Kurt had always loved when the winter season came around, for a number of reasons. One reason was that it indicated the beginning of scarf wearing for the winter season.Of course there was also Christmas, Kurt loved Christmas as much as the next teen did. But this year he was far more excited than ever, because it was the first Christmas he'd be spending with his boyfriend, Blaine. Boyfriend. He had a boyfriend now, although they had been dating for almost seven months, it was still hard to believe. So many wonderful and amazing things had happened to him because he had met Blaine, things that made all the scary and horrible things that had also happened, just that much more bearable. With Christmas just around the corner, Kurt was faced with a whole new problem. One he never had to worry about before because he had never had a boyfriend during Christmas, or for any big holiday for that matter. What in the world was he going to get Blaine for Christmas? What item could possible express what Blaine meant to him? It was impossible. So far Kurt hadn't had very much luck, because any ideas he had gotten so far were either too expensive or not special enough.

After Kurt had spent another day shopping and still come up with nothing, he had to admit defeat for now at least. He headed over to the Lima Bean to meet up with Blaine for their planned date and hoped seeing him would motivate him somehow. He was seriously considering telling Blaine the trouble he was having, but that would ruin the surprise. But maybe there was no harm in asking him for a few ideas, since Kurt had none at all. Kurt scanned the room and saw Blaine was already waiting for him at their usual table, with their drinks. Kurt shook his head while grinning and made his way over to where he was sitting.

“I thought we promised we'd both stop getting here early?” Kurt said as he came to sit across from Blaine.

“I swear it just happened by accident and it was crowded so I just got in line... and the next thing I knew I was sitting here!” Blaine replied.

“Well I do get free coffee out of it, so you're forgiven this time.” Kurt said as he took the drink Blaine had held out to him. Kurt took a sip and glanced around the coffee shop, noticing all of the Christmas decorations were now up. “They sure like to go all out here for their decorations.” Kurt pointed out.

“And why shouldn't they? Christmas is almost here.” Blaine replied.

“Don't I know it. I was just at the mall... trying to get gift ideas for you.” Kurt explained.

“Oh? Get any good ones?”

“Honestly? No, not really.”

“Oh thank god.”

Kurt almost ended up almost choking on his drink, “What?”

“I'm just glad I'm not the only one having trouble.” Blaine explained.

“So, any idea what we should do to make it easier? I still want to see your face light up in surprise when you open your gift.” Kurt asked.

Blaine thought about for a moment, taking another drink of his coffee. “Maybe we should set a spending limit? That way there's no worry of one of us spending way more than the other and feeling guilty?” Blaine suggested finally.

Kurt grinned, “That's a good place to start.” he said in agreement.
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Blaine was bit surprised but amused to see that getting into the Christmas spirit for the New Directions had turned out to be decorating a discarded tree with stolen ornaments. Never the less, Blaine was enjoying himself immensely as he sang along to the Island of Misfit Toys as they all began to hang ornaments on the tree.

When they were done they all stood around the tree to inspect their handiwork. Mr. Schuester then came in, Blaine couldn't help himself but smirk lightly at his reaction to where everything had come from, because he had the same reaction a short while ago.

“Guys, look I appreciate the effort, but this isn't what Christmas is supposed to be like.” Will pointed out to them all.

Mercedes glanced up at the tree, “For us it is, this tree is like a mascot for Glee Club.”

“Mercedes is right, we've won Sectionals two years in a row and the school still thinks we suck.” Kurt said with a sigh.

A number of them, Blaine and Kurt included, were reminded of that the other day by being slushied once again. This time Tina, Mike and Mercedes were also targeted.

“I'm pretty sure they just added food coloring to the slush outside in the parking lot.” Mike muttered.

“You can eat that, you know.” Lauren replied quickly.

“They got extra creative for Kurt and I, they said 'Ho ho ho, homos' when we got slushied.” Blaine said in a sarcastic tone.

“No, no I am not gonna let you guys throw a pity party.” Will said as he went and placed the small Christmas tree he had brought on the piano. They all listened as Will began to explain how he planned to get them into the real Christmas spirit. But when that idea turned out for them to sing carols from class to class, everyone just looked at him in horror.

“He can't be serious.” Kurt whispered to Blaine in disbelief.

The next day after they had rehearsed enough to Will's liking, the New Directions tried their best to be jolly as they began their carolling tour of the school. Until their audience had turned so negative that the teacher actually ended up throwing a shoe at them and they made their escape to the choir room.

“I can't believe that that teacher let those students speak to us like that.” Rachel commented.

“I can't believe she threw her shoe at us.” Puck added.

