“Seriously, is this what I have to expect from now on every time I leave you two alone in the apartment?” whined Isaac when he entered the apartment one afternoon, only to find Blaine and Kurt sitting on the couch and trading kisses. Again.

It had been a few days since Kurt and Blaine had been on their first official date, and since Kurt had finally told the truth about his father to Blaine. Since then, both boys had been happier than either of them could remember being. They hadn't been on another date, because they didn't want to have to ask Isaac to watch Emily all the time, but both had enjoyed spending time together in the evening with Emily, and kissing softly once she was asleep.

Because of their new found relationship, it wasn't the first time Isaac had come home to find the boys kissing in the middle of the living room. This time, Blaine was sitting on the couch and Kurt was straddling him, his arms around Blaine's neck while they kissed. Both of Blaine's hands were on Kurt's hips, and his thumbs were rubbing circles against Kurt through his shirt.

“How long before you two go at it on the couch then? Last time I checked, you did have a bedroom Kurt.” Isaac continued, teasing his roommates. The truth was, he didn't really mind seeing them like that, because he could see they were both happy, although he would never openly admit this to neither of them.

Hearing this, the boys finally broke apart. Their position might have suggested otherwise, but despite Isaac's teasing, there wasn't anything sexual about this moment.

In fact, Kurt and Blaine hadn't even gone that far yet. A few nights ago when Emily had gone to bed and Isaac had been out with Marc, Kurt had tried to take things forward by slipping his hand under Blaine's shirt, but he had instantly taken his hand out when he had felt Blaine tense and the man had seemed a little reluctant. They hadn't spoken about the moment yet, but Kurt had been perfect and instead of making this awkward between them when this had occurred, he had just gone back to kissing Blaine, putting his hands safely over Blaine's shoulders in order to make the other man comfortable. Still, Blaine knew they would have to talk about it at some point, and he would have to figure out what was holding him back.

Kurt's voice suddenly pulled Blaine out of his thoughts:

“Uh, Isaac! Can't you just go back outside for a while!” Kurt said with a mock glare towards his friend.

“I'm sorry Kurt, but no, I can't! You two are just going to have to keep making out like teenagers later.” Isaac said with a cheeky grin. Although the situation didn't seem to faze Kurt who stayed straddled on Blaine's lap and just sighed at the thought of their very enjoyable kissing session being over, Blaine could feel himself blush at the interruption.

Before any of the boys had the time to answer back however, Emily started crying in hers and Blaine's room. The little girl had probably just woken up from her afternoon nap, and was showing her displeasure at being left in her cot alone.

“I'll get her” said Kurt with a soft smile, before Blaine even had the time to react. Kurt pecked Blaine lightly on the lips and he got up from Blaine's lap, making his way towards the bedroom and the crying little girl.

Blaine had a soft smile on his lips watching Kurt walk off, and Isaac noticed instantly. Isaac took a seat next to Blaine on the couch, and observed his friend for a few seconds, before breaking the silence.

“I'm really glad you two figured things out. It's nice to see you both this happy B.” he said with a soft smile towards Blaine.

At those words, Blaine turned towards Isaac and didn't do anything to hold back the huge smile that took his face. He couldn't help that he was so happy. Things with Kurt had been great, and he couldn't believe how lucky he was. He had not only found a man who lo… liked him a lot and whom he liked in return, but he had also found someone who loved Emily as much as he did, and he knew how lucky he was to have that.

“Thanks Ise. I'm glad for me too!” said Blaine jokingly, causing Isaac to chuckle softly.

Blaine quickly turned serious though, and turned towards Isaac.

“Kurt told me what happened to him when he was young, and with social services… and I just wanted to tell you, I'm here if you ever need to talk. I know your life was aweful when you were young as well, and if things for you were as bad as what Kurt's described in the orphanage well… just know I'm here if you ever feel the need to talk about what's happened to you. Even though I'm with Kurt now, I'm still here. We both are.” Blaine said, putting one hand on Isaac's shoulder and squeezing it softly when he saw the emotion reflected in his friend's eyes.

“I know B, I know. And don't worry, I'll come if I ever need to.” Isaac answered with a soft smile.

In that moment, Kurt came back into the living room carrying a sleepy Emily in his arms, cutting off the deep conversation Blaine and Isaac were having. Both Blaine and Isaac turned towards Kurt when they heard him arrive, and Blaine felt his heart melt at the image in front of him. Kurt was carrying Emily with one hand under her bottom and one hand against her back, holding her close to him, and the little girl, still a little grumpy and sleepy from just having woken up, was nuzzling his neck with her eyes closed and her tiny hand holding tight to Kurt's neck.

