Notes:

Okay, so I was gone for a week and am only now not crazy exhausted from my trip and also catching up on basically everything. I had a very limited internet connection and also now find myself with lots of homework to finish before the semster is over in about a week. So things have been pretty crazy.

But on the upside because of the lack of internet any downtime I had overthere became writing time and I actually completed the fic...but it needs a lot of edits because I didn't have the full story file with me or internet to google a few things that will need changing. So, I do need to really read over all of it and edit it and probably rewrite a few things but essentially it's finished.

Anyhow, enjoy and sorry for the wait...it was unavoidable.

Ending 2 - Klaine

Chapter Twenty Eight

The song came about accidentally, one late night after dreaming that he really had gotten caught up in the fire at Dalton. Blaine had never considered himself much of a song writer, but sometimes when he just couldn't find a song that would actually express his feelings correctly, the words would flow out of him instead.

Music had always soothed him and helped him get over things and yet it had failed him after he and Kurt broke up. He hadn't been able to listen to it, or to sing, or to even play the piano. Writing, though, somehow that had been easy except that he couldn't sing the words. Somewhere in his room there were notebooks full of lyrics, waiting to be put to music and Blaine didn't know if he would ever venture to read what he'd written.

Not being able to sleep and missing Dalton he'd wandered out of his room and down to the kitchen hoping that a glass of milk would make things easier. When it didn't, he'd walked out to the living room and the piano.

Hours later he had a song.

He read over the lyrics that had been jotted down in a hurry, and found that some of them weren't even just about Dalton. They were about him and Kurt. He fixed a few things, changed a couple of words, and dropped the notebook back on the piano and yawned.

The next morning, he woke up bleary eyed and tired. He turned off his alarm on his phone and fell asleep again until a repeated knocking on his door woke him up later.

"Blaine," Kurt said, "Blaine, your mom let me in."

Slowly, he sat up and Kurt was standing at the foot of his bed. "I came to pick you up, but apparently someone slept in."

Blaine groaned.

Kurt laughed. "Come on, sleepyhead, you can take a shower while I fetch you coffee. We have a glee club to run."

"Rachel and Mr. Shuester can take care of it, Kurt, I want sleep."

"Blaine, how late were you up last night?"

Blaine tucked his head under his sheet and Kurt chuckled. "You're unveiling the blazers today, Blaine."

"After school," Blaine said, "I don't have to be there now."

Kurt sighed and Blaine felt him poke him through the blankets. He rolled away and felt the mattress dip when Kurt sat down in the vacated spot.

"I'd be more concerned if your mom hadn't shown me the mess you left downstairs. Is this about Dalton?"

Blaine tried to ignore Kurt, but it was hard to fall asleep when he was sitting there next to him smelling lovely and just talking at a normal volume like Blaine wasn't trying to fall asleep again.

"What time is it?" he asked.

"Almost eight," Kurt said.

That meant he'd had just over three hours of sleep. He groaned again. There was no way that he would be able to function if he didn't get at least another hour if not two.

"Wake me up at eleven," he mumbled.

Kurt chuckled and then sighed. Blaine heard him get up and leave and he sighed, burrowing back into his blankets. He drifted in and out of sleep, stray thoughts coming and going but sleep pulling him in and he was surprised when he heard Kurt in his room again until Kurt was getting in behind him.

"I set an alarm," Kurt whispered, "and I called Rachel."

"You're the best," Blaine whispered back.

Kurt kissed his shoulder. "I know. Love you."

When he woke up later to the alarm Kurt had set, his head was pillowed on Kurt's chest.

"Are you alright now?" Kurt asked.

Blaine knew he could have used more sleep, but he was more functional than he'd been the first time he woke up.

"Go on and get ready," Kurt said, "and we can get going."

It didn't take him long to take a shower, gel his hair, and get dressed in the clothes that Kurt had taken the liberty to pick out for him. He found Kurt down in the kitchen with two mugs of coffee and his phone pressed to his ear.

"We'll be there within the next hour, Rachel, don't worry," Kurt said, "it's not like you needed me there anyway."

Blaine smiled when Kurt rolled his eyes at him. He hung up a moment later.