“And after I picked out the perfect sweater and scarf combo for us all to wear.” Kurt muttered.

“Guess we're done carolling.” Tina told them all.

“No we're not, guys we can't let what just happen ruin our Christmas spirit. Mr. Schue got this beautiful tree to inspire us.” Finn commented.

Blaine came up and added another piece of garland to the three, “Finn is right guys, we can't let the Scrooges of the McKinley win.” Blaine said.

“Yeah... right Blaine, anyway we're gonna practice now and do round two tomorrow.” Finn replied.

But their plans for rehearsing were put to a halt when Artie explained to all of them that Brittany still believed in Santa Claus. Despite their better judgement, they had agreed to go to the mall the following day with Brittany to sit on Santa's lap.

Kurt waited in line next to Blaine as he watched the others take their turn, he rolled his eyes. “This is so stupid.” he muttered.

“Maybe, but it's sort of fun because we get to be like a kid again for a second.” Blaine said.

Kurt was going to make a cute reply to point out Blaine already acted like a kid on a regular basis but his turn ended up being next. Blaine pushed him forward and he finally gave in and took a reluctant seat on the mall Santa's lap.

“Look we both know I don't want to do this, but since I'm here... I guess there's no harm in saying I'd love the Alexander McQueen's new spring wardrobe okay.” Kurt said lightly and then walked away before the Santa could react to his request.

Blaine went up next and Kurt shook his head at how he was almost skipping along, he really need to spend more time with Brittany, Kurt figured they'd get along quite well. Blaine wasn't dumb, but there was no denying that he was innocent and cute at times.

Blaine took a seat on the mall Santa's lap, “Um, so yeah, I'd love to get a solo for Regionals I suppose.” Blaine told him, since it would make Kurt's mission to have it happen easier. “Or if that's too hard you can't go wrong with bow ties.” Blaine added with a grin.

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Even when Christmas was just around the corner, Kurt knew he couldn't use the holidays as an excuse to let his grades slide. So he was using the rare quiet moment in the currently empty choir room to get some serious studying done. Or at least that had been the plan; his boyfriend seemed to have other ideas as Blaine strolled into the room, with a boom box in hand. He had somehow managed to sneak into the room so Kurt didn't even notice he was there until the noise of him putting the boom box down on the piano made him look up in surprise.

“Hey.” Blaine said to him with a grin.

“You scared me.”

“Good, because I'm actually Marley's ghost and I'm here to tell you to stop studying so hard.” Blaine said playfully.

“Actually, as far as I'm concerned I haven't been studying enough lately. But I find myself wondering what's with the boom box?”

“Oh, I just thought you and I could sing our first Christmas song together. You know, to get us into the holiday spirit and all.” Blaine explained.

“Okay that is tempting, what song?” Kurt asked.

“Baby it's Cold outside, you gotta admit it's right up our alley....”

Kurt looked at Blaine gave his infamous puppy dog eyes and Kurt sighed as he put his pen down. “Oh a personal favorite of mine, too bad we couldn't sing it when we were carolling for Glee club. I guess it would be alright to take a short study break, for the sake of Christmas.” Kurt admitted.

Blaine grinned in triumph and pressed play on the boom box, “Very good then.” he said and bowed lightly for Kurt to take the first verse.

Kurt smirked and began to sing the first line, taking the female lead of the duet. It didn't even phase him to go with that choice, he was sure some people would think he chose it because of his voice. When in reality Kurt had just knew how fun it would be to tease and let Blaine chase after him in song. Soon a flirtatious to and fro between Kurt and Blaine began as they sang the song. Kurt got up from his seat and began to walk away from his boyfriend. Kurt had to admit that Blaine was right when he said this song was up their alley. The romantic yet playful banter of the song matched their chemistry perfectly.

Blaine was enjoying himself far too much as he sang with Kurt as they acted the song out like it was a play. Whenever Kurt gingerly moved away from Blaine, he would just follow continuing their musical chase. When it finally came to them singing the last part together, both of them ended up sitting on the piano bench. The two of them smiled at each other happily as their faces got close to each other.

Kurt finally gave a long sigh, he wanted to kiss Blaine at that moment very badly. But he knew it wouldn't be a good idea. “Well... I think we pulled that off very well.” Kurt finally said.

Blaine nodded, “Indeed we did, so much that I wish I could kiss you right now.” Blaine admitted.

“We'll just save that for later.” Kurt replied with a laugh. But as he brought his hands to touch the sides of Blaine's face, as he looked into his brown eyes Blaine felt rebellious all of a sudden. “Oh, screw being safe for once.” he muttered and pulled Blaine in for a kiss. Kurt knew it was very risky for them to be kissing like this, but he still couldn't pull himself away from Blaine. Blaine kissed him back and he fought to get under control, but Blaine's lips were so soft, warm and inviting.

