Exactly one year after they met, Kurt and Blaine went back to Domus Civita. Kurt had planned everything perfectly; their parents, brothers, and best friends were all there, too. Blaine didn't know that little detail…yet. He thought his mom was going to visit Cooper in California that Christmas, and he thought that Kurt's parents were going on another cruise. It didn't really matter to Blaine where their families were; all that mattered was being back at the villa with Kurt.

Kurt, on the other hand, was insanely nervous. He knew that he loved Blaine and that Blaine loved him; there was no question about that. And, he knew in the depths of his soul that they were meant to be together always, no matter what. Kurt was nervous because he just wanted everything to be perfect. He wanted to make a memory with his soulmate that neither one of them would ever forget. Kurt had a speech prepared, and he hoped that he didn't mess it up. He kept reciting it over and over again in his mind and he almost wished he could tell Blaine so he could be reminded to take a fucking breath.

They touched down in Rome on the morning of December 20th and had the villa's car service pick them up at the airport and drive them to the house. When they arrived, they both took a deep breath, so happy to be back where it all started.

oOoOo

Liliana had just gone through the villa to make sure that everything was in order after its most recent tenants had checked out. She had really liked those guys and hoped that they would come back like they said they would. It was then that she remembered that Kurt had given her an envelope when they had checked out. Pulling it out of her pocket, she opened it and found a handwritten letter and $1,000 with a sticky note on it saying, "Thanks for everything."

January 1, 2020

Liliana,

Thank you so much for the hospitality you've shown us while we've been here. This place has turned out to be very special to us and is going to be somewhere we come back to time and time again. This where we fell in love, and someday, it's going to be the place I bring Blaine to ask him to marry me. When this proposal plan is more concrete, I will be in touch. I hope that the stars will be aligned for us and that the villa will be available. I can't imagine proposing to him anywhere else. I'm going to need some help on your side of the ocean to pull everything off. Would you be at all up to the task?

Sincerely,

Kurt Hummel

As soon as she was finished reading the letter, Liliana sent Kurt a text. "Tell me when, and I'll make it happen."

oOoOo

Both boys were reminiscing about their last trip to the villa as they walked through the house and out toward the terrace, the place where both of their lives changed forever. Kurt knew that their families were in the swimming pool cave, staying very quiet. They had flown in the day before and met with Liliana early that morning to get into their rooms. They were waiting for him to escort Blaine to the terrace railing, right to the spot where he had fainted. As they walked hand in hand, Kurt remembered the day he asked Dalisay if he could marry her son.

oOoOo

"I have something I'd like to ask you," Kurt said to her once Blaine was out of sight. "And it's not something I want Blaine to walk in on us talking about. Do you think we could go to the screened-in porch so we can see him coming back?"

"Of course," Dalisay replied, hoping that she knew what Kurt was going to talk to her about. She had watched these two closely during their time here and knew that they were it for each other, that they were meant to be together always.

Once they sat down, Kurt's nerves and all of the worry he had about what he was going to ask shot back through him like a bullet. He closed his eyes and breathed in deeply, slowly. "This is so not the time to lose your shit, Hummel," he said to himself. When he was calm, he opened his eyes and looked directly into Dalisay's, wanting her to see that he was serious about what he was about to say.

"I'd like your permission to ask your son to marry me," Kurt said confidently.

"Yes," Dalisay replied without hesitation.

"I know what you're going to say. We haven't…wait, what?" Kurt asked as her words registered.

"Yes," Dalisay repeated, smiling from ear to ear.

"You don't think that it's too soon?" Kurt asked, still not fully understanding what was going on.

"Do you think it's too early?" she asked, raising her eyebrows at him.

"No!" Kurt adamantly said. "He's it for me. He and I, we…we're…"

"Soulmates?" she asked, her smile growing impossibly wider.

"How? What? Huh?" Kurt said, not sure how to respond to her at all.

"When you mentioned the dreams and Fate after we started Adrian's movie the other day, and you started to...what's the word...freak out a little," Dalisay said with her signature grin, "that gave it away. I'm not sure what you meant by the mirror thing, though."

"I'll explain that part later," Kurt agreed. "You're telling me that you know about soulmates and the dreams that they can share?"

