So this is now four chapters rather than two but here are the final two parts. Hope you enjoy them. Thanks so much for the wonderful reviews. Appreciated as always.

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Blaine was first to open his eyes the next morning. After smiling down at a sleeping Kurt for a few minutes, he looked around the room, eyes immediately drawn to the stockings hanging from the bookcase.

He gave Kurt a quick shake. "Kurt, wake up."

"Huh"

Kurt who wasn't quite awake, attempted to turn over and go back to sleep, but Blaine wasn't going to let up and he shook him again as he chuckled.

"Santa's been Kurt! Look."

Now he had Kurt's attention. Kurt looked over to what Blaine was pointing at bemused. When he spotted the stockings, he stared open mouthed.

"Kurt aww that's so sweet. " He poked Kurt in the ribs with his fingers.

"Hey, don't look at me. I don't know anything about it."

"Hmm of course you don't. I'm surprised you didn't wake me up when you moved."

"No seriously Blaine, it wasn't me." Kurt was confused now and not just because he'd been asleep just a few moments earlier.

Blaine saw Kurt's confused face, but just figured Kurt was teasing him. Shrugging, he went over and pulled down the stockings, carrying them back to the bed, where he sat cross-legged next to Kurt.

Kurt grabbed the stockings and stared at them. Each was labelled with their names. He knew that Blaine didn't believe him, but he honestly had no idea where the stockings had come from.

"Come on Kurt, let's open" said a rather excitable Blaine. He immediately started opening the handful of gifts within the stocking.

Kurt looked back to his and it was then that he spotted the message – 'To Kurt. Merry Christmas. Love Santa.' Now it all became clear. Santa's handwriting looked remarkably like Carole's.

Kurt hesitated for a moment before he started opening his gifts, just watching Blaine's face as he opened first an Adele CD and then a new case for his iPhone. Kurt would have given up all of his presents to see this.

Blaine hadn't said much more about Christmas at home, but no matter how much he tried to hide it, Kurt could see how much it hurt.

As he smiled at Blaine, he started to unwrap his own gifts. When both boys were finished, Blaine grabbed Kurt in a tight hug.

"These presents are awesome. Thank you."

Kurt returned the hug and reached up to ruffle Blaine's curls.

"Don't thank me. Thank Santa. I wouldn't have wrapped gifts up for myself would I?"

Blaine pulled away looking puzzled, but he didn't have time to ask anything else before there was a knock at the door and Finn came in.

"Ho ho ho and a Merry Christmas."

"Morning Finn"

"Hey. Mom told me to come and call you. Breakfast is nearly ready. You better hurry up."

"Got it"

Kurt gave a quick salute.

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When they entered the kitchen and said their good mornings to Burt and Carole, Blaine took a seat next to Finn and started filling his plate with French toast as he chatted with him about his Christmas plans with Rachel.

Kurt went up to Carole and Burt at the cooker. Wrapping Carole in a hug, Kurt whispered a thank you in her ear.

"You're welcome sweetie. I think we are going to have a fabulous day."

Kurt's face lit up. "You're staying in?"

"Of course. We've cleared our schedules, the turkey is ready to go. Christmas part one starts now."

Kurt could feel himself getting choked up. He had his plan, but he hadn't expected everyone else to get involved.

Kurt hugged Carole again, followed by Burt. "Thank you. Thank you so much."

Burt responded in his usual gruff manor. "Anyone who can put a smile back on your face deserves the best that Christmas has to offer kiddo."

Carole squeezed Kurt's arm, before moving to serve up the rest of breakfast. Kurt turned back to Burt and finally took in the Santa had that Burt was wearing. He smirked.

"Carole made you wear that huh?"

"Yep"

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When breakfast was finished and the dishes cleared away Kurt, Blaine and Finn moved to the living room.

Carole and Burt followed in with Burt clearing his throat. "Right, who is ready for some presents?"

Finn's head whipped around to face Burt, his eyes wide. "Seriously? We can open them now."

Carole laughed. It didn't matter how old Finn got, he was still exactly the same as when he was five. "Everyone gets to open two presents. Everything else has to wait until tomorrow."

Blaine laughed at Finn's excitement. He'd had his presents already this morning but he was quite excited to see what everyone else had got.

As Carole handed out the gifts from under the tree though, Blaine hurriedly left the room. Kurt and Burt looked at each other, both concerned, but relaxed when he emerged two minutes later with a smile on his face and a bag in his hand.

Reaching into the bag, he handed over gifts to Carole, Burt and Finn. Blushing, he smiled sheepishly. "It's not much, but these are for you."

"Oh sweetie, you didn't need to get us anything."

"Thanks Dude"

Blaine shrugged shyly before taking a seat next to Kurt on the sofa. Kurt squeezed his hand and planted a kiss on his cheek. "That was really sweet, you know."

"It's okay. I wanted to." Smiling at Kurt and squeezing his hand, he whispered to him "I thought I'd save your present for later. When it's just the two of us."

