Ch. 10
When Kathrin came up to wake up Kurt, so he could wake the rest of his little family, she got a shock.
While Burt had told her that Kurt had taken the children of Noah Puckerman as his own, she only believed that he saw Noah himself as a friend. Maybe even a kind of brother. But the picture they made within Kurt's bed said something else. They lay interwoven with each other, quite frankly it looked like a lovers embrace, and Noah wouldn't be the first man who got someone pregnant before discovering his interest in his own sex.
But no. She wouldn't say anything. They were both old and responsible enough to be parents, so she wouldn't disempower them by calling them out on their relationship, even though she would talk with Kurt about it in private later. After all it wasn't like they could produce another child by being together, no matter whether it was Kurt or Kate.
But she would have to move Noah's luggage into this room, it would also make it easier for them to take care of Beth during the night then.
She went over to the bed, and softly woke Kurt, without waking Noah. She knew that he would properly prefer to dress in private, as a girl, for the first time. Plus she had a couple of gifts for him.
She waited until he had pulled himself out of Noah's arms, and out of the bed (Funnily enough he wasn't at all red in the face, like she would have expected, due to her seeing them in bed.), before she pushed him into the attached bathroom.
"I have a little present for you." Her words made him pick up. He had always loved presents. "I talked to your father, while you guys were sleeping, and from what he told me you have had no thoughts on how to appear a woman, except for the clothing. Now I know that they say clothing makes a woman, but for a male to bare woman clothing, and not just to appear as being in drag, some accessories are needed." Kurt was looking scared now. Looking like he was in drag was the last thing he wished. He would rather wear Noah's clothing, than be laughed at like that.
"Now don't lose your shine, you just need a little extra, no shame in that." She quickly comforted her beloved grandson.
And then she started to take things out of the bag she was holding, which Kurt hadn't noticed before now.
"While a lot of young girls are rather flat in the chest area, they are seldom as flat as a boy, and if they are, they are often times mistaken as a boy. It isn't right, but that's how it is. So I have bought a BH with implants, you will need more of these, but until we can go out and get some fitted, this one will have to last."
As she was talking, she was showing him how to put it on, and as he looked down his front, it really looked like he had breasts.
"Now I know that you normally take care of most of the hair on your body, do continue doing that, but the hair on your head is a big problem. Your styling is masculine, and will not be seen as something a woman would do, outside of the most artistic areas. So I bought you a real hair wig, in as close to your own color as I could get. This is how you put it on…"
And so it continued for half an hour. Makeup, shoes, underwear, and when she was finished, he could take all of it off again, as he needed to bath and get ready for the day.
Kathrin left the boy she saw as a grandson, to finish up, and wake his partner. She would take that talk with him when they were all up and had eaten. Maybe on the shopping trip, for the duplicates, and right fits for his 'costume'.
She didn't like to call it a costume, after all she needed much of the same things when she had breast cancer some years ago, but she didn't know what else to call it.
Maybe outfit?!
It didn't matter, they would talk later during the needed shopping trip.
…o0O0o…
"Noah… Noah, you have to wake up now, or you won't be able to go to sleep tonight… Noah" Noah burrowed his face into the pillow, but opened an eye. He had to still be dreaming. A beautiful girl was trying to wake him up. She wasn't the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, but she was at least an eight.
He let his eyes travel from the long, thin and perfectly proportioned legs, which came out from under a short sexy, but not 'in your face' dress. Over the thin, but lovely rounded hips, the small waist, the small but perky breast, over the long and shiny loose hair (he had never told either Quinn or Santanna that he didn't like when they put up their hair, but he definitely preferred it loose), up to lovely green-blue eyes in a face that… "KURT"
Kurt just looked amused at him "yes who did you think it was? My grand-mere? And by the way, from now on, until the day we go home, I'm Kat, or Kate if you prefer that." He gave Noah another amused look, and swept the blanket of off him. "Up you go, or you won't get anything to eat."
Noah let his head fall back on the pillow, and when he looked up again, after a long speech to himself about how he did not find Kurt-Kate attractive, he was alone in the room.
When Noah finally came down, after a long cold shower, and yet another pep-talk about the newly christened Kate's attractiveness, he couldn't find the kitchen.
After finally finding the kitchen, near the back of the house, he was told by the cook (because of course Kathrin had a cook), that he could find his family in the dinner room, just to the right of the front door.
When he finally found the rest of them, Kur- Kate just raised an eyebrow at him, apparently the only one who had discovered that he had entered the room.
"Got lost" was the answer. And yet again, all he could read on Kate's face was amusement. It seemed to Noah as if she was finally comfortable again. Something she hadn't been since she decided she wanted to live the summer as a girl.
He was still dead tired, but he hadn't much more than sat down and filled his plate, before he was told, that he had the girls for the day, as Kate needed some essentials.
Normally he would be happy to be able to enjoy a day with his daughters. But neither he nor Sarah had had all that much sleep, and she would start being unbearly in about an hour or so, and he couldn't even allow her to sleep, as she would be unable to fall asleep tonight. And Beth had started to begin clinging to her mother- to Kate lately, and would not be happy to wake up and not find her there.
He tried to convince the two women that they should make a family trip out of it, but almost got yelled at, for being a pervert. Not that he even knew what it was they were going to buy.
So finally, he accepted his fate, and let Kate and Kathrin leave in the Bentley, for their little shopping excursion.
…o0O0o…
Kurt- not he had to remember, it was Kate now. If he didn't remember, how could he expect Noah to remember?
