The rest of the day flew by as Blaine sat in his office doing charts. Blaine looked up at the clock that was by the door and saw it was eight o' clock. His shift ended in an hour so he had to do his rounds.
Blaine closed the last chart and got up from his chair. He decided he would check up on his other patients first. After he was done with them he walked down stairs to Kurt's room. He knocked on the door to announce his arrival.
"Hello, Kurt." Blaine greeted as he walked towards the end of the bed and picked up the chart. He saw that Kurt's family must have left for the night since he was alone. Kurt had a magazine in his lap.
"Hi, Dr. Anderson" Kurt replied as Blaine quickly read through his chart.
"How are you feeling?" Blaine asked as he closed the chart and walked closer to Kurt. His head was wrapped in post-operative gauze. He looked better, but he still had a long recovery time ahead of him.
"I'm feeling better." Kurt replied.
"That's good." Blaine replied. "Do you mind if I do a quick examination?"
"Go ahead; you are my doctor after all." Blaine smiled as he began. He checked his scar on his stomach for swelling, and his vitals. Everything looked great.
"Well things are looking good. Do you need anything before I leave for the night? Any questions?"
Blaine asked, looking up from the chart he began to write in.
"Um nothing except, how long will I have to stay here?"
"That depends, if no more complications arise then I will say a week tops." Kurt nodded in understanding.
"Alright, I will see you in the morning. Dr. Harwood will be your doctor in my absence."
"Oh okay." Kurt said, Blaine could tell he was a little disappointed about something.
"What's wrong?" Blaine asked, immediately concerned. We walked closer to Kurt once again.
"Oh nothing, i'm fine." Kurt said but Blaine didn't buy it. But he thought he would leave it alone.
"Alright, I will see you in the morning. Have a nice night Kurt." Blaine said as he smiled at his patient one last time before leaving for the night.
Kurt's night wasn't the best. He couldn't sleep most of the night. Thad checked on him a few times but all Kurt could think about was Blaine, he couldn't wait to see him again.
Morning came and Blaine arrived at Lima Memorial for another shift. He met Thad at the small Starbucks in the hospital lobby. They were great friends, Thad tended to favor Blaine amongst all of the other fellow doctors that he has worked with.
"So how was Kurt Hummel last night?" Blaine asked as he took a sip of coffee. They both walked up the stairs to their floor.
"He did well; I don't foresee any complications arising. He should be able to go home by Thursday." Thad replied before taking a drink of his own coffee.
"Really? That soon? That's tomorrow!" Thad looked at his friend weird.
"He has no swelling, his head looks good, and his scans are clean."
"Good point."
"I am detecting that you are getting attached to him. Why is that?"
"I told Wes this, but the reason he is here in the first place is because of bullying, and I feel the need to protect him in every way possible."
"Your job is done when the patient leaves, you know that." Thad said as they both approached the nurse's station to get charts.
"I know, I guess it's just because I can relate to him." Blaine said before checking the time, it was eight o' clock. "Probably should check up on him now anyway."
"Yeah, maybe you should" Thad said.
"Alright, thanks Thad."
"No problem." Thad said as he left and went the opposite direction to check up on his own patients. Blaine walked to Kurt's room.
"Good morning." Blaine said cheerfully as he walked into the room. Kurt seemed to perk up when he heard Blaine who picked up the chart, reading notes from Thad.
"How are you feeling Kurt?" Blaine asked, looking up at Kurt.
"I'm better."
"That's good. So Kurt, I'm not promising anything, but you may be able to go home tomorrow." Kurt seemed to go back to being depressed.
"Oh, I thought you said a week?"
"Well, I spoke to Dr. Harwood just a few minutes ago and we agreed that you are doing very well.
"Okay. That's cool." Kurt said.
"What's wrong?" Blaine asked Kurt again.
"It's just the sooner I get discharged, the sooner I am back at school with…him." Blaine nodded in understanding. He sat on the edge of the bed.
"Look Kurt, you are going to be okay. Remember what I told you after you woke up?"
"I am safe now." Kurt answered. Blaine smiled.
"Well yes, But what did I tell you should do?" Blaine asked.
"Call him out." Kurt replied after he did the best he could of remembering his first conversation with Blaine.
"There we go." Blaine said. "When you do that he will learn to back off."
"Okay, one question though." Blaine nodded.
"Of course, you can ask me anything."
"You said that you went through the same thing when you were in high school, how do we relate?" Kurt asked and Blaine thought he might as well tell the truth.
"Well Kurt, Just like you, I am gay." Blaine replied.
"So we do relate." Blaine nodded.
"That's why I want you to promise me that you will start being strong about it. And if you do that and he still does it, I'm here." Blaine said, taking out a pad of paper that was in one of his white lab coat pockets. He wrote down his phone number and handed it to Kurt.
"You're giving me your phone number?" Kurt asked.
"Yes I am, I want you to call me anytime. I will be there for you." Kurt smiled as he looked down at the piece of paper.
"Thank you, you have been too nice to me."
"No need to thank me Kurt." Blaine said. Kurt smiled and Blaine got up from Kurts bed.
"Would you like me to get you anything?" Blaine asked. "Are you hungry, thirsty?"
"Yeah, what can I get?" Kurt asked.
"It's still early so it's going to be breakfast. You can get scrambled eggs, fruit, toast?"
"Eggs are fine."
"Okay, I will have a nurse bring it to you." Blaine said. "I'll come check on you in a few hours okay. I have to go down to the ER." Blaine told Kurt.
"Okay, thank you." Blaine smiled in return.
"You're welcome, remember if you need anything tell the nurses and they can page me."
"Okay" Kurt said as Blaine left the room, in the hallway he passed Kurt's family who were coming in to see him. Blaine told the nurse Kurts food order and he ran down to the ER.