Blaine just smiled down at Kurt when the doctor was done explaining, and Kurt couldn't help but grin back a little before he shook his head. What was he worried about, Blaine had probably cleaned up worse from the kids in the past, plus he loved him, of course he was going to take all this with a smile.
Physical therapy sessions would be everyday to start off with, Blaine would have to drive him there and back home, for the next week. The physical therapist told them at their first appointment, that he was going to be pushing Kurt harder and harder with every session, to help get better and stronger faster.
Kurt resigned himself to the hardship of getting back on his feet, he had lost muscles and didn't have that much mobility in his joints, but the fact that Blaine had done daily exercises of Kurt's limbs and joints while he had been unconscious was a great help with that.
Joe was the physical therapist, and Kurt really wanted to punch him, which he told him as Joe laughed and exclaimed that it was good, that means that he was pushing his limit.
Three days at home, and trying to nurse his tiny daughter at least 5 times a day, brought his milk back in, and she appreciated it. You could tell by the look on her face that she was more content with Kurt than with a bottle. Kurt couldn't move around that much at home, and didn't trust himself with picking up Hope yet, his arms were still a little weak, so Blaine brought her to him and then placed her back into the nursery when she fell asleep.
Blaine was great, and the kids all helped him out of any funk he got himself into, their smiles and happiness at their father being home, seeping through his skin and making his days brighter.
After 2 weeks, Kurt nearly did punch Joe, causing both him and his husband to laugh, as Kurt stumbled after the swing. Then Joe had clapped Kurt on the back and told him that they could start on his upper body, as well as the movement in his hips and spine, because he had got the use of his legs back.
So for the next week, Kurt put on more weight, more muscles and was starting to move around without help, although the stairs were still a little too difficult for him to do alone.
Burt and Carole had stayed for another 2 weeks, to see Kurt back on his feet, before they left. The kids all cried and Blaine had to promise them that they could visit their grandparents more often before they stopped blubbering about it.
Puck and Sam had been taking the kids to school, or seeing them off on the bus, while Blaine had focused his time on taking care of Kurt and Hope, and after 6 weeks of hard tasks and grueling regimes, Joe discharged him from the clinic, with full use of his limbs, and then he punched Joe in the arm.
Currently Kurt had woken to no-one beside him so he decided to see if he could conquer the stairs by himself. He got down alright, it was up he was struggling with. He spent about 10 minutes trying to will the muscles in his thighs to go up, and he was breathing heavily, when the door opened.
Kurt's senses had been heightened since he woke up, he could tell who a person was entering the room before they had come in, and he could smell Blaine.
His husband had started running in the mornings, as something to keep his head and manage his emotions, when things got difficult he would go out for a run. Kurt could smell him now, his scent was strong, probably because of the sweat, but it made Kurt's groin area stir for some attention.
As Blaine rounded the stairs, sleeveless top and shorts darker in some places because of the sweat, and his face and hair dripping, his eyes widened as he saw Kurt there.
"What are you doing?" Blaine said as he leaned over to help Kurt stand up.
"I wanted to see if I could do the stairs by myself," Kurt explained as Blaine half helped, half carried him back up the stairs, "Going down was easy."
"Kurt, you have to wait for me baby, you know that." Blaine said as he placed Kurt's feet down by their bedroom door.
"Sorry but I..." Kurt started and then his eyes dilated as Blaine's scent permeated his entire being, his husband was so close, and smelled so good, so strong...
"Kurt, what are you doing?" Blaine's voice seemed to snap him out of his trance, to realise he had buried his nose into Blaine's neck and was sniffing him.
"Honey...I want you." Kurt whispered at him and Blaine shivered a little before he pulled his head back.
"But I need a shower, I'm all sweaty...and I stink." Blaine grimaced as he smelt himself, but Kurt just groaned in his throat and took Blaine's hand in his.
"You smell like you, and I want you." He said and Blaine's eyes turned dark too, as Kurt tugged him into their room.
