A/N - I AM SO SO SORRY! I literally am..I totally didn't mean to be gone for this long..i wanted this chapter up by the 1st Sept but it wasnt even finished by then so that plan failed :( i just got so busy in the last couple of weeks before college - most of which involved me spending like a whole week writing my Performing Arts essay which ended up being like 3000+ words only to then be called by my teacher the day after I finally finished it to tell me he has to cancel the course this year - week of my life WASTED and now i've had to go back to a subject I HATE just so I can still leave college with 3 a levels - I've had a bad week :L

So I am back at college now - fun times :| so I wish I could say I'll be better with my updates - I will try(a) but I'm really not making any promises :( I hadn't even been back 2 hours - yes, 2 hours :L before they'd already given me an essay to write on the biological explanations of Schizophrenia - like I care what they are :| but this story WILL NOT be abandoned..i've got so many plans for it :) I can just be sitting somewhere and a thought will come into my head for this story and I have to write it down before I forget and then I get really excited about writing it...I already wrote a rough guide of a scene I want to happen in chapter 9 - see I've planned that far ahead :L ;)

I wish I could say to you guys "This chapter is amazing! Best thing I've ever wrote - totally worth the wait" but im not gonna :L personally I'm a little disappointed with it and found it quite hard to write but it's what you guys think that matters to me at the end of the day :)
So I hope you enjoy it :)
Btw - have you guys read any spoilers for the new series ;D oh my goshh it gets me so excited xD 10 dayss ;D
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Nothing had changed at the Hummel-Hudson house - the colour on the walls were still painted a calming, light blue, the sofa's resided in their rightful places, the pictures on the mantle hadn't changed nor had the frames moved an inch, the 'Vogue' magazine Kurt had been causally reading the morning before his second appointment still lay open at the page he'd been reading on the coffee table in the middle of the room. Nothing had changed, yet everything was so, so different.

Despite being surrounded by the several familiar faces, everything to Finn was a blur. He felt like he was having an out of body experience - he could hardly remember actually managing to leave the hospital! As he sat forward in his chair, elbows pressed firmly into his kneecaps as he rested his thought laden head in his hands, he stared aimlessly at the floor beneath him, searching furiously for an appropriate way to begin a conversation that was surely going to affect the lives of the 16 people around him, all sitting impatiently in various spaces around the living room. Maybe he should have took Blaine up on his offer of doing this together - for moral support. How could he even begin to tell all of his closest friends that Kurt, their friend, his friend, his brother, had cancer. How could he even begin to tell them that there was now a possibility that Kurt could die. How could he even begin a conversation like that? How does anyone begin a conversation like that? As he struggled to find the right words to say, he was completely oblivious to the various collection of words spilling from the mouths of the people around the room.

"I'd just like to say that it's a good thing we've graduated because if we were still in school, I would refuse to be sitting in the same room as the competition."

Quinn exasperated loudly as she rolled her eyes. Of course Rachel would say something like that - she never failed to do so before. "Rachel shut up! Have you not forgotten the fact that Puck was the one who sent Kurt to spy on the Warblers when they were rehearsing for Sectionals once upon a time ago?"

"Exactly Rachel - We never spied on you and we never had the intention to." Thad commented from across the room.

"Whatever" Rachel muttered under her breath. "I'm just saying, IF we were still in School, I wouldn't be sitting here. We already had our set list leaked one year - who's to say it wouldn't happen again." She firmly folded her arms, as if to emphasise her point.

Quinn had had enough, but she had always had a short fuse when it came to Rachel Berry. Rachel didn't have to do much for Quinn to immediately get frustrated with her. "Rachel. Seriously! We don't go to School anymore. We are not a competing Glee Club anymore and they..." waving her finger in the direction of the five Warblers that sat at the side of the room, slightly speechless at the drama unfolding right in front of them "are certainly not our competition anymore, so just drop it, okay."

"And besides Rachel, who to say that we would even sit in the same room as you too. Although we still don't appreciate the fact that you did spy on us when we were rehearsing, we can't really be mad -I guess we all have Puck to thank for bringing our two friends together." Wes affirmed proudly.

With a smug grin plastered over his face, Puck held out his hands a level above his shoulders as if to say "That's right everyone - shower me with compliments because I am more than ready to lap them up."

"That's right, that's right. I am SINGLE HANDEDLY the matchmaker behind the relationship of Kurt and Blaine - all down to me I tell you - I am responsible for that beautiful relationship."

