I thought I was going to get this updated sooner but as it turned out... didn't happen. It's a little short but it's kinda just a fluffy filler. Next chapter is when lots of important stuff begins to happen! But I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Kurt let Cooper into the apartment, smiling slightly at him, but it was clear that Kurt hadn't forgotten Cooper's mistake of not telling them about Blaine's father, because Kurt normally would have beamed and half hugged him at least, instead he just lead him in.
"I am going with you," Blaine said for the hundredth time since Kurt had told him he wanted Blaine to stay at the apartment while he went to work. Kurt sighed,
"I told you, Honey, I just think it would be easier because of the media." George had fired Blaine as soon as they had gotten away from the cameras, neither Blaine nor Kurt were that surprised, though Blaine had apologized twelve times before he finally believed Kurt's statement that everything was fine.
"Come on, BB, we haven't really had to chance to hang out lately, it'll be just the Anderson bros for the night." Blaine looked at his brother and fought a grin, Cooper had called them the Anderson bros on the occasion Cooper wanted to play with his much younger brother, and that was their super hero duo name.
"But Kurt..."
"Is a big boy, and is more than capable of taking care of himself," Cooper claimed. Kurt smiled gratefully at his brother in law as Blaine was clearly wearing down.
"Yeah, all right, but don't go to stage door, please," Blaine begged, Kurt kissed his lips lightly,
"I'm the adult here, remember?"
"Hey what about me?" Both Kurt and Blaine looked at Cooper with identical eyebrow raised expressions of disbelief. Cooper sighed, "Yeah I didn't think so." Blaine chuckled and mockingly patted his brother's cheek,
"And I'm the adult once Kurt leaves."
"You're fourteen!" Cooper claimed, but Kurt chuckled,
"And you are 36 with the maturity level of a ten year old, so Blaine keep your brother out of trouble." Blaine nodded, grinning at Kurt who winked playfully at him, before going and grabbing his jacket. "Okay, behave and I'll be home around midnight," Kurt said as he pecked Blaine's lips.
"Yes, Dad," Cooper said playfully, earning a not so nice finger from Kurt. As soon as Kurt left, Cooper could tell Blaine didn't know exactly what to do with himself, he wondered if he'd been home alone or without Kurt at all for the past four months.
"So whatcha wanna do?" Blaine asked. Cooper shook his head, Kurt told him his brother had gotten fired, and honestly Cooper was practically bursting with pride.
"Come here, squirt," Cooper pulled him into a hug and kissed his hair before pulling away.
"What was that for," Blaine asked, as he looked shyly at the floor.
"For being the brave, awesome brother that I love," Cooper replied, walking into the kitchen, knowing that statement would make Blaine follow him. Sure enough, as soon as they both entered the kitchen Blaine spoke,
"What did I do?"
"Not apologizing for what you do to that asshole, oh wait that's an insult to assholes, and besides, you're a fan of them." Blaine blushed nearly purple he was so red and Cooper let a hardy laugh,
"Oh I'll never get tired of that shade of red on you, BB. Anyway, I was just glad you didn't say you were sorry for something not only were you not sorry for, but something you shouldn't have been sorry for, that perv deserved what he got." Blaine blushed again, but this time for a different reason, he'd always wanted to please his brother and make him proud, just as he did his father, maybe a little more.
"I was going to apologize, but then that reporter said Kurt asked for it and I-"
"Wait, what?!" Cooper snapped, Blaine sighed,
"It wasn't exactly that, but close enough, and I couldn't be sorry, especially not if they were going to say that crap about Kurt. So I just basically said I'd do it again, and then once we got back to the back George fired me, which is fire really, I wouldn't want to work for someone who isn't 100% on my side anyway." Blaine said, smiling softly when Cooper threw an arm over his shoulder,
"That's my boy." Blaine smiled but suddenly was thrown into a memory,
"That's my boy." Blaine heard his father say as Cooper walked across the Harvard stage holding his diploma proudly. Blaine rolled his eyes slightly but cheered proudly at his brother who grinned up at him. He and Cooper had lost touch since Cooper went to college, but he would always be his brother.
