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More Kathy/Burt in this chapter.
Chapter 2: The meaning of names
The moment his son was place in his arms, Burt started moving from side to side, he lifted his head and thanked the nurse. The nurse closed the door and left them alone in the room.
He looked down at his son and smiled, the baby didn't make any noise he just stay calm in his arms. He just couldn't stop smiling at him, he was perfect.
He lifted his head to look at his wife who was sitting on the hospital bed.
"Kathy" He called her but she didn't respond, Burt frowned and walked to the bed, he lifted his son with one arm and used the other to touch his wife's shoulder.
"Don't touch me" She said and Burt's hand froze, that's when he noticed her pose, she was with her back to him, looking at the window. Her body completely still, Burt didn't say anything else and lowered his hand. It wasn't the first time he had seen this, so he held the baby a little tighter and watched her.
A few minutes later he saw as her body relaxed and turned her head to look at him, she had tears running through her face.
"Are you all right?" He asked her, worried at her state.
"What?" She asked clearly confused.
"You have tears on your face, babe" He answered.
She lifted her hand and touched her face; she looked at the tiny drops of water that were there.
"Oh" She just answered and dried her hand on her nightgown.
"I'm fine" She said before he could ask, she lifted her legs and laid down on the bed again, his husband kept on looking at her.
"I'm okay, Burt, I just see something" She said and smiled.
"Something bad?" He asked her, rocking their baby back and forth, Kathy smiled at the image.
"No, something happy" She answered.
"You aren't going to tell me right?"
"No, give me!" She chuckled and lifted her arms, moving her fingers at him.
Burt laughed and handed her the baby, she grabbed him really slowly and nestled him in her arms like he had always been there. She looked at his tiny face and passed a finger through his forehead.
"You are going to be amazing, Kurt" She said to him.
"Kurt?" Burt asked her confused.
"That's his name" She answered without lifting her head.
"I though we agreed on John" He said.
"He doesn't like it" She just answered.
"He is just a few hours old, I don't think he understand it" Burt said with a raise eyebrow at her wife's strange behaviour, they had looked for months and at the end, after a lot of fighting, they had decided that it would be John.
"I heard someone calling his name" She said in a serious voice while she passed her hand through his hair. Burt walked to the bed and sat down next to his wife, he extended his arm and put it around her while they looked down at their son.
"You said it was something happy" Burt said to her, squeezing her arm trying to comfort her.
"It's not the beginning of the story, that's all" She answered.
"He is going to be fine, we will help him out, both of us" Burt said while he passed his thumb through his son's cheek.
"Yes, both of us" She answered with a sad smile on her face, already knowing it was not true.
"Here" She said lifting the baby to his arms.
"Are you okay?" He asked her.
"I'm fine, I'm just a little tired, honey"
"Ohhh all right, sorry" He said, holding the baby against his chest.
The moment Kurt left her arms, Kathy fell asleep.
Burt watched her until her eyes closed, he turned his head to look at his son who had followed her mother's footsteps.
"Hi Kurt" He said with a smile on his face, he walked to the sofa that was near the window and sat down, he looked outside, it was a beautiful night.
He tried to stop thinking about Kathy's words, because she knew she won't say anything to him, she never did. Whatever she saw in her episodes was private, for years he got mad every time she stayed quite, it was a part of her life she couldn't share with him and that made him sad. But over the years he had understood why, only one time Kathy had shared one of her episodes with him and it ended up in disaster.
"Come on, tell me" Burt said to her, both of them naked under the covers, he hold her head against his chest.
"No" She said laughing.
"Come on" He said again while he tickled her sides.
"All right, all right" She answered laughing, trying to get away from him, almost falling from the bed in the process.
Burt held his head with his hand and looked at her, while she held the sheet up her breast, lifting her right shoulder and looking at him with a sexy expression.
"Well... Amy is pregnant. That's all and you can't ask nothing else"
"That's all?" He asked a little disappointed.
"What?" She asked him.
"Nothing, I expected something more... important" He said to her.
"And aliens will arrive tomorrow" She said with a spooky voice.
"Very funny" He grabbed her around the waist and brought her to his chest again.
"Just don't tell anyone, Burt"
"I won't tell"
Burt looked with his arms crossed at the line that was in front of him, all for a coffee, the day had started wrong, his alarm hadn't work because the light had went out the day before, he had woken up late, his car hadn't started and now this. He moved his foot against the floor, trying to keep calm.
A hand touched his shoulder.
"What?" He screamed turning around.
Mike surprised face greeted him.
"I'm sorry, Mike" He said to him.
"Are you all right?" Mike asked him with a worried tone in his voice.
"I'm fine, I just started the day with the wrong foot... oohh congratulations by the way" Burt said.
"Congratulations?" Mike asked confused.
"About Amy...that was a secret and I shouldn't have told you" Burt answered with his eyes wide, totally forgetting about Kathy's warning.
"She is pregnant?" Mike asked excited, hoping he was correct.
"But you didn't find out through me, okay" Burt begged him.
"All right" Mike said smiling, he couldn't keep the smile out of his face, they had been trying for months.
"I have to go back to work" Mike suddenly said to Burt and turned around already walking to the coffee shop door.
"Mike, wait!" But Mike was already in the street and Burt's gesture for him to come back was lost, Kathy was going to kill him.