The image took Blaine's breath away and he could picture them being a family together. Him, Kurt, Isaac and Emily could actually be a real family, with Isaac as her uncle, and him and Kurt as her… dads. It was too soon for this of course, his relationship with Kurt was way too young for him to be entertaining such thoughts, but he knew that Kurt already loved Emily, and he knew that he was quickly falling in love with Kurt. If things between them kept going so well, then maybe in the future this image in his head wouldn't be so farfetched.

“You know what? Let's have a family dinner soon! We could all go out to eat somewhere, all four of us.” Exclaimed Blaine, wanting to be close to them after the pleasant image he had just had in his head.

Both Isaac and Kurt looked towards him in surprise hearing those words.

“Why this sudden idea?” asked Kurt curiously, although he didn't sound against the idea, just curious.

“Well, I've just realized that the four of us haven't really spent all that much time together since Emily's hospital stay. It's been you and I, or Isaac and one of us, or Isaac and Marc… And we're still a family, even if I'll admit we are a very strange one. It would be nice to spend some time all together, as a family. So what do you guys say?” asked Blaine, suddenly enthusiastic with his idea, and realizing that spending an evening eating out with his three favorite people sounded amazing right now.

“Sure, let's do it tonight!” said Isaac with a huge smile; happy to spend some time with the man he considered his brother, his best friend, and his favorite niece.

“Ok, that sounds really nice” answered Kurt, smiling towards Blaine.

“Great!” said Blaine, jumping off of the couch and walking towards Kurt to lift Emily out of his arms and cradle her to his chest.

“What do you say baby girl, are you up for it? You and the three men you have wrapped around your little finger?” murmured Blaine to the little girl, kissing her cheek softly. Emily's only answer was to whine softly, and lay her head against Blaine's shoulder.

“I'll take that as a yes then!” said Blaine with a goofy smile, causing the other two men to chucky softly at their friend's attitude.

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A few hours later, Kurt was standing in Blaine's bedroom, listening to Emily babble to him while trying to pick up the perfect outfit for her to wear tonight. Emily was sat on the chest of drawers, and Kurt was holding her and preventing her from falling with one hand against her legs, while with the other he lifted one dress, or skirt or pair of pants after another to decide what the little girl should wear. Finally, he picked up a cute little red dress and a white little cardigan and he lifted up the outfit towards the little girl.

“What do you think princess, is this the one?” he asked the little girl, who only cooed in answer.

“I think this is just dinner at a restaurant, not a fashion show. Plus she's only 15 months old Kurt, don't you think that's a little young for her to care about what she wears?” Kurt heard Blaine from behind him, in a teasing voice.

“It's never too early to dress fashionably.” Answered Kurt mock seriously, before having his breath cut out when he turned towards Blaine.

Blaine had just come out of the shower, and the man was only wearing a towel wrapped around his waist, while he was shirtless and small drops of water were running down his toned chest. Even if they lived together, Kurt had never once seen Blaine shirtless before, and the image was not one he was going to forget any time soon. Blaine, although he wasn't hugely muscular, had a very nice toned chest. He had defined pectoral muscles, a flat stomach, a perfect olive skin and a little duvet of black chest hair. He was the sexiest man Kurt had ever seen, and after swallowing at the image, he quickly turned back to Emily before he felt the need to walk up to Blaine and kiss him everywhere he could reach.

Blaine noticed his reaction, and couldn't help but smile smugly when Kurt turned back towards Emily, the tip of his ears turning red. He quickly put on a pair of boxer briefs and a pair of yellow pants while Kurt was busy dressing Emily, his back turned to Blaine.

“Think you can help me come up with an outfit now Mr. fashion designer?” asked Blaine, enjoying teasing the other man, while standing in front of his closet, wondering what the best shirt would be for him.

Kurt, who was done dressing Emily, lifted the little girl up and put her on the floor, and the little girl just took off walking towards the living room where most of her toys were laying on the floor. Blaine could hear Isaac walking in the living room, so he wasn't worried about Emily being left alone and he could enjoy teasing Kurt.

When Kurt turned back towards Blaine, the man was still shirtless although he was now wearing pants at least. Blaine was standing in front of his closet watching his different shirts, and Kurt walked towards him, stopping next to him. He had to force himself to take his eyes off of Blaine's toned chest, and towards the different shirts Blaine was looking at.

Noticing how hard it was for Kurt to stop watching him, Blaine couldn't help but feel proud. Kurt had been with many different men, and it was nice to know he could have this effect on him. Enjoying seeing Kurt flustered, a sight that almost never happened, Blaine decided to keep teasing him.

“Like what you see Kurt?” he asked, bumping Kurt's hip with his own. Kurt's blush started to become even deeper, and he suddenly grabbed a white polo shirt and gave it to Blaine.

“This one, definitely go with this one.” He said in a rushed voice.

Blaine didn't say anything and slowly nodded, watching Kurt exit from the bedroom flustered. Just before he reached the door though, Kurt turned around.