"Is that such a good idea?" Blaine tried to protest even as he and Kurt approached their bed slowly, and Kurt turned pleading eyes to him.
"Honey, we can go slow but I need you inside me...please." He said with big eyes and a small smile, and Blaine nodded.
"Ok."
Blaine pushed Kurt down onto their bed slowly, his husband stretching out underneath him, pawing at his sweaty shirt, and Blaine smiled as he peeled it off. Kurt lifted himself forward and nuzzled along the slight hair on Blaine's chest, before running his tongue down the line in the middle of his chest, and all the way down to his abs, and Blaine groaned as he placed his hand in Kurt's hair.
"Mmm, you taste so good..." Kurt moaned as he continued to lap at the salty, sweaty skin of Blaine's torso, before Blaine grabbed him a little harder and pulled him up into a kiss.
They both moaned into each other's mouths as Blaine lay down on top of Kurt, his husband's thighs parting to let I'm settle between them, and as their hips made contact, Blaine bucked down and Kurt arched his back with a hiss.
"Oh, Blaine, I don't think I'll last through teasing, please...pl-" Kurt cut off his own speech in a moan, and Blaine hushed him slightly as he moved away, quickly pulling down Kurt's pyjama pants and underwear, and reaching into the drawer by their bed for the lube.
"Hey...I just thought of something..." Kurt said breathlessly as he watched Blaine take off his shorts and underwear before coating his fingers with lube, and Blaine looked back at him curiously, eyebrow raised, and Kurt grinned, "We can throw the condoms away forever."
Blaine froze for the moment, and then he groaned in his throat and attacked Kurt's lips again, while his fingers travelled down to Kurt's hole, rubbing around and then pushing in.
Kurt hissed as he clenched down around Blaine's fingers, but he soon became used to the sensation and then Blaine was adding a third. Kurt wanted to last through Blaine's thrusts, but he was so close to the edge that when Blaine made his first descent inside him, he lost it, and spasmed as he screamed and came between them.
"Oh my god...baby," Blaine said as he thrust in quickly, watching Kurt's panting chest rise and fall, and watching the drops of Kurt's come forming small puddles along his abdomen, "So fucking hot."
He thrust inside Kurt, hammering against his husband's prostate fast, Kurt was mumbling incoherently, and Blaine couldn't stop from slamming his hips forward. Kurt's erection tried to harden again under the assault to Kurt's prostate, but it wasn't quick enough, because after a few thrusts at a hammering pace, Blaine was coming inside him, stars flashing across his vision as he let go.
"Blaine...oh, Blaine...I love you..." Kurt mumbled as they both brought their lips back together, and kissed again and again, whispering and talking against each other's lips.
"Oh, Kurt, my love, my mate...oh I love you...oh..."
Kurt held him as Blaine collapsed against him, chest to chest, surrounding themselves in each other, and breathing in each other's scent. As they lay there, in the mess they had just created, casually stroking their fingers along naked, sweaty skin, and placing kisses against any part they could, there was a tiny whimper from down the hall, and Blaine got up to go and see to her.
"Blaine, can we shower with her...I haven't tried it yet." Kurt said as Blaine reached the door, and his husband turned back to give him a grin.
"You go and start it baby, I'll be right back." Blaine blew him a kiss as he left and Kurt staggered into the bathroom, to turn the shower on.
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The first time Kurt changed into wolf form since waking up, was the first time for Bradley too. He was 8 now, so it was time, Kurt remembered Justin's from last year.
It had been a shock when Justin had turned, the boy did it all by himself for starters, which surprised Blaine and Kurt because they had had to help the eldest 3 with their changes, but the other part of the shock was that he was white...brighter than Kurt.
Pure white.
Just like Elizabeth was pure black like her father's coat, Justin had Kurt's. It made them all smile to see the springy little white wolf pup running around the others.
Now it was Bradley's turn and the boy wanted to try to do it by himself, just like his brother. Blaine stood behind him, just in case he needed a little push through it, but he managed ok, although it took quite a lot longer than Justin.
