Thank you all so much for the kind reviews, the follows, the favorites - it all puts a smile on my face :) And if you haven't noticed Liliana is definitely advanced and ridiculously smart and attentive :P
The rest of the afternoon flew by for the quartet. They laughed, sometimes cried, and had an all-around good time. Liliana instantly took to Kurt and Santana; all three mutually falling in love. Blaine mostly sat back and watched their interactions, while still reserved, with a look of awe and joy. He could not have been happier than he was at that moment. A twist of fate broke his little family and another created a new one, while reuniting an old.
Life is funny that way. It took twists and turns, it zigged when he thought it would zag; all the while gravitating towards a central goal as decided by the universe. Blaine smiled and silently watched his little girl bounce around with joy, her locks flowing do to her movements and her dress twirl because of the swish of her little hips. He remembers the last time he felt like this.
The two sat in the social workers office in the maternity wing at Lima Memorial Hospital. "Do you want to see her before you sign?" The social worker asked; formalities.
"No. I want to sign." The worker smiled and slid the packet of paper across the overly organized desk.
"Okay." She said centering the packet in the middle of the table. "I will need your sign here… here… here…" Pausing while Tony signed. "I also need you to initial here… here… and here." "Congratulations Mr. Goings, Mr. Anderson. I'll call the nurse to bring in your daughter." She carefully filed away his paperwork. "Mr. Anderson, you know that since the adoption is in Mr. Goings name, you will have to separately file for legal custody with the state. Here is a card for someone who can help you with all of the formalities."
"Yes, ma'am. Thank you." Blaine took the card and watched as the worker pressed the intercom button on her plastic covered phone.
"Can you please have Carole bring in Baby Girl L?"
They hear a static laced "Right away." And their hands found each other and held tight. Their world slowed down and it seemed like an old movie. Was this actually happening to them right now?
In what seemed like an eternity but felt like a second the door opened and a lovely woman holding a tiny bundle wrapped in a fluffy purple and pink blanket entered the room. The two men jumped to their feet and walked over to the woman. They peaked into her arms and saw her – their daughter – face still slightly swollen, tiny head topped with a pink hat tied off with pink, purple, and white curling ribbons.
They instantly fell in love with the little girl. "Would you like to hold her?" The men couldn't even speak, they just smiled and nodded. The nurse, Carole, placed the baby girl into Tony's arms and took the little girl's leg out of the swaddle. She checked the leg band before cutting it and the alarm off of her ankle. She re-covered the baby's leg and smiled before turning around. "Congratulations gentlemen. Enjoy her. Here is some formula to get you through to when you get home."
"Thank you Carole. Thank you so much." Tony managed to choked out between the silent sobs the two men shared. Carole smiled as the men started to bond with their daughter and left the room.
"Okay, you know that she can't leave without a car seat."
Blaine replied without looking up. "Oh yes. We called a friend of ours on the way here and she is currently buying out all of Babies R Us. She should be here soon." With that Blaine's phone buzzed with a text message. He pulled out his phone. "Well here she is can she come up?"
"Yes." Within ten minutes the little office was bustling. Brittany came up with the assistance of a young security guard. Their arms full of baby goods. A brand new car seat, which the store kindly took out of the box for her. A diaper bag full of diapers and several new outfits. The social worker lead them to an unused inpatient room to give them room to get the baby dressed and in her car seat.
"Have you thought about what you want to name her? We have to get the birth certificate ready."
Thirty minutes later the new family of three were on their way downstairs to valet to get their car. While they were in the lobby waiting for their car a sniffle caught Blaine's attention. He looked over a saw a stocky man in a baseball cap in one of the chairs lining the windows with his face buried in his hands. He watched as the man's shoulders bobbed from his sobs and erratic breathing. His heart broke for this man. He watched as the nurse from before stood over him and rubbed his shoulders. He felt something pull him to this man, he wanted to comfort him. Just as he was ready to walk over their car pulled up. It was time to go home.
