He felt useless now, and had Melissa put through the forms for early leave, he was the boss but he still needed to put the forms through the company. She had been disappointed that Kurt wasn't coming back too, but what the doctor said had to be followed and she wanted the baby and Kurt to get as much rest as possible so that he comes back better and brighter. He had smiled at that. Her attitude was infectious, and then by then time he was 36 weeks, Kurt was a little happier at home, and everyone felt better.
Sebastian and Sam wanted to change with Elizabeth the next time, and Alex was out in the garden playing with the wolves, he was having a great time, and Elizabeth, in her fluffy wolf form, was being extra gentle with her teeth and it made Kurt smile.
Blaine had to work late a lot for the new album he was recording, it was due it's final editing soon, and production, so he wanted to get it finished in under 2 weeks. Kurt understood the pressure, he had a lot of it from his own work place. He didn't want Blaine feeling bad for missing bedtimes or bath times, he told him it was okay, but that never stopped Blaine from feeling miserable when he missed saying goodnight to his children.
Kurt was 37 weeks and 5 days, when his contractions started.
It had been a long day, it was a Saturday, and the children wanted to go to the park, so Kurt went along with Sam and Puck to take all the kids. And on their way back home, they stopped to get ice-cream because it was a warm day, and then when Kurt got home, Elizabeth wanted to bake cakes for after dinner that same night.
Kurt had agreed and spent the next few hours on his feet making cakes and then having a flour fight with his daughter.
After dinner, Kurt felt his body ache all over, and he had complained about his feet and back hurting him, so much so, that Blaine had rolled his eyes before pulling his feet onto a cushion on his lap and massaging them for him.
Kurt smiled sleepily at him, while the rest of the pack watched a movie on their big television. As soon as the movie was over, Blaine helped Kurt up off of the couch and they both walked upstairs for the kids bath times. But Blaine then shooed him to their bedroom, and told him to lay down and relax, while he bathed the kids and put them to bed, and then he would give him a back and shoulder rub before bed. Kurt had sighed dreamily at his husband and Blaine had laughed before shooing him again and Kurt went to lay down.
He could hear the children all splashing around in the bathroom, and Blaine trying to calm them but failing through laughter of his own. Kurt smiled as he leaned back against the pillows on the bed. Suddenly a sharp pain had shot through him and it made him gasp and sit up again.
"What the hell...?" He said to himself quietly as the place where the pain had gone, ached afterwards.
Another wave of pain was building, Kurt could feel it coming.
"Oh...my...god! No...not yet." He gasped out as the pain hit and he held his stomach, which had hardened, as he breathed slowly through the contraction.
He was alone for about half an hour longer, before Blaine walked in, all of the children had now been put to bed. As soon as he spied Kurt in pain, his smile dropped and he rushed to his side.
"Kurt? What's going on?" He asked in a panicked voice, but Kurt smiled at him gently and placed a hand on his face.
"I think...I'm in labour, honey." Kurt said as he breathed through the lasting ache the pain had left behind.
"Now?! But...it's too soon!" Blaine exclaimed, and Kurt hushed him.
"Not really, the doctor said anytime." He said quietly, and Blaine slowly nodded as he remembered their last visit to the doctor, apparently Kurt's body was ready, and he could have gone into labour anytime after week 35.
"Ok...so, what do we do?" Blaine asked a little more calmly, "Do we go to the hospital?"
"No, babe, I can deal with the pains here, but could you call my dad and Carole, or your mom? We are going to need somebody here for the kids."
"Yes...ok, I can do that." Blaine said as he went to grab his phone from the nightstand, and then hopped up on the bed with Kurt, rubbing his back soothingly.
"Hey Burt, it's Blaine...I know it's late." Blaine said as soon as the call connected and a gruff voice answered, "Oh? Wow...that's great actually, Kurt's in labour...mhm...yep, only just started."
Kurt hissed as another pain gripped him and Blaine turned to face him, rubbing over the bottom of Kurt's back, trying to comfort while he was talking to Burt.
"Yeah, I know...ok, thanks Burt, see you soon...yeah I'll let you know, ok, bye."
Kurt looked up at him as he disconnected the call, and Blaine smiled at him, as he helped him through the pain before explaining.
"Burt and Carole are actually in Washington right now, they had gone on a romantic getaway for a few nights." Blaine said to Kurt, as they both relaxed back on the bed, "But now, they are getting the train here, with their luggage, and it shouldn't take them long to get here."
"Oh...yeah I completely forgot about his trip, but how convenient is that?" Kurt said with a small smile, rubbing over his aching stomach lightly, and Blaine laughed.
