It was all happening too fast for Blaine; Kurt...Adeline...Andy. There was too much for him to watch over at once and too many pawns involved in the game. Nothing could have prepared him for what he saw. Andy had Adeline in his clutches as he pointed a gun towards Kurt about to pull the trigger, and Blaine couldn't do anything but stand there. It all went by too quickly that he couldn't remember anything, except for the gun shot and a scream.
Blaine sat in the back of the ambulance with Wes as they headed to the hospital. He couldn't speak or say anything. It was his duty to make sure that the paramedics took the accused to the hospital so that they could interrogate them, but right now this was not his duty. It was his duty to sit in the ambulance with someone he cared about lying on the stretcher while being followed by a second ambulance carrying the man responsible for this. Blaine sat there quietly, his head resting on his hands as he stared at the face before him. It just seemed like it was a nightmare that he could not awake from.
"I'm doing this for you, Blaine!" Andy yelled.
"No!" Blaine cried.
"Daddy!" Adeline screamed as Kurt's eyes widened in fear.
BANG!
Blaine watched as a bullet shot out of nowhere and hit Andy in the back. The impact to Andy caused him to accidently pull the trigger of his own gun. It was like everything was in slow motion from that point on. He watched as Andy's fingers pulled the trigger as he collapsed to the ground. Adeline screamed at the sound of Andy's gun. Within a few seconds, the bullet made contact with Kurt, hitting him in the leg. Kurt screamed in pain and Adeline screamed again in fear as she watched her daddy show signs of absolute pain before collapsing to the ground. As soon as the bullet made contact with Kurt, all slow motion ceased, the only thing that he was feeling was complete and total panic. That was when all hell broke loose.
"Kurt!"
Blaine threw his gun to the ground and rushed over to Kurt, skidding to the ground. Sebastian ran out of the bushes with his rifle in hand and crouched down to Andy, hand cuffing him to make sure that he was not faking lying still. David ran over to Andy to check over his injuries as Wes made a run for Adeline. He grabbed Adeline, who was sobbing and thrashing against him wildly to get to Kurt. Wes dragged her away from Andy and Kurt and held her tightly in his arms. Nick ran over to Blaine and helped him. The SWAT team ran over to Andy, David and Sebastian to keep him away from the victims.
"Daddy!" Adeline screeched.
Adeline was kicking and shoving Wes all over the place. She did anything and everything she could to get out of Wes' hold to get to her father, but to no avail. Nick and Blaine untied Kurt's hand from their bondage and noticed the burns and dried specks of blood. Blaine stared down at Kurt and saw tears leak out of his eyes unwillingly.
"Kurt" Blaine called hysterically.
Blaine lifted Kurt's head with his arm and looked at him in the eye. He felt sick to the stomach seeing all the bruises, cuts and dried patches of blood all over Kurt's beautiful face and body. Now to add a gunshot wound to the leg.
"Kurt, stay with me" Blaine demanded.
Kurt could hear someone's voice but everything was just too much. This was the icing on the cake for him. After weeks of cuts, bruises and punishment, the bullet wound added too much pain for him. He felt his mind slip away and his focus became hazy. The only thing he saw before everything became blurry was a man running to him. Before Kurt knew it, he lost his courage and will to fight and gave in to his body and allowed himself to black out.
Blaine watched as Kurt's eyes rolled to the back of his head and the lids slowly close. He was soon unconscious. Blaine tried to shake Kurt awake but it was no use. Everything around him became muffled and the only thing on his mind was Kurt lying limp in his arms. He heard the cries of Adeline in the background begging for her daddy and Nick's call to the director for immediate ambulances. Blaine did not how long he was lying there for, but before he knew it, he was walking out of the bushland to the abandoned train station and saw paramedics waiting on the roadside. Two paramedics ran up to him and they took Kurt out his arms and placed him on the stretcher. He noticed that the director had arrived with Burt. Wes ran over to Burt and handed Adeline to him who held her tightly. Adeline struggled against her grandfather's embrace but he was refusing to let her get away from him again. Wes ran with Blaine and into Kurt's ambulance while David and Sebastian ran into Andy's ambulance, leaving Jeff and Nick with the director and the SWAT team to handle the crime scene clean up.
