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Sebastian looked at his friends, sighing heavily. Sure, he had thought about calling Kurt to let him know about their visit but he had been too afraid that Kurt would run away from them again. Now that he looked at him and saw the fear in his eyes, he knew that it was a bad decision. Kurt was pregnant, surely emotional and the stress wasn't good for the baby. But it was something that had to be done. Kurt needed Blaine, whatever had happened that night when he had run away had to be discussed, so they could be happy again.
"Why don't we go inside?" Sebastian offered, gently pushing Blaine forward when Kurt nodded silently, hoping that his friend wouldn't do anything stupid to scare Kurt.
Blaine remained silent as they walked into the house, his eyes never leaving Kurt's baby bump. He didn't know how he felt, there were so many emotions whirling inside of him, happiness, relief, confusion, anger... He couldn't decide which one was the strongest. He was still in shock, that one was sure. He was barely aware of Sebastian gently guiding him to the couch or his supportive hand on Blaine's shoulder. It seemed like the world disappeared around them and only him and Kurt, Kurt who was still pregnant with his child, seemed to exist in this new dimension.
Kurt sat down across them, his wide eyes never meeting Blaine's. He put a hand onto his round stomach, gently rubbing it. Blaine watched the motion and when Kurt finally looked into his eyes, something inside of him snapped. Every emotion he had felt earlier disappeared and only the anger remained, anger he had never felt before.
"What's the explanation of this?" he hissed.
Kurt gulped nervously, pulling back slightly. The fact that he seemed to be scared of Blaine prooved that he knew that he had done something very wrong. It just angered Blaine more than before.
"How could you do this?" Blaine continued. "How could you leave me like that and lie to me? All this time, I thought that you killed our baby!"
"Blaine, calm down" Sebastian said quietly.
"I don't want to calm down!" Blaine shouted. "I want to hear his freaking explanation for this!"
While shouting into Sebastian's face, Blaine pointed at Kurt's baby bump again and when he was done with Sebastian, he stood up and walked to Kurt. The boy in front of him seemed so scared, as if he was afraid that Blaine would hit him. His fear wasn't completely irrational, Blaine most certainly felt like he could hit something, although it would never be Kurt. He still loved the boy and he was pregnant with his child, no matter how badly he had hurt him, Blaine would never hit him.
He crouched down in front of Kurt, feeling bad for shouting. Now that he took a better look of Kurt, he could finally see how badly Kurt looked. He was pale and had dark circles around his eyes, he surely hadn't had much sleep lately. And the fear in his eyes... Blaine never wanted to see him like this, not even in his hurt state.
"I'm sorry" Blaine said gently. "I didn't want to yell but... Damn, Kurt, you have to tell me why you did this. I believed for all these months that you left me and killed our baby. You left me without explaining things, only with a note. Do you know I felt when I got home that night, realising that you were gone? Do you know how scared I was when I couldn't get in touch with you? I wasn't even sure that you were alright."
Kurt didn't say a word. He kept his eyes on his hands around his stomach and Blaine wasn't sure if he heard him.
"You have to tell me what happened. I deserve to know" Blaine said, trying to be as calm as possible.
"I can't" Kurt choked out, pulling away from Blaine.
"Of course you can! Tell me!" Blaine said, his anger rising again.
"Blaine" Sebastian hissed quietly.
Blaine took a deep breath and when he opened his mouth again, he tried to keep his voice down.
"Is it something I did? Did you leave me because you felt lonely? Because if that's the case, I'm sure we can..."
"It wasn't because of you" Kurt cut in.
"Then why?" Blaine asked. "I certainly can't understand you. I thought that you loved me, I thought that we were fine..."
"We were" Kurt nodded.
"What did you want to do?" Blaine asked. "Give birth and never tell me about my child? Or... you planned to come back later? When my life was back to normal, you wanted to destroy everything again?"
Kurt only looked at him briefly but there was so much pain in his eyes, Blaine knew immediately that he didn't want to hurt him at all. No, Kurt planned to keep the baby on his own and never tell Blaine about it.
"Kurt, we know that something happened that night" Sebastian said, deciding that it was the best for all of them if he joined the conversation, as the only reasonable person in the room. "Did somebody force you to leave Blaine?"
Kurt's eyes widened and he started shaking, looking at the men in fear. Now that Sebastian mentioned it, it seemed like a good explanation. Yeah, Kurt didn't seem like someone who would fool with Blaine like that. Something serious must have happened and the boy's reaction just seemed to confirm Sebastian's thoughts.
"Kurt..."
"You have to leave" Kurt said suddenly and jumped up from his seat.
