A/N: stars the same day as the last chapter.
Blaine slips around a corner and listens intently, willing his beating heart to be quiet for a few seconds. No footsteps. He might have actually been able to lose David and his mothering and Wes with his remorseful gaze. Blaine was more exhausted by those two than the late night and the early classes this morning combined. Not that he had the brain power to focus in class anyway.
Blaine slipped into Kurt's room to find him already snuggled up on his bed looking thoroughly rumpled, and incomparably adorable.
Kurt blinked up at him through half closed eyelids.
"'Allo, babe." Kurt's voice reluctantly rumbles from Kurt's chest.
The 'babe' makes everything in Blaine's crummy day that much better. Blaine dropped his books on the floor and crawled into the blanket pile beside Kurt.
"Not being with you did nothing for my grades, you know, another reason why we should be together." Blaine laid his head on the pillow and a yawn forces its way up and out closing his eyes for him.
Blaine felt Kurt's head tentatively press against his chest and when Blaine just smiled the full weight of it rested against him.
"Are you sure it wasn't the drinking?" Kurt quipped; Blaine heard the laugh in his voice.
"That would explain today, but I was just as wrecked yesterday." Blaine opened one eye to look down at the back of Kurt's head "Kiss me?"
Kurt shifted, meeting Blaine's eyes and resting a hand on Blaine's stomach. Kurt sat up a little and pressed their lips together. Blaine let his eyes fall closed again. This kiss was everything warm and gentle; Blaine pressed back just as lightly and moved one of his hands to rest firmly on Kurt's lower back.
The hand Kurt rested on Blaine stomach twists itself in Blaine's shirt.
Blaine tested the give of Kurt's lips a little more as he pressed his own in deeper into the kiss. Kurt let out a sigh, echoing Blaine's contentment. Kurt let his body rest a little more onto Blaine, who wrapped a leg around Kurt's to keep him there.
Blaine's lips tingled as Kurt pulled away; the muscles in his stomach contracted and forced him up to steal a soft peck.
Kurt cuddled back into Blaine, tucking his head between Blaine's neck and shoulder.
"Are you tired?" Blaine questioned the warm boy on top of him.
"A little... aren't you?" Kurt pressed in closer and his arm snaked around Blaine's waist.
"Kind of." Blaine murmured into his hair noncommittally. "Is that Wavid?" Blaine reached over and picked up the bear. He had not had a good look at it last night. It was rather a cute thing and it seemed like Kurt had brushed its fur until its coat gleamed.
"Why... Yes. It is." Kurt moved away from Blaine to look indulgently at the bear. "He looks kind of... naked." Kurt sat up and took off his tie, putting it around the bear's neck. "Do you want to sleep with him tonight?"
"I want to sleep with you." Blaine blushed and looked more intently at the bear in his hands, which was dwarfed by the tie Kurt had put on him. He felt the heat rise in his cheeks "I mean. I got used to sleeping beside you." He snuck a glanced up at Kurt from under his lashes, he hoped that Kurt hadn't taken it the wrong way.
Kurt smiled passively. "Well, then, you're free to stay the night."
"Do you want me to stay? Or have you gotten used to sleeping on your own now?"
"Well, I just wasn't sure if you'd want to after... I'm always happy to have you sleep with me."
Blaine rubbed at his face with one hand. He hated all this careful manoeuvring something made even harder to figure out with his pounding head. "Stupid hangover." He groaned honestly.
"I'm surprised you're still functioning. You were trashed last night." Kurt shifted gears quickly, worry coloring his tone.
"Don't remind me. I only remember about half the things I did and said. I think it is out of a sense of self preservation more than anything." Blaine swallowed. He remembered flashes; the lights, Wes and David, bodies moving together with the beat.
He came out of his reverie to see Kurt biting his lip. Blaine knew Kurt only did this when he was concerned enough to forget his strict moisturizing regime for his lips.
"Hopefully Wes and David looked after you."
