Meet The Anderson's

Leaving On A Jet Plane

Blaine sighed sadly, drawing his knees up to his chest and resting his chin on them, watching his brothers' rush around the house while throwing things between them, each attempting to pack their suitcases at the last minute as per usual. Burrowing his face into his folded arms, he bit his lip sharply to suppress the tears he knew were inevitable, dreading the thought of being alone in the Anderson's huge, somewhat scary mansion once more. Having his brothers' back for the last four and a half weeks he had gotten so used to waking up to the sounds of the older twins fighting or Reed singing off key at the top of his lungs, and just in general having a loud, noisy, welcoming house to always return to when he went out. In a matter of hours though they would all be gone, off to various parts of the country for school and work, Kurt leaving on the same flight as Jude and Noah, unavoidably leaving Blaine with just the silence of the creaky old house. He was going to be all alone. Again.

Feeling a gentle hand run up and down his back, Blaine jumped in surprise, twisting his head around carefully to stare into Bentley's sorrow filled golden eyes. The eyes identical to his own watched him closely, protectiveness shimmering in them as Bentley wrapped his arms instinctively around his twin, drawing him to his chest and humming softly under his breath.

Irrespective of what most people usually thought in regards to the youngest Anderson brothers', Bentley had always been the quieter of the pair growing up, preferring to stand back and let Blaine do the talking for the two of them, especially where strangers and weird friends of their parents were involved. It had held it's advantages for the elder twin over the years allowing him to become very adept at when Blaine was lying or hiding his true feelings to protect someone else.

"I'm alright Benny, just tired from last night, it was a late one and a stupidly early morning because you losers still haven't packed," He smiled weakly, pulling back slightly from the firm hold he was locked in.

Bentley shook his head resolutely with a frown. "You're not okay Blainey," He murmured, pulling his brother closer again to whisper in his ear, "I know that you're not but just know that you're not alone, you're never alone. I am here whenever you need me any hour of the day, any day of the week. I love you. You're my brother and my best friend and you always, always will be. Forever right Blainey Boo?" His arms were wrapped as tightly as he could get them around his brother, his heart breaking as he felt only fraction of what Blaine was feeling. The twins knew that they had always been more in sync than the rest of their brothers' irrespective of whether that had been Blaine screaming in agony when Elijah had accidentally slammed a car door on Bentley's ankle when they were eleven or the year before when Bentley had felt a searing white hot pain across his vision only to learn of the 'slushy incident' that had been happening in Lima the following day.

Blaine sniffled softly, nodding slightly as the tears started to leak from his eyes, "I love you too Benny Boo. I'm just going to miss you all so much."

"I know," Bentley muttered, pulling Blaine close and resting his head on top of Blaine's curls. His eyes caught on Noah's miserable ones when he glanced up to see all other action in the room had stopped, the older brothers' staring at the babies of the family, a wave a sadness sweeping over their features.

"GROUP HUG!" Cooper yelled, all of the brothers' piling onto the twins on their parents antique couch, Bentley hollering he couldn't breathe while Blaine let out a squeak of laughter, each brother managing to ruffle his curls.

"Help, tiny person suffocating!" Bentley shrieked from under the throng of brothers', Blaine's laughter growing even as Elijah started to pull each of the older brothers' off, leaving just the youngest two curled up together on the couch. Bentley gasped for breath while glaring at the older Anderson's who were now looking at the babies of the family with fond expressions. An image of much younger brothers' being infatuated with two tiny babies, with the same wild midnight black curls, snuggled up asleep in the same crib conjured itself in Cooper's mind.

"Alright, leave Blaine to Benny, the rest of us still have shit loads more packing to do because somehow we've ended up practically buying the entire contents of Lima mall thanks to Kurt's shopping trips." Noah rolled his eyes with an affectionate smile, pushing Elijah towards the stairs as Jude ran after them.

"Got to say though, Ollie would be proud of you guys' for doing it with minimal complaining," He smirked, dodging his brothers' glares while Elijah reached out to hit him over the back of the head. "I'll have to let Ol know that you're all more inclined to go shopping with him now whenever you're in town."

"Oh god, please don't," Lucas moaned, diving onto Jude's back, "Shopping with Kurt was hell, and I'm pretty sure Ollie's worse."

"That's improbable, if not impossible, now move it. There's still plenty of work to be done and there's only eight hours until Burt and the rest of the Hudson-Hummel's arrive and we all leave," Cooper sighed, ushering the brothers up the stairs. Jude smirked slightly, wrapping his arms around Lucas's legs and taking the stairs at a sprint, his older brother yelling at him the whole way up before kissing the ground when Jude essentially dropped him at the top of the stairs with an eye roll.

"Why do we always leave packing 'til last minute?" Reed groaned using the bannister to haul himself up the stairs even as he felt his legs protest thanks to the run that Blaine had dragged him out on early that morning.

"Because packing sucks!" Austin and Pippin hollered, overtaking him on the stairs and grabbing his 'Lakers' cap from his head, shooting up the steps to their room with an irate Reed on their fast on their heels.

Lounging on his stomach on Jude's bed, the top forty blaring from the older brother's speakers, Blaine kicked his legs in the air, watching Jude mutter to himself and dash around the room, grabbing the remaining bits and pieces that he'd need for New York. The younger brother rolled his eyes and started to laugh when Jude tripped over one of his suitcases, ending up face first in the carpet, attempting to glare at Blaine from where he was lying.

"Not funny Bam Bam, not funny at all," Jude moaned, righting himself and crawling over to lean against the end of the bed where Blaine's head was, swiping one of the chocolates he had from the packet beside him.

