Chapter I: Babysitting
A.N.: Ok…so…I want to thank the people who alerted, favorited and especially those who reviewed the last chapter of this story. Because of the beautiful feedback I got and the interest you guys displayed this story is the first one of the three I will continue :D
Chapter Notes: The title says it all actually :D Klaine go babysitting and as a consequence, come to some interesting realizations :D
Enjoy! :D
The topic of kids didn't come up the next day, and for the next week neither of the boys talked about it. It wasn't until Blaine came home late one evening, finding Kurt on the phone with Mercedes, that he even thought about it again.
Upon hearing Blaine enter Kurt smiled and waved to Blaine, motioning towards the phone at his ear and mouthing first 'Welcome back, I love you' and then 'Mercedes'. Blaine just nodded and looked whether he could make himself useful by preparing dinner while Kurt talked to his friend, but something Kurt said caught his attention.
"No Boo I'm sure it won't be a problem. I'll ask Blaine about it…Yeah…Yeah sure no problem. Of course you know I do…I'm sure he won't mind…no…No that's totally normal…Look…let me just ask him and then…yeah I…I'll call you back in a moment ok? Yeah love you too…bye."
Of course Blaine couldn't hear what Mercedes had said, but the mentioning of his name had gotten him interested, so he walked up behind his husband and wrapped his arms around his slender waist, putting his head on Kurt's shoulder.
"What was that about?" he asked casually.
"Oh,…that was Mercedes. You know how Wes and David have opened up their own little company that supports promising young artists from poor families?"
"Yeah."
"Well they are in the final round of some kind of contest and Wes, David, Mercedes and Quinn have been invited there. It's a pretty big deal."
"But that's amazing." Blaine exclaimed excitedly.
"Yeah right?" Kurt replied with a smile. "And that's where we come in."
"Oh? How so?"
"They can't take their kids, especially Haley is still too young to go on such a strenuous trip and since their parent can't help them out and Wes will be going with them Mercedes asked whether we could take care of the three little monsters for the weekend."
Kurt turned around in Blaine's arms so that he could look at him directly and shot him a questioning look. Blaine contemplated the situation for a moment. Temeraire and Taran never were any trouble around people, as long as they didn't annoy them and Cas loved children. Neither him nor Kurt had anything important to take care of this weekend and the 2 and almost a half year old twins Katy and Kevin and the little Haley, a little under a year old surely couldn't be that much trouble. Right?
Then he caught up on something else, some deeper question in Kurt's eyes and he remembered the conversation they had had about a week ago. He nodded and smiled.
"Ok…you can call her and tell her that we're gonna take care of the kids for them. No problem."
Kurt shot him a responding smile and placed a soft kiss on his lips before he pulled away dialing Mercedes' number.
" 'Cedes? It's me, Kurt. We're in."
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And a couple of days later, at 10 am on a sunny Saturday morning, Mercedes and David brought their three monsters over. After a lot of fussing by David, who was a lot more worried than Mercedes, who trusted her white boy completely, and a little bit of worrying from Mercedes the couple finally left, leaving the three children with their godfathers.
"Ok then…" Kurt said looking down at the twins, who were holding his hands "Let's get you settled in huh?"
The kids cheered and Kurt laughed, picking up their bag, ordering them to follow him to their room. Haley would be sleeping in her bed in Kurt's and Blaine's bedroom.
The raven, who was holding the little girl in his arms, watched with a smile as the twins followed his husband to the guest room, laughing and squealing loudly.
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The morning went by quickly and (more or less) peacefully. Between Kevin picking Temeraire up at his tail, Katy trying to ride on Cas' back and either Mercedes or David calling every like 5 minutes nothing overly exciting happened and Kurt and Blaine had a lot of fun.
It wasn't until Haley started crying for no apparent reason and the twins broke into Kurt's designing room that things went a little out of control. It ended up with Blaine having to laugh so hard that he, a stunned Haley on his arm, had to sit down as Kurt came out of the room covered in paint, dragging two equally decorated twins along with him, Cas, no longer white but sprinkled with red, blue and green jumping up and down next to them excitedly.
Kurt shot his husband a death glare, but Blaine just couldn't stop laughing they just looked too adorable.
"Blaine." Kurt said in a carefully controlled voice, locking the door behind him carefully. "I am going to walk Cas. I'll be back later." with those words the brunette grabbed his dog, a leash and walked out of the door, not even bothering to clean himself up.