"Honey. Did you just say 'beautiful relationship'? Really?" Lauren looked at her boyfriend questiongly and in a state of surprise that Puck would even say something genuine like that - he didn't even refer to their relationship in such a heartfelt way.

"Alright I know I'm a badass and everything, but even I can see a cute relationship wherever there is one and those two definitely have one."

"Preach" Artie remarked as the fifteen heads nodded eagerly in agreement.

Puck turned his head to face Finn, who was still staring blankly at the floor, head still in his hands. He hadn't moved in inch.

"Dude was there an actual reason you called us all here cause there's a game on in like an hour."

"Yeah moobs can you hurry this up - Britt and I are going to the Stix...and I wants to get my stix on." Santana stated as she admired her fresh manicure. Noticing that Finn had yet to reply, she peeled her eyes away from her perfect nails and took in the sight before her. He didn't even flinch when I called him Moobs - he always has something to say. Something must be wrong.

"Yeah Finn and I said I'd bring a breadstick home for Lord Tubbington so we need to go before they run out"

"Brittany, its called Breadsticks - they literally never run out. They've probably got like a whole room dedicated to breadsticks out the back where breadsticks are probably spilling out of the door!"

Mercedes laughed at Tina's useless attempt to explain this to Brittany, knowing full well the bubbly blonde probably still wouldn't understand. She then turned her attention to Finn. "White boy seriously spit it out. We're all here so why don't you...Hang on... Where is Kurt? And Blaine actually for that matter - Why aren't they here too?"

Everyone scanned the room in confusion. Even though they had been talking about the two boys just minutes earlier, no one had actually noticed that the boys in question weren't in the same room as them - they just assumed, that like normal, everyone was together.

"Th-That's actually what I called you all here to talk about" Finn mumbled.

"Oh what's wrong with lady lips and hobbit? Run out of their endless supply of hairspray and gel did they?"

Sprouts of laughter erupted around the room but Rachel's eyes never left Finn. Drinking in the sight of her withdrawn, distant boyfriend, laughter didn't seem like the appropriate thing to do.

"Santana shut up!" She snapped at the Hispanic girl, whose eyeballs widened at the sudden confrontation. Rachel walked from her previous position on the three seater sofa to crouch beside her boyfriend. She placed a gentle hand against his back. "Finn, sweetie what's wrong? You need to tell us."

He knew he needed to tell them and he was going to do right by his brother and respect his wishes and tell them. They needed to know - For their sake, just as much as Kurts. He took a deep breath before beginning. " Blaine's with Kurt right now. Kurt he - oh god he...he's in hospital."

The recent graduates looked at each other, all with furrowed eyebrows to reinforce their confusion at what Finn had just revealed to them. Mercedes was the first to break the silence.

"What the hell - what for! He was fine Wednesday - Wh-Why didn't he call me?"

"He's been a bit...preoccupied." - Was preoccupied even the right word? He couldn't exactly say to Mercedes "Yeah Kurt's sorry he didn't call you - he's just been trying to accept the fact that he found out 24 hours ago that he has a life threatening disease."

"Pfft...Too preoccupied to call his best friend!"

"Just...let him finish." Wes quietly said to the distressed girl, holding a hand out, signalling her to stop talking. "Why's Kurt in the hospital Finn?" Wes calmly encouraged the boy to carry on.

Hearing the slight change in her boyfriends breathing, Rachel moved the hand she had against Finn's back to enclose his hand within her own, squeezing it tightly, attempting to silently give him the courage he needed.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He released the breath and opened his eyes. He lifted his head to face the room. This was it.

"Kurt, he...Kurt has Cancer."

Sixteen bodies instantly froze in their positions. Sixteen mouths dropped open. The sound of sixteen gasps flowed through the air.

"Well don't I feel like a bitch now." Santana muttered.

The two boys lay silently on the bed, Kurt snuggled tightly in the familiar arms of his boyfriend, both of them silently mulling over the morning events. Despite their desperate attempts to stay and after countless utterances of "I'll be okay", "No I don't need anything Carole", "Yes I'm fine Dad", Kurt had finally managed to send Burt and Carole out of the room, desperately encouraging them to indulge themselves in a Coffee, expose themselves to the fresh air that awaited them outside the Hospital doors, anything - he just really wanted to spend some quality time with Blaine right now.

The two boy's thoughts were abruptly interrupted by the sound of three sharp knocks against the door.

