FINALLY! Here is the last chapter, and once again I am so sorry about the delay but I've been super busy and wanted to get it right and I'm sorry but I HAVE A LIFE OK!?
Alright... Now please enjoy!
A happy, ridiculous, incredibly sexy and sometimes exhausting daze were probably the words Blaine would use to describe the past three months he'd spent waking up next to Sebastian almost every morning. Exhausting because once again it was Monday, and he didn't feel recharged at all from the weekend due all the ridiculous and incredibly sexy things Sebastian put him up to. But at the end of the day it didn't really matter, because he really was truly happy.
At least that's what he kept telling himself as he walked down the corridor to once again face the dreaded nurse's office, slightly taken aback by the sight of his… Blaine wasn't quite sure of how they defined their relationship yet so for now he usually just called him Sebastian. His Sebastian.
"Are they serious? It's March and there's another strain of the same flu, can't we just skip this?" Blaine thought to himself that irritation might actually help distract from the inevitable injection he was about to get even though it was worth a shot trying to get out of it. But seeing as his… Sebastian, was an actual doctor Blaine knew he'd never let him off the hook.
"Blaine, ten people have died in the last two weeks alone, so sit down." Sebastian shot him a look that seemed to be a mix of seriousness and amusement. "And hello to you too." His features visibly softened as he walked up behind Blaine to shut the door before leaning in to give him a kiss.
Actually managing to relax for a moment Blaine responded to the kiss with a small smile on his lips, but only before spotting the what he perceived to be enormous needle Sebastian was holding. He looked up at the taller man with his best attempt at puppy eyes. "Do I have to?"
In turn, Sebastian gave his best attempt at being serious once again as he gave Blaine's shoulder a squeeze, steering him to sit down on the bed. "Yes, you absolutely have to."
"Fine…" Knowing the drill by now, Blaine undid the cuffs on his left arm and began rolling up the sleeve as he looked over at the man in the white coat currently facing his back towards him as he fiddled around with something on the instrument cart. "Isn't there a numbing cream or something?"
"Yes… For kids."
Hopeful eyes almost lit up the entire room. "But you're a pediatrician."
"True..." Sebastian turned around, shot ready in his hand. "And you're acting like a man-child."
Blaine huffed in response. "I am not."
Never one to hold a serious façade for longer than a minute, a smile finally cracked on Sebastian's face as he stepped closer. "And that pout on your face is doing wonders for your argument." Dabbing the about to be punctured skin with an alcohol soaked cotton swab, his voice turned just a little softer than it had been a mere moment ago. "Just look away."
Not only did Blaine look away, he also clamped his eyes as shut as possible while holding his breath and trying to focus as little as possible on the needle piercing his skin.
"All done."
Blaine let out sigh of relief as he let Sebastian put a Band-Aid on his arm, rolling down the sleeve as soon as it was possible to get back on his feet and turned towards the door.
"Aren't you forgetting something?"
With a hand on the handle, Blaine reluctantly turned around to face his assailant. "Sorry…" He walked back up to Sebastian, giving the amused man a peck on the cheek.
"I meant this."
Looking down, Blaine saw the red lollipop being pressed into his hand. He smiled grudgingly, tapping a foot against the cheap linoleum floor. "Aren't these for children?"
"Yup." Long fingers came up to pat the shorter man's head. "And alleged man-children. See you around."
It was late already. Blaine sat by the desk in the lecture hall grading papers as a tap on the door stirred his attention, smiling as he saw that tall, handsome doctor leaning against the doorway. "You're still here?"
"I just packed up so I'm about to head home."
"No!" Blaine objected a little more dramatically than necessary. "My car is in the shop and now you have to give me a ride home."
"But…"
"Come on. Just five more papers, then I'm done."
With a breath sort of stuck in his throat for a minute, Sebastian finally let his briefcase slide of his shoulder as he reluctantly entered the lecture hall. "Fine…" He threw his briefcase onto one of the small desks by the front row and took a seat, reminded of the fact that he always found himself too tall to comfortably sit down in one of these chairs. "Are you giving me detention? Is that what's happening right now?"