The closing door silenced the laughing trio in the room for a moment. The twins looked up at Blaine, cocking their heads to the left side as the simultaneously asked: " 's uncle Kurtie (yes they called him that) mad at us?" pouting adorably.
Blaine blinked at them for a moment, before he looked at Haley, then at the door then at the mess that the twins had made, then back at the door and finally back at the twins, shooting them a reassuring smile.
"Noo…uncle Kurtie just really needed some air he could never be mad at you two." 'For long…but I really have the feeling I'm not gonna be getting any for a while…' he added mentally, wincing slightly.
The sound of the phone ringing ended the awkward situation.
"Hey Mercedes." Blaine smiled, recognizing the caller ID.
"Hey Blaine…and? The little monsters driven you crazy yet?" she asked laughingly.
"Uh…no…" Blaine replied, frowning at the twins who made their way to the office.
He could almost hear the raised eyebrow as Mercedes spoke again "What did they do?"
"Well…uhh…they may or may not have just had a paint fight in Kurt's designing room." Blaine replied, clearing his throat a little awkwardly.
"Oh no." Mercedes replied, knowing how her friend got when something happened to his stuff and how her twins got when they saw a chance to wreak havoc.
But she knew that Kurt would never hurt her kids "How is he?" she asked sympathetically.
"Went for a walk with Cas…both of them decorated artfully with red, blue, green and some other colors."
"Oh no." Mercedes repeated "Kids." she sighed before she started laughing "I bet you were having one hell of a good time watching him huh?"
"You betcha." Blaine grinned in reply.
At the sound of something breaking in the office his grin fell and he told Mercedes that he had to go, putting Haley down in her playpen as he went to assess the damage.
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Not even half an hour Kurt returned, not wanting to leave Blaine alone with the kids for too long, finding the house eerily quiet.
"Blaine?" he yelled, almost terrified of what might had happened.
Barking excitedly a still paint covered Cas ran into the kitchen, Kurt on his heels, just to find a very adorable sight in front of him.
The two raven haired and a certain raven haired tenor (as well as most of the kitchen) were covered in flour eggs and what appeared to be cookie batter. But they were quiet and kneading the batter intently. Upon hearing them enter Blaine looked up and smiled, walking up to hug his husband.
Kurt looked around in the kitchen, satisfied that there was nothing that the twins could cause any harm to themselves, Cas or the kitchen with, and pushed Blaine into the adjoining living room, where Haley played in her playpen, kissing him gently.
"Hey." he smiled.
"Hey." Blaine answered.
"You look great." Kurt grinned, kissing some cookie batter off of Blaine's cheek. "And you taste great." He grinned.
"Yeah yeah you just keep making fun of me mister, you don't look too bad yourself." Blaine grinned picking patch of paint out of Kurt's hair.
The brunette grumbled softly.
"Yeah. I see you already got the twin monsters cleaned up and dirty again and all of that in less than half an hour. Impressive." then he sighed. "I'm just gonna go and try to get myself and Cas clean, but I'm afraid the clothes are lost…will you be ok for a moment? I'll be within shouting range?"
Blaine smile at him, stealing another quick kiss.
"Take all the time you need."
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When Kurt returned from trying to clean up both himself and his hyperactive puppy, Blaine and the twins just pulled the first batch of cookies out of the oven.
The kids promptly wanted to try them, but Blaine refused, telling them that they were too hot and that they would have to wait. While Blaine put the last cookies into the oven Kurt kept the twins busy by bringing them some paper and crayons for them to draw with, while he took Haley out of the pen to clean her up and feed her for the third time that day, just as Mercedes and David had instructed.
When they put the three kids down for their nap at around 4 the two lovers fell onto the couch, already exhausted, Cas jumping on Kurt's lap, while the two cats reluctantly came out of hiding now that the twins were gone.
"How can someone that tiny have so much energy?" Kurt groaned.
"By being part David's and part Mercedes' DNA?" Blaine replied, eyes closed.
"Yeah but so is Haley and she's fine." Kurt answered.
"Mhh…Maybe it's just a phase." Blaine offered.
Kurt groaned again, burying his face in Blaine's shoulder.
"They completely destroyed my designing room." he muttered "I really, really should have thought of locking it. Remind me to lock it the next time…please."