Blaine had never felt as powerless in his life as he watched Kurt in the stretcher. Wes was sitting opposite them and assisted the paramedic with keeping Kurt comfortable. How could they keep him comfortable, Blaine wondered. Kurt was unconscious; if they couldn't get to the hospital in time, he could lose a lot more blood then he already was and Blaine could not imagine what would happen after that.
Blaine and Wes followed the paramedics inside the hospital as they wheeled Kurt down the hall straight to emergency. Two doctors immediately ran to Kurt's side and started checking charts and asking the paramedics questions.
"We've got a gunshot wound, deep lacerations to the face and arms, severe dehydration, and attempted suffocation" a paramedic informed, as they wheeled Kurt into a room.
"Is he going to be okay?" Blaine asked.
The paramedics and doctors lifted Kurt to the bed and started hooking him up to machines. A nurse turned and looked at him.
"I'm sorry, Inspector" she apologised. "But you are going to have to wait outside."
So that was what Blaine did. He and Wes waited outside the ER as the doctors operated on Kurt to get the bullet out. Not even an hour later, Burt and Finn had arrived at the hospital to wait with them, leaving Rachel and Carole home with Adeline. All that was left to do now was to wait, wait to make sure that Kurt was okay, and that Andy lived so that he could be properly prosecuted for his crime.
It was now two days later since Blaine and his team finally saved Kurt and brought him to the hospital. Andy was lucky that Sebastian's shot narrowly missed his spine, so he could walk again, but he had to stay in the hospital for a while. He was kept under constant supervision by Blaine's team and other FBI officers in different sectors.
Kurt's surgery was a success and the bullet was successfully removed without any major complications. Unfortunately Kurt had not awoken since he was brought in. Doctors said to Blaine, and Kurt's family, that Kurt had suffered from severe dehydration, head trauma, body lacerations, and throat swelling from attempted suffocation. They said that he had gone through a lot and was lucky enough to have had only received those injuries, gunshot wound aside. The doctors were happy to say that Kurt would be able to walk and the marks on his neck did not damage his vocal chords so he could sing and talk after rest, however, they were concerned about the head trauma. He had been hit on the head and bashed a lot during his time in captivity. Doctors couldn't say whether it was serious or not. They had to wait for Kurt to awaken before they could answer that question.
"Morning" Nick said, tiredly as he walked into the office.
Wes and David were at Wes' desk putting Kurt's case to a close, and looked up at Nick. They responded by only a simple nod of the head.
"I take it you guys have not slept well these last two days" Nick assumed.
"Two days, try two weeks" David corrected. "We may have finally found Kurt, but Andy is not behind bars yet, and we do not know if Kurt is going to be okay."
Nick could only nod his head in reply. Of course everyone was happy to have Kurt back home safe but he was not out of the woods yet. Everyone was worried about Kurt. Each person on the team felt like if they had just found him sooner, he wouldn't be in such bad shape. Sebastian walked into the room suddenly and saw the looks on everyone's face. He did not greet them and instead, walked into the break room without a word.
"Is he still blaming himself?" Nick questioned, watching Sebastian's retreating form.
Wes sighed sadly.
"Unfortunately he is" Wes answered.
Ever since Kurt was admitted to the hospital, Sebastian had been blaming himself. If he had just had a better shot of Andy, then the impact would not have caused Andy to pull the trigger of his own gun and shot Kurt. Each warbler, including Blaine, had approached Sebastian since then trying to assure him that it was not his fault.
"Why doesn't he get the fact that if he hadn't have taken the shot, both Adeline and Kurt would be dead" Nick sighed sadly.
"Because" David answered. "Sebastian's goal of the shot was to prevent Kurt from being shot in the first place. He followed orders and luckily he did not miss and hit Adeline."
Nick nodded his head at David's reply. He could see Sebastian's point but he should look at the fact that both Adeline and Kurt are alive because of him. The Hummel's were so grateful to Sebastian but he continues to blame himself. No one blames him, not even Blaine, in fact, Blaine blames the director. Nick shivered at the memory of Blaine's anger at John when Kurt got out of surgery.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Blaine demanded, storming up to John.