"Very."
After about 2 hours, Kurt's pains were just the same as before, and Blaine had managed to soothe him to sleep, running his fingers through his hair lightly. After he was sure he was completely out, he had got out of bed and wandered back downstairs, where Sebastian and Hunter were kissing on one couch, and Sam and Puck were sitting on the other, actually watching the movie.
As he wandered in, they all turned to him, raising curious eyebrows.
"What's up, man?" Sam said, and Blaine ran a hand through his hair.
"Kurt's in labour."
"What?!" Puck shouted and Blaine shushed him, gesturing with his hands to keep it down.
"He's ok, the pains aren't that bad yet, Burt and Carole are on their way and Kurt went back to sleep." He explained quickly as he sat down on the couch next to Sebastian.
"So nearly a father of four huh?" Hunter had said from beside Sebastian and Blaine had turned to smirk at him. "Don't it make you feel old, Anderson?"
"No, not really." Blaine shook his head with a smile, "My children keep me young."
Hunter laughed and Sebastian rolled his eyes at his mate, before elbowing him in the side.
"So, do you want us all there again?" Sebastian asked, a little more seriously than Hunter, and Blaine grinned at him.
"Kurt wants that I think," Blaine said as he suddenly remembered something, "I have to call my mom, be right back."
He wandered into the kitchen to make another phone call and the guys all waited, listening.
"Ow, mother, ear drums!"
The guys all laughed with each other at Blaine's yell, knowing that Pam screamed every time a new baby was coming along. They always waited for it.
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It had been 2 days. Kurt had been in pain, and having light contractions, for 2 days. The doctor on the phone had assured them that sometimes it was normal, this one seemed like it was going to be a slow labour. Kurt was very moody and snappy. Blaine being the only person in the house who could stand to be around him for more than 2 minutes.
Blaine understood, his mate was uncomfortable and tired, and extremely pregnant. It didn't help his hormones, being in slow labour. Kurt was getting emotional on the 2nd day though, he cried all the time, and Blaine felt so bad for him. Kurt just wanted all of the pain and labour to be over, and Blaine was hoping it would be soon, as a relief for his husband.
It was about 5 in the afternoon on the second day, when Kurt had screamed in pain for the first time, as they had started getting stronger. Everyone had jumped in surprise, usually Kurt was a little more reserved with pain, like he had been through all the others, but this time it was no holds barred, he screamed as each pain ripped through his stomach and back.
After about 20 minutes, Blaine decided it was time to move to the hospital, so waving goodbye to Burt and Carole, they had all piled into Kurt's car, Kurt laying in the back seat, across Blaine and Sam's laps, moaning in pain, Puck in the drivers seat and Sebastian, the passenger side.
They were stuck in a little bit of afternoon traffic as they went through the city, Puck beeping the horn and swearing out of the window at a few people, Kurt screaming in pain in the back. They all had a pounding headache by the time they had pulled into the hospital parking lot, Kurt's screams still ringing in their ears.
A nurse had taken them through to the maternity suite that she had ready, and Blaine and Sam helped Kurt onto the bed against the far wall.
The doctor swept into the room and greeted them all, before moving over to Kurt.
"So how long has it been since you started?" She asked and Kurt told her it had started 2 days prior at around 7pm, she made a note of it in her book, before she had him change into a hospital gown again. "I need to check you, honey. Are the pains stronger now?"
"Yes...they've been getting stronger for the last 30 minutes." Kurt told her as he watched her put gloves on and he leaned back as she lifted up the gown a little.
He hissed as he felt the first of her fingers go inside, he tensed up though as a pain shot through him afterwards and he clutched at his stomach as she removed her fingers.
"Mmm, you're nearly there, 8 centimetres." She said with a smile, "Sometimes a slow labour in the beginning means a shorter amount of time in the last stages." Kurt sighed in relief as she threw her gloves out and wrote it on her notes, before she turned to Blaine.
"You know the drill by now, but I'll be back in an hour, ok?" She said and he smiled and nodded at her as she left.
Kurt progressed quickly, and just before the doctor was due to return, his water broke, soaking the bed and the floor around him, and Blaine had jumped up in surprise, as some of it splashed against his shirt. He went through one of the cupboards in the room and found a few towels to soak it up with, and a new bedsheet.
He had Puck and Sam help Kurt off the bed so he could mop up the worst of the mess, but the water kept coming every time Kurt moved, and when Blaine had changed the bed, and placed towels underneath the blanket, Puck and Sam had fluid all over there jeans, and Kurt was smiling at them apologetically, Sebastian just chuckled from where he was standing.