Blaine looked at him in surprise. He would have expected that his husband would never ever, ever have any little kids anywhere even close to their house for any extent of time anymore. He placed a kiss on top of the soft brunette hair, seeing a spot of green color Kurt had missed.
"You still have color in your hair." he smiled.
"I know…you're just gonna have to help me shower it all out when the monsters are gone." Kurt replied and Blaine could feel him grinning into his shoulder.
"Uhh…kinky Mr. Hummel." he grinned back.
"It's not my mind that just went right to the gutter." Kurt teased.
"Who's mind's in the gutter?" a high voice asked and Kurt sagged against Blaine's shoulder slightly "And wat's kinky?"
Blaine laughed, burying his face in Kurt's hair for a moment before they both turned around at the twins who were already up again.
"Hey there kiddos. So…what do you want to do now?"
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When the twins were finally exhausted at around 8, after various tickle attacks, pillow fights and other strenuous activities Kurt managed to convince them to get ready for bed. He didn't even notice that Blaine was standing at the door as he read a passage of Alice In Wonderland to Katy and Kevin as a bedtime story. David had picked the book because it had always been one of his favorites when he had been younger.
When Haley started crying in her bed, Blaine rushed to see what was wrong with her.
Half an hour later when the twins were fast asleep Kurt turned off the light and tiptoed out of the room, leaving the door open a notch so that they would hear when something was wrong. The sight that greeted him when he arrived in the bedroom he and Blaine shared immediately made him forget all the troubles of the day.
Blaine was asleep on top of the covers, his arms wrapped around Haley protectively, her little fingers clutching his shirt as they slept peacefully. Kurt's breath caught in his throat at how adorable the two looked, at how right Blaine looked with the little girl in his arms.
Looking at them Kurt asked himself how he fit into that picture. He had no problem with kids, but he liked having Blaine all to himself, as stupid as it might sound and he really liked his house neat and tidy. And as the twins had demonstrated impressively kids could be a lot of work.
Having kids also came with a lot of responsibility. Having the two cats and now the puppy had shown Kurt that he and Blaine were very well able to care for other living beings, but kids were a whole new level and even though he knew that they could count on the help of their family and friends, but still.
When Blaine shifted a little, some stray curls falling into his face, Kurt smiled. Their kid would definitely have to have Blaine's DNA. He could really imagine a tiny little boy or girl with curly black hair and beautiful hazel eyes smiling up at him.
He almost jumped out of his skin as he realized what he had just been thinking about. Was he really ready for having kids?
He got his answer when Blaine shifted again, waking himself up, staring around disorientated for a moment, but always careful as to not disturb the sleeping girl in his arms. When Blaine's hazel eyes landed on Kurt and lit up with a smile, Kurt knew that YES he was ready to take the next step with this man, because even though he might feel a little insecure about it himself, he knew that Blaine would be an amazing father and he really wanted to share that experience with him.
So he shot Blaine an answering smile, carefully taking Haley into her bed, before crawling into the bed next to Blaine, where he fell asleep almost as soon as Blaine's arms closed around him, even though it was actually still pretty early, especially considering that it was Saturday.
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When the twins and Cas demanded their attention at around 6:30 in the morning, both of the boys felt like death warmed up. Haley had cried 5 times that night, each time having them jump up in panic, for several reasons. One, to see what was wrong with her and two to avoid the twins waking up at all costs, but being the great actors they were they just put big smiles on their faces and got up.
While Kurt took Cas for a walk and to go get breakfast, Blaine prepared the table and the twins. Blaine had just placed Haley in her chair and Katy and Kevin in front of to cookies each, when Kurt returned with two cups of their special Starbucks coffee, and fresh bread.
He turned on the radio as he took one of the cups from Kurt with a big smile, kissing him softly, causing the twins to make some weird noises, but Kurt just held the bag with the bread in front of them and pulled Blaine in closer before he let go of him with a smile.
Suddenly the twins of all people recognized the song on the radio and started singing (as much as 2 ½ year olds could sing) along.
Take me take me outta here it makes me
Feel so, feel so na na nana na
They didn't know much more of the lyrics than na na nana na, which made Kurt and Blaine laugh so hard they almost toppled over, but when they saw the adorable pouts on the faces of the two kids, they took them at their hands and started dancing and singing along with them.
Baby baby here we all crazy
You don't have to worry na na nana na
Kurt and Blaine took the actual lyrics while the twins chimed in on the na na nana na.
