A/N: I am uber sorry this one took about a month to complete. I had this whole thing planned and I failed. Plus, I've been in class and busy writing my book and this got set aside for a while. But I'm back with chapter 7. Of course now there are rumors that we're meeting Blaine's mom and her name isn't Meredith, but too late. So I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of this.
Kurt woke up that morning and had completely forgotten that he and Blaine had sex the night before. After meeting Blaine only a couple of weeks prior Kurt never thought that they would end up like this. He laid in his bed just staring at the man sleeping next to him. How? How was all of this possible? As he stared at Blaine he couldn't help but smile at his sleeping face.
"Hey." He heard Blaine say slowly opening his eyes.
"Hi." Kurt said with a huge smile on his face. "So…breakfast?" He asked.
"No, just lay here with me." Blaine said tugging Kurt back into his arms. "I have to be up to pick up Bec soon and…" Blaine was beginning to second thing always bringing Kurt along when he and Rebecca spent time together. He wanted to spend as much time with Kurt as he possibly could, but he couldn't just keep sending his daughter to stay with a sitter. That was bad parenting.
"And? What?" Kurt asked. He could tell that Blaine was second thinking everything that was happening between them.
"Nothing." Blaine said wrapping Kurt up in his arms. "I just want to lay here for a little while."
"About last night. I'm sorry if I pushed or anything." Kurt told him hoping that would make the moment less uncomfortable.
"Kurt, last night was incredible. I wanted that with you." Blaine said kissing the top of Kurt's head. "Nothing to apologize for."
"Then why did you trail off before?" Kurt asked him shifting so he could look at Blaine.
"I was gonna ask you to come with Bec and me for breakfast, but I thought you might not want to be spending every second with my daughter." Blaine told him in a low voice knowing that what he said may upset Kurt.
Kurt pulled away slightly after hearing Blaine's confession. "You really thought that? Blaine, I haven't dated any dads before and I've never spent too much time around kids, but I like Becca. I like the way you are when you're with her. You're not forcing me to spend time with both of you. I could say 'no' if I wanted to, but I don't want to." Kurt told him. "I really care about you. That means I really care about her too." Kurt pressed a hard kiss onto Blaine's mouth and stayed there for several seconds. "So if you want to go out to breakfast then we can go. If you want me there."
"Of course I want you there." Blaine said reaching up to kiss Kurt again.
"Veronica, open the door." Meredith said banging her fist on Veronica's apartment door in Miami.
"Meredith, what the hell are you doing here?" Veronica asked while opening the door and trying to quickly tie her bathrobe around her waist.
"My son is keeping my granddaughter from me and his now sleeping with a man." Meredith said with a slight shudder at the thought of Blaine being intimate with another man.
Veronica let out a loud laugh. "He really is gay. That's hilarious." Veronica said buckled over in laughter.
"This is not something to be laughing over. This is your husband." Meredith yelled at her.
"No, he's not."
"You two are still married."
"For fuck's sake Meredith, let it go." Veronica said to her. "There's nothing I can do. I've already told him I want nothing to do with him or the kid." Veronica said without emotion.
"'The Kid'?" Meredith asked not believing that Veronica could care so little about a breathing child that came from her.
"Yeah, we all know I never really liked kids. You remember when I met Cooper's son. That didn't end well." Meredith chuckled at the memory. "Blaine is sending me the divorce papers and then I will have nothing to do with you or your fucked up family." Veronica said and attempted to go back into her apartment before Meredith could say anything more.
"Except I pay your rent." Meredith said sinisterly. "What happens when you sign those divorce papers and don't help me to see my granddaughter then I stop paying rent?"
"You'd actually stop my rent?" Veronica asked quickly turning around.
"In a heartbeat. So come back to New York for a few days and talk to Blaine. Straighten things out. I'm sure after that everyone will be happy." Meredith said with a sly grin on her face. She knew that Veronica loved her Miami apartment too much to let herself get kicked out.
"You're blackmailing me?" Veronica asked still not sure exactly what was going on in the hallway that morning.
"If that's what you would like to call it, yes." Meredith told her. "You have twenty minutes to put some clothes on, pack a bag, and meet me downstairs in my cab." She said and walked away.