Blaine couldn't help but smile to himself to the look of Sebastian's sort of defiant conduct in front of him. "I'm not actually authorized to do that but… yes. Why don't you just read something?" He gestured a hand to the stack of books piled up by the corner of the desk, and almost to his surprise Sebastian got up to get the one laying on the top only to return to his seat in an even more slouched position than before.
They sat in silence for a while, Blaine too busy getting his work done as fast as possible to notice just how pale Sebastian's face had turned within a matter of minutes as he flipped through the pages of the book in his hands. The taller man finally sat up a little straighter than before, clearing his throat before opening his mouth to speak.
"You're familiar with Rosemonde Gérard?"
Blaine looked up, brain too cluttered with the incoherent ramblings of one of his students who obviously hadn't read the literature to see why this seemed like such a big deal to the other man. "No, I bought my degree from some dodgy guy out of a container by the harbor. Of course I know Rosemonde Gérard."
Sebastian nodded to himself, and finally Blaine realized what he might be getting at as the taller man by now seemed to just pretend to read the open page before him, mind obviously preoccupied with something else. "In original French, too?"
"Yup." As amusing as Blaine found it, he opted to look down at the paper he was currently grading because he didn't actually want to make the other man uncomfortable.
Another silence fell over the room, and Blaine continued to scribble notes along the sides of the pages in front of him between almost worried glances at Sebastian, who seemed to just sit there with his eyes transfixed to a spot on the little desk. That was, until about ten minutes later when he finally broke the silence.
"I do love you."
Blaine wasn't sure if the heart stuck behind his ribcage was going a mile a minute, or if it had actually stopped beating upon hearing those words. Shutting the stapled pages of the final paper on his desk, he absentmindedly drew a big, red circled A on the first page of what had actually been a pretty awful book analysis because Sebastian had just said he loved him.
Blaine looked up. "I love you too."
The two just sort of sat there, eyes not tearing away from each other and even though they were several feet apart, this probably was one of the most intimate moments both of them had ever experienced. The twinkle in Sebastian's eye as he finally let a small smile on his face caused Blaine to smile back, blushing as he gathered the papers on his desk before looking down again.
Somewhere behind the blasts of fireworks going off in his chest, Blaine heard the soft sound of Sebastian's nervous chuckle. "Ready to go, killer?"
"Yeah."
The campus was quiet as they exited the big doors to the college, darkness creeping around tall, brick corners where the dim soft rays of streetlights weren't casting their friendly shadows on the ground.
"You know, I was thinking…" Sebastian flung an arm around Blaine's shoulders as they walked down the path towards the parking lot.
"Uh huh."
"I don't do this often, but seeing as you've got two flu shots from me I can make it a deal and throw in a prostate exam. On the house."
"Ugh…" Blaine stopped to pick up the arm around his shoulders and toss it to the side before giving Sebastian a tired look, then continuing to walk two steps in front of the other man.
Sebastian let out a dumfounded "What?!" as he flung his arms open, trying to catch his breaths between bouts of laughter at seeing Blaine get so flustered. Within a couple of seconds he had caught up with the other man who, to his surprise, had a smile almost as wide as his own painted on his face. He returned his arm right to where it belonged; around those shoulders. "What..?"
"It's just…" Blaine looked at him, opening his mouth to say something before setting it back to the slightly suppressed smile. "Nothing…"
"Oh, come on."
Shaking his head in disbelief at what his life had turned out to be in the matter of a few months, he let out a sigh. "I've changed so much."
"Change is good. Besides, you're preaching to the converted, killer."
Sebastian walked up and opened the passenger door for Blaine as they reached the car before walking over to the driver's side, the mischievous smile still present on Blaine's face not lost on him. "What?"
Blaine looked over the roof of the car. "If I had met you in high school, I would have hated you."
Looking at the ground for a moment, Sebastian opened the door to the driver's seat while contemplating that even though he seemed to be the one always easing out of his comfort zone to be enough for this person that he apparently loved, the same probably wouldn't have been true for him. Blaine probably would have hated him, because then and even now after having been corrupted by the hardships of life but especially then, Blaine was just pure good, through and through and Sebastian was… Well, he was Sebastian.
And in another life Sebastian knew that he wouldn't have wanted anything more than to be the one to corrupt him.
"Then thank your lucky stars that we met today."
THE END
