Blood in the Water

AU!Season Two and Vampire Kisses. Kurt Hummel never told his friends his deepest secret: his entire family, his real family, are vampires. The kind that turn into bats and sleep in coffins. He views Lima, Ohio as his own personal hell. Not just because he's gay but because people tend to believe he is an easy target. He's not. Maybe a summer with his brother, Claude, and cousin Alexander will help.

Note: Valentine is eleven in the novels but in this fic, he's Kurt's age. So he's basically two years younger than his older siblings; Jagger and Luna.

Should Raven and Claude be a couple? Thoughts please!

I do not own Vampire Kisses or Glee. They belong to their rightful owners.

2. Beating Hearts Converse

In Dullsville, Claude Sterling was sitting on top of his coffin. In his hand was his last letter his baby brother had sent him, dating a few weeks ago. He had gotten into trouble for standing up for himself. He scoffed at that. In Romania, Kurt would have at least gotten a smile and a pat on the back from other vampires. The boy was small but he packed a punch. He only wished that Kurt could be the one thing he wanted most.

A vampire.

It wasn't because he wanted to belong either. Claude felt it was unfair. He was half vampire so why didn't his younger brother get to become a half breed as well? Claude would still get the blood vials for him and his brother but he wouldn't feel so alienated. Kurt was never really accepted by their father's crowd, his mother and grandmother had been so accepting his sexuality. It was their father who had gone off the railing, exclaiming that he would never get a grandchild out of Kurt. It was fucking stupid shit if he thought it that way.

"Penny for your thoughts?" he glanced over his shoulder to find Raven Madison of all people standing there. Her eyes were soft and he sighed before carding a hand through his hair. He patted his hand against the wood of his coffin and the human girl walked over to him, taking a seat. "This must be important if you're letting me talk to you about something that doesn't involve the vials."

The blonde half vampire laughed bitterly. "It's got a little to do with them."

Raven frowned. "Oh."

He looked at her, not liking the accusation in her tone. "I'm not using you this time, Madison."

"Oh yeah?" she raised an eyebrow.

"I'm fucking serious!" he snapped and then sighed when she recoiled in fright. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap at you."

Raven didn't falter.

"I was thinking about my little brother," he began. "He's the reason why I need the vials."

"Brother?" Raven asked skeptically. "I didn't know you had one."

"Yeah well, know you do. Alexander doesn't tell you these things?" asked the Sterling male. She shook her head. She was always too busy loving how comfortable it felt to be near him. Hell she didn't even know he had a little sister until he brought it up when she found him talking to her on the phone a few nights ago. Claude seemed to have caught her message and smirked. "Or are you too occupied with his lips against yours?"

"Shut up," she snapped. He hit the nail on the head.

"But I was right," he chirped.

"So you have a brother," she began and looked right at him. "Is he back in Romania with your parents?"

Claude growled deep in throat. "No," he said. "My little brother is currently suffering more hell than you or I."

Raven looked confused.

"My brother is a special case," he said. "He's like Luna. He was born human but unlike her, he was never bitten."

Raven gasped softly. "What...? Why?"

Claude looked at her with a sadness in his eyes. "Because I have to be the one to do it. We made a blood pact when we were young," he paused and his hand gripped into a fist. "And I'll be damned if Alexander thinks he can keep me from changing my brother into a vampire."

"I'm sure that if you just told him," Raven began and he shook his head. "Why not?"

"Alexander has always been a little wary of him. It's not just because he's human. The fact that my brother walks around in the sunlight had nothing to do with it."

Raven bit her bottom lip. "Do you have a picture of him?"

Claude fished into his pocket and pulled out his phone. Scrolling through it, he found two different pictures of Kurt. He handed her the picture of him before his last visit to Romania. Raven gasped. He was so angelic. He really did look like a vampire, if not for the fact that he had a reflection and could be seen on camera. He wore a pair of bright red pants, boots that clearly came from the women's department, a stripped navy and red long sleeved shirt, a scarf and a black studded red fedora. His eyes were bright and he had a smile on his face. Next to him was a blonde haired girl in a cheerleader's outfit, the word 'Cheerios' written across it. She had baby blue eyes and a sweet smile.

