Love in the Air
AN: Hello! This is the epilogue, and there is a large author's note at the end which is why there isn't one here. So without further ado, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee, Modern Family, American Airlines, or anything else that looks familiar. All mistakes are mine.
Epilogue:
December 25th 2028:
"Levi, wake up!" A small head with straight, light brown hair bobbed up and down as two little arms tried to shake the sleeping boy.
A grumble rose from the underneath the pile of blankets and the little girl tried again, "Levi! It's Christmas morning! Please wake up! We have to surprise Daddy and Papa like we did last year."
The mention of Christmas morning seemed to wake up the boy who scrambled from his pile of pillows and blankets to look at his twin sister, brushing curls from his hazel eyes. "Okay Madeline, okay I'm awake!"
He jumped out of his bed and grabbed his stuffed yellow Labrador plushie before grabbing his sister's free hand. In her other arm was a matching plushie but hers had a purple bow around the neck while Levi's had a green bowtie. The plushies were present from their dads for their birthday last year and the twins hadn't set them down since.
The four year olds quietly raced down the hallway of their New York home towards their dads' room. Levi pressed his finger to his lips reminding his sister to be quiet as they slowly creaked open the door to the room.
A few weak sunbeams broke through the shades on the window, and Madeline and Levi walked as silently as they could over to the foot of the large bed.
"Ready?" Levi whispered to his sister who nodded clutching her plushie tightly. Simultaneously they crawled onto the bed and over to where their dads were sleeping.
"Kurt? Are you awake?" Blaine scooted closer and brushed a lock of hair from his husband's eyes.
"Kurt?" Blaine tried again when the only response he got from Kurt was a low grumble.
This time Kurt responded audibly, "What?" his voice was heavy with sleep and didn't travel further than a few feet before falling into the silence of the room.
"Are you awake?"
Kurt opened his eyes and grabbed Blaine's hand, "No, I'm talking to you in my sleep." He retorted sarcastically quirking a small smile before he snuggled closer to Blaine and closed his eyes again.
Blaine chuckled and wrapped his arms around Kurt, "Well we need to pretend to be asleep because anytime now two little monsters are going to come in here and wreak havoc like they do every Christmas morning."
The only sign that Kurt hadn't slipped back into unconsciousness was the small laugh he let out. "Ugh don't remind me. How did this twisted tradition of theirs start anyway?"
"Well, one day we decided that we wanted to have kids. So after a lot of talking and research we decided to go with in uterine fertilization and we picked a surrogate and an egg donor. Then we both had to-"
Blaine was cut off when Kurt threw his hand over the other man's mouth. "I know how our kids were made Blaine. Now be quiet and go to sleep, it's too early."
With a small sigh Blaine pried Kurt's hand from his mouth, which didn't prove that difficult since he was half-asleep. "There are much better ways to shut me up, you know?"
Kurt's response was a drawn out "Shhhhhhhh," followed by a muffled, "we're supposed to be sleeping."
With a huff Blaine complied and pretended to at least look like he was sleeping again.
Sure enough, three minutes later a creak echoed through the room as the door was opened, it was followed by the sounds of two sets of small feet moving over the thick carpet to the bed.
Blaine heard a whispered "Ready?" before the blankets shifted as their son and daughter climbed onto the bed and over to where they were sleeping.
"Papa! Wake up its Christmas!" Madeline shouted throwing herself down onto Blaine the same time that Levi shouted "Daddy! Get up! Get up!" and collapsed onto Kurt.
Blaine pretended to stretch and yawn before he reached out and grabbed Madeline and pulled her into a hug. She squeaked in surprise before laughing as she threw her arms around him and Blaine got hit in the face with the plushie but he didn't comment on it.
"Good morning sweetie!" Blaine pressed a kiss to her pale cheek.
"Good morning Papa! Can you get up so we can open presents pleaseeeee?" Even in the dim light Blaine could see Madeline trying to use the full power of her blue eyes on him in the same way that Kurt always did. There was no doubt that besides having Kurt's genes, she picked up on a multitude of his mannerisms as well.
Blaine looked over and met Kurt's gaze, he had been woken up by Levi and was having a very similar conversation. "I think we should all get up and go eat some breakfast, then we can open presents alright?"
Both Madeline and Levi nodded quickly before jumping off the bed and running over towards the door shouting for their dads to follow them. Kurt leaned over and kissed Blaine whispering "Merry Christmas" before he got out of bed. Both men grabbed a sweatshirt from the closet, Kurt ending up with Blaine's old Dalton sweatshirt and Blaine with Kurt's old McKinley sweatshirt before they followed their children downstairs.
"Good morning boys."
"Good morning Carole." Kurt and Blaine gave her a small hug as they walked into their kitchen. Blaine collapsed into a chair around the kitchen table while Kurt grabbed them both coffees.
As Kurt walked by, Blaine grabbed his hips and pulled him into his lap. Kurt tried to protest, but knowing it was useless he relaxed against Blaine's chest and sipped his coffee, letting the warm liquid slowly wake him up.
"So did Madeline and Levi wake you two up like they do every year?" Burt asked as he set down the newspaper and leaned back in the chair across from Blaine and Kurt. Carole had grabbed a glass of orange juice before she sat down at his side.
"We were already awake but pretended to be asleep, don't tell them though."
Blaine scoffed and shook his head, "No, I was awake, you on the other hand were not really awake and I'm pretty sure that you fell asleep again before they came in."