"Wow," Blaine blinked, his giggles only fading slightly, "It's been a long time since you called me Bam Bam, Twinkle."

"No kidding. I always thought Dad was going to flip that time when you slipped up and called me Twinkle in front of him, you were only three at the time from what I remember."

Blaine gulped slightly, trying to block one of his earliest memories out of his mind, the one of his Father screaming at his tiny frame while Jude and Lucas looked on helplessly, still only young children themselves. Sighing, he leaned his head back down so that it was right next to Jude's, "Yeah, that got pretty scary for a while. I still can't understand how Cooper managed to drill into a two year old not to call you Twinkle Toes around Dad though. I mean I don't think I called you Jude anytime between the ages of two and seven, you were always the dancer, my Twinkle Toes," Cocking his head to the side, Blaine smiled slightly, "Or my Juju, but that was never as fun."

Jude chuckled lightly, reaching over to ruffle Blaine's curls, "Looking back on it Bam Bam, I think Cooper probably always knew on some level that we were gay, and he knew how Dad would react all along too I guess. Getting you to stick to Juju when they were around was simply his way of protecting us and making sure that I could keep dancing without them knowing. Coop's never been as dumb as he makes out really." Jude wrinkled his nose slightly, eyes dancing with laughter as they bore into Blaine's, "I never got over the fact that you could freaking say Twinkle Toes but you couldn't ever say Jude. I mean really Blaine, really?"

"Hey, d is a very hard letter to say Juju."

"I'm assuming you have no problem using it around Kurt now though," Jude smirked watching the blush rise in Blaine's face as he buried it in the bedspread.

"Oh my god," He muttered, grabbing the pillow from behind his feet and whacking it over Jude's head.

"Alright, alright, truce, truce!" Jude yelled, stopping Blaine when the pillow hit him again and tackling his cackling younger brother backwards onto the bed from where he was now standing. Pulling Blaine into a tight hug, the elder Anderson pushed them both up the bed until they were leaning against the headboard and grabbed the bowl of popcorn from the floor, placing it between them. "I have a proposition for you Bam Bam."

Blaine's curious hazel eyes searched Jude's confident emerald ones in confusion. Swallowing a mouthful of popcorn with some difficulty, Blaine nodded slightly, "What's up Juju?"

"I just… Kurt's coming back to New York tonight with me too, right?"

Blaine winced heavily, feeling as though he had been punched in the gut, "Yeah. Thanks for reminding me of that though," He muttered bitterly tearing his eyes away from Jude's.

Jude chewed his bottom lip nervously, reaching out to squeeze Blaine's knee gently even as the teenager's head fell to his shoulder. "How about you come too? I mean Ol and I have a spare room and god knows with your grades we'd probably find a high school that would take you no bother even this late in your senior year."

Blaine's head shot up to stare at Jude, his eyes wide with shock and his mouth stuttering nonsense while his brain tried to grasp what his older brother had just said. "Jude," He eventually managed to breathe out, the shock of his brother's suggestion still etched into his features.

Jude smiled softly, "It's a genuine offer B. I even talked about it with Ollie at lengths, he'd be happy to have you there and it would be amazing having you permanently in the same state for the first time since I was fourteen."

Blaine blinked back tears, his eyes studying Jude carefully, "Jude I…" Taking a deep breath, he smiled sadly at Jude, "Jude, I'd love to…but you and I both know that I can't."

Jude's face fell, "Why not Bam Bam? It's not like I'm strapped for cash or anything, and you'd be close to Kurt, and you know that Ollie adores you."

"I know that Jude, I do really," Grinning, Blaine shuffled forwards, taking Jude's hands in his, "And it is going to hurt so god damn much knowing that you're all gone again." Cutting Jude off with a glare when the older boy tried to interrupt, Blaine grinned softly again. "You've protected me so much in my life Jude, and me staying in Lima, at least until the summer, this is my way of protecting you."

"I don't follow."

Blaine smiled sadly at Jude, making sure to catch his eye again. "If I came to live with you and Ol do you really think that Father would let me go easily? I don't care about the man and he doesn't care about me, I've known that since I was eight Jude. What I do however care about is you. I will not let that man tear you and your relationship with Ollie and your love for dance down because he doesn't believe in it. You and Ollie are both so important to me, and I am not going to put the two of you at risk for my own selfish reasons, and even if we didn't tell him, he'd find out somehow, it always happens with me." Shrugging slightly, Blaine beamed once more, "Besides, Sam needs me so I'm not going to leave him alone either."

Jude laughed shakily, swiping tears from his face, "You're one of a kind Blaine, you know that right?"

"I'd agree apart from the fact that I have a carbon copy three doors down blasting 'Britney Spears' for the world to know about," Blaine muttered dryly, pulling Jude in for a tight hug. "I'm going to miss you, you know?"

"I'll miss you too B, so much," Jude smiled, tugging his younger brother closer. "Stupid sperm donor messing everything up." Blaine snorted at the nickname that the brothers' had coined for their Father long ago, the man often being nothing less than an absent empty figure in their life. "Just know that the offer will always stand, whenever you need it, okay?"

"Okay."

"Good, now go help Bentley because if he's ready on time it might be a minor miracle. Not to mention I'm going to tear my hair out if I hear one more 'Britney' song or if there's another crash from that room because he's attempting to dance again."

"On it," Blaine laughed, grabbing the bowl of popcorn and sauntering out of the room.

