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CITC

Chapter I: The Strange Familiar

A.N.: As promised this is the sequel for the Ending Version 4 to my Story 'What Is And What Should Never Be' and since it plays in a kind of different reality it would probably be advisable to read that story first because I can't really tell how much sense this'll make otherwise…

Story Notes: This is bound to be interesting…I kinda like these two because they give me a lot of possibilities to try out and yeah…let's see where that gets us :D
I hope you'll enjoy :D

Disclaimer: I would own Glee, but I wasn't awesome enough to come up with the idea first…so now Ryan Murphy owns it and I think he does a great job with it…and yeah…I own the things that I made up for this story…nothing you recognize :D

Chapter Notes:

"…Courage is when you're in pain,

But you keep on living anyway

We all have excuses why

Living in fear something in us dies

Like a bird with broken wings

It's not how high he flies,

But the song he sings…"

Courage Is - The Strange Familiar

Carefully keeping his eyes on the other boy's face to determine whether he was ok with what he was about to do Blaine walked closer, pulled a chair next to Kurt's bed and took one of his hands, the one not hooked to an IV, into his.

"Hey." he said softly.

"Hey." the pale boy on the bed replied, voice hoarse.

When he looked into the eyes of the younger boy, Blaine was once gain struck by how beautiful and expressive they were. Kurt, or at least the Kurt he had known, had been perfectly good at hiding his emotions, but when you knew him well enough, his eyes would always give him away, with little looks, changes of their color, something like that. And at times when he wasn't on his guard, they barely burned with emotion.

Just like they did now. They spoke of confusion, hurt, fear, regret and many other things Blaine couldn't quite decipher.

"You…you re the one who saved me?" Kurt asked lowly, not dropping his gaze.

"Yes." Blaine replied firmly, not wanting there to be any doubt.

"Why?"

The question, and the vulnerability in Kurt's voice as he asked it, gave Blaine a feeling like he was being stabbed in the heart with a white hot knife. The sense of desperation and disbelief in the beautiful voice was almost too much for him to take. He hadn't expected for it to be this hard to meet a Kurt who didn't know him.

"Because someone as beautiful as you shouldn't have a reason to end his life like that." again Blaine poured a lot of emotion into the statement, needing it to be convincing.

Kurt laughed bitterly "Yeah right." He looked at their intertwined hands for a moment before looking up at Blaine again "I'm gay." he stated simply.

The brunette closed his eyes, as if waiting for Blaine to pull his hand away and run out, disgusted, but when Blaine didn't move his eyes opened again. Slowly, tentatively he met Blaine's gaze, returning it questioningly.

"So am I." Blaine replied softly. "But it doesn't matter. Or do you think less of me now because I'm gay?" he asked sincerely, determined to test the waters with this version of his lover.

"No." Kurt answered firmly. "And…thank you…I guess…for saving me."

Blaine shot him a blinding smile at that, a smile that Kurt couldn't help but return.

"How could I not have?" the raven whispered, more to himself than anything else.

"What?" Kurt asked, starting to seem increasingly drowsy.

"Nothing…nothing. Just thinking out loud. Look Kurt, I know you don't know me, and I know that none of this is making sense to you, and I can't explain it to you right now, even if I did you probably wouldn't believe me, but I need you to know that I care about you ok? I have to go now, I think your dad wants to talk to you, but, would you mind exchanging cellphone numbers?" Blaine knew he was going out on a limb here, but he had no other choice.

Burt had just showed up outside and seen that Kurt was awake. Blaine was sure that soon he would return with a bunch of doctors and Blaine would be asked to leave. The only thing that gave him hope was that this wouldn't be the first time him and Kurt would become friends at a rapid pace. After all they had already been texting nonstop after Kurt had been to Dalton for the first time.

He was still unbelievably relieved when Kurt handed him his phone so he could enter his number and Kurt did the same with his. Blaine shot him a grateful smile.

"Thank you." the raven said "look I want you to know that no matter what happens, you can text me, no matter what time of the day ok? Just hang in there. I will come back tomorrow after school and tell you what this is all about."

At the half amused, half confused expression on Kurt's face Blaine added quickly

"Only if you want me to of course I mean I wouldn't…"

"It's ok…" Kurt answered "I'd like that."

