Prompt: Lux - "And when those unknowns are too overwhelming, it's the constants that we have to hold onto. Like our friends. The ones who are not afraid to tell us that there's no such thing as normal. The ones who have been in our lives for every minute with you, even the hardest minutes. Like those who could have walked away, but chose to stick around. Even though they had their own lives, families. Their own children. Like our parents, because we wouldn't be here without them. Who pick us up when we fall, who come when we call them, who answer the door when we knock." - 'Life UneXpected'
"Noooooo," Kurt screamed as he jolted awake. He qucikly realized he wasn't in his bed and besides his father needed him at the hospital. Why wasn't he there? They were all each other had.
Not caring where he was, Kurt got to his feet not realizing he had tangled the blankets up around his legs in his fitful attempt to sleep. Losing his balance, he closed his eyes, preparing for the inevitable fall that he knew was going to hurt. Instead of hitting the floor though he felt strong arms encircle him, keeping him on his feet.
"Kurt, are you okay?" Finn asked, as he eased Kurt down onto the bed.
Kurt didn't get a chance to answer the first question before another was asked.
"Is everything, okay?" Carole asked breathlessly as she hurried into the room.
Things started coming back to him. His Dad had finally woken up and both he and Carole had insisted that Kurt leave and get some sleep someplace other than the chair in his father's room. Not wanting to upset his dad, Kurt had gone along with it. When Carole had insisted that she didn't want him home alone, he had agreed to stay at her place for the night being too emotionally exhausted to put up a fight. How he ended up in Finn's room he wasn't sure. The last thing he remembered he was in the car after leaving the hospital.
Kurt looked from Finn, who was still standing in front of him, to Carole who was standing in the doorway. Both wore anxious expressions as they waited for his answer. Suddenly he felt silly for not only waking them up but having them both worrying about him.
"I'm fine. It was just a bad dream," he managed to get out even as he heard the dream doctor in his head telling him that his father had died.
"It must have been pretty bad for you to wake up yelling like that," Finn commented, knowing that Kurt was playing it off as less important than the situation really was.
Kurt looked down at the floor. "I dreamt the doctor was telling me that my Dad had died," he said quickly.
"Oh, honey, I know your scared and worried but your father is doing much better," Carole said, walking over and sitting down next to Kurt. She looped her arms across his shoulders. "And they'd call if anything had changed."
"I know," Kurt said, still not able to shake the uncertainty the dream had left him.
Carole squeezed his shoulders. "I'll call the hospital for an update, okay," she told him.
As Carole left, Finn sat down next to Kurt and draped his arm across the smaller teen's shoulders. "You're not alone, Kurt. No matter what happens, you got us. You know that, right?"
And in that moment, Kurt realized it wasn't just him and his Dad anymore. In spite of the trials they had faced, all their lives were linked now forever.