Summary: All Sam wanted to do was help Blaine. Then his family got involved.
Notes: There are flashbacks (and a song) in this chapter which will be in italics
"Uncle Blaine! Isn't this the most awesomest thing ever!"
Blaine was still in shock, but hearing Kitty's voice brought him back a bit. It was 7PM and she still needed a bath and…
"Uncle Blaine! Look! Murray has Rudolph jammies just likes mine!"
She has Rudolph pajamas? Blaine finally noticed Kitty standing in front of him, holding Murray up for him to see. Sure enough, she and Murray were wearing matching Rudolph pajamas that he had never seen before. "Sweetie, why are you in your pajamas? And where did those pajamas come from?"
"Miss Brittany helped me take a bath, but Sammy has to do my braids cuz Miss Brittany sucks at them. Oops, I means she's bad at them. And Abby gave Murray and me our new jammies."
"Abby?"
Sam came over and stood next to Kitty "Blaine, I promise I will explain but let's go to the kitchen. You're probably going to need a beer for this."
Of all the things that had happened since he had walked through the door, Blaine didn't know why this was one of the most surprising "I have beer?"
"Oh dude…" Sam was interrupted by Kitty pulling on his pant leg "What is it, Munchkin?"
"I has to go to the kitchen firsts, member?"
"That's right. You have until I count to 20…1, 2…" Kitty took off toward the kitchen "No running! 3…" Once she was out of sight Sam turned back to Blaine "Like I said, I can explain."
"Can you? Because I'm pretty sure I've entered some alternate universe where you can French braid hair and the North Pole moved to my living room."
"Remember when I invited you to my family's Fourth of July party and I warned you that my family never does anything half-way? How everything is always totally over the top?"
"How could I forget? Kitty bugged me for a bouncy house and a pony for the rest of the summer."
"Well, when Kitty and I went to pick up my Christmas decorations from Santana, my dad was there."
"Dad, what are you doing here?"
Santana walked over and took Kitty's hand "Come on kiddo. Mr. Burt needs to talk to Sammy. Let's go get you hyped up on Christmas candy so you'll be extra fun for him this afternoon."
"One piece" Sam called out. "One piece and remember Lopez, she'll pick up on anything you say!" If she teaches Kitty to call him Trouty…Oh, yeah. Dad wants to talk. "Ok, Dad. What's going on?"
"You tell me. I got a call from your sister saying you took off to go beat down some kid that made your Munchkin cry. When did Kitty become YOUR Munchkin?"
Crap! "I said that?" When Burt gave him a nod, Sam fell back into a nearby chair and dropped his head into his hands "What do you want me to say Dad?"
"I want you to man up and admit that you are hopelessly and completely in love with Blaine. What's so funny?"
Sam looked over at the clock on the wall "That was the second time in the last two hours that I was told to man up when it comes to Blaine. Have I been that bad at hiding my feelings?"
"Only to anyone that knows you. Or Blaine. Or has eyes. Sam, you were with Lucy for almost 9 years. I don't remember you once looking at her the way you look at Blaine or that little girl, but that still doesn't explain what happened earlier."
Sam let it all out, everything…Blaine forgetting to buy coffee, Kitty asking Santa to bring Blaine a good boyfriend, the way he felt when Blaine told him some boy teased Kitty, how his heart melted when he saw her sitting on Blaine's lap with her tear stained cheeks, how he realized Blaine was missing Sebastian and not just overwhelmed, that he wanted to be Blaine's family like Sebastian had been (only with kissing and other stuff) and he knew that meant Kitty too. "Well, are you going to say anything?"
Burt put his hand on his son's shoulder and smiled "Ok."
"Ok what?"
"Let's go get you your family."
Sam watched as his father walked over to where Kitty and Santana were talking, but then shot out of his chair in a panic "Let's? What do you mean let's?"
He knew he couldn't tell Blaine all of that, yet, so Sam went with "I told my dad that once we left Lopez's, Kitty and I were going to go to the grocery store for you."
"Sam that was very thoughtful, but you didn't need…"
"Blaine, we didn't go. My dad did."
"Sammy, is it 20 yet? Me and Murray are ready!" Kitty's impatient five year-old voice yelled from the kitchen.
"We better go. She's been waiting a while to show you this."
When they got into the kitchen, Kitty was literally bouncing up and down. Blaine grumbled internally about how she was never going to get to sleep, but he just smiled. "Look Uncle Blaine, I can sets the table."
