Disclaimer: Okay, well ... I don't know what to tell you. Glee is the property of RIB and FOX. But good news, Season 5 begins.
So, in the last chapter, we discovered that Sebastian and Dave had met before their first meeting at Scandals. I wanted to clarify, but call me Dory, I forgot, the idea was inspired by my recent reading of a Klaine OS called 'Inevitable: When We Were Just Kids' by Phantom of a Rose .
Dave and Sebastian live together in Chicago in the beautiful loft that Sebastian's great aunt gave him when he entered college. Yes, the Smythe family is that rich. They both obtained their Bachelor. For Dave, it means he only has to obtain certification from the state of Illinois to look for his first job as a teacher. Sebastian he, continues and thus get in to law school.
They are together for over three years and they are somewhat uncles now. Somehow, since Tina and Mike have become parents. And the same day, Kurt and Blaine announced that their surrogate was pregnant and they would soon be the proud daddies of a little boy.
And otherwise, you remember Sebastian's mother who had supposedly left when he was a baby? Not only she hasn't left, leaving her baby, but it also turns out that she was Dave's nanny. And in fact, the two boys spent the first year of their life almost attached to each other.
"Kurt it's not possible. It's too early, we're not ready. I'm not ready. It's far too early. Why did we do that? What took us?"
"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do at all. Who is it that has authorized us to do that? Who is the incapable who decided we could do that?"
Kurt and Blaine were totally panicked. Their surrogate had called to tell them that the labor had begun and her husband would take her to the hospital planned. Everything went according to their plans so far, but the sudden proximity of their paternity totally panicked them and none of them seemed able to take the simple decision to make: go to the hospital to greet their son.
"OK, let's calm down guys." Dave cut them. "You're ready. It's not as if you had got this girl pregnant during a too drunken party. Professionals have held that you were ready to have children. Everything is ready, he has a beautiful room and his seat is meekly waiting in your car. So stop panicking and we go to the hospital."
"No, we're not ready." the two future dads shouted in chorus.
"Okay, enough with panic attack." Sebastian said grabbing Kurt and placing him astride on his shoulder. "Where are your car keys? Vid, can you pick this for me please?" he finished, pointing to Blaine.
Dave lifted Blaine as Sebastian had lifted Kurt and took the car keys that were waiting quietly on the little console in the entrance of the apartment. Kurt and Blaine protested until they arrived at their car. Both husbands were thrown in the back of the car, tight against the car seat that would welcome their son after his release from the hospital. Sebastian took the wheel and Dave settled in the remaining seat.
"You kidnapped us!" Kurt rebelled.
"No, you were freaking out and you were going to miss the birth of your son. You'd have blamed yourself, we're helping you, that's all." Sebastian scolded.
"We'll be dads Kurt, I can't believe it. You'll be the best dad on earth."
"No baby, you will be the best dad on earth. I'll do my best to stay not too far behind."
"Stop the car, I think I'll throw up." Sebastian said with a laugh.
"Scar, you're driving there, if you need to stop the car, you're the real master." Dave replied, laughing too.
"Oh, you know I like to be the real master." Sebastian said, raising an eyebrow suggestively.
"We don't wanna know." Kurt and Blaine shouted while Sebastian was parking in the parking lot of the hospital.
Kurt and Blaine rushed out of the car and rushed into the hospital without waiting for their friends.
"You think we'll be like that one day?" Sebastian asked, shaking his head.
"Lord save us, never." Dave replied.
They looked at each other and laughed. They got out of the car, locked the doors and went calmly in the hospital. Of course during this time Kurt and Blaine had already disappeared into the delivery room and the two boyfriends had to resolve to ask the front desk where to find them.
"Hello, our friend is in labor, where can we find her?"
"Yes, of course. The name of your friend?"
Sebastian and Dave looked at each other; they had just realized they had no idea of the name their friends' surrogate.
"I don't know but our friends have just passed to join her. The future dads, Kurt and Blaine Anderson-Hummel."
"I'm sorry, I can't give you this information." said the receptionist, raising a weary eye to them.
"But why? They are our friends, we drove them here."
"If they were your friends, you would know the name of the mother. I have orders; I can't say where the foremost couple of New York is to just anyone."
