Bip bip bip bip – The noise of the heart monitor is the only one in the room, and Blaine is beginning to hate the sound. He's grateful because he knows that as long as he hears the heart monitor, it means Emily is just asleep, that she's still breathing and that her heart is still functioning normally. But on the other hand, he hates the sound for what it represents. It means that even though she is still breathing, Emily isn't well. His little girl is hurt, and no one knows what she has yet.

“You have to wake up baby girl. Please open your pretty eyes and be okay.” Blaine says with a pleading and broken voice.

Blaine has been sitting here for a little over two hours. When the ambulance arrived, Blaine had been a sobbing mess, and the paramedics had been quick in bringing Emily to the hospital, with Blaine riding in the back of the ambulance and not leaving her side. Even though the little had been breathing normally when she arrived to the hospital, she had still been sleeping and wouldn't wake up. That worried the doctors enough to take her in immediately. Blaine had been left behind and completely lost as to what he should do, just quietly crying in the waiting room. He knows Emily had been far from being in critical condition, but he still felt so scared seeing her lying there and not waking up.

After a while, a doctor had come to talk to Blaine and tell him that he could come and see Emily. The little girl was lying in a hospital bed, still asleep, and was now plugged to a heart monitor. The doctor had explained that they weren't too concerned, seeing as she was still breathing normally, but that they preferred to be cautious. They had explained that Blaine would have to wait a little while until the results came back, but he could wait in here with Emily, and call family if he wanted too. Hearing the doctor say brought tears to Blaine's eyes. She was the only family he had left. But he had still called Isaac and told him he was in the hospital with Emily.

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He still can't believe this has happened. Blaine is just sitting there, watching Emily sleep, and he can't quite wrap his head around what has happened. Was he so focused on his problems that he didn't notice what was going on with Emily? Rationally, Blaine knows that's not true. He had noticed something going on, and he just thought it was a bug, or that Emily had overdone it with her uncle Isaac the night before. He didn't think it was any reason to worry, and now Emily is lying in a hospital bed. Should he have done something differently? Blaine knows it's not his fault, but he still feels guilty. Maybe he could have done something to prevent this, maybe…

Isaac enters the room, and cuts his train of thought. The man is out of breath, and he instantly looks towards Emily with a worried look on his face. After reassuring himself that the little girl was stable, he turned towards Blaine.

“I came as quickly as I could, how is she doing?” he asks softly, watching Emily sleep with a pained look on his face.

“They don't know what's going on yet… They are still running some tests. She woke up briefly, but quickly fell back asleep.” Explains Blaine, his eyes not leaving the little girl.

The worst part is not knowing yet. Blaine can't help but have all the worst case scenarios running through his head, and he can't shake the idea that something horrible might be happening to Emily, and he can't do anything to help, except sit there and wait.

Blaine hates hospitals, they remind him too much of his parents death. When he had waited in the waiting room to hear news about the two most important people in his life, and when the news came, it was to announce him that his world had ended. His parents had died.

“Don't go there Blaine” says Isaac, knowing his friend too well and reading the anguish on Blaine's face.

Blaine looks up towards Isaac with curiosity, wondering what the man means.

“I know this reminds you of your parents, you told me how it was. I know this had to be horrible for you, and I know you're thinking of the worst, but don't go there. We don't know what's happening yet. And although Emily hasn't woken up yet, the doctors are doing everything they can, and they are going to figure out what's going on with her. She's going to be alright.”

Blaine simply nods his face in silence, not quite trusting his friend's words yet.

“Where's Kurt?” asks Isaac, not having noticed the man wasn't there until now. Kurt loves Emily to death; Isaac is surprised that he didn't rush all over town and arrive before Isaac did.

Blaine just looks up towards Isaac with a look that's even guiltier than it was before, but still doesn't say anything.

“You didn't tell him? Blaine, I know you're kind of in limbo with him right now, but he still deserves to know, you should tell him…” says Isaac, reproachfully.

“I know, I know. But I don't even know if he would want to be there. No, that's not true. I know he would want to be there because he loves Emily; he's made that very clear. But god, he probably hates me now, and I just can't take it for the moment…” says Blaine, with a small voice that's breaking Isaac's heart.