Sure enough, the table was set and had a plate of cookies in the middle "You did this?" Kitty didn't answer. Instead she led him to the table but had him sit in her normal seat next to Murray. Then she walked around to his seat and sat quietly until Sam came back with the promised beer as well as a quart of milk. Seeing the two of them sitting next to each other only reinforced Blaine's feeling that they were up to something.
"Uncle Blaine, would you like a cookie?" He looked at the plate and for the first time noticed that about half were perfectly decorated with snowman faces while the rest resembled Picasso paintings. He bit into one of the Picassos, assuming Kitty decorated those. It was probably one of the best cookies he had ever had.
"Sam, you made these? They're fantastic."
"Um, no, I can't bake. Please, let us explain and then Munchkin and I will answer your questions. Just remember that I had very little to do with this and my family cannot do anything like normal people do."
Blaine took a swig, more like a gulp, of his beer "Ok, I'm ready. Please explain to me my house's Christmas makeover and whatever else I need to know."
"Ok, so after I talked to my dad, Kitty and I went to see the store Santa. Now before you say anything, we didn't do the whole sit on his lap, picture thing. That's for when you take her. She just wanted to find out that since she was suspended, did that mean she went on the Naughty List?"
"And because I kicked Jake in the balls. Oops, I mean boy parts." Kitty added while at the same time shoving a cookie into her mouth. "I tolds him sorry and the Hag made him say sorry to me and Murray for sayin Murray was a toy."
Sam cringed "Sorry, I should have warned you that she spent time around Santana today. And Munchkin, Hag is a grown-up word." Kitty just nodded her acknowledgement. She had heard Sam say that a lot that day.
Blaine shook his head before taking another drink of his beer "That is not the type of speech problem she starts seeing a therapist for on Thursday." He wondered if he should go ahead and keep her out another day so she didn't wind up in Wes' office again, this time for inappropriate language.
"Again, very sorry. Anyway, store Santa told her that if she apologized she would be ok. That's why I had Jake and Tina came by. By the way, Tina was disappointed that you weren't here." Kitty nodded while still shoveling in the cookies. Blaine moved the plate. "After we saw store Santa, I went with Santana to finish picking out decorations for the Lima Bean. Like I said I would, I asked her to add a few things to get you started. That's what you have out there. She may only be Britt's fiancée, but she's got the Hudson-Evans everything in excess thing down."
"Ok, we'll come back to that. Who is Abby?"
"Santana's mom."
"I thought her name was Maribel."
"It is, but after 10 minutes with the Munchkin here, Maribel decided that Kitty would be her perfect grandchild…looks like Britt, acts like Santana. So, she said Kitty could call her Abuela but it came out Abby. She gave Kitty the pajamas and Kitty asked if she had any in Murray's size. She said no, but before we left she somehow did. I think there's more pajamas coming tomorrow."
"They have penguins, Uncle Blaine."
"The Meerkats of the North Pole." That was the last Christmas story Sebastian had told her. At least he thought it was. They weren't talking much at the time.
The mood in the room changed quickly when Sebastian's memory was brought up. Kitty crawled into Blaine's lap, but there was another reason for that as well. "You're coming off of your sugar high, huh? Ready for bed?" he asked but didn't give her a chance to respond. He had her upstairs and tucked in five minutes later but something was off with her. "Are you ok? You had a very big day."
"I did a bad thing."
"Yes, but the store Santa told you that you wouldn't go on the Naughty List if you apologized to Jake and you did. Right?"
"Not thats." She sat up, but wouldn't look at Blaine "Mr. Burt founds some boxes in the basement, but said I couldn't see until you could see. I saw anyways." Kitty reached under her pillow, pulled out what she had found and handed it to Blaine…a gold Christmas stocking with Daddy across the top. "Can we's hang it up? Maybe Santa will brings something for when we go see Daddy?"
"Come here" Blaine pulled her into his arms and kissed the top of her head "Of course, we can hang it up. We'll put it right next to yours like we did back in New York."
"Uncle Blaine…"
"Yes?"
"If I wants to have a new Lima family does it mean that Daddy's nots my family anymore?"
"Oh, Sunshine" Blaine never called Kitty by Sebastian's nickname for her, but it fit the moment. "Your Daddy will always be your family. He will always be my family. You will always be my family. The three of us against the world. Remember?"
"Can we sing Daddy's song?"
"Absolutely."
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away
It took her a few minutes to fall asleep but Blaine stayed with her, tracing the word Daddy on the stocking with his thumb. It made him think back to a conversation he had with Wes earlier.
"You're a good dad."
"I am not her Daddy, Wes."