X
Kurt looked over at Blaine and saw the man with glassed over eyes staring into space. "Hey Blaine? Are you okay?"
Blaine shook himself out of his memory and smiled. "Oh, yes. Yes of course. I just got lost in thought there for a second." Kurt smiled and nodded.
"So, it is time we start to head out. We have work and she has school in the morning." Kurt said beginning to stand.
"Awwww." He heard a collective whine from the other three people in the room.
"Okay it's like I'm with three four year olds."
"But Kurt, I want to play more."
"I know sweetie, but how about this? If it's okay with your dad we will go shopping this week. Just you and I. And maybe Santana can take you out somewhere fun too. Will that be okay?"
"Oh yes. Please Daddy. Kurt dresses so nice. Can I go shopping with him?"
Blaine shot Kurt a look. "Of course baby, as long as he doesn't buy out the store for you. You have too much as it is."
"There's no such thing as too much clothes." The little girl and her birth father said that the same time causing Blaine to laugh out loud.
"I guess it is genetic."
The three had a good laugh, and Liliana looked at them in confusion, before losing interest and walking away.
"Hey Blaine, I know that it's a long shot, but what are you guys doing for Easter?"
"Nothing much, just staying around the house, getting her an Easter basket, you know, the important stuff. Why, what's up?"
"I, uh, we are going back home for the long Easter weekend and we wanted to know if you and Liliana wanted to come back with us. My dad and my step mother would love to see her. And it would mean a lot for us. But if you can't, you know, it's okay."
Without hesitation Blaine answers. "We'd love to. How are you guys getting back home?"
"We are flying out Thursday night and back Monday morning. I checked, there are still seats available on our flights." Kurt fidgeted with his coat nervously.
"E-mail me the information tonight and I'll book." Blaine walked up and stood face to face with Kurt before whispering "I'll go anywhere for you." He kissed his boyfriend and pressed their foreheads together. "I love you."
Kurt couldn't help but to be all smiles. "I love you too."
"Aww isn't that sweet? But we have to go before you two give me cavities." Kurt rolled his eyes at his best friend and looked back at Blaine.
"She's right. I'll see you guys later. Call me when you get home."
"I will. Bye Lili!" Kurt yelled into the living room.
"BYE!" They heard her shout back.
"Seriously Blaine, thank you. You have no idea how much this meant to me – to us." Santana said to him before heading out the door.
"Always." Blaine smiled back and watched the two friends leave arms linked together.
After they heard the door lock Santana looked over to Kurt. "So, have you told your dad yet?"
He paused to think. "No. I want it to be a surprise."
X
The next week Kurt sat on his bed with Blaine wrapped around his side. He heard Liliana shrieking out in the living room with Santana and Brittany and a smile swept across his face. He never thought this moment would be here and now that it was he couldn't imagine it being any more perfect.
"Mmm come here." Blaine pleaded coyly, pulling Kurt down to him as he spoke.
"Blaine, everyone is outside."
"The door's locked. Come here and give me kisses. I've missed you this week." Kurt blushed and slid down to wrap his body around Blaine.
"I. missed. You. Too." He spoke between kisses. "We should never let that much time pass without seeing each other again."
"Mmm. Never. Again." He mouthed against his boyfriend's pulse point allowing his hands to explore south. Unfortunately; however, Kurt's phone started to ring. When Kurt went to answer it Blaine pulled him back. "No, babe let it go to voicemail." He begged.
"I can't Blaine it's my dad. I promise we'll go back to where we were." Blaine slumped off of his boyfriend and Kurt slid out of the bed to go get his phone.
"Hey Dad!" Kurt answered cheerfully.
"Hey son. I haven't heard from you in a few days. How are you guys?"
"We're good, we've just been busy, you know we are both seeing someone now."
"So I've heard. How are things with, uh, that?"
"Oh great dad, you remember I told you about him having a little girl?"
"Mm hmm." Blaine curled up to Kurt's side, trying to listen in on the conversation.
