Epilogue – 2 years later

"The car is here!" Kurt shouted from the door.

"Almost ready" Blaine answered breathlessly from somewhere in the house. He had been running all day, trying to get everything he needed done in LA so he could go back to New York with Kurt the following day.

Kurt, on the other hand, needed to be back soon to start working on his new collection. His second time showing in Fashion Week had to be proof that he was good enough to stick around and not just a lucky guy who had a famous enough boyfriend and a couple of decent ideas.

Wes was already in the car; he waved at Kurt but gave Blaine a look that read "I have already seen enough of you all day." The ride felt short as Blaine filled Kurt on the results of his meetings of the day and, mostly, on the advances on the first reactions to the movie Blaine had filmed that summer. A movie they both had been very excited about.

By the time the car stopped, Kurt was starting to get excited about all the implications of the night. He got out of the car first, keeping the door open for Blaine. The crowd cheered, Kurt had gotten used to it. They waved and smiled and, once they made it to the photographers, they posed together. After they were done with all the most common poses, Blaine convinced Kurt to do some silly ones and, before they knew it, they were pretending to be models, joking with each other and trying to make the other laugh and break character. Just before leaving, Blaine gently turned Kurt's head and kissed him chastely but full on the mouth.

They walked the red carpet together and stopped where Giuliana Rancic, from E!Online, was. "Kurt! Blaine! Hi, guys." She greeted them enthusiastically. "First of all, what are you two wearing? You look great as always."

Blaine smiled and let Kurt take over the answer. "Blaine is wearing Prada but the bow tie is mine. This is Marc Jacobs." Kurt answered amicably.

"Well, you both look great, definitely between my nominees for best dressed man."

"Geez, thanks." Blaine said.

"Rachel looks great, too." She continued, nudging Kurt with her elbow. "She told me a little story about the color of her dress."

Kurt laughed. "Yeah. Well, I keep my promises, so she got red. It's actually quite surreal, how everything got to be, red dress and all. I’m so excited for her tonight.” He sounded just a bit emotional. “These are the biggest dreams we used to share with each other when we were best frenemies in high school and now she’s at the Emmy’s wearing my design."

Blaine smiled at him droppily. Giuliana gave him a sweet look.

"And I heard she's not the only star you dressed tonight."

"She's not. Heidi Klum is wearing a Kurt Hummel, too. Surreal, I insist." He only half joked.

"How much did you freak out when you got that call?" She asked.

Blaine gave Kurt a look that, he knew, meant "I tried, but she's asking for it". With a mischievous smile, he was the one to answer. "The scream! I was on the shower and I swear, I thought we were being robbed. When I made it to the living room, he was clutching his cell to his chest, smiling like a kid had Christmas come early." 

Giuliana was laughing while Kurt had his head low, between embarrased and trying not to laugh too.  "He appeared there completely naked, soaking wet and holding and umbrella as a baseball bat. He looked ridiculous, cute as hell, but ridiculous nonetheless." He added about Blaine, turning the cards. Blaine reacted with a little “Hey!”, faking scandalization at being the one exposed now.

 “And there’s a mental image I wouldn’t mind leaving with tonight.” Giuliana laughed. Blaine blushed slightly. "So, having you here nominated for the second time for an Emmy for your role in ‘On Our Own’, I have to ask: Is Josh really leaving to LA? You can't leave the show!"

"I'm afraid he is really leaving. But I'm not! You know Jackie always needs him to talk some sense into her, there's going to be a lot of Skype calls. He would visit often, too. I'm not leaving the show but this new arrangement gives me more time to work on other projects." He explained.

"Does that mean we are finally getting that record?" She asked excitedly.

"It's on the list; hopefully it would happen next year. I also have a movie coming out next summer that I'm super excited about."

"We have heard something about George Clooney and gay rights, am I right?" She asked.

"That sums up the best things about it, you're just right." Kurt added.

They laughed. "George Clooney plays my father, a conservative lawyer who, after a lot of struggles to accept that his son is gay, ends up defending his right to marry the love of his life." Blaine explained. "We both cried when reading the script." He added looking at Kurt sweetly.

"Sounds like something everyone should watch.” She concluded. “Talking about weddings makes me wonder, any plans for you two to tie the knot?"

Again, Blaine was the one to answer. "We're both only twenty-five, we're not in a hurry. But who knows, I know I'm going to marry Kurt, it could happen sooner than later."

"That sounded like at least half of a proposal." She teased.

"Oh, come on. I can do better than that.”

But Kurt was, by then, only half into the conversation. With a thoughtful smile, his mind was in the little Tiffany box hidden behind the oldest issues of Vogue in the apartment they had shared for almost a year in New York.

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Blaine didn't have a ring when he and Kurt took to the red carpet to the Emmy's. But that Thanksgiving, when they visit Ohio he will have an earnest conversation with Burt, coming away from it with an old little piece of jewelry that had once meant the union in marriage of one Elizabeth Hummel to her beloved husband. He will hide it in a socks drawer, waiting for the day he figured out the perfect way to present Kurt with it.

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Neither would have imagined they would both decide Christmas to be the perfect time to propose.