis, and while he understood the need for it, he wished it had never existed. He was thankful to be done with the physical therapy, but the dialysis still sucked, and he had to go through it three times a week. His treatments last around four hours each, and he was actually glad to have the work load he did for school as it gave him something to do during the treatments.
"Uncle Jordan just texted, he's waiting outside." Kurt called to his friend and roommate as he grabbed his bag to head toward the door. His aunt and uncle had arranged their schedules so that one of them could accompany him to the hospital for his treatments. He heard Chris give him a noncommittal grunt from his desk where he was studying, with a wave in his general direction. Kurt just rolled his eyes, knowing that he'd done the same to his friend when Chris was the one leaving and he was bent over his books.
He opened the door to leave, but found a large body blocking his way, the hand raised to knock on the door. "Finn? What are you doing here?" He asked his stepbrother, the other boy looking down at him when he first spoke his name. He could see the devastated look on Finn's face, and tried to subtlety glance over himself to make sure there was nothing showing that would give away his health problems. Then he felt stupid for it, as he noticed that while Finn was looking at him, he wasn't really seeing him.
"She's with someone else now." Finn whispered brokenly, and Kurt knew he was talking about Rachel, as there was no one else that could make his brother break down like that. There had never been anyone Finn loved more than Rachel Berry. He just held the door open for his brother and stepped out of the way, before leading him over to his bed and letting the boy laydown on it.
"I'm so sorry Finn, but there is somewhere I have to be right now, but I promise we'll talk when I get back." He then turned to Chris who was watching the scene unfold, "You mind keeping an eye on him?"
"Sure thing, I'll call Wyatt and see if he minds me crashing at his place for the a bit." He smiled his thanks to his friend, before hurrying out the door, wanting to get to his appointment and get it over with a quick as possible.
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"You his boyfriend?" Chris turned at the sound of the other boy's voice, surprised, as he thought the other kid was asleep, after all, he had been for the four hours. "It's ok if you are, I mean, it's cool if you are." He seemed uncomfortable even as he spoke how ok he was with the thought of him being with Kurt, never mind that Chris was uncomfortable with the idea of dating his best friend. It wasn't that he didn't love Kurt, he did, loved him like a brother in fact, but it was because he loved him like a brother that it made him uncomfortable with the thought of the two of them being together.
"I'm just his friend and roommate, I think you're going to have to worry about him dating anyone at his moment it'll have to be my brother you worry about." He said with a grin, thinking about all the times he'd caught his brother staring at Kurt when he thought no one was looking. "Yeah, this is my brother Wyatt." He said handing the larger boy a picture of him and his brother.
"So are they together already, or..." It was clear the other boy would rather be talking about anything else, but at the same time Chris thought it would do him some good to hear what all Kurt had been going through since moving out here. He remembered his friend talking about how all of his friend at his old high school had reacted after his old boyfriend accused him of cheating, and what had happened after, and there was no way he was going to let something like that happen again.
"No, just really good friends." He wasn't really sure how he felt when he saw the other boy relax at his words. He remembered Kurt telling him that he thought Finn was ok with Kurt being gay now, that he'd gotten better about accepting him after the first round of bullying, and had only missed the signs of the bullying the second time because he was so wrapped up in preparing for Nationals for Glee Club, getting ready for college, and helping his girlfriend through some sort of crisis that Kurt really didn't know much about.
"Good, it would be so weird to see him with anyone other than Blaine." So maybe Finn didn't have a problem with Kurt being gay, but more with him dating someone other than the kid he'd dated in high school.
"It's going to have to be something you eventually get used to though, I mean, someday he's going to want to start dating again, and I doubt it's going to be the person he dated in high school." If Chris had anything to say about it, it would be his brother. He like the thought of his brother and best friend being together, and thought the two could be good for each other. However, he would leave that entirely up to them, they didn't need anyone else playing into that aspect of their lives. He'd learned his lesson about messing with people's relationships when he'd found out his future self had almost erased him from existence by separating his parents.