"Well she's great. She's too funny. And dad, her fashion sense is impeccable."
"A four year old has a fashion sense?"
"Why is that so hard to believe? You raised me."
"True, I have yet to get you those sensible heels." With that Blaine snorted out a laugh.
"Well dad, I invited them to come home with us for Easter. Is that okay?"
"Oh absolutely, I would love to meet the guy who stole my son's heart away. We can have a little man to man chat."
"Dad, please. Don't embarrass me. I'm a big boy now."
"None of that. The only difference between now and three years ago is that I won't have the shot gun out for this conversation." Blaine looks at Kurt with curious and almost fearful eyes. 'He's lying.' Kurt mouths in response.
"Oh and Dad, I have a surprise for you when I get home."
"You do? What is it?" Burt responds cheerfully.
"Well if I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise."
"Okay, okay. Well listen son; I have to get back to the shop. I love you. Take care of yourself."
"I always do Dad. I love you too. Give Carole my love." Blaine's ears unconsciously perked at the name. Before his mind had a chance to register his thoughts Kurt had hung up the phone and began to straddle him. "So, where were we?"
X
"We're going to Ohio for Easter, Coop."
"Aww you're skipping out on our animal Chinese Takeout and chocolate bunny feast to go see those retched people we call parents?"
"Hey Coop, they aren't that bad. You just don't like them because they didn't want to fund your acting career."
"Hey – I'm on Broadway now, with their help I could have been in the movies."
"With your own help you can be in the movies. Mom and Dad may not be the most 'attentive' of parent's but they always loved us."
"Yea, whatever. Why are you going to go see them anyway?"
"I'm not, besides they are going to be in the Philippines or something. I'm – well Lil and I are going to go to Kurt and Santana's house."
"Kurt and Santana's house?" Cooper was obviously confused.
"Yea, Santana got kicked out when she was pregnant and his dad took her in. So that's her home." Cooper nodded and took a bite of the apple he had been throwing in the air.
"Cool. So, how do you feel about that?"
Blaine fiddled with whatever he could get his hands on and thought for a minute. "Excited. Happy. Nervous. I think mostly nervous. I have never been nervous about meeting the parents before. Granted, I only have had to do it twice, but still. This feels so much bigger. I just – I don't know."
"What has got you all nervous little brother – you know – besides all that?"
"This will be the first weekend of a lifetime of weekends in my new life. And as excited as I am about that I worry about if he will hate me, if he will look differently because I took Michi away."
"You did not take Duck away. That was a decision made by a desperate family. If anything he will be grateful for you for the life that you have given her. You are an amazing dad, an amazing person, and an amazing brother and we love you." He paused to pat his brother on the shoulder. "They will love you. You rekindled their spirits and brought back a part of their past which was supposed to be gone forever. It will be an amazing weekend."
"Oh my God, I can't believe you said a whole paragraph without being an ass." Blaine joked, it was either he laughed or he cried and it really didn't want to cry in front of his brother.
"Well, you know. I'm still pissed you're abandoning me, but I guess I'll get over it."
"And there it is."
"Ah I'm just messing with you Blainers. You go and enjoy yourself with that hot piece of ass you got and that beautiful little girl."
"Okay never use the term 'hot piece of ass' and my daughter in the same conversation, much less sentence ever."
"Whatevs Squirt. Listen I'm out of here, I have rehearsal, I'll talk to you later."
"Bye." Blaine said rolling his eyes and his brother stalked out of his house. That man was incorrigible, but he loved him none the less. He tidied up his kitchen before going to get ready for bed. He was tired and had a lot on his mind.
X
Before any of them knew it Blaine and Liliana were in a cab on the way to Kurt and Santana's place, bags and boarding passes in tow.
"Oh my goodness Daddy I can't believe I'm going to go on a plane! That is so cool!" She exclaimed excitedly. Blaine just smiled and nodded at the girl. It has been the same thing over and over since she woke up a six am this morning. He took the day off the work to rest prior to traveling and that was a fail of epic proportions. "DADDY! DADDY! Look it Kurt and Tana's house. We're here, we're here!"
