Thanks for all the support! It lets me know that I am doing something right =)
I know that Blaine (and Austin) get beat really bad but I am not going to write a lot on the violence. One, I don't like violence and two I want to focus more on what happens after.
Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or the characters.
Note: I need to apologize because in the opening author's note of chapter 2 I said Kurt would come into this story in chapter 5 and it is actually chapter 6.
Blaine was nervous. In less than a half hour Austin and his dad were going to be here. Austin was going to be in the same room as his dad. His only hope was that everything would go well. Blaine finished tying his dress shoes and looked himself over in the mirror. Blaine has his hair gelled back, a nice dark blue dress shirt, black dress pants and his shoes. After feeling that his appearance was satisfactory Blaine headed down the stairs. His family was gathered in the living room.
"Look how handsome you look," Mrs. Anderson said as Blaine entered the room, "I have to get my camera and get lots of pictures."
"Mom," Blaine shouted.
"Don't worry, she did the same thing with me and my first date," Cooper said.
"How many times do I have to tell you this is not a date? We are going as friends," Blaine told his brother yet again.
"Yet for some reason I still don't believe you," Cooper said.
"Now, now, no bickering," Mrs. Anderson said, "Honey, don't you think Blaine looks nice," she asked her husband.
Blaine's dad looked very uncomfortable waiting for his son to go to a dance with another boy. But his relationship with his sons was the most important thing to him. He did not to lose Blaine because of his view on Blaine's sexual orientation, even if he was hoping that one day Blaine would settle down with a nice woman.
"Yes, Blaine, you look very nice," he told his son.
"Thank you, Dad," Blaine said.
The doorbell rang and Blaine's mom went to answer it. A few minutes later Austin and his dad walked into the living room. Since they were only going as friends, the boys decided there was no need to worry with corsages.
"Hi Blaine," Austin said as he hugged Blaine, "You look amazing."
"You look amazing too," Blaine told Austin.
Austin was wearing an almost identical outfit of Blaine's. The only difference was that his shirt was a lighter blue. His dark blonde hair was styled with just a small amount of gel and his blue eyes seemed to pop.
After the boys let go of each other Blaine's mom demanded pictures. Despite Blaine's many protests Austin and he posed for the camera. Blaine looked around and saw Austin's dad and his actually getting along. After what seemed as an eternity, mainly due to all the camera flashes and Coopers constant teasing, Austin's dad said they should take off if they wanted to be on time. Blaine's parents said goodbye before Cooper pulled him aside.
"I just wanted to say that I hope you have a great time. Call me if you need anything. I'm staying here until you get back so I am just a few minutes away," Cooper told Blaine before hugging him.
"Thanks Coop."
Blaine said a final goodbye to his family before heading out. It was a fast drive and the next thing Blaine knew he was at the school. The boys said goodbye to Austin's dad and he told them he would be come get them once the dance was over.
"Your dad seems really cool," Blaine said as they walked inside.
"Thanks. Your family was great too."
"Well, my mom and brother were," Blaine said.
"I think you should give your dad a little more credit. It seems like he is really trying."
"I guess. How does your dad feel about you being gay?"
"He was not that thrilled when I first came out. Things were awkward for a while. But he has really come around. It just takes time."
Austin took Blaine's hand as they walked into the gym. The gym was decorated and the DJ was already playing requested songs when they arrived. While they got some glances but for the most part no one was really paying attention to the two boys so they started to relax and have fun. While a lot of the couples chose to grind as their form of dance, Austin and Blaine chose less suggestive dance moves for the upbeat songs. They even danced to some slow songs together. In short, they had a great time. While the boys were taking a break The DJ announced the last song of the night and the boys headed back to dancing. It was a slower song to it was a good opportunity to talk a little bit without having to shout.
"I'm really glad you said you would come with me," Austin said.
"Me too. This has been so much fun. And not even that many people have noticed us."
"See, by Monday all people will be talking about is the dance. You will officially be old news."
"Thank god," Blaine said and the boys laughed.
"Your gel is coming out," Austin said.
"WHAT," Blaine yelled his hands going to his hair.
Austin just grabbed Blaine's hands.
"It's okay Blaine. I like your curls better anyways."
After the song ended everyone started to leave. As Austin and Blaine headed for the door Blaine called Cooper.
"Howdy Little Brother, how was the dance?"
"What is with you and howdy? Anyways it was so much fun Coop."
"That's great Blaine."
"Austin and I are heading to the parking lot. His dad should be here soon."
"Okay buddy, see you when you get back. I expect all the dirty details," Cooper said and waited for a response. When he did not get one he started to worry.
"Blaine? Blaine? BLAINE," Cooper started shouting.
Cooper thought he heard a faint 'stop it' before the line went dead. His mother rushed to Cooper's side when he started shouting.
"Cooper, what's wrong? Where are you going," She asked as he dashed out the door.
"I have to go to Blaine's school. I think he is in trouble," he called after her.
Blaine watched as his phone hit the pavement. Blaine and Austin were cornered by three guys.
"Just leave us alone," Austin said.
"I don't think we can after you went and had to infest our dance with your gayness," one of the guys said.
"It's our dance too. And no one seemed to care," Austin said.
"Well now we do," another boy said.
"Let's just go," a girl, one of their dates said, "It's not worth the trouble you could get in."
Here friends nodded in agreement.
"Yeah," Blaine said, "We are just waiting for our ride."
"They are not bothering anyone," another girl yelled at the guys.
