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Kurt checked his phone when he felt it vibrate in his pocket, heading in the direction Kat's text said she and Tam were waiting for him with a few of their friends. Kat had texted him saying they were having car trouble, and they couldn't reach thier parents. He knew if it had just been Kat and her sister they would have just orbed home, but since they were with mortals they had to act the part.
He could still remember the day he found out about magic. Apparently the foundation he started for victims of abuse had won the attention of the underworld and they decided to kill him to put an end to the good he was doing. Paige's sisters had been visiting her at her home, and Phoebe touched one of his jackets and gotten a premonition of him being killed, and the two had orbed to him. Unfortunately the demon had already attacked when they got there. They quickly vanquished the demon, and Paige had healed his leg where the fireball had hit him when he tried to dodge.
They took him back to Paige's house, and sat down to explaine magic to him. He was attacked a few more times after that, but the underworld eventually got the message that he was protected by the Charmed Ones, and eventually left him alone. It was very disheartening to realise that humans were not the only evil out there.
"I'm right out front" He texted to the girl he thought of as a sister, and unlocked the car door when he saw her and her friends approaching his car.
"Thanks Kurt," Kat said as she jumped into the front seat of his Navigator, the only thing he'd splurged on when he got his settlement, one of her cousin's and two other friends climbing in the back seat. "Tam rode with PJ and the rest of our friends, we couldn't fit everyone in their cars."
"That's alright, I don't mind." He said quietly, not really feeling comfortable with so many people in the car he didn't know. "How about I take a look at it before I drop you and your friends at home?" He was really good at working on cars, though he had no idea why, it just seemed like he innately knew what to do. Every once in a while when he was working on a car he would have a flash of a larger man in blue coveralls.
"Sure, thanks by the way." Kat said with a grin. He made the girls stay in the car as he looked under the hood, and he could see that one of the belts had broken.
"I'll have to wait till tomorrow to come fix it, by the time I get what I need it would be too dark to see anything." Kurt explained, as he got back in the car and put it into drive. He dropped the friends off first as he was going to have to pick up Tam when he dropped off their cousin Melinda.
"If you don't want waste the time driving us home we wouldn't mind orbing." Kat said once it was just him and Melinda in the car with her. The entire family knew he was uncomfortable with crowds and new people, and seemed like every one of their houses had a crowd in them.
"I don't mind, I needed to talk to your mom about something anyways, and I believe she is at Melinda's house right now." Kurt explained, trying to hide the fact that he wanted to do anything but. His therapist had been speaking with him lately about trying to get comfortable with new people, and said to start small. He figured you couldn't get any smaller than in a group where you already knew half of the people.
"It's this drive way right here." The young girl in the back of the car said, and he pulled in as directed.
He smiled when they got out of the car, and he noticed how hard she was trying to avoid looking at him, "It's alright to look, I appreciate you trying not to, but I am used to people staring." He gave her a slight smile when she relaxed and looked him in the face, her eyes automatically drifting to the scar. He knew Paige's sisters and their husbands had known about his past, but the only children who did were Paige's oldest nephews.
"Mom, we're home!" Melinda called out as they walked into the house, and instantly the volume in the house increased with people calling out where they were. "Aunt Paige is likely in the kitchen with my mom." Melinda said as she pointed in the direction of what he assumed was the kitchen, and he started heading that way as the two cousins ran up the stairs.
He had just passed through the doorway to the dining room when suddenly he collided with a much taller, warm body. He felt the larger hands close around his arms, affectively keeping him up right. He waited for the fear to kick in, and was surprised when he felt a rise in his anxiety levels, but not the crippling fear he had been expecting.
"Sorry about that." The tall blond said with a friendly grin, and Kurt was surprised at the natural way the man's eyes met his and didn't even try to drift to his scar. It felt like for the first time someone was truly looking at him and not seeing his scar. "I'm Wyatt, by the way."
"Kurt, Kurt Hudson." He informed the man, giving him the last name he had decided to use when he finally got away from Nicholson. "I'd shake your hand, but well..." He motioned with his head to where Wyatt was still holding his arms.