"What the fuck just happened?" Veronica asked no one and went back into her apartment.
"Who was that?" A man asked wrapping his arms around Veronica's waist.
"My mother-in-law." Veronica responded.
"You're married?"
"Separated." She corrected him. "But I have to go back to New York for a few days. So lock up when you leave." She said throwing clothes into a suitcase and on her body. She gave the man a kiss on the cheek before exiting the apartment. "Meredith, I'm going to tell you right now that I'm not getting back together with Blaine." She said as she got into the cab that was waiting on the street in front of her building.
"I hear you." Meredith said. "Airport please." She told the cab driver.
Blaine walked back into his apartment with Rebecca in tow. "We did our nails and our hair and watched Frozen. Dad, it was awesome." Rebecca told her father. "But I'm hungry. Sydney didn't make breakfast." She complained.
"I want to talk to you first. Man to woman. Can we do that for a few minutes?" Blaine asked her sitting down on the couch.
"Yes." She responded with a large nod.
"Do you mind that daddy has a boyfriend?" He asked almost scared of the answer.
"No." Rebecca said rather quickly. "I like him."
"You don't mind that Kurt's been around a lot lately?" Blaine asked still very scared that his daughter's answer to one of these questions might make him start to think about breaking it off with Kurt.
"No!" She said shocked. "He makes you smile."
"You make me smile."
"Not like that." She said with a smile.
"You are five. You are not supposed to be this smart." Blaine laughed hugging his daughter. "You'll tell me if all of this stuff with Kurt gets to the point where you don't like it right?" He asked.
"Yep. It won't." She spat out. "About my breakfast." She said pointing towards the kitchen.
Blaine let out a loud laugh. "Go. I'll be right there." Blaine took out his phone to text Kurt.
Blaine Anderson 8:34 AM
Crisis averted.
Kurt Hummel 8:35 AM
There was a crisis? Why didn't you tell me? Haha.
Rebecca ran into the kitchen letting the swinging door slowly stop. "Hey!" She let out.
"Shhh." Kurt told her. "You're dad doesn't know I'm here making breakfast. Shush." He said picking her up off the ground and letting her sit on the counter. "You don't mind I'm here?" He asked her.
"Why do people keep asking me that?" Rebecca said exasperated.
"Got it." Kurt said and kissed her head. "Pancakes?"
"Yum." Rebecca said with a huge smile on her face looking down on the stove where Kurt was making breakfast. "You're sneaky, Kurt. Dad can always smell food." She said.
"Hey, whisper remember?" Kurt reminded her.
Rebecca made a locking motion with her fingers on her lips to tell Kurt she was done talking.
"Bec! What do you want for breakfast? Want to go out?" Blaine yelled from the other room.
"Pancakes!" Rebecca shouted from the kitchen counter. Kurt gave her a high five and continued to cook breakfast.
"Why do I smell bacon?" Blaine asked making his way back to the kitchen.
"Busted." Rebecca said to Kurt.
"Hop down. Get the orange juice and put in on the table, quick." Kurt said nudging her.
Rebecca quickly ran to the refrigerator and got the orange juice and set it on the table. "Now what?" She asked Kurt.
Kurt didn't say anything. He flipped the pancakes onto a plate and set it in front of her. "Eat." He said and went back to the stove.
Just as Rebecca put the first bit into her mouth the door swung open and Blaine walked in. "How do you have pancakes?" He asked her.
"I don't know?" She said with her mouth full and shrugged her shoulders.
"I can answer that." Kurt said and put another plate on the table.
"How? How do you do this?" Blaine asked flabbergasted that Kurt was making him breakfast again.
"I'm magic." Kurt said with a smile. "You gave me your key and I thought I'd surprise you both." Kurt told him.
"Well, I'm surprised." Blaine said giving Kurt a light kiss. "Please don't stop surprising me."
"Deal." Kurt said kissing him again.
Rebecca made cooing sounds from the opposite side of the table and Blaine threw a blueberry at her. "Hey!" She yelled.
Blaine heard the buzzer sound and went to let them in. "You're not gonna check who it is?" Kurt asked. "You're always on me about keeping my door locked while I'm inside." Kurt laughed.