John had just arrived at the hospital to check up on Kurt but before he could ask Burt, Blaine had spotted him and stormed up to him.
"What do you mean?" John asked confused.
"I heard you give the order to Sebastian over our communicators" Blaine explained. "What was it that you said...take the bloody shot?"
"The subject was becoming hostile and was about to kill the victim." John defended. "I took a calculated risk"
"A calculated risk that almost cost me my daughter's life! Kurt's daughter's life!"
"It was a risk that I was willing to take and lucky I did since you and your team were just standing there."
Blaine growled and shoved the director up against a nearby wall.
"How dare you?" Blaine growled. "You almost killed a little girl's life and you have the nerve to say that I did nothing?"
"Blaine!"
The pair looked next to them and saw Burt standing by them.
"Let him go" Burt said firmly. "That is not helping."
Blaine looked at John and glared at him refusing to release him.
"Don't waste your energy on a man who risked Adeline's life" Burt said angrily, looking at John. "Focus your energy on the fact that Kurt and Adeline are alive. They both need you right now."
Nick had never seen Blaine as mad as he was at that moment. John was close to suspending, even firing Blaine before Burt pulled his rank as Senator to remind him that Blaine saved two lives while John risked a more. John risked Adeline's life, Kurt's life, and even Burt's. Burt could have lost a granddaughter and a son all on the same day.
"So, where is Blaine?" Nick asked, pulling himself away from his thoughts.
David and Wes scoffed lightly at Nick's question.
"Same place he's been the last two days, the hospital" Wes replied.
Blaine sat on the seat next to Kurt's bed, looking at the man intently. He had never once left Kurt's side since he was brought in. Just like Sebastian, he blamed himself. If he hadn't ignored the death threats all of those years ago, then Kurt would not have been kidnapped and now lying in the hospital with his body attempting to repair itself. Kurt's leg was wrapped in a cast; his arms were left bare so that the cuts could be treated. There was a large bandage on his cheek, covering the deep wound on his face. It broke Blaine's heart seeing Kurt like that. The guilt was coursing through him like poison and he knew that he deserved it. What he did not deserve was all the gratitude and appreciation he had been receiving from Kurt's family and friends. It was his fault, everything was his fault. It was his academy partner who did this, it was his fault for being so reckless and senseless, and it was his fault for not protecting Kurt and finding him sooner.
"Would you stop?"
Blaine jumped at the sudden voice in the room. He looked up and saw Burt and Carole in the doorway with coffee for him.
"I'm sorry?" Blaine asked, accepting the cup.
Burt sat in the seat next to Blaine while Carole walked over to Kurt. Burt softly chuckled at Blaine's confusion.
"Stop blaming yourself" Burt said with a smile.
Blaine looked away from Burt and stared down at the floor.
"You did everything you could to find Kurt, Blaine" Carole said. "You could not have done more. You brought him back safely. This is not your fault."
"It is" Blaine replied. "I should not have been so reckless all those years ago. How can you all just forgive me? Why even be nice to me when this whole thing could have been avoided."
Burt sighed sadly and moved in closer to Blaine, putting his hand over Blaine's.
"Look, I'll be honest with you. All those years ago, yeah, we blamed you; we thought that you were being selfish for abandoning Kurt. But knowing the truth now, we do not blame you. You thought what you were doing was right. Andy threatened to kill Kurt if you went to your colleagues. There wasn't anything that you could have done. How were you supposed to know that Andy was going to do this? You leaving gave him a few years of safety."
Blaine shook his head disagreeing with Burt. Carole left Kurt's side and walked over to Blaine and pulled him into a hug.
"Whatever happened to Kurt was put on hold because of you. His life was saved by you, now. Everything that you have done has saved our son and our granddaughter" Carole said.
Blaine couldn't argue with Burt and Carole at that moment for Rachel and Adeline had walked into the room.
"Papa" Adeline called.
Adeline smiled at the adults and ran over to Blaine as Rachel sat next to Kurt on the bed. Adeline motioned for Blaine to pick her up and he obliged and set her down on his lap. She snuggled closer to Blaine and rested her head against his chest. Blaine sighed at Adeline and looked at Burt.
"I don't deserve any of this" Blaine whispered to Burt. "I have been absent from her life for five years."