What actually ended up breaking them apart was the sound of someone clearing their throat loudly. Kurt and Blaine quickly pulled their lips apart from the sound and turned to see Mr. Schuester standing at the door of the choir room.

“Hi, sorry to interrupt your uh...” Will began and he eyed them with amusement. “Study session, Kurt, but I need your help with something.”

Kurt had been relieved that it had been Will who had found them kissing, only because he wouldn't call them out on it or begin to tease them like crazy. The fact that he wasn't mentioning it further made Kurt very willing to help with whatever problem Mr. Schuester had at that moment. He managed to stop himself from blushing and shifted to a safer distance from Blaine on the piano bench. “Yeah, sorry about that, we got... distracted. Anyway... sure, what's up?” he said, trying to sound casual.

“I need some holiday help, I dunno if you know this but I am really bad at Christmas shopping. This year I drew Sue in the office pool secret Santa and I tell yah, I can't think of anything good. And you are so good at shopping I thought I'd... ” Will began to explain.

But Kurt's keen shopping mind had already started to go to work with ideas, so he simply gave a brilliant smile and interrupted Will. “Say no More Mr. Schuester, I have the perfect idea already. Just leave it to Blaine and I, we'll go shopping after we leave school and pick up the perfect gift for Coach Sylvester. Mind you she probably doesn't deserve it but it is Christmas after all.” Kurt told Will as he stood up from his spot on the piano bench and walked up to Will.

Will gave a sigh of relief and brought out his wallet, he came over and handed Kurt a number of bills. “Thanks so much Kurt, keep the change if there is any.” he said.

Once Will was gone Blaine turned to Kurt and gave him a playful smile, “I guess we're going shopping then?” he asked.

Kurt simply smiled and bent down to give him a quick kiss on the check, “Indeed we are.”
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Blaine always found watching his boyfriend go into full shopper mode very entertaining, even when it turned out to also be very exhausting. Even when it was a gift for someone as undeserving as Sue, Kurt was fully focused on completing his mission, to find the perfect item. Seeing the determination and confidence on Kurt's face only made Blaine wish he felt the same way about what he was going to get Kurt for Christmas. Even when they had ended up setting a very high price limit of a hundred and fifty dollars, at Kurt's instance, it was no easy task. If it were possible, Blaine would buy Kurt a whole store full of the latest fashions, but even then it wouldn't be enough to fully express his love. Blaine decided to drop the subject for now, since it was only getting him down.

“So I am curious to what your perfect gift idea for Coach Sue could be.” Blaine said to Kurt as they walked towards the mall from the parking lot.

Kurt finished locking his car and hurried over to take hold of Blaine's arm, “Oh it's nothing that special really. I mean considering that all Coach Sue ever wears is track suits, I thought something for the winter season would be good.” Kurt explained.

“As in what exactly?”

“A fur lined track suit, that is if we can find one.” Kurt answered.

Luck was on their side it seemed for once, because Kurt managed to find exactly what he were looking for in the end. With their shopping task done, Blaine offered to treat Kurt to dinner at the mall food court. As they sat across from each other at their table, finishing the last of their meal. Blaine glanced at the shopping bag next to Kurt and sighed.

“Well at least Sue's going to get a great present for Christmas...” he muttered.

Kurt glanced up from his plate and saw the look Blaine had on his face and he felt like hugging him right there and then. But he simply took hold of his hand and squeezed it lightly, “Aww, is my boyfriend having a hard time finding me a gift? Because I swear Blaine I'll love whatever you get me, because it will be from you.” Kurt pointed out.

“I know I shouldn't let myself worry about it this much. It's just... it's you, Kurt, and I want to find a gift that's as special as you are. Which I am quickly finding out is nearly impossible.” Blaine admitted.

“You'll manage somehow and so will I. Hey if all else fails.... there is one gift we can end up giving each other for Christmas we both know we'll love.” Kurt pointed out.

“Are you making a joke about sex?” Blaine said with a loud laugh.

“Blaine, I never joke when it comes to sex.” Kurt replied with a smirk.
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Blaine soon found himself with a mission of his own to focus on, which was to get everyone in glee club into the Christmas spirit somehow. As he walked into the choir room that day Blaine quickly noticed everyone's sad faces and he knew he had his work cut out for him. Luckily he had the perfect weapon, the power of song, which he put into action when he couldn't take their moping faces anymore, so he raised his hand to speak. “Mr. Schue, I'd like to say something to everyone.” he explained.