"It's probably Sydney. She texted saying Bec left a couple of things over there and that she'd be by to drop them off." Blaine explained and took a few bites of his breakfast. "We are never letting you leave. The food is too good."
"I'm with daddy. Kurt, you're never leaving." She told him assertively.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door and Blaine got up to answer it. "Veronica?" He said in shock at who was standing in his doorway.
"We need to talk." Veronica said pushing passed him.
"Can it wait? I have company." Blaine said making her try to understand what he was saying.
"Really Blaine? At our apartment with our kid in the next room?" She asked him.
"Not that it's any of your business what I do in my personal time, no, we were at his place last night." Blaine told her. "And last week she was my kid, now she's our kid?" Blaine asked her.
"I spoke with your mother." She started.
"Hold on." Blaine said and walked back into the kitchen. "Kurt, can I talk to you out here for a moment?" Blaine asked and walked out.
Kurt got up and followed him. "What's up?" He asked and looked around the apartment. "Who's that?" Blaine didn't answer. "Wait, that's Veronica?" Kurt asked him.
"Yes, keep Bec occupied in there please." Blaine begged.
"Yeah, yeah, of course." Kurt said and turned to walk back into the kitchen.
"Wait." Blaine said and pulled him back into a deep kiss knowing that Veronica was watching. Kurt didn't care once Blaine had let his tongue slip into his mouth briefly. Blaine finally pulled away. "Okay, go ahead."
Kurt opened his eyes with blurred vision. Blaine really wanted Veronica to know something and that kiss displayed it perfectly. "Yeah, keep child occupied in kitchen. Got it." Kurt said and went back into the kitchen.
"What did he want?" Rebecca asked Kurt.
"Nothing." Kurt said. "You gonna help wash the dishes?" Kurt asked her.
"Um, no?" She said to him.
"Um, yes." Kurt replied. Hoping that the two of them washing dishes would make noise to show Veronica that Rebecca was happy with Blaine and Kurt and it would take up enough time until Veronica left the apartment.
"Why are you here?" Blaine asked his ex-wife. "I was gonna send you divorce papers and you were going to sign them and all of this would be over." Blaine said.
"Blaine, I've been thinking."
"Great." Blaine said sarcastically.
"I've been thinking about the poor job I've been doing as a mother." She continued.
"Last week you stated that you wanted nothing to do with us. Almost verbatim." Blaine almost shouted.
They heard a loud laugh come from the kitchen. Blaine couldn't help but smile. He knew exactly what Kurt was doing in there and he loved it.
"I've had a change of heart." She stated.
"You don't have a heart." Blaine rebutted. "I don't want you near her. I know my mother has something to do with this, but you can't see her." Blaine stated directly.
"She's my daughter!" Veronica yelled. "I have the right to see her."
"You lost that right when you walked out on her." Blaine yelled back.
"Who is daddy yelling at?" Rebecca asked Kurt setting down one of the glass she had been rinsing.
"I don't know." Kurt replied not wanting to have this conversation knowing that she needed to talk to Blaine about it not him.
"Blaine!"
"Veronica!"
"Blaine, she's my daughter."
"You lost the right to call her that three years ago." Blaine told her.
"I will be going to court for custody. After a judge knows you're having faggot sex and leaving her alone they will grant me sole custody." She told him.
"Are you kidding? I have a steady relationship with a man that Becca really likes. I have a job and keep a roof over our heads. I pay my own rent and I'm not sleeping around!" Blaine yelled.
"You don't know me, Blaine." Veronica said with nothing but anger in her tone.
"That's just it. I do know you, Veronica. And that's why I don't want you around my kid." Blaine told her. "Leave or I'm calling the cops." Blaine told her.
"I'll tell them you kidnapped my daughter." Veronica told him.
"You've got to be fucking kidding me!?" Blaine screamed at her.
Rebecca sat in the kitchen with her knees pulled up to her chest trying not to hear her dad screaming. Kurt came over to her and hugged her as tightly as he possibly could. "You okay?" he asked her.
"Daddy doesn't yell like that." She said clutching to Kurt's shirt.
