Chapter Two

Blaine studied Kurt, his heart pounding in his chest as he faced him still with uncertainty about how best to answer that question. He knew that the truth would be easier but then he would have to actually reveal something painful to his boyfriend and he hadn't wanted to do that just yet. He didn't want for Kurt to look at him the way that the doctors who knew his condition did. He didn't want for Kurt to be scared of him before they even took their first physical steps of the relationship.

Still completely trapped in a corner, there wasn't many options that Blaine had. He struggled to gain confidence as Kurt watched him, that look of confusion plastered over his face before tears filled his eyes. Without another word, Kurt had stepped forward and wrapped his arms around his boyfriend and had attempted to stop the tears from coming but it was hard.

"I'm sorry," he said as he turned away from Blaine and grabbed a handkerchief. Sometimes he didn't look his best with his face all read and his eyes swollen because of his crying.

"Kurt," Blaine hesitated as he watched the more fashionable, McKinley student. "You don't need to be sorry. You did nothing wrong. I really have to get tested again though I…"

"I understand," Kurt nodded. He bowed his head, scared that looking at Blaine would mean that he would start sobbing again. He didn't want to make Blaine feel guilty about his condition. Blaine hadn't chosen to be sick but the thought of losing another important person in his life was making Kurt feel that his insides were breaking. He shook his head. No. It was better to try to be supportive through the pain. "You'll call me tonight, right? You can always come over, the garage if you don't want to come to the house."

Blaine looked at Kurt nervously before nodding. He reached out to wipe some of Kurt's tears away with his thumb despite knowing the discriminatory nature of some of these people.

"I want to apologize though," Blaine said and he closed his eyes, his breath slow and steady. Did this mean that Kurt would break up with him? It was the choice that Blaine wanted to make. Maybe it was selfish of him and he wasn't that used to being selfish – okay, maybe he appeared self-centered but it was the Warblers who gave him all of the solos, he didn't ask for them himself – he was a Hufflepuff by nature despite people believing him to be a Gryffindor.

"You don't have to apologize for this," Kurt said slightly horrified. Yes, Blaine being sick brought him to tears and he wanted to ignore the fact. He didn't want Blaine to be sick but it wasn't as if Blaine had one day decided to infect himself with leukemia. Only a psychopath would do something of the kind? Or was he apologizing for keeping it a secret? Kurt felt hurt that he didn't know but he wasn't angry. He probably would have kept something like this from Blaine.

"I don't want to transfer," the thick half-Filipino boy said and Kurt looked at him in shock. Blaine was thinking about that? Blaine was standing in the middle of a hospital where he was getting treated for cancer and he was thinking about Kurt's stupid request for them to be in the same school.

"Okay, y-y-you know I can't…I can't transfer to…Dalton. It's too expensive for my fa-fa-family," he said quickly. Why was that the first thought on Blaine's mind? Yes, they could have had a lot of cute moments were they on the same glee club and in the same school but if Blaine didn't want to move then that was his choice. Cancer wasn't his choice.

"I know, I'm sorry but I love you but I also…especially now, I want to stay with the Warblers," Blaine said before closing his eyes. He felt tears enter them and he hated that. He didn't want for Kurt to see him break. "I don't know how much time I'll have for singing or even if I have the strength to do so but for as long as I can, I want to stay with my friends. I love you. I know it would be nice for us to hold hands down the hallway and put cute things in each other's lockers but -"

"I don't want you at McKinley in your condition," Kurt said before coughing. That hadn't come out the way that he had wanted for it to come out. He had meant to say that he would support Blaine and he wanted him somewhere where he was safe and taken care of. There were such strict anti-bullying measures at Dalton and then there was a much better health system in place and things that only rich private school boys had access to. He wanted Blaine safe. With how Kurt had been treated at McKinley, Dalton seemed so much more to be the better option.

"You'll call me as soon as you get home, okay?" Kurt said and Blaine nodded. Kurt wrapped his arms around his boyfriend again before stepping back. "I love you, okay. We'll make it through this. We'll get through this and then we'll get to go to New York together and live in a tiny studio apartment and spend days getting coffee and cronuts and singing in public."

"Okay," Blaine nodded with a smile. "I love you too."

