Hello! I hope you all enjoy this chapter. It's got a little bit of everything: Warblers, New Directions, Kurt+Mercedes friendship, Niff+Kurt friendship, Klaine, Carole, Laurette, and of course more Klaine. Though not in that order.
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Disclaimer: I obviously still do not own Glee or it's characters.
It all happened as quickly and exactly as Kurt was promised. By the morning after Vincent attacking Dalton, he and Ms. Newton being arrested, and all the rest, Carole is officially Kurt's guardian. He's living with her and Finn; and he's being transferred back to McKinley.
Carole can't afford to keep him enrolled in Dalton, even with all the scholarship help Mr. Gooden offered. So, Tuesday is Kurt's last day at Dalton. He packs up his half of his and Nick's dorm room, returns his key and says goodbye.
Warbler's rehearsal is the hardest. His leaving is the first announcement Wes makes. The whole room holds a heavy air. Kurt gets stood in the middle and every other guy takes a turn to say goodbye to him. He gets numerous hugs and a huge group hug from everyone before they all disperse to do their homework. "We'll see you at regionals!" Thad says as he walks out.
"Be prepared to lose! Just because you're our friend doesn't mean we'll go easy on you!" Wes adds.
Jeff and Nick linger longer to give him some more personal farewells. "I'm gonna miss you, roomie." Nick requests. "Don't be a stranger. At least remember to call sometimes."
"Yeah. And you are always welcome to come hang out at my house." Jeff adds.
"Thanks guys. Don't worry; this isn't the last you've seen of Kurt Hummel. I'll be around." Kurt promises. "And, if this one doesn't let go I may never leave." He jokes and indicates to where Blaine is clinging to him.
Blaine responds by squeezing tighter. "Then I'll never let you go." He says. They all laugh.
Nick and Jeff take their leave a few minutes later, leaving Kurt and Blaine alone. Kurt turns in Blaine's arms so they are nose to nose. "Honey, I love you; but I actually do need to get going. Carole is coming to get me and drive my car for me."
Blaine whines. "No."
Kurt rolls his eyes affectionately and pulls Blaine up into a heated kiss. He runs his hands over Blaine shoulders and arms and tries to get him to release him. Key word being 'tries', as Blaine quickly catches on and retaliates by holding tighter and pushing Kurt down onto a couch, pining the older boy underneath him and murmuring a "No" against his lips. Kurt laughs and gives into a short-ish make out session.
"I'm going to miss seeing you every day." Blaine says later when they're packing the last of Kurt's things into his car.
"I'm going to miss you too, so much. I'm going to miss waking up with you and falling asleep with you and being able to kiss you every hour of every day." Blaine sullenly curls himself into Kurt. "But it's not the end of the world. We will still see each other all the time; after school and on weekends. I'll come out here or you'll come see me in Lima. What's more, I'll text you everyday and call you every night."
Blaine looks up at Kurt with a pout on his soft lips. "You promise?"
"Yes."
Blaine smiles. "I love you."
"I love you too." They kiss and Blaine finally releases Kurt. As Carole drives the car, Kurt watches out the back window, Blaine runs after them to the Dalton gates and stays there waving and blowing kisses until he's out of sight.
The Hudson's house has only two bedrooms: Carole's and Finn's; and seeing as it's been proven that Kurt and Finn can't share a room, Carole has turned one corner of the basement into a makeshift room for Kurt. It's not big and glamourous like his old basement or his Dalton dorm had been, and it will certainly take some getting used to, but Kurt is grateful to just be in a safe home with people he loves.
On the plus side, it's a complete blank slate and he can decorate it however he wants. In his free day between being enrolled at Dalton and McKinley he paints the walls and sets up the furniture, he picks out a rug to lay across the cement floor and curtains for the one welled-window and as a privacy block from the rest of the basement. He doesn't have time to unpack everything before his afternoon plans interrupt.
He arrives at McKinley just as the final class bell rings. Smiling and giddy he crutches through the halls to the choir room. Everyone is already inside and Mr. Schue is giving his opening lecture. Kurt knocks on the door frame, drawing everyone's attention. "Kurt?" Mr. Schue asks. "What are you doing here?"
