A/N: So I wrote this author's note last night - This was fun to write and honestly, who doesn't need a little extra Klaine (AU) fluff right now?! Stay strong, my fellow Klainers, our boys are endgame! Enjoy xoxo

After all the spoilers flying around, I feel like I should just say this instead: Let's Go Back To the Start...

Prompt #14: The first 5 words must be 'On a cold rainy night'

Character(s): Blaine & Kurt [AU]

Words: 676

Date: October 3, 2012

On a cold rainy night, Blaine swears loudly in the interior of his car as it unceremoniously quits on him, leaving him stranded. He places a call to his usual towing company, sadly this isn't the first time it's happened and then sends a scathing text to his brother, who had been the last person to 'borrow' his car.

The towing company's trucks are all busy at the scene of a nearby collision, so it outsources the call to a local repair shop.

Kurt catches his Dad at the door, as he's putting on his rain boots, and immediately grabs the keys to the shop off the hall table. Burt protests but Kurt quickly wins the argument when he reminds him that he's suppose to be taking it easy and hooking up a vehicle in the middle of rainstorm does not fit that description. So Kurt grabs his umbrella and flies out the door. He drives to Hummel Lube & Tire as quickly as the slick roads will allow, pulls on his coveralls, and then starts up the engine of their tow truck. He eases it onto the slippery street and drives in the direction of his destiny.

Blaine is momentarily speechless when a beautiful boy emerges from the tow truck and sashays toward him.

Kurt catches what he interprets as skepticism in the stranger's eyes, "Don't worry, I've been doing this longer than you've been driving."

Blaine doesn't miss the hurt in the boy's melodic voice. "Oh, no, I wasn't, I'm sorry, you just weren't who I was expecting. You see this isn't the first time this has happened to me, and you're not the tattooed six-foot tall man with a beard who usually shows up as my knight in shining armour." Blaine gives Kurt a gorgeous smile and the tension between them melts away.

"Clearly you need to take better care of your car if that's your definition of a knight in shining armour," Kurt teases back and almost kicks himself. He doesn't know where that came from, he never talks to anyone, let alone strange boys on a dark empty road, that way.

But a moment later, he's rewarded by Blaine's laughter. "It isn't me. Every time my brother comes to town he borrows my car and then two days later it dies. I swear he's putting coffee in the gas tank or something equally ridiculous." Blaine rolls his eyes but the tone of his voice is affectionate and Kurt can tell that Blaine loves his brother, even if he mistreats his car.

A beep interrupts them. "Speak of the devil," Blaine huffs as he sees Cooper's name flash on his screen. Blaine takes a small step back to allow Kurt access to the driver's seat. When Kurt brushes past him, he swears the air between them crackles, but he tells himself it must just be the electricity from the storm.

The car is most definitely dead and when Kurt tells Blaine this, Blaine just shakes his head. "Cooper insists that it was working fine for him."

"Cooper?" Kurt asks.

"Oh, my brother, Cooper Anderson." Blaine says quietly, anticipating the gushing that accompanies any mention of his famous brother's name.

Kurt watches as Blaine squares his shoulders, as if he's getting ready to defend himself from a blow. Kurt is all too familiar with the gesture.

"Well, looks like you got the good looks and the brains in the family." Kurt flirts. He's never done this before in his life, but Blaine seems to draw him out of his shell like no one else he's ever met. Plus, he was emboldened by how Blaine didn't flinch, the way all the boys at McKinley do, when Kurt brushed past him a moment earlier.

Blaine's eyes twinkle in the street light as he smiles wide and loose in response. "Thank you, um, oh where are my manners. I didn't even introduce myself." Blaine extends his hand as he says, "My name's Blaine."

Kurt grabs on gratefully and suddenly his whole body is flooded in warmth, "Kurt."