In a cozy coffee shop in a small town, a boy with beautiful blue eyes sits at the same table every day, as if he's waiting for something, or someone. Blaine feels strangely compelled to sit down and talk with him… and discovers the unimaginable.

AU. The last thing Burt Hummel wanted was a foster kid, especially one as skittish as Kurt. But when he finds out that Kurt has been viciously abused, it changes the game. Maybe he needs this kid as much as the kid needs him.

AU. Kurt Hummel never went to McKinley, developing his talents at Carmel as the protégé of Jesse St James instead. Everything is going according to plan, until the day a beautiful, damaged transfer student named Blaine throws his world upside down.