"Don't worry about it." Puck had said although he had grimaced when he moved, the jeans now sticking to his legs.
"Yeah, it can't be helped." Sam agreed and Kurt shot them both a grateful look, before he groaned and rolled on the bed, clutching his stomach again in pain.
"B-Blaine?" He choked out and his husband gripped his hand, and leaned in closer so they could talk, "No...no more babies...ah! Not for a w-while..." Kurt choked out as he breathed through the pain.
Blaine laughed at him, and placed a hand through his sweaty hair, pushing it out of his face.
"Yeah, no more...I know."
Kurt gasped as he held onto Blaine's hand, when the doctor came back in, she saw the amount of fluid covered sheets and towels in the corner and smiled.
"Ah, your waters have gone now, that's a good sign...I need to check you again." She said and Kurt rolled his eyes as he leaned back and opened his legs again, flinching when she pushed inside, "Good...you're ready. So when you feel it...you can push."
Blaine sighed in relief for his husband, and placed a kiss against his forehead.
"It's nearly over, baby, I'm so proud of you." He whispered against Kurt's skin and his mate relaxed a little.
Another few pains later, and Kurt was feeling the urge to push. He gripped Blaine's hand hard as the doctor told him to bare down, he screamed as he felt the burn already, the baby having dropped down into the birth canal already.
"Ok, we have a head," The doctor said after about 3 more pushes, the burning sensation making Kurt swear and hiss, "Ok...one big push on the next pain, and I'm going to help now ok."
Kurt nodded at her, just as the sharp feeling ran through him, as she pushed a few of her fingers inside along side the baby, and it shot pain through his spine. He felt hot as the pain flashed up to his neck, and then another one accumulated in his stomach and he screamed through gritted teeth as he pushed.
"You're doing so great baby...so great," Blaine was whispering to him, as he stroked Kurt's hair back out of his face, "I love you so much."
"Aaaahhh!" Kurt yelled as the push ebbed off and the baby was twisted free of him, by the doctors fingers, making him flinch slightly, and he took in a couple of deep breaths as he let his head fall onto his chest.
"And here is your baby boy." She said as she smiled and placed the wriggling, crying little pink bundle onto Kurt's chest, Kurt wrapping his arms around his son.
"Oh, he's so beautiful," Blaine gushed as he placed a kiss against Kurt's head and then the baby's, his lips lingering on him as he breathed in his new baby's scent.
"Thank you doctor." Kurt said a little breathlessly and she winked at him and nodded before she cleaned him up a little.
"I'll be back in a little while," she said as she left, and Kurt turned his smiling tired face, to everyone around him, before looking down at his new son.
"Welcome to the family, Justin." he said as he kissed the tiny cheek in front of him.
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After coming home from the hospital, Kurt had welcome the attention around him, as he handed his father his new grandson, Carole had gushed to him about how beautiful all of his children were.
Burt and Carole had decided to stay for a few days to help out around the home with the older kids, while Kurt got back on his feet. But Kurt's recovery time had got quicker after every birth, and within 2 days he was up and wide awake, with renewed energy.
Justin was a good baby. He hardly cried. He just ate and slept for most of his first weeks of life. And Kurt and Blaine were grateful that they had such a calm baby. Blaine was with him, most of the time, for the first 6 weeks, trying to make an impression on his tiny son before he had to go back to work, but Justin seemed more for his dada.
And he was greedy. Whenever he was snuggled with Kurt, even if it wasn't long after a feed, he would mouth against his chest for more. Kurt laughed every time his little boy made a face like a hungry baby bird, but he was gave in and latched him on again.
His son was a greedy one.
The children all adored him, they always sat and watched him wriggle around, or watched Kurt bathe him, or change him. Even though after changing the first stinky diaper, the kids kind of kept their distance a little. Elizabeth would hold him for hours, just talking to her baby brother, as Justin's tiny little face tried to focus in on her.
She had giggled when he had first garbled at her, at 5 weeks old. And Blaine had chuckled when Alex had tried to blow a raspberry on the baby's cheek and ended up just covering him in saliva, which he wiped away.
Isabella liked making bubble towers on top of Justin's head while Kurt held him in the bath, and she had told Kurt it was a crown, because Justin was prince of the bubble-bath. Kurt had grinned and kissed his daughter's cheek.
When the kids were gone to school, Kurt had found his days being filled with a lot of housework. He didn't mind, not really, it gave him something to do while Justin had a nap, but his days got a bit boring, especially when no-one else was around.