The shock factor again was...he was also white.
Kurt had two pure white pups, and he changed then, with a huge smile on his face, happily bounding over to play with them, as Blaine laughed at his mate's giddiness. Blaine changed after a minute of watching, and bounded over with them, running around the white wolf and white pups, yipping at them and huffing until they chased him.
The white pups ran after their black father, trying to catch him, and Kurt watched them with warm eyes. He felt a rub against his side and turned to lick at his daughter's black furred head. Elizabeth had been closer to Kurt since he woke up than she had ever been before, always asking how he was, and wanting to be with him.
Her relationship with Jack hadn't lasted this summer, she was much too intelligent for teenage boys, and Kurt was hopeful that later in life she would choose wisely.
She leaned against him for a while before she yipped and chased her father, like her siblings, but being that much older than them, she was almost as big as Kurt and Blaine and she managed to catch up to him easily, and slowed him down enough holding onto his tail, for all the pups to jump on him, and he fell dramatically onto the ground.
Kurt huffed a little as he watched his mate writhe around on the grass with the pups, before joining in and rolling around with them.
All of them were combining scents, establishing their family bond and their pack.
Sebastian and Hunter had appeared, and Hunter decided to look after Hope and Grace for a while, because he could tell that Sam, Puck and Sebastian were itching to go and join in. Hunter laughed and shook his head, as he watched his fiancé jump on Blaine and roll around with him. Puck and Sam had decided to play with the pups, while Kurt had a rest on the grass with Elizabeth next to him.
Bradley started howling in his little voice, and Sam howled with him, then everyone joined in, Blaine's howl being the deepest and loudest as he howled along happily for his pack and family.
Grace and Hunter joined in with their human voices, Grace giggling with hers, and then she ran out to throw her arms around Blaine's neck, nuzzling her giggling face into his neck fur, and stroking his ears with her tiny fingers. Blaine placed his cold nose against Grace's neck and she laughed while trying to push him away.
As she released him to go and play with the other wolves, Blaine wandered over to Kurt, Elizabeth moving away to join her brothers and sisters, while Blaine took her place next to his mate.
'You ok?' Blaine asked as he watched Kurt, and Kurt licked underneath his chin before resting his head against Blaine's dark paws.
'I'm fine,' Kurt replied as Blaine mouthed over his ears, before licking the top of his head, 'I've never felt this happy to be home, in such a long time.'
'Well...I'm just happy you are here.'
'Oh, honey,' Kurt sighed in his head, that came out as a small huff, 'I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.'
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Kurt was upstairs with the girls, spending time together, Hope was playing in her little toy mat in the middle of Elizabeth's bedroom, Kurt braiding Isabella's hair and Elizabeth was busy with plaiting Grace's.
Blaine, Puck, Sam and the boys were all downstairs, watching a football game, and Kurt could hear them cheering or booing and yelling all the way up in Elizabeth's room, he's just glad Blaine was there to keep an eye on the potty mouths.
"Dad, how does this look?" Elizabeth said as she turned the back of Grace's head gently to show Kurt, and he smiled.
"Well done, sweetheart, that looks really nice," He said as he got a little tangled up in Isabella's hair, his finger dexterity was a little off, still, at 12 weeks after he woke up, but Isabella didn't moan about it, "Sorry, honey, my fingers got stuck again."
"It's ok, dad." She said to him and he placed a kiss on her head.
Mean while downstairs Blaine and Puck had just finished shouting at the television as another player was tackled from the line.
Alex, Bradley and Justin sat with each of them, Bradley wasn't really paying attention, he was playing on his I-pad, and Justin just loved joining in with the booing or cheering.
Alex was into the game, he loved football, soccer, basketball, all kinds of sports, and once he started high school, he wanted to join as many different ones as he could. He wanted to be a professional sports player, but in what kind of sport, he was still unsure. He felt a nudge in his side, and realised that it was half-time, the second quarter had finished, and Puck was trying to talk to him.