"Blaine" Burt began. "She does not care about that. She only cares that you love her and that you love Kurt. That is all that she needs to know."
"Kurt is not going to like this, is he?" Blaine asked, as he looked at Kurt.
"Not at first" Burt replied. "But that is because he is the last to know what happened. After that, you two can finally be happy again."
Blaine looked down at Adeline who was playing with his FBI badge. He smiled and placed a kiss on top of her head.
"I hope so too."
Kurt had never felt so relaxed and calm in all his life. Even though he was surrounded in darkness, he never felt scared, it just felt nice. The space around him was quiet, and truth be told, he liked it. There were no bullies, psychopaths, murderers, nothing, it was paradise. There was something in the air that made him want to stay there forever. He never wanted to leave. A bright white light appeared in front of him, shining light on the darkness. The light hurt his eyes but he couldn't seem to look away.
"Kurt" a soft voice called to him.
The white light dimmed and a tall woman appeared before him, her body glowing with a soft white glow. She wore a long white V-neck dress. It had see-through sleeves, making the woman look like a goddess. The dress was one of a kind and Kurt knew it from a mile away. He helped design that dress when he was younger.
"...Mom..." Kurt whispered.
Elizabeth smiled at her son and opened her arms wide, waiting for a hug. Kurt felt hot tears form in his eyes and he ran to his mum and hugged her tightly, refusing to let her go.
"Hello, my beautiful son."
"I can't believe that you are here" Kurt said.
"I'm always with you Kurt, in your heart" Elizabeth replied. "I am here to help you."
"Help me?" Kurt said, removing himself from the embrace. "But I am fine, I'm happy here."
"You're not, honey. Kurt, this darkness, it is a world without love and feelings. It is not good for you. You think that you are happy but you are not."
"But-"
"It's okay. For years you have sacrificed so much for your father, your family, and your friends. I am here to show you why you should return to reality and leave the darkness."
"I am staying here, mother" Kurt said. "You are here, I am safe here. No one can hurt me here."
Elizabeth smile sadly at her son. She raised her hand and placed it on Kurt's cheek.
"Honey, you are scared because after everything that has happened to you, you fear of getting hurt, and that is understandable. But, the reason why I am here; is to show you that even though you can get hurt, reality is so much better because you have love."
"I do not want love" Kurt yelled suddenly, pulling away.
Elizabeth raised her hand to Kurt again and this time, a silver glow appeared over Kurt's body. Kurt looked at himself with wide eyes.
"There is energy all around you, sweetie. It is coming from your heart, preventing you from putting yourself out there. You are forcing yourself here and I cannot allow that. There is nobody to share your time with here."
"I don't care!" Kurt yelled, tears streaming down his face. "I am staying here. Do not make me go back, you cannot make me!"
"Then I just have to show you the reasons why you should return"
Before Kurt could respond, Elizabeth grabbed Kurt's hand and they disappeared.
Kurt and Elizabeth appeared outside Kurt's hospital room. He looked around and saw Rachel and Finn sitting on the seats by the wall. Rachel was crying softly as Finn held her close and attempted to comfort her. Kurt wanted to hold her too but he looked at his hands and noticed that he and Elizabeth were ghosts.
"What's going on?" Kurt asked his mother.
"We are in the present. There are a lot of people who need you to awaken, Kurt" Elizabeth replied. "The darkness offers you silence and emptiness. Reality offers you them."
Kurt looked at the couple again and watched them interact.
"He's not waking up, Finn" Rachel sobbed softly. "He's my best friend. We moved out to New York together. I can't lose him."
Kurt noticed Rachel remove a hand from Finn and placed it over her stomach.
"We can't lose him" Rachel corrected.
Finn couldn't reply so he settled for wrapping his arms around Rachel, pulling her to his chest.
"Kurt, you are not only their child's uncle, you are their child's god father too" Elizabeth said.
Kurt didn't respond and just kept watching Finn and Rachel.
"That child will need you. They will need you when things get too much. You are the one they are going to run to for help and guidance. You can give that child so much love that you have given your own child. Finn will go to you for father advice and Rachel will go to you for a shoulder to cry and lean on. Do you think that they can do that if you decide not to wake up?"