"Alright, everybody out!" Burt yelled, sliding open the door to the ten seat hired minivan to release his many passengers as Blaine pulled up with another full car beside him.

Rolling his eyes at the brothers' leaping and jumping from the minivan before racing around the parking lot to collect luggage trolleys, Kurt rounded Blaine's Range Rover and took hold of the boys' hand, lifting it to his lips and smiling reassuringly when he felt golden eyes turn his way. "How are you doing B?"

Blaine shrugged, leaning against Kurt heavily, "I'll be alright Kurt, I'm just going to miss them all, and you."

"I'll miss you too B, but you're coming to visit soon, either that or I'll come back here and drag you with me to New York kicking and screaming."

Blaine laughed, watching with interest as Austin, Pippin and Bentley reclaimed Noah and Elijah's luggage trolley for themselves, "Well that can only end badly," He muttered, surveying Bentley dive out of the way with a yelp when Pippin's rucksack nearly hit him in the head. Kurt turned to where Blaine was staring and letting loose a laugh, tugging his boyfriend closer. "Besides Kurt, if anything you'll get have to get sick of me and kick me out of New York."

"Oh Honey, I could never get sick of you." Kurt grinned, tugging on Blaine's hand to make him follow the rest of their mismatched family into the warmth of the airport.

"Forwards slaves!" Bentley cried, leaping onto the luggage occupying the trolley that Austin and Pippin were leaning on and making himself comfortable.

The twins looked at each other, eyebrows rising and smirks forming over their faces. "Oh we'll give you forwards alright Benny," Austin muttered as the shorter boy turned to look at them with wide eyes, gulping loudly as the older twins both grabbed the trolley handle.

Bentley let loose a scream to wake to dead his hands flying out to grab the edges of the luggage that he was sitting on as the twins took off, their years of being on various track teams marred only slightly by the uncooperative trolley wheels. Turning a corner too enthusiastically, Bentley and the luggage were sent sprawling to the floor, the curly haired teen sliding across the recently buffed tiles and spinning in a circle so that when he cracked his eye open again he was staring up at the older brothers' watching him in shock.

Eyes opening fully, Bentley grinned as a mischievous twinkle found its' way into his golden orbs. "That was totally awesome! Let's go again!"

Eagerly, the three brothers' leapt to the task of replacing the luggage on the trolley; fighting over whose turn it was to ride when a throat cleared behind them. Schooling their faces into pictures of innocence, the three turned to see Burt, Cooper and Elijah each watching them with unimpressed expressions, Noah stood a behind them his face flickering as he tried to contain laughter.

"Can we help you?" Bentley asked, smiling sweetly.

"Funnily enough, you can," Cooper growled, reaching out to grab Austin's collar while Burt grabbed Pippin and Elijah took hold of Bentley, Noah rolling his eyes when he realised that he was being left to deal with their trolley. "You can stop creating absolute and utter havoc in the airport and stay here with the bags and everyone else while we go figure out where everyone's luggage needs to go and when we have to board."

"Well that's not as much fun," Pippin muttered bitterly, huffing and crossing his arms across his chest while pouting at the three men walking away.

Noah smirked slightly as he walked up to them, making sure that the three had well and truly disappeared and that Carole was busy talking to Jude and Sam before dumping the trolley in front of the three brothers'. "I didn't see anything, now take it and go, just try and stay out of trouble."

Three pairs of playfully sparkling eyes turned on Noah as the boys' squeezed their older brother in a tight hug before Pippin was jumping on the trolley and they were flying off in the opposite direction to that of which Cooper had disappeared to. Shaking his head, Noah whistled softly and went to join in the conversation with Carole.

"What's Sebastian doing here?" Kurt whispered quietly, watching Reed creep away from his brothers' to the solitary figure stood close by, his own arms wrapping tightly around Blaine's waist.

The younger teen followed his eye line with a soft smile as he watched Reed pull Sebastian in for a tight hug, muttering rapidly before tugging him closer to where the rest of the family had gathered. "Something tells me he and Reed have a lot left to say to each other."

"You don't think?" Kurt questioned, pulling back from Blaine slightly with a raised eyebrow, "I mean there's just…"

Blaine shrugged pulling Kurt closer with a feeble whine and burying his head in the crook of his neck again, determined to memorise his boyfriend's scent before he walked out of his life for potentially another couple of months. "I don't know Kurt. Anything's possible. The fact that I found you in Ohio of all places proves that to me. Reed and Seb have been growing closer since the summer pool party, I think that they text quite a bit, but I really don't know, unless they want meddled in or deserve it because the other person is a dick or a bimbo I try to stay out of my brothers' relationships." Kurt laughed softly, glancing around the airport quickly to make sure that no one was staring at the duo before kissing Blaine's temple tenderly, grinning at the sigh of contentment from the shorter of the pair. "As far as any of us are aware he's only ever had girlfriend's but the longest of those was Lauren and that was only three months long, two years ago so who knows?"

"Fair enough," Kurt mumbled, resting his head on top of Blaine's lightly gelled curls watching Reed and Sebastian laughing about something with curious eyes.

"Blainey you've got to come join us! These idiots think that they're faster than we'd be. I'm calling bullshit," Bentley grinned, screeching his trolley to a halt next to the entwined boys' with a chuckle, Austin, Lucas and Noah close behind him.

Blaine shook his head, feeling tears building in his eyes as he burrowed his face deeper into Kurt's neck. The older teen ran a hand gently down Blaine's back, jumping slightly when a notice rang out through the airport letting passengers know that the gate for the New York flight was now open. Red hot tears started to soak into his neck and shirt collar and he looked down at Blaine in alarm, drawing him closer as more of the brothers' started to surround the pair worrying as they watched Blaine begin to tremble slightly.