"Spy!" Rachel accuses.
"I go here again." he says. "Well, technically, not until tomorrow. Finn didn't tell you?" he directs his questioning gaze to the tall boy.
"I thought you wanted to surprise them all." Finn defends.
"I did. That's why I came today, because I didn't think you would keep your trap shut about tomorrow." Kurt says.
"Anyway- you're back at McKinley?" Mercedes asks.
Kurt nods. "What happened with Dalton?" Tina asks.
"Nothing. It's just too expensive and far away for me to go there anymore." Kurt says.
"What do you mean?"
"I live with Carole and Finn now. She can't afford to pay Dalton's fees and Dalton is an almost two-hour drive from Lima."
"You live with Finn? Since when?" Quinn asks.
"Since yesterday."
"What happened to your crazy aunt and her douche husband?" Puck asks.
Naturally this had to come up. "It's a long story and I'd rather not talk about it." He deflects.
Still they press him. Kurt refuses to answer and glares hard at Finn to keep him from saying anything. "Guys, leave Kurt alone. It's his private business. He doesn't have to share any of it." Mr. Schue retakes control of the class. Kurt takes a seat next to Mercedes. "We need to keep brainstorming a good song for the Alcohol Awareness Week Assembly on Friday." Just like that the conversation was over; though Kurt's sure it's only for now.
Being with the New Directions is a homecoming of its own sort. It feels so much more right to be sitting in the McKinley choir room than even the Warblers' hall. Despite how much Kurt does love his Warbler friends, he'd missed having girls around and the loose, crazy way of his true glee club. It's a purely fabulous afternoon that lets Kurt really believe that everything is going to be okay from now on.
After Glee, Kurt goes home (to Carole's house!) and brings Mercedes with him. The spend the afternoon decorating Kurt's new bedroom. It's fun and nice and right. Even more so after Blaine shows up claiming "it's been too long" and attacks Kurt in hugs and kisses. It makes Kurt feel so perfectly at home.
The morning comes with lots of primping and prepping for Kurt's first day back at McKinley. His outfit is perfection; black jeans, his white bondage jacket over a black half-sleeve-shirt and grey vest, all topped off with his grandpa's old top-hat. He's fabulous and fierce and ready.
He's confident walking into the school and delights in the faces of shock and anger on the football Neanderthals' faces when they see that he's back. But, seeing as they didn't know he was returning they were unprepared and he doesn't get slushied; though Karofsky does shove him into the lockers a few times. He doesn't let it get to him; feeling too high to be pulled down by that ignoramus.
It only gets better from there. Glee club is so much fun and he gets to sing "As if we never said goodbye" as a solo for everyone. After Glee he walks out to the parking lot with Finn, as the taller boy had given him a ride to school, and finds, to his surprise, his boyfriend waiting for him. "Blaine?"
Blaine doesn't answer; he smiles, picks Kurt up in a hug and twirls him around, nearly causing Kurt to lose his crutches. Kurt giggles and squeals. "Blaine!" Blaine places him back on the ground and Kurt asks. "What are you doing here?"
"I missed you. It's been too long since I've seen you." Blaine pouts.
"You were at my house yesterday, Honey." Kurt point out amused.
"That is too long. It's not the same as seeing you at every meal and in class and every morning and night." Blaine whines.
Kurt smiles and leans his head into Blaine's. "I know. I missed you too." He murmurs.
Blaine smiles and closes the little remaining distance between their lips. Kurt kisses back fervently. The kiss stretches on for a few seconds before being interrupted by Finn. "Okay. I'm leaving. You can get a ride home with your boyfriend when your done making out."
Kurt turns an amused glare on Finn as he walks away. "Like I haven't had to watch you and Rachel suck face more times than I can count!" Finn shakes his head and keeps walking. Kurt rolls his eyes and turns back into his boyfriends embrace. "Now, where were we?"
