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Kurt smiled as he held the phone to his ear while walking into the hospital. "Okay, it's time for you to go to sleep now okay? I promise I'll be back to pick you up in the morning" he chuckled pulling his bag further up his shoulder.
Blaine stood at the nurse's station looking through a file when he heard Kurt's voice, a bright smile grew on his face. He hasn't been able to get those blue eyes out of his head since his first day working at the hospital and he needed to finally speak to Kurt properly. He had been hoping to catch Kurt before his shift for the last few days but never seemed to be able too.
"Okay I have to go now; I'll see you tomorrow. Love you too, bye" Kurt said hanging up the phone hoping that his son would not give his grandparents a hard time about going to bed for once, when all of a sudden he collided with Dr Anderson, again.
Kurt jumped and looked up into the hazel eyes.
"We have to stop meeting like this" Blaine said with a small chuckle, grabbing hold of Kurt's arm so he didn't fall.
"Dr. Anderson! I'm sorry I didn't see you" Kurt smiled stepping back from Blaine to put his phone into the pocket of his scrub pants. "How has your first week been? The day nurses haven't been giving you too much of a hard time, have they?" He asked with a small chuckle.
Blaine smiled and shook his head "No everyone has been lovely if anything a little too nice."
Kurt nodded "Yeah the nurses get like that around attractive men." His eyes widened after realizing what he just said, his face started to turn bright red.
"You think I'm attractive?" Blaine asked with a slight smirk on his face, internally celebrating.
"No, I um didn't mean it like that, I just meant tha- Not that I don't think you're attractive! I just, the nurses um" Kurt sighed and looked at the ground "I should go get ready for my shift" Kurt said cringing at himself before taking off down the hall.
Blaine frowned "No Wait!" he sighed when Kurt continued down the hall.
Anna walked up to Blaine just as Kurt was walking away, noticing his hunched over form "Is he okay? She asked Blaine.
Blaine shrugged and looked at her "I don't know, we were just talking and he sort of clammed up and ran off, I didn't mean to offend him or anything" he exclaimed with a worried look.
Anna smiled softly and touched his arm "Look Kurt has been through a lot and he lets it all get on top of him sometimes, he can be a tough nut to crack. My advice? Don't give up on him, once you get him to open up, he will be worth every second of trying" She said squeezing his arm before following Kurt to the locker room
Kurt sat at the nurse's station looking over the files of the overnight patients when anna dropped into the chair next to him. "Well, for now, they are all asleep, hopefully, they will stay that way."
"Doubt it" Kurt mumbled, his eyes not leaving the page.
"C'mon, you've been down all night. Spill. What happened between you and Anderson?"
Kurt's head shot up, towards Anna "Nothing happened! What makes you say that?"
"Well he looked like a lost puppy earlier when you ran off, he was adamant that he had offended you in some way"
"Offended me? I made myself look like a complete idiot, of course he didn't offend me" Kurt explained his earlier conversation with Dr Anderson to her "It just sort of came out and I bet he thought I was a complete idiot and he's probably not even gay, just really friendly, I just made myself look stupid" He sighed slamming the file shut.
"Kurt, the man is smitten with you. He has been asking everybody about you all week, he has been devastated every night when he hasn't been able to catch you before or after your shifts, and by the looks of things, you have a major crush on him too" Anna said nudging him with her elbow.
Kurt scoffed "No I don't! Besides nothing will ever come of it, I don't have the time and I just- I'm not ready" He said shaking his head, tears filling his eyes
"Are you crazy?! He likes you Kurt! Why are you stopping yourself being happy, he would love that little boy of yours and would treat you like an absolute god" Anna chuckled.
"I can't tell him about Teddy, Anna! He would run completely the other way before anything even happened, which it won't! I'm not ready and I don't know if I ever will be" Kurt almost yelled before remembering the children asleep on the ward
Anna reached over and took his hand after he wiped the tears from his face "Sweetie, it's been nearly 4 years, why are you stopping yourself being happy. If you can look at me in the eye and tell me that you don't like him, then I will leave you alone. But don't close yourself off from happiness"
Kurt sighed and shook his head "I do" he said eventually "But shouldn't I feel guilty? Is it too soon? I have Teddy to think about and I don't work conventional shifts so we couldn't be like a normal couple, it's just not possible. I can't do it" He said standing up to go and calm himself down before checking that everyone was still asleep.
Kurt took a deep breath before wandering down the ward, popping his head into all the rooms making sure everyone is asleep
He smiled softly at the youngest resident of the ward, Ava who was fussing in her crib. He lifted her and quickly changed her diaper before rocking her back to sleep.