Burt sighed sadly having watched the entire exchange. "Alright boys' lets give them some privacy," Burt smiled rounding up the older Anderson brothers' and herding them away from the young couple winking conspiratorially at Kurt even while the brothers' protested, Blaine letting out a choked laugh as he caught Burt's eyes with a gloomy smile. Grabbing Austin by the collar when he tried to head back towards the couple, Burt shook his head vehemently, "Nope, nuuh, leave them Aus. Kurt can take care of Blaine, I promise you. We need to get all of your luggage checked in anyway, thank god Blaine made you all actually check in online last night or this could've been more of a nightmare."

No longer caring if anyone in the airport was watching them, Kurt pulled back and cupped Blaine's face in his hands, kissing every inch of his face, including his eyelids when they fluttered gently closed. "You're mine you know," Kurt smiled pulling a little further back, linking their fingers tightly and swinging their hands from side to side between them, "Mine, mine, mine." Letting his own eyes flicker closed, he leaned his forehead onto Blaine's.

"Always," Blaine whispered, his eyes red rimmed. "God Kurt, always, promise?"

Hearing the shaky tremble to Blaine's voice, Kurt wrenched his eyes back open, chuckling dryly. "Blaine Devon Anderson. Don't you know by this point?" Seeing the confusion flicker across the golden eyes he had studied for years Kurt beamed, yanking Blaine close to him and wrapping one hand around his waist, the other stroking his cheek gently, Kurt let his lips brush against Blaine's. "Baby, it's always been you, it always will be." Letting the words ghost over Blaine's lips, Kurt grinned at the shudder that rippled through his boyfriend before drawing him closer, sealing their lips together as their tongues explored each other's mouths, lost in a familiar battle for dominance.

Sebastian let out a low whistle, "Damn, who knew Gay Cyclops and Old Betty White could be so hot?"

Sam smirked, tilting his head and pulling a face when Blaine's hands travelled further down Kurt's back, "Well clearly you haven't paid them much attention when they're actually together, although this in public thing is new. Burt and Carole went to check bags with the others and get coffee, yeah?"

Sebastian nodded, eyebrow rising when Kurt bit Blaine's lip gently, "Damn boys'," He muttered, pulling out his phone and setting the camera on them.

"Not sure if that's creepy or just weird dude," Sam frowned appraising Sebastian quietly.

"Blackmail material or pure and simply embarrassing stuff for their future wedding. I can't decide which yet."

The blonde boy nodded, "Can I get a copy of that?"

"Five bucks."

"Deal."

"Oh gross, I don't want to see that Bash," Reed wrinkled his nose, trying to look anywhere but at his baby brother and his boyfriend, "I mean just ewwie."

"It's still hot though," Sebastian smirked, "Jeez do they just not need air?"

Blonde locks flying, Sam shook his head with a bemused grin, "Nope, I've sadly been witness to them going at this for hours. The price you pay for having to walk passed Kurt's bedroom door to get to the bathroom or the kitchen and Burt has an 'open doors' policy."

"Lalalalalala, I can't hear you," Reed sang, jamming his fingers in his ears.

"Reedy, give it up," Sebastian chuckled, snatching his 'Lakers' hat and placing it on his own head backwards with the hand that wasn't already occupied with his phone.

"Baaaash," Reed whined, a goofy smile on his face as he made no attempt to get the hat back, simply rolling his eyes at his friend, oblivious to Sam's confused glance.

"What happened to keeping it PG around us?" Elijah groaned, burying his head in his hands, "That right there, that has skyrocketed straight passed PG."

"Oh we're heading for R rated stuff here," Sebastian laughed, the two boys' seemingly oblivious both to their surroundings and the incredulous brothers' and friends'.

"No, nuuh, nope, not in front of me. I don't want to see my little brother sucking face, can we not just go back to kissing is icky? I miss that Blaine," Lucas whined, advancing towards them, Noah close behind while Jude simply sat back against one of the rucksacks with a yawn, reburying his face in his book to try and avoid the fireworks about to explode.

Austin and Pippin glanced at each other uneasily, their heads tilting and eyes rolling in silent conversation before both of them nodded, running after their older brothers'.

"Nope, not today boys', let them be," Pippin crowed, managing to grab Lucas and haul him away from Blaine and Kurt with a grin, "Man Luc you really are small, still not as small as Blainers or Benny but that would be near on impossible."

Austin meanwhile was tugging on Noah's arm, Bentley stepping up to pull the other arm, "Leaving them to suck face. They don't get to see each other for a while, it's only fair, and the rest of us are going back to boyfriends' and girlfriends'. Let them have this."

Relenting, Noah's face softened considerably when he glanced back to the pair, Blaine's head now resting on Kurt's chest, his cheeks tinged pink and breathing heavily, but looking the happiest he had all day as Kurt smiled tenderly, brushing a lock of Blaine's hair out of his eyes and pressing his lips to Blaine's forehead lovingly before simply cuddling the boy close.

"Seriously, leave them be," Cooper muttered as everyone but the couple re-joined the pile of bags that the leavers had accumulated in the middle of the almost deserted airport. The oldest brother looked up for where he was sitting tapping out a tune on Elijah's wheel along briefcase, headphones jammed in his ears and an eyebrow raised, "This is hard as hell for them and they just need a little time to themselves. Follow Jude's example if you're bored," He laughed, nodding to where the green eyed man was still lounging amongst the rucksacks and various pieces of hand luggage, book in one hand, his intense gaze never leaving the page.