"Yes baby we are." Blaine paid the cabby before he went around back to get the pair their bags. Bags in hand he thanked the man and led his daughter down the few stairs to his boyfriend's floor entry.
The little girl ran to their door and began to knock loudly. "KURT! TANA! We're here! I'm ready to go on the air plane. Gonna go flyyyyy in an air-o-plane!" She ended her exclamations in a singsong voice as Kurt opened the door.
"Hey beautiful! I assume you're ready to go?" Kurt picked up the girl and held her tight before kissing her cheek.
"Oh yes! I can't wait." She replied quickly with a kiss back. "Where's Tana?"
"Trying to figure out how to put as many pairs of shoes as she can in her carry on because we are too cheap to check our bags."
"What is checking bags?" She asked as he put her down.
"It's when you give them to the people who work at the airport to put them in your plane."
"Oh." She sat and contemplated the idea for a minute. "I don't think I want the airplane to eat my bags. I have my very pretty new Easter dress in there."
The two men chuckled and her dad replied to her curiosity. "Oh, honey. The plane doesn't eat your bags, it just holds them because they are too big to fit in the overhead storage."
"Oh. I see." The four year old had already lost interest. "TANA! Come on we are going to miss our plane!" She yelled as she ran off towards Santana's room.
"Hey love." Kurt said pulling Blaine flush with his body kissing him passionately.
"Hey sexy." He moaned into his boyfriend's mouth.
"We said we wouldn't let this much time go between us having alone time. It's been two weeks." Kurt was nearing the point of desperation. He had never felt this connected to someone, felt this need or someone before.
"I know baby. But we have all weekend."
"At my dad's house?"
"I can be quiet if you can." He flirted.
"I don't know if I can promise that." Kurt replied with a wink. Before the two could say anymore they were interrupted by a four year old tornado on a mission.
"Ew guys. Stop being gross. We are going to miss our plane."
"Baby girl our flight leaves in four hours. The cab I called should be here in about ten minutes. Lili is Tana ready?"
"Yup."
"Okay guys let's go wait outside. Come on SANTANA!" Kurt yelled and a rushed Santana comes running out of her room bags in hand.
"Okay, sorry. Let's go."
X
Six hours later they were in their rental car heading home. As much as the two loved New York, Burt Hummel's house will always be home. Liliana was fast asleep in the carseat in the back of the car with Santana. Blaine linked his fingers with Kurt's free hand and squeezed.
"So Kurt, how does your dad feel about Liliana."
"He, uh, doesn't know." Blaine looked over at the driver.
"What do you mean he doesn't know? I heard you tell him about her."
"Well he knows that you have a daughter. He just doesn't know it's mine." Kurt gripped the steering wheel tightly as Blaine pulled his other hand closer to his body.
"And why is that?" Blaine asked, but is tone was not condescending like Kurt was expecting, but rather curious. Blaine trusted Kurt and his judgment.
"I really wanted it to be a surprise. And you know that he has heart problems, I didn't want the anxiety of waiting for this to affect him in any way. He is content just knowing that we are all coming home, I didn't want to pressure the situation."
"I understand. Um, how do you think he is going to take it?"
"I honestly don't know." Kurt replied as he pulled into the driveway at 834 Sycamore Street Lima, Ohio.
PS due to recent events which caused an overload of feels - my funeral will be held on Saturday - you can send flowers and I'll send the bill to Christopher.
PPS this has nothing to do with the anything but if you haven't heard the song or watched the video for "Same Love" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat Mary Lambert - I urge you to do so now. I sat on my floor and cried my eyes out watched the video. It is amazing and I have nothing but love for these artists. The first in the industry to write and release a song like this as a single. These are the same guys who did Thrift Shop... yup OVERLOAD OF FEELS
PPPS I have written the next few chapters for RAWTF - it's just a matter of getting them from my tablet, to my pc, to Britt, back to me and finally to here.