Kurt remained silent as he let his mother's words sink into his head. As much as he hated to admit it, she did have a point, a good point. Elizabeth took Kurt's silence as a signal to move on. She took his hand in hers and led him inside the hospital room.
Inside he found Adeline curling up next to his unconscious form on the bed. Her head was resting on his chest, fiddling with a shiny object in her hands, as she talked to him about her day.
"It was great, daddy" Adeline said with a smile. "Uncle Finn took me to the police station today so that I could thank all the officers. Mr Wes let me have another hot chocolate. It was so good! Mr Nick and Mr Jeff raced me in the elevators and I won. The director did not like that though. I think he was jealous since his officers did not win."
Kurt chuckled at his daughter as she talked about his old Dalton friends. It had been a long time since he had talked to them. He stared at his daughter and she seemed normal. Looking at her now you wouldn't know that she was recently held captive with a psychopath and watched her father get shot. She seemed the same happy self as before.
"She's happy, isn't she, considering what happened?" Elizabeth questioned.
"Yeah, you can't tell that she watched me get shot, that she was held captive" Kurt replied.
"She's happy now, Kurt, but what happens when you stay asleep? Will she be happy then?"
Kurt looked away and down at the ground.
"I can't wait for you to wake up, Daddy. Look at what I made for you."
Adeline lent over to the bedside table and picked up a piece of paper. She held it to Kurt's unconscious face. Kurt looked at Elizabeth and the two walked over to have a look. Adeline drew a picture of her and Kurt, and their family. He listened as Adeline spoke about the picture with high esteem.
"Don't let her loose a parent like you lost me, honey" Elizabeth practically begged. "Could you let Adeline go through what you did? You have a chance to go back, I didn't."
"Please open your eyes, daddy" Adeline said.
Adeline leant over and kissed Kurt's cheek. Kurt placed a hand to his cheek and felt Adeline's kiss. Even as a ghost he could still feel traces of touch and affection from his unconscious form. It was a nice feeling and he forgot how much it means to him when he is close to losing it. Elizabeth smiled at her granddaughter and took Kurt by the hand again and led him to the hospital cafeteria.
Elizabeth and Kurt walked through the doors and noticed a lot of doctors, nurses, and civilians sitting at the tables. Elizabeth took Kurt's hand and they walked over to a table in the far corner with Burt and Carole sitting there. Burt had his head in his hands while Carole sat next to him, comforting him. Burt said nothing, he was completely silent. Kurt had never seen his dad so quiet and sad before in all of his life. It was like looking into the past when his mother died, but this was way worse, much worse.
"Kurt, you are all your father has left" Elizabeth said sadly. "Yes you went through troubles and got hurt, but you have all of these people here for you, and so many more friends, who love you."
Kurt walked closer to his dad and looked at the pain showing in his face.
"You may think that you are leaving a place where you have been hurt, but you leaving will hurt people. If you do not wake up, not only will you miss out on the people who absolutely love you, but you will miss out on a lot of special memories in the future. Let me show you."
Blaine walked back into Kurt's hospital room later that afternoon. He saw Adeline sitting on the bed cuddling Kurt and showing him a drawing. Adeline looked up at Blaine and smiled at him. Blaine returned the smile and placed a guitar case on the ground next to the seat. He sat down on the seat and took out the guitar and started fiddling with the strings.
"What are you doing, Papa?" Adeline asked curiously.
Blaine could not get over the fact that Adeline was now calling him Papa. His heart would always skip a beat every time he heard it and it never got old.
"Your daddy and I used to sing together back in high school" Blaine explained. "As you know he loves music, so I thought that if he heard music then he would wake up."
"I get to hear you sing?"
Blaine nodded his head. "Yes, a song that I sung to your daddy when we first met."
He started to tune the guitar strings before he began playing the start of teenage dream.
'You think I'm pretty
Without any makeup on
You think I'm funny
When I tell the punch line wrong
I know you get me
So I let my walls come down, down
Before you met me
I was alright but things
Were kinda heavy
You brought me to life
Now every February
You'll be my Valentine, Valentine'
Adeline sat on the bed staring at Blaine in complete awe and amazement. She had never heard him sing before and it was just as amazing as Kurt's. This was also one of her favourite songs that Kurt sings to her at night. She finally understood why Kurt sung this song and possibly others; it was because her Papa used to sing them.
