Rise Above The Ashes
Chapter 3
Kurt curled into the arm of the chair with a sigh, smiling when Blaine's ginger and white cat Vesper jumped up beside him, squeaking at him before curling into the small space Kurt had left, purring loudly. "Hey boy," He murmured, gently stroking the cat under the chin. "What's happened to Blaine huh? Where'd our bouncing, bow tie loving idiot go?"
Cuddling the cat closer, Kurt let his eyes drift over the episode of 'Project Runway' he was watching, not really taking any of it in. He couldn't work out why Blaine hadn't told him about his parents or at least come to him after he'd moved into the room next to Kurt's own. A room that he had worked out for a fact that Blaine had been in due to various items being missing, the comfortable hoody that he had accidently left behind after 'Grease' being the most notable missing item.
Kurt rolled his eyes when Sam's music started to blast down the stairs, chuckling at the country that the boy had still never learned to let go of. He didn't know when Blaine would be home and he didn't know what the consequences would be when he did turn up, but Burt had already warned him that the boy would probably be nothing like Kurt remembered.
The door slammed open, Vesper's head snapping round to meow at the door in distaste, his tail flicking against Kurt's leg as he tried to get comfortable again.
"Nice to know how quickly you'll jump ship Vessie," Blaine sneered from the doorway, staring at Kurt as though he didn't know how to process the fact that he was back.
Kitty peered over his shoulder, smirking slightly, "Hummel."
"Hey Kitty," He sighed, snorting slightly when Shadow bounded into the room and straight into Blaine almost knocking him over trying to pass him his ball to play with.
"Dumb mutt," Blaine growled, throwing the ball for the dog before stalking through the living room, completely ignoring Kurt with Kitty prancing after him, shooting Kurt a wink as she skipped.
"I love him, but get the real him back please," She whispered in Kurt's ear as she passed by, the teenager not even managing to turn in her direction before she was gone.
Kurt settled down against the couch, letting Vessie curl up on him once more. He couldn't help but wonder why everyone thought he'd be able to get the 'real' Blaine back when they'd obviously had no luck for months but at least he could try. Pushing his face into the cats fur, he turned the volume on the television up and tried to drown out his thoughts, a long with the warring 'Fall Out Boy' that had now joined Sam's country music and Finn's eighties soft rock.
Burt's eyes flickered around the dinner table, waiting for the first person to crack. Finn and Sam were practically shovelling food into their mouths, nothing new there, but Blaine and Kurt were now sat opposite each other, eyes trained on the other as they slowly ate their food. Gone was the hand holding under the table and the flirty conversation. Burt loved both of his boys, and he was well aware that his boys loved each other, but also that they were both very stubborn. One of them would crack, and by the looks being thrown across the table, one of them would crack soon. Kitty was the other new addition to his table sitting cross-legged on her chair beside Blaine watching the two boys. From the way her head kept tilting between them, Burt could tell that she was preparing for the same explosion that he had Carole had predicted earlier.
"How was school boys'?" Carole asked as an attempt to break the ice, glancing between Sam and Blaine.
Sam looked up from his food for the first time all meal, bread sticking out of his mouth when he shrugged. "Okay I guess, school's school. Glee club was good though," Sam shot a grin at Finn, "And Blaine didn't even get into a fight with anyone."
"Not my fault Ryder's being a douche. His best friend's dating Marley for God's sake," Blaine mumbled fiddling with the bracelets around his wrist.
Kitty reached out and snapped one of the bands against his wrist, shaking her head and drawing the hand away from the bracelets when he tried to continue playing with them.
"Blaine, detention again?" Carole quirked an eyebrow and sipped her water, trying not to laugh at the wicked grin spreading across Blaine's face. Even she was aware of Mr Trenton's reputation, which spread far beyond the school walls.
"He deserved what I did, I have no regrets."
Burt snorted, "Kid do you even know the meaning of the word regrets?"
Blaine twirled a strand of spaghetti around his fork carefully his head tilted to the side while he considered his answer. "No not really," He smirked, slurping up the spaghetti as it twisted back off of his fork.
