Blaine smiled and picked up some of his tools, starting the exam. Kurt noticed some scraping but he did not feel anything that was bad in any way.
"I test something now. It might not be to comfortable but I need this to see what has to be done, right?", Blaine smiled at Kurt, whom was not all to comfortable. "The pain is a lot less bad than what you are feeling now, okay?" Blaine smiled again.
Kurt hesitated. He knew that it had to be done, but the fear was greater than any pain. A tear was coming out of his eye. He swiped it away, but in the process of doing that more and more tears were rolling.
"Hushhh...", Blaine said taking Kurt's hand. "It is okay. Fear is something that you don't have in control. You are allowed to be afraid of what I am doing", Blaine paused. Kurt calmed down a little. "Just breath. That helps a lot, believe me!"
Kurt tried to breath slowly. His leg was jittery, but he got better.
Blaine smiled and gave Kurt a kiss on his forehead. "I love you, Kurt. And when this is done, you are probably going to laugh about it. So, may I continue?"
Kurt nodded. "I love you, too Blaine."
Blaine smiled and picked up a tool. "This is shooting out cold air. I will stop a few times and ask you how it felt. Please tell me, truthfully-", he paused and Kurt replied with a slightly lifted up corner of his mouth, "how it felt, okay?"
"Yes, I think I get it...", Kurt said, his voice was broken.
"Fab! I will start now, open wide...", Blaine smiled and Kurt did what he was asked to do.
Kurt was sweating. He was very nervous, but he knew that he was in good hands.
"Okay, Kurt. Tell me, do you feel that?", Blaine asked and pressed a button. Kurt felt something cold. Blaine took out the tool.
"Yes, it felt cold, but it did not really hurt.", Kurt said trembling of fear.
"That is good news. I test this on two more teeth now, okay?", Blaine was holding Kurt's hand. Kurt knew that Blaine would not do anything that was not necessary. He nodded slowly.
"Lean back again, then.", Blaine grabbed the tool again. Kurt opened his mouth and the situation recreated.
"That felt the same.", Kurt said a little less fearful.
"Good, one last time now.", Blaine said and he started again. "How was that?", he asked.
"Have you done it?", Kurt asked confused.
Blaine nodded.
"I did not feel that.", Kurt's voice got higher. If Blaine thought feeling the cold was good news what could that mean?
"Okay... I will test once again, all right?", Blaine asked and Kurt shook his head. "Please?", Blaine paused but Kurt would not answer. "Kurt, this is just a test... I can get a better picture of what needs to be done here... Let me do it, please."
"But I thought I just need a filling... Last time I got one they did not do this...", Kurt was getting out of the chair moving away from Blaine.
"Kurt, I just want to make sure everything is okay. I know it scares you, but the better I know what is going on, the easier it is to treat you... Please sit down again. I just want to make sure you really don't feel that.", Blaine looked helpless. Kurt knew he would have to do this. Not for him, but for Blaine. Blaine would not let him go anyways. He sat back into the chair holding Blaine's hand.
"You need to do this?", he asked slowly.
"Yes Kurt, just to make sure. Then I take the X-ray.", Blaine had a sparkle in his eye.
"Okay...", Kurt nodded and leaned back. "Do it then..."
Blaine performed the test on him again and Kurt did not feel it either. "Did you feel anything from it?", Blaine asked again.
"No...", Kurt said.
"Okay then. Let's take the panoramic X-ray.", Blaine said and got up. Kurt hesitated. Blaine would be able to find anything that was wrong from that X-ray. What if there were any more cavities? What if he got his wisdom teeth and they had to be extracted?
"Kurt Hummel-Anderson... This needs to be addressed. You are a grown man, old enough to do so much, but you cannot undergo such an important thing, that does not even hurt?", Blaine tried to convince Kurt from a different way now.
Kurt smiled slightly. It seemed to work. Blaine was happy about that, even though he knew that everything was meaningless if his suspicion was proved by the X-ray. If Kurt knew what was needed to be done every effort Blaine could bring up was not enough to persuade him.
They got to the X-ray room and Blaine stopped to open the door. "I will set you up in there and once I'm done I will leave the room for a few seconds. Then we can continue with the cleaning and we will see what information I get from the X-ray afterwards."
They both went into the room and Blaine showed Kurt how to rest his chin on the machine. "Okay, I go out and you stay still. When it is done I come in and you can move again, fine? The thing will move around your head, but you probably know that...", Blaine asked looking at Kurt
"Okay...", Kurt said and Blaine closed the door.
"It is done", Blaine said coming back into the room. Kurt seemed relieved to leave the X-ray room. "Are you okay?"
Kurt looked at him. "Not really. I have not been so scared in years. I really don't want to do this. But I am so lucky that I don't have to do this with anyone but you..."
Blaine kissed him and he felt a hot tear rolling from Kurt's face, onto his. "I know. This is really hard and I am so proud of you! You are doing just fine. Don't feel bad." Blaine had had some scared patients before, but Kurt was probably the most afraid. Most anxious people would not go to a dental school, because they were afraid that the less experienced students would not work as well as the dentists that were doing this for a longer time slot. But really they knew how to work with the newest technics and were practicing all different scenarios. "I got this. We are now doing the easiest part, okay?", Kurt nodded. "The cleaning."
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