Kate and Kathrin set course at the other side of Paris. Kathrin lived at the outskirts of Paris, but where they were headed were apparently also on the outskirts, just on the other side of centrum.
Kate was a little scared that they would have to go to shops, especially for transvestites, as he didn't want to be seen enter that kind of shops, not even by people he never had or will know.
As they passed a hospital, and started to slow down, he got a little confused. Why place that kind of shops so close to a hospital, normally shops that close by were for prosthesis', medicine and ads for people to move freely. Not for getting a man to look like a woman.
As they entered the shop, with Kathrin talking a mile a minute, without Kate understanding a word she was saying due to nerves, the shop assistant came toward them, and as she came in front of them, she drew Kathrin into a hug, while enthusiastically greeting her, like an old friend.
Kate started to believe that maybe it wouldn't be all that bad. She just didn't understand why her grand-mere seemed known in the shop.
"… and this is my granddaughter Kate, she needs at least two other pairs, as she is a rather active lady, but we better hurry. I would love to spend all day, but it is Saturday, and we have a lot of shopping in front of us." As Kate tuned in on what her grand-mere was prattling on about, she also became conscious of what the shop was selling. Breasts. No really, they were selling fake breasts. But instead of seeming trashy, it seemed like it was for people who had at one time had breasts, and had, maybe like her grand-mere, because of cancer, had the breasts removed.
She was wondering what excuse her grand-mere was giving for her needing two, and at her age, but didn't care over much when she understood that she wouldn't be seen as a transvestite here, only as a very unfortunate young lady.
Soon they were leaving the shop again, as she had decided she wanted the same size as Kathrin had picked out for her, due to the obvious approval from a sleep logged Noah.
Kathrin continued talking about nothing as they continued on to the next stop. She knew that right now Kate wouldn't catch much of what she was saying, so she prattled on about nothing for a while.
The next stop was a lingerie shop. At first Kate felt very out of place, but as her grand-mere continued handing her things, and gave her compliments for almost all of it, even though it was kind of weird for her to have her grand-mere see her in underwear, and lingerie at that, she started to enjoy the excursion.
They used, what was usually the amount he would use on a month, on lingerie. And they weren't even finished yet.
Next stop were a shoe shop, and while she had always wanted to try walking in those high heels, which gave the best figure, he accepted that he would probably just end up on his ass in those, and ended up choosing some sensible heels. But even if he couldn't have the heels he wanted, he could at least get enough different kinds, to have them compliment his outfits.
He primarily chose Mary Jane's but he also got a few of the other kinds, even if he knew that he pointed heels would probably kill his feet.
As they moved on to, what was apparently the last stop of the day, a combined hairdresser and beauty parlor, Kathrin turned to Kate and started talking seriously.
"Now I didn't say anything before, course you seemed a little preoccupied, but I know that getting a haircut can't be all that new and exciting, so let's talk now."
Kate turned her excitement, over what had happened so far today, down, and nodded acceptingly. She was ready to talk about whatever serious topic Kathrin apparently felt a need to discuss.
"I am not scolding you. Even if you are not legally an adult, you have taken adult responsibilities on yourself, by becoming a parent to Beth and Sarah, and as such I will treat you like an adult."
Now Kate started to become a little scared, what did she want to talk about that deserved such an opening?
"How long have you and Noah been sleeping together?" oh it was just that. She must have been surprised at seeing them together on the bed.
"I hope you are aware that should things not work out for the two of you, it will be Beth and Sarah who pays the price, so I hope you are very responsible, and talk things trough together?!" No- wait- what, she thought that Noah and her was a couple! But why… no wait… she had seen them in bed together, and when they left after lunch, Noah had done his usual, kiss on the cheek "goodbye sweetheart" routine.
As Kathrin continued giving relationship advice for being in a 'mature and responsible' relationship, which included children, Kate got more and more red in the face. Finally she couldn't hold it in anymore.
She burst out laughing… and laughing… and laughing. When she finally calmed down, it was to a cross and confused Kathrin, and a rather disgruntled driver. The shock of her laughter had almost made him crash the car.
"grand-mere. We are not a couple. At least not in the way that we are having sex, I guess you can call us a couple in any other way. So don't you start getting angry at Noah if he finds a girl to have some fun with. He likes sex. And grand-mere. Just because I look and/or acts like a girl, doesn't mean I look like that down there." The last part was said with a blush, but before he could continue, an equally red Kathrin interrupted him.
"Fine… I understand… no need to go into details. It isn't really my business what you do to each other, I just thought… well doesn't matter. Just forget I said anything. We are here now; let's go in, we have a time slot in 5 minutes." And with those words, a still pink Kathrin De la Roche left the car.
As she sat in the chair, getting a haircut in her fake hair, she thought on what Kathrin had said. Not the part about them being a couple having sex, but the part of being in a responsible adult relationship, which was needed when children was involved. And she had to think on it. Because even though Noah and her wasn't having sex, they were in a relationship, in every way that counted. What this meant was pretty obvious. They had to talk, and talk seriously, about their expectations, and what the rules were considering they had to go elsewhere to find sex.
Not that it mattered much right now, at least not for her. But Noah had been in celibacy for almost half a year now. No one had wanted to have sex with someone who got someone pregnant. But no one knew that right now, so he was free to find someone to have sex with here in Paris if he wanted.
But what would that mean for Kate. She was, in every way that counted, Beth and Sarah's mother, and how would people look at her, if her putative boyfriend/ husband, was having sex with people not her.
They definitely had to talk.