"I told her we'd be there eventually. It's like she thinks we're actually doing a whole lot while they're in class. I mean, most of the time I'm working on my thesis paper for NYADA. And I should add that I am very close to finishing it."

Blaine kissed Kurt's cheek. "Well sectionals is next week," Blaine said.

"Except that Mr. Shuester doesn't seem to know that because he's fighting with Sue and Rachel is practically ready to go to New York already for that role she got offered."

Blaine got milk out for his coffee and handed it to Kurt who was pouring the coffee into to-go mugs. Kurt's clothes looked just on the side of wrinkled from the impromptu nap he'd taken with him, and Blaine couldn't help but just smile at the way that he didn't seem to mind and how he'd just gotten into bed with him to sleep even though he probably had wanted to be at McKinley at the time they were supposed to be there.

Kurt gathered all their things, even putting a couple of the muffins his mom had no doubt left out into a container. They were almost out the door when Blaine remembered the song.

"I'll be right out," he said and ran back to the living room. The notepad he'd been using the night before was on top of the piano and around it crumpled pieces of paper from his first attempts at writing.

"What's that?" Kurt asked.

"Um, the reason I was up all night. I couldn't sleep and then I just wrote out my feelings."

"You wrote a song?" Kurt asked.

Blaine had shared the few songs he'd written in the past with Kurt, but this one somehow felt special and different.

"Yeah, about Dalton and I guess a little bit about us. I think maybe I want the glee club to sing it. Might make some of The Warblers feel better too."

As soon as they got out of the car, Kurt grabbed the notebook from him and Blaine could tell he liked it from the way he smiled as the read the lyrics.

"You have to play this for us," he said at once, "it's perfect."

"He wrote it," Kurt told Rachel while Blaine was up on the stage handing out the new blazers.

"What?" Rachel asked.

Kurt rolled his eyes. He knew she was distracted and trying to make up her mind as to what she really wanted.

"The song," he clarified, "Blaine wrote this song. It's amazing."

He was immensely proud of Blaine, and glad to be the person that got to know Blaine as intimately as he did and that would hopefully get to spend the rest of his life with Blaine. Blaine amazed him. It had been a long time before Kurt had allowed himself to really look at Blaine and be impressed by him and not just see all their problems and arguments and all the little things about Blaine that he didn't like.

"I wrote original songs," Rachel said.

Kurt let out a sigh. It wasn't really about the song.

Blaine joined them and Kurt beamed at him as he sat down. He really wanted to spend forever with him.

"I love you," he said.

Blaine grinned. "Love you too."

The next few days were busy. Kurt somehow ended up in charge of the setlist while Mr. Shuester dealt with choreography and Rachel offered her advice and voice coaching while trying to convince everyone that taking the role was exactly what she needed to do. Blaine for his part was busy with his own future plans and sending and preparing an audition tape for the multiple schools he'd applied to.

By the time that Sectionals was finally upon them, Spencer was on crutches, and Rachel was teetering on making a decision.

After it was all over, and a new trophy had been added to the choir room, Kurt felt exhausted but happy about the win. They had a mini celebration in the choir room full of impromptu singing and dancing and storytelling about how things had been for them.

He wound up sitting on the floor with Blaine pressed against his side while Sam sang with Spencer who was had propped his leg up on a chair and Jane.

"I miss those days, don't you," Kurt said, "when we could come into this room with all of our friends and not care about anything."

"Yeah," Blaine said, "but the future holds a lot of promise too."

"I want to ask Blaine to marry me."

Kurt felt nervous and excited and he didn't know if he could sit still. His dad finished chewing and he took a gulp of water before he responded. "Are you sure?" he asked.

Kurt nodded quickly. He was more than sure. They had only been back together for a few weeks but it was enough for Kurt to know that it was what he wanted.

"At Brittany and Santana's wedding you told me that there is no reason to wait for what you want and just how short life is. I lost sight of that. I got caught up in everything else and just forgot how much I wanted Blaine and the life that we could have together but it's what I want. Now, and ten years from now and I just want it to start as soon as possible."

For a moment his dad just stared at him and then he nodded. "Okay," he said, "I will always support every decision you make. You know that."

