Three days after he was released from hospital Blaine felt fantastic. He had plenty of energy and didn't even feel the need to sleep. Instead, at four in the morning, still awake while Kurt was asleep, he decided it was the perfect time for a jog around the block, followed by rearranging all the cupboards in the kitchen and making enough food to feed five people. Just as he was finishing up with the pancakes Kurt came out of their room, smiling as he saw Blaine stand over the stove, humming a song to himself.

"Kurt!" Blaine cheered when he noticed his fiance watching him. He immediately gathered the taller man in his arms and spun him around with a laugh. "I made breakfast for us, and Rachel, whenever she decides to get up, why is she still sleeping? The sun is up now, you're up, I'm up, she should be up to. We should do something after breakfast Kurt, we could go to the park, or go shopping, or we could go out for lunch! There's so much to do here Kurt, and we never go out and do anything. Why don't we go out more? The city is amazing!" Blaine was talking excitedly, almost too fast for Kurt to keep up.

"We have class today Blaine, we can't go out, but how about we have lunch together at school?" Kurt offered, slightly concerned at Blaine's unusual behaviour.

"Do we have to go to class though? I want to do something else, we should definitely do something else. Something more fun than going to class." Blaine was fidgeting now, unable to stand still.

"We're going to class, we can't just skip it, now why don't we sit down and eat breakfast then we can get ready to go okay?"

"Okay" Blaine pouted, though he sat down across from Kurt at the table to serve himself some breakfast. He was nibbling on a piece of bacon when Rachel emerged from her room.

"Rachel! Come sit with us, have some breakfast, I made food. It's not as good as Kurt's cooking, but he was sleeping and I was hungry so I made breakfast instead." Blaine was bouncing his leg as he spoke, clearly unable to sit still even though he had only been sitting for a couple of minutes.

Rachel was shocked by Blaine's unusually energetic greeting. Even before he started displaying symptoms of depression he had never been a morning person, so this new attitude was definitely unlike him. Eventually Kurt and Rachel just shrugged it off as the antidepressants taking effect.

It took them a week to realise something was seriously wrong with him.

He had only been sleeping an hour at most every night for a week, making enough food to feed them all at least twice every morning, and sometimes multiple times a day, and he had been going for long runs at random intervals throughout the day.

Kurt had heard Blaine talk more in that week than he had in their entire relationship, but most of the conversation Blaine made switched topics faster than anyone could keep up, as though he got distracted half way through what he was saying.

There were also times, though not very common, where he just got irritated for almost no reason and snapped at anyone within hearing distance.

Eventually Kurt couldn't take how unpredictable Blaine was and he took him to his therapist.

"I don't want to go in Kurt, I'm fine, there's nothing wrong with me, I've never felt better!" Blaine was grinning beside him, bouncing on his feet as they got to the reception for the therapist's office.

"I know B, but we just need to make sure your medication is working okay? Just talk to her and then we can go home and do whatever you want to do." Kurt placed a kiss to his cheek and nudged him in the direction of the office after they signed him in.

Kurt sat in the waiting room for an hour before Blaine came out, his therapist following behind him. Blaine was frowning as he sat down next to Kurt, his arms folded across his chest.

"Hello again Kurt, I have some good news and some bad news for you." She sat down on the other side of him. "Blaine was misdiagnosed, which is very common as it's not until a lot of patience display symptoms of mania that we can see it, but he has bipolar II, which is why his medication affected him the way it did. The good news is it's completely treatable with the correct medication. I've got a prescription here for you to get filled out, just make sure he takes it every day, and keep an eye on his behaviour. Sometimes stress can affect the medication, so if he starts displaying symptoms again call me and we will adjust his dosage." Kurt frowned as he took the prescription from her.

"You mean this isn't just a problem with his medication? This is him? What if his medication doesn't work? Or he's being misdiagnosed again? How will I know?"

"You know him best Kurt, if you start to see any behavioural changes in him, call me. You have my emergency phone number."

"Okay, thank you for seeing him today. I'll call you the moment anything changes." Kurt took Blaine's hand in his and linked their fingers together, feeling hopeful for the future with his fiance.

Everything got better after Blaine's medication regulated itself in his system, and he was more like himself than he had been in a long time. He was smiling again, able to focus in class, and his relationship with Kurt had only grown stronger. Then he got the phone call from the hospital.

He was talking to Sam when the phone rang, and was a little confused when he saw an unknown number calling him. Nothing could have prepared him for the news that his fiance had been beaten and left for dead.