“Sure Blaine, go ahead.” Will replied.

Blaine brought the biggest smile he could manage to his face as he suddenly stood up and came to stand in front of everyone. “Now I know so far Christmas for us in the New Directions has been anything but cheerful, with our carol singing attempts not turning out that good and the snow slushies we've been getting almost daily...” Blaine began to say.

“Uh Blaine honey, maybe you should get to the point.” Kurt suggested.

“Oh, yeah right, sorry! Anyway I thought it was about time we get into the full Christmas spirit. So... I had a little something arranged for us. If I could have my lovely assistant Kurt hand these out maybe?” Blaine asked as he went behind the piano to come back into view with a large cardboard box in his hands.

Kurt had already stood up and come down to join him, he glanced in the box to see it was full of Santa hats, which made Kurt smile warmly. He quickly grabbed the box out of Blaine's hand and hurried over to hand each member of Glee club a hat.

During all this Blaine had brought out a mic and a number of the school band had stepped into the choir room. “Well we have our hats, so now why don't we have some holiday music?” Blaine suggested as he put his own hat on his head.

Kurt chuckled lightly as he set the now empty box down and went back to his own seat, as he put on his hat and watched Blaine begin to dance to the music. Blaine's song choice was Deck the Halls, but it was a jazz version rather than the original.

Soon everyone in the choir room began to cheer and move the beat, when Blaine motioned for them to join him on the dance floor. Kurt didn't need any more coaxing and he ran down to join his boyfriend to dance during the vocal break in the song. Mike who never needed an reason to dance soon joined them and Tina following right behind him. Kurt turned to Mercedes and urged her to come down and she laughed and relented. As they began to dance around, Blaine was happy to see that even Santana, Brittany, Puck Quinn and Sam joined in on the holiday cheer.

Finally all that remained sitting was Rachel and Finn, Rachel was doing her best to look cheerful and seemed to be enjoying it. But Kurt could tell her recent break up with Finn was getting her down still. So he grinned wickedly at her and danced over to where she was sitting and pulled her up to dance.

Finn tried his best to look like he was enjoying himself as well, but as he sat there watching everyone laugh and follow Blaine's lead, it was hard to manage. Seeing them all up there, with Blaine having managed to do the thing he had been trying to accomplish all week was hard for him to sit through. Because all Finn could think of at that moment was how his fears of Blaine taking his place as leader of the New Directions could become a reality, at any moment. His doubts of him being able to keep his high spot in Glee had begun the moment Blaine had transferred and ended up singing his audition in front of everyone. It was easy to see how much talent Blaine had. Finn had instantly felt threatened by him, which also lead to him feeling very guilty about it. Finn had gotten to know Blaine pretty good, even more so over the summer and he even considered him a good friend now. But try as he might, Finn couldn't push his worried thoughts fully aside. If anything they were slowly begging to increase, especially now that he and Rachel had broken up. The spot for the new power couple in Glee was open and looked like it was going to be filled by Klaine. Finn simply began to bop his head along, forcing a smile on his face and hoped his breakup with Rachel would justify his current actions.
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Things had been going much better for the New Directions after Blaine had managed to cheer them up the day before. Until they walked into the choir room, to see it was now void of any Christmas decorations, presents or even their tree.

Even Blaine wasn't feeling too cheerful as he silently stared at the mess of wrecked Christmas decorations on the floor. But when Finn stood up and urged them to not give up, Blaine realized he was right. Blaine quickly found his usual positive drive return to him and he jumped up to join everyone in their attempts to clean things up.

“Once again Finn is totally right in that we can't give up and hey if we have to clean up... why not make things fun with a song?” Blaine suggested.

Kurt looked over at Blaine from where he was currently crouched down and gathering torn garland into his arms and gave an approving smile. “I like that idea and I know the perfect song.” Kurt replied. He then began to sing Winter Wonderland and danced merrily to the garbage can and threw the garlands away. He twirled over towards Blaine who began to join him in song and soon everyone else followed his lead, singing while they got to work.

Rachel watched them all and came over to where Finn was just standing, she leaned towards him. “Finn, you need to do something about this.” she whispered to him.

“About what?” he whispered back in annoyance as he watched Blaine prance by them.

“About how we are failing as leaders right now, we need to do our part too and fix this too! We have to put everything that happened between us aside and save Christmas for the Glee club. We need to make this right, before someone else does.” Rachel explained softly, her eyes falling on Kurt and Blaine when she said 'someone'.