Kurt was in the middle of doing laundry, and Sam had just put Justin upstairs for his nap for him, it had been a very hectic day, Justin had been sick quite a lot, he was 9 weeks old and puked like a volcano, and it usually was all over Kurt.
Kurt had had to change his clothes at least 3 times already and shower twice. It had been in his hair. Not a very nice smell if it was left there.
Sam had laughed at him getting completely covered in puke and he glared at him and told him to go and change the baby while he showered, Sam had laughed all the way upstairs. Now the house was silent, and Kurt had breathed a sigh of relief when Justin finally went down for his nap.
The doorbell rang, and Kurt raised an eyebrow at who it could be, because the security gate wouldn't have let anyone through, so how was somebody knocking on the door. Sam walked back down the stairs, and checked the peephole outside the door.
"Hey, Kurt, are you expecting anyone?" Sam called as he walked through the hall, down towards the laundry room, and Kurt was just about to answer when there was a loud sound of shattering glass, and heavy footsteps approaching where he had Sam were.
Kurt ran out of the laundry room, and ran past Sam who had growled and turned to face the intruders, but they were quicker, and as Kurt went to climb the stairs he heard a loud thud and saw Sam's body crumple to the floor, he screamed a little as he raced up the stairs. He had to get to Justin.
There were heavy footfalls behind him, and Kurt had just managed to run through the nursery door, and slammed it shut before leaning against it, wondering what he should do. Sam wasn't around now, and he hoped he was okay down there, but no one else would be home for hours, and Kurt felt his heart jump into his throat, as there was a light knock on the door.
"Hey, carrier, come out and give yourself up, or we kill your little friend downstairs." came a gruff sounding voice, and Kurt gulped before glancing over at the baby, sleeping peacefully in his crib.
the tears came as he though of how helpless Sam and Justin would be if he left, but then everyone else would be hurt if he didn't go. 'Shit...what do I do,' he thought as he leaned back against the door.
The knock came again, louder this time, and Justin stirred a little, Kurt then made up his mind, and he opened the door, willingly walking out into the hall with the unknown men in his home.
"What do you want with me?" Kurt asked and the man in front of him smirked before a hand covered his mouth and nose with a cloth behind him and he felt dizziness overtake his mind, and then pull him into the darkness.
He woke up a couple of times along the way, he felt himself laying in the back of a van or something big, it kept going over bumps and made him feel a little sick. He woke the next time to being dragged out of the vehicle and into some kind of farmhouse or warehouse type of place, but he was too groggy to even notice any details.
The next time he woke up, he was sitting against a wall of a stinky, disgustingly dirty cell or room, and it took him quite a while to get his bearings. As he swayed left to right, his fuzzy brain trying to fight the tiredness he felt, his wolf became deliriously angry and wanted out, so it did.
He changed, quickly, the wolf growling as it was set free. Wild blue eyes glowing as it searched the surroundings, trying to find some way out of the filthy place it found itself, to get home to it's family.
There were voices whispering quietly around the room, but the wolf couldn't focus on them, it's intent was to get out. He slammed up against a door he found, running back and running into it at full speed, but only managing a few dents. Next he tried to chew his way through the bars and bolts on the windows surrounding the place, climbing up as high as he could go on top of all the storage boxes and things to get to them.
Voices around him were telling him, "Stop!" "It's no use!" "There's no way out!" but the wolf would not give up on his escape so easily. He pounded against the door again, until he made his side and shoulder hurt from trying so hard. He had made his teeth and gums bleed from pulling at the bars on the window, he tried again and again, until he was exhausted and collapsed in a big white fluffy heap on the cold dirty floor.
When eventually, Kurt changed back as the wolf calmed, he got himself dressed again and then sat back in the spot he had woken up in, placed his head in his hands and took in a few calming breaths.
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Blaine was playing with Isabella in one of his breaks, when his phone rang.
"Hang on, sweetheart," he said as he placed her back down before looking at the caller I.D, "Sebastian- what? Slow down...Sebastian, slow down, what happened?"
"It's Kurt...he's gone, and Sam's hurt...ssh, ssh, it's ok, Justin." Sebastian explained a little slower while comforting the baby, who was crying in the background.
"What do you mean gone?" Blaine asked as his face visibly paled, and he grabbed Isabella around the waist and picked her up, while walking swiftly down to his office.