"Ready for high school in September?" Puck asked as Blaine and Sam went to the kitchen to replace snacks.
"I guess," Alex shrugged with a small smile, "I really want to join a sports team."
"I know, your daddy was just telling me, what do you think you'll join." Puck said and flung an arm around Alex to pull him into a side hug.
"I really like football the best." Alex told him, and Puck's whole face seemed to light up.
"You know, I played football in high school, we were quite good too," Puck explained, thinking about how long ago it seemed, "Even your dad, was on the team back then."
"No way! Dad?!" Alex asked with an astonished face, and Puck grinned.
"Oh yeah!...It was me, Sam, your Uncle Finn and your dad back then."
"What positions did you play?"
"Your Uncle Finn was our Quarterback, good at it too," Puck said with a wistful smile, "I was Running-Back, Sam was Guard, and your dad was the Kicker."
"Was dad good at kicking field goals?" Alex asked curiously, and Puck nodded.
"Oh, yeah, I bet he could still do it now," He said with a huge smile on his face, and then he laughed, "we won our last game of the season because of him, in our Sophomore year...What position do you want to play?"
"I want to be Quarterback, like Uncle Finn."
"Bet you'll be bait for the ladies, huh?" Puck said as he nudged Alex's shoulder, and Alex gave him a small nervous smile.
"Yeah..." He said quietly with a small confused frown, and Puck was just about to ask him what was wrong, when Blaine and Sam came back with the snacks, and then the football was back on.
Alex left to go upstairs after the 3rd quarter, Blaine asked if he was alright, but he just said he was tired. Puck watched him curiously as he went, and then told Blaine what they talked about, and that he thinks something might be wrong, and Blaine promised he would find out once the game was finished.
As Alex walked past the door to Elizabeth's room towards his own, Kurt called to him and he paused.
"Hey, buddy, I thought you were watching the game?" Kurt asked, hand still in Isabella's hair as he eyed his son curiously.
"I got tired, I might go to bed." Alex said with a shrug, and stretched his back out a little to fake it, but Kurt narrowed his eyes, and raised an eyebrow.
"Oh...everything ok, darling?" He asked and Alex nodded his head quickly.
"Yeah...yeah...just tired." He insisted and Kurt nodded with a small smile before turning his attention back to Isabella's hair.
"Ok, I'll be in to tuck you in soon." Kurt said as Alex turned to leave and he stopped and turned back to his dad with a grin.
"Dad, I don't need you to tuck me in."
"Nonsense!" Kurt interrupted him with a wave of his hand, and Elizabeth giggled, "I'll stop doing it when you move out."
Alex rolled his eyes a little and waved goodnight to his sisters as he walked to his room.
Later that night, Blaine and Kurt had tucked all of the other children in bed, reading stories and singing songs to Grace and Hope, before they both walked towards Alex's room. They had talked about it over Grace and Hope's shared bath that evening, and decided they needed to talk to him, and find out what was wrong.
"Alex?" Kurt called out as Blaine knocked lightly, "Can me and your daddy come in?"
"Yes." Came a quiet voice from the other side, and Kurt pushed the door open gently.
"Hey sweetheart, can we talk to you?" Kurt said as he and Blaine made their way inside, closing the door softly behind them, and Alex shrugged from the bed, where he was texting on his phone.
"Sure."
Kurt and Blaine made their way to sit on Alex's bed, either side of him, and Kurt smiled gently at him, receiving a smile in return.
"Puck noticed that you were acting a little strange earlier," Blaine said and Alex immediately tensed up, and they shared a look over his head before Blaine continued, "and we just wanted to know if there was anything wrong?"
"Everything's fine." Alex said a little too quickly, and Kurt placed a comforting hand on their son's shoulder.
"Honey, this is us, you can talk to us." He said soothingly and Alex relaxed a little, but still looked a little uncomfortable.