“Hey Blaine? I definitely like what I see.” He said, giving Blaine one last once over before exiting the bedroom, and leaving Blaine with a huge smile.

When Blaine was finally done getting dressed, him, Kurt and Isaac all left the apartment and made their way to the restaurant. Isaac was carrying a laughing Emily on his shoulders, so Blaine fell into step with Kurt and reached to take his hand in his, which prompted Kurt into turning towards him and smiling softly.

Once they arrived at the restaurant, they were all seated with Emily sitting in a high chair next to Blaine. Blaine looked over the menu trying to find something that the little girl could eat. This was the first time they went out with Emily since they had learned about her diabetes, and he was a little nervous about feeding her food that they hadn't made themselves. When the waiter finally came to their table to take in their orders, he was very surprised when the three men were all very thorough in asking tons of questions about the composition of each dish on the kid's menus.

Once they had finally all decided what they wanted, and picked a dish which was suitable for Emily, Blaine smiled softly at the idea of Isaac and Kurt both being as protective of Emily as he was. He wasn't surprised, because he knew they both loved Emily to death, but it was still a nice thing to know.

The meal went out without a hitch, and all three men were laughing a lot. It was nice to spend time with Isaac, and Blaine realized that since he started to date Kurt (and Isaac had started to date Marc), they hadn't really spent all that much time together, and he missed this. They would all have to make some effort in the future to see each other more often, especially considering the fact that they all lived in the same apartment.

The only negative point of the evening so far, was Emily being very difficult about eating her food. Blaine was sitting next to her and he was trying to spoon feed her vegetables, but Emily kept turning her face to the side whenever Blaine would bring the spoon close to her face. Blaine was starting to get a little frustrated with her.

“Dada”

Blaine felt his mouth drop hearing the little girl. All three men at the table had stopped talking and were watching Emily with huge eyes, none of them sure that they had heard correctly.

“What… What did you say?” asked Blaine, in a small shaky voice.

“Dada, no.” said Emily, too focused on turning her face away from the food in the spoon to realize that all of her family was looking at her, and that Blaine had stopped trying to feed her.

Suddenly, Isaac burst out laughing and Kurt began to smile hugely.

“Of course the first time Emily starts talking her second word ever is going to be ‘no'. That's my girl, she knows what she wants!” said Isaac, still laughing out loud at seeing the little girl utter her first word. Seeing her uncle laugh and Kurt beaming at her, Emily stopped avoiding the food and turned towards them, preening under the attention.

Blaine was still speechless. He could feel tears building in his eyes and starting to run down his cheeks, and he didn't even try to stop them. Emily had spoken for the first time, and her first word had been ‘dad'. She had spoken for the first time. And had used her first words to talk to her father, even if it was to announce her displeasure at having to be fed vegetables.

Blaine felt Kurt take his hand under the table, and he turned towards the man, still in awe of what Emily had just done. Kurt smiled softly, and squeezed his hand. He knew how worried Blaine had been about the fact that Emily couldn't speak yet despite her age, and he knew how relieved the man must be. Kurt felt such joy hearing Emily say these words; he couldn't even imagine how happy Blaine must be.
Kurt squeezing his hand seemed to bring Blaine out of his stupor, and the man suddenly whipped back towards Emily sitting on his left with a huge smile on his face.

“You spoke baby girl!” he exclaimed excitedly, getting up from his chair to press kisses all over Emily's giggling face. He felt a huge weight leave his shoulders hearing those words, and he was so happy to hear her speak. Emily was going to be okay, she had been slower to learn, but she was learning, and in no time she was going to be babbling about all sorts of things. He still had tears running down his face, but he didn't care and he lifted the little girl out of her high chair to take her in his arms and hold her close.

“I am so so proud of you Em!” he continued saying to the little girl, who was watching him with a smile.

“Is everything okay here sirs?” came the voice of a waiter, having noticed the commotion at their table but not knowing what was happening.

Blaine was so engrossed in Emily and in congratulating her that he didn't even notice the waiter, so Kurt was the one to answer.

“Everything is perfect.” He said observing Blaine and Emily with a huge smile.

The rest of the meal was spent with Isaac, Kurt and Blaine taking turns in pointing at Blaine and asking ‘who's this', which Emily answered with ‘Dada' each time, and smiled proudly every time the three men at the table would clap and laugh hearing her say the words again. Emily spent the rest of the evening on her father's lap, and no one bothered her to eat the rest of her vegetables for the rest of the evening.

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When Kurt and Blaine arrived home later in the evening, Emily was dozing off on Blaine's shoulder. Isaac had left after the restaurant to go and spend the rest of the evening with Marc, and both Kurt and Blaine still had huge smiles on their faces from their evening out as a family. Kurt opened the door for Blaine, and the man made his way towards the bedroom where he proceeded into undressing Emily and putting her in her pajamas, before kissing her softly on the forehead and laying her in her cot, where the little girl fell asleep almost instantly.