"Well they are bothering me," the first guy said before punching Blaine in the stomach. As Austin turned to help Blaine another gut kicked him down.
Blaine and Austin heard laughing from above as they continued to get attacked. Neither Blaine nor Austin could get in a good defensive position. Their clothing was torn and many bruises, cuts and other injuries were all over their bodies. The girls could be heard screaming, trying to get the boys to stop but never taking an active role in getting the guys off Blaine or Austin. Blaine was sore all over when someone punched him in the face. He saw a boy get ready to kick him in the head but he felt himself being pushed away by Austin right before he went into unconsciousness. Austin ended up taking the kick to the throat and gut but he thought he heard police sirens before slipping into unconsciousness as well.
The first thing Blaine registered was that his head hurt—bad. Then he felt sore all over. When he finally opened his eyes he was met with a bright light.
"Blaine," someone said, "Mom, Dad wake up. Blaine is awake."
Blaine opened his eyes a little more and his brother started to come into focus.
"I'm going to find the doctor," he heard his dad say before leaving.
Blaine fully opened his eyes and saw his mother and brother looking over him.
"Where-where am I," Blaine asked but it was hard to talk.
"Careful Blaine, try not to talk more than necessary," his mom said.
"You are in the hospital Blaine," Cooper told him.
"But-but wha-what happen?"
"Some a-holes beat you and Austin up bad when you were waiting in the parking lot. I called the police after we got disconnected. They called an ambulance. They caught the guys that did this Blaine."
Blaine's eyes widened at Austin's name.
"Austin-where?"
"He is here too. Just in a different room," Mrs. Anderson said, "Both of you were hurt real badly. The doctors were not sure how long you would be out."
"Austin-awake," Blaine said.
"I'm-I'm not sure," Cooper said, "After the doctor gets here I will go find his dad."
The doors to the hospital room opened and his dad and a doctor walked in.
"Hello Blaine," the doctor said, "Where does it hurt."
Blaine gestured to show everywhere.
"Okay well I will have one of the nurses give you a mild pain medication to take care of some of the soreness. But first I would like to ask you a few questions. Do you think you can respond?"
Blaine nodded.
"Okay. These are real easy but if you need more rest, just let me know. Name?"
"Blaine An-Anderson."
"Age?"
"Fifteen."
"Year?"
"2010."
"Do you know who the people in this room are?"
"My mom, dad and brother."
The doctor asked a couple more questions about what school he went to and personal matters.
"Well, how is he," Mr. Anderson asked after the doctor finished his questions.
"Well it does not appear that Blaine has any permanent brain damage. Of course we will have to do some tests to be safe. He seems not be suffering from any memory loss with is very good. I would say that from what I am seeing Blaine will make a full recovery. We did have to do surgery when he first arrived in the E.R. for some minor internal bleeding and I am still waiting for the full results from all the tests we ran but from what I saw he is healing nicely. All things considered, you really got lucky Blaine. This could have been a lot worse."
"Thank you Doctor," Mrs. Anderson said.
"I would like to keep him here for the next few days. I want to make sure everything is healing properly before he heads home," the doctor said before being paged to the emergency room but told the Andersons that they could hit the button by Blaine's bed to page a nurse if they needed something.
"I am so happy you are going to be okay," Mrs. Anderson said.
"Maybe if he took a girl none of this would have happened," Mr. Anderson said.
Cooper glared and his dad and his wife just said that this was not the time to discuss that.
"Do you need anything," Cooper asked Blaine and Blaine just shook his head.
"I'm going to find Austin and his dad," Cooper said but Blaine grabbed his arm and would not let go.
"We can do that," Mrs. Anderson said as she left with her husband.
As soon as they left Cooper held Blaine and Blaine cried onto his shoulder.
"It's no fair. We just wanted to have fun. We didn't want to cause trouble," Blaine said.
"I know bro, I know. It is not fair that they had to ruin your night. How was everything before that?"
"Perfect. I had so much fun. Just relaxing and dancing and being happy, it was so much fun. And then everything was ruined."
"This is my fault," Cooper said, "I had a feeling something bad would happen. I should have called you sooner or tried to do something."
"This is not your fault. The only people at fault are the idiots who hurt me and Austin," Blaine said.
Cooper just let Blaine rest on his shoulder and waited. Finally, his parents came back.
"Well," Blaine said, scared of what they were going to say.
"Austin woke up a little before you did," their dad said.
"And his condition," Cooper asked.
"More severe than Blaine's. His dad said he had some more internal bleeding and several of his bones are broken. But there seems to be no severe or minor brain damage and no memory problems. His dad also said that it might take Austin a little bit longer to recover but the doctors are positive that there will be no major problems," their dad explained.
"Well that's good," Cooper said.
"He pushed me."
"What did you just say Blaine," Mrs. Anderson asked.
"Austin pushed me out of the way. One of the boys was going to kick me in the head. But Austin pushed me out of the way. He took the blow instead. That is why he is more injured. He tried to save me."
"He must really care about you," Cooper said.
Blaine nodded. He had a while to go until he was recovered. But with his family, especially Cooper, by his side he knew he could do it. He just had to wonder where this left Austin and his relationship.
Well this was longer than I thought it would be so I cut it off into two chapters. The next chapter may be on the longer side as well since I have to pack a lot of stuff into it. I will try to have it up sometime in the next twenty four hours. I would expect it to be up sometime Saturday evening.
Please review.
Next time: Blaine comes home and Cooper takes care of him/Blaine and Austin talk and make decisions about the future/ Blaine goes to Dalton.