“I'm sure he doesn't hate you B…” replies Isaac

“You didn't see him Ise. You didn't hear what I said; you didn't hear how hurt he sounded.”

“Did you two have a fight?” asks Isaac. Thinking Blaine's day must have been even worse than he thought. Not only is Emily in the hospital, but he also had a fight with the person he's became the closest to these days. He can't help but be sad that Blaine and Kurt are fighting. Not only because he knows his two friends like each other and are just too stubborn to admit it, but also because he had liked the good atmosphere in the apartment when these two got along. He doesn't want to go back to the way things were before.

“Not so much a fight. More like I was afraid and I was a total jackass because of that. And now he probably hates me. And he's still going to be around, because he wouldn't leave her behind, but he'll be cold and distant with me again. And he has every right to be.” Says Blaine, with a broken look.

“What happened exactly B?”

Before he has the time to answer however, a doctor enters the room quietly. He looks towards Isaac briefly, but doesn't say anything to the new comer and instead turns to talk to Blaine:

“M. Anderson, I'm sorry but we don't know for sure what's wrong with your niece yet. We're going to need to take Emily with us for a while again and run some more tests.” The doctor says, looking towards Blaine with compassion. He's aware of Emily's history because of medical reasons, and he can imagine how hard this situation must be for the young man in front of him.

“Will she be okay?” asks Blaine in a small and broken voice. He wants to believe she will be, but he can't let himself hope for it yet. Not until he knows for sure. He's also worried about why it might be taking so long, and why they don't have any results yet. He doesn't voice these concerns yet however, a little afraid of hearing the answer he will get.

“We can't say that for certain yet M. Anderson” the doctor answers, not wanting to give his patient false information. “After we run these tests, we should have some answers to give you. I'm sorry you have to go through this, we're doing everything we can to discover what is going on, and we'll let you know as soon as we know more.” With these words, the doctor signs for two nurses to come inside the room and they wheel Emily's bed outside of the room. The doctor looks at Blaine with a compassionate look one more time, before he follows behind the nurses and leaves the room.

Blaine and Isaac are left alone in the room, and Blaine can feel tears running down his cheeks. Isaac doesn't know what to do; he's not used to his friend being that way, even when he's sad. Blaine tends to put on a wall and hide his pain, so Isaac doesn't know the appropriate reaction to have here.

“She'll be okay Blaine” he tried to say in a reassuring voice, wanting to believe she will be himself.

Blaine just looks up towards him with a desperate look in his eyes, and says:

“I can't be there, I can't talk about this right now.” before exiting the room.

He almost runs out of the room and he just walks for a while, tears running down his face. He doesn't know where he is going and he doesn't really care. After a few minutes, he sits on the floor, his back against the wall in an empty corridor. He brings his legs towards his chest and puts his arms around them, as if to protect himself. Blaine just sobs on the floor in the hospital, imagining the worst with Emily. He can't help but be worried and imagine the worse. He's already lost all of his family, he can't lose her too. She's so young, she's still got so many years to go through and so many years to live. They don't know what's going on with her yet, but Blaine already feels lost and broken.

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Blaine doesn't know how long he's been sitting there. A nurse came by earlier, but left him alone when she saw the state he was in and thought he might want to be left alone with his thoughts. Silent tears are still running down Blaine's cheeks but he has stopped sobbing. Suddenly, he hears steps and someone calling his name.

“Blaine!” he recognizes Kurt's voice and gets up before he notices Kurt. Kurt turns into the corridor and he spots Blaine standing with tears along his face.

“What are you doing here?” asks Blaine. Not that he doesn't want Kurt to be there. He always wants to be around Kurt and he can't imagine anyone else he would rather see in this moment, but he's still surprised by Kurt's presence.

“Isaac called me” answers Kurt simply. He doesn't sound mad anymore, and he's looking at Blaine with such sadness in his eyes. “I went to Emily's room first and found Isaac there. Emily wasn't back, and he told me I might be able to find you here.”

Blaine is so surprised he doesn't know what to say for a moment. He knew Kurt would come and see Emily as soon as he heard, but he doesn't understand why Kurt is here in front of Blaine, speaking to him with a soft voice. He doesn't understand how Kurt can stand to be with him, and be there for Kurt despite everything that happened earlier in the day. New silent tears start running down Blaine's cheeks. The man is overwhelmed by his emotions, and he doesn't even try to stop them. He's overwhelmed by his worry for Emily, his love for Kurt.