"But this is crazy. We came here with them, we know them since high school, it's the keys to their car. They can't leave without." Sebastian got mad.
"I'm sorry, the very young editor of and the even younger composer of the new musical in vogue on Broadway, you'll understand that attracts all kinds of people we can't allow to enter just like that."
"I understand that, but they are our friends I tell you. We came with them, I drove THEIR car."
"I can't be sure, understand me."
"I hate these two idiots. They could have waited for us. You know what Vid, I have the keys of the car, too bad for them, we go, and they'll cope to get home." Sebastian got pissed, taking the direction of the exit.
He was stopped in his walk when he went into a tall brown haired man talking on the phone.
"Yes, Sam, that's it I'm in the hospital, I'll have to let you. I'll call you when he's born. And Sam? I love you. Talk to you later. Oh, you could be careful. No, it's nothing Sam, just someone who has just bumped into me, I'm fine, I talk to you later. I love you."
"Oh so ... sorry, I ... I didn't see you ... I ... I ..." Sebastian stammered, realizing he had no more or less than shoving Cooper Anderson.
Sebastian blushed to the ears under the amused eye of his boyfriend and in front of Cooper who looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Sebastian, are you okay?" Cooper asked.
"Uh ... yes, everything ... everything is fine. Of course, everything's fine."
"O-kay. Well, my brother's here already? Where is the room?"
Sebastian was like a deer caught in the headlights of a car facing Cooper and could no longer form a coherent thought, much less formulate one.
"Hey, Sebastian? You sure you're okay?" Cooper asked, waving a hand in front of Sebastian's eyes.
"He's here, we drove hum. But we don't know where they are. By the time we closed the car, they were already gone." Dave interjected, coming to the rescue of his boyfriend.
"OK, we'll ask then. He's always like that or it's only with me?" Cooper asked, pointing to Sebastian.
"Mostly with you." Dave replied, drawing a groan from Sebastian. "And we tried to ask but we're not known enough to prove we know them."
"But what did I do to him exactly?"
"It's not really what you did to him, it's an old story."
"David." Sebastian growled.
"Oh, it's fine, it's not so bad. By now, you could go over anyway."
"But you don't realize, it's humiliating."
"We'll solve this mystery later, in the meantime, I'll be uncle, and they'll not get in my way. Hello ma'am. My little brother should be here, he's going to be a dad. Could you tell me where I can find him?"
"Sure, what is the name of the mother?"
"Oh that, I have no idea."
"You don't know the name of your sister in law?"
"I don't have a sister in law; I have a brother in law. Kurt Anderson-Hummel. I admit, I've never asked the name of their surrogate."
"Well. As I explained to your friends, I can't disclose that information. You see."
"This is my baby brother we're talking about here, madam, make a little effort."
"If this is your little brother, you can understand that he wants to be left alone in this personal moment sir."
"He especially would like to have his family and friends around him. I'm his brother and my friends here were his witnesses at his wedding."
"But I can't be sure."
"Seriously, you incompetent, you never watch TV or what? You live under a rock; you know who Kurt and Blaine are just because you were told not to tell anyone about them? All of America knows Cooper Anderson but you?" Sebastian was furious.
"Ony, calm down. It's not going to work out." Dave soothed him.
"You don't have, I don't know, the latest U.S. Weekly? I have to be in somewhere." Cooper sighed.
The woman pulled out a magazine and gave it to Cooper who frantically searched but couldn't find himself.
"Great, the only week when I needed they're interested in my private life, this is the week where they found better to put in their mouths. Thank you Mercedes." Cooper sighed, throwing the magazine on the counter.
Dave's eyes landed on the cover and widened in surprise at the picture and headline associated: ''Who's Mercedes Jones' mysterious boyfriend?''. He grabbed the magazine and shook it to Sebastian.
"Did you see who that is?"
"Yes Pooky it's Mercedes. She has just released her third album; you should be accustomed by now. Half of our friends spend their time making the covers of magazines." Sebastian said with a sigh.
"I'm not talking about her, I mean him. You owe me ten bucks."
"Not so fast, she hasn't made an official announcement."