"Kurt, I woke up in a rosebush... I still have the thorn marks. That is Wes and David looking after me." Blaine felt the heavy amusement in his words.
Kurt's eyes widened. "A rosebush?" Kurt sat up fully and pulled Blaine's shirt up from the bottom, he trailed his hands over Blaine's sides, finding the bruises and scratch marks. "You should've stayed with me, Blaine." Kurt said fingers tracing a large mark on Blaine's rib cage.
"The rosebush was worth it, so that we could make-up this morning." Blaine reminded him.
"Idiot," Kurt chided. "We would've made up anyway."
Blaine felt his face break into a large, mischievous smile. "Well now I have you to tend to my wounds."
Kurt cast a disapproving look at Blaine from not taking this as seriously as Kurt deemed appropriate. "How could you have fallen asleep? You look so... I've never seen so much black and blue."
"Well. I didn't so much fall sleep as black out." Blaine admitted looking down at the flesh Kurt's wandering fingers had revealed. He had to admit it did look bad, much worse than it felt at any rate. "I'm pretty sure that some of those were from the mosh pit last night."
"How could Wes and David take you drinking?" Kurt snapped.
"I wasn't thinking straight. My defences were down."Blaine tried not to remember why he had been that sad. Sad enough not to question the drinks that Wes and David had given him.
"I'm not mad at you, Blaine. Just them. You could've gotten hurt... or worse!" Blaine could hear the impending sob at the end of Kurt's sentence.
"What's worse than me getting hurt?" Blaine prodded Kurt's worries gently.
"You'd find something worse." Kurt said after a pause with finality. Kurt's thumb ran over a particularly nasty looking bruise on Blaine, making Blaine wince.
"That's me I'm trouble." He tried to feebly lighten the mood.
Kurt repentantly pulled Blaine shirt back down and pulled his hands away. "I hope nothing else happened."
"You are going to have to be more specific. Lots of things happened." Blaine pushed. He wanted Kurt to say it.
"Nothing too bad, I mean. I just worry about you." Kurt evaded.
"I do remember Wes being hit on by this one guy, David got really possessive." Blaine offered to let Kurt off the hook.
It seemed to work and some of the darkness was wiped from Kurt's face as he imagined David's reaction. "Oh. Those two. When are they going to admit they are practically dating?"
"I don't know." Blaine pulled Kurt back into his arms, silently apologizing for not remembering something to put Kurt's fears to rest. "I think it is amusing to watch, and they do really love their girlfriends."
"They do." Kurt stiffened; Blaine could feel as he looked at Blaine's neck.
Blaine let him go. "I should get up and change into something more comfortable."
Kurt scooted away, looking at the floor. "Go change." He commanded. Blaine got off the bed and crossed the room, gathering his book bag as he went. He knew Kurt was struggling with something, but couldn't figure out what it was.
"Meet me in my room later?" Blaine asked. Pausing at the door.
"After I get some work done, okay?" Kurt smiled up at him sadly.
Blaine blew Kurt a kiss. "Ok. Bring Wavid." He closed the door behind him and padded sadly to his room, pulling out an assigned book to read while he waited for Kurt to come back to him.
Blaine had let his mind wander, thinking about the protagonist's plight. He adjusted his glasses on the face and shifted to find a more comfortable position, adjusting his pyjama pants accordingly.
A soft knock pulls him back to the real world; he realizes that he had been dozing with the book he was supposed to be reading resting on his chest. Kurt walked into his room, holding Wavid careful.
Blaine blinked. "What did you dress Wavid in?"
"It's our uniform. Isn't it obvious?" Kurt plucked at the hand sown blazer nervously. Blaine could tell Kurt had put a lot of effort into replicating the outfit perfectly.
"That is so perfect. I love it." Blaine sat up and placed his book on the side table.
"How's the book coming along?" Kurt asked, placing Wavid on the desk facing Blaine.
