Thanks a bunch to emc14 for providing me with the art and CrazySue05 for editing this baby!
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It had been two months since his final year started. Even though Blaine was busy concentrating on his NEWTs preparation, there was something he was pretty sure of. Even if he hadn't seen Kurt in his dreams, he would have still fallen in love with him. Yes, he had finally admitted that he was in love with Kurt. At first, he thought that involuntarily, Kurt had helped him figure out that he was gay. Well, that and the fact that Santana pantsing Brittany at a party after they won a Quidditch match didn't turn him at all as compared to his friends who had mostly all spoiled their pants. But Kurt and he had a connection, something which Kurt realized even though he had no idea about Blaine's dreams.
Blaine had made it a habit by now to frequent the corridors of the class about five minutes before the class started so that he could talk to Kurt as a friend as opposed to a teacher-student way. Somehow, they managed to connect on almost all topics. From fashion to politics to LGBT rights. The only thing they truly disagreed on was pop music. Kurt, who had grown up in America, loved Broadway music, while Blaine loved the cheesy pop music which most people adopted as their guilty pleasures. Even though Kurt shook his head sadly at Blaine's taste of music, there was a glint in his eye which showed that he was only teasing.
Blaine had totally given up trying to call Kurt Professor Hummel. He tried his best, but slipped up with Kurt many times in class. Luckily, or maybe unluckily, most people knew that Kurt and Blaine had become best friends at this point. It wasn't uncommon to see them walking together to dinner, discussing something and separating only when they reached the Entrance Hall and had to go to different tables to eat. Professor Pillsbury could swear that Kurt was yearning to go sit with Blaine if he possibly could. Kurt was much younger than the other professors and she presumed that he liked catching up with someone who had similar ideas than people who were at least forty years older, she and Carl excluded, of course. However, she did know that there were some who frowned upon their friendship because it was very easy for a student to cry favouritism, and then Kurt would not know what to do seeing how it was only his first year of teaching.
So, one Hogsmeade weekend, when Blaine took his permission slip out and Kurt just walked alongside him, Emma took Kurt's hand in hers and told Blaine, "Why don't you go hang out with the girls today, Blaine? I need to talk to Professor Hummel about something." Blaine started to protest, but realized that Professor Pillsbury referring to Kurt as Professor Hummel was her gently reminding him about boundaries. He still managed to give a sad look to Kurt as he turned around and walked down alone. He knew that Sally had snagged a date this time and Brittany and Santana would be somewhere near the Shrieking Shack, trying to make out as much as they could since it was hard for them to search for broom cupboards that they could be comfortable in, in Brittany's words.
He decided to walk around by himself, clear his head a bit while he thought about what to do. He had only about six months till his schooling ended and he figured out what job he wanted to do. The Christmas holidays were coming up, and he had decided he would go home for them. He would have to ask Kurt what he was doing, he thought, as he walked past Honeydukes and decided to get some chocolate frogs. He had recently found out that Kurt loved them, and especially loved letting them jump away and then catching them with his hands and mouth. He didn't remember much after that, because the moaning noises Kurt had made as he bit into the frog was really distracting and reminded him of the first night that he had found out about Kurt being a Wizard.
He knew he loved Kurt, and he knew Kurt loved spending time with him. But he didn't know whether Kurt like liked him, to use a kid phrase. Kurt was four years elder to him, and could easily date a sophisticated guy over him. He could be spending time with Blaine because of their common likes on so many topics as opposed to because he liked him. He knew puberty had been good to him, but he didn't have the confidence to ask Kurt out.
On top of that, the dreams were another complication that he had. Blaine decided that he would have to tell Kurt during the Christmas holidays. He would send him an owl about it, as he was too scared to tell him to his face. If Kurt didn't reply and ignored him when he came back from his vacation, he would take it for what it was, rejection, and talk to some Healer about eliminating those dreams. If he did reply, but rejected him to his face, they'd probably try to stay friends as their friendship had bloomed so strongly in the past two months that saying goodbye would be quite difficult, in his opinion. And if he confessed that he also liked him back, then his happiness would hit the roof and he would kiss Kurt like there was no tomorrow.
Although, all this plans fell in the mud when he actually asked Kurt what he was doing for the holidays. As they walked around the Lake, Kurt confessed, "My dad lives in America, still. I cannot ask him to apparate or floo to England, because he had a mild heart attack a few years back, and I don't want him to risk the travel. At the same time, I cannot go back there for the time being because there are, well, some complications which I ran away from when coming here." Blaine was curious since he didn't have information about Kurt during this summer. Kurt said, "I had a boyfriend, and he didn't know I was a wizard. I wasn't in the state of mind to um..." Blaine could see the doubtful wheels rolling in Kurt's head as he decided whether or not to tell him and quickly said, "I won't tell a soul. Best friends, remember?" Kurt smiled sadly as he continued, "I had just spoken to Professor Flitwick regarding this job and wasn't in the mood to ...make love. He was physically bigger than me, and tried to overpower me. I might have blasted him into the wall behind him in fear and then cast a Memory charm on him so he would think I broke up with him because of the job. Dad still doesn't know about this, and if he does, he'll probably pick up his wand and kill the guy."
As Kurt continued talking, Blaine realized that he had never seen Kurt's mum in the picture, and presumed they had had a divorce or his mother had passed away. Divorce was the extreme option in England, though he had heard his own mum say several times that America was more open than England to Muggle innovations, including divorce at the drop of a hat. Even though that was a veiled insult to Americans, Blaine hoped that Kurt did have a Mum but his parents were divorced as the latter option was too sad to even think of. He tuned back in to hear Kurt complete, "...So you could say, I'm avoiding talking about my ended relationship with my Dad by not going home."
Blaine thought this was a travesty. He remembered his first Christmas at Hogwarts. Even though he was happy now that he stayed because he met Sally and Santana, no one should stay at Hogwarts and be miserable. He knew his Mum and Dad would say yes and hopefully Kurt wouldn't see it as crossing boundaries. He asked Kurt, "Do you want to come over to my house for the Christmas holidays?"