Chapter 34: Banned

"I am going to skin you alive and use your hide as a new belt to strangle you with!"

"Look Coop I said I was sorry, I didn't know Sebastian would have your car towed!" I said as I sat in the passenger seat of my brother's car, which we had finally gotten back from the Westerville Tow Yard.

"Oh yeah he's just going to break your nose and then kindly leave the car you came in waiting for you. Heck he left you unconscious on the front yard; it wasn't until the neighbor saw you there while she was walking her Pomeranian that anyone even called the ambulance."

"Well I didn't think..."

"Yeah, clearly!"

"I said I was sorry!" I snapped, because seriously it had been an hour since we got the car and I've been apologizing since we arrived in front of the Smythe residence and it wasn't there. After Coopers psychotic break down it took us almost the whole hour to track it down and then Cooper had issues with the tow man so I've been apologizing for quite a while now. I looked out the window as we sped towards Lima. "Okay now you're going to turn onto the highway here," I said and pointed towards the turn. Cooper didn't blink as he drove past it. "COOP! That was the turn!" I yelled and Cooper looked at me.

"We're not going to that mental home Blaine, we're going home and then you are grounded!" Cooper snipped as I stared at him in disbelief.

"Okay first of all it is not a "mental home" it is called Wilber's School for Troubled Youth,"

"Yeah it's not a school when you don't learn anything and all the grownups are doctors. It's a nice way of saying, Mental Home!" Cooper said and I bit my tongue.

"And second of all you can't ground me! You're not Dad!"

"Yeah well while I'm at home and they're away, I'm in charge. And stealing a car is a crime, you're lucky I don't press charges."

"You'd really send your brother to prison just for borrowing your car for just a few hours?!"

"No brother to borrow you'd have to have permission, which you did not have so there for you stole the car and also it wasn't just for a few hours, it's been five hours since you took it while I was in my Shamsmooth audition! And you're damn right I'd send you to prison, you're just lucky that I don't!"

"Well Coop please! You can ground me or whatever but please turn around and go to Wilber's! I have to see him!"

"Blaine for the love of Christ you need to get over him. If my girlfriend was in a mental home, I'd find a new one!"

"I will never do that to Kurt!"

"Well then it can be your headache, but it doesn't have to be mine."

"Coop I know you only care about yourself but Kurt needs me! He is only in there because I screwed up royally! First I didn't see what I was doing to his self-esteem by always hanging around with that snake Sebastian, and then I was blind like everyone else and when he needed me most, I left him! I left him to deal with this alone, to be tortured and locked up! I have to make it right! I have to go to him!"

"Blaine you're putting too much of this on yourself," Cooper said and I closed my eyes in frustration before glaring out the window. "People like Kurt... they just get sick, it's no one's fault. They just have eating disorders and if you trust the doctors who are trained to help them then everything will work out for them. But I don't want you around this anymore, it's not healthy for you! I just..."

"Stop the car!"

"What?"

"Stop the car!"

"Blaine we're almost home,"

"STOP THE DAMN CAR COOPER!" I shouted and Cooper pulled up to the curb. I opened the door and got out of the car.

"Where are you going?" Cooper asked from the driver's seat.

"To Kurt, if you don't want to take me then fine," I said as I grabbed my messenger bag from the back seat.

"Blaine get back in the car," Cooper said and I slammed the door closed. "Blaine!" he called after me as I began to walk down the sidewalk. "BLAINE!"

I began to run down an ally way that I knew his car was too wide to fit though. I was only about seven blocks from Hummel Tires and Lube and I knew some short cuts. Burt would help me, he'd understand. I thought as I rounded a back way corner.

Once I reached the garage of Hummel Tires and Lube I heard the familiar sound of machines being used to fix the cars. I looked inside and saw Finn and Burt leaning over an old clunker talking low.

"Mr. Hummel..." I said softly as I walked into the garage. Burt and Finn both paused their work and looked up at me.

"Blaine?" Burt said in surprise.

"Hey Burt," I said in return. "I know it's been a while"

"Hey dude," Finn said even though he seemed to be afraid to say it.

"Hi Finn," I said and then walked up to Burt.

"Burt I came to ask for a ride to Wilfred's, I'll give you gas money. Just please, I have to see him." I asked and Burt looked down at his feet before wiping his hands on a towel and removing his cap to scratch his head and then put it back on.

"Blaine," he sighed and I blinked, for some reason I had a bad feeling about the way he wasn't looking at me.

"What?" I asked as I felt the fear creep inside my skin. "He's not... he didn't..." I asked and Burt looked up before shaking his head.

"No, no he's okay," he said and I breathed a sigh of relief. "But um... he's very vulnerable right now and you know that all I want is Kurt to get better right,"

"Yes of course," I said and Burt nodded.

"So you understand that I have to do whatever is necessary for Kurt to recover."

"Yes I know, but... what's wrong?" I asked and Burt looked over at Finn who looked back at the engine trying to pretend he wasn't watching this conversation.

"Blaine, I don't want you to see Kurt anymore." Burt said slowly and I could have sworn I heard him wrong.

"W-what?"

"Listen, I know how you care for him and I know this is hard for you but..."

"N-no," I whispered and Burt put his hand on my shoulder.

"It's just better for Kurt if he can just focus on getting better, maybe he'll be able to get better if he's not worried about all the drama of a teenage relationship..."

"n-n-no I..." I stammered as I tried to process what was being said to me.

"Blaine it's for Kurt..." Finn said softly and I looked at him. "you need to understand that..."

"NO! You need to understand!" I yelled and Finn shut his mouth in surprise. I turned and pointed a Burt Hummel. "You need to understand that he needs me! We need to be together!"

"I know it feels that way but..."

"Mr. Hummel did you love Kurt's mother?" I asked and Burt paused in surprise before nodding.

"I loved Elizabeth with all my heart," he said and I nodded.

"Well that's the way I love Kurt! I love him with every fiber of my being! He is my soul mate! We belong together! If you keep me away from him he'll only get weaker, he'll stop fighting! He will DIE!"

"NO!" Burt yelled causing both me and Finn to jump. He looked away and shook his head before looking at me. "No Blaine, I'm sorry but Kurt once told me that he started this whole thing because of you! You are the reason for all of this!" Burt said and I stared at him. "You may think that you two are good for each other, but you're not!" Burt had tears in his eyes. "I used to think you two could go the distance, but you two went your distance and now look at where my boy is. In a hospital because he got this crazy notion in his head that he wasn't good enough for you! When he is the most beautiful, extraordinary boy I could have ever wished for. That's what his mother used to tell him, and Kurt knew he was extraordinary, he always fought the bullies and the prejudice without ever trying to change who he was. Until he met you and now... you have the stones to come in here and tell me that without you he will die." He paused and looked at me before shaking his head. "No Blaine, with you he will die. So I'm truly sorry, really I am, but this is what is going to get me my son back." He said and I blinked the blur of the tears out of my eyes. "I've banned you from seeing Kurt at the hospital, I'm sorry," Burt said and I felt my entire world go black. "So, please... just go home." Burt said before turning back to the engine.

I stood there for a moment just looking at him, Finn was watching me with a look of true sympathy on his face. "I understand, but you're wrong." I said before turning and walking back down the road, wandering what to do now.

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