"Ok, I have to have it read it for next Monday. Did you get all your work done?" Blaine patted the space beside him which Kurt took gingerly.
"Yeah."
"Are we ok? You seem distant."
"I'm fine. Just tired." The smile on Kurt's voice is belied by the quiver in his voice.
" What time is it?" Blaine leans around Kurt trying to see his alarm clock.
"Eightish." Kurt didn't even look up from his clasped hands.
"Would it be really sad for us to go to bed this early?" Blaine wondered aloud. "And more importantly does Wavid have pyjamas?"
"I can make them for him." Kurt offered demurely.
"And he will be the best dressed bear." Blaine said mock seriously.
That got a small laugh out of Kurt. "But he'll have to go without them tonight. I'm too tired to make them." Kurt made himself comfortable, lying back into Blaine's pillows.
"That is ok. I encourage nakedness in my bed." Blaine exaggerated the wink and turn to lie on his side beside Kurt.
Kurt rolled his eyes at Blaine's cheesy gesture. "Don't I know..."
"What don't you know?" Blaine put his hand on Kurt's.
"I know everything." Kurt stuck his tongue out maturely.
"Like what do you know?" Blaine caressed his cheek.
"Oh... things." Kurt looked up into Blaine's eyes. Blaine could see some pain settled in those sharp blue eyes.
Blaine looked away and swallowed. "Do you know all the things that I can't remember from last night?"
"Some of it, yeah." Kurt reached up this time and brushed his fingers along a spot on Blaine's neck. "Like that there are hickeys here that I'm sure I didn't give you."
The words hit Blaine in the chest. A flash of another guy against him over takes him, a guy kissing him on the dance floor.
Blaine felt a stinging in his eyes. He closed them against the rush of water. "I... I'm sorry Kurt."
Kurt sighed and sat up back to Blaine. "Hey. We were broken up. You were free to do whatever you wanted." He voice was strained and Blaine wanted to wrap his arms around him again.
Blaine put a hand on his back. He could feel Kurt stiffen at the touch. "I was stupid and I shouldn't have gone out and I'm sorry. It's no excuse. I can't even remember what happened exactly." Blaine leaned over trying to get a look at Kurt's face.
Kurt turned his head away from the scrutiny of Blaine's gaze. "It is fine, Blaine. You didn't cheat." Not that could heal the pain in Kurt's hunched figure.
"No. It is not fine. Kurt, tell me what I can do to make this hurt less."
"You didn't do anything wrong, Blaine. Stop." Kurt's voice shook as he brushed Blaine off and got up from the bed.
"I don't like to see you like this."
"Did you sleep with any of them?" Kurt turned and looked him at Blaine, naked emotion laid on his face. "Do you... feel like you did, anyway...?"
"NO, I know I didn't. Wes and David left me for a while on the dance floor, but it was only for a little while." Blaine knew that Wes and David had pulled him away from many men that night, and dragged him home when Blaine would have kept parting.
"Good. I didn't know if I would be able to handle that right now." Kurt seemed to settle down a bit. He was reassured that Blaine hadn't done more than kiss another man.
"Please come here." Blaine begged, holding out his arms. They had just made everything alright again.
"Blaine." Kurt whined, putting more distance between them. He shook his head. "Not right now."
Blaine collapsed in on himself, holding his knees to his chest. "I'm sorry." He repeated. Kurt didn't know how sorry Blaine was. He couldn't if he did, he wouldn't be hurting Blaine like this again.
"It is okay, Blaine. But if you don't mind, maybe I should sleep alone." Kurt turn and walked to the door.
"If... if that's what you want." Blaine hid his face in his knees as he heard Kurt leave.
"Night." Kurt whispers on the other side of the closed door.
A/N: this was my birthday gift to myself. :P I am so excited for Glee tonight! GAHHHHHHHHHHHH. I am going a little crazy, but thats ok. Only a little while left!
And as a note my beta hasn't had a crack at this yet... so i will get that done soon. i just wanted to post it today.