"Erm..." He tried, but closed his mouth.
"Is there something going on at school?" Blaine asked and Alex shook his head lightly.
"No...not really."
"Elaborate baby." Kurt gently prompted him, and Alex took a deep breath in.
"...How do you know when you're gay?" He asked timidly, and Kurt and Blaine both shared a surprised look.
"Oh." Kurt said, relaxing a little after the shock wore off, but Blaine started laughing.
"Oh my god!" He said loudly, as he clapped his son on the back, as both other occupants of the bed watched him curiously, "Thanks, Alex, I thought it was something to do with girls, oh man, this makes it so much easier!"
"Blaine!" Kurt said demandingly and Blaine looked at him with a smile before he dropped it and he coughed.
"Oh, right..."
Kurt shook his head at his husband, and then focused on his son again.
"Sweetheart, do you think you could be gay?" Kurt asked as he rubbed soothing circles over Alex's back, and Alex sighed as he leaned against his father.
"I don't know..." He said a little unsure, and Blaine placed a hand on his head, stroking his short hair lightly.
"Ok, well, do you think you may be attracted more to boys or girls?" Kurt asked in a prompting tone again, and Blaine looked up as he finished.
"Or both?" Blaine added and Kurt quickly nodded his head, and repeated, "Or both."
"Well...I don't think about girls, but I don't know...I guess I think more about boys, is that how you tell?" Alex said voice still sounding a little unsure and Kurt and Blaine just sat in silence, letting him tell in his own time.
"Well, honey, everyone is different, sometimes it comes to you straight away, but sometimes it takes time to figure out what you want." Kurt aid after a pause, and Blaine hummed in agreement, when Alex looked up at them both.
"How did you know that you were gay?" He asked and Kurt and Blaine looked at each other, before Kurt cleared his throat, now becoming a little uncomfortable.
"Oh well, that's easy." Kurt said with a small smile, and Alex sat up a little straighter to look up at him, "I actually had a crush on your Uncle Finn, way back when we were in high school, but it faded as we became brothers, and I realised I never looked at girls that way...like ever."
Alex nodded along with Kurt's explanation and then they both looked expectantly over to Blaine, who looked confused at first, before he stumbled over his explanation.
"Oh, erm...w-well when I was 14 I had a girlfriend, she was a really good friends of mine from middle school, but I realised after a little while that I didn't like kissing her, and I thought it was because I didn't love her," Blaine explained as Alex watched him, listening carefully, "But after I split up with her, I started having...feelings towards a few male friends of mine, and it hit me like lightning, that's why I couldn't kiss her, that's why I didn't love her, because I physically and emotionally couldn't."
"But it all happens in time, honey," Kurt added before Alex could say anything, and his son nodded, "Don't push yourself to do it...you know your Grandpa Burt, spoke to me once about feelings and sex and-"
"No, dad, no please!" Alex shouted as he sat back, covering his ears a little, "I don't need to have that talk yet, I don't think about that stuff yet."
Blaine and Kurt both shared an amused grin over Alex's head, before Kurt hushed him down.
"Oh, well...when you do, you know you can always come to talk your daddy and I, ok?" He said and Alex nodded and let out a breath of relief, when Kurt stood form the bed.
"Yeah, ok."
"So is that all?" Blaine asked before he stood, and Alex nodded.
"Yeah, that's all, I guess." He said with a small smile, "Thanks."
"You're welcome, honey," Kurt said as he leaned over to press a kiss onto his son's head, before stepping abck to allow Blaine to do the same, "Goodnight then."
"Night, dad." Alex responded, giving Kurt a big grin.
"Goodnight buddy." Blaine said back into the room as he closed the door.
"Night daddy." Came a whisper, as they moved away.
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2 months flew by, and before they knew it, it was time for the children to go back to school, Grace was starting kindergarten too, and Kurt was there to see her off, but also wanted to be present for Alex's first walk into high school.
