The first month apart goes fairly well, Sebastian and Kurt talks over Skype twice a week. Of course Sebastian think about what happened right before Kurt took off. He can still feel his lips prickly everytime he thinks about that kiss and he quite often have woken up dreaming about those lips kissing other parts of his body. It's not because he is proud those thoughts, but he have urges so he let himself dream and drift off to the thoughts of Kurt's lips from time to time, he can't really shut it down.
But Kurt doesn't bring the kiss up, so neither does Sebastian. One afternoon when Kurt calls he tells Sebastian that he have a surprise for him later that day and when Sebastian calls him again, Kurt pops up on screen sitting behind small piano. He smiles at Sebastian and plays a couple of nodes of the song "Hold on" - the song Sebastian have song to him when he haves nightmares. When he is finished he tells Sebastian that he picked piano, because that was Sebastian's favorite instrument. And Sebastian's heart nearly explodes with joy and he can't help but miss him even more.
All in all things are going great, until suddenly they're not.
It starts when Sebastian starts having nightmares and doesn't sleep well, he wakes up covered in sweat and have to call in sick at work several times.
Kurt seems to notice and he ask if everything if okay, to which Sebastian assure him that everything is fine, because he doesn't want to worry him, not when he is having such a great time at the camp.
It's two weeks later, when Travis is over and knocks at Sebastian's door, because they're going to the beach and stay guard there.
But Sebastian doesn't answer, so treavis tries the handle at luckily it opens.
Sebastian is nowhere near the livingroom when he steps inside the apartment, but he can hear the water running in the bathroom so he sits down and wait.
After 30 minutes and Sebastian is still not out from the shower, Travis decides to go up and knock on the bathroom door.
"Prepstar?" He asks and knocks a little harder when Sebastian doesn't answer the first time.
The door is not locked so he peeks his head inside.
"Sebastian?"
Instead of the warm cloud of steem he had thought would surround him when he got in, he is meet with a cold bathroom. He hurries over to the shower where he can see a figure scrunched against the wall and he tosses the shower curtain aside.
"Fuck..!"
It's Sebastian, his eyes are closed and his whole body are shaking. treavis isn't sure if the man is awake at all.
"Come on.." Travis takes his arms around his friends body and brings him into bed, covers him up with blankets and pillows to keep him warm and then immediately calls the doctor.
It takes 15 minutes before the doctor arrives and when he takes in the man laying on the bed shaking, only one question pops into his mind.
"Has he found his soulmate yet and how long has been since he saw him last?"
Travis worries his bottom lip between his teeth, of course it's that. Why haven't he thought if that before, he fumbles with his phone and finds Burt's number.
While the phone connects, he sits down beside Sebastian on the bed.
"Don't worry Prepstar, it's gonna be better."
Another place in town, Burt is sitting in his car cursing the other cars away. He's in a hurry.
He glances at his phone, shit only 30 minutes, before his flight is leaving.
1 hour ago he was in the middle of lunch when he got a call about Kurt.
He had suddenly fainted in the middle of a performing and was rushed to the ER.
His phone rings and he sees Travis name flash on his screen, he doesn't have time for that though, he needs to be at the airport as soon as possible.
Two days later Sebastian wakes up, his head is hurting and his body is freezing.
He looks to the side and sees Travis sitting in a chair, he doesn't recognize the chair though and he let his eyes drift around the room.
It's definitely not his own room, but somehow the room looks oddly familiar anyway.
"Hi Prepstar.."
Sebastian's turns his head and watch Travis get up from the chair and sits beside him.
"Are you feeling better?"
Sebastians nods. "What… " He coughs one time. "What happened?"
Travis offers him a glass of water, before explaining.
"You fainted in the shower. I went over to pick you up saturday, but when you didn't answered the door I went inside and that's where i found you in the shower, cold water running down and you were shaking."
"Wow… I think i remember going in there, but I'm not sure. I wasn't feeling well.."
Sebastian looks up and sees Travis is looking down at his hands, a sign of that the man is not telling him the whole thing.
"Travstar, what it is?"
"I.. I called the doctor and he came over.." Travis starts and Sebastian nods because that make sense.
"Only five minutes later he could tell that you were feeling like that, because you have been away from Kurt that long.." He trails off.
"Travis, what aren't you telling me?" Sebastian's asks and sits up.
"I tried calling Burt.. But he didn't pick up." Travis says and looks up at Sebastian with sad eyes.
Sebastian gulps, he doesn't like where this is heading. "And why didn't he pick up?"
"He was on his way to the airport, because Kurt fainted and they couldn't wake him up."
Before Travis even finish his sentence, Sebastian is out of bed. It all makes sense now, why the room seemed so familier. It's Kurt's room.
He is running down the stairs and sees Burt sitting in the kitchen.
"Sebastian, you're awake?" Burt states.
"Yes. Where is Kurt?" He asks and looks around, desperately wanting to know that his soulmate is okay.
"How are you?" Burt asks, instead of answering Sebastian question.
"I'm okay." Then he takes one step closer to Burt.
"Please tell me where Kurt is?"