"Deny as you want, I knew she was dating Wes. The proof is that she brings him with her to her official appearances."
"I'll owe you ten bucks when she'll officially say she's dating him, not before."
"Excuse me, all three of you hold court in the lobby or you plan to bring your asses before I miss the birth of my son?" Kurt asked.
"Hello to you too. We'll do that as soon as the lady agrees to tell your brother in law and your best friends where it goes." Cooper replied absently before realizing that Kurt being there, they didn't need to show their credentials to enter.
"Kurt, it's not too soon, you could've waited for us, we were in the same car. "Sebastian said, a bit edgy. "Well, you come you two?" He added over his shoulder to Cooper and Dave while following the lead of Kurt.
"Thank you ma'am, good day." Dave said to the receptionist, passing her to follow his friends.
"Where's Blaine?" Cooper asked as they settled on chairs outside the delivery room.
"Holding the hand of the woman who is giving birth to our son." Kurt replied.
"And you're not gonna go in there too?" Dave asked.
"Oh no, no, no. I have a little problem with seeing blood. I prefer the first picture that my son will have of me be without an awful head bandage because I'd have passed out and I'd have collapsed on the side of the delivery table. And anyway, this is a normal woman who is in there, she has only two hands to hold and her husband already holds the second one." Kurt said at full speed.
"OK, breathe daddy."
"So can we talk seriously about Mercedes now?" Dave asked with a smirk.
"What's going on with Mercedes?" Kurt asked, frowning.
"Oh, nothing serious, we just have a little bet ongoing with the man of my life, I just wish someone would confirm that I have won." Dave said with a smirk.
"You place bets on Mercedes?"
"On Mercedes, on Nick, on Jeff, on Tyler and Lisa, on Tina and Mike, on you, we do it all the time. It makes us pass the time." Sebastian replied.
"You need that to pass the time? Are you bored so much together?" Kurt asked.
"Not at all, but it changes us a bit from the hours of mind-blowing sex." Sebastian joked.
"Oh yes, I forgot who I was talking to. Wait? You said you bet on us? What bets?"
"I must admit, so far David's the winner, he predicted that you'd get back together and that you were going to marry. That you were going to decide to expand your family not later than one year after your wedding, thank you besides, I thought I had won; I had to pay him back when you announced that you were already pregnant for three months. He even expected that you would go for a surrogate rather than the adoption and even who would be the biological father. But I don't admit defeat, don't disappoint me, I can still win; make the right choice for the name of this little angel."
"You are ... OK, I was going to say abject but in fact you are quite cute I guess. What do you bet on Nick and Jeff? It could give us ideas with Blaine."
"Ideas?" Dave asked, raising an eyebrow.
"We may or may not do kind of the same thing actually." Kurt sighed, blushing.
"Oh, okay."
"So, Jeff and Nick? I say they'll be together before the end of the year." Kurt said.
"No, no chance. Nick is totally straight, he won't change, even for his ''soul mate''. They'll probably still live together or at least next to each other until the end of their lives though." Sebastian replied, smiling.
"I maintain they'll eventually get together."
"I don't think so Kurt. Even though I'm pretty sure Jeff is at least bisexual, but my wonderful boyfriend is right, Nick is completely straight." Dave interjected.
"Regardless, I stand by my bet." Kurt said, smiling. "And so the others?"
"Oh, we bet the time Tyler and Lisa would spend before finally realize that their little sexual arrangement was silly since none of them had any desire to have sex with anyone else or even having an emotional relationship with someone else. We're still waiting, these two are even blinder than us, say it! We had bet on the sex of Tina and Mike's baby and I won." Sebastian said proudly.
"It was too easy, you had a chance in two."
"I also won for the first name I remind you. I knew they were going to choose an Asian name although it could almost pass for a Western name."
"I admit, you're right. But little Nalani is such an adorable baby girl, I can't be angry for losing. Especially now that I won my bet on Mercedes." Dave replied.
"Not. Yet. Won."
"Oh, please, tell him that I won."
"It depends what did you bet concerning Mercedes?" Cooper, who had remained silent until now, asked.