Tilting his head, Bentley studied the plain black cover with confusion, "Whatcha reading Jude?"

The green eyed man glanced up momentarily, "'The Fault In Our Stars.'"

"Oh hell no," The second youngest Anderson groaned. "Blainey phoned me for a week straight sobbing after he finished that damn thing."

"Just because you wouldn't know a good book if it hit you in the face," Jude mumbled, not even bothering to look at Bentley as he flicked over the page, the other brothers' laughing at Bentley's indignant look.

"Wait, wait, wait," Lucas frowned, realisation suddenly dawning on him, "Is that why I had undecipherable answer phone messages from Blaine like every day for a week and a bit last September."

"More than likely."

Lucas groaned softly, "Jude when you finish that just remember that Blaine's your favourite brother and also that Cooper and Austin love you dearly."

"Dude, not cool," Austin breathed out.

"Time differences Luc!" Cooper squawked knowing full well that Jude was likely to finish the book in the middle of the night by the west coast brothers' standards.

"Exactly."

"I love you Kurt, so much."

"I know Blaine, I know. I love you too," Kurt breathed out slowly, thankful that he had Blaine at the airport with him this time yet petrified that it could potentially break the fragile boy. "This time, we do it better, so much better. I promise that I will always pick up your phone calls, no matter what I'm doing, if I need to leave a meeting or a class then so be it, and we skype at a minimum every three days. I don't care how busy either of us are."

Blaine nodded emphatically, "A million times yes. I promise that I will come to you as soon as I freak out about anything, or anything feels wrong, better communication that's what we need."

"Yeah," Kurt whispered, pulling his curly haired boyfriend close and breathing in the scent that was so inherently Blaine once more, mint, raspberry and coffee, the smell that let him know he was home. "I'm going to miss you like hell B."

Blaine sighed softly, "Only a little while to go then I'll hopefully be right there in New York with you, we can do this mio bella, we can."

Kurt nodded against Blaine's forehead, "Of course we can, and we're stronger for our past now Blaine. As hard as that may be to admit it's the truth, mon trésor." Sighing softly, Kurt pecked Blaine's cheek and drew away, grasping the boy's hand tightly in his own. "Now come on, there are other people than me who need to say goodbye to you today."

Joining the growing group in the centre of the airport, the couple rolled their eyes and smiled graciously at the catcalls they received, thanking god silently that the brothers' saw sense to shut up as Burt and Carole returned.

A public announcement ringing out from the loudspeakers around the room had the gathered mismatched family wincing, announcing the boarding gates for flights to Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles were now available and requesting that passengers of the New York flight proceed quickly to security. "All right then, this is it I guess boys'," Burt smiled softly, Carole's arms already wrapping around Elijah and Reed in a loving, goodbye embrace. The brothers' flocked around the pair that had become like the closest things to parents' that they had ever experienced, leaving Kurt and Blaine a few more moments together.

Turning to look at Blaine, Jude sighed softly, the announcement still ringing through the airport for a second time. His eyes flickered between Kurt, Noah and Blaine, taking in the unhappy smiles on each face, "That's us Bam Bam."

Blaine nodded, blinking rapidly in an effort to get rid of the tears building up.

Shaking his head and trying to hold back his own flood of emotions, Noah stepped forwards and yanked Blaine into his arms, holding him tightly. "I love you kiddo. If you need me anytime of the day or night you ring me, yeah?" Feeling Blaine nod gently against his chest made Noah's sad smile grow only slightly. "Besides that I have like an almost two hour drive from JFKto New Haven so I will be needing some entertaining in a few hours, we all know how short my attention span is."

Laughing, Blaine pulled back, his eyes twinkling slightly, "The attention span of a goldfish."

"Don't you know it," Noah grinned slightly bemused, "Why they let me make up prescriptions I'll never know."

"Because you're good at it?" Blaine chuckled, rolling his eyes quickly before hugging Noah once more, "Love you too Noah."

Feeling himself be pulled away from Noah, Blaine squeaked as he caught the familiar scent of Lucas' cologne. "Stop hogging Blainers Noah, I'm way cooler and way more important than you," The slightly younger brother smirked, sticking his tongue out at the blue eyed man only to receive the finger in return, Blaine sniggering lightly against Lucas' chest. "You better call me all the time I hope you know. I need someone to discuss and geek out with Doctor Who over."

"Oh that's a must," Blaine laughed, "Rose and Ten still rule all though all of your other viewpoints are invalid."

"Not sure I still liked Donna and you've got to admit Amy was pretty awesome."

Blaine scoffed, squeezing Lucas tight only releasing him when he felt arms wrap around his shoulders from behind, Elijah burying his face in the crook of his neck. "You're my baby brother Blainey," He murmured, his own tears streaming from his eyes, "I'm so sorry I haven't been there for to protect you all these stupid times."

Turning around and pulling Elijah into his arms rubbing a hand up and down his back Blaine chuckled softly. "Lij, you've always been there for me, always." He laughed when Elijah wriggled in his arms, simply holding him closer. "You always will be, I have no doubt in that. I love you Lij."

"Love you too Blainey," Elijah whispered, falling into Noah's arms when he opened them, the blue eyed man shaking his head chuckling soundlessly while he tried to calm his older brother down, catching Blaine's eyes and pulling a face to make the curly haired boy laugh.

Shaking his head at his older brothers', Blaine spied Reed stood on his own for the first time since the older boy had spotted Sebastian in the airport and immediately made a beeline for him. When he reached Reed, he managed to throw his arms around the nineteen year olds shoulders, smirking when he jumped. "Hiya Reed!"

