We have only a few hours left from 2014 and I promised another chapter this year so here it is. Happy New Year!

"I'm your guardian... and your brother."

Kurt stared at the stranger with wide eyes. First he had a very bad dream, reliving the moments when he had found his father, and now the man stated he was his brother. Which was insane, considering he would have known if he had a brother.

"I-I'm sorry" he said finally. "You have the wrong room number. I'm not the one you are looking for."

The man – Finn – said nothing for a few moments. When he finally spoke up, his voice was hesitating.

"So... you are not Kurt Hummel?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I am" Kurt answered without hesitation. "But I don't have a brother. I think somebody played a trick on you."

Kurt hoped that the man would finally leave the room, so he could go back to sleep. But the other stepped closer and sat down in the chair next to the bed.

"Look, Kurt, I know this sounds weird, but I'm really your brother. Half-brother, to be exact. My parents were Christopher and Carole Hudson. After my father's death my mother remarried..."

"Stop!" Kurt said suddenly. "I don't want to hear it. You are lieing anyway."

"No, Kurt, it's true. She married Burt Hummel and then she got pregnant with you..."

Kurt sat up straighter and stared at Finn with an angry expression.

"Don't you think I know that already? They were my parents. You, on the other hand, are just a stranger making joke of my grief. Did you really think that you can just come here, declaring you are my brother, and I will believe what you say?"

Finn sighed. This conversation was going nowhere.

"Kurt, I know this is hard to believe, but I said the truth. Look, it's in your father's testament" he said and took out the copy he had gotten from the lawyer earlier. He handed it to Kurt who only flipped through the pages before giving it back. The boy had enough of this, he just wanted to be alone and sink back into his nightmares. They were easier to handle than the reality, because he knew they will end eventually.

"Please, just leave me alone" he said wearily.

"We have to speak about..." Finn started but couldn't continue, becuase Kurt turned towards him with teary eyes and yelled:

"I don't want to speak with you, got it? Get out of my room!"

"Kurt, please..."

"I said get out!"

Finn couldn't say another word because the door suddenly opened, and the grumpy nurse from before entered the room.

"What's going on here? Mr. Hudson, if I'm correct the doctor warned you not to fluster the pacient. Kurt is in a very fragile state, and you only cause problem."

Finn wanted to say something but before he could he found himself outside the door, and the nurse slammed it into his face. He sighed and leaned against the wall.

"Well, that could have gone better" he muttered before walking towards the exit where Jake was waiting for him.

~ o ~

Finn woke up early the next morning. He only got a few hours of sleeping last night after the visit in the hospital. He thought it would be easy. He would have just introduced himself, Kurt would have understood everything and they could have gotten to know each other before they had to go to the court to sigh the papers. But Kurt didn't even believe him. How should he make the teen understand that this is the reality and they have to get along with each other? He had no idea.

After a few useless attempts to go back to sleep a little more he got up and started getting ready for the day. Anna made him the appointment for noon, so he had a few hours to do... something. After dressing up he drank a glass of blood and called Jake, so they could head out earlier. He got a perfect idea what to do with his free time.

The city was noisy as always, but there wasn't a traffic jam, so they quickly reached their destination. Finn slowly walked down the path between trees and gravestones. He didn't visit her in the past few years but today he really needed it. After a few minutes he stopped in front of a black marble gravestone; in front of his mother's. A part of it was removed because of the forthcoming funeral of Burt, but he still knew it was the one he was looking for. He remembered the day when he had last seen his mother before she was buried here. He never found out who had ended her life, the murderer disappeared without a trace.

"Hey, Mom" he said with a sigh. "I know I really should have come earlier, but it was too much. I... I really miss you, you know? It's so hard to believe you won't come back."

He felt tears in his eyes and wanted to blink them away, but a few of them escaped anyway.

"I don't know what to do now. Kurt hates me. I visited him yesterday in the hospital, but he didn't even believe me when I said I was his brother. And today I have to take him with me. It's gonna be so hard, I don't want him to hate me. I know I shouldn't think of it, but I'm glad that I finally have somebody to call family. I was so alone in the past few years. But how will it work if he can't stand me?"

Carole was a wise woman but it was too late to ask for her advice. Finn stood there in silence for almost ten minutes before going back to the car. He had to face Kurt again, and maybe, just maybe it will go better than the last time.