"The identity of the person with whom she started to ''have fun with'' at your brother's wedding, of course. Sebastian is sure that it's Sam even though she swore it wasn't. But the three of us, we know that it's with Wes she's very much in love." Dave replied.
"Oh, sorry honey, but your boyfriend is right, it's not Sam, it's Wes." Cooper said, winking to Sebastian who instantly blushed to the ears.
"Uh ... OK, you ... you won ... I guess. You ... you'll excuse me, I must go to the restroom." Sebastian mumbled, disappearing towards the nearest restroom.
"No, seriously, what did I do to him? He's weird with me sometimes." Cooper asked confused.
"I've already told you, you did nothing to him. Except perhaps be Blaine's brother but it's an old story. I swear, don't worry about it." Dave replied.
"What's that old story?"
"I can't tell you."
"He had you swear not to say it, right?"
"No, he didn't need, I won't say anything."
"If someone had told me ago seven years that I'd see you so nice and caring with another man, I would have laughed. And if someone had told me, moreover, that the other man would be Sebastian Smythe and he'd be equally adorable, I really wouldn't have believed them." Kurt said, smiling.
"Me neither. But if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change anything. Except maybe having wasted my time with Logan ... No, actually, forget it, I wouldn't change anything, I love my life as it is now."
"OK, spill it, when will you ask him to marry you?"
"Never."
"If you expect him to do it, I think you can wait a very long time."
"I expect nothing. I'm not gonna lie, I'd love to marry him, being able to call him my husband, know that he loves me enough to think that it's for life. But I know him; I know it's not him. I don't want to lock him in a life that doesn't resemble him. I'd rather live a hundred years with him, happy with the life we have together than force him to do something that would make us unhappy and inevitably would result in a break up after a few years at best."
"You're gonna make me lose my bet with your silliness." Kurt mumbled.
"What?"
"Nothing, nothing. Hey Sebastian, so the bathroom how was it?" Kurt asked to divert attention, seeing Sebastian appearing around the corner.
"Well ... that was just the bathroom. You can go see for yourself, it's just bathroom, they haven't hidden an amusement park in there." Sebastian said with a smile as he sat next to Dave.
"Yes, of course, of course." Kurt mumbled.
"And you Cooper? What's new? Still single?" Dave asked to divert the conversation.
"Oh, uh ... I don't know what you call new, but I think we can say that no, I'm not single anymore."
"What? Cooper? But why didn't you say us anything, it's great who is it, who is it, who is it?" Kurt got excited.
"Sam" Sebastian muttered, not daring to look at Cooper.
"Yes, how do you know?" Cooper asked. "Okay, enough, what's the old story in the end?" he added, seeing that Sebastian still refused to look at him.
"He's right Bass, you'd better tell him. Get it over with it." Dave said softly, taking his hand.
"I can't." Sebastian whispered.
"And if I say him myself, what do you say?" Sebastian made a little grimace but nodded.
"Oh, just spill it; it's surely not that bad. It's not as if you had jerked off on pictures of him." Kurt exclaimed. "Oh Gaga, that's it? You really are disgusting. It was not enough for you to have it off with half of the Scandals and try to steal Blaine from me; you had to do that on his brother?" he finished, scandalized by the idea, not worrying about the groan of annoyance that Sebastian had pushed.
"Kurt! Would you calm down a bit please? Contrary to appearances, he hasn't have it off with half of the Scandals, if you ask me, I'm the only one he met at Scandals with whom he has had sex. And because I know what you're thinking, at the time, he didn't know they were brothers. You gonna tell me that you never had any attraction to a celebrity may be." Dave got mad.
"Hey, retract the claws children. It's flattering. Let me say that you have no chance to realize this fantasy, but I guess you don't give a damn now." Cooper interjected, pointing their hands intertwined.
"I hope so." Dave said, smiling and slightly squeezing Sebastian's hand.
"So, Sam isn't it?"
"Oh yes, Samantha! We met on a set, she's makeup artist. By dint of chatting every morning while she was working on that perfect face, we ended up falling in love I guess. Look, that's her." Cooper finished handing his cell phone to his brother in law.
On the screen was a picture of a blond woman with gray eyes, features well drawn, smiling before Cooper playing the fool around a carousel for children.