Chuckling, Reed reached up to grab Blaine's hands where they met at the base of his neck, "Hi Blaine."

Swinging himself round to stand in front of his brother, Blaine let his eyes roam up and down him. "I just thought I'd come and say see you later real quick so you can spend some more time with Seb." The younger brother stepped back as Reed started to scramble for words, his body rigid and face pale.

"Oh no, Blaine, Bash is just a…erm he's…we're just friends."

"Reed do you love me any less for being gay?" Blaine frowned, his eyes searching Reed's horrified ones.

"Of course not, how could you even suggest that?"

"Then what makes you think that anyone would ever love you any less for it? Whether you like girls' or boys' doesn't make a difference to me Reed, you're still my big brother. You're still you, that doesn't change just because you're confused or because of anything else, we may have issues if you suddenly turn around and tell me you don't like Disney or something like that but otherwise nope you're still you." Blaine smirked slightly, "You're still the only one I trust to get rid of the monsters in the closet."

Reed laughed, shaking his head, "When did you get so wise?"

"I have always been the smartest brother dearest it's just taken you this long to catch up."

Smirking, Reed wrapped his arms around Blaine, "Uh-huh, sure. Bash is still just a friend Blaine, a good friend but yeah. Oh and the smartest one yeah? Who was it that ran into a glass door?"

Wriggling out of his arms, Blaine shot a dirty look at Reed, "You promised that you would never bring that up again and I was four!"

"Still ran into a glass door," Reed sing songed, dancing away from Blaine back to Sebastian and Sam.

Austin and Pippin looked at each other quickly, smirking before surging forwards, diving on Blaine and effectively pinning him to the ground pressing sloppy kisses to his forehead and cheeks as he squealed and laughed beneath them. "We love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you!" They crowed, Blaine still wriggling and shrieking underneath them.

"Okay you two, let Blaine breathe," Cooper snickered, hauling the twins off of Blaine while Bentley pulled him to his feet and helped him dust off his shirt. Cooper glanced to the younger twins and Kurt, watching them crack up with laughter before turning back to Austin and Pippin, noting how close they were stood. "You two have your own goodbyes to say to each other, so if you want to head through security now everyone will understand." The twins looked at each other, nodding wearily before collecting their hand luggage. Cooper sighed softly, hugging Pippin tight and squeezing Austin's shoulder, "See that Pip gets to the right boarding gate and I'll meet you just at the other side of security right Aus?"

Austin nodded, grabbing his red rucksack and heaving it onto his back as Pippin grabbed his wheel along backpack, hugging the brothers he wouldn't see for a few more months once more.

"Austin," Cooper called out just as the boys' started to walk away. "I do not want a call saying that you've somehow sneaked onto a flight to Chicago, you better be waiting for me back there you have college on Monday morning."

The twins grinned mischievously at each other before saluting their older brother and running towards security, pushing and elbowing at each other as they went, leaving many eye rolls in their wake.

"It's going to be damn quiet around here without them," Sam blinked, watching Austin almost shove Pippin over a barrier before doubling over with laughter, security watching them closely as they joined the queue.

Cooper smirked once more, shaking his head as he clasped a hand around Blaine's shoulder, hazel eyes turning to look at him. Guiding Blaine slightly away from the group, Cooper hugged him tightly before pulling away and placing his hands on his little brothers' shoulders. "I expect a phone call every night before you go to bed without fail Squirt," Blaine nodded vigorously, his curls flying free from the slight gel hold. "Alright, you phone me first when anything happens or if you need permission for any school trips or anything, I'll fax across the written permission, same as always. This time though, I swear to god Squirt if I get a phone call from a hospital to say that you've been admitted I will personally fly back here and kill you myself, capiche?"

"Capiche," Blaine laughed, lunging forwards to wrap his arms around his brother tightly. Cooper chuckled, an image of a four year old Blaine repeating the same phrase to his seventeen year old self when he was teaching him something he wasn't supposed to do taking shape in his mind. Their parents always seemed to fail in teaching their young sons' anything and their nannies were harsh if not a bit useless and therefore Cooper had taken it upon himself to teach the youngest right from wrong. "I love you Coop," Blaine mumbled, pulling back slightly. "But you shouldn't have to be doing this."

"Doing what?"

Blaine quirked an eyebrow, "Acting like my Dad, Coop, like our Dad. You didn't have a childhood because of it and it's not fair."

"Hey, hey," Cooper sighed, pulling Blaine close again, "Let's not get into the semantics of it all now Squirt, yeah I kind of lost a lot of my childhood looking after you guys' whenever I was home from school, but you know what? I would never have had it any other way. You and the others', you're my world. It kills me when something happens to one of you and it completely raises me up when you guys' achieve something you've been working for, I love you all. That is as far as it goes. I love you and you guys' needed that father figure. Jeez Blaine, you and Bentley were three when I was sixteen, you needed me to take on that role Squirt. I have no regrets, especially not after seeing how you've turned out, maybe a few with Bentley," Cooper frowned as Blaine snorted, burying his face in Cooper's chest to stifle his laughter, "I love you Blaine. Besides, I'm not half making up for a supposed lack of teenage years now." Blaine laughed again, wiping away the few tears leaking down his cheeks when Cooper smiled warmly at him, ruffling Blaine's curls.

"My turn!" Jude yelped, diving over to the pair and pulling Blaine away from Cooper. "My offer still stands Bam Bam," He murmured quietly.

