AN: It's short and sweet, but this is the end...


Madeline's first birthday party was really just a reason for Kurt and Blaine to rent a ridiculously large room and decorate it with bright colors. Because, really, first birthdays (and seconds and sometimes thirds) are more for the parent than they are for the child.

Congratulations, honey, we managed to keep another human alive for an entire year. Let's have cake!

But regardless of how much Madeline actually appreciated her first birthday parent and all of her daddies' hard work, there were a lot of people around to celebrate her.

Standing to the side, watching Blaine talk to one of Rachel's dads, Madeline on his hip, Kurt couldn't help but think back on the eighteen months of his life and realize that he was nowhere near where he once planned he would be at twenty-six.

It started with a girl; soaking wet, pregnant and a complete pain in his ass and somehow it brought him to the day he would be celebrating his daughter, with his husband, and the realization of just how happy he was. It made his eyes misty. He'd never felt more love in his life.

Kurt gaze moved to Rachel, who stood talking to Carole, her arm around Finn's waist. The Funny Girl revival had opened last week and Rachel was, no surprise, their star. But today she'd given her role to her understudy so that she could celebrate Madeline with them.

Before Kurt could say otherwise, Finn had packed up everything he had in Lima and was moving to New York. He'd managed to find a job, an apartment, and a girlfriend that, once upon a time, would have outraged Kurt. But now he smiled and congratulated them. And he meant it. Rachel and Finn were actually good for each other.

And then there was the little girl who suddenly appeared next to him, a sleepy smile on her face and her head on Blaine's shoulder. Kurt was sure the sight of Blaine and Madeline together would never get old; and it would never stop making him smile.

"Can you take her," Blaine asked, "There's something I've got to do."

Kurt nodded and took Madeline from Blaine's arms, her little head immediately nestling into the crook of Kurt's neck. She'd be asleep soon.

Kurt rubbed his daughter's back as he watched Blaine make his way across the room to the piano that was set up in the corner. He knew that Blaine had had it rented for this event, but he never questioned why. Blaine called the attention of everyone in the room to himself as he sat down on the piano bench.

"I want to thank you all for coming out here to celebrate Maddy's first birthday. I think she's falling asleep over there, but I know she appreciates it," Blaine said with a small laugh, "What seems like a very long time ago, I started writing some music and for a long time I had the melody, but I couldn't find the right words to go along with it. But then there was a little girl and suddenly the words started to come and over the last eighteen months, I've been putting together a collection of songs lullabies and I've recorded them, but today I want to play one just for Madeline on her birthday. I love you, baby girl."

As Blaine began to play, Kurt watched his husband, amazed, as the beauty of Blaine's song filled the room. He looked down and watched as Madeline, her eyes beginning to droop closed, but directed at her daddy. The tears welled up in his eyes and one single drop trailed down his cheek, but he didn't move to wipe it away. He only held onto Madeline tighter as Blaine sang. The song was beautiful, his family was beautiful and although Kurt had never thought this was where he'd find himself…he wouldn't trade it for the world.


While Blaine's song is original (and I'm not a song writer) it was inspired by In My Arms by Plumb so feel free to give that a listen and have some Daddy!Klaine feels.

So...this is it... thank you for reading, reviewing, favoriting, and just being generally awesome. I'm so happy that people liked this story as much as I liked writing it.

I'm going to be focusing on It's a Rich Man's World so check that out if you'd like.

Until next time!