Finn looked from where everyone were singing and returned his gaze to Rachel and nodded, “You're right, we need a plan.” he told her.
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“So I have some bad news to tell you Kurt.” Blaine told him as he turned to look at him and join him on his own bed.

Kurt gave him a concerned look and gathered Blaine up in his arms, “What's wrong? Is everything okay?” he asked quickly.

“I just found out I'm going to be out of town for Christmas. My parents and I are going to be at my grandparents’ house in Cleveland starting on the twenty third.” Blaine began to explain with a sigh. When Kurt didn't say anything right away Blaine decided to continue. “I mean, I get that you should spend the holidays with your family and everything... I was just hoping they'd all come here, like they did last year.” Blaine added, he secretly thought that things had turned out this way because of his dad. That no matter how much he had come to accept Kurt and his relationship with Blaine, somehow he hoped that some time apart could turn Blaine straight somehow. “I'm really going to miss you...”

Kurt hugged Blaine tightly and kissed the back of his neck, “Oh Blaine, I'll miss you too...but we'll survive somehow. We can Skype each other on Christmas morning and then when you get back, we can have our own Christmas day together.” Kurt suggested. “No matter what day the calendar says it is.”

Blaine smiled and pulled himself out of Kurt's arms, but before Kurt could protest he turned around and pushed them both down onto the bed. “I am crazy about you, Kurt Hummel.” he muttered and began to kiss him.

Kurt kissed Blaine back and began to tug at Blaine's pants and then stopped, “Do we have enough time for you to show me properly?” he asked.

Blaine untangled his arms from Kurt's body and glanced at his watch, “Oh, I think we do...” he purred and set to quickly doing just that.

But as it turned out Blaine's assumptions were slightly off, because right when they were ready to go for a second round. They both heard the front door open and Blaine's mother Emily called out to see if anyone was home.

“Uh yeah, we're here, Mom!” Blaine blurted out as he quickly grabbed his clothing and got dressed as fast as possible.

Kurt was already ahead of him and was fully dressed again, despite his layers and quickly opened the door up a crack and turned to sigh at Blaine. “Well at least we got somewhere...” Kurt muttered in disappointment.

“Hmm, yeah having sex once will just have to do this time I'm afraid.” Blaine commented.

“Which considering how few chances we'd had so far, that's still beating the odds against us.” Kurt said in agreement.
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After the New Directions had ended up singing for all of McKinley's teachers, they now were walking through the halls, full with true Christmas spirit at last. Having an audience who truly enjoyed and appreciated their gift of music for once made everything feel magical.

Kurt walked down the hallways hand in hand with Blaine, swinging their arms as they went as everyone one around them talked happily amongst each other. He looked over to be surprised to see Blaine was frowning at that moment. “Why so glum, chum?” Kurt asked him cutely.

“I just can't forget I'll be leaving for Cleveland soon and away from all my friends and more importantly… you.” Blaine said quietly.

Kurt just smiled warmly and pulled Blaine's hand up to his mouth and kissed it lightly, not caring if anyone noticed the gesture. “Oh Blaine, it will be alright. I think I know what will cheer you up...” Kurt began.

“I dunno, Kurt, I'm still too much on an old fashion romantic to try to do that in school.”

“Hush you, no I thought we could give each other our presents tonight. Because I don't think I can wait till after Christmas for mine.” Kurt suggested.

“I'd like that.” Blaine agreed.

But any romantic thoughts they were feeling at that moment were quickly forgotten when they entered the choir room. To see by some miracle Artie was standing, all because of a mysterious gift of a re-walk somehow ending up under Brittany's tree like it was some page out of a Christmas story book.

Until Blaine noticed Beiste watching them from a distance, a warm smile on her face. Blaine nudged Kurt and brought his attention to this and the two of them returned her smile, but remained silent. Sometimes all it took for a miracle to happen was an act of sheer kindness.
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Kurt led Blaine by the hand as they made their way to his bedroom, when Burt suddenly stepped out into the hallway, bringing Kurt to a complete halt to avoid them crashing into each other. “Whoa sorry, Dad.” Kurt blurted out.

“No harm done kid, you two are home early...” Burt began and he eyed them.

Kurt rolled his eyes, figuring out what Burt was assuming their plans had been. “We're going to give each other our Christmas gifts now if you must know Dad, geez!” Kurt said as he pointed to the present in Blaine's free hand.

“And why are you doing that? I mean I get you'd want to be with your parents Christmas morning, Blaine. But you're more than welcome to stop by later on. I know Carole would love it.” Burt began to explain.

Blaine was touched by Burt's offer but he shook his head, “I wish I could Burt, thank you so much for thinking of me. But I'm leaving to spend Christmas with my parents in Cleveland at my Grandparents place.” Blaine told him.