"I know," Blaine whispered, just as softly, his eyes flickering over to where Sam and Sebastian were arguing, Reed and Kurt following the fight like a tennis match, heads swinging from side to side as the dispute progressed. "I can't though, not yet. I'm not risking any of you guys', besides," His eyes glanced over to Burt and Carole obviously discussing him with Cooper, "I'm not alone here anymore Jude. I have people I can count on actually in Ohio, not just spread around the country."

Jude grinned, "Yeah, that much I know, but the offer still stands, and if Ohio ever gets too much and you just want an out for even just few days, there is always a bed with your name on it, always."

"Thanks. Jude can you promise me something?"

Appraising his younger brother with a raised eyebrow, Jude cautiously nodded, "Sure Blaine, what's up?"

"Look out for Kurt in New York? I mean I know that he's been there for a few months now but he's still just about to start NYADA and I'm worried he'll run himself into the ground between Vogue and NYADA," Blaine smiled a bit, a faraway look in his eye as he watched his boyfriend laugh at something Sebastian was saying. "He just, he's everything."

"You're so whipped," Jude laughed, wrapping an arm around Blaine's shoulder.

"Look who's talking pretty sure if Ollie said jump you'd actually ask how high," Blaine snorted, dodging Jude's hand that reached out to unsettle his curls.

"All right smart ass. Anyway of course I'll check in with Kurt, Ollie and I can even introduce him to a few other NYADA students, they're juniors, but it'll be good for him to know people other than Rachel," Nudging Blaine he smiled softly, "He'll be fine Blainers. I've already told him that the spare room is as good as his any night he needs it. I'm guessing you won't mind sharing when you're in town?"

"You're an asshole," Blaine laughed winding his arms around Jude tightly.

"Hmmmm, maybe but you love me anyway. Now go speak to Benny, he looks a little lost."

Glancing up, Blaine frowned when he saw Bentley sat amongst the remaining bags, watching everyone else from the distance, his knees drawn up under his chin. With a sigh, Blaine squeezed Jude's hand once more and made his way over to his twin, smirking when Bentley jumped at his presence.

"What's up Benny Boo? You look like the world's about to end." Turning to look at his twin, Bentley's bottom lip quivered and his eyes flooded with tears. Blaine's own amber eyes widened in alarm and he pulled Bentley into his arms, the older twin burying his neck in Blaine's shoulder, his body shaking slightly with sobs.

"I don't want to go back Blaine. I miss you too much and I hate it in Washington. The city's nice, don't get me wrong, but I really just don't want to go back."

"Bentley," Blaine breathed out quietly, "What's brought all of this on?"

Bentley shrugged, pulling back slightly. "A mix of things I think. The final straw though was Kaitlin breaking up with me earlier, apparently she and Greg have been sleeping together for like two months now."

Blaine hissed, wincing slightly, "Isn't Greg your best friend?"

Laughing humourlessly Bentley shook his head, "Not any more he's not."

"Fair point, what else is going on Benny? You can talk to me you know, I'm not some china doll that you all have to protect."

Bentley choked out a real laugh at that, "Blaine, the more we try to protect you, the more trouble you seem to get into which more often than not will end up with you injured." Blaine shot Bentley a withering look before poking him, his eyes letting Bentley know that he hadn't forgotten his line of questioning. Sighing, the older of the pair let his head fall to Blaine's shoulder, smiling when Blaine's instinctively dropped to rest on top. "It's everything Blaine. I know I said after that day at McKinley that I couldn't wait to go back and maybe academically that's true but…my roommates a grade A asshole this year who thinks he's literally so much better than anyone else and constantly has his girlfriend in. Clearly I've lost two supposedly good friends in Kaitlin and Greg, as for the others, most are only interested because I'm on the swim team so I'm going to be lonely. Worst of all Father has made it clear to that stupid school that he wants me to go into politics so they're now pushing it harder and harder." Gulping Bentley shuddered slightly, "I took Jude's route, I sent of applications for politics courses, but erm, also for photography." He sighed again, "I got an early admittance to Columbia to study Visual Arts. You're the first person I've told."

Blaine sat stunned for a moment before yelping and crushing Bentley in a tight hug, "Bentley that's amazing! Why the hell haven't you let anyone know before now?"

"Because I can't accept it Blaine!" He cried, pulling away from his twin, "He wants me to do politics so I guess it's what I'll have to do."

"Bentley Darren Anderson!" Blaine squawked, shaking his brother, "Have you lost that little piece of a brain that I know is rattling around in there somewhere? Jesus Benny, since when have any of us ever done what Father wanted us to do? Well besides Lucas but that's because he actually wanted to be a lawyer to fight for equal rights, but meh. Benny if this is what you want then you go for it, you do what makes you happy, even Elijah will tell you that you've basically carried a camera everywhere with you since you were three. Benny it's your destiny, it's what you love, pursue it with everything that you have. Besides that, Columbia Benny? Are you kidding? Lie to Father and say that you're doing politics there; he'd never know any different, look at Jude and Ollie. You have to do this Bentley, I won't let you not."

"You know, there's a reason that I love you," Bentley laughed, swiping his tears away. "God Blaine, I'm going to miss you so much, it's the reason that I hate coming home for holidays. Afterwards I miss you too much, I always turn to tell you something and you're just not there because you're stuck here."

Blaine smiled softly, "Text me then, whenever you want me just text me. I'm not promising that I'll always reply that second but I'll always reply at some point."

"That sounds good. I love you Blainey Boo."

"I love you too Benny Boo."