"Give me one minute." Kurt said and left the kitchen. "Blaine." Kurt said from behind.
Blaine walked back to talk to Kurt. "What's up?" Blaine asked him.
"Bec's a little shook up in there. Mind if I take her for a walk?" Kurt asked.
"Um, yeah, hold on." Blaine said and walked back to Veronica. "Stand over there and face the window." Blaine told her. "Do it now or any chances you may have in seeing her are gone." Blaine ordered. To his surprise Veronica obeyed and walked over to the window and stared out it. Blaine and Kurt went back into the kitchen. "Baby sweet, I'm sorry I'm yelling. Kurt is gonna take you for a walk that okay?" Rebecca nodded shyly and Kurt helped her into her coat. "I'll see you in a little bit. I love you. I love you so much." Blaine told his daughter pulling her in for a hug and kissed her head. "Have fun."
"Ready?" Kurt asked holding out his hand for her to take so he could pick her up.
"Yeah." She said quietly. Kurt picked up and let her rest on his hip as the three of them left the kitchen.
"Kurt, I'm really sorry."
"No, gives us bonding time. I'll see you later." Kurt said and gave Blaine a quick kiss on the lips. "Bye." Kurt closed the door and Blaine went back to speaking with Veronica.
"So, you're fag of a boyfriend is taking my daughter away from me today. Right in front of me?" Veronica asked him.
"Is my mother inside your head or something? Kurt has spent more time with her and talking to her and taking care of her while she had the flu in the last two weeks than you have in the last five years!" Blaine screamed. "Why are you even here? My mom threaten your rent?" Blaine asked her. The way she did not immediately respond told Blaine he was correct. "So, you're here because my mother said you need to try and reconcile with me so she can see her granddaughter again or she wasn't paying your rent anymore?" Blaine asked her.
"Something like that." Veronica responded.
"Exactly like that. Did you know she kidnapped Rebecca from school one day when Kurt was supposed to pick her up?" Blaine asked her. "No, you didn't, because you're a self-involved bitch, Veronica. You can't even take care of yourself let alone try and take care of a five year-old." Blaine stated calmly. "You're here only to please my mother so you can keep your Miami apartment."
"Blaine, please, have a heart. I can't work." Veronica said.
"Why should I have a heart if you don't?" Blaine asked plainly. "Why can't you work? Go out and work at McDonald's."
"Blaine…"
"Veronica, I'm telling you right now you will never see Rebecca ever again. I have the divorce papers all you have to do is sign them." Blaine stated. "If I have to I'll take out a restraining order."
"Are you serious?"
"I don't want to, but I don't want you around my child ever." Blaine told her. "Veronica, I don't understand why you're here." Blaine stated after calming himself all the way down. "I know that my mother sent you in some insane scheme to see Becca again, but—"
"Blaine, you were right. It's my rent." Veronica told him.
"No, you wouldn't have fought this hard if it was just about the rent." Blaine told her. "I want the real reason."
"Blaine, there is no other reason." She told him. "I just wanted to see her a second. That's all." Veronica told him.
"If you do see her it has to be on my terms and her decision." Blaine said sternly.
"Blaine, she's five." Veronica stated to him.
"She's smart. A lot smarter than me most times." Blaine told her. "They're gonna be back soon. You should probably leave."
"Kurt's good with her you said?" Veronica asked.
"Yeah." Blaine told her as he guided her to the door. "I'll let you know. And tell my mother to fuck off."
Veronica laughed. "Blaine, about what I was saying earlier. You're a good dad and you're right I don't want her and it almost hurts to say that looking at your face fall like it just did. But you were the parent and I was basically the incubator for nine months." She told him.
"Yeah, I know." Blaine said and started to open the door to Kurt fumbling trying to get his key out of his pocket. "Hey!" Blaine said enthusiastically.
"Daddy!" Rebecca yelled and almost jumped out of Kurt's arms and into Blaine's. "Me and Kurt had so much fun."
"I'm glad. Why don't you run to your room and take off your coat." Blaine told her and Rebecca ran back to her bedroom to take off her things.
"That's my cue to leave." Veronica stated and walked out the door.