“Oh Blaine” the man says, in a sad voice and he just advances towards Blaine and hugs him tight. Blaine can't help but cling tight to Kurt's shirt and burry his face in his neck, starting to cry again.

“I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.” He keeps repeating, while Kurt shushes him and rubs his back. Kurt doesn't let go, and he just holds Blaine and lets him sob on his shoulder for long minutes. After a while, Blaine calms down and he pushes back from Kurt a little. Kurt however, doesn't let go completely and he just keeps his hands on Blaine's shoulders.

“I'm really sorry Kurt, I shouldn't…” Blaine starts to apologize once again.

“It's okay Blaine. Well, it's not okay, but we'll talk later okay? We can figure all of this stuff out later. For now, I'm here for you and let's just focus on Emily and how to make this beautiful little girl of yours okay again.” He answers with a soft voice.

“She's hurt Kurt.” Blaine just says with a broken voice, tears still running down his face.

“I know B, I know.” Kurt says, sadness overly present on his face. He loves the little girl just as deeply as Blaine does, and he doesn't want anything to happen to her either. However for the moment, he has to focus on Blaine and prevent the man from completely losing it. He brings a hand up to Blaine's face and rubs his cheeks to prevent more tears from falling. He opens his mouth to say something but before he has the time, a nurse arrives and interrupts them:

“Your niece is back M. Anderson, and her doctor would like to talk to you. He's waiting in her room.” She says with a comforting voice, used to seeing people in distress with the work she has.

“We'll be right there, thank you.” Kurt answers for Blaine. He can see the other man is having a hard time pulling himself together, and it pains him to see Blaine like that. He takes both of his hands in his and squeezes.

“She's going to be okay Blaine, you have to believe it. And whatever she has, we can deal with it together. Maybe it's nothing, and if it's something, then we'll adapt and she'll adapt. She's a strong little girl, look how much she's been through already and how happy and balanced she still is. You have to believe she'll be okay.” Kurt says to Blaine, trying to reassure the man and himself at the same time.

Blaine just looks gratefully towards Kurt, and takes a deep breath before squeezing Kurt's hands one last time and letting them go. He runs one of his hands on his face, whipping away the last of his tears, and him and Kurt make their way back towards the bedroom. Once they arrive, they see Isaac sitting in the chair besides the bed where Emily is still sleeping, and a doctor standing near her bed. Blaine and Kurt make their way towards him, and they stand next to each other, hoping whatever the doctor has to tell them won't be too bad.

The doctor looks towards Isaac and Kurt questionably not quite understanding the family dynamic and wondering if he should start explaining everything in front of the two men, but when Blaine doesn't say anything, he determines it must be okay. He's seen all sorts of families in his work, and this one seems to be about people that all obviously love the little girl and care about each other, so who is he to judge. Seeing how worried Blaine is and feeling anxious to hear the news himself, Kurt discretely takes Blaine hand in his, trying to reassure the man and show his support.

“The good news is, your daughter is going to be okay. She had a blood sugar level, and this is what caused Emily to faint. However, we've injected her with some insulin so she should be better and wake up soon. The bad news is, Emily had type 1 Diabetes. From what he could see on her medical files, no one in the family had diabetes and that's why he couldn't figure out what it was at first, but after running the tests and seeing the results, there is no doubt left.”

Blaine doesn't know how to feel. He's relieved to know that Emily isn't in any kind of mortal danger, but he doesn't know enough about the disease to feel completely reassured and he just frowns, waiting the doctor to explain.

“I don't know who the father was, so there was no access to his medical records.” Is what comes out of Blaine's mouth, even if that's far from the first thing that is on his mind. He wants to ask tons of questions, and reassure himself that Emily really is going to be okay, but he can't quite make himself ask them.

Once again, Kurt seems to read his mind and sense that he's having trouble dealing with all of this, so he starts asking questions:

“What does this mean exactly? Is Emily going to be okay?” he asks hopefully.
Hearing the worry in the man's voice, the doctor starts to smile reassuringly towards the three men standing in front of him.