Burt looks up at him, his eyes are swollen and red. "He is in the guest room.."
Sebastian turns around and heads down the hall, only to hear Burt continue. "He hasn't woken up yet."
Sebastian stops in front the door and takes a deep breath, his head is swimming with all thought of disturbing thourghts and scenarios and some part of him doesn't want to go in there and see Kurt, because he knows that he will probably break down in tears. But he needs to see him, his heart needs to.
So he turn the knob and steps inside.
There in the bed, covered in blankets and pillows is Kurt.
His small head pops up and his hair's a mess, but it doesn't matter. Because the thing Sebastian sees is that he is breathing and before he can think about what he is doing he has crawled under the covers and curled his body around the smaller boy.
That is how Burt and Travis finds them 30 minutes later, curled up in eachothers arms. Both of them much more relaxed and in synch with their breathing.
The next day Kurt wakes up too, his still weak and needs a lot of rest, Sebastian refuses to go home, he has to stay by his side.
Kurt doesn't say much, but smiles whenever Sebastian looks over and curls into the man whenever he sits down at the bed beside him.
Burt have a hard time dealing with all this at the same time. Within the last couple of days he have gotten a call that his son have fainted on the other side of earth and then hours later gotten a call about his son's soulmate have been doing the same.
Then he have agreed to let Sebastian sleep at their house, knowing that the soulmate connection needs them to be close in order to heal.
He remembers very well how the first years was when he and Kurt's mom had found each other, they couldn't stay away from each other and they took the slightest opportunity to get together. Really together. One of the things he remembers the most is how much body contact they needed.
Of course it's great that the bond between his son and Sebastian is so strong, but something about it scares Burt. And that something is not just something, he knows exactly what it is.
It's the 15 age difference.
He strongly wished that they could have waited at least until Kurt would be 15 to have connected. But that's not how things have went down and there isn't anything he can do about it, other than support his son in this.
But that doesn't mean he won't keep one eye open whenever Sebastian is near.
Through the next week Kurt gets better and by the end of it, he is back to his old self and so is Sebastian.
Travis had been coming by the Hummel's house every second day to see how Sebastian is doing and Kurt too, he is starting to care about the little kid.
Casper have been calling a couple of times and asked if Kurt was okay and Burt had told him that when Kurt could he would call him back.
And that's what Kurt is doing now, he just connected to skype and pressed dial.
It only takes a couple of seconds before it connects and Casper's red haired head pops up on the screen.
"Kurt..Are you feeling better?
Kurt gives him a small smile. "Yeah, i'm feeling a lot better."
"Was it the flu? Because there was two other kids who had to go to the doctor because they got fever, but none of them fainted like you did." Casper explains and he looks worried.
"It was not the fever.."
"What then?"
Kurt takes deep breath, he can either come up with some thought of lie or tell the truth.
"It was because i had been away from my soulmate for too
long."
On the screen Casper blinks a couple of times and a mix of emotion rush over his face.
"Soulmate?"
Kurt fiddles with his shirt. "Yes. I.. I meet him at christmas."
Kurt is sure he sees something like hurt in Casper's eyes. "And you haven't told me?"
"No..I just… It's complicated.."
"Right…."
They goes silent for some seconds before Casper gets his face closer to the screen.
"You're sure you're feeling better right?"
"I'm sure yes, i had some time with him and that made us both better."
"So he have been sick too?" Casper asks and that hint of hurt is back into his eyes.
"Yes. He fainted like me."
"Wow.. That's awful.." Caser whispers and looks up "But i'm glad that you both are okay now."
"Thanks Casper…. I'm sad that i couldn't stay at the camp though, we had fun together."
"We sure did and i'm looking forward to see you again when I'm coming home." Casper says and offers him a small smile, but it doesn't reach his eyes.
"Casper…"
The red head boy looks up and he looks sad.
"Can i tell you something." Casper whispers and Kurt nods.
"I.. I don't have a soulmate."
"What?... What do you mean?" Kurt asks, because that doesn't make sense, everyone have a soulmate.
"When i was three years old, i met a boy, his names was Mike. We turned out to be soulmates, but…" A small tear rolls down Casper sheeks.
And Kurt let his fingers glide over the screen, he doesn't like seeings the other boy cry.
"But.. He got sick and had to go to the hospital, then before we turned four he...he died." Casper ends.
"Casper." Kurt gasp, because that sounds awful. Even though both had been too young to understand anything about the soulmate connection yet.
Casper dries his eyes and looks at the screen, trying to smile.
"It's not like i think about it that often, but .."
"But then i mentioned my soulmate." Kurt offers.
"Yeah… But i'm happy that you found him." Casper hurries to say, because he is.
Kurt smiles. "I am too."
"I'm so happy that you're my friend Kurt… I haven't told any one of the others about this, not even Daisy remembers it."
"I'm proud t be your friends Casper and thanks for telling me" Kurt says.
"You're just so sweet and.. And I really wished i could hug you."
"I really wished i could hug you too."
They end the call and Kurt immediately goes down and curls up in Sebastian's lap.
He is sad about what Casper told him, but happy because he have Sebastian this close.