"We were supposed to come together in New York, but she has been called for a job at the last moment, she couldn't refuse. But I think I finally found the one, I look forward to introduce her to you."
"That's it, I'm daddy, we're dads, Kurt. He's so beautiful, you must see him, he's got your nose." Blaine, who had just opened on the fly the door of the delivery room, shouted. "Cooper! How did you know we were here? With all that, I didn't even think you were coming today."che said, hugging his brother.
"That's what friends are for."
"Come on Kurt, you have to see him. They're washing him and running tests and after they bring him back."
"Tests? What tests? There's a problem? Oh my god, no, he ..."
"Kurt, sweetheart, calm down, he's okay. They always run these tests. He's perfect, just like you. Come on, he wants to see his dad."
"Oh my god, I'm Dad. We're dads. Blaine, we're dads."
"Yes my love." Blaine said, kissing Kurt. "Come on."
Kurt followed Blaine and a few minutes later they were back, Kurt with the baby in his arms, eyes full of tears he wiped occasionally with fingertips. Blaine behind him wore a proud smile and hugged his husband from behind, rising on tiptoe in order to watch their son over Kurt's shoulder.
"So that my baby, it's your Uncle Cooper. Uncle David and Uncle Sebastian. Boys, I introduce you Adam Colin Anderson-Hummel, our son." Kurt said, slightly freeing the baby's face from the blanket that surrounded him.
"I guess we can consider it's a tie for the bet." Sebastian whispered in Dave's ear.
"I guess so. However Puck, Santana and Jeff owe us five bucks each."
"He's so small." Cooper whispered, holding his finger to brush the baby's face who had fallen asleep in the arms of his father.
"That's true; I thought it was Kurt the biological father." Sebastian joked.
"Sebastian, behave please." Dave said.
"Oh, okay, he's not even three minutes old and he's already stealing the show." Sebastian sighed.
"We will talk about it when it'll be yours." Kurt replied with a smile.
"That's so." Sebastian muttered.
"Oh no, you've seen the time Bass?" Dave shouted.
"What? What happens with the time?"
"It's five o'clock. We must meet Eleana at her home at six o'clock. You want me to call her to postpone?"
Sebastian seemed torn between the idea of finally meeting his mother and letting down his friends just when their son was barely born.
"It's okay, go ahead. Thank you again; I don't know what we'd have done without you." Kurt said, enclosing Sebastian's shoulders in a half hug with his free arm.
"You'd have recovered eventually; it would just have taken a little longer." Sebastian replied. "Goodbye little man, see you soon." he finished, releasing Kurt arms and gently stroking Adam's cheek.
Sebastian and Dave said their goodbyes to everyone and rushed into a taxi that took them to the neighborhood where Eleana lived. Sebastian wanted to take a bouquet to offer to Eleana, but they were already barely in time.
They decided that Sebastian would buy the bouquet while Dave would go to Eleana and explain his boyfriend's lateness.
"David, how glad I am to see you. So where is your gem?" Eleana asked, opening the door and seeing Dave alone.
"He'll be there. Our friends' surrogate gave birth today, we were going to be late, but he insisted on buying flowers to offer you."
"Oh, okay. Come in, we'll wait him inside."
"Thank you. He's really looking forward to meet you. And very nervous too."
"I look forward to meet him too. How long has it been? Four years you're together. He must be really special."
"He is." Dave replied thoughtfully as they settled in the living room.
A quarter of an hour later, Sebastian the doorbell rang with in hand a bouquet of peonies, milkwort, tobacco flowers and hibiscus in white and red shades accompanied by a small olive branch.
"That must be him, don't move, I'll open to him." Dave said happily. "Breathe, it'll be okay." he whispered to Sebastian who seemed nervous, dropping a small kiss on his forehead.
Eleana was waiting in the living room and Dave took a discreet inspiration to get ready to release the information.
"Let me introduce you Eleana, my nanny who almost raised me. Eleana, I present to you my boyfriend, Sebastian Smythe."
"Hello." Sebastian said, extending his hand to Eleana, totally shocked, who was looking Sebastian in the eyes and seemed close to tears.