"I just got home, and I found Sam laying on the ground, his head was bleeding...an ambulance is on the way," Sebastian shakily explained, "It's ok Justin, ssh, ssh, and then I saw the back door smashed in, and I go looking for Kurt and Justin...Justin is here, he's fine, but Kurt is gone."
"Have you called the police?" Blaine asked as he grabbed his jacket and keys, and gestured to somebody that he had to go.
"Yeah, I did, and Puck's on his way home too."
"Ok...I'll be there in 10 minutes...just make sure Sam's alright."
"Yeah...yeah I got it." Sebastian answered quietly as Blaine hung up to strap his daughter in the car.
He was home in 10 minutes, and he arrived in a flurry of movement, there were police and ambulance crew here already and Puck and Sebastian stood off to the side, Sebastian holding Justin in his arms, who was still crying with all the commotion going on. Blaine walked over to them and gestured for Puck to take Isabella as he went to go and talk to one of the officers.
"Excuse me, officer!" The police all turned to Blaine, and one of them stepped forward for him to talk to, "Could you tell me what's going on please? This is my house."
"You're Blaine Anderson?" The officer asked after looking down at the sheet of paper in his hand, and then spoke into his radio.
"Hummel-Anderson, but yes." Blaine nodded quickly.
"Come with me." The officer said as he walked inside the house, and Blaine checked back with the guys, who had swapped children now, as Puck tried to calm Justin down, and he waved a little and they nodded before he moved inside to follow the officer.
Blaine followed him through the hall, towards the living room. But when he saw the broken glass of the patio doors, he suddenly felt sick. The officer left him by the doorway and went to grab the attention of one of the other officers and he turned to regard Blaine before wandering over.
"Mr Hummel-Anderson?" He said while putting out a hand in greeting, which Blaine shook automatically, "I'm Inspector Lewis, could we talk?"
"Erm...sure." Blaine responded quietly, the full situation bearing down on him now, and he felt sick.
They both walked into the kitchen, the only place in the house that didn't have any police inside, and both took a seat at the bar, before the inspector wrung his hands a little.
"I understand, Mr Hummel-Anderson-"
"Blaine, please." He interrupted and the older man smiled slightly.
"Blaine...as I understand it, your husband is a carrier correct?" He asked as he was taking notes in his little book.
"Yes...that's right."
"We have reason to believe that the ones who kidnapped all of those carriers around Ohio and Pennsylvania, were responsible for taking your husband too...although he is quite a lot older than most of the cases."
"Oh...god." Blaine moaned, as the tears started streaming down his face, his mate, his love, his precious husband had been taken from him, and the children.
The inspector placed a hand against his shoulder, as Blaine sobbed into his arms on the bar, trying to comfort him as best he could, but it was no help.
"Now, we saw that you have security cameras set up near your doors, would the footage be able to view?" Inspector Lewis asked after the sobs had calmed a little.
"Yes...of course," Blaine responded while sniffling and then wiping his face, "it's all hooked up to the computer upstairs."
"Could we access that please?"
"Sure."
"Thank you, it may help..." The inspector said as he smiled empathetically at Blaine, "why did you have hidden cameras?"
"For safety, and Kurt never wanted them, so I had to hide them." Blaine said, and now he was glad he had decided to go against Kurt's wishes, this may be able to help find him.
"We will need to probably take it along with us, the computer and the cameras, for now." The inspector said and Blaine nodded numbly along with him, they could take whatever they wanted, he just wanted Kurt.
"Yes...take anything you want, if it will help."
"We've never dealt with a kidnapping that may have caught the faces of the kidnappers before, so I'm sure it would be a great help to our case." He tried to reassure Blaine, who only threw him a small smile as the inspector got up. "Well, I'll see if the team is finished collecting evidence, and when your friend...Sam Evans...is awake, I'd like to speak to him too."
Blaine nodded throughout the explanation, and the inspector thanked him again and told him that they would let him know what the team found on the security footage, and he left. After about another half hour, Puck and Sebastian were let back inside, as the police all cleared out, and they said they would have somebody come by and board up the broken door for now.
Puck showed everyone out, and collected a number of contact for the Inspector, and then they were alone. Puck knew he needed to call Burt. And maybe they should gather everybody that they possibly could, to try and help.
He walked back through to the kitchen to see Blaine and Sebastian huddled together, Sebastian trying to comfort his sobbing friend, and Puck still had the baby in his arms, so he decided he should take Isabella and Justin upstairs, so that he could phone in the cavalry.
"Hey Burt, it's me...yeah, listen, something awful has happened, we need you." Puck managed to choke down the line, as he held onto the baby, watching Isabella play with the toys in the nursery.