Blaine couldn't help but realize that the strength he had always admired about his boyfriend was still there, even after all this boy had been through. The sadness and desperation in his eyes wasn't gone, but there was something else underneath it now. The same thing that had been in Kurt's eyes when he had pushed Karofsky off of Blaine or when he had decided to go and get coronated at his prom.

Before either one of the boys could say anything else, two nurses and a tired looking doctor came in, followed by Burt. Blaine was pushed to the back of the room, from where he smiled at Kurt once more, waiting until he was dismissed with a nod and a weak smile, before he made his way outside.

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Although he had initially been pissed at the paramedics for not letting him ride in the ambulance with Kurt he was glad for his car being outside now. He got in slowly, driving home, a lot to think about as he drove the dark and empty road to his place.

He was so lost in thought, wondering how all of this could have possibly happened, that he didn't even notice his dad standing at the bottom of the stairs, looking at him as he made his way up to his room.

His father didn't say a word. He just looked at his son. His son who had just dropped, literally, she had ended up on the floor, his girlfriend earlier, running out of the house, his phone pressed to his ear. But the elder Anderson decided that he didn't care. Not as long as his boy stayed out of trouble and led his team to more victories.

When Blaine got into his room he started pacing, trying to decide on what to do now. After a while he pulled out his phone deciding that he would call Wes and David, tell them what he had found.

The two boys were sympathetic and listened to him patiently, showing Blaine once again how lucky he was that he could still count on them, alternate reality or not.

When David reminded him that he had a game the next day and that he would be cutting it close if he really intended to go and visit Kurt in the hospital, Blaine just shrugged it off, telling them that Kurt was more important now.

That led to some disbelief on their end, but not in a negative way. They talked for a while, with Blaine promising the two boys that he would try to keep them save and Wes and David promising him to help him with Kurt.

When the call ended Blaine smiled to himself, realizing that he was on the best way to get his two best friends back.

He went to his bathroom, getting himself ready for bed. When he returned there was a short moment of panic as he realized that he had tons of missed calls and a lot of text messages that had just arrived now for some reason, and he was worried that it had been Kurt.

When he realized that all of them were form his girlfriend he just sighed in exasperation. He listened to two of the voicemails and read like 10 of the texts before deleting them altogether because they all had the same basic message:

"Who the hell is Kurt? Where the hell did you go? How dare you treat me like this? Do you have any idea how many boys want me? I don't need you! Call me!"

Something along that line. Blaine was already pretty sure that the girl was a mix of Rachel's drama, Santana's deviousness, Quinn's control-freak behavior and Mercedes' diva attitude, without having any of their talent, charm, integrity or compassion. He wondered how he had gotten himself into that mess.

He turned off his light and went to lie down in his bed, playing with is phone, no intention of calling Sheila. He put it away, before picking it up again, installing 'Teenage Dream' as Kurt's ringtone. Or at least he had wanted to, but he couldn't find the song on his phone. In fact, as he checked through his music he mostly found stuff he had barely ever heard of.

There was still a lot of top 40, but hardly anything by a female artist, let alone Katy Perry. In fact, other than 'S&M' he had a hard time finding any. He figured that this was another step in his apparently very successful plan to seem straight.

"Fascinating." he muttered to himself, looking for a song to find one to put as Kurt's ringtone.

He settled on Jason Derulo's 'The Sky's The Limit' deciding that he would upgrade his music as soon as he got the chance. Since he had already decided that he'd rather have Kurt than popularity and all that stuff. Because, and he knew how stupid that sounded coming from a teenage boy, but love was more important that all those superficial things. And he knew that what he could have with Kurt was special and he wasn't going to screw that up.

Following a sudden intuition he typed a short text, just one word really and sent it to Kurt.

'Courage.' the word that had pretty much started everything they had.

Because if he hadn't told Kurt to have courage then Kurt would have never confronted Karofsky, Blaine would have never invited him for lunch, they would have never gotten as close, Kurt would have never enrolled at Dalton. Everything would have gone differently.

He didn't think that Kurt would reply. Cellphones and hospitals were not really a good combination, and the younger boy was most likely asleep, but Blaine like to think that, whenever the message arrived, it would put that beautiful smile on Kurt's face. That smile he had made his personal mission to be the cause of as often as possible.

That was why he almost fell out of his bed in shock when his phone buzzed in response.