"Uh-huh," she replied, her grin never leaving her face. "Adrian and I shared dreams, too. And that's how I know that he and I...we did what we were supposed to during our time together. When it was his time to leave, he knew his job here was done. He still comes to visit me in my dreams sometimes, but it's nothing like it was before when we could physically connect."

"Do you ever have dreams of the two of you in unfamiliar places?" Kurt asked, excited to have someone to talk about this with.

Dalisay winked. "That, my dear, sounds like it's part of your journey, not mine," she replied. "Trust that Fate will take you where you need to go. It will put you in the path of things that you're meant to come across. The people that you're meant to meet, you will. Just trust it, Kurt." She patted his knee lovingly.

"Okay," he said. "I can do that." After a couple of moments, he asked, "So, I really have your blessing?"

"You do," Dalisay answered, tears forming in her eyes. "You have his dad's, too."

oOoOo

Kurt continued to walk with Blaine toward the edge of the terrace. It was a beautiful day. The weather was as perfect today as it had been a year ago. He took a deep breath to center himself and closed his eyes. He looked at Blaine and smiled, unexpected relief washing over him. After he had talked to his dad the day they met Blaine, he knew that this moment, even if he messed up his speech, was going to be absolutely perfect.

oOoOo

"Bud, can we go to your office and talk for a little bit?"

"Sure, Dad," Kurt said, expecting some sort of talk sooner or later. He gave Blaine a kiss on the cheek and told him they'd be back in a little bit. As he was walking away, he heard Carole asking Blaine about school and what he was planning to do after he graduated and passed the bar. He smiled to himself. Carole was easy to talk to. Blaine would be fine.

After Kurt closed the door to his office, he turned around and looked his dad right in the eyes. Once he started talking, he couldn't seem to stop. "I love him. I love him, and I want to marry him and live with him and grow old with him. And, if we decide to have kids, I want to do that with him, too. I know you're probably thinking that we're moving too fast, that we don't know anything about each other. How could we, right? We've only known each other for a few weeks. But, Dad, he's perfect for me in every single way. He's just—"

"Take a breath, Kurt," Burt said with a smile on his face. "I can see all of that. I can seethe connection between you two. Anyone who spends more than 30 seconds with you guys will be able to see it, that you two have something special. I wanted to talk to you about something else."

"What? Huh?" Kurt asked, confused and completely thrown off by his dad's reaction. He was sure his dad would have some sort of resistance to the idea.

"Your mom and I...we had a connection like the one I see between you and Blaine. It's something I was sure I would never see again. You guys have a bond, an extraordinary bond, that not everyone gets to experience. Cherish it and never, ever take it for granted. Each day, each moment that you spend with that man out there will be the best one of your life. That is, until the next one happens."

"You and mom? You were soulmates?" Kurt whispered with tears in his eyes. "Why did you never tell me?"

"It was something we wanted to keep just between us, because it was sacred," Burt answered. "Not everyone will understand it. There will be people who will try to break you and Blaine apart, say that what you have isn't real and that you can each do better. But, you two will knowbetter. You two can feel it, your deep, unconditional bond, and anyone who tries to destroy that is jealous of what you have, because it's something that they don't. Your mom..." Burt said, choking up a little, "your mom would be so, so proud of you right now." Tears misted Burt's vision, and he stepped closer to his son, putting his hands on his shoulders and meeting his gaze. "She would love him, that's for damn sure. And, I know that she's smiling down on all of us right now. She'll be there on the day you propose and on the day you guys get married. She'll be there for any kids you have, if that's something you choose to do. She'll be there, because I will be there, supporting you every step of the way."

By this time, both men had tears streaming down their cheeks. They closed the small space between them and hugged each other, both feeling a little extra warmth wrapping around them.

"I love you," they both said in unison, unsure if they were talking to each other or the extra warmth they felt.

oOoOo

Kurt turned toward Blaine, held both of his hands in his, and looked lovingly into the depths of his eyes. He made sure that Blaine's back was toward the cave entrance so Blaine wouldn't be distracted by anything. For this, Kurt wanted all of his soulmate's attention on him.