~ o ~

Kurt packed his things quietly. He could finally leave the hated hospital room because the doctors thought he was stable enough, even after his outbreak the previous day. He had read the copy of the testament after Finn's leaving, and called Joe, his father's old friend to ask him about it. Finn said the truth, and Kurt felt bad because of his behaviour. It can't be easy for the other man either, so he could be a little less unbearable. To be honest, he didn't doubt Finn's words, he remembered their encounter after their mother's death.

But the future was so scary. His father won't come back and he has to live with someone whom he don't even know. And Finn was a vampire. The only one he had ever seen except his mother. Probably he was a member of a vampire clan, with vampire friends, vampire colleagues... maybe Kurt has to go to a vampire school. God. He was an outcast in his school because he was gay. He would be an outcast in a vampire school, too, because his father was a human.

"Kurt, are you ready?" Joe asked from outside the opened door and Kurt startled. He was so deep in his thoughts that he didn't hear the other's footsteps.

"Yeah... Just give me one more minute."

Joe nodded and took a few steps back. Kurt walked to the mirror and looked at his reflection. He was paler than usual and he looked as scared as he felt. But he had to pull himself together and walk out that door. Everything is gonna be okay. There were so many sad moments in his life... the future has to be better.

He looked one more time into the mirror and than left the room.

~ o ~

Finn was waiting in front of the court's large building. They had only a few minutes, but Kurt hadn't appeared yet. He knew from Anna that one of Burt's friends was going to pick up the boy from the hospital and bring him here. But they were late. They were supposed to meet ten minutes ago.

An impatient Anna stepped out of the building and went straight to Finn.

"We have to begin. Where the hell is Kurt?"

Finn glared at her. He didn't see Kurt in the morning, how could he tell where the boy was?

"Maybe traffic jam..." he muttered.

They had waited another two minutes in silence before they saw a car stopping in the parking lot. Kurt and a man that Finn believed had seen at his mother's funeral got out and walked towards them.

"Come on, were are late" Anna said and made her way back up the stairs, not waiting for the others to follow her.

The process went very quickly, they finished it in fifteen minutes. Anna said a few sentences about Kurt's family background, Burt's testament and finally about Finn. It seemed like they had made everything ready for an expedited procedure. The judge designated Finn as Kurt's guardian, he had to sigh the papers which contained his commitments and they were out of the room before anybody could say another word. Anna went back to work and Joe, who was waiting outside, said goodbye, too. Jake was standing in a corner, giving the brothers privacy as they looked at each other awkwardly.

"So... What would you like to do?" Finn asked finally. "We can go back to the hotel if you want. Or eat lunch? Are you hungry?"

Kurt stared at him for a long moment and then shook his head.

"I... Do you know something about my father? I mean, I don't know what happened with his body after..." Kurt couldn't continue. He knew he had to stay strong but it was so hard. Before he realised it he was crying - again.

Finn didn't know what to do so he pulled the younger boy into a hug. It had worked the last time. Maybe he should say something. But what?

"I think he is still in the pathology. You know, like in the NCIS." Wrong answer, you idiot.

"Can we see him?" Kurt asked suddenly and pulled away from Finn. The other man sighed.

"Kurt, I don't think it's a good idea. You have already seen more than you should. And it's not so simple in the reality. You can't just walk into the hospital and demand to see him."

Kurt said nothing just looked down and cried a little harder. He needed to see his father one more time. When he had found him, he looked horrible. Kurt didn't want this memory to be the last one of his father.

"Maybe we should go back to the hotel" Finn insisted. "I need to call the hospital to see what we have to do. I think it will take a few days to get a funeral ready and than we have to fly back to the US."

Kurt stared at him like he didn't understand Finn's words.

"You-you mean that we won't live here?" he asked finally. He knew he had to move but didn't think it would mean another continent.

Now it was Finn's turn to stare at the other. Did Kurt know nothing about him?

"Ehm... Kurt, I live in Ohio. I work in Ohio, I can't just move here."

"And I live here, I go to school here" Kurt snapped. "I don't even know anything about Ohio except a song. I don't want to move there."

Finn groaned. Here they go again. This guardianship thing is gonna be so hard.

"Look, Kurt, we don't have another option. I can't give up my job and since I can't leave you here, you have to come with me."

"I can't go with you" Kurt said as he enlaced his arms in front of his chest. "I don't have a passport or a visa. And if I'm right I need both of them."

Finn wanted to laugh right now. This kid was something.

"Oh, don't worry. I have great connections. I'm sure your documents will be ready by the time we are finished here."

And with that Kurt was out of excuses.

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