Kurt and Elizabeth appeared in a white light and they found themselves in a hospital room. On the bed sat Rachel holding a small bundle in her arms, wrapped up in a light pink blanket.
"Where are we?" Kurt asked.
"We are in the near future, Kurt" Elizabeth replied.
Rachel started humming to the bundle in her arms and was slowly rocking it side to side. The door opened and in walked Finn holding a small camera in his hand. He walked over to Rachel and took a photo of the bundle. The couple smiled and Finn placed a kiss on top of Rachel's head.
"Is that..." Kurt began but was too shocked to finish.
"Yes" Elizabeth answered. "That is Rachel and Finn's newborn child. We are one month in the future, Kurt, and today marks the day when Patricia Hudson-Berry, or Patti for short, was born into the world."
Kurt scoffed at the name. "Of course Rachel would name her daughter after the Broadway legend, Patti LuPone."
"Do you want to see her?"
"Yeah" Kurt replied.
Kurt slowly walked his way over to the bed; fortunately he couldn't be seen, and looked at the bundle in Rachel's arms. The words adorable and beautiful could not describe how the baby looked. She had stunning brown eyes, high cheek bones and locks of brown hair on her head. She looked like a star so it seemed appropriate that her name was after a Broadway star. Kurt felt a tear roll down his face. He remembered the first day when he held newborn Adeline in his arms for the first time. He felt a pang in his heart thinking that he could not be able to share this moment with his brother and best friend.
"Honey" Elizabeth said, walking up to Kurt. "This is your niece and goddaughter. You will risk missing out on her life, as well as Adeline's, if you do not wake up."
Kurt felt a little angry at his mother for playing the guilt card but he knew that she had to. She was right though; he would miss out on his daughter and niece's life. Why would he waste precious time like that?
A white light flashed and Elizabeth took Kurt to another point in the future. Kurt and Elizabeth appeared in a stunningly decorated event room in the museum. All over the room were tables decorated with white linen cloths and vases of flowers. Guests filled each chair and were dressed in formal clothes.
"Where are we now?" Kurt asked.
"We are at a wedding."
At the back of the room a man dressed in an Armani suit stood up and gained everyone's attention.
"Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen, my name is Wes Montgomery and I am one of the Best Men" Wes greeted.
"Whose wedding is this?"
Elizabeth turned to her son. "Yours" she answered.
"Then where am I? Who's my groom?"
"You cannot see your future self or your future groom in this stream because that has yet to be written."
Wes smiled at everyone in the room and started his toast.
"I am not usually the one who skips tradition but I thought for today I could make an exception" Wes said gaining laughs from the audience. "For my speech today, I actually did not write it, for what I am going to say was written by Kurt's groom when they first got together. He chucked it away before he let Kurt know that it ever existed. What he didn't know was that I fished it out and kept it for when it could be recited on a day like today."
The audience chuckled again.
"My future husband sounds lovely" Kurt said.
"He is" Elizabeth replied. "Unfortunately you will not get the chance to meet him since you refuse to return to reality."
"That was so cool, Papa" Adeline said with a smile.
Blaine looked at Adeline and smiled back.
"Yeah, your daddy thought so too" Blaine replied.
"Can you play another song, please?"
Adeline gave Blaine the puppy-dog eyes, the same ones that Kurt used to give him, how could he refuse them?
"Alright" Blaine chuckled. "How about a song that I have written for your daddy?"
"Yes!"
"Alright then, 'What you mean to me' it is."
Blaine started strumming on his guitar and stared at Kurt.
"Where are we now?" Kurt asked, as he and Elizabeth appeared in a new time stream.
Kurt looked around and noticed that he was outside a large private institution looking building. There were parents and kids walking all over the place.
"It is Adeline's first day of preschool" Elizabeth informed.
Kurt looked to the child drop off zone by the footpath and saw Rachel and Finn walk out of a car with Adeline holding their hands. Why would Adeline's aunt and uncle be dropping her off?
"Why are they dropping her off?" Kurt asked slightly hurt.