The moment was broken as Carole dropped two presents onto Blaine's lap. "These are yours Blaine." Blaine muttered thanks before staring open mouthed at the presents. He hadn't expected anything.

When all of the presents had been handed out, everyone started tearing off the paper and digging in.

Kurt let out a series of squeals when he unwrapped a Marc Jacobs scarf. "How did you know that this was the one I wanted?"

Burt grunted in return as Kurt immediately put it on. "Oh I don't know. You might have mentioned it once or twice."

Blaine looked around the room. Finn was admiring a new football, Carole was trying on some earrings from Burt and Burt was flicking through a book about the Buckeyes. Everyone looked so relaxed and happy. It was such a contrast to how Christmas normally was at home. He wanted to savour every moment.

Glancing back to the gifts in his lap, Blaine opened the first of them, which the gift label said was from Finn. Inside was a DVD. Blaine smiled as he picked it up. It was 'Fight Club'. He looked up and caught Finn smirking over at him, both of them aware of the significance of the present. Kurt on the other hand who wasn't, reached over Blaine, picked up the DVD and looked at Finn as if he was insane.

The second gift was from Burt and Carole. Inside was a shimmery purple bow tie. Grinning widely he picked it and immediately began to put it on. He loved it. It was very him.

Carole looked over. "I hope you like it. I know purple is your favourite colour."

"It's perfect. Thank you." Blaine, Burt and Carole exchanged smiles. He'd heard the snickers at some of his bow ties from the New Directions. He had had more than a few conversations with his parents about choosing clothes that would make him blend in more. But in one gift Carole and Burt had shown him that they knew what would make him happy and that they accepted his quirky dress sense because it was part of him.

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When all of the gifts were unwrapped and there was paper across the floor, everyone compared gifts. Carole brought in some drinks and Burt brought out the traditional Hummel Christmas Day game – Trivial Pursuit.

Splitting into teams of Kurt and Blaine, Carole and Finn and Burt playing on his own, the game was a mixture of eye rolling from Kurt, wide-eyed confusion from Finn and competitive pride from Burt. They all laughed through some of the sillier answers, half-heartedly objected at the cheating and groaned as Kurt was given a Barbara Streisand question to win the final piece of cheese.

Once they were finished, everyone moved to the kitchen to put the final touches on dinner before they sat down to a full and delicious Christmas meal.

After dinner had been polished off, the boys washed the dishes, as they sang along to Christmas tunes on the radio. Then Finn went upstairs to call Rachel and Kurt and Blaine went to join Burt and Carole in the living room to watch 'It's A Wonderful Life'. Snuggling up on the sofa, Kurt rested his head on Blaine's shoulder and let out a contented sigh as Blaine leant over and placed a tender kiss on his forehead.

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By the time the film ended, Blaine and Carole were the only ones still awake to see the credits roll.

Carole turned away from the TV and towards Blaine. "I love that film. It's such a Christmas classic."

Blaine smiled back. "Me too. It doesn't seem like Christmas without watching it."

"Well obviously these two don't feel the same" she said as she surveyed a sleeping Kurt and Burt.

Blaine laughed and as his chest vibrated, Kurt reacted by snuggling closer.

"How are you doing sweetie? Having fun?"

Blaine was a little taken back at the question and the concern evident on Carole's face. He'd always got on very well with Carole, but he'd also thought he was just Kurt's boyfriend, like Rachel was Finn's girlfriend.

"I'm good. I've loved every minute. You have such a wonderful family Carole. Kurt's very lucky."

"Are you going to be okay tomorrow? I know you said to Kurt that you had to stay at home, but you're welcome here anytime you know. We love having you here."

"I'll be fine, but thank you. They're not horrible parents you know, they just... I'm not quite what they hoped for."

Carole didn't look like she quite agreed with horrible parents comment, but she let it go. "Blaine hon, hopefully your parents will come to realise how lucky they are to have you and how special you are. I've seen you up on stage. You're really talented. It doesn't matter if you're not on the football team, you've got something much more special."

Blaine could feel tears forming in his eyes, but he was determined not to cry.

"You and Burt have been so kind to me. I..I ...I like it here." He paused. Not sure if he should say what he wanted to. "I kind of feel like I belong somewhere."

Now Carole had moist eyes. "Oh sweetie. You belong. We wouldn't have had two Christmases for anyone else. I care about Rachel a great deal, but it's different with you. Finn understands that. You've given Kurt back to all of us and you spend so much time here, we miss you when you're not."

A single tear escaped Blaine's eye and he furiously scrubbed it away from his face.

Carole smiled at him and went over to the couch. Grabbing both sides of Blaine's face between her hands, she planted a kiss on Blaine's curls.

"Merry Christmas sweetie"

Blaine looked up, lip wobbling slightly, but smiling.

"Now as an official member of the family, do you think you could give me a hand with making some sandwiches for later?"

"It would be my pleasure"

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One more chapter to go, which is also now live.