So follow me down
Out of this town
Girl you're moving way too slow
So follow me down, I'll show you around
There's a place we gotta go
Haley squealed in delight as Blaine scooped her up in his arms, while Kurt, still holding hands with Katy and Kevin, danced around them still singing. Cas had just started jumping around them, having no idea what was going on but playing along nonetheless (as much as a little puppy could).
Follow me, follow me
Fa la-la-la-la [x2]
Fa la-la-la-la
The twins belted out the fa la-la-la-la in a way that let it be assumed that they had inherited their voices from their mother, while the giggling and wriggling about of Haley made it seem as if she would one day be busting the moves like her daddy.
Dancing, walking clock keeps on talking
They sing, they sing la la-la-la-la
Kurt, still with the twins, danced around Blaine with a small grin as he sang, reminding Blaine of their 'practice' for his 'Baby It's Cold Outside' performance, which made him grin. He was pretty sure that up until this day Kurt still had no idea that there never had been a performance and that Blaine had just wanted to sing the song with him.
Gentlemen and ladies, animals and babies
We sing, we sing na na na-na-na
Blaine twirled around, careful not to make Haley uncomfortable, but the little girl just squealed louder, giggling like a madman.
So follow me down
Out of this town
Girl you're moving way too slow
So follow me down, I'll show you around
There's a place we gotta go
The twins had let go of Kurt's hands now jumping around in a slightly uncoordinated but adorable way, that reminded Kurt a little of Finn's early attempts at dancing, while Kurt put his hands on Blaine's shoulders, looking deeply into his eyes as they continued singing.
Follow me, follow me
Fa la-la-la-la [x2]
Fa la-la-la-la
Follow me, follow me
Fa la-la-la-la [x2]
Fa la-la-la-la
They danced into the living room, not really paying any attention to hitting the notes or following a certain choreography, much more just freaking out a little like New Directions had used to do with their impromptu performances.
Ahh ah oh
Ah ah ah oh
Ah ah ah oh oh
Down down down down. Oh okay
Down, down. Down down. Oh, oh
Follow me, follow me
Fa la-la-la-la [x2]
Fa la-la-la-la
Follow me, follow me
Fa la-la-la-la [x2]
Fa la-la-la-la
The five, well six if you counted the puppy, of them landed on the large couch, laughing hard and breathing heavily as the song ended. Haley squealed in delight and the twins slid to the floor giggling while and excited Cas tried to lick everything in his reach.
Kurt's look fell onto their cats and he started laughing even harder, nudging Blaine to look at them which caused his husband to have a laughing fit. The two cats were sitting on a sideboard in safe distance, looking at them as if they had just lost their minds altogether.
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Following their impromptu performance the remainder of their time together went by rather quickly and as soon as Kurt and Blaine had realized that singing and dancing was a great way of keeping the terror twins busy they had just kept some music playing, which had had them occupied for their while, at least until their attentions spans wore out and they went to look for something else to pass their time with.
After playing with Cas in the garden and almost falling into the pool, the twins were ordered back inside by Kurt and Blaine who had the feeling that they were slowly starting to get the hang of it. 'It' being the whole taking care of a toddler and hyperactive twins.
While they were slowly starting to have fun with the three kids, it still was a lot of stress and they were relieved when David and Mercedes came to get them and they left, promising to visit soon.
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"Oh dear…" Kurt sighed, sagging against Blaine as soon as the door closed.
Blaine smiled and wrapped his arms around his exhausted husband, gently pulling him towards their couch in the living room where he sat them down.
"That was…interesting" Blaine remarked.
"That's one way to put it." Kurt grinned looking up at the raven.
Blaine laughed at that, taking in the state of disarray the room was in. Crayons, pillows, spoons, everything was lying around, and he didn't even want to think about having to clean up the kitchen, the guest room or even worse Kurt's designing room.
Both of them let out exasperated sighs simultaneously, causing them to laugh.
"Ok…let's get cleaning." Kurt sighed and Blaine just groaned in response, tightening his arms around Kurt's waist as the countertenor tried to get up.
"Let's just get a cleaning woman."
"Don't be ridiculous Blaine, you better get used to cleaning up after kids if you want some yourself." Kurt joked lightly, freezing as he realized what he had just said.
Blaine tensed as well, but before he had the chance to make Kurt look at him, the brunette had escaped his grasp and rushed into his designing room, yelling through the closed door "Just get cleaning."
