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Glass chapter 11: Wheels All Over Again

Carole had initially informed Burt of their sons current situation. He couldn't say much about it, thinking of how badly Finn was hurt. And Burt saw that his son was being happier than ever in his young life, despite the prolonged stay in the hospital. Bu he made one thing clear to the boys and Carole. "The boys will not be sharing a room for now on. Finn will be taking the upstairs guest room. No shenanigans under my roof!" Nobody could argue with that. Although both teens were already planning on sneaking around when they managed to get home from the hospital...

Finn was being blessed with youth and healthy, athletic body, thus recovering nicely and in good speed. Kurt's head was still troubling him, and the doctors said that he might be suffering from migraines for a while longer, maybe even the rest of his life. Kurt took the announcement in stride, being too happy to care of his own well-being. "There are meds for headaches after all" he just said.

Finn was still weak when they were released, and the doctors made him promise not to overexert himself. The hospital even provided him a wheelchair if he would want to go to school but being too weak to walk. Finn just shrugged "That's cool, I've had practice with that after all."

Finally came the day that the bandages on Finn's head were to be removed. Kurt hovered nearby clearly worried, when Carole and Burt were both sitting beside Finn's bed. The nurse started to unwrap the white cloth from Finn's forehead and the left side of his head, slowly revealing his bruised skin. "These look bad now, but the bruising and swelling will eventually disappear." the nurse said when she saw the distraught look Kurt had. When the bandages were completely removed, they all saw what the glass had done. Finn had indeed managed to shield his face for the most parts, but there were a long gash on his forehead, exceeding to his left eyebrow. Finn saw the looks he was given and grabbed a mirror from the side table.

"Oh..." Was the only thing he managed to get out, seeing the figure in the mirror, with deep bruises and the wound.

Kurt started to cry. "It is all my fault" he sobbed. Finn turned his gaze to the caramel-haired boy. "He must be disgusted of how I am looking now... maybe he don't want to be with me because I don't look good anymore..." Finn thought by himself, getting agitated. He reached over to the crying boy. "I'm sorry Kurt. I understand if you don't want to be with me anymore, when I have this hideous wound. It will probably scar terribly and I will never look the same as before..." he was startled from his reverie by Kurt flinging himself over, hugging Finn. "Nononono, I could never leave you! You are always beautiful to me, an I don't care what other people think!" Kurt carefully traced the wound with his hand, barely even touching and then proceeded to cup Finn's face and forcing the taller boy to look at him. "To me, this is the mark of your remarkable bravery and your need to be who you truly are. To me, it is the mark of your victory. It makes you even more beautiful in my eyes." And Kurt sealed his words to Finn with a sweet kiss.

The nurse interrupted them "Ahem... The wound is not deep, it might not scar so badly. And where there is bad there is good too. This cut is fairly clean, and the scarring is probably very mild and will be non-existent in few years."

Carole had been distraught too, seeing her son's face. She knew how badly people reacted to differences, and Finn being openly with Kurt and scarred would give them much more ammunition to hurt her son. But seeing the devotion the boys shared, she felt better. With that much love they would do just fine.

Burt held his wife's hand tightly, as not to bolt and go seeking the monster who had done that to his step-son and his son's boyfriend. Seeing the wound on Finn's face made it all so clear to Burt. Finn had been injured because of what and with whom he wanted to be. That sounded so wrong. And with that thought, Burt discarded all his doubts he might have had over the relationship the two boys obviously shared.

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Couple of days later Finn felt good enough that he wanted to return to school. He still felt self-conscious about his face, but his family (mainly Kurt) managed to convince him that it didn't make him ugly. So Burt loaded the wheelchair to the Navigator and drove the boys to school, promising to be there at the end of the day to pick them up.

They managed to unload the wheelchair and Finn sat down, feeling tired already. "I'm glad that they gave me this chair. I don't think I could have walked much more than those couple of steps" he said to Kurt. The countertenor didn't have time to answer when they were surrounded by the ecstatic Glee club members.

"Finn, you are finally back! Why you are in wheelchair? Are your legs hurt? Are you paralyzed?" The questions were overwhelming and Kurt managed to hold his hand up "Please, one at the time dear friends!"

Tina spoke first. "We are just so glad that you are back, both of you. But why Finn is in wheelchair?"

Finn looked up to Tina and exclaimed silently "I'm still a little weak so the doctors thought it would be better for me to move around like this, saving my strength. And they were right, I could barely manage from the car to the chair."

Puck grabbed the handles of the chair "So, with you weak and queen here so small I think I will be rolling you around then" and he started to push Finn towards the school entrance. "C'mon people. The Glee Club is complete once more!" He shouted to the rest of the group still standing on the parking lot.

With that, Kurt got beside Finn's chair and the rest surrounded the three teens in protecting circle Artie being in front, leading the way. Suddenly Finn got an idea. He grabbed Kurt and plainly forced the smaller teen to sit on his lap, leaving Puck to wheel them both inside the school. Kurt tried to struggle away, fearing that he would injure his boyfriend, but Finn just adjusted Kurt on his lap so he was leaning on Finn's right side. "You know that my legs were not hurt, and if you stay like that you wont hurt me" Finn said, kissing Kurt's neck. Kurt relaxed, and Finn draped his right arm around his love, ready to face the school day.


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