BowtiedPavarotti
Sept. 9, 2013, 8:20 a.m.
The Crash: Nothing
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"What did you want to tell us, doc?"
"I'm sorry. I only wish I could have good news for you all. Blaine is... He's been out for a long time. A lot longer than we would expect a hit and run collision to take. Now, we still don't know about his mental state. The likelihood is that, even if he does wake up, he won't remember a thing."
"What are you saying, doctor?"
"I'm saying the easiest thing you could do now is to let him go."
"...easiest? You... Myson, mylittle boy, he's the one in that room. He's the one you'recondemning! No. No, you can't do it! I won't allow it!"
"Robert..."
"Ourlittle boy, Kate..."
"Robert? Where are you going? Wait!"
"Mom?Dad! ... Doc, you really think Blaine's not strong enough to make it?"
"I don't know what Blaine is capable of, Mr Anderson."
"In 2008 he came out as gay. He was bullied and even our dad left. In 2009 he went to a school dance and got beaten up so badly that he was in hospital for weeks. Granted, he wasn't comatose for as long as he has been now. But he had broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a scar on his chest from a knife that one of the kids used on him. He never once gave up. Not once did he stop fighting. He pushed through and he made his recovery. Then he transferred to Dalton and met Kurt. Even if Blaine didn't have the strength in him for himself, he wouldn't leave Kurt behind. Blaine is strong enough. Don't youdaredoubt him again. See you, Burt."
"... Mr Hummel. You appear to be the only one of our gathering left."
"Can you blame them? ... Listen, tell me. Blaine's been out for, what, three months? What's the longest somebody has been in a coma for?"
"Edwarda O'Bara. From 1970 to 2012."
"...that's forty-two years..."
"Mr Hummel, she never woke up."
"...and of those who lived again?"
"Nineteen years. Two cases. Jan Grzebski. He died two years after waking up. And Terry Wallis. Awoke in 2003 but is amnestic. Gary Dockery was comatose for seven and a half years from 1988. When he woke up he recognised people and remembered memories of camping trips and the like. But after a few days he deteriorated again."
"And he died?"
"1997."
"...is there any hope for Blaine?"
"Mr Hummel, it's not impossible..."
"It's just highly unlikely."
"Robert, please..."
"Were you okay with that? With hearing that?"
"We don't have much of a choice, honey."
"Choice!"
"Rob-"
"He's our son. Ourchild. Ourlittle boy. Yes, I abandoned him when he came out. I wasterrifiedof losing him, Kate. I was so,soscared. I... I thought he, he w-would get b-beaten up or, or something. A-and then he d-did. I'm back Ican'tlose... Kate, I can't lose him."
"Honey..."
"Your hands always were so very soft. Have I become your replacement? Is it going to be my tears you'll wipe away now instead of Blaine's...?"
"Rober-"
"We don't have a choice. We have to give him a chance."
"Mom?"
"Robert, I..."
"Dad?"
"Cooper."
"What... What are you thinking?"
"I'm not giving up on him, son. ...will you give your old man a hug?"
"Dad..."
"We're not giving up."
"Dad?"
"Kurt. Kiddo. Your friend called me earlier. Are you alright?"
"I'm... worried. And she's not really my friend, dad."
"Aren't you living with her?"
"Yes? Rachel didn't want to move here alone, and when I told her I wasn't coming, Santana agreed to share an apartment with her."
"And now?"
"We've not got round to kicking her out."
"I heard that, Hummel!"
"You were meant to! But, dad, how is he?"
"You knew something happened?"
"I could feel it. Dad. Please. Tell me."
"No change."
"Oh. But..."
"The doctor called us in. All of us. Apparently that included me."
"What did he say?"
"...he told us he had a minimal chance of coming out of this."
"Dad..."
"He suggested, I don't know, turning off some machines or something."
"He...What?"
"You know I'm not good with all that medical stuff."
"But... They're not, are they? Tell me they're not?"
"They flipped out, said no way, skedaddled. Kurt, the doctor said it was almost inevitable that all we'd be doing is prolonging the pain. The wait."
"Almostinevitable. Please let me cling to that almost."
"... Please take care of yourself."