Kurt watched the interaction closely, grimacing at Blaine slurping his food and shaking his head slightly, turning back to his own dinner but subtly watching his ex-boyfriend. Blaine caught his eye, another wicked grin spreading over his face. His tawny eyes twinkled mischievously when Kurt felt a foot run up his shin. Stormy eyes whipped up to meet the twinkling ones, Kurt's lip twisting up in anger as he shook his head once sharply, drawing his legs as far back under his chair as they would go.
"Finn how was your day?" Burt asked ignoring Blaine now pulling faces at Kurt, as well as Kurt's growing anger.
"Good. I finally asked Kara out, and she actually said yes," He beamed.
"Finally!" Kitty snickered, "You've been pining after that girl since you broke up with Rachel three months ago."
Blaine smirked, throwing a piece of chicken for Shadow, "Have you screwed her yet?"
"Blaine!" Kurt, Burt and Carole yelled. Kurt looked shocked while Burt and Carole just sighed, resigned to Blaine's crude mouth by this point.
"And don't feed the dog at the table," Burt scolded as another piece of chicken sailed through the air to the hopeful dog. Blaine just shrugged smiling innocently at Burt before turning to stare at Finn, waggling his eyebrows up and down.
Finn turned beetroot red, stammering slightly while Blaine crowed with laughter. "You so have!" Blaine cackled, his head thumping onto Kitty's shoulder, "When the hell did you have time for that? We had glee this morning and you were helping Schue this afternoon. Damn boy."
"We didn't," Finn squeaked, shaking his head and glaring at Blaine playfully. "You're an ass, you know that?"
"It's been said. Want some pointers?" Blaine shot a knowing smirk to Kurt, winking in his direction while Kurt paled drastically.
"No, no, no, no, no!" Finn yelped.
"Well you see, Kurt used to really like it when I'd run my tongue nice and slowly right along his…"
"Do you have no filter?" Kurt finally shrieked, making Blaine throw him a teasing grin as he shrugged and played with his tongue stud, tilting backwards in his chair.
Finn also began to wail his hands flying up to cover his ears, "Too many details! Too many details!"
Burt sighed, throwing a piece of bread at Finn to shut him up. Turning to Kurt he shook his head, "Blaine's filter is currently out of whack and in serious need of being fixed." Turning to his adoptive son, Burt raised an eyebrow and tilted his head towards the stairs.
With a loud sigh and a roll of his eyes, Blaine threw his napkin down on the table and sauntered towards the stairs, shooting Kurt a smirk and a wink as he passed by. Kurt whined low in his throat, starting to bang his head off of the table. Sam managed to squeeze his hand between Kurt's head and the table, allowing it to act like a buffer while he continued to eat his spaghetti one handed.
Kitty rolled her eyes and stood up to follow Blaine, smiling sweetly at Carole, "Thank you for dinner Mrs Hudson-Hummel, it was lovely."
"You're welcome any time Kitty."
Calling Shadow over, the blonde girl and the Golden Retriever followed to where Blaine was now hanging halfway over the bannister waiting for the pair of them.
"This meal just got very dull without me!" Blaine hollered back down the stairs while stomping up the last two, causing Sam to snort and choke momentarily on his food.
Carole glanced to Burt, her bottom lip drawn between her teeth to stop her laughter. She shook her head softly at the twinkle in her husband's eye, Finn sat beside him, shoulder's now shaking with his own laughter and his fist practically shoved in his mouth to avoid Kurt's wrath.
"I hate him, I actually hate him," Kurt muttered leaning back in his seat and pushing his plate away.
"No you don't," Burt chuckled, "He's just pushing his boundaries, and testing yours to see what he can get away with."
Kurt cursed under his breath, watching Vesper disappear up the stairs after the trio and started plotting how best to get the Blaine everyone knew and loved back. It was that, or he and Blaine would kill each other before Blaine's school year was over in a few weeks, let alone the long summer that lay before them.