"Kurt, stop" Blaine said as he grabbed the boy's arm. "Look at me."
"No, no, I can't" Kurt said desperately, trying to free his arm from Blaine's grip.
"Is it true?" Blaine asked. "Somebody forced you leave that night, right? Who was it? What happened, Kurt?"
"I can't tell you!" Kurt cried. "I'm trying to protect you, don't you see?"
"Protect me?" Blaine frowned. "Protect me from what?"
Kurt shook his head, squeezing his eyes shut.
"Kurt, we can talk to the police" Blaine said. "We can find whoever did this but you have to tell me the truth."
"They will kill the baby" Kurt cried.
"I won't let it happen" Blaine said gently. He had no idea what horrible things Kurt had been through but he knew for sure that he would find the person responsible for this. Two months of his life had passed away living in constant fear and pain and all this because of some lunatic who wanted to destroy his life. He would find that guy and beat the crap out of him before making sure they never left jail in the rest of their life.
"Sit back down" Sebastian said and with Blaine's help, they led Kurt to the couch. "Do you need something? Water? Tea?"
Kurt shook his head.
"Alright" Blaine said, taking a deep breath. "Just go slowly, okay? We can stop whenever you need a break."
Kurt only nodded in response, preparing himself to talk about something that had kept him in constant fear for the last two months.
"Tell me about that night" Blaine said.
"Rachel and Santana came over to see me" Kurt started. "We had fun and they stayed there for the whole afternoon. When they left, it was already dark outside."
"What happened after that?" Blaine asked.
"I wanted to have a shower and make dinner but the doorbell rang again. I thought that it was one of the girls, that maybe they had left something" Kurt said, his breathing speeding up.
Blaine glanced at Sebastian briefly, not knowing if he was ready for the truth, even if he knew that he had to find out. He had to make things right.
"I-I opened the door... I didn't check who was outside, I never thought it was possible..." Kurt's voice turned into a broken sob and he couldn't continue.
"Who was it?" Blaine asked quietly, pulling Kurt into his arms to comfort him. The boy was crying so hard that Blaine was afraid that he would faint. He wanted to free Kurt of all of his fears but it was impossible without knowing what had happened that night.
"Two men" Kurt whispered. "They-they dragged me into the living room... God, I was never that scared in my whole life. One of them held a gun to my head and threatened to kill me if I didn't do what they told me."
"You should have told us" Sebastian said. "You should have told the police. Those men has to be found, Kurt!"
"I didn't have a choice!" Kurt said hysterically. "They would have hurt us. All of us! I had to defend my family."
"Even if it meant leaving me" Blaine nodded slowly. He was angry like hell, mostly at those assholes who had thought that they could tell them how to live their lives but he was somewhat angry with Kurt, too, for running away and not telling him everything. He could feel his fear, of course, but it still wasn't the best decision.
"They forced me to write that letter" Kurt cried. "They-they stayed with me until I left the house... to make sure I won't change my mind."
"Did you see their faces?" Sebastian asked.
"No" Kurt whispered. "They wore ski masks. I couldn't see anything."
"Did they tell you why they wanted you to leave?" Sebastian asked. Blaine was very glad for his presence because it seemed like Sebastian knew the perfect questions to ask from Kurt.
"I..." Kurt fell silent for a moment, thinking about that night. "They said that I wasn't good enough for Blaine. That I ruined his life and had to disappear."
Sebastian and Blaine looked at each other.
"Do you know anyone who didn't like you being with Kurt?" Sebastian asked from Blaine.
"About a few hundreds people?" Blaine asked back. "Maybe more. I would say every single homophobe who knew about us."
"We have to talk to the police" Sebastian sighed.
"No!" Kurt said with wide eyes.
"Kurt, this is serious" Blaine tried to reason. "We have to find those men and send them to jail, so we can be together again."
"We can't" Kurt said, looking so sad that it broke Blaine's heart. "Don't you see? Even if the police catches those guys who attacked me, there will be others. We will never be safe."
He took a shaky breath and looked down at his stomach.
"It broke my heart that I had to lie to you and leave you like that but that was the best I could do. I can see it now" Kurt said. "There would always be people who wouldn't accept us and I don't want to give them a chance to hurt our son. I have to protect him."
"Our son?" Blaine frowned.
Kurt smiled weakly as he grabbed a picture from the glass table.
"The doctor in New York was wrong" he explained.
Blaine forgot about everything for a minute as he looked down at the picture Kurt had handed him, completely lost in the sight. The baby had changed so much since he had last seen it. It was perfectly human looking now and yeah, there was no delusion: it was a little boy, even Blaine could see it. And he couldn't miss how much the baby reminded him on Kurt.