He took a deep breath. "We met right here," Kurt began, voice confident. "I heard you say, 'Hello,' and I passed out as soon as I turned around and saw you. You came over and held my head in your hands until I came to, and, ever since then, you've held my hands in yours. I think, back then, that my soul knew something that my body and my mind hadn't quite figured out yet. It knew that our hands were meant to hold each other's, fearlessly and forever, which is why it's never really felt like I've been getting to know you; it's always felt like I was remembering you from something. As if in every lifetime you and I have ever lived or will ever live, we've chosen to come back and find each other and fall in love again, over and over for all eternity. And, I just feel so lucky that I found you all those years ago in my dreams, that I met you here a year ago, because all I want to do, all I've ever wanted to do, is spend my life loving you. So, Blaine Anderson, my amazing friend, my one true love, my soulmate, will you marry me?"

Kurt was down on one knee with the most beautiful ring Blaine had ever seen. It was a platinum band with two interweaving lines that formed infinity symbols all the way around. Blaine was so overcome with joy and love that he could only nod his head and say, "Yeah. Yes."

Kurt leaped up after sliding the ring on Blaine's hand and kissed him deeply. Both were so wrapped up in the moment and kiss that they were unaware of the clapping and cheers behind them as their family stepped out to watch the whole scene.

They all celebrated well into the night after the proposal. Lorenzo had been hired to cook them a feast that everyone loved. When the partying was over, their guests went back across the bridge to stay in a hotel and allow the boys some alone time to celebrate. Boy, did they celebrate.

Later that night while they were lying in bed, post intimate celebration, Blaine thought of something. "You know," he began, "one of the only things that would make this whole story more perfect would be to come back here and get married. What do you think?" He turned on his side to face Kurt. "Can we plan to have the wedding here when we decide on a date?"

Kurt giggled. "Does tomorrow work for you?"

"Are you fucking serious right now?" Blaine exclaimed, leaning up on an elbow.

Kurt flat out laughed at that. "Mm-hmm. I planned for us to get married tomorrow, if that's okay with you. I have a marriage license and everything. What do you say?"

"I say that I love you so fucking much, Kurt Hummel!" Blaine exclaimed, attacking Kurt's mouth with a series of kisses that left him breathless.

"I love you, too, Blaine Anderson," Kurt said. "Is that a yes?"

"Yes, yes, a thousand times yes," Blaine shouted and kissed Kurt breathless.

"Blaine," Kurt said, remembering there was something he wanted his soulmate to know before they became husbands tomorrow.

"Yeah?" Blaine answered, settling back down into Kurt's shoulder.

"When I asked your mom if I could marry you," Kurt started, "she told me something that I think is important for you to know. She said that she and your dad were soulmates as well and that they shared dreams similar to ours."

"You asked my mom's permission?" Blaine said, tears forming in his eyes at the gesture.

"Yeah, I did," Kurt replied. "Our last day in Darien, you had gone out to your dad's spot one last time, and I asked her then. She said yes right away and told me that she knew we were soulmates after she heard me talk about Fate, our dreams, and the mirroring thing."

"Why didn't she ever tell me?" Blaine wondered aloud, tears streaming down his face.

"I'm not sure, love," Kurt answered, wiping Blaine's face with his thumbs. "You'd have to ask her. Dad says it's because it's sacred and not meant for everyone to know."

"Your dad knows we're soulmates, too?" Blaine asked incredulously.

"Yeah," Kurt replied. "He...um...he figured it out just by how we were with each other. He and my mom...they had a connection like ours. They were soulmates, too, and he told me that it's not something that he felt needed to be advertised, even to me."

"That makes sense," Blaine said. He sighed dreamily, cuddling up to his soulmate once more. "Fate is awesome. It brought all of us together, and tomorrow, it will make sure that we are all one big family."

Decades later when they were both old and gray and ready to depart that world, as they drifted off to sleep one night and dreamt one last time together, they saw another, younger version of themselves in a place they had never been before. It wasn't a well-lit place, and there seemed to be a man standing behind a podium, holding a book out to them.

"It looks like we're going on yet another adventure, love," Kurt said excitedly. With final, ragged breaths, they stepped from their dream into the light and walked hand in hand to the podium.

A/N: The proposal is adapted from the actual proposal in Glee. Most of those words aren't mine.

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