"Because you did not wake up" Elizabeth answered. "If you did then you would be there dropping her off at school for the first time in her life. You kept Blaine out of her life so guardianship was left to Rachel and Finn."
Tears ran down his face.
"No" Kurt sobbed a little. "That...that's su-supposed to be m-me"
"But you were scared of getting hurt again" Elizabeth rebutted. "That is what you chose so now this is the consequence of that decision; you missing out on Adeline's life."
Kurt could not stand to watch as his step-brother dropped his own daughter at school. It should be him who was holding her hand; it should be him who was handing her backpack with homemade lunch; and it should be Blaine who was there wishing her good luck. Wow, where that came from, Kurt wondered. His heart ached and he could not stand the sight anymore.
"Take me away" Kurt begged, looking away from the sight. "Take me anywhere but here. There has to be something that I am a part of."
Elizabeth respected her son's wishes and she transported them to a massive apartment on the Upper East Side of New York. The pair appeared in the living room of the apartment and Kurt instantly fell in love with it. The room was Victorian with its own fire place. Every piece of artwork and furniture appeared to be specifically chosen and each was exquisite and fabulous, it was simply Kurt's taste. Kurt looked around the room completely blown away by the decor when the sound of children playing echoed down the hall. A few seconds later, two little girls ran into the living room chasing each other. One girl looked to be roughly ten years old with long blonde hair. The second girl looked to be around six and had shortish brown hair. Kurt watched as the blonde girl chased the brunette around the room before they fell onto a nearby couch, giggling.
"Adeline, Patti" a voice called.
Kurt looked up and saw his future self walk into the room with a phone in his hand. He looked the same but was wearing even better clothes then he could have imagined; a stunning white collared shirt with a gold tie and a vest over the top. He wore designer jeans and his hair was still as stylish as ever.
"Be careful" older Kurt continued. "Patti, I don't want your parents coming home to find you with your first injury, and Adeline, I do not want to explain to your Papa how I could not handle the two of you on my own. I already lost a bet to him this week."
The two girls giggled and started running off again.
"Papa?" Kurt whispered to Elizabeth.
"I'm sorry honey, what were you saying?" older Kurt said into the phone. "You got promoted? That is fantastic! Look at you, the director, sweetie you have worked so long and so hard for that. I am so proud of you."
"Director?" Kurt said to Elizabeth. "Is my future husband going to be a film director or something?"
Elizabeth chuckled at her son. "Hardly" was her response.
"Everything is working out for us, honey" older Kurt continued. "You are now director and I opened another company location in London. Life could not be better for us."
"London!" Kurt shrieked with excitement. "I have Pavarotti fashion companies in New York, Paris, and London?"
"You could if you returned to reality. This is what fate has in store for your future, Kurt. But you could lose it all; lose everything, if you really wanted to stay with me. You and your family travel to Europe a few times a year for fashion shows and exhibitions for your clothing line. You and your partner earn more money than you could ever imagine, and you have the family that you always dreamed of. Now why would you want to give all that up for eternity without love and family?"
"I told you before"
"Yes, you are scared of getting hurt, but honey, in any present or future events that I have shown you, did you ever see yourself getting hurt?"
Kurt did not answer his mother's question.
"If this is going to be your future, dreams fulfilled, a family that you love, and a husband that loves and adores you, don't you think that the risk of getting hurt again would be worth it?"
"But what if this is all a lie?"
"I am your mother, Kurt. I would not show you this if it was all a lie or that things were going to change."
Kurt nodded his head letting Elizabeth know that he understood what she was saying.
"Now, there is just one more thing that I have to show you."
Elizabeth closed her eyes and she and Kurt appeared back in Kurt's hospital room. He looked around and noticed Adeline sitting on the bed next to him but Blaine was sitting in the seat next to the bed with a guitar in hand. Kurt gasped in horror.
"What is he doing here?"
"You don't remember?"
Kurt thought for a few seconds trying to remember. "I remember being dragged to the bushland in Central Park by the sleaze-ball, Andy. Adeline got captured and the police showed up. I got shot and someone ran to my aid. That is all I remember."
"Kurt, the police did not save you, it was the FBI, Blaine's FBI team."
"What?"