"Beautiful" Blaine muttered.
"Uhm... Blaine, I'm really happy for your baby's gender, too, although I don't really see why it is so important, we have a situation here, so if you could focus on it for a second..." Sebastian said as he took the picture from Blaine's hands, bringing him back to reality. "Why don't you two sit down privately and talk this through? It's been two months, I'm sure we can wait with the police a little longer."
"I already made my decision" Kurt said weakly, clearly not happy with his choice. "The baby's safety is the most important..."
"For me, too" Blaine interrupted. "I'm sorry, Kurt, but I can't let you do this. I know that you're scared but this is insane. You have to let me help you."
"Yeah. Just sit down in peace and talk about your concerns" Sebastian said and quickly walked to the door. "I saw a bar on our way here, I think I will look around in there. I won't be back for the next few hours, so you have all the time you need."
He hastily left the house, hoping that the boys could solve their problems without him being there. They couldn't be too stupid for that, right?
Kurt and Blaine kept staring at each other for minutes. They had so much to talk about and none of them knew where to start.
"So... it's a boy?" Blaine asked awkwardly. He thought that Kurt needed some more time to get prepared for the more serious part.
"You don't have to do this" Kurt said. "I'm not going back and it's final."
"Don't you think it's something we should discuss together?" Blaine asked.
"No" Kurt said stubbornly. "I'm staying here."
"Kurt, I know how scared you are..."
"Do you?" Kurt interrupted. "I thought that I would die! That both of us would die and I couldn't do anything! You have no idea how I felt."
"It must have been scary" Blaine nodded. "But I know that we can get through this. Together. Let me help you."
"I begged them to not hurt the baby" Kurt said and started crying again. "I was all alone and I thought that they would shoot me and-and I could have done nothing to stop them!"
"Hey, come here" Blaine said gently and pulled Kurt into his arms. It was so bad seeing Kurt like this and all he wanted was to go after those men and deal with them on his own. "We will find them, Kurt. We will make them pay for what they did to you. To us. Trust me, please."
"I was so scared..." Kurt cried.
"I know, honey. But it won't happen again. I won't let you out of my sight. I will be there with you and the baby and I won't let anyone hurt you" Blaine promised.
"I want to go back" Kurt admitted after a while. "I-I miss you so much, you have no idea."
"I think I do" Blaine smiled sadly. "I can't stop thinking about you. I even wrote a song for you."
"I know. I heard it" Kurt said.
"Did you?" Blaine asked.
"It's a beautiful song, Blaine. I love it" Kurt said honestly.
Blaine pulled back enough to look into Kurt's eyes. They were full of tears and they still seemed so sad but he could also see a glimpse of hope in them. He knew that he had a chance to make things right again. To get Kurt and their son back. So he reached up to touch Kurt's face gently and pulled the boy into a soft kiss, smiling when Kurt kissed back. After all these months they had spent apart, alone and scared, it felt like magic. Blaine wasn't sure if he could let go of Kurt ever again. It felt like a dream that he had this beautiful boy in his arms again and he was afraid of losing him again.
"I'm sure that the police will find those guys" Blaine said when he broke the kiss, pressing his forehead to Kurt's. "But until then... we will be careful. I moved out of the house after you left and I'm pretty sure that after what happened there, you don't want to move back. But we could sell that house and buy another one where nobody knows who we are. We wouldn't tell about it anyone except our best friends. We would be safe there. I can even hire you a bodyguard if it makes you feel more comfortable."
Kurt sighed and stepped away from Blaine to sit down onto the couch.
"Do you think that it would work?" he asked.
"If both of us want this, we can make it work" Blaine said without hesitation. He still believed in them and he would do everything in his power to show Kurt that he could keep him safe.
"And the baby would be safe?" Kurt ased quietly.
"I just told you. I have enough money for a place where we could all be safe. I'm willing to take every step just to ensure your safety. You and the baby are the most important people in my life, I would never let anyone hurt you" Blaine said. "God, you have no idea how horrible these months have been. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't work, I wouldn't have survived without Sebastian."
"He's a good guy" Kurt said.
"He is" Blaine nodded. "I wouldn't have found you without him. I have no idea how he did it but he somehow found out where you lived. And he brought me here."
"And almost give me a heart attack" Kurt smiled, stroking his baby bump.
"He was worried that you would run away again" Blaine said.
"And I would have done that" Kurt agreed. "Nobody knew about this. Not even my dad."
"You didn't tell him?" Blaine asked.
"No" Kurt shook his head. "I think he was waiting for me to tell him what happened."