He continued until he reached the room of a little boy, Jonathan. Jonathan always has trouble sleeping when he was here, unfortunately, he is a frequent visitor due to a rare form of Blood cancer.
Kurt sat next to the small bed and smiled "Hey buddy, can't get to sleep?"
Jonathan shook his head slightly "No 'Urt"
Kurt smiled and took his hand "How about a song huh?"
Jonathan nodded and nuzzled into his pillow.
Kurt began to sing a soft lullaby that he sings to Teddy when he has trouble sleeping, not noticing a pair of hazel eyes watching from the doorway.
Kurt shut the door behind him quietly making sure the boy stayed asleep and began down the hall again.
"You have a beautiful voice"
Kurt turned around quickly with his eyebrows furrowed "Dr. Anderson? What are you doing here? Shouldn't your shift have ended a few hours ago?"
Blaine smiled and nodded "You can call me Blaine you know; I had some patient follow-ups that I needed to get finished and decided to check on everyone before I left but then I heard you singing."
Kurt blushed and looked down at his feet "Jonathan is here a lot, he always needs help to get back to sleep, singing helps"
Blaine nodded "He's a sweet kid"
Kurt looked back up "I better check on everyone else, have a good night" He said with a slight wave before carrying on down the hall.
Blaine smiled "You too." He watched Kurt walk away before turning back towards the locker room, he was going to get this man to open up if it killed him.
Kurt sighed and rubbed his eyes as he walked towards the office the next morning, it had been a long night, around 2 am a young girl had started to violently vomit after an intense round of chemotherapy. They eventually had to call for the on-call doctor to sedate her and at the moment, her chances weren't looking good.
He entered the staff room ready for morning briefing when he noticed a takeout cup of coffee with a post-it note attached, placed in front of the seat he usually sits in.
Kurt frowned looking around the office before lifting the cup to ready the note.
'Kurt
I hope this brightens your morning. Hopefully, it will taste better than the horrible coffee in the staff room.
Blaine.
P.S I can't get your voice out of my head'
Kurt smiled softly and took a sip of the coffee and sat down as Anna walked 'Hey you can't go get coffee and not bring some for everyone!"
Kurt shook his head with a small smile "I didn't" he said showing her the post-it note.
Anna squealed quietly and grabbed his hand "That is so sweet!"
Kurt shrugged with a small smile and looked up at the three doctors' briefing the team today, as he played with the corner of the post it note.
The coffees and notes kept coming over the next few weeks, along with small snippets of conversation whenever Blaine could catch Kurt when their shifts crossover or Blaine stays late.
Kurt knows he likes Blaine but can't bring himself to do anything about it, always seeing Aaron's face in his head.
He sits outside the hospital on a bench during one of his very rare day shifts when he feels Blaine sit next to him, holding out, as usual, a cup of coffee.
"No post-it note today?" Kurt asks taking the coffee with a smile.
"No, I thought I would bring you the real thing" Blaine chuckled, sipping his own coffee. "I like you being here during the day, brightens my day seeing you"
Kurt blushes and looked down at his lap "That's very sweet but the day shifts just don't work for me" Kurt shrugged.
Blaine nodded looking forward "So um, I noticed that you have Wednesday night off and I was just wondering if you aren't busy, would you like to get dinner with me?" He says turning to look at Kurt with a smile.
Kurt felt like his heart had stopped, he wanted to go out with Blaine, wanted to know more about him but he couldn't just dump Teddy on his parents again.
Blaine reaches out and takes his hand gently, noticing the internal struggle Kurt was having. Kurt looked down at their hands and gasped softly. "Look Kurt, you don't have to give me an answer right now, but think about it okay?" He leaned over and placed a gentle kiss to Kurt's cheek as he got up and walked back inside.
Kurt leant his head back against the bench and felt tears fill his eyes, what was he going to do? He wanted to go out with Blaine but Teddy had to come first, but maybe he needed to do this for himself. Blaine could be a new start for him and Teddy.
He wiped his tears from his face and stood from the bench taking a determined breath.
He walked back inside and walked straight up to Blaine, who was standing at the nurse's station talking to Crystal, one of the older nurses. He took hold of Blaine's hand to turn him towards him. He took a deep breath looking at him "Okay, Wednesday" He said with a small smile. He leaned in and pecked Blaine's cheek before running off down the hall before he could change his mind.
Blaine smiled and let out a chuckle "Wednesday."