"How did that end?" Kurt asked walking into the apartment and sitting down on the couch.
"Actually, well. We stopped yelling and spoke like adults." Blaine said sitting down next to him. "Thank you for taking Bec. I try not to raise my voice around her, but Veronica just makes me very angry."
Kurt snuggled into Blaine's side taking his hand. He didn't have to say anything to Blaine. He just sat there holding him and everything that had just happened with Veronica seemed to melt away. "So what did she want?" Kurt finally asked.
"Just to yell at me for being gay and to say I have no right to keep Becca away from her." Blaine told him.
"Wait…"
"My mother threatened her rent." Blaine chuckled.
"Oh." Kurt smiled. "Ah!" Kurt shrieked as Rebecca jumped up into his lap. "What was that?"
"What are we gonna do today?" She asked settling in between Kurt and Blaine.
The men looked at each other. "Absolutely nothing." Blaine said poking his daughter in the stomach.
Later that day Rebecca was napping on the living room floor and Kurt was fast asleep on Blaine's chest lying on the couch together watching Frozen for the third time. Rebecca liked to sing along with Elsa during Let It Go. Blaine had one hand up underneath Kurt's shirt resting on his bare back. He loved the way Kurt's skin felt against his own.
Blaine began to rub Kurt's back and just seconds later he felt Kurt place a light kiss on his chest. "Did I wake you up?" Blaine asked him.
"No. Well yeah, but I don't mind." Kurt replied lifting his head so he could catch Blaine's lips in his own. "I asked Becca how she was with what happened today. How are you?"
Blaine didn't say anything for a while and Kurt took that as a bad sign and just let it go for the moment. "I'm okay I guess. I don't want Rebecca to leave my sight. Or yours. After my mom at her school and Veronica showing up here."
"Blaine, I know it's a lot, but you can handle this." Kurt told him.
"Only because I have you to keep my head on straight." Blaine chuckled and kissed his hair. "I would have barricaded myself in this apartment if it weren't for you."
Kurt just gripped onto Blaine tighter. Everything that was going on with his mother and his ex-wife was beginning to wear on him. Kurt could see it. He wasn't the same quick witted and clumsy guy he was a week ago. "You're gonna get through this, honey."
The rest of the weekend went by without a single incident. Kurt stayed over at Blaine's and watched Blaine burn dinner. They watched movies in the living room. After they put Rebecca to bed they spent an hour making out on the couch before finally heading into Blaine's room to go to sleep.
That Monday they dropped Rebecca off at school and Blaine almost didn't let go of her. Kurt was finally able to pry him away and they headed for the Gershwin for rehearsal. They had three weeks before opening night and they were both a little nervous.
"I'm shocked that both of you are here on time today." Ivan said as he watched the two of them enter from the back of the theatre.
"Kurt's always fifteen minutes early for everything. He dragged me out of bed this morning." He said before noticing the reporters that were there to interview them during rehearsal. "Oh." He stopped dead in his tracked.
"Busted." Blaine heard Sydney say from the stage.
Before Kurt could even try to speak and explain what Blaine just said Blaine had his lips pressed firmly against Kurt's and his fingers digging into his back. The reporter's cameras were all flashing trying to get the best picture of Broadway star Blaine Anderson and his new boyfriend.
After almost a minute Blaine pulled away and looked at the reporters. "I want you to quote me on this." He cleared his throat. "Yes, I am gay. Yes, that's why my marriage ended. No, I'm not ashamed. No, I'm not hiding. But yes, I am dating my incredible understudy Kurt Hummel." He said turning towards Kurt to look him in the eye. "And I really really care about him." He leaned in and kissed Kurt again.
"Blaine Anderson, you know how to make a man's heart soar." Kurt told him and kissed him back.
"Alright. Tongues back in your own mouths. Time for rehearsal." Ivan said from in front of the stage.
Kurt gave Blaine a quick peck and took his hand wanting to really show these reporters that they were happy.
Again I am so sorry about the wait for this one. For a while I was neglecting my book for fanfiction and now it's the other way around, but I am going to finish this because the story I have in my head is something I want to share with fellow fans it just might take a little longer than I had originally planned. I hope you all still read this.
-Taylor