Kurt kissed Blaine's cheek, feeling the bold nature in him to do so before hugging him tightly again and walked out. He wished that he didn't need to leave Blaine's side but he felt the tears finally coming from his eyes and down his face. He was an ugly crier, he knew that much about himself but his boyfriend had cancer. He didn't care if he looked bad. When he came back to the car, he sat down in the front seat before staring out the window.

"You all right, kiddo?" Burt asked. Something must be very wrong for Kurt to have frozen. Hopefully someone hadn't made a homophobic crack about him, that was very possible to happen but his son needed to strengthen his armor. "Something -"

"Blaine has leukemia," Kurt said as if in a trance. He bowed his head and shivered, Burt looked at him sympathetically. They both knew how hard it had been when Elizabeth Hummel had passed away and she had been very sick in the end. To see that same thing repeat with his son's boyfriend, Burt didn't know if he had the strength to heal his son but he would do his best to make sure that if that time came, Kurt didn't feel completely isolated in the world.

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Kurt sat on his bed looking at a photograph of him and Blaine when they had gone on a casual date. Blaine had always been there for him, stepping in at the prom when Kuon had felt extremely humiliated to be voted prom queen. He had always been protective and supportive and there was a chance that Kurt was going to lose that. He would just have to soak up as much Blaine time as was possible.

As he waited for the phone to ring, Kurt heard a knock on his bedroom door and his heart sprang up in his chest. Hopefully this was Blaine and Kurt could prove how he would be there to support his boyfriend through this trying time. However, Kurt's facial expression showed his disappointment when he saw Rachel Berry standing there.

"Hi," he said with a weak smile, his eyes still red and puffy. "Rachel, what are…what are you doing here?"

"That doesn't look very happy to see me," Rachel gestured to Kurt's face and Kurt bit his top lip. No. He wasn't excited to see her but Blaine had obviously been keeping his illness a secret for a reason, Kurt wasn't going to tell the biggest gossip in school about what was happening. "Did Blaine break up with you because you told him to transfer."

"Blaine didn't break up with me," Kurt said instantly, his voice sharper than intended.

"Well then did you get him to transfer, it's going to be harder to win against Dalton when we're competing, besides I don't want you to give away all of our secrets. Our performances are important and I can't believe that -"

"I can't believe that you'd think that Blaine is the type of person who wouldn't play fairly. No. He's not going to transfer and I'm not going to force him," Kurt argued and Rachel pouted, she was about to say something but Kurt walked away from her. "Besides, with all the stupid rules of our school, he would have been forced to become a junior and we wouldn't have been able to graduate at the same time."

"That's unimportant. If we win the nationals as a glee club then we're almost guaranteed to get our top spots at NYADA," Rachel told him and Kurt coughed. This girl was so selfish. Blaine wasn't hers and he wasn't even Kurt's, he had expressed a wish to stay at a school that would actually make sure he was taken care of. The staff at McKinley might know all about his health conditions but if he fainted in the middle of the hallway people would probably step on him and the joke Mr. Schu was, he'd just say it was dramatic flair. Kurt wished he could go back to Dalton but it was far too expensive and he had friends at his own school.

"Blaine can do whatever he wants to do and he's made it clear to me that he wants to stay at Dalton," Kurt argued and Rachel huffed, she crossed her arms over her chest and tapped her foot.

"Last year it was Sunshine joining Vocal Adrenaline and this year it's Blaine refusing to leave the Warblers," Rachel complained and Kurt rolled his eyes.

"You do understand the reason why Sunshine never joined us, don't you?" he asked and Rachel shrugged. Kurt coughed. He couldn't believe this girl's selfish nature. She had done something terrible and she just ignored that it had even happened. "Blaine is staying where he wants to and you'll have to deal with that."

"What's the point in having a boyfriend if you can't get him to do what you want?" Rachel asked and Kurt was about to reply before hearing his phone ring. He grabbed it hearing the song of Teenage Dream playing. That meant it was Blaine. "Hey. I'm talking here," Rachel tried to remind him but Kurt ignored her as he answered his boyfriend's call.

"Did it go okay? Do you want to meet up and talk about it?" Kurt said as he completely blocked Rachel out.

"The Lima Bean?" Blaine asked and Kurt nodded.

"I'll be right there," he said before grabbing a jacket and pushing past Rachel, still holding the phone tightly. Rachel turned to him stunned. He had just ignored her in favor of his boyfriend. How dare he!

End of Chapter Two

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