“He's already bummed about missing our Christmas eve surprise for Mr. Schuester... so I thought giving him his gift now would cheer him up a bit.” Kurt added.

“It's a good idea, here I'll go get our present from Carole and I too if you want.” Burt said as he turned to go to the closet.

Blaine's eyes widened in panic, “Oh no! I wanna wait till when I'm back for that! Leave me something to look forward to!” Blaine blurted out.

Burt just laughed and patted Blaine's shoulder lightly, “Whatever you say sport.”

Blaine watched Burt leave and he leaned in close to Kurt's ear, “It will also give me time to buy them a present now.” he whispered.

Kurt laughed lightly as they continued to his room, once they were there Blaine noticed a small box on Kurt's table. Blaine grinned and handed Kurt his own package, which was about the same size. “So, who goes first?” He asked Kurt.

“Well you're the one who's having to leave tomorrow so you decide Blaine.”

“Okay, but you already know I'd want you to open yours first I bet.”

“I have no idea what you're talking about...” Kurt began, but when he saw the smirk Blaine was giving him he sighed. “Okay, you're right.” he muttered and began to carefully unwrap his present. Which revealed a small jewellery box and Kurt's heart skipped a beat when he realized what the size of the box was.

“Relax Kurt, it's not a ring.” Blaine said with a chuckle.

“I'm wouldn't freak out if it were a ring Blaine...” Kurt pointed out.

“I know, I'd feel the same way... but we'll save that wonderful day for the future.” Blaine said with a wink.

“As tempting as running off to elope would be... I suppose you're right.” Kurt admitted.

“We can be all mushy and romantic after we open our gifts, Kurt!”

Kurt glared at him playfully and returned to opening up the box, inside was a pin of a hippo, its mouth wide open. To anyone other than Kurt Hummel, it might have seemed like a very odd present. But for Kurt, it was perfect. Kurt's eyes darted from the pin and then to Blaine as a large smile formed on his face. “Oh my god Blaine, it's the Kristin Lora Mounted Hippopotamus Brooch I've been looking for! How did you find it!?” Kurt blurted out as he gave Blaine a tackling hug.

“Oh, I just hunted online for days on end.” Blaine replied as he squeezed Kurt tightly. He took the pin out of the box and held it out to Kurt, “May I?” he asked.

Kurt paused, “Uh... I dunno if I want to poke any holes in this jacket, Blaine.” Kurt admitted sheepishly.

Blaine just laughed and shook his head, “Oh well, I tried.” he said and put it back in its box.

Kurt placed it carefully down on the table and gave Blaine a seductive look, “I'll just have to poke you later...” he purred.

“Look who is making jokes about sex again.” Blaine pointed out.

“Just open your present, Blaine.”

Blaine did what he was told and picked up the box from the table, he eyed Kurt. “I also take it this isn't a ring?” he asked playfully.

When he saw Kurt roll his eyes in response he began to unwrap it. Unlike Kurt he did it quickly, tearing the wrapping paper from the box. He opened the box to reveal his gift was a pair of silver cufflinks in the shapes of little bow-ties. “Kurt, these are awesome!” he shouted. Blaine tackled Kurt with a fierce hug and kissed him full on the mouth in delight. Now any worries they had before about finding the perfect gift just seemed silly.

“And who says only girls can enjoy jewelry.” Kurt commented.

“I love you so much Kurt, even though I won't be here on the actual day, this is still the most wonderful first Christmas for us.” Blaine said as he clung to Kurt.

Kurt hugged him tightly and kissed Blaine again. “I love you too... and It doesn't matter where we are on Christmas day, Blaine... because I have already gotten the best gift for this whole year. You.” Kurt said softly.

“So can we get all mushy and romantic now?” Blaine asked with a smirk.

“Oh yes.” Kurt answered with a laugh as he pulled Blaine close for another long kiss.
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Blaine experienced another holiday miracle when on Christmas eve, he could join everyone over at Will's house without him being their physically, because of the wit of his boyfriend and the wonders of technology. He was now watching them all wait in the hallways of Will's house from his laptop through Kurt's phone and the power of Skype.

“Kurt, all I can see is the floor right now.” Blaine muttered.

“Shh, this is supposed to be a surprise Blaine.” Kurt hissed at the phone.

They suddenly heard Coach Sylvester blow her whistle as their cue to make their entrance. Rachel stepped out first, holding a plate full of Christmas cookies. Everyone else followed behind her slowly and Kurt made sure he was holding the phone up so Blaine could see everything.

Will's surprise and delight at their appearance was easy to read even through Blaine's computer.