Kurt nodded quickly. "Thank you."

"I'm proud of you, kid," his dad said.

He jumped out of his seat to walk around the table and hug his dad. He knew he didn't need his dad's permission. Kurt just valued his opinion so much that he needed to tell his dad what he was thinking about doing.

"How are you going to do it?" Burt asked, "I mean, that kid brought all those glee clubs together and a giant musical number for you."

Kurt had no idea. He didn't think a big proposal was necessary. They already had that and Kurt didn't want to top what Blaine had done because it was still so special and amazing and something he wanted to remember forever.

"I think I'll keep it simple," he said.

"Well, whatever you need, I'm here."

Kurt nodded. "Thanks dad."

He walked up to his room. He considered calling Rachel and getting her help, but then decided against that idea when he remembered that Rachel had told him she was meeting up with Jesse St. James before he went back to New York.

Kurt had been a little amused when she told him about how Jesse had showed up to encourage her to take the role rather than go back to NYADA. The fact that Jesse had even been part of the reason for her casting to begin with hadn't made a difference to Rachel. There was no doubt that she was talented, but to have someone else vouch for her and be the reason she was offered the role and not her audition made it – at least in Kurt's eyes – mean it was less of a real accomplishment. Then again, she hadn't even gotten the audition herself. Kurt was glad that she'd chosen to go back to NYADA instead.

He browsed online for rings for a while, and was surprised when his phone rang suddenly and especially when it was Sebastian.

He took a deep breath before answering. "Hi," he said.

"Hi," Sebastian repeated, "I, um, I'm back in New York. Dani and Elliott say hello and I just wanted to I guess clear the air. How, um, how is everything?"

"Good," Kurt said, "everything is good. I can't believe I'm talking to you. I've missed you so much."

"Missed you too," Sebastian said.

"So, they won sectionals," Kurt said for lack of something better to say, "and Rachel is going back to NYADA and I think Blaine and I are going to come back to New York soon too."

"Good," Sebastian said, "that's good. And, um, how are things going with you and Blaine?"

Kurt hadn't expected the question, but then he remembered how despite everything Sebastian had definitely understood what he and Blaine had and why Kurt just couldn't stay with Sebastian.

"We're doing pretty well," Kurt said, "I was actually thinking about asking him to marry me."

"So soon," Sebastian said.

Kurt bit down on his lip. "Yeah, I just don't think I could wait. But we won't get married too quickly. It will need planning and everything. Anyway, things are going well. Did you hear about Dalton, the fire? I thought Blaine was inside. It just opened my eyes."

"Oh," Sebastian said, "I did get a text from Nick. I didn't even think about Blaine being there."

"No one was hurt," Kurt said quickly, "but it was shocking. How are Elliott and Dani? And Dani's girlfriend?"

Sebastian told him all about Sarah and Dani and how Elliott was trying to convince him to go to yoga with him. Their conversation ended when Elliott snatched the phone from Sebastian and told Kurt that he was stealing Sebastian for a party.

"I hope to see you soon, Kurt," Elliott said, "give my best to Blaine."

Kurt sighed and dropped the phone next to him on his bed before leaning back and lying flat on his bed with his feet hanging off the edge. His first conversation with Sebastian after their break up had gone surprisingly well and yet Kurt knew that Sebastian had sounded a bit sad. Kurt definitely shouldn't have told him about his plans to propose.

He lay on his bed for a while, contemplating the phone call and then he grabbed his phone and texted Dani to let him know how Sebastian really was.

Instead of texting him back, she called him.

"Don't worry so much," she said, "he's a big boy. He's doing fine. He told us you said you're proposing to Kurt. Seriously, he's happy for you. It just surprised him."

"And you're not just saying this to make me feel better right?"

Dani laughed. "Kurt, not everyone reacts to a break up like Blaine."

"But I was Sebastian's first boyfriend," Kurt said.

"And he knew what he was getting into and he's getting over you. Don't worry so much."

She hung up before he could say anything, and Kurt decided to take her advice and focus on trying to figure out what he would do to propose to Blaine and after not coming up with anything other than just waiting for a good moment to do it, he groaned and sat up and decided he should start with ring shopping.