Blaine reattaches his lips to Kurt's. He moves them back so they're leaning against his car while their tongues dance. Kurt is the first to pull back out of need to breathe. Blaine, it seems, doesn't give heed to that need as he just moves his mouth to Kurt's neck instead. Kurt sighs at the feeling and struggles to say, "maybe we should take this somewhere more private."
Blaine just mumbles a 'shh' and continues to lay kisses on him. Kurt can't deny that it feels good and lets himself be worshipped for a minute. He turns his head to give Blaine more room. Until someone standing down the sidewalk a way catches his eye. He stiffens up immediately; Blaine catches it and pulls back, "What's wrong, baby?"
Kurt can hardly breathe and whisper. "It's Laurette."
Blaine's eyes follow the direction he's looking and catch sight of the vile woman. She's glowering and stalking down the sidewalk towards them with intent steps. Kurt can't move.
"Get in the car." Blaine calmly orders, opening the back door as the passengers' is too far away. "Get in and we'll get away. She won't get us. Just get in." he encourages. Kurt tries but is scared stiff so Blaine does most the work on depositing him across the back seat. He slams the door and climbs into the driver's seat. Kurt watches terrified out the back window as Blaine starts the car. Laurette is close; close enough that her fingers touch but fail to grip the back of the car as Blaine pulls out at high speed. He gets them out of the parking lot and leaves her in the dust in record time. Kurt's eyes are still watching intently behind them for any sign of her. "It's okay baby. We lost her. She can't catch up with us. You're safe." Blaine reassures.
They take a somewhat round-about route to the Hudson's house and make it there without any sign of her. Blaine helps Kurt inside and down to his room where they wrap up in a blanket and each other's arms and calm down by reading the new Vogue magazine.
That's how Carole finds them hours later. And Blaine immediately tells her the story. She passes it onto the police and soon they end a team to search the area around the school.
But once again they come back empty handed as Laurette has again disappeared.
Kurt stays home from school the next day, even though there are multiple officer's there watching it and Finn had promised to be his personal body-guard. It's a very boring day and Kurt ends up wishing he had gone; especially after hearing about the hilarious drama of everyone being drunk in their big performance and Brittany and Santana throwing up on Rachel and the stage. And when Finn comes home with the news that there had been absolutely no sighting of Laurette the entire day, Kurt berates himself for having been so scared; of course, she wouldn't show up there again now that it's being watched.
He changes his mind once again though late that night. No one had seen her because no one could recognize her as well as him. He learns this straight from her as she has him held down to the basement floor and is trying to stab him.
Kurt had been sleeping nicely until a scream of rage and a raggedy figure jumps on him after midnight. She knocks him off the bed and they scramble across the floor. The dim light reflects only so he can glimpse the blade of the knife before it slashes his face. And then he's screaming and fighting to keep the knife away and to get away.
As they roll across the floor they knock a good portion of his stuff around. His desk-chair falling on them, in particular, gives him almost a full second to get away. He manages to crawl under the curtain-wall of his room before she's back on him.
He holds her hands up as far away from his throat as he can while she presses down as hard as she can. It's almost an impasse, but she's just slightly stronger and the knife descends towards him slowly. He screams and cries. She yells at him to "Shut up! You don't want to wake Carole and Finny. It would be tragic if I had to kill them too. Especially, considering I owe him for leading me right from that school to you in this pitiful house." she cackles "I only want you. I'll have your head as a trophy for what you did to Vinny!" Kurt whimpers and fights harder as the knife is now only inches from his skin.
It's almost over when he's recued by Mama-Bear-Carole. She pulls Laurette off him with superhuman strength and throws her bodily into the washer. "Don't you touch my boy!" she yells defensively.
Laurette rises and snarls at Carole as she stands protectively in front of Kurt. Laurette looks ready to attack again before all three of their attentions are drawn to the pounding of many feet on the stairs. Finn burst in with the two officer's on duty of protecting their house tonight. Laurette is off and running in a split second, smashing Kurt's window and escaping as the police follow after her. She throws the knife back and they have to dodge which gives her the time she needs to climb out of the well and escape into the yard. The knife lands with a frightening clatter near Kurt and it's the last straw that breaks him down into terrified sobs.