'Hey there stranger. I had a long conversation with my dad today. I hadn't realized how much it would have hurt him if I had died. So thank you. I will try to have courage from now on.'- Kurt

Blaine smiled. That text was very Kurt, always trying to be strong for others. Of course the brunette couldn't know that yet, but he wouldn't have to be strong for Blaine. Blaine would be strong with him, for him.

'You don't have to be in this alone. I'm there for you.' Blaine replied.

A short while later his phone buzzed again.

'You know that this is a very weird thing to be writing to someone you only met a few hours ago.' – Kurt.

Seconds later another text:

'But thank you. I'd like that.' - Kurt

Blaine almost died of laughter at that. It was almost exactly what Kurt had texted him after he had told Blaine about what Karofsky had done and Blaine had told him that he would come over and help him, nevermind the two hour drive.

'Maybe. Maybe I'm crazy.' –Blaine

'I just tried to kill myself. Who am I to judge.' –Kurt

'Good to see you haven't lost your sense of humor.' – Blaine

As soon as Blaine had sent this message he froze. Now if Kurt thought that the first thing was weird, then how could he explain this? When his phone announced another message he almost dreaded to read it, not really wanting to know what Kurt thought of him now. He opened it anyways.

'You have a lot to explain when you come over tomorrow.' –Kurt

Blaine stared at his phone. He should have figured that this wouldn't throw off Kurt that easily, but he had just somehow assumed that the boy would be so much different form the way his boyfriend had been. But it kinda seemed to be the same as it was with everyone, not the people themselves had changed that much, but the circumstances, which had then led to them being different.

'Yeah about that…I have a game tomorrow so I won't be able to stay for long.' –Blaine

The raven really regretted having to tell Kurt this, but he couldn't blow his cover just yet.

'Soccer?' –Kurt

'Football.' –Blaine

This time it took a little longer for the younger boy to respond.

'Way to break the stereotype.' –Kurt

Blaine's heart fluttered in his chest as he read that. Definitely still Kurt. Just battered and bruised. But not broken. And Blaine would make sure that that wouldn't happen.

'Yeah…about that…' Blaine wondered if he should tell Kurt that he was pretending to be straight because his father was about as accepting and tolerant as the Antarctic was hot, but he decided against it, deleting the message.

';D' -Blaine

'You should go to sleep now. If you have a game and school and come to see me tomorrow you will need all of your strength ;P' - Kurt

Blaine was sure it shouldn't be this easy to fall back into his pattern with Kurt. He was sure that it should be a lot harder to communicate with him, to get along. But the easy friendship that they had had right from the start was still there and everything else was still possible.

'Yeah yeah, you should get some sleep too, wouldn't want to have you falling asleep when I tell you exactly how crazy I am. ;D' –Blaine

'It can't be that bad.' –Kurt

'I'll have you running from me in no time.'- Blaine

'Not gonna happen. You're the only friend I have right now.' –Kurt

Blaine's heart broke at the sadness in the message, but it also leapt with joy at the fact that Kurt considered him a friend.

'We'll see…bye…and remember: Courage.' – Blaine

'Don't worry I will. Sleep tight.' –Kurt

Blaine couldn't know that yet, but Kurt had also changed his standard ringtone to a personalized sound for Blaine. He had chosen the song 'Courage Is' by The Strange Familiar. Just because it felt right.

'You too.'- Blaine.

The raven knew that there had to be a hitch. He didn't know whether it would hit them tomorrow or in a week, he just knew that things couldn't go right for them like this. They never had. But if he was honest, as he drifted off to sleep, his phone next to his head on his pillow, he didn't care.

Because all he cared about right now, was that he still had a chance at happiness with Kurt, however small it may turn out to be.

Chapter End Notes: So…that's that :D This is the first story in a while that I finished before the sun came up again :D

I hope you liked it, and I would love to hear what you think, and to all of you who like the initial idea for 'What Is And What Should Never Be' kept encouraging me to go on and told me that they were excited for this, thank you so much, this wouldn't have happened without you *lessthan3*

If you are a bit of an angst addict, then don't worry, the next chapter will already start giving the boys problems, and if you're not then don't despair :D

Thank you so much for reading this, I will be updating in turn with my 2 other stories, depending on the feedback I get, but I hope that I'll be able to update soon and regularly :D

Until then, love

CITC