"You never know, I mean you never saw them together, they were perfect for each other." Finn sat up and tried to argue with him.
"So perfect for each other that Blaine accused Kurt of cheating without getting all the facts first, without talking to him." Chris answered back with a raised eyebrow. "Tell me something, if they were so perfect for each other and your little club was so interested in Kurt's life, then who were his best friends by the time he graduated?"
"That's easy, Blaine, Rachel, and Mercedes." Finn looked so confident that it was hard for Chris to sit there knowing he was about to prove him wrong. He didn't exactly enjoy hurting other people, but it was important that Finn realized there were thing about his brother that he didn't know, that he accept that Kurt had changed, that he accept him for who he was now so that he didn't hurt him even more.
"Considering those are some of the names I rarely ever hear, I'd have to go with no." He said with a snort, and Finn jumped off the bed, and headed over to the bulletin board where Kurt had pinned all of his pictures, Chris assumed he was hoping to find something to prove him wrong. Chris also knew that he wouldn't find it.
"What the?" Finn asked looking at the board filled with pictures of boys that never attended McKinley. Sure there were pictures of Finn and Kurt, but there had only been a couple of those as there had only been a few that didn't have all of the New Directions in them. There were pictures from this past summer when the boys from Dalton and David Karofsky each took a few days to fly out and spend time with Kurt, making sure he knew he could count on them for anything.
However, it wasn't any of those pictures that held Finn's attention, but rather one of Kurt using a crutch to prop himself up, his leg having obviously amputated by this point. Chris swore mentally to him self at this point, knowing Kurt would rather not have his brother find out about his accident this way. He'd asked Kurt why he kept that particular picture, and the other boy said it was a reminder of just how far he'd come. That it was taken when he was at his lowest, and that it was a reminder that he was a fighter, and could overcome anything, was overcoming everything.
Firing off a text to Wyatt, hoping that Kurt wouldn't kill him for stopping Finn from finding the picture that Kurt had thought was cleverly hidden in the collage of pictures of friends. "He never said anything about this, I didn't even notice he was walking differently when he left." Finn looked at him, even more heartbroken than when he got there. "I promised him I'd be a good brother, and I just keep failing at it."
"You can't protect them from everything." Wyatt said as he opened the door, Chris having telekinetically unlocked it while Finn had been preoccupied. It seemed strange hearing those words come from Wyatt as he did protect him and Melinda from virtually everything. His older brother was a force to be reckoned with when you threatened his family.
"Nor is it your job to." Kurt said, coming in behind Wyatt. Chris saw the confused look his friend was shooting his brother, and wondered how they were going to explain Wyatt showing up at the same time as his without using the elevator. "Finn, you can't blame what those assholes from high school did, it's only going to end up destroying you. I'm not saying you have to forgive them, but place the blame where it belongs, and move on. I'm doing fine now, I've adapted to my lot in life now, and will continue to adapt. I'm going to prove to them that I will always be stronger than them." He gave his brother a comforting smile, and Chris was once again awed by the maturity his friend showed.
"As for your situation with Rachel, I think it's time you moved on. I know you love her, but she will always put her and her career first, and you deserve so much more than that. We both deserve so much more than that. We deserve to be with people who love us for us, and not what we can do for them. Who will support us as much as we do them. Who see that we're hurting and want to do everything they can to make things better, and not just brush it aside because they don't have the time to deal with it right then, who hear our concerns and want to do everything to help us come to terms with them if they can't help us to fix them. We both need to realize that right now that's not Rachel or Blaine, that it may never be. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure one day they will become the people we know they can be, but is it fair to make us wait for it to happen, to make us give up who we can be to ensure they get there?" He could remember talking with Kurt one night about his ex. How Blaine had loved the spotlight, reveled in it even, and that sometimes it blinded him to the hurt and insecurities Kurt faced. That while Kurt was happy to cheer him on from the shadows, he had lived for those moments when Blaine would pull him into the light. But those times came fewer and farther between the closer it got to graduation, until finally Blaine called him a cheater and shoved him back into the shadows.