I'm home from vacation, but now I'm getting post vacation depression feels and it's not fun! :( It doesn't help that my computer and cell phone are both broken D: But ah well. Here's the next chapter, and I hope you like it!

Chapter 14

For the next couple weeks, Blaine woke up every morning feeling happier than he had in a very long time. Burt noticed Kurt smiling all the time, and Rose noticed Blaine laughing at nearly everything. Rose also noticed that when Mr. Kurt wasn't spending time at their house, Miss Carrie was over and Daddy was out with Mr. Kurt.

And although Rose had always liked Kurt, Blaine noticed her affection for him growing even more. She'd even accidentally called him "Daddy" a couple times (which Kurt and Blaine just laughed to). All Blaine knew, was that when he wasn't spending time with Kurt and/or Rose, the two of them were together.

February 3, Blaine woke up and rolled out of bed. He showered quickly and got his daughter ready for school while he got ready for work. They ate breakfast quickly and headed out the door. Blaine kissed his daughter good bye inside her preschool room and walked across the street to his school.

The kids had been doing really well this year. They were very well behaved and extremely smart—up to half of Blaine's kindergarteners could already semi-read, and they all loved him. "Mr. A! Mr. A!" one of the curly blonde twins called. As she got closer he realized it was Alyssa.

"Good morning, Alyssa!" he greeted, unlocking the door and letting his kids in.

"Good morning." She said, pushing her headband further back on her head. "Guess what Kaylee and I did yesterday!"

Blaine pretended to think about it. "What did you guys do?" he asked at last.

Kaylee ran up, "We got to ride horses with daddy!"

"And he took us shopping and we got to pick out new clothes!" Alyssa exclaimed.

"And then he took us to our favorite restaurant," Kaylee continued.

"And then when we went back home, he told us that mommy is pregnant!" Alyssa finished.

"Wow!" Blaine said as everyone made their way to their desks, "so you guys are going to be big sisters?"

"Yup!" Alyssa said proudly, "mommy says she doesn't know if we're going to have a baby brother or sister, but we're so so so excited."

Blaine grinned as the rest of his class raised their hands to tell stories of different aunts or cousins or parents or siblings or neighbors or pets who had been pregnant or were pregnant at the time. This was one of the things Blaine loved about kids that most people didn't. They were so eager to share and trust to other people what was going on in their lives. So, unlike most teachers, Blaine let them go on for nearly half an hour before he stopped them to start class.

Blaine was sitting in his office on the high school side of campus, eating lunch and prepping for his next class, when the door swung open and Kurt ran in grinning. "Blaine!" he said, turning into the office. "Blaine Blaine Blaine Blaine Blaine!"

Blaine laughed and stood up. "Kurt Kurt Kurt Kurt Kurt! What's up?"

"Rachel. She's at the hospital. She was going in for her forty week checkup and when they checked her, she was six centimeters dilated. And since they were going to induce her on Friday if she hadn't gone into labor on her own, they decided to induce her today. I'm on my way to the hospital, but I wanted to let you know."

Blaine smiled widely. "Really? That's amazing! Wow, Kurt! Are you excited?"

Kurt laughed. "Beyond excited! I'm so excited to be an uncle."

Blaine smiled. "Send me a picture when she has the baby, alright?"

Kurt nodded vigorously. "Of course. As soon as Rachel and Finn let me in, I'll send you a picture of him."

Blaine smiled and kissed Kurt on the cheek. "You have things to do in the waiting room?" Kurt nodded. "Alright, well, remember to send me the picture." Blaine kissed Kurt goodbye and watched him walk out the door.

The rest of the day went fairly smoothly. Blaine's students had noticed the change in his demeanor the past month, but no one had said anything about it. In glee club that afternoon, a redhead in the front row raised her hand. "Hey, Mr. A?"

"Yeah?" Blaine asked, turning to her.

"I'm just," she looked around at the rest of her class, "we're just really excited that whatever happened to you over Christmas vacation, happened."

"Yeah, dude." Another brunette boy named Michael spoke up, "it's really awesome to see you all happy and stuff." A bunch of his other students made agreeing noises.

Blaine smiled and sat on the corner of his desk. "You know what guys? I'm really excited about what happened to me over winter break, too."

A shy blonde girl in the back, Chloe, raised her hand next. "May I ask what happened to you over winter break?"

Blaine smiled to himself. "Yeah. I… So you guys know how I grew up here? And I actually attended McKinley my junior and senior year? Well, my best friend recently moved back, except we did not part on good terms. We didn't really get along all that well when he first moved here, but we were slowly getting closer and close. Then on Christmas Eve we got into this huge fight. But, thanks to Rose, we became friends again. And suddenly, I have my best friend back. So yeah, I've been really happy lately."

A bunch of girls 'awww'ed. Blaine blushed and smiled just as the bell rang. Blaine thought everyone had left, but when he looked back up he saw Chloe standing there. She slung her backpack over her shoulder and grinned. "I'm really glad you and your ex boyfriend, I mean, best friend, made up." She winked as she walked out the door, and Blaine couldn't help but laughing.

Just before he walked to pick up Rose, Blaine's phone started ringing. "Hey, Rachel." He said after looking at the caller ID. "I heard you're having a baby."