Blaine stared at the closed door for a little longer before he decided that he could still pester Kurt about this later, for now he would just have to start tidying up the room. Sighing he got to work.
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A lot later, after they had cleaned up the house, taken care of their pets, fed themselves and finally showered and gotten ready for bed, Blaine crawled into the bed next to Kurt who was just lying facedown on top of the silk sheets, just dressed in silk pajama bottoms and a soft white shirt.
He straddled Kurt's hips and trailed soft kisses up and down the younger man's neck, while he ran his hands over Kurt's back. He placed them at the hem of Kurt's shirt, waiting for permission, like he always did. He had sworn to himself that after what had happened with Karofsky all those years ago he would never ever force Kurt into anything (unless it was something like staying at home when he was dead sick) no matter how small it seemed, he just wanted Kurt to do everything with him out of his own free will.
He saw Kurt like a kitten every now and then. Beautiful, adorable, graceful, independent, yet fiercely loyal if you had earned his love and that's why Kurt always should have the choice.
He got so caught up in thoughts that he almost missed Kurt's nod of permission. But just almost. He pulled the shirt off of Kurt and started kissing the soft skin of his neck, then his shoulder's and then following his spine lower and lower, before his hands started a gentle massage, loosening the tight knots in Kurt's back, which had no doubt come from all the trouble the twins had (inadvertently) caused.
Kurt sighed softly and relaxed into the touch, enjoying the feeling of Blaine's hands against his skin, and the fact that they could be this close to each other just like that. Just because they wanted to.
After a while he turned around to face the raven, startling him by switching their positions and kissing him softly. Soon Blaine's shirt was off, too and after Kurt had reciprocated, they were just lying in each other's arms, too tired to start anything else, and content that they didn't need to, because they knew that they loved and desired each other, without having to have sex every day. Although that admittedly did have its perks.
Blaine was the first one to break the comfortable silence.
"Kurt…about what you said earlier…about the kids and the cleaning up…did you mean that the way I thought you did?" he asked softly.
Kurt tensed for a moment, before he sat up so he could look at Blaine as he answered.
"After we talked about this last week, I've been giving it a lot of thought, and when I saw you with Haley last night I just…I knew that I wanted to have that with you…you would make an amazing father Blaine. And I won't lie to you there are still some things I…we…need to figure out, but if you'd still want to I'd love to start a family with you…" he blushed crimson "you know what I mean."
Blaine smiled at the look on Kurt's face, his obvious nervousness, his blush that he could see even in their almost dark bedroom, the frantic beat of his heart that matched Blaine's own as he thought about what the things that Kurt had just said meant.
"We're gonna have a family." he breathed out almost disbelievingly.
Kurt couldn't help but smile at the obvious happiness of his husband at this development.
"Yeah."
Blaine pulled Kurt down into a kiss before the brunette settled against his chest, both of them lost in thought before they slowly drifted off to sleep.
There were still a lot of things to think about. Would they adopt a kid or would they take a surrogate? If they did the latter, would they be able to agree on who would be the biological father? Where would they put the kid's room? Would their busy schedules even allow them this kind of pause? Were they really ready for having children?
Those, amongst others, were questions that buzzed in their heads. But nothing of that would really matter, because if was still true. As long as they had each other, nothing could stop them.
Chapter End Notes: Um…fluff anyone? :D
I'm gonna say this now I do not have much experience with kids, I'm taking all of this from babysitting for some friends of my parents. And their kids have been (they're a little older now) very, very loud, adventurous, and yeah…I'm not gonna say annoying :D…but yeah…let's call it energetic :D at that age and they were like all over the place…like literally…but they were still cute :D
Thank you for reading this and I hope you liked it (it's like 3am now so I hope it's ok) :D
I would love for you to let me know what you thought about this so far, I get terribly nervous when no one tells me what he/she thought about my stuff :D
The song I used I don't know if you recognized it, but it's 'Follow Me Down' by '3OH!3 feat. Neon Hitch' which kind of got stuck in my head after I heard it on a fanmade youtube trailer for CP Coulter's Dalton none of which I own (logically)…I'm not even gonna tell you that all of those are freaking awesome :D
So…I still have to update two other stories, but if the interest in this sequel continues being as it is now this will remain top priority :D
Thank you so much, all of you,
CITC