Burt opened the door to his house and looked inside, it was really dark, he turned the light that was on his right and called Kathy's name.
"Kathy! I'm home" He said, they had just started living together, they were boxes everywhere, Burt walked through them trying not to fall like the last time and called Kathy's name again.
"Kathy! Where are you?" He asked, he saw light in the kitchen and walked inside, Kathy was juts sitting there, holding her head with her hand, looking through the window.
"You didn't hear me calling you?" He asked while he took off his cap and put the keys on the table.
"Yes I heard you" She just said without looking at him.
"It's something wrong?" He asked her, she stayed quiet for a while and then she answered.
"You didn't keep your promise" She just said to him and Burt cursed inside his head.
"I'm sorry! I didn't realize but it is good news, what's wrong with that?" Burt asked her, Kathy turned around to look at him, her eyes cold.
"It was my fault, I shouldn't have told you anything, you don't understand it" She just said and got up from the chair, walking passed him without saying anything.
"Kathy!" He called her.
"There are a pillow and a blanket on the couch" She said and walked upstairs, turning off the light that was on the hallway.
Burt watched her go and walked to the couch sitting down, he picked up the pillow and accommodate it on one side, he laid down, took off his shoes and put the blanket on top of him. He crossed his arms and put them under his head, looking up the ceiling, trying to think the way he could make up to Kathy, like that Burt fell asleep.
He woke up the next morning to the sound of a siren, he opened his eyes wide and looked around the room, he looked at Kathy standing on the window, the light of the police's cars were not so noticeable with the light of the day but the sound was deafening, he got up from the couch and walked to the window, hurting his feet with every box he could find on the way.
"What happened?" He asked while he looked outside.
"Something happened on Mike and Amy's house" She just answered and kept on looking.
"A robbery?" He asked turning around looking for his shoes, may be he could help he thought.
"No, a murder" Kathy said.
"What?" Burt screamed.
"Mike decided to return early from a business trip, he was really happy about the news, so he bought her a big bouquet of flowers and a box chocolates, Amy had always loved chocolates, but Amy wasn't alone in the house" Kathy told him in a monotone voice.
Burt just stayed quiet.
"He entered the house with a smile on his face and called Amy's name, but when he turned to look at her, she was standing there with another man, they started screaming at each other, he talked about the baby and Amy was shock, because she hadn't told anybody not even her lover who was standing next to her, and Amy told him the true, that it wasn't his"
Burt looked at her and opened his mouth but no sound came out of it.
"They started screaming, the three of them, they screamed so loud that the neighbour called the police but before they could arrive, Mike grabbed the gun he had on the drawer to his right, throwing the bouquet of flowers and chocolates that Amy loved so much, he pointed at them, screaming and crying. They both lifted their hands, the lover launched himself to Mike and tried to take off the gun out his hands, the gun went off, Mike fell to the floor, he wasn't breathing. The end" Kathy finished.
He couldn't say anything, it was his fault, he knew it.
"They must be removing the body right now"
Kathy turned his head and Burt watched as they took out a black bag, Amy was at the door crying on a strange man's shoulder.
"Kathy..." He began but there was nothing he could say.
Kathy turned to look at him and her eyes soften at his expression.
"It wasn't your fault Burt, you just didn't understand the consequences, I do, like you I had to learn" She smiled at him and put her hands around his neck, hugging him tight.
Burt hesitated for a second but then he put his arms around her waist holding her tight, forgetting for a second the disaster that was happening outside their window.
They both attended Mike's funeral, Amy was there sitting alone, Mike's family away from her, looking at her with hate while they blamed her for everything. She looked so small just sitting there holding her hands together, her lover had disappeared the day before, leaving her alone.
Kathy looked to her right and found an empty chair, she took it without asking and put it near Amy, she sat down and grabbed her hands between hers. Amy jumped at the touch, not expecting it and looked at Kathy's eyes, not knowing what to say. At the end she didn't say anything; she just put her head against Kathy's shoulder and started crying.
Burt walked to them and put one hand on Kathy's shoulder and the other on Amy's. He could feel their eyes on them and the little voices asking.
"What are they doing?"
"She killed him! She killed Mike!"
But Burt didn't listen to the whispers and concentrated on the two women that were in front of him.
Kathy put his head against Amy's ear and whispered something that he couldn't hear, Amy started crying harder, he could hear words of gratitude coming out of her mouth but Burt didn't ask, he never asked again.
The next day a moving truck was in front of Amy's house, a few hours later Amy was gone, they never heard about her again. But once in a while Kathy looked at their old house and smiled.
Burt looked down at his sleeping son and smiled.
"You are going to be amazing, Kurt Hummel, just like your mother"
He lifted his feet and laid down on the couch, putting the sleeping baby on his chest, he looked down at him and tighten his arms around him, holding him tight, a few minutes later his eyes started closing.
And Burt Hummel fell asleep with the rest of his family.
"Why unicorns?" Burt asked while he moved back and forth with the baby in his arms.
"I like unicorns" Kathy just said while she arranged the baby clothes on the drawer, Burt didn't ask anymore, he could see her wife tense back.
"Burt will you support your son no matter what?"
"Of course" Burt said with security.
"Can you promise me?" Kathy said stopping what she was doing but without turning around.
"I promise" Burt said, holding his son a little tighter.
"Good"
8 years later Kathy Hummel died and Burt never broke her promise to her.