When Blaine made his way back outside of the bedroom, Kurt was waiting for him on the couch with a steaming cup of decaf. Kurt gave the cup to Blaine, and Blaine sat down close to Kurt and kissed him on the cheek to thank him. Kurt switched on the TV, and both men spent the next hour pretending to watch TV, when in fact they were both so distracted and happy about the evening they had just spent, that neither of them knew a thing of what they had just watched.

A while later, Kurt started to stir and Blaine lifted his head from where it had been resting against Kurt's shoulder. Kurt was seated on the couch and Blaine had been sitting next to him, leaning against him and laying his head on his shoulder while Kurt delicately ran his fingers through Blaine's hair. Kurt could have stayed in this position forever, but he was starting to feel tired and he wanted to head to bed.
Blaine sat up straighter, and Kurt kissed him softly on the lips once.

“I'm heading to bed.” Kurt murmured softly. “Care to join me?”

Instantly, Blaine started to tense a little hearing those words. Kurt could feel Blaine's shoulder tense from where it was touching his own, and he knew he had to address what was going on between them.

“Just to sleep Blaine. We don't have to do anything you don't want to do okay?” he asked gently, cradling Blaine's cheek with one of his hands.

“No, no. I want to. I mean, not now, but I do want to… go… further with you. At some point soon.” Blaine rushed to say, feeling embarrassed about his reaction.

Kurt didn't judge him though, and just kept watching him with warmth in his eyes. Before he had the time to question Blaine's reaction though, Blaine kept speaking.

“I want to do everything with you. I'm just….. Nervous I think.” Blaine finally admitted.

Kurt couldn't help but be surprised by the man's words, wondering what Blaine had to be nervous about. Wanting to understand where the other man was coming from, Kurt decided to best course of action would be to ask.

“What are you nervous about? Have you ever….?” Asked Kurt hesitantly.

“Yes, yes, I have. Just…” he took a huge breath, settling and preparing himself for what he was about to confess.

“It's stupid really. It's just…. You've been with a lot of guys. And I haven't really. Sure, I've slept with a few men before, but I'm nowhere near as experienced as you are, and I'm not sure I can compete. I guess I just feel nervous because I know I'm not as…”

Before Blaine had the time to keep going with his nervous rant, he was cut out with lips over his own, quieting him instantly. Kurt couldn't believe what he was hearing, and he couldn't believe that Blaine would think these things, that he would feel nervous about being with Kurt because of the others before him, or his lack of experience. Kurt kissed Blaine for a few minutes, until he felt Blaine's shoulders go back down, and the man relaxing.

When he pulled back, he cradled Blaine's face with his hands and pecked him one last time, before taking his hands off of Blaine's face and taking both of his hands in his.

“There is no competition Blaine, I don't know how you could think that. I have never felt this way about any of the other men I have been with, and just that fact would make anything we do together that much more special. Sure, I have experience with sex. But god… being with you would be completely new for me too because I've never been with someone I cared about, with someone that cared about me.” Once again, he kissed Blaine softly on the lips, before continuing to reassure the other man.

“If you are worried about me comparing you to other guys, then don't. Not only do I care about you so much, but you are also one of the sexiest men I've seen in my life, and seeing you shirtless earlier only confirmed that to me. If it's your lack of experience… who cares? Think of all the fun we can have together discovering what we can do together, and all the things that turn you on. I can't wait to experience all of this with you.”

At those words, Blaine could feel the heat coming to his cheeks and a soft smile spreading over his face. It was stupid to be worried, he has seen earlier the effect he had had on Kurt, and he knew the man cared about him. Of course it wouldn't be the same thing as it had been with all of his one night stands.

“Mostly though Blaine, I'm not in this for sex. I'm in this relationship because I really care about you, more than you know, and we can take things as slow as you want. If I'm asking if you want to come sleep with me, it's because I just want to keep you close to me, I don't have any other motives. When you're ready, then we'll take this step, but until then, let me just hold you and kiss you until we're both breathless. So Blaine, would you like to come and sleep with me? And by that, I do mean just sleep.”

By the time Kurt was done with his speech, Blaine had a huge smile on his face. He lifted up from the couch, and offered his hand for Kurt to take. Kurt smiled softly and took Blaine's hand, lifting up from the couch and standing across from Blaine. Blaine cradled Kurt's face in between his hands, and kissed him softly.

“You are a wonderful man Kurt Hummel” he said with a soft voice.

“Well, you deserve nothing but the best.” Answered Kurt lovingly, before he pulled Blaine towards his bedroom and both men went to bed.