"Kurt?" he asked, squinting at the sunlight streaming through the windows, Kurt just stared at him for a moment before remembering he had to say something back.

"Oh, yeah, hi." He said dumbly, and something seemed to register in Blaine's eyes.

"It's your birthday!" he gasped "oh my god. This is awful, we were supposed to have a party, I bought you sweaters!" Kurt was taken aback

"Blaine! Calm down." He ordered, reaching out to grasp Blaine's good hand. "You can't seriously be worrying about my birthday right now." He stared at the other boy.

"But…you shouldn't be here on your birthday." He said lamely

"Blaine, I want to be here, and I will be here every single day until you're better. All that matters right now is you."

"Happy Birthday." Blaine whispered, Kurt squeezed his hand

"Thank you."

"Blaine?" Kurt asked as they sat in silence

"hmm?"

"Do you know who did this?" Kurt asked softly

"No." Blaine lied, he didn't actually know why he did it, but he couldn't bring himself to admit that the same people had brought him down twice in his life. That he wasn't even strong enough to prevent it.

"You didn't deserve it." Kurt said

"None of us do." He sighed, and then yawned.

"Sleep," Kurt suggested, and so Blaine closed his eyes

"Stay right here?" he asked Kurt, who smiled slightly at his request

"I will. I swear." He promised and grasped Blaine's hand tighter.

Katie re-entered the Hospital room, along with a nervous looking Finn, Carole, and Burt.

"Hi!" she said cheerily, and went over to hug Kurt around the shoulders. Carole, Burt, and Finn stepped further into the room. Katie released Kurt and ruffled Blaine's hair, causing him to flinch and wake up.

"Hey baby," Katie crooned "got some people here to see you." Blaine blinked, and brought his good hand up to rub at his eyes. He looked over to Kurt's family, and lightly tried to remove his hand from Kurt's, who held on tight. Blaine looked over at him, silently asking 'is this okay?', Kurt just smiled. Carole came over to his bedside first

"Oh, I'm so sorry, sweetheart" she said, putting a hand on Blaine's cheek.

"Me too," Blaine said

"We're here for you, kid" Burt said with a tight smile

"Thank you," Blaine answered. Finn just looked sick. Just then, Mary and James walked into the room, Carole instantly hugged Mary and Burt began to talk to James. That left Finn, Kurt, Blaine, and Katie to sit in awkward silence.

Mary walked over to her son and pushed back his hair

"How do you feel?" she asked

"Alright." He said "I mean…as good as can be expected." He amended at the disbelieving look his mother gave him.

"Do you want me to stay with you?" she asked

"It's okay…Kurt's here with me." Blaine said, and Kurt's heart gave a little jump "you guys don't have to stay here all day." Mary glanced quickly at Kurt.

"Are you sure?" she asked Blaine

"It's fine, Mrs. Anderson, I can stay with him if you have things to do." Kurt answered for him

"Like work." Blaine offered "Both you and dad have work, remember?" his mother waved the comment away

"Work can wait, baby. But, if you're sure…"

"Go, mom. I know you'll be back later." She kissed his forehead and called James over.

"Feel better, son." He said and put a hand on Blaine's shoulder, turned and began to walk out of the room, Mary following.

"Oh! Wait!" she said and dug into the bag she had around her shoulder. She took out two speakers and an IPod. She plugged the speakers into the wall and the IPod into the speakers. "I brought you some music…thought it would make you feel better."

"Thanks, mom" Blaine said softly, Mary waved goodbye to her son as they left the room, followed by Burt and Carole. Blaine flipped through his IPod until he found the playlist he wanted, so Finn, Kurt and Katie sat listening to his music until he fell asleep.

"I swear, he can't keep his eyes open for more than 20 minutes." Katie whispered, Kurt glanced away from Blaine for a moment to answer

"He's healing, what do you want from him?" he said "it takes a lot out of you."

"Well, I'm starving, and Kurt, you didn't even eat breakfast, I think Blaine will be fine without you for five minutes while we go get some food." Finn said

"I second that" Katie agreed, Kurt sighed

"Fine, but you're buying me lunch." He said to Finn, who readily agreed.

As they sat eating their sandwiches, Finn casually asked

"Dude, do you like Blaine?" Kurt tried not to choke on his turkey as Katie answered

"Of course he does, have you seen the way he looks at him?"

"Uhm, I'm right here" Kurt said, Katie looked at him

"And you got the hots for my brother." Kurt's cheeks flamed

"We're friends, of course I care about him," he cleared his throat "that, however, does not mean that I'm 'hot for him'."

"But you are." Finn teased, Kurt sighed and dropped his face into his hands

"Let's not tell the extremely injured boy that right now, it couldn't be good for his health."

(AUTHORS NOTE: Alright! Things are picking up! BUT I kind of have this thing where I actually like putting a lot on my plate and doing a couple things at once SOO, I wanted to ask you Klaine fans out there if any of you would be willing to collaborate on another fic with me? Pretty pretty please? I'd love to share ideas with anyone out there who wants to try, PM me if you're interested, I'd love to hear from you!)