"I didn't say you were. Sebastian was Kitty's Daddy, and he always will be. But Blaine, that little girl is your daughter and you are her father. What are you going to do about it?"
Finally, he was satisfied that she was down for the night. He gave her a kiss on the forehead and then grabbed the stocking. Sam had some real explaining to do.
Sam was downstairs stoking the fire. Santana may have gone totally overboard on the decorations, but it really was beautiful. Kitty had been so happy and Blaine may have been a bit taken back when he saw it but…
"What the hell did your family do?"
Not the response Sam was expecting "What are you talking about?"
Blaine walked over and held Sebastian's stocking up in front of Sam "I know that at the very least your father was in my basement, getting into things that he had no right to."
"Is that Seb…"
"Sebastian's stocking? Yes, and Kitty found it. Here's a hint, don't tell my five year-old to not get into something and expect her not to get into it! Now, you have told me Santana's role in this and that her mother wants to kidnap my child. What the hell else happened while I trusted you to take care of Kitty? God, Sebastian was right. He shouldn't have trusted my judgement."
Sam had no idea what happened between the time Blaine took Kitty upstairs to this moment, but Blaine was pissed "Ok, Kitty and I came back here and I found chores she could do. We had a rule in my house that during a school day, if for some reason you weren't working at school, you were working at home. Noah and I are doing the same thing for Jake. He's coming to the Lima Bean the next two days to work since he's suspended."
"Great for Jake, but that doesn't tell me anything."
Ok, Blaine was really pissed. He should probably get right to the point "My dad went to the grocery store, like I said. Carole came over and put away all of the groceries, cooked up a few meals and put them in the freezer. Finn and his friends Ryder and Dave put up the storm doors and windows. Dad called a friend and got your tree and firewood. He must have found the boxes when we were stacking the wood. I insulated all of your pipes. My dad took your car back to the shop gave it a service, new battery and snow tires…"
"Stop! Just stop." Blaine was so mad that tears were flowing, but the person he was the angriest with was himself. "You set me up. Set me up to prove that I couldn't take care of her. Well, you can't have her. People have been trying to take Kitty away from me since the day Sebastian died. His mother. His father. My mother. My idiot brother. Kitty's biological mother. I have fought them all and won. I will fight you and your perfect family too."
Huh? "What are you talking about? My family would never want to take Kitty from you. We just wanted to help and like we always do we obviously went too far."
"Then why? Why would you and your family do all of this if it wasn't to try and get Kitty's money?"
"Because I'm in love with you! I'm in love with you Blaine Anderson. And yes, I love Kitty too but she is the amazing, beautiful, meerkat loving bonus that I get in my life because I love you."
Blaine almost got emotional whiplash with how fast he went from anger to shock "You love me?"
"Hopelessly and Completely, but Blaine, I'm kind of dying here. Do you…?"
Blaine ran across the room and jumped into Sam's arms "I love you too. So, so much."
Blaine leaned in and kissed the lips he had dreamed of for so long. The kiss was soft and loving, a perfect first kiss but when it finished they both knew they wanted more. Their second kiss was hard, passionate, even a little dirty with a lot of tongue involved. They were so wrapped up in each other that they didn't bother to break apart when Sam got a firmer grasp on Blaine and carried him upstairs.
A few hours later, Blaine felt someone tapping on his arm to wake him. He kept his eyes closed an extra second to try and think of a way to explain to Kitty what Sam was doing asleep in his bed. However, when he opened his eyes it wasn't Kitty sitting next to him "Sebastian?"
"Hey Killer." Blaine very carefully extracted himself from the grip of the big spoon behind him and sat up, never taking his eyes off what was in front of him. He couldn't believe how badly his hand shook as he reached out and touched…"It's really me."
"Oh, my god!" Blaine threw himself at Sebastian, tightly wrapping his arms around his neck "How? I mean…how?"
Sebastian pulled him back so he could look at him "Holiday magic, but I don't have much time. Blaine, you have to forgive yourself for what happened last year. All couples fight. The timing of ours was just really bad."
"We were not a couple, Sebastian."
"We lived together for years, were co-parenting a child and were not having sex. Killer, that is the textbook hetero definition of an old married couple." Blaine could help but chuckle as that was a very Sebastian thing for him to say. "Now, there is one other thing I need to tell you before I go. You were always the only person I trusted to raise Kitty. I never questioned your judgement when it came to her. I am so sorry I said what I said and never really got the chance to take it back."
"You did though, in our phone call before, before…"
"Before the accident. I know, but you and I both know that wasn't the same. It's time for you to start trusting again, Killer. No one is going to take Kitty from you. My lawyers made sure of that."
