Chapter Fourteen

 Blaine opened his eyes. And he gasped, too.

There was a pillow flying in midair over the coffee table. Literally flying. And then it just fell down. Blaine was star-struck and Kurt seemed to feel similar. Only Damien smirked.

“Did I… did I just do that?” Blaine stuttered.

Kurt shook his head in disbelief. “But how?”

“That’s a gift, Blaine, and not a very common one. I guess, from now on you can move anything with your thoughts, if you practice a little bit. It will get easier as soon as you get used to it.” Damien smiled.

“That is actually awesome.” Blaine said. He looked at the pillow that was now lying on the floor and tried to imagine that it would fly again. Nothing happened. He frowned and tried to focus on his task. But still nothing happened.

“Don’t force it, Blaine. It’s inside of you. It’s a part of you, so just relax and it will get easier.” Blaine snorted at Damien’s words.

“Whatever. I’ll try that later.” He leaned back onto the couch.

Kurt and Cooper still stared at the pillow. Cooper did because he was horrified. But Kurt did it because every time he would look at Blaine he saw his eyes turning red again. He would remember the pain and the fear he had felt when Blaine had pinned him to the ground. He was afraid. That was all he could think about.

“So, Cooper…” Damien began and Cooper flinched at the sound of his name. “I bet you won’t deny that this is all your fault, right?”

Cooper hesitated but then he nodded. “Please don’t kill me.” He whispered.

Blaine snorted again. “I can’t believe that you’re asking that from me. Why did you hurt me, if you knew that I would kill you for that?”

“I— Well, I—“, Cooper stuttered.

Kurt sighed. “He thought that you it would kill you. He wanted to get rid of you.”

Blaine turned to Kurt but Kurt wasn’t looking at him.

Of course not. He’s afraid. I ruined everything.

“But you know what Cooper? I’m not like you. Not at all. I’m not cruel, even if you think I am. Which is why I won’t kill you. You don’t deserve to die. But I do.” He sighed. “Look at me. I am a monster and that’s never going to change. It probably would’ve been for the best if Cooper would have killed me. But just so you know, the ashes may have an effect on me but it’s not a way to kill me.”

Cooper was still shaking and his lips were pressed together.

“Chrm, okay, maybe Cooper should go upstairs now.” Damien said. “We got some other things to discuss.”

Cooper literally jumped up and ran out of the room. Kurt could’ve sworn that he had been crying. Then he looked at Damien. He had told Kurt that he was a friend of Blaine’s but Blaine had never mentioned him before. And what was he doing here anyway? Did he just happen to drop by at the right time to pull Blaine off of him?

“Kurt, I—“, Blaine began but Kurt interrupted him.

“No, Blaine, not right now.” He still didn’t dare to look at Blaine.

“But Kurt…”

“You know that this is what I was afraid of all the time, right?” Now he looked at Blaine with tears in his eyes. “I was scared. So scared, Blaine. And I thought I would die! And I probably would have if your mysterious friend hadn’t shown up.” He gestured at Damien who frowned but didn’t say anything. “And I don’t know if I can do this anymore. It’s too much. I just can’t…”

“Are you… breaking up with me?” Blaine’s voice cracked at the end of the question.

“I don’t know… I don’t think so. I guess, I need a second to think that through.” He wiped the tears in his eyes away and stared at Damien. “Tell me, what’s the story of you two?”

Blaine hesitated not knowing how to start. “Well, he… uhm, I met him a long time ago, shortly after I was turned. And I told you that my maker abandoned me, so no one taught me how to control myself and I ended up being a killer.” He glanced up at Kurt. “Damien found me. He… he helped me and we became friends and looked out after each other. Okay, maybe he was looking out after me and not me after him. But I needed him.” Damien snorted and Blaine looked up at him.

“We stayed together for about twenty years but then we went separate ways. Tonight, when I went hunting… I called him. It was the first time we ever had contact since we last saw each other. And he said, he would come here and visit me.”

“You’re skipping a part of the story.” Damien smiled. Blaine gave him an angry glare but Damien didn’t care.

“What is he talking about?” Kurt frowned.

“Nothing important.” Blaine said but at the same time Damien said,

“Well, he’s not telling you the reason why he called me, which is the reason why we are sitting here because we need to talk about it.” He was still smiling.

“There’s no need to talk about it!” Blaine clenched his teeth. “And stop smiling like an idiot.”

“I’m just happy, Blaine. You can’t blame me for being happy.” Blaine could have punched him right in the face at that moment but he didn’t want to scare Kurt. He remained sitting on the couch glaring at Damien when Damien suddenly winced in pain and his hands flew to his neck.