"See Blaine, don't you want to walk across that stage knowing you can get a job in any law firm you want because you graduated at top of your class?" Blaine sighed softly, ever since he'd come out to his father, not only as being gay but as wanting to go into music and not law, his father tried to change his mind at both every chance he got.
"No thanks, Dad, I'd rather walk across NYU's stage," Blaine claimed in a hushed voice since they were announcing the name after Cooper's.
"You're never going to have a career if you don't get your degree in something at least concrete, something that's not complete bull-shit like a degree in music."
"Can we not have this conversation here?" Blaine asked as people around them glared and shushed them. Mr. Anderson scowled at his youngest son, but didn't say anything else. Blaine knew it was going to be a long day.
"BB!" The name was screamed into the auditorium now that the ceremony was over. Cooper ran over and picked Blaine up, lifting him off his feet in a hug, Blaine groaned exaggeratedly, all the while grinning.
"We're so proud of you, Coop," their mother said, kissing Cooper's cheek. Cooper grinned and playfully ruffled Blaine's unmovable hair,
"You're next bro, gonna be selling out stadiums before we know it." Blaine smirked, and rolled his eyes, though neither of them missed their father's glare. "Oh come on Dad, you and I both know Blaine would never survive in the corporate world," Cooper tried to sound teasing, but they all knew it was true, Blaine would never live up to what their father expected of him.
"He would if maybe he put forth a little effort," Mr. Anderson said firmly, causing Blaine to deflate slightly and causing Cooper to glare.
"He's not like you and me,"
"In any meaning of the word," Blaine said under his breath.
"And you have to accept that he'll probably never be a lawyer with a house on a hill and a housewife, or house-husband, in his case," Cooper corrected. "But he is your son, and that should be all the information you need." Blaine smiled softly, trying to hide it so as not to anger their father further. But Mr. Anderson scowled,
"Not if I have anything to say about it."
"Well then keep your mouth shut," Cooper snarled...
"BLAINE!" Cooper's voice sounded like he had said his name several times before and was panicking.
"Sorry," Blaine said, looking his brother in the eyes. Cooper sighed in relief,
"I was getting ready to call Kurt. What was that, little brother? It was like you left me for a while."
"I got another memory," Blaine said, smiling as he processed his memory, Cooper had stuck up for him.
"Another?!" Cooper asked, surprised. Blaine smiled softly,
"Yeah that makes four, thanks for sticking up for me at your graduation." Cooper softened and nodded, pulling his brother close, and Blaine gave no indication that he didn't want the affection.
"I will always stand up for you, and your right to be whoever you want. If you wanted to be an airplane pilot next I would support you. Though if Kurt was against it I wouldn't support you openly, because there are some people you just don't cross, and your husband is one of them." Cooper smirked as Blaine chuckled, coming out of his arms.
"Yeah, he still hasn't forgiven you fully for the dinner," Blaine claimed, knowing though that it wouldn't be long.
"I deserve that though, that was a stupid thing to do," Cooper claimed, Blaine nodded,
"Yeah, it was." Blaine paused, "Can I ask you something? And you be 100% honest?"
"Of course," Cooper agreed. Blaine sighed,
"Am I a screwup?" Cooper looked at him mildly horrified, "I mean I certainly didn't become what Dad wanted me to be, but I didn't become what I wanted to be either. I'm not selling out stadiums, I'm not on the billboard charts, I didn't do anything I planned." Cooper paused, unsure how to deal with this version of his brother, a version he hadn't had to deal with for nearly 10 years... not since Blaine started talking about a boy named Kurt.
"This happened," Cooper reached and grabbed a framed photo of Kurt and Blaine, they were only around 19 and 20 and they were laughing and leaning into each other. "You fell in love, and though Kurt always supported your dreams to perform, as you have his, when you didn't make it as far as you hoped by the time you wanted to get married, you decided to go a different path. Because he became your new dream."
"Did you just quote Tangled?" Blaine asked, raising one eyebrow. Cooper cursed under his breath, chuckling,
"I was hoping you would just think I was really awesome." Blaine smiled,
"You don't have to quote Disney for me to think you're awesome." Cooper grinned and pulled Blaine into a half hug. "So I became a music producer?" Blaine asked, continuing on trying to find out his choices.
