A/N: Please don't hate me for how long it took me to get this chapter up! I worked 54 hours last week and I have gotten sick, going to the doctors tomorrow which is depressing as I was supposed to be going away for New Years. :/
Anyways, here is the new chapter. Thank you all AGAIN so much for the insane amount of notifications and alerts and favorites I get. :D I love you all so much!
This chapter is a little bit of a filler...but they will get better. I have a LOT planned still!
Disclaimer: I own none of Glee or the Warblers or anything.
"Blaine, there is no way you should drive back here tonight honey. You can't see Kurt anyways." Carole's voice came floating over the phone line.
Blaine was back in his dorm room, the room that he shared with Kurt as he was talking to Carole. He was sitting on Kurt's bed, with a blanket wrapped around him. It had been four hours since he had left the hospital and he was desperate to see or hear if Kurt had improved at all.
"I can be there in an hour and a half though!" Blaine protested and he heard Carole sigh.
"Blaine, you should not drive right now. It's also 9 and by the time you get here, you will get told to leave. Stay at Dalton where you are safe and go to your classes tomorrow and then come over here. Kurt probably won't be awake until tomorrow evening, if he wakes up tomorrow, anyways." Carole replied.
"Did anything change in the past four hours?" Blaine asked hesitantly.
"No honey. Nothing changed. Kurt is still unconscious and he still has a fever that they are trying to bring down, and he is still on the ventilator." Carole replied. There was silence on the other end of the line and Carole wondered if Blaine was still there.
"Blaine?" She asked.
"I'm here still." Blaine was trying to take deep breaths before he hesitantly asked the next question on his mind.
"Carole, how does he look?" Blaine heard a sigh on the other end of the line before Carole responded.
"He looks sick Blaine, I'm not going to sugarcoat that or what I am about to tell you. There are burns on his chest from the defibrillator but those will go away with time. He has a lot of different machines attached to him right now including the ventilator. He also has IV's and a large bandage on his stomach from the surgery. He is also very pale and slightly grey looking. He also has cooling pads on various parts of his body to try and bring the fever down." Carole replied. She hated that she had to relay all of this across the phone to a boy that she knew was hurting inside.
"I just want to be there with him. I know he's not supposed to be awake anytime soon but I just want to." Blaine responded.
"I know honey. I know this is really hard for you right now. Burt, Finn and I are all planning on staying here tonight though, and we will text you if anything takes a turn for the worst. As long as we don't text you, everything is going fine, okay?" Carole said.
"I can't really argue with that." Blaine sighed. "I just don't know how I am supposed to get through classes tomorrow and wait until the evening to come and see him."
"Just keep your phone on you honey and we will keep you updated. I know this is hard for you Blaine, but you have to stay strong for Kurt's sake. And you need to stay strong for Burt's sake. This is worse for him right now than for you."
"Carole, is Burt really angry with me? We made some pretty stupid decisions today." Blaine had been afraid to actually look at Kurt's father in the face since he had arrived at the hospital. There was another sigh on the other end of the phone before Blaine heard a response.
"No Blaine, he is not angry with you. He is just incredibly worried about Kurt right now, as we all are. You boys may not have made the best decisions today but they are decisions that were made and now we have to deal with the consequences of them. And I think Burt doesn't really understand why Kurt skipped school like he did, it's not like Kurt, so I think he's trying to figure out whether or not you are a good influence on Kurt or not."
"WHAT?" Blaine gasped. He felt all of the blood drain from his face. He couldn't imagine Burt keeping Kurt from him ever. It was agony for Blaine to be away from Kurt tonight, he couldn't imagine if this was going to happen permanently.
"Blaine, I didn't say he thinks that, I said he is trying to figure out if he thinks that or not. They are two different things. And I know you are a wonderful influence on Kurt, and that he loves you, and I will not allow Burt to ever keep Kurt away from you." Carole replied.
"Okay." Blaine said, his voice coming out smaller than he intended.
"I'm being very serious when I tell you that Blaine. I have to go though; the doctor is coming out here. I think we are going to go see Kurt. I'll text you if anything bad happens alright? Get some sleep Blaine." Carole said before she hung up the phone.