“No one should be alone on Christmas Eve, Mr. Schuester.” Rachel said with a smile.

“Too much talking lady, not enough trimming. Come on, let's get some Christmas up in here.” Sue muttered.

Kurt obeyed the orders by beginning to take an ornament out of the box Quinn was holding and hung it up on the tree.

“Uh Kurt, you hung it crooked.” Blaine pointed out.

“Don't make me put you in my pocket, Blaine Anderson.” Kurt warned.

Blaine just laughed as he continued to watch everyone decorate Will's christmas tree. While he couldn't be there in person, Blaine felt far from being alone at that moment. “Merry Christmas, guys!” Blaine yelled and everyone began to cheer in response.
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Kurt soon came to realize how different Christmas day was for him, starting off when Finn shook him awake. Kurt groaned in protest and looked up to see Finn's excited face greeting him, which only made him feel more tired. “Are you insane, Finn?” Kurt growled in protest.

“Dude, get up it's Christmas!” Finn blurted out and threw Kurt's covers off his bed, causing him to hiss as the cold air greeted him. “Burt sent me down here to get you, he said you weren't allowed to mope today no matter what and I agree with him.” Finn added.

Kurt groaned and forced himself out of bed, “Fine, I'll get up! But you are not getting me to miss my morning skin routine. Go tell dad I'll be up to join you all upstairs in a moment and there better be coffee ready.” Kurt muttered as he went over to sit at his vanity. It wasn't as if he didn't want to enjoy Christmas still because he knew that Blaine would be the first one to call him out if he didn't. Kurt more than anyone was fully aware how much he had to celebrate after all. Last year it had just been him and his dad alone, like it had been ever since his mom had died. Now Burt had a wife and stepson and in turn Kurt had a step-mother and step-brother, not to mention an amazing boyfriend he truly loved. Remembering Blaine made Kurt's heart ache slightly but he snapped himself out of it and focused on getting in the holiday mood fully. Once his skin routine was finished he quickly grabbed his phone and sent Blaine a text message.

Merry Christmas, cutie.

To Kurt's delight Blaine's response came almost instantly and he pictured Blaine waiting by his phone anxiously wondering it was too early to text him. They had already promised they would call one another as soon as they were finished opening their presents. As well as Skype after dinner or whenever Blaine got a spare moment.

Happy Holidays, handsome. ;D

Kurt laughed loudly until he heard his dad call him from upstairs and he hurried up to the living room to join them. It was no surprise that Finn was already sitting in front of his large pile of presents. Kurt came over and gave his dad quick hug and Carole a kiss on the cheek from where they were sitting on the couch. Kurt then came to sit on the floor beside Finn beside the tree and gently picked up one of his presents, which turned out to be from Finn.

“Okay, let's get these presents opened huh?” Burt said.

It didn't take Finn anymore encouragement than that and he quickly began to tear open his first present. Kurt chuckled lightly, remembering Blaine had done the same thing when he had opened Kurt's gift a few days before. Meanwhile he preferred to show some control as he opened up his own gift. Since it was from Finn Kurt had been prepared for the worst. But he was quickly delighted to see that he had been wrong when the gift turned out to be a red fedora hat. After a quick study Kurt quickly guessed it was from Urban Outfitters.

“Well this is a pleasant surprise, thank you Finn!” Kurt said, still in disbelief as he put the hat on his head.

“Yeah well I had Blaine come help me pick your gift out, or else I would have been hopeless.” Finn admitted sheepishly.

“Blaine was a big help for all of us when it came to finding a gift for you, Kurt.” Burt told Kurt with a grin.

Kurt just let out a long content breath, as he once again began to feel so thankful that he had Blaine in his life.
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Christmas day came around for a second time on December 28th when Blaine had finally returned home. Kurt was almost bouncing with excitement as he saw Blaine pull into the drive way and he darted outside to greet him. Blaine barely even had his car parked as he fumbled to free himself from his seat belt and threw the car door open. Kurt came flying at him with a tackling hug which ended up slamming his back against the side of his car, causing Blaine to wince.

“Oh god Blaine, I'm so sorry! I just couldn't control...” Kurt began to blurt out. But he was quickly silenced when Blaine simply grabbed his face and kissed him. Kurt recovered and wrapped his arms around Blaine as he dipped Kurt lower, bending him backwards slightly. Finally the two of them had to come back up from air.

“Well that was lovely, but let's go before the neighbours notice our display out here.” Kurt muttered and quickly ushered Blaine inside his house.