Claude showed her the second picture and Raven felt a deep blush crawl up her cheeks.

He looked angelic in the first one but this one made him look down right sexy to her. His hair was still chestnut brown but with light almost non-visible streaks of hot pink and a bit of teal, his hair falling over his eyes in a very Alexander like manner, just shorter. His bright eyes were covered in a light shade of guyliner. He had a lip piercing and smirking mischievously. His middle finger in view of the camera. He was wearing a 'Memphis May Fire' band t-shirt and dark skinny jeans that looked like they belonged to him like a second skin. His boots were black scuffed up Taylors and on his left middle finger was a bat ring and around his neck was a pistol necklace.

"This is your brother?" she breathed out.

"Hard to believe isn't it?" mocked Claude.

"He's hot."

"You're not his type," smirked the blonde. "He likes anyone who has an Adam's apple and a dick."

Raven rolled his eyes. "You're couldn't just said gay," she muttered. "And its fine. As long as I can look at him. I'm dating your cousin remember?"

Claude remembered.

"Does he have a boyfriend?" she asked with a smile. It faded when he shook his head. "What? Why?" He was sex on legs, Raven thought. Although she was convinced the Sterling family had the 'drop dead sex on a stick' down packed. Alexander, Claude and this new relative were proof of that. And what guy would not want to date him?

"He lives in fucking Ohio, where there are total homophobes everywhere for one. Second of all, I don't think his stepfather could deal with a second heart attack knowing the boy he's raised has some horny teenager attached to him. Third of all, our biological father basically sees him as scum since he came out this summer and I think if he did get a boyfriend, father would disown him. Although I hope mother leaves him and finds a good man. Burt was good but he's remarried."

Raven could understand.

"You really love him," Raven said seeing him in a new light.

"Someone has to," he whispered. "He's been alone for so long. He was scared to tell me he was gay, even though I've known since he was seven when he looked at Tripp a bit too long. He doesn't have to be alone. He knows I'd never reject him. I love my brother more than anything. Being accepted by the vampires means nothing if my brother isn't by my side. Or my friends."

"Do they accept him?" Raven whispered.

Claude gave a light laugh. "Kat promised to cut whoever hurt him with her nail filer. Rocco's his third big brother and I think Tripp has always been a little in love with him. They love him just as much as he loves them."

Raven smiled and noticed the paper in his hand. "What's that?"

"He wrote to me," he answered and she could hear in his tone that he didn't walk to talk about it. She nodded in understanding.

"Ohio huh?" she leaned back. "Which part?"

"Lima."

The goth girl almost fell off the coffin. "No way! My friend Tina lives out there. She invited me to come see her show choir preform at some singing competition at her school. I was thinking of asking Alexander but do you wanna come too? Becky hates those kind of things."

Claude smiled. "I'd like that."

"Cool," grinned the black haired girl.

He glanced over at the setting sun. "Shouldn't you be going to meet up with my cousin?" he asked. She blushed and hopped off the coffin. She turned to leave but whirled around last minute and surprised him by wrapping her arms around him.

"There's your penny," she smiled softly. "And I promise to keep this between us. But I will be asking Alexander if he's got any relatives I need to know about," she winked. He smiled softly.

"Thank you Raven."

She threw him a thumbs up and rushed off towards her bike. Mounting it, she sped off towards Benson Hill, her heart fluttering as she thought of her boyfriend awaiting her.

Back in the cemetery, Claude looked down at the letter.

"Talk to someone about your feelings, Claude. It's not good to keep them bottled up like that. Converse frate. Bleeding for you, Kurt."

"I miss you too little brother." he whispered into the wind. "I will see you soon."

In Lima Ohio, Kurt was humming his breath as he walked through the house, listening to Caraphernelia by Pierce the Veil, unaware the green eyed bat gazing at him from his window. The animal flew away and upon arriving in the cemetery transformed into a young man with snow white hair and blood red tips. He reached for the skateboard resting next to a coffin.

Valentine Maxwell smiled softly as he let the images of Kurt doing a twirl as guitar solos blasted in his ears, the cool baritone in his voice erupting and hitting the blood reader right in his groin. He couldn't wait to see him again.

He just has to wait.