"Kurt. Oh I'm sorry, I hope I'm not disturbing you."

"It's fine Doctor Rolstone - We were just lying down."

The doctor softly smiled at the two boys who sat patiently on the bed, waiting to see what Doctor Rolstone had come in for.

"I just wanted to drop those Information Booklets off to you."

"Oh yes, Thank you." Kurt said as the Doctors hands suddenly became empty and Kurts hands now occupied. He looked down at his new pamphlets and he suddenly felt a wave of emotion overpower him.

"Now they should be able to provide you with all the information you need and hey, if in any case I wasn't doing my job properly, they might even tell you something that I missed earlier on"

The younger boy let out a slight nervous laugh at his doctor's attempt to lighten the mood but right there, right there in his hands, was information about the disease that could quite well kill him and the treatment that could just as well save him. It was all a bit too much.

Without even looking up to meet Doctor Rolstones eyes, Kurt replied "I-I. Thank you"- transfixed on the words in front of him.

"No problem. I alerted the nurses and they should be round in the next few hours to do your blood tests for you."

Not even a flinch, or even a blink of the eyes. He couldn't even concentrate on the vital information his Doctor was telling him - he just stared blankly at the large, bold titles of the two booklets he had been given minutes before - "Living With Cancer" and "Chemotherapy". Right there, at that moment, Kurt convinced himself that the words were worse than the actual thing itself.

Despite having three very full, heavy lever arch folders in his hands, Doctor Rolstone stood patiently at the end of the bed. Blaine looked intently at Kurt, trying to gauge if he was going to acknowledge the Doctors comment. Quickly realising that this was not going to happen any time soon, Blaine answered for his boyfriend "Thank you Doctor - we appreciate it."

Clearly sensing that something wasn't quite right, Doctor Rolstone decided to make a polite exit, leaving the two boys in privacy.

"No problem. I'll see you boys later on."

The Doctor and Blaine both slightly bowed their heads at each other - Blaine's being more a nod of appreciation, a silent 'thank you' at the Doctors decision to give the two boys some privacy. His hazel eyes flitted from the closing door to the younger boy who still sat staring aimlessly down at his lap.

"Kurt?" He started to gently rub the younger boys back in the slight chance it offered him even the tiniest bit of comfort. "Kurt? Baby are you okay?"

Kurt blinked widely, shaking himself out of the daze he had found himself in. "Ye-Yeah"

He wasn't convinced. He knew Kurt too well by now. "Kurt" Blaine pressed further.

Kurt promptly placed the booklets face down on the bedside table next to him. 'Out of sight, out of mind' he thought. "We don't have to talk about it right now" he whispered to his boyfriend. Blaine suddenly felt the sensation of Kurts hand wrapped around his arm, tugging it upwards, snuggling himself closer towards Blaine, his face comfortably tucked into the older boys chest.

Feeling Kurts body instantly relax at the sense of protection he felt when he was in Blaines arms, Blaine decided to drop the matter, not wanting to upset or distress his boyfriend in any way so he simply replied "Okay", accompanied with a small kiss to the younger boys forehead.

Kurt decided to change the subject to a happier matter - 'happy' was definitely something he was in need of at the moment.

"So I was speaking to Dad earlier when you were with Finn..." he started.

"Oh right...And?"

"What do you mean 'And?'" He playfully smacked Blaines chest. "Why didn't you tell me he asked you to move in!"

"I wanted to - I just wasn't sure when would be a good time to bring it up."

"Are you kidding? It always would have been a good time to bring it up if the result of the conversation was you and me living together."

"I know" Blaine said with a smile on his face. He still couldn't quite believe that he was going to officially be living with Kurt. Sure the circumstances weren't desirable but still, he was living with his boyfriend and that meant absolutely everything to him - It meant everything to both of them. "So you're okay about it yeah?"

"No" Kurt said. Blaines eyes furrowed in confusion as panic started to flow through his body. Kurt gave a slight laugh as he looked up at his boyfriends worried expression. Silencing his worries with a kiss, he further explained "I'm ecstatic about it!"

The room was deadly silent.

"Dude what do you mean Kurt has cancer?" Puck said the words everyone wanted to say - each of them not quite believing what they had just heard

"I mean...Kurt has cancer." The words coming out with more confidence. "He has Stage 2 Leukaemia - He found out yesterday."