"I guess I should be prepared for his rage" Blaine sighed. "If you want me to stay, of course."
Kurt looked at him for a long moment, considering what to do. He had missed Blaine so badly but he had thought that he hadn't had another option but to avoid the man. But now Blaine offered him a chance for a better future, where they could all be happy. He wanted it. He wanted Blaine and he wanted to be with him. He still loved him just like he had had when he had been forced to leave that night. Nothing had changed since then and he knew that it would stay that way, no matter who tried to keep them apart.
"I want to" Kurt said in the end.
"Are you coming back with me?" Blaine asked hopefully.
"I thought you were on tour" Kurt said.
"Oh, yeah. I totally forgot about that" Blaine said. "What about this: you give me time until the end of my tour, so I can get us a new house and then I come back for you and we move back to New York together?"
"I think I would love that" Kurt replied.
"Great!" Blaine smiled excitedly. "We have this, Kurt. We will make it together, I know we can."
"But we have to make sure the house is safe" Kurt said. "I couldn't bear going through this again. It was so hard..."
His voice broke again and Blaine immediately pulled him into his arms.
"Let's not think about it now, okay?" Blaine said and kissed Kurt's forehead. "It will be fine, Kurt. I promise."
Kurt nodded hesitantly. Blaine was desperate for another topic because he wanted to see Kurt smile again. His eyes landed on Kurt's baby bump and he reached out hesitantly, touching it for the first time.
"How does it feel?" Blaine asked.
"Amazing" Kurt answered. "He moves a lot and loves kicking my kidneys."
"It must be hard" Blaine grimanced.
"Yeah. I feel like a whale and it's getting harder with every day" Kurt said honestly. "But it's also wonderful. I can finally feel him and it finally seems real. I'm sure that we will love him, I can't wait to meet him."
"Just a few more months" Blaine smiled.
"The doctor said that he would come somewhat earlier" Kurt said. "He said that most carriers give birth around the 36th week."
"Huh, that's close" Blaine said in surprise.
"We have still enough time for everything" Kurt said. "If you're still so excited, I'm sure that we will have everything before the baby arrives."
"Believe me, once I get to my phone, I will start working on it. You don't have to worry at all, I will take care of everything" Blaine said.
"I know" Kurt said. He grimanced and pressed a hand to his stomach that immediately sent Blaine to full panic mode.
"What is it?" he asked in fear. "Is there something wrong? God, are you giving birth now? It's all my fault, right? All the stress..."
"I'm fine" Kurt said, pressing his index finger to Blaine's lips to silence him. "Give me your hand."
He took Blaine's hand and gently guided it to his baby bump. Blaine watched in confusion what Kurt was doing and for a few seconds, he couldn't feel anything, so he opened his mouth to talk again. But then, before a sound could leave his lips, he felt it. Right under his hand, he could feel a slight movement but it was soon followed by another, a lot stronger this time.
"The baby" Blaine said in amazement.
"I think he can hear you" Kurt smiled. "I talk about you a lot and we listen to your songs every day."
"Hey" Blaine said as he got up from the couch and knelt down in front of Kurt, gently pressing his palms to Kurt's baby bump. "Can you hear me, little boy? It's me, your dad."
He laughed and looked up at Kurt happily when the baby moved again.
"He knows who I am!" Blaine said.
"I think he does" Kurt nodded.
Blaine blinked to fight back his tears and leaned closer to Kurt's stomach again.
"I know that I was gone for a while but... I missed you, you know? You and your beautiful papa, too. But I will be here for you from now on. I will keep you safe and won't let anyone go close to you ever again" Blaine said.
He looked up at Kurt and got lost in his eyes so easily. Damn, he had missed this so much.
"I love you both" Blaine said.
"I love you, too" Kurt smiled down at him.
Blaine felt another strong kick and he laughed again.
"I guess he loves us, too" he said.
"He certainly does" Kurt nodded.
Blaine stayed at Kurt's feet for a little longer but in the end, he climbed back onto the couch to sit beside Kurt again. He pulled the boy into his arms and just kept looking at him, inhaling his sweet scent he had missed so much. After a while, as he looked at Kurt's face, he realised that Kurt had fallen asleep. No wonder he was exhausted, it must have been a hard few months for him. But it was finally over. Blaine was here again, he knew the truth and as he had promised, he wouldn't let Kurt or the baby get hurt again. He also promised himself, as he was sitting in the Hummels' living room, that he wouldn't stop until he found those men responsible for their unhappiness and make them pay, no matter what it costed. Noone could mess with him or his family, people had to understand that.