Blaine dropped his head and tried to stop himself from crying "It's been so hard without you."
"I know it has, but there are a lot of people here that want to help you, starting with Captain America sleeping there. I have to say, definite upgrade."
Blaine chuckled again and lifted his head "I have to agree. I miss you so much, Sebastian."
"I miss you too, but like I said I don't have much time and I want to make a quick stop down the hall. Don't worry, I won't wake her. I, I just have to see her."
"She's so beautiful and has grown so much. But her personality, her essence, that's all you."
"Of course, it is. She's perfect isn't she." Sebastian gave Blaine one of his patented snarky smiles and then gently kissed his lips "I love you, Killer."
"I love you too." Blaine was hit with an overpowering need to shut his eyes. When he opened them, he was lying back in Sam's arms and Sebastian was gone. He rolled over and looked at the beautiful face of the man drooling on his pillow and smiled. He couldn't help but notice for the first time in a long, long time he felt at peace.
While Blaine was watching Sam sleep, Sebastian looked down at his beautiful daughter. Blaine was right, she had grown so much. He wanted nothing more than to scoop her up in his arms but he knew that wouldn't be fair to either of them. Instead he leaned over, gently kissed her cheek and whispered "I love you, Sunshine." Then he watched as her hand instinctively rose to touch her cheek and she whispered back "I love you too, Daddy." Sebastian wiped a tear but smiled. He knew she would fine.
Kitty woke up and looked at the clock Uncle Blaine had given her. She knew she could stay in bed until it said 7, 3, 0 but it said 7, 0, 5. She thought about staying but she really needed to go potty and she thought she smelled bacon. Once she took care of her first problem, she got Murray out of bed and tried to make it like Mrs. Carole had shown her. It wasn't as neat as when she and Uncle Blaine would make it together, but she had tried.
After she picked up Murray and put on her slippers, she went downstairs to find the bacon. When she entered the kitchen, she froze and then started to scream "You! (pointing at Blaine) You! (pointing at Sam) Kissyface!"
Sam went and picked her up and brought her back over to Blaine "I know you wanted Santa to bring your Uncle Blaine a good boyfriend for Christmas. I talked to a few people yesterday and they told me that I should be his boyfriend. So Munchkin, if it is alright with you, I would like to be your Uncle Blaine's boyfriend."
Kitty's eyes were wide as she swiveled her head between the two. Eventually she stopped, settling on Blaine "Do you wants Sammy to be your good boyfriend?"
"Yes, I do. Do you have any questions for us?"
She thought about it and then asked "When we for reallys go see the store Santa, can I ask him for a bike now?"
Meanwhile…back in New York
Rachel was about to leave when Kurt came running into the apartment "I found him!"
"Who?"
"Blaine, who else?" Kurt handed her a piece of paper "He's living in some backwater town in Ohio teaching music at an elementary school. Can you believe it?"
"Actually, I can. Kitty would be in school…" She looked up from the paper and realized she was talking to herself. She went to Kurt's room and found him packing. "Where are you going?"
"To go get Blaine and bring him back here by New Year's Eve."
"Wait, does this have something to do with the Radio City show?"
Kurt let out a huff of frustration, but didn't stop packing "That bitch Carmen Tibideaux said that if Blaine doesn't perform, I can't perform."
"Didn't you sign a contract?"
That put a halt to the packing, but Kurt gave her his big Diva eye roll, as she had come to call it "Yes, I signed a contract, but the contract was for me AND Blaine. So, I forged his signature figuring I could get him to come back when I told him about the show or just tell the bitch he couldn't make it. How was I to know the fine print said Blaine had to be there?
"I'm pretty sure it wasn't in the fine print. I'm also pretty sure the contract is void since you forged…Blaine's…signature! What were you thinking?!"
"I was thinking that once Blaine found out everything I had done for him, he and Kitty would come back to New York where they belong."
"Kitty, huh? So, this has nothing to do with Kitty being worth 100 million dollars?"
"Of course not. Where are you going?"
"To pack, Kurt. There is no way I'm letting you go to Ohio alone."
Notes:
Sappy Christmas movie themes touched on here:
One of the pair tries to explain something, but it doesn't come out right leading to a big argument
Big fight leads to a blurted out admission of love
Ghost/Spirit comes to tell one of pair that everything will be ok
Cute kid says something adorable when finding out they got their wish
Just when the couple gets together, something/someone from the past reemerges
You are My Sunshine: Jimmy Davis & Charles Mitchell 1939