"But...he..he can't. I mean he's fine. He was fine at Graduation. He was fine before that too!" The utterances gradually became more desperate as they left Mercedes mouth - like she was trying to convince herself this was all a lie. A horrible, sick, twisted lie but deep down, she knew. She knew this wasn't a lie. This was the horrible, sick, twisted truth. Her best friend had cancer. They all knew really - they just didn't want to believe.

"It can't have been." Quinn whispered as her thoughts were spoken aloud, nervously fiddling with her hands in her lap. Everyone directed their undivided attention to her.

"What can't have been?" Sam asked

"Kurt, I don't know, I mean, I thought it was nothing, I honestly did, but...I noticed he was a lot more tired recently but I didn't think much of it because we've all been so stressed recently. That wasn't a sign though, it-it can't have been...was it Finn?"

He slowly nodded.

"Oh my god" Quinn whispered.

"Did any of you guys notice the bruise on his left arm." Finn questioned.

"No"

"Nah "

"No"

"What bruise?"

"Yes" Tina sheepishly said quietly to herself but loud enough for everyone to notice the difference in her response towards the question.

Feeling thirty two eyes staring intently at her, she elaborated. "I mean when he hugged me after the ceremony his sleeve rolled up a little and I saw it. He just said it was a bruise of some sort though. He said it was nothing to worry about - that it was just a bruise."

"He didn't know at that moment though." Finn explained further. "The doctors say that bruising of the skin is common in patients who...who...you know" he hesitantly trailed off.

Silence filled the room once more as no one quite knew where to take the conversation next.

"Finn" Rachel whispered to Finn. He looked at her with glassed eyes. "What's going to happen now?"

"He um...His Doctor came in this morning to discuss options - I didn't stay…I-I couldn't but Blaine told me he decided to go with courses of Chemotherapy. That's all I know at the moment. I didn't really stick around long enough to find out much more - You know, that place is huge but I have never felt more claustrophobic in all my life."

"How is Blaine?" Trent asked. Many "Oh my god Blaine"s "How is he"s fluttered around the room. Everyone had been so caught up in talking about Kurt that they had forgot to ask about their other friend.

"Yeah man he um - he's holding up at the moment, you know, being strong for Kurt. Burt said he got here about 9:00 last night and he's hardly left his side since."

Several of the girls smiled sadly whilst the boys nodded their heads in appreciation at Blaines gesture of affection.

"So...When can we see him? I mean, can we see him?" Mercedes asked.

"I think he'd like that. I'm going back up there in an hour or so, so a few of you are welcome to come with me. I think he's coming home tomorrow, for those of you who don't get to see him today."

As the group of friends decided amongst them who wanted to see Kurt first, Finn sat there in a state of slight disbelief. He couldn't quite believe that he had just told his friends. He still couldn't believe that Kurt would be starting chemotherapy in a matter of days, he couldn't believe that Kurt had cancer, he couldn't and didn't want to believe that his brother...could die.

This was all so wrong.

"So how much packing have you actually got left to do?" Kurt questioned.

"That doesn't matter right now" Blaine simply replied. He wondered how Kurt could think that anything else was more important than him, especially such a tedious task as packing. "Its nothing that can't wait." he added.

"Blaine you need to finish it. Your school years practically over so the room needs to be cleared for the next lot of first years - even you know that."

"I'm not leaving you." Blaine said as if it was the simplest answer in the world to Kurts indirect question. "I don't want to."

Kurt sighed - he knew his boyfriend was hurting, heck, who knew how long he would be hurting for, this feeling wasn't going to disappear in a matter of days, which is why Kurt felt compelled to tell Blaine exactly what he thought.

"Baby look, I know this is difficult - I can't even begin to imagine how you must be feeling but the world is still spinning, the world is still out there and your life can't stop, okay. And besides, if I know you as well as know I do, I'm guessing you've managed to pack about 4 boxes full of stuff by now?"

"3 and a half" Blaine mumbled, the ashamed tone of his voice muffled by Kurts hair as his head rested comfortably on top of the younger boys.

A proud smile crept across Kurt's face because as usual, he had successfully proved his point. "Exactly. So go to Michigan, finish packing and I'll still be here when you get back. And besides, it'll be good for you to have a change in surroundings - you haven't left here since yesterday"

"Neither have you" Blaine quickly defended

"You idiot - I have no choice. You do."

"But if I leave now, I wont be here for you when you go home tomorrow - It'll take me at least 2, maybe 3 days to finish packing."

"That's okay - Dad, Carole and Finn will still be here. Plus, that's even better in a way because then this way, I get to be the one to open the door for you and welcome you home." Kurt said as another smile appeared across his face, the vision of officially welcoming Blaine into their home appearing in his imagination.

"God I love you." Blaine said as his thoughts suddenly held the same vision.

"I love you too."

As the two boys settled back into a comfortable silence for a short period of time , simply marvelling in each others company, they were pleasantly interrupted by the arrival of Finn, Rachel, Mercedes and Santana who all lingered at the doorway.

"Hey" Kurt exclaimed. "Oh my gosh it is so good to see some new faces! I was getting pretty tired of these two buffoons." Blaine and Finn both stared at the younger boy with an open mouthed expression at his nonchalant insult towards them. The girls and Kurt couldn't help but laugh at how hurt the two boys looked.

"We can come back later if you want" Rachel suggested, noticing the embrace that Kurt and Blaine had naturally settled themselves into.

"No don't be silly! I am in dire need of some girl time! Besides, Blaine was just leaving." Kurt said. Once again, Blaine sharply turned his head to look at his boyfriend, attempting to read his facial expression.

"I-I am?" he challenged.

"You're gonna go pack"

"You-You actually meant now?" He questioned further. They hadn't actually talked about when Blaine would actually go back up to Michigan to finish his packing - it was all hypothetical, 'if' being the key word when Blaine had said 'If I go now' - He hadn't actually thought Kurt would mean he should leave in the next half an hour after said conversation.

"No time like the present." Kurt remarked.

Blaine looked round the room in confusion. His eyes settled looked at his boyfriend and could see that Kurt was deadly serious. He was actually meant to be going? Like right now?

"Just to clarify, you actually want me to go...now?"

"I don't want you to go, but you need to go - there's a difference."

Blaine sighed in defeat - he knew he wouldn't be able to convince Kurt that he could stay even just an hour longer, so he shuffled off the bed and stood on his feet.

"It's alright ladies and gentleman, apparently, according to a certain someone, I was just leaving anyway because like Mr Know-it-all says, I do still have a lot of packing to do."

The four bodies, who had shuffled out of the doorway and further into the room, couldn't help but laugh as they watched two of their closest friends playfully argue as if they were an old married couple - not 18 and 19 year old teenagers.

"Don't make me get out of this bed Blaine Anderson cause you know I will"

Blaine turned to wink at his boyfriend as he grabbed his Jacket from the chair in the corner of the room. He walked back over to his boyfriend to place a quick goodbye kiss to his lips. "I love you. Call me for anything and I'll be back sometime Wednesday, okay?"

"Okay" Kurt whispered as his hand rested against Blaines cheek, holding the boy closer to him so that only the two of them could hear their moment of intimacy. "I love you and please, drive safe."

Blaine had always been a safe driver - not one speeding ticket, never stopped by the police and had certainly never caused an accident but he knew from countless stories on the news that driving whilst emotionally unstable or distracted by a personal event sometimes had severe consequences. He knew that Kurt was discreetly saying "Don't let everything that's happened distract your concentration when you should be focusing on the road."

"I will. I promise" He simply replied. "3 days" He whispered.

"3 days" Kurt repeated. He smiled before sliding his hand from Blaines cheek to the back of his neck to bring him closer for another kiss. The two boys reluctantly pulled away and Blaine said goodbye to the others in the room before turning to walk away. Nearly out the room, he stopped and hovered by the doorway. "Are you sure you're gonna be okay?" he said as he turned to look back at his boyfriend one last time.

Kurt rolled his eyes. "Look I will seriously get out of this bed and push you out the reception doors if I have to. Now go!"

"Okay, okay I'm going." He quickly said as he held his hands up in defeat. " 3 days" He called out as he walked out of the door.

"GOODBYE Blaine Warbler" Kurt shouted. He was seriously having to force his boyfriend out at this point but before he knew it, Blaine was gone and he instantly found himself wishing that the next three days would fly by.

Sooo...? Dont hate me if you hated it :L
I dont really like the ending for this chapter but in my defence, it wasnt actually meant to finish here :L - I had two more scenes planned for this chapter but it was already over 4000 words so I just decided to put them in Chapter 4 instead. The scenes I basically had planned were Blaine back in Michigan where Blaine has a heart to heart with David about Kurt and Kurt talking to the girls so they'll be in the next chapter along with Blaine moving in and the run up to Kurts chemotherapy treatment:)
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