His children were growing up fast, Hope was on his hip, gurgling away as she played with Kurt's hair, her fingers digging in and pulling roughly, until Kurt pulled her hands away and blew a raspberry on her cheek.
Blaine stood next to him, by the car, watching their eldest son blend into the crowd of teenagers, with his best friend Max by his side. As he got to the entrance, Alex turned and waved back to them, and they waved to him and Max as they both disappeared inside.
"Well, that's another one." Blaine said, and then wrapped an arm around Kurt as he noticed his husband becoming a little teary eyed, "Hey, it's ok."
"I know, it's just so hard." Kurt said as Hope turned to put her hands out for Blaine, and his husband took her from him, allowing him to wipe at his eyes.
"It will be hard with all of them." Blaine said as he rubbed a hand over Kurt's back, where they still stood long after the school had closed it's doors.
"Yeah." Kurt sighed as he leaned against him, and Blaine placed a kiss on his temple.
"Come on, let's go." He said as he turned to put Hope back in her seat in the car, and Kurt climbed back into his seat.
Kurt stared out of the window as they drove home, Blaine was worried about him. Kurt hadn't been himself, since he had been home, he had been close to it, but there was an underlying problem, that Blaine hadn't managed to get out of him yet. It worried him, Kurt seemed to be a little distant, and sometimes he would seem sad.
As they pulled up at home, Hope had fallen asleep in her seat, so Blaine took her in, and upstairs to nap, and as he came back down the stairs, he could hear quiet sobs from the lounge.
He walked in with a frown, to see Kurt trying to quiet himself, on the couch, crying.
"Kurt?" He asked gently as he sat next to him, and placed a hand on his back.
Kurt didn't look at him, just sat with his head in his hands, and Blaine gathered him in his arms, as he sobbed. Waiting patiently for Kurt to calm down until he could ask what was wrong.
"What's the matter?" Blaine murmured into his hair.
"Nothing I just...I-" Kurt paused and Blaine released him to take his hands, kissing over the knuckles on both.
"What?" He prompted and Kurt sighed before more tears streamed down his face.
"I just can't believe how close I was to missing all of this...all of it," Kurt explained as he wiped roughly at his wet face, "I was so close to giving up, I could feel it...the pull to go in the other direction, but I resisted it, I did. For you...and for the kids."
"And no-one will ever be more grateful for that than I am." Blaine said, as he clasped Kurt's hands harder, as he felt tears filling his own eyes, finally knowing what had been bugging Kurt for months.
"But I just...everything has been happening so fast, and I just-"
"I've wondered why you've been in your head so often...it's ok, Kurt." Blaine said as gathered Kurt back into his arms.
"I never want to be without you, Blaine," Kurt murmured quietly against his chest, "I love you...you don't understand how much."
"Kurt I-"
"No..." Kurt interrupted and flung himself over Blaine's lap, straddling his legs, and grasping Blaine's face between his hands, staring fiercely into his eyes, "Nobody has ever made me feel as important, as alive, as loved as you...my dad comes close, but even he doesn't understand connections between wolves, I just- I love you."
Blaine felt tears leak from his eyes, and Kurt removed his hands, to wrap them tightly around Blaine's neck, bringing them close together, as he sat there.
"I love you too." Blaine said determined, and pulled Kurt back a little to stare just as lovingly and fiercely into Kurt's eyes, which were still shimmering with tears, "Kurt, nobody in this whole world has made me this happy, nobody...at all. if I lost you, I think I would lose myself, and it terrifies me, but in a way it's ok," Kurt smiled at him, as he continued, "I love you fiercely, you are the love of my life. And we will go on forever."
Kurt choked out a sound that was between a breath of relief and a sob, as Blaine brought their lips together, pulling Kurt into his body with his arms clasped tightly around Kurt's waist. Kurt sighed happily into Blaine's mouth as their tongues tangled lazily together, both of them tasting each other's tears, as they sat for the rest of the day, just being close together.
Kurt would have missed this the most, his husband, his love, his mate...his best friend.