Carson was lost in his bottomless pile of homework when his phone went off.

Seeing that it was Chris, he answered. "Hey Chris, what's up?"

"Carson! What are you doing today! Please tell me your free, Kurt is freaking out! There was some kind of shooting at McKinley. He's super worried about Blaine."

Chris continued babbling into the phone as Carson got up to search for his keys. Homework could wait, his brothers needed him. When he realized Chris as well was freaking out, he cut him off mid-sentence. "Hey! Chris! Are you at Kurt's right now?"

"I'm in my car outside his apartment. I wanted to call you before going in there." He seemed to be calming some, but he was definitely still on edge.

"Ok, I'm on my way over, and I'll be there in about an hour. Keep Kurt calm, and keep yourself calm until I get there. Got it?"

"Ok Cars, see you in a bit."

With that, Carson hung up and walked out of his apartment and towards his car. Once he was driving, he couldn't stop thinking about what his brother had said. A shooting at McKinley? If that was true, he began worrying himself about Blaine and all the others that he had grown to love that were still back home.

About an hour later, he found himself outside Kurt's place, parked behind Chris's car. He was nervous. He didn't know what condition he would find his brothers in, and that scared him shitless.

Deciding to find out, he got out of his car and headed inside to the elevator.

When he finally got to the right floor he walked down the narrow hall to the apartment door. Before he could ring the doorbell, the door swung open and Kurt burst out. Startled momentarily, he saw Kurt's broken expression and snapped. Taking the final step forward, he engulfed his brother in a comforting hug, holding him tight.

He heard a quiet sob, but it only made him hold the boy tighter. Behind Kurt, he saw Chris standing a few feet away. He looked just as sad as Kurt had, but he was attempting and succeeding to hold back his tears. Next to him was Rachel, Kurt's roommate. She also looked as if she had been crying.

Kurt began to pull out of the hug, so Carson reluctantly let go. Kurt took a step back and looked into his brothers eyes. Carson noticed for the first time that Kurt's hair wasn't styled, and he was only dressed in sweatpants and what oddly looked like one of Blaine's shirts. If that wasn't a sign that Kurt was at a breaking point, he didn't know what was.

Finally walking into the apartment and closing the door behind him, he went to hug Chris, and then Rachel. He had decided senior year of high school that the girl wasn't all bad, you just had to make sure not to compete with her for anything.

Carson turned back to Kurt and Chris. "So..."

"This morning," Kurt started, speaking for the first time that day. His voice was rough from crying and it broke Carson's heart. "I got a voice mail from Blaine." With that, he pulled out his phone and pressed the playback button on the screen. At first I didn't hear anything, then static, then a whispering voice.

"Kurt? Look, it's ok that you didn't pick up. Perhaps it's better this way. I don't know if I'd be able to keep myself together if you were to answer. I'm at school right now, and something's going down. I was in glee when gun shots went off. Me and the rest of the gang are hiding in the choir room with Shue and Beiste. I'm not supposed to be using my phone right now, but if the worst were to happen, I NEED you to know how much I love you. Forget everything that has happened the last few months, and just remember that you are the love of my life, and I regretted every day that passed that you thought I didn't care. I LOVE you, Kurt. Just remember that, ok?" His voice began to grow panicky towards the end, and another voice that I recognized as Mr. Shue's told him to turn it off. After that there was static again, and then the line when dead.

The four people in the room remained silent. No one knew what to say. Kurt had started tearing up again, and Rachel hand her hand over her mouth in shock. Apparently Kurt had waited for Carson to arrive before sharing the message with the others, because they reacted as if it was the first time they had heard it. Chris looked on the verge of tears again. But Carson remained emotionless throughout the message. He didn't know whether to be scared, worried, sad, or a mix of the three. So he didn't express anything, he just remained lost in thought.

Chris was the first to speak. "How long ago did you see the message?"

Kurt sniffled before answering. "About three hours ago. The message was sent about an hour before that. I had been asleep. After I listened to the message about three times I went online and saw that the news was talking about it. They said that the police were getting ready to storm the school. That was about two hours ago. I haven't checked since." The devastated look on his face was impossible to miss, and with the message he had received from his soulmate, it wasn't too hard to guess why he was so sad.

"Well let's see if they've updated anything." Carson said quietly, looking for something to do that might lift everyone's moods. The other three nodded in agreement, so Carson went to find Kurt's lab top. He found it in his room atop his unmade bed. That was odd too, but under the circumstances, he wasn't going to call his brother out on it.

He brought the lab top back out into the living room and sat down on the couch. His brothers followed him and sat to his left and right. Rachel stood behind the couch, looking over his shoulder.

Once the computer was up and running, he went to the Ohio news website. There, on the site's homepage, was the story. Carson clicked on it, and it took him to a page that said it had been updated ten minutes ago.

Everyone silently read to themselves. Apparently the cops had entered the school an hour ago, and almost all of the students had been evacuated.

Kurt gasped and started sobbing again when they got to the part about the classes unaccounted for. The words 'Glee Club' were there, black against white on the page, clear as day.

After that, Carson closed the lab top and held Kurt for what seemed like hours. No one spoke again.

Time moved slowly. Carson didn't know what to do to make his brother feel better. It wasn't a good idea to call Blaine since he was supposedly still hiding out in the choir room. For the first time in a long time, Carson felt defeated.

The silence was broken by Kurt's phone going off. Since Kurt made no move to see who it was, Carson grabbed the phone himself. "It's Tina."

That seemed to pull Kurt out of whatever pit he had fallen into because he lurched forward and snatched the phone out of his brother's hand.

"She says that she is out of the school, but she hadn't been with the rest of the Glee club, and they won't let her back in to find them."

Chris spoke up. "I guess the only thing we can do is wait then."

Everyone was silent again, not knowing what else to say.

Sometime later, Kurt's phone went off again. Unlike last time, he jumped to answer.

For the first time that day, Kurt smiled. "It's Blaine!" he shouted. He answered the call and waited for the person on the other line to speak. When Kurt's smile grew, Carson finally released the breath he didn't know he had been holding. "Blaine, I'm so glad you're okay." He said as another tear slid now his cheek, only this time it was a happy tear.

Carson decided to let him talk in private, so he motioned for Chris and Rachel to follow him into the kitchen. Once there, Chris engulfed him in a bone crushing hug, and Carson returned it.

"I'm so glad he's okay. i hope everyone else is too." Rachel said before accepting a hug from the brothers.

"Everyone's fine." Kurt said from the doorway. Everyone turned to look at him. He looked happier than he had all day. "Blaine said that while a gun had been fired twice, no one in the school was hurt."

"Thank god." said Rachel as she went to pull Kurt into a hug too.

"I'm so glad that's over." Chris said from beside Carson, who silently agreed.

"Blaine said he'd call me back later, he had to call his parents. Thank you for driving all the way over Carson." Kurt said, looking to his identical brother.

"There is no where I'd rather be than here for you Kurt. you should know that by now. That goes for you too Christopher." Carson said, looking back and forth between his brothers.

Chris teasingly stuck his tongue out at the use of his full name. All four people were happy that they could now smile and tease one another again.

"Is any one hungry? i can go pick up some food." Carson volunteered.

"No," Kurt interjected. "I think we should go out to a restaurant and celebrate the good health of us, and all our friends and family back home."

No one rejected the idea, so everyone headed for the door, and then the elevator, and then down to Carson's car. All the way there, they laughed and joked with one another, happy again at last.