Blaine looked at the phone for a few minutes before throwing it aside and flopping face first onto his bed, the tears starting to flow down his face once more. The sobs started to grow and soon were so loud, he didn't hear the knock on his door or the footsteps of the person who stepped in. He was aware when they sat on the floor in front of the bed though. He lifted his head up to see Nick looking up at him sympathetically.
"What do you want Nick?" Blaine asked, his voice coming out more hoarse and harsher than he meant, but he didn't try to apologize.
"I was coming to see if you had heard anything actually." Nick replied calmly. He looked at Blaine's face, so distraught and broken , and he knew something had to be done before Blaine completely drew into himself.
"No." Blaine replied.
"Are you going to skip classes and detention tomorrow to go see him?" Nick asked.
"Um…" Blaine started, unsure of whether he should tell Nick his plan or not.
"Come on Blaine, I won't tell anyone and I definitely won't tell Wes or David." Nick responded.
"Detention." Blaine replied.
"I'm coming with you." Nick said almost instantly, and Blaine's head shot up from where he had been staring at the bedspread. Nick didn't skip school often, the lake had been his first day off in many years and Blaine was shocked that he would miss another day, and also detention.
"What?" Blaine asked a few seconds later.
"I like Kurt. I'm coming with you to the hospital. Besides, if anything bad happens, you need someone else there. And I don't think you should be driving with how anxious and distracted you are at the moment." Nick knew he couldn't let Blaine go by himself, not in the state that he was in, and he didn't feel like having another one of his friends end up in the hospital when it could have been avoided.
Blaine didn't know how he managed to get through his classes the next day. He had Wes, David, Jeff and Nick in various classes and he realized how much they had helped him. Especially in his Spanish class when he had been called out for not paying attention and Wes had somehow managed to tell the teacher in his very broken, terrible Spanish, that Blaine wasn't feeling good.
After school ended, Blaine managed to get up to Nick's dorm room and away from Wes in record time. When he went into Nick's room, he noticed Jeff was there.
"Hey Jeff." Blaine said hesitantly. He trusted Jeff but Jeff sometimes didn't know when to keep a secret and not tell other people.
"Nick already told me what you two are doing. I would come too but since I have already missed a few of the detentions I got this year, I don't think I should miss this one. And Wes might have a coronary if three of us miss the extra Warbler practices he had to schedule around his detentions. But I am making you and Nick agree to text me whenever you know anything." Jeff said, guessing exactly what Blaine was thinking. He looked at Blaine, eyes narrowed as he looked up and down his face. He could tell that Blaine was starting to draw in on himself and hide his emotions.
"Don't do that." Jeff said after a few moments of silence.
"What?" Blaine asked. He had been looking determinedly around the room, at everything except Jeff.
"Don't hide your emotions. It just ends up destroying you; we've all seen it happen Blaine. You need to communicate with us." Jeff said. He looked Blaine directly in the eyes as he said this, determined that Blaine understand what he meant.
Blaine, in turn, stared back at Jeff. He knew exactly what Jeff was referring to. An incident a few years before in which Blaine had ended up having a nervous breakdown, and ended up in the hospital.
"You wouldn't be any good to Kurt by getting yourself put in the hospital." Jeff continued.
"That's what I said." Nick walked into the room, undoing his tie as he did so. He walked over to his bed and threw the blazer, tie and his shoes on it.
"Am I going to distract Wes now?" Jeff had got up off his bed when Nick walked in and he was now looking at Nick expectedly.
"Yes. Keep him in the kitchen or something for the next 15 minutes. Enough to let me get changed and for Blaine and I to get out of here. Detention doesn't start for 25 so you should be fine and you won't miss it." Nick replied. He watched as Jeff nodded and bounced out of the room, in the direction of Wes and David's room.
"Blaine, let me get changed and then we'll go?" Nick turned to Blaine who was now sitting on the floor staring at his phone. He didn't look up but he nodded at Nick's question. Nick sighed and went into the bathroom connecting to the room to change.