"Eleana? Are you okay?" Dave asked, seeing that she wasn't moving.
"I ... sorry ... yes, I'm fine. Hello." Eleana said, collecting herself. "Excuse me a minute, I have something to do in the kitchen. Settle down, I get back."
She quickly disappeared into the kitchen and she had no time to close the door, sobs were heard. The two boys looked at each other, a little lost and Sebastian made the decision to knock gently on the door. Without waiting for a reply, he gently pushed the door.
"M-mama ? You have a vase?" he asked softly, shyly laying a hand on his mother's nape.
"I'm sorry. I'm really sorry." Eleana said, raising her eyes to Sebastian who was taken aback and didn't know what to say.
They stood for a moment watching each other without speaking, eyes full of tears.
"You ... you knew? For how long?" Eleana asked in a small voice.
"A few months. When David found the photo of the two of us that I have in my wallet."
"I should have fight harder, seek where he brought you. You have the right not to believe me but I really blame myself."
"I believe you. The milkwort says ''someone slandered you'', because my father always told me you had left to Italy saying you never wanted to see me again."
"Oh, no, I could never have ..."
"I know. Peonies express the shame I feel to have believed him the whole time."
"You couldn't know."
"The flowers of tobacco it's to say that I'd like to forget about it and the olive branch to make peace."
"You've grown so much my son, I've missed it all."
"It's not your fault. I know how he is."
"But I should have ..."
"No." Sebastian cut her with a finger on her lips. "We said we were forgetting."
"Hey, everything's fine here?" Dave asked shyly passing his head through the door.
"Yes. Thank you." Sebastian said, giving him a warm smile and holding out a hand to him.
Dave took the outstretched hand, gently tightening it and be drawn into the kitchen to fill one of the arms of his boyfriend.
"I wouldn't want to seem insistent but mama, you'd have a vase please?"
"Can you repeat that?" Eleana asked, smiling.
"You have a vase please?"
"No, what you said before."
"I don't want to be insistent."
"No, after that."
"After?" Sebastian asked looking up. "Ah ... Mama?" he repeated with a smile.
"I missed it." Eleana said, smiling. "I missed you."
She pulled out a vase and took the bouquet from Sebastian's hands to put it in the water.
"And the hibiscus, what does that mean?"
"No idea, I just took them because I thought it was pretty."
They went all together to the living room; Eleana put the bouquet on the coffee table and sat in a chair while the two boys snuggled against each other on the couch.
"You two are adorable. You were already like that when you were babies. It was hard to separate you on the evening."
"Now it's morning that it's difficult." Dave joked.
"You want something to drink maybe? A beer? A glass of wine?"
"Oh uh ... no alcohol for me." Sebastian said.
"Oh." Eleana muttered, slightly frowning.
Sebastian raised a little his shirt to reveal his scar.
"I drink some from time to time, for special occasions, but I must take care of the gift my sister gave me."
"Your sister?"
"Yes, well, I meant my half-sister of course."
"You have a sister? Do you think I could meet her one day?"
"I'm sure she'd love that. And maman too. Uh ... I mean, Marie. Sorry, I ... I'm so used to."
"Marie. That must be a good woman. I'd love that to meet the one who replaced me for you."
"No, she hasn't replaced you, ever. She has been great but she couldn't take your place."
"She raised you. I hope there is room for two moms but if you ask me, she earned you to call her mom."
Sebastian nodded, smiling weakly, unable to speak.
"I'm 22 years late, you must tell me everything."
Sebastian told. His childhood in France with Marie and Chloe, his meeting with Julien, his first stirrings, his first kiss, the accident and later on the transplant, his first love story, his sorrow at having to leave France, his sister, Marie, his friends, his arrival in Ohio, the difficulty of adapting to a private American school, he who had only known French public schools.
And finally, his encounter with Dave, their friendship, their settlement in Chicago, their start a little difficult with the death of Finn. And above all, that famous evening when they had discovered together they knew each other for much longer than they thought.
There were tears, laughter. Eleana and Sebastian were eager to make up for lost time and Dave watched the scene with a wide smile. That day, he had witnessed two births: Adam's and the one of a whole new relationship between his boyfriend and his mother.
