Aug. 5, 2013, 11:49 a.m.
Oh Baby!: Chapter 15
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Right up to this point in the pregnancy Kurt had escaped relatively scotch free from the usual weird pregnancy cravings and the like. But at the moment he wasn't being so lucky. He was currently walking around the grocery store, Elijah sitting happily in the cart babbling away, throwing in the occasional word and sentence at they went.
Kurt had already got all their usual groceries, including his and Blaine's usual 'supplies' which he made sure to keep as far away as possible from Elijah, even though he was only a year and a half old, he could do without being scarred for life. He was now hovering in the canned goods aisle, trying to decide what he wanted. He had a real craving for fish, but not just any fish, it had to be canned sardines. He had no idea why, he had never really liked Sardines, but right now he couldn't get enough.
He loaded over 20 cans of the stuff into the cart, throwing in a few cans of Tuna Fish for good measure, just in case he happened to run out of Sardine's anytime soon. Making his way to the checkout, he moved all the items onto the belt and waited for it all to be packed up and loaded back into the Cart. The checkout girl gave him some weird looks, which, to be fair he didn't blame her for. Here was a man, who looked nearly full term pregnant, despite only being 25 weeks pregnant, with a toddler riding in his trolley, currently trying to chew his own foot, with 20 two dozen cans of fish, to most people, that would look weird.
Unloading the bags from the car was a nightmare all in itself, Kurt couldn't carry anything too heavy, so had to make far too many trips to the car, instantly tiring him out. By the time everything was put away, he was exhausted, and not just the 'I could do with a nap' exhausted, this was the 'if I don't sleep now I'm going to collapse' exhausted. He led Elijah upstairs.
"How about you and Daddy take a little nap in Daddy and Papa's bed for a bit? Daddy is really tired and needs to have a little sleep before Papa gets home, okay?" Elijah nodded, grinning at his Daddy. "Lijah sleep time?" "Yes, sweetheart, Lijah sleep time" Kurt snuggled up in the bed, arm wrapped firmly around Elijah, as they both drifted off to sleep.
"Kurt? Elijah?" Blaine entered the house, which was worryingly quiet, usually when he got home, Elijah came running towards him, screaming in excitement to see him. He ascended the stairs in search of his pregnant husband and son, trying not to panic. As he pushed the door to his and Kurt's room open his heart both melted and broke at the same time.
Kurt was lay on his back, arm stretched out to the side, he was clearly exhausted as he was snoring, something he only did when he was in a very deep sleep. Elijah was curled up around Kurt snuggling into his father's side. Blaine knew that Kurt was struggling with the pregnancy, and Elijah could be a handful at times, but he didn't quite realise how bad it had got. Sleeping during the day was something Kurt just never did.
Blaine closed the door quietly, heading back downstairs to start on dinner whilst his two precious Prince's continued to sleep. Opening the cupboards, he saw the Sardine's lined neatly up in the cupboard, he obviously knew of Kurt's cravings, and laughed softly, at least these could stop him making midnight dashes to the local 24 hour store to feed his husbands' cravings. Whilst Blaine was making them all some pasta for dinner, he thought about how tired Kurt was, and made a plan to try and help his husband out, without making him think he was telling him he couldn't handle it.
Kurt opened his eyes, blinking away the sleep haze he was in. Reaching his arm out automatically, he didn't come into contact with Blaine's solid chest, instead came into contact with a little head of curls. Leaning over he saw Elijah asleep next to him. The afternoon came back to him, him and Elijah going shopping, coming home and falling to sleep.
Kurt sat up and gently woke Elijah up, he could hear Blaine downstairs clattering around the kitchen, assumingly making dinner for them. Kurt felt guilty, Blaine had been at work all day, yet it was him that was taking care of the two of them when he got home. Elijah was wrapped around him like a Koala Bear, clearly still tired from his nap. Kurt carried him carefully downstairs, trying his hardest not to slip down the stairs.
Walking into the kitchen, he was hit with the smell of tomatoes, Blaine was obviously making his famous tomato pasta. As Kurt stopped just in front of the island, Blaine looked up from the stove. "Hey, sleepy heads! How are my two favourite boys?" He made his way around the kitchen, lifting Elijah from Kurt's arms, which woke him up fully, smiling fully at his Papa. He kissed Kurt carefully on the lips.
"Right, boys, dinner is almost ready, so why don't you go and take a seat and I'll bring it through!"
"Thank you, sweetheart, I'm sorry you had to do all this after a day at work! I shouldn't have fallen asleep." Blaine hugged Kurt closely to him, after putting Elijah into his high chair. "Hey, now you listen to me, you are looking after Elijah all day, as well as growing two babies inside of you, it's a knackering job, so don't you even apologise for it okay?"
Kurt reluctantly nodded, and went to sit down at the table. They enjoyed a lovely family meal, Blaine filling him in on his day. Kurt smiled at his husband, loving the fact that he got so passionate about his job. Kurt was a little bit jealous, but he loved being at home with the Elijah, and he knew that he would love it even more when his girls were here too.
After dinner Kurt successfully made his way through two cans of sardines whilst watching America's Next Top Model. Blaine giving his husband a wide berth, as much as he loved Kurt, the smell of his fishy breath didn't exactly make him want to be close to Kurt right now.
Later that night, Kurt was putting Elijah to bed, tucking him carefully in and singing him a lullaby to get him off to sleep. Downstairs Blaine lifted his cell phone out of his pocket, dialling the number of the person he liked to call his Knight in Shining armour, it was exactly the person they both needed right now with everything going on, he just hoped they agreed to come and help them out for a bit, and also that Kurt wasn't too pissed with him for asking for help.
"Hey, it's Blaine, everything is fine, I just need to ask a small favour..."