Blaine continued to look at his phone and was surprised when it suddenly buzzed with a message from Finn. He opened the message and his heart dropped.
Kurt had a seizure a little while ago. He is okay now but still not awake. I assume you are coming soon. Text my mom or I when you get here.
"NICK! We need to go now!" Blaine cried, getting to his feet.
"What? Why?" Nick opened the door to the bathroom and stuck his head out. He had a t-shirt on but he still had his Dalton pants on.
"Finn just told me Kurt had a seizure! We need to go now." Blaine shot back. He was halfway to the door before Nick's voice stopped him.
"BLAINE! Calm down, would you? You don't have keys, we have to go out the back way and I need to put jeans on. Can you wait 5 minutes please?" Nick asked as calmly as he could. After Blaine nodded, he ducked back into the bathroom and quickly changed into his jeans. When he came out, Blaine was walking around the room in circles, playing with his phone. Nick grabbed a jacket, his keys, wallet and cellphone and then turned to Blaine.
"Okay?" He asked and Blaine practically bolted from the room. As Blaine rushed down the back corridor, Nick hurriedly locked his door and took off after Blaine, while texting Jeff.
Kurt's brother texted Blaine. Kurt had a seizure and I think Blaine might have one in a minute from freaking out. I don't know if we'll be back tonight.
Blaine was already standing out next to Nick's car once Nick reached him. Nick unlocked his car and Blaine leapt into the passenger seat.
"Blaine, calm down." Nick said as he got into the driver's seat and started the car. "What did the text say exactly?"
Nick pulled out of the parking lot as Blaine recited the message which he had memorized by now.
"So, that doesn't mean that he is seizing right now does it? Finn said he is okay now. "Nick said.
"But he still isn't awake!" Blaine shot back.
"Blaine." Nick said as he pulled onto the on-ramp to get on the highway. "Kurt nearly died yesterday; his body needs time to rest. Relax please? I cannot deal with two hours of you freaking yourself out. Kurt is going to be fine."
"How is he?" Blaine asked as soon as Carole appeared round the corner to meet them at the hospital. Her eyes were tired and sad looking and she was just exhausted. She had spent the entire night and day at the hospital with Burt and the boys, and she was exhausted.
"Hi honey. Nick." Carole said, acknowledging the two boys that stood in front of her. Nick felt his phone vibrate and he looked down to see a message from Wes.
FIRST you two skip detention and THEN you skip Warbler practice? I get that Kurt is important, I am immensely worried about him too… but we have sectionals next week and we cannot spend all of our free time which isn't actually free time in a hospital two hours away from where we go to school!
Nick just sighed as he deleted the message and instead paid attention to what Carole was telling Blaine.
"He did have the seizure earlier which is what Finn texted you about. It did not last long at all and he is now resting again. The doctors are not sure what caused the seizure but they are working to figure that out. But we can go and see him if you two would like?" Carole asked.
Blaine and Nick nodded and Carole turned around to start leading them to Kurt's room. Blaine followed closely behind, Nick a little slower. Once they reached Kurt's room, Blaine went right in after Carole while Nick stayed in the doorway, not wanting to intrude.
Blaine looked at Kurt, lying on the bed and his heart was in his throat. Kurt's eyes were closed, his hands limply at his sides. The blankets were folded down so his chest was uncovered. A chest that was bare and Blaine could see the faint burns from the defibrillator as well as a bandage that he assumed was covering up the scar from surgery. He was still attached to a lot of machines and Blaine had no idea what they were for.
"Blaine. Sit down. You look like you are going to fall over." Finn said as he grabbed Blaine's shoulder. Blaine jumped a little at the contact but he allowed Finn to steer him into one of the chairs and push him into it.
"Nick, you can come sit down too." Carole motioned to the boy standing awkwardly in the doorway. Nick nodded and walked over to the chair beside Blaine, who had his head in his hands at this point. Nick put his hand on Blaine's shoulder and while Blaine flinched, he didn't shrug it off.
Although Nick did feel a little awkward sitting in a hospital room with Kurt's family, he didn't move from the chair.