"Yeah, you've always had an ear for talent, so it wasn't hard for you to work your way up. You and Kurt struggled a while when you were at the bottom, and he was work shopping, but you got by, on mostly ramen noddles and that ridiculous love you two have for each other." Blaine blushed and smiled. "So what were your other memories?" Blaine explained the other memories he'd received, Cooper nearly broke the frame that was still in his hand when he was told about the memory of Blaine introducing Kurt to his parents and way Mr. Anderson had reacted, but he had calmed down once Blaine told him about Kurt's protection.
After the memories were told and Cooper awwed over the park one, the two brothers decided to make a fort in the living room.
"We'll have to clean it up before Kurt gets home," Cooper warned, Blaine just giggled and nodded. Cooper could see the excitement in his brother's eyes and he couldn't help but smile, Blaine had spent too long without it, but then when he was 15 and met Kurt, it slowly reappeared. After he lost his memory he lost the spark but now it was back and as the 26 year old who thought he was 14 threw the pillows on the floor before diving onto them, Cooper knew he wouldn't change his brother for anything.
The fort was build and they were eating pizza that they ordered, and drinking soda, careful not to spill it, that was when Blaine spoke up again.
"What if I never get my memory back? I mean we can't wait four years for me to mentally turn 18 and then go back to college, but I don't remember my last four years of high school so even if I did want to go to college I couldn't. And we may be financially set for a while, but we aren't gonna stay that way for four year." Blaine bit his bottom lip, not meeting Cooper's eyes. "I will be nothing but a burden to Kurt and even if he insists that's not true, I know that it is, and I can't do that to him."
"You're not doing anything to him. He'll stay with you forever if he can. It doesn't matter to him whether you have a job, or college degree or even high school degree, he loves you because you're Blaine Tiberius Anderson-Hummel, not because you are or were a music producer for Virgin Records. He doesn't care about any of that, he just loves you, it actually ridiculous how much he does love you, but he'd die for you and almost did." Cooper reminded him gently, patting his back. "You married well Blaine, you married a man who truly meant his vow of for better or for worse. He honestly, completely, and fully loves you, and so do I. You are not alone, BB, you never have been and you never will be again." Blaine smiled softly and laid on his stomach,
"Okay, put The Dark Knight Rises in!" Cooper chuckled and did as he was told, joining his brother under the fort and laid on his stomach. Neither of them realized they were falling asleep, and it was 12:17 when the door opened and an exhausted husband and brother in law entered to find the living room a wreck and the Dark Knight Rises dvd menu on. Kurt sighed softly in annoyance, but every bit of it waned away when he saw Blaine and Cooper laying together, Cooper's arm instinctively draped over Blaine, who in turn, was curled toward him.
"Oh my Anderson boys," Kurt murmured and he grabbed the blanket and tucked it carefully around the men. The feeling of a weight on him caused Blaine to wake, searching for the reason.
"Kurt," he smiled sleepily as he saw his partner.
"Go back to sleep, sleepy head, I'll see you in the morning," Kurt kissed his lips lightly. By this point, Blaine realized there was a mess all around him.
"I've got to clean this up," he said, moving to get up but Kurt gently pushed him back down.
"No, you can do it tomorrow," he said, "Sleep." Blaine nodded drowsily, puckering his lips like a child wanting a kiss from their parent. Kurt laughed softly and kissed Blaine again, getting a hum of contentment from the nearly asleep man whom he loved. Cooper hadn't budged and Kurt rolled his eyes though he was smiling, and picked up the pizza box and cans of soda on the floor. "How did I fall in love with someone with a brother like you?" Kurt whispered toward Cooper, and as if he heard, Cooper shifted slightly, moving closer to Blaine and snuggling closer to him. "Because when you want you can be an amazing man," Kurt answered his question as he turned the TV off and headed off to the bedroom to get ready for bed. It had been a long night, a lot of reporters had been there and even several audience members had yelled out during the play about him being a cheater. If he could, neither Anderson brother would know about any of it.
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