The lover held her love,
She begged him not to go,
The fighter wrapped his gloves,
The fighter said I know I know I know,
Just this one last time,
I swear you'll still be mine,
But he can't promise much,
He goes for one last touch

The Fray

I know I didn't update for a month, bite me. No one cares about this story anyways, just one measly review please this is almost over.

"Mom he won't answer." I whispered as I hung up yet again. "I'm worried."

My mom sighed as she shifted Julia from one shoulder to the other.

"Blaine's fine, he probably had to work over time and couldn't call. Relax it's not good for you to stress."

I shook my head and paced back and forth in Julia's room with my phone clutched in my hand. It was nearing 11:30 and Blaine over two hours later getting home from his Friday night shift at Macy's.

"Any word from Blaine?" My dad asked, peeking his head in.

"No and I'm worried. What if something happened to him?"

My dad kissed my head. "Sweetheart Blaine's a smart boy I'm sure he's fine."

My mom sighed and hugged me. "I'm going bed, if he's not back by 1:00 we'll call the police."

"Okay, night."

My dad ruffled his granddaughter's new thickened head of hair and kissed my forehead. "Night."

"Night Julie-bean." My mom babbled to Julia who stuck out a slobbery hand. "Night Kels."

I waved goodnight and went downstairs and settled myself on the couch and mindlessly flipped through the channels while feeding Julia a bottle. My head snapped up when Blaine stumbled through the door. I stood up ready to go off but stopped when I saw the blood under his nose and his swollen eye.

"Blaine, oh my- what happened?" I stammered as I rushed to him. "Did your dad-"

My question was cut off when Blaine pulled out a wad of napkins and pressed them to his nose. "I'm fine can you just get me some water?"

I nodded and handed Julia to Blaine who had his free arm extended. "Yeah, go upstairs."

I quickly got Blaine a glass of water and grabbed the Tylenol as memories of last summer, when I rescued Blaine from his dad popped into my head. I went upstairs and found Blaine sitting in bed holding Julia close to his chest.

"What happened?"

Blaine popped the Tylenol and down the water. "I quit my job."

"What why?" I asked as a million questions filled my mind. "Wait who did this? No way it was Kathleen!"

Blaine laughed humorlessly, Kathleen was the little old lady who managed Macy's. "No I have to tell you something."

I dabbed Blaine's eyes with the corner of an icepack. "What?"

Blaine's eyes were full of sadness. "I was fighting for money, t-they'd bet on me and I'd win."

"You did what?" I whispered as I pressed a tissue to Blaine's bleeding lip.

"I worked for a guy in Lima, it was a cheesy fight club kind of thing." He explained, trying to keep the mood light. "I fought a few guys, made decent money but then it was too much, so today I quit and my boss jumped me."

I swallowed the lump in my throat. "But why? What about Macy's?"

Blaine brushed Julia's dark curls away from her eyes. "I got fired from Macy's in January and you said I needed a job if we kept her."

"So you put yourself in danger and lied to me just to keep her?" The anger seeped into my voice, Blaine nodded his head. "That's kind of the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

"I just wanted to be a good dad and keep food on the table." He said as he leaned over and stroked my cheek. "I wanted to be good enough for you."

I frowned as I felt a sinking feeling in my stomach. I curled my fingers around his shoulder and stared at him. "You are, if anything you're to good for me." I whispered as I leaned my head against his. "You're a good dad B-Blaine you shouldn't doubt that."

Blaine drew in a deep breath and pressed his slightly swollen lips against mine. "I'm sorry it was stupid and I love you."

"I love you too."

Blaine bounced Julia up and and down on his lap and she reached up and grabbed his hair. "Do you think she'll be proud of me?"

"Of course why wouldn't she be?"

Blaine shrugged and avoided my eyes and just stated down at her. "I mean her dad's some 17 year old, who overdosed, lied to you and pretty much bailed on her when she was few weeks old."

"So when you would leave at night on the weekends you were working?"

"Yeah, I felt so bad about leaving you and the baby but I had to."

I leaned over and wrapped my arms around his neck. "She'll know that her dad did everything he could to take care of her."

Blaine leaned his forehead against mine. "I quit, it was good money but I miss you guys. I was tired of being sore and bruised so I walked in and told him I quit. He pounded the shit out of me but I took it."

Tears stung my eyes and I squeezed his hand. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. You could've told me about getting fired you could've told me."

"I wanted to keep her so bad, and I was terrified that we'd give her up. I did what I had to do."

My cheeks burned with embarrassment and I picked my daughter up and laid her on my bed, right in between us. "I would've understood."

Blaine nodded and picked up a now sleeping Julia and carried her across the hall and laid her in down in the crib. Blaine came back in, shutting the door behind him. He sat on the bed and pulled me into his chest.

"I love you so much Kelsey. You have no idea how much I love you."

I smiled at him and watched the old Blaine shine through. "I love you too."

"I know I've been distance but I still want to marry you and I still want to be a family."

"I still want to marry you too." I whispered as rested my hand in his thigh. "I want you."

Blaine traced the side of my face with the pad of his thumb and brushed it over my lip before closing the gap between us. He pressed lips against mine and he titled his head. I smiled and felt a pulling feeling in my stomach, the same feeling I had all those months ago in June.

"I want you so bad." I whimpered once more. "I love you so much."

Blaine's fingers were tangled in my hair and a small smirk pulled at his lips. He brushed his lips against my ear, his voice was low and shaky. "I'm yours."

I scooted myself onto his lap and nervously snaked my hands under his shirt and pulled it over his head and kissed him. Blaine's hands found the drawstring of my sweats and quickly undid them, I stepped out of them and kicked them in the corner.

"You're beautiful." He whispered as he discarded his jeans. "You sure about this?"

I nodded and hugged him tightly. "Yes."

Blaine bit his lip and leaned over me. "You're on the pill right?"

"Yeah, I started a month ago." I quickly reassured him, I couldn't turn back. "We're good."

Blaine leaned over and pulled a condom from the drawer. "Just to be sure."

"Okay."

Blaine stroked my face and smiled at me. "I love you."

"I love you too."

Blaine fumbled with wrapper before letting in fall to the floor.

xxx

Blaine snuggled his face into my hair and wrapped an arm around my waist.

"Do you have any idea how amazing you are?" I whispered as I ran my fingers up and down the jaw. "Because you're incredible Blaine Anderson."

"So are you." He replied, pressing his lips to my temple. "You're everything to me."

AN: Yeah yeah I went AWOL for a month, sorry I failed a chemistry test and my parents went ape shit on me. The good news is I prewrote the next few chapters so they'll be up once a week. Anyways review don't review whatever, everyone's lost interest in this anyways