"Blaine joined the FBI after he left and your case was given to him and his team, the Warblers. Blaine was the one who found you and Adeline, he was the one who saved you, and he was the one who ran to your aid after you got shot."
"No...I won't go back."
Elizabeth sighed sadly at Kurt's fear. She had believed that the previous encounters with the future had opened Kurt's eyes and changed his mind, but sadly, she was mistaken.
"Kurt, what about your future? What about all of the things that you could be giving up?"
"I do not want Blaine in my life. I cannot have him in it. Why is he here? Why did it have to be him?"
"Because that is how fate works. He is here in your hospital room because he loves you. He wants to be in your life, and Adeline's."
"No, he can't want that because he does not know who Adeline really is. He could not possibly know. He gave up that right to be in her life the day he walked right out that door."
"Kurt, every good thing comes at a price. Do not risk everything just because of one person. You have to confront him."
"I don't want to"
"You have to. He loves you."
"I do not believe it."
"Then believe what you see."
Elizabeth and Kurt turned to Blaine in the room and watched as he started to play a song for Kurt.
Can't blame you
For thinking that you never really knew me at all
I tried to deny you
But nothing ever made feel so wrong
I thought I was protecting you
From everything that I go through
But I know that we got lost along the way
'Protecting me' Kurt thought confused. 'Why would he protect me? He broke my heart when he left.'
'Here I am with all my heart
I hope you understand
I know I let you down
But I'm never gonna make that mistake again
You brought me closer to who I really am
Come take my hand
I want the world to see what you mean to me
What you mean to me
Just know that I'm sorry
I never wanted to make you feel so small
Our story is just beginning
We'll let the truth break down these walls
And every time I think of you
I think of how you pushed me through
And showed me how much better I could be'
Kurt laughed thinking about the truth behind those words. He did help Blaine become a better person in a way. He helped him prove that he really was a gay man and not in love with Rachel Berry. Yes, Blaine and Finn should be thanking him.
'Here I am with all my heart
I hope you understand
I know I let you down
But I'm never gonna make that mistake again
You brought me closer to who I really am
Come take my hand
I want the world to see what you mean to me
What you mean to me
You make me feel like I'm myself
Instead of being someone else
I wanna live that everyday
You say what no one would say
You know exactly how to get to me
You know it's what I need
It's what I need, yeah
Here I am with all my heart
I hope you understand
I know I let you down
But I'm never gonna make that mistake again
You brought me closer to who I really am
So come take my hand
I want the world to see what you mean to me
What you mean to me'
Kurt felt tears roll down his cheeks again. He wiped them away quickly feeling like such a cry baby today.
"You see Kurt, Blaine really does love you. I cannot stand by while you waste everything you have to gain in the future just because you will not face your past. What you saw all can be yours. It can be your future, if you really want it.
Kurt thought about the gorgeously decorated apartment, now realising that it was his own doing. There were photos of him and his daughter all over the place, photos of Rachel and Finn's family, his friends, everything. He remembered hearing Adeline and Patti's giggles echo throughout the entire apartment. He loved hearing his future self gush to his husband, it all seemed too good to be true, and he loved it.
"Yes, I really want it."
Elizabeth smiled down at Kurt. "Then all you have to do is open your eyes."
"What?"
"Open your eyes, Kurt. Open your eyes."
Blaine settled the guitar back in its case and watched as Adeline left the room with Finn to get a drink. He felt a little awkward being the only one left in the room with Kurt, trusting him. It had been so long since he had seen Kurt's eyes and the only time he saw it in five years was when they were red and full of fear. Blaine prayed to himself that he could see Kurt's eyes again, but this time; see the beauty in them and not the fear. He was brought out of his thoughts when he heard someone groan in the bed. He looked over to the bed and saw Kurt stirring and beginning to awaken.
Blaine froze in his seat thinking that it all could be a dream and he would awaken any minute if he moved. Kurt stirred slowly and began to open his eyes, adjusting to the light in the room. There were the eyes that Blaine had longed to see again; the perfect green eyes with specks of grey that shone in the light. Kurt was alive and he was back. Kurt slowly turned his head and noticed an older looking Blaine in the sit next to the bed.
"Blaine..."