"How come you're the youngest yet you always end up giving advice? I heard you talking to Reed earlier too."

Blaine grinned and shrugged, "Because without me you lot would probably be locked up or running in circles somewhere."

Bentley laughed, shaking his head, "The horrific thing is that you're right."

"I know."

Sighing, Bentley looked up to where all of the brothers' were picking up their bags'. "I guess this is it then," He sighed, hugging Blaine tightly.

"GROUP HUG!" Noah yelled, all of the remaining Anderson's, Sam, Sebastian and Kurt jumping in, Blaine ending up wrapped up between his boyfriend and his twin.

"We've really got to go guys'," Cooper sighed, watching their flights flash up one at a time on the board, "And I really need to make sure the twins aren't creating hell back there," He frowned, glancing towards the security checkpoint.

The others all murmured their assent, each hugging those staying in Ohio one last time. Kurt wrapped his arms tightly around Blaine, feeling the boys' own squeezing him snugly, "I love you so much Blaine Anderson. I'm never letting go of you ever again, it's just a few months more baby."

Blaine nodded carefully, pulling back and capturing Kurt's lips in a slow, sweet kiss, "I love you too and I know that we can do this, we can." Blaine let Jude wrap his arm around Kurt's shoulder, leading the blue eyed boy with the rest of the group towards security, Sam and Sebastian stood either side of Blaine from where they watched the group walk further and further away.

"Oi Blaine," Bentley suddenly yelled from halfway across the large room. "Greg was never my best friend, that's been you since they day we were born," Bentley grinned, lifting a hand in goodbye as Cooper dragged him towards security.

"They're gone," Blaine whispered brokenly the tears starting to form a trail down his face, he hadn't felt this alone in a long time at least the last time they'd all left Kurt had still been there for him for a few extra weeks before Blaine had pushed him off to New York too. "They're really all gone."

A hand clasping on his shoulder made Blaine jump and he turned to meet Burt, Sam, Sebastian and Carole's gloomy eyes. Without a moments hesitation, the teenager flung himself into Burt's waiting arms, feeling the man hold him close gently shushing him as he rocked them gently. Sam wrapped an arm around Carole's shoulders when her own tears started to slip down her face, casting a worried glance at his best friend, Sebastian shuffling uncomfortably beside them.

"It'll be okay squirt," Burt murmured quietly, "It'll all be okay they're only a phone call away. Sam, drive Blaine's car back to ours, yeah?" He smiled, throwing the shorter teenagers keys to the blonde boy still living in his house with a small smile. Turning slightly to Sebastian, he quirked an eyebrow slightly, "You're welcome anytime as well Sebastian, and if you have nothing else to do, you may as well join tonight too."

"I'll go with Sam Burt just to make sure he gets back okay," Carole smiled softly, running a hand gently over the back of Blaine's head before placing a tender kiss to the slightly tamed mass of curls. "Sebastian, are you riding with us?"

Shaking his head, the tall boy smiled softly, "No, erm I drove out earlier because I was dropping my sister off anyway, but I guess, if it's ok, could I maybe follow?"

Carole beamed at him, wrapping one arm around Sam and the other around a stunned Sebastian as she led them from the airport, "You are more than welcome to Sweetheart."

Burt nodded slowly as his wife turned away from him, his attention still focused on the heart breaking sobs coming from the boy in front of him. "Come on Blaine, we'll head back to ours and we can pig out on ice cream and sweets and pizza and get our heads round the fact that Ohio is going to be stupidly quiet for a while."

Blaine laughed softly, wiping his eyes on the back of his sleeves as Burt chastised him with a soft smile, handing him a tissue. "Kurt will kill me if I let you have ice cream, sweets and pizza," He sniffled, a few tears still slipping from his eyes and his voice hoarse.

Burt grinned wrapping an arm around Blaine's shoulder as he led the young teenager out to the parking lot. "Something I've learnt lately from your brothers' is that what Kurt doesn't know won't hurt him."

"You've spent too much time with Austin and Pippin over the holidays."

"Probably true but what the hell I like getting to know my boys' and they were handy to have around the shop when they weren't causing mayhem," Burt laughed softly. "I'd say I did a pretty good job of getting to know each and every one of them over the holidays, I still have my favourite though," He grinned winking at Blaine when he let a small laugh go.

Blaine sighed quietly, "I should probably head home just in case my parents phone or something. They tend to like the house being looked after."

Burt's face softened slightly, a severe hatred for the Anderson parents flashing through him before he turned his focus back to their youngest son stood before him, almost curled right in on himself in an attempt to make himself look as small as possible. "Blaine you haven't heard from them since September I'm sure you can spend one night out and as much as it pains me to say this they wouldn't notice." Watching Blaine wince heavily Burt felt a tug at his heart and wound the arm around Blaine's shoulder tighter. "But hey Sam, Finn, Carole and myself can always use a fifth or sixth person around." Seeing Blaine's reluctance still Burt rolled his eyes nudging the teenager, "I'll even throw in the 'Harry Potter' films."

Blaine laughed fully then, his face a picture of delight as he climbed into the middle passenger seat of the minivan, "Deal, but only if we start at the beginning."

"Oh we're pulling an all nighter kid if it gets us through them all. Anything to keep your mind off of today."

The laughter flowed through the minivan as Blaine cranked up the stereo. Watching Blaine sing along at the top of his lungs when 'Katy Perry' blasted from the speakers was enough to make Burt beam. Blaine would be fine; the Hudson-Hummel's and Sam would make sure of that. After all, Burt had promised nine boys' that he would make sure of that.