Kurt was about to turn around and argue with his husband when Santana walked into the kitchen closely followed by Eric who looked exhausted. The large ring on Santana's left hand caught the light as she walked by and Kurt smiled remembering their wedding only a year after his and Blaine's.
"Dear god I hope you two realize how goddamn freezing your house is. I swear, last night I thought I was going to wake up an icicle this morning!" Santana grumbled, pulling the blanket draped around her shoulders closer. Eric pulled out a chair for her to sit in and wrapped his arm around as she leaning to the touch, clutching her coffee mug.
"Need I remind you Santana that you lived in New York for almost five years, you know how cold it gets during the winter." Kurt pointed out; much more awake now that he had finished his cup of coffee.
"Yes, but need I remind you that I now live in the land of sunshine? Sunshine Kurt, where it is warm and none of this below freezing shit."
"Really Santana? Still cussing?" Rachel's comment announced her arrival as she walked into the kitchen and took the empty seat next to Kurt who was still perched on Blaine's lap.
"I see no children in here. Unless you're pregnant again?"
Everyone looked at Rachel who shook her head, "I'm not pregnant, raising two teenagers while still performing on Broadway is more than enough for me."
"Speaking of children, where are they?"
It was silent until Rachel answered Blaine's question, "Well when I left our room they were attacking Finn, so probably upstairs."
The sound of the door bell ringing cut off whatever else Rachel was going to say and Kurt jumped up followed by Blaine to answer the door.
Kurt pulled the door open and ushered Nick, Jeff, and Nick's parents into the house before closing the door and hugging his friends. Harry and Sally said a quick hello to Kurt and Blaine before heading into the kitchen.
Jeff took off his jacket and hung it in the closet while Kurt cooed over the little girl in Nick's arms. Two years ago they had adopted their daughter Analyn from the Philippines.
"Merry Christmas guys, where are Madeline and Levi?" Nick asked as he handed off Analyn to Jeff while he took off his jacket.
"They are upstairs waking up Finn with Ben, Melody and Justin." Kurt replied.
As if on cue, a crash sounded from the second story of the house before Madeline and Levi, followed by Ben, Justin and Melody raced down the stairs. A moment later Finn emerged looking tired; he gave the four men a quick wave of his hand before disappearing into the kitchen.
"And now… they are downstairs." Blaine commented with a laugh before he motioned for Nick and Jeff to follow him and Kurt into the kitchen.
It was only much later that night, after wrapping paper had been torn from the presents under the huge tree in the living room and everyone had eaten a huge Christmas dinner that Blaine, Kurt, Santana, Eric, Nick, and Jeff were alone and the house was quiet.
Rachel and Finn had taken Melody and Justin back to their own home. Ben, Madeline, and Levi were fast asleep upstairs, exhausted from all the excitement. Burt and Carole had gone to sleep early and Nick's parents had taken Analyn back to their apartment, giving them some child-free time with their friends.
Blaine and Kurt were cuddled up on the love seat in their living room, Santana and Eric were on the couch to their left and Nick and Jeff on the couch to their right. They had all been catching up on the past few months, Kurt and Blaine were able to see Nick and Jeff at least once a week but it had been a couple months since the six of them were all together again.
"It's crazy to think that ten years ago we were just getting to know each other, and Santana hadn't even met Eric yet." Kurt was still having a hard time wrapping his mind around the current status of his life. Barely over ten years ago he had been rushing with Santana to their next flight, having no idea that his life would change in every way possible.
Blaine pressed a kiss to Kurt's cheek while everyone else nodded in agreement.
"And now look at us, married with kids." Jeff's voice rang out around the room and he shifted closer to Nick who spoke next. "It's amazing how quickly those ten years passed, it really reminds you to appreciate every moment or at least stop and smell the roses."
"I think you mean, at least check out the smoking hot pilots!" Santana remarked making everyone laugh again.
"Not quite, I already had a 'smoking hot' pilot." Nick leaned over and kissed Jeff.
"Did Santana just admit that I'm good looking?" Blaine whispered into Kurt's ear.
Kurt shifted on the couch so he could look at Blaine, "I think she did, but I didn't need to be reminded. I already knew how good looking and how lucky I am that I met you that day."
Blaine's eyes gleamed with emotion as he smiled, "I love you."
"I love you too." Kurt pressed his lips to Blaine's for a brief moment before they turned their attention back to the conversation around them.
Scattered snow flakes fell on the great state of New York as the six friends talked for hours, late into the night. Every now and then they would pause, as if to take everything in and remember that this really was their life. Somehow, though fate or happen chance, all of their dreams had come true, even those they never knew they had.
THE END!
A few notes, the plushies that Madeline and Levi have are the same ones that Kurt gave Blaine in Big Brother. Also, they are fraternal twins. They have the same mother, but Madeline is biologically Kurt's and Levi is biologically Blaine's. And yes, this is possible. It's the same way that Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka had their twins. :)
I cannot say enough how thankful I am for everyone who read, alerted and favorited this story, especially those of you who took the time to review and leave me wonderful comments. Somehow an errant idea that I had turned into a 27 chapter story and I've loved every moment I've spent writing this story for the past four months.
I do have another story planned, but I'm going to take a little break before I start writing it. The first chapter might be posted in a week, maybe two, I'm really not sure at this point but I'll post a link to the new story on my tumblr. It will be posted here on fanfiction dot net, klaine as always so be sure to keep an eye out.
I know this is the end, but I would still love to hear your thoughts about the epilogue or the whole story in general. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart for reading my little story.
Thoughts? :)
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