"Oh, sorry about that." Wyatt said, quickly dropping his hands to his side and looking deeply uncomfortable. "I was just letting my mom know I was staying for dinner."
"I was actually here to talk to Paige." He said, the two of them awkwardly trying to fill the silence.
"Oh, well, she's right through here." Wyatt motioned to the door behind him, holding it open for Kurt to go through.
"Oh, Kurt, thanks for getting the kids." Paige grinned at him, and he tried to find the words to say, very aware of Wyatt's presence behind him, and settled for just smiling instead, very aware of all the people around him.
"Are you staying for dinner Kurt?" Piper asked as she turned and gave him a warm smile.
"Oh, I couldn't..." He started to turn her down, and felt bad when he saw how she tried to hide her disappointment, and remembered Paige and her family talking about how Piper loved to feed everyone.
"You should, mom's making lasagna tonight, it is totally worth staying." Wyatt stepped forward, snatching the spoon from Piper to sample some of the sauce she had going on the stove. Kurt couldn't help but smile when she playfully shoved her larger son out of the way, the loving smile on her face making him fight back a smile of his own. He couldn't help but wonder if he would be like that with his own kids someday, if he could ever bring himself to be with another man to have kids. His therapist said that he thought he was ready to date, but Kurt wasn't so sure, and didn't think there was anyone who would ever want to be with him.
"You are welcome to stay Sweetie, but we understand if you can't." Paige said understandingly, though he could see that she wanted him to, and Kurt knew he would try for her as well as for himself.
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"So Kurt, did you talk to Mom about what you said you needed to talk to her about?" Kat asked as they sat around the table, and Paige looked at him expectantly.
"I hadn't had the chance yet," Kurt had spent most of his time talking with Wyatt while Paige was talking to her sister in the kitchen as Piper made dinner. He found that the more time he spent with the blond the more comfortable he was around him.
"What did you need to talk to me about?" Paige asked, giving him her full attention.
"The director of the Foundation was talking about us hosting a gala to raise money for it, not this year, but in the next few years. I don't know what I think about it." He could see the interest of most of the female faces around the table, and the apprehension on all of the males.
"I think it would be a good way to raise money, even though I know the foundation is doing well on its own, it never hurts to get something in place should the funds ever start to run dry." Paige knew he was the one keeping the foundation financed, but no one else did. "I think this could be a good way to raise awareness, get it's name out there for the victims as well as the donors.
The conversation started with pros and cons to having a gala, before moving on to themes and what everyone would wear if they could go. Kurt knew that the gala was likely happening, but was apprehensive, as he knew he would be expected to be there, and that would be a very large crowd, with even more new people.
"Hey, do you mind helping with desert in the kitchen?" He was startled from his thoughts by Wyatt's voice in his ear, and turned to see the blond looking at him expectantly. He quickly nodded and followed the blond out of the room, "You were looking a little overwhelmed in there, and thought you would like a moment of quiet to calm down." Wyatt said as he hopped up on the counter, "Sorry if I overstepped."
"No, not at all, in fact I kinda appreciate it." Kurt said, his heart beat starting to slow down. "I don't do well with new people." He felt like he owed the man an explanation, seeing as how he had just baled him out in there.
"I get it, my brother Chris is the same way. He's super smart and was bullied for it in school, now he's kinda quiet, but man he's probably the strongest person I know. He's quiet when he first meets people, but he can talk your ear off once he's comfortable with you. You strike me as the same way, plus you both have this huge need to help people. Chris actually volunteers at one of your clinics, he's a nurse now, but is going to start medical school soon. Says helping the people that come through the clinic make him want to be a doctor." Kurt had to smile at this, though he didn't know how he felt about the man he was developing a crush on saying he saw him like he saw his younger brother. "Maybe you just need to get comfortable around people one person at a time, maybe we can hang out sometime just the two of us?" The blond blushed, "I don't mean as a date...unless you want it to be a date, then I'm all for it being a date, but cause from everything I've heard about you from my Aunt, Uncle, and cousins you seem pretty great." He just kept going, rambling non stop.
"I think it could be fun to hang out as friends." He saw Wyatt's face fall, and felt better as it seemed the guy really liked him, "At lease at first, them maybe we can see if it develops into something more."