“She's going to be absolutely fine. I know this is scary, and her reaction must have been worrying, but now that we know what she has, we can treat and with the correct amount of insulin every day, Emily will be able to live like any other child her age. The thing is, Emily has type 1 diabetes, which means her body produces little to no insulin. To counter this, she is going to have to get injected 3 to 4 insulin shots a day, which I know is a scary prospect, but with our help and the help of your doctor, we'll find a routine for her insulin shots which should stabilize her glucose level and help her live as normally as possible. I know all of this must be overwhelming, but I want you to know that although type 1 Diabetes is rarer, a lot of people have it and manage to live a fairly normal life. The important thing will be altering her diet a little and limiting her intake in carbohydrates and fat. However, you'll learn all of this fairly quickly and Emily will be up and about again in no time.”

Hearing those words, Blaine feels his legs giving under him with all the pressure leaving his body. Kurt manages to catch him before he falls on the floor however, and pushes him towards the chair Isaac had vacated when the doctor started to explain.

“So she'll be alright?” he asks in a small hopeful voice.

“She'll be perfectly fine” answers the doctor, with a smile towards the man. “We would still like to keep her over night to monitor the effects of her injection of insulin, but she should be able to come home with you tomorrow evening. In the mean time, we have tons of pamphlets about Diabetes that a nurse will bring to you in a minute, and we'll schedule a meeting tomorrow for me to show you how to do the injections correctly and to set up her new routine. For now, you can wait here until she wakes up and feel reassured. She should wake up pretty soon, and we'll he around if you have any questions.” He says with a kind smile.

“Thank you so much doctor” answers Blaine, finally founding his voice. The doctor just answers with a smile and a small nod, and leaves the room.

Blaine lets out a huge breath and feels some of the tension exiting his shoulders. He knows the situation isn't ideal and he's sad that Emily isn't perfectly healthy, but he knows that she's going to be okay and manage to live a full and long life, and that's plenty enough for Blaine to feel happy. He knows him, Kurt and Isaac are all going to have to educate themselves about Diabetes, and learn to give shots and monitor her blood sugar level, but the situation is so much better than what he had imagined, that he can't help but feel relieved.

Isaac comes behind him and squeezes his shoulder with a huge grin on his face: “I told you she would be okay man” he says to Blaine, so happy and relieved by the news himself.

Blaine just smiles in answer, and turns towards Kurt. The two men look at each other, both seeing the relief and love shining in the other's eyes. Blaine doesn't know if the love he sees in Kurt's eyes is for Emily or for himself, but he decides that he'll think about all of this later. For now, he can focus on Emily and the relief he feels knowing that she'll be okay. He'll figure out his situation with Kurt later.

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Blaine is once again sitting in the chair besides Emily's bed and looking towards the little girl, but this time, his heart isn't as heavy and he doesn't feel so desperate. He's anxious for the little girl to wake up, but he knows she's going to be okay, and so he forces himself to be patient. The other difference is that Kurt is now waiting with him, sitting in another chair that a nurse brought in with the pamphlets next to Blaine. Isaac had left to go to work earlier, now that he knew Emily was okay, and wanting to give the two men a moment together.

Kurt and Blaine have been sitting in silence, but it isn't an uncomfortable silence. They both know they'll have to speak about everything, but they both silently agreed that the exchange would take place later, once Emily is home and they have the time to discuss everything. For now, they just both want to be there for each other, and for their favorite girl to finally open her eyes.

About an hour after the doctor left, Emily starts to stir and Blaine shoots out of his chair and bends towards the little girl. Kurt follows a few seconds later, and they both anxiously look at Emily who is slowly waking up. A few minutes later, the little girl finally groggily opens her eyes, and the first thing she does when she sees Blaine on top of her is smile and lift one of her hands towards his face.

Blaine catches her arm and kisses her hand, felling so happy and relieved to see the little girl finally awake and on her way to recovery. Blaine can feel Kurt's presence besides him and Kurt puts a reassuring hand on his back and rubs softly. He doesn't know what's going to happen with Kurt, he doesn't know how he's going to deal with Emily's diabetes, but in this moment, Blaine is so relieved to finally have his baby wake up and smile happily at him that all he feels is happy. He'll deal with all the rest later. Blaine's eyes tear up with joy and he says softly:

“Welcome back baby girl, I've missed you so much.”