To Blaine's surprise they ended up going to the living room, where Kurt had a whole little Christmas feast set up for them there. Full of Christmas cookies and steaming cups of hot coco waiting for them. Blaine just smiled warmly and came to sit down on the couch next to Kurt. Even with them out in the open Blaine couldn't help himself from grabbing hold of Kurt and pulling him in close. “I missed you.” he said softly.

Kurt closed his eyes and took a deep breath, just taking in Blaine and all the warmth and love he was offering. He finally opened his eyes and patted Blaine's knee with his hand affectionately. “I missed you too. I hope your Christmas was good, none the less. I'm sorry we didn't get to talk that much on Christmas day...”

“That wasn't your fault Kurt, it was just so crazy at my grandparent’s place I barely had a moment to myself!” Blaine explained.

“Well, it just makes us finally being reunited that more special. So tell me how was the family visit overall?” Kurt asked him.

“It was good, it was actually funny because before we arrived my dad ended up grilling me on keeping my private life well private... meaning of course to not tell anyone that I had a boyfriend or anything. But even though I did do that, I ended up getting cornered by some of my younger girl cousins who the first words they said to me were asking if I had one!” Blaine told Kurt.

“They didn't?” Kurt said with a mocking gasp. "Wait how young are we talking here?"

"As in their early twenties, so relax Kurt." Blaine laughed.

"Oh good, so you didn't scar any kids then. Did they tease you a lot?"

“Yep! Honestly it's no secret that I'm gay with my family, mainly because once I came out of the closet I refused to hide who I truly was. Some are more okay with it than others, but I really didn't plan on bringing it or you up. But my cousins can be pretty persuading and before I knew I was telling them all about you.”

“Well hopefully not everything...”

“I did leave out our sex life. Though I could tell they were dying to ask me about it and if we'd done anything...” Blaine admitted as he laughed lightly.

“Oh, I wish I could have seen their faces then.”

“But I shut them up when I showed them a photo of you, that sent them off for a while. I think you've got some fans among my family now for sure, Kurt.” Blaine told him.

“Wait, until they hear me sing one day.” Kurt replied with a laugh.

Blaine stopped and smiled at that, it touched him that Kurt was thinking far ahead to when they'd meet each other’s extended families one day. He decided to not call him out on the comment right now, since it was too soon to go there just yet. Instead he turned his attention to his mug of coco and took a long drink. “So what have you got in store for our little Christmas wonderland here?”

“Oh I have a whole romantic evening planned for us, finished with a Christmas dinner that Carole was sweet enough to make with me in your honor. But for now we have the place to ourselves, but don't go getting any ideas Mr. Anderson. The only way I could even get my dad to agree to leave for a while was for me to promise we'd behave.” Kurt quickly told him.

“Spoil sport.” Blaine teased.

“Shh, what if he could hear you right now.” Kurt told him. “Anyway now where was I...”

“Our plans before dinner?” Blaine offered.

“Right, okay sit back and get comfy because I have some videos to show you.” Kurt said, he then felt Blaine snuggle closer into his embrace.

“Done.” Blaine told him softly.

Kurt chuckled and stretched his arm out to grab the remote and press play. He then craned his neck to see Blaine's profile and waiting for his reaction to the video.

Blaine just watched silently as the video came into focus and Blaine realized it was a home video. As the camera shook a bit he heard Kurt's voice and Finn, Carole and Burt swung into view. They were all sitting on the couch of the same living room he and Kurt were in at the moment. Wrapping paper and boxes were scattered on the floor and on the table in front of them.

“Okay are we ready? Good...” Kurt's voice said and his face became visible as he turned the camera to show his face. “Hi Blaine, since you couldn't come over today I thought we'd make a little Christmas video message curtsey of the Hudson-Hummel family.” Kurt said with a big smile on his face.

The video began to shake and move as Kurt obviously moved to join them on the couch next to Finn and placed his computer on the desk in front of him. “Okay ready and a 1-2-3...” Kurt began.

“Merry Christmas, Blaine!” All three of them said at once.

Kurt clapped and Finn made a silly hooting sound while Carole blew kisses and Burt just tipped his baseball cap.

“There now can we go eat our breakfast, Kurt?” Burt finally said a moment later.

“Dad, I'm still filming!” Kurt blurted out and the video suddenly ended.

Blaine couldn't hold it in any longer and began to laugh out loud, shaking in Kurt's arms as he bowled over. “That was...that was amazing, Kurt.” Blaine said through his fit of laughter.

“Glad you found it funny.” Kurt replied playfully.

Blaine kissed Kurt's arm that was wrapped tightly around his chest and continued to chuckle silently. “Best. Christmas. Ever.” Blaine simply told him.