It looked like someone was strangling him and even though he didn’t need the air, it obviously hurt.

“Blaine, stop it.” Damien couched and Blaine got aware of what was happening. It was him doing it. Immediately he tried to stop whatever he was doing and he saw it had worked when Damien relaxed.

He looked up at Blaine and let out a low snarl. Blaine knew what was coming. Damien had always been the one who could control himself in the worst situations but when it came to little arguments he would always lose it. He lost control at this very moment and Blaine’s only thought was: Kurt.

Both vampires lunged forward at the same time, so fast that Kurt didn’t even notice what was happening before they crashed into each other. He let out a surprised scream and hid behind the couch. He could see their faces; fangs bared and dark eyes and they were growling and hissing while trying to prevail.

Blaine knew that Damien was stronger. He had always been stronger than him. And right now he was angry with Blaine because he had hurt him, even if it wasn’t exactly on purpose.

Damien let out another snarl and suddenly he had pinned Blaine to the ground. Blaine tried to get him off of him but he couldn’t. Damien bit into his arm and Blaine let out a hiss of pain. He wouldn’t win this fight. He wouldn’t be able to protect Kurt anymore… but what if…

Damien growled in surprise when Blaine shifted beneath him within a second. They rolled over and now the big, black wolf was pinning Damien to the ground, his teeth inches away from Damien’s face and his claws ripping open his t-shirt.

Then Blaine jumped off of Damien and stood in front of Kurt who was still sitting on the floor behind the couch. Blaine could hear him breathing very fast and he could smell his growing fear. Damien rose from the ground and attacked Blaine again. This time Blaine’s teeth found their way to Damien’s leg and the vampire screamed in anger and backed away from the growling wolf. He sat down at the wall and watched his leg heal. When he looked up, he was calm again.

“I’m sorry, Blaine. I didn’t mean it. I just kinda felt threatened, you know?” He got up. Blaine snarled and stayed where he was keeping Damien away from Kurt. “Please, Blaine. I’m okay now. You can turn back.”

Blaine’s instincts told him not to turn back. There was still possible danger and he couldn’t let him hurt Kurt. He could smell Kurt behind him and his heart was pounding fast, way too fast.

“Blaine?” Damien asked again. It took only a second and Blaine was standing where the wolf had been. He glared at Damien who took a few steps back to show Blaine that he wouldn’t attack again. Then Blaine turned around to look at Kurt.

Kurt was sitting there, his arms around his legs and his face wet from the tears. He was breathing fast and he could feel his own heart beating in his chest. When Blaine turned around, Kurt could see Damien’s blood at his mouth and his eyes widened in fear.

“Kurt? Are you okay?” Blaine asked and slowly took a step closer to Kurt.

“Don’t come any closer.” Kurt breathed and tried to get further away from Blaine but the couch was behind his back so he couldn’t.

“Kurt, it’s okay. That was just a little fight. We didn’t mean to scare you. Everything’s okay.” Blaine said and took another few steps towards Kurt and reached out to touch his shoulder.

“Don’t touch me!” Kurt yelled and Blaine flinched and pulled his hand away.

“Please, Kurt. It’s me.” Kurt was obviously in shock. “Try to calm down, love. It’s me. I’m not going to hurt you.” Then he remembered that that’s exactly what he did a few hours ago and Kurt was still scared as hell. “I’m so sorry, Kurt.” Tears started falling from his eyes and he wiped them away. Then he noticed the blood that was on his lips and on his chin and wiped that away, too.

“Blaine?” Damien came closer.

“Don’t!” Blaine hissed.

“Blaine, listen to me. You made me feel pain; maybe you can make him relax. I don’t know, if it’ll work but it’s worth a try.”

“This is your fault.” Blaine glared at him.

“I know and I’m sorry but just try.” He begged. “You two have a deep connection.”

Blaine tried to shove the anger inside of him away and concentrated on Kurt. He tried to remember everything that Kurt and he had shared; every single moment. He let these memories flow from his thoughts over to Kurt’s and he could feel Kurt. He could feel his fear and his confusion and he tried to replace them with the memories and almost instantly he could feel Kurt relax.

He started to breath normal again and Blaine broke the connection. He got down on his knees in front of Kurt who looked still quite terrified and gently pulled him into his arms. Kurt started sobbing against Blaine’s shoulder and Blaine whispered in his ear: “I’m so sorry, Kurt. It’s okay. I’m here and I won’t hurt you ever again.”

Several hours later, Kurt was sleeping in Blaine’s bed while Blaine was watching him with Damien sitting at his side. He kept apologizing for losing control earlier but Blaine would always cut him off. They were sitting in quite until Damien said something.

“About the reason why I’m here…” He whispered. “I think, when the time is there, then he will want to become a vampire so he can stay with you. And you have no need to feel guilty for taking his life away because that will be what he wants.”

“Do you really think that he will even want to be with me anymore after this?” Blaine asked.

“Yes, I do. You haven’t seen the two of you together. There’s something between you that I can’t describe but it’s so strong, Blaine. I would bet that he is your mate. You drank his blood and developed a new ability. When you turn him, he will most likely have one, too, because if you are each other’s mates then your blood is special for each other.”

“Mates? Do you really think that? That only happens once in a few hundred years. No one ever finds their mate. Or do you know anyone who has?”

“Yeah, I do.” Damien said quietly.

Blaine’s head cocked up. “You do?”

“Yes.” Damien swallowed. “Me.”

Blaine’s mouth fell open and Damien chuckled.

“Don’t look at me like that. I told you about Lucy.”

“But you didn’t mention that she was your mate. Oh my god. What did you do when she died?”

Damien sighed. “I tried to kill myself. But then you came around and I thought that you still needed me and I thought that Lucy wouldn’t want me to kill myself.”

“Oh,” Blaine said. “How did you know it? That she was your mate, I mean.”

“Because of the mate-mark.” He pulled his t-shirt up to show Blaine his chest. There, at the place where the heart would be, was a small tattoo that looked like three circles that were intersecting each other.

“Wow, I never thought that something like mates even existed.” Blaine said and somewhere inside of him a small part wished that he and Kurt would share this, too.

“Blaine, you really need to control your new ability.” Damien said smiling. “You’re making things fly.”

Blaine looked up and saw that the papers that were lying on the desk were hovering around the room. “Oh god, this needs to stop. How would I explain that to people at Dalton?” He took a deep breath and he didn’t even need to concentrate when the papers returned to the desk and arranged themselves neatly on one side of the table.

“You’re getting better at it.” Damien said.

“I wonder what I can do with it. I mean, I can move things with my thoughts but I can also do what I did to you, which is quite similar to moving things, I guess.” He frowned. “But then the connection to the mind of another person…”

“I think you can only do that with Kurt, though. You can try but I don’t think it’ll work with me.”

“Why not?” Blaine asked.

“Because it’s something totally different than telekinesis. I think it’s only the strong bond that you two are sharing. Otherwise you would have two abilities more and I have never heard of that before. Otherwise, I have never heard of a shifter that was as talented as you either, so there’s the possibility that you are something special.” He smiled. Blaine knew he had always been kind of jealous about Blaine being able to shift. Damien never figured out how and Blaine could even turn into two different animals.

“Speaking of shifting… You used to hate it. It seemed to me that you were not as appalled as you used to be when you shifted. I mean, you did it because you wanted to and you didn’t turn back as fast as usual.” Damien looked curious.

“Yeah, well, Kurt kinda liked it. He… he liked me being in this form. This way he could pet me.” Blaine looked ashamed but Damien simply started to chuckle. “It’s not funny. I actually realized that it’s not that bad.” He pouted.

Kurt stirred in his sleep. Blaine carefully moved over to the bed and held Kurt’s hand when he woke up. He looked around and when he saw Blaine, he was almost about to pull his hand out of Blaine’s and run. But he didn’t.

“Kurt? Kurt, please say that you are feeling okay.”

“I’m… I’m good. Just… Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry, Blaine.” Kurt stuttered.

“Shh, there’s no need for you to apologize.” He pulled the boy into a hug but when he tried to kiss Kurt he pulled away.

“What is it? And be honest.” Blaine asked.

“I’m afraid.” Kurt whispered.

On their way back to Dalton they stopped at Kurt’s house for a few hours so Kurt could talk to his father and Carole for a bit. Blaine waited outside in the car and from time to time he slammed his head against the steering wheel.

He’s afraid and he’s going to leave me. Well, not exactly. He’s going to say that he doesn’t want me in his life anymore and then I’ll leave Dalton because I want him to live the life he was always supposed to live. I would leave him alone and he would forget about me and the fact that vampires ever existed in his life. Slam! How could this happen to me? It’s all my fault. Why did I lose control like that? What would I have done if I had killed him? Yeah, I would’ve probably killed myself. And Damien thinks that we’re going to have a happy life together forever. He really can’t be serious. Slam! He would never want to be turned and even if he wanted that I wouldn’t do it. I wouldn’t take his life away. I wouldn’t take him away from his family. Or would I? Would I be that selfish? Yeah, I probably would. Slam!

Kurt opened the door of the car. Blaine hadn’t noticed him coming.

“Oh my God, Blaine, what’s wrong?” He exclaimed.

“Nothing. Nothing really, I’m fine.” Blaine said hastily and ran his fingers through his hair.

Kurt nodded. “We’ll talk about this when we’re back at Dalton.”

During their drive back to Westerville no one said a word. They met Wesley in the hallway and he invited them to a Warbler meeting in the common room with a movie and pizza. They told him they would come in about fifteen minutes and went to their room first.

Kurt closed the door behind him and walked over to Blaine’s bed where the boy was sitting staring at his lap. Kurt laid one arm around Blaine’s shoulders.

“Now tell me why you were hitting your head against the steering wheel.” He said smiling a little.

“You’re going to break up with me, right? I’ll just leave. That would probably be the best for you.” Blaine sniffed.

“Blaine, I told you that I don’t care what is best for me. I won’t break up with you.” Kurt rubbed Blaine’s back.

“But what do you want to do after Graduation this year? Or a few years later? We can’t be together like this forever. I will lose you eventually.” Tears started falling from his eyes again.

“Blaine, I… you said, I could be turned.” Kurt said slowly.

“I never said that. You wanted that and I told you that I would never take your life away. But after everything that happened the last two days, I’m surprised that you’re still thinking about that.” He looked up at Kurt. “That was the reason I called Damien you know. I wanted to know what he thought about turning you.”

“What did he say?”

“He told me to be that selfish. He said that we belong together. He even thinks that we could be mates.” Blaine snorted.

“What does that mean?” Kurt had never heard of that before.

“I won’t explain that to you right now. Maybe another time.” He coughed. “But Kurt, right now… You’re still afraid of me which I totally understand after I attacked you. And I couldn’t guarantee that it won’t happen again. Do you really want this, Kurt? Because this is a decision for a lifetime. If you agree to be turned, I’ll probably do it eventually. But if you don’t want that then I’m going to leave you as soon as possible because then you should live a normal, happy life and forget that I was there. I wouldn’t stay with you.”

“No, Blaine don’t you dare leaving me. I just… I don’t know, yet.” He hesitated. “I want to be with you more than anything else but seeing you like you really are the last few days changed a few things. It didn’t change my feelings for you but it kind of scared me. I’m scared to become like that.”

Blaine nodded. “I understand that. I really do. And I’m sorry, Kurt, that I’m making you make such a big decision. I hate what I am sometimes but there are also times when I love what I am because I get to do things that other people are dreaming of. And if I hadn’t become what I am I would have never met you.” He gently took Kurt’s hand. “I don’t want you to be afraid of me and I’m sorry that you had to see me like that.”

Kurt leaned forward and kissed Blaine. At first it was only a small kiss but then they both pushed forward and started pushing their bodies into each other. Blaine’s tongue darted into Kurt’s mouth and Blaine let out a moan. Kurt was surprised to hear the sound but he didn’t pull back. This was everything he wanted. He loved Blaine and he wouldn’t leave him even if that meant to become a vampire.

They parted after what felt like hours and Kurt was breathing heavily. Blaine smiled.

“Maybe we should go now and get some of that pizza.” He said and gave Kurt a quick peck on his cheek.

They entered the common room and saw most of the Warblers sitting around the table eating pizza. Jeff jumped up when he noticed them.

“Kurtsie, you’re back!” He squealed and almost ran Kurt over while embracing him into a hug. “And Blainers, too! We missed you.”

“Jeff, we were gone for three days.” Blaine said and sat down at the table.

“Long time, I know.” Jeff said and shoved another piece of pizza in his mouth.

Kurt just shook his head. “Whatever happened to watching a movie?”

Wes shook his head before swallowing the pizza he had in his mouth. “Someone broke the DVD player. Jeff says it wasn’t him and Nick says he says the truth, so…” He gave Jeff a significant look but Jeff just shrugged.

“We can still snuggle on the couch.” Blaine said to Kurt.

“Ew, go into your own room for that.” Jeff said loudly.

“As if you could ever think about something else, Jeffrey. I saw those hickeys on Nick’s neck. Good job!” Kurt gave Jeff a thumbs up and smiled sarcastically.

“Ha ha, very funny, Kurt.” Jeff pouted. “I guess, Blaine never left hickeys on your neck.”

Kurt didn’t know what to say but Blaine was faster than him anyway.

“No, I never left hickeys on his neck. There are a lot of places that aren’t that obvious.” He winked at Kurt, Jeff gasped and closed his mouth.

Kurt couldn’t help but giggle.