Rachel laughed. "Yeah, I am. And when I heard that you weren't planning on coming to see him tonight, I wanted to drive to your school and hit you again." Blaine smiled. "No, in all seriousness, we would really like you to come see him tonight, after you're done with school, if you'd like to."

"Yeah!" Blaine exclaimed, "Of course I'd love to come see him! I just didn't want to intrude on a family moment, you know?"

"Blaine Anderson." Rachel Berry's bossy voice rang through the cell phone speakers, "how many times do we have to tell you? You are part of our family."

Blaine laughed. "Okay Rachel, I'll be there by four. So how's everything going with the baby?" he asked.

"I'm almost eight centimeters dilated, but my water hasn't broken on its own, so they think they'll have to break it. Usually the baby comes fairly quickly after that." she said.

"When do they plan on breaking it?" Blaine asked.

Rachel's voice sounded further away a she asked her nurse the question Blaine asked her. "Anywhere between five and six." She said, "there are four other women in labor here and only two doctors, so they have to wait until a doctor is available."

The bell indicating Blaine's class was about to start rang. "Okay, well good luck Rachel. I'll be there soon."

"Okay. Talk to you later Blaine."

"Bye Rachel."

Thanks to Rose being in the middle of a round of 'hide and seek,' Blaine made it to the hospital by four fifteen, and Rachel had yet to be induced. Blaine and Rose started up a game of Monopoly with Kurt (actually, Rose ended up teaming up with Kurt since she didn't understand the rules, and they whooped Blaine's ass, but details, details).

Around five thirty, Carole walked out of the room to tell them that they had broken Rachel's water, and she was officially in active labor. Two hours later, Finn sent out a picture to everyone's phones.

Kurt's eyes were glazed over with tears as he stared at his nephew's face through the screen of his cell phone. "He's perfect." Blaine whispered in Kurt's ear, looking over his shoulder. Kurt nodded and smiled ear to ear.

After Leroy, Hiram, Carole, Burt (with Rose in tow), and Kurt had all gone in to see the baby, Blaine was directed towards Rachel and Finn's room. He knocked on the door and went in to see Rachel half asleep in her bed, Finn beaming and holding the baby, and Kurt whispering to the baby.

Finn looked up and smiled when he saw Blaine enter the room. "Blaine," Finn said, "meet Levi Norbert Hudson."

"Norbert?" Blaine tried to hide his grimace.

"She wanted that to be his first name." Finn muttered under his breath.

Blaine knitted his eyebrows in confusion. "Norbert like, like Harry Potter or something?"

Finn shrugged but Kurt rolled his eyes. "No, Norbert as in Norbert Leo Butz." He received blank stares in return. "Broadway." He tried again. "Fiyero on Wicked." Still blank stares. "You guys are hopeless."

Blaine laughed. "Not all of us can be Kurt Hummels or Rachel Berrys."

"That's true." Kurt grinned, wrapping his arms around Blaine's neck. "If we were all Kurts and Rachels then the world would be sadly lacking the Blaines. And that would be such a loss."

"Ugh, PDA!" Finn groaned.

Kurt jokingly glared at him. "I've spent the past five years living with the two of you. You got Rachel pregnant while we were living together. I'm the only one allowed to complain about PDA."

"It's not my fault the walls were thin." Finn muttered. Blaine laughed and he heard Rachel wake up in the background.

"Do you want to hold him, Blaine?" she asked.

"Um, sure." Blaine said. Finn handed him the baby. "Hey, Levi! How are you buddy?" the baby just looked up at him with his big blue eyes. "He's surprisingly adorable for a newborn." Blaine commented. "Rosie looked like an alien for the first week or two."

Finn laughed. "Well, when or if his hair falls out, he'll probably look pretty funny. Won't you, baby?" Finn said, smiling over the baby. Blaine handed Levi back to his father, and Levi looked up at him. Finn grinned from ear to ear and leaned over to kiss his son's forehead. Blaine swore he heard Finn whisper "I love you" to Levi.

A few minutes later, Blaine headed out and, as soon as Kurt said goodbye, he followed. Rose, who was in the living room with Burt, Carole, Leroy, and Hiram, ran up to Blaine. "Daddy, Levi is so cute!"

Blaine grinned. "He is, isn't he, sweetie?" she nodded ecstatically. "Are you ready to go home?" Blaine asked. Rose nodded and yawned in reply. She took his hand and they started towards the door.

"Night everyone." Kurt said as he kissed his parents good bye. He put his arm around Blaine's waist when he caught up. "Can I come back to your place for a couple hours tonight? I finished all the sketches I have due this morning, and then I spent eight hours in a hospital waiting room. And it's only eight o'clock. Please, good sir, have mercy on my boredom."

Blaine laughed. "Of course you can come over. I'd love to have you over on this lovely evening."

After Kurt and Blaine read Rose a story, she fell asleep almost immediately. Then the two boys headed out to Blaine's living room and Blaine collapsed on the couch, Kurt falling on top of him. "I don't know what it is about sitting in a waiting room all day, but I'm seriously exhausted." Kurt sighed, resting his head on Blaine's chest. "I'm tired. Cuddle me."

Blaine laughed and hugged Kurt closer to him. "As you wish." Kurt giggled and snuggled his